yrannus,' is not primarily ill-natured. The author is not
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terior to his sojourn in Rome.' 'Anteriorly to' relations with Byron, Scott, and Leigh Hunt. Mr.
would have been grammatically correct; but why Gwynn's volume shows a well-proportioned use
this strange contortion when 'before’ is all that of his abundant materials, and he has given a
is meant? 'An Italian lazzaroni' astonishes the sincere and readable study of a very interesting
reader in the 'Leaves from a Roman Diary,' poetic personality. A complete bibliography of
too. Misprints are numerous. At the bottom of Moore's works is a valuable feature of the book.
page 329 there is a hopeless muddle involving
several lines. While the book contains much An interesting Mr. George Alexander Fischer has
agreeable reading matter and a number of good character-study given us a new character-study of
portraits, its chapter on George L. Stearns, the
of Beethoven. Beethoven
(Dodd, Mead & Co.)
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which is perhaps the most rational, convincing,
tion to biography.
shrewd, and sympathetic estimate yet made. It
is a valuable book to the student of music, for its
A readable One of the latest additions to the brilliancy as well as its depth of analysis, besides
volume on ‘English Men of Letters' series its mass of information. The author shows us
Thomas Moore. (Macmillan) is Mr. Stephen Gwynn's
that Beethoven is the philosopher of music,' that
volume on Thomas Moore. In style and lucidity in his work the philosophic spirit comes to the
of exposition, the book amply sustains the char fore, and that his genius as a musician is affili-
acter of the well-known series edited by Mr. John ated with a broad mental scope, an altruistic
Morley. The author has succeeded well in pre-
spirit, which enabled him to address the intellect
senting the poet's engaging personality. For this
of mankind. The events and influences of his
he has drawn freely upon Moore's own writ life, and their part in determining the character
ings and correspondence and the letters of con of his compositions, are followed throughout his
temporaries. We are given a satisfactory view career, so that Mr. Fischer's work becomes at
of the poet's domestic life, his relations with his once a biography and a musical criticism. As a
publishers, in which he is always a model of corollary, he outlines Wagner's indebtedness to
honor, and his relations with the public men of Beethoven: 'Beethoven, in Wagner's estimation,
his day. Among these, Lord John Russell, who is a landmark in music, just as Shakespeare is in
became Prime Minister in 1847, five years before literature, as Jesus or Buddha in religion. He
Moore's death, was perhaps the poet's most inti is the central figure; all others are but radii
mate friend and his chief biographer. Mr. emanating from him. To Beethoven was it given
Gwynn's book is compact with information and to express clearly what the others could but
well-balanced criticism. During the poet's life dimly perceive. The relation of men like Bach
time his lyric verse was in great vogue. This or Handel toward Beethoven, Wagner held to be
was true of the 'Odes of Anacreon,' his first pub analogous to that of the prophets toward Jesus;
lished work, as well as of the much more famous namely, one of expectancy. The art reached its
Irish Melodies. The poet's personal magnetism
culmination in Beethoven. This is Wagner's
had much to do with the popularity of his verse. summary of the significance of Beethoven's work,
Moore travelled much, and was a social favorite. and he proclaimed it continually from the house-
He was a charming singer of his own Irish songs. tops. It was in some sort a religious exercise to
But the fatal fluency of his composition stamped him to make propaganda for the master to whom
the seal of transitoriness upon much that he he felt himself so deeply indebted. The burden
wrote. Outside of the 'Irish Melodies,' he wrote of his utterances on the subject of the musician's
very little lyric verse that has not already evapor art is, “A greater than I exists. It is Beet-
ated. Mr. Gwynn attributes the fading of 'Lalla
Wagner's achievement, according to
Rookh,' Moore's most pretentious poetic effort, Mr. Fischer, can be attributed in part to a certain
to 'work done against the grain, and relying for quality of intellectual receptivity, by virtue of
its success on the secondary qualities of elaborate which he was enabled to appropriate to himself
finish, profusion of ornament, and variety of the genius of the two of his predecessors for
interest.' The development of his interest in whom he had a special affinity-Shakespeare and
themes requiring prose treatment wrought a Beethoven, who served him as models.
depressing effect upon his muse. His prose taste
turned in the direction of biography, and he wrote Classical A new contribution to the discus-
successful lives of Sheridan, Byron, and Lord
revival in sion of Classical Training comes
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Education.
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wrote also a four-volume history of Ireland. His nam) in the form of five collected addresses
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read than any biography in the language, with lege. The plea is to the general reader, with the
the single exception of Boswell's.' The Gen aim of persuading him to devote some part of his
eral Appreciation, forming Mr. Gwynn's last time, however small, 'to upholding the interests
chapter, is a good piece of literary critici of a cause that is without doubt a losing one
Moore's originality as a metrical artist is given as just at the present time.' As this is a scientific
his chief distinction in poetry. His skill age, Professor Ashmore seeks to put his argu-
rhythmical invention and stanzaic variety is ment on a scientific basis. The results of the
shown in the remarkable success with which he investigation of specialists in education, he main-
reproduced Irish folk-songs in English metre. tains, `justify the inference that mental growth
Interesting side-lights are thrown on Moore's and expansion are conditioned by, and are
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CONTENTS.
attempt to deceive the public into expecting a
newly-written book instead of the reprint of an
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Leaving aside the question of ethics which is
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American and English College Training. F. H.
raised by these misleading practices, there is a
Costello.
critical question involved in them of the first
Paul Jones as a Hero in Fiction. Annie Russell
importance. The time has long gone by when
Marble.
it was thought that a piece of literature might
A RADICAL ENGLISH PARSON. Percy F. be adequately discussed by the application of
Bicknell.
80
abstract principles without making any refer-
THE BEGINNINGS OF OUR NATIONAL HIS ence to the circumstances under which it was.
TORY. St. George L. Sioussat .
produced. Taine taught us the futility of that
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF FISHES. Charles proceeding very thoroughly, even if himself
Atwood Kofoid
84 blind to other necessary aspects of criticism.
A FOURTEENTH-CENTURY STATESMAN.
How ridiculous then it is to discuss the book of
Laurence M. Larson .
86 Dr. Brandes, itself only an intermediate section
THE NECESSITY OF EMPIRE. Frederic Austin
of a larger treatise, without allowing all the
Ogg
88 time for the fact that it was the work of an
MEN AND MOVEMENTS OF MODERN EN-
impetuous young man, written from the point
GLAND. E. D. Adams
90
of view of Continental radicalism, and at a date
when the period of English literature with
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which it deals had not been taken up in any
A good book of essays for the hammock. - Social
life in the Colonies of North America.- Biography
adequate kind of way by critics to the manner
of a musician and a gentleman. - A guide to the born. Examined in the light of these facts,
art of index-making. — Greek art grammatically the book becomes illuminating; if they are
treated. — The psychology of Beauty. - Spanish
influence on English literature. - New essays by
ignored, it misses its proper effect. And so
Bishop Spalding.–Paris and the Social Revolution. with Mr. Swinburne's satirical presentment of
NOTES
English society in the mid-Victorian period, the
94
reader who does not keep constantly in mind
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the time of its writing and the age of its writer
will find it to have little meaning. Yet we
LITERARY PERSPECTIVE.
expect during the next few weeks to read many
reviews of the book making no mention of these
We have been a good deal surprised to notice essential facts, and open to the implication, at
that the reviewers of current literature, in least, of assuming that it offers a view of pres-
newspapers and even in professedly literary ent-day society as mirrored in the mind of a
journals, have very generally discussed Dr. sage of seventy or thereabouts.
Brandes's “Naturalism in England' as if it It is necessary, not only for the understand-
were a new book. We have seen it receiveing of a book, but also for its enjoyment, to
column after column of comment, bestowing take into account the time, place, and milieu
praise or censure according to the whim of the l of its production. This is the formula which
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Taine gave us, and the process may be more knowledge of the sort that goes to the making
succinctly designated as viewing the book in of Culturgeschichte, not of the sort that leads
perspective. It is true that some works, by to the multiplication of monographs by German
the universality of their appeal, by their foun- specialists.
dation upon the eternal verities of the spiritual If our general position is sound as far as it
life, may make a direct and powerful impres- concerns the great prophetic and poetic voices
sion upon the untutored mind, and seem to of humanity, whose speech, in some sense,
have little need of historical illumination. Un- transcends the bounds of time and space, how
schooled adults, and even children, may feel much more cogent must the argument be when
much of the truth and beauty of Isaiah, or of applied to writers of more temporal influence
Homer, or of Shakespeare, for to this truth and fame. With such writers the pressure of
many autobiographies and confessions bear wit the time counts for so much that unless we
ness. In such books, soul speaks to soul, take it somewhat fully into account their work
eschewing the intermediary of the trained and is almost unintelligible, or at least so alien to
critical intellect; the utterance, for its essential our modern ways of thinking as to seem life-
message, might be that of a contemporary less. To take a few examples from English
Nevertheless, it must be allowed that the seri- | literature alone, how much we must read be-
ous student, even of these universal books, gets tween the lines, how much we must know of
a far fuller and richer comprehension of their past political and social conditions, of intel-
contents, and a reward in proportion to the lectual outlook and literary fashion, to perceive
extent of his historical realization of their the glow of vitality in such writers as Spenser
origin. In a word, the truer the perspective in and Donne, as Dryden and Swift, or even to
which he views them, the better is he prepared feel the ardor with which the eager spirits of
to sound their meaning and sympathize with the later eighteenth century hailed the dawn
the life which they portray.
of the revolutionary epoch. The springs whence
It may be urged, per contra, that a naïve joy flowed the power of these writers are sealed to
in the masterpieces of world-literature is more us unless we have in some degree placed our-
genuine than one that comes from conscious selves abreast the general stream of tendency
study, and there is no doubt that the edge of to which their ideals were affluent.
appreciation may be dulled by too curious an We might put the case in a very concrete
inquiry into particulars. This process, in gain- form by asking why FitzGerald thought so
ing one perspective, runs the risk of losing an much of Crabbe. His enthusiastic devotion to
other. If it be carried to the point of pedantry the Rector of Trowbridge was certainly more
and the danger of carrying it that far is by than a whim or a personal idiosyncrasy, and as
no means imaginary in these days of a Teuton- certainly it was not due to the pride of dis-
ized higher education -- the student of litera covery or exploitation which impels a certain
ture will lose sight of the wood for the trees, type of critic to make, as Mr. Saintsbury puts
and the trees will prove to be a particularly it, 'a remarkably dull Italian into a god, and
thorny and repellant growth of linguistics, and great but not rationally great Frenchman into
archæology, and philosophical phrase-monger a compound of Shakespeare and Plato.' The
ing. To change our metaphor, the one who real answer to the question must be, of course,
studies literature in this spirit will be apt to that FitzGerald, partly on account of his per-
miss its flower, and find, when he would pluck sonal relations with the poet's family, and partly
it, that it has gone to seed. A better reward account of his intimate knowledge of
than this may be had with far less of applica- Crabbe's life and circumstances, and of the as-
tion and wearisome constraint.
pects of the old English life that he depicted
But this consideration does not seriously im- with such minute truth and marvellous fidelity,
pair our original thesis, which is that the satis was enabled to view his work with a sympa-
factions, intellectual, æsthetic, and ethical, ob- thetic understanding utterly impossible to the
tainable from the great productions of literature casual reader, and thus to penetrate to the
are immeasurably enhanced by the cultivation innermost secret of its vitality.
of that historical sense which alone makes it This illustration of the comprehension of
possible to view these productions in their right literature that comes from seeing it in its
relations. The thing to avoid is the micro proper perspective may be paralleled in many
scopic habit, not the general broadening of other cases. It explains to us Charles Lamb's
vision. One cannot know too much about delight in Elizabethan dramatists and seven-
Isaiah, or Homer, or Shakespeare, but the teenth century worthies, William Morris's joy
knowledge must be interpreted in a large and in mediæval romance, and Austin Dobson's ap-
liberal fashion, the fashion of Arnold, or of preciation of the artificial writings of the eight-
Symonds, or of Swinburne. And it must be eenth century. It explains also the interest
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which the most obscure and neglected of poets past age will, as a rule, take little interest in the
may acquire in the eyes of the modern editor human products of that age, I shall outline my
and commentator, who makes it his business, meaning.
not to discuss him in the dry light of abstract
But if this be so, whose fault is it? That of
criticism, but to view him in his habit as he
the American age, which wants to see the end
straight ahead on the track, or else will not
lived. It may be said that there are three main
bother with the means. Education that does
elements in the appreciation of literature. There
not lead by the shortest and best-lighted road to
is first the æsthetic element, which asks for
a definite object is called merely education for
nothing more than sheer beauty of expression. education's sake, and the young American will
Then there is the ethical element, which re have none of it. To put in his storehouse a
quires wisdom to be concealed within the form stock of mental goods that he merely may want,
of beauty, and has ever an eye to the bearing and is not sure to want, is to him a waste of
of literature upon conduct. Finally, there is
both time and storage. And in the last analysis
the historical element, which if we bring also
it is but too often found that the mental goods
to our study, may not only enhance the other
must have a market value in dollars. To this
literally golden vision the poor college can op-
two, but may provide us with an additional
pose only a protest; for everybody is stronger
pleasure of its own. And this pleasure, although not wiser) than anybody, and the millions be-
not the deepest that literature affords, is prob- lieve in the vision.
ably the one easiest of access and most widely But yet this better knowledge of history is
realized, for it lies well within the reach of practical enough, if only it is carefully consid-
those whose senses are imperfectly attuned to ered; and the practical Englishman knows it.
the finer manifestations of the poetic spirit.
Without it, there is no straight-edge by which
to measure great impending events. When the
Spanish war was on, the man who knew not his-
tory talked of tons and guns, and showed us
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that our navy was but little stronger than the
other; but the man of historic knowledge
quietly said that if we could so maul the Eng-
AMERICAN AND ENGLISH COLLEGE TRAINING. lish in 1812, and if the English in turn had
(To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
beaten the French, and if these again were cer.
Will you allow me a few words touching the
tainly better sea-fighters than the Spanish, why,
unless the advance of mechanics had been in
position of Mr. Nixon on Oxford education, as
set forth in the leading article in your issue of Spain's favor rather than ours, we ought to
July 16, and the comments thereon by Colonel
beat. It hadn't, and we accordingly ought to
Higginson in your issue of August 1. It seems
have won · hands down '; and we did so win.
to me that there is a fundamental difference be-
Let us listen, then, to the discoveries our
tween the view-point of our young Americans at
Rhodes men are making with respect and rea-
Oxford, and that of Colonel Higginson; and I
sonable credence. We are sure they are honest,
am strengthened in this belief by reading letters
and they are talking from things learned on the
from a Rhodes beneficiary who is a fellow-towns-
spot.
F. H. COSTELLO.
man. I think that our young men at Oxford Bangor, Maine, Aug. 12, 1905.
are dealing less with education in the strict let-
ter sense than with educational literary reading; PAUL JONES AS A HERO IN FICTION.
while Colonel Higginson sees only the rigid let-
(To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
ter. They talk of what Englishmen know of At this period of reawakened interest in Paul
Dante and his times; and Colonel Higginson Jones and his services for America, it may be
tells us how readily he can find well-equipped fitting to recall that when Fenimore Cooper
translators of French and Spanish. But these decided to write a'romance of the sea, more than
differing views are certainly to be expected, be eighty years ago, he chose as his hero and
cause they are the views of persons of differ- mysterious 'Pilot' this adventurous "Man without
ing periods of time. No man by taking thought a Country. The cruise of 'The Ranger' and the
can so add to his mental stature as to give him subsequent events in the life of Paul Jones, inter-
a generation-wide view in front, and an equal woven with fanciful episodes, gave plot to this
range behind; and the age qualification cuts off first American story of the sea. The Pilot,' as
the view of the young men over the backward fiction, has the faults of prolixity and unevenness
road.
found in all of Cooper's work; but it contains two
But to be more concrete. It is the belief of or three vigorous passages of shipwreck and
many of us that the education of the average storm that have not been surpassed in later tales
American college man is scrimped in general of nautical adventure. In the mystery-shrouded
history; and this being the case, he lacks some Pilot of the German Ocean, guiding in safety the
thing like a keel to his literary ship. I will not * Ariel' amid shoals and reefs, and assisting with
try to elaborate this, for it would take too much shrewd daring in the clandestine, mission of the
space, and probably it is unnecessary; but if I American frigate, Cooper has made a vivid
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and dress which carefully conform to the histor ceeded from desire of distinction, his ruling
ical Paul Jones. Amid the excitement of officers passion, and perhaps a little also from resentment
and crew, he keeps his unruffled aspect of of some injustice which he claimed to have
authority, like a man who not only felt that suffered from his own countrymen ;-had he lived
everything depended upon himself, but that he in times and under circumstances when his con-
was equal to the emergency.' The occasional summate knowledge of his profession, his cool,
passages of introduction in the earlier chapters deliberate and even desperate courage could have
expand, as the story progresses, by both direct been exercised in a regular and well-supported
and subtle allusions, to a portrayal of the violent navy, and had the habits of his youth better fitted
yet restrained passions of the man, his wild him to have borne meekly the honors he acquired
ambitions and fierce resentments, and his roman in his age, he would have left behind him no
tic and often distorted conceptions of glory. name, in its lists, that would have descended to
Cooper's Paul Jones is a strong character, with the latest posterity of his adopted countrymen
sufficient mystery to sustain and enhance the with greater renown.'
interest of the story. The intrusion of a romance
ANNIE RUSSELL MARBLE.
in his life, and the love-passages, do not add to
Worcester, Mass., Aug. 10, 1905.
the vigor of the portraiture, but they do produce
a medium through which the hero attempts to
vindicate his tragic and seemingly treasonous
career. As Alice Dunscombe reproaches her lover
The New Books.
with disloyalty to the land of his birth, she only
repeats the censure which his own time and later
years have uttered against this man whose
A RADICAL ENGLISH PARSON.*
marvellous prowess and ambition were perverted
from their legitimate service and rewards. In
* Heaven lies about us in our infancy, and
answer to her condemnation, Paul Jones makes we lie about ourselves in our old age,' quotes
his defense to posterity: ‘My name has been the Rev. W. Tuckwell in opening his Reminis-
sounded, and that in no gentle strains, when a cences of a Radical Parson. Although over-
whole people have quailed at it,—the craven, taken, as he declares, by 'creeping septuagin-
cowardly wretches flying before the man they tiasis," Mr. Tuckwell shows himself to be by no
had wronged. I have lived to bear the banner
means in his dotage - merely in his anecdotage,
of the new Republic proudly in sight of the three
a most fertile and interesting period to his
kingdoms, when practised skill and equal arms
have in vain struggled to pluck it down. Full
readers. Rector of Waltham in Lincolnshire,
twenty times have I met the hirelings of your
and late fellow of New College, Oxford, he
prince in open battle, fighting ever manfully un wields the pen of a scholar, a wit, and a gentle-
der that flag which was first raised to the breeze man, as well as of an energetic reformer and a
by my own hands, and which, I thank my God, I diligent student of human nature and of social
have never seen lowered an inch; but with no one problems.
act of cowardice or private wrong in all that ser Mr. Tuckwell's entrance on the field of activ-
vice can I reproach myself; and yet, how am I
ity that furnishes the main theme of his book
rewarded? The tongue of the vile calumniator is
took place about 1883, when the contrast be-
keener than the sword of the warrior, and leaves
a more indelible scar. Envy and jealousy robbed
tween his comfortable rectory and the squalid
me of my just dues and of more than half my
pigsties that sheltered so many of his flock, be-
glory. They call me pirate! If I have claim to came too insistent and too painful to be borne
the name, it was furnished by the paltry outfit in silence. A course of slumming 'under the
of
my friends rather than by any act towards my guidance of a much beloved Unitarian minis-
enemies!'
ter,' and the reading of such books as George's
There seems almost specific forecast of this
Progress and Poverty' and Wallace's 'Land
day of rehabilitation of his character in the hero's
later words: “The truth must be finally known; of Denmark was clearly rotten,' and started the
Nationalisation,' convinced him that the state
and when that hour shall come, they will say,
he was a faithful and gallant warrior in his day.
query, not to be silenced, whether possibly he
Think you that there are not pens as well was not born to help in setting it right. Thus
as swords in America? It is a country that can
it came about that in 1884 he found himself
form a world of itself; and why should they who addressing, by request, a neighboring Liberal
inherit it look to other nations for their laws ?' Association in a speech that proved to be the
Many words of discriminating analysis have been
germ of near a thousand subsequent addresses
spoken and writen upon this adventurer in the delivered throughout England in the next two
few weeks of revived interest in his grave and
years. Defining politics as the science of hu-
his memory. One may question, however, if a
man happiness, and disregarding the frowns
more just estimate of his character can be cited
than the final tribute of Cooper, through the
of bishops and fellow-clergymen, the hostility
words of Griffith, when he learns of the death of *REMINISCENCES OF A RADICAL PARSON. By Rey. W.
his former pilot: 'His devotion to America pro-
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of stiff-necked conservatism and of vested in eyes were instances not a few, in which working
terests, and the taunts and sneers of ignorance help, cultivated as much as two acres of ground,
men had in their spare time, and with their wives'
and malice, our rector became a radical parson,
the cart-tail and the platform his week-day pul-
saving thereon from 15 1. to 18 l. a year.'
pit, and the subjoined his main heads of dis-
Elsewhere reference is made to the immensely
course, as summarized at the close of his book, increased productiveness of land thus cultivated
where he points out the six tasks confronting as compared with its tillage by hired labor.
English political reformers at the present time: Before this, Mr. Tuckwell had been deeply
. 1. AGRARIAN REFORM. Only land nationalisa-
interested in the extension of the franchise,
tion can relieve the congested towns, bring back and had taken an active part in the first gen-
the villager to the village, utilise the millions of eral election (1885) under the new law. A
unproductive acres in which aurum irrepertum
undiscovered gold, is laid up for the spade which
curious and most unexpected bit of Jesuitic
shall extract it. 2. ELECTORAL AND PARLIAMENTARY
casuistry occurs at this point. The balloting
REFORM. Manhood and womanhood adult suffrage; was to be by the now well-known Australian
the single and simultaneous vote, payment of mem system; but the newly-enfranchised were in
bers, abolition of the House of Lords. 3. LABOUR
REFORM. Organisation of labour bureaux; the Con-
many instances terrorized in advance and com-
spiracy Act amended; employers' liability
pelled to sign pledges that they would vote for
increased; inspectors, male and female, multiplied; Conservative candidates. Learning that this
compulsory arbitration (as a counsel of perfection
if not an immediate enactment); a minimum wage;
was being done in his own district, our author
an eight-hours labour day. 4. LOCAL GOVERNMENT
counselled the voters accordingly. “Parlia-
REFORM. The parish councils reconstituted; unpai 1 ment,' he told them in a printed leaflet, ‘has
magistrates swept away; London unified. 5. ordained that all votes shall be secret; that no
ECCLESIASTICAL REFORM. The Church of England dis man shall know how any one else has voted;
established and disendowed. 6. HOME RULE FOR
IRELAND; possible now, perhaps, for the first time
and your duty is to carry out this law and to
since Mr. Parnell's retirement.'
keep your secret faithfully. And if you have
Comment on the foregoing is not here called signed a paper or given a promise, not under-
you
that
your
for, although some of the measures advocated, standing this to be the case, I tell
especially land-nationalization and a minimum signature and your promise go for nothing, and
wage, must seem to many either undesirable or
that your vote is, by the law of Parliament,
impracticable or both.
still your own, to use as you think best. The
Experiments with his own villagers on his
Bible says, “ Answer a fool according to his
own glebe, in the face of stupid episcopal oppo-
folly”; and so when any fool who can injure
you if you refuse him asks you to sign a paper,
sition, and a tour through agricultural France,
where the land monopolist is unknown since
“ Sign it”; to give a promise, I say,
the French Revolution, demonstrated the prac promise both go absolutely for nothing, as be-
“Give it.” But remember, that signature and
ticability of some sort of agrarian reform, if promise both go absolutely for nothing, as be-
not' of his own pet scheme. Here a passage
ing unfairly and illegally obtained, and that
from the book itself will set forth some of the
your vote remains your own.' The little tract
things made clear by this experiment in small
containing this advice to voters was widely cir-
farming. The lots cultivated, it should be re-
culated, copied approvingly or disapprovingly
membered, were only two-acre, one-acre, and
by many papers, translated into Welsh, versified
and set to the tune of 'Lillibullero,' and even
half-acre patches of what had before been prac- published in American and Australian news-
tically waste land, and were rented at one
pound sterling per acre.
papers, thus being printed to the extent of sev-
eral hundred thousand copies. Looking back
" When the land had been worked for two and a
half years, it seemed time to make public the
calmly,' writes the author, “after the lapse of
results. In September, 1888, we held a harvest nearly twenty years on the long-forgotten con-
home tea and prize-giving. The tenants and their troversy as regards its moral justification, I
wives sate down on the Rectory lawn, one hundred profess myself unconvinced that I was wrong,
and twenty in number, to a substantial meal, in a
large tent prettily decorated, and flaunting Maz-
in the exceptional circumstances which evoked
zini's motto, “ For God and the people. Four
it. That a majority at the time condemned me
prizes in money were given to the best tilled allot was due to the unreasoping dislike of casuistry
ments in the fields at present broken up, the judge,
which afflicts popular intelligence, and its con-
manager of a neighboring farm, congratulating the
fused ideas as to the nature and fundamental
labourers generally on the surprising excellence of
their crops and the cleanliness of the land. basis of morality. Non enim quidquid morale
pointed out to our visitors, first, that they had est bonos mores facit.' But perhaps the com-
seen acres waving with splendid corn which three mon instinct against telling an untruth or
years before had been a wilderness; the profit
breaking a promise is not so very far wrong,
going, not to the landlord or the middleman, but
straight into the pockets of the industrious labour-
after all. The little ante-election tract that
ers who created it; and, secondly, that before their thus fared so far abroad is given in an appen-
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dix, together with an unpublished defense of it and defence of class, struggles to retain pre-
that was sent to the Times' in reply to an rogative and supremacy; the Radical, who in
editorial attack.
the interest of the community, and from Chris-
The popular favor accorded to Mr. Tuck tian motive, seeks to annihilate privilege, to end
well's oratorical efforts appears to have been oppression, to confer upon suffering millions
warm from first to last. So well did he know an equal chance of elevation and redemption.
how to touch the hearts and stir the enthusiasm Between these two the Liberal has no place;
of his humbler hearers that at Manchester a the name can survive only as a shelter to the
fervid admirer rose to declare, in Hibernian lukewarm and half-hearted; in the day of
accents, that if the parson was not an Irish- battle its wearers will be repudiated, alike by
man he must have been born out of his native Radicals and Tories, as Æsop's beasts and birds
country. How the good rector's parish duties united to thrust out the bats. He adds to this
were discharged amid all this travelling and interesting and not unhopeful vaticination, that
speaking, and this personal investigation of so the idealist turned cynic is a mournful spec-
cial evils, we are given no hint. Evidently he tacle, and that for his part he means to die as
regarded the collective English poor as his he has lived, an optimist.
parishioners; for he says: "The misery which The combination of scholarly polish, graceful
I encountered haunted me with a sense of guilt; wit, and hard common sense in the author of
I was ill at ease and self-reproachful unless this veracious and on the whole convincing
when labouring to remove it. I came to under-narrative, is very pleasing. This Oxford don of
stand the Pauline restlessness: “Woe is me if the Toynbee type (except that Toynbee was
I preach not the gospel ” the gospel of dis- vehemently opposed to land-nationalization)
content and reform – to these poor spirits in appeals most winningly to the reader from the
prison.' The wretched condition of a poor lad opening of the ook to its close. Especially
in England, as contrasted with the cheery lot pleasing and encouraging to those of middle
and hopeful outlook of a young French peasant, age and beyond is the success with which Mr.
is well depicted in the following:
Tuckwell took up, comparatively late in life,
• The English lad spends all his earnings; there is what might seem to have been an uncongenial
no inducement for him to save. If he puts by
40 1., he can only invest it in the savings bank, hopefulness of new achievement cannot be too
task. This openness to new impressions and
and gain from it 11. a year. There is no excite-
ment in 11. a year. It does not stimulate to the
heartily commended. What is called the for-
rigid self-denial and economy involved in saving mation of character is too often simply the
40 1. out of 12 s. a week, He marries early, Why ignominous surrender to temperamental inertia,
should he wait! He will be quite as miserable ten or the hopeless confinement of one's interests
years hence as he is to-day. So at one or two and
twenty he takes to himself a shiftless, untrained,
and activities to one or two narrow channels.
penniless sloven; and at thirty, when the French Herbert Spencer's intellectual and scientific
peasant gains his Rachel after more than seven preoccupations early rendered him about' as
years of service, the Englishman's unkempt home
is crowded with unfortunate children, to be dragged
little susceptible to a large class of emotional
up, not brought up, on the unincreasing maximum
and æsthetic appeals, including the romantic
of 12 s. a week. Naturally the youth of spirit, passion, as a scalene triangle. Darwin delib-
beginning life, and surveying these conditions all erately and, one almost adds, sinfully starved
around him, leaves the country for the town. But to death his love of poetry and of belles-lettres
grant him an acre of land, his own, as the park
ind mansion are the squire's own, so long as he
in general. And so we applaud our Radical
pays the rent; he will at once begin to create upon Parson for his many-sidedness, progressiveness,
it, as my allotment holders found that they could and wide-awake open-mindedness. His volun-
create 10 1. to 11 1, a year; will increase his take, tary labors in behalf of suffering humanity
build a cottage on it through a building society: brought him into contact with many public
marry by-and-by a sensible thrifty girl, who under-
stands marketing, needlework, cooking, washing; men of note, and his recollections of some of
who brings her savings to add to his, and by her these form a very agreeable feature of his book.
management of bees, poultry, fruit, adds ten or
The only thing one might perhaps regret in the
eleven shillings a week to the income. He will
extend his acreage till he becomes a farmer and
whole volume is that he has adorned it with a
abandons wage-work, or he will live in a home that frontispiece portrait of himself. Not that we
is comfortable and his own, with money accumu are sorry to make acquaintance with his honest,
lating in the bank as a provision for old age and
alert, shrewd, inquiring face; but somehow, in
sickness. He will stand up alongside of the French-
man upon equal terms, instead of blasting like a
the case of a living author, we are content to
mildewed ear the presentment of his wholesome
read his likeness in the printed page. How.
brother.'
ever, the publisher may be responsible in this
A prophecy with which the book draws to a instance, and one of the author's stories cer-
close tells us that there will be two parties in tainly demands the portrait to give it point.
the future: the Tory, who in personal interest
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6
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.
THE BEGINNINGS OF OUR NATIONAL
ways holds our interest. In concluding this
HISTORY.*
volume, he says:
• Human nature was much the same in Virginia
If a soft answer turneth away wrath, surely and Massachusetts, in Maryland and Rhode Island,
a pleasant introduction predisposes one to en-
that it was in contemporary England.
joy a book. To invite the reader to the first
The colonists were still Englishmen in their feel-
ings and prejudices, in their virtues and in their
volume of his ‘History of the United States,' vices.
The year 1660 marks an epoch in
Professor Channing could hardly have found a the history of the English race, because the
more delightful bit of our mother-English than Restoration denoted the breaking down of the
these quaint sentences which he draws from
desire for reform in England and the intensifying
Foulkes Robartes:
of those forces which the Puritans had striven to
overthrow. In colonial history it ended the first
Who faulteth_not, liveth not; who mendeth period in our annals. It saw a nation definitely
faults is commended: The Printer hath faulted a planted in the New World (pp. 536-7).
little; it may be the author oversighted more.
Thy pain (Reader) is the least; then err not thou
As such an eminently sane viewpoint would
most by misconstruing or sharp censuring; lest
lead one to expect, the general tone of this
thou be more uncharitable, than either of them volume evidences the author's purpose to avoid
hath been heedless: God amend and guide us all.'
bias as far as possible. He himself says that
It is a pleasure to say that the kindly feeling the time and place of one's birth and breeding
which this foreword at once excites is in gen affect the judgment; and he will understand,
eral not dispelled when one reads the entire perhaps, that those born outside of New Eng-
work carefully and critically.
land cannot refrain from a genial amusement
A new history of the United States is in at the contrast between his matter-of-fact de-
these days hardly a novelty; for we have defini- scription
scription of the Separatist colonization of
tive, authoritative, and inclusive narrative' his-Plymouth, and the somewhat apologetic fervor
tories, histories ‘from original documents by which is put into a note at the end of the chap-
associated scholars,' what we may call histories ter. 'It is to be hoped,' he says, 'that
de luxe, and others, nearly all constructed Plymouth Rock may long continue to form the
and published on the soundest business prin-| theme of annual after-dinner discourses, and
ciples. This work of Professor Channing's, of more formidable set orations, although
· which is to be complete in eight volumes, has ‘from the historian's workshop the out-
the distinction of being almost the only en look is somewhat different. He sees that there
deavor, since Bancroft's time, by a scholar of never was a “landing” on Plymouth Rock or
first rank, to tell, in one work and for the elsewhere, as described in oration or shown in
serious student, the whole story of American painting or engraving (p. 320).' Well and
history. The first volume now appears in dig- good: but why refuse to apply the same rule
nified form, without illustrations other than to Virginia ? and why out-Herod Alexander
useful maps, - altogether simplex munditiis. Brown, — who at least found a Captain John
Into the opening chapter, which contains just Smith to vituperate, — by omitting all refer-
twenty-five pages, is compressed all that Pro ence to Smith's work in Virginia, except a
fessor Channing has to say of the Norse dis statement of his arrest and a note as to the
coveries, the state of Europe in the fifteenth Smith controversy ? Surely there may be a
century, and the voyages of Columbus; and the fairer compromise between the extremists on
three chapters which follow comprise the nar both sides, in an attitude toward Smith like
rative of Spanish, French and English explora- that of Osgood in his ‘American Colonies.'
tion and settlement down to the age of the It seems to us that Professor Channing, in
English Seamen. No separate treatment is his lucid and interesting account of the policy
given to the American Indians or to American
Archæology; and as a result of this judicious from the views of the governing minority, has
condensation and exclusion, the remaining four-explained so much that he might have added
fifths of the volume treat of the English colonies one point more.
In the clearest terms he rec-
from the beginning to 1660. This emphasis ognizes the illegality, from the English stand-
of English origins is maintained throughout point, of many of the acts of the Massachusetts
the work, and appears in many ways. Professor authorities. He tells us, again, that the Puri-
Channing makes the reader see how the colonies tans had not the remotest thought of founding
form part of the expansion of England.
of England. in New England an asylum for the religiously
English institutions which throw light on those persecuted of the earth. What they came here
in America are described in a manner that al to do was to secure the freedom of their own
consciences (p. 329).' Again, they were seven-
*A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. By Edward Chan-
ning. Volume I., The Planting of' a Nation in the New
teenth-century English men and women, pos-
World, 1000-1660. New York: The Macmillan Co.
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ings as their brothers and sisters whom they knowne by the Name the Councill established at
left behind in the old land' (p. 357). Now, is
Plymouth in the County of Devon for the planting,
it not clear that if animosity has been felt
ruling, ordering and governing of New-England in
America.'
against the Puritans it is not because their
actions were inconsistent with principles such
That is, the corporation was the council, and
vice versa.
as these which Professor Channing declares,
Readers of recent historical literature will
but because they claimed to be something en-
doubtless compare this volume of Professor
tirely different from their contemporaries ? Channing’s with two others which cover more
God sifted a whole nation,' said Stoughton;
or less the same period. Professor Osgood's
and New England historians have said the
American Colonies in the Seventeenth Cen-
same thing ever since. Their early writings, tury' is far more detailed on the institutional
as Doyle has well said, constitute not a history side, and upon some points gives what seems
but a hagiology.
to the reviewer a better interpretation of the
Returning to the general criticism of the
documents. On the other hand, President
work, let us make it clear that Professor Chan. Tyler's The English in America' is richer in
ning is entirely impartial in his attitude of
detail of narrative, but is by comparison much
critical questioning. As he rejects the testi-
less accurate in parts, — in the treatment, for
mony of Captain John Smith, so he omits from
his text all mention of DeGorgues' revenge upon
example, of the Dutch colonies.
We might refer to other cases of unfortunate
Menendez and the Spaniards. Professor
Bourne, in his 'Spain in America,' p. 188,
compression, such as the very scant discussion
of Maine; but the space of this review is lim-
gives the story and the critical difficulties which ited, and we should be sorry for further criti-
it involves; but seems unwilling to reject it en-
cism of an adverse character to overshadow our
tirely. Without doubt, these omissions are de-
appreciation of the high merits of the volume.
termined partly by considerations of saving Professor Channing's skilful interweaving of
space: and this desire to compress may account
English and Colonial history, his excellent sum-
for some exceptions to Professor Channing's ming up of periods of time, the attention which
usual clearness. On p. 162 it is, for example, he pays the questions of education, health, and
stated categorically that
social order, his judicial attitude in contro-
• The Virginia Charter provided a cumbrous form verted questions such as that of the founding
of government in which there was no one-man
of Maryland, the informing bibliographical
power, but everything was confided to councils.
These were five in number. First and over all,
matter appended to each chapter, and the large
there was to be in England a Council for Virginia concept of development in the Colonial period
composed of leading men who might or might not as a whole, — these are but a few points of
have pecuniary interest in the affairs of the com-
excellence in the work. If in the volumes which
pany. Then, each “colony," or company,
should have its council in England and each planta-
follow the author shall be able to keep his bal-
tion should have its council in America.'
ance as well as in general he does in this vol.
After reading the text of the Charter, and con-
ume, we have no hesitation in predicting for
sulting the authorities at our disposal, we are
the work in its entirety the very high regard of
historical students.
unable to find in the charter provision for other
ST. GEORGE L. SIOUSSAT.
than three councils, the great council in Eng-
land and the local ones on the plantations. The
author's note gives no explanation of this some-
what unique enumeration, but refers to the
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF FISHES.*
royal Instructions of the same year; and here
the citation from Alexander Brown is loosely
The study of fishes marked the beginning of
given.
the career of Louis Agassiz, the first great
Again, we are puzzled to read on page 300,
naturalist to whom America can lay claim.
with reference to the Charter of Sir Ferdinando Although no treatise on ichthyology comparable
Gorges and his associates, obtained in 1620, to his “ Poissons Fossiles,' published in Switz-
the governing body of this corporation was
erland, was produced by Agassiz in the land
known as the Council for New England.' What
of his adoption, he nevertheless left a legacy
is meant by governing body' we do not know, siastic students inspired by his teaching to con-
of even greater consequence in a group of enthu-
but the charter states :
“We ... ordain ... that from henceforth,
tinue the study of the fishes of our rivers,
there shall be in our Towne of Plymouth, in lakes, and seas. Foremost among these fol-
the County of Devon, one Body politicque and cor-
*A GUIDE TO THE STUDY OF FISHES. By David Starr
porate, which shall have perpetuall Succession, which
In Two Volumes, with colored frontispieces, and
shall consist of the Number of fourtie persons, and 427 and 507 illustrations respectively. New York : Henry
no, more, which shall be, and shall be called and
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lowers in the extent of his work and breadth fication and collection. Fishes as food for man
of his ichthyological interests is David Starr is the heading of a discriminating discussion of
Jordan, President of Leland Stanford Univer the relative merits of various claimants for first
sity. Dr. Jordan's published contributions to place among food fishes,
place among food fishes, and the palm is
this science already well-nigh reach the five awarded to the little eulachon, or candlefish of
hundred mark. The files of the serials issued our northwestern coast. In speaking of the
by the United States National Museum, by the methods of taking food-fishes, the author says:
Bureau of Fisheries, and of numerous scientific • When fish are caught for pleasure or for the
and popular journals, attest his continuous joy of being in the woods, recreation rises to the
activity for many years, and bear witness to his dignity of angling. The man who fishes, not for
leadership in an ever-widening coterie of col-
the good company of the woods and brooks, but to
get as many fish as possible to eat or sell, is not
leagues and pupils who have shared with him
an angler but a pot-fisher. The man who kills all
the arduous task of ichthyological exploration the trout he can, to boast of his skill or fortune,
in this continent and its adjacent seas. It was
is technically known as a trout-hog. Ethically, it
is better to lie about your great catches of fine
inevitable, as well as most fitting, that the
fish than to make them. For most anglers, also, it
Guide to the Study of Fishes, the most com is more easy.'
prehensive treatise on American ichthyology,
The facts of ichthyology are everywhere used
should come from his pen. What his . Fishes
to illustrate and illumine the method and the
of North and Middle America, written in path of organic evolution. The closing para-
coöperation with Dr. Evermann, is to the sys: graph of Dr. Jordan's interesting discussion of
tematist in ichthyology, and the ‘Food and
the distribution of fresh-water fishes is charac-
Game Fishes' by the same authors is to the
teristic of this tendency, as well as illustrative
sportsman and the commercial fisherman, this
of his terse, direct, and trenchant style.
new work will be to the naturalist and general
( The ultimate result of centuries on centuries
reader who wishes an authoritative and com of the restlessness of individuals is seen in the facts
prehensive discussion of this great section of of geographical distribution. Only in the most
the animal world, and an impartial review of general way can the history of any species be
the salient biological facts and theories of
traced; but could we know it all, it would be as
long and eventful a story as the history of the
ichthyological science.
colonization and settlement of North America by
Although the work is limited in its subject- immigrants from Europe. But by the fishes each
matter to the finny tribes, it should not be
river in America has been a hundred times discov-
inferred that it is restricted in interest to
ered, its colonization a hundred times attempted.
In these efforts there is no coöperation. Every
purely ichthyological problems. No naturalist individual is for himself, every struggle a struggle
is more alert than Dr. Jordan in recognizing of life and death; for each fish is a cannibal, and
the broader import of the biological phenomena
to each species each member of every other species
is an alien and a savage.'
of his specialty. Consequently we find ichthyo-
logical data repeatedly brought to bear upon
Not content with the fishes that he has
the broader problems of evolution, taxonomy, known, Dr. Jordan falls into the ways of some
morphology, orcology, and even Sociology.
would-be naturalists and in a chapter on the
Dr. Jordan's book is encyclopædic in its mythology of fishes tells his readers of the mer-
scope. This work treats of the fish from all maid supplied by the curio trade of the Orient,
the varied points of view of the different
of Rondelet's monk-fish, and even of the sea-
branches of the study of Ichthyology. In gen- serpent, of which ‘many may be seen, but none
eral, all traits of the fish are discussed, those
will ever be caught. The great swimming
which the fish shares with other animals most reptiles of the sea vanished at the end of
briefly, those which relate to the evolution of
Mesozoic time, and as living creatures will
the group and the divergence of its various
never be known of man.'
classes and orders most fully. The extinct
One of the most valuable chapters in the
forms are restored to their place in the series
book is that which traces the growth of the
and discussed along with those still extant.'
science of ichthyology and passes critical judg-
The headings of the chapters are indicative of
ment on the work of ichthyologists from Aris-
the wide range of topics included. The open-
totle and Bloch to Wright and Žittel. Portraits
ing one deals with the life of the fish, based on
of the men whose contributions have enriched
the familiar example of the long-eared sunfish, the science adorn the pages of this chapter. On
denizen of many a fishing-hole. Succeeding page 424, Professor Bashford Dean makes the
chapters treat of its exterior, dissection, skele- following estimate of Agassiz's work on fossil
ton and the various systems of organs, its
fishes:
embryology and growth, instincts, habits,
Upon the purely scientific side, however, one
must confess that the “ Poissons Fossiles” is of
adaptations, colors, geographical distribution,
minor importance, for the reason that as time has
barriers, dispersion, diseases, evolution, classi gone by it has been found to yield no generaliza-
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tions of fundamental value. The classification of To this long catalogue of fishes Dr. Jordan
fishes advocated by Agassiz, based upon the nature
brings the great and inexhaustible store of his
of the scales, has been shown to be convenient
rather than morphological. This, indeed, Agassiz
information gathered in decades of research and
appears to realize in a letter written to Humboldt; an intimate knowledge both of the fishes and
but on the other hand he regards his creation of the whatever has been written about them. No
now discarded order of Ganoids, which was based pertinent saying, no bright bit of description
upon integumental characters, as his most important
contribution to the general study of ichthyology.
or cogent presentation of disputed ground, has
And though there passed through his hands a series escaped his scissors. But the best of the work
of forms more complete than has perhaps been seen is the author's own simple, direct, homely but
by any later ichthyologist, a series which demon.
well-balanced and comprehensive story of the
strates the steps in the evolution of the various
families and even orders of fishes, he is nowhere
fishes, making a book which is indeed, what the
led to such important philosophical conclusions as author hoped to make it, ' valuable to technical
was, for example, his contemporary, Johannes students, interesting to anglers and nature-
Müller. And even to his last day, in spite of the lovers, and instructive to all who open its
light which palæontology must have given him, he
denied strenuously the truth of the doctrine of
pages.'
evolution, a result the more remarkable since he
The nine hundred illustrations, many of
has even given in graphic form the geological them original, add greatly to the interest of the
occurrence of the various groups of fishes in a
reader, though some that are duplicated and
way which suggests closely a modern phylogenetic
table, and since at various times he has emphasized
others not pertinent to the contiguous pages
the dictum that the history of the individual is
might be omitted without serious loss. Indeed,
but the epitomized history of the race.'
the necessary cost of two such bulky volumes
We are perhaps still too near the battle will greatly limit the usefulness of this valuable
ground of Darwinism to hold the perspective work. It is to be hoped that an abridged
necessary for an impartial estimate of the com edition in a single volume will be prepared at
batants, especially of the antagonists of the a price which will permit its wider circulation
successful doctrine. Natural selection still and insure its admission to the libraries of
looms large in the landscape, overshadowing all many villages and high-schools, and perhaps
interpretations of biological phenomena. But even of some college professors who will other-
a cloud the size of a man's hand has arisen on wise be deprived of its information. It is also
the horizon. The rediscovery of Mendel's laws to be regretted, for bibliographical reasons, that
of hybridization, and the epoch-making Theory Dr. Jordan has chosen a title already used in
of Mutations of De Vries, bid fair, it seems, an eminent English treatise.
to challenge the weight of authority which has
CHARLES ATWood KOFOID.
so long directed biological progress in one direc-
tion, and perhaps even threaten to dethrone
Darwinism from its preëminence and to rele-
gate it to a subordinate place. The discussion
A FOURTEENTH-CENTURY STATESMAN.*
of the Theory of Mutations' may compel a The fourteenth century is one of the great
reëxamination and revaluation of the zoological centuries of history: it was the age of Petrarch
evidence upon which Agassiz based his rejec- and early humanism, of 'The Divine Comedy
tion of the crude evolutionary hypotheses of and “The Canterbury Tales. But while the
Lamarck, current at the time of his earlier revival of culture is the most prominent fact
work on fossil fishes, and his persistent refusal of this period, it is not the only important fact.
in his later years to accept as overwhelming There were activities outside the pale of art
the proofs offered in behalf of natural selection.
and letters that proved of immense importance
It may be noted, in passing, that Dr. Jordan to future historical writing.
retains in this present work the order of A work that deals almost exclusively with
Ganoids.
the political and military phases of the period
The latter part of the first and the whole of needs, then, no apology. Mr. Armitage-Smith
the second volume is given up to a systematic has chosen to write a biography of one of the
treatment of the orders and families of fishes.
more prominent men of that period, 'old John
Special attention is given to those which mark of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaster.' But his
the probable line of descent of vertebrates
work is more than the story of a life; it tells
through the phyllum of fishes. Indeed, Dr. the history of half a century of trouble and
Jordan goes back to the remotest ancestors to warfare, of schism in church and riot in state,
which the finny tribe can lay a valid claim, and of much intellectual and social unrest.
devotes several chapters to the acorn-tongue It may seem strange that the Duke of Lan-
worms and sea-squirts, the living and probably caster should be chosen as the subject of such
degenerate representatives of the primitive pos-
*JOHN OF GAUNT. By Sydney Armitage-Smith.
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a study. He is not a well-known figure like England and Portugal, and to an invasion of
his father Edward III. or his brother the France in 1373 which the author believes was
Black Prince. He was not great in any respect to be merely a prelude to another invasion of
except perhaps in his ambitions; but greatness Spain. After the failure of this expedition,
is not always necessary to importance. And his John of Gaunt favored peace with the French,-
activities touch more movements, more peoples, not, as some have supposed, because he saw the
more vital interests, than those of any other folly of continuing the war, but because he
statesman of that age. He was the richest and wished to isolate Castile.
most powerful vassal in England. The leader In the years immediately following, no prog-
of English armies, the chief of English diplo ress was made toward the attainment of Span-
mats, he was the son of a king, the father of a ish kingship. This period is largely filled with
king, the father-in-law of two kings, and difficulties at home. The author holds that
claimant to the crowns of Castile and Leon; he before the meeting of the 'Good Parliament'
was personally known to all the rulers of West in 1376 there is no trace of that ‘Lancastrian
ern Europe, and, what is also important, he influence that the Commons are said to have
was the friend of Chaucer and the protector of rebelled against. John of Gaunt might have
Wycliffe. It seems clear that he ought to be remained outside the quarrel that rose between
better known to us than he is.
the Parliament and the royal administration;
It is therefore a laudable task that the author he became a party to it out of loyalty to his
has undertaken; it is also a large task, one that father's government. In his eyes, criticism of
requires much industry and learning. The the administration was criticism of the crown,
author's sources number more than a hundred and the King's son was the representative of
titles, and are gathered from all the nations of the crown and the natural champion of the
the western border of Europe from Scotland to court party. Another error that the author
Portugal. The results presented make a volume refutes is the assertion, so often made, that the
of about five hundred pages, a scholarly but Black Prince took the opposite course on that
also a highly interesting work. The author's occasion and assumed the leadership of the
English, though lacking in finish and often Commons.
careless, is lucid and vigorous, and a dash of During the same years, John of Gaunt
humor here and there does much to make the
appears as the protector of Wycliffe; but his
reading easy Unfortunately, however, Mr. interest in the reformer grew out of wholly
Armitage-Smith presupposes too much learning selfish considerations. The Duke was a devout
on the part of his readers : very frequently he son of the Church and a firm believer in all her
inserts quotations from other languages, par-
doctrines. He was a liberal patron of abbeys
ticularly from the French, into his text. These and friaries. All the outward practices that
should have been translated, as fourteenth- religion enjoined, he performed with punctili-
century French is not exactly like the Parisian
ous care. In the popular demand for reform in
idiom that we learn in schools to-day. We may Church administration, he took no interest.
be able to guess the meaning at times; still, But he hated 'political bishops, especially such
the interpretation too often remains in doubt. as placed themselves in opposition to the crown.
After the usual introductory chapters on the Wycliffe had some ' decided views about priests
family, childhood, inheritance, and military who neglected the cure of souls for the care of
training of Prince John, the author proceeds to castles, and the Duke thought he could use
discuss Spanish affairs. This leads up to the him in his fight with the spiritual lords. Sum-
invasion of Spain by the Black Prince for the moned by the Duke, Wycliffe came to London
purpose of replacing the fugitive king, Pedro to preach clerical reform. Later, when his
the Cruel, on his Castilian throne. Don Pedro enemies clamored for the heretic's life, John of
was after assassinated by his rival Gaunt protected him, not because he sympa-
Enrique, and his royal rights passed to his thized with the Lollard movement, but because
daughter Constance, who was then with the as a man of honor he could not desert a man
English at Bordeaux. Two years later, in 1371, who had served him and sought his protection.
she married John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lan Mr. Armitage-Smith is also able to throw
caster. The importance of this marriage and some light on another peculiar episode from
of the amþitious policies that grew out of it the same period, the second invasion of Castile.
has received its first adequate treatment in this For sixteen years the Duke of Lancaster had
book. It has been thought that this marriage claimed the crowns of Christian Spain. His
brought about the French-Spanish alliance of policies at home and abroad had been shaped
that time, but the author shows that it was by his ambition to realize this claim. In 1386
already in existence three years before. How the favorable moment seemed to have come.
ever, it did lead to an understanding between The answer to the puzzling question, how King
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and Parliament could be induced to assist in the casual reader, but rather on the abiding
such a hopeless undertaking, the author finds zeal of the scholarly; and this, we think, may
in the confused state of European politics. fairly be said of the volume before us for
Furthermore, the situation in England was review. About three years ago the Honorable
fast becoming unendurable; the Duke's enemies George Peel published a book under the title of
would gladly do almost anything to get him The Enemies of England,' in which he sought
out of the country. Though the expedition
Though the expedition to account for and to describe the international
was a failure, the Duke found his claim to be bearings of the generally admitted hostility of
of considerable value after all: it secured the European powers toward the English. The
throne of Portugal for one of his daughters, grounds for this hostility he found, not in race
the throne of Castile for the other, and a hand or religion or manners or trade or envy, but
some annuity for himself.
rather in the persistency with which, as he
The author devotes about fifty pages to illus- claimed, England for the past eight hundred
trative documents, such as Lancaster's will and years has played the thankless rôle of 'cham-
epitaph, his retinue, arms, seals, and the like. pion of the liberties of Europe.' His idea was
The book is carefully indexed and is provided that from the time of Pope Innocent III. on, a
with several useful maps. It also contains a series of powers,— chiefly the Papacy, Spain,
few pictures, for the most part reproductions Holland, and France,— had aspired to secure
from fifteenth-century manuscripts. These dominion over the continent; but that, since
have a value and interest of their own; but in the success of any one of them would involve
the present work they serve mainly to empha- the ruin of England, she had resisted and in
size the author's statement that 'the attempt to the end defeated the favorite project of each
illustrate fourteenth-century history from con in turn, thereby bringing down upon herself
temporary sources is almost hopeless.'
the hatred of them all. England was thus rep-
LAURENCE M. LARSON. resented as being in modern times the sole
guardian of the liberties of European states and
peoples against the cherished aspirations of
THE NECESSITY OF EMPIRE.*
various powers to universal dominion, even
though her course was dictated admittedly by
Ten years ago, the literature of modern inter motives of self-preservation.
national politics was so limited in amount that Mr. Peel's new volume, 'The Friends of
one could make himself pretty well acquainted England,' is designed to supplement the earlier
with it as a mere diversion; to-day it is so for one by describing in a similar way the policy
midable that bibliographers are appalled by it of the English in the world outside Europe. It
and readers fairly swamped. The decade has is, in short, an attempt to explain the origin
been thus prolific because it has been filled with and development of the Empire as distinguished
a succession of events and movements which from the insular state. What we find in it is
have given every possible stimulus to people's in no sense a history of the Empire but simply
interests in the affairs of the world at large. an elucidation of what the author conceives to
The Spanish-American war, the Boer war, the have been the great guiding force in the
Boxer uprising, and the Russo-Japanese war, Empire's creation. Mr. Peel's theory on this
not to mention a host of minor movements,- important matter is interesting, and inasmuch
have all operated immensely to broaden the as the burden of his book is to substantiate this
range of information and opinion of the aver theory we may be allowed to state it in his own.
age European or American, or even Asiatic. words. In one of his characteristic summaries,
The magazines have done their utmost to sat-
isfy, and at the same time further to stimulate, • The Empire is the fruit of a long, deliberate,
our craving for knowledge of the nations across persistent, and conscious effort upon the part of
seas; and from
travellers, newspaper corre-
our statesmen to avert the predominance of any
spondents, missionaries and statesmen has come
European power. If this be so, then the policy of
England, whether in the old world of Europe or in
a veritable deluge of books in which to study the continents without, stands explained as
the manners, beliefs, institutions, domestic con coherent and consistent plan. Her maintenance of
ditions and international relations of every
the balance of power in Europe and her construc-
tion or an empire in the outer continents have
people on the globe.
been two aspects of the same design.
The
In the midst of a vast amount of purely first proposition (maintained in this book] is that
ephemeral literature of this sort, it is a pleas European pressure from without is the cause of
ure to encounter a work which depends for its the formation of the empire; the second is that
reception, not upon the momentary interests of
European pressure from without is the main cause
of its maintenance. When that pressure increases,
*THE FRIENDS OF ENGLAND. By the Hon. George Peel. the empire tends to be consolidated; when it dimin-
New York : E. P. Dutton & Co.
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6
however, that though this sense of common danger modic, with the result of failure in every quar-
forms the empire's base, in our own day a true
ter; but in the seventeenth century the matter
and mutual affection has flowered from this stern
and stubborn root.'
was taken definitely in hand, and as a conse-
The thesis to be maintained is thus clearly
quence an empire was at length established on
the shores and among the outlying islands of
laid down: it was the aggressions of European
the continent of North America, in defiance
powers that forced England in the sixteenth
of the arms and authority of Spain. Simul.
century to enter upon the work of empire-build-
taneously our men of business gained for them-
ing and it is the rivalries and hostilities of
selves, with the consent and approval of our
these powers that has kept her at it ever since;
government, a foothold for trade in Hindostan.
imperial aggrandizement has been her only
Here, too, Spain, or more accurately Portugal,
means of preserving her high rank among the
nations. It need hardly be remarked that this
then incorporated with Spain, opposed us, and
Holland, the offshoot of the Spanish empire,
view contrasts sharply with others which have
acted similarly.' And when, finally, commer-
been propounded by students of world politics.
cial exploitation gave place to political domina-
Sir John Seeley's idea, set forth in his lectures
tion in India, it was not accident, and not for
on the Expansion of England, has in recent
greed of power, that the change of base was
years been the generally accepted one, namely, made.
that the Empire has come to be what it is more
• The genuine cause of the establishment of our
or less by chance, without much deliberate plan sovereignty in India was that, during the first half
ning or definite policy. We have conquered of the eighteenth century and later, France
and peopled half the world,' declared the Cam appeared in overwhelming strength and the French
bridge professor, ‘in a fit of absence of mind.'
colonies seriously threatened the English domin-
ions in Hindostan. They resolutely attacked us;
A second empire grew up after the loss of the we defended ourselves for very life; as the conse-
American colonies almost in our despite,' and quence of that successful resistance India fell into
our acquisition of India was made blindly.' our hands; the company could not hold it or organ-
Mr. Chamberlain, speaking in Liverpool in
ize it unaided; the government undertook the obli-
gation. Here was neither blindness nor rapacity.
January of the present year, declared: We
The Indian empire was a legitimate organization
have never had a colonial policy; but, somehow raised by us deliberately against the forward
or other, we have been allowed to blunder into march of our European foe'.
the best parts of the world. On the other hand,
In this manner the whole growth of the Em-
the general body of opinion on the continent
pire is explained. Everywhere it has been ‘not
of Europe is that, far from being the result of for loot, but for life,' that the English have
chance, the Empire is the fruit of the most struggled so persistently for dominion. If the
deliberate and calculating policy,- of a reso period from about 1815 to 1870 was one of
lute and unscrupulous determination to annex little expansive activity, indeed, even a time
any part of the globe which can be laid hold of
of weakening faith in the usefulness of a colo-
in order to swell British commerce and enhance nial empire, -it was only because this was an
British power and prestige. Mr. Peel under-
era during which Europe was recovering from
takes to demonstrate that neither the 'aocident' the Napoleonic upheaval, and comparatively
theory of Seeley and Chamberlain nor the little was being done by any of the powers in
insatiate avarice' theory of the continental the way of aggrandizement at English ex-
publicists affords the true explanation of the
pense. The last thirty-five years Mr. Peel re-
Empire's existence. To do this, and to sub gards as an epoch of renewed pressure. Con-
stantiate his own opinion that the Empire has scription has filled the barrack-yards of the
been created deliberately as a means of defense continent; new navies dispute with us the
against continental rivals, he consumes half a roadway of the high seas; and, stirred by such
dozen chapters with a running sketch of the transformations, anxiety has touched every
development of Greater Britain from its Eliza nerve of the British race. Hence the reorgan-
bethan beginnings to our own day. He shows ization and extension of the Empire in this
how it was only under the pressure of Spanish period. The two most conspicuous factors in
ascendancy in the late sixteenth century (with this renewed pressure Mr. Peel thinks to be the
the pressure of the French in Canada, the Por increase in the military power of Russia and
tuguese in Africa, and the Dutch in the Spice the progress made by Germany with her fleet;
Islands operating to the same end) that the for Germany and Russia are now the claim-
English people began to realize the imperative ants for the leadership of Europe, and there-
necessity of empire. Having avoided terri-
fore most likely to come into contact with Eng-
torial expansion as long as possible, they set to land, the immemorial guardian of the balance
work at it only when they needs must. In of power.'
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world-politics Mr. Peel's views, as well as his of the Russell-Gladstone ministry upon the
methods of demonstrating them, are richly sug question of an extension of the suffrage and
gestive; and yet it is impossible to repress the Disraeli's famous education of his party upon
feeling that the theory underlying them is this subject, the disestablishment of the Irish
being pushed a good deal too far. The author Church, the settlement of the Alabama claims,
at the outset unfortunately assumes the atti and the successful campaign for and establish-
tude of an advocate pleading a case, and this ment of an adequate system of public education.
at once compromises his work on the score of These are the topics customarily regarded as
judiciousness. The Empire has been the fruit, of principal importance in the period covered;
neither of chance nor of rapine, but of a vital but in addition much space is here given to
and overwhelming necessity.' This is the special questions and incidents that from time
thesis, and the whole range of British imperial to time agitated the Church of England, and
history is laid under contribution to prove it. occasionally excited as much noise in Parlia-
The task is achieved with a considerable de ment itself as in purely clerical circles. In
gree of success, because up to a certain point fact, the reader almost finds himself at times
the thesis is easily capable of defense. The haled back to the period of the Reformation,
difficulty is that Mr. Peel tries to carry his or to the complicated religious differences that
views too far, and is unfortunately prone to stirred Stuart and Puritan England, yet with
minimize, if not wholly to neglect, everything the distinction that in modern times in Eng-
which stands in his way. There is enoughland Church questions do not determine the
truth and enough originality in his interpreta lines upon which political parties are formed.
tion of the Empire to have made his book an At first sight, the author's interest in these
extraordinary one, if only he had not allowed controversies, and the emphasis placed upon
this enthusiasm to get the better of his judg them throughout his work, appear to indicate a
ment. Axioms have little or no place in his lack of true historical perspective; but it may
tory, and Mr. Peel has tried to reduce the well be that his purpose is to bring out, by
whole of British imperial history to an axiom. detailing a series of Church controversies in
The building of a great empire under modern themselves comparatively unimportant, the es-
conditions is a most complicated process, and sential interest of Englishmen in the forms and
it will not do to attempt to make all of its ceremonies of their established Church. It is
aspects and phases square with any one motive an attribute of the English character little
or method.
understood and scarcely recognized by foreign
this direction; the continental publicists err writers, and Mr. Paul has at least made clear
more; and, if the truth be told, Mr. Peel goes that the Church is in itself a living political
furthest wrong of all.
question in parliamentary life.
Yet ‘The Friends of England' is a valuable No historian can hope at this early date to
book. It brings out a phase of imperial poli- characterize finally so recent an historical epoch
tics too much neglected by past writers. If as that of which Mr. Paul is writing. It is, in
one will only be on his guard against its in fact, impossible to judge as yet as to what
discriminate generalizations, he can find in it events of the nineteenth century have been his-
a genuine stimulus to productive thought. In torically important in determining England's
some ways the most striking portion of the destiny or in moulding her character. It fol-
work is the last two chapters, in which the in lows, therefore, that all that is possible to offer
terference of western peoples in the affairs of is an accurate and readable summary of those
the Orient is reprobated in the language of the events that have been regarded as important by
Chinese Ah Hok and defended from the view contemporaries. Thus Mr. Paul's work reads
point of Christendom.
at times as if it were an abstract or a compila-
FREDERIO AUSTIN OGG. tion from some periodical publication like the
Annual Register. Yet it is more than this,
for in the midst of his narrative the author
MEN AND MOVEMENTS OF MODERN
interjects sentences, or parts of sentences, that
ENGLAND.*
light up the mere summary of event with
flashes of individual analysis, serving to give
The third volume of Mr. Herbert Paul's
History of Modern England' covers the period
the author's opinion of incidents and of men.
from the death of Palmerston in 1865 to the
These constitute the really valuable portion of
the work; for Mr. Paul is a shrewd observer,
second year of Disraeli's administration in
1876. The principal topics treated are the fall
has ideas of his own, and does not hesitate to
express them. Whether one agrees with him
*A HISTORY OF MODERN ENGLAND. In Five Volumes.
or not, it is worth while to know what those
By Herbert Paul.
opinions are.
Mr. Seeley erred somewhat in ur
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Another interesting feature of the work is
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS.
the admiration expressed for and credit given
to the men who did not stand at the head of A good book Of the mob of gentlemen who
political parties, though interested in politics, the hammock.
write with ease, Mr. Henry W.
Nevinson is one of the most facile
but who by genius and hard work had influ-
as well as one of the most entertaining. In his
ence upon important aspects of English life.
'Books and Personalities' (John Lane) he assures
Historians are somewhat prone to eliminate
the reader at the outset that he has 'included
from their works the lesser men of politics, only such subjects as are quite familiar to every-
though these may have rendered distinguished one who cares for literature at all,' and that
services to the country. But Mr. Paul, who every name dealt with 'is regarded with admira-
has been a Member of Parliament and also a tion, and sometimes even with personal affection,
journalist, understands better than do the pro-
by nearly all readers.' It is indeed pleasant to
fessional historians the minor influences that
read the essayist's graceful and often witty
discourse on subjects endeared by familiarity; but
are constantly brought to bear upon the great
how many, we wonder, on both sides of the
leaders of parties, and gives full credit to such
Atlantic, can call themselves admirers and lovers
men as Mill in educational reform, Lord Acton
of old Jocelin of Brakelond, or of that priest of
in religious controversies, or Joseph Arch in the slums, Father Dolling, who died three years
forwarding the interests of the agricultural ago, or of the Irish poets Clarence Mangan and
laborers. Gladstone and Disraeli naturally !A. E.'? These and other men and things are
require much attention; but here also the discussed in Mr. Nevinson's brief chapters, of
author is not content with an examination of
which he tells us that many have already appeared
their political services merely, but expresses his
in periodicals. He writes in a brisk, self-confident,
own opinion of their abilities in other fields of
effective way, with no lack of plausible general-
action and of thought. England is just begin-
izations (not based on painfully exhaustive col-
lection of particulars) and a ready supply of apt
ning to realize the essential genius of Disraeli,
illustrations. The odd twist given to a popular
and the recent celebration of the centenary of quotation is sometimes very clever in its place,
his birth has aroused a wide-spread revival of as, "Thoughts that do often lie too deep for
interest in his strange character. Probably Mr. laughter.' Himself an ardent Omarian, the essay-
Paul is to some extent unconsciously voicing
ist asserts that there must be hundreds of
this newly arisen belief in Disraeli’s greatness, Gerald's) verses by heart, without even a slip
Englishmen who can say the whole of those (Fitz-
when, unlike most previous writers, he neglects
to damn, and sometimes even consents to praise,
in their sequence.' Doubtless there are thousands
in England and America who can repeat an
the illustrious Jew.
occasional line or even stanza; but that hundreds
In a brief notice of the first and second
could reproduce the poem verbatim, should it
yolumes of this work (THE DIAL, April 16, ever be lost, is doubtful, such havoc has an
1904) it was said, apropos of the author's lau increasingly productive printing-press wrought
dation of Peel and Free-trade, and referring to with our memories. Our English friend betrays
the Chamberlain policy of quasi-protection now
a curious conception of the anatomy of a certain
being urged in England: 'It will be interesting much-dreaded American serpent, when, ever on
to note whether Mr. Paul will attempt in the
the look-out for striking illustration, he writes
remaining volumes of his work to point a moral
in reference to persons of vehement intolerance,-
"Who has not at some time seen those rattle-
applicable to the present interesting political
snakes raise their heads and heard the tremulous
situation in England,- whether, in fact, his threatening of their scales?' As short essays in
history is a genuine historical undertaking or a criticism of the lighter sort, these chapters, despite
bit of political propaganda.' The present vol a slight tendency to the dogmatic in their tone,
ume clearly indicates that no such propaganda
are excellent reading.
is intended. Mr. Paul is offering, very success-
Social life in
'A little history of American
fully, a convenient and readable summary of the Colonies of life' is the descriptive sub-title
the political events of the last fifty years; while
North America. which Mr. George Cary Eggleston
here, much more than in the earlier volumes, gives to his volume entitled 'Our First Century'
he offers valuable characterizations of activities (A. S. Barnes & Co.). Covering only the seven-
and of men not wholly concerned with the
teenth century of American history, it is evidently
purely political field.
intended to be one of a series dealing with colonial
E. D. ADAMS.
life, especially in its social aspects. It is addressed
to readers who are too mature for the brief text-
• Disunion Sentiment in Congress in 1794' is a books on colonial history and cannot afford the
quarto pamphlet published by W. H. Lowdermilk &
expenditure of time and money necessary to
Co., Washington. It gives in facsimile a confidential
read the larger histories. The author proposes
memorandum by Senator John Taylor of Virginia,
written for James Madison, and left among the
to deal with our colonial fathers,-'what manner
papers of the President. It is now edited by Mr. of men they were, the ideas they brought with
Gaillard Hunt.
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In
entering upon a new life under strange conditions, we come to the dictu mirabile monstrum in the
the means they adopted of adjusting themselves shape of a little boy of thirteen, who perhaps is
to their new environment, the forces that gave the first violin player, not only of his age, but of
form to their systems of government, the occupa his siécle. As a teacher, Joachim has had a long
tion in which they engaged, their religious and honorable career; and his numerous compo-
beliefs, their amusements, the clothes they wore sitions prove an exception to the rule that it is
and the food they ate.' A careful reading leaves impossible to maintain interpretative skill at the
one with the impression that the novelties here highest level and at the same time develope
set forth are to be found in a few concluding creative genius. The book is eminently worthy
chapters, and that the larger part of the little of perusal, for in our practical worship of bril-
volume is given to a re-telling of the familiar liancy we sometimes forget that character-integ-
facts of colonial history, although in most charm-rity, dignity, courtesy, loyalty, and truth-is as
ing language. The planting of the different desirable as most kinds of success. Joachim is
colonies is described in chronological order, the here shown as a man with the best instincts of
Indian wars
are treated in detail, and the the scholar and the manners of a gentleman.
struggles for the colonial charters set forth. Upon
certain points the author has decided opinions. A guide to Like all publications of the New
*The little colony of Rhode Island was the only
the art of York State Library, Miss Wheeler's
region on this great continent where any such
index-making. book on Indexing comes to us with
thing as real and unrestrained religious liberty
our confidence secure in advance. Mr. Dewey's
and the absolute equality of men before the law, name upon it is the seal and sign of the court of
as we now understand these things, were fully highest jurisdiction in matters of library economy
recognized.' In another chapter we are told that
and kindred arts. As a text-book for active in-
“Virginia did indeed decree the banishment of
dexers, or for classes in indexing, this pamphlet
dissenters from the established religion, but the
meets all requirements. Miss Wheeler's broad
decree was never very rigorously enforced.
experience, both as indexer and teacher, has
none of the other colonies did religion so dom-
brought her system to the highest point of ex-
inate the minds of men or so control their social cellence in directness of mechanical methods and
relations as it did in the Puritan commonwealths.' in thoroughness of description and illustration of
An appendix contains a rather novel comparative
every detail. Her literary taste, her patience
outline of important events arranged in parallel
and tact, her quiet discrimination and sense of
columns for England and the different groups of proportion, contribute to produce a comprehen-
colonies.
sive and truly helpful manual. No possible ques-
tion that could occur to instructor or student is
Biography of
In his preface to the life of Joseph
carelessly discussed or neglected. From the
a musician Joachim, the latest volume in the
moment of opening the book to be indexed
and a gentleman. 'Living Masters of Music' series
until the time of returning the corrected proof
(John Lane), Mr. J. A. Fuller Maitland points
to the printer, the author provides for every
out that it is perhaps right that panegyric should
contingency, with rules, suggestions, reasons,
be the prevailing note of contemporary biogra- illustrations, and some awful examples. A
phy; it is, at all events, much easier to discount
number of indexes of conspicuous merit are sug-
praise than blame, and one gets a far more vivid
gested for examination, and several pages of in-
picture from the man who admires his subject,
teresting and suggestive extracts from indexes of
even if it be with only the foolish admiration of
widely divergent subject-matter are given as ex-
a Boswell, than through the atmosphere of hardly amples of form and typographical arrangement.
concealed invective in which some modern biog- Needless to say, the present work is provided with
raphers have chosen to shroud the figure they
an index which is in itself an admirable example
represent. 'If superlatives are spread too thick
of the art. The future indexer may well test his
over individuals whose ultimate position in the
fitness for his chosen calling by a perusal of this
history of art must at present be a little uncer-
book. He may learn that unless he can say
tain, what terms are to be employed in speaking
'blessed be drudgery' he has missed his voca-
of one whose place among the immortals of music
tion; that the price paid for the attainment of
has long been an accepted fact? If the language perfection in this work is the virtue of a never-
of praise has been exhausted over a Gossec or a
ceasing patience and an eternal vigilance. But
Steibelt, how shall we write of a Haydn or a
in addition he may find as reward various de-
Beethoven? But if it is difficult to find words
lightful excursions into countless worlds of
that shall unite a judicial impartiality with ade-
thought and numberless vistas of enchantment.
quate appreciation, it cannot be other than a
grateful task to attempt to write even a short Greek Art Painting and sculpture, like poetry
sketch of a life so full of dignity, usefulness, grammatically and prose, are the expression of
and beauty, as that of Joseph Joachim.' Born
treated.
thought in a language whose gram-
at Kitsee, near Pressburg, in Germany, June 28, mar must be studied in order to understand their
1831, Joachim was brought up in the Jewish meaning. To understand a work of art, we must
faith, in which he remained until 1854, when he consider not merely what it represents in fact,
embraced the Christian religion. In 1844 he made but also the conventions of the artist as deter-
his debut in England, an event which the ‘Illus mined by the period in which he lived, his school,
trated London News' thus chronicled: 'But now and the range of his ideas. Hence it is that Pro.


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fessor Percy Gardner, Litt.D., of Oxford, calls his in hand,-a work which, because of its novel
handbook of the study of Greek art, “A Gram direction and its thoroughly modern methods,
mar of Greek Art' (Macmillan). To the acci demand attention from students of asthetics.
dence of the Greek language he compares the
Spanish
simple laws in art, of relation to material, of
Mr. Martin Hume, in his recent work
influence
relation to space, of balance and of proportion, on English
on 'Spanish Influence on English
unconsciously observed by the Greek artists. To literature. Literature' (Lippincott's), has pub-
syntax he compares the relation of scene to scene,
lished a series of popular lectures without adding
of picture to myth and to literature, of sculpture materially to what is already known on his sub-
and coin to history. The analogy between Greek ject. The two Columbia University dissertations,
art and Greek literature he traces still further. by Mr. Underhill on ‘Spanish Literature in the
The Greeks borrowed from the Phænicians and
England of the Tudors' and by Mr. Chandler on
others the letters of the alphabet and used them
‘Romances of Roguery,' have treated limited por-
to convey their own ideas in their own language tions of the subject with far greater fulness than
and according to the rules of their own grammar.
Mr. Hume has done, and fail to include very little
So they began their artistic activity by borrow-
that is essential in his treatment. The two great
ing from the nations around them, or perhaps periods of Spanish influence were embraced by
from the primitive dwellers in their own land, the reigns of the Tudors and the Stuarts. If Mr.
certain simple forms, and using them to embody
Hume had worked out the Stuart period as fully
their own notions of decoration, their own reli-
as Mr. Underhill did the Tudor period, and had
gious beliefs, and the tales of their ancestral then given a comprehensive view of the Spanish
heroes. By elucidating these principles of inter influence in its entirety, he would have met a
pretation (which by the way, are not original
much-felt want. The book, moreover, seems to be
with him) in sixteen chapters on the architecture, pervaded by an exaggerated sense of the impor-
the sculpture, the painting and the coins of the tance of its thesis. Anything Spanish in English
Greeks, the learned author contributes to the literature is unduly emphasized. Often it was
series of 'Handbooks of Archæology and Antiq-only the names that were Spanish, as in Kyd's
uities' a valuable volume whose only fault is plays; yet Mr. Hume assumes this as showing
that it fails as an attempt to provide an elemen strong Spanish influence. It sometimes meant
tary study of the subject, and presupposes consid only that interest in Spain was in the air. The
erable classical training on the part of the reader.
'Spanish Tragedy' is Spanish in nothing more
than name. Since Mr. Hume has limited himself
In "The Psychology of Beauty' to a strictly popular treatment of his subject, one
The psychology
of Beauty.
(Houghton), Miss Ethel D. Puffer cannot but regret that he did not devote a chapter
attempts to formulate an esthetic to a consideration of the real significance of the
system that shall command universal acceptance Spanish influence, what it contributed of perma-
and bring peace at last to the warring camps of nent value, as in the case of the picaresque
impressionists and dogmatists, symbolists and novel, as well as what was of more fleeting con-
formalists, moralists and exponents of the 'Art sequence. A broad philosophic and æsthetic view
for Art's Sake' propaganda. Philosophy, Miss of the field would have had interest, and would
Puffer tells us, has always made the mistake of not have been without value as criticism.
holding its theories of beauty too far aloof from
the actual, the concrete instance; whereas so-
Bishop Spalding has long since
called æsthetic criticism, of which recent years by Bishop made his mark as a forceful and
have been so prolific, is generally written quite
Spalding.
suggestive thinker, whether his
without regard to any central principle, and the thoughts are formulated for oral expression or
same sad lack of system prevails among investi-
solely for the printed page. The essay from
gators of that other modern science the physi which his latest volume takes its name - 'Reli-
ological psychology of æsthetic emotions. The gion and Art' (A. C. McClurg & Co.) - will
Psychology of Beauty' seeks to remedy this state doubtless provoke much dissent from the view-
of things. It propounds an original æsthetic point of the artist, because of its insistence on
formula based upon the currently accepted theory the necessity of a distinct moral purpose in all
of emotion, and explains this formula and makes great works of art; but he has yet to learn the
it intelligible and useful by tracing its applica very alphabet of wise reading who does not know
tion to three of the fine arts – music, painting, that the most profitable lessons are often to be
and literature. Miss Puffer's method of treat gained from that with which it is impossible
ment is precise and logical without being over wholly to agree. After this essay comes the
technical, and her development of her theme in address on 'Educational Ideals' which Dr. Spald-
correlated essays, each fairly independent of the ing delivered before the International Congress
others, lessens he in upon the attention of of Arts and Sciences at St. Louis during the
the general reader. This is not the place to dis Exposition. The keynote of this address lies in
cuss the validity of Miss Puffer's conclusions, still the introductory thesis, that so far as education
less to enter upon the familiar contention of the is concerned, the material progress of any age
possibility of an authoritative canon of taste is merely incidental and subordinate to its intel-
such as she proposes to establish. We can only lectual, moral, and religious development. The
commend Miss Puffer's large grasp of her subject volume contains, further, an essay on ‘The Mean-
and consequent fitness for the work she has taken ing of Education,' the address delivered at the
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memorial services in honor of Dr. N. S. Davis, One of the most important books of the late
. and an essay on “Social Questions,' in which the
Edward Moran was the series of thirteen marine
ground is maintained that the disorders arising paintings descriptive of important events in Ameri-
between capital and labor are due to a general
can history, now on exhibition at the Metropolitan
letting down in the moral tone of society, and are
Museum in New York. These paintings are now
therefore to be relieved by the cultivation of
reproduced in a volume, with descriptive text and
commentary by Mr. Theodore Sutro, and published
nobler efforts and more spiritual aims.
by the Baker & Taylor Co. The book is entitled
• Thirteen Chapters of American History,' and con-
Paris and
Mr. Alvan F. Sanborn's 'Paris and
tains also portraits of Edward Moran and his wife,
the Social the Social Revolution' (Small, besides a memoir of the artist. The subjects of
Revolution.
Maynard & Co.) contains a descrip the paintings range from the landing of Leif Erik.
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revolutionary socialist to the moderate Bohemians
They constitute a collection of impressive beauty,
of the Latin Quarter and the advocates of
aside from their function of illustrating some of
advanced theories in poetry, music, and art. It
the most striking phases of American history.
does not require a large stretch of imagination to
We have to chronicle the appearance of six new
see how Zola and Mirabeau may be associated
volumes in the Belles Lettres Series ' of Messrs.
D. C. Heath & Co. To the Old English section of
with Jean Grave and Elisée Reclus as preachers the series there are now added editions of Juliana,'
and teachers of social revolution. But when edited by Professor William Strunk; “Judith,'
Cazin, Rodin, Charpentier,-all the leaders in edited by Professor Albert S. Cook, and “The
French literary and artistic activity,-are Battle of Malden,' with short poems from the
included in the number, it makes the leaders look • Chronicle,' edited by Dr. Walter John Sedgefield.
less red-handed. Mr. Sanborn's development of
The other three volumes here to be mentioned are
the revolutionary spirit in modern art, and his
Robertson's ' Society' and · Caste,' edited by Mr.
application of it to dozens of well-known cases,
T. Edgar Pemberton, Chapman's' Bussy o' Ambois'
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No. 461. SEPTEMBER 1, 1905. Vol. xxxix. spectively, that one is the work of an Irishman,
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CONTENTS.
mean by this last statement that even as well-
equipped a foreign critic as Dr. Brandes can
CLANNISH CRITICISM
103
never penetrate far enough into the spirit of
THE TONIC OF GEORGE MEREDITH'S English poetry to appreciate its finer cadences
POETRY. Annie Russell Marble
104
and emotional values, but must ever remain
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN ENGLISH RE exposed to the danger of mistaking tinkle for
FORMER. Edith J. R. Isaacs .
music, and tinsel for gold. The reviewers,
naturally, have fallen afoul of these exaggerated
THE HISTORIC SPORTS OF CENTRAL ITALY.
estimates, and have pointed out their uncritical
Ellen Giles.
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character. No less naturally, the reviewers
IN WOODS AND GARDEN. Edith Granger 109
have in turn been assailed by numbers of ex-
Gibson and Mrs. Jelliffe's Our Native Orchids. -
Roses and How to Grow Them.- Thonger's Book
cited Irishmen, and a very pretty controversy
of Garden Design.
has resulted.
ECONOMIC FACTS AND FANCIES. Arthur B.
Some score of years ago, Matthew Arnold
Woodford
110 got himself into the same sort of trouble as
Carlile's Economic Method and Economic Fallacies. these reviewers, with the difference that, in-
- Atkinson's Facts and Figures. — Dunbar's Eco stead of Irishmen, he had to reckon with the
nomic Essays.
complaints of Scotchmen. He had rashly at-
RECENT FICTION. William Morton Payne . 112
tempted a strictly dispassionate analysis of the
Swinburne's Love's Cross Currents.—Hewlett's The
Fool Errant. — Sheehan's Glenanaar. – Thurston's
poetry of Burns, and had come to the temper-
The Apple of Eden. - Herrick's The Memoirs of
ate conclusion that this poetry had 'truth of
an American Citizen. — Hill's The Accomplice. — matter and truth of manner, but not the ac-
John Van Buren, Politician. — Mighels's The Ulti. cent or the poetic virtue of the highest mas-
mate Passion. - Howells's Miss Bellard's Inspir-
ters.' But his aggrieved Scotch critics could
ation. - Henry's The Unwritten Law.- Bates's A
Madcap Cruise. " Richard Fisguill's” The Venus never forgive him for saying that Burns's
of Cadiz. — Miss Robins's A Dark Lantern.- Miss world of Scotch drink, Scotch religion, and
Murfree's The Storm Centre.
Scotch manners is often a harsh, a sordid, a
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS.
116 repulsive world, and that a Scotchman, being
Bryant, and the growth of poetry in America. used to it,'has a tenderness for it. In this
France during the Revolution. — In and about the
hill-towns of Umbria.— Wagner and Frau Wesen-
case, as in the more recent case of Moore, the
donck. - Letters of an 18th century churchman.
spirit of clannishness took the place of an im-
- Mirabeau and the French Revolution. — Mark partial effort to get at the truth, and prejudice
Rutherford on John Bunyon.—Popular beliefs and was invoked to the confusion of judgment.
practices of Great Britain.-In regions of enchant-
ment, near at hand. - The French Revolution seen
It may well be that Arnold, in that famous
from India,
essay on ‘The Study of Poetry,' was not alto-
BRIEFER MENTION
120
gether fair to Burns, and it may be that our
recent reviewers have not done complete justice
NOTES
121
to those qualities of Moore that have so en-
TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS
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with Irishmen when Moore is in question, is by readers already predisposed in favor of the
likely to be the critic whose judgment will prove work which is praised, and no writer too poor
finally acceptable to intelligent readers. He at to be puffed up by such ill-judged adulation.
least is impersonal, and they as certainly are Thus the feeble amateur is persuaded to think
not. The sort of eulogy that Irishmen heap himself a genius, and the innocent public is
upon Moore, and Scotchmen upon Burns, upon practiced upon to the confusion of its sense of
the occasion of their festive gatherings, has its
proportion.
The effect is pernicious in both
value for promoting good fellowship and bright ways; it may turn a good farmer or carpenter
ening the glow of mutual sympathy, but does into a bad poet or novelist, and it is sure to
not commend itself to the cooler judgment of waste the time of many misguided readers upon
mankind at large, or even of the participants in productions unworthy of their attention. These
these love-feasts when they come to think it literary idols of the market-place are responsi-
over with themselves.
ble for much perversion of the true faith.
These are but two specific illustrations of the After all, these critical judgments of the clan-
clannish habit which is so prejudicial to the nish kind merely illustrate in an intensified
interests of rational criticism. Whenever or form the subjective theory of criticism. If
wherever any group of men is held together by there are no such things as standards, if the
a common bond of sympathy, the tendency to individual recognizes no test of excellence save
exalt their own efforts will be made manifest. his own likes and dislikes, then these narrow or
The bond may be racial, or it may be the bond provincial opinions are amply justified. One
of a religious, social, or political organization, may say of a piece of literary composition, ‘It
or it may be no stronger bond than results gives me pleasure, therefore it must be deserv-
from contiguity and the community of mate-ing of praise, and it will be hard to convince
rial interests, but the outcome will be the same him that the conclusion stands in the relation
in all the cases. If the group is large enough of non sequitur to the premise. If such a per-
to find literary expression, its members will son may say further, 'It gives me pleasure,
instinctively unite in glorifying the product, and also pleases all the others of my sort,' the
and in reviling the captious dissenter. 'Be- argument is clinched, and there is no gainsay-
hold what we can do' will be its vaunt, and any ing the strength of the position. Yet the de-
attempts to belittle its achievement will be set cision of real criticism, which may reject the
down to the score of envy on the part of the work in the face of however clamorous a mob,
distanced rival.
rests, and must inevitably rest, upon a very dif-
· The results of this clannishness are sometimes ferent basis. It must rest upon the concensus
pathetically amusing. What could be more so, of opinion, not of the group that affects the
for example, than collections of the poets and work in question, but of the trained minds
poetry of this or that state or county, than here and there that bring no prejudice to their
anthologies of the gems of thought inspired by inspection, and render their verdict in a spirit
this or that religious persuasion. Let a Cath- of absolute intellectual detachment. It is only
olie, or a Methodist, or a Unitarian produce a a judgment thus pronounced that can impose
book, and straightway all the voices and or itself upon the world at large, and be regis-
gans of his kind will sing its praises. Let some tered as beyond appeal.
frontier town discover an author in its midst,
and its spokesmen will promptly view them-
selves as denizens of the coming literary cen-
THE TONIC OF GEORGE MEREDITH'S
tre of the country. Tested by the even scale of
POETRY.
criticism, these phenomena may be utterly in-
significant, but the loaded scales of sectarian or A frequent mood with Mr. Meredith, as he
provincial prejudice will show thein to weigh greets his readers, is that of challenge. This is
heavily enough. The favorite preacher be sometimes covertly mingled with portraiture.
comes a Chrysostom, the popular orator a As he introduces Diana Warwick, Lady Blan-
Demosthenes, the budding novelist a Dickens dish, Sir Willoughby, or Hippias, he seems to
or a Scott, the boudoir poet a Tennyson or a ask your mental attitude toward cultured or
Keats, and all homely barnyard fowl in general sentimental women, toward sturdy egoists or
become swans and peacocks and birds of para- puny dyspeptics. Again, he summons you to
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Weather,
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Behold the life at ease: it drifts;
Beggar's refreshment is
The sharpened life commands its course,'
To lie all alone on a ragged heath,
As novelist and poet alike, Mr. Meredith
Where your nose isn't sniflling for bones or bear,
often seems to deter rather than to encourage But a peat-fire smells like a garden beneath.'
his reader's first ventures within his pages. The Suited to the romantic trend of 'Grandfather
very difficulties of approach by tortuous and Bridgeman’ is the delicate lyric of spring and
brambly by-paths may increase the zeal with of love, scarcely equalled in modern verse.
which one penetrates, if he has persistence, into • The day was
a van-bird
the robin
piped but the blue,
the innermost passages of matchless revelation.
A warm and dreamy palace with voices of larks ringing
It has been asserted that his poetry is the fitting
thro',
medium of entrance into his prose. Through Look'd down as if wistfully eyeing the blossoms that fell
from its lap;
his verse his personality, mental and spiritual,
A day to sweeten the juices,
is unfolded; within his poems one may find
A day to quicken the sap!
All round the shadowy orchard sloped meadows in gold,
possible interpretation for some of the most
baffling enigmas of thought in his fiction. It
Shy violets breathed their hearts out, the maiden breath
is true that much of his poetry is more elusive,
of the year.'
more freighted with artful metaphor than his Earth and man must be in perfect accord.
prose. The reader is daunted by many metrical To read Earth aright, says Mr. Meredith, to
mazes in both thought and structure; yet, in profit by its teachings, man must come into
spite of the dimness of direct meaning, there close contact with it, he must give trustful and
breathes a tonic, like a whiff of heather,' sympathetic obedience to its laws. Earth is
which nourishes brain and soul and spurs one the true balancer of ratios of life. To one
on to reach and penetrate the veiled recesses. thus in alignment with Nature's laws and pur-
For the weakling in spirit, Mr. Meredith offers poses will come healthy physical activity, nor-
no heart-easing songs; for the mental dyspeptic, mal emotions, balanced mind and hopeful spir-
he' has no pre-digested literary foods. His it. That strange poem,-a modern Bacchanal,
favorite men and women are normal in appetite as it has well been called,Jump to Glory
and sleep. For sentimental women he has a Jane,' is no mere travesty on muscular Chris-
fund of biting sarcasm : recall his portrayal of tianity. It implies a moral as well as a comic
Mrs. Caroline Grandison who had relapsed muse. Jane though a jumping was a thought-
upon religion and little dogs. For healthy ful woman,' and to her last days of happiness
emotions, Mr. Meredith has poetic tribute. Sen- and trust, her creator commends each reader.
timentality he would squeeze out of the world, On the other hand, in ‘The Two Masks, the
whether it is exampled in rose pink' ecstasies story of Melpome and Thaleia, is found the
or ' dirty drab' naturalism. As poet and novel- teaching of normal desires for all humanity, —
ist, he urges a sane aspect toward life. 'Phil- | that they
osophy is foe of rose pink and dirty drab and "Strive never to outleap our human features,
their silly cancelling effects. Philosophy bids And do Right Reason's ordinance obey.'
us see that we are not as pretty as rose pink, If we bend our ears to catch the meaning of the
nor as repulsive as dirty drab, and instead of seasons as they pass, if we sympathize with
everlastingly shifting these barren aspects the the moods of the months, fretfulness will change
sight of ourselves is wholesome, bearable, fruc to serene sympathy; so shall we,
tifying, finally a delight.'
* Like Mother Nature,
In Mr. Meredith's poetic fancies and medita-
Kiss the season and shun regrets.' .
tions, in his roadside philosophies like 'Grand When such a unity of spirit has been attained,
father Bridgeman' and 'Juggling Jerry,' in his the southwest wind, roaring, dashing in fury,
varied panegyrics of nature from Seed-Time brings a message of use and beauty no less as-
to Spirit of Earth in Autumn,' in his tragic suring than the charm of woodland peace. To
or. idyllic love-poems from ''The Nuptials of such, the dry sedges sing a spiritual song. To
Attila' and 'Archduchess Anne' to Love in such, the thrush in February, or the lark' as-
the Valley,” one reads the underlying exalta-cending in ravished joy in full spring-tide ut-
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• 'Tis love of earth that he instils !
And ever ringing up and up,
The New Books.
Our valley is his golden cup,
And he the wind which overflows,
To lift us with him as he goes.'
With no
listinct preachment on religion,
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN ENGLISH
REFORMER.*
Mr. Meredith brings his doctrine of sympathy
with Nature to a logical and spiritual climax. Few subjects that interested the English pol-
Accord with Nature's laws will bring surety of itical and social reformers of the last half-cen-
a future which is not clearly revealed in vision tury failed to rouse George Jacob Holyoake to
but is assuredly promised by the processes of action. Mr. Holyoake was a born fighter. The
Mother Earth. Look you with your soul, cause of political freedom received most of his
you see it.' While he asserts no spiritual enti- devotion, but he seems always to have had
ties, he emphasizes through halting mystic energy enough left to shout for or against any
metres, or more simple lyrics, his comfort in a
public question of importance. His life, de-
'Right of things' here and hereafter. Looking tailed in ‘Sixty Years of an Agitator's Life,'
out upon the downs and hills which surround and continued in two volumes of 'Bygones
his Surrey home, he said to a visitor, 'How can Worth Remembering,' is full of matters of vital
any man live near to this—near to Nature, I force and interest. From the early days, when
mean not only this beautiful inanimate Nature, he gained fame and lost everything else as a
but near to human nature and not live hope leader of the Chartist rebellion in 1848, Mr.
fully?' In no other of his lines does the reader Holyoake has shown an individuality so strong-
come so intimately in touch with the man and ly marked and so attractive that he has been the
the poet as in ‘A Faith on Trial,' the cry of chosen companion of statesmen and scientists.
the riven soul after the death of his wife, when Gladstone, Herbert Spencer, George Eliot and
doubt and darkness are scattered and the soul George Henry Lewes, Mazzini and Harriet Mar-
recovers its harmony with the Infinite by the tineau, sought his society and his advice, and
chance sight of a pure white cherry blossom, listened with pleasure and interest to his vari-
awakening sacred associations with the happy ous schemes for reforming the governments of
and trustful years that the two souls had passed the universe and propagating 'freedom of opin-
together. After an experience of a similar ion and industrial justice. With a vanity al-
sort, if of diverse expression, the soul of man most childish in its frankness, Mr. Holyoake
proclaims a future:
quotes Herbert Spencer's estimate of him.
Near is he to great Nature in the thought
Not dwelling upon his intellectual capacity,
Each changing Season intimately saith,
That nought save apparition knows the death; which is high, I would emphasize my apprecia-
To the God-lighted mind of man 'tis nought.' tion of his courage, sincerity, truthfulness,
With yet more direct and emphatic word speaks philanthropy, and unwearied perseverance.
Seed Time':
Such a combination of these qualities, it will, I
* Death is the word of a bovine day,
think, be difficult to find.' This frank egotism
Know you the breast of the springing To-Be?'
Closely in accord with the modern mood in
is evidenced on every page of 'Bygones Worth
ethics and religion is Mr. Meredith's applica-
Remembering. There is hardly a paragraph in
tion of this faith. Not in idle trust but in
which 'I' is not the leading pronoun. While
active service will that life expend itself which
this gives a raciness and a personal charm to
the book, it involves also a loss of perspective,
interprets aright the reading of Earth. Bur-
due to Mr. Holyoake's persistent placing of
den-bearing becomes a joy; work is the solution
himself in the foreground. A dozen stories at
of futile questionings about the whence and
the whither.
least in which Mr. Holyoake figures as chief
Our questions are & mortal brood,
actor are repeated almost verbatim in several
Our work is everlasting.'
chapters.
'For love we Earth, then serve we all;
Mr. Holyoake was a man of strong prejudices.
Her mystic secret then is ours."
In fact, even now that he has almost reached
Mr. Meredith lays less emphasis on the pure his ninetieth year, his prejudices remain as
physical enjoyment of nature than does Whit- strong as ever, and sometimes as unreasoning.
man; he treats his theme with more compulsive Of Cobden, Gladstone, Harriet Martineau, he
and less intellectual force than Browning. The writes lovingly, with a
writes lovingly, with a distinct and naïve
student of his poems, by the reverential read charm. His estimate of Disraeli, on the other
ing of Earth, is able to find the true reading hand, need only be compared with Mr. Bryce's
of Life; he may subscribe to a creed which in recent portrait of that picturesque English
culcates vigor of body, truth of heart, harmony
and serenity of soul.
.BYGONES WORTH REMEMBERING. By George Jacob
Holyoake.
ANNIE RUSSELL MARBLE.
volumes.
Illustrated.
New York:
In two
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107
statesman, to make its defects apparent. Dis actual Chartists, able to leave their work to join
raeli was certainly not above suspicion. He
it, could never have amounted to four thousand.
There was not a single weapon among them, nor
was unboundedly ambitious, selfish, inconsist-
any intention of using it had they possessed it.
ent, too glittering to be solid, too clever to be There was absolutely nothing in the field against
wholly true. But still he was a statesman; he the Duke of Wellington in London but a waggon
did not rise to power on phrases, and whatever
on which a monster petition was piled; yet a mil-
lion special constables were out, staff in hand. I
the greatest may think of him he was and is a
was out with the Chartists that day, and well know
popular favorite, as is indicated by the fact that how different were the facts from what is believed
his birthday is more largely celebrated than any to be the peril of the metropolis on that day. Never
holiday of the kind in England. On that day,
did the craziest despotic government in Europe
his statue in London is fairly buried in flowers,
engage in such a political imposture. It was pitia-
ble that the Duke of Wellington should have had
and the square is thronged all day with those no more self-respect than to compromise his great
who come to do homage to his memory. Evi career by fortifying London against an imaginary
dently, Mr. Holyoake is judging by what he
enemy. The Government had plentiful information,
thinks should be true rather than by what is
and must have known the truth.'
true, when he writes:
Mr. Holyoake has a strong sense of humor,
Disraeli is a fossilized bygone to this genera-
but his manner of writing is such that it is not
tion; though in the political arena he was the most always easy to discover when he is jesting and
glittering performer of his day. The moral of this when he is in earnest. Most of the chapter on
singular career, worth remembering, is that genius | American manners and customs may be classed
and versatility, animated by ambition without
scruple, may attain distinction without principle.
as humorous, especially that part which deals
It can win national admiration, but not public affec-
with Protection, and touches the vital defects
tion. All it can accomplish is to leave behind a of the system with a sure finger. Here, as often
name of sinister renown.'
elsewhere, Mr. Holyoake's judgment tells him
The most interesting and the most valuable clearly what is right and what is wrong. But
chapter in ‘Bygones Worth Remembering' is in spite of his boast of impartiality, his own
devoted to a recounting of what actually hap- way to right the wrong is to him the only way.
pened on the famous 10th of April, 1848. Our He has fallen just a little behind the times in
histories tell us of a great Chartist rebellion preferring political to social freedom.
quelled that day through the energy, foresight,
It is difficult to pronounce upon the value of
and special constables of the Duke of Welling: Mr. Holyoake’s autobiography. Certainly, not
ton. The day is remembered as one of the many people will read the two rambling vol-
crises of modern history, one of the picturesque umes, where so much is waste material. But
failures to revive ancient bloodshed and rebel for the sake of what is of intrinsic value, it is
lion in the name of political reform. Mr. Holy- to be hoped that somebody will use . Bygones
oake has a very different story to tell, with
Worth Remembering,' together with his Sixty
facts enough substantiating his version to raise
Years of an Agitator's Life,' as the basis of
an interesting question of validity.
what might be made one of the broadest and
'Dean Stubbs, in his interesting book on Charles
most largely representative biographies of our
Kingsley, says:
“On the 10th of April, 1848, a
times.
EDITH J. R. ISAACS,
revolution was threatened in England. One hun.
dred thousand armed men were to meet on Ken-
sington Common and thence to march to Westmin-
ster, and there to compel, by physical force if
necessary, the acceptance of the People's Charter
THE HISTORICAL SPORTS OF CENTRAL
by the Houses of Parliament." Could any such a
ITALY.*
lunatical statement be written by anyone, and his
friends not procure a magistrate's order for his
The list is long of those who, idolizing the
removal to the nearest asylum How were the towns of Tuscany even above all other Italian
"hundred thousand” to get the arms into London towns, have been willing to give years of re-
-if they had them? Whence were they to pro search to disentangling the endless coils of their
cure them? Where could they store them, seeing petty and fantastic histories and have gained at
that at that time there was not a single Chartist meet-
ing-house that was not known to be in debt, unless length bright shadows of the brave romantic life
its rent was paid by the charity of some well-to-do lived there through the whole long span of the
sympathizer What were muskets or pikes to do Middle Age. For Florence and her glamour, the
against the stone walls of the Houses of Parliament
or the Bank? How were cannon to be drawn from
list is longest; but as the Florence of tradition
the centre of London to Kensington Common with has grown more remote, and her streets have
ample service of powder and shot Marvellous is come to be filled with the sound of an alien
the history which modern Churchmen write!
'Politically speaking, London has seen no tamer
An Account of the Sports of Cen-
day than the 10th of April, 1848. There was less
tral Italy, from the Age of Dante to the Twentieth Cen-
tury. By William Heywood. Illustrated. London: Me-
ground for alarm than when a Lord Mayor's pro-
(New York: Imported by Charles Scribner's
cession passes through the city. The procession of Sons.)
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tongue, students have, in the last ten years ginning with the great game of 'Ponte at
especially, been turning to the more unchanged Pisa that was a mimic battle on a bridge—and
splendor and unbroken tradition of Florence's a veritable one too; a game so important and
rival and hated enemy, Siena, that wonderful so long continued as to merit its share in the
hill-town which is still alive, Mr. Hewlett whole book's title. The second form of joyful
writes, when, 'crying' his 'palinode,' he now battle is the Battle of Stones' at Perugia,
regretfully pronounces Florence dead.
where the air above the central 'scrimmage
And yet the English books on Siena are still was 'blackened by the showers of flying
few in number. As material for short sketches, stones”; the third, the old Italian game resem-
impressions, and the like, Siena has in truth bling Rugby foot-ball, as it was played at Flor-
been used a goodly number of times. Mr. Hew ence. Lastly are described the various kinds of
lett, in "The Road in Tuscany,' gives a fair part ferocious battle-games most popular in Siena,
of one volume to his highly individual impres- such as the
as the “Elmora’ and the Pugna.'
sion of the town and her splendid futile people.
In the third and last section of the book
A few years ago there appeared an excellent appears the increasing control of the city's pas-
history of Siena by Mr. Langton Douglas, the times by the “ Contrade' or wards, divisions of
first one in English at all comprehensive. But uncertain origin that, with the fierce partisan-
the most interesting and illuminating as well as ships and bitter jealousies they still foster, give
learned works are those, a whole series now, by to the present 'Palio ' its turbulent mediæval
Mr. William Heywood, beginning six years ago character. They promoted various sports, both
with an account both critical and popular of grotesque and decorative, such as donkey races
that strange survival, the Palio of Siena, that were really fist-fights waged over the body
‘half battle, half horse-race,'-- and ending with of the unfortunate animal, and the elaborate
the book entitled “Palio and Ponte,' in which pageant of the bull-fight, the joust, and the
this same subject is treated with infinitely theatrical hunt in the Campo to the music of
greater completeness, allied as the special Sien- trumpets and bugles and drums. Directly de-
ése horse-races were with races of many other scended from these more secular amusements,
varieties and with other mediæval games | yet retaining the religious character of the
throughout the Communes of Central Italy. In whole sequence of races connected with great
this book the field of Mr. Heywood's research religious festivals, the modern · Palio' alone of
is peculiarly his own; and, however essential all these remains alive. And so the last chap-
may be a knowledge of the morals of the men ter is given to a vivid and vigorous description
of those days and their attitude toward the of this race that one may see twice every sum-)
ghostly,-- matters more particularly dealt with mer even now run madly in a circle in the very
by Mr. Heywood in his ‘Ensamples ' of Fra heart of the city, run by the jockeys with great-
Filippo,— yet in the popular games
er regard to the cudgelling of their enemies and
finds perhaps a more wholly unartificial, a more their enemies' horses than to the speed of their
utterly pure expression of the popular taste, own, this ‘Palio' that 'is, in its origin, a
brutal, brave, vivid, and wonderful in spirit, in blending of the Pugna, the tournament and
a brutal, brave, and wonderful age. Though the the horse-race, embellished and glorified by all
general purpose is to give an account of the the pomp and pageantry of the Trionfo and of
sports of Central Italy from the age of Dante the masquerade.?
to the XXth century,' races have the first place, The combination in Mr. Heywood of a thor-
in especial the famous Sienese horse-races whose ough scholar and an all-around sportsman
inspiration was drawn from the old battle-games would seem an ideal qualification for writing
and whose history shows a strange latter-day of medieval athletics, and a row of cups high
survival; but also other kinds of races,-races above the books in his study at Siena, his adopt-
of buffaloes, of donkeys, of boats, and of char ed home now for a number of years, tells of
iots, foot-races of men and of women,-races prowess when he played foot-ball for his county
with strange uses, as divertisements, as religious and rowed for his college at Cambridge. Later
observances, and as deadly insults.
he edited a newspaper in our own West, and,
In the first division of the book is traced the having become an American citizen, played with
curious religious character of many of these politics, scanting in nothing the varied life
races, and especially of that one, noteworthy there; then turned to Italy and the scholar's
amongst Sienese races, run in August in honor life. But broad human interest and a sense of
of the Virgin-the Virgin to whom the Sienese humor,—so often lacking in those who have
looked as their suzerain, and to whom in feudal cultivated scholarship, and scholarship alone,
allegiance they five times dedicated their city. are also surely no mean assets for this work.
The next division is devoted to other mediæval The style throughout is clear and simple,
games, the games of popular chivalry,' be in general not of marked quality, but occasion-
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ally showing such vigor and even beauty that
one is tempted to wish for more such pages
IN WOODS AND GARDEN.*
even at the sacrifice of some of the by-paths of It is with a feeling of surprise as well as
erudition. Accuracy would also, one feels, not delight that one sees on the title-page of a new
suffer by a more sparing use of Latin and book the name of William Hamilton Gibson.
Italian phrases in the body of the text,--not to The delight is scarcely lessened when one dis-
say over-familiar English quotations, though covers, as in the case of the book on 'Our Native
these are less indulged in than they were in Orchids,' that not the letter-press, but only the
some of his earlier books. But one prolonged drawings, are the work of Mr. Gibson ; for the
sentence, the invocation to Pisa at the begin- drawings are numerous, and the spirit of Gibson
ning of the chapter on her game of 'Ponte,' informs them all. The writer of the text, Mrs.
seems positively inspired to illustrate the pre- Helena Leeming Jelliffe, is a true disciple of
ceding criticism, combining, as it does, in a that school of real nature-study that means a
single sentence, though not without a certain long, patient, and intimate investigation of
rhythm and dash, two Italian quotations, one nature's processes under all varieties of circum-
Latin, and a hackneyed English one! The stances. The text has, in the author's words,
pages are weighty with foot-notes,— but rightly been plainly set forth in simple English from
so, it would seem. The reader for general | Mr. Gibson's notes, from the undescriptive sta-
interest and pleasantness can placidly ignore tistics of manuals of botany, and from an inti-
them, and the serious student of things mediæ- mate acquaintance with the wild orchids them-
val can verify the accuracy of Mr. Heywood's selves.'
scholarship, and, from the countless authorities Mr. Gibson had published an article called
referred to and quoted, gain many suggestions ‘A Few Native Orchids' shortly before his
for burrowing of his own. The book is pleasant death ; but besides this, he had completed a
to handle, and those illustrations that are taken series of minute drawings of orchids — the per-
from old pictures and prints and engravings fect flowers, the separate and peculiar parts, and
are interesting in themselves and aid greatly in all views that might help to make plain those
understanding forgotten games. In fine, we
strange processes of cross-fertilization that
would recommend to the reader by way of sam Darwin first discovered to an amazed and un-
ple the ghost story of the Blessed Ambrogio believing world. These drawings, as stated
Sansedoni, to whom a race was dedicated, that above, aided by Gibson’s notes and supplemented
he may see, perhaps at the best, Mr. Heywood's by her own observations, Mrs. Jelliffe has elab-
humor and skilful touch in the ghostliness of orated into the book that Gibson had hoped to
the adventures, comic at bottom, of the worthy write himself. An intensely interesting book
and over-decorous monk. For style, one ex it is to all who are students of nature, or who,
ample may be quoted from the same chapter, lacking opportunities for that, are still fond
which deals with a time when Siena, then of reading the results of others' excursions into
almost steadily excommunicated, ' was literally that fascinating field. There is an introduction
full of devils.
setting forth certain general facts about orchids,
'In those days the veil between the seen and historical and descriptive, giving a brief account
the unseen was, at the best, exceeding thin. The of the successive discoveries that culminated in
gambler who cursed his luck might, at any moment,
feel upon his shoulder the grip of demon claws.
Darwin's epoch-making statement that 'no
the merchant, who had taken interest on his higher plant could fertilise itself for a perpe-
money and who was therefore branded by the tuity of generations without a cross with some
Church as a usurer, must expect his last hours to other individual.' Then follows an 'Illustrated
be vexed by fiends, who, if he took over-long in
dying, might become impatient and strangle him. Key to the Genera of Orchids," seventeen in
Sometimes the neighbors of such a man would hear,
number; and finally the descriptive text. Here
above the howling of the wind and the beating of
the habitat of each genus is given, with any
the rain, a trampling of horsemen in the narrow curious facts about its nomenclature, its dis-
streets, and, when they peeped shudderingly through tinctive features of appearance or construction,
the cracks of their closely shuttered windows,
would see a hellish company, “terrible beyond all * OUR NATIVE ORCHIDS. A Series of Drawings from
human imagining,' awaiting the end. Lastly, the Nature of all the Species Found in Northeastern United
feeble, naked, wailing ghost would be hurried
By William Hamilton Gibson. With descriptive
through the black portals into the black night; the
text elaborated from the author's notes by Helena Leem-
spectre throng would close upon it; shrieks, as of
ing Jelliffe. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co.
ROSES, AND HOW TO GROW THEM. A Manual for Grow-
a creature in torture, would' ring shrilly through
ing Roses in the Garden and under Glass. (The Garden
the darkness, and then grow faint and fainter in
Library, Volume I.)
New York: Doubleday,
the distance, as the demons swept it away to hell, Page & Co.
“biting and smiting and rending and tearing it”. THE BOOK OF GARDEN DESIGN. By Charles Thonger.
(Handbooks of Practical Gardening, Volume XXV.)
ELLEN GILES.
States.
Illustrated.
Il-
lustrated.
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and its ways with its insect visitors. Mrs. Jel the style and size of the house, and the general
liffe has wisely brought to her assistance any purposes of the owner. It is important that
words by other writers that will make her the garden designer should be also a practical
points plainer; but she has not relied in vain gardener, familiar with the growth and habits
upon her own observations, and the result of of the trees, shrubs, and plants he wishes to
her patient toil, added to the tireless industry use, in order that his work may not be undone
of that master-observer Gibson, has brought to in the future. Mr. Thonger decries the use of
American naturalists a volume, unassuming the expression 'garden architect,' suggesting
though it is, of substantial value and interest. that the terms are contradictory, and apt to
It is a long step from wild orchids to culti- give a wrong spirit to the work of the designer.
vated roses, but it is safe to say that there will He also deprecates the application of too for-
be a wider, though perhaps not a choicer, circle mal and pretentious garden designs to the ordi-
of readers for ' Roses and How to Grow Them.' | nary villa,' country or suburban, which this
a compilation that forms the first volume of a very expression, 'garden architect,' is apt to
new Garden Library,' than for the book we foster. Now all this is sturdy common-sense,
have just been describing. The little volume and just as applicable to America as to Eng-
on roses is made up of various articles con land. However, the book is not chiefly contro-
tributed to 'Country Life in America' and versial. It advocates first a general spirit of
* The Garden Magazine, revised and supple- simplicity, avoiding both complexity and eccen-
mented by such material as will make the book tricity. It then proceeds with suggestions for
sufficient for the average amateur, whether his selecting or adapting a site, and for laying out
ambitions are for a rose-garden, a vine-covered drives and paths, which the author thinks should
house or pergola, or for roses forced under glass. not be too many or winding. The kitchen-
The chapters cover such practical subjects as garden and orchard come within this scheme,
the best location for the rose-bed, the time and and these may be made beautiful as well as
method of planting, the general routine of necessary adjuncts to the home-grounds. The
work, including a frosarian's calendar,' and author considers the value of water, running or
pruning and spraying. There are special chap- otherwise, in the garden scheme, and gives use-
ters devoted to 'Roses for Cut Flowers under ful advice as to planting on its margin. The
Glass,' " Types and Races,' ' Roses for Special last four chapters are devoted to perennials,
Purposes,' and 'Roses of American Origin.' aquatic plants, trees, shrubs, and hardy climb-
The first of these chapters is long and com ers, and include some suggestive lists for prac-
paratively detailed, showing that outdoor and tical gardeners. Altogether, the little book is
indoor culture have many important differences quite likely to be useful to those who take their
as well as similarity of principles. The next
The next gardening in earnest. EDITH GRANGER.
two chapters will generally be consulted only
when one is purchasing plants; but it is rather
amusing to see how far the classification has
gone when one list is labeled 'Roses for Bou-
ECONOMIC FACTS AND FANCIES.*
tonnières.' The lists include special roses for
different soils, for different uses, for different Political economy is no longer a dismal
positions in the garden, and for certain typical science. Its devotees have ceased to picture
localities. The last chapter, ‘Roses of Amer the future of humanity as a thoroughly dis-
ican Origin,' will be of interest mainly to rose couraging prospect of geometrically increasing
fanciers, its object being chiefly 'to demonstrate population and consequently decreasing stand-
what has really been achieved by the American ard of living, with poverty and starvation as
Rose growers.' The book is freely and attract the inevitable condition of mankind. Despair
ively illustrated, most of the inscriptions being has given place to hope, and students of eco-
amply descriptive of the purpose of the pictures. nomic science are now to be found among the
The Book of Garden Design’ is an English most ardent supporters of sundry schemes for
publication, but so infused with common-sense social betterment. Moreover, the true science
that its principles, if not all its specific details, of man never can be dull and uninteresting.'
might be studied with advantage by many Amer On the contrary, it is always full of unexpected
ican garden owners and designers. The author
• ECONOMIC METHOD AND ECONOMIC FALLACIES. By
describes somewhat at length the different William Warrand Carlile, M.A. New York: Longmans,
schools of garden design, recommending neither
Green & Co.
The Basis of Economic Science.
the formal nor the landscape style exclusively, By Edward Atkinson. Boston: Houghton, Miffin & Co.
but rather a judicious adaptability that shall ECONOMIC ESSAYS. By Charles Franklin Dunbar, late
result from a close study of all the circum-
Professor of Political Economy in Harvard University.
Edited by O. M. W. Sprague, with an Introduction by
stances,— the situation, the size of the grounds,
New York: The Macmillan Co.
FACTS AND FIGURES.
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our
turns and curious surprises. The fact that the contemptible as well as the most uninteresting
frivolous fancy for ornament should have laid of all existing animals. In the latter part of
the foundation on which the genius of the his book, Mr. Carlile brings the general line
race has reared the great structures of money, of reasoning to bear on the Fiscal Problem,
commerce, and credit, has many parallels. As as it is called in England; and although an
Emerson remarked, 'the magnet was used as a uncompromising free-trader, he finds himself
toy long before it was used in navigation.' obliged to throw overboard a number of the ar-
Economics seems to stand in far greater dan- guments that have done yeoman service in the
ger of not being able to justify its title of sci- past, but cannot be expected to tell effectively
ence at all. In the first place, there is abso on the mind of the average voter - the 'cheap-
lutely no agreement as to the use of such terms ening' of commodities to produce mere abund-
as money, rent, capital, and so forth. The ance, the appeal to 'natural' rights, the ex-
Ricardian theory of rent, having joined hands clusive stress laid on the interest of consumers
with Jevons's theory of value, has become the as contrasted with those of the producers, the
fountain-head of an endless stream of technical fondness for broad generalizations regarding
terminology, so that not infrequently the study prices in general, and the taking of isolated
of the subject is really being carried on in a cases and relying on them for the substantia-
new language for which special glossaries will tion of universal propositions. He is particu-
soon be necessary. Palgrave's Dictionary of larly severe on some of the arguments of the
Political Economy' bristles with the new too ingenious Bastiat, and the laissez faire
phraseology on every second page. The whole school.
system of modern economics rests on what Mr. Mr. Edward Atkinson would do well to read,
Čarlile, the author of ' Economic Methods and ponder, and follow the advice given by the Eng-
Economic Fallacies,' believes to be a false basis, Iish free-trader. Certainly the cause he has at
– namely, a confusion between the principles heart cannot gain adherents from the camp
that are applicable in physics, and those ob- of the enemy by such argument as the follow-
fact is possible and profitable, and the prin- | ** It would be about as wise to attribute the prog-
ciples and methods applicable to those sciences, ress and prosperity of this country to a protective
of which economics is the most conspicuous, system, and to attribute the variations in
in which one moiety of the questions discussed
progress which have occurred to the change in
the tariff, as it would be to count the number of
may be said to belong to the sphere of matter,
red-haired children born at given periods, endowed
while another moiety belongs to the sphere of with a sanguine and aggressive temperament, and
mind and of subjective investigation. Between then to attribute to their influence when reaching
these two is a great gulf fixed; and it is be-
adult age the variations which have occurred in our
cause the mathematical economists have under-
progressive conditions.'
estimated this distinction that another great It may also be doubted whether the science of
gulf has become fixed between the theoretical economics will be greatly advanced by papers
economics of the University and the practical which the author admits were sent to press
economics of the newspaper and the Stock Ex without such complete revision and condensa-
change. The reason for the chasm, as well as
tion as would have been suitable. Mr. Atkin-
the way to bridge it, Mr. Carlile finds in the son believes that ‘Facts and Figures are the
false conception of money as an entirely negli- basis of economic science; but the fact that
gible intermediary in economic relations (p. the large majority of men in business fancy
180). Here is the true view that was like they are protected in some mysterious way is
enough to the false one to be mistaken for it. the all-important fact with which the legislator
If we conceive of economic life as having come
and the tariff reformer has to deal. To such
to divide itself into two departments, the one men the figures presented do not appeal. The
devoted to the obtaining of money [the italics theory of protection may have become intel-
are mine), and the other devoted to the ex- | lectually dead, as Mr. Atkinson fondly reit-
pending of it (p. 130), we can at once get rid erates; but the 'misleading imagination re-
of the palpably false assumption of the mains, and to it our arguments must be ad-
universal irksomeness of labor. We can also dressed.
very well do without both of those doubt If taxes on crude wool, ores, lumber, dye-
ful postulates of invincible laziness in human stuffs and chemicals
tend to protect
nature, and of inevitable misery in the world the foreign manufactures,' cannot the manu-
that we inhabit.' He justly adds that if the facturers thus handicapped be organized into an
homo economicus were the sort of creature that effective Reform Club? If taxes on food and
such writers as Jevons and Pantaleoni describe fuel, on fish, vegetables, provisions and coal
him as being he would certainly be the most increase the cost of living, and oppress those


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who earn the least wages more than any other
RECENT FICTIOX.*
class, while they are of advantage to no one,-
mere obstructions to progress, cannot the facts
'Love's Cross-Currents' is a work of recent
be presented to labor leaders rather than to the
fiction only in the sense that it is now first
American Social Science Association, so that published in a form likely to attract the atten-
an organized effort may be made to modify the tion of the general reader. It was originally
tariff in the interest of wage-earners rather than called 'A Year's Letters,' was contributed in
to revise it in the interest of some particular 1877 by Mr. Swinburne, writing under the
group of manufacturers? It seems to be the pseudonym of Mrs. Horace Manners,' to a
prime fault of certain philosophers in every
short-lived London paper called “The Tatler,'
field, 'from chemistry to crime,' that they are and its only appearance in book form (before
prone to mistake cause and effect. Evidently
Evidently the present edition) was brought about in one
what is needed in the public discussion of in- of Mr. Mosher's reprints.
of Mr. Mosher's reprints. The author has now
dustrial problems and policy is clear and concise been persuaded by his friend Mr. Theodore
statement of the simple truths and plain facts
Watts-Dunton to consent to its republication,
of social life, not vague meandering comment.
which fact is made the pretext for a special
Another and perhaps the chief cause of the note of dedication. Since the story is told in
popular contempt for political economy is the epistolary form, this note is a brief defence of
fact that most economists seem to forget the that apparent compromise between a story and
complex character of all social problems. In a play,' with citation of Richardson and Scott
their public utterances they preach an economic as exemplars. But, the author adds, these
doctrine and ignore the political, legal, or are perhaps too high and serious matters to be
ethical side of the question. Private property
touched upon in a note of acknowledgment pre-
in land, public ownership of certain monopolies, fixed to so early an attempt in the great art
the different methods of taxing real and per-
of fiction or creation that it would never have
sonal property, trusts and trade-unions, the rela- revisited the light or rather the twilight of
tion of the state to each, questions of currency publicity under honest and legitimate auspices,
and banking, the tariff, eight-hour law, and
if it had not found in you a sponsor and a
the most fundamental question of all as to the friend. This book must be read with two facts
organization of society on a more or less com-
constantly in view. One is that the poet wrote
plete communism,- these are only partially it at an early age, many years, in fact, before
economic questions. As such they require in its serial publication in The Tatler. This
vestigation by methods as scrupulously scientifie will explain the feeling with which it touches
as those of mathematics. But they also require upon certain happenings, then not very re-
an equally scientific study from the legal, the mote, of European history. The other fact
ethical, the political, and the social point of is that, although the theme is as old as
view. The application of all these laws in the
Goethe's Wahlverwandtschaften' (and much
particular circumstances is the duty of the legis *LOVE'S CROSS CURRENTS. A Year's Letters.
By Al-
lator and administrator. It is the art of poli gernon Charles Swinburne. New York: Harper & Broth-
ties. The investigation of economic law is a
THE FOOL ERRANT. Being the Memoirs of Francis-
strictly scientific inquiry, as much as the in Antony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca. By Maurice
vestigation of the law of gravitation; and the
Hewlett. New York: The Macmillan Co.
GLENANAAR. A Story of Irish Life. By the Very Rev.
determination of economic law falls within the
P. A. Sheehan, D.D. New York: Longmans, Green, & Co.
competence of the University. As Professor
By E. Temple Thurston. New
Dunbar points out in his volume of Economic
York: Dodd, Mead, & Co.
THE MEMOIRS OF AN AMERICAN CITIZEN. By Robert
Essays, it is of far more consequence that the Herrick. New York: The Macmillan Co.
student should learn to reason truly than that THE ACCOMPLICE. By Frederick Trevor Hill.
he should perceive and accept any particular
York: Harper & Brothers.
JOHN VAN BUREN, POLITICIAN.
of To-day.
truth. His volume, made up largely of con New York: Harper & Brothers.
tributions to the 'Quarterly Journal of Eco THE ULTIMATE PASSION. By Philip Verrill Mighels.
nomics,' exemplifies to the full this vital dis New York: Harper & Brothers.
Miss BELLARD'S INSPIRATION. By W. D. Howells.
tinction and his high ideal of the duties of the
York: Harper & Brothers.
University teacher. He separates fact from THE UNWRITTEN LAW.
By Arthur Henry.
fancy, and presents the results of scientific in-
New York: A. S. Barnes & Co.
A MADCAP CRUISE. By Oric Bates. Boston: Houghton,
quiry, largely in the field of banking and cur-
Mifflin, & Co.
rency, in an eminently judicious and scholarly
An Extravaganza. By Richard
manner. It leads one to regret his unwillingness
Fisguill. New York: Henry Holt & Co.
A Story with a Prologue. By Eliz-
to contribute more widely to the discussion of
abeth Robins (C. E. Raimond),
current questions of economics and politics. millan Co.
THE STORM CENTRE. By Charles Egbert Craddock.
ARTHUR B. WOODFORD.
New York: The Macmillan Co.
ers.
THE APPLE OF EDEN.
New
A Novel
New
A Novel.
THE VENUS OF CADIZ.
A DARK LANTERN.
New York:
The Mac-


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older) it had, not, forty years ago, been of La Mancha, but it is long before he makes
worked to death by the novelists as it now seems the discovery, and he has meanwhile a most sur-
to our jaded senses to have been. Keeping these prising series of adventures. Divesting him-
facts in mind, the story may be read to-day with self of fine raiment and the means of support,
profit and interest. Its note is that of satirical he tramps from place to place in his search,
comedy, and is struck by no light touch, but consorting with rustics and ruffians, strolling
the delineations of character are subtle and players and other picturesque vagabonds, he
artistic, especially in the case of the garrulous suffers all kinds of indignities, not the least of
and malicious old woman whose letters are the which is the incredulity with which everyone
longest and the most entertaining. The other receives the confession of his pure intentions
letters are by younger people, mostly in love concerning the fair Aurelia. His conduct is
with other people's wives, and bravely getting indeed that of a fool as seen in the light of
over it. As one of them remarks: Our little the easy-going morality and the gracious villainy
bit of comedy slips off the stage without noise, of that land and period. During his wander-
and the curtain laps down over it. Lucky it ings he falls in with Virginia, a beautiful con-
never turned to the tearful style, as it once tadina whom he saves from a life of shame, and
threatened to do. If we may so pervert the who worships him ever thereafter with a dog-
metaphor of the title as to take it electrically, like devotion. Later on, when the unworthiness
we may say that when the wires get crossed in of Aurelia is made apparent to him, shattering
our actual habitations, we are apt to have more the image which has hitherto been enshrined in
of a conflagration than here results. We are his thoughts, he is wedded to Virginia, and the
not going to hail Mr. Swinburne as a great story ends with a long vista of future happiness
novelist on the strength of this performance, beneath the Italian sky, for the hero never re-
but may fairly call it a clever, almost brilliant, turns to his native land. The narrative is of the
piece of work in a difficult form. After we kind conventionally described as picaresque, and
have once mastered the intricate relationships as such, we may abandon ourselves to its charm
of the persons concerned (no easy matter) and without an afterthought. But we cannot escape
learned to recognize them by their names with realizing also --being of the modern age, and
out climbing the genealogical tree over again, consequently critical and sophisticated — that
we may follow the development of the story the author has given us an extraordinarily inti-
with no slight interest.
mate and sympathetic depiction of the life of
Mr. Maurice Hewlett gives to his new the post-renaissance age in Italy, with its pic-
romance the happy title of 'The Fool Errant,' turesqueness, its corruption, and its astonishing
and he works out the conception with much contrasts. We feel that he is simply saturated
ingenuity. The story is the autobiography of with the life of the time and the color of the
one Francis-Antony Strelley, an English Cath-environment, and that he has reproduced these
olic, sent to Padua in the early eighteenth cen things with marvellous fidelity. This is the chief
tury for the completion of his education, and title of the book to praise, and a high title it is.
thus launched upon what proves to be a most Father Sheehan is by way of becoming a full-
extraordinary career of mingled chance and mis-fledged novelist. As the author of 'My New
chance. Two women serve chiefly for the shap Curate' and 'Luke Delmege' he has won his
ing of his destinies. Aurelia is the youthful way to many hearts by virtue of his genial
wife of the learned and corpulent professor of portrayal of Irish life and character, and the
the civil law to whose care the hero is consigned, very human quality of his writing made us
and of whose household he becomes a member. tolerant of the large admixture of theological
Thereupon the youth falls in love with his discussion with which those books were bur-
hostess, albeit his love-making is of the most dened. In 'Glenanaar,' his latest novel, his
innocent sort, and much trouble ensues. In theological ballast is thrown overboard, and he
danger of surprise one evening when engaged gives us a plain story of deep interest. It is a
in the delightful occupation of kissing Aurelia's story that begins some seventy-five years ago,
hands, he is hastily thrust into a cupboard. with the farcical trial of a batch of Irish con-
When the enraged husband discovers the pres- spirators, and the dramatic intervention of
ence of the youthful swain, he chucks both him O'Connell just in time to save them from an
and his divinity into the street. When the re unjust conviction. Out of this episode is spun
morseful youth recovers his senses, Aurelia has the thread of the narrative, which runs down
vanished, and he starts on a pilgrimage to seek into our own time, and is chiefly concerned
her out and implore her forgiveness. She is in with the descendants of an informer — that
reality as little the ideal which he makes of her most despised of mortals — whose perjured tes-
as the actual Dulcinea del Toboso was far re timony had nearly done a number of his fellow-
moved from the ideal of the sorrowful knight countrymen to death. It is a book deep-rooted


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in its racial element, interpreting Irish char presses too much the note of indignation, that
acter with an eye by no means blind to its his attitude suggests too much of acceptance,
faults, but always with penetration and tender too little of protest and repudiation. The im-
sympathy. The tale is somewhat disconnected plicit moral is evident enough, and a stern one
in sequence, but is sweet and wholesome, and, it is, but selfishness and corruption are given
withal, not lacking in touches of humor. Its too complete a triumph, honesty and altruism
atmosphere is Catholic, as a matter of course, are too thoroughly worsted in the struggle, to
but not, as we have already stated, in any dog- satisfy the demands we may rightfully make
matic or controversial sense.
of a work of art. In this book, the unscrupu-
“The Apple of Eden,' by Mr. E. Temple lous central character achieves every kind of
Thurston, is another book with a Catholic at material success, and the characters that in any
mosphere, but it is burdened with a problem, way stand for decency are presented to us in a
and its note is of revolt rather than acceptance. light that makes them appear weak and ridicu-
It offers a powerful and unpleasantly-stated ar Professions of principle are met with a
gument against the institution of celibacy, and covert sneer, and efforts to act in accordance
shows us, in the life of a priest, how nature with any motive higher than selfishness are made
will have its way in spite of vows and renuncia to appear contemptible. This they doubtless are
tions. It opens with a scene in the confessional, in the eyes of the 'American citizen' whose
and develops, through the untoward workings of dubious rise to wealth and political honor is
fate, into a tale of passion, in which the priestly here outlined, but the author need not view
hero all but succumbs to the very temptation them—nay, is bound not to view them-from
confessed by his penitent in the opening chap- that angle of observation. Such must be our
ter. It is a story of considerable power, but fundamental criticism of this autobiography of
its frankness exceeds the bounds of what is ar the country boy who becomes a pork-packer in
tistically permissible.
Chicago, rises to fortune by corrupt practices,
When our future historian, in some age con and purchases a seat in the Senate as the crown
trolled by a more rational conception of suc of his life of dishonor. The author persuades
cess than now obtains, shall look back to our us to follow the career of this arch-criminal with
present epoch of frenzied materialism, seeking a certain degree of sympathy, and does little
to explore its psychology, the novelists will be or nothing to encourage our sympathy with
found to have provided him with some of the those of his characters who shrink from mak-
most important of his documents. They have ing terms with the mammon of unrighteousness.
themselves not infrequently given a false color- The story seems to be rooted in bitter cynicism
ing to their facts, and been far from definite and to embody the very philosophy of despair.
in their sense of ethical values, but they have 'The Accomplice,' by Mr. Frederick Trevor
been zealous to reflect the unlovely phases of Hill, is the story of a mysterious crime, but
our life, and, although sometimes overawed by offers a variant upon the usual form of the
the gigantic forces they have found at play in detective yarn, in that the account of the trial
our commercial civilization, have at least been occupies the whole book. Through an unex-
searching in their analysis, and vivid in their pected turn in the proceedings, the villain is
portrayal. In the qualities of truth and vitality, revealed in the person of the counsel for the
such a book as Mr. Herrick’s ‘Memoirs of an defense, and the young woman on trial is trium-
American Citizen' takes high rank. Nor can phantly acquitted. This book is above the av-
such a book fail even of a sort of passionate erage of its class, and will provide an hour of
interest to us who see illustrated every day, in entertainment for the most jaded of readers.
lives that are near and possibly dear to us, the The novel of American politics has become
conditions which it depicts, and the motives a conspicuous feature of our current literature,
which it represents as prevailing. This sort of and no season now passes without making sev-
interest in such a book, we trust, will eventually eral additions to this category.
disappear, but the social-historical value will re- Buren, Politician,' is an anonymous publication
main for the instruction of our posterity. Read which gives us a close view of governmental
to-day, it is not particularly instructive, for we matters in New York City and State. Who-
know too well all that it tells us, but it may ever the writer may be, he knows intimately
prove helpful for admonition and example. Yet the workings of Tammany and of the corrupt
even in this capacity, the story does not seem ring that controls legislative affairs at Albany.
to realize its full possibilities. We are no advo- He draws for us a full-length portrait of Rich-
cates of an obtrusive morality in fiction, but it ard Croker, and many of his secondary figures
seems to us that Mr. Herrick is something too will doubtless be recognized by readers who are
much of the dispassionate observer, that he re cognizant of the local situation. The book has


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no style, and but slight interest considered as that it gives us our chance?' The argument
a story. Its implied ethics, moreover, are of a is convincing, and these are the words in which
highly dubious character.
the heroine describes her capitulation: The
A much better book, one that has style (of a point was a very fine one, and I kept losing it;
sort), an interesting framework, and characteri- but he never did; and he held me to it, so that
zations of no mean order of merit, is “The when he did go away, I promised him that I
Ultimate Passion,' by Mr. Philip Verrill would think about it. I did think about it,
Mighels. Here the specific scene is New York and before morning I had a perfect inspiration.
City, but the arena of the conflict depicted is My inspiration was that when I was so helpless
national, for the hero is a presidential candidate. to reason it out for myself, I ought to leave it
How he places himself in the hands of the cor- altogether to him, and that is why we are going
ruptionists who dictate nominations and con to be married in the spring. This is the ortho-
trol policies, making all the time the mental dox conclusion, if brought about by whimsical
reservation that he will kick over the traces means, but we cannot escape a certain concern
when once occupying the seat of power, how he for the young man's future.
lends himself to their nefarious schemes and The Unwritten Law,' by Mr. Arthur Henry,
acquiesces in their infamous methods, how he is a novel born of the generous sympathy that
even pledges himself to marry the daughter of inspired 'Les Misérables,' a sympathy that may
the arch-conspirator,— these are the matters easily degenerate into mere sentimentalism, and
with which the plot is mainly concerned. Mean comes dangerously near to doing so in the pres-
while, he secretly marries the woman of his ent instance. According to philosophers of this
choice, and the revelation of this fact, at almost bent, society is really responsible for the sins
the last moment, brings about the collapse of of the individual, and when they pay the penalty
the whole structure of political machination which society imposes they are to be regarded
which he and his associates have spent many rather as martyrs than as anything else. Mr.
toilsome months in rearing. This is a very
This is a very Henry sustains this thesis in three leading cases :
vigorous book, inspired by genuine passion, and One of them is afforded by a man who loses
making a skilful progress to its logical conclu- his savings as the result of a bank defalcation
sion. And we have no doubt that it offers an and turns to counterfeiting as a means of live-
essentially truthful presentation of the way in lihood; the other two are afforded by girls who
which our national destinies are manipulated easily allow themselves to be seduced. It is,
by the great moneyed interests. If such illum- of course, quite possible for a writer to present
inating expositions should be sufficiently multi cases like these so artfully as to enlist all our
plied, we may hope that they will eventually sympathies on the side of the offenders, but
have the effect of arousing the dormant indig- the undertaking is ethically more than ques-
nation of an outraged people.
tionable, and can be defended only by sophistry.
Miss Bellard's Inspiration,' the latest of the And there is no kind of excuse for the excessively
many books that Mr. Howells has given us, has plain speaking in which this book indulges upon
a charm altogether out of proportion to its pre- subjects that every consideration of decency de-
tensions. It is no more than a novelette in mands should be veiled. The book is one of
dimensions, and its story is of the simplest, but present-day life in New York, and impresses
displays in the telling a very delicate art. There one as the work of a reporter rather than of a
are six people concerned Miss Bellard and constructive novelist.
her fiancé, the aunt and uncle with whom they ‘A Madcap Cruise' is well named. A reck-
spend a few days in the country, and a married less youth, nephew and ward of a millionaire,
couple who are their guests by chance. This by guile and strategy, gets possession of his
couple proves to be singularly mismated, and uncle's yacht, and, accompanied by a fellow-
the spectacle afforded by their bickerings so conspirator almost equally deep-dyed in vill-
alarms the heroine that she discards her lover, ainy, crosses the Atlantic to join the girl he
lest some such future may be in store for them loves, and from whom the fiat of the aforesaid
also. She speaks by way of explanation, about uncle has sought to keep him apart. The moral
that strange sort of feeling I had that we of the story is that love laughs at uncles and
would be like them, if we married, and that all such obstructive agencies. It is badly in
there was not room in the world for two such need of a moral of some kind, since the piratical
quarrelsome couples. Lateron, when thejangling proceeding of the youth is hardly to be con-
pair have reached the point of imminent di- doned upon any of the ordinarily-accepted the-
vorce, the rejected lover makes the following plea ories of rectitude, while equally open to question
for a resumption of the old relations: “If they is the episode in which his companion, left in
are separated for good and all, don't you see charge of the yacht in Italian waters, uses it


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for the felonious purpose of aiding an arche- weaker sex is unbounded, and who is determined
ologist to get away with certain ill-gotten to take no chances. When the heroine has been
treasures from the clutches of Italian law. This reduced, in his view, to a sufficiently abject
escapade prospers, no less than the primary act condition, he magnanimously consents to a legal
of piracy, and the latter is forgiven by the en union. All this, as may readily be seen, af-
raged uncle because it accidentally saves him fords material of which much may be made by
from the wreck of his fortunes at the hands of as brilliant a writer as Miss Robins, who almost
an accomplished swindler.
(but not quite) forces upon us acceptance of
This story might fairly be called an extrav- the extraordinary relation thus outlined. Her
aganza, and this title is actually applied to the characters certainly have vitality, and an ex-
next book on our list, alluringly named “The traordinary power to interest us even the un-
Venus of Cadiz. Here we have the love-story prepossessing character of the dark lantern,
of a Kentucky mushroom-grower and an unso or "black-magic man,' who so unaccountably
phisticated heiress, with incidental complica- fascinates the heroine.
tions involving several military gentlemen, a Miss Murfree's latest novel, “The Storm Cen-
lady's companion, a shady countess, a decadent tre,' is a story of the Civil War, slight in sub-
novelist; several moonshiners, the boy Pete, and stance, and of moderate interest only. Some-
the dog Pup. The last-named character is the thing of this writer's earlier magic still attracts
only one who comes completely to grief, being to her descriptive passages, but invention and
despatched with many bloody wounds by the characterization are far below the level of her
decadent novelist. In the case of this book, best previous work. The scene is in Tennessee,
the plot is naught, and the manner everything. mostly in the home of a Southern gentleman,
As one startling development follows another, and the principal characters are the members
we are left at once breathless with excitement of his household and a Federal officer who ac-
and convulsed with mirth. A racy and rollick-cepts his hospitality during a prolonged period
ing book it is, warranted to dispel the most of illness. This officer falls under suspicion of
chronic case of blues.
having aided the enemy (at least through neg-
The novels of Miss Elizabeth Robins do not ligence) in a raid which has disastrous results
always make pleasant reading, but they always for the Federal campaign, and he is court-mar-
have ideas wrought into their texture, and this tialled in consequence. He is sentenced to
intellectual quality compels for them a respect-death, but a review of the case acquits him,
ful and attentive hearing. In A Dark Lan and his romance for a woman is actively con-
tern’ we have, first of all, a close parallel to the cerned-ends happily. There are some adora-
situation presented by the ‘Dorothea' of 'Mar ble children in the story, and an amusing study
ten Maartens.' The innocent heroine has a dis of an old negro retainer of the family.
sipated father, and so completely has his char-
WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE.
acter been concealed from her during her youth
that she is slow to realize the full depth of its
degradation. Then, also as in “Dorothea,' a
German prince appears as her lover, and is the
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS.
object of a romantic affection. Here the two
Bryant, and the The new life of Bryant, by Mr.
plots diverge, for the lover in this case is an birth of poetry William Aspenwall Bradley, in
unworthy person, who seeks first to betray the
in America.
the ‘English Men of Letters?
girl, then, reluctantly, offers her a morganatic series (Macmillan), adds nothing of novelty to
marriage, which she naturally rejects with
the already published facts of the poet's life;
scorn. About midway in the book the real hero,
but readers will find the volume a convenient,
who has made a brief early entrance, comes
clear, and thoroughly readable biography. Mr.
Bradley has followed strictly the chronological
to the centre of the stage, there to remain until
the final fall of the curtain. He is a physician
method in his story, discussing the productions
of a period in connection with the activities
of brusque and bearish manners, as ignorant amid which they had their inspiration,-a
of the amenities of life as he is skilful in his method which is logical and illuminating to all
profession. His very harshness seems to fas concerned. In his estimate of Bryant's place in
cinate the heroine, who becomes his patient, and literature, the author is appreciative and gener-
surprises herself by falling in love with him. ous. To him it seems that criticism, especially
Her infatuation leads her to desert the world
American criticism,' has done the poet scant,
of fashion, and bury herself in the village where
justice. He speaks of Bryant as the most im-
he has his country home, and to which he makes
aginative, perhaps, of all our poets save Poe.'
Yet he is discriminating in his praises and his
a brief visit at the end of the week. All this
claims. He tells the story of Thanatopsis:
time there is no marriage, for the physician is more intelligibly and more completely than some
a very canny person, whose contempt for the earlier biographers. “To a Waterfowl'. he cor-


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siders the crown of Bryant's verse. Perhaps it this work was another source book,' provided
is worth while to suspend our criticism at this primarily, as the selections are not translated,
point long enough to recall the fact that in for the use of advanced college classes. The
1821 William Cullen Bryant, twenty-seven years editor apparently does not have so restricted a
of age and not altogether unknown, published body of readers in view. His aim is to tell the
his first volume, a pamphlet of forty-four pages, story of the Revolution almost in the words
containing just these eight poems: The Ages, of the Frenchmen of the time. For this pur-
“To a Waterfowl,' • Translation of a Fragment pose he has made his selections chiefly from the
of Simonides,' 'Inscription for the Entrance to newspapers, on the supposition that a newspa-
a Wood,' "The Yellow Violet,' 'Song' (The per's comments are a far better indication of
Hunter of the West), 'Green River,' and 'Than the currents of opinion than are memoirs, gen-
atopsis.' As Mr. Bradley states, this unpreten-erally written years after the events they de-
tious volume indeed 'marks the birth of Ameri scribe, or even contemporary private letters.
can poetry just as surely as Irving's “Sketch This is true enough, although many letters at
Book” marks the birth of American prose lit once recur to the mind, the statements of which
erature. The comparative unproductivity of the are more significant newspaper comment,
poet's later years, his almost complete absorp --for example, Sir Samuel Romilly's letter, writ-
tion in political and editorial activities after ten late in July, 1789, describing for a Paris
1832, with the resultant decline of poetical as friend the first impression made in England by
piration, leads Mr. Bradley into some interest the fall of the Bastille. Another illustration is
ing, if futile, conjecture. For instance, in speak the series of letters written by Camille Des-
ing of Bryant's selection of New York as a moulins to his father, from May to July of the
residence in 1825, he suggests that Boston might same year. Mr. Legg's selections are made
have proved a better field of operations. The with excellent judgment, and are all interesting.
atmosphere of New York, literary and social, he Such journals as the political part of the Mer-
thinks may have been unpropitious for the cure de France, edited by Mallet du Pan, Mira-
poet's development. "In Boston or Cambridge beau's Courrier de Provence, and Brissot's
he would have felt the stir of intellectual life · Patriote français are most frequently drawn
about him, and his poetry, perfect in form, upon.
The characterization of Brissot's jour-
might have gained in depth and feeling. With nal as 'open to all the most fantastic absurdi-
reference to the political stand of the poet jour ties that ever entered the brain of a French-
nalist, while not altogether commending Bry man unbalanced by the excitement of the cul-
ant's attitude toward abolitionism, the biog bute générale' seems too severe, especially for
rapher devotes a paragraph to an interesting the numbers printed in 1789. In his biograph-
comparison of Bryant and Whittier, with this ical note, the editor inserts the rather snobbish
remark: 'It [abolitionism] was in the main the fling that Brissot was the son of a pastry cook.
most ideal impulse that has ever been felt in Occasionally the texts of laws vital to the com-
American politics. Whittier sacrificed his art prehension of the period are inserted in the
to become the poet of a movement. Bryant body of the work, while others fill about one
kept outside of movements and preserved his art hundred pages of the appendix. Each group of
intact, yet with a certain loss in wide human selections is prefaced by an introductory note,
sympathy. It is significant how little his poetry explaining the circumstances which provoked the
reflects of the excitement of the time in which comments or discussion. The special value of
it was written.' The discussion of Bryant as a this work is that it makes accessible the opin-
nature-poet is particularly suggestive. His rela ions of the leading journals upon the most im-
tion to Wordsworth and to other so-called poets portant events of the first two years of the
of nature is well stated. Dwellers in the Mid Revolution. Hitherto only those within reach
dle West will take especial pleasure in the ac of the largest libraries could become acquainted
count (here given in more detail than in any with this material. It is to be hoped that Mr.
other life of Bryant) of the poet's visits to Legg's enterprise will meet with such encour-
Jacksonville and Princeton, Illinois, where his agement that he will publish a similar work for
brothers and finally all the remaining members the later years of the Revolution.
of his family had settled. It was in the pio-
neer days (the first visit was in 1832) when In and about Among the oldest and quaintest,
Bryant gazed for the first time upon these “un-
but least often visited, of the
shorn fields,
of Umbria.
boundless and
beautiful,' pro-
hilltowns of Umbria is Gubbio.
foundly impressed by the encircling vastness Older than Rome itself by perhaps four cen-
swept with the shadows of the clouds, aflame turies, the city of G'ubbio reached its most flour-
with, tossing golden flowers, the haunt of hawk ishing condition during the early years of the
and wolf and deer. This was the inspiration of fourteenth century; the population had in-
The Prairies.'
creased to fifty thousand; a native school of
From the title of the two vol painting was established, noble buildings were
France during
umes edited by L. G. Wickham erected, and even the communes of Florence and
the Revolution.
Legg,-'Select Documents Illus Siena and Perugia did not disdain to seek an
trative of the History of the French Revolu alliance with Gubbio. To-day the town has
tion, and the Constituent Assembly' (Oxford barely a tenth of this population, but it still
University Press)-it might be inferred that wears its mediæval aspect and continues many
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of its old customs and traditions,-especially
the Festa of the Ceri, a ceremonial as distinc-
tive and interesting in its way as the Palio of
Siena, celebrated yearly on the 16th of May.
Hitherto this town has lacked any popular or
condensed authority on its history and monu-
ments. This want is now supplied in a truly
admirable manner by the book "Gubbio, Past
and Present' (London: David Nutt), by Miss
Laura McCracken, illustrated by charming draw-
ings made by Miss Katharine McCracken. Vis-
itors at Assisi and Perugia will welcome this
charming guide to the attractions of the less
known but scarcely less interesting neighboring
city of Gubbio. A charming preface, in French,
is furnished by Monsieur Paul Sabatier; the
dedication to the Bishop of Gubbio is in Ital-
ian; and there is a good outline map of the
city numbered with sixty-two localities of in-
terest.-Covering a somewhat similar ground
to the foregoing is the book called 'Pictures in
Umbria' (imported by Charles Scribner's Sons),
by Miss Katharine S. Macquoid. It is, however,
a much less original and valuable work. In fact,
the text is so trite and prosaic that it gives the
impression of being written merely for the sake
of furnishing a setting for the fifty original il-
Macquoid, R. I. Perhaps this is a sufficient jus-
tification, however; for the pictures are certainly
charming. One never
sees the hill-towns of
Umbria too often, nor dwells too long among
them; and next to the pleasure of actual pres-
ence is the satisfaction conveyed by picturesque
presentation of these choice bits of scenery or
works of art by a genuine artist. Perugia and
Assisi furnish the principal subjects; but there
are scenes also from Spello, Cortona, and Lake
Thrasymene.
A human document of surpassing
Wagner and
interest to those who have stud-
Frau Wesendonck.
ied the life and career of Wag-
ner is William Ashton Ellis's compilation of
letters, published under the title of Richard
Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck' (imported by
Charles Scribner's Sons). The matter contained
in the volume includes letters to and from
Mathilde Wesendonck, designed to show the
sentiments which actuated Wagner to begin and
carry on what some are pleased to refer to as
a dual life, and will go far to modify the gen-
eral opinion of this relationship as held by Eng-
lish-speaking people. The reader is left to a
certain extent to form his own opinion upon
the progress of events, from the private letters
and extracts from diaries which are presented
very fully. That the biographer has not pur-
sued this cause from want of sympathy with his
subject is evident from the introductory re-
marks and subsequent comments, in which he
leaves no doubt of his sincere and hearty ad-
miration of Wagner's character and career. If
the work has been performed conscientiously,-
that is, if there has been no improper discrim-
ination in the selections from private corre-
spondence, nothing omitted which would tend
6
to develop the real character of the man,- the
plan is unobjectionable, even admirable, as it
brings the man himself very near to the reader.
Of Mathilde, Mr. Ellis says: 'Her personality?
No one admitted to the honour of Frau Wes-
endonck's society during the last thirty years of
her life--and here I can speak from personal
experience, however slight-could for a moment
believe her to have ever been the heroine of
what the baser sort imply when they speak of a
“Tristan-and-Isolde romance. This placid,
sweet Madonna, the perfect emblem of a pearl,
not opal, her eyes still dreaming of Nirvana, -
no! emphatically no! she could not have once
been swayed by carnal passion. And these let-
ters, in bulk and in detail, most flatly contra-
dict that implication: nay, more, - they prove
the justice of my old contention, not mine alone,
that the second act of Wagner's drama excludes
all possibility of his Tristan, his Isolde, being
victims to a coarse desire. In these letters all
is pure and spiritual, a Dante and a Beatrice;
so must it have been in their intercourse. From
my own impression of their recipient-whom I
first met in that sad year at Bayreuth when
the master was no more-it was that of the
silver moon reflecting a sun that has set long
since. Not a word ever fell from her lips on
such a love as is revealed here; but every ae-
cent of her voice, the gathering moisture in her
eye, spelt worship; and from her it was I ear-
liest learnt a truth which added years have sim-
ply verified: that in Richard Wagner we have
more than a great-a profoundly good man.'
In summing up the result of this published cor-
respondence, Mr. Ellis asks, Would Wagner and
Frau Wesendonck have been happier had they
left their respective homes together? And he
contends that their love had sublimated into
something too ethereal, by the time of its decla-
ration, not to run risk of dispersion by the in-
evitable shocks of daily intercourse. 'Besides
a gifted brain and inbred tact, it needed an un-
usually strong character really to be a prop and
moderator to a genius whose ideas of practical
life had become so largely tinged with that
transcendency which stamps his artworks.'
When she died, in the month of August, 1902,
Mathilde Wesendonck was making ready for the
presentation of these letters to posterity.
Letters of an
Additional memoirs of a period
18th-century already rich in such remains are
churchman.
presented by Mr. Albert Harts-
horne in a well-annotated selection from the let-
ters of Edmund Pyle, D.D., Chaplain in ordi-
nary to George II., to Samuel Kerrich, D.D.,
vicar of Dersingham, rector of Wolferton, and
rector of West Newton. The book is entitled
Memoirs of a Royal Chaplain, 1729-1763,' and
is published by Mr. John Lane. The published
portion of the correspondence forms but a small
part of a vast mass of epistolary matter that
has come by inheritance into the editor's pos-
session; and though he has done his work well
in selecting and commenting, his readers will
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sire for more fare of the same sort from those Bastille is said to have been “in a complete state
formidable ‘twenty-eight folio volumes' of man of defence,' although De Launay had done nothing
uscript. The letters of this gouty, port-drink toward accumulating a store of provisions and
ing, free-living, pluralist churchman to his there was no oven in the fortress except one for
equally prosperous and likewise pluralist crony, pastry. It is an error of another kind to say that
have something in their tone and in the pic- Sieyès schemed with Napoleon and Ducos to
ture they present of society life and manners, establish the Directorate.'
and of ecclesiastical squabbles, that reminds one
of Carlyle's opinion of the century to which
The volume on John Bunyan in
Mark Rutherford
they belong. To him it was a swindler-century, on John Bunyan. the ‘Literary Lives' series (Scrib-
opulent in accumulated falsities; a century that
ner) is written by Mr. William
erelong became unconscious of being false, so
Hale White, better known as 'Mark Rutherford.'
His name on the title-page is a guarantee of
false had it grown; so steeped in falsity, so
fraudulent-bankrupt, the measure of its in-
good work, and the book proves to be a sym-
iquity so full, that it needed a French Revolu-
pathetic, even a devout, study of its interesting
theme. A footnote gives some indication of the
tion to square the account. It was a century in
which, as we read in Pyle's letters, a King of present commercial value of Bunyaniana. The
England could tell an Archbishop of Canterbury
warrant for Bunyan's arrest in 1676, a brief
to his face that 'he was a man of a little dirty
document given in reduced facsimile by Mr.
heart'; a non-compliment that the prelate in
White, was last year acquired by Quaritch for
question, Archbishop John Potter, appears to
305£. This six-months imprisonment of 1676
have felt that he deserved; at any rate, the roy-
was made especially memorable by the writing
al displeasure broke his heart, whether dirty or
of the 'Pilgrim's Progress.' Mr. White finds a
curious likeness between Bunyan's fiend-haunted
clean, and he died soon afterward, calling forth
from some ready rhymster the epitaph,-
melancholy and Johnson's recurrent spells of
dark despair. He writes: 'It is strange, by the
* Alack, and well-a-day,
Potter himself is turned to clay.'
waythat Johnson resembled Bunyan. His
Mr. Hartshorne's labors have at least fur-
spectres haunted Johnson, and the "History of
nished a useful source-book for historians of the
My Melancholy," which he once thought of
period, however lacking it may be in the con-
writing, would undoubtedly have reminded us of
another history by the author of the "Pilgrim's
tinuous, absorbing interest that lures the spell-
bound reader, blissfully insensible of dog-day Progress” which he loved so well.' The closing
sultriness and enervating heat, from page to
paragraph of this scholarly biography is sig-
page and from one delightful chapter to its
nificant as showing a certain excellent balance
of Hebraism and Hellenism (to use again Mat-
more entrancing successor.
thew Arnold's convenient terms) in the writer.
The French Revolution apparently
'Puritanism has done noble service,' he says;
remains a favorite field for the 'but we have seen enough of it even in Bunyan
Revolution. display of a somewhat spectacular to show that it is not an entirely accurate ver-
rhetoric. The most recent instance is Mr. C. F.
sion of God's message to man.
It is the most
Warwick's 'Mirabeau and the French Revolution' distinct, energetic and salutary movement in
(Lippincott). The illustrations are in keeping our history, and no other religion has surpassed
with this treatment of the subject. One of them it in preaching the truths by which men and
nations must exist.
represents a peasant lying prostrate in his vine-
Nevertheless need
yard, ridden down by the gay sportsmen who are
Shakespeare as well as Bunyan, and oscillate be-
gallopping thoughtlessly on toward an artistic tween the “Pilgrim's Progress” and “As You
sunset. The author's manner becomes more direct Like It.” We cannot bring ourselves into unity.
as soon as the details of Mirabeau's story absorb
The time is yet to come when we shall live by
his attention. His remarks on the condition of a faith which is a harmony of all our facul-
France under the old régime and of the course of
ties.'
the Revolution are, however, often misleading and Popular beliefs Probably no book regarding pop-
inexact. M. Aulard, the distinguished professor and practices ular beliefs and practices has
of the history of the Revolution in the University of Great Britain. had a wider vogue than Brand's
of Paris, has estimated that about twenty years Popular Antiquities of Great Britain.' Brand
are required to make oneself acquainted with the was himself but an editor, and his ‘Popular An-
materials for the political history of the Revolu tiquities,' printed in 1777, was really a revised
tion. Perhaps so long an apprenticeship is not edition and enlargement of a book by the Rev.
indispensable, but the lack of it renders hazardous Henry Bourne, published in 1725 under the
the attempt to describe the careers of men like title of 'Antiquitates Vulgares.' Brand's book
Mirabeau, Danton, or Robespierre, whose lives was republished and edited by Ellis in 1813; a
lose their significance unless the historical back later edition of it, the one best known to the
ground is faithfully portrayed. Many scenes of present generation of readers, was brought out
the Revolution arouse the imagination, which can by Mr. Carew Hazlitt in 1870. The book before
be kept in restraint only by constant contact with us is really the old Bourne-Brand-Ellis-Hazlitt
the facts in the case. In this book, instead of book in new form, with the title 'Faiths and
what occurred on the night of July 12, 1789, there Folk-lore' (imported by Charles Scribner's
is a fanciful picture of revolutionary horrors. The Sons). Mr. Hazlitt has thrown the material
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near at hand.
into dictionary style, cutting and separating the and them as illustrations of the extreme tenden-
older articles into brief passages arranged in cies of that individualism which had its beginnings
alphabetical order. One may still read Brand in the Renaissance. The philosophers simply
with satisfaction, but the work before us is a
gave
e skilful expression to currents of feeling and
constant irritation. Three legitimate courses thought which ran through all French intellectual
were open to Mr. Hazlitt: he might have re life. In the same way the author finds the
issued his Brand of 1870 without change; he attacks on religion and the riotous tendencies to
might have given the same matter in this new have been characteristic of the French people
'form; he might have given the whole of Brand long before the Revolution began. Were it within
in dictionary style and added to it so much of the scope of this essay, doubtless he would have
the result of Folk-lore study since 1870 as pointed out that all, opinions as well as conduct,
would have made the work a reflection of pres were evidence that the defects of the old régime
ent thought and knowledge. He has done no were so grievous as to provoke protest of the most
one of these things. The reader has a right to radical type.
demand of a dictionary,--and Mr. Hazlitt calls
the book before us a dictionary,--that it should
be complete and symmetrically developed. Mr.
BRIEFER MENTION.
Hazlitt bas added some material to the old
book, but neither in quantity nor in quality is it
" The Works of Lucian of Samosata,' with a few
worth while. Most of it is newspaper clippings ship or by way of expurgation), translated from
omissions (either because of questionable author-
culled at random, and both in arrangement and Jacobitz's (Teubner) text by Messrs. H. W. Fowler
subject shows no sense of proportion or definite and F. G. Fowler, are published in a neat four-vol-
plan.
ume edition at the Oxford Clarendon Press. The
translation is for the general reader, being notably
In regions of Not on any known map are 'The
idiomatic, especially in the Dialogues. This edition
renchantment, Enchanted Woods' to be sought of one of the most modern of the ancients is a veri-
or found; they exist wherever table boon, and we give it a hearty welcome.
the beholder has sufficient grace of poetry The single volume of nine hundred pages into
in heart and eye to discover them. There which have been collected * The Philosophical
fore are they rare; yet quite as often ex Works of Francis Bacon' (Dutton) will prove a
isting within sight of one's own doorstep as
boon to scholars who have to be economical in the
when one has travelled far afield in search of matter of library space. The reprint includes the
them. This is the theory of Vernon Lee, when
greater part of the monumental edition of Ellis and
she chooses this title for a book (John Lane)
Spedding, with their prefaces and notes, and it
would be a very special student indeed who would
about the places that she loves. Whither her
read any of the matter now omitted. Professor
footsteps go, the Genius of Peace cannot long John M. Robertson is the editor of this most accept-
remain hidden. In these thirty chapters, there able volume.
is no orderly sequence, no effort. The writer
"The Flying Lesson' is the title given by Miss
has found that the most interesting places are Agnes Tobin to a small volume of translations
those which we stray into, or just deflect from Petrarch, published by Mr. William Heine-
toward, as we wander for the sake of friends or mann. This is Miss Tobin's second venture of the
work, or even in humbler quest of cheapness of
sort, and includes ten sonnets, two canzoni, a
living or benefit to health. How many times
ballata, and a double sestina. Miss Tobin writes
fairly good Petrarch and very good poetry, which
has the wearied sight-seer in foreign lands dis-
is so much more than most translators give us
covered this by sad experience! How often has
that it would be ungracious to insist upon the
it been forced upon him that the best travel
essential untranslatability of her chosen poet. The
is not that which he has done for travelling's little book is exquisitely printed, and adorned with
sake, and that the rainbow's pot of gold was a beautiful etched frontispiece 'in morte di Ma-
really at the end of his own garden-plot, and
donna Laura.'
not over-seas! The habitual grace of Vernon In Beryl D. de Selincourt's 'Homes of the First
Lee's style is present in these pages, and her Franciscans' (Dent-Dutton), we have a successful
unfailing vivacity makes her the most delight attempt to show to what a degree the character and
ful of couriers and engaging of companions.
teachings of St. Francis of Assisi were shaped and
illustrated by his surroundings. Fortunately, the
The French
À volume from India on the
intervening centuries have dealt kindly with the
Revolution French Revolution irresistibly re-
Franciscan haunts; one may still penetrate into the
seen from India. calls to mind the Citizen Tipú,
heart of the past in the solitudes elected by Francis
and his followers. Naturally, Assisi takes the first
whom the Revolutionists relied upon to drive the
and longest place in the book; but also there are
minions of Perfidious Albion' from Madras, if not ample chapters on the District of Lake Thrasymene,
from all India. The little book by Professor P. Monte Casall, the Valley of Rieti, La Terna, etc.,
A. Wadia, of Gujarat College, Ahmedabad, on which help to explain those legends of miracle
The Philosophers and the French Revolution' which soon began to spring up around the Pover-
(Scribner) has, however, only this somewhat
ello. Monsieur Paul Sabatier, the great biographer
remote geographical association with the Sultan
of the Franciscans, furnishes a brief preface to the
volume; the illustrations are from charming photo-
of Mysore. It is an essay written to show the
graphs made expressly for this work; and there is an
falsity of the view which ascribes the Revolution
outline map showing those portions of Umbria,
largely to the teachings of the eighteenth century Tuscany, and the Northern Marches, wherein the
philosophers. Professor Wadia regards both it Franciscan community lived their intense inner life.


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NOTES.
• Will Warburton' is the title of a posthumous
novel by the late George Gissing, announced for
early publication by Messrs. E. P. Dutton & Co.
By presidential proclamation, Norway is now
added to the list of countries whose citizens may
obtain copyright in the United States under the Act
of 1891.
• The Handbook of Princeton,' a handsomely
printed and illustrated volume, the work of Mr.
John Rogers Williams, is published at the Grafton
Press. President Wilson contributes an introduc-
tion.
We are glad to see that Mr. Edward Verrall
Lucas's excellent Book of Verses for Children
(Holt) has proved successful enough to warrant the
publication of a new edition in cheaper form. The
text remains unchanged.
A new uniform edition of Thomas Hardy's novels,
complete in twenty volumes, is being prepared by
the Messrs. Harper. The Wessex edition, as
it is called, will be amply illustrated, and is pri-
marily intended to be sold by subscription.
A new novel by Mr. Robert Neilson Stephens, en-
titled “ The Flight of Georgiana,' will be published
at once by Messrs. L. C. Page & Co. The same firm
have nearly ready · The Grapple,' a story of labor
troubles in the Illinois coal mines, by Miss Grace
McGowan Cooke.
A dainty little volume that will appeal to every
lover of Stevenson is · The Pocket R. L. S.,' pub-
lished by the Messrs. Scribner. As may be inferred
from the title, it is a collection of favorite passages,
brought together for the use of those who love
Stevenson and call him Master.'
Forthcoming issues in the English Men of Let-
ters' series will include volumes on Andrew Mar-
vell, Sir Thomas Browne, Mrs. Gaskell, Charles Kings-
ley, and Shakespeare, written respectively by Messrs.
Augustine Birrell, Edmund Gosse, Clement Shorter,
G. K. Chesterton, and Walter Raleigh.
A new volume of poems by Mr. Richard Watson
Gilder will be issued by the Century Co. this
fall. • In the Heights' will gather into permanent
form nearly all of the verse Mr. Gilder has written
since the publication, in 1901, of his ' Poems anil
Inscriptions.
A collected edition of the poems of Mr. John
Vance Cheney is in preparation by Messrs. Hough-
ton, Mifflin & Co. The volume will contain a gen-
erous selection of the best of Mr. Cheney's work,
chosen from his half-dozen published books of verse
and his numerous magazine contributions of the
past few years.
Embodying as it will a quantity of new material
and the results of years of special study, Mr. E. V.
Lucas's forthcoming Life of Charles and Mary
Lamb is likely to prove the most interesting con-
tribution to Lamb biography since Talfourd's. Final
Memorials.' The work, which will be amply illus-
trated, is announced for early publication by the
Messrs. Putnam.
Professor W. P. Trent's Southern Writers'
(Macmillan) is a volume of selections in prose and
verse from upwards of eighty authors, from the re-
doubtable Captain John Smith to such youthful
poets of the present day as Mr. Peck, Mr. Cawein,
and Mr. Loveman. It has brief biographies and
notes, and is altogether an admirable piece of edi-
torial workmanship. Its special aim is to provide a
manual for use in Southern schools and colleges in
connection with the study, of American literature,
but we predict for it a wider range of usefulness
than that. It is certainly calculated to open the
eyes of many provincially-minded persons, and to
persuade them that the literary South is by no
means a negligible part of our national intellectual
domain.
A reissue of Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace's
Russia,' by Messrs. Henry Holt & Co., is timely,
and the work is brought up to date by extensive
revisions. It was the first big book of general
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