s the commonly accepted date of
continues :
his birth, and no breath of scandal has yet
tarnished the fair name of his mother, Queen
“ All this leads me to think that the world is not so
very old, at least as inhabited by man, and within one
Louisa.
or two thousand years I am disposed to accept the Amusingly frank are Napoleon's character-
chronology appended to the sacred writings. I think
izations of some of his contemporaries. He
that man was formed by the heat of the sun acting
upon mud. Herodotus tells us that in his time the
does not spare even his own kith and kin. "I
slime of the Nile changed into rats, and that they could made a great mistake,” he says, “in putting that
be seen in process of formation."
fool of a Joseph on the Spanish throne.” “He
Again and again Napoleon refers to Jose- knows nothing. He likes to enjoy himself.”
phine, betraying considerable feeling for her
His brother Louis he calls a booby, and says
and much regret that she could not have borne that in his essays in authorship he was inspired
him a son.
by the devil. Comparing his two empresses,
" She was full of grace a woman in every sense of
he calls Marie-Louise as sincere as Josephine
the word. She always began by saying 'no'to every- was diplomatic. The latter would never ac-
thing, merely that she might gain time to consider her
knowledge her age. According to her chro-
final answer; then she would say, 'ah! yes, Monsieur.'
She seldom told the truth, but there was something nology, her son Eugene must have been twelve
charming about her equivocations. I may say that she
years old at birth! Marie-Louise was afraid
was the woman I have the most really loved. She knew
of ghosts and insisted on having five or six
me thoroughly. She never asked me to do anything lighted candles all night in her room. She was
for her children. She never begged me for money, but regarded by Napoleon as having much more
she made debts by the million. She had bad teeth, but
was so careful of showing them that few people per-
ability than the Emperor of Austria, her father.
ceived them. She was the wife who would have gone
Still alluding to her, Napoleon declares, “ It
with me to Elba."
was my having wedded a princess of Austria
Amid much gossip and tittle-tattle, indica- that ruined me. How could I have supposed
tive of anything but a noble mind, there are
that Austria would act as she has done?” It
some interesting references to persons about
will be noticed that Napoleon found a new rea-
whom one always likes to read. Of Queen
son every day to account for his downfall.
Louisa of Prussia, whom he calls “a cultivated Coming down to the last act in his military
and superior woman,” and of her husband,
”
career, he says:
Frederick William III., whom he styles a
“I made a great mistake in employing Ney. He
booby, Napoleon says:
lost his head. A sense of his past conduct impaired his
energy. Carnot did not wish me even to make him a
“ The Queen of Prussia was a much superior woman
peer. Had I acted wisely I should have placed Soult
to the Queen of Bavaria; but she came to Tilsit too
on the left, but who would have thought that Ney, who
late. The king would not summon her until he saw he
had spoken to me (you heard him, Gourgaud) of the
could get nothing from me; but everything by the time
importance of Quatre Bras, would have omitted to oc-
she came had been settled. I went to call on her, but
cupy that position ? . . . I ought to have given Suchet
she received me in the tragic style, like Chimène in
the command I gave to Grouchy. More vigor and
The Cid: Sire! Justicel Justice! Magdeburg!' She promptness were needed than Grouchy had as a gen-
went on in this way, and greatly embarrassed me. At
eral; he was good only at a splendid charge of cavalry,
last to make her stop I begged her to sit down, know- while Suchet had more fire and knew better my way of
ing that nothing is so likely to cut short a tragic scene, making war. ... With twenty thousand men less than
for when one is seated its continuance turns it into a
I had we ought to have won the battle of Waterloo.
comedy. .
But it was Fate that made me lose it. . . . It was the
“ The King of Prussia was a real booby. Every time good discipline of the English that gained the day.”
he came to see me to talk over important affairs, he
never managed to say anything on the subject. He
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to religion. Of the miscellaneous observa- turned to find the desired comment. The large
tions, one at least we may be sure came from italic letter used in the general introduction is
the heart, — “Deliberative bodies are terrible an exceptional combination of grace and legi-
things for a sovereign.” Regarding man merely bility. The claim of the publishers that the
as "slime warmed by the sun and vivified by book is “ perhaps the most beautiful volume
electric currents,” Napoleon cannot be ex- ever made in the United States” may well be
pected to edify us by his remarks on religion. justified if typographical charm be made the
“If I had to choose a religion,” he declares, standard of beauty.
“I think I should become a worshipper of the Perhaps no other feature of this sumptuously
sun.
The sun gives to all things life and fer- | printed book is so attractive to the special
tility. It is the true God of the earth.” student as the attempt “ to give as accurately
Gourgaud's journal forms a noteworthy ad- as possible the exact shade of meaning which
dition to Napoleonic literature of the personal Shakspere's words had at the time they were
and gossippy sort, and the translator has done written.” Mr. Liddell especially delights to
her part well. But in abridging and re- point out that passages have often been treated
arranging she has inadvertently repeated a as “corrupt” solely because of the ignorance
passage (on the origin of man) which appears of editors and commentators.
on both page 69 and page 277. Her foot- Mr. Liddell bas made careful use of the
notes and explanatory additions to the text early dictionaries of modern English, and es-
are excellent, as a rule, and show her to be pecially of the “New English Dictionary,'
fully at home in her subject -- as, indeed, was more than half of which has now appeared.
to be expected from her previous studies and It does not fall within the plan of the work
training. She was herself, as she records, an to give much direct attention to æsthetic criti.
eye-witness of the second funeral of Napoleon cism ; but in the introductory notes to the sep-
in 1840.
PERCY F. BICKNELL. arate scenes, and in many brief comments, the
editor shows admirable penetration, sugges-
tiveness, and good taste. He thoroughly ap-
preciates this tragedy, “which in respect to
SHAKESPEARE CRITICISM AND DISCUSSION.* unity and tenseness of interest is unequalled in
The publication of the great “ Elizabethan
the history of literature" (p. xx). A single
Shakspere,” to comprise about forty volumes,
sentence is here quoted from an admirable
edited by Mr. Mark Harvey Liddell, is begun
comment on Macbeth's speech to Lady Mac-
with a volume on “ The Tragedie of Macbeth.”
beth at the close of III. ii. :
a
Two hundred and fifty copies, at $12.50, are
“With a few touches of association, and it is mar-
to be sold only to those who subscribe for the
vellous how few they are : the deepening light, the
cawing rooks, plants and animals drooping and drow-
entire set. The first volume is a very attract- sing to healthy rest while the mysterious forces of
ive piece of book-making. The size is quarto. darkness stir themselves to their nightly activity, —
The typical page shows a portion of the text Shakspere tunes Macbeth's soul into unison with the
of the play printed in the beautiful “ Renner”
mysterious powers of evil that fly by night.”
type designed by Mr. De Vinne. The editor's Mr. Liddell finds the scene between the wife
comments are set in smaller type as a frame to
and son of Macduff (in IV. ii.) so unsatisfac-
the text, above, at one side, and below. It has tory that some parts of it could hardly have
not been possible, however, to carry out com-
been written by one who imagined the scene
pletely the plan of having the notes to each
between Arthur and Herbert” [Hubert, “King
passage printed on the same page as the pas- John,” IV. i.). But Shakespeare could make
artistic mistakes of this kind. Little Mamillius
* THE ELIZABETHAN SHAKSPERE. Edited by Mark
Harvey Liddell.
of “The Winter's Tale" in part fails to charm
VOLUME I., THE TRAGEDIE OF Mac-
BETH. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co.
us just where charm is imperatively demanded
SHAKESPEARE-LEXICON. By Alexander Schmidt, LL.D. (II. i. 1-32).
Third edition, revised and enlarged by Gregor Sarrazin. In
two volumes. Berlin: Georg Reimer. New York: G. E.
At some points objections and criticisms
Stechert.
must be made. The price put upon the vol-
SHAKSPERE AND HIS FORERUNNERB. By Sidney Lanier. ume is staggering. Such a method of publica-
In two volumes, illustrated. New York: Doubleday, Page tion seems almost the ideal way to get the work
& Co.
SHAKESPEAR. By W. Carew Hazlitt. London: Bernard
into the wrong bands. The valuable matter
Quaritch. (Imported by Charles Scribner's Sons.)
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do not own the book and to many of the rich the wisdom of offering up," etc. A number
book-fanciers who do.
of these striking zeugmatic constructions are
The text is neither that of the First Folio, pointed out in “Macbeth"; the editor holds
nor the same put into modern English. In that they have led to a whole crop of uncalled
the opening scene of eleven lines there are at for “emendations and assumptions of cor-
least twenty-one departures from the text of the ruptness.”
Folio ; two of them are “th' set of sunne
“To be thus is nothing
But to be safely thus" (III. i. 48–9).
and th' fogge," where the Folio prints "the".
This is found to be only a normal Elizabethan
The suggestions of the various editors concern-
idiom, the last words meaning "if I cannot be
ing the text are indicated occasionally, but not
what I am in security and without fear.”
systematically. There is usually nothing to
“Rather than so, come fate into the list,
show what stage-directions are in the original, And champion me to the utterance !” (III. i, 71-2).
and what are modern.
« There can be little doubt that Macbeth means that
The passages in Holinshed which are the fate is to be his champion to maintain bis royal title
source of this play are printed only incident-
against all comers, and not Banquo's champion
ally and partially, in scattered bits. They tion, ruin ... Here death and rain are to be Macbeth's
Fate in Elizabethan English is used of death, destruc-
should have been given in full. The passage champions and maintain his claim to the crown'e'en till
concerning “ Macbeth " in Forman’s diary is destruction sicken. The words are not a challenge to
reprinted only in part. Forman's statement destiny: Macbeth is not ready for that until the end of
that, when he saw the play acted, Macbeth and
the play.”
“Revenges burn in them; for their dear causes
Banquo entered at I. iii. 37, " Ridinge thorowe
Would to the bleeding, and the grim alarm
a wod" (these words are not cited by Mr. Excite the mortified man" (V. ii. 3-5).
Liddell), seems to show that they were on horse- The editor accepts none of the previous expla-
back, i. e., on hobby-horses. The use of these nations, offering instead the following ingen-
awkward representations of horses seems to be ious but venturesome interpretation :
carefully avoided in the case of the struggle in Revenges burn in them: I say burn, because they
which Banquo meets his death (III. iii. 11-14).
suffer from a fever which needs to be bled, and war's
stern alarm must furnish the furious incitement to
Professor Manly's excellent school edition of
rouse from its lethargy their lifeless manhood, so long
this play reprints all the desired material from
crushed under the heel of the tyrant.”
Holinshed and Forman.
The comments upon the following expres-
An alphabetical bibliography is much needed.
sions show Mr. Liddell at his best: “in such
Since there is no entry in the index under bloody distance ” enmity), III. i. 116 ;
Phipson,” such a direction as "see Phipson”
“the perfect spy o' the time," III. i. 130
(p. 147) may provoke some reader to language (Johnson's view, that we have bere a reference
(
" not loud but deep."
A number of comments will now be given
to the mysterious third murderer, is accepted);
“ upon his aid,” III. vi. 30; “ Fillet of a fenny
which illustrate the great value of this new
snake," IV. i. 12;
edition. Citations follow the Globe text so far
" the chance of goodness
as the interpretations given permit.
Be like our warranted quarrell” (IV. ii. 136-7).
“Thou 'ldet have, great Glamis,
(= May our chance of good success be as
That which cries .Thus thou must do’ if thou have it,
sure as our cause is just.")
And that which rather thou dost fear to do
Than wishest should be undone" (I. v. 23-26).
Apparently this editor is the first to note
“None of the emendations and explanations clears
that the “farmer that hanged himself on
away the difficulty, which seems to lie in an Eliza- th' expectation of plenty " (II. iii. 5-6) is an
bethan årò KOLVOû construction by which cries is first allusion to the charaeter of Sordido in Ben
used in its sense of exclaiming'and is then understood
Jonson's “Every Man out of his Humour,”
in its other Elizabethan sense of demanding' with a
1599, III. vii. The reasons which have con-
direct object after it."
vinced many that Scene V. of Act III. was
The editor finds a similar zeugmatic construc-
not written by Shakespeare are forcefully and
tion in the much-emended passage,
adequately stated.
“I am young, but something
Mr. Liddell defends convincingly the suc-
You may discern of him through me, and wisdom
To offer up a weak, poor, innocent lamb
cessive accents of the line,
To appease an angry god” (IV. ii. 14-17).
"Toad, that under cold stone" (IV. i. 6),
This is taken to mean “ You may perceive against the emendations of normalizing editors.
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ends with a three-syllabled measure. But in
cialisms "; and nearly twice as many have been
inserted in ,
measures, and resorts to desperate surgical guages.” These items seem to comprise all the
operations to cure them. Such pronunciations additions to the second edition.
general he is violently opposed to three-syllabled "Words and sentences taken from foreign lan
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seem incredible.
might sometimes differ from the editor in opin-
Macbeth is said to be “essentially mad when ion, but the material was all gathered, and it
his acts and words are viewed in the light of was usually well explained. The present re-
Elizabethan psychology”(p. xxiv). This opin- viewer once erroneously charged Schmidt with
ion, though oft repeated, need not be taken too having failed to cite under “ for to " the line
seriously, since the following passage shows in “ The Taming of the Shrew":
that all of Shakespeare's greatest tragic char- “For to supply the places at the table.” (III. ii., 249.)
acters " are as mad as he":
But the omission was noted in the additions
“ Macbeth's insanity, like Hamlet's, is but suggested
and corrections." However, the same expres-
to the reader: Sbakspere is too much of a poet to de-
sion in the grave-digger's song in “Hamlet
clare explicitly what insanity is, or to label Lear, Ham-
(" a pit of clay for to be made," V. i. 104) is
let, Othello, and Macbeth as mad. They have all • a
feaver of the madde'in them that lifts them out of the not yet cited. Richard Grant White made the
common range of experience and makes them inter- use of " for to” an important consideration in
esting” (p. 200).
forming his opinion as to Shakespeare's prob-
Mr. Liddell holds that the knocking at the
able relation to the two older plays on which
gate, in II. ii., “cannot be that which is the Parts II. and III. of “King Henry VI.” were
subject of the Porter's soliloquy in the scene
based. Since White never acknowledged the
that follows." But how does Mr. Liddell know value of Schmidt's work, it is well to point out
that it is not the same? And how can the au-
that if it had been in existence when he wrote
dience learn that it is not?
his “ Essay on the Authorship of Henry VI.”
Professor Manly's view of the passage con-
it could have saved him from the mistake of
cerning the touching for the king's evil (IV. saying that Shakespeare never uses “this un-
iii. 140-159) is that, while it may have been
couth old idiom" for to.
intended to please James, “ it is quite as prob-
White's detailed criticism of the first edition
able that it was intended to please the audience of Schmidt was reprinted in his “Studies in
at the Globe, by supporting the patriotic theory Shakespeare,” pp. 300-363. It seems very
of the origin of the healing touch.” This sug- strange that even this third edition pays no
gestion is not mentioned by Mr. Liddell. attention to many valuable corrections and im.
Many other matters call for notice, but space provements there suggested, although Professor
forbids.
Sarrazin mentions " Grant White”
as one from
whom help has been received. Omitting all
Schmidt's “Shakespeare-Lexicon" appeared cases where the American scholar may be
in 1874–5. The second edition, 1885, was thought hypercritical, his comments on the fol-
properly “a mere reimpression "; the editor lowing words should certainly have been taken
confined his attention to the correction of mis. to heart : buckle, lapsed, quill, bacon, beadle,
prints and to some small additions for which Billingsgate, oboy (verb), castle (in “my old
room could be got by expunging what seemed lad of the castle”), crestless, Hob, organ-pipe,
less important.
The third edition, revised by pregnant (in “crook the pregnant binges of
Professor Sarrazin, is now to be considered. the knee," Hamlet," III., ii., 66), shent, step-
The one striking new feature is a Supple- mother. The definition of clear-stories should
ment of thirty pages, containing "a selection be much improved now that we have the “New
of new renderings and interpretations:” These English Dictionary.” There are too many sub-
have been taken, for the most part, from En. divisions of meaning in treating such words as
glish scholars, “the most legitimate commen- about, to be, to bear; but this can hardly be
tators of the great English poet." In each case remedied until an edition is made from new
an asterisk has been inserted in the original plates.
article calling attention to the supplementary It is to be hoped that the new matter in
matter. Also, about twenty-six lines have been this third edition can be purchased in separate
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republic of letters that essential changes in duction of p. 50 of Thorpe's edition (1842) of
books should be separately published in the the “ Codex Exoniensis or “Exeter Book”;
form of supplements.”
that at p. 100 comes from p. 293 of the same
book. p
At p. 162 there is “a page from Lay-
“ The author did not revise these hastily amon's · Brut,'" - but from which MS.? Con-
—
written lectures, and they were penned under cerning each portrait of an individual author,
,
heavy stress of the illness that was closing in one wishes to know the source from which it
upon him, and with no idea of their inclusion was obtained. When undated title-pages are
in a book.” This statement concerning Sidney reproduced in facsimile, the date of publica-
,
Lanier's “Shakspere and his Forerunners” tion, exact or approximate, should be given
fairly disarms criticism, and at the same time (pp. 224, 232).
suggests some inevitable shortcomings in the The so-called picture of “Shakspere's
work. The reviewer will therefore turn at once house at Stratford” (Vol. II., p. 74) is not
to features which seem to him interesting and the birthplace, which is commonly given this
helpful.
name. It seems to be a representation of
The work is not at all similar to J. A. Shakespeare's last home, “New Place"; and
"
Symonds's standard book, “Shakespeare's since the best that Halliwell-Phillipps could do
Predecessors in the English Drama." The for us in the “Outlines” (II., 132) was to
“ forerunners” of Shakespeare here discussed reproduce the building of 1702, this picture is
include all those poets and poems, from “Beo- probably imaginary, having no authority what-
wulf” down to the death of the dramatist, that
ever.
The facts about the illustration should
Lanier chooses to bring into connection with have been clearly stated. The pictures of "a
Shakespeare by reason of any contrast or re- poticary and a pardoner” (p. 102) are from the
semblance. The sonnet-makers, from Surrey Ellesmere MS. of Chaucer's “Canterbury
,
to Shakespeare, receive four out of the entire Tales." Between pp. 104 and 113, five pic-
twenty-four chapters. Many sonnets are an- tures are marked as “from the Coventry Mys-
alysed and interpreted with great delicacy and teries.'” This phrase is decidedly unfortunate,
skill. Lanier's declaration that "every sonnet
" C
since a cloud of misunderstanding has already
should be a little drama” seems fanciful, but gathered about the name Coventry Mys-
it is so expounded as to be very illuminating teries.” These five illustrations are from
(I. 189-193).
Thomas Sharp's “ Dissertation on the Pageants
Chapters XIII. and XIV. (Vol. II.) discuss or Dramatic Mysteries anciently performed at
“ The Music of Shakspere's Time” very Coventry” (1825), where some interesting in-
agreeably, and presumably with as much ac- formation about them may be found. The serio-
curacy as is practicable in a popular presenta- comic picture of the mouth and the interior of
tion. In chapters XX. and XXI. the gradual hell (p. 108), for example, is taken from a
changes in Shakespeare's versification are ex- fresco in “ the chancel of the Chapel of the
plained, and their significance is well brought Holy Cross at Stratford-upon-Avon, discovered
out. A few words on the omnipresence of lit- in 1804, during a reparation of it.” The pic-
erature (p. xiv.), a passage concerning Nature. ture called “ A Soul in Torment,” at p. 112,
communion (I., 72-3), and one that depicts a
has been misunderstood. It is a “representa-
bird building its nest (I., 88), tre commended tion of Israel Van Mechlin's curious and rare
to all lovers of Lanier.
copy of the print of the Temptation of St.
These volumes are very fully illustrated, Anthony, by Martin Schoen ” (Sharp, p. 60).
and their external appearance is beautiful in The illustration designated “Morris-dancers”
every way. The illustrations are interesting and (p. 120) is exceptionally valuable. It is a pic-
valuable, and it must have cost much trouble ture of Tollet's painted window,” assigned by
and expense to secure them. The reviewer Douce (Illustrations of Shakespeare, II., 445)
wishes to offer some suggestions concerning to about 1460–70, and thought to be the oldest
them that
may
be of service in a second edition. known representation of a May-game with the
The value of the illustrations is often much les- morris-dance. The early plan of the Bank-
sened by the fact that sufficient information side at p. 124 is omitted from the introductory
about them is not given. At p. 40 of the first "list of illustrations." The picture of Richard
volume, what is called a facsimile from an Tarleton, Actor in Shakesperes Plays” is
“ Anglo-Saxon MS.” shows a passage written thus endorsed on the original that is here
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reproduced; but since that famous comedian, London as a mere boy, and met with the Bur-
who was able to make the people laugh exceed. | bages and Tarlton the actor (p. 12).
ingly " when he first peept out his head,” died Mr. Hazlitt is a literary student and anti-
in 1588, the claim cannot be admitted. Mar- quary of wide reading and multifarious infor-
ston's "Tragedies and Comedies ” are called mation. His book furnishes many suggestions
Ben Jonson's at p. 148, — apparently because and side-lights for scholars of some attainment;
the name “ Ben Jonson " is written across the it cannot be called a good hand book for begin-
title-page there reproduced.
ners or for ready reference.
Such a book as this should never be pub-
ALBERT H. TOLMAN.
lished without an index; however, the table of
contents is exceptionally full.
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thinks
that Mr. Sidney Lee has a dealt in- as
a
ical essays.
The purpose of Mr. W. Carew Hazlitt's
IMPRESSIONS OF POLAND.*
“Shakespear” is to give the private and liter- For over thirty years, Dr. Georg Brandes
ary history” of the dramatist. The author has been recognized by European scholarship
“
as one of the keenest thinkers at work in the
completely with some biographical points” in field of literary criticism. The range of his
his life of the poet, and “has left numerous studies, the acuteness of his observation, and the
others absolutely untouched.” Later, we are brilliancy of his style, offer a combination of
told that the modern editions of Shakespeare, qualities rarely met with in a critic, and in the
"including the Globe and Clarendon Press one- case of Dr. Brandes these qualities are united
volume issues, are disgracefully executed in an with a judgment which, if not always entirely
editorial sense.” These attacks upon works of sound, is always sufficiently reasoned to com-
.' "
thorough scholarship do not prejudice one in mand respectful attention. It is not, however,
favor of the production before us; and a fuller until recent years that this strong and interest-
examination makes it clear that Mr. Hazlitt's ing writer has been properly brought before the
book is not likely to replace Mr. Lee's in English-reading public, and it is only within the
general favor.
last few months that he may be said to have
The present work is less systematic in secured an adequate presentation. The first
arrangement than Mr. Lee's life, and offers of his works to be given us were his study of
but six pages of index where that has thirty. Lord Beaconsfield, and a selection, made by Pro-
Among the plays of Shakespeare, only “ Titus fessor R. B. Anderson, of his miscellaneous crit-
Andronicus” and “ Macbeth " (one reference)
When his great work on Shake-
appear in Mr. Hazlitt's index — a really ab-
a
speare was published about five years ago, it
surd state of things.
could not be ignored by the translator, and was
Mr. Hazlitt constantly makes statements for promptly put into English. His “Main Car-
which no authority is given. Thus, we learn of rents,” the most extensive and important of his
Shakespeare's annoyance at the piracy of works, after waiting more than a quarter of a
a
“ Jaggard in the case of the Passionate century for a translator, is at last being brought
Pilgrim” (p. xxvii.), but we are not given the out in English, volume after volume. His studies
detailed information that is properly desired. of Ibsen and Björnson (partly included in Pro-
Farther statements are made on pp. 59-61; fessor Anderson's volume) have received com-
but a clear and scholarly presentation of the plete translation within very recent years, and
matter, such as that given on pp. 182–3 of his long-promised history of modern Scandina-
Mr. Lee's “Life," is nowhere found.
vian literature, written for the series edited by
Mr. Hazlitt offers conjectures about the Mr. Gosse, cannot now be long delayed. At
life-bistory of the dramatist with striking free- the present writing, we have before us a trans-
dom. One of the more probable of these is the lation of his “ Indtryk fra Polen” (Impres-
suggestion that Shakespeare, while living in sions from Poland), which is one of the most
Stratford, was an occasional spectator at dra- deeply interesting of all his writings.
matic entertainments (p. 6). But what shall This work is made up of five parts. Four
we say of the following? “There is no precise of them are the records of as many visits to Po-
account (of the poet's life before his marriage], land, made between 1885 and 1899; the fifth
[)
no domestic clues even of the slenderest kind to is a study of “The Romantic Literature of Po-
assist us, save the warrantable inference that
* POLAND. A Study of the Land, People, and Literature.
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be
land in the Nineteenth Century,” to which the a wreath to an actress who is persona non grata
date of 1886 is assigned. Altogether, the vol- to the authorities? The latter incident occurred
ume offers us a fascinating mixture of history, in a family which Dr. Brandes visited, and the
philosophy, literary criticism and personal ex- boy felt his punishment so keenly that he went
perience; it is a volume almost as difficult to home and killed himself. This actress, by the
lay aside, when once started upon, as a novel way, was Madame Modrzejewska (to give her
of the more thrilling sort.
name its proper spelling), and the author pays
The sympathetic standpoint of all this dis- a splendid tribute to her art.
cussion may be illustrated by the following We are often told that adversity brings out
extract:
the finer qualities of the individual and the
“ Poland, in the historical development of nations,
The author finds in the Polish people a
has become synonymous with the right of mankind to striking illustration of this principle, with
civil and intellectual freedom and with the right of
whatever consolation it may afford. He speaks
nations to independence. Poland is synonymous with our
hope or our illusion as to the advance of our age in cult-
of the drastic foreign rule as having created
Its future coincides with the future of civiliza- “an intellectual condition which, however unhappy it
tion. Its final destruction would be synonymous with may be, may in certain ways be called the finest and
the victory of modern military barbarism in Europe.' best possible to a nation, à condition which calls to
mind that of primitive Christendom ander the oppres-
Along with this expression of fundamental
sion of Rome, a conception of the world, pessimistic in
sympathy with the aspirations of an oppressed many points, but not on that account less true. Perhaps
nation there goes, however, a good deal of frank after all there is no condition more elevating for a race
criticism of the weaknesses and defects of the
than one in which no distinguished man ever has any
external distinction, title, or decoration, and where the
Polish people. The author is by no means blind
official tinsel of honor is regarded as a disgrace, while on
to their faults, and in those faults he sees clearly the other band the official garb of disgrace, the political
the historical explanation of the downfall of the prison blouse, is regarded as honorable. That
ancient Kingdom, and the three partitions. Nor which is the pith, the true pith of Christian teaching,
can he be hopeful for the future, for he sees that
a right estimate of the honors of this world, the igno-
many of the old faults persist, and he marks also
miny of this world, and the justice of this world, of real
greatness and real baseness this estimate, every one
the deadly effectiveness of the brutal measures here, even the least gifted, has accepted. What a school
undertaken (especially in Russian Poland), and for life! Poland is the only country, I believe, where
persistently pursued, with the object of destroy. primitive Christianity still exists as a power in society
ing the Polish national spirit and all that is most
- and that equally for those who are Christians and
for those who are not."
distinctive in Polish civilization. A people less
intensely proud of its national inheritance, and
These last words have special reference to the
less passionately patriotic in its endeavor to
fact that the spirit of the Judenhetze, which has
keep glowing the embers of Polish sentiment, has been almost absent in Poland, especially in
disgraced most of the surrounding countries,
would have succumbed long ago to the Russ-
ianizing and Germanizing process.
Russian Poland, “where common misfortune
has united the Polish Jews to their Christian
The indescribable meanness with which the
Russian bureaucracy exercises its tyranny over
fellow-countrymen.” This is strikingly illus-
its Polish subjects, the arbitrary and heartless
trated by the following incident:
character of its methods, is such as to put the
“When, in February, 1861, in the square before the
castle, and in another larger square, shots were fired
Russian government outside the pale of ad- upon the kneeling crowd, who with the mouths of the
vanced civilization as it is understood in the Russian cannon before their eyes, gave utterance to a
rest of Europe and America. Dr. Brandes national hymn, and besought God to send to the Poles
freedom and a Fatherland, the Jews felt impelled to
tells us things about the censorship, and ad-
manifest their national disposition by an unmistakable
ministrative process, and the official crusade demonstration. In great numbers they accompanied
against the Polish language, and the perversion their Rabbis into the Catholic churches, just as the
of justice, that we should think simply incred-
Christians in great numbers went into the synagogues
ible were it not for the trustworthiness of the
to sing the same hymn."
writer, and the unimpeachable evidence upon
Dr. Brandes thinks that, aside from the
which the charges are sustained. What can power of invention or production, the women
anyone think, for example, anyone living in a of Poland are superior to the men.
civilized country, of a government which fines
“ The men in Poland are certainly not wanting in
a tram car conductor for answering a Polish passion, in courage and in energy, in wit
, in love of
freedom, but it seems as if the women have more of
question in the same language, or which expels these qualities. In Poland's great uprisings they have
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duty, and frequently enough of their own free will to “Thou art not the father of the world, but its - Tzar!"
accompany their loved ones to Siberia. . . . During the
But to quote this line exactly, or even to use
rebellion of 1830-31 there was not a battalion nor a
its idea in connection with its real context, was
squadron of the Polish army in which there were not
female combatants, after a battle or a march the obviously out of the question. The author thus
soldiers always arranged a bivouac for the women, tells us how he got over the difficulty :
just as they took care that no word was spoken which
"I chose, therefore, to speak of the different attri-
could offend their ears."
butes of Polish authors as to the problem of cognition,
The writer was evidently susceptible to the
and insinuated this in connection therewith. And as
charm of Polish women, as many fragmentary
the savages of antiquity, when they were angry with
their gods, discharged an arrow into the vault of the
observations attest. Speaking of the small feet
heavens, so Conrad flings this tauut out into the uni-
of Polish ladies, he tells us how “it is said in
verse, which he says shall resound from generation to
Warsaw that in the Vienna shoe-shops they generation: Thou God! Thou art not the Father of the
have a separate case of boots and shoes for
world, but its ... Here I made a pause of some sec-
these feet, and that its contents are widely onds, during which a shudder literally ran through the
closely packed hall. Then came the word tyrant, and
different from that of the case designed for
they drew breath and looked at one another. No one
English ladies.” His standards of feminine moved a hand. After such passages a deathly silence
conduct seem to be a little strained, if the fol- prevails in order not to compromise the speaker.
lowing passage may be taken to illustrate it: They vigorously applaud some innocent comparison as
others a few minutes later, or they reserve the most
" At the moment when the room was thus described,
hearty applause to the close, when no one can determine
I saw the most beautiful of the daughters of the house
what it is which has specially called forth the storm of
crossing it, and, as if quite justified in doing so, she
approval.”
kissed the lips of a young man who stood leaning
against the mantelpiece, an incident which I note, By such devices as this, the lecturer hood.
partly because it is the only immoral action I witnessed winked the censorship more than once, and
during my stay here, partly because it proves that introduced matters of the most explosive char-
Polish women do not lose their presence of mind in
acter into his discourse.
alarming circumstances.”
The lectures themselves, but in a form re-
It is a pity the distinguished guest should have
stored from the censor's mutilations, constitute
witnessed so shocking a sight. Another per-
sonal remark appeals to us by its naïveté. They give a history and philosophical analysis
the concluding section of the work before us.
* Here as everywhere on Polish ground one
of nineteenth-century Polish literature more
now and then meets a young woman so charm- valuable than anything hitherto accessible in
ing, that one feels a kind of sadness at the
our language. The following passage, which
thought of never seeing her again.” True in-
appears in the discussion of the Byronic lean-
deed, but by other men, and elsewhere, the ings of Mickiewicz and his fellow.poets, seems
same feelings have been entertained.
to us a remarkable example of speculative
The author's account of the censorship, and criticism :
of his own difficulties in obtaining from it the
“Let us suppose, for the sake of argument, that
permission to give his lectures on Polish liter-
Shelley in his lifetime had received the recognition he
ature, is highly amusing. It took several weeks only obtained balf a century after his death; then the
of red-tape negotiations to obtain the official Polish poets would have found in him the combination
authorization, and then the composition of the
which nowhere met them — Gothe's lofty and sure con-
lectures themselves taxed the author's ingenuity thusiasm, the strong hope, and the belief in the miracles
ception of nature in combination with the practical en-
to the utmost.
of activity, which they themselves required, and which
“There were days when in spite of all my diligence to their sorrow they missed in the old man at Weimar;
I wrote almost nothing, days when I strove in vain to for Shelley was eternally young, and, like them, ap-
find expressions with double meanings, images, in them- | pealed to the youth of the mind. If they had come
selves indistinct, which could be understood by the au- under bis influence instead of Byron's, the cause of in-
dience, circumlocutions which could be seen through tellectual freedom would have a less difficult battle to
and yet would be unassailable. ... Gradually I ac- fight now. Without wounding the religious feelings of
quired practice in the rebus style, and wrote so that by their readers, they would have been able to transform
an accent or a pause I could give a sentence a new and them so far that the inevitable schism in the future
more living character. I became expert in hints and between the ideas of this century and the emotional life
implications."
of the nation would have been less deep."
How this method worked out in practice is One more extract, and our citations must
shown by an instructive anecdote. At a cer- end. It is taken from the closing pages of the
tain point, the lecturer absolutely required to work, and is a word of reconciliation between
use a famous line from Mickiewicz, a line in the opposing factions of romanticism and real-
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“As a form of art Romanticism is dead, a thing of with which it is filled. These include portraits
the past. Its heroes and heroines, its spirits and witches, of those who have been at all prominent in
in part even its language and style, are antiquated: parliamentary life, many views of the build-
.
Nevertheless, there is a Romanticism which outlives
forms of art and schools of art, and which still preserves ings in and around the Palace Yard, some fa-
its vitality and worth. It is the element of healthy en- mous pictures portraying stirring incidents in
thusiasm, which every strong human emotion can assume
English history, many caricatures of notable
when it is refined and intensified beyond the average.
Without any background whatever of superstition, our
men, and photographs illustrating the different
feelings for nature, for the woods and fields, the sea
sides of parliamentary life of this and earlier
and the heavens, may assume this form of romantic
times.
ecstasy, and in even higher degrees emotions like love, The work contains thirty-seven chapters. Of
friendship, love between parents and children, love of
these, ten, covering a hundred and eighty pages,
language and native land, and common memories may
are entitled “ Memories of St. Stephens," and
take a like form."
Dr. Brandes says this because he sees that give a running sketch of parliamentary history
Polish literature is peculiarly rich in the ex-
from the beginning, in the form of anecdotes
of the leading actors in parliamentary life. As
pression of this “ abiding Romanticism.” We
these anecdotes are largely taken from the stock
have reproduced the passage because it seems
to us one of the truest words ever spoken upon least valuable part of the work, though the
found in every history, these chapters form the
a vexed theme, and because it illustrates so
clearly the insight and philosophical poise them new life. The special value of the text
portraits in connection with the anecdotes give
which place its author at the very head of liv-
of the work lies in the full descriptions of the
ing critics of literature.
old buildings and the present great structure,
WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE.
with the fine illustrations, showing masses and
details, and in the inside view of parliamentary
life and custom. As examples of the latter may
be cited the chapters on “ The Speaker as
A THOUSAND YEARS OF THE ENGLISH
Host," " Parliamentary Costume,” « Social As.
PARLIAMENT.*
pects of Parliamentary Life,” “Wining and
In the Palace of Westminster there centre Dining," " The Lobby,” “ Ladies at the House”;
more things of interest, for those who are in-
and another group in the second volume on
terested in history, politics, and the lives of “The Parliament in Being,” “The Speaker,"
great men, than in any other spot on the globe. • The House of Commons at Work," ~ Called
In two large and lavishly illustrated volumes to the Bar," "Parliamentary Privilege,” “The
entitled “Parliament, Past and Present," the House at Prayers," "In Committee." One
authors, accomplished book-makers as well as chapter gives an account of Coronation Cere-
thorough students, have gathered a vast num- monies at the Palace, from William the Con.
ber of pictures illustrating in one way or an- queror to Edward the Seventh. One is tempted
other the events of the thousand years of En- to quote the account of the coronation banquet
glish parlimentary life, and showing the build- of George IV. in Westminster Hall as an ex-
ings in which that life has developed in great ample of everything that should not be on such
detail. In these volumes there are no less than an occasion ; but lack of space forbids, and it
six hundred and forty-three of these illustra- is perhaps just as well not to show unnecessarily
tions, including about twenty colored plates. how near the savage instincts were to the surface
There is no one of the five hundred and seventy- even in court circles in the nineteenth century.
eight pages that has not at least one picture, And that was the last coronation banquet.
many of them filling a large part of the page, An interesting chapter is that on Westmin-
and there are many full-page illustrations. ster Hall, its history and traditions. One
The page is very large, nearly eight and a half whose imagination was fired in boyhood by
by eleven inches. The paper is heavy, and the Macaulay's description of the scene in the great
printing is excellent. These details are given, ball of William Rufus will be attracted to that
for they are necessary to show the real value chapter, and the next on “Memorable Trials."
of the book, which lies largely in the pictures The illustrations of these chapters are of special
* PARLIAMENT, PAST AND PRESENT. A Popular and
interest.
Picturesque Account of a Thousand Years in the Palace of From another interesting chapter, that on
Westminster, the Home of the Mother of Parliaments. By
Arnold Wright and Philip Smith. In two volumes. Illus-
“ Ladies at the House,” we give some extracts.
trated. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co.
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incident which occurred in the Parliament of 1428. On the book is full of interest for the reader of
a certain day while Parliament was sitting, one Mis-
tress Stokes, with divers other stout women of London, history, and will serve to make real much that
of good account and well apparelled, went openly to
is read about some of the most interesting men
the Upper House of Parliament and delivered letters and places in England.
to the Duke of Gloucester, to the Archbishops, and the
CHARLES H. COOPER.
other lords, because he would not deliver his wife
Jaqueline of her grievous imprisonment (she being then
detained as prisoner by the Duke of Burgundy), and
suffering her there to remain unkindly whilst he kept
FOUR BOOKS ON ART.*
another adultress, contrary to the law of God and the
honorable estate of matrimony.'”
Four books on art, recently issued by dif.
These early advocates of women's rights, the ferent publishers, have an unusual interest as
first of a long line of fair reformers who have representing four different points of view from
invaded the legislative precincts to redress the which art may be regarded. One of the books
wrongs of their sex, seem to have created no is thoroughly technical, giving information as
small sensation, and from the fact that the to the structure of a picture which is valuable
Commons ventured to espouse the cause of both to the artist and to the critic. Another
Jaqueline, we may infer that their remonstrance is theoretical, designed to prove a certain de-
had some effect. The course taken by the finite principle, and venturing into the realms
“ Nether House was cunningly to tack to a of historical research. The third may perhaps
subsidy granted to the Duke of Gloucester a be best described as philosophical, as it gives
petition in favor of the Duchess. The quaint an estimate of the scope and value of nineteenth
document we cannot give.
century art; while the fourth, on “ The Enjoy-
Here is what one well-known lady had to say ment of Art,” is, as the title signifies, entirely
in a letter to a friend written in 1762:
simple and untechnical, a book for the layman,
“In the House of Commons everybody who can and designed to open the eyes of the unin-
articulate is a speaker, to the great despatch of business itiated to the beauty of a picture. A person
and solidity of councils. They sit late every night, as in any way interested in art will be likely to
every young gentleman who has a handsome person, a
find at least one of these volumes helpful.
fine coat, a well-shaped leg, or a clear voice, is anxious
to exbibit these advantages. To this kind of beau-
The merest lover of pictures, with no pre-
oratory and tea-table talk the ladies, as is reasonable, tensions to knowledge, will delight in Mr.
resort very constantly. At first they attended in such Carleton Noyes's volume on “ The Enjoyment
numbers as to fill the the body of the House on great of Art.” The work is in the form of answers
political occasions; but a ghost (the Cock Lane) started
up in a dirty obscure alley in the City, and diverted the
to questions which a young collegian asked
attention of the female politicians. From this it is
himself when he first entered the art galleries
pretty clear not merely that ladies had admission to the of Europe. “Why are these pictures ?” he
public galleries, but that they actually occupied seats by said. “What is the meaning of all this striv.
the side of members on the sacred floor of the House."
ing after expression?” But only when he
The disgraceful scene that led to the abandon- turned to himself, and asked what a picture
ment of the system of uncontrolled freedom in meant to him, did he find his answer, which is
favor of absolute exclusion, is described in a the keynote to the book : “ This work of art
paragraph too long for quotation.
is the revelation to me of a fuller beauty, a
“ Afterwards, so rigorous was the ban against the deeper harmony, than I have ever seen or felt.
ladies, that Mrs. Sheridan was driven to the expedient The artist is he who has experienced this new
of donning male attire in order to secure the opportu-
wonder in nature, and who wants to communi.
nity of hearing her husband's eloquence. Wraxall also
mentions in his · Memoirs 'having seen on one occasion
cate his joy, in concrete forms, to his fellow
the beautiful Duchess of Gordon in male attire in the men.” At the beginning of his work, the au-
Strangers' Gallery."
thor notes the fact that nearly everyone likes
Other scenes are described, showing the lack pictures; he then proceeds to analyze the
of restraint of women in the Houses of Parlia. *THE ENJOYMENT OF ART. By Carleton Noyes. Boston:
ment.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
Some of the illustrations in the work are
ART IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. By Charles Wald-
stein, Litt.D , Ph.D., L.H.D. New York: The Macmillan Co.
rather out of place, the colored plates are SPIRALS IN NATURE AND ART. By T. A. Cook, M.A.,
crude, the arrangement of the chapters is be-
F.S.A. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co.
yond the writer's understanding, and many of
PICTORIAL COMPOSITION and the Critical Judgment of
Pictures. By Henry R. Poore, A.N.A. New York: The
the incidents related are commonplace; yet Baker & Taylor Co.
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cause of their enjoyment. What the mere willingly follows the author through his explor-
primitive beholders desire in a picture, as heations, which end in exploiting Leonardo da
takes it, is clever imitation, or illusion. Others, Vinci as the designer of the stairway. Leon-
and a larger class, make their demands upon the ardo lived in the period in which the staircase
subject; it must be something pleasing, and referred to is supposed to have been built, and
something which appeals to their experience. was the only architect of the time who was
But to a third class the subject does not mat- likely to have studied shells. A minute exami-
ter so much as what the artist wanted to say nation of manuscripts and drawings left by the
about it. It is the additional beauty which an great artist confirms the impression in a hundred
artist sees and which the ordinary man does ways; for instance, Leonardo was left-handed,
not, that, successfully revealed to others, con- and the spiral of the stair goes round from left
stitutes the highest enjoyment in art. This to right, the opposite of the natural direction.
is the principal thought of the essay, which is The argument is close, exact, and convincing;
charmingly written, the only fault being a re- and it leaves small room for doubt that the
petition of idea and of phrase which weakens creator of the lovely spiral at Blois has been
the value of the message. It is, on the whole, a discovered. A study of other spirals in art,
book likely to diffuse a wider knowledge of the which are based upon natural formations, is
true function of art.
included, making the book an extremely inter-
“ Art in the Nineteenth Century" is the esting and suggestive one.
”
subject of a lecture delivered by Dr. Charles Mr. Henry R. Poore's comprehensive study
Waldstein, at Cambridge, in a series dealing of " Pictorial Composition and the Critical
“
with nineteenth century art, and now produced Judgment of Pictures ” is said, in the preface,
in book form. The work is a scholarly resumé to have been written for students of painting,
of the achievements of modern art, in which the amateur photographers, and professional art-
author presents the conclusions of deep thought ists; but no one who desires to judge pictures
and of thorough study, without troubling the intelligently can afford to pass it by. The work
reader with tiresome detail. Art is treated in is in no way popular, - composition in pictures
its broadest sense, as including “all forms of is hardly a popular subject; but the style is
æsthetic enjoyment," of which painting is only so direct and the treatment so intelligent that
one phase. One part of the subject after an- the main points cannot fail to become clear to
other, - literature, music, etc., - is taken up, the careful reader. Plentiful reproductions of
and its progress in the last hundred years masterpieces illustrate each step in the expo-
reviewed. The discussion is mainly with a view sition. After dealing with main principles, the
to proving one point, — namely, that the art- writer takes up “The Æsthetics of Composi-
tendency of the nineteenth century is toward tion,” “Suggestiveness,” “Mystery," etc.; and
”
expansion. The subjects, the methods, the in- finally leads to the still more interesting theme
struments of all kinds of art have been en- of the judgment of pictures. If every critic
larged, until now there is no phase of life that could be made to read this last chapter alone,
is not considered worthy of the artist, and there how much flippant and misunderstanding com-
are few means that he will scorn to use to ob- ment on art we might be spared! A strong plea
tain his effect. Although the danger of fitting for a wider knowledge of art principles is found
facts to one idea is obvious, this principle is in the fifteenth chapter. “Is it unreasonable,”
.
one that can hardly be denied ; and, as the writes Mr. Poore, “to ask the many sharers in
author proves, the past century is as remarkable the passing picture pleasures of a great city to
for its artistic achievement as it is for its ad- make themselves intelligent in some other and
vance in science.
more practical way than by contact, gleaning
An art work of a very different kind from only through a lifetime what should have been
those just discussed is Mr. T. A. Cook's treatise theirs without delay as a foundation; and to
on “Spirals in Nature and Art.” The book be exchange for the vague impression of pleasure
gins with a description of a beautiful staircase defended in the simple comfort of knowing
at Blois in Touraine, the architect of which what one likes, the enjoyment of sure authority,
has hitherto been unknown; and a likeness is and a reason for it?" The time is past when
pointed out between this staircase, which is the intelligent reader is frightened by the word
illustrated, and a certain sea-shell, scientifically technical; and many besides the class he writes
known as Voluta Vespertilio. The formation in
well-
the two cases is exactly similar, and the reader | principles of art criticism.
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Two ancient
trations, and the author's wide literary allusiveness
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS.
adds not a little to his charm. Nothing could well
be happier, for example, than to call the "Magnalia
The latest history
For several years it has been known
of American
that Professor W. P. Trent was en-
Christi” “a colossal boulder left behind by the re-
literature.
gaged in preparing for Mr. Gosse's
treating glacier of Calvinism"; nothing could be
series of "The Literatures of the World" (Appleton)
more just than to say of “The Federalist” that
a volume on “ American Literature.” The work
“no praise can be too high that does not, like some
has at last appeared, and does the highest credit to
American praise for it, lift it into comparison with
the taste and scholarship of its author. It seems
compositions not in its class.”
to us, on the whole, to be the best of the three ex-
The fertile valleys of Egypt and
tensive treatments that our literature has thus far
Babylonia have produced many
received, although we are by no means insensible Religions.
kinds of historical fruit during the
of the admirable qualities of the works written by last half-century. Out of their tumuli, tombs, and
-
Professor C. F. Richardson and Professor Barrett
Wendell. It is a book that bears upon every page
terraces, we have extracted centuries of history,
scores of magical formulæ, and volumes of religious
the mark of patient first-hand investigation. It is
beliefs. Professor Sayce of Oxford has been a
evident that the author has read the books about
pioneer in this work. In 1887 he delivered the
which he writes, and that even when he does no
Hibbert lectures, on the religion of Babylonia. He
more than set down in a brief paragraph the con-
has just now published the Gifford Lectures, de-
ventional estimate of an author, he has arrived at
livered in Aberdeen, Scotland, on “ The Ancient
this conclusion by a process of independent judg-
Egyptian and Babylonian Conception of the Divine"
ment. His criticism, in its relation to its predeces-
(Scribner). Fifteen years have wrought wonders
sore, seems to have for an aim the reduction of all
in our conception of ancient civilization and beliefs.
overwrought or exaggerated views to a common
This volume is a long step in advance of that of
basis of sober objective appraisal. If a writer has
1887. Here we find Professor Sayce at his best.
been overvalued in the past, Mr. Trent is careful
Always a pioneer in archeological research, he
to show in what respects the excessive estimate
happily combines clearness of statement with
needs qualification ; if a writer has not received his
breadth and depth of scholarship. This volume
due, on the other hand, there is a reasoned attempt
strikes out more positively than any other into some
to correct the past injustice. This determination
new lines of thought. The religions of both Egypt
to be absolutely fair, to view a writer in every
and Babylonia are composites. That of Egypt is
possible light, is a marked characteristic of Mr.
a fusion of the beliefs of the Semitic conquerors of
Trent's work. It frequently involves a nice balanc-
ing of conflicting opinions, and in the process of
Egypt and the non-Semitic or possibly Libyan ab-
origines. The Babylonian religion is a fusion of
leveling up or down, as the case may be, so many
the primitive Sumerian beliefs and those of the
qualifications are admitted that we do not get the conquering Semitic peoples. Professor Sayce main-
sharp portraiture given us by other critics, and
tains the identity of the conquering Semitic popula-
there are moments when we almost wish that the
tion of Babylonia and the dynastic Egyptians — both
author would indulge in a little dogmatiem at the
Semites with common customs and beliefs. He
expense of caution. One important feature of the
goes farther, and attempts to separate the elements
book results from the fact that Mr. Trent's scholar.
contributed by each of these elemental peoples.
ship in American history is almost on a par with This is a hazardous task, in view of the fragmentary
his knowledge of our literature. He is thus enabled
character of the material already discovered and
at every point to bring the book into its proper rela-
available. Professor Sayce's discussion of the prim-
tions with the period which produced it, and in this
itive animism and of the later pantheons of those
respect his treatment of the subject has a marked
ancient peoples is replete with carefully gleaned
superiority over the best that we have had hereto-
facts. The entire volume is both attractive in style
fore. Compared with the other volumes of the series
and full of interesting and instructive material.
to which it belongs, the present work is upon a
This is the best work, from several points of view,
much larger scale than any of its associated dis-
that Professor Sayce has ever written.
cussions. It has nearly fifty per cent more matter
than any of the others, although it deals with a
"An Introductory Study of Ethics"
literature which can boast of only one century of
Introductory
(Longmans), by Mr. Warner Fite, is
study of Ethics.
serious creative activity, and although it makes no
a college text-book characterized by
attempt to deal with the last third of that century, clearness of statement, careful analysis of the lead-
but closes with the period of the Civil War. The
The ing types of ethical theory, and a strong practical
volume is simply packed with names, titles, and bent. Mr. Fite protests against the assumption of
historical facts, but all so deftly combined in run- certain writers that the ethical problem is one of
ning text that every page proves readable. The no practical importance. Granted that opinion is
frank and engaging style of the author is pieced practically unanimous in declaring certain element-
out, though sparingly, with apt quotations and illus-ary lines of conduct to be right, and certain others
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Transcendentalism.
wrong, it is nevertheless true that the very terms in is the chapter on the theories of this group of paint-
which we state these principles are far from being ers, which M. Mauclair sums up as follows: “Study
exactly defined, and thus “this practical unanimity of atmosphere, dissociation of tones, study of char-
is largely illusory.” Moreover, the ethical field acter rather than classic beauty, subordination of
abounds in problems that are too complicated to be subject to interest of execution, movement toward
referred with confidence to any one principle, and symphonisation of colors." This discussion of the
thereby definitely solved. The author passes in theory of Impressionism is followed by a study in
review, and subjects to close analysis, first the detail of the work of its greatest exponents, Edouard
various forms of utilitarian or hedonistic ethics, Manet, Degas, Claude Monet, and Renoir ; while
then the opposed forms of the system to which the lesser painters of the school, and neo-impres-
the general designation of idealism may be given. sionism, receive due attention. The many good en-
His own leanings are clearly toward the ethics gravings well illustrate this subject. These were
of idealism, but he also recognizes the value of made from photographs in the private gallery of
hedonism as a basis of right conduct, and in the M. Durand-Ruel, to whom the author makes due
end seeks a middle course, the establishment of a acknowledgment. The translation, by Mr. P. G.
modus vivendi between the two schools, or perhaps Konody, is in general carefully done, though show-
the reconciliation of the opposing themes in a ing a fondness for rare words and at times rendering
broader synthesis than has yet been achieved. He the French idiom too literally. In example, "since
offers a novelty in his attempt to show that the a long time" and "he revolted the prejudiced."
hedonist must accept the Lamarckian view of But in spite of these and similar blemishes, the ren-
biological evolution, while the idealist is bound to dering is accurate and merits commendation.
be a partisan of the doctrine of Herr Weissmann.
But we are unable to see that he makes his point.
One of the most interesting phases
The Poets of
And his argument does not shake us in the opinion
of American literature is discussed
that it is perfectly possible to believe at the same
and illustrated in Mr. George Willis
time in the ethics of principle or of purpose and in
Cooke's anthology of “ The Poets of Transcenden-
the transmission of acquired characteristics. Mr. talism” (Houghton). Few people realize how much
Fite's references throughout the work are almost poetry (of a kind) the movement produced, and it
exclusively to English thinkers, and thus his book is only by ransacking “The Dial” and other peri-
has too narrow a range.
The Kantian view, in- odicals of the time that an adequate showing of
deed, is discussed at length, but no other Germans transcendental poetry can be made. This work of
are mentioned, save for an occasional allusion to investigation Mr. Cooke has performed, with the
Paulsen and Wundt. We recommend to the au- result that he has brought together in his interest-
thor particularly a careful study of Schopenhauer, ing volume not only the well-known pieces of Emer-
whose ethical theory cannot possibly be ignored. son, Lowell, and a few others, but also a host of
And among English writers, the author would have pieces deserving to be known, but not heretofore
been especially well-advised had he taken into ac reprinted from the sources of their original publica-
count Mr. Morley's essay "On Compromise," which
tion. No less than forty-two authors are repre-
bears directly upon the very questions of practical sented, a few of whom, however, hardly seem to us
conduct always to the fore in the present volume. to have been sufficiently identified with the transcen-
dental movement to warrant their inclusion. We can-
The fourth volume in the " Popular not quite see, for example, what Helen Hunt Jackson
A study of
Library of Art" (Dutton) is an and Edward Rowland Sill are doing in this galley.
Impressionists.
attractive little book on the French
It is only by a broad definition, which shall itself
Impressionists, by M. Camille Mauclair. He has
transcend geographical and social limitations, that
attempted, he tells us, “to sum up the ideas, per- these forty-two poets may be brought into the same
sonalities, and works of a group of artists who have
category. Such a definition Mr. Cooke has evi.
remained but little known and who have been
dently adopted, and, indeed, he embodies it in his
greatly misjudged.” The book is especially ad- introduction when he calls transcendentalism “de-
dressed to the “British Public”; perhaps the au- mocracy in contact with Puritanism," and proceeds
thor considers such an appreciation less needed in to indicate its connotations as inquiry, revolt, indi-
America. His presentation is clear and sympa- viduality, inwardness, and optimism. We are glad
thetic, avoiding alike the over-technical and the
to have this book, and glad to have the poems
which
merely popular discussion of the subject. He takes it rescues for us from so many scattered quarters.
the ground that no art manifestation is really isolated,
and that the Impressionists were the legitimate de-
International
The enormous increase in the facili-
scendents of Ruysdael, Lorraine, and Poussin. The problems ties for transportation and in the ra-
author finds also in this school much that is related
pidity of travel in the last fifty years
to the work of the Preraphaelites, though he regards has not only greatly widened our knowledge of the
the latter as bound together "by intellectual prin- diseases of other lands but has brought many of
ciples; the Impressionists, by temperament, friend- them to our doors; and still more has it devastated
ship, and unjust derision." Of particular interest the defenseless races of uncivilized lands where the
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An Indian agent
Lives"
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science of preventive medicine is unknown. The
The Appleton series of “ Historic
position which Great Britain holds as the foremost
of colonial times.
now contains that of Sir
nation in colonization has given her exceptional re-
William Johnson, the colonial In-
sponsibilities and opportunities for dealing with the dian commissioner for America, by Mr. Augustus C.
international problems of disease. It is therefore Buell. Tbe well-balanced biography begins with the
fitting that one volume of the Cambridge Geograph-arrival of Johnson, at twenty-two years of age, to
ical Series (Macmillan) should be devoted to “The take control of a large tract of land lying in the
Geography of Disease.” The author, Dr. Clemon, Mohawk Valley belonging to his uncle, Sir Peter
is a member of the Ottoman Board of Health, and Warren. Coming into contact with the Indians at
has had unusual opportunities for observation in this advanced point on the border, he early inaugu-
Russia and the Orient. The volume treats general rated a policy of just dealing with the savages
which
medical and surgical diseases, those of the skin, and won them to him by contrast with the tricks used
those caused by animal parasites, giving the history by the ordinary trader of the Valley. “He found
of each, with its recent geographical distribution, time,” says the sketch here presented, “to learn
and discussing its relation to climatic factors - to a degree never surpassed, and seldom if ever
such as latitude, temperature, altitude, and humidity equalled by any white man, the character, ways,
– to social conditions, to race, and to sex. The manner, modes of thinking, and the language of the
agencies and methods of distribution are set forth Iroquois Indians." As proof of this, it is stated that
wherever known, or discussed with candor when he never made use of an interpreter even in the
judgment must still be suspended till research shall important proceedings of an Indian conference.
decide among conflicting opinions. Instructive maps Johnson's numerous Indian wives and half-breed
and charts show the known distribution of the more children, for which the agent is usually condemned,
important diseases. The author's perspective is are here excused because the departure from social
such that the Orient, Russia, Africa, and British custom may have beon done to bring him influence
colonies everywhere, enter largely into his treat- and esteem from his savage brethren. Incidentally,
ment; while the United States and the Philippines the volume treats of the struggle between the
are only casually mentioned, and some of their lead- French and British for the Mississippi Valley, the
ing authorities are overlooked. This, and the ab. contact of the white men with the savages, and the
sence of an index, are, however, only minor defects various wars in which the Indians were engaged
in an excellent treatise.
prior to the American Revolution.
"A History of French Versification,"
The courage of Benedict Arnold,
Tro treatises
on Versification.
by Mr. L. E. Kastner, is published from Cambridge plunging with his Canadian expe-
by Mr. Henry Frowde for the Oxford
to Quebec.
dition into the wilderness between
University Press. At the same time we have from the Maine coast and Quebec, has frequently been
Messrs. Henry Holt & Co., in their series of " En- praised, the endurance of his men eulogized, and
glish Readings," a work on “ English Verse" by the purpose and failure of the unfortunate attempt
Dr. Raymond Macdonald Alden. Both these works commented on. The exact route Arnold took
undertake, in their respective fields, to do much the through the wilderness has never been fully deter-
same thing. They survey the whole history of verse mined. It therefore remained for Professor Justin
in French and English, discuss the chief technical H. Smyth to investigate the matter thoroughly, and
questions of metrical theory, classify the many then to write his account of " Arnold's March from
poetic forms, and are at every point illustrated by Cambridge to Quebec" (Patnam). The materials
a bewildering array of carefully-chosen examples. for the investigation are found in old maps and in
These examples are in themselves so interesting, diaries kept on the expedition. Arnold's is the chief
that in reading the books we have been constantly of these, "the one extant journal that has never
tempted to ignore their real purpose for the sake been printed in full till now.” It is from the
of the simple enjoyment they afford as anthologies Sparks copy in the Harvard library. The book is
of two great poetic literatures. Every reader will confined closely to the subject, omitting all details
miss some of his own favorite illustrations, no doubt | foreign to the purpose of ascertaining the exact
(in the case of the French book the absence of route traverged, and closing abruptly with the ar-
Baudelaire is inexplicable), but will probably find rival of the expedition on the north shore of the
compensation in many unfamiliar citations of great St. Lawrence near Quebec. An exhaustive set of
interest. Both books give us forms from the ear- explanatory notes includes Arnold's diary men-
liest literature as well as from the latest, and Dr. tioned above.
Alden often finds it necessary to offset his English
PROFESSOR Jesse Benedict Carter has edited as a
examples by their French prototypes. Both books
“ Twentieth Century Text Book " for the Messrs.
are productions of wide and accurate scholarship,
Appleton, the first six books of the “Æneid.” The
and are deserving of very high praise. Both au-
volume has introduction, notes, vocabulary, and many
thors lean heavily upon the Germans, Mr. Kastner
attractive full-page illustrations, including a colored
upon Tobler's “Vergbau,” Dr. Alden upon Schipper's frontispiece from a mosaic discovered in Africa only a
"Englische Metrik.”
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not alone to the practical printer; its interest is no less
vital to book lovers and those who are but indirectly
“Stories of Great Artists,” by Miss Olive Browne concerned with the making of books. By the sound-
Horne and Miss Kathrine Lois Scobey, is published by ness of its teachings and the example of its mechanical
the American Book Co. in their “ Eclectic School beauty, “ The Printing Art” bids fair to do more to
Readings."
raise the standards of American typographic taste than
“ Reading a Poem," a charming and hitherto ratber any other force now at work.
inaccessible bit of Thackerayana, will be published Messrs. Little, Brown, & Co., who are now bringing
shortly in an attractive limited edition by the A. out the “ National " edition of Daniel Webster's works
Wessels Co.
in eighteen volumes, to be sold only by subscription,
The last book of the late Paul Du Chaillu is an ac- will publish in the Fall a book of Webster's best speeches
count of adventures in the Dark Continent where he entitled “ Daniel Webster for Young Americans." This
won his first fame. The title is “In African Forest book will contain, in addition to the important speeches
and Jungle," and it will be published by the Scribners by the great statesman, an introduction and notes by
at the end of the present month.
Prof. Chas. F. Richardson of Dartmouth College and
Messrs. Harper & Brothers will publish this month an essay on Webster as a master of English style by
Mr. Justin Huntly McCarthy's new novel, “ The Proud
Edwin P. Whipple.
Prince.” A few days after its publication in book form Better things than usually emanate from American
the play made from the story by Mr. McCarthy will be “private presses " may confidently be expected of the
presented by Daniel Frobman on the stage, with Mr. “ Village Press," lately established at Park Ridge,
E. H. Sothern in the title rôle.
Illinois, by Messrs. F. W. Goudy and W. H. Ransom.
In view of the discussion, on both sides of the Both proprietors have had practical experience in the
Atlantic, of the project to bring Wagner's opera printing craft, and Mr. Goudy is in addition a decora-
“ Parsifal” to New York, the announcement of a new tive artist of ability and reputation. The first pro-
poetic English version of this text is timely. It is from duction of the press will be a reprint of the essay on
the pen of Oliver Huckel, of Baltimore, who has had · Printing" by William Morris and Emery Walker,
special advantages in studying the opera at Bayreuth. from the volume of “ Arts and Crafts Essays."
Messrs. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. will publish the The next work in the series of notable Americana in-
volume.
augurated by Messrs. A. C. McClurg & Co. last Fall with
Miss Margaret Horton Potter's “The Castle of Twi- a reprint of the Lewis and Clark Journals, will be an
light,” Messrs. A. C. McClurg & Co.'s leading novel of edition of Father Louis Hennepin's “ A New Discovery,"
the season, is especially notable for the attractiveness based on the second issue of 1698, and edited by Mr.
of its outward appearance. In cover-design, end-papers, Reuben Gold Thwaites. Besides the regular library
and initials, a consistent and distinctive decorative treat- edition in two octavo volumes, there will be a limited
ment has been followed, and the illustrations (made by edition on hand-made paper which from a typographical
Miss Charlotte Weber, a young New York artist) are point of view will probably form the most attractive
of striking originality.
historical reprint yet put forth by an American pub-
Mr. Charles Josselyn, author of " The True Napo-
lisher.
leon,” has in press for early publication by Messrs. Mr. Henry Frowde has just acquired a series of
Paul Elder & Co., a collection of interesting and in- drawings on wood made by George Cruikshank nearly
structive selections from famous authors, entitled “My fifty years ago to illustrate “ The Pilgrim's Progress.”
Favorite Book Shelf.” Unlike the usual book of quota- These drawings have never yet been published, and
tions, this volume includes passages of readable length they will form the chief feature of an éilition de luxe of
so chosen and arranged in many cases as to epitomize Bunyan's masterpiece which will be issued from the
the messages of the voluminous originals.
Oxford University Press in the autumn. Some of the
“ London in the Time of the Stuarts" is the title of drawings were cut on wood under the artist's own di-
the new book by the late Sir Walter Besant, which the rection, and the others bave now been similarly pre-
Macmillan Co. will publish in the autumn. Sir Walter pared, and each is to be printed as a separate plate on
undertook an important work in several volumes wbich Japanese paper, For upwards of thirty years these
were to be called collectively “The Survey of London.” drawings have been in the possession of a well-known
The first volume in the series, “ London in the Eigh- collector, who was a friend of Cruikshank, and they
teenth Century," appeared last winter, and it is ex- are thoroughly characteristic of the artist's genius.
pected that the third volume will be published next Some interesting additions will be made during
year.
the coming Fall and Winter to the limited - Riverside
Messrs. D. Appleton & Co. have undertaken the Press editions” published under the imprint of Messrs.
American publication of a new series of English re- Houghton, Mifflin & Co. The volumes so far an-
prints of old-time favorites. “ Doctor Syntax" and nounced comprise a work by Mrs. Elizabeth Robins
“ Mytton's Memoirs" are the two volumes first pub- Pennell entitled “My Cookery Books,” illustrated with
lished, and they are made very attractive by the re- numerous reproductions of old engravings and titles ;
production of all the original illustrations, which in both “ The History of Oliver and Arthur," a mediæval Latin
these cases are colored. Blake's Illustrations of Job, romance translated into English by William Leighton
Ainsworth's “ Windsor Castle,” and Bewick's fables, and Eliza Barrett, illustrated with fifty engravings re-
are among the issues soon to follow.
drawn from the old wood-cuts that appeared in the
With the September issue « The Printing Art” en- original ; “ Fifteen Sonnets of Petrarch," selected and
ters upon its second volume, having achieved during translated by Mr. Thoinas Wentworth Higginson ; and
the half-year of its existence a success not often scored the third and concluding volume of the sumptuous folio
by any new periodical. The appeal of this magazine is reprint of Montaigne's Essays.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS OF FALL BOOKS.
THE DIAL's list of the books announced for publica-
tion this Fall, presented herewith, is as usual the earli-
est comprehensive and classified information given to
the public regarding the important forthcoming books
of the present season. Entry is here made of more
than twelve hundred titles, representing the season's
output of over fifty leading American publishers. The
list has been prepared entirely from advance informa-
tion secured especially for this purpose. All the books
entered are presumably new books — new editions not
being included unless having new form or matter; and,
with a few necessary exceptions, the list does not in-
clude Fall books already issued and entered in our reg-
ular List of New Books. While no attempt has been
made to include titles as titles merely, regardless of
their significance or interest to our readers, yet it is
believed that no really important title is missing from
this list. One important exception must be noted, -
the books to be issued by the Macmillan Co., whose
list, always of much interest, unfortunately reached us
too late for insertion here. The announcements of this
firm will, however, be given in our next issue. Some
of the more interesting features of the present list are
commented on in the leading editorial in this issue of
THE DIAL.
BIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIRS.
My Own Story, by J. T. Trowbridge, illus., $2.50 net;
also limited uncut edition, $3. net.-Henry Ward Beech-
er, by Lyman Abbott, with photogravure portraits,
$1.75 net; also limited uncut edition, $2.25 net.-Rem-
iniscences of an Astronomer, by Simon Newcomb, with
photogravure portrait, $2.50 net.-- American Men of
Letters series, new vol.: John Greenleaf Whittier, by
George R. Carpenter, with portrait, $1.10 net; also
limited uncut edition, $1.50 net.-William Wet more
Story and his Friends, by Henry James, 2 vols., with
photogravure portraits.-Life and Letters of Margaret
J. Preston, by Elizabeth Preston Allan, with photo-
gravure portrait, $2.net.- Memoirs of Rufus Putnam,
edited by Rowena W. Buell, illus.-William Ellery
Channing, by Paul Revere Frothingham, 50 cts. net.
(Houghton, Miffin & Co.)
Autobiography of Seventy Years, by Senator George F.
Hoar, 2 vols., with portrait, $7.50 net.-Reminiscences
of the Civil War, by General John B. Gordon, with
portraits, $3. net.- Memoirs of Madame de Montespan,
by H. Noel Williams, illus. in photogravure, $7.50 net.
(Charles Scribner's Sons.)
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orius, trans. by J. L. Garner, illus.-Spencer Kellogg
Brown, his life in Kansas and his death as a spy, 1842-
1863, by George Garaner Smith.-Historic Lives series,
new vols.: Anthony Wayne, by John R. Spears; Cham-
plain, the Founder of New France, by Edwin Asa
Dix; Sir William Pepperell, by Noah Brooks; each $1.
net.-The Life of Lord Beaconsfield, by Wilfred Mey-
Dall, 2 rols.-Great Commanders series, new vol.: Ad-
miral Porter, by James Russell Soley, with portrait,
$1.50 net.—My Literary Life, by Madame Adam (Ju-
liette Lamber), with portrait, $1.40 net. (D. Appleton
& Co.)
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Stoddard, edited by Ripley Hitchcock, with introduc-
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Philip Schuyler, Major-General in the American Rep.
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Asser's Life of King Alfred, together with the “Annals
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Warwick Castle and its Earls, from earliest times to
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The Philosophy of the History of a Small Nation, by
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OCTOBER 1, 1903. Vol. XXXV.
CONTENTS.
PAGE
OUR CRITICAL SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS
207
SHAKESPEARE'S HEIR. Charles Leonard Moore , 209
CAPTAIN ELERS, OF THE TWELFTH FOOT.
Wallace Rice.
212
HISTORIC HIGHWAYS OF AMERICA. F. H.
Hodder
214
STEVENSON'S RELIGIOUS FAITH
215
.
TWO MORE BOOKS ABOUT SIENA. Arthur
Howard Noll. .
217
Douglas's A History of Siena. -Gardner's The
Story of Siena and San Gimignano.
OUR CRITICAL SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS
Since the literature produced in this country
is only a part, and a small part at that, of the
whole body of English literature, it is inevi.
table that its relations to the literature of the
mother-country should be constantly before the
mind of its historian. But although always
present in the consciousness, it does not seem
either necessary or desirable that these rela-
tions should be all the time pressed forward in
the discussion; it would be better to acknowl-
edge them frankly once for all, and then leave
them to be taken as implicit in the history,
bringing them into prominence only when some
case of real analogy or contrast arises. Instead
of seeking for points of contact which are not
obvious, and of forcing comparisons for their
own sake, we would do well to drink out of our
own glass, and be content for the time being
with our refreshment. The centuries of En- .
glish literature from Cædmon to Tennyson are
there in the background, no doubt, but we do
not need to invoke them all the time for the ex-
planation or the criticism of every production
that happens for the moment to occupy the
foreground of our attention.
American critics have now been writing
about American literature for something like
a hundred years, and their work has been
characterized, as a rule, by an exaggerated
consciousness of the existence of the parent
literature on the other side of the ocean. It
is true, of course, that no literary phenomenon
may be adequately discussed without taking
account of all its bearings, historical and ideal,
but this is a very different matter from the habit
of thought with which we are now concerned.
That habit has for its distinctive feature a sort
of intellectual uneasiness, born of the fear that
somehow, unless we dot all our i’s and cross
all our t's, we may be cheated out of something
that is our due. Now there is an uneasiness
of servility, and another of boastfulness, and
another betokened by the apologetic attitude,
and yet another bound up with a chastened but
still vigorous self-esteem. And our national at-
titude toward our own literature, as evidenced
by the writings of our critics and historians, bas
been marked successively by these four types
RECENT FICTION. William Morton Payne . 218
Allen's The Mettle of the Pasture. — Stoddard's
For the Pleasure of his Company. - Nicholson's
The Main Chance. — Payson's The Triumph of
Life. - Wilson's The Lions of the Lord. — Gil-
man's Ronald Carnaquay. – Forman's Monsigny.
- Stringer's The Silver Poppy.
NOTES ON NEW NOVELS
220
.
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS
223
An entertaining book about Browning.Saxon
life and architecture. – A memorial of the Emerson
centenary. — Russia as a new America. — Some
new letters of Wellington. — Cookery and climate.
- Introduction to Greek Classical Literature. -
Watteau and his followers.
NOTES
226
TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS
228
LIST OF NEW BOOKS
228
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ANNOUNCEMENTS OF FALL BOOKS
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of the uneasy feeling that we are not appre- apologists exalt the importance of the relative
ciated quite in accordance with our deserts. at the expense of the absolute in judgment,
Let us take them one at a time, and explain and thus seek to restore the national self-re-
just what we mean. During the first decades spect by a logical quibble. There is a certain
of the nineteenth century the attitude of our validity in this argument, for we naturally
writers toward their English brethren was one love the men whose writings make so intimate
of self-abasement. English models were every- an appeal to our sympathies, and there is no
where set up for imitation and English praise cause for shame in the confession of our affec-
was the only praise worth having. This is the tion.
tion. But it is possible to make overmuch of
attitude satirized by Lowell when he wrote: the matter; its very obviousness to our own
“In private we're always embracing the knees consciousness makes unnecessary any very
lav.
Of some two-penny editor over the seas,
ish use of words to set it forth, and our over-
And licking his critical shoes, for you know 'tis
insistence upon it betokens a trifle too much
The whole aim of our lives to get one English notice;
My American puffs I would willingly burn all
of anxiety to force our English brethren into
(They ’re all from one source, monthly, weekly, diurnal) our own way of thinking about American lit-
To get but a kick from a transmarine journal.”
erature. It was Heine who once wickedly re-
This craving for notice on any terms clearly marked that a woman writer always has one
shows the uneasiness of one who fears lest his eye on her subject and the other on some man,
light be hidden under a bushel, of one who is and we fancy that it is with one eye to the
willing to endure “the spurns that patient Britisher that many an American critic of this
merit of the unworthy takes” rather than not apologetic type has thus praised the work of
receive any attention at all.
his fellow-countrymen.
That the boaster is a person uneasy in his
The fourth and last phase of our uneasy
mind is proverbial, and boastfulness has been self-consciousness concerning the national lit-
one of our national vices for over a century, erature comes very near to bridging over the
marking more clearly than anything else our gap between the provincial and the cosmopol-
persistence in provincialism. Even Lowell, in itan outlook, and marking the transition from
his earlier period, blew the American trumpet the relative view to the absolute. It takes
too blaringly to be in the best of taste, and the form of some such expression of opinion
the spirit which, two hundred years before, had as the following: “In our desire to be just we
styled Mistress Anne Bradstreet “the tenth have perhaps overshot the mark and made
muse, lately sprung up in America,” was dis- greater concessions than were necessary; com-
played unabashed by many of the earlier of ing to look at it candidly, and with a full re-
Lowell's contemporaries. Every goose was a cognition of the legitimate demands of literary
swan in those days, and our periodical press art, this work is not so bad after all, and there
bestowed resounding praise upon all kinds of is no reason why we should apologize for it.”
ephemeral scribblers. It was the special delight Now the attitude thus summarized is one suf- .
of Poe, who happened to be about during the ficiently justified by the evident achievements
thirties and forties, to prick these bubble rep-
of American literature, and no fault is to be
utations, and this negative activity is no small found with it as an attitude.
. It represents
part of his service to our criticism. It put an the point of view of the self-respecting critic,
end to vaunting of the cruder sort, at least, neither unduly subservient to alien standards
and prepared the way for something like na- and influences, nor asserting an unwarranted
tional judgment of books and their writers. prerogative of independent judgment. But it
The third phase of sensitive uneasiness about is possible to force the note overmuch, to make
our literary status has for its note Touchstone's too explicit what had better have been left im-
description of Audrey: “A poor thing, but plicit, and thus to betray in a subtle form the
a
mine own.” It is represented by those critics very uneasiness, the very self-consciousness
who freely admit that Cooper was not a Scott, which has with so much effort been so nearly
a
that Irving was not a Lamb, and that Long- eliminated from our appraisement of our own
fellow was not a Tennyson, but who at the literature.
same time insist that these men and their com- In the last and best of the critical discus-
peers, being of our own flesh and blood, and sions to which American literature has been
embodying the traits of our own national char- subjected there are frequent illustrations of the
acter, are for us even more significant than attitude which we have just characterized, and
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SHAKESPEARE'S HEIR.
spects entitled to unqualified praise. We are
told of Franklin that he was “the most com-
It is a matter for poigpant regret, that the great
poet of our Northern races never came into the full
plete representative of his century that any
inheritance of his estate. He might almost be com-
nation can point to, ... yet ... he was the
pared to Aladdin, who, with the Wonderful Lamp
product of colonial dependencies on which the
in his possession, pawned piecemeal, to keep himself
old world looked down." The essays of Mar-
from starvation, the silver dishes brought him by
garet Fuller " are much more deserving of the genie on the first trial of his talisman. Most
praise and perusal than the latter-day public of the tragic themes to which Shakespeare was
seems to think.” Irving's qualities “fully war- driven, by the ignorance of his age as to its origins
rant his admirers in continuing to enjoy the and mighty past, are certainly inferior. They are his-
four or five volumes in which his best work is torical, and the long series on English subjects are
contained, and in joining his name without
not even great history. It is true that, stirred by
apology to those of Goldsmith and Lamb." Shakespeare's breath, lit by the splendor of his im-
agination and the lambent play of his humor, they
Since such essays as those of Curtis "are not
live and thrive in literature; but this does not alter
abundant in American literature, there is no the fact that they have not the looming largeness,
reason for the readers of to-day to be super- the metaphysical profundity, of subjects drawn
cilious with regard to them." In these and from mythic sources. The Roman tragedies deal
many
similar
passages
the author seems to us with world figures; but there is a stiffening and
to protest too much, to touch a note that were formalizing tendency in the Latin character which
better left unsounded. This guarded way of
even Shakespeare did not wholly escape. In the
calling attention to our own merits is as far as
three tragedies and one romance where Shakespeare
did seize on myths and legends of his own race, -
possible removed from the blustering self-as-
in Lear, Macbeth, Hamlet, and Cymbeline, — he
sertion and the mutual-admiration methods that
rises to the highest heaven of poetic creation. What
aroused Poe's ire in the earlier days of our let-
would be not have done bad there lain open to his
ters, but we cannot quite reconcile it with the hand the themes of Scandinavian mythology, the
highest ideal of critical conduct.
Celtic legends and folk-lore, the cycles of Arthurian
That ideal will no doubt long remain a coun- and Charlemagnic romance? For myself, I feel so
sel of perfection for the American critic deal strongly that he should have handled all this ma-
ing with the literature of his own people. It terial, that I let my fancy run riot as to the char-
is wellnigh impossible that it should be other acter of his versions, as I do about the lost tragedies
wise, for as long as criticism is a matter of of Æschylus. Possibly that chest of papers which
judgment -- and it can never escape being that Shakespeare's daughter is said to have burned after
his death contained a Wotan, an Ossian, an Arthur,
– it must invoke comparisons and resort to
or a Roland. Æschylus described his works as
illustrative parallels. Particularly must this crumbs from the banquet of Homer; and in an-
be the case with criticism of a literature which
other way Shakespeare too bad to make the most of
is only the offshoot and collateral development crumbs, while later poets of his language or lineage
of another and far more important literature. have been seated at the full, many-course banquet of
And the treatment thus forced upon it by the myths and traditions of our Northern World.
circumstances will inevitably lead to such bal- In the Little Edda, there is a story about Wotan,
ancings as Emerson against Carlyle, Whittier
who in one of his wanderinge comes to the home of
certain giants and is challenged to a test of prowess.
against Burns, and Bryant against Words-
.
One of the feats he has to perform is to empty a
worth. Nor will it be surprising if, whenever
mighty drinking-horn in three draughts. He makes
the inclination of the balance appears uncer- the attempt, but only slightly lowers the level of
tain, the critic's word sball be cast into the
the liquid in the vessel. His hosts taunt him with
scale in such wise as to give his compatriot the failure; but afterwards acknowledge that he per-
benefit of the doubt. However fully we may formed a feat which made their bones freeze within
take to heart the injunction of the American them. For the drinking-horn contained nothing
declaration of intellectual independence, as less than the ocean, which Wotan's draughts had
voiced in Emerson's " American Scholar,” to
visibly shrunk and ebbed within its shores. The
walk on our own feet, to work with our own
modern English poets who have drunk of the foun-
tain of mythic lore have not done so much as this.
hands, and to speak our own minds, we shall
Tennyson comes off best, with his recast of the
be likely for long years to come to keep on
Arthurian legend; but this poem, pat as it is with
reminding each other and the rest of mankind
the peculiarities and prejudices of his own time,
that we are walking, and working, and speak shows but a doubtful promise of immortality. Swin-
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have written noble poems on themes of Northern in their scenic settings, are the property to-day of
eld, none of which, however, has imposed itself on millions of people, – mind-furniture not to be set
the world, has become necessary to the thinking of aside or forgotten.
civilized humanity.
Wagner's dramas break up into two great groups :
Yet the thing has been done, — done, as it were, the legendary one, including Tannbäuser, Lohen-
by accident, done as a by-product of another form grin, Tristan, and Parsifal, and the mythical one
of art, — done by Richard Wagner. That Wagner's of The Nibelung's Ring. As prologue to these
dramas have not been widely recognized as great there is the brief piece of sombre fire, The Flying
works of literature is due partly to his own un- Dutchman, and as epilogue or interlude the sunny
consciousness of their merit (though he said of comedy of Die Meistersinger. Here ten
The Ring when finished that it was the greatest crown-jewels of Literature which Music has been
poem ever written), partly to his preoccupation playing with for many years as if they were cheap
with the musical side of his adventure, partly pebbles or common pieces of glass.
to the dust which this music has stirred up. In In The Flying Dutchman Wagner struck full
the cloud and confusion of the world-wide battle almost every note in the compass of his literary
over the Music of the Future, the plays have in a genius. Here is the visuality with which he al-
measure been lost sight of, or have been thrust ways projects his figures, his marvellous contrast
aside as mere libretti of no more importance or of light and shade, his sense of the value of remote
significance than the lyric books of other operas. backgrounds, his terseness of words and hurricane
,
Yet Wagner's own critical attitude was widely dif- swirl of emotion. It is hardly more than a sketch;
ferent from this. He called music the bride of the but what vigor there is in the opening scene! what
masculine verse, and insisted in many volumes of charm and naturalness in the spinning one! what
prose polemic that the play was the thing, -- that power in the contrast between the liveliness of
music was merely an interpreter of the creative Daland's crew and the sinister silence of the Dutch-
part of his work, — that its business was only to man's ship. Considered as a piece of literary art,
follow and wait upon and help and adorn the drama. one has to make allowance here, as in the other
That the instinct of mankind dimly perceives this, plays, for those lacunæ which are filled in by the
I believe to be the case.
What makes the popu. music. Reading it is a little like striding in seven-
larity of the Wagnerian opera ? The music? I league boots over the peaks and ridges of a moun-
doubt it. M. Lavignac, a trained student of Wag- tainous country. The swiftness with which the
ner's music, who has written a book about it, con- Dutchman demands a home and wife, and the sud-
fesses that, after all his familiarity with the other denness of the catastrophe, are real flaws. Wagner
operas, on hearing Tristan for the first time he owed something to Heine's sketch of the legend;
understood nothing at all; nothing - absolutely
absolutely but almost everything that makes the piece valu.
nothing. Well, then, how is it possible for an ordi- able in a dramatic way is his own, - particularly
nary human being with no especial knowledge of the pathetic figure of the inspired and doom-devoted
music to understand at the first or twentieth time
Senta.
Wagner's new system of organized sound ? But What variety there is in the four legendary
he can and does appreciate readily enough the dramas! What piling up of pictorial effects !
!
mighty action, the splendid passion, the humanity, What figures of passion and power! As was said
and the pictures of the plays. Of course I do not of Chaucer, “Here is God's plenty.” Wagner well
wish to say that the music may not have some effect understood that in literature, as in war, one cannot
on the average listener as well as upon the trained have an omelette without breaking eggs. He went
musician. But the main things which attract are through his whole career breaking eggs by the hand-
the dramatic skill, the literary art, and the crea- ful. He shrank from no subject that would give
tive power of the plays. Possibly in time the him great dramatic effects. It was no timid poet
music may fall away from them, as it has fallen who brought Venus and her bacchantes on the stage
away from the tragedies of Æschylus and his com- in Tannbäuser. The whole play is a struggle be-
peers; but the dramas will remain, colossal and tween sacred and profane Love. Wagner under-
beautiful, the greatest, I think, that have ap- stood also, extremely well, one essential part of a
peared since Shakespeare's hand was stilled. dramatic poet's conduct of his plot, — the contrast,
Poetry deals with emotions, actions, ideas, and that is, of masses with the central figures, the bring-
images. Music deals with emotions alone, or with ing to bear of varied interests on the main action.
something less definite than emotions, those sen- The singing contest at the Castle of Wartburg is an
suous or sub-sensuous affections which lie at the instance of this; and Wagner repeated the same inci-
root of our being. Music can sway us powerfully, dent in a comic way in Die Meistersinger. The crews
of course; but it is neither so coherent nor so and maidens of The Flying Dutchman, the Rhine
rememberable as poetry. It may be doubted whether girls and Valkyrs of the Ring, and the Knights of
Wagner's music, however much it might have in. the Holy Grail in Parsifal, are other examples.
fluenced musicians and their art, would ever have Wagner's real superiority over most modern
got much hold on the hearts or minds of mankind. poets in terseness of form and visuality of presen-
But his ideas and images, his varied human figures tation comes out in a comparison of his two plays
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touching on the Holy Grail with Tennyson's Arthur- enchanting than the opening scene of the Rhine
ian epic. Tennyson, by dint of immense detail and maidens disporting in their element.
labored literary art, has projected some pictures Die Walküre is, I suppose, on the whole the
which live in the mind. Elaine floating down the world's favorite Wagnerian drama; and well it
river, Merlin's enchantment by Vivien, the abase-
deserves to be so.
Is there anywhere else such a
ment of Guinevere, and Arthur's death, — these are succession of lovely or magnificent pictures, such a
vivid indeed ; yet I think they fail beside com- hurry and clash of impetuous action, such a display
panion pictures from Wagner, -- the advent and
,
of high-thoughted nobility of womanly character?
departure of the Hero of the Swan, the struggle be- Think of the hut, with the ash-tree growing up
tween Lohengrin and Elsa in their chamber with through its midst; the entrance of the hunted man;
the black shadow of Ortrud below the balcony, the compassion of the woman; the collision of the
Parsifal resisting the advances of Kundry in the enemies. Think of the love-scene, with the May
gardens of Klingsor, the Restoration of the Holy | moonlight showing through the open door. Then
Lance to the castle of Titurel. In Parsifal, in- comes the dispute between the god and goddess over
deed, Wagner has wrought a work of such wonder- the lovers ; Brünnhilde's errand; the fight between
ful sensuous richness and such profound spiritual | Hunding and Siegmund, and Brünnhilde's revolt.
implications as would alone suffice to place him Lastly, Brünnhilde's flight with Sieglinde; the gath-
with the immortals. Kundry is a figure such as ering of the Valkyrs; Wotan's approach on the
Shakespeare alone, of all the masters, could have storm; his rage and broken-hearted despair; his ban
conceived and executed ; and Ortrud, in Lohen- upon Brünnhilde; his placing her sleeping on the
grin, is one of the most magnificent studies of evil rock, clothed in her armor, covered by her shield and
in modern literature.
enclosed in the raging ring of fire. What variety!
Matthew Arnold, in one of his letters, comments What vigor! What charm of invention and execution!
on hearing Tristan and Isolde, and says that it is Die Walküre is Brunnhilde's play. In Siegfried,
very well, but that he prefers his own version. His that hero holds the stage throughout, and is drawn
poem is dignified and pathetic, but it is a gentle with a freshness and power hardly equalled outside
zephyr compared to Wagner's whirlwind in verse. of Homer and Shakespeare. He is the northern
Yet this is a monotone; and if it is a second Romeo Achilles, ruder and more primeval than the Greek,
and Juliet, as has been claimed, it is a much slighter but equally heroic, equally human. The play has
,
thing, and lacks both the naturalness and intoxi- in it all the forest romance of Germany, the myste-
cating richness of that supreme love-poem.
rious lights and shadows of the Smithy in the
In treating Die Meistersinger as comedy, one woods; the lair of the dragon, the magic whisper-
must premise that German comedy really differs | ings of the birds. The scene at the end, when
from the French and English types. Lessing's Siegfried drives through the ring of fire, cuts
Minna von Barnhelm approximates to the refined Brünnhilde's armor and awakes a being new in
and concentrated comedy of those nations; but the kind to him, is, in long-drawn beauty, splendor,
real German type of comedy is the scene in Auer- and nobility the loftiest love-scene in literature.
bach's cellar in Faust. Here is simply a broad Even Shakespeare, I think, must give place here.
picture of low life, with no complication of intrigue And the consummating kiss of that incomparable
and no especial sharpness of situation. Wallen-
Wallen- pair, Siegfried and Brünnhilde, is the object and
stein's Lager is of this genus, and the whole of anticipated moment of the whole Ring.
Wagner's play answers to it. To reproach it, there- After this climax, one must expect a falling off
fore, for simplicity of situation, would be useless. in
power and interest. The Götterdämmerung is,
It gives, as it was intended to do, a perfect picture I believe, accounted musically one of the greatest
of bustling human life in an old German town; and of Wagner's works. Structurally, and as a poem,
the figures of Hans Sachs, Pogner, and Beckmesser it is a failure. Partly this is due to the fact that
stand out as vivid as reality. They are a true ad- here the Icelandic sagas which Wagner has been
dition to the world's répertoire of comic creations. following come into competition with the Nieb-
The opening scene, where Eva sends Magdalena elungenlied. Up to this point, the older myths
for her handkerchief and brooch, and the faithful have an infinite superiority in poetry, significance,
servant obligingly forgets her own prayer-book in and mystic presage; but as the catastrophe ap-
order to prolong the lover's interview, is as charm- proaches, the Niebelungenlied takes up the story with
ing and naïve as anything in Goethe.
far more tremendous human power. Chriemhilde
And now I near my journey's end, and see and Hagen, like two towering pillars of cyclonic
rising on the horizon a long range of glittering and storm, move over the vast areas of the poem ; as
collateral peaks — the linked but separated dramas they approach each other, there comes an appalling
. Rheingold, the whole thesis hush in ;
of the work is set forth with® baleful presage.lt with a red rain. Compared to the horror and splen-
is surely as strange a piece as
ever dramatist dor of the struggle in Etzel's hall, Wagner's trag-
dreamed, but despaired, of having set upon the ody is only the domestic misadventures of a fam-
stage. Even Wagner, the great master of scenic ily in good circumstances in mediæval Germany.
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due to Wagner himself. The mere operatic vision,
dragged in at the end of the burning Walhalla, is
The New Books.
not enough. For Wotan is really the hero of the
whole Ring — the Hamlet of the piece. It is he
who binds together the scattered threads of the CAPTAIN ELERS, OF THE TWELFTH FOOT.*
drama. It is the All-Father's weakness in paltering
with the base elements of life, that wakes the
The career of Captain George Elers, of the
Furies, that brings the tragic issues into action.
British 12th Regiment of Foot, shines mainly
The most pathetic, and, after the closing scene of
through the reflected light of more notable con-
Siegfried, the noblest scene in the work is that temporaries. He was a cousin of Maria Edge-
.
in which he condemns and punishes his dearest worth, the sons of Boswell were his schoolmates,
daughter, Brünnhilde, for doing what he, in secret, and he was a personal friend of the hero of
wished and inspired her to do. A third reason for Waterloo when that distinguished person was
the lagging of interest in this play is the change in still Colonel Wellesley. His own achievements
the character of Brünnhilde. The legends demand were not brilliant, but his autobiography, from
the essential savagery of human nature de-
mands it; but oh, to lose our ideal of the perfect, has been edited by his kinsmen, is simply writ-
which most of the pleasant volume now issued
,
gentle, fearless creature, — the Wish Maiden who
ten, and gives a portrait of an officer and gentle-
as an immortal was the protectress of Siegfried's
infancy, and who, when she put off her divinity,
man whose life was always interesting to himself
became his bride!
and far from devoid of interest to others.
If anyone desires to measure what Wagner did George Elers was born in London on May
with the Niblung Saga, let him compare The Ring 14, 1777, of a noble German family domiciled
with the Sigurd of William Morris. Morris was long in England, and died on the island of Jer.
an accomplished versifier, and at times a poet of sey in January, 1842. As a youth he attended
a
uncommon charm; but set beside Wagner's terse Doctor Barrow's celebrated school in Soho
and burning web of words, where every figure is
visualized with flaming distinctness, every scene set
Square, whence, curiously enough, came a num-
forth with the extremest definiteness of light and
ber of famous English actors. It was here that
he studied with the two sons of Boswell (though
shade, every profound thought borne in upon the
reader or spectator's mind with awful force, -
Mrs. Boswell is mentioned by her husband often
compared with this, Morris's work is but a dull, enough, further relationships of that best of bi.
blurred, tedious chronicle in rhyme.
ographers come to one as a surprise), and their
I have called Wagner Shakespeare's heir. Of father would not have been gratified the
course, in claiming this precedence I have made characterization of them as “clever, but with a
count only of dramatic poets. I omit from the strong Scotch accent.” This appears to be all
comparison, if comparison there can be, such epic or
the formal schooling the youth received. His
lyric or reflective poets as have won their way to the
father became innocently involved in pecuniary
empyrean since Shakespeare's time. And of course
I do not consider that other order of literary crafts.
difficulties that required his retirement to the
men, the novelists
those Alberich gnomes who
continent when the young man was eighteen
delve amid the low levels of life. Who is there to
years old; his mother died soon after, and in.
dispute Wagner's place in the drama ? Not Hugo,
fluence procured for him an ensigncy without
with his theatre of tinsel and falsetto; not Ibsen, purchase in the 90th Regiment. Within a fort-
marvellous playwright as he is, but moving amid night Elers was able to buy a lieutenancy in the
the intricate paths of the drama with his feet en- 12th Regiment, and he found himself launched
cased in lead ; not Schiller, noble and powerful, but
upon a military career with what may fitly be
lacking in real creative gift. Only Goethe remains.
Goethe is great and tender and lovely and profound.
termed a flying start. It is in accordance with
the military feeling of the day that the young
Wagner is great and tender and lovely and pro-
found. Goethe has probably the advantage in lit-
officer has a great deal to say about his ward-
erary form, — though this is a point about which,
robe -- his colonel, when first waited upon,
unless I greatly mistake, the future will have much
ended the interview “ by asking me the name
Both are prattling babes in expression of my tailor ”— and nothing whatever about
compared to Shakespeare, with his gift of tongues. ther possible qualifications.
None of Goetbe's plays has held the boards. You War was rife, and Elers's regiment was or-
could not drive Wagner from the theatre by an dered to Madras by way of the Cape. The
edict of the law. Goethe epitomized Germany in
a single work. Wagner summed up our Northern
MEMOIRS OF GEORGE ELERS, Captain in the 12th Regi-
races in a series of almost equal plays. For my
ment of Foot (1777-1842), to which are Added Correspon-
dence and Other Papers, with Genealogy and Notes. Edited
part, I would award him the wreath.
from the Original MSS. by Lord Monson and George Leve-
CHARLES LEONARD MOORE. son Gower. Illustrated. New York: D. Appleton & Co.
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Misses Smith, Jemima and Henrietta, were of the duello, - interesting to read of but not
fellow-passengers on the voyage, and the latter the sort of conduct that raises the profession
“afterwards made a conquest of the future of arms in the estimation of the thoughtful.
hero, Colonel Arthur Wellesley,” of whom a There were ten years of this with Captain
pleasant picture is drawn, the time being in Elers, and then a return to England, where a
September, 1796, when he was just turned somewhat similar life was led. Elers speaks
twenty-seven.
of his friend Colonel Thornton and the life of
“At this time he was all life and spirits. In height the time thus :
he was about 5 feet 7 inches, with a long, pale face, a
" At his house in Lincoln's Inn Fields he gave bad
remarkably large aquiline nose, a clear blue eye, and
the blackest beard I ever saw.
dinners but plenty of good wine. I used generally to
He was remarkably
dine there four days out of the seven, and there I met all
clean in his person, and I have known him shave twice
sorts of people, consisting of actors, authors, painters,
a day, which I believe was his constant practice. His
musicians,
peers, boxers, poets, etc. Of the former I
features always reminded me of John Philip Kemble,
and, what is more remarkable, I observed, many years
have met Kelly, Incledon, Munden, etc.; Bowden, Rey-
nolds, etc.; Ashley, Attwood, etc.; Peter Pindar, Lord
after, the great likeness between him and the per-
Scarborough, Lord Coleraine (the celebrated George
former, Mr. Charles Young, which he told me he had
Hanger); Major Wilson, afterwards Lord Berners;
often heard remarked. He spoke at this time remark-
Daniel Mendoza (the Jewish pugilist]; Messrs. Wichelo,
ably quickly, with, I think, a very, very slight lisp: Reinagle, Barrett, and Morland, these last celebrated
He had very narrow jaw-bones, and there was a great
painters, and a variety of others. What scenes of fun,
peculiarity in his ear, which I never observed but in
wit, and humor I have witnessed at these parties ! I
one other person, the late Lord Byron — the lobe of
have not enumerated one-half of them, and there are
the ear aniting to the cheek. He had a particular way,
now very few alive that used to set the table in a
when pleased, of pursing up his mouth. I have often
roar.'»
observed it when he has been thinking abstractly."
In August, 1797, Elers with half his regi.
Life went on in this generous and delightful
ment took part in the expedition against Man-
manner for Captain Elers until he was trans-
ila which was afterwards abandoned — perhaps ferred to the Maldon Barracks in Essex in
for the same reasons, now sufficiently obvious 1811, where he had several months of disa-
to thinking Americans, which led Great Brit- greeable work, followed by really bad luck in
ain to restore the archipelago to Spain after
the matter of promotion. Not only that, but
its capture in 1762. While stationed near
Captain Elers at this time sold his commis-
Tajore on the way out, Captain Elers saw the
sions and retired from the army in order to
“ horrid ceremony” of suttee practiced by a
overcome the objection held against the pro-
fession of arms by the mother of a pretty girl
young widow.
"I was very near her during the different parts of
he was in love with, only to be met after the
the ceremony, and could have saved her life by merely
sale with the further and even more cogent
touching her, as she would then have been defiled, and objection that now he had no profession at
would not bave been permitted to have the honor of al). At this point the autobiography closes,
sacrificing herself. But in saving her life I stood the
and is followed by numbers of letters from the
chance of being torn in pieces, and I certainly should
have been brought to a court-martial for disobedience
Duke of Wellington, Miss Edgeworth, and
of orders, for the English in those days were strictly other persons of consequence. Certain Scotch
forbidden to meddle with the customs and prejudices marriages and divorces set the brilliant father
of the natives."
of a more brilliant daughter to rhyming, and
In the expedition against Seringapatam, | Miss Edgeworth quotes him as follows in one
Elers sets down a failure by Colonel Wellesley of her pleasant letters :
to obey orders to dislodge the enemy, on which
“ To ready Scotland boys and girls are carried
he passes the following observation :
Before their time, impatient to be married.
“ Had Colonel Wellesley been an obscure soldier of Soon wiser grown the selfsame road they run
fortune, he would have been brought to a court-mar- In eager baste to get the knot undone.
tial, and perhaps received such a reprimand for bad The indulgent Scot, when English law too nice is,
management as might have induced him in disgust to Sanctions our follies first and then our vices."
have resigned His Majesty's service, whereby one of the
greatest soldiers England ever had would have been The lines are usually attributed to Sheridan.
lost to the country. But Colonel Wellesley, fortu- The book closes with a genealogical table
nately for himself and his country, was brother to the setting forth the relationship of Elers to the
Governor-General of India, and that was enough to
wipe away any neglect or bad management."
noble family of Monson. There is also a com-
plete index, and a map showing the places men-
For several chapters the narrative is given tioned by the writer during his stay in India.
up to accounts of hard fighting, even harder
drinking, gambling, feasting, and the practice
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more and Ohio Railroad, which follows the In.
HISTORIC HIGHWAYS OF AMERICA.*
dian trail very closely, and at two points, where
Perhaps the most striking fact in the history it became necessary to tunnel the mountains,
of the United States is the westward movement the tunnels run exactly under the trail. Mr.
of population, which in little more than a cen- Halbert's second general conclusion is that the
tury filled a continent and furnished the most | Indians and pioneers followed, not the water-
extraordinary example of national expansion ways, as is commonly supposed, but the water-
that has ever taken place. This movement pro- sheds ; that most of the travel was overland,
ceeded so gradually and quietly that for a long or, in his phrase, that the highways were the
time it escaped the notice of the historian; but highestways." The navigation of the large
as it has approached completion its magnitude rivers was dangerous, and the small ones
and significance have attracted attention to could not be depended upon, since they were
such an extent that its study has become the frozen in winter, swollen in spring, and dry in
historical fad of the hour. One phase of this summer. The higblands were the lines of least
movement, — the highways by which it took resistance, because they avoided the swamps,
, -
place, — Mr. Archer Butler Hulbert has taken were less thickly wooded, and the wind swept
for his field. He published some studies upon them bare of debris in summer and of snow in
particular points some time ago, and more winter. Although perhaps a little overstated,
recently has been expanding and extending these conclusions seem to be borne out by the
his former studies into an elaborate series of data presented.
monographs entitled “Historic Highways of The first two volumes of the series treat of
America." Of this series, six volumes have Indian and buffalo roads. From the absence
been issued. They treat of Indian and buffalo of buffalo bones in the mounds, the author con-
roads; of the roads of Washington, Braddock, cludes that the mound-builders preceded the
and Forbes to the head waters of the Ohio buffalo, and discusses their roads first. It must
River, and of Boone's “ Wilderness ” road be confessed that this part of the work is purely
through Cumberland Gap to Kentucky. speculative. From the fact that traces of local
Mr. Hulbert presents at the outset the con- roads approaching or ascending the mounds
clusions that he draws from his studies. The have been found, it is concluded that there must
first is that the modern highway is a gradual have been general roads connecting them. If
evolution from prehistoric times. The buffalo such roads existed, then they must have followed
made the first roads that it is now possible to the lines of least resistance, which later buffalo
locate; the Indians adopted them in part, and and Indian instinct proved to be the watersheds.
in part made new ones ; the earliest explorers, Therefore the mound-builders' roads coincide
trappers, and traders followed the Indian trails, with the later ones. This theory is apparently
and these trails were later widened into roads sustained by investigations of the Bureau of
for the conquest aud settlement of the country, Ethnology, showing that the lines of migration
and after settlement the old roads remained of the mound-building Indians lie across rather
the chief avenues of communication and finally than along the great rivers. The buffalo roads
became in large part the routes of the railroads. are classed as local and transcontinental. The
The three great routes of western migration local roads, connecting feeding-grounds and salt
were from the New England States up the licks, often determined the location of settle-
Mohawk valley and overland to the lakes, from ments, and were used for roads by the pioneers.
the Middle States through western Pennsyl. | In illustration of this fact, it is reported that even
vania to the headwaters of the Ohio, and from the main street of Lexington, Kentucky, became
the South through Cumberland Gap to Ken. almost impassable in bad weather, and was de-
tucky. All three were originally buffalo tracks serted for the buffalo road near by. The trans-
or Indian trails, and two have become routes of continental roads marked the north and south
great trunk railroads. The most interesting migrations of the buffalo, and were less useful
case of this completed evolution is the Balti- to the pioneer because not ordinarily in the line
of his travel. The later Indian trails, which
* HISTORIC HIGHWAYS OF AMERICA. Volume I., Paths
of the Mound-building Indians and the Great Game Animals;
were not “ blazed” as many suppose, are de-
Volume II., Indian Thoroughfares; Volume III., Wash- scribed and classified, and the evidence is col-
ington's Road; Volume IV., Braddock's Road; Volume
lected from early narratives proving their use
V., The Old Glade (Forbes's) Road; Volume VI., Boone's
Wilderness Road. By Archer Butler Hulbert
. With
Maps by the pioneers. Then particular descriptions
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seaboard to the Ohio valley, and of the Indian tiresome. Occasionally his imagination runs
trails of Ohio.
away, as when he says that the Delawares
The third, fourth, and fifth volumes of the “range to-day over a million acres on the Kan.
series treat of the roads of Washington, Brad- sas river and its tributaries, still dreaming of
dock, and Forbes. They tell the story of the the time when they will again assume their bis-
French and Indian war in the west, from Wash- toric position at the head of the Indian family.”
ington's mission to the French forts to Bou. It is thirty-five years since the Delawares were
quet's defeat of the Indians at Bushy Run in removed from Kansas, and their former reser-
the aftermath of Pontiac's conspiracy. They vation is now the richest and most populous
present a good deal of new material, and some in- section of the State ; while the conditions at
teresting contemporary maps, reproduced from present obtaining in the Indian Territory are
originals in the British Museum. The Wash- such that it is scarcely possible that they dream
ington volume contains a careful survey of Fort the dreams attributed to them. He indulges
Necessity, which supports the plan of Jared in a good deal of hazardous conjecture, such as
Sparks as against the one usually accepted ; the statement that the English conquest of the
the Braddock volume gives an interesting con- continent would have been easier «had Provi.
temporary journal of the expedition not before dence reversed the decree which allowed French-
printed in its original form, and the Forbes vol- men to settle the St. Lawrence and Englishmen
ume presents a full account of the controversy the Atlantic seaboard.” The English position
as to whether the old road should be used or a certainly had more advantages, among others
new one made. A new one was made, and be the military one of enabling them to strike from
came the great highway across the mountains interior lines. He also repeats a great deal, and
until the later Cumberland road revived in part presents much irrelevant matter. But notwith-
the route of Braddock.
standing these faults, Mr. Hulbert has the great
In his sixth volume, Mr. Butler uses Boone's merit of writing with enthusiasm and of vividly
road as a basis for the story of the beginnings portraying the conditions that obtained during
of Kentucky. His argument is that the settle the period of which he treats. He has struck
ment of Kentucky saved the West, and that, a new vein, developed novel ideas, and pro-
since Boone's road was the means of its settle- duced some very entertaining books.
ment, Boone's road saved the West. Unlike
F. H. HODDER.
the other roads described, this one did not be-
come a permanent highway but served a purely
temporary purpose. A number of diaries of
STEVENSON'S RELIGIOUS FAITH.*
journeys over the road are given. One was kept
by William Calk when crossing the mountains Reversals of judgment are common enough
in 1775. Mr. Butler assumes that the Abra- in all phases of literary history, and striking
ham Hanks, who started with Mr. Calk's party, examples are not hard to find in the past or in
was the grandfather of Abraham Lincoln, but the present. The novel that impelled the re-
this assumption does not agree with the accepted viewers to shriek at “Currer Bell” for immo-
genealogy of Lincoln's mother. Mr. Butler rality has its place to-day in reading-lists for
exaggerates the extent to which Kentucky was young people; the cynical Thackeray has be-
purely Virginian and speaks, doubtless by acci- come the soft-hearted; Mr. Chesterton has
dent, of the Wyoming massacre as taking place only just finished explaining to us very con-
in the State of New York.
vincingly that what we had condemned as form-
It is easy to find fault with Mr. Hulbert's lessness and obscurity in Robert Browning's
work. He hardly makes good the title of his verse should be recognized as excess of the
series. So far, he has treated only the high- opposite virtues. And perhaps as notable an
ways of Ohio and neighboring States, and evi. instance as any is furnished by the latest addi-
dently does not intend to come west of the Mis- tion to Stevensonian criticism, « The Faith of
sissippi ; that is not all of America, nor even of Robert Louis Stevenson,” by the Reverend
the United States, by any means. He always John Kelman, Jr., of the Free New North
speaks of Ohio as the Central West, as it once Church, Edinburgh. Much water has flowed
was, but it is now the Eastern West. His style under the theological bridges since 1873, when
is somewhat inflated and characterized by some the home of Thomas Stevenson was made un.
mannerisms, especially a habit of preparing a
* THE FAITH OF ROBERT Louis STEVENSON. By John
surprise at the end of a sentence, which becomes Kelman, Jr. Chicago: Fleming H. Rovell Co.
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happy by the “horrible atheism ” of his son; to every reader that all this has a religious as
and what might have been discomforting het- well as a psychological significance." And if
erodoxy even in a layman of that epoch may the revelation of personality is in itself a lit-
to-day be uttered safely enough from the pulerary manifestation of the religious instinct,
pit itself. We know now that the “ family theo- there are some odd pagan and semi-pagan
logian " of Heriot Row lived to learn that the figures which may find their way into that gal.
current had not carried the stray from Calvin- ley with Stevenson. But even though we may
ism hopelessly beyond all shelter of belief. But at times be conscious of the special pleader
it is safe to say that at the time when the future in some of the deductions, the consciousness
writer was struggling with the difficulties of counts for very little in view of much admir.
his youth, the idea of a book such as Mr. able criticism in which the insight is as evi-
Kelman has written would have been dis- dent as the frankly-avowed enthusiasm.
missed from the mind of the elder Stevenson The closeness of the relation between Stev-
as a worse than fantastic improbability. enson the writer and Stevenson the man
The theme of Mr. Kelman's book, as the which is the starting point for almost all Stev-
-.
author reminds us, has under various names
ensonian criticism - has made it possible for
received more or less detailed attention from Mr. Kellman to consider very varied aspects
most Stevensonian critics. But Mr. Kelman of his author's personality and work.
is the first to discuss the topic at length from In the chapters on “Subjectivity," « The
the standpoint of official clericalism, and from Child,” “ Revolt and Originality,” much that
that position to consider as faith what others is familiar is retold sympathetically, and the
have called Stevenson's “attitude to life," ethical significance of characteristics such as
“optimism,” etc. “It is only beginning to be conscious egoism, the recurrence of particular
realized,” he tells us, in an admirably-written images, the directness and vividness of physical
preface, “that Stevenson had a message to impressions, is newly insisted upon. Of es-
his times, and that his faith is to be taken pecial interest in the chapter on books is
seriously.” In interpreting the religious ele- the division which shows just how much the
ment of this message, Mr. Kelman has al- covenanting writers counted for among the
lowed himself great freedom. It is needful contents of that strange literary crucible in
to recall Professor James's recent definition of which Stevenson fused his style. And nothing
religion as “a man's total reaction upon life” could be more delightful reading to the lovers
in order to get rid of surprise at such chapter of the earlier, in consequent Stevenson of the
headings as “ The Gift of Vision” and “The “Essay on Roads” and “ Forest Notes” than
Instinct of Travel.” Another quotation from the two chapters on “ The Instinct of Travel,"
the preface will, however, best indicate the the charm of which is not lessened by the
writer's attitude toward his subject:
perception of the fact that their writer is not
“ The type of faith which his own words declare seldom more of a royalist than his king.
is peculiarly valuable at the present time. There is The concluding chapters, “Manliness and
“
around us much unconscious Christianity. There are Health,” « The Great Task of Happiness,'
strong men whom God has girded though they have not
known Him, and quiet men who do not seem to be fol-
and finally “Stevenson and his Times," deal
lowing Christ, and yet unquestionably are casting out
with Stevenson's philosophy as he definitely
devils. These are the men who will best appreciate enunciated it. Mr. Kelman analyzes Steven-
Stevenson's faith. Its unconventionality, its freedom son into “a Hebrew conscience and a Greek
from dogmatic expression, and the inseparable weaving imagination, a Scottish sense of sin and a
of it into the warp and woof of his life's various activ-
ities, must appeal to many who have found themselves
French delight in beauty," and perceives in
out of sympathy with the external forms of modern him the chief representative of the New Hel.
Christianity, though in heart they have remained true lenism, the note of whose spirit is the health and
to its spirit."
gladness which arises out of an energetic and
To some readers — and they perhaps not the compassionate life.
least Stevensonian of Stevensonians - it may It will not be necessary to accept all Mr.
seem that Mr. Kelman has brought to his Rome Kelman's conclusions in order to recognize that
more than little of what he has found there. It the publication of his book is in itself a proof of
is not easy, for example, to assent unqualifiedly the thesis he maintains. Whether or not Stev.
,
to the following sentence, which summarizes a son's message is of such a nature as to include
discussion of Stevenson's marvellous power of all the essential elements of Christianity as it
reliving his childhood.
“ It will be apparent
may be preached from a pulpit, it is still a mes-
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sage to which many have listened, and which a those Italian cities that have diverted the at-
dweller in the manse has found it well to inter- tention of tourists and writers from her. She
pret. And how much more fortunate in their is the most perfectly medieval of them all, and
prophet are Stevenson's listeners than their
remains practically the same as she was in the
fathers, whom Arnold and Clough and Tenny- middle of the sixteenth century. Enclosed
son made half in love with despair, or at best within fourteenth-century walls, and with an
taught to trust blindly in a vague hope, lit- abundance of mediæval and Renaissance build.
erary historians have already noted. There ings in her streets of a style distinctly Sienese,
are some critics according to whom Stevenson she maintains a striking individuality that
came dangerously near to forfeiting his artistic makes it impossible to institute a comparison
birthright when he made it possible for a between her and any other city.
book to be written dealing with all that At one time the architecture of Siena was
the term "faith” includes. They are might enriched by towers so numerous that the city
ily offended that the graceful essayist and was hyperbolically likened to a canebrake, by
teller of tales should have permitted him those who saw her from a distance. Some of
self to “descant upon morals”; and the fam- these towers were destroyed in the factional
ous characterization of “Shorter Catechist” wars that were waged about them; yet those
is quoted by them with a sigh of reproach. that remain are entitled to an honored place
" A shameless Bohemian haunted by duty," among the Italian towers whence modern
Mr. Henry James has called him; and the architects derive suggestions. Siena was once
need for the qualification is unforgiven. But of great commercial and manufacturing im-
.
.
a greater than Stevenson survives the critics' portance, the wealthy capital of a prosperous
blame for being the week-day preacher” he republic, the home of bankers who financed
called himself, and so long as there are the Papacy, and boasted a population of more
readers who resemble Marjorie Fleming in at than a hundred thousand souls. The Black
least the first two items of her confession that Death visited Siena for six months about the
"she never reads sermons, but only novelettes middle of the fourteenth century, and not only
and her Bible," there will be those who will not reduced her population but checked the execu-
regret the possible loss to art in view of the tion of her ambitious plans for a cathedral of
compensation. For, taking Stevenson's utter- greater size and rarer beauty than that of her
ance to his generation as little seriously as may great rival, Florence. The transept, all that
be, he has given to all who can hear him a “part- was built of the magnificent church that had
nership of interest in youth.” And, if as some been planned, remains to-day the most beauti.
will have it, that is his best gift, we can afford ful of the Italian cathedrals, and the city is
to accept what he has chosen to offer with it, filled with art-treasures representing schools of
and be grateful.
painting and sculpture distinct from all others
in the bistory of art.
But at last Siena is coming to her own in a
literary way if in no other. The appearance
Two MORE BOOKS ABOUT SIENA.*
of no less than five books in the English lan-
guage within the last few months, all upon
Lying as she does off the direct routes of
various phases of the city's life and history, is
travel in much-travelled Italy, Siena has hith-
evidence that she is no longer to be allowed to
erto escaped the attention of all but the more
hide her charms from the passers-by. Three
leisurely tourists, and has been one of the
most neglected of Italian cities. She has also
of these books have been already noticed in
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escaped the notice of those who have travelled
by Mr. R. H. Hobart Cust; “Siena, Its Archi-
the delightful ways of local history and de-
tecture and its Art," by Mr. Gilbert Hastings;
scriptive literature. The bibliography of the
and “ A Guide to Siena," by Mr. William Hey-
subject is small
, and until recently no complete wood). The two admirably printed and richly
history of the city has appeared in any lan- .
illustrated volumes now before us claim to
guage. Yet Siena has many advantages over
deal with the city chiefly from the historic
*A HISTORY OF SIENA. By Langton Douglas. Illus- standpoint.
standpoint. The larger of these, Professor
trated. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co.
Douglas's “History of Siena,” presents that
THE STORY OF SIENA AND SAN GIMIGNANO. By Ed-
mund G. Gardner. Illastrated by Helen M. James. New
history in fifteen chapters, comprising 264 of
York: The Macmillan Co.
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Professor Gardner devotes the first chapter of
RECENT FICTION.*
his “ Story of Siena” to its history. The re-
maining chapters in either book are devoted to A new novel by Mr. James Lane Allen is in
other matters pertaining to the city.
the nature of a literary event, for he is of the small
This is not to say, however, that the proper number who put conscience into their writing, and
proportions have been unobserved in either never publish anything that is not the product of
case. The history of Siena closed in 1555, painstaking effort
. His “Choir Invisible” of a few
when after a long struggle the Ghibelline
years ago set a new mark in our modern fiction,
and almost made us feel that Hawthorne had found
city-republic succumbed to her more powerful
a worthy successor. But The Reign of Law,”
Guelph rival, was deprived of her liberty, and which came next, fell far below the mark set by
,
became henceforth a kind of glorified pro- its predecessor, being labored in its thesis, and ob-
“
vincial town." For the past three and a half trusively didactic in its treatment. We regret to
centuries she has followed the fortunes of say that Mr. Allen's new novel, “ The Mettle of the
the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. Hers was but Pasture,” is also a disappointment, and for much
an inconspicuous share in the great national the same reasons. The sermonizing is perhaps not
awakening of Italy in recent years.
80 pronounced, but the lack of spontaneity is quite
Had Mrs. Oliphant attempted for Siena
as evident. The title itself is hopelessly forced,
what she did for Venice and Florence, she
and requires a lengthy explanation which somehow
does not explain altogether to our satisfaction. The
would have found among “The Makers of
situation upon which the story rests is both simple
Siena” previous to the sixteenth century and familiar. The hero, during the years spent by
enough to engage her interest. There were him at a Northern college long before the story
saints like San Ansano, St. Catharine, and San opens, has betrayed a young girl. A child has been
Bernardino; ecclesiastics like Orlando Ban- born of their union, but has been legitimized by her
dinello and Eneas Sylvius Piccolomini, whom timely marriage with another man. The betrayer
Siena contributed to the Papacy as Alexander
returns to his Southern bome with this secret gnaw.
III. and Pius II. respectively; bankers like ing at his heart, wins the love of the heroine, and
the Salembini and the Chigi; political leaders
is about to become engaged to her. The ordinary
novelist's treatment of this situation would be to
like Pandolfo Petrucci; architects like Santa
have the secret revealed by some outside means or
Maria di Provenzano, Agostino di Giovanni, accidental circumstance. The discovery would be
and Agnolo di Ventura ; sculptors like Nicolo made more important than the thing itself. But
Pisano and Giacomo della Quercia; and Mr. Allen's hero does not wait for his sin to find
painters like Giovanni Antonio Bozzi, usually him out; he makes a clean breast of it at the critical
known as Sodoma. To all these due atten. moment, and the outraged young woman at once
tion is given in both the “ History" and the
ends the relations between them. After several
“Story."
years of suffering for both, his feelings soften, and
The books are delightful guide-books, not
in the end the two are married, but not soon enough
only to the city that now is, and to the art-
to spare for very long the broken life of the hero.
His dying wish is a prayer for his infant son:
treasures with which she is filled, but to her
“ This is my prayer for you: may you find one to
history and all else that may be learned about love
you
father found; when you come
the city of the Tuscan Hills. To Professor to ask her to unite her life with yours, may you
Gardner's delightful chapters upon Siena, he prepared to tell her the truth about yourself, and
adds two upon San Gimignano, the suburban have nothing to tell that would break her heart and
“ Town of the beautiful towers"; and a touch break the bearts of others.” The note of pathos
of present-day human interest is given to the
* THE METTLE OF THE PASTURE. By James Lane Allen.
book by the fact that the artist to whom was New York: The Macmillan Co.
due the exquisite drawings illustrating the text, FOR THE PLEASURE OF HIS COMPANY. By Charles War-
died while the work was in progress, and to her
ren Stoddard. San Francisco: A. M. Robertson.
THE MAIN CHANCE. By Meredith Nicholson. Indian-
memory the author and publisher dedicate the
apolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co.
“Story of Siena."
THE TRIUMPH OF LIFE. A Novel. By William Farquhar
ARTHUR HOWARD NOLL. Payson. New York: Harper & Brothers.
THE LIONS OF THE LORD. A Tale of the Old West. By
Harry Leon Wilson. Boston: Lothrop Publishing Co.
The larger portion of the third and concluding
RONALD CARNAQUAY. A Commercial Clergyman. By
volume of “Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Litera- Bradley Gilman. New York: The Macmillan Co.
ture” is now on the press, and it is probable that the MONSIGNY. By Justus Miles Forman, New York:
book will make its appearance during the present Doubleday, Page & Co.
month, though the publishers (J. B. Lippincott Co.) THE SILVER POPPY. A Novel By Arthur Stringer.
ave not yet fixed the exact date of publication. New York: D. Appleton & Co.
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here is exactly right, and the teaching of the story, ture in Indiana, has bestowed much praise upon his
as far as it apholds the principle that the moral fellow-citizens addicted to authorship. Meanwhile,
standard for the two sexes should be one and the he has been producing literature of his own in a
same, is absolutely just. The style of the narrative, modest way - poetry, criticism, and now a novel,
also, has a grave beauty and a subtlety of touch which is a far more creditable piece of work than
that are beyond the reach of more than a very few most of the Indiana products that he has marked
of our povelists. But the situation above outlined for laudation. It is a novel of modern life, largely
does not afford matter enough for a book of this a novel of the world of business, the scene being
length, and the author has been singularly un- laid in an aspiring Western town which seems to be
fortunate in his provision of subordinate characters situated somewhere on the Missouri River. The
and subsidiary episodes. These have little organic practical interest culminates in a struggle for the
relation to his text, and are conceived in anything control of the local traction company, although we
but a happy fashion. And in one instance at least think that when the critical moment is reached, the
(found at the close of Book I., Chapter 9) the author author might have dealt more strikingly with the
80 far lapsed from probability and good taste, situation. The romantic and personal interest of
has permitted himself so grotesque an aberration of the novel is created by a young woman, the daughter
style and characterization, that we read with sheer of the local magnate, for whose hand three men
amazement what he has written, and rub our eyes are claimants. We are kept guessing until near
to make sure that the words are really there. If the close, when the atmosphere is cleared by the
the thing is intended for humor, Mr. Allen should death of one and the flight of another, a victim of
offer up a fervent prayer to be delivered from all moral cowardice. There is also a flamboyant local
future temptations to be humorous, for of such are festival and a mysterious abduction. Out of these
the promptings of the Fiend.
materials “ The Main Chance” is constructed, and
Paul Clitheroe was a young poet and journalist with such skill as to keep the interest sustained
who lived in San Francisco in the seventies. He throughout.
throughout. Mr. Nicholson knows intimately the
had an engaging personality, and made many scenes and types which he manipulates, and his
friends, particularly among women. The practical work is craftsmanlike and meritorious in a marked
problems of life were difficult for him to master, degree.
because anything like routine or patient endeavor Some time ago, Mr. William Farquhar Payson
was abborrent to his artistic nature. He tried
many wrote a historical novel of the Lost Colony in Vir-
experiments by way of making a living, including a ginia, and made it noteworthy by the somewhat
few weeks as an actor in a provincial troupe. Being audacious introduction of the figure of Christopher
a Catholic, he sought counsel from his confessor, Marlowe. He now presents us with a novel of mod-
but could get no lasting consolation in that quarter. ern conditions entitled “The Triumph of Life.”
He was a Bohemian, a dreamer, almost a mystic, Unfortunately, he has acquired a taste for fine
and his restless soul brooded perpetually over the writing, and the result is a novel that is unpleas-
enigma of existence. His life was a confessed fail- antly strained and fantastical in manner. A young
ure, yet it had its hours of quiet satisfaction and collegian writes a novel filled with noble thoughts.
even serenity of outlook. In his younger days, he It fails of success, and he is plunged into gloom
had wandered in many countries, and had known and cynicism. Then a most exasperating young
the languid island life of the Southern seas. One woman treats him badly, and he resolves to have
day he disappeared from his customary haunts, and done with idealism, and win success by pandering to
his friends knew him no more. Rumor had it that the lower tastes of the public. His name is Enoch
he had joined the Franciscans and was living the Lloyd, and he discovers one day that he can give to
contemplative life in a Venetian community. In it the anagrammatic form of Dolly Cohen. Under
fact, he had been drawn away to the Southern seas, this pseudonym be writes sensational rubbish which
impelled by an irresistible memory of the ancient has a large sale. Then he tries to write noble
charm, and, like Waring, had dropped out of the thoughts once more, and finds that the power has
ken of civilization. A series of the episodes in this left him. Meanwhile his first book has a belated
troubled career - if so futile a life-history may be success, and he is sorry that he deserted his ideals.
called a career-put together without much regard He is elected to the Millennial Club, an introduc-
to their actual time-sequence, is given us in a book tory banquet is arranged for him, and there, in-
entitled “For the Pleasure of his Company.” stead of accepting the honor with thanks, he makes
When we say that the author is Mr. Charles War- an open breast of his literary turpitude, and resigns.
ren Stoddard, nothing need be added for those to This is the triumph of life, and averts the sinister
whom this name bas already made its magic appeal; | influence of an impossible young woman of French
for others, we may say that the book, for all its ram- extraction who thinks she has him in her toils. In
bling and inconsequent manner, is a piece of charm- the end, the exasperating young woman first men-
ing literature, the expression of a spirit unfettered tioned behaves more reasonably, he gets back his
by the conventions, freely disporting itself in its lost inspiration, and the future is made bright. This
own native element of imagination and fantasy. is the material for a good story, but it is wellnigh
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inflated mannerisms. Unhappily, we cannot all be of these influences that the strength of “Ronald
Merediths, and it is just as well for most of us to Carnaquay” is found, and in the force with which
recognize this hard fact.
the spiritual, as opposed to the commercial, ideal of
“ The Lions of the Lord,” by Mr. Harry Leon the minister's calling is presented.
Wilson, is a chronicle history of Mormonism done Mr. Justus Miles Forman's new novel, “Mon.
into fiction. It begins with the expulsion from Nau- signy," is a thin and sugary performance which
voo of the followers of that very cheap prophet, pretends to depict deep passions, but hardly comes
Joseph Smith, and goes on to tell about the journey within speaking distance of actual life. The central
across the plains, the settlement in Salt Lake Val- situation is so hopelessly far-fetched and strained
ley, the growth of the theocratic community, the that the story has about as much reality as a fairy
deeds of the Danites and the Mountain Meadow tale, and is, besides, characterized by cheap theat-
massacre, the schemes of the crafty Brigham, the rical effects and artificial sentimentality. The doll
fanaticism of his dapes, and the long conflict with heroine, the wooden manikin hero, and the hyster-
the Federal authorities. As the author warns us, ical woman who tries to be their evil genius are alike
“the make-believe is hardly more than a cement to uninteresting and unreal. The action takes place
join the queerly-wrought stones of fact that were in a French chateau — the Monsigny of the title -
found ready." Still, there is enough of romantic but the characters are all English except the doll
interest to keep the narrative alive, and the leading heroine, whose mother was French.
character offers an interesting study in the tempera- “ The Silver Poppy” is a novel of literary and
ment of the religious enthusiast. But this is a case artistic life in New York, and is written by Mr.
in which the truth is stranger than any possible fic- Arthur Stringer. It is about a young Englishman
tion, and the author has done well in keeping close from Oxford, doing slum work and hack journalism
to history. Mormonism is worth knowing about, in the American metropolis, and a young woman
because it typifies a form of human credulity that from Kentucky, who has scored a great success with
finds examples - although less striking ones - in a novel called “The Silver Poppy.” Unfortunately,
the history of every age. The vulgar tirades of her reputation is based upon the filching of another
Brigham, as they are reproduced in these pages, are man's brains, and when a second novel is demanded
paralleled in the spirit, and almost in the letter, by of her by the impatient public, she is in a hopeless
the outpourings of a present-day religious charlatan, impasse. Here the Englishman comes to her rescue,
who plays upon the same coarse fibres of human and rewrites her manuscript, making a strong and
nature, and who likewise counts his followers by the vital thing out of it. He also falls in love with her,
thousands.
not knowing of her past deceit. When the facts
The Rev. Bradley Gilman, in writing “Ronald come out, he goes back to England, and she is left
Carnaquay," has sought to portray two contrasted despairing. He is a good deal of a prig, and the
types of the modern clergyman; the one a quiet | young woman is better off without him, did she but
worker of fine fibre and absolute purity of motive, know it. The whole action of the story is uncon-
the other an ornate person of strictly superficial vincing, and we are not greatly concerned about
attainments and wholly devoid of spirituality. A what happens to any of the characters. The best
New England city of moderate size is the scene of thing about the book is its semi-humorous account
this story, which is chiefly concerned with the fort- of the conditions of journalism as it is viewed by
unes of the two clergymen in question, and with the the commercial syndicate in whose hands the hero
church which first the one, and then the other, has is a victim, during his early apprenticeship to the
in charge. The author's purpose
for this is a trade. “ The bureau had a Menu Page, too, made
book with a purpose, if there ever was one — - may
up by a very lean and hungry-looking old gentleman
be gathered from these prefatory words: “When who lunched sparingly on a sandwich each noon,
a church and preacher disregard the sacred leader and a Religious Thought Page, edited by a very
ship of Truth, and undervalue the worth of pastoral stout individual who kept a brandy-flask standing
ministration, and subordinate worship to amuse- beside his ink bottle.” This is the sort of thing we
ment, and when they test the merit or strength of a mean, mildly amusing and yet reasonably truthful
cbarch and minister solely by mercantile standards, in its revelations. WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE.
then that preacher and people have become com-
mercial and sordid ; then the higher vision is with-
drawn; and where there is no vision, the people
NOTES ON NEW NOVELS.
perish.” Mr. Gilman writes from the fulness of
knowledge, and, while his work has little to com. A war in society between rival cliques, with the in-
mend it as a work of fiction, its value as a sociolog-
terest centring in a beautiful woman, is ideal subject
ical study is considerable. Most serious people feel
matter for historical romance, as Mr. Alfred Henry
Lewis proves in “ Peggy O'Neal” (Drexel Biddle).
that the clerical profession, more than other
any
The heroine, a sweet, sensible, and beautiful Irish
unless we admit the politician to the professional
woman, daughter of a Washington tavern-keeper, be-
classes — is exposed to influences of so subtly de-
comes the wife of Andrew Jackson's Secretary of War,
moralizing a nature that it takes a strong man in- John Henry Eaton. Her antecedents, and envy of the
deed to escape their contagion. It is in its analysis charm she exerts over the men who come in contact
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with her, induce the other ladies of the Cabinet to re- with no more writing nor newsgetting, nor drafts on
fuse to her social recognition. President Jackson ingenuity perpetual and insistent. To her comes
espoused her cause in the thorough-going way char- happens so much oftener in novels than in real life
acteristic of him, with the result that his Cabinet was an elderly lawyer to inform her that she is the solo
eventually disrupted. These are the historical facts survivor of her father's family, and as such entitled to
opon which the story is based, and the incident stands a pleasant little property in a New England seaport
quite by itself in our national annals. But the treat- town, including an old-fashioned house and investments
ment of the story, its vividness of presentation and enough to maintain it. The scene then shifts to the
realization of the time, are entirely Mr. Lewis's. He new home, and a pretty romance begins, well conceived
writes in a quaint, individual manner, with abundant and thoroughly knit together. The book is delightful
humor, setting the narrative in the mouth of one of reading, and of more than usual merit.
Jackson's “kitchen cabinet,” and enabling the reader One of those annoying slips which arise to the dis-
of to-day to form an estimate of “Old Hickory" comfiture of authors appears in Mr. Vance Thompson's
hardly to be obtained in any other way.
“Spinners of Life" (Lippincott). Though the fact is
Mr. I. Zangwill seems to be coming into the quisite not mentioned directly, and the inference is in just the
prominence to justify a uniform edition of his prose other direction, Mr. Thompson makes his protagonist
writings, and “The Grey Wig, Stories and Novelettes" at least nine years younger than his heroine,
that is,
(Macmillan) is a step in that direction. It contains the night his father killed her's she was “a fright-
some of his earliest as well as some of his latest work, ened child of ten" (page 57), and he “was a baby"
as he is careful to explain in a prefatory note; yet it (page 216). The story turns upon the willingness of a
leaves a general impression of uniform strength and man deliberately to slay another whom he has never
skill, various as are the subjects treated.
seen, by seemingly innocent means, for the sake of
from a study of the French bourgeoisie, through British great financial gain, a temptation to which the son of
politics, feminine psychology exhibited in love-making, the murderer succumbs. The situation, though essenti-
an Arctic explorer in London society, a good old-fasb- ally stated by J. J. Rousseau, is a novel one, and is
ioned murder story with a modern dénoûement, a serving most originally worked out, lending the book an inter-
maid who inherits millions, to a little Irish lady who is est it could not have had otherwise. The scene is in
at once a governess to the young and a singer in music- New York, and classes in society not ordinarily met
halls. More variety could hardly be contrived, and the are involved. The book is marred here and there by
treatment is quite as versatile as the choice of themes. too obvious symbolism.
Nothing Mr. Zangwill has written, not even “ The Mr. George Barr McCutcheon has put far behind
Schnorrer,” leaves quite so strong an impression of his him the atmosphere of romance in his third book, “ The
mastery of English humor, while the evenness of treat- Sherrods” (Dodd), making it a story of life in a farm-
ment, diversified in time as is the work, must be con- ing community in Indiana and in Chicago. The action
sidered remarkable.
is not the principal feature of this book, which follows
Notwithstanding that Mr. Nathaniel Stephenson has the more ambitious plan of showing how one human
made an undeniably good story of bis “ Eleanor Day- soul can sink into the depths through over-much pros-
ton” (John Lane), it is so complete a disappointment perity, while another ascends the heights through love
as regards the working out of the love element that it of a woman both good and pretty. Depending in this
will hardly be judged fairly by the average reader. way upon subjective rather than objective processes,
The heroine, whose name is lent to the book, is one of there is small chance for intricacies of plot, but there
the most beautiful of women, the descendant of two col- is still a flavor of melodrama which keeps dulness
onial families of distinction in Maryland and southern aloof. The protagonist of the story succeeds in marry-
Ohio. Yet she is disposed of toward the close of the ing two good women, an ingenious way of introducing
book as a decayed gentlewoman, keepor of a boarding- an element of immorality or vice without in any manner
house, and the companion of fashionable young ladies reflecting upon American womanhood. The most
desiring a European tour. This is not an alluring fate, apparent criticism to be brought against Mr. McCutch-
and Mr. Stephenson does not succeed in proving that on's story is that he has given himself too little room
Eleanor did anything to deserve it. The trick of taking for the full development of so purely psychical a study.
the most dramatic scene in the book out of its due Nor has he been able to devise a sufficiently beaping
place and using it for the opening chapter, though reward for his good young man.
sanctioned by age and authority, here gives an im- Mrs. Alfred Lawrence Felkin, known to novel read-
pression largely erroneous and is responsible for much ers under her maiden name of Ellen Thorneycroft
of the disappointment. Yet the book is ably written, Fowler, has written “ Place and Power" (Appleton), a
and in some of the battle pictures of the civil war story of two English families which raise themselves
approaches excellence, while proving on alniost every from provincial obscurity to the highest places of
page the right of the author to rank among the most power in the United Kingdom. The story develops
promising of younger American writers.
itself by leaps and bounds, covering more than half a
A conscientious and able workman, Mrs. Ellen Olney century and ending in the living present. Somewhat
Kirk will lose nothing in reputation by the publication disconnected as a result of this treatment, the book is
of “Good-Bye, Proud World" (Houghton). The tale made disagreeable by a certain narrowness of view
opens in a New York newspaper office, discovering the which is the more marked because similar narrowness
heroine in the person of the editor of the « Hearth and in one of the families discussed comes in for so much
Home" department. She is a woman past early youth, reprobration at the novelist's hands. One of the
of excellent connections, practically alone in the world, families is atheistical, the other of the established
respected by her associates, always busy, and from a church. A curse pronounced upon the head of the
man's point of view overworked. She longs exceed- former house working itself out feebly through the
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element of the supernatural she so affects, but its con- when defenseless, foregoes his quest, enlists for Prince
clusion, though ingenious, is not in the least inspiring. Charlie, and goes down with him to defeat and eventual
The appeal of the book is markedly British, politics death. Meanwhile the rival becomes a scholar, and in
playing a principal part, so that the interest for Amer- the fulness of time comes to his own. The book has
ican readers is comparatively slight, and difficult to the picturesqueness of narrative which is always Mrs.
estimate at its true value.
Barr's, avoids too great a tax upon the reader's nerves
Mr. Justin Huntly McCarthy's “Marjorie” (R. H. by impersonal narration of the more exciting episodes,
Russell) continually suggests Stevenson’s “Treasure and is rather out of the common.
Island." There are pirates enough and to spare, and, The late Frank R. Stockton left a posthumous story
too, they conspire to obtain possession of a ship fitted called “ The Captain's Toll-Gate,” which is now pube
out for a lawful purpose. Shipwreck ensuing, the bet- lished by the Messrs. Appleton, and abundantly sus-
ter inclined among the crew erect a stockade and under- tains its author's reputation for whimsical and quiet.
go a seige from the pirates, whose efforts would have humor. The story is prefaced by a memoir from the
been crowned with success did not a frigate send the graceful pen of Mrs. Stockton, a portrait of the author
customary shell into their midst at exactly the right serving for the frontispiece of the volume. The nar-
moment. The differences chiefly lie in the two women rative is fully characteristic of Stockton at his best,
who figure in the story, one on each side, the nice one and it would be hard to imagine a better book so far as
lending her name to the book and her fate to the hero's, entertainment is concerned.
while the other one is wedded to the pirate king. American students of fiction will, for the most part,
Melodramatic as the book is, it is a great improvement obtain their first knowledge of the late William Ed-
on its predecessor, “If I Were King.”
wards Tirebuck from the memoir of him by Mr. Hall
Mr. Rider Haggard has left South African novels Caine which serves as a preface to his posthumous.
and South African history, and, seemingly getting as novel, “ 'Twixt God and Mammon” (Appleton). The
far from both as possible, gleans the grain for his story is concerned with an English rector of ritualistic
“Pearl Maiden” (Longmans) from the ripe barvest of tendency, who falls in love with a pretty convert of his
Josephus. Very early Christians, Essenes, and the fall own making, a girl brought up in the Kirk of Scotland.
of Jerusalem, afford him abundant opportunity to The book shows a fine knowledge of the feminine and
exhibit his matured powers of imagination and descrip- clerical mind, and brings out their kinship clearly in
tion, the details of the siege and its termination being this particular instance.
too horrible to permit of elaboration. It cannot be said Another attempt toward making it impossible for
that the resulting story is as interesting as some of his those in a sheltered life to avoid a knowledge of the
later romances, particularly those in which the redoubt- distress and woe of the less fortunate world is
able Umslopogaas figures ; but there is a compensating made in “The Story of an East Side Family” (Dodd,
ripeness and reserve. The heroine is a beautiful figure, Mead & Co.), by Miss Lillian W. Betts. It is a
one likely to remain in the mind, and quite the best book wbolly different in treatment from such work as
conception Mr. Haggard has embodied in his fictional Mr. Arthur Morrison, for example, has done in Eng-
work — which includes his history.
land, having something of the ordered detail and com-
The notable difference between the tales of the prehensive following of life from infancy to old age
French capital in Mr. Guy Wetmore Carryl's “ Zut and which characterized the books of Zola. Some quarrel
Other Parisians (Houghton) and other similar tales can be had with the tendency, discernible throughout
is that these are really French, in conception, material, the book, to anticipate events, the subsequent returns to
and execution, and the incidents as well as the atmos- orderly narrative being confusing.
phere can hardly be thought of in any other connection. Of the fashion of a day long gone, “Retribution: A
There are eleven of them altogether, dealing with Tale of the Canadian Border” (Jennings & Pye), has
every social rank from the millionaire to the burglar, been written by Rev. James B. Kenyon, known to
more than half taking in those in the humbler walks of many Americans through his volumes of graceful verse.
life. For all these various conditions Mr. Carryl has Here Mr. Kenyon has been content to weave supersti-
an abundant sympathy, the more marked in this par- tion and an evident moral into a short narrative, not
ticular instance because in a previous book he showed very well realized and astonishingly lacking in poetic
himself entirely without sympathy for the working quality. The tale concerns one family wbich in past
people who are his countrymen.
« Zut and Other Par- generations has been able to raise itself upon the ruins.
isians” is commendable for many things, not least for of another. Reinorse seizes one of the descendants of
having a decided style of its own, somewhat Gallicized, the prosperous house, and he turns the property back
to be sure, but straightforward, sufficiently clear and to its rightful owner. Through his improvidence the
simple, and with a nice perception of the mot juste. Its estate reverts to the descendant of the one who made
principal element, perhaps, is a delightful humor, read- restitution, and his daughter and the former owner's
ily shading into pathos.
son fall in love. They are thwarted on every side,
The incursion of the Young Pretender, culminating and the outcome is doubly tragical.
in the fatalities of Culloden, is the historical episode Dr. James Ball Naylor has taken for the theme of
about which Mrs. Amelia E. Barr has grouped the suc- “ Under Mad Anthony's Banner" (Saalfield) the cam-
cessive love-stories of her heroine in the book called by paign made by the hero of Stony Point against the
her name, “Thyra Varrick” (J. F. Taylor & Co.). Indians and British during Washington's second ad-
The two lovers arrive at a decision regarding the girl ministration, the book and the campaign culminating
at the same moment, and quarrel bitterly before she together in the effective victory at Fallen Timbers. The
takes the Highlander MacDonald in the face of her characters of the romance most in the eye of the reader
father's strenuous opposition. He is made captive on are two scouts, and the one of the two who serves as bero
his wedding day, but when he sets out to wreak his is assigned the difficult part of being in love with two
vengeance on his rival he finds his life spared by him women at once. This complication the author treats
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with a naiveté really astonishing, leaving the interest of dox, as when he says that “Browning's love-poetry
his book almost wholly in the hair-breadth escapes of is the finest love-poetry in the world, because it
the scouts and the perfidy of one of Wayne's personal does not talk about raptures, and ideals, and gates
staff. The story is in no way remarkable, though it of heaven, but about window.panes, and gloves, and
may serve to afford an occasional student of history a
fair picture of the frontier life of the day.
garden walls," or when he calmly remarks, à pro-
British imperialism comes near being reduced to an
pos of the elopement with Elizabeth Barrett, that
absurdity in Mr. Cutcliffe Hyne's “ More Adventures "he had always had the courage to tell the truth;
of Captain Kettle: Captain Kettle K.C.B.” (Federal and now it was demanded of him to have the greater
Book Co.), as the title-page reads, curiously enough. As courage to tell a lie, and he told it with perfect
those who read the tales of which these are the sequel cheerfulness and lucidity.” This sort of cleverness,
will recall, Captain Kettle was everything a Briton and the other sort that finds expression in such in-
ought to be for the display of the finer national qualities
cidental observations as “Paul founded a civiliza-
in a serio-comic vein. He was not much to look at, it
tion by keeping an ethical diary," is apt to pall
is true; but this is probably only to prove that it is not
upon the reader who discovers it upon every page;
looks, but deeds, that the Briton values. Here the
small but indomitable master mariner and minister of
but such is Mr. Chesterton's way, and the defects
the Wharfedale Particular Methodists bears bimself of his qualities must be forgiven for the sake of the
like a veritable Conquestador, rescuing strips of British
qualities themselves, which are freshness of mind,
Empire all over the world, conquering "inferior" races keenness of penetration, and freedom from the ob-
by a glance of his eye and a flourish of his revolver, vious clichés of criticism. The author strains his
taking possession of ships on the high seas without a points now and then, as when, speaking of the po-'
suspicion of piracy, and exhibiting many more doughty et's last hour with his wife, he goes on to say:
deeds of dering-do. At the last, his death being sup-
“He, closing the door of that room behind him,
posed certain, he is knighted, characteristically enough.
closed a door in himself, and none ever saw Brown-
It is a conventional novel of the ultra-fashionable
folk of New York that Mrs. Doré Lyon has written in
ing upon earth again, but only a splendid surface.”
“ Prudence Pratt" (George V. Blackburne Co.), and it
This comes dangerously near to being nonsense.
is rather more than ordinarily conventional. A young
The materials for a study of Browning are so eas-
lawyer from the South, with a paltry income from his ily brought together that there has been no ques-
profession of $25,000 a year, has the audacity to fall in tion of research in this work. There are the letters,
love with the daughter of a society leader who has and there is Mrs. Orr's biography, and there are
ordered her into an engagement to marry a man worth the poems. The Browning Society has brought
$10,000,000. It would be hard to conceive anything more
out a few facts of its own, and many anecdotes are
obvious than the result certain to flow from such a situ-
current in books of literary gossip. These are Mr.
ation, and it flows accordingly. Mrs. Lyon knows
her people, and they are as conventional as the plot.
Chesterton's sources; the rest he has evolved from
"Until Seventy Times Seven" (Whittaker) is a moral
his imagination. Speaking of the cryptic titles of
story somewhat out of the common run, the work of an the later poems, he tells of “a lady I once knew
anonymous author. It deals with the life of an Episco- who had merely read the title of Pacchiarotto and
palian clergyman whose wife has deserted him for the How He Worked in Distemper,' and thought that
stage, a child being born to her several years after the Pacchiarotto was the name of a dog, whom no at-
separation. She comes back to him while he is the rector
tacks of canine disease could keep from the fulfilment
of a parish in one of the American smaller towns, be-
of his duty.” We must be pardoned for entertain-
lieving herself to be near death. But care brings her
ing a dark suspicion that this lady is a myth. Mr.
physical health again, her husband's manliness to moral
regeneration, and the book ends happily. It is a daring alleged obscurity, and the upshot of it all is about
Chesterton has a good deal to say about Browning's
theme, but one well carried off on the spiritual if not on
the literary side.
what Mr. Swinburne has said in discussing the
same subject. Browning's vision was lightning-like
in its swiftness of action and sharpness of revela-
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS.
tion, and he did not think it necessary to help men
of duller and slower vision to see all that he did;
An entertaining
In selecting Mr. G. K. Chesterton
or, rather, he could not comprehend how much
book about to prepare the volume on Robert
Browning.
duller and slower of vision the ordinary run of mor-
Browning for the series of " English tals are. As our autbor puts it, “Sordello” was
Men of Letters" (Macmillan), the editor was doubt-
“the most glorious compliment that has ever been
less aware that the resulting book would be any-
paid to the average man.”
thing but humdrum, and may very reasonably have
entertained some misgivings as to the experiment.
The title to Professor Gerard Bald-
Saron life and
For Mr. Chesterton is a young writer who is chiefly
win Brown's two bandsome octavo
characterized by unexpectedness, and is determined
volumes on “The Arts in Early En-
to be original at all costs. He has certainly pro- gland” (Datton) is likely to be misleading to one
duced an entertaining book, and a book which is, on who is seeking information in the history of art as
the whole, reasonable in its conclusions, although that term is generally accepted. And the selection
these are often stated in somewhat startling terms. of that title is scarcely explained by the sub-titles
Mr. Chesterton's chief literary affectation is para- to the two volumes respectively, “ The Life of
"
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Saxon England in its Relation to the Arts" and It seems fitting, therefore, that a memorial volume
“ Ecclesiastical Architecture in England from the should issue from his pen, and record in more per-
Conversion of the Saxons to the Norman Conquest." manent form his personal aim "to prompt young
These sub-titles, however, show the relation of one men and women to such now companionship with
of the volumes to the other and of both to an earlier Emerson as shall give them a larger portion of his
work, -"From Schola to Cathedral, a Study of idealism and lofty spirit in religion and philosophy
Early Christian Architecture and its Relation to the and in the service of mankind.” The three essays
Life of the Church," published a few years after the now brought together in the volume entitled “The
appointment of the author to the Watson-Gordon Influence of Emerson are compiled from various
Professorship of Fine Art in the University of public addresses, and have less of the evident par-
Edinburgh. The author finds the art of the Mid- pose to be “timely " than has characterized much
dle Ages to a large extent centred in architecture. of the Emersonian criticism of the last few months.
There were, indeed, in those days, forms of art We find here frequent reiteration of familiar truths,
which were not directly connected with the con- yet there are passages of such deep feeling and
structive art, yet architecture is clearly marked out personal revelation that the reader gains a new zest
as the predominant Mediæval craft; and therein from the volume. The first chapter deals with
Professor Brown finds his justification for regard- “The Philosophy of Emerson,” carefully choosing
ing his dissertation upon architecture as inclusive the term Idealist in preference to that of Tran-
of all the arts of Saxon England. To a proper scendentalist, and differentiating his Idealism from
study of the architectural monuments of the period that of the great German philosophers. “Nature,'
under consideration, — castles, churches, and mon- as the utterance of the poet and the thinker, was
asteries, a knowledge of some of the facts of the “ full of Darwinism.” Of Emerson's ethics and their
religious and social life of the Saxons in England relation to Kant's principles, the author says: “The
is necessary. It is to a discussion of these economic tbree cardinal doctrines of the Kritik of Practical
conditions of Saxon England that Professor Brown Reason never received such powerful summary
devotes the first of the volumes before us. He statement as in Emerson's famous lines :
draws his material more largely from the Venerable
*So nigh is grandeur to our dust,
Bede's “Historia Ecclesiastica” than from any
So near is God to man,
other source. How thoroughly he pursues bis in-
When Duty whispers low, Thou must,
The youth replies, I can.'"
quiries might be illustrated by his discussion of the
"Ing Theory," for example, – that is, that En. In the second essay, “Emerson and Theodore Par-
glish place-names terminating in “ing" or "inge"
ker,” Mr. Mead has touched with a broad pen upon
imply an original settlement by an individual and
the correlation of the two men in religious teaching
not by a body of kinsfolk; a theory which Professor
and their joint service for liberal theology and a
wn does not hold as of unquestioned ortho-
reasonable faith. The third paper outlines with
doxy. The Country and the Town of a thousand
detailed vividness the personal relations between
years ago, the Monastic seats, and the Village
Emerson and Carlyle. Without any expanded study
Church in its varied relations, are all similarly
of the two men in their intellectual or literary as-
discussed in a manner deeply interesting to the
pects, Mr. Mead has given an interesting review of
antiquary, the archæologist, and the historian, as the circumstances which began and continued this
well as to the art student. The second volume rare friendship of souls. Their differences of tem-
contains a descriptive survey of the Saxon build- perament, training, and social relations are well
ings in England, and is a careful recension of a
defined; yet the bonds of unity are strongly pro-
series of articles which have appeared in a prom-
claimed and illustrated. Allied in friendship and
inent architectural journal in England. As a sur-
aim, unlike in methods and direct influence, the
vey, it is a fairly wide one, embracing examples
two names will ever be linked “as awakeners and
from all periods and from all parts of the country. inspirers, as preachers of self-reliance and individ- .
As a contribution to the architectural history of
ualism against the compliance, superstitions, gre-
England, it is all the more valuable because of the gariousness, and sham that were rusting out the
discussions of economic questions in the preceding
world; as prophets of the soul, eternity, and God,
volume. The illustrations are for the most part
the universal miracle, against agnosticism, mechan-
original sketches drawn from the author's measure- ical philosophy, and a utilitarian morality.”
ments. Maps and an index list of Saxon buildings
render valuable assistance to those who would seek
A volume by Mr. Wirt Gerrare en-
titled "Greater Russia" (Macmillan)
to investigate the subject further.
embodies the results of personal im-
A memorial of
The success of the series of lectures pressions received in the course of a slow journey
at Concord and Boston, celebrating of investigation throughout Russia and Siberia in
Centenary. the Emerson centenary during the 1901. In making his observations the author has
last two weeks of July, was largely due to the zeal cared less for political questions or governmental
and practical devotion of a few promoters, among
institutions than for actual industrial opportunities
whom Mr. Edwin D. Mead merits special mention. and the extent to which these have been grasped.
&
Russia as a
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Petty official annoyances are, indeed, noted, but but there are a few to Lord Burghersh, and a few
more as an evidence of the inability of the Russian moro from Lady Burghersh to the Duke or her
citizen to exist without paternalistic government busband. Altogether, they are meant to show the
than as in themselves an es tial evil. For it is Duke as he was to his friends and family : a man
in this dependence upon the state that Mr. Gerrare to be loved, as well as a military genius. Some of
finds the chief lack of similarity between America the letters are as balting and repetitious as Wel.
and Russia, which Russians themselves, he tells us, lington's speeches. Others are terse, coldly formal,
are fond of calling the “New America.” His esti- and full of matter, like the famous despatches; but
mate of the justice of the comparison is decidedly occasionally they become confidential, humorous,
adverse. “Physically, Russia may resemble Amer- and very entertaining, like the letters to Lady de
ica; it may have a similar climate and equal nat- Ros. We find in them discussions of military af-
ural advantages, but unless the Russian people fairs and politics, in which Lady Burghersh took a
possess certain qualities the Americans have, they keen and intelligent interest; many references to
will not make any • New America' of any part of the number of tiresome people he must entertain,
the empire. The difference is immense. In the and the countless matters he must attend to “be-
United States of America the state is the servant cause no one else will," and to the multitude of let-
of the public; in Russia every individual is a ser- ters he received “which might as well have been
vant of the state. In America a number of individ written to any body else.” Only, as the Duke put
.
uals combine for a certain purpose, and the state it, “ That which people will not understand is that
confirms or legalizes their action. In Russia, it is the whole labour and business and ceremony and
the state that initiates, the state that achieves, and everything else of the world cannot be thrown upon
the state that looks to the public for approbation. one man, and that an old one!”. Yet he never
It is the state that leads, guides, and pushes the flinched from the responsibilities that were thrust
public in the way it intends they should take.” upon him, and he had time enough left to do all in
The greater portion of Mr. Gerrare's work is, how his power for the comfort and pleasure of Lady
ever, devoted to a careful analysis, very nearly a Burghersh and her children. He was continually
census, of industrial conditions in Siberia, involving asking them to Walmer Castle, — in the warmth
detailed explanations of the exact stage of develop- of whose rooms he took a pride that sometimes
ment of railways, mines, roads, markets, agriculture, threatened to suffocate his guests, — and on the
,
and trade, in each district traversed, together with day of his death he had made all preparations to
an impartial opinion on the probable rapidity of, meet ber at Dover and speed her on her journey to
and opportunity for, future advancement. The in- the Continent. The letters are not models of the
evitable dulness of a semi-statistical compilation is epistolary art. They reveal nothing but the kind
largely relieved by shrewd characterizations of men heart and unselfish thoughtfulness of a great gen-
and peoples, which, in conjunction with incidents oral and statesman. It is as setting forth this rather
illustrative of customs and habits, furnish the me- neglected side of Wellington's character that they
dium by which the author passe8 on to the reader make their claim to attention.
his own fund of exact information. Still, it is in
the very exactness of his information and the evi-
In this age of domestic-science cal.
Cookery and
dent impartiality of his judgments that Mr. Ger-
ture, no worthy cook-book needs an
rare's volume is distinctly a valuable addition to
excuse for being, and “ The Land-
marks Club Cook Book,” which comes to us from
our literature on contemporary Russia. The work
is profusely and excellently illustrated.
Los Angeles, Cal., would need none in any age.
For although it does not claim to be scientific, it
Some new
“ The Correspondence of Lady is closely allied to science, being the first of its
letters of
Burghersh with the Duke of Wel. class, as far as we know, based upon or definitely
Wellington. lington,” edited by her daughter, recognizing a regional adaptation of foods. It is
has recently been published by Messrs. E. P. Dutton strange, as is pointed out in the preface to this
& Co. There are a photogravure portrait of Lady book, that people should wish to eat in Labrador
Burgbersh and three excellent ones of the Duke, or in the tropics the same food they eat at home.
one of wbich, a back view, from a water-color An Indian tribe in any country, it is said, has
sketeb by C. R. Leslie, is reproduced in color on the more dietary sense than the most intellectual vis-
cover, making a unique decoration. The portraits itor. By the slow gravitation of common-sense, it
acquire fresh interest after the letters have been has arrived at the food régime best adapted to its
read, with their frequent references to the nuisance environment, and that without medical conventions,
of being "the slave of these great artists," who chemical analyses, health-foods, or “faked" coffees.
were always clamoring for sittings, and whom the A New Englander goes to Panama and calls for
Duke had grumblingly to endure because all the beans and beefsteak, or in Alaska eats his roller-
world and its monarchs insisted upon being given process bread and fruit; but the dish-faced abo-
his portrait. Most of the letters included in this rigine knows better, — or if he does not know better
collection are from the Duke to Lady Burghersh, he invariably does better, without the wear and
who was his niece and the wife of a favorite aide ; tear of knowing. This book radiates attractiveness,
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Watteau and
a
Greek Classical
Literature.
9
from the significant string of peppers on its cover, in the index, but the page referred to contains no
through its pages of half-tone pictures of the Cali- word to bear out the reference. The author is most
fornia missions in whose interest it is published, to nearly adequate in bis treatment of the poets, but
the body of the volume. With signed recipes from is a little too fond of experiment in hexameter
everywhere, its specialty is Spanish-American cook- translation. The book is supplied with chronolog-
ery, and its masterpieces are famous dishes of Old | ical tables and brief bibliographical paragraphs,
California, Mexico, and Peru. The fact that Mr. chiefly indicating English studies and translations.
Charles F. Lummis contributes an introductory ar- A score of well-selected full-page illustrations - an-
ticle on Spanish-American cookery vouches for its cient sculpture, Pompeian wall-paintings, Flaxman
accuracy as well as for its charm. He also gives drawings, and modern imaginative works — add
recipes for many historic dishes of those southern greatly to the interest of the volume.
lands which have held a large portion of his life
In the cabinets of collectors of art.
and of his heart, and his section of this book is the
only place known to us where one can get English his followers.
pictures one frequently finds draw-
cooking directions for real Spanish dishes. Every
ings, decorative porcelain, etc., said
American has reason to thank the Landmarks Club
to be the work of Watteau, but not infrequently
for its efforts to preserve the most interesting of
the productions of his followers and imitators. In
the historic remains of Southern California. It has
“Watteau and his School” (Macmillan), Mr.
worked under expert supervision, and the reports Edgcumbe Staley has thrown some light on the
of what it has accomplished with little money are
little-known personality of the creator of this par-
most interesting. The compilation of this book has
ticular school of art, as well as interesting informa-
been a labor of love on the part of the club, and the
tion on his numerous followers. Jean Antoine
proceeds of its sale will go to the further work of
Watteau was born at Valenciennes on October 10,
1684, and tbe streets of Valenciennes were the
restoration of the now fast decaying yet still beau-
cradle of his inspiration. He arrived at an early
tiful mission buildings. The book is published by
the Out West Co., Los Angeles, Cal.
age in Paris, where his inspiration knew little
bounds. The gay crowds in the gardens, the fasci-
Professor William Cranston Law.
Introduction to
nating chanteuses of the opera, the animated groups
ton's “ Introduction to Greek Clas- in the streets, the elegant equipages and their
sical Literature" (Scribner) is the courtly occupants, were to him so many tableaux
latest addition to the list of manuals of the subject vivants. Delicacy of touch and minute attention
prepared primarily for teaching purposes, but not to detail gained for him the distinction of being the
without attraction for the general reader. Mr. Law- most brilliant and original draughtsman of the
ton's book has an unusual measure of this attractive eighteenth century. The present biographer claims
quality, for he is a much-practiced writer, and has that no designer over equalled him in piquancy of
acquired a method of expression which makes its pencilling. Watteau's rank and title in the world
points strikingly yet with a surprising economy of of art was “ Maistre-peintre des Fetes Galantes"
words. He is not as successful in making his mean- the exact meaning of which in our more re-
ing clear, as may be illustrated by the following strained vocabulary is difficult to give. He died
sentences, which would be sure to lead a beginner July 18, 1721. Considering the scarcity of infor.
into sad misconceptions : “Herodotos, Plato, Plu- mation, Mr. Staley has given us a very readable
tarch, the tragic three, are ... indispensable." "In- biography. The illustrations consist of reproduc-
vestigations no less fruitful are now in progress in tions of numerous paintings by the artist discussed.
various parts of the Ægean, notably in Crete, and
in Cyprus.” Imagine the feelings of the teacher
who is informed, with our author as authority, that
Crete is in the Ægean, and that Herodotos, Plato,
NOTES.
and Plutarch are commonly spoken of as "the tragic Messrs. Longmans, Green, & Co. publish “Ritchie's
three”! Mr. Lawton's book is divided into a large Fabulæ Faciles," a first Latin reader edited by Professor
number of brief chapters, and many of these into John Copeland Kirtland, Jr.
still briefer sections, treating of individual authors. Carlyle's “Cromwell,” in two volumes, is imported
The chapters include such special topics as “The
by the Messrs. Scribner in their leather-bound thin-
Mythic World,” “Homeric Problems," «Beginnings paper edition of the great humorist.
“
of Greek Music,” and “Greek Athletics." The
A new edition (the third) of “Esther Burr's Jour-
treatment of authors is perforce very brief, but such
nal," by Mr. J. E. Rankin, has been published by
Messrs. Woodward & Lothrop of Washington.
men as Aristotle and Lucian surely deserve more
“ The Book of the Honey Bee," by Mr. Charles Har-
than the few skimpy comments that are accorded
rison, is a new volume in the series of “Handbooks of
them. Mr. Lawton is up to date in his use of the
Practical Gardening,” published by Mr. John Lane.
results of recent discoveries - Herondas, Bacchy-
Messrs. Paul Elder & Co. publish a volume called
lides, Greek music, and the Constitution of Athens
“ Bachelor Bigotries,” giving us a quotation, more or
-although the Timotheos find seems to have been less oynical, concerning womankind, for every day of the
just too late to get mentioned. We fiod Timotheos year. As the holidays draw near, the bachelor weakens,


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and in the last days succumbs, taking refuge in this mis- teen-volume “Merrymount” edition. It is planned in
erable Shakespearian evasion: " When I said I would this edition to return to the general form in which Miss
die a bachelor, I did not think I would live till I were Austen's novels were originally published, issuing the
married."
longer novels in three volumes and the shorter stories
The S. G. Rains Co., New York, are the publishers in two volumes each. The print will be large and
of a reprint of Fitzhugh Ludlow's “The Hasheesh readable, the paper light, and the volumes of conveni.
Eater," now nearly half a century old, and long out of ent size. It is to be hoped that all lovers of Jane
print.
Austen will lend this interesting project their support.
A new edition, with the colored illustrations by Row- Canon Ainger's Life of Crabbe will be the next
landson, of “The History of Johony Quæ Genus," a con- volume to appear in the " English Men of Letters"
tinuation of “Doctor Syntax," is reprinted from the
series. The Macmillan Co. announce for publication
edition of 1822 by the Messrs. Appleton.
this Fall in the same series a biography of Lowell, by
“ The Motor Book," by Mr. R. J. Mecredy, and “The
Dr. Henry van Dyke, and Mr. H. C. Beeching's Life
Tree Book," by Miss Mary Rowles Jarvis, are two new
of Jane Austen. A little later there will be Owen
volumes in Mr. John Lane's series called “The Country
Wister's Benjamin Franklin, Professor Woodberry's
Handbooks," edited by Mr. Harry Roberts.
Emerson, and Sir Leslie Stephen's Hobbes.
“Shakespeare's Garden,” by Mr. J. Harvey Bloom
Under the general supervision of Mr. George French,
(appropriate name!), is a little book of Elizabethan a well-known writer on subjects connected with artis-
natural history and folk-lore, cast in the form of a cal- tic printing, The Imperial Press of Cleveland will
endar, and full of matter both curious and interesting.
undertake the production of choice books in limited
editions. The first volume to be issued will be a
Messrs. Doubleday, Page & Co. publish an illustrated
popular edition of Mr. Kipling's “The Light that
treatise by Mr. French on “ Printing in Relation to
Failed,” with scenes from the dramatic representation Graphic Art.” Mr. Andrew Andrews and Mr. Louis
of the story by Mr. Forbes Robertson and Miss Ger.
H. Kinder, formerly of the Roycroft Shop, will be
associated with Mr. French in his new work.
trude Elliott.
“The New Library of Poetry and Song," compiled
The list of books announced for Fall publication by
by William Cullen Bryant, will be issued this Fall in
the American Unitarian Association comprises “ The
a one-volume edition by the Baker & Taylor Co. The
Call of the Twentieth Century,” by Dr. David Starr
work was revised in 1901, and many new plates and
Jordan; “The Principles of the Founders," by Mr.
Edwin D. Mead; “Out of Nazareth,” by Rev. Minot
poems added at that time.
J. Savage;
The Fleming H. Revell Co. publish “ The Student's
"The Understanding Heart,” by Mr.
Samuel M. Crothers; and “ Apples of Gold,” an anthol-
Complete Text-Book ” of Esperanto, the new universal
language which is the latest successor to Volapük'in
ogy compiled by Miss Clara Bancroft Beatley. All of
curious linguistic interest. Mr. J. C. O'Connor is the
these books will be issued during the present month.
Baedeker's “The Rhine," in its fifteenth revision, has
compiler of the little volume.
Messrs. Silver, Burdett & Co. will publish at an
just been imported for the American market by the
Messrs. Scribner, from whom we have at the same time
early date a volume on “The Life and Work of Moses
Homan Bixby," by Mrs. Jennie Bixby Johnson; “An
« Berlin and its Environs,” a small Baedeker extracted
mainly from the “ Northern Germany,” and now pub-
Introductory Arithmetic,” by Messrs. David M. Sen-
lished for the first time in English in this separate form.
senig and Robert F. Anderson; and a “Song Year
Book " by Miss Helen Place.
London, Paris, and Berlin are the only cities thus far
made the subjects of separate volumes in the Baedeker
The novelty of Mr. Frank M. Chapman's “Color
list. Rome should come next, and Vienna, and then
Key to North American Birds,"_to be published this
perhaps New York.
month by Messrs. Doubleday, Page & Co., is a new
sort of colored picture of each of the birds on the mar-
Professor George M. Wrong, a Canadian scholar, has
gin opposite the description on every page, showing in
prepared a school history of “The British Nation" for
a conspicuous way the significant characteristics so that
the “Twentieth Century” series of text-books pub-
lished by the Messrs. Appleton. It is a
they will be easily recognized on the birds themselves.
orough and
well-written book, with many illustrations, and gives
« Venice and its Story,” announced by the Macmil-
adequate attention to the social aspect of English his-
lan Co., will be one of the most elaborately-illustrated
tory, as well as to the biographies of historical charac-
of the autumn books. The text is by Mr. Thomas ters. Mechanically, the book is an exact counterpart
Okey, joint author with Mr. Bolton King of a recent
of Professor McLaughlin's “The American Nation
history of modern Italy. The illustrations include
in the same series.
fifty-two colored plates by Mr. O. F. M. Ward, and
The “ American Citizen Series,” published by Messrs.
fifty full-page line drawings by Miss Nelly Erichsen.
Longmans, Green, & Co., has just been enriched by a
W, M. Thackeray's acquaintance with the Baxter treatise on “ Actual Government as Applied under
family of New York was one of the most interesting American Conditions," the work of Professor Albert
of the great novelist's friendships. His letters to the Bushnell Hart. The book is intended as a text for high-
Baxters are to see the light in the pages of " The Cen- school and college use, and seems to us to fulfil its pur-
tury" during the coming year. They cover both visits
pose better than any other existing treatise, with the
of Thackeray to America, and they reflect his opinions possible exception of Mr. Ashley's recent work. It is a
upon all sorts and kinds of American topics, with all
well-balanced production, with its facts brought down to
the author's frankness, vivacity, and charm.
date, and is written in a style singularly attractive, con-
Mr. Charles E. Goodspeed, a Boston publisher, and sidering the difficulty of getting so great a mass of mat-
Mr. D. B. Updike of the Merrymount Press, are pro- ter within the limits of a six-hundred page volume. We
posing to re-issue the novels of Jane Austen in a six- recommend it heartily to teachers and school authorities.
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TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS.
Christopher Columbus: His Life, his Work, his Remains,
as Revealed by Original Printed and Manuscript Records.
By Jobn Boyd Thacher. Vol. II., illus. in color, etc., 4to,
gilt top, ancat, pp. 699. G. P. Putnam's Sons. Sold only
in sets of 3 vols., at $27. net.
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togravure, etc., large 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 451. James
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