ct was discovered by Mr. Bernard Shaw,
and exposed with something more than his
usual degree of humorous exaggeration, in a re-
view which designated the writer of the 'Con-
fession as a high-minded shark.' Mr. Holt,
also, we should say, has examined the book with
the same sort of insight, but he speaks of it in
suaver accents, and suppresses the satirical note
in his comments. It is not, however, because
of its reflective relation to the small volume in
question that we are now about to speak of Mr.
Holt's article, but because anything that Mr.
Holt has to say about the relation of publishers.
to authors and the reading public must be in
the highest degree authoritative; must have,
indeed, far more weight than anything said in
the book which he takes for his text. That book
embodies the ideas of the Centerprising houses.
of recent origin; our magazine essayist repre-
sents the old-time tradition of dignified Amer-
ican publishing. When, for example, at the
conclusion of his discussion, he writes as fol-
lows, we are bound to realize that a very seri-
ous issue is offered by present-day conditions:
"The literature of our mother tongue has been
commercialized to an extent not dreamed of in any
304
THE PILGRIM FATHERS IN ENGLAND AND
HOLLAND. William Elliot Griffis. . 306
RECENT FICTION. William Morton Payne . . 307
Mrs. Cooke's The Grapple.-Octave Thanet's The
Man of the Hour. — Mrs. Older's The Giants. -
Miss Reed's At the Sign of the Jack o' Lantern.-
Chambers's The Reckoning. - Kester's The For-
tunes of the Landrays.—Pier's The Ancient Grudge.
-Quiller-Couch's The Mayor of Troy.- Anthony
Hope's A Servant of the Public. — Mrs. Caffyn's
Patricia, a Mother.-Mrs. Thurston's The Gambler.
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS
311
Brilliant essays by Mr. James. - A good guide to
the study of pictures. — Relations of Nature, Art,
and Life. — Mohammed as the hero of a nation. -
For all who love the outdoor world.— Pictures of
Milton and his times. — More light on Darkest
Russia. - Cortes, hero and raider of Mexico. -
Nature and the camera.
- Modern outlooks on life.
BRIEFER MENTION
314
.
.
NOTES
315
.
.
.
LIST OF NEW BOOKS
315


296
[Nov. 16,
THE DIAL
away.'
time of which I have knowledge; and --- let him advertising as the Dutch ever were about tulips,
who will say post hoc propter hoc — within our
generation our literature has fallen to a lower
or the French about the Mississippi Bubble.
estate than it knew for generations before.'
When publishers resort to the methods of de-
partment stores, and fill whole pages in the
Something better than the cry of 'pessimist daily newspapers with the brazen laudation of
must be used to meet so grave a charge as this
their wares, it is time for someone to prick the
from so respectable a source. Others may seek
bubble of this particular folly; and this our
to meet the charge (or to refute the calumny)
writer has most effectively done.
if they will; we are not moved to join in the
attempt, because we believe that Mr. Holt is
* There is the advertising that appeals to the
eye, and the advertising that appeals to the in-
substantially justified in his contention. We
telligence. One shapes popular habit, independent-
think, moreover, that he has indicated with ly of deliberation; everybody has eyes, and every.
considerable precision the specific sort of com-
body uses food and shoes; so this kind of ad.
vertising may take root anywhere and it pays to
mercialization which has brought about these
scatter it. But the eighty million people using
deplorable consequences. Complete analysis of food and shoes in the United States did not in-
so complex a problem is hardly to be expected
clude a hundred thousand who would buy a single
in a single paper of magazine dimensions, but
book advertised last year, and probably do not
include fifty thousand who spend as much on
our author cannot be far from right when he
books as they do on shoes. Whatever the number,
singles out for chief emphasis the malign in. they are the very people least affected by the sort
fluence of the literary agenť and the resort of of advertising that appeals to habit. Let them
the publishing trade (for this occasion 'trade'
know sufficiently clearly what there is in the
market that they may care for, and they will
seems to be the right word) to reckless extrava make up their minds whether they want it or not;
gance in advertising.
and the more damnable iteration you bother them
Taking first the question of the literary
with, the more apt you will be to turn them
agent, it is urged that he has so undermined
the old confidential relation between publisher
Discrimination in advertising is of course the
and author as to create suspicion where trust remedy for extravagance. The writer of 'A
formerly existed, and to work mischief with Publisher's Confession speaks of houses that
both of the parties between whom he has in- spend such sums as a quarter of a million an-
terposed his services. The old system of mu-
nually. It ought to be fairly clear that no such
tual obligation has given way to a system in
sum as this can be spent by a single house with-
which authors are persuaded to make ill-ad out wasting the greater part of it. Such ex-
vised demands of their publishers, threatening penditure is merely advertising at random,
to turn elsewhere if the demands are not ac without practically any attempt to select the
ceded to, and publishers no longer dare to proper medium. The same writer speaks slight-
work for the future,—that is, for the steady ingly of advertisements inserted in 'those pub-
upbuilding of the reputations of the men whose lications that go only to the literary class,'
books they publish. An author owes his first calls them superfluous,' and says that their
success to the services of his publisher, and main use is 'to keep pleasant the relations be-
straightway his next book, which should nat tween the publishers and these journals.' This
urally go to the same house, is hawked about truly amazing opinion receives scant courtesy
the market by the wily agent — intent only from Mr. Holt, who from the vantage-ground
upon commissions -- and sold to the highest of forty years' experience has learned that the
bidder. The publisher, under these circum sort of advertising thus contemptuously dis-
stances, or anticipating these conditions, will missed is the only kind that really counts. To
naturally cease to concern himself with his au him, the very few thousand persons' who
thor's future interests. As for the author, he learn about the appearance of new books from
will find in the long run that his gain has been the literary journals are the only persons to
elusive; he may have received larger lump whom books can be profitably advertised; and
sums than would otherwise have been the case, a book's fate is sealed by what is said about it
but his books, scattered among perhaps half by them.' The gist of the whole matter ap-
dozen publishers, will not support each other, pears to be found in our essayist's dictum that
and the income from them will tend to become although 'publishers' advertisements seem to
à vanishing quantity.
be in great part wasted as far as the large ma-
Turning now to the question of advertising, jority of the public is concerned, they can ap-
we find a most emphatic condemnation of the peal to their special public through special or-
recent wild extravagance of publishers. 'I gans. This strikes us as an eminently sane
cannot but think,' says Mr. Holt, that lately opinion.
many American publishers were as crazy about As far as Mr. Holt's argument may be


1905.]
297
THE DIAL
6
their or
summed up in concise form, it is found in the
following paragraph:
SIR HENRY IRVING AND HIS ART.
My opinion, based upon a very long experi. In the annals of the stage, no actor ever
ence, is that the remarkable concurrence of the
many exceptional conditions I have described - aroused such discussion or elicited such widely
the piracy under the old non-copyright license, the
divergent opinions from critical minds as Sir
chaos of the transition from the old license to the Henry Irving. Mr. William Archer said that
new law, the advertising mania, the mad compe-
tition stimulated by the literary agents,- has
English critics, obeying an inevitable tendency
produced a strange and abnormal condition in
of dramatic criticism, made Irving a law unto
publishing, and that this condition is destructive
himself.' Yet at the announcement of a new
and cannot last. It has already wrought great production by him, a desire to pay a tribute of
ruin, and how much more ruin it must work
before a healthy condition can arise, and how
respect to her greatest histrionic artist inspired
that ruin can be minimized, is matter for anxious
the inhabitants of London, and demonstrated
consideration. One class of remedies is clear, if itself with a force which old play-goers regard
the trade has character enough to apply them, as unprecedented save in the later days of
more subordination of the present to the future,
more avoidance of petty games that two can play
Macready. Professional critics celebrated the
at, more faith in the business value of the Golden event by lengthened dissertations on Irving's
Rule, more feeling for the higher possibilities of peculiarities, weaving a net of categories, of
profession,” and more plain, homely, com-
votive offerings, regulated by the æsthetic judg-
monplace self-respect. The publishers probably
have their human share of the needed virtues, but
ments held of the most purely intellectual and
they have been strangely and sorely tried.'
the most picturesque of modern English-speak-
What is commercialism in literature? It is ing actors. While one would praise him for
the effort on the part of the publisher to make emancipating the stage from a cold, artificial,
the cheap manufacture and the extensive sell-declamatory style,— as if coldness and art were
ing of books his foremost aim. It is the effort inseparable terms,— another would strive to
on the part of the author to write what will prove that the actor was no genius, because
sell the best, and to accept the highest bid
what he did was the result of labor,- as though
that is made for his work, irrespective of all genius were not in itself an impulse to labor,
other considerations. And what is profession-
and true conscientious labor were not one of
alism in literature? It is the determination
the exponents of genius. This recalls a re-
on the part of the publisher to eschew specula-
mark made by Irving at rehearsal: 'So you
tion, to adhere to the old-fashioned code of eth have been desecrating our orisons with curious
ies, to think more of the dignity and responsi- eyes, eh? Rehearsals are like prayers of the
bility of his occupation than of its cash returns.
faithful; here we confess our manifold incom-
It is the decision on the part of the author to
pleteness at the altar of Art, and supplicate for
exert his powers for the general welfare rather strength to do better - to finally achieve the
than for the largest personal gain, to write well highest. This is the confessional. Still an-
rather than to write much, and to recognize other critic would discuss the actor's internal
that in his relations with the publisher he has
motives and peculiarities of temperament, as-
obligations no less than rights. Publishing and sure us that the true function of the stage is to
authorship alike may degenerate from profes- be a pronouncing dictionary of the language,
sions into trades, if sordid and short-sighted and that the dialect spoken was a dialect of
motives are allowed to prevail. The same con-
his own, an Irving patois; while another would
siderations that apply to journalism apply also give his meed of applause because the actor ex-
to book-making; the promoter of the yellow' hibited actualities rather than poetic crea-
newspaper has his counterpart in what we may tions,— as if the principle were established,
fairly call the yellow' publisher, and the jour- perchance, that the individual man is to be rep-
nalist who utters for hire opinions that are not resented, rather than the man ideally elevated.
his own has his counterpart in the author who On the other hand, we cannot sanction the
deliberately panders to a vulgar popular taste. critic who overlooks the duties of his voca-
There are some pursuits,' says Mr. Holt, ‘in tion,
tion,— who puts up with a fault in considera-
which it is almost as dangerous to make money tion of a beauty, who passes over an imperfect
the main end, as in the general conduct of life elocution for the sake of an evident inspiration
it is to make personal happiness the main end; of genius, who apologizes for a mannerism for
and the higher the pursuit, the greater the the sake of the substratum of intellect which
danger. It is one thing to earn a decent liv it partially covers.
ing by honorable means; it is quite another to The preëminent position attained by Sir
gain a fortune by the abandonment of ideals Henry Irving, which met with hearty recogni-
and the degradation of activities to a lowered tion in America, has legitimated the verdict
level of purpose.
expressed by Sir Bulwer Lytton at the farewell


298
(Nov. 16,
THE DIAL
dinner given to Macready over half a century the truth when only generalities are possible.
ago: 'Every great actor has his manner, as The more definite features a part presented,
every great writer has his style. But the orig- the more complete was his impersonation. He
inality of an actor does not consist in his man often stated that Kean blended the Realistic
ner alone, but in his depth of thought.' Some with the Ideal in acting, and founded a school
one has said that to achieve only a respectable of which William Charles Macready was the
success in a round of parts is to accomplish foremost disciple in England. He believed
much; but to have maintained through them that in acting, Nature must dominate Art, but
all a high altitude of merit, and more than at the same time Art must interpret Nature,
once to have risen to the pinnacle of greatness, and to interpret the thoughts and emotions of
is to have established beyond question a rank her mistress should be her first object. Those
with the foremost actors of the world.
thoughts, those emotions, must be interpreted
The artist who labors worthily in any de- with grace, with dignity, and with temperance;
partment of art is certain of respect, not to say and these, let us remember, Art alone can
reverence. The great actor is infinitely more teach.'
necessary to reproduce the author's idea of a
Those actors who have greatly excelled in
play, than a good musical director is required finished declamation have often failed to please
for the understanding of a great musical com the critical mind, which cares more for evi-
position; you can set tunes and harmonies to
dence of inspiration than for training. A
notes, but not words and sentences to declama-
peculiarity of utterance and of gesture, which
tion. The actor is the real hypothetes of the
cannot be conveyed otherwise than by imita-
prophet, the interpreter of his meaning, and
tion, was a most important element in Irving's.
his whole being — his body, mind, and soul —
performance. But by the cultivation of this
are required for performing that task. One of elaborate style of speech and gesture he at-
the gravest difficulties in writing about the
tained an expression of certain emotions that
stage, according to our venerable critic, Mr.
no other artist ever approached. Every word
William Winter, is the need that the occupa-
of an entire play seemed to have been studied
tion seems to impose of universality of sapience with the view of thoroughly ascertaining its
and finality of judgment. No man can so en-
capability; and the spectator was surprised at
tirely comprehend the works of Shakspeare,-
finding a striking significance elicited from an,
in all their height and depth of meaning, and
apparently unimportant line. The strongest
all their variety and subtlety of suggestion,-
exhibitions of passion would sometimes seem-
and at the same time so thoroughly probe the ingly throw him into a rant, and the organs of
natures of the actors who pass before him, as to
speech would seem to crack under the violence
be able to settle all questions as to compati- of his enunciation; but the manner in which
bility between the two.
he would turn this peculiarity, half-mental and
As was said of Edwin Booth, it may be said
half-physical, to account in the ironical touches
that some of Irving's Shakespearian ideals by which he relieved the graver passages of
may not have matched exactly with Shake-
tragedy, proved a striking example of how
speare's conceptions. But intellectuality, ar hatred or jealousy, blended with contempt,
tistic propriety, and unfaltering intensity of
may be told by ejaculation. Of calm, deliber-
purpose cast over each interpretation a charm
ate, caustic irony, he was a most consummate-
which grew into a tie of esteem, binding the
master.
public to the artist,- a tie which gradually
Irving was thoroughly absorbed in his work.
strengthened during a long series of years and
Be it Hamlet or Mathias, Lesurques or Dubosc,
was strongly expressed by the demeanor of an
Charles I. or Louis XI., we find in him that
Irving audience.
intellectual concentration, that innate human
• Deep the oak must sink in stubborn earth its roots
sympathy, that careful adjustment of delicate
That hopes to lift its branches to the sky.'
shading, that exquisite finish, which betokens
Irving was first of all an intellectual actor. at once a sincerity of purpose, a reproductive
He worked from a conception, at a time when and creative faculty, characteristic of the ar-
others worked according to tradition. He tistic temperament. It was M. Coquelin who
practiced that art of dissecting and diagnosis said in the Irving-Coquelin controversy some
which opens new veins and strikes new arteries years ago, that the actor's feelings must never
in the most intricate shield of classicism. His be real, that the actor's inner consciousness
tendency was to the natural rather than to the and intellectual purpose must watch over and
ideal, to the concrete rather than the abstract. direct and control the actor's exterior machin-
Exception to this general statement may be ery. The remark was looked upon by Irving
found in his repertory, but it is near enough to as 'a stultifying delusion that the votary of
obscure,


1905.]
299
THE DIAL
acting is bound to worship everything dramatic the control of action, the knowledge of human
that comes out of France. In personating a nature, the faculty of simulation, and the
character, Irving identified himself so entirely trained ability, combined in his treatment of
with his part that his face flushed or paled any one part, which, taken together, make up
with the varying excitement of his character; his sum. Rather than use the word versatility
the mobility of his features proved to us that a in connection with Irving, let us say he was
personality of infinite susceptibility was before comprehensive, — for so many characterizations
us. Whether portraying the complex emotions created within the range of his art are equal
of life or the convergent subsidence of death, one to the other. He possessed a mind suffi-
he was, in look, voice, and attitude the vibrant ciently comprehensive to portray with scholar-
impersonation of his theme.
ship and taste what may be considered his
His acting was done under a peculiarly high greatest characters: Shylock, Hamlet, Mephis-
intensity, so much so that his performance of topheles, Don Quixote, King Lear, Becket,
Hamlet was unaccompanied by the vulgar pat- Wolsey, Robespierre, Richard III., Louis XI.,
ronizing forms of applause; the possibility of and Mathias in 'The Bells,'— a poetic, pictures-
losing a significant look or gesture was so great que, and brilliant group.
that the tragedy was respectfully heard The philosophic way in which Sir Henry
throughout. This intensity was even more Irving spoke of the proper dignity of the drama
noticeable in his impersonation of Mathias in has in it a conservative and vital tone which is
"The Bells, where the two predominant ideas an honor to its author.
portrayed are remorse and fear. Perfect as In the consideration of the art of acting, it
was his command over each separate element must never be forgotten that its ultimate aim is
of expression, it was still the harmonious con-
beauty. Truth itself is only an element of beauty,
and to merely reproduce things vile and squalid is
currence with which all were brought to bear at a debasement of Art. Life, with all its pains
once in the rendering of every thought and and sorrows, is a beautiful and a precious gift;
feeling of the part that constituted the distin-
and the actor's art is to reproduce this beautiful
guishing quality of his acting; a remark so true
thing, giving due emphasis to those royal virtues
and those stormy passions which sway the destinies
that one need but to have heard him read a of men.
Thus the lesson given by long experi-
single scene in a drawing-room, with none of ence -- by the certain punishment of ill-doing-
the scenic aids to dramatic effect about him,
and by the rewards that follow on bravery, fore-
bearance, and self-sacrifice, are on the mimic stage
yet supplying them all by, this concurrent mo-
conveyed to men. And thus every actor who is
bility of feature, voice, and gesture, to be con more than a mere machine, and who has an ideal
vinced that therein lay the chief secret of his of any kind, has a duty which lies beyond the
power.
scope of his personal ambition. His art must be
something to hold in reverence if he wishes others
Perhaps the most fascinating characteriza to hold it in esteem. There is nothing of chance
tion in Irving's repertory was his Louis XI., about his work. All, actors and audience alike,
an analytical and many-colored portrayal of old
must bear in mind that the whole scheme of the
age and craven ambitions. Instead of subor-
Drama is not to be regarded as a game in life
which can be played with varying success. Its
dinating Nature to Art, he pressed all the re present intention may be to interest and amuse,
sources of Art into the service of Nature, mod but its deeper purpose is earnest, intense, sincere."
elled every motive of his acting upon the reali-
INGRAM A. PYLE.
ties of life, so that in his most impetuous, most
terrible, most pathetic portrayal of the old
The little volume of Love Poems of John
fanatic of Valois, he never overstepped the
Donne,' recently issued in a limited edition by the
Riverside Press, is of unusual interest on several
truth. Again, in his embodiment of Robes accounts. In the first place, its outward appear-
pierre we had an example of the actor's faculty
ance is such that no lover of fine bookmaking
for getting into his character. It was a sym- gives us in convenient form perhaps the best work
could fail to rejoice in its possession. Then it
metrical presentation. Declamation was no of a poet not easily accessible to the casual pres-
part of it. The lines of the character were ent-day reader. Finally, the name of Charles Eliot
spoken so simply and naturally that there was Norton on the title-page, as editor, would insure
never a moment during the play when the il.
permanent value to a much less interesting publi.
cation than this. Professor Norton is the for.
lusion disappeared. The whole was an authen tunate owner of some Donne manuscripts, and he
tic and convincing picture of one of the most has utilized these so far as they go in collating
appalling and destructive political-social con-
the present text. He contributes also a short but
vulsions in human history.
illuminating introduction, and a few_necessary
notes. It is not to be supposed that Donne will
The biographer of Edwin Booth pointed out ever be very widely read or appreciated, but this
that it is not the number of parts an actor plays little book should do much to make his work bet-
that constitutes his strength or reveals his re-
ter known among poetry lovers. The volume is a
slender duodecimo in form, printed from Caslon
sources; it is the height, fineness, and diver-
type on antique handmade paper, and bound in
sity of mind and spirit, the depth of feeling, paper-covered boards with parchment back.


300
[Nov. 16,
THE DIAL
occur
Tbe
New Books.
tile race, she vigorously defends them; assert-
ing that 'the French nation is, on the con-
trary, the most serious nation in the world.'
With this the reader will probably compare the
THE FRENCH PEOPLE IN THEIR HOMES.*
following paragraphs, which
a little
If the average intelligent American were further on (p. 261): Why, in a pre-eminent-
questioned, never so leniently, as to his ideas ly intellectual and fastidious people, do we
of home life in France, it is pretty certain that find an undisguised, immoderate addiction to
his answers would be the confession of an ig- le gros rire, an insatiable appetite for the gro-
norance at once profound and elemental. If tesquely laughable?
Every French-
he had been put through a course in the history man has a touch of Rabelais, of Voltaire, in
of the French Revolution, he might dimly re his composition.
Laughter — the co-
call some of the citations from Arthur Young's pious exercise of the risible faculties — is a
Travels to be found in the foot-notes of his constitutional, a physical need of the Gallic
Mignet, Guizot, Thiers, or Carlyle; or if he temperament.' In explanation, Miss Betham-
had been so well-advised as to read Mr. Brown Edwards reminds us that 'no wave of Puri-
ell's brilliant essay on ‘French Traits," he tanism has at any time swept over the land of
might claim to have been at least introduced Rabelais'; and she doubtless would ask us to
to some of the controlling tendencies in the na discriminate between cheerfulness and frivol-
tional character. But until he had read care ity, - though she herself can only close her in-
fully such a book as this of Miss Betham-Ed- quiry with another question: "How came it
wards, his ideas on the social life of that great that “L’Allegro" was written by an Anglo-
and minutely ordered community would prob Saxon and a Puritan, and not by a Frenchman?
ably be either non-existent or mostly wrong. It The matter must remain an eternal mystery.'
is not to the point that the Frenchman in How thoroughly the importance of the fam-
France has equally fantastic conceptions, if ily as the social unit is recognized by the au-
any, of home life in America, until he has been thor may be gathered from the fact that seven
more or less correctly informed thereon by the of the thirty-five chapters have the following
Reisebilder of such agreeable writers as Mme. titles: "The Baby,' The Girl,' The Boy,
Th. Bentzon, M. Max O’Rell, or the Abbé 'Brides and Bridegrooms,' 'Wives and Mothers,
Klein. Fabula de te: this book was not writ 'The Family Council," "The Code Civil and
ten for Frenchmen, nor indeed for Americans, Family Life'; while the allied topics of 'House-
the point of view and all the standards of com keeping' and 'Domestic Service' are given
parison being strictly British; but the need of a luminous exposition which contains for the
it is at least as great in the United States as much-tried American housekeeper information,
in Great Britain, and the value of it is in direct suggestion - and here and there a bit of con-
proportion to the depth of the ignorance which solation.
it is calculated to remove.
Miss Betham-Edwards is no lover of militar-
This volume is something more than the re ism, and has only condemnation for the uni-
sult of an international episode or the expan versal conscription, whose crushing burdens she
sion of a summer traveller's note-book. The so vividly depicts. But she has great hopes
author, Miss M. Betham-Edwards, has qualified from the new laws reducing the term of service
herself, by a residence of more than twenty from three years to two, as promising financial
years in various parts of France, and by shrewd economy and the rectification of grave abuses.
and continuous observation, to speak with inti As for the French officer of to-day, she defends
mate knowledge of the subjects she treats. him from 'insular misconception' in the fol-
Some of the chapters have already appeared as lowing words: 'Is he not pictured as a light-
papers in the Cornhill' and other English hearted, inconsequent, dashing fellow, a some-
magazines; and, together with much addi thing of the D'Artagnan, a something of the
tional material, have finally been gathered into Charles O'Malley about him, professional duties
a comprehensive description of French domestic sitting lightly upon his shoulders, domestic
and social life. She evidently loves her French; cares quite shaken off? True to life were a
and her general note is one of hearty admira- directly opposite portrait — that of an inde-
tion for the wonderful qualities of thrift, in- fatigable worker, one to whom fireside joys
dustry, good taste, and ingenuity, by means of and intellectual pleasures are especially dear,
which the French' do many things just a little and to whom self-abnegation in the loftiest as
better than any other people. Against the tra well as the domestic sense becomes a second
ditional charge of being a frivolous and vola nature.'
The author has been especially interested in
• HOME LIFE IN FRANCE. By M. Betham-Edwards.
Illustrated. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co.
educational questions; and she has carefully


1905.]
301
THE DIAL
My
studied the system of French schools as re and enamels so often associated with pottery,
formed under the beneficent Ferry laws of have combined to render the subject of Ceram-
1881-2, whose praises she is always sounding. ics of more than ordinary interest to art-stu-
How thoroughly she has gone into this matter dents and to art-lovers.
may be estimated from the fact that she has The antiquity of the ceramic art invests it
been made an officier de l'instruction publique,' with an additional interest. Pottery is one of
as well as from the fulness and sympathy with the most universal as well as one of the sim-
which she describes the village schoolmaster plest and yet most necessary adjuncts of a
and the lycées for boys and girls.
developing civilization. The effects of intense
Two pleasant chapters are those on heat upon clay was doubtless one of the very
Friend the Curé' and 'The Protestant Pastor,' earliest discoveries of man, and fragments of
in which two very amiable characters fairly pottery found in cave-dwellings and in kit-
contest with each other for the reader's favor, chen-middens exhibit the earliest indications of
and are probably brought into closer proximity
the artistic instincts of the human race. Be-
on the printed page than they are in real life, cause of its imperishable nature and intrin-
to judge from the following paragraph: ‘Here sically small value, pottery has withstood the
I will mention that, although the Catholic and ravages of time and human greed, and so fur-
Protestant population live harmoniously side nishes monuments (using that term in the
by side, intermarriages are rare, and the rival quasi-technical sense current among archæolo-
churches neither gain nor lose adherents to any gists) by means of which pre-historic as well
appreciable extent. Between Protestant pas-
as historic times may be studied. A potsherd
tor and Catholic priest in any part of France
may furnish evidence as to what steps a cer-
there is no kind of intercourse whatever. They
tain race has taken in its progress toward
stand aloof from each other as French and Ger civilization, or may throw a most instructive
mans in the annexed provinces.'
light on that race's subsequent history. The
On these and other topics, Miss Betham-Ed-
plastic nature of clay and its susceptibility to
wards discourses with intelligent vivacity and
the action of fire, comprise the two elements
good humor, lightening our darkness, gently
which form the basis of the development of
removing the prejudice born of ignorance, and
the potter's art. The modelling of clay into
steadily building up the respect that rests on
the forms of the physical world gave birth to
knowledge. Her style is easy and colloquial,
the plastic art, under which term sculpture
occasionally careless : e. g., 'the utterance of
is still known. It was by the invention of the
Voltaire's scathing utterance' (p. 202), and
potter's wheel, ascribed in turn to all the
such arbitrary spellings as occulist,' Chi-
great nations of antiquity, and indicated in its
cagan,' and Mrs. Jellaby. There are also
complete development on Egyptian monuments,
a few slips in the proof-reading; but the book
that the art of the potter advanced beyond
is on the whole well-printed, and is beautifully
mere utilitarianism, and from an industrial to
illustrated with twenty reproductions from
a fine art, and began its mission among the
photographs and paintings by French artists.
things which beautify life.
JOSIAH RENICK SMITH.
As in architecture and sculpture, so in pot-
tery, Greece excelled all the other nations of
antiquity. Vases were of far greater impor-
tance to the life of the Greeks than we can
BEGINNINGS OF THE CERAMIC ART.* readily appreciate in these days. To them, a
Clay in its natural state is proverbially val-
vase might serve as a receptacle for food and
drink, for storage, or for the adornment of
ueless, yet it is capable of being rendered al-
the home. It was used in the daily life of the
most priceless by the application to it of scien-
tific workmanship and artistic skill, and upon
living, and was buried with the dead. Vase-
making and vase-painting were among the
it depends the art called Ceramic, with its
splendid traditions of craftsmanship, of form,
most conspicuous industries of Athens, where
the potters were called Prometheans (from
decoration, and color. So beautiful and varied
Titus Prometheus, who made man out of clay).
in character are the products of this art that
The manufacture of pottery, though lucrative,
it is invested with a peculiar charm and fas-
was not held in high esteem among the Athen-
cination. The plasticity of clay and its adap-
ians. Nevertheless, the names of some of the
tability to the most refined and appropriate
potters have come down to the present day.
forms, and its affinity for the beautiful glazes
When the science of archæology arose, the
• HISTORY OF ANCIENT POTTERY : Greek, Etruscan, and vases of Greece, especially those that were dec-
Roman. By H. B. Walters, M.A., F.S.A.
Illustrated.
orated with painted scenes, were found of great
New York : Imported by Charles Scribner's Sons. value as furnishing monuments from which to
Based on the
In two volumes.
work of Samuel Birch,


302
[Nov. 16,
THE DIAL
study the life, the art, and the mythology of pages each, well provided with indexes and
the Greeks; and with the advance made by the bibliographies, with illustrative plates (several
scientific explorers in Athens and the mate of them in color), and between two and three
rials gathered up elsewhere, the study of Greek hundred text illustrations.
With the excep-
pottery has become one of the most ad tion of the first five chapters of the first vol-
vanced and firmly based branches of classical ume (on Greek Pottery in general), which
archæology.'
remain substantially as they appeared in Dr.
In the seventeenth century the fashion arose Birch's edition of 1873, the work has been
in Western Europe and Great Britain of mak entirely rewritten, with especial attention to
ing journeys to Italy and Greece and bring the vast gains to the knowledge of the sub-
ing back whatever spoils of travel might at ject through the completion of the excavations
tract the attention. It was then that the pots of the Acropolis at Athens in 1889, and to the
tery of classical times began to receive notice advance made since that date in the study of
and collections began to be made. Interest pottery, especially that of the primitive peri-
therein was stimulated by the publications of ods. Such parts of the original work as dealt
Winckelmann about a century later; about with Oriental Pottery have been omitted, and
which time also Sir William Hamilton, some the pottery of the Celts and of Northern
time English Ambassador to Naples, formed Europe is ignored. The subject being thus
there a collection of Greek and Roman an narrowed to the Greek, Etruscan, and Roman
tiquities discovered in the tombs of Southern pottery, the opportunity is offered for a fuller
Italy and Etruria, brought it with him to treatment of the history of Greek Vase Paint-
England, and sold it in 1767 to the then ing and for an epexegetic examination of the
newly instituted British Museum, where it subjects depicted upon Greek vases, and to ac-
formed the nucleus of the present magnificent cord to Etruscan and Roman pottery almost
collection in that Museum. Other collections
the same scientific treatment as that given to
were made, and with the fashion for collect Greek vases.
ing grew up a literature of the subject, con Dr. Birch was himself so modest that he
sisting for the most part of catalogues, with was content to allow much of his best work
more or less imperfect descriptions and illus-
to appear only in the volumes of others. It
trations.
seems to be in graceful recognition of this
The first adequate treatment the history of that Mr. Walters describes his books on their
ancient pottery received was in the two vol-
title-pages as ‘Based upon the work of Sam-
umes of Dr. Samuel Birch, published in 1857. uel Birch,'— as though he were unwilling, as
This work grew out of a . Catalogue of Greek we all should be, to have Dr. Birch's monu-
and Etruscan Vases in the Britism Museum,' mental work supplanted by newer volumes.
upon which Dr. Birch had collaborated with
ARTHUR HOWARD NOLL.
another in 1851. Birch was a versatile genius,
- an Egyptologist, Keeper of the Department
of Oriental Antiquities in the British Museum,
and an expert in the field of Ceramics with a
"THE JEWISH SPECTRE.'*
special genius for the detection of counter-
feits. His ‘History of Ancient Pottery' was Accepted as a semi-historical account of all
regarded as a standard work, especially after that the Jewish race has done and left un-
the revision to which it was subjected in 1873, done since the beginnings of record, Mr.
when it appeared in a new edition, abridged | George H. Warner's 'Jewish Spectre' is a
in some respects, enlarged in others, and em work of interest and value. Mr. Warner is
bodying the fullest knowledge of the subject essentially a collector of information. His
at that time. Since Birch's death, in 1885, work shows a truly extraordinary familiarity
so much new material has been gathered that with all that has been said or written on ev-
a further revision of his work has been de ery side of the question with which he deals.
manded, and this has been successfully under He is equally master of Bible records, Tal-
taken by Mr. Henry B. Walters, the Assistant mudic lore, higher criticism, archæological in-
Keeper of Greek and Roman Antiquities in the vestigation, modern journalism, philosophy,
same Museum, who was prepared for the task sociology, science. He has, besides, the grace
by the publication of his Catalogue of Greek of humor, often denied to those who spend
and Etruscan Vases,' and monographs on their lives among serious books.
The one
Black Figured Vases (1893) and Vases of thing he lacks is a proper sense of propor-
the Latest Period' (1896).
tion, — the sense that gives to great books a
The results of this revision and extension central idea, a beginning and an end. Mr.
of Dr. Birch's work are two sumptuous vol-
By George H. Warner. New
umes of considerably more than five hundred
York: Doubleday, Page & Co.
6
• THE JEWISH SPECTRE.


1905.]
303
THE DIAL
so
Warner plays with his subject, writes all mind will disappear. The immense relief this
around it, runs all along it, keeps its great
would be to humanity can only be estimated by
possibilities ever before his readers, but never
reviewing the history of the past, in which in all
countries and in every age religions have been
quite succeeds in compassing it or making the principal burdens on the back of humanity,
it all his own. The interest, even to enthu When ccclesiasticism passes away as a political
siasm, which increases steadily during the power and as a superstition, it will leave the Hu-
man Being free to organize his social institutes
reading of the first half of the book vanishes
according to his ever-increasing knowledge and
gradually as the conviction grows that Mr. intelligence, and to reorganize them whenever it
Warner will not arrive. It is all very well becomes necessary a most essential part of free-
to say that the Human Being's the Thing,'
dom.
but even capital letters do not make a philos-
The “religion of authority," so fascinating to
many minds of the present day, has one weak
ophy of life or history of that postulate. It link in its chain of title. It is the impossibility
is very interesting, very true, and very use of identifying, beyond reasonable question, the
ful, to know that Bible records are partly fic earthly authority with a heavenly source. The evi-
tion, partly tradition, partly the history of a race
dences of miracles, of the printed word, even of
an irrefragable apostolic succession, are not con-
from that race's point of view. It is easily vincing that a surrender ought to be made to such
admitted that the Jews have lived too much "authority'. At the bottom of such surrender
in a past whose glory is as largely a mat there is a certain loyalty to ideas, but a congenital
ter of the chronicler's vision as of history; that
disability of the imagination. For who shall tell
from earliest Old Testament times their laws
us that when perishing by Protestantism, the only
refuge is Catholicism, as though there were but
have been made for themselves, as the Chosen two religious ideas.
Perhaps Arbitration
People, ignoring, so far as possible, the rest points the way out,— to have nothing but free
of the world; that with the Chosen People
courts, or free courts and newspapers. Perhaps
Socialism is the method — socialism without the
idea as a basis, they have been clannish, vain,
newspaper, for then nothing would happen. So-
proud, intolerant, loyal, conservative, idealistic. cialism shocks the sense of the politician and the
But after all this, it may be asked, what then? comfortable; but we must remember that the so-
Mr. Warner's book is distinctly not a tirade
cialistic process has built a schoolhouse on every
hill, and thrown in the text-books; it carries our
against the Jews. It will be offensive to Jew-
letters almost free, makes highways, builds bridges,
ish preachers and teachers, but not more so lights the streets, brings water, creates pleasure
than to their Christian brethren against whom
parks with music on Saturdays, preserves forests,
Mr. Warner inveighs with equal zest. “The
distributes garden seeds, regulates the weather,
Jewish Spectre' is based on an opposition to
lights the shores of oceans, protects us from wild
beasts and contagion,- and is almost the Gospel
theocracy. Most of the Old Testament, he itself.
asserts, was written or revised by priests in
“Those of us who have read the Old Testament
the interest of priestly government. And there
remember how Samuel resisted any changes in the
is much in the accredited results of higher ideal, and when called upon to anoint a king, he
administration. A pure theocracy was his highest
criticism to affirm this judgment. The relig-
The relig- thought all was over, his vocation gone. Yet see
ions which to-day unite under the name of what happened. After Saul there were
Christian seem to Mr. Warner not religious prophets than anything else in Israel,- and but
for them Israel never would have been heard of.
and distinctly not Christian, but ecclesiastical.
So it may turn out with our holy men. The the-
So far as the religion which Christ preachedologian will find that Law, Government, and Eco-
was essentially unchurched, undogmatic, a nomics are sciences, and not in the same realm
matter of the soul and not of ceremony, he is
with theology, and that a return to religion, -
which dwells in the mind of man, giving it its
right. Mr. Warner blames the Old Testa-
seriousness and its deepest charm,- is his best
ment chroniclers, with their theocratic tenden hold.'
cies, for the hold which the ‘ Jewish Spectre
has had on the mind of all peoples in all ages.
The reference to Israel's prophets and their
He blames Paul, the Jew, for propagating the
relation to Israel's historic greatness (so un-
racial tendency to submit to religion as
warranted, according to Mr. Warner) illus-
trates one of the chief weaknesses of the book.
authority. To him, organized religion is the
foundation of all opposition to progress. This
If it were intended as a polemic, the author
is evidently the idea which he intends should
would be justified in stating only his side of
the case.
be central in his book, although he never
But it is written with every inten-
quite follows it to a conclusion. The only
tion of fairness, to place the Jew in his
place where a solution is suggested is in the
proper historic and social relation to the rest
chapter on ‘Tenure of Religions,' where Mr.
of the world. Why, then, does Mr. Warner
Warner writes, in part:
give credence to the prophets alone among
Israel's teachers and scribes ? Their superior
It is not too much to hope, perhaps not too
much to expect, that with the progress the world
eloquence is not a proof of their better judg-
is now making, religious dominations will cease,
ment. If chroniclers of Old Testament times
that organized religion as an effort of the human were inclined to slay a hundred thousand men
more


304
[Nov. 16,
THE DIAL
in battles in which mere material conditions other hand, the administrative side of our
of space precluded the presence of more than system has received comparatively little at-
a tenth of that number, so Old Testament tention. The task of making a scientific analy-
prophets, zealous for social, political, and sis of it was left to a foreigner, Mr. James
moral reform, may be trusted to have exag Bryce, in his ‘American Commonwealth.' Dr.
gerated the evil conditions of their times. In Fairlie, in his National Administration,' has
fact, while chroniclers have changed with the given us an account of the manner in which
progress of humanity, and history is fast be the various departments of the central gov-
coming an exact science, prophets and preach ernment perform their allotted tasks; but in
ers have remained the same in all ages, and all this the real law of administration has
probably will remain so to the end of time. received only incidental notice. In his Com-
Mr. Warner need only go to church or to syna parative Administrative Law,' published twelve
gogue to-day to discover how irretrievably years ago, Professor Goodnow gave an analysis
wicked this world is in the eyes of these men. of the administrative system, national and lo-
Yet somehow or other, when the sun shines it cal, of the United States, England, France, and
hardly seems so bad.
Germany. The rapid growth of public interest
Mr. Warner negatives too much and con in our own system was thought by Professor
structs too little. He deprives the Jews of Goodnow a sufficient justification for a new
their heritage of religious and historic suprem book giving a fuller account of American
acy, of their superior morality, longevity, in conditions, with special emphasis upon the
tellect, persistency,- all the attributes that
legal side; and this is now published with
have adorned the Spectre through the ages. the title "The Principles of the Administra-
But he gives the world nothing to build on tive Law of the United States.'
in place of the accepted foundation,- nothing Administrative law is defined by Professor
but the Human Being. And he forgets that Goodnow as that part of the law which fixes
the Human Being is not an unchangeable en the organization and determines the compe-
tity, but an active growing force, changing tence of the authorities that execute the law,
with the ages and only now arriving at the and indicates to the individual remedies for
stage of development where he may be trusted the violation of his rights. It is partly con-
to stand alone without the support of author-
ity, religious, social, or governmental.
stitutional, partly statutory, and partly ordi-
Mr.
nance and even common law. In the first
Warner has read so much that it seems sur-
part, or book, the author discusses the theory
prising that he has omitted Walter Bagehot's
of the separation of powers, and shows that
Physics and Politics,' or that, having read
it, the lessons of the moulds which man makes
not only was there no government in existence
at the time Montesquieu wrote in which the
for himself and breaks as he outgrows should
have escaped him. The conclusions suggested,
theory was carried out, but that no political
if not reached, in 'The Jewish Spectre' are
organization has ever been established in which
to a large extent a matter of personal judg-three functions.
there is no overlapping in the discharge of the
The legislature frequently
ment. There is hardly a page in the volume
which does not suggest a point for controversy,
assumes or takes part in functions which really
belong to the executive, as in “special legisla-
and it is likely that no two readers will be
tion (which, however, some commonwealths
impressed by the same features in just the
forbid) and the appointment and removal of
same way.
EDITH J. Rich.
officers. The reason for this is to secure polit-
ical control. The executive, on the other
hand, participates in the legislative power, not
STUDIES IN ADMINISTRATIVE LAW.* only in signing or vetoing bills, but also in
Constitutional law has been thoroughly stud-
issuing ordinances to supply deficiencies in
ied in most countries, at least in most coun-
legislation. This, too, is in spite of the fact
tries that have constitutions. In the United
that an effort was made to incorporate the
States it has been a favorite theme of debate
theory of the separation of power into the
since the formation of the Constitution; nor
American public law. For example, the first
does the interest in it show any sign of abate-
constitution of Massachusetts expressly forbade
ment. This is altogether natural, since our
one department to exercise the functions of
another. The Federal Constitution also prac-
government is preëminently one of funda-
mental laws back of and controlling our legis- tically does the same thing in naming each
lative and administrative activity. On the
power and providing how it shall be exercised.
But the three powers are left undefined. If
THE PRINCIPLES OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE LAW OF THE
UNITED STATES. By Frank J. Goodnow, LL.D. New York:
resort be had to judicial decisions, they will
G. P. Putnam's Sons.
often be found conflicting. To find the line


1905.]
305
THE DIAL
of demarcation in any commonwealth, then, A State Governor, on the other hand, is
the student must examine the decisions of its more of a political than adininistrative of-
courts. However, two general principles may
ficer. The executive power is in reality par-
be deduced: (1) That an act satisfies the celled out among the various State officers
requirement of separation when completely in whose tenure of office is independent of the
dependent of the control of the other depart- | Governor. Not only has he no power to direct
ments; (2) That the principle does not apply these officers how to carry on the work of ad-
to local governments.
ministration, but they may even issue orders
The principle of separation cannot, in the in opposition to his will. His power of ap-
nature of things, be carried to the point of pointment and removal in the lower offices is
absolute independence. The legislature regu- generally very limited. Professor Goodnow
lates the administration by law, but, the ex says that a Governor, like the President, is not
ecutive being independent of the legislature in subject to the process of courts while in office.
tenure, it has no control over the actual ad The writer knows of one case where a Gov.
ministration except by impeachment. The ernor was fined for breach of the peace, but
control of the courts is somewhat greater, since cannot say whether or not the fine was ever
they may declare orders, decisions, contracts, collected.
and ordinances null and void. Over political The limits of this review will not permit of
acts, however, such as making treaties, dispo an extended notice of the entire volume. It
sition of the military forces, etc., they have no must suffice to say that the treatment of the
control.
subjects of the other parts is no less thorough
In discussing the Central Administration, than in the ones we have discussed. The vol-
Professor Goodnow brings out some differences ume is a notable contribution to the literature
between the powers of the President and those of public law, and will prove of great use, not
of a State Governor. The Constitutional Con- only to students, but also to officials in the
vention of 1787 debated for some time whether actual work of administration.
to provide a plural or a single executive, but But to the writer there appears to be a few
finally agreed upon the latter and made it real. omissions of importance, some of which would
The growth of the ordinance power is one of probably indicate a defect in our constitutional
the most noteworthy things in connection with law. The author points out that, while there
the office of President. The Colonial Gover are remedies against most of the positive acts
nors did not have it, neither was it granted of the administration, there is practically none
to the President by the Constitution. He may against a refusal to act when an attempt to
issue orders to his subordinates in the routine compel action by the court would bring it
of administration which can be enforced only into conflict with the President. This might
by the power of removal. The courts will not have been emphasized by the citation of cases
enforce them, neither will they abrogate them. in which the President ignored the decisions
On the other hand, many ordinances have of the Supreme Court and acted upon his own
been issued for the regulation of the army interpretation of the law. Such was the act
and navy, the postal service, the internal rev of Jefferson in withholding a commission de-
enue, etc., and these the courts recognize as clared by the court (Marbury vs. Madison) to
having the force of law. But the most im be due the plaintiff, and by Jackson in refus-
portant source of the President's power in con ing to execute the decree of the court in the
trolling administration rests in his right of Cherokee Nation vs. Georgia case. The case
appointment and removal. The absolute right of ex parte Merryman, wherein the writ of
of removal was recognized by the first con habeas corpus was disregarded by order of the
gress by the casting vote of the Vice-Presi- President, is referred to, but not for this
dent, and has been conceded ever since with specific purpose.
Governors are not so far
the exception of twenty years (1867-1887), and exempt as the President, yet no provision has
during this time the restraint was only nom ever been devised to compel them to obey a
inal. The attempt to restrict arose out of the very clear mandate of the Constitution - that
unusually strained relations between the Ex-requiring the rendition of fugitives from jus-
ecutive and Congress in 1867. This power is tice upon the demand of the Executive of the
all important, since by it the President may State from which they fled. They are left no
control administration in matters left by Con discretion in the matter, yet refusals have
gress to the discretion of a department officer. been made for reasons insulting to the State
À notable use of the power was the removal making the demand.
of a Secretary of the Treasury by President The author holds that military administra-
Jackson for refusing to execute a law accord tion is a thing apart, deserving of separate
ing to the President's interpretation of it. treatment. This is undoubtedly true of things


306
[Nov. 16,
THE DIAL
may not be a "seller," but it will not die. This Professor Franklin Dexter, the librarian there,
strictly military; yet a kind of civil adminis main, the narrative is as dry, as unadorned, as
tration is often administered through the mil- pragmatic, as a Chinese book of annals,— and
itary, and this might reasonably have been as trustworthy. By this we mean the highest
given at least a brief analysis. It is supposed praise of the book as history. One may depend
to be based on some laws other than those on the data, the verified references, the tabu-
of necessity, though sometimes it is difficult lated genealogical lists, bound to gladden and
to discover any except the whim of the ad ease many a toiler and inquirer. Only those
ministrator. For example, it is hard to un who have spent days and months' down among
derstand how, since the decision of the Insular the dead men' who are remembered in tanta-
Cases, the Secretary of the Navy imposes a lizing evanishings in Dutch script and time-
tariff in Tutuila different from (and lower stained print, can appreciate the toil, the pa-
than) our own, if it is American territory; and tience, the consecration to truth-seeking, the
if it is not American territory, why the Secre self-denial to all temptation to add or subtract
tary of the Treasury admits goods from Tutu from the written word,' which this volume
ila into the United States free of duty.
represents. In its purity, for the feeding of
DAVID Y. THOMAS. the lamp of historical truth, it is as 'oil poured
from vessel to vessel.' Its form is superbly
Greek in its austere repression. There is no
Oriental luxuriance of fancy here.
THE PILGRIM FATHERS IN ENGLAND AND
Nearly forty years ago, Dr. Henry Martyn
HOLLAND.*
Dexter began digging, measuring and question-
So thorough and honest an historical work as
ing at Scrooby and Austerfield. Then, crossing
the Dexters' England and Holland of the
the North Sea to Holland, he ransacked ar-
Pilgrims can afford to have its merits and
chives, tax-rolls, and libraries at Leyden and
limitations known at once. Like the story of
Amsterdam. Has anyone entered into his Ali
the Pilgrims itself, the book needs neither em-
Baba's cave of bibliographical treasures in the
bellishment nor factitious advertisement. It
library of Yale University at New Haven?
Professor Franklin Dexter, the librarian there,
particular kind of work, after that of the three
took up the unfinished manuscript of the great
Dexters, will not require to be done again for
Congregational bibliographer; and the son of
the latter, himself an indefatigable pilgrim
a century or more. In a word, we have not
here a flight of the imagination, but the re-
and investigator in the realms of Tudor and
sults of solid, long-continued, painstaking re-
Stuart and of Willem and Mauritz, during
search, with correction and re-correction of the
seven visits over-seas, continued the good work.
first work and of various mistaken impressions,
Few books have had such a history and such
confusions, and inferences of other writers.
rich harvests reaped during three generations
In one sense, the book is a disappointment.
of scholarly and untiring quest.
It is not a broadly sketched or framed, or even
The old story is here told again with fresh-
a brightly colored, picture of the England and
ness and with eloquence. One chapter pictures
Holland of the century of the Pilgrims. It is
the economic, political, and intellectual ele-
not even a sober-tinted sketch or a justifiable
ments of the time when churches that were re-
composition-piece representing in vivid text
publics started in England. Others tell of the
the two lands of home and exile trodden by
elements at hand for a picture, instead of paint-
Pilgrim feet. It is rather a selection of ele-
ing the picture, or even drawing the main out-
ments which, by documentary proof only, are
lines of the Dutch Republic, in which the Sep-
known to have affected the Separatists' lives
aratists held aloof from the numerous British
and their church movement. It is a book made
folk in Leyden and Amsterdam. The other
by bookmen. Sometimes, as we read, our
chapters deal with church polity, with the life
vision is obstructed; we cannot see the forest
of the leaders, as well as of the rank-and-file,
on account of the trees. The grand human
of Robinson's congregation, with plans for the
story seems lost in a mass of antiquarian de-
plantation in America, with notices of events
tail. One longs to know more of manhood
in the years following, until all trace of the
and womanhood, and less of theological, biblio- Pilgrims was lost from Dutch records. Lists
graphical, and ecclesiastical lore and discussion.
of names and data of the records containing
It is all too much like undertakers' registers. them, with index and maps, complete this in-
In vain we hope to catch gleams of imaginative
valuable reference-book. Like flowers in the
sympathy, to feel human heart-beats. `In the field, many books on the Pilgrims filled with
fantasy and fiction, while claiming historical
• THE ENGLAND AND HOLLAND OF THE PILGRIMS. By
the late Henry Martyn Dexter, D.D., and his son Morton
accuracy, have flourished in weedy luxuriance.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Like a mowing-machine, this record of the
Dexter.
Illustrated.
Boston :


1905.]
307
THE DIAL
Dexters will improve much of this wild growth tions as they exist to-day. The immediate
off the face of the earth.
suggestion of these remarks is offered by two
Nevertheless, the very excellences and limi of the latest novels, both concerned with strikes
tations of Dr. Morton Dexter's volume justify and their attendant brutalities, and both writ-
all legitimate attempts to represent both Eng ten with a grip upon their subject which
land and Holland as more than lands of per- compels our attention. The fact that both are
secution and exile, and the Pilgrim men and written by women is a matter of incidental
women as more than Congregationalists. And interest only; the only surprising thing about
yet — beware the bigotry of the reviewer! Let it is that women should be so successful in
us not be misunderstood. Nor will Dr. Dexter mastering the essentially masculine vocabulary
be misrepresented, if the reader of this article necessary for the portrayal of these rough sit-
is the reader also of the author's catholic dec uations. Of these two books, 'The Grapple,
laration, on his final page, that the heritage of by Mrs. Grace MacGowan Cooke, is the sim-
the. Pilgrims is not for one sect, church, nation, pler in construction and the more tense in dic-
or age. As broadly charitable as the burden of tion. The story is told about a coal mine in
the angels' song over Bethlehem are the fine central Illinois, and has for its hero the
sentences in which, laying down his work of owner and manager, a man of calm courage
filial piety and truth-seeking, Dr. Dexter bids and abundant resource, who wins his fight in
farewell to his readers.
the face of great obstacles, but vindicates the
WILLIAM ELLIOT GRIFFIS. right of the capitalist to retain in his own
hands the control of his own business. All
the leading incidents in this story might easily
be paralleled in the actual recent history of
RECENT FICTION.*
the Illinois mines. The seriousness of the book
The future historian will surely be sur-
is relieved by an element of humor, which is
prised at the preponderance in our present- perhaps better than nothing, although it is
day fiction of the realistic novel concerned
humor of a rather cheap sort, for which the
with such matters as business and political writer acknowledges indebtedness to a Mr.
corruption, with social problems, and with the Reed, giving him the title of 'a playing part-
struggle between management and organized
ner'in her work.
labor. To us, living in the midst of this tur "The Man of the Hour' is the first full-
moil, the use of such matters by the novel grown novel that Miss Alice French has writ-
writer is natural enough; for the most dram ten. The scene is Fairport, which may be
atic motives of our civilization are provided by translated without much difficulty into Daven-
these sordid class-conflicts and social diseases. port, the city of the author's residence. Now
We may wish that fiction might become a gen-
one of the characteristics of this Iowa com-
tler art; but it would be unfaithful to its munity is a curious blending of foreign
mission were it to ignore such obvious aspects strains with its native population, and it is
of contemporaneous life as the ill-gotten for- | just this mixture of racial elements that gives
tune, the political power purchased by bri piquancy to the present story, at the cost,
bery, the nerve-racking demands of our com naturally, of its integrity of type as a novel of
mercialized society, and the crimes committed
American character. An iron manufacturer
in the name of humanity by labor organiza- of large interests, a self-made man and a
* THE GRAPPLE. By Grace MacGowan Cooke.
rugged American, brings home with him from
L. C. Page & Co.
Europe a Russian wife, who is an aristocrat
OF THE HOUR. By Octave Thanet. In of social sympathies, indoctrinated by Tolstoy,
dianapolis : The Bobbs-Merrill Co.
allied with the revolutionary movement, and an
THE GIANTS. By Mrs. Fremont Older. New York:
D. Appleton & Co.
impracticable visionary. It is a sad case of
AT THE SIGN OF THE JACK O LANTERN. By Myrtle mismating; for there is no possibility of gen-
Reed.
THE RECKONING.
uine sympathy between those two contrasted
By Robert W. Chambers.
York: D. Appleton & Co.
temperaments. From this union springs the
THE FORTUNES OF THE LANDRAYS. By Vaughan Kos boy who is the hero of the story. The mother
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co.
is set upon winning him to her ways of think-
THE ANCIENT GRUDGE. By Arthur Stanwood Pier.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
ing, and the father is helpless to counteract
THE MAYOR OF TROY. By A. T. Quiller-Couch. New her emotional and sentimental influence. When
York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
in due course the wife, finding her life intol-
A SERVANT OF THE PUBLIC. By Anthony Hope. New
York: The Frederick A. Stokes Co.
erable, leaves her husband and returns to the
PATRICIA : A MOTHER. By 'Iota.' New York : D. AD congenial society of the Russian exile colony
pleton & Co.
in Switzerland, the boy has been moulded into
THE GAMBLER. By Katherine Cecil Thurston.
York: Harper & Brothers.
a passionate little socialist, and the father
Boston:
THE MAN
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.
New
ter.
Boston :
New


808
[Nov. 16,
THE DIAL
despairs. Presently the father remarries, dies ciliation; until then, society cannot too sternly
a few years later, and leaves his fortune to set its face against its propaganda and its
his widow, to be held in trust for the boy until methods.
he shall prove himself capable of using it wise Melodrama for the times may serve for a
ly. A certain sum, however, is given him ab- description of 'The Giants,' by Mrs. Fremont
solutely; and of this he proceeds to make ducks Older, a California novelist whose work is
and drakes by going to Chicago, and casting characterized by a combination of vigor and
in his fortunes with a labor organization. The crudity. The hero's first exploit, as here
time is now that of the Pullman strike of chronicled, consists in flagging, at the age of
1894; and the money goes to the bolstering fifteen, a limited express train. He does it
of that indefensible cause. The boy is now just for the fun of the thing,- to hear the
left 'on his uppers,' and becomes a mechanic; conductor swear. His expectations are fully
but his eyes are slowly opening, and the seamy gratified. A little later, his father strikes oil
side of the labor agitation is gradually dis on the ranch, and is fast acquiring a fortune,
closed to him. After a while he drifts back when the malign operations of the trust de-
to Fairport, secures employment in the very stroy his prospects, set fire to his property,
establishment reared by his father's efforts, and send him skyward in an ingeniously con-
and presently finds himself in a position of trived explosion. Then the boy registers a
responsibility, and engaged in defending the Hannibal oath to avenge his father's murder.
business against the assaults of his old-time Going to New York, he calls upon the oil
associates.
He adopts vigorous measures for magnate, and calmly informs him that his
the defense, imports negro strike-breakers, and iniquities are soon to have their reward, and
wins a sharply-contested victory in what has that his youthful visitor is to be the agent of
practically come to be a civil war. These the retribution. Meanwhile, there is the little
experiences make of him a fairly clear-sighted matters of college and law-school to be dis-
man, although they do not blunt his sympa- posed of; and this hurries us through the next
thies for the toiler; and he at last comes to few years. The youth becomes a famous foot-
his own as a captain of industry, convinced ball hero, and in due course a lawyer awaiting
that our very civilization depends upon the clients. These fail to appear; but our hero
assertion of the rights of capital, and firm goes into politics, gets a nomination for the
resistance to the outrageous exactions of union office of district attorney, and conducts a re-
ism. If it had not been for a vein of in form campaign on the East Side. He wins the
grained obstinacy in his character, he would great heart of the people in this Tammany
have made this discovery long before; as it stronghold, partly by his speeches, but more
is, he makes it in time to save his career from effectively by his ‘laying out’ of the cham-
shipwreck. The love-interest in this narrative pion slugger who is set upon him. He wins
is subordinate, but there is a charming hero-
the election as a matter of course. Then he
ine, and the end of the story finds her in read- | proceeds to work up
proceeds to work up a case of bribery against
iness to share his regenerated life. Miss the oil magnate, secures convincing evidence,
French has given us a book of a very genial and lands his victim behind the bars with neat-
and human sort, and brought to it a gift of ness and dispatch. The trembling magnate
shrewd and sometimes humorous observation, offers half of his billion dollars and a work-
such as comes only after long practice in the ing partnership if the young man will let
art of fiction. The ethical outcome is just, him escape; but to no avail. The heroic youth
although there are occasions in the course of of twenty-three is incorruptible, and villainy
the action when the ethical balance seems to at last finds its match. There is a lot of yel-
incline a trifle too much in the direction of low journalism' in the story; there are also
false sentimentalism. This general remark, two young women, the hero's good and evil
we should say, applies also to Mrs. Cooke's genius respectively. The whole narration is
novel, heretofore considered. The present tem pitched in the highest key of sensationalism,
per of unionism in this country is so ugly and the figures that take part in it have but
and its methods so senseless or worse, that slight resemblance to real human beings.
now is not the time for trifling or compro 'At the Sign of the Jack o' Lantern' is a
mise, not even the time for over-indulgence story in Miss Myrtle Reed's most whimsical
in sympathies which might, under differing vein. It abounds in quips and conceits, some
circumstances, be both legitimate and praise- of which verge upon genuine humor, while
worthy. When the cause of labor shows some others are of a sort too cheap and hackneyed
inclination to purge itself of its brutal and even for the funny columns of a newspaper.
criminal tendencies, then will be the time to The fundamental invention of the story is
deal with it in a spirit of gentleness and con highly amusing. A newly-married couple have


1905.)
309
THE DIAL
been left a country home by a deceased and Vaughan Kester, is a novel whose interest,
unknown uncle. They take possession in the although complicated, is remarkably well sus-
first chapter, and find it a rambling structure tained. It begins and ends in an Ohio town,
of grotesque plan and an unaccountable num and is essentially a picture of life in that
ber of bedrooms. In the next chapter their community; but the adventures of certain of
troubles begin, and the bedrooms are accounted its characters take us at times to the far West
for. It seems that innumerable parasites in with the forty-niners,—to Salt Like City in
the guise of relatives have been living upon the early days of Brigham Young, to the clos-
the old man for many years, descending upon ing scenes of the Civil War, and to the prairies
him every summer like a swarm of locusts. of Kansas. The story is one of three gen-
So they come this summer as usual, not know erations, not only of the Landrays, but of the
ing of his demise, and when they learn of it other families with whose fortunes theirs are
they announce their intention of staying just associated. This requires of the reader a fre-
the same.
The new owners of the house are quent substitution of new interests for old
too poor-spirited to resist this imposition, and ones; and the effect is rather bewildering, de-
they presently find themselves hosts to as queer spite the length at which the story is told.
a collection of human oddities as were ever But although the period of the narrative must
gathered under one roof. All are of one extend over upwards of thirty years, the two
mind in thinking that the dear departed (who principal characters remain in view all the
was a man of mystery) has left a surprise for time, thus giving the work a unity which oth-
them in the shape of concealed treasure, to be erwise it would sadly lack.
We cannot say
found by diligent search; and they spend much that Mr. Kester's characterizations are con-
of their time poking into odd corners and vincing, for the people whom he describes too
digging up the garden. In due time the sur frequently go off upon tangents, and do unex-
prise comes off; but it turns out to be other pectedly inconsistent things. The author tries
than they had fondly thought. That diabolical hard, for example, to make plausible the sud-
old man had planned it to come upon themden transformation of his upright and self-
in a most startling way, and besides the injury sacrificing hero into a particularly contempti-
of blighted prospects, they were forced to suf ble sort of rascal; but the effort is a failure.
fer the insult of hearing certain sober truths Nevertheless, the novel contains a great deal
spoken about them, as it were, from his grave.
of essential truth about life in the time and
It seems that he had long endured their intru place chosen for treatment, and its faults of
sions upon his hospitality, suffering in silence, incoherency do not prevent it from being a
but planning all the while this posthumous fairly readable production.
revenge, and leaving his property to the un While we have no objection to the employ-
known nephew who had been the only one of ment of the labor-and-capital theme in fiction,
his relatives to leave him unmolested. The we think that the author bent upon using it
story ends with the hurried and indignant should make his intentions fairly evident at
departure of the unwelcome guests. Miss Reed the start. In the case of “The Ancient
has certainly provided us in this instance with Grudge,' by Mr. Arthur Stanwood Pier, we get
an original form of entertainment, and the well into the book before we discover that it
story should prove popular.
is going to be a labor novel.
Its opening
* The Reckoning is the third in order of chapters are so innocent of any such purpose,
publication of the series of four or five ro and Mr. Pier's previous novels have been con-
mances planned by Mr. Chambers to treat the cerned with matters so different, that we are
American Revolution as it affected northern taken fairly by surprise when we find our-
New York and the great landed families of selves in the midst of a scene chiefly occupied
that region. When we say that the new work by labor agitation, walking delegates, strikers,
is as good as “Cardigan, the first of the riots, and all the other familiar features of the
series, it is hardly necessary to say more. The present industrial unrest. It is all very vig-
author brings to the composition of these orously depicted, and the ethical treatment of
books a comprehensive acquaintance with the the situation is sane enough, but the author
general history of the period, and a minute does not seem to be quite in his element. In
knowledge of the history and customs of the thus making a problem novel' out of what
Iroquois Confederacy, which materials he had better have remained a story of private
turns to effective romantic account. He gives interest, Mr. Pier proves rather disappointing.
us historical truth, wholesome excitement, and The best part of his work is that which is
no small measure of literary art all at once; least closely related to the industrial com-
and for so much of good it would be churlish plication upon which he depends for his cli-
not to give thanks.
The Fortunes of the Landrays,' by Mr. That joyous romancer, Mr. A. T. Quiller-
max.


310
[Nov. 16,
THE DIAL
Couch, in ‘The Mayor of Troy, has given us Patricia: A Mother' is the latest novel by
another of his quaint and inimitable tales of Iota' (Mrs. Caffyn). The author has made
the Cornish coast. The setting is historical, a notable advance in her art since the days
being that of the threatened Napoleonic inva of ' A Yellow Aster,' and has learned to invest
sion, whereby, indeed, hangs the substance of a poignant situation with deep human inter-
the tale. For the mayor of Troy, who is also est. When Patricia's husband dies, her re-
major of the volunteer artillery, and a very maining family consists of a boy and a mother-
important person in his bailiwick, becomes the in-law. Of the boy she has seen little, for he
victim of an extraordinary mishap midway in has been kept away from her most of the
the narrative. Snatched by ruthless fate from time. Of the mother-in-law she has seen, and
the scenes of his glory, he is seized by a press continues to see, far too much. The action of
gang, under circumstances which preclude any the story moves about the struggle between
proof of his identity, and carried off to become mother and mother-in-law to get possession of
an ornament of the British navy. The ship the boy's affections. The deceased husband
which bears him is blown up off the French had been a man of contemptible character,
coast; he is rescued by the enemy, and lan wearing the mask of hypocrisy so successfully
guishes ten years in a remote military prison. as to appear a true pillar of society, seen in the
Meanwhile, after the mystery of his disap true light by his wife alone, but respected by
pearance has defied solution for a sufficient the world in general, and idolized by his
length of days, he is given up for dead, his mother. His will has left the widow dependent
wealth is distributed according to the terms of upon the mother-in-law, placing the former,
his will, and Troy does him all sorts of by that provision coupled with certain vile
posthumous honors. When he returns — but innuendos, in a suspicious position. The sur-
we will not reveal what happens, remarking rounding county society, which consists largely
only that it is the unexpected. The book of cats, hounds the widow to desperation (this
presents us with one humorous situation after seems to be a bull, but we trust that the mean-
another, crowned by an invention so extraordi ing is clear). Such is the difficult situation
nary that the author may fairly be said to in which Patricia is placed, and from which,
have surpassed his own best previous efforts. by continence of soul and persistence of pur-
Mr. Anthony Hope's latest heroine is an pose, she lifts herself above the reach of malice,
actress with a past. We do not learn what gets her rightful possession of the boy's heart,
that past has been until we are midway in the discomfits the exasperating mother-in-law, si-
book, and when the revelation is made it lences the tongues of scandal, and (not least
proves rather disappointing. It seems that she important in the reckoning) marries the right
has a husband, a weak and dissipated person, man. Her story makes a thoroughly interest-
whom she has left some years before out of ing book.
sheer disgust. But the mere fact of his exist * The Gambler' has not quite the sharpness
ence becomes embarrassing when she allows of interest possessed by • The Masquerader,'
herself to fall in love. The love-making, which but it again shows Mrs. Thurston to be an
is the substance of the story, is all very de- accomplished artificer of fiction, capable of
corous, and neither of the two persons chiefly producing a well-constructed plot and an ani-
concerned takes it with tragic seriousness. mated narrative. The gambler of the title is
When the husband turns up, he is seen in his a woman, the daughter of a dissipated and
true light by the lover, who promptly hustles impecunious Irishman, who after her father's
him off the scene before the wife has even death marries an amiable gentleman of some
spoken to him. Since she has keyed herself up three times her years. This step is prompted
to the point of willingness to reassume some by mingled sentiments of gratitude and honor,
sort of relations with him his abrupt departure and the child has no idea of what it means.
serves as a curious anticlimax. Presently the Of course there is an awakening. It comes
heroine goes to America for a professional en when accident throws her into a pleasure-lov-
gagement, leaving her lover disconsolate, but ing set of English people in Venice, whose gay
not quite sufficiently so to work very deeply worldliness and easy morality fascinate the
upon our sympathies. When she returns, it young wife. She is also led to discover that
transpires that she has divorced her dissolute she has an innate passion for gambling, inher-
consort and married her manager. The story ited from her father,— a passion that becomes
is written in a vein of grave comedy, pleasing inordinate when once aroused. This leads to
but not stirring in effect. Its half-dozen chief dangerous complications, almost to crime and
characters are delicately defined, while its dic the recklessness of despair. Before the full
tion is an acceptable compound of natural dia- development of this tendency, however, the
logue, engaging description, and agreeable so husband dies as amiably as he has lived, and
cial philosophy.
the inevitable young man appears upon the


1905.]
311
THE DIAL
scene. This is what eventually saves the hero crete active energy,' the fusion under Balzac's
ine from herself, although only in the nick of hand of all elements of fictional picture,-charac-
time, for her indiscretions are such that she is
ters, motives, and action,- and, finally, the prod-
on the point of drowning herself when he in- igality of his genius and its products. With ex-
tervenes. The interest of this book is rather
cellent imagery he cites the difference to his own
theatrical than real, and we could imagine it
mind,- that of an 'emulous fellow-worker,'— be-
tween other novelists and Balzac: "These are
turned into a highly effective play.
but glimmering lanterns, however, you will say,
WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE. to hang in the great dusky and deserted avenue
that leads up to the seated statue of Balzac; and
you are so far right, I am bound to admit, as that
I place them there, no doubt, in a great measure,
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS.
just to render the darkness visible.' Another
To a reviewer who was privileged
passage of allegory that will long remain in
Brilliant essays
to hear Mr. James lecture when
memory, is the delicate and keen portrayal of
by Mr. James.
the atmosphere,' the time of day or season of
he was in this country last Spring,
there comes a special interest and delight in
the year, suggested to Mr. James's mind by the
reading his two lectures in book-form, in which
writings of the more familiar novelists of Eng-
land and America (pp. 81-83). These essays
they are given the title "The Question of our
will raise a divergence of opinion, as does all of
Speech, and The Lesson of Balzac' (Houghton).
Listening to the even flow of sentences so com-
Mr. James's literary work; but however widely
plex and elusive, so solidly fraught with unique
readers may differ from his point of view, all
will recognize the stimulating intellectual quality.
and weighty thoughts and mannerisms, one's
pleasure was mixed with the constant impression
of losing almost as much as one could cull and A good guide The satisfaction afforded by faith-
remember. To read these same thoughts, chal to the study ful study and clear treatment of
lenging and uplifting in turn, to be able to re-
of Pictures.
facts is the chief pleasure which
read many of them, as often seems necessary, is awaits the reader of Mr. Charles H. Caffin's 'How
to grasp the full purport of the messages, and to to Study Pictures' (Century Co.). The author
realize the logically balanced structure and the possesses unusual qualifications for the work, and
fine shadings of thought and diction which char holds sound views as to the real nature and func-
acterize Mr. James's work in criticism and in tion of art. He traces the evolution of modern
terpretation. In the first essay, delivered as a painting, from the Byzantine traditions which pre-
Commencement Address at Bryn Mawr, he has vailed before Cimabue down to the latest possi-
well emphasized the overlooked needs in America bilities introduced by the pointilliste method of
of a virtual consensus of educated people to im Monet. By means of a series of comparisons of
part to our ech coherent culture,' to estab paintings and painters, with historical and bio-
lish “ a tone standard' like the criterion of other graphical summaries and appreciations of the
peoples, to cultivate due regard for the vowel
painters' motives and methods, he stimulates in-
and consonant sounds that are most neglected, terest and the faculty of observation; and he has
and to train our 'tonic possibilities' so that endeavored to include as many as possible of the
sweetness and ease, not cheapness, slovenliness, motives and methods which from time to time have
and discord, may characterize our speech. The prevailed, so that the student may gain a basis
few examples cited are well chosen to illustrate of appreciation from which to extend his obser-
the common looseness of tone even among edu vations with adequate understanding. He has
cated classes; one smiles with sympathy at his followed the course of painting in different coun-
symbolic arraignment of newspaper headlines, in tries, according as it flourished in them simulta-
the journals with largest circulation, as "affect neously, or as it declined in one and appeared
ing us like the roar of some myriad-faced mon with vigor in another. He has shown how the
ster as the grimaces, the shouts, shrieks and manifestations of art have varied in response to
yells, ranging over the whole gamut of ugliness, the racial and temporary conditions of each
irrelevance, dissonance, of a mighty maniac who country; how one impulse or movement followed
has broken loose and who is running amuck another, all of them involving truth, but none
through the spheres alike of sense and of sound.' monopolizing the whole truth; how the manifes-
It would seem as if the place of honor, both in tations and possibilities of painting are wide and
space and title, should be given to the second varions as human nature. While possessing a
essay in the volume, · The Lesson of Balzac,' for simplicity of method which conveys to the ave-
it is a notable piece of literary criticism in its rage reader a general insight into pictorial meth-
concentrated vigor, its elucidation of the novel ods and motives, the author's work is character-
ist's art, and its nicety of phrase. Recognizing ized by elegance of style, grace of feeling, and
in Balzac the master-artist of modern fiction, elevation of thought; it will do as much good
pausing only for a word now and then of effective in the direct service of art as any treatise pub-
comparison with George Sand, Zola, Meredith, or lished in recent years. In fact, it might be
Jane Austen, the critic passes rapidly to his evi studied to advantage by those to whom is en-
dence in favor of his subject and the 'lesson' trusted the noble charge of founding and man-
which he has accepted, the opportunity for a aging our new art museums; for, as has fre-
certain intensity of educative practise,' the 'con quently been pointed out, it is not enough that


812
[Nov. 16,
THE DIAL
DIAL
For all those
who love the
those who manage art museums should simply moves on with a calm and remorseless precision
have enthusiasm for art, or patriotism, or knowl that strips Mohammed of whatever robes of
edge and skill in the science of general education, romance our fancy had woven round him, and
or business tact, or money,- they must also have leaves him scarce rags enough to furnish a suit
a clear conception of the real nature of art, its for Telephus. His early life in Meccah is rapidly
legitimate aims, its capacities and incapacities, sketched up to his thirty-ninth year, when he
its relations to our daily life.
received his first 'revelation,' and with equal
boldness and caution set about establishing a
Relations of
That Mr. Bliss Carman is a poet
new faith of whose vast expansion he could of
Nature, Art, of high ideals for his art, yet well
and Life.
course have no conception. The familiar outlines
in touch with the main currents
of his career as Prophet are then traced. The
of daily life, was shown in his earlier volumes
famous and epoch-making Flight (which it seems
of essays, “The Kinship of Nature' and The
we must spell Hijra instead of Hegira) in Sep-
Friendship of Art.' To these he has just added a
tember, 622, to Yathrib (Medinah); the years of
third, “The Poetry of Life' (Page). That Mr.
vicissitude while God's kingdom on earth was
Carman is master of a stimulating style in verse
being established by the very human methods of
and prose alike is evidenced by this sane, hope intimidation, plunder, and "pitched battle; the
ful, yet discriminating study of varied phases of
final capture of his native Meccah; the extension
art and life. The keynote of optimism is struck
of his power over the inhabited parts of the great
near the first paragraph: “The beauty of the peninsula,,all these periods are examined with
world so outreaches and overcomes all its ugli-
care and candor. Full recognition is accorded to
ness, is so much more prevalent and vital and
the genius of the organizer and leader; while his
persistent.' A second pervasive thought is in
many foibles are exposed with a grave sarcasm
juxtaposition,- the necessity of sincerity in life not unworthy of Gibbon. After following with
and in art, and the accusation that the insincere deepening interest Mr. Margoliouth's philosophic
artist is ‘morally a felon.' Much attention is
inquiry, most readers will understand and accept
given to the growth of industrial arts, to handi his estimate of Mohammed as the possessor of a
craft, wich the Japanese, he asserts, have made genius equal to the emergencies but not too great
almost equal to the fine arts; and to the decad-
for them?; and as endowed, “beneath the mask
ence of the artistic possibilities in the workman of the enthusiast, with the sanest and soundest
under the stress of current mercantile condi-
common-sense.'
tions. Some of the chapters are general in
suggestion and elucidation, - 'The Purpose of
Having appeared in many previous
volumes as a guide to practical
Poetry,' 'How to Judge Poetry,' "The Defense
outdoor world.
of Poetry,' 'The Permanence of Poetry,' etc.
people in the affairs of garden and
field, Professor Bailey now appears, in a little
Other pages are devoted to specific reviews of the
volume of essays which he calls ‘The Outlook to
poetry of Browning, Swinburne, Longfellow, and
James Whitcomb Riley. In Mr. Carman's judg-
Nature' (Macmillan), as philosopher and friend
to all who love the out-door world. Wholly un-
ment, Mr. Riley, with his wholesomeness, com-
professional and undidactic, these four essays,
mon sense, and conservative cheerfulness, full of
sweetest vitality and soundest merriment,' is the
on "The Realm of the Commonplace,' 'Country
typical American poet of our day. Remonstrance
and City,' The School of the Future,' and 'Evo-
and encouragement are well blended in the main
lution,' have still both the authority and piquancy
by Mr. Carman. If his views on the decadence
of expert knowledge. They are the delightful,
of moral standards and tastes seem somewhat
self-revealing conversation of a good teacher off
extreme, we must remember that they are shared
duty. In his love of the commonplace, Mr. Bailey
is a follower of Whitman,-a man who 'believes
by many a man of practical affairs. With the
in the weather' and 'preaches the soil, the sky,
exception of a few extreme statements, the essays
are inviting and rewarding to the reader. The
and the people who labor.' Moreover, while his
trend of the volume is definite,-the endeavor to
heart is easily toward the country, his mind is
make art, especially poetry, contribute to the art
open toward the city. He is wise enough to see
of living. Everyone, argues Mr. Carman, may be-
that 'the repose of the nature-lover and the assi-
duous exertion of the man of affairs are comple-
come an artist ' in the conduct of life, if he will
turn his mind to it, cultivating his taste, and,
mentary, not antithetical, states of mind.' He is,
besides, an ardent idealist even in matters of
above all, using patient care,' abjuring haste,
fretfulness, and slovenliness of thought and
education; for although he exposes with pitiful
work.
clearness the poverty and inefficiency of the dis-
trict schools in which nearly half the younger
Mohammed A volume on Mohammed, by Mr. children of the land are being under-educated.
D. S. Margoliouth, is the latest he believes that the schools both of city and
of a nation.
addition to the 'Heroes of the Na country will soon come into closer contact with
tions' series (Putnam). It must be admitted real life. 'In an agricultural community, for
that the founder of Islam is a 'hero’ mostly in example,' he says, 'all the farms of the neighbor-
the technical sense, to this his most recent bio hood will afford training in the elements of
grapher. Composed in the strictest modern failure and success. There is no reason why the
scientific spirit, and buttressed by a formidable pupils should not know why and how a man suc-
list of authorities whose names form short verti ceeds with his orchard or dairy or factory, as
cal columns at the foot of the page, the narrative well as to have cyclopedia information about
138
as the hero


1905.]
313
THE DIAL
the names of capes and mountains, dates, and be looked to for help in this struggle, the lead-
the like; and why should not every good farmer ers turned to the men and parties within the em-
explain his operations to the pupils ?' The clos pire that were carrying on a similar struggle for
ing chapter, on Evolution, touches the very heart political rights. The book gives an account of
of the author's faith in nature, and reveals the the patriotic efforts that have led to thousands
spirit in which he works and teaches. If there of martyrdoms and to the cruelties that have at-
is nothing altogether new in the book, there is tended the government policy of repression. The
nothing that is not sensible, and very little that
story of the long protracted struggle is told with
is not also inspiring.
self-control, with fairness, and with effect. After
Pictures of
a brief statement of the origins of the revolu-
Probably every student of Eng-
Milton and lish life and letters would assent
tionary movement in the attempts of Peter the
his times.
to Green's characterization of
Great and Catherine II. to Europeanize Russia,
Milton as the ideal Puritan.' The lapse of years
and from the mingling of the Russian armies
has left us in the poet's works the noblest inter-
with those of Western Europe in the campaigns
pretation of the ideals of that movement in Eng-
against Napoleon, the author proceeds to give a
land which stood for larger individualism and
detailed account of the growth of the movement
seriousness of life. Upon this conception of Mil-
under each ruler since that time. Though the ac-
ton, Mr. Tudor Jenks has added to his voluines
count is that of an avowed opponent of the gov-
on Chaucer and Shakespeare another under the
ernment, the author carries the reader with him
title,. In the Days of Milton' (A. S. Barnes &
by his evident desire to keep to the facts of his-
Co.). This book gives a vivid sense of reality to
tory, and by his freedom from denunciation and
the stirring period from the accession of James
bitterness. The account is of absorbing interest,
I. to the death of Milton in 1674. Out of a wide
and may well be read by all who desire to obtain
range of reading the author has brought together
an inside view of the underlying causes of present
the most significant details for graphic statement,
conditions in Russia. The developments from
and has skilfully interwoven the career of Mil-
day to day, astounding as they are, accord well
ton as a man, as a controversialist, and as a poet.
with the prophecies of this author.
The sturdy and reflective Puritan character is
There are indications that Mr.
presented in wide contrast to that of the gay and Cortes, hero and
pleasure-loving Cavalier. The protracted politi-
raider of Mexico. Frederick A. Ober's 'Hernando
Cortés, Conqueror of Mexico
cal and religious controversy culminating in the
(Harper & Brothers) is first of a series of small
civil war, the story of the Commonwealth, and
volumes on the 'Heroes of American History';
the restoration of royalty, are pictured with an
but whether the lives of other heroes are to be
intelligent sense of their composite effect on the
prepared by Mr. Ober, or by other writers, does
mind and work of the poet. The treatment of
not appear. There are, furthermore, some 'in-
Milton throughout the narrative is sympathetic.
ternal evidences,' as a 'higher critic' might say,
The author is luminous rather than critical, gives
that Mr. Ober's book is written for the entertain-
a touch of imagination to the accuracy of facts,
ment of youthful readers. Readable it certainly
and inspires with fresh human interest a national
is, to one who is not fastidious regarding the his-
movement commonly thought of as only bitter
torical accuracy of the book he is reading. And
and austere.
the author makes it clear that he finds little jus-
Recent startling events in Russia
More light on
tification for the most important acts of his hero.
Darkest Russia.
lend unexpected timeliness to the
But as an account of the economic conditions
which existed in Mexico at the time of the raid
Russian Revolutionary Movement' (Dutton). The
of Cortés, of the Aztecs, and of their civiliza-
book was written with the special object of en-
lightening public opinion in Finland upon the
tion,' it is an exaggerated following of the ultra-
Romantic School of American historians. And
history of the revolutionary movement in Russia;
it suggests the question, whether or not an ac-
and it has been translated for Anglo-Saxon read-
curate account of the conditions prevailing in
ers by the authority and at the request of the
Tenochtitlan in the early part of the sixteenth
author. The Finnish Grand Duchy has been loyal
to the Tsar because the Tsars have been loyal
century, and of the subversion of the Aztecs by
the Spanish freebooters at that time, could not
to their pledge to maintain the political rights
be made as entertaining to minds, either youthful
of the Finns; and that people have been largely
ignorant of the repressive and cruel policy car-
or mature, as the fanciful accounts usually given
of the series of incidents which go by the name
ried out in the rest of the Russian Empire. But
of 'The Conquest of Mexico.'
after ninety years of peaceful relations, the fool-
ish advisors of the present Tsar persuaded him,
An excellent handbook for those
Nature and
in the interest of the autocratic principle, to ex-
who are interested in the finer
the camera.
tend that system over Finland; and he weakly
problems of photography is Mr.
consented to violate his solemn promise and the Snell's "The Camera in the Fields' (A. Wessels
promises of his predecessors, and took away from Co.). The fact that the book is an English pub-
the Finns their cherished political rights and at:' lication does not lessen its usefulness, for the
tempted to annihilate their nationality. The gal directions about lenses, rests, shutters, focusing,
lant struggle that the Finns have made, to which backgrounds, etc., are so clearly given as to be
recent events give promise of success, is known easily adapted to cameras of different makes.
to all the world. Since no outside country could After careful directions about all the details of
work of Konni Zilliacus on The


314
(Nov. 16,
THE DIAL
Modern
outlooks
field work, and the development of plates, the Mr. Malcolm Townsend's " U. S. Curious Facts
author devotes separate chapters to the problems has been born again as a ' Handbook of United
of ornithology, zoology, entomology, and botany.
States Political History for Readers and Students,!
The photographs with which the book is illus-
and is published by the Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
Co. It is one of the most useful of reference
trated are as cosmopolitan as the camera itself,
books for teacher and student alike, and the
for such exquisite touches of nature make the
amount of out-of-the-way information which it col
whole world kin. It is scarcely gracious to choose lects and classifies is simply amazing.
among such beauties; but perhaps the most admir "The American Jewish Year Book' for 5666, ed-
able is that of a bedewed spider's web, in which ited by Dr. Cyrus Adler and Miss Henrietta Szold,
not only each strand, but nearly every dew-drop, has just come to us from the Jewish Publication
is distinctly perfect. Possibly some readers will Society of America. This is the seventh annual
suffer.zero at the bone' because of the pictures
issue of the work, and its regular appearance is
henceforth assured.
of snakes; if so, they can turn the pages until
The special feature of the
orchids and moths and anemones restore them.
present issue is a sort of 'who's who' compilation
of biographical sketches of Jewish communal work.
The author passes over with a few modest words
ers in the United States. The review of the past
the thought that such advanced photography will
year, by Mr. Max L. Margolis, is a record of melan-
soon revolutionize text-books and affect all scien choly interest.
tific study. But the reader gladly pauses to won 'One Hundred Best American Poems,' selected
der whither such possibilities will lead. If an by Mr. John R. Howard, and 'Selections from the
album of beautiful pictures can be made for the Writings of Benjamin Franklin,' edited by Mr. U.
study of each tree, and if the life-history of each
Waldo Cutler, are two new volumes in the Handy
insect, even to the instant when the chrysalis
Volume Classics' of the Messrs. Crowell. The
opens to free the butterfly, can be presented to
same publishers, in their " What Is Worth While
series of booklets, send us · Books in Their Sea.
the eye in permanent form, our knowledge of the
sons,' by Mrs. Annie Russell Marble; Faith and
world about us will soon grow to delightful inti-
Life,' by Dr. Charles E. Jefferson; The Beauty of
macy.
Kindness,' by Dr. J. R. Miller; and 'Is Life Worth
The name of G. Lowes Dickinson Living,' by Mr. Frederick Lynch.
is not so familiar to American as to Mr. Walter L. Sheldon of the St. Louis Ethical
on life.
English readers, who associate it Society, has published a little book on · The Divine
closely with the New Paganism' of which Wal Comedy of Dante.' The author declares himself
ter Pater was the prophet. Mr. Dickinson is one
a teacher in ethics' rather than a 'Dante Schol-
of the most earnest preachers of Hellenism, and
ar,' and describes the four lectures that make up
his book as ' intended especially for those who
the charm of his style adds a pleasing force to
have never read the poem but would like to know
his arguments. 'A Modern Symposium' (Mc-
something about it.' These guide-posts of warning
Clure, Phillips & Co.) is the latest work from his
are set up in plain view so that the book is not
pen. It purports to be an account of a meeting likely to find its way to the wrong audience. The
of philosophers representing all the various po class of people for whom it is written may read it
litical and social systems of the world. The with both interest and profit. Mr. S. Burns Wes-
Conservative, the Radical, the Socialist, the An-
ton, Philadelphia, is the publisher.
archist, the Scientist, the Poet, and many more,
President Roosevelt has recently gone out of his
each pleads his own cause. The closing speaker,
way (if such a thing be possible) to recommend
noted simply as a man of letters, distinctly rep-
the poems of Mr. Edward Arlington Robinson, and
a new edition of "The Children of the Night'
resents Mr. Dickinson's theories of life, and at-
(Scribners) is the natural consequence. Lovers of
tempts to sum up all the virtues of all the other
poetry have known the book well enough these
systems. "A Modern Symposium' is a little book, many years, and it is now likely to reach the eyes.
and while it scarcely answers to the original of many of the merely curious whether they love
festive and merry significance of the Greek title, poetry or not. This time the presidential lightning
it will afford a pleasant hour's reading.
has struck in the right place, for Mr. Robinson's
work has never got half the attention it deserved.
This volume includes "The Torrent" and "The
Night Before,' which poems gave a title to the
BRIEFER MENTION.
author's first public venture.
To those who had the privilege of listening to
To the 'Standard English Classics' of Messrs.
the Sunday discourses of the Rev. David Swing,
Ginn & Co. there are now added Thackeray's the poet preacher' of Chicago, and who learned
'Henry Esmond', edited by Mrs. Hamilton Byron
to appreciate his eloquent and stimulating utter-
Moore; 'Burke's Speech on American Taxation',
ances, it would seem a pity that words of such
edited by Professor James Hugh Moffatt; and
power and beauty should not be preserved beyond
'England in 1885', being a chapter of Macaulay's their author's death. Some of them have, indeed,
'History', edited by Professor Årlo Bates.
found their way into little books of essays
The Kinkodo Publishing Company, Toyko, has sermons published during his life; but these
issued a very interesting sketch of the career of will not preclude, rather they make the more in.
Admiral Togo by Professor Arthur Lloyd, M.A., viting, the volume of selections from his hitherto.
of the Imperial University. It is not merely a unpublished writings, prepared with care and taste
biography of the 'Nelson of Japan,' but also a by Miss Sophie B. Kimball. Beauty, spirituality,
description of the stirring events in which he par the value of high ideals in life and thought, fill
ticipated and a philosophical treatment of the his these inspiring pages.
The volume is attractively
tory and politics of those events. It is well worth printed, and is to be had of Messrs. A. C. McClurg
a careful reading.
& Co.
or


1905.]
315
THE DIAL
NOTES.
LIST OF NEW BOOKS.
[The following list, containing 200 titles, includes books
received by THE DIAL since its last issue.]
BIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIRS.
THE LIFE AND SPEECHES OF THOMAS WILLIAMS, Orator,
Statesman, and Jurist, 1806-1872. By Burton Alva
Konkle; with introduction by Hon. Philander Chaso
Knox, LL.D. In 2 vols., illus. in photogravure, etc.,
large 8vo, gilt tops, uncut. Philadelphia: Campion &
Co. $6, net.
SIDNEY LANIER. By Edwin Mims. Illus. in photogravure,
etc., 12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 386. Houghton, Mimin
& Co. $1.50 net.
QUEEN MARY OF MODENA : Her Life and Letters. By
Martin Haile. Illus. in photogravure, large 8vo, gilt
top, uncut, pp. 523. E. P. Dutton & Co. $4 net.
HENRY VIII. By A. F. Pollard, M.A. New edition ; with
photogravure portrait, 12mo, gilt top, .uncut, pp. 470.
Longmans, Green & Co. $2.60 net.
QUEENS OF THE FRENCH STAGE. By H. Noel Williams.
Illus. in photogravure, etc., large 8vo, gilt top, uncut,
Charles Scribner's Sons. $2.50 net.
JAMES GILLESPIE BLAINE. By Edward Stanwood, Litt.
D. With photogravure portrait, 12mo, gilt top, PP.
377. 'American Statesmen.' Houghton, Mifflin &
Co. $1.25 net.
DAVID G. FARRAGUT. By John Randolph Spears. Illus.,
12mo, gilt top, pp. 407. 'American Crisis Biogra-
phies.' G. W. Jacobs & Co. $1.25 net.
PERSONS AND PLACES. By Joel Benton. Illus., 12mo,
gilt top., uncut, pp. 113. Broadway Publishing Co.
$1.25.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE. By Edmund Gosse. 12mo, gilt top,
uncut, pp. 214. 'English Men of Letters.' Macmil-
lan Co. 75 cts, net.
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. With portrait,
18mo, uncut, pp. 67. New York: Francis D. Tandy Co.
ADIRONDACK MURRAY : A Biographical Appreciation. By
Harry V. Radford. Illus., 24mo, pp. 84. Broadway
Publishing Co. 50 cts.
pp. 365.
on
'The Life That Counts,' by Mr. Samuel Valentine
Cole, is a volume of pleasant moralizing-half ser-
mon and half essay-published by the Messrs. Crow-
ell.
Ben Jonson's "The Devil Is an Ass,' edited by
Dr. William Savage Johnson, adds another volume
to the set of Jonson's plays which is rapidly taking
shape among the ‘Yale Studies in English.' Messrs.
Henry Holt & Co. are the publishers.
An authoritative account of the civic renas-
cence' in America has been prepared by Professor
Charles Zueblin, and will be issued at once by the
University of Chicago Press in a volume entitled
• A Decade of Civic Development.'
For their well-known • American Statesmen
series Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. have in
active preparation volumes on Sherman, Grant, ani
McKinley, written by Messrs. Theodoré E. Burton,
Samuel W. McCall, and T. C. Dawson, respectively.
А work
Primary Facts in Religious
Thought,' by Dr. Alfred W. Wishart, and a new
edition, revised and illustrated, of Professor Charles
J. Chamberlain's 'Methods in Plant Histology
will be published at once by the University of
Chicago Press.
Professor Frank Heywood Hodder has edited for
the Arthur H. Clark Co. a reprint of Captain Philip
Pittman's ' Present State of the European Settle-
ments on the Mississippi,' first published in London
in 1770. This is the earliest account of the Mis-
sissippi settlements, and is a work of much value
to students of early Western history. The same
publishing firm has also in preparation a reprint of
Elias Pym Fordham's Personal Narrative of
Travels in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Indiana, Kentucky; and of a Residence in the
Illinois Territory, 1817-1818,' to be edited by Mr.
Frederic Austin Ogg.
Announcement is made of the organization of a
national publication committee in the field of
practical philanthropy and social advance. Its first
work has been to merge the two periodicals,' Char.
of New York, and · The Commons of
Chicago, and beginning with this month they will
appear as a combined weekly publication. From
its inception
« Charities has stood for progress
in organized effort for bettering social conditions.
• The Commons' has been a spirited exponent of
the settlement movement. Their editors, Mr. Ed-
ward T. Devine and Professor Graham Taylor, will
be associated in the editorship of the joint under-
taking. This combining of two such strong forces
will doubtless result in largely increased effective-
ness in a work which should have the support of
all right-thinking Americans.
In connection with their forthcoming new edition
of George Eliot's 'Romola,' edited and illustrated
from the historical standpoint by the distinguished
Italian scholar Dr. Guido Biagi, Messrs. A. C.
McClurg & Co. have just received the following
note from the editor: I have found the original
cards of all the books studied by George Eliot
here in the National Library for “ Romola.''
These books, with their ancient views of Florence,
gave to her the first idea of the scenery of the
novel. I have reproduced the cards, signed by
Lewes, studying with her.' These new discoveries
should prove a feature of much interest in this
new edition of a favorite classic. The work is
to be issued in two volumes, uniform with Mrs.
McMahan's successful 'Florence in the Poetry of
the Brownings' and ' With Shelley in Italy.'
ities'
HISTORY.
A HISTORY OF OUR OWN TIMES. By Justin McCarthy.
Vols. IV. and V., From the Diamond Jubilee, 1897, to
the Accession of King Edward VII. Illus., 8vo. Har-
per & Brothers. Per vol., $1.40 net.
A HISTORY OF EGYPT, from the Earliest Times to the Per-
sian Conquest. By James Henry Breasted, Ph.D.
Illus. in color, etc., 4to, gilt top, pp. 634. Charles
Scribner's Sons. $5. net.
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND, from the Norman Conquest
to the Death of John (1066-1216). By George Bur-
ton Adams. Large Svo, pp. 473. Longmans, Green
& Co. $2.60 net.
RHODE ISLAND: A Study in Separatism. By Irving Ber-
dine Richman. With map, 12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp.
395. 'American Commonwealths.' Houghton, Miffin
& Co. $1.10 net.
LOUISIANA: A Record of Expansion. By Albert Phelps.
With map, 12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 412. 'American
Commonwealths.' Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $1.10 net.
GENERAL LITERATURE.
ESSAYS IN APPLICATION. By Henry van Dyke. 12mo,
gilt top, uncut, pp. 282. Charles Scribner's Sons.
$1.50 net.
IN OUR CONVENT DAYS. By Agnes Repplier, Litt. D.
16mo, gilt top, pp. 256. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
$1.10 net.
WITH SHELLEY IN ITALY. Compiled by Anna Benneson
McMahan. Illus., 12mo, gilt top, PP. 293. A. C.
McClurg & Co. $1.40 net.
THE HATZFELDT LETTERS : Letters of Count Paul Hatz-
feldt to His Wife, Written from the Headquarters
of the King of Prussia, 1870-71. Trans. from the
French by J. L. Bashford, M.A. Illus. in photogra-
vure, etc., large 8vo, gilt top, pp. 296. E. P. Dutton
& Co. $4. net.
IL LIBRO D'ORO of Those Whose Names are Written in
the Lamb's Book of Life. Translations by Mrs. Fran-
cis Alexander. 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 489. Little,
Brown & Co. $2. net.
THE LEGEND OF FAIR HELEN, as told by Homer, Goethe,
and Others : A Study. By Eugene Oswald, M.A.
With photogravure frontispiece, large 8vo, gilt top,
pp. 211.
E. P. Dutton & Co. $2.50 net.
FACTS AND FANCIES FOR THE CURIOUS, from the Harvest-
Fields of Literature: A Melange of Excerpta. Col-
lated by Charles C. Bombaugh, A.M. 8vo, pp. 647.
J. B. Lippincott Co. $3. net.


316
[Nov. 16,
THE DIAL
UNDER GUIDING STARS : A Massachusetts Story of the
Century End. By Agnes Blake Poor. 16mo, pp. 324.
G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1.25.
AROUND THE WORLD WITH JOSIAH ALLEN'S WIFE. By
Marietta Holley. Illus., 8vo, pp. 471. G. W. Dilling-
ham Co. $1.50.
MRS. RAFFLES : Being the Adventures of an Amateur
Crackswoman. Narrated by Bunny; edited by John
Kendrick Bangs. 16mo, pp. 180. Harper & Brothers.
$1.25.
EDENINDIA : A Tale of Adventure. By J. P. Armour.
12mo, pp. 317. G. W. Dillingham Co. $1.50.
SAINT ABIGAIL OF THE PINES. By William Allen Knight.
With frontispiece, 12mo, uncut, pp. 185. Pilgrim
Press. $1.
THE SECRET OF WOLD HALL. By Evelyn Everett-Green.
12mo, pp. 341. A, C. McClurg & Co. $1.
THE WARN OF THE SEWING CIRCLE. By Edna Edwards
Wylie. With frontispiece, 12mo, pp. 202. Little,
Brown & Co. $1.
THE ABANDONED FARM, and Connie's Mistake. By Mrs.
Mary J. Holmes. With frontispiece, 12mo, pp. 319.
G. W. Dillingham Co. $1.
A WORLD WITHOUT CHILD. By Coulson Kernahan.
12mo, uncut, pp. 64. F. H. Revell Co. 50 cts. net.
THE HOUSE BY THE RIVER. By Florence Warden. 12mo,
Pp. 311.
J. S. Ogilvie Publishing Co. $1.
WHEN JOY BEGINS: A Little Story of the Woman-Heart.
By Clara E. Laughlin. 12mo, uncut, pp. 96. Flem-
ing H. Revell Co. 50 cts. net.
pp. 146.
A
LETTERS FROM THE DEAD TO THE DEAD. By Oliver Lec-
tor. 8vo, pp. 78. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $1.50 net.
THE GREAT WORD. By Hamilton Wright Mabie. 16mo,
gilt top, uncut, pp. 290. Dodd, Mead & Co. $1. net.
ORIENTAL STUDIES. By Lewis Dayton Burdick. 8vo, gilt
top, uncut, pp. 150. Oxford, N. Y.: Irving Co. $1 net.
NEW EDITIONS OF STANDARD LITERATURE.
MISCELLANEOUS WORKS OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH. With
photogravure portrait, 18mo, gilt top, pp. 767. 'Cax-
ton Thin Paper Classics.' Charles Scribner's Sons.
Leather, $1.25 net.
A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES, and Underwoods. By Rob-
ert Louis Stevenson. With photogravure portrait
and vignette, 16mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 134. H. B.
Turner & Co. $1.25.
EUPHRANOR: A Dialogue on Youth. By Edward FitzGer-
ald; with introduction by Frederic Chapman. 24mo,
'Pocket Library.' John Lane. 75 cts. net.
BOOKS OF VERSE.
THE GREAT ADVENTURE. By George Cabot. Lodge. 12mo,
gilt top, pp. 90. Houghton, Miffin & Co. $1. net.
ALCESTIS, and Other Poems. By Sara King Wiley. 16mo,
gilt top, uncut, pp. 60. Macmillan Co. 75 cts. net.
SELECTIONS FROM THE POEMS OF JOHN GODFREY SAXE.
With photogravure portrait, 12mo, pp. 57. Houghton,
Mimin & Co. $1.
THE LAST OF THE STUARTS: A Dramatic Poem in Five
Acts. By Charles Julian. Illus., 8vo, uncut, pp. 159.
Denver: Reinert Publishing Co.
EUGENE: A Romance of the Civil War. By M. Dunton
Sparrow. Illus., 8vo, gilt top, pp. 32. Boston: James
H. West Co. 75 cts.
THE CONFESSIONS OF JOHN ALLEN, and Other Poems.
By John Allen. With frontispiece, 12mo, Pp. 359.
Chicago: Mandel & Phillips Co.
FICTION.
THE CONQUEST OF CANAAN. By Booth Tarkington. Illus.,
12mo, pp. 380. Harper & Brothers, $1.50.
HEART'S DESIRE. By Emerson Hough. Illus., 12mo, gilt
top, pp. 367. Macmillan Co. $1.50.
TWISTED EGLANTINE. By H. B. Marriott Watson. Illus.,
12mo, pp. 387. D. Appleton & Co. $1.50.
THE DEBTOR. By Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. Illus.,
12mo, pp. 563. Harper & Brothers. $1.50.
OUTSIDE THE LAW. By James Barnes. Illus., 12mo, pp.
281. D. Appleton & Co. $1.50.
THE ROAD-BUILDERS. By Samuel Merwin. Illus., 12mo,
gilt top, pp. 313. Macmillan Co. $1.50.
THE MAN FROM RED KEG. By Eugene Thwing. Illus.,
12mo, pp. 431. Dodd, Mead & Co. $1.50.
THE MOUNTAIN OF FEARS. By Henry C. Rowland. Illus.,
12mo, pp. 301. A. S. Barnes & Co. $1.50.
OLD LIM JUCKLIN: The Opinions of an Open-Air Philoso-
pher. By Opie Read. 12mo, pp. 262. Doubleday,
Page & Co. $1.50.
VIVIEN. By W. B. Maxwell. 12mo, pp. 606. D. Apple-
ton & Co. $1.50.
SIR GALAHAD OF NEW FRANCE. By William Henry John-
son. 12mo, uncut, pp. 356. H. B. Turner & Co.
$1.50.
THE PROFESSOR'S LEGACY. By Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick.
12mo, pp. 322. Henry Holt & Co. $1.50.
SONS O MEN. By G. B. Lancaster. 12mo, pp. 299.
Doubleday, Page & Co. $1.59.
REPTILES. Written and illustrated by Henry W. Mc-
Vickar. 12mo, pp. 208. D. Appleton & Co. $1.50.
THE PANG-YANGER. By Elma A. Travis, M.D. 12mo,
pp. 336.
McClure, Phillips & Co. $1.50.
THE HOUSE OF
MERRILEES. By Archibald Marshall.
12mo, uncut, pp. 387. H. B. Turner & Co. $1.50.
1. N. R. I. : A Prisoner's Story of the Cross. By Peter
Rosegger; trans. by Elizabeth Lee; illus. in color by
Corwin Knapp Linson. 12mo, pp. 340. McClure,
Phillips & Co. $1.50.
BACK TO ARCADY. By Frank Waller Allen. Illus., 8vo,
gilt top, pp. 157. H. B. Turner & Co. $1.25.
A BROTHER OF CHRIST: A Tale of Western Kentucky.
By Ingram Crockett. Illus. in color, 12mo, gilt top,
PP. 309.
Broadway Publishing Co. $1.50.
MRS. VAN TWILLER'S SALON. By Lillie Hamilton French.
12mo, pp. 359. James Pott & Co. $1.50.
THE INTERNATIONAL SPY: Being the Secret History of the
Russo-Japanese War. By Allen Upward ("Monsieur
A. V."). Illus., 12mo, pp. 310. G. W. Dillingham
Co. $1.50.
WHEN YOU WERE A Boy. By Edwin L. Sabin; illus. by
Frederic Dorr Steele. 12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 392.
Baker & Taylor Co. $1.50.
WHERE COPPER WAS KING. By James North Wright.
12mo, pp. 352. Small, Maynard & Co. $1.50.
TRAVEL AND DESCRIPTION.
THE VOYAGE OF THE DISCOVERY. By Captain Robert F.
Scott, C. v. 0. In 2 vols., illus. in color, photogra-
vure, etc., large 8vo, gilt tops, uncut. Charles Scrib-
ner's Sons. $10. net.
TWO IN ITALY. By Maud Howe. Illus., 8vo, gilt top,
uncut, pp. 274. Little, Brown & Co. $2. net.
RELIGION AND THEOLOGY.
THE RECONSTRUCTION OF RELIGIOUS BELIEF. By W. H.
Mallock. 8vo, uncut, pp. 303. Harper & Brothers.
$1.75 net.
LIFE AND RELIGION: An Aftermath from the Writings of
the Right Hon. Professor F. Max Müller, by his Wife.
12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 237. Doubleday, Page &
Co. $1.50 net.
CHINA AND RELIGION. By Edward Harper Parker, M.A.
Illus., large 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 317. E. P.
Dutton & Co. $3.50 net,
THE EVOLUTION OF A GREAT LITERATURE: Natural His-
tory of the Jewish and Christian Scriptures. By New-
ton Mann. 8vo, gilt top, pp. 381. Boston: James H.
West Co. $1.50 net.
CITIES OF PAUL: Beacons of the Past Rekindled for the
Present. By William Burnet Wright. 16mo, gilt top,
pp. 237. Houghton, Mimin & Co. $1.10' net.
BIBLE HISTORY (Old Testament), after the Results of
Historical Criticism. Arranged for students of dif-
ferent ages. By Pastor X. Koening; trans. from the
French by Mary Louise Hendee. 16mo, gilt top, un-
cut, pp. 209. McClure, Phillips & Co. $1. net.
THE INWARD LIGHT. By_Amory H. Bradford. 12mo, gilt
top, uncut, pp. 359. T. Y. Crowell & Co. $1.20 net.
CHRISTIANITY AND SOCIALISM. By Washington Gladden.
12mo, pp. 244. Eaton & Mains. $1. net.
THE UNIVERSAL ELEMENTS OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION.
By Charles Cuthbert Hull, D.D. 12mo, uncut, pp.
309. Fleming H. Revell Co. $1.25 net.
VISION AND TASK. By George Clarke Peck, 12mo, gilt
top, pp. 289. Eaton & Mains. $1.
THE APOSTLE PAUL. By Alexander Whyte, D.D. 10mo,
pp. 231.
Jennings & Graham. $1. net.
A YOUNG MAN'S RELIGION AND HIS FATHER'S FAITH. By
N. McGee Waters. 16mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 289. T.
Y. Crowell & Co. 90 cts. net.
THE LIFE THAT COUNTS. By Samuel Valentine Cole.
12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 124. T. Y. Crowell & Co.
75 cts. net.
THE BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES: A New Metrical Transla-
tion. By Paul Haupt, LL.D. Large 8vo, gilt edges,
Johns Hopkins Press. 50 cts.
WHEN THE SONG BEGINS. By J. R. Miller.
16mo, pp.
256. T. Y. Crowell & Co. 65 cts. net.
THE JOY THAT NO MAN TAKETH FTOM YOU. By Lilian
Whiting. 18mo, gilt top, pp. 77. Little, Brown & Co.
50 cts. net.
THE INNER LIFE. By J. R. Miller, D.D. Illus., . 12mo,
gilt top, pp. 32. T. Y. Crowell & Co. 50 cts. net.
THE CALL OF TODAY. By Abner H. Lucas, D.D. With
portrait, 12mo, pp. 152. Jennings & Graham. 50 cts,
THE ROYALTY OF JESUS. By Naphtali Luccock, D.D.
12mo, pp. 182. Jennings & Graham. 50 cts.
PP. 47.


1905.]
317
THE DIAL
OLD FASHIONED FLOWERS, and Other Out-of-Door Studies.
By Maurice Maeterlinck; illus. in color by Charles B.
Falls. 16mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 106. Dodd, Mead &
Co. $1.20 net.
ART LOVERS”_TREASURY: Famous Pictures Described in
Poems. Text by Carry Thompson Lowell. Illus.,
12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 281. Dana Estes & Co.
$1.20 net.
SONGS O CHEER. By James Whitcomb Riley ; illus. by
Will Vawter. 12mo, pp.
195. Bobbs-Merrill Co.
$1.25.
THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS. By Henry van Dyke. With
photogravure frontispiece, 16mo, gilt top, uncut, pp.
59. Charles Scribner's Sons. 75 cts. net.
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING IN THE WORLD. By Fletcher
Harper Swift ; illus. by George Alfred Williams.
12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 57. E. P. Dutton & Co. $1.
PSYCHOLOGICAL YEAR BOOK, Second Series. Gathered by
Janet Young. 12mo, uncut. Paul Elder & Co. Paper,
50 cts.
GOOD THINGS AND GRACES. By Isabel Goodhue. 16mo,
Paul Elder & Co. 50 cts. net.
BROADBENT TREASURIES OF THE POETS. Comprising: A
Treasury of Love, A Russell Lowell Treasury, An
Emerson Treasury, A Treasury of Consolation. Each
24mo, uncut. Philadelphia : Broadbent Press.
Per
vol., paper, 10 cts.
pp. 30.
A MARTINEAU YEAR BOOK : Extracts from the Sermons
of James Martineau. Compiled by Fanny Louisa
Weaver. With portrait, 18mo, gilt top, pp. 207.
American Unitarian Association. 75 cts.
SOCIOLOGY.- ECONOMICS. - POLITICS.
GENERAL SOCIOLOGY: An Exposition of the Main Develop-
ment in Sociological Theory from Spencer to Ratzen-
hofer. By Albion W. Small. Large 8vo, pp. 739.
University of Chicago Press. $4. net.
THE SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY OF CAPITAL: Being a Complete
Reprint of the 'New Principles of Political Economy,'
1834, by John Rae, M.A. Edited by Charles Whitney
Mixter, Ph.D. Large 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 485.
Macmillan Co. $4. net.
TRADE UNIONISM AND LABOR PROBLEMS. Edited by John
R. Commons.
8vo, pp. 626. Ginn & Co. $2.50 net.
SOME ETHICAL GAINS THROUGH LEGISLATION. By Flor-
ence Kelley. 12mo, pp.
341. "Citizen's Library.'
Macmillan Co. $1.25 net.
AMERICAN RAILROAD RATES. By Walter Chadwick Noyes.
8vo, pp. 277. Little, Brown & Co. $1.50 net.
THE CHANGING ORDER: A Study of Democracy. By Oscar
Lovell Triggs, Ph.D. 12mo, gilt top, pp. 300. Oscar
L. Triggs Publishing Co. $1.50.
PROBLEMS OF THE PRESENT SOUTH. By Edgar Gardner
Murphy. New edition ; 12mo, pp. 335. Macmillan
Co. Paper, 25 cts. net.
SCIENCE.
EXTINCT ANIMALS. By E. Ray Lankester, M.A. Illus.,
large 8vo, uncut, pp. 331. Henry Holt & Co. $1.75
net.
THE OYSTER: A Popular Summary of a Scientific Study.
By William K. Brooks, Ph.D. Revised edition ; illus.,
8vo, pp. 225. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Press. $1.
net.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS of the Smith-
sonian Institution, for the Year Ending June 30, 1904.
Illus., large 8vo, pp. 804. Government Printing Office.
ART.
CONSTABLE. By M. Sturge Henderson. Illus., 8vo, gilt
top, pp. 239. 'Library of Art.' Charles Scribner's
Sons. $2. net.
PISANELLO. By G. F. Hill, M.A. Illus., 8vo, gilt top,
‘Library of Art.' Charles Scribner's Sons.
$2. net.
HOLIDAY GIFT BOOKS.
OUR NEIGHBORS : Drawings by Charles Dana Gibson. Ob-
long folio. Charles Scribner's Sons. $4.20 net.
IN THE TRACK OF THE MOORS : Sketches in Spain and
Northern Africa. By Sibyl Fitzgerald ; illus. in
color, etc., by Augustine Fitzgerald. 4to, gilt top,
uncut, pp. 204. E. P. Dutton & Co. $6. net.
ENGLISH HOURS. By Henry James ; illus. by Joseph Pen-
nell. 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 336. Houghton, Mifflin
& Co. $3.
THE CASENTINO AND ITS STORY. By Ella Noyes; illus, in
color, etc., by Dora Noyes. Large 8vo, gilt top, un-
cut, pp. 330. E. P. Dutton & Co. $3.50 net.
THE FLORENCE OF LANDOR. By Lilian Whiting. Illus.,
8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 330. Little, Brown & Co.
$2.50 net.
Miss CHERRY-BLOSSOM OF TOKYO. By John Luther
Long. New edition ; illus. in color, 8vo, gilt top, pp.
364.
J. B. Lippincott Co. $2.50.
THE STORY OF NOAH'S ARK. Told and pictured in color
by E. Boyd Smith. Large oblong 8vo. Houghton,
Mifflin & Co. $2. net.
CAROLINE OF COURTLANDT STREET. By Weymer Jay
Mills; illus. by Anna Whelan Betts. 8vo, gilt top,
uncut, pp. 290. Harper & Brothers. $2. net.
AN ORCHARD PRINCESS. By Ralph Henry Barbour. Illus.
in color, 8vo, gilt top, pp. 219. J. B. Lippincott Co.
$2.
MAUD. By Alfred Tennyson; illus. by Margaret and
Helen Armstrong. 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 107.
Dodd, Mead & Co. $1.60 net.
THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER, and Other Cartoons.
John T. McCutcheon. Large 4to. McClure, Phillips
& Co. $1.50 net.
MY LADY'S SLIPPER. By Cyrus Townsend Brady; pic-
tures by Charlotte Weber Ditzler. 12mo, gilt top,
uncut, pp. 245. Dodd, Mead & Co. $1.50 net.
SADDLE AND SONG: A Collection of Verses Made at War-
renton, Va., during the Winter of 1904. Illus., 8vo,
gilt top, uncut, pp. 200. J. B. Lippincott Co. $1.50
net.
THE COUNTRY DAY BY DAY. By E. Kay Robinson. Illus.,
12mo, uncut, pp. 371. Henry Holt & Co. $1.75 net
THE WOOD FIRE IN No. 3. By F. Hopkinson Smith;
illus. in color by Alonzo Kimball. 12mo, gilt top,
uncut, pp. 298. Charles Scribner's Sons. $1.50.
Pp. 263.
BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG.
THE STORY OF THE CHAMPIONS OF THE ROUND TABLE.
Written and illus. by Howard Pyle. Large 8vo, pp.
329. Charles Scribner's Sons. $2.50 net.
TOLD BY UNCLE REMUS: New Stories of the old Planta-
tion. By Joel Chandler Harris. Illus., 8vo, gilt top,
uncut, pp. 295. McClure, Phillips & Co. $2.
NATURAL HISTORY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. By Rev. Theodore
Wood, F.E.S. Illus. in color, etc., 8vo, gilt edges,
pp. 483.
E. P. Dutton & Co. $2.50.
THE RED ROMANCE BOOK. Edited by Andrew Lang;
illus. in color, etc., by H. J. Ford. 12mo, gilt edges,
pp. 366.
Longmans, Green & Co. $1.60 net.
THE FACE IN THE POOL: A Faerie Tale. Pictures and
text by J. Allen St. John. 4to, pp. 156. A. C. Mc-
Clurg & Co. $1.50 net.
THE ROMANCE OF MODERN MECHANISM. By Archibald
Williams. Illus., 12mo, pp. 356. J. B. Lippincott Co.
$1.59 net.
THE ROMANCE OF INSECT LIFE. By Edmund Selous.
Illus., 12mo, pp. 352. J. B. Lippincott Co. $1.50 net.
THE ROMANCE OF MINING. By Archibald Williams. Il-
lus., 12mo, pp. 402. J. B. Lippincott Co. $1.50 net.
TALES OF THE FISH PATROL. By Jack London. Illus.,
12mo, gilt top, pp. 243. Macmillan Co. $1.50.
FAIRY TALES OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM. Newly trans. by
Mrs. Edgar Lucas; illus. in color, etc., by Arthur
Rackham. 12mo, pp.
464. J. B. Lippincott Co.
$1.50.
SIDNEY: Her Summer on the St. Lawrence. By Anna
Chapin Ray. Illus., 12mo, pp. 332. Little, Brown &
Co. $1.50.
AN ISLAND IN THE AIR: A Story of Singular Adventures
in the Mesa Country. By Ernest Ingersoll. Illus. in
color, etc., 12mo, gilt top, pp. 303. Macmillan Co.
$1.50.
VERSES FOR JOCK AND JOAN. By Helen Hay; pictures in
color by Charlotte Harding. Large 4to, pp. 32. Fox,
Duffield & Co. $1.50.
THE RED CHIEF: A Story of the Massacre of Cherry Val-
ley. By Everett T. Tomlinson. Illus., 12mo, pp. 381.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $1.50.
ANY IN ACADIA, By Helen Leah Read. Illus., 12mo, pp.
344. Little, Brown & Co. $1.50.
LONELY O'MALLEY. By Arthur Stringer. Illus., 12mo,
pp. 383. Houghton, Miffin & Co. $1.50.
WILDERNESS BABIES. By Julia Augusta Schwartz. Illus.,
12mo, pp. 234. Little, Brown & Co. $1.50.
DOUBLEDARLING AND THE DREAM SPINNER. By Barbara
Yechton. Illus., 12mo, pp. 316. Dodd, Mead & Co.
$1.50.
THE BOY PATHFINDER: A Story of the Oregon Trail. By
William C. Sprague. Illus., 12mo, pp. 316. Lee &
Shepard. $1.50.
SOME ADVENTURES OF JACK AND JILL. By Barbara Yech-
ton. Illus., 12mo, pp. 316. Dodd, Mead & Co. $1.50.
FRENCH PATHFINDERS IN NORTH AMERICA. By William
Henry Johnson. Illus., 8vo, pp. 347. Little, Brown
& Co. $1.50.
THE TRUE STORY OF HUMPTY DUMPTY. By Anna Alice
Chapin ; illus. in color by Ethel Franklin Betts.
4to,
Dodd, Mead & Co. $1.40 net.
MILTON BLAIRLEE AND THE GREEN MOUNTAIN Boys: A
Story of the New Hampshire Grants. By Willard Goss
Davenport. Illus., 12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 304.
Grafton Press. $1.50.
Ву
pp. 206.


318
(Nov. 16,
THE DIAL
MISCELLANEOUS.
OUTDOOR PASTIMES OF AN AMERICAN HUNTER. By Theo-
dore Roosevelt. Illus, in photogravure, etc., large
8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 369.
Charles Scribner's
Sons. $3 net.
AMERICAN DIPLOMACY, its Spirit and Achievements. By
John Bassett Moore, LL.D. Illus., 8vo, gilt top, un-
cut, pp. 286. Harper & Brothers. $2.net.
THE PROBLEMS OF PHILOSOPHY. By Herald Hofding;
trans. by Galen M. Fisher; with preface by William
James. 16mo, pp. 201. Macmillan Co. $1.25 net.
THE ELEMENTS OF BUSINESS LAW. With illustrative ex-
amples and problems. By Ernest W. Huffcut. 8vo,
pp. 329.
Ginn & Co. $1. net.
BIOGRAPHIC CLINICS. By George M. Gould, M.D. Vol.
III., 12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 516. P. Blakiston's
Son & Co. $1. net.
JEWS AND JUDAISM IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. Trans.
from the German of Gustav Karpeles. 16mo, pp. 83.
Jewish Publication Society.
pp. 312.
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LIBRARIES
A trained librarian with wide experience and highest university and
library references is open to engagements for Bibliographical work,
investigating, indexing, organizing, cataloguing, and classifying.
Address for terms, MARY E. COMBS, 736 E. Fullerton Ave., Chicago.
FOURTEENTH YEAR. Candid, suggestive
Criticism, literary and technioal Revis.
ion, Advice, Disposal. Instruction.
REFERENCES : Mrs. Burton Harrison,
W. D. Howells, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe,
Thomas Nelson Page, Mary E. Wilkins
Freeman, and others.
Send stamp for Booklet to
WM. A. DRESSER,
Mention The Dial.
uthors
gency
1. R. 7,400 Broadway. Cambridge, Mass.
SHAKESPEARE, First Folio Edition
Austones
pp. 191.
pp. 209.
WILFUL COUSIN KATE, By L. T. Meade. Illus., 12mo,
pp. 392.
J. B. Lippincott Co. $1.50.
THE CROWN OF PINE: A Story of Corinth and the Isth-
mian Games. By Rev. A. J. Church, M.A. Illus. in
color, 12mo, pp. 309. Charles Scribner's Sons. $1.50.
IN SEARCH OF THE CASTAWAYS. By Jules Verne.
New
edition ; illus., 8vo, pp. 620. J. B. Lippincott Co.
$1.50.
FIFTY AND ONE TALES OF MODERN FAIRYLAND. By F.
Strange Kolle, M.D. Illus., 12mo, pp. 270. Grafton
Press. $1.50.
THE MOON PRINCESS: A Fairy Tale. By Edith Ogden
Harrison ; illus. in color, etc., by Lucy Fitch Perkins.
4to, pp. 162. A. C. McClurg & Co. $1.25 net.
DAVE PORTER AT OAK HALL; or, The Schooldays of an
American Boy. By Edward Stratemeyer. Illus., 12mo,
Lee & Shepard. $1.25.
ADVENTURES IN PONDLAND. By Frank Stevens. Illus.,
12mo, pp. 244. A. C. McClurg & Co. $1.25.
A WINNING RUN; or, The Baseball Boys of Lakeport. By
Captain Ralph Bonehill. Illus., 12mo, pp. 315. A. s.
Barnes & Co. $1.25.
FOR THE MIKADO; or, A Japanese Middy in Action.
Ву
Kirk Munroe. Illus., 12mo, pp. 270. Harper
Brothers. $1.25.
THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN, By Robert Browning; il-
lus. in color by Van Dyck. Large 4to. A. Wessels
Co.
$1.25.
JOSIE BEAN: FLAT STREET. By Harriet A. Cheever. Il-
lus., 12mo, pp. 298. Dana Estes & Co. $1.25.
THE GOLDEN GOOSE, and Other Fairy Tales. Trans, from
the Swedish by Eva March Tappan. Illus., 12mo, pp.
240. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $1.
DUCK LAKE. By E. Ryerson Young, Jr. Illus., 12mo,
Eaton & Mains. $1.
CHATTERBOX for 1905. Edited by J. Erskine Clarke, M.A.
Illus. in color, etc., 4to, pp. 412. Dana Estes & Co.
$1.25.
THE CHILDREN'S LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. By M.
Louise Putnam. New edition, thoroughly revised.
Illus., 12mo, pp. 291. A. C. McClurg & Co. $1.25.
MARY 'N MARY. By Edith Francis Foster. Illus., 12mo,
Dana Estes & Co. $1.25.
TOMMY JOYCE AND TOMMY Joy. By Harriet A. Cheever.
Illus., 12mo, pp. 309. Dana Estes & Co. $1.25.
THE FORT IN THE WILDERNESS; or, The Soldier Boys of
the Indian Trails. By Edward Stratemeyer. Illus.,
12mo, pp. 306. Lee & Shepard. $1.25.
THE BRASS BOUND Box. By Evelyn Raymond. Illus.,
12mo, pp. 325. Dana Estes & Co. $1.25.
PLUCKY Jo. By Edward S. Ellis. Illus., 12mo, pp. 329.
Dana Estes & Co. $1.25.
RHYMES OF LITTLE BOYs. By Burges Johnson. Title:
page and end-leaves in color, 12mo, gilt top, uncut,
pp. 103.
T. Y. Crowell & Co. $1. net.
VORE ADVENTURES OF THE HAPPY HEART FAMILY.
Virginia Gerson. Illus. in color, 4to, pp. 48. Fox,
Duffield & Co. $1.
TEDDY SUNBEAM: Little Fables for Little Housekeepers.
By Charlotte Grace Sperry. Illus., large 8vo, pp. 50.
Paul Elder & Co. $1. net.
DEERFOOT ON THE PRAIRIES. By Edward S. Ellis. Illus.,
12mo, pp. 366. John C. Winston Co. $1.
MYTHS EVERY CHILD SHOULD KNOW. Edited by Hamilton
Wright Mabie. Illus., 12mo, pp. 351. Doubleday,
Page & Co. 90 cts. net.
TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE. By Charles and Mary Lamb.
Illus., 12mo, pp. 374. Oxford University Press. 75 cts.
POPULAR STORIES. Collected by the Brothers Grimm. Il-
lus. by Cruikshank, 12mo, pp. 403. Oxford University
Press. 75 cts.
THE UGLY DUCKLING. By Hans Christian Andersen ; il-
lus. in color by M. H. Squire. 4to, pp. 24. Moffat,
Yard & Co. 75 cts. net.
THE STORY OF THE BIG FRONT DOOR. By Mary F. Leon-
ard. Illus., 12mo, pp. 258. T. Y. Crowell & Co. 75
cts.
THE FAMILY ON WHEELS. Adapted from the French by
J. MacDonald Oxley. Illus., 12mo, pp. 219. T. Y.
Crowell & Co. 75 cts.
BEAUFORT CHUMS. By Edwin S. Sabin. Illus., 12mo, pp.
281. T. Y. Crowell & Co. 75 cts.
STORIES FROM WAGNER. By J. Walker McSpadden. Illus.,
16mo, pp. 329. T. Y. Crowell & Co. 60 cts.
STORIES FROM PLUTARCH. By F. Jameson Rowbotham.
Illus., 16mo, pp. 346. T. Y. Crowell & Co. 60 cts.
MR. PENWIPER'S FAIRY GOD MOTHER. By Amy Woods.
Illus., 12mo, pp. 98. Dana Estes & Co. 50 cts.
THE OLD MONDAY FARM. By Louise R. Baker. Illus.,
12mo, pp. 133. Dana Estes & Co. 50 cts.
THE STORY OF JESUS. Told for little children, and illus.
in color, by Anne Batchelor. 24mo, pp. 100.
Jen-
nings & Graham. 50 cts.
Edited by PORTER-CLARKE. Printed by DeVINNB
Volumes now ready: "Midsommer Nights Dreame," "Loves Labours'
Lost,"
" “Comedie of Errors," "Merchant of Venice," "Macbeth "
“Julius Cæsar," "Hamlet."
Price in cloth, 75c. per vol.; limp leather, $1.00 per vol.; postpaid.
THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO., New York
By
HURST IMPRINT
on a book denotes the best value for the least outlay.
Holiday Catalogue of Popular and Standard Publications
now ready.
SENT TO ANYONE UPON REQUEST
HURST & CO. Publishers NEW YORK
BOOKS. ALL OUT-OF-PRINT BOOKS SUPPLIED,
no matter on what subject. Write us.
We can get
you any book ever published. Please state wants. Catalogue free.
BAKER'S GREAT BOOK-SHOP, 14-16 Bright St., BIRMINGHAM, ENG.
LET US PRINT YOUR BOOKS! We can do
it much
cheaper and as good as other printers. Our plant is the largest of its
kind in the United States. Before contracting write us for our terms
and booklet, “Hints to Publishers." Appeal Publishing Co.,
Girard, Kansas.
AUTOGRAPH
of FAMOUS PERSONS Bought and Sold.
LETTERS
WALTER R. BENJAMIN, 1 W. 34th St., New
York. SEND FOR PRICE LISTS.
Do You
Write?
Instruction by mail in literary composition.
Courses guited to all needs.
Revision, criticism, and sale of MSS.
Send for circular.
EDITORIAL BUREAU,
33 West 45th Street.
NEW YORK.

SCIENCE AND
A FUTURE LIFE
By Prof. JAMES H. HYSLOP, Ph.D., LL.D. $1.50 net; 12c.
extra, postage. Based on Scientific Investigation of Psychic
Phenomena. HERBERT B. TURNER & CO., Boston


1905.]
319
THE DIAL
STANDARD AUTHORS IN SETS
Balzac, Brontë, Bulwer, Carlyle, Cooper, Defoe,
Dickens, Dumas, Eliot, Fielding, Gibbon, Guizot,
Hawthorne, Hugo, Irving, Macaulay, Poe, Reade,
Ruskin, Scott, Shakespeare, Smollett, Thackeray,
Tolstoi. Send for Descriptive Booklet.
THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO., New York
New and Standard
English Books
at half price and less
About 500 items of which small lots are to be
closed out at prices making every one a bargain.
Catalogue mailed free. Send postal.
Charles E. Lauriat Company
Importers and dealers in old and new books
301 Washington Street, BOSTON
Opposite “Old South" Church
WILLIAM R. JENKINS
FRENCH
Sixth Avenue & 48th Street
NEW YORK
AND OTHER FOREIGN
NO BRANCH STORES
BOOKS
SEND FOR CATALOGUES.
AUTHORIZED DEFINITIVE EDITION
WE HAVE
LIBRARY SERVICE
We aim to serve librarians with the greatest efficiency.
(1) Competent and thoroughly equipped book men.
(2) The largest miscellaneous book stock in New
York City.
(3) A valuable line of order lists, as follows:
(A) Monthly Bulletin of the Latest and Best
Selling Books.
(B) Standard Library Catalogue.
(C) Clearance Catalogues.
DO YOU GET THESE ?
SENT FREE
THE BAKER & TAYLOR CO., Wholesale Booksellers
33-37 East 17th St., Union Sq., North, New York
The Complete Works of
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Edited by
John G. Nicolay and John Hay
Containing all new material discovered to date.
Full particulars and
LINCOLN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY
sent FREE to responsible parties upon request.
FRANCIS D. TANDY COMPANY
Dept. C-38 East 21st Street New York
:
RARE BOOKS
We want the names of buyers of Americana,
First Editions, and Standard Literature,
throughout the Country.
Catalogues sent upon request. Correspondence Solicited.
Niel Morrow Ladd Book Co.
644 FULTON STREET BROOKLYN, N. Y.
THE BOOKS
OF ALL PUBLISHERS
are carried in our stock,
which is larger and more
general than that of any
other house in the country.
LIBRARY ORDERS
given prompt and intelligent
service. Our large stock
and extensive library expe-
rience enables us to give
valuable aid and advice to
libraries and librarians.
30,000 Volumes
STUDY AND PRACTICE OF FRENCH in 4 Parts
L. C. Bonanz, Author and Pub., 1930 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
Well-graded series for Preparatory Schools and Colleges. No time
wasted in superficial or mechanical work. French Tezi: Numerous
exercises in conversation, translation, composition. Part I. (60 cto.):
Primary grade; thorough drill in Pronunciation. Part II. (90 cts.):
Intermediate grade; Essentials of Grammar; 4th edition, revised, with
Vocabulary: most carefully graded. Part III. ($1.00): Composition,
Idioms, Syntax; meets requirements for admission to college.
Part IV. (35 cts.): Handbook of Pronunciation for advanced grade;
concise and comprehensive. Sent to teachers for examination, with a
view to introduction.
CATALOGUE CARDS AND
CARD CABINETS
We carry a special line and
will be glad to furnish a
price list.
HANDY VOLUME CLASSICS
Used by schools and colleges everywhere. 155 volumes,
pocket size. List prices, cloth, 35 cents per volume;
limp leather, 75 cents per volume. (Special prices to
schools and colleges.)
Send for Catalogue.
THOMAS Y. CROWELL & co., New York
LIBRARY DEPARTMENT
A. C. MCCLURG & CO.
CHICAGO


320
(Nov. 16,
THE DIAL
Rear-Admiral R. D. Evans,
of the United States Navy,
once said, speaking of the
California
Limited
The California Limited
runs daily between Chi-
cago, Los Angeles, San
Diego, and San Fran-
cisco. For descriptive
booklet, address Pas-
senger Dept., A. T. &
S. F. Ry. System, Rail-
way Exchange, Chicago
“The Santa Fe certainly has
the finest dining-car
service
in the world.”
NEW VOLUME JUST COMMENCING
THE HIBBERT JOURNAL
A LARGE PRINTING OFFICE IN A SMALL
TOWN
Located in a town of less than 3,000. Employ 130 skilled workmen.
If you have a book to print write us for terms and booklet, “Hints
to Publishers," before contracting. Appeal Publishing Co.,
Girard, Kansas.
EACH NUMBER COMPRISES 240 PAGES
Price unchanged. Yearly subscription, $2.50. Post freo.
Single number, 75 cents. Post free.
STORY-WRITERS, Biographers, Historians, Poets – Do
you desire the honest criticism of your
book, or its skilled revision and correction, or advice as to publication ?
Such work, said George William Curtis, is “done as it should be by The
Easy Chair's friend and fellow laborer in letters, Dr. Titus M. Coan."
Terms by agreement. Send for circular D, or forward your book or MS.
to the New York Bureau of Revision, 70 Fifth Ave., Now York.
THE ASTOR EDITION OF POETS
Is the best for schools and colleges. 93 volumes.
List price, 60 cte. per vol. (Price to schools, 40 ots.)
SEND FOR LIST.
THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO., New York
Among Contents of October issue may be mentioned :
IMPRESSIONS OF CHRISTIANITY from the points of view of
NON-CHRISTIAN RELIGIONS. II. HOW CHRISTIANITY
APPEALS TO A JAPANESE BUDDHIST. By Professor
ANESAKI, Imperial University of Japan.
IS THE MORAL SUPREMACY OF CHRISTENDOM IN DAN-
GER? The Rise of Japan : [ts Bearing Upon the Religious Prob-
lems of the West. By the EDITOR.
THE WORKING FAITH OF THE SOCIAL REFORMER. By
Prof. HENRY JONES of Glasgow.
LIFE. By SIR OLIVER LODGE.
Other articles in this number are:
Mechanism and Morals: The World of Science and the World
of History. James Ward, Sc.D.
Thought and Force. The Very Rev. Charles T. Ovenden.
The Inadequacy of Certain Common Grounds of Belief. J. Ellis
McTaggart.
The Teaching of the Christian Religion in Public Schools. The
Headmaster of Eton.
The Moral Argument Against the Inspiration of the Old Testa-
ment. Prof. A. H. Keane, LL.D.
The Religious Value of the Narratives in Genesis. The Rev.
Alex. R. Gordon.
Authority on Theology. Rev. Principal P. T. Forsyth, D.D.
Subscriptions are booked and single numbers sold by
a. E. Stechert & Co., 129-133 West Twentieth Street, New York.
American Unitarian Association, 25 Beacon Street, Boston,
or from any good bookseller, or
WILLIAMS & NORGATE,
14 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London, W, C.
The STUDEBAKER
fine arts Building
Michigan Boulevard, between Congress and
Van Buren Streets, Chicago.
ALICE NIELSEN
IN
DON PASQUALE


1905.]
321
THE DIAL
THE CLARENDON
PRESS
“A book of exceptional interest at the present time."
THE FAR EAST
By ARCHIBALD LITTLE. 8vo, cloth, $2.00. Comprising Japan, Siam, China, The Yellow River,
The Yangtse River, The Province of Szechuan, The Chengtu Plateau, The Lower Yangtse
Provinces, The Intermediate Provinces, Yunnan to Canton, Manchuria, Mongolia, Turkestan,
Tibet, Indo-China, and Korea. With nine Maps and thirty-seven Illustrations.
"... The kind of book of which there has been genuine need for some time. . . . Mr. Little's work is one that
should be especially acceptable in view of the general interest, and equally general lack of accurate information, with
reference to the Far East which just now prevails in the United States.” — The Dial, Nov. 1, 1905.
"... One who reads this book gains quickly and thoroughly a general idea of the country's possibilities for
commerce and human advancement. . This is a first-class work of reference." - The Nation, Oct. 19, 1905.
come.
THE WORKS OF LUCIAN OF SAMOSATA
Complete with exceptions specified in the preface. Translated by H. W. FOWLER and F. G. FOWLER.
Extra foolscap 8vo, 4 vols., $4.00.
“... The work of the translators might be original, so far as its ease and vivacity are concerned; the reader
forgets that he is reading dialogues and essays written seventeen hundred years ago. . For Lucian is as modern as
Horace; his essay on the art of writing history might have come out in any recent review, and is entirely applicable
to-day. The sneers at the persons who hurry into historical writing might have been written after reading a list
of books on the Spanish war by the heroes who took part in it — vicariously and otherwise. His dialogues of the
gods, of the dead, of the hetairæ, are the models for dialogues of to-day, in style, wit, and 'smartness.' . . . A work
of high art, for which its authors are to be thanked.” – New York Times, Oct. 21, 1905.
This edition of one of the most modern of the ancients is a veritable boon, and we give it a hearty wel-
The Dial, Sept. 1, 1905.
Rituale Armenorum. Being the Administration of the Sacraments and the Breviary Rites of
the Armenian Church, together with the Greek Rites of Baptism and Epiphany. Edited from
the oldest MSS. by F. C. CONYBEARE M.A., F.B.A., and the East Syrian Epiphany Rites, trans-
lated by the Rev. A. J. MACLEAN, D.D. 8vo, cloth, $7.00.
Elementary Chemistry. Progressive Lessons in Experiment and Theory. Part I., by F. R. L.
WILSON, M.A., and G. W. Hedly, M.A. 8vo, cloth, 75 cents.
The object of this book is to provide a course of practical training in chemistry, suitable for those studying
the subject as an integral part of their general education, and at the same time to lay a solid foundation for such as
may require to specialize in it later.
A Primer of Classical and English Philology. By the Rev. WALTER W.SKEAT, Litt.D., LL.D.,
etc. Extra foolscap, 8vo, cloth, 50 cents.
Ma Première Visite à Paris. Par A. E. C. Being an illustrated French Reading Book for
Beginners. Crown 8vo, boards, cloth back, 40 cents.
Combined German Reader, Writer and Grammar. By H. G. SPEARING, M.A. 8vo, cloth,
75 cents.
Statius. Edited by T. S. PHILLIMORE and H. W. GARROD. Oxford Classical Texts Series. Paper,
75 cents; cloth, 90 cents.
Astronomy in the Old Testament. By G. SCHIAPARELLI, Director of the Brera Observatory
in Milan. Authorized English Translation, with many corrections and additions by the Author.
Crown 8vo, cloth, $1.15.
About Hebrew Manuscripts. By ELKAN NATHAN ADLER. 8vo, cloth, $2:50.
For sale by all Booksellers. Send for Catalogue.
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
AMERICAN BRANCH
Nos. 91-93 Fifth Avenue
NEW YORK CITY


322
[Nov. 16, 1905
THE DIAL
This Book is Making a Stir in the World
THE NEW KNOWLEDGE
By ROBERT KENNEDY DUNCAN
WITH MANY ILLUSTRATIONS. 8vo, Cloth, $2.00 Net. By mail, $2.16. (4th edition.)
Sir William Ramsay and M. Becquerel pronounce it one of the great
books of the day. It makes the mysteries of science plain. It fascinates
like a wizard's tale. It brings the knowledge of the world up to date.
Now Ready
A LITTLE HISTORY OF COLONIAL LIFE (Two Volumes)
By GEORGE CARY EGGLESTON
OUR FIRST CENTURY
LIFE IN THE 18TH CENTURY
A graphic and charming popular story of colonial life with special reference to social conditions, manners, and customs.
Elaborately illustrated. With summaries of important historical events by Professor HERMAN V. AMES. Each volume
12mo, net $1.20.
THE SHAKESPEARE STORY BOOK
By MARY MACLEOD
With an Introduction by SIDNEY LEE and many Illustrations by GORDON BROWNE. 8vo, Cloth, Gilt top. $1.75.
“Miss MacLeod has followed the plot more closely than Charles and Mary Lamb, and a charming book of stories is the result."- London Times.
NEW VOLUMES IN THE TRAIL-MAKERS SERIES
A Library of History and Exploration. Professor J. B. McMASTER, Consulting Editor.
(Ready
“ THE JOURNEY OF LA SALLE AND HIS COMPANIONS, 1668-1687"
shortly)
Edited, with an Introduction, by Prof. ISAAC J. COX of the University of Cincinnati. With Illustrations and Map. Two volumes. $2.00, net.
“THE JOURNEYS OF ALVAR NUNEZ CABEZA DE VACA”
From Florida to the Pacific, 1528-1536. Edited and introduced by Ad. F. Bandelier. With Map. $1.00, net.
(Circulars of this unique historical library on application.)
LIVES OF GREAT WRITERS
By TUDOR JENKS. With an Introduction by HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE
IN THE DAYS OF CHAUCER
Tudor Jenks brings the personality and the times of the great writers directly to us. To read after him is to walk the streets and mix with the
living people of Old England. He has made the merry-hearted England of Chaucer's time live in our imagination.
IN THE DAYS OF SHAKESPEARE
He creates again our Shakespeare for us -- Will Shakespeare, the boy in Stratford, the young man who went to sook his fortune in London, and
later returned to the life of a country gentleman, a sportsman, and a neighbor.
IN THE DAYS OF MILTON
The England of Milton is the England from which America drew its life, and Mr. Jenks has pictured Milton the affectionate friend, the blind
seer, the lonely prophet of a great new world.
Three Volumes. Boxed. Price, $3.00 net.
IN PURSUIT OF DREAMS (Three Volumes)
By ARTHUR HENRY
AN ISLAND CABIN. The Dream of Idleness
THE HOUSE IN THE WOODS. The Dream of Country Life
LODGINGS IN TOWN. The Dream of Greatness
Three volumes. Illustrated. Each, 12mo, Cloth, Boxed, $4.50.
SEND FOR OUR CHRISTMAS BULLETIN
A. S. BARNES & COMPANY, 156 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK
THE DIAL PRESS, FINE ARTS BUILDING, CHICAGO


HOLIDAY NUMBER
-
THE DIAL
A SEMI- MONTHLY FOURNAL OF
Literary Criticism, Discussion, and Information.
EDITED BY
FRANCIS F. BROWNE.
Volume XXXIX.
No. 467.
CHICAGO, DEC. 1, 1905.
10 cts. a copy. | FINE ARTS BUILDING
203 Michigan Blvd.
82. a year.

The most thoroughly artistic and attractive Gift Book
which this season offers
BRET HARTE'S HER LETTER
Illustrated with forty-four full-page pictures, in color and tint, and
many decorations in gold, by ARTHUR I. KELLER
“I wish that something nowadays could give me the thrill of
delight that these poems of Bret Harte's did when I first read
them.”—Jeannette L. Gilder, editor of The Critic. With 44 full-
page pictures in color and tint by Arthur I. Keller. Boxed, $2.00.
TWO NEW BOOKS BY HENRY JAMES
THE QUESTION OF
ENGLISH HOURS
OUR SPEECH
Illustrated by JOSEPH PENNELL
“It is at once one of the most readable “Joseph Pennell's illustrations represent the most picturesque of
essays that Mr. James has written, and scenes throughout England with a rare imagination and a sincere
one of the most suggestive discussions of artistic touch, and they bring back, as do also Mr. James's pleas-
the nature of fiction.” — Brooklyn Eagle. ant chapters, genial memories of tours hither and thither through
$1.00 net. Postpaid, $1.07.
the English town and country.”—Boston Transcript. Boxed, $3.00.

THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON'S
PART OF A MAN'S LIFE
“These ripe and scholarly chapters — ripe with the varied experience of eighty
years and more, and scholarly with the scholarship of a lover not only of books,
but of men — have an interest and value far exceeding anything that another pen
might contrive to say about them.”— The Dial. With portraits and facsimiles.
$2.50 net. Postpaid, $2.68,
KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN'S
ROSE O' THE RIVER
“An epic in prose. . . . Stephen has the strength and reserved force of the Saco
in him; Rose is the river again in Springtime, exquisitely fresh and sweet.'
- Mr. Eden Phillpotts. Illustrated in color. $1.25.
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & COMPANY, BOSTON AND NEW YORK


324
[Dec. 1,
THE DIAL
THE SEASON'S BEST BOOKS
THE STORY OF NOAH'S ARK
By E. Boyd SMITH
A Bible story treated humorously and yet reverently, consisting of 26 deliciously humorous and beautifully colored
pictures, which represent the log of the Ark's cruise. The brief text contributes its share to the dry whimsicality
of the book. $2.00 net. Postpaid, $2.19.
TWO BIRD-LOVERS IN
HOLMES'S ONE.HOSS
MEXICO
SHAY
By C. William BEEBE
Illustrated by HowARD PYLE
“A valuable and beautiful book in which
No more winning or humorous poem has
the illustrations are one of the striking
ever appeared than the famous classic,
features. The record of the trip is admir-
“The One-Hoss Shay," in this little holi-
ably written, including a chapter by Mrs.
day volume so beautifully illustrated, in
Beebe." — St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
colors, by Howard Pyle.
$3.00 net. Postpaid, $3.23.
$1.50.

MR BURROUGHS
IN THE MARCH AND BORDERLAND OF WALES
By ARTHUR G. BRADLEY
An interesting volume of sketches of the old towns and countrysides in which there has scarcely been any change
for the past 300 years. Their picturesque beauty and quaint old buildings have been well portrayed in over 150
drawings by William M. Meredith. $3.00 net. Postage extra.
WAYS OF NATURE
By John BURROUGHS
“We recommend a careful perusal of this sound, vig-
orous, and eminently wholesome consideration of the
"Ways of Nature.'”– New York Sun. $1.10 net.
Postpaid, $1.21.
THE PARDONER'S WALLET
By SAMUEL M. CROTHERS
The quiet delicacy of these delightful essays by the
author of "The Gentle Reader” recalls “ The Auto-
crat," and there is just enough humor to suit the taste
of to-day. $1.25 net. Postpaid, $1.36.
THE ROMANCE OF THE
MILKY WAY
By LAFCADIO HEARN
'Hearn, who died in Japan, was master of a delight-
ful style; and in his translations there is much that is
delicate and fanciful.” — Brooklyn Eagle. $1.25 net.
Postpaid, $1.35.
IN OUR CONVENT DAYS
By AGNES REPPLIER
“ It would be difficult to pick and choose among these
perfect stories, warm from the heart and spirit of the
writer, alive with that indefinable thrill that means an
impeccable reality and truth to nature.” — Chicago
Record-Herald. $1.10 net. Postpaid, $1.20.

JAMES G. BLAINE
By EDWARD STANWOOD
“Mr. Stanwood tells the whole story
clearly, and his narrative from first to last
is picturesque and entertaining.” – New
York Times.
In American Statesmen,
Second Series.
With portrait. $1.25 net. Postpaid, $1.37.
JAMES RUSSELL
LOWELL
By FERRIS GREENSLET
“Mr. Greenslet has moulded an indepen-
dent impression of Lowell's life, getting at
the genuine self of the real man and keep-
ing his critical sense intact.”. Boston
Advertiser.
Illustrated. $1.50 net. Postpaid, $1.62.
MISS REPPLIER
THE LIFE AND DEATH OF CARDINAL WOLSEY
By GEORGE CAVENDISH
“The book is genuine literature throughout. Its vitality is such that its charm must ever seize anew even the
most hardened reader. It can compete successfully with any of the new novels.” – New York Tribune. With
photogravures in sepia and red-chalk tints, mainly by Holbein. $7.50 net, postpaid.
(See also front cover and next page)
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & COMPANY, BOSTON AND NEW YORK


1905.]
325
THE DIAL
THE SEASON'S BEST BOOKS
THE ANCIENT GRUDGE
By ARTHUR STANWOOD PIER
“Few, if any, novels of the season show more thoughtful and solid work in character study than this book, which
is, moreover, distinctly well written.” — The Outlook (New York). $1.50.

THE GREEN SHAY
By GEORGE S. WASSON
“No writer excels Mr. Wasson in repro-
ducing droll Yankee wit in Yankee speech
or in getting at the salt of the Yankee tem-
perament." — New York Globe. With
frontispiece by the author.
$1.50.
PARADISE
By ALICE BROWN
“Few writers of fiction have equalled Miss
Brown in their understanding and analysis
of the New England character, and few
have been so successful as she in endowing
the creations of her imagination with actual
life.” — Boston Transcript.
$1.50.
MISS BROWN
IN THE LAND OF THE GODS
By ALICE M. BACON
“With a simplicity that is at once realistic and reverent, the stories are touched with poetry and imagination into
a beauty which makes them to be remembered even with the stories Lafcadio Hearn has told us from that same
far Flowery Kingdom.” — Kansas City Star. $1.50.
THE GOLDEN GOOSE
By Eva MARCH TAPPAN
Six fairy tales from ancient Scandinavian sources, well
told in simple, direct language suitable for little chil-
dren. Illustrated. $1.00.
KRISTY'S SURPRISE PARTY
By OLIVE THORNE MILLER
"All who have this very pretty volume will be just as
much delighted as Kristy is, for they are all capital
stories of the best kind." - Boston Transcript. Tlus-
trated. $1.25.
AN ONLY CHILD
By ELIZA ORNE WHITE
“It is first and foremost a child's book : the little
griefs and pleasures are simple and commonplace, yet
this very simplicity gives them reality.”—The Church-
man (New York). Illustrated. $1.00.
THE RED CHIEF
By EVERETT T. TOMLINSON
“A thrilling story of the Revolution, in which tha
boy hero plays a man's part in a way to capture the
hearts of all boy readers." —Newark News. Illus-
trated. $1.50.
TRUMBULL
STICKNEY'S POEMS
“In the death of Trumbull Stickney, our
literature has suffered an irretrievable loss.
This volume reveals a genius in which
subtlety, sweetness, and power are united
in a manner rare even among enduring
names of poetry.” — WILLIAM VAUGHN
MOODY.
$1.50 net. Postpaid, $1.62.
CITIES OF PAUL
By WILLIAM BURNET WRIGHT
Descriptions and studies of nine of the
cities associated with the work of epistles
of St. Paul. $1.10 net. Postpaid, $1.19.
THE ENDLESS LIFE
By SAMUEL W. CROTHERS
Dr. Crothers is a fresh and strong thinker
and has treated the subject of immortality
powerfully, thoughtfully, and reverently.
75 cents net. Postpaid, 81 cents.

DR. CROTHERS
THE ENGLISH WORKS OF GEORGE HERBERT
By GEORGE HERBERT PALMER
“The fruit of a devotion of fifty years is now before us in an elaborate edition of Herbert, that is learned without
being pedantic, and full without being replete — the kind of work of which our universities might well be more
prodigal.” — New York Evening Post. Three volumes. Fully illustrated. $6.00 net. Postpaid, $6.44.
(See also preceding page and front cover)
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & COMPANY, BOSTON AND NEW YORK


326
[Dec. 1,
THE DIAL
SCRIBNER'S
HOLIDAY BOOKS
A CHUISGARDINOY VISES
MOREXT LOUIS STEVENSON
WITH RIVSTRATKOWS, BY
JESSIL WILCOX SMITH
Stevenson's A Child's
Garden of Verses

NEW YONY
With Drawings in Color and Pen and Ink by
JESSIE WILLCOX SMITH
“ It would be difficult to imagine a piece of holiday book-making
more complete and perfect.”— The Outlook.
$2.50
Sa'-Zada Tales
By W. A. FRASER
Illustrated, $2.00
The Story of the Champions
of the Round Table
By HOWARD PYLE
With Drawings by the Author
$2.50 net; postage extra
“One of the most artistic and beautiful of the
children's Christmas books."N. Y. Sun.
Many a child will find pleasure in these
stories of the jungle and the plains."
- Chicago Tribune.
A Little Princess
By FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT
Illustrated in Colors by
Ethel Franklin Betts. $2.00
“So here is the whole story of Sara Crewe
better than it was at first, because there is
more of it, with a dozen beautiful colored
pictures.”—The Outlook.
The Fairy Godmother-
in-Law
By OLIVER HERFORD
With Drawings by the Author
$1.00 net; postage extra
The most amusing, whimsical, and original
verses and drawings he has ever made.

Animal
Heroes
Ernest
Thompson
Seton
“They all have that fascinat-
ing quality which he manages
to throw around all his stories.”
— Brooklyn Eagle.
Illustrated by the Author
$2.00
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK


1905.]
327
THE DIAL
SCRIBNER'S HOLIDAY BOOKS
The Greatest American Novel
The
House of Mirth
By EDITH WHARTON

Illustrated, $1.50
“ It rises at once, and with the effortless power of a
true work of art, into the region of clear instinct, open-
minded intelligence, and dramatic feeling, in which
novels of the first order are conceived and fashioned.
... A story of such integrity of insight and of work-
manship is an achievement of high importance in
American life.” — The Outlook.
The Deep Sea's Toll
By JAMES B. CONNOLLY
“ Here are humor and pathos, romance and
tragedy, all delineated with rare skill."
Boston Transcript. Illustrated, $1.50
McAllister and His Double
By ARTHUR TRAIN
“He writes with humor and spirit.”—Phila-
delphia Press.
Illustrated, $1.50
Captains A11
By W. W. JACOBS
“ Mr. Jacobs is a marvel among the humor-
ists of the day. We congratulate every
reader who takes up Captains All.""
-New York Tribune. Illustrated, $1.50
Kipps:
The Story of a Simple Soul
By H. G. WELLS
“His career is portrayed with extraordinary
vigor, truth, and humor.”—Boston Tran-
script.
$1.50
A Thief in the Night
Further Adventures of A. J. Raffles
By E. W. HORNUNG
« The latest adventures of Raffles' and
Bunny' are their most thrilling and excit-
ing ones.”—Boston Herald.
Illustrated, $1.50
The Princess Priscilla's
Fortnight
By the Author of “ Elizabeth and Her German
Garden"
“It is fresh and vivid, pleasantly satirical
and wholesomely sweet.”— New York
Tribune.
$1.50
The Wood Fire in No. 3
By F. HOPKINSON SMITH
“There is rollicking humor, pathos, romance, and dramatic quality in the stories.”
- Chicago Evening Post.
Illustrated in colors, $1.50
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK


328
(Dec. 1,
THE DIAL
SCRIBNER'S HOLIDAY BOOKS
HENRY VAN DYKE'S

New Books
Essays in Application
“Such keen social satire as · Publicomania,' such sane economic
reasoning as ·Property and Theft,' such noble expositions of the
business of living as · The School of Life,' are all virile voices to
times, accurately keyed to counteract current failures and
fallacies. Interior.
$1.50 net; postage, 13 cents
The Spirit of Christmas
“ It holds Dr. Van Dyke's most loving and beautiful expression
of the Christmas spirit.” — Boston Herald.
75 cents net; postage, 4 cents
Fisherman's Luck
“This volume, the perfection of binding and print, offers a gift book that will be treasured
by all enthusiasts in the sport of fishing.”—Louisville Courier-Journal.
Illustrated in color by F. Walter Taylor, $1.50
Mrs. Brookfield and Her Circle
By CHARLES and FRANCES BROOKFIELD
“ The best of the recent books of reminiscence is that which agreeably centres about
Mrs. Brookfield.” - New York Tribune.
Illustrated, 2 vols., $7.00 net
The Life of James Anthony Froude
By HERBERT PAUL
“ It will take rank among the permanently valuable books of the year.” — Brooklyn Eagle.
Illustrated, $4.00 net
In the Name of the Bodleian, and Other Essays
By AUGUSTINE BIRRELL
Delightful essays on many subjects written with the greatest charm and the pleasantest
humor.
$1.00 net
A Satire Anthology
By CAROLYN WELLS
“ Shows the same intelligence and good taste as her other anthologies and furnishes
more solid entertainment." —New York Globe.
Leather, $1.50 net; cloth, $1.25 net; postage extra
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK


1905.]
329
THE DIAL
SCRIBNER'S HOLIDAY BOOKS
A NEW BOOK BY
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

$3.00 net
With
remarkable
illustrations
Postage,
from
23 cents
photographs
Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter
“He has hunted the prongbuck (miscalled the antelope '), the mountain sheep, the white-
tail deer, the mule deer, the wapiti or round-horned elk; bruin, black, brown, and grizzly;
the bobcat, the cougar, and the wolf. Whatever animal he hunted he studied, and there
is as much fresh, first-hand information as adventure in the volume.”—New York Tribune.
Jungle Trails and Jungle People
By CASPAR WHITNEY
Illustrated, $3.00 net; postage, 23 cents
“ If the palm might be awarded to the American writer of the most fascinating stories and
sketches of travel in the by-paths of the world it would go to Caspar Whitney."
- Cleveland World-News.
The Voyage of the Discovery
By CAPTAIN ROBERT F. SCOTT, R. N.
Illustrated, 2 vols., $10.00 net
“Captain Scott has done a splendid piece of work; not the least part of it is the production
of the ablest and most interesting record of travel to which the present century has yet
given birth.”
- London Spectator.
A History of Egypt
By JAMES H. BREASTED
Illustrated, $5.00 net; postage, 36 cents
“He makes the people of those remote ages as real to the imagination as the Greeks and
Romans.”
- Chicago Inter Ocean.
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK


330
[Dec. 1
THE DIAL
FOUR BEAUTIFUL BOOKS
WITH SHELLEY IN ITALY. In her delightful Browning - Florence
volume, published last year, Mrs. McMahan showed her thorough familiarity
with Italy and her appreciation of poetic atmosphere. This new volume is quite
the equal of the other in these charming qualities. The romantic character of
Shelley's life, especially in Italy, and the pictorial beauty of the background which
provided his inspiration, supply unequalled material for an illustrated book of
this kind. Mrs. McMahan's idea has been to show the poems actually in the
making by grouping with them letters, illustrations, and passages from note-
books. The result is a volume of notable interest and exceptional beauty, with
over sixty illustrations from photographs. It is hardly necessary to say that
Mrs. McMahan's admirable "Florence in the Poetry of the Brownings" is
quite as acceptable this season as last. It proved extremely popular as a gift-
book, the limited edition especially being generally pronounced the most beauti-
ful Holiday volume of the season. Each, $1.40 net.
THE LARGE PAPER EDITions of both these volumes meet all the require-
ments of an exquisite gift-book. The text is printed on Italian hand-made
paper, and the illustrations in photogravure ink on Japan paper. Bound in gray
paper sides, with an embossed fleur-de-lis in gold, and vellum back. Price,
each, $3.75 net; the same in full vellum $5.00 net; the same bound in Florence,
full parchment, antique style, Florentine hand-illumination, $10.00 net.
A GARDEN IN PINK. The gift-book of all others to send to the young
people who live in the suburbs and go through the hopes and fears of the annual
garden making. This absorbing subject forms the basis of a delightful narrative,
half practical and half whimsical, written in a highly entertaining fashion by
Blanche Elizabeth Wade. As to appearance, nothing more charming at moderate
price will be found among the Holiday books. Every other page has a floral
panel or an illustration by Lucy Fitch Perkins, printed in tints, and there are
beautiful scenes from unusual photographs. Boxed, $1.75 net.
LIFE OF OMAR KHAYYAM. A fascinating life of the poet astronomer
by J. K. M. Shirazi, a Persian scholar who also comes from “the land of enchanted
rose-gardens.” He tells Omar's life in a charming manner, and while presenting
some entirely new facts, which are of great interest to the student of Omarian
literature, his easy style readily holds the attention. The book is produced in a
unique manner, the title page, cover, chapter headings, and initials being richly
printed in gold and color, representing hand-illumination in the Persian style.
All lovers of the famous quatrains should possess this volume. $1.50 net;
15 copies on large paper, $5.00 net.
A. C. MCCLURG & CO., PUBLISHERS


1905.]
331
THE DIAL
IMPORTANT NEW BOOKS
HOME LIFE IN FRANCE. No more interesting and delightful picture
of the French people has ever been published than is given in this volume by
Miss Betham-Edwards. The Chicago Tribune” says, “It is full of such
information as one likes to get at first hand respecting such matters as social
usages, housekeeping, the baby, the girl, domestic help, the country doctor and
so on. One might read a dozen histories of France and not get so real and
intimate an acquaintance with the people as from a book like this.” With many
illustrations. $2.50 net.
IN THE LAND OF THE STRENUOUS LIFE. The Abbé Klein's
altogether entertaining volume will be an acceptable addition to any library.
“He is," says “The Dial," "a man of fine culture, and a wide-awake observer.
Best of all, his whole book breathes a freshness and a joy of living that, quite
apart from its subject matter, are decidedly engaging. The already established
popularity of the work in France is indicated by the fact that it passed into a
seventh edition a few months after its publication, and it has received from the
French Academy the Montyon prize. The good literary style of the English
version, made by the Abbé himself, and the highly entertaining character of the
narrative, will no doubt make it a favorite in this country also.” With 14 full-
page illustrations. $2.00 net.
HISTORIC ILLINOIS. Mr. Randall Parrish in this impressive volume offers
a most fascinating and vivid narrative. He does not attempt to claim that his
book is an exhaustive history of Illinois; it has been his aim rather to present
historical facts which, for their own sake, are to every American patriot as fasci-
nating as romance. No State in the Union surpasses Illinois in the romantic
incidents of the early days. The book is written in Mr. Parrish's most char-
acteristic manner, and it will be easily imagined that with a subject of this kind
to deal with, we find the author of "When Wilderness Was King" in his element.
With map and many illustrations. $2.50 net.
THEODORE THOMAS. The “Autobiography” of the great musician,
published soon after his death last Spring, should be in the possession of every
music lover, and every American who takes pride in national achievement. It is
the story of a career carried to a successful close through the most discouraging
obstacles, and as a contribution to our musical history it stands absolutely alone.
The first volume contains the “Autobiography,” further chapters by Mr. George
P. Upton, and many other pertinent matters. The second volume is given over
entirely to programs and constitutes a record of unequalled value. With many
portraits and illustrations. $6.00 net.
A. C. MCCLURG & CO., PUBLISHERS


332
[Dec. 1,
THE DIAL
NOVELS THAT SUCCEED
A SWORD OF THE OLD FRONTIER. The best romance yet
written by Randall Parrish, who is a master story-teller, and who has proved it
in “My Lady of the North” (ninth edition) and “When Wilderness Was King”
(seventh edition). “If this doesn't pass its predecessors in popularity," says
Mr. Sage, in the "Cleveland Leader” “I miss my guess.” He is not likely to, as
the first edition of 25,000 copies is already four-fifths gone. The plot concerns
the adventures of a French officer during Pontiac's Conspiracy. The illustrations
are from four splendid paintings by Mr. F. C. Yohn. $1.50.
BEN BLAIR: PLAINSMAN. Probably one of the best novels we shall
get this year,” according to the " Brooklyn Eagle.” This is an Eastern paper,
but out in the West, where they know what makes a story of ranch life true
and real, they go further. “The strongest Western book of years," says the
“Leader," of Great Falls, Montana, “the novel of the season.” Again, in the
conservative East, the “New York Globe" claims that "Jack London in full
fury cannot make your heart beat faster than this new writer.” Naturally it is
especially a story for men. Fourth Edition. $1.50.
FOR THE WHITE CHRIST. This romance of the days of Charle-
magne has been universally pronounced the most beautiful book of fiction of
1905. Certainly no recent novel has received so decorative a treatment as
Mr. Bennet's splendid story, with its characteristic borders in tint on each page,
the illustrations reproducing perfectly the rich coloring of the Kinneys' paintings
in oil, and perfection in every detail of manufacture that makes a beautiful book.
$1.50.
THE FLOWER OF DESTINY. Just as “For the White Christ” is dig-
nified and splendid in its appearance, this book is dainty and exquisite in its
artistic treatment, suggesting the emblematic violet which gives it its name.
Mr. Orcutt's love story of Napoleon and Eugenie is without doubt one of the
most attractive offerings of the season as a gift book, with few superiors even at
a higher price. $1.25.
MY LADY OF THE NORTH. For a year now this splendid romance
of Mr. Parrish's has had a steady sale. Nine Large Editions have been made,
and it has become one of the permanent successes of recent fiction. The hero is
a Confederate officer, and the Memphis “ Commercial Appeal” says, “It is
perhaps the best romance of the war that has been written.” Considering the
naturally critical attitude of the South toward Civil War stories by Northern-
writers, this is praise indeed. $1.50.
A. C. McCLURG & CO., PUBLISHERS


1905.]
333
THE DIAL
HENRY
RECENT
А N
D
COMPANY'S
BOOKS
Stopford Brooke's Lectures on Shakespeare $2.25 net (by mail, $2 37).
An interpretation of the methods of Shakespeare as an artist. It is not so much an analysis as an
appreciation of Midsummer Night's Dream, Winter's Tale. Merchant of Venice, As You Like It,
Richard II., Richard III., Macbeth, Tempest, Romeo and Juliet, and Coriolanus.
Edward E. Hale Jr.'s Dramatists of To-day $1.50 net (by mail. $1.62)
An informal discussion, by a favorite contributor to The Dial, of the principal works of Rostand,
Hauptmann, Sudermann, Pinero, Shaw, Phillips, and Maeterlinck.
"So free from gush and mere eulogy, so weighed by common sense." – New York Evening Post.
Wallace's Russia NEW Edition. $5.00 retail.
“... in the same class as Mr. Bryce's · American Commonwealth,' and in some respects a greater
achievement. Impossible to praise too highly.” – London Times.
Merriam's The Negro and the Nation By George S. Merriam
Author of " The Story of William and Mary Smith." etc. (December.) $1.75 net (by mail. $1.92).
This witty and scholarly study of the Negro question interprets the facts of history with special refer-
ence to present day problems, and covers the subject from the beginning of the slave trade to Tuskegee.
Curtis's Nature and Health By EDWARD CURTIS, M.A., M.D. (December.)
A popular treatise on the hygiene of the person and the home by a well-known New York physician.
The book is thoroughly practical, free from unnecessary technicality, and adapted for general reading,
as well as for reference.
American Trade Unionism J. H. Hollander and G. E. Barnett, Editors.
(December.) $2.75 net (by mail, $2.98).
The results of original investigations by graduate students and officers of Johns Hopkins University
concerning the government and working methods of representative Trade Unions.
Lottridge's Animal Snapshots $1.75 m2! (by mail, $1.90).
With 85 photographs by the author. (Just published.)
An ideal gift book for the nature lover or amateur photographer.
Carolyn S. Bailey's Peter Newell Mother Goose
With 22 full-page illustrations by Mr. Newell. (Just published.) $1.50.
One hundred and one original Mother Goose rhymes, illustrated by Mr. Newell, and the exciting story
of a little girl's adventures in Gooseland.
Smedley and Talbot's Wizards of Ryetown Macgregor. (Just published. ) $1.50.
With 53 illustrations by Angusine
A fairy story with a touch of drollery and clever nonsense verses.
C. P. Burton's Boys of Bob's Hill Illustrated. $1.25.
" Tom Sawyer would have been a worthy member of the Bob's Hill crowd. ... A jolly group of
youngsters, as nearly true to the real thing in boy nature as one can ever expect to find between
Christian Register.
Mrs. Rankin's Dandelion Cottage Illustrated. $1.50.
** An exceptionally good book for girls."—Wisconsin Free Library Bulletin.
Mrs. Alfred Sigdwick's Professor's Legacy (Just published.) $1.50.
A sympathetic love story, life-like characters, humor, and vivid scenes of German university and
English country life are among the attractive features of this interesting novel.
Charles T. Jackson's Loser's Luck $1.50.
: The kind of fiction that goes, the kind that grips the mind and imagination. . . . Rattling. dashing.
thrilling tale of filibustering, fighting, sacrificing, dying, and loving. . . . It is certain that Mr. Jackson
will not have · looser's luck' with his first novel.” - Washington Star.
Miss May Sinclair's Divine Fire (10th printing.) $1.50.
" Towers above the ranks of contemporary fiction.” – Literary Digest.
New Illustrated Catalogue of Books
in General Literature on application at
29 West 23d Street, New York

covers." -


334
(Dec. 1
THE DIAL
Choice Gift Books for the Holidays
THE NEW CHRISTY BOOK
THE NEW RILEY BOOK
Longfellow's
Songs o'
Cheer
Evangeline
Mr. Christy has given to Longfellow's mas-
terpiece, the most familiar and best beloved
of all American love poems, a new richness
and a new loveliness. Uniform with the
famous Christy edition of
The Courtship of Miles Standish,
With numerous illustrations in colors by
The most popular living poet, the true
laureate of America,
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY
has collected in one volume his poems of
gladness, content and consolation.
Illustrated with over one hundred pictures
in color and black and white by
WILL VAWTER
I 2mo, cloth, $1.25 postpaid.
HOWARD CHANDLER CHRISTY
In a box, $3.00 postpaid.
NOTEWORTHY BOOKS
BEAUTIFULLY
The Lover's
Mother Goose
ILLUSTRATED FICTION
By ANNE VIRGINIA
CULBERTSON
Pictures by
By HAROLD MACGRATH
Hearts and Masks
Photogravure pictures by
HARRISON FISHER.
JOHN CECIL CLAY
Banjo Talks
Plantation poems, illustrated
by photographs.
Net $1.00, postage 12 cts.
in several colors. Bound
in cloth, ornamental cover,
Boxed, $3.00 postpaid.
By DAVID GRAHAM
PHILLIPS
The Social
Secretary
Photogravure pictures by
C. F. UNDERWOOD.
By SAMUEL M. JONES
Letters of
Labor and Love
Open letters on the simple
life by the famous “Golden
Rule” Mayor of Toledo.
Net $1.00, postage 12 cts.
The Lover's Mother Goose
is a new miracle of quaint
conception, fairy-like draw-
ing and entrancing color
from the master hand that
made the famous
By JOHN LUTHER LONG
Seffy
Color pictures by C. D.
WILLIAMS.
In Love's Garden
The Bobbs-Merrill Company :: Publishers ::
Publishers :: Indianapolis


1905.]
335
THE DIAL
Beautiful books for the bibliophile
The
Seymour
Limited
Editions
By special arrangement with Mr. Ralph Fletcher Seymour,
the distinguished art printer, all the beautiful editions made
by him are published exclusively by The Bobbs-Merrill
Company. Mr. Seymour has recently projected a series
of the world's best essays, the first issue in which is
The Essays of Francis Bacon
This beautiful edition at once takes rank as the premier of America, - an edition de luxe
in everything except price. It adds appreciably to the wide and dignified reputation which
Mr. Seymour has won on both sides of the Atlantic as an artisan of exquisite skill and an
artist of unvarying good taste.
Specially printed and bound under Mr. Seymour's direction.
Large 12mo, boards, net, $1.50.
$ 3.00
net,
net,
10.00
net, $ 3.00
net, 10.00
.
PREVIOUSLY ISSUED
Books in the House. By Alfred W. Pollard.
Bound in cloth, blind-stamped front and back, with title in gold, fancy end paper,
wood-cut title page.
500 copies printed on Van Gelder paper
10 copies on Imperial Japan Vellum, bound in leather
A Defence of Poetry. By Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Elaborately decorated with frontispiece and initials. Bound in boards, with gold
title.
500 copies on French H. M. paper
8 copies on Imperial Japan Vellum, bound in parchment
The Book of Ruth
Taken from the edition of the Bible “ printed at the Theater in Oxford,” 1680.
With richly designed title page, initials and decorations, and six illustrations.
Printed on the finest paper from a heavy face type. Bound in boards and
cloth, with gold title.
1,000 copies on paper, boxed
10 copies on Japan Vellum, full parchment binding
The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise
Four Old Christmas Carols
The Agamemnon of Aeschylus. Translated by Edward Fitzgerald
Twelve Songs by Maurice Maeterlinck
The Song of Demeter and Persephone: An Homeric Hymn. Walter
Pater's Translation .
net, $ 2.00
net,
5.00
net,
3.00
net,
1.50
net,
3.00
net,
1.50
net,
3.00
The Bobbs-Merrill Company :: Publishers :: Indianapolis


336
[Dec. 1,
THE DIAL
Ehristmas Suggestions
A novel of real literary distinction by the author of “Four Roads
to Paradise,” “White Aprons,” etc. $1.50.
A moving tale of romantic adventures, already in its 6th printing.
Illustrated in two colors by Ernest Haskell. $1.50.
The marvellous tale of the return of “ She,” the ever young and
beautiful. Eight illustrations by Greiffenhagen. $1.50.
Humorous sketches of Belinda's experiences as teacher in a fashion-
able girls' finishing school. Second printing. Illustrated. $1.50.
Claims and Counterclaims
By Maud Wilder Goodwin
The Missourian
By Eugene P. Lyle, Jr.
Ayesha
By H. Rider Haggard
Concerning Belinda
By Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd
Flashlights in the Jungle
By C. B. Schillings
The Tree Book
By Julia E. Rogers
Irving's "Rip Van Winkle"
Illustrated by Arthur Rackham
The Country House
By Chas. Edw. Hooper
The only authorized or adequate American edition. More than
300 photographs of African wild animals. A $6.00 book for
$3.8o. (Postage 38 cts.)
An exhaustive manual of how to know the trees, their uses, and
how to grow and care for them. 350 photographs. Net, $4.00.
(Postage 37 cts.)
The purchaser of this book is practically the possessor of fifty
drawings by one of the most remarkable artists of our day. Net,
$5.00. (Postage 25 cts.)
Gives clearly and in detail all the information necessary in the
building of a country house. Nearly 400 illustrations. Net,
$3.00. (Postage 30 cts.)


1905.]
337
THE DIAL
Country Homes of Famous Americans A very valuable work, sumptuously illustrated.
Introduction by Thomas
Net, $5.00. (Postage 30 cts.)
By Oliver Bronson Capen
Wentworth Higginson
A Southern Girl in '61
These memoirs by the daughter of Senator Wigfall, of Texas,
“combine real historical value with rare feminine charm.”—Chicago
By Mrs. D. Giraud Wright
Record-Herald. Illustrated. Net, $2.75. (Postage 28 cts.)
On Two Continents
By Marie Hansen Taylor
" The most attractive record of one of the most interesting of all
Americans. Illustrated. Net, $2.75. (Postage 28 cts.)
The Jewish Spectre
By George H. Warner
“A brilliant study, far reaching in its scope and convincing in its
arguments.”—Buffalo Courier. Net, $1.50. (Postage 15 cts.)
Sons o' Men
By G. B. Lancaster
Amazing tales of the New Zealand sheep shearers — full of the
zest of life's hardships and showing real literary genius. $1.50.
Paintings of the Louvre
By Dr. Arthur Mahler
Written in collaboration with Carlos Blacker and William A. Slater.
A complete handbook to the Spanish and Italian masterpieces.
More than 150 illustrations. Net, $2.00. (Postage 20 cts.)
Life and Religion
By Prof. F. Max Müller
A stimulating work containing the essence of Professor Müller's
published and unpublished writings on two of the greatest ideas of
the human mind. Net, $1.50. (Postage 15 cts.)
The Golden Heart
By Violet Jacob
A volume of fairy tales which shares the same story-telling faculty
and admirable literary workmanship of the author's successful
novels. Net, $1.25. (Postage 13 cts.)
Doubleday, Page & Company, 133-137 East
133-137 East 16th Street, New York


338
(Dec. 1,
THE DIAL
J. B.
LIPPINCOTT
COMPANY
Publishers
Philadelphia
LIPPINCOTT'S
NEW GAZETTEER
Edited by ANGELO HEILPRIN and LOUIS HEILPRIN
PHE dictionary of universal geography that is now
offered to the public is the successor of Lippincott's
Pronouncing Gazetteer. It is a new publication,
printed from new type from title-page to cover.
Only the framework or skeleton of its predecessor has been
retained, together with the system of pronunciation introduced
by that great master, Dr. Joseph Thomas.
The present work contains upward of 27,000 titles that do
not appear in the former book.
An invaluable work for all libraries, private and public.
A necessity for schools and colleges.
A compilation of industrial and allied facts, that no manu-
facturing business, jobber, or exporter can afford to be without.
Over 2000 pages. Quarto. _Sheep, $10.00, net.
Half Russia, $12.50, net. Patent index, 50 cents extra.
F
JACTS AND
FANCIES
FOR THE
CURIOUS
FROM THE HARVEST.
FIELDS OF LITERATURE
MONTAIGNE
By C. C. BOMBAUGH,
A.M., M.D.
A melange of excerpts. A
handy book. Not for a class
of readers, but for the multi-
tude.
PARTIAL LIST OF CONTENTS
Americana. Our National Airs. Facetice,
Flashes of Repartee. Word Twisting of
the Punsters. Clever Hits of the Humor-
ists. Hits of the Satirists. Evasions of
Ambiguity. Comical Blunders. Even
Homer sometimes Nods. Stretches of
Poetical License. Misquotation. Legen-
dary Lore. Wit of the Epigrammatists.
Enigmas. Ideal Physical Proportions.
Famous Beauties. Female Poisoners.
Toasts and Mottoes.
8vo. Cloth, $3.00, net.
Postage extra
By EDWARD DOWDEN
Volume I.- French Men of Letters.-Edited by Alexander
Jessup. Containing a frontispiece portrait, and an adequate
index. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50, net. Postpaid, $1.60.
"Professor Dowden has given the new series a most auspicious
introduction ; he has also laid the lover of good literature under
a considerable obligation." — Brooklyn Eagle.
In preparation
Volume II.-
Volume III. -
HONORÉ DE BALZAC. FRANÇOIS RABELAIS.
By Ferdinand Brunetiere. By Arthur Tilley, M.A.
S2
THE TRUE
ANDREW JACKSON
By CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY
SADDLE
AND SONG
A collection of the best verse
about the horse, by the most
widely known writers in the
English language, besides
many poems which should be
just as well known. It offers
itself as an ideal gift for any
one who has a fondness for
horses or for good poetry.
Illustrated, 12mo. Cloth,
$1.50, net. Postage, 13 cents extra
A new volume of the series of the "True Biographies" which
have been so eminently successful. Mr. Brady has been study-
ing Jackson for many years, and his present volume will prove
to be one of the most readable of the series.
Illustrated. 8vo. Cloth, $2.00, net; half levant, $5.00, net.
Postage, 14 cents extra.
SEND FOR A FREE ILLUSTRATED
rÈD
-
-


1905.]
839
THE DIAL
NEWPORT
OUR SOCIAL CAPITAL
J. B.
LIPPINCOTT
COMPANY
By MRS. JOHN KING VAN RENSSELAER
o
Publishers
Philadelphia
'HIS is the first book to tell the whole story
of Newport. It is written by one who knows
every side of Newport life. The volume is
much more than a history of Newport and its people.
It is the story of a great social institution and the
record of some of the most brilliant chapters in
American fashionable life.
With frontispiece in color by Henry Hutt. Many illustrations in
photogravure and doubletone and from drawings by Edward
Stratton Holloway.
Printed on Arnold's hand-made paper, especially made for this
edition. Bound in two shades of genuine English buckram, with
design in gold. Quarto. Per copy, $30.00, net. Limited Edi-
tion, bound in full levant, handsomely tooled.
$50.00, net
ACTS AND
FANCIES
ABOUT
JAVA
Per copy,
By AUGUSTA DE WIT
AN ORCHARD PRINCESS
A most interesting and
informing description of
Java, its life and its
people.
Over 160 illustrations. Small
quarto. Gilt top, $3.75, net
By RALPH HENRY BARBOUR
Author of “Kitty of the Roses"
Mr. Barbour's new story has all of the charm of
Kitty,” together with an originality of the central
idea of the story and the cleverness in its execution
that add much to the entertainment of the book.
Illustrated in color, with page designs in tint, by James Mont-
gomery Flagg. Bound in cloth, with portrait cover, in orna-
mental box, $2.00
THE FIELDS
OF FRANCE
By MARY DUCLAUX
A charming description
of the French country
made famous by history.
The illustrations include
twenty beautiful drawings
in color by W. B. Mac-
Dougall.
Illustrated. Quarto. Decorated
binding, $6.00, net
MISS CHERRY-BLOSSOM
OF TOKYO
By JOHN LUTHER LONG
An especially beautiful edition of this popular novel
of a popular writer and co-author of the famous Japa-
nese play “The Darling of the Gods."
On each page of the book, from cover to cover, are Japanese
pictures printed in the tints of old Japan. Nine full-page illus-
irations in colors and tints, lining papers of cherry blossoms,
and a cover of especially characteristic design. Ornamental
cloth, $2.50.
TWO NEW NOVELS
THE WIFE OF THE SEC-
RETARY OF STATE. By
Ella Middleton Tybout, author
of “Poketown People." Fron-
tispiece. 12mo. Čloth, $1.50.
THE HOUSEHOLD OF
PETER. By Rosa Nouchette
Carey. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50
LIST OF CHRISTMAS BOOKS


340
[Dec. 1,
THE DIAL
Longmans, Green, & Co.'s
New books
MRS. FITZHERBERT AND GEORGE IV.
By W. H. WILKINS, M.A., F.S.A., Author of "The Love of an Uncrowned Queen," etc. With numerous
portraits and other illustrations. 8vo, 496 pages, $5 00 net. Postage extra.
This book, which is written and published with the approval and assistance of Mrs. Fitzherbert's decendants, and contains materials now
published for the first time by special permission of H. M. the King, places the fact of her marriage with the Prince of Wales, afterwards
George IV., beyond doubt. The large number of unpublished papers and letters of great interest give considerable importance to the
volume as a contribution to the intimate history of the House of Hanover.
A HISTORY OF DIPLOMACY
IN THE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF EUROPE.
By DAVID JAYNE HILL, LL.D., U.S. Minister to the
Netherlands. In 6 volumes. Vol. I. The Struggle
for Universal Empire. With 5 colored maps, tables,
etc. 8vo, 504 pages, $5.00 net; by mail, $5.24.
These volume titles of themselves suggest a work of
philosophical conception, and if it be executed with the breadth,
penetration and clearness of expression that mark the first install-
ment, it will assuredly attain a high standard. The results of
investigation are handled with a narrative skill that invests the
driest of facts with the interest of freshness; the tone throughout
is scrupulously impartial and the requirements of perspective are
unfailingly observed." - The Orillook.
THE HISTORY OF TWENTY-FIVE
YEARS (1856-1881)
By SIR SPENCER WALPOLE, K.C.B., Author of "A His-
tory of England from 1815-1858. Vols. I. and II.
(1856-1870)." 8vo, 1086 pages, cloth, $10.00.
“We can cordially congratulate Sir Spencer Walpole on the suc-
cessful performance of a far from easy task and on having made a
real contribution to the enlightened understanding of modern
history."— The Spectator.
THE CRISIS
OF THE CONFEDERACY
A HISTORY OF GETTYSBURG AND THE WILDERNESS.
By CECIL BATTINE, Captain 15th King's Hussars.
With a colored illustration of the Battle-Flags of
the Confederacy and 6 maps. 8vo, $5 00.
no book to this time has given so comprehensive and so
accurrate a narrative of the Gettysburg campaign, from the stand.
point of the impartial historian . . . his book must remain a
permanent contribution to the history of the crisis of the Con
federacy ..." - American Historical Review.
THE SCIENCE OF WAR
A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS AND LECTURES, 1892-1903.
By the late Col. G. F. R. HENDERSON, C. B.,
Author of “Stonewall Jackson and the American
Civil War," etc. Edited by Capt. NEILL MALCOLM,
D.S O., Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. With
a Memoir of the Author by Field-Marshal EARL
ROBERTS, V.C. With a photogravure portrait and 4
maps, 8vo, pp. xxxviii-442, $4.00 net.
"It is rare for the reviewer to open the pages of a book in which
there is so little to criticise, so much to admire."-N. Y. Evg. Post,
STARVECROW FARM. A Novel
By STANLEY J. WEYMAN, Author of "A Gentleman of France," " Under the Red Robe," etc. With 8 illustrations.
Crown 8vo, $1.50.
The scene of "Starvecrow Farm " is laid in the rural England of the rugged, homely North. The time - a few years after the Battle of
Waterloo. It is the story of an elopement with unusual consequences, for the girl marries not the man with whom she elopes, but the
one from whom she flees. As in the case of former novels of Mr. Weyman's, the reader's sympathies pass from one character to the
other during the telling of the tale.
... Mr. Weyman has used his narrative gift to good purpose in this book, and has also shown all his old skill in the delineation, if
not in the creation, of character." – New York Tribune.
fully worthy of Mr. Weyman's reputation as the foremost writer of romantic fiction. His creation . . . of the unctuous
Mrs. Gilson, sharp of tongue and warm of heart, shows his art at its ripest." — Boston Herald.
THE EARTHLY
PARADISE
By WILLIAM MORRIS. With a new
Photogravure Portrait and an
Introduction by J. W. MACKAIL.
4 vols. Crown 8vo, cloth, gilt
top, boxed, $5.00.
This entirely new edition is printed in
large type on light wove paper, the bind-
ing being uniform with Mr. Mackail's
"Life of Morris."
AMERICAN
FAMILIAR VERSE
VERS DE SOCIÉTÉ. Edited, with an
Introduction, by BRANDER
MATTHEWS, Litt. D. (Yale), of
Columbia University. Crown
8vo, $1.40 net.
The selections here made are
admirably adapted for this purpose. Sev.
eral of them will be new even to the most
omniverous devourers of fiction. The
special introductions to the stories are
both biographical and critical." - The
Outlook.
PRINCIPLES
OF ECONOMICS
WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO AMERI-
CAN CONDITIONS. By Edwin R. A.
SELIGMAN, LL.D., McVickar Pro-
fessor of Political Economy in
Columbia University ;. Author of
“Essays in Taxation,” etc. With
28 Maps and Charts, some of which
are in color; a general bibliography,
chapter reference, and full Index.
659 pages, crown 8vo, $2 25.
CUBA AND THE INTER-
VENTION
By ALBERT G. ROBINSON, "A.G.R."
Large crown 8vo, 370 pages ; $1.80
net; by mail, $1.92.
“Mr. Robinson has undoubtedly written the
most truthful book on our Cuban intervention
that has yet appeared, and this has been pos-
sible to him because he was himself suffi.
ciently detached from administration official-
ism during the years of his personal and
close observation of the intervention to make
him something of a critic." - Springfield
Republican.
Mr. Lang's Christmas Book
for 1905
THE RED ROMANCE
BOOK
Edited by ANDREW LANG. With
8 colored plates and 44 other
illustrations by H. J. FORD.
Crown 8vo, gilt edges, $1.60 net;
by mail, $1.75.
The 17th annual volume in Mr. Lang's
Series of Fairy and Story Books.
UNIFORM WITH THE ABOVE
THE BROWN FAIRY BOOK.
Edited by ANDREW LANG.
Crown 8vo, cloth, full gilt, $1.60
net; by mail, $1.75
" It is a comfort to take up a real classic
of fairy literature, where the reader's
only distress in welcoming another vol-
ume of a delightful series is the fear that
it may be the last . fully sustains the
reputation of its predecessors, while Mr.
H. J. Ford's illustrations are more decor-
ative than ever, especially where the new
color process is introduced. "- The
Nation.
Longmans, Green, & Co., 91 & 93 Fifth Avenue, New
York


1905.]
341
THE DIAL
Longmans, Green, & Co.'s
New Books
-
THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND
Edited by Dr. WILLIAM HUNT, President of the Royal Historical Society, and Dr. REGINALD LANE POOLE,
Editor of “The Historical Review." In 12 volumes designed to present a complete history from the
Conquest to the end of the reign of Queen Victoria in the light of modern historical research. To be
completed in 12 vols., each complete in itself, maps and index. The following volumes are now ready :
Vol. II. 1066 to 1216.
Vol. III. 1216 to 1377.
Vol. X. 1760 to 1801.
By GEORGE BURTON ADAMS, By T. F. Tout, M.A., Professor of By the Rev. WII LIAM HUNT,
M.A., Professor of History in History in the Victoria University M.A., D.Litt. of Trinity Col.
Yale University.
of Manchester.
lege, Oxford.
Each volume about 500 pages, demy 8vo, $2.60 net.
Gregory the Great:
His Place in History and Thought
By F. HOMES DUDDEN, B.D., of Lincoln College,
Oxford. 2 vols. 8vo, $10.00 net.
This work gives a full and elaborate account of the
Christian Church as it was in the Sixth Century, and will
therefore, it is believed, be of interest to those who take
the doctrine and practice of the first six centuries as the
test of Anglican orthodoxy.
The Secret of the Totem
By ANDREW LANG. With specially designed cover
by FORD. 8vo, $3.00 net.
CONTENTS. Introduction - Origin of Totemism
Method of Inquiry - Theory of Primal Promiscuity
The Aranta Anomaly – The Theories of Dr. Durkheim
- The Author's Theory – Rise of Phratries and Totem
King - A New Point Explained - Totemic Redistribu-
tion - Matrimonial Classes – Mr. Frazer's Theory of
Totemism – Appendix : American Theories.
The Life of Johannes Brahms
By FLORENCE MAY. 2 vols. With illustrations.
Demy 8vo, $7.00.
The author is qualified for the task of writing these
volumes by her own acquaintance with Brahms, begun
when she was a young student of the pianoforte, and her
personal recollections of his teaching are among the most
interesting parts of the book. Her aim in giving some
account of Brahm's compositions has not been a technical
one. So far as she has exceeded purely biographical
limits, she has endeavored to assist the general music-
lover in his enjoyment of the achievements of a beautiful
life.
Wild Fowl
By L. H. DE VIBME SHAW. With chapters on Shoot-
ing the Duck and the Goose by W. H. POPE, and
Cookery by ALEXANDER INNES SHAND. With
8 illustrations by ARCHIBALD THORBURN and
CHARLES WHYMPER. Crown 8vo, cloth, $1.75.
The Amateur Gardener's
Rose Book
Translated from the German by John WEATHERS,
F.R.H.S., etc., Author of " A Practical Guide to
Garden Plants,” etc. With 20 colored plates
and drawings by HERMAN FRIESE, and 16 wood
cuts. 8vo, $2.50 net.
St. John and the Close of the
Apostolic Age
By the Abbé CONSTANT FOUARD, late Honorary
Cathedral Canon, Professor Faculty of Theology
at Rouen. Crown 8vo, $1.60 net; by mail, $1.72.
This book completes the Author's Series of " The Begin-
nings of the Church: a Series of Histories of the First
Century." The six volumes comprising this set can be
supplied in uniform binding, boxed. Price, $9.60 net.
Expressage additional.
Two Years in the Antarctic
BEING NARRATIVE OF THE BRITISH ANTARCTIC
EXPEDITION. By Lieut. ALBERT B. ARMITAGE,
R.N.R , second in command of the “Discov-
ery,” 1901-1904 ; and of the Jackson-Harms-
worth Polar Expedition, 1894-1897. With
illustrations and map. Demy 8vo, $5.00.
Addresses to Cardinal Newman
With His REPLIES, 1879-81. Edited by the Rev.
W. P. NEVILLE (Cong. Orat.). With portrait
group. Oblong crown 8vo, $1.50 net.
The addresses given in this book were those presented to
Cardinal Newman on the occasion of his acceptance of
the Cardinalate conferred upon him by Pope Leo XIII.
in 1878. The addresses are preceded and followed by an
account, written by the late Fr. Neville, of some of the
incidents attending the offer of the Cardinalate, and of
Dr. Newman's subsequent journey and projected second
journey to Rome, he being over 78 years old at this time.
NEW NOVELS
Wild Wheat
A Dorset Romance. By M. E. FRANCIS (Mrs. Francis
Blundell), Author of “Yeoman Fleetwood,"
“ The Manor Farm," etc. Crown 8vo, $1.50.
Shakespeare's Christmas
And Other Stories
By A. T. QUILLER-Couch ("Q"). With 8 illus-
trations. Crown 8vo, $1.50.
“A capital book. Mr. A. T. Quiller-Couch has few peers
as a teller of stories. After reading "Shakespeare's
Christmas one is almost tempted to say that none
of his English contemporaries could write as good a
story."- New York Evening Sun.
Longmans, Green, & Co., 91 & 93 Fifth Avenue, New York


342
[Dec. 1,
THE DIAL
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY'S

THE FLORENCE OF LANDOR
By LILIAN WHITING
A vivid portrayal of the “flower city” in the days of Walter Savage Landor and his brilliant
associates. With 15 full-page illustrations from photographs. Svo, in box, $2.50 net.
The Florence
Landor
TWO IN ITALY
By MAUD HOWE
Another volume of delightful Italian sketches and studies by the author of “Roma Beata."
With six full-page illustrations by John Elliott.
Crown 8vo, in box, $2.00 net.
SEA POWER IN ITS RELATION TO THE WAR
OF 1812
By Captain A. T. MAHAN
In these highly important volumes Captain Mahan concludes his works on “The Influence of Sea Power Upon History,"
as originally projected. Illustrated by famous artists, and with portraits, maps, battle plans, etc. 2 vols. 8vo, in
box, $7.00 net.
RAMONA
IL LIBRO D'ORO
New Pasadena Edition of HELEN HUNT JACKSON'S A priceless collection of Miracle stories, and sacred
romance of Southern California. Fully illustrated by legends translated from the Italian by Mrs. FRANCIS
Henry Sandham.
Crown 8vo, in box, $2.00. ALEXANDER.
Crown 8vo, $2.00 net.
IN AND OUT OF THE OLD MISSIONS OF CALIFORNIA
By GEORGE WHARTON JAMES
A comprehensive historical and pictorial account of the Franciscan Missions. With nearly 150 illustrations from
photographs.
8vo, in box, $3.00 net.
The biography of an American
Graphic stories of wild animals in
patriot.
THE
their haunts.
THE TRUE STORY
BALLINGTONS
THE RACE OF
By FRANCES SQUIRE
OF PAUL REVERE
“A novel of striking originality and
THE SWIFT
power, and of intense human interest. A
By CHARLES F. GETTEMY
wonderfully true presentation of mar Written by EDWIN CARLILE
riage under certain conditions." - New
With 12 full-page illustrations. York Times.
445 pages. $1.50.
LITSEY. Illustrated by CHARLES
12mo, $1.50 net.
LIVINGSTON BULL. 16mo, $1.25.
THE REJUVENATION OF AUNT MARY
By ANNE WARNER, Author of "Susan Clegg and Her Friend Mrs. Lathrop."
Aunt Mary is a capital creation, and the account of her adventures in New York is brimful of merriment. A pretty
love story runs through the book. Illustrated. 323 pages.
12mo, $1.50.
THE DIVINING ROD
THE BROTHERS' WAR
By FRANCIS N. THORPE
By John C. REED
A realistic romance of the oil fields of Pennsylvania in A dispassionate survey of the causes and consequences
their early days.
12mo, $1.50. of the Rebellion.
12mo, $2.00 net.
THE BREATH
OF THE GODS
LYNETTE AND THE CONGRESSMAN
By MARY FARLEY
SANBORN
“Just a bright and engaging love story."— Detroit Free Press.
12mo, $1.50.
THE BREATH OF THE GODS
By SIDNEY MCCALL,
Author of “Truth Dexter."
The great Japanese novel, of which Douglas Sladen says in The Queen (London): “One of
the most remarkable novels of the year. One of the most brilliant romances ever written
about Japan.”
431 pages, 12mo, $1.50.
THE WARD OF THE SEWING CIRCLE By EDNA EDWARDS
WYLIE
An appealing story of an adopted orphan. With frontispiece.
16mo, $1.00.

SIDNEY MCALL
PUBLISHED BY LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
!


1905.]
343
THE DIAL
LEADING HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS

heritaiyar
THE
THE OAK-TREE FAIRY BOOK
OAK TREE
FAIRY
The best version of 54 favorite fairy stories, edited by CLIFTON JOHNSON. With 85 clever
BOOK
and artistic illustrations by Willard Bonte.
Crown 8vo, $1.75.
AMY IN ACADIA
By HELEN LEAH REED
The first volume of a new series of stories for girls by the author of the “Brenda” books.
Illustrated.
12mo, $1.50.
SIDNEY: HER SUMMER ON THE ST. LAWRENCE
By ANNA CHAPIN RAY
Another popular story for girls by the author of the “Teddy” stories. Illustrated by Alice Barber Stephens.
12mo, $1.50.
WITH SPURS OF GOLD BOY CAPTIVE IN CANADA
By FRANCES N. GREENE and Dolly W. KIRK
By MARY P. WELLS SMITH
Stories of the heroes of chivalry and their deeds. Fully The second Colonial story in the Old Deerfield Series,
illustrated.
12mo, $1.50. by a favorite author. Illustrated.
12mo, $1.25.
SHIPWRECKED IN GREENLAND
By ARTHUR R. THOMPSON
An adventure story with its scenes laid in Northern waters, and founded on a real shipwreck, written by the author of
“Gold Seeking on the Dalton Trail.” With 12 illustrations.
12mo, $1.50.
HEROES
THE
OF
By the author of "The Wood Carver of
'Lympus
SCHOOLHOUSE IN
ICELAND
A DAUGHTER OF THE WOODS
A stirring tale, adapted fron Da-
THE RICH
sent's translation of “ The Story of
A thoroughly natural and enter-
By M. E. WALLER
Burnt Njal,” the great Icelandic New edition of one of the best of stories
taining story by A. G. PLYMPTON,
saga. By ALLEN FRENCH. Illus for girls. Fully illustrated. $1.50.
author of “Dear Daughter Dor-
trated.
12mo, $1.50.
othy," etc. Illustrated. $1.50.
BOYS WHO BECAME FAMOUS MEN
By HARRIET PEARL SKINNER
Stories of the childhood of eight celebrated poets, artists, and musicians, essentially true but interesting for the story's
sake. Illustrated.
12mo, $1.25.
MEN OF OLD GREECE
THE REFORM OF SHAUN
By JENNIE HALL
By ALLEN FRENCH
Four important chapters of Greek history and biography Two sympathetic dog stories of the right sort. Illus-
told for the young. Fully illustrated. 12mo, $1.50. trated.
$1.00.
FRENCH PATHFINDERS IN NORTH AMERICA
By WILLIAM HENRY JOHNSON
A graphic and comprehensive account of French exploration, written in a style adapted for
younger readers, by the author of “The World's Discoverers," etc. Fully illustrated.
12mo, $1.50.
WILDERNESS BABIES
WILDERNESS
By JULIA A. SCHWARTZ
BABIES
Graphic stories of the babyhood of sixteen common mammals. With 15 full-page illustra-
tions.
12mo, $1.50.
MISS ALCOTT'S FAMOUS STORIES
“Under the Lilacs " and "Jack and Jill ” have just been added to the illustrated edition of
the Little Women Series, and the eight volumes with 84 full-page plates, by Alice Barber
Stephens, Jessie Willcox Smith, and Harriet Roosevelt Richards, etc., are now supplied in box
for $16.00. Separately, $2.00 per vol.

254 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON
- AT ALL
BOOKSELLERS


344
[Dec. 1,
THE DIAL
Harper's New Holiday Books
The Island of Enchantment
By JUSTUS MILES FORMAN
The story of a great passion in the days when romance made its home among men.
The love scenes are fascinating, and the book itself is exquisite in its holiday dress.
Illustrated in Color from Paintings by Howard Pyle. Marginal Decorations in Tint.
Gilt Top, Uncut Edges. Specially Boxed. Price, $1.75.

The Line of Love
By JAMES BRANCH CABELL
Of this beautiful holiday book Mark Twain says: “It is the charmingest book I have
read in a long time. Archaic speech in this case allures and bewitches, the art of it is
so perfect."
Illustrated in Color by Howard Pyle. Marginal Decora-
tions in Tint. Gilt Top, Uncut Edges. Specially Boxed.
Price, $2.00.

An Old Country House
By RICHARD LE GALLIENNE
The romantic story of an old country house in which a young husband and wife
realized all their dreams of flowers, yew-trees, and sun-dials.
Illustrated in Two Colors by Elizabeth Shippen Green. Royal Octavo, Gilt Top,
Uncut Edges. Price, $2.40 net.
Caroline of Courtlandt Street
By WEYMER JAY MILLS
Merrily, mirthfully, but with an undercurrent of tender sentiment, this romance pre-
sents an enchanting story of old New York. It is comedy of a delightful order, full
of surprises and the glamour of golden days.
Illustrated in Color by Anna Whelan Betts. Marginal Decorations in Tint. Gilt Top,
Uncut Edges. Specially Boxed. Price, $2.00 net.

Her Memory Book
By HELEN HAYES
A delightful improvement over the home-made memory book that every girl loves to
keep. The pages are embellished with drawings appropriate to the events to be
recorded, which include all sorts of social diversions, college events, the sports of the
four seasons, etc.
Specially Boxed. Price, $2.00.

The Pleasant Tragedies of
Childhood
Drawings by F. Y. CORY. Verses by BURGES JOHNSON
This series of drawings in black and tint represent typical mirthful phases in the
lives of little tots, and each is accompanied by merry little rhymes. It is a captivating
volume for the holiday season, and its humor in verse and pioture is sure to be enjoyed
by everyone.
Thirty Full-Page Pictures in Black and Tint. Marginal Drawings in Pen and Ink. Ornamented Cloth Cover
Stamped in Gold. Specially Boxed. Price, $1.50.
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK


1905.]
345
THE DIAL
New Publications of Special Importance
London Films
A New Volume of English Impressions
By WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS
He tells of London life and character, its contrasts with
things American, with so much spirit, humor, grace, and
joyousness that next to making the trip yourself is to
read his experiences.”-- Cleveland Leader.
Illustrated. Price, $2.25 net.
A History of Our Own Times
By JUSTIN MCCARTHY
In these new volumes (IV. and V.) the author brings
his admirable history to completion from the Diamond
Jubilee of the reign of Queen Victoria to the accession
of Edward VII.
Vols. IV. and V. (uniform with Vols. I.-III.)
Illustrated. Price, $1.40 net, each.
The German Struggle for Liberty
(Volume IV.)
By POULTNEY BIGELOW
This volume is the fourth and last of a series which has
been well received and is now complete from the battle of
Jena, in 1806, to the re-birth of the national spirit in 1848.
di Vol. IV. (uniform with Vols. I.-III.) Illustrated.
Price, $2.25 net.
American Diplomacy
Its Spirit and Achievements
By JOHN BASSETT MOORE, LL.D.
It places many facts before the public for the first time,
and shows how the American policy of carrying on inter-
national dealings, squarely and above board, has caused
American diplomacy to be acknowledged as one of the
great formative forces in modern history.
Illustrated. Price, $2.00 net.
The Reconstruction of Religious
Belief
By W. H. MALLOCK
An interesting and worthy volume, written from a new
point of view, on the great subject of the contradiction
between science and religion.
Price, $1.75 net.
The Principles of Money and Banking
By CHARLES A. CONANT
A systematic treatise on money and banking. The scope
of the book carries the reader from the beginnings of
exchange, when cattle and bits of metal passed by tale
or weight, down through the origin of coinage to the
methods of modern banking and credit.
Two volumes, in box. Price, per set, $4.00 net.
66
NEW BOOKS OF FICTION
The Conquest of Canaan
By BOOTH TARKINGTON
Easily the best and biggest thing that Booth Tarkington has yet given us.”- The Chicago Evening
Post.
Illustrated. Price, $1.50.
The Gambler
By KATHERINE CECIL THURSTON
“Fully as unique, as vivid in portrayal, as intense in interest as its predecessor, The Masquerader."
- St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Illustrated. Price, $1.50.
The Debtor
By MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN
" A novel distinctly worth while, written in the author's own style, original and entertaining."— The
Columbus Journal.
Illustrated. Price, $1.50.
Pole Baker
By WILL N. HARBEN
“It should have the popularity of David Harum, because it is a better story, and Pole is just as
original a character."— The Cleveland Leader.
Price, $1.50.
Rebecca Mary
By ANNIE HAMILTON DONNELL
“Of all small girls who have recently figured as heroines in fiction, Annie Hamilton Donnell's
'Rebecca Mary' is at once the quaintest, most original, attractive, and sincere of the lot."— The
New York Globe.
Illustrated. Price, $1.50.
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK CITY


346
[Dec. 1,
THE DIAL
Hooks and Authors
With Special Reference to Christmas Purchases
the tenderly humorous “Sandy," with “Mrs.
Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch" and "Lovey Mary."
REALLY, IF books should be wiped out of ex-
istence, would not Christmas have to be given
up? For books, for countless thousands, young
and old, are the ideal gift, satisfying equally
pride and taste and sentiment. And never has
choice been so wide or so delightful as now.
ESPECIALLY HAPPY se-
Yes, do send
me a book. lections for the friend who
Not a bargain has traveled
are Edith
book, bought
from a haber Wharton's “Italian Villas
dasher, but a
and Their Gardens " and
beautiful book,
a book to caress-
James Eugene Farmer's
peculiar, distinc. “Versailles and the Court
tive, individual:
book that hath first
Under Louis XIV.” Most
caught your eye and
of the fifty illustrations that
then pleased your
fancy, written by an
beautify “ Italian Gar-
author with a ten dens" are reproduced in
der whim, all right
out of his heart. We
the colors of the original,
will read it together paintings by Maxfield Par-
in the gloaming, and
when the gathering
rish. Exquisite in make-
dusk doth blur the
up, too, is this new record
page, we 'll sit with
hearts too full for
of Versailles, bound in rich
speech and think it blue cloth, with seventy
Dorothy Wordsworth
illustrations in tint. And
in a letter to Coleridge. for the stay-at-home friend
these are books to open up
wonderful new worlds. A book less pretentious
in form but rich in meat is Charles H. Caffin's
“How to Study Pictures,” just what the title
would indicate. The friend who loves pictures
could have no more acceptable gift.
OF A beauty and value out of all proportion
to their cost are the delightful little Thumbnails,
tiny gems of thought and artistic form. The
new issues are a compilation of George Wash-
ington's state papers under the title of “Wash-
ington,” Charles Dickens's “The Chimes," and
Mrs. Browning's “ Sonnets
Books are the from the Portuguese"; but
food of youth, there are
the delight of
twenty-seven
old age; the or-
others to make choice from,
nament of pros-
among them “Poor Rich-
perity, the ref-
uge and com ard's Almanack," “ The
fort of adversity; a
Rubáiyát,” Marcus Au-
delight at home,
and no hindrance relius, etc.
abroad; companions
by night, in travel-
ing, in the country.
FOR THE man who has
-Cicero.
not Theodore Roosevelt's
books there could be no
more admirable Christmas remembrance. "The
Strenuous Life" and “Hero Tales from Amer-
ican History" come in rich, dignified dress, while
“Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail" has ninety-
four illustrations by Frederic Remington.
over.
seems
none
than a beauti-
IS THERE some one to be remembered to
whom a book of fiction would most appeal ?
The rich and unusual humor of “ The Fugitive
Blacksmith" commends it strongly. Give it to
any man, and find how hard a time he has to
snatch his own reading from the importunities
of family and friends. “ Plain Mary Smith” is
full of riotous fun; “ Jules of the Great Heart
is fresh and strong; and then there is Dr. S.
Weir Mitchell's powerful story, “Constance
Trescot," a book which physicians and lawyers
find of peculiar interest. Other novels of the
day include “ The Northerner,” “Under Rock-
ing Skies,” “Sabina" (by the author of “Tillie"),
“ The Wheat Princess" (by the author of “When
Patty Went to College”), and “ Żal,” Rupert
Hughes's international romance. And there are
the ever-welcome books by Alice Hegan Rice,
WOULD YOU make an addition to home or
friend's library of enduring value, what better
than a standard biography? Andrew D. White's
Autobiography is perhaps
Of gifts, there the most notable biograph-
ical work of the year; and
more becoming
to offer a friend young and old find it in-
spiring and delightful read-
ful book.- Amos
Bronson Alcott's ing. Consider also the
“ Concord Days." short life of Lincoln, con-
densed by John G. Nicolay
from the great ten-volume history of Nicolay and
Hay. And the "
Autobiography of Joseph
Jefferson ” will recall many delightful evenings
spent under the sway of the master-comedian of
the American stage.
WOULD YOU know more of these and scores
of other books? An exceedingly attractive cata-
log, printed in color, with full details, may be
had for the asking. It has in it a classified list
of books for children from six to ten, from ten
to fourteen, etc. A postal-card request to The
Century Co., Union Square, New York City, will
bring it by return mail.


1905.)
347
THE DIAL
Attractive Books from the Crowell List
Religious
General Literature

THE INWARD LIGHT
By Amory H. Bradford
The latest book by this well-known preacher is
devoted to present-day theology, the power of con-
science and opinion.
12mo, cloth, $1.20 net. Postage, 10 cents.
IRVING'S WORKS
(Crowell's Miniature Edition)
Printed on India paper, from readable type, bound in
limp ooze leather, gilt edges, size of volumes 14 x 242.
The smallest and daintiest set of Irving in the world.
5 (selected) vols. in leather case, per set, $2.50.
WHEN THE SONG BEGINS
By J. R. Miller
More than a million copies of Dr. Miller's books have been sold,
because he is "a man with a message."
16mo, 65 cents ; cloth, gilt top, 85 cents net. Postage, 8 cents.
RUSKIN'S COMPLETE WORKS
This text is the fullest yet published in America. It is also in the
largest type. New bibliography and indices. Fully illustrated.
In all respects the best available.
30 vols., de luxe, $37.50 to $90.00.
99
THE MINISTER AS PROPHET
By Charles E. Jefferson
While addressed to theological students, this book will be found of
much interest to laymen. It defines the duties of the minister
and explains his mission.
16mo, cloth, gilt top, 90 cents net. Postage, 10 cents.
FRANKLIN'S ESSAYS
Edited by U. Waldo Cutler. A representative selection, includ-
ing the Almanac, political and scientific papers, and personal
letters.
18mo, cloth, 35 cents; limp leather, 75 cents ; 12mo, cloth, 60 cents
and 75 cents.
A YOUNG MAN'S RELIGION
AND HIS FATHER'S FAITH
By N. McGee Waters
A series of stimulating talks on present-day beliefs as opposed to
the creeds of a past generation.
16mo, 90 cents net. Postage, 10 cents.
BEST 100 AMERICAN POEMS
Selected by John R. Howard. As the title indicates, this is a
selection of 100 poems from different authors, typical of the best
poetic effort of our literature.
18mo, cloth, 35 cents; limp leather, 75 cents ; 12mo, cloth, 60 cents
and 75 cents.
THE MELODY OF GOD'S LOVE
By Oliver Huckel
An illuminative study of the Twenty-third Psalm. Printed from
special type designs.
12mo, cloth, 75 cents ; art leather, $1.50 net. Postage, 8 cents.
FAMOUS AMERICAN AUTHORS
By Sarah K. Bolton
Short, chatty sketches of Emerson, Holmes, Lowell, Longfellow,
Hawthorne, and Whittier. Printed in two colors with 24 illustra-
tions.
8vo, cloth, gilt top, boxed, $2.00; art leather, $3.00.
Juvenile
THE FAMILY ON
WHEELS
By J. Macdonald Oxley
A charming little tale of orphan chil-
dren and their unique way of earning a
living. Full of humor and pathos.
12mo, illustrated, 75 cents.
BEAUFORT CHUMS
By Edwin L. Sabin
The engrossing story of two boys, a boat,
and a dog, on the Mississippi. One of
the best books for boys since “Tom
Sawyer," and every boy will read it
eagerly.
12mo, illustrated, $1.00.

STORIES FROM WAGNER
By J. Walker McSpadden
The heroic myths and folk tales, utilized by Wagner in his great
operas, are here retold in simple language for children and readers
generally.
16mo, illustrated, 60 cents.
STORIES FROM PLUTARCH
By F. J. Rowbotham
A very readable series of of stories of classic heroes told in an easy
narrative way that boys especially will enjoy.
16mo, illustrated, 60 cents.
THOMAS Y. CROWELL & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS
426-8 West Broadway, New York


348
[Dec. 1,
THE DIAL
IMPORTANT HOLIDAY
HOLIDAY BOOKS
LETTERS OF HENRIK IBSEN
A strikingly interesting correspondence, covering a period of fifty years, and
constituting a continuous autobiography of the great dramatist. With a por-
trait.
$2.50 net; postage extra.
MAN AND THE EARTH
By NATHANIEL SOUTHGATE SHALER, Professor of Geology in
Harvard University.
A study of the earth's inhabitants and its material resources for taking care
of them.
$1.50 net; postage 10 cents.
OLD MASTERS AND NEW
By KENYON Cox
A practical book of art criticisms by one of the foremost American painters
and decorative artists.
$1.50 net; postage 10 cents. Illustrated edition. $2.50 net; postage extra.
$1.50.
AN EYE FOR AN EYE
By CLARENCE S. DARROW, of Chicago.
The story of a murder and its penalty.
AT THE SIGN OF THE DOLLAR
By WALLACE IRWIN
Pictures by E. W. KEMBLE. Racy satires on American topics.
MORE MISREPRESENTATIVE MEN
By Captain HARRY GRAHAM
Pictures by Malcolm STRAUSS. More verses on celebrities.
$1.00.
$1.00.
$1.25.
CRANFORD: A Play
By MARGUERITE MERINGTON
Frontispiece in color by EDWIN WALLICK. A comedy made from Mrs.
Gaskell's famous novel.
VERSES FOR JOCK AND JOAN
By HELEN HAY WHITNEY
Pictures in color by CHARLOTTE HARDING. Poems for children by the
daughter of the late John Hay, Secretary of State.
$1.50.
FOX, DUFFIELD & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK


1905.]
349
THE DIAL
DUTTON'S TRAVEL SERIES

BEAUTIFULLY
ILLUSTRATED
IN COLOR
These books are admirably
suited for gifts to dis-
criminating people. The
reading matter is of real
value, and the beautiful col-
ored illustrations are full of
the spirit
of the country
described.
ILLUSTRATION FROM
THE HIGH ROAD OF EMPIRE"
.
IN THE TRACK OF THE MOORS Sketches in Spain and Northern
Africa. By SYBIL FITZGERALD. With fifty colored and many line drawings by
AUGUSTINE FITZGERALD. Large 8vo, 1024 x 734 in., net
$6.00
THE CASENTINO AND ITS STORY By Ella Noves. Illustrated in
color and line by Dora Noyes. 8vo, 9x7 in., net
3.50
SKETCHES ON THE OLD ROAD THROUGH FRANCE TO
FLORENCE By A. H. HALLAM MURRAY. Many illustrations in color and
black and white by the author. 8vo, 7 x 9 in., net
5.00
THE HIGH ROAD OF EMPIRE Sketches in India and Elsewhere. By
A. H. HALLAM MURRAY, author of “Sketches on the Old Road through France
to Florence.”
46 colored plates and many line drawings by the author. Svo,
7 x 9 in.,
net
5.00
NORMANDY The scenery and romance of its ancient towns depicted by GORDON
HOME. Many illustrations in color and black and white. 8vo, 7 x 9 in., net . . 3.50
LHASA AND ITS MYSTERIES By L. AUSTIN WADDELL. 200 illustra-
tions in color and half tone. Large 8vo, net
6.00
Any of the above sent prepaid on receipt of price.
E. P. DUTTON & CO., 31 West 23d Street, NEW YORK


350
[Dec. 1,
THE DIAL
BOOKS FOR PRESENTS
79
“THE DEFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY OF LAMB”
The Life of Charles and Mary Lamb
By E. V. LUCAS
Editor of “The Works and Letters
Two volumes, 8vo, 50 illustrations. Net, $6.00. of Charles and Mary Lamb."
“A perfect book about Charles Lamb, his sister and his friends. . . Might have been
written by a contemporary of Lamb's so far as its vivid reality is concerned. ... A biog-
raphy which for its comprehensiveness as a record, its store of anecdote, its sympathetic
tone, and its winning style promises to take rank as a classic.”- New York Tribune.
Louis XIV. and La Grande Mademoiselle By ARVÈDE BARINE
Authorized English Version. Svo, illustrated. Net, $3.00 (by mail, $3.25).
“It is bewildering to think of the many crowns and coronets that might have rested on the
brow of this dramatic heroine, a heroine who appears and disappears in clouds of dust, with
regiments of cavalry wheeling and whirling around her to the sound of the trumpets —
the stern devotee of reason who dismissed one of her maids because she married for
love, the philosopher who debated in her mimic court whether an accepted lover is more
unhappy than a rejected lover in the absence of the beloved.”—London Times.
Portraits of the 18th Century
HISTORICAL AND
LITERARY
Translated by KATHARINE P. WORMELEY and G. B. Ives.
By C. A. SAINTE-BEUVE
Two parts, 8vo, with about 30 illustrations. Sold separately, each $2.50, net.
The quality, the discernment and balance, intuitive grasp of essentials, the grace, force,
and justice, of Sainte-Beuve's critical work have placed him in the front rank — perhaps
it would be better to say, have given him a place alone in the history of critical literature.
Romance of the French Abbeys By ELIZABETH W. CHAMPNEY
Author of “Romance of Feudal Châteaux,” “Renaissance Châteaux," etc
8vo, with 2 colored, 9 photogravure, and 50 other illustrations. Net, $3.00 (by mail, $3.25).
A delightful blending of history, art, and romance. It fully carries out Guizot's sugges-
tion, “ If you are fond of romance, read history.”
The Life of Goethe
By ALBERT BIELSCHOWSKY
Translated by W. A. COOPER. To be complete in 3 parts. Large 8vo. Illustrated. Each, net, $$3.50.
PART 1.–1749-1788. FROM BIRTH TO THE RETURN FROM ITALY. Now Ready.
Dr. Bielschowsky was acknowledged as the foremost authority on Goethe, and it is
generally conceded that this is the most important life of Goethe, from the standpoint of
scholarship, sympathetic interpretation, and literary art -- in fact, the most important
biography of any man written in German for many years.
Kate Greenaway
By M. H. SPIELMANN aud G. S. LAYARD
Large 8vo, with 53 full-page colored and 125 other illustrations. Net, $6.50.
Those who think of Kate Greenway merely as the designer of pretty pictures for children
will be surprised to learn what an interesting and important personage she was. Mr.
Spielmann shows that among the best artists and critics of Europe, Miss Greenaway is
regarded as one of the artist geniuses of the Nineteenth century. This book is some-
thing more than a personal biography. It is rather a peep behind the scenes, led by Kate
Greenaway, into the intimate converse of the foremost artists and writers of our times.
The St. Lawrence River
HISTORICAL, LEGENDARY
PICTURESQUE,
8vo, 100 illustrations. Net, $3.50. By GEORGE WALDO BROWNE
This work presents in a consecutive narrative the most important historic incidents con-
nected with the river, combined with descriptions of some of its most picturesque scenery
and delightful excursions into its legendary lore.
NEW YORK
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
LONDON


1905.]
351
THE DIAL
BOOKS FOR
PRESENTS
ers.
own.
Talks in a Library with Laurence Hutton
Recorded by
ISABEL MOORE
8vo, with portrait and 65 illustrations. Net $2.50 (by mail $2.75).
“ It will be read less for its odd and amusing anecdotes, numerous and admirable as they
are, than for its personal reminiscences of the many remarkable men and women whose
acquaintance, and, in an extraordinary number of instances, friendship, this useful and
truly amiable man enjoyed.”
N. Y. Evening Post.
The Voyageur and Other Poems By WILLIAM HENRY DRUMMOND
Author of "The Habitant,” etc. Illustrated by F. S. COBURN
Photogravure Edition. With 16 Photogravure Illustrations. 8vo, 14 calf. Net, $2.50 (by mail, $2.70).
Popular Edition. With 2 Colored and 8 other illustrations. Crown 8vo. Net, $1.25 (by mail $1.35).
A new volume of verse by Dr. Drummond means a genuine delight to thousands of read-
The touches of roguish humor, the playful imagination and the quick appreciation
of nature which are the heritage of the French Canadian, Dr. Drummond has made his
He knows the pathos and fortitude of simple lives and the ideals which inspire his
people.
Pictures of Life and Character
By JOHN LEECH
212 illustrations. Oblong 8vo. Cloth, $1.50.
“There is far more fun, more good drawing, more good sense, more beauty, in John
Leech's Punch pictures than in all the art union illustrations, engravings, statues, etc.,
put together. - Dr. John BROWNE in his Notes on Art.
The Connoisseur's Library
A Series of Twenty Works on Art
(No More, No Less).
These volumes will prove indispensable books of reference to all persons interested in
collecting. They are royal 8vo, the paper of the best quality and the illustrations pro-
duced by the finest processes. They are sold at the uniform net price of $6.75.
Recent Issues: 1 – Mezzotints. 2 Porcelain. 3 — Miniatures. 4-Ivories.
Send for Descriptive Circular.
A History of English Furniture
By PERCY MACQUOID
From the Beginning of Tudor Times down to the last of the Georges.
Issued in 20 folio parts, 11 x 15 inches. With nearly 1000 large illustrations, including 60 plates in color.
Each, net, $2.50
The work is divided into these periods: The Age of Oak. 3 – The Age of Mahogany.
2 The Age of Walnut. 4— The Composite Age.
Each period forms a separate and distinct circular
Vol. I. - The Age of Oak. Vol. II. - The Age of Walnut. Now Ready.
240 pages, with about 250 illustrations, including 15 plates in color. Folio, cloth. Each, net, $15.00.
“ A superb art work -- a work that is evidently to be magnificent.” – New York Sun.
Send for Hlustrated Circular.
BETTER THAN A CARD OR A CALENDAR.
The Ariel Booklets
A series of productions, complete in small compass, which have been
accepted as classics of their kind. Beautifully printed in large type
Illustrated
on deckle-edge paper and bound in red morocco, flexible.
Catalogue
Each volume with photogravure frontispiece, in box, 75 cents.
of Holiday Books
126 Volumes now ready. Send for Circular.
1
Send
me your
Use this Coupon
Name
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
27 and 29 West 23rd Street
NEW YORK
Address


352
[Dec. 1,
THE DIAL
Appropriate Books
For Holiday
Gift-Giving
CATHEDRAL
CITIES OF
ENGLAND
Illustrated Christmas
By GEORGE GILBERT
Catalogue with com-
plete announce-
With 60 full-page illustrations
in color by W. W. Collins, R.I.
ments will be
sent upon
The great cathedrals of England are re-
request
produced in beautiful colored plates by a
process which is far superior to that ordinarily
Besides the illustrations there is a full
and valuable text, and we feel certain that on the
whole the volume is the handsomest on the subject
in use.
ever issued.
8vo, cloth, net, $3.50. De Luxe edition, boxed, special net $10,00.
From
Cathedral
Cities of
England
Old Fashioned Flowers
By MAURICE MAETER LINCK
Author of The Double Garden," The Life of the Bee," etc.
Illustrated in colors with ornamental decorations.
This beautifully illustrated volume will give a most suitable
holiday garb to three of Maeterlinck's charming essays, viz.:“Old-
Fashioned Flowers, Field Flowers, and Chrysanthemums."
Lovers of Maeterlinck cannot fail to be delighted with this book.
Large 12mo, net $1.20.
The Great Word
By HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE
Author of "My Study Fire," etc.
Holiday Edition, printed on large paper, bound in white, bored.
In series of short chapters Mr. Mabie makes a study of the
phases and aspects of love, practical, poetic, and mystical, and
comments on its uses, manner of growth, its possibilities of joy
and peace, and its prophetic quality.
8vo. net $2.00.
The Silken East
A Record of Life and Travel in Burma
By V. C. SCOTT O'CONNOR
With map, 400 illustrations, and 20 colored plates
after paintings by noted artists.
Some idea of the scope of the present work may
be gathered from the fact that the author, an
official high in the British colonial service in
Burma, sums up in it the results of his obser-
vations during a great many years of active
service there. The book is at the same time
scientific and popular.
Two volumes, 8vo, cloth. Net $12.00
My Lady's Slipper
Maud
By ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
This is a beautifully illustrated edi-
tion of Tennyson's matchless love
poem. There are a number of full-
page illustrations in colors, colored
borders on every page, and clever
sketches scattered throughout the
text. The artists have caught the
spirit of the poem and have repre-
sented it sympathetically and in
exquisite taste. There will be few
holiday gift books published this year
that will display as high a degree of
excellence in the decorative and
bookmaking arts.
8vo, net $1.60.
His Version of It
By PAUL LEICESTER FORD
Author of "Wanted a Chaperon,"
'Janice Meredith," etc.
Illustrated in color by Mr. Henry
Hutt, with marginal illustrations
and artistic cover design.
This is one of the most clever short
stories that Mr. Ford has ever written.
It is a bright little love tale in which
the happy end is brought about
through a very interesting horseback
ride; the imaginary conversation
between the horses concerning the
queer action of the humans is
witty and delicious.
8vo, cloth, $1.50.
By CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY
Author of "For the Freedom of the
Sea” etc.
Handsomely illustrated by Mrs.
Weber-Ditzler and printed in two
colo18.
This is a light, breezy romance of the
time of John Paul Jones.
The scene
of the story is largely in Paris. The
attractive make-up of the volume
makes it a most acceptable holiday
book.
Square 8vo, boxed, net $1.50.
DODD, MEAD & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
372 FIFTH AVENUE
NEW YORK


1905.)
353
THE DIAL
THE ARTIST'S
WAY OF
WORKING
Important Holiday
and other New
Publications
By RUSSELL STŮRGIS
Mr. Sturgis's contribu-
tion to art literature
Author of “The Dictionary of
Architecture," etc.
is the most promi-
nent work of
Addressed not only to artists and to art
the season
students, but also to the art-loving public.
It tries to disclose to them in untechnical lan-
on this
guage so much of the methods by which the artist
subject.
produces his effects as will enable them to enjoy and
appreciate art works much more fully than ever before.
The plan for illustration is very comprehensive. There
are numerous text-cuts, and fully 100 full pages in half-
tone and photogravure. The book is most carefully printed,
with ample margins, and handsomely bound.
Cloth, 8vo, with over 200 illustrations ; 2 vols., net $15.00.
From
Great
Portraits
“Howdy, Honey, Howdy”
Great Portraits
By PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR
Author of "Candle Lightin' Time," "Lil' Gal," etc.
Illustrated from photographs, Marginal decorations in color.
Readers need no introduction to the inimitable verses of Paul
Laurence Dunbar. His talent won immediate recognition, and
to-day his fame is secure.
8vo, cloth, net $1.50.
Described by Great Writers.
Edited by ESTHER SINGLETON
The Romance of Royalty
Portraits of the famous men and women of the
world, accompanied by thoughts concerning
them expressed by great writers.
By FITZGERALD MOLLOY
Author of "The Sailor King," etc.
Histories of four royal personages, Ludwig II. of Bavaria, the
Duchesse d'Alencon, Isabel II. of Spain, and the Empress Eugenie,
all of whom were alive and in Europe a few years ago, comprise
the contents of this book.
Illustrated, 2 vols., 8vo, cloth, net $6.50.
Illustrated, 8vo, net $1.60.
JUVENILE HOLIDAY BOOKS
Humpty Dumpty
The Wild Flower
Fairy Book
The World of Fashion and
of Letters at Bath Under
Queen Anne and the
Georges
By A. BARBEAU
In the days of the Georges, Bath was
the great meeting-place of society.
In this study of a famous watering-
place, an accomplished writer has
painted a lively picture of a curious
and altogether vanished phase of
English society. The chapters treat
very fully and very entertainingly of
the King at Bath, the amusements
of the place, and the men of letters
connected with it.
8vo, with photogravure illustrations,
net $4.00.
Edition de Lure, limited to 50 copies,
with extra illustrations,
special net $14.00.
By ESTHER SINGLETON
Author of "The Golden Rod Fairy
Book."
Illustrated and decorated by Charles
B. Falls.
It is the aim of the publishers to
make the “Wild Flower Fairy Book"
as strikingly original and handsome
as "The Golden Rod Fairy Book"
was several years ago. To this end
the fairy tales, which have been
selected by Miss Singleton with great
care from the folk tales of all nations,
are illustrated and decorated in a
manner that has not yet been at-
tempted with children's books.
8vo, cloth, $2.00.
By ANNA ALICE CHAPIN
Author of "Babes in Toyland.”
With illustrations in color and dec-
orations by Ethel Franklin Betts.
The names of Miss Chapin and Miss
Betts on the title page are guarantees
that the story is delightfully adapted
to the understanding of young chil-
dren, and that the illustrations are
exquisite. The story of Humpty
Dumpty, as told by Miss Chapin, is
concerned with a boy and a girl of ten
years of age who do not believe in
fairy stories. Into their play-ground
rolls the veritable Humpty Dumpty
of Mother Goose, and introduces them
to a series of astonishing and exciting
adventures.
Large Svo, cloth, net $1.40.
DODD, MEAD & COMPANY
372 FIFTH AVENUE
PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK


354
[Dec. 1,
THE DIAL
NEW GIFT BOOKS
EUGENE: A Romance of the Civil War
By M. DUNTON SPARROW, Author of the Songs, “By Quiet
Waters," "Where Blooms the Jasmine Flower,” etc. With siz
full-page illustrations. Cloth, square, 6 x 7 inches, gilt top, hand-
some gold stamping, 75 cents.
This simple but pleasing romance, printed and bound in gift-book
style, rich and beautiful, with six full-page illustrations, is not only a
fine specimen of the printer's art, but presents a unique story in flowing
verse, including the love of the Northern soldier for the Southern maid.
Incidentally, the book perhaps cannot fail to have its part in the present-
day growing re-union in spirit of the North and the South.
American Standard
Revised Bible

A MARTINEAU YEAR BOOK
Extracts from JAMES MARTINEAU. With Portrait. Cloth, gilt top,
neat stamping, 75 cents. Special gift edition, rich cloth, gold
stamping, $1.00.
“The intense spirituality and closely compacted thought tempt one
to linger on the page, and fill the brief paragraph assigned for a given
day with matters that linger in the reader's memory. It is an admirable
Year Book for the serious.” - Springfield Republican.
"A BOOK FOR BOYS"
JOHN BROWN THE HERO
Personal Reminiscences. By J. W. WINKLEY, M.D. With an
Introduction by Hon. FRANK B. SANBORN. Illustrated. Cloth,
85 cents net (postage 6 cents).
“The little book, "John Brown the Hero,' has the value which
always attaches to the direct materials of history,- in this case to a
clear and simple statement of facts highly interesting." – Col. THOMAS
WENTWORTH HIGGINSON.
“ Chock full of interest.” – Unity (Chicago).
The patiently illuminated Bibles of the mediæval
monks doubtless served the needs of their times, and
the King James" Version has served our ancestors
for 300 years. But, with the revolutionary changes
in our language in the past centuries, the need of
The Bible in Plain English
AN IMPORTANT NEW BOOK ON THE BIBLE
THE EVOLUTION OF A GREAT
LITERATURE
Natural History of the Jewish and Christian Scriptures. By NEWTON
MANN. One vol., 5 x 8 inches, 381 pp., $1.50 ne!, postage 15 cents.
The writer has here presented, in a lucid, straightforward, and,
withal, fascinating manner, the latest and best conclusions of scholar-
ship on the date, authorship, and specific aim of the several writings,
with a view to put in small compass and within the reach of everyone
the means of information on these important points now mostly hid
away in ponderous and costly volumes. For every deviation from
commonly received views the highest authorities are cited, the author
showing no desire to further any personal or sectarian ideas, but only
to set forth the facts, to adduce the evidences, and get at the truth.
[Synopses of Chapters will be sent on request. ]
"The struggle over the higher criticism is probably only beginning
in this country. The present book will serve a most useful purpose in
putting before the people the material by which to judge of the issues
involved.” - Springfield Republican.
has grown more and more pressing, and now, after
29 years' work by the authorized British and
American Revisers, the one really thorough and
authentic translation of the Scriptures into English
has been produced in the American Standard
Revised Version.
It is a translation of the original Scriptures, with
obsolete words and phrases replaced by plain,
modern English all can understand. It is authorized
by the American Committee of Revision, used in
churches of all denominations, and endorsed by min.
isters, schools, colleges and prominent laymen alike.
Write for Our 40-page Book,
"The Story of the Revised Bible"
SENT FREE, which tells why the
Bible was revised, how it was ac-
complished, and shows sample
pages, bindings, etc., of the many
styles issued. Your name on a postal
card, with the name of your
bookseller, will get you this book.
Revised
All booksellers have in stock,
Bible
or can quickly get from us, any style
of the American Standard Revised
Bible you order. Prices 35C. to
$18.00, according to size and bind-
ing. See that you get the Ameri-
can Standard Edition. Look for
the Nelson imprint and the endorse-
ment of the American Revision
Committee on the back of the title
page. TWe sell direct where
booksellers will not supply,
THOMAS NELSON & SONS
41 V East 18th Street
New York
The Story
An unusual book, which from its unique value has
won its way to immediate recognition.
NEW TABLES OF STONE
And Other Essays. By HENRY M. SIMMONS. Cloth, gilt top,
328 pages, $1.50 net (postage 12 cents).
Contents: New Tables of Stone; Unity through Diversity; New
Leaves of Scripture; "The Cosmic Roots of Love"; An Old Parable
Extended; The Divinity of Man ; The Water of Life; The Book of
Jonah ; The Breath of Life ; The Sin in a Census; The Rise and Fall of
Satan; The Enlarging Thought of God; Christianity Then and Since ;
Various Meanings of Easter; The New Year of Religion.
“Having just read the New Tables of Stone,' I cannot resist the
impulse to congratulate the author. Both as to material and style it
has delighted me. I have just ordered half a dozen copies to send to
friends. - Hon. ANDREW D. WHITE.
“If any more desirable book for general reading has been issued this
year, it has not come to the reviewer's notice." — Boston Transcript.
"It belongs with Fiske's 'Destiny of Man' and 'Idea of God,' and
presents certain inspiring aspects of the evolutionary philosophy in a
stronger and profounder way than those essays." – EDWIN D. MEAD.
“A revelation of spiritual insight as sweet and fine as ever saw the
light." – Rev. SAMUEL A. ELIOT, D.D.

of the
non ha & Sons
JAMES H. WEST CO., Publishers,
220 Devonshire Street,
Boston, Mass.


1905.]
355
THE DIAL
NEW POPULAR FICTION
By the Author of “The Spenders”
THE BOSS OF LITTLE ARCADY
By Harry Leon Wilson
Illustrated and decorated by ROSE CECIL O'NEILL. Price, $1.50.
“The simpler and sweeter things of life hold sway in Little Arcady and the Boss is lovably original. 'Upright'
Potts holds the charm of novelty and Westly Keyts gives us a touch of new humor.”— Chicago Evening Post.
4. The Boss of Little Arcady' is one to be enjoyed in every page for its genuine humor, its sly satire without a touch
of malice, and the story of love and friendship which runs through it and ends happily.”— Cleveland Plain Dealer
A DAUGHTER OF THE SOUTH
By George Cary Eggleston
Illustrated by E. POLLAK. Decorated cover. $1.50.
“It is a charming story, full of delicacy and sweetness, and the picture the author gives of the closing months of the
great struggle is well drawn."— Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
THE LITTLE GREEN DOOR
By Mary E. Stone Bassett
Eight illustrations by LOUISE CLARKE, and twenty-five decorative half-title pages by ETHEL PEARCE
CLEMENTS. 12mo. Cloth. $1.50.
" This book carries with it all the exhilaration of a beautiful nature, of flowers, birds, and living things, and the
beauty of the winsome personality of a pure, beautiful girl. It is a romance entirely of the fanoy, but a refreshing
- Chicago Tribune.
one."
Send for free complete catalogue
LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO., PUBLISHERS, BOSTON
NEW
FALL PUBLICATIONS
Daughters of the Puritans From Servitude to
Augustus Conant
By SETH C. BEACH
Service
By ROBERT COLLYER
A delightfully entertaining and in- The history and work of Southern
structive groap, of biographies of institutions for the education of the The story of a true New Englander
seven famous New England women: Negro, by three college presidents who went West in the '50's to become
Dorothea Dix, Margaret Fuller, and three prominent professors who an Illinois pioneer and preacher, later
Louisa M. Alcott, Catharine Sedg are spending their lives in the solu- meeting his death in the Civil War.
wick, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and tion of this problem at Hampton, Vol. II. of “True American Types,"
others. Attractively bound with deco-Tuskegee, Berea, etc. An authori “John Gilley" being the first.
rative cover, suitable for the holidays. tative volume.
$1.10 net ; $1.20 by mail.
$1.10 net ; $1.20 by mail.
60 cents net ; 65 cents by mail.
Anchors of the Soul
A Rare Book of Humor
James Martineau
Eutychus
By BROOKE HERFORD
Theologian and Teacher
By BROOKE HERFORD
Representing the best work of its By J. ESTLIN CARPENTER
A delightfully witty commentary on
author's life, gathered by him shortly An intimate biography by an old pupil the foibles and minor weaknesses of
before his death from the whole range and co-worker of Martineau. Rich in human nature by a keen observer and
of his writings for this projected pub new material, true in its insight, illo- charmingly droll writer. The title
lication. By no means an ordinary minating in its study of Martineau's sounds serious - hence the amusing
book in its solid worth and power. life, thought and environment. surprise at the contents.
$1.50 net ; $1.60 by mail.
$2.50 net ; $2.70 by mail.
70 cents net ; 75 cents by mail.
AT ALL BOOKSTORES OR OF THE PUBLISHERS
The above will be
sent on approval”
if desired.
The American Unitarian Association
BOSTON
Ask for the
new fall bulletin.
Sent on request.


356
[Dec. 1,
THE DIAL
SUITABLE GIFT BOOKS
A NEW EDITION
BARBIZON DAYS
MILLET COROT ROUSSEAU BARYE
Square 8vo, cloth, decorative, gilt top; with 4 portraits in photogravure and 42 illustrations in half tone; boxed, $2.00
By CHARLES SPRAGUE SMITH
“Mr. Smith's volume, written in delightful style and pictured in a pleasing way, is likely to be of permanent value both to the artist and
the layman." - New York Times Saturday Review.
THE HUNDRED BEST PICTURES
Cloth, gilt top, quarto, 15% x 11% inches. One hundred photogravures. $10.00.
A collection of the one hundred best pictures contained in the public and private galleries of the world. Opposite
each photogravure is a concise essay upon the artist, his history, standing, and method.
FOR YOUNGER READERS
THE WONDERFUL WISHES OF JACKY AND JEAN
By MARY A. DICKERSON
Six full-page illustrations in color by C. B. Falls. Quarto, cloth, decorative. $1.00.
THE LEWIS CARROLL
BIRTHDAY BOOK
Edited by C. T. HERRICK
16mo, cloth, decorative, 75 cents.
THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN
By ROBERT BROWNING
With full-page and text illustrations in color by
Van Dyck. Tall quarto, boards, $1.25.
SEND FOR OUR COMPLETE CATALOGUE AND HOLIDAY LIST
A. WESSELS COMPANY
43 EAST 19TH STREET
NEW YORK
nts.
THE INTERNATIONAL STUDIO
“BY ALL ODDS the most artistic periodical printed in English."- N. Y. Tribune.
Annual Subscription, $5.00
BY ALL ODDS THE BEST CHRISTMAS GIFT.
A subscription to the INTERNATIONAL Studio lasts through the year.
BY ALL ODDS THE BEST CHRISTMAS GIFT.
A subscription to the INTERNATIONAL Studio is a gift of about half a dozen color plates a
month all suitable for framing, besides an abundance of illustration in black and white, tint,
mezzo tint, lithography, etc.
BY ALL ODDS THE BEST CHRISTMAS GIFT.
It is more than welcome, it is invaluable to any person of cultured tastes.
GREAT JAPAN: A STUDY OF NATIONAL EFFICIENCY. By Alfred STEAD.
With an introduction by the EARL OF ROSEBERY.
8vo, $2.50 net. Postage, 18 cents.
HERETICS. By Gilbert K Chesterton.
1 2mo, $1.50 net. Postage, 12
Mr. Chesterton sets forth the “ Heresies" of Kipling, Yeats, Omar, Bernard Shaw, etc.
LIFE OF PETER ILICH TCHAIKOVSKY, 1840-1853. By his brother, ModestE TCHAI-
Translated from the Russian with Introduction and Notes by Rosa NewMARCH.
Illustrated. 8vo, $5.00 net. Postage, 20 cents.
POPULAR JUVENILES
LILLIPUT REVELS AND INNOCENTS' ISLAND. By W. B. Rands.
Edited by R. Brimley Johnson. Illustrated by Griselda Wedderburn.
$1.50.
A YEAR OF SONGS. For a Baby in a Garden. By W. Graham Robertson.
Illustrated by the author.
Square 8vo. $1.00 net. Postage, 10 cents.
PETERKINS: The Story of a Dog. Translated from the German of Ossip Schubin by Mrs. John Lane.
With illustrations by T. Cottington Taylor and Donald Maxwell. 12mo, $1.50 net. Postage, 10 cents.
THE WALTER CRANE PICTURE BOOKS.
4to.
$1.25 each.
JOHN LANE COMPANY PUBLISHERS NEW YORK
Send for Xmas List
THE BODLEY HEAD, 67 FIFTH AVENUE
KOVSKY.
12 mo.


1905.]
357
THE DIAL
LAIRD & LEE'S GREAT HOLIDAY GIFT BOOKS
(Beautifully Bound and Illustrated)
WEBSTERS
NEW STANDARD
WEBSTERS
NEW STANDARD
BFCTIONARY
TIONARV
HIOM SKOOL
AND COLLEGATINATION
WEBSTER'S NEW STANDARD DICTIONARY
Awarded Gold Medal and Diploma World's Exposition, St. Louis, 1904; Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition,
Portland, Ore., 1905 ; also officially adopted for use in Public Schools and other Educational Institutions.
9 Endorsed by the world's eminent Educators, the Press and Public everywhere. On
LIBRARY EDITION
HIGH SCHOOL AND
COLLEGIATE EDITION
Contains Dictionaries of Biography,
Contains all the features of the Library
Geography, Biblical, Musical, and
Edition, extensive etymologies, the use
Classical Names, Legal terms, Medical
of capital initials in words invariably
Words and Symbols, Mythology, Latin,
commencing with a capital, principal
parts of verbs, degrees of adjectives,
Greek, Persian, Hindu, Egyptian,
plural of nouns, synonyms, etc. 784
Hebrew, Teutonic, and Norse Heroes,
pages, 900 illustrations, 26 full-page
Deities, and other Legendary Charac-
plates, 6 in colors; half leather, stamped
in gold, sprinkled edges, thumb in-
ters; Foreign Phrases, Synonyms, Met-
dexed. $1.50.
ric System, Proofreading and English
STUDENTS' COMMON
Word Building. Bound in full flexible
SCHOOL EDITION
leather, polished green edges, thumb
without medical, legal and mytholog-
indexed, and containing 784 pages, over
ical Dictionaries.750 pages, 840 illus-
900 illustrations, 30 full-page plates, 11
trations, 19 full-page plates, black silk
in colors. Enclosed in box, $2.50.
cloth, side and back title in gold.
634 x 5 inches. 75c, indexed 85c.
WEBSTER'S NEW STANDARD DICTIONARY, Library Edition, substantially bound, full flexible
leather, boxed; or the High School and Collegiate Edition, half leather, ready for shipping, will make a beautiful
holiday gift to any member of the family or friend; will please, delight, and prove invaluable every day, every week and every
month the year around. If you count the value of this exquisite lexicon, you are really making a Ten Dollar present for
$2.50 or $1.50. Why not take advantage of this splendid opportunity and make a delightful Christmas gift at an extremely
low price. To get exactly what you want, be sure to call for Webster's New Standard Dictionary, Gold Medal edition, bearing Laird &
Lee's imprint, containing twenty-seven copyrighted features.

STUDENTS
CONNON SCHOOL DITES
183033
BE SON
AVORONALDRI
de Bad
HP THE SON OF THE SWORDMAKER
By OPIE READ. The Great Tragedy and Triumph of Calvary. The wonderful adventures of the
centurion who placed the crown of thorns on the Saviour's brow. This great epoch in the world's history delicately
and reverently portrayed from the view point of a Soldier of Cæsar's legions. His stirring adventures among the Gauls,
the early Britons, the Franks, and in Palestine, including a vivid picture of life among the Druids, a princess of this
race, named Vloden, being the heroine. The cold, hopeless philosophy of the Romans and the revivifying faith
of the gentle Nazarene permeate the narrative, holding the reader's attention with a peculiar fascination. As the
exciting course of events is followed, the blood is made to stir and the heart to beat with a strange quickening,
subsiding only to the peaceful influence of the rejected “King of the Jews," 80 skillfully and delicately depicted
by the author. Herod, Pilate, Nicodemus, Barabbas, and Joseph of Arimathea hold the reader's attention with a
peculiar interest. Large 12mo, silk cloth, 6 full-page halftones, 2 exquisite colorgraphs, 333 pages. $1.50.
HEART OF A BOY. (A School Boy's Journal). De Amicis' famous classic appeals to youug and old.
A great favorite in all schools. Vividly portrays the thoughts, feelings, and incidents of a boy's life at school.
290 pages. Beautifully illustrated, decorative cover, 75c. DE LUXE EDITION, 32 full-page hall-tones and 26 text
illustrations. Superb binding, in gold and colors, in box, $1.25.
The HEART
TAN PILE JIM; or, A Yankee Waif Among the Bluenoses. By B. FREEMAN ASHLEY. Strange
ABOY
life and exciting experiences of a boy found sleeping on a pile of tanbark. Full of healthy life and action. Ilustrated.
259 pages. Silk cloth, special cover design. 75c.
AIR CASTLE DON. By B. FREEMAN ASHLEY. A plucky boy's adventures in a large modern city. Free
from impossible or objectionable situations. Fascinating from cover to cover. 340 pp. Bilk cloth, illustrated. 75c.
DICK AND JACK'S ADVENTURES. By B. FREEMAN ASHLEY. Two boys and their daring adventures
on the ocean and Sable Island. Wholesome, interesting, and instructive. 312 pages. Silk cloth, illustrated. 75c.
TWO CHUMS; or, A Boy and His Dog. By MINERVA THORPE. The triumphs of a waif who leaves
home for a strange land. Fascinating and instructive. 230 pages. Silk cloth, artistic cover. 75c.
REX WEYLAND'S FORTUNE. By H. A. STANLEY. A delightful story of life among the mountains of the great American
Northwest. Wholesome and thrilling. Silk cloth, decorative cover. Illustrated. 391 pages. 750.
THE WORLD'S BEST PROVERBS
BABY GOOSE: His Adventures
and Short Quotations
For public speaking, literary work and every-
By FANNIE OSTRANDER. Designs by
day conversation. Best thoughts from ancient
R. W. Hirchert. An exquisitely original
Tabu 60008
and modern writers. Classified according to
book of rhymes and pictures. Unequaled
subjects. By GEORGE H. OPDYKE, M.A.
in children's literature.
Cloth, illustrated, 75c; full leather, full gilt, Large royal quarto, album shape, superb
in a box, $1.25.
cover in 4 colors. $1.00.

THE
WORLDS BEST
PROVERBS
SHORT QUOTATIONS
mara
SANTA CLAUS' WONDERFUL
CANDY CIRCUS
THE DREAM BAG
By OLIVE AYR. Illustrated in Bril-
By WINIFRED A. HALDANE, author of
THE DREAM BAG
liant Colors. An entirely new idea. An
"A Chord from a Violin."
original creation in juvenile literature. Noth-
ing like it ever published before. 32 pages of
A new departure in Fairy Tales. Fascinating
pictures, in four to six colors, depicting and sparkling. Will delight the heart of every
various wild animals in their laughable antics child. Six full-page illustrations in colors.
at the Candy Circus. Clever verses accom Handsomely bound in cloth, special cover de-
pany each picture. Size 91/2 1034 inches.
Decorative cover.
sign in blue and gold. $1.00.
50c.
For sale at all Bookstores, Schoolbook Supply Houson, LAIRD & LEE, 263-265 Wabash Avenue, Chicago
or sent direct on receipt of price, by the Publishers,
SCLADO
CANDY
CIRCUS
OMAVE
MINIRANO


358
[Dec. 1,
THE DIAL
F. Warne & Co.'s Holiday Publications, 1905
Our Complete Catalogue of Standard Works, Books Suitable
for Gifts, and Children's Books will be forwarded on request
A New and Important Art Publication
THE NATIONAL GALLERY
(LONDON)
The Text by GUSTAVE
GEFFROY, and with an
Introduction by Sir WAL-
TER ARMSTRONG, the
former Curator. Size,
demy 4to (12 x 8 inches),
half vellum cloth, gilt,
and gilt top. Price,
$10.00 net. By mail or
express, 35 cents extra.
The illustrations, wbich consist of 57 full-page plates in photogravure,
and 155 smaller balf-tone pictures in the text, have been produced
with every care, special efforts having been taken in order to get the
greatest depth and fullness possible in their reproduction from the
original pictures.
A Prospectus free on application.
A Choice Little Set
THE “ LANSDOWNE SHAKESPEARE”
In Six Volumes, on India Paper
Pocket size, printed, with red line borders and rubri-
cated title-pages, on the finest India paper. 6 vols.,
bound in flexible cloth, with gilt line around, gilt edges
and round corners, in cloth case, per set, $8.00.
Ditto, Fine grained Venetian morocco, round corners,
in morocco case, $15 00.
*** The text has been carefully edited, and contains the whole of the
Plays, Poems, and Sonnets, as well as a memoir and a glossary.
NEWNES' ART LIBRARY
The latest editions are:
PUVIS DE CHAVANNES
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI
Each volume has about 60 full-page reproductions in
half-tone, and a photogravure frontispiece, a short life
sketch, etc. Uniform with previous volumes in this
well-known series. Size, 9} x 64 inches. Art boards
and vellum cloth backs. Price, per vol., $1.25.
An Interesting Album of Pictures
JAPAN IN PICTURES
Sixty-eight exquisite half-tone pictures of Japanese
Landscapes, Gardens, Street Life, Marine Views,
Temples, etc. With descriptive word pictures by
Douglas SLADEN. Size 91 x 74 inches (oblong). Art
binding. Price, $1.25.
A Delightful Souvenir
ABBEYS, CASTLES, AND ANCIENT
HALLS OF ENGLAND AND WALES
Their Legendary Lore and Popular History. By John
TIMBS and ALEXANDER GUNN. Embellished with
12 full-page, most interesting photogravures from
the newest and best views of the subject procurable.
Choicely printed on laid paper. 3 vols., large crown
8vo, gilt tops. Price, $5.00.
Reissue of a Famous Book at a Reduced Price
PAN PIPES
Old Songs Newly Arranged with Musical Accompani-
ments, by Theo. MARZIALs. Pictures by WALTER
CRANE. Oblong 4to, fancy board cover. $1.50.

Artistic Picture Books for the Young
A New “PETER RABBIT" Book by Beatrix Potter.
THE TALE OF MRS. TIGGY-WINKLE
* Mrs. Tiggywinkle is a little Hedgehog who is the laundress to the
Peter Rabbit family, and entertains a little girl, who calls on her, in a
delightful manner.
Uniform with the above.
The Tale of Peter Rabbit The Tale of Squirrel
The Tailor of Gloucester Nutkin
The Tale of Benjamin The Tale of Two Bad
Bunny
Mice
All in art board bindings, with an inlaid picture on the cover.
Size, 542 x 472 inches. Each, 50 cents.
An Amusing Collection of Pictures
AMAZING ADVENTURES
The adventures of a Sailor, a Darky, and a Chinaman.
Drawn by HARRY B. NEILSON, and told by S. BARING
GOULD. With 27 full-page colored illustrations. Size, royal
4to (oblong), 13 x 9 inches. Board cover in gold and colors.
Price, $1.50.
The Initial Volume of a New Series of Art Picture Books
LESLIE BROOKE'S “CHILDREN'S BOOKS”
Containing “ The Story of the Three Little Pigs” and “The
History of Tom Thumb." With 16 full-page colored plates
and 32 pages of illustrated reading matter. Size 10 x 8
inches. Cloth binding. Price, $1.00.
Also in separate form, in "art" cartridge paper wrappers.
An Amusing Travesty of " Old Mother Goose"
TURVEY-TOPSY
Mother Goose Jingles Turned About, and Illustrated with
16 Original Drawings in colors, by W. Gunn GWENNET.
Small oblong 4to. Pictorial board covers. Price. $1.00.
“Old Mother Hubbard, she sent to the cupboard,
Her doggie to fetch her a bone,
He jumped on the shelf and ate it himself,
So poor Mother Hubbard had none."
(Specimen jingle.)
THE STORY OF THE THREE LITTLE PIGS
With all the illustrations. Price, 50 cents.
THE HISTORY OF TOM THUMB
(Uniform). Price, 50 cents.
By the Author of the Famous “ Peter Rabbit Books "
THE PIE AND THE PATTY-PAN
A story of a Little Cat and a Little Dog. By BEATRIX
POTTER. With 10 full-page illustrations in color, and 22
outline drawings in the text. Size, 742 2542 ins. Art board
cover, inlaid. Price, 50 cents.
***Of all Booksellers, or sent postpaid on receipt of advertised price by the Publishers
FREDERICK WARNE & CO., 36 EAST 22D STREET, NEW YORK


1905.]
359
THE DIAL
The University of Chicago Press
General Sociology

An Exposition of the Main Development in Sociological
Theory, from Spencer to Ratzenhofer.
By ALBION W. SMALL
Professor and Head of the department of Sociology in the
University of Chicago.
IN
this important book Professor Small brings his wide reading and
keen anallytical powers to bear on the history of sociology and its
present claims to be regarded as a science. These claims have often
been disputed, on the ground that the material of sociology has already
been pre-empted by the recognized social sciences-ethnology, history,
economics, etc. Professor Small's answer is that the work of co-ordi-
nating these various groups, of surveying the process of human associa-
tion as a whole, is a task distinct from that of a worker in one of the
special fields, and that the body of knowledge so gained legitimately
ranks as a science. In other words, sociology is to social science in
general what neurology is to medicine. It is addressed to historians,
economists, political scientists, psychologists, and moralists, quite as
much as to sociologists.
xiv + 739 pp., 8vo cloth.
Net $4.00, postpaid, $4.23.
A Decade of Civic Development
By CHARLES ZUEBLIN
Professor of Sociology in the University of Chicago.
Author of American Municipal Progress.
Formerly President of American League for Civic Improvement.
A
VIGOROUS optimist is in himself a hopeful sign of the times. The
author of this volume is a man of this stamp. "The last decade,"
he says, “has witnessed not only a greater development of civic improve-
ment than any former decade, but a more marked advance than all the
previous history of the United States can show.” Professor Zueblin is
a practical man, and his book is a practical book. It gives a concise
and spirited account of certain definite measures (political, economic,
social, and artistic) for the betterment of American cities. Here is a
subject that lies at our very doors, a subject that no citizen can afford
to overlook.
Beginning with a discussion of the revived interest in citizenship,
he treats in turn the training of the citizen, the making of the city, the
educational effect of the great world's fairs, and the recent improve-
ments in the cities where most has been done-Boston, New York,
Harrisburg, and Washington.
200 pp., 12mo, cloth.
Net $1.25, postpaid, $1.39.
The University of Chicago Press announces the addition to its list of publications of two new journals, to be devoted to
the interests of the Ancient Classics; viz: CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY, published for the University of Chicago, and THE CLASSI-
CAL JOURNAL, published for the newly formed Classical Association of the Middle West and South. The former will contain
scientific articles and critical reviews; the latter, articles and reviews of a more general nature, with special reference to the
needs of teachers.
ADDRESS DEPARTMENT 20
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS CHICAGO POR


360
[Dec. 1,
THE DIAL
The Most Important Work of the Year
The IRELAND REPORT on COLONIAL
ADMINISTRATION in the FAR EAST
This Report (the first volume of which is now in press), by Mr. ALLEYNE IRELAND, F.R.G.S, the foremost
authority on Comparative Colonization, will cover exhaustively the field of British, French, Dutch, and
American government in the tropical regions of the Far East, and will furnish
The Only Comprehensive Work in English on this Important Subject
The countries included are Burma, Hong Kong, British North Borneo, Sarawak, the Federated Malay
States, the Straits Settlements, French Indo China, Java, and the Philippines. Special maps and copious
bibliographical and statistical appendices will be prepared for each volume.
SOME REPRESENTATIVE SUBSCRIBERS:
The following list of a few of the subscribers who have already registered their order for one or more sets of The
IRELAND REPORT will indicate the estimation in which this important work is held in all parts of the world. In
addition to these, very many subscriptions have been received from State and Public Libraries, Educational Institu-
tions, Officials, Statesmen, and Private individuals both in the United States and abroad.
U.S. partment of State.
Rt. Hon. A. J. Balfour, M. P.
The Raja of Sarawak.
U. S. War Department.
Foreign Office, London.
Phya Sri Sahadheb, Vice-Minister of the
U. S. Department of Justice.
Colonial Office, London.
Interior, Siam.
U. 8. Department of Commerce and Labor. India Office, London.
Government of Siam.
Library of Congress. (Additional to the British Museum,
Government of Burma.
copies required for purposes of copy Royal Geographical Society,
Government of Hong Kong.
right.)
Royal Colonial Institute.
Government of Madras.
U. S. Military Academy.
The Minister of the Colonies, The Hague.
Government of Bengal.
U. 8. Infantry and Cavalry School.
Sir Matthew Nathan, K.C.M G., Governor Government of United Provinces, India.
Government of Porto Rico.
of Hong Kong.
Government of Ceylon.
Government of the Moro Province, Philip Sir Cavendish Boyle, K.C MG., Governor Government of the Straits Settlementa.
pine Islands.
of Mauritius.
Government of Southern Nigeria.
Maj.-Gen. Leonard Wood, U. S. A.
Everard im Thurn, C.B., C.M.G., Governor Government of Mauritius.
Hon. Nelson W. Aldrich, U. S. Senator.
of Fiji.
Government of Selangor.
Hon. Curtis Guild, Jr., Gov.-Elect of Mass. Harvard Uni rsity.
Government of Perak.
Henry M. Whitney, Esq., Pres. Boston Yale University.
Government of Wei-bai-wei.
Chamber of Commerce.
Princeton University.
Government of East Africa Protectorate.
Library of Parliament, Ottawa, Ontario. Columbia University.
Government of Federated Malay States.
Parliament of the Commonwealth of Aus Cornell University.
British North Borneo Company.
tralia.
Trinity College, Hartford, Conn.
“The Rangoon Gazette," Burma.
British Embassy, Washington.
University of Nebraska.
“The Times," London.
The great value of this work to all students of Political Science will be readily appreciated in view of
the growing importance of the Far Eastern Tropics, both in their commercial relations and as an element
in International Politics.
A FEW REPRESENTATIVE OPINIONS
From H. H. Sir CHARLES BROOKE, G.C.M.G., Raja of Sarawak : From the London Times: "Almost every possible variety of tropi.
“I feel no hesitation in saying that the Reports will be found very
cal government has presented itself to Mr. Ireland, and upon
valuable to anyone who takes an interest in distant foreiga
all he has brought to bear the keen insight of an experienced
governments, of which Mr. Ireland has reported clearly and
observer, rejecting the non-essential for the vital, and enrich-
ing his survey with a great fund of comparative information."
justly."
From Pres. J. G. SCHURMAN, Cornell University :
Boston Herald.- In an editorial referring to the chapters on the
“Your book will meet a real need in our literature. Your Tropical
Philippine Islands in Mr. Leland's latest book : “They give the
most intelligent and instructive condensed review of the course
Colonization is a guarantee of your qualifications."
of our government in those ielands that has yet come from any
From Pres. WOODROW WILSON, Princeton University :
source, and it is certain to command the attention of the peo-
ple in an extraordinary degree. The author has long been
“I know how interesting and important Mr. Ireland's Report on
recognized as a thorough and dispassionate student of the
Colonial Administration is likely to be, and I will take pleasure
general problem of Colonial government on its administrative
in recommending it to our librarian."
and economic side."
As only a limited edition of THE IRELAND REPORT will be printed, it is desirable that all who wish
to secure a set should register their subscriptions at once.
Full information will be forwarded on application to the Publishers
SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY
19 ARROW STREET
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.


1905.]
361
THE DIAL
Important
Holiday
Announcements
FOR THE LIBRARY
With Walt Whitman
Paris and the Social
in Camden
Revolution of To-Day
A Diary Record of Conversations kept by HORACE By ALVAN FRANCIS SANBORN. A study of the
TRAUBEL, with many important letters, documents, Revolutionary Element in the Various Classes of Par-
portraits, eto. The publication of this volume is cer isian Life. With 72 illustrations by Vaughan Trow-
tainly one of the most important events in the literary bridge. The New York Mail says of this book : “It is
history of America. For several years the author, a refreshing thing to read a book written by a man
one of Whitman's literary executors, recorded faith who knows his subject through and through. We do
fully the conversations and events of his almost daily not believe the social student will find a dull page in
meetings with the poet. The result is a picture of the book. It presents the very spirit and essence of
the daily life and thought of Walt Whitman such as poetry, music and art of the French Revolutionary
we possess of no other great author, possibly except movement; the whole quivering world of modern
ing Dr. Johnson. Of the many letters and manu radical Paris is here.” The principles of human
scripts very few have ever been published, and they nature disclosed are universal and its interpretations
are from many of the greatest of Whitman's contem full of suggestion to those who would understand the
poraries who are discussed most familiarly. Sump trend of radical thought in our own country. Sump-
tuously illustrated Net, $3.00; by post, $3.25.
tuously illustrated, 8vo, cloth, net, $3.50; by post, $3.75.
The Life of John Fiske
The Aftermath of Slavery
By THOMAS SERGEANT PERRY. Volume 27 of By WILLIAM A. SINCLAIR, with an Introduction
the Beacon Biographies. This series once more offers by Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson. The
the first published life of an eminently great Ameri most important book yet issued on the Race question.
can, written by one who enjoyed the most intimate Edward Atkinson pronounces it “the best book ever
personal acquaintance with Mr. Fiske. Pocket size, written by a colored man, if we except the work of
cloth, portrait; net, 75 cents; by post, 80 cents.
Dumas." 12mo, cloth, net, $1.50; by post, $1.62.
NEW FICTION
Gumption
Where Copper Was King
By NATHANIEL C. FOWLER, Jr. A tale of Yan By JAMES NORTH WRIGHT. A remarkably in-
kee push and progress, with vivid pictures of modern teresting story, full of adventurous incident and with
nowspaper life, which has many of the essential qual a delicate vein of romance, which recalls vividly a
ities of sound sense that made the "Selfmade Mer fast disappearing phase of Western life. The author
chant 80 great a seller. The author describes pon was formerly Superintendent of the Calumet and
ditions and people in an inimitable style full of humor Hecla Mine, and he describes herein life of which he
and keen satire. 12mo, cloth, decorative, illus., $1.50. himself has been a part. 12mo, cloth, decorative, $$1,50.
FOR CHRISTMAS GIFTS
Foot-Ball Grandma
The Norsk Nightingale Arabella and Araminta
By CAROLYN S. CHANNING CABOT, By WILLIAM F. KIRK. A Book of By GERTRUDE SMITH. The continu-
with an introduction by Col. THOMAS Laughs from cover to cover. In these
ous demand for this veritable nursery
WENTWORTH HIGGINSON. An Auto-baby "Lyrics of a Lumber-yack," a new type
classic has enabled the publishers to
ography as told by Tony, with illus-
of dialect poetry appears, no less original issue a new edition, handsomely bound
trations from Tony's drawings. Small than the work of Drummond. Uniquely and illustrated, for half the price hereto-
4to, cloth, decorative; net, $1.00; by bound, illustrated; net, 75 cents ; by fore charged. Small 4to, net, $1.00; by
post, $1.10.
post,
cents.
post, $1.10.
Wit and Humor of Well-
Bliss Carman's
A Handbook of Figure
known Quotations
Low Tide on Grand-Pre
Skating
Edited by MARSHALL BROWN. A
By GEORGE H.BROWNE. A thoroughly
unique collection arranged in the nature and Ballads of Lost Haven
comprehensive handbook for practical
of “Themes with Variations." Fully
In this new edition the entire contents
use on the ice, giving in compact form a
indexed, handsomely bound in cloth ; net,
of both books are reprinted in a single
remarkable amount of information. Over
$1.50; by post, $1.60.
Pocket
volume, with a fine portrait of Mr.
600 diagrams and illustrations.
About My Books
Carman. Japan boards; nel, $1.50;
size, flexible leather, net, $1.00; by post,
$1.06.
" A Reader's Record.” Arranged by
by post, $1.60.
GRACE E. ENSEY. A handsomely The Rosary in Rhyme
The Lover's Rubaiyat
bound volume affording & convenient
Edited by JESSIE B. RITTENHOUSE.
record for Books to be read, Books read, By JOHN B. TABB. With decorative An entirely novel setting of the love
Books borrowed and lent, Magazine ar drawings by T. B. Meteyard ; 350 copies stanzas collected from ten different
ticles and Quotations. Cloth ; net, $1.50; on handmade paper; parchment boards translations of Omar's "Rubaiyat."
fullleather, net, 82.50; postage 10c. extra. decorative ; net, $2.50; by post $2.60. Net, 75 cents; by post, 80 cents.
At all Bookstores or sent postpaid on receipt of price by
SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY
19 ARROW STREET
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.


362
[Dec. 1,
THE DIAL
Ideal Christmas Gifts
Oxford Standard Editions of the Poets
Including Browning (E. B.), Burns, Bunyan, Byron, Milton,
Scott, Shakespeare, Tennyson, Wordsworth, Lamb's Tales from
Shakespeare, Ingoldsby Legends, etc., from 75c. up. Also fine
editions on Oxford India Paper in leather bindings, $2.00 up.
“One of the daintiest gift books ever published"
The Oxford Book of English Verse
A. D. 1250–1900. Chosen and edited by A. T. Quiller-Couch.
Printed on the famous Oxford India Paper. 1084 pages and
only three-quarters of an inch thick. Cloth extra, gilt edges,
$2.60, and in various leather bindings.
Boswell's Life of Johnson
Complete in one volume. Printed on the famous Oxford India
Paper in large type. 1416 pages and less than one inch in
thickness. Cloth, $2.00; Lambskin, limp, $3.00; Persian Mo-
rocco, limp, $3.50; three-quarters Calf, $4.50.
Smallest Shakespeare in the World
The Ellen Terry
Shakespeare
In forty volumes. Size, 2 X 1 36 inches. Printed on the famous
Oxford India Paper. Illustrated. Limp leather, divinity circuit,
gilt edges, 50 cents per volume.
The Christmas Stories of Charles Dickens
Miniature edition, size, 2 X 138 inches, uniform with The Ellen
Terry Shakespeare. Complete in five volumes. Comprising
The Haunted Man, The Chimes, The Battle of Life, A Christ-
mas Carol, The Cricket on the Hearth. Illustrated. Limp
leather, divinity circuit, gilt edges, $2.50 per set.
The set
complete is only 1/2 inches in thickness.
For Sale by all Booksellers. Send for Catalogue
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS- American Branch
91-93 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK


1905.]
36:
THE DIAL
New Macmillan Books
PRACTICAL LIVING
President Henry C. King's Rational Living
Some Practical Inferences from Modern Psychology. By HENRY CHURCHILL KING, Ph.D., President
of Oberlin College, and author of "Theology and the Social Consciousness," etc.
Cloth, 12mo, $1.25 net (postage 12 cents).
Professor Peabody's Jesus Christ and the Christian Character
By FRANCIS GREENWOOD PEA BODY, Harvard University, author of “Jesus Christ and the Social
Question,” etc.
Cloth, 12mo, $$1.50 net (postage 11 cents).
Mr. Henry George's The Menace of Privilege
By HENRY GEORGE, JR , covers the whole ground of social economic conditions in America.
Cloth, 12mo, s$1.50 net (postage 13 cents).
COPYRIGHTED PLAYS
Mr. Winston Churchill's The Title-Mart
A comedy in three acts. Uniform with the published plays of Mr. Henry Arthur Jones.
Cloth, 16mo, 75 cents net (postage 7 cents). In preparation.
Mr. Clyde Fitch's The Climbers and
The Girl with the Green Eyes Ready shortly
Original American plays, in style uniform with the above.
Each 75 cents net (postage y cents).
NEW NOVELS
Mr. F. Marion Crawford's Fair Margaret A Portrait.
A story of modern life in Italy by the author of “Saracinesca," "The Heart of Rome," "Whosoever Shall
Offend," etc.
Illustrated. Cloth, $1.50.
Mr. Charles Major's Yolanda Maid of Burgundy
By the author of "Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall,” etc.
Illustrated. Cloth, $1.50.
Mr. Samuel Merwin's The Road-Builders
By one of the joint authors of “Calumet K" and "The Short-line War."
Illustrated. Cloth, $1.50.
Mr. Emerson Hough's Heart's Desire
The Story of a Contented Town, Certain Peculiar Citizens, and Two Fortunate Lovers. By the author of
"The Mississippi Bubble," etc.
Illustrated. Cloth, $1.50.
Miss Beulah Marie Dix's The Fair Maid of Graystones
By the author of "The Making of Christopher Ferringham," etc.
Cloth, $1.50.
Miss Marie van Vorst's Miss Desmond: An Impression
A new novel of society life by the author of "The Woman Who Toils," etc.
Cloth, $1.50.
FOR YOUNGER READERS
Mr. Jack London's Tales of the Fish Patrol
By the author of "The Call of the Wild," etc.
Now Ready. Illustrated. Cloth, $1.50.
Mr. Ernest Ingersoll's An Island in the Air
By the author of "Wild Neighbors," etc.
Now Ready. Illustrated. Cloth, $1.50.
Dr. Max Nordau's The Dwarf's Spectacles
And Other Fairy Tales. Translated from the German by MARY J. SAFFORD.
With about fifty illustrations. Cloth, $1.50.
(SEE AL80 FOLLOWING PAGE)
PUBLISHED
BY
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 64-66 FIFTH AVENUE
NEW YORK


364
[Dec. 1, 1905.
THE DIAL
New Macmillan Books
99
LIMITED EDITIONS
The Works of Maurice Hewlett 500 sets on large paper
Uniform with the limited editions of the works of Walter Pater and Matthew Arnold. Ten volumes issued
monthly. Ready in September, "The Forest Lovers"; October, “Richard Yea-and-Nay"; November,
• Little Novels of Italy."
Olive green cloth, gilt, $3.00 net per volume.
The Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin
Edited by ALBERT H. SMYTH, Philadelphia. Limited Library edition, with portraits and other illus-
trations.
In ten volumes, cloth, 8vo, $3.00 net per volume.
ILLUSTRATED BOOKS
The History of American Painting By Sanſuel Isham
With 12 full-page photogravures and 100 illustrations in the text. Uniform with Mr. Taft's “History of
American Sculpture," and Mr. Elson's "History of American Music," in "The History of American Art,"
credited by JOHN C. VAN DYKE, L.H.D.
Cloth, imperial 8vo. $5.00 net.
English Literature: An Illustrated Record
By Dr. RICHARD GARNETT and Dr. EDMUND GOSSE. With a superb body of illustrative material.
Complete in four imperial 8vo volumes, cloth, $20,00 net.
Mr. William Holman-Hunt's
Pre-Raphaelitism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Uniform with the “Memorials of Edward Barne-Jones," published last fall.
In two richly illustrated volumes. Cloth, 8vo. Ready immediately.
Mr. F. Marion Crawford's Salve Venetia! Gleanings from History
By the author of "Ave Roma Immortalis,” etc. In two volumes, richly illustrated by JOSEPH PENNELL.
Cloth, crown 8vo. $5.00 net.
Professor C. H. Moore's Character of Renaissance Architecture
By the author of “Development and Character of Gothic Architecture.” With 12 plates in Photogravure
and 139 illustrations in the text.
20+270 pages, 8vo, illustrated freely, $5.00 net.
Mr. E. V. Lucas's A Wanderer in Holland
By the author of “Highways and Byways in Sussex.” With 20 illustrations in color by HERBERT MAR-
SHALL, and 34 illustrations after “Dutch Old Masters." 10+809 pages, 12mo, illustrated, $1.75 net.
Mr. Alfred Austin's The Garden that I Love
By the Poet Laureate. With 16 full-page illustrations in color by GEORGE S. ELGOOD, R. I.
Cloth, square demy 8vo, s$2.00 net.
TRAVEL, ADVENTURE, ETC.
Miss Agnes Laut's Vikings of the Pacific
Being a continuation of "Pathfinders of the West."
Richly illustrated. Cloth, cr. Svo, $2.00 net.
Mr. B. L. Putnam-Weale's The Re-shaping of the Far East
By the author of "Manchu and Muscovite."
Illustrated. 8vo. Ready shortly.
Mr. James Outram's In the Heart of the Canadian Rockies
Deals with a section comparatively unknown even to sportsmen.
Illustrated. Cloth. $3.00 net.
OUTDOOR SPORT OR WORK
Mr. Edwyn Sandys's Sporting Sketches
By the author of “Upland Game Birds," atc.
Cloth, 12mo, $$1.75 net (postage 15 cents).
Mr. Harwood's New Creations in Plant Life
By W. S. HARWOOD. An Authoritative Account of the Life and Work of Luther Burbank, of whose suc-
cess in creating new varieties of flowers, fruits, etc., no detailed account has ever before been published.
Cloth, 12mo, $1.75 net
Mrs. Saint Maur's A Self-Supporting Home (postage 15 cents).
Mrs. SAINT MAUR describes how she set about establishing a self-supporting home in the country with
absolutely no capital. It will be fully illustrated.
Cloth, $1.75 net (postage 15 cents).
(SEE ALSO PRECEDING PAGE)
PUBLISHED
BY
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 64-66 FIFTH AVENUE
NEW YORK
tu


THE DIAL
A Semi-Monthly Journal of Literary Criticism, Discussion, and Information.
ENTERED AT THE CHICAGO POSTOFFICE AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER
BY THE DIAL COMPANY, PUBLISHERS.
No. 467.
DECEMBER 1, 1905.
Vol. XXXIX.
CONTENTS.
PAGE
365
BOOKS AND SHOES
.
.
THE EVOLUTION OF MOTHER GOOSE. Walter
Taylor Field
366
THE BROOKFIELD MEMOIRS. Percy F. Bicknell 370
A GROUP OF HOLIDAY NATURE-BOOKS. May
Estelle Cook.
372
Seton's Animal Heroes. - Long's Northern Trails.
Roberts's Red Fox. - Litsey's The Race of the Swift.
- Beebe's Two Bird-Lovers in Mexico.- Frazer's The
Sa' Zada Tales. - Robinson's The Country Day by Day.
- Burroughs's Ways of Nature.
THE RISE AND FALL OF WOLSEY. Edward E.
Hale, Jr.
375
BACKWARD GLANCES AT BOYLAND. Sara Andrew
Shafer
375
THE SPELL OF THE ORIENT. H.E. Coblentz . . 376
Curtis's Egypt, Burma, and Malaysia. — Curtis's Modern
India. - Glasfurd's Rifle and Romance in the Indian Jun-
gle. - Whitney's Jungle Trails and Jungle People. –
Hatch's Far Eastern Impressions. – Hardy's John China-
man at Home.-Miss Carl's With the Empress Dowager.
- Madame Loyson's To Jerusalem through the Lands of
Islam. - Libbey and Hoskin's The Jordan Valley and
Petra.
HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS-I.
381
Latham's The Gardens of Italy. - James's English
Hours. – Howells's London Films. - Fitzgerald's In the
Track of the Moors. -Gibson's Our Neighbors. - Mc-
Cutcheon's The Mysterious Stranger. – Drawings of
Rossetti.-Smith's The Story of Noah's Ark.-Shirazi's
Life of Omar al-Khayyami. -Cory's Pleasant Tragedies
of Childhood. -Sterne's Sentimental Journey, Riverside
Press edition. - Haines's Blue Monday Book. — Ames's
Matrimonial Primer. – Nesbit's An Alphabet of History.
- Cynic's Calendar for 1906. - Mumford's Joke Book
Note Book. - Haines's Sovereign Woman versus Mere
Man:- Goodhue's Good Things and Graces. —'Childe
Harold's' Child's Book of Abridged Wisdom.- Day's The
Menehunes. - Blanden's A Chorus of Leaves. - Bret
Harte's Her Letter, illus. by A. I. Keller. - Cabell's The
Line of Love.-Forman's The Island of Enchantment. -
Wade's A Garden in Pink. - Addison's The Art of the
National Gallery. - Howe's Two in Italy. - Champney's
Romance of the French Abbeys. - Dunbar's Howdy,
Honey, Howdy.- Cullertson's Banjo Talks. - Eliot's
The Happy Life. - Smith's An Emerson Calendar.
Hurll's The Bible Beautiful.- Ford's His Version of It.
-New volumes in the 'Thumb-Nail Series.'-Jackson's
Ramona, 'Pasadena' edition. – Hayes's Her Memory
Book. - Bolton's Famous American Authors, holiday
edition.-Holmes's The One-Hoss Shay, illus. in color by
Howard Pyle. -Saddle and Song.- Dickens's Christmas
Carol and The Cricket on the Hearth, illus. by G. A.
Williams. - Mills's Caroline of Courtlandt Street. - Bar-
bour's An Orchard Princess. -Smith's The Wood Fire
in No. 3. -- Montague's The Poet, Miss Kate, and I. -
Irving's Selected Works, miniature edition. --Spalding's
Womanhood in Art.- Johnson's Rhymes of Little Boys.
-Masson's A Corner in Women. - Auto Fun. - Riley's
Songs о' Cheer.- La Fontaine's The Days and Hours of
Raphael. - Ayers's The Joys of Friendship.
NOTES
390
THE SEASON'S BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG
A classified, descriptive guide to the children's books
of the present season.
TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS.
896
LIST OF NEW BOOKS
396
BOOKS AND SHOES.
There is so much of practical wisdom in Mr.
Henry Holt's paper on 'The Commercialization
of Literature,' upon which some comments were
made in our last issue, that we are inclined to
turn to it again for a text, in order to say some-
thing more upon the vexed question of advertis-
ing. The methods to which some publishers
have resorted of recent years seem to be so con-
spicuously lacking in good sense, and so injuri-
ous to the best interests both of publishing and
of literature, that nothing could be more timely
than the protest to which Mr. Holt has given so
emphatic and authoritative an expression.
Do the principles that apply to the advertis-
ing of shoes apply also to the advertising of
books? This is a question that would hardly
seem to need discussion were it not for the
obvious fact that books have come of late to be
advertised in just that fashion — by the full-
page display in the daily newspaper, by the
circus poster, by the flaring street-car sign, and
by the perambulating sandwich-man. It is
amazing that any person in his right mind
should think such methods likely to promote
sales in a measure at all proportional to the
outlay. For one book that will benefit by this
vulgar sort of appeal there must be a score, or a
hundred, that will lose, and the publisher who
resorts to it is at best taking a gambling chance
of the most reckless sort. One of them, when
questioned directly, is quoted as replying: 'No,
I shan't get the money back directly, but it will
give authors a great idea of my enterprise, and
I may get one or two big ones to pay for it.'
Now the shores of bookland are fairly strewn
with the wrecks of publishing craft that have
been fitted out and launched with a view to
giving the public a great idea of their enter-
prise, and the skippers, no doubt, such of them
as have survived, are wishing that they had
thought more of seaworthiness and less of show.
There is the advertising that appeals to the
eye,' says Mr. Holt, and the advertising that
appeals to the intelligence.' The former kind
of advertising is effective with products that
everyone is likely to use, such as patent medi-
cines, food stuffs, and articles of clothing. It
‘shapes popular habit,' independently of deliber-
ation: 'everybody has eyes, and everybody uses
food and shoes; so this kind of advertising may
take root anywhere, and it pays to scatter it.'
How different the problem becomes when books
are in question is obvious at the first glance.
Most of the people who buy shoes do not buy
6
• 392


366
[Dec. 1,
THE DIAL
а
books at all, while of those who are occasional seems to be a sufficiently elementary proposition,
purchasers of books, few spend as much upon yet failure to recognize its truth has worked
them as they do upon shoes. Nor will the much mischief, in witness whereof may be
advertising that appeals to habit’ have much adduced not only the economic waste of reckless
influence over these few; the habit of buying a advertising now under consideration, but also
particular kind of shoe may be fixed by the the standing disgrace of our national import
reiterated appeal of the advertiser to the eye, duty upon English books.
but we cannot imagine such an effect in the case The craze for book advertising of the undis-
of a particular book. Who ever acquired the criminating sort has probably passed its culmin-
habit of buying copies of Trilby,' or 'Eben ation. It was encouraged a few years ago by the
Holden,' or The Crisis year after year?
appearance of a number of phenomenal 'sellers'
The essential difference between the two cases of the poorer grade of fiction. Two or three
is, of course, that a man may continue to buy singularly worthless books were boosted above
and wear out shoes for a lifetime, while it takes the six-figure mark by patent medicine methods
but a single copy of a book to supply forever of exploitation, and the spectacle made many
his individual demand for it. This fact should publishers lose their heads. Fortunately, there
be well within the grasp of a child in the kinder have been no "sellers' for a year or two past,
garten stage of development, yet we frequently and there are indications of an awakening to
witness the effort of some publishers to advertise soberness in the publishing business. Two
a book as if he were aiming to create for it a effects of the reign of the seller' are pointed
permanent class of customers. “It takes longer out by Mr. Holt. One is that bookselling has
than most books live to advertise into a paying fallen largely into the hands of the department
reputation even a shoe or a soap, but the stores, since 'any saleslady" can identify and
expenditure may justify itself in the long run; sell seller” as well as the most accomplished
a book, on the other hand, cannot hold its mar- bibliopole’; the other is that 'the mad quest of
ket for any length of time, and its advertiser the golden “seller"
reacts to crush
must get back his outlay at once, or charge it out' the sale of all other books. Now if there
to his profit and loss account. For soon the book are any two tendencies that are likely to prove
which he has sought to advertise into fame has ruinous in the long run to the business of
become but a book of yesteryear, and finds no publishing, they are precisely these two that
one to bestow a thought upon it.
have been operative of late. Book stores must
We suppose that there is, roughly speaking,
be preserved and strengthened if publishing is
in any community, at any given time, a ‘book
to continue to bear its old relation to popular
fund, just as there is a shoe fund,' or, pace
culture, if it is even to exist in continued secur-
the newer economists, a
Each ity and dignity. And the books that never can
new book seeks to get as large a share of that
become sellers' must not be slighted because
fund for itself as it may, and to some extent,
their modest sales make so poor a showing beside
no doubt, the persistent flaunting of a particular
the dazzling success of some book that popular
title in the eyes of the public will divert in that caprice has brought into an ephemeral vogue.
direction a certain number of dollars whose He is a short-sighted publisher indeed who does
course is not absolutely predestined by the taste
not dº his best to oppose the inroads of the
and intelligence of their possessors.
But for department store upon the business of book-
each dollar that is thus captured by advertising selling, and who does not realize that the lasting
of the random and vulgar sort, two are likely strength of his own position must depend almost
to be spent in the effort, and that game is surely absolutely upon his control, not of an occasional
not worth the candle. As for the book buyer
seller’ to be forgotten the year after publica-
who applies taste and intelligence to his pur-
tion, but of a long list of books of the kind that
chases, we may be sure that he will not be lured keep on selling to a moderate extent year after
by any of the devices of puffery, but will hold year.
in just suspicion the sensational methods of
broadside and poster advertising, and ask only
THE EVOLUTION OF MOTHER GOOSE.'
to be informed, with reasonable distinctness of
exposition, through the medium of the accred Mother Goose' is the starting-point from
ited organs of bookish intelligence, concerning which mankind begins its knowledge of books.
the present and forthcoming output of litera- The novelist whose latest volume is in its hun-
ture. It cannot be too often asserted that a dreds of thousands, and whose name is in the
book is an individual thing, and that a person mouths of the multitude, gained his first notion
who wants it, if he have any intelligent reason of fiction on his mother's knee from the some-
whatever for his desire, will not accept another what highly colored story of the old woman who
book as a satisfactory substitute. This also swept the cobwebs out of the sky; the poet's first
wages fund.'


1905.]
367
THE DIAL
pastoral was ‘ Little Bo Peep,' his first tragedy Riding Hood,' "The Sisters who dropped from
Ding Dong Bell.' These nursery rhymes have their Mouths Diamonds and Toads,' 'Blue-
trained the ear and stirred the imagination of beard,' The Sleeping Beauty,''Puss in Boots,'
generations of children, and are worthy of adult Cinderella,' 'Riquet with the Tuft,' and 'Tom
consideration not only because of their venerable Thumb' or 'Little Thumb' (Petit Poucet)
antiquity but also because of their peculiar fas as he is here called. 'Riquet with the Tuft'is
cination for the child mind.
the only one of the collection which seems not
As for Mother Goose the author, we must con to have maintained its popularity in English and
sign her to the realm of myths; for she appears American collections.
I to be even less substantial than Homer. Some It is thus clear that Mother Goose was of
forty years ago, an ingenious gentleman of Bos French extraction and of at least respectable
ton claimed to have identified her as Mistress antiquity. But thus far nothing has been heard
Elizabeth Goose, or Vergoose, who flourished in of her ‘Melodies. She began her existence as
that city between the years 1712 and 1720; and the raconteur of fairy tales, not as the nursery
this effort to give her a local habitation was at poetess.
once accepted with joy by a large part of that The idea of collecting well-known rhymes for
reading public which expects of its authors
children and of attributing them to this fabulous
concrete physical existence. The Vergoose story-teller seems to have originated with John
story stated that our nursery laureate was the
Newbery, the London publisher, who has been
mother-in-law of one Thomas Fleet, a printer; justly styled the father of children's literature
that she lived with his family over his shop in in England; and it is more than probable that
Pudding Lane (now Devonshire Street); that Oliver Goldsmith edited the first collection. This
she habitually repeated nursery rhymes and book, which was entitled “Mother Goose's Mel-
songs for the delectation of Fleet's children, and
ody,' appeared not much later than 1760. We
that said verses became so popular in Pudding know that Goldsmith did hack-work for New-
Lane that Fleet, thinking to turn an honest
bery during five or six years at about this period,
penny, published them in 1719 under the now that he wrote the child's story of Goody Two
famous title, Mother Goose's Melodies.' The
Shoes,' which Newbery published in 1765, and
story was uncontradicted for years, but at last
that he was interested in children's literature.
the higher critics got hold of it and exploded it. Certain earmarks, too, are to be found in the
If we are to seek the genesis of 'Mother
preface to the Melody,' which suggest his
Goose,' we must go farther than Boston and
authorship. Probably no original copy of the
earlier than 1719. Mr. Andrew Lang has dis Newbery Mother Goose' is now in existence,
covered in Loret’s ‘La Muse Historique,' pub- but the book was reprinted by Isaiah Thomas of
lished in France in 1650, the following verses:
Worcester, Mass., about 1785, and several copies
Mais le cher motif de leur joye,
of the Worcester edition are preserved, one of
Comme un conte de la Mère Oye,
Se Trouvant fabuleux et faux,
which has been photographed and reproduced in
Ils deviendront tous bien pènauts.
facsimile by Mr. W. H. Whitmore of Boston.
The second line is the significant one: ‘Like a Other publishers also reprinted the Newbery col-
Mother Goose story,' which, in the next line, is lection. John Marshall, of Aldermary Church-
shown to be 'fabuleux et faux. Clearly, then, yard, Bow Lane, London, brought out an edition
Mother Goose was known to the French more in which he followed Newbery almost verbatim,
than two hundred years ago, as the typical teller making only a few changes in the arrangement
of extraordinary and fanciful tales.
of the selections. A copy of the Marshall edition
The earliest date at which Mother Goose is still extant in the Bodleian Library at Oxford.
appears as the author of children's stories is In 1797 a quaint satirical booklet was printed
1697, when Charles Perrault, a distinguished in London entitled 'Infant Institutes. This
French litterateur, published in Paris a little seems to have been an essay on nursery litera-
book of tales which he had during that and the ture, written in a mock-scholarly style, with
preceding year contributed to a magazine known comments on a number of jingles then evidently
as the 'Recueil, printed at The Hague. This current,-intended probably as a burlesque upon
book is entitled Histoire ou Contes du Tems the work of the Shakespearean commentators of
Passé, avec des Moralites,' and has a frontispiece that day. The 'Infant Institutes' contained a
in which is pictured an old woman telling stories number of nursery rhymes, some of which had
to a family group by the fireside, while in the not been printed in 'Mother Goose,' but we
background are the words in large characters, hear of no other general collection until 1810.
* Contes de ma Mère l'Oye '—"Tales of my In this year appeared “Gammer Gurton's Gar-
Mother Goose.' These tales were eight in num land, or The Nursery Parnassus, edited by
ber, consisting of the following: Little Red Joseph Ritson, an eminent scholar, critic, and
V


368
[Dec. 1,
THE DIAL
antiquary, who gave much attention to the Series”; Professor Saintsbury, editor of the Eng-
origin and development of English ballad lish volume, ‘ National Rhymes of the Nursery ';
poetry. 'Gammer Gurton' was evidently put out and Mr. Charles Welsh, one of the best authori-
as a rival of 'Mother Goose.' The name was a ties on children's literature in this country to-
familiar one, found originally in the old comedy, day.
Gammer Gurton's Needle, but used as a type Thus far we have traced simply the printed
of the ancient grandmother. This alliterative existence of these rhymes,--the bibliographical
Garland' contained nearly all of 'Mother history of them. But when we go back of all
Goose's Melody,' and about as much more ma that and attempt to discuss when and where and
terial of the same sort, collected by Ritson from how they first came into being, we open a wide
all available sources. Gammer Gurton's reign, field of exploration,- as wide as the world it-
however, was short, and it is to a Boston pub-self, and as old as history. Take for example
lisher that we look for the final establishment "The House that Jack Built.' This originated,
of Mother Goose as the autocrat of the nursery. unquestionably, in an old accumulative bit of
At some time between 1824 and 1827, Munroe verse found in the Chaldee and also in the
and Francis, a firm of Boston booksellers doing Hebrew. The rhymes, ‘Hush-a-bye baby upon
business at what is now the corner of Washing the tree top' (originally · Sing, lullaby baby,
ton and Water streets, published a book called etc.) and Rock-a-bye baby thy cradle is green,'
“Mother Goose's Quarto, or Melodies Complete,' both suggest a pastoral out-of-door life, and are
and in 1833 their successors, C. S. Francis & of great antiquity. The first is quoted in a song
Co., brought out a much larger book, the title called “The London Medley,' printed in 1744.
page of which reads ‘Mother Goose's Melodies :
The same song also contains' Old Obadiah sings
The only Pure Edition. Though this is adver Ave Maria,' and ' There was an old woman sold
tised as ' pure Mother Goose,' and though it con puddings and pies.' Old King Cole' was an
tains all but three of the original rhymes of historical character, who ruled the Britons in
Newbery's edition, there is a plentiful alloy of the third century A. D.; Robert of Gloucester
Gammer Gurton,' and of other rhymes which
says he was the father of St. Helena, and hence
had escaped both authorities. In fact, 'Gammer the grandfather of Constantine.
Gurton' is at this point absorbed and loses her
Jack and Jill’ is drawn from Icelandic
identity in 'Mother Goose.' The Munroe and mythology. The two children were supposed to
Francis edition has recently been reprinted in have been stolen and taken up into the moon,
facsimile, with an introduction by Dr. Edward
where they still stand with the pail of water
Everett Hale.
between them; and the Scandinavian peasant
The last notable addition to nursery litera- will point them out to you on a clear night
ture was made in 1842, when Halliwell, the well-
when the moon is at the full, as we point out to
known British scholar and Shakespearean critic, our children 'the man in the moon. A myth
published 'The Nursery Rhymes of England,' almost identical with this is found in the San-
which his title announced were collected prin- skrit. The first line of Sing a song of sixpence'
cipally from oral tradition,' but which contained
is quoted in Beaumont and Fletcher's Bon-
nearly all of 'Mother Goose, Gammer Gurton,' duca' (about 1615). “A duck and a drake and
and the American Consolidated Mother Goose,
appears in Junius's “No-
besides much new material which the collector
menclator,' London, 1585. When a twister, a
might well have allowed to remain oral tradi- twisting will twist him in a twist' is in Dr. Wal-
tion. It is the most complete collection of nurs lis's Grammatica Linguae Anglicanae, Oxon.
ery rhymes ever published, and is interesting 1674.' Three Blind Mice' is in a book called
to the student of folk-lore, though not altogether the ‘Deuteromelia,' published in London in
profitable to the child. Much of it is coarse, a 1609 with music accompanying. 'Handy-
great deal of it is silly, and, unfortunately, the dandy, Jack-a-dandy' is a rhyme the repeating
coarsest and silliest of it has been published ad of which was part of an old game -centuries
nauseam in modern editions, to the lasting old; it is referred to in Piers Ploughman'
shame and humiliation of the mythical dame (1369).
to whom it is now all attributed.
Many of the popular nursery rhymes are his-
The fact is worthy of note that among col torical. Several of these have already been
lectors and editors of nursery rhymes are to be referred to.
found the brightest of scholars and litterateurs,
- Goldsmith, Ritson, and Halliwell; Andrew
Lang, who edited in 1884 perhaps the best chil was an old Jacobite song, sung many a time in
dren's collection of jingles now obtainable; Mr. Scotland at midnight meetings in the alehouses
Charles Eliot Norton, who made the collection while waiting for ‘Bonnie Prince Charley.'
contained in Book I. of the Heart of Oak Charley loves good ale and wine' was another
a half
penny cake'
.
Over the water and over the sea
And over the water to Charley,'


1905.]
369
THE DIAL
Mail coats ringing,
Odin makes our Olaf win.'
drinking-song of the same period,- some say deliciously extravagant 'Mother Goose for
a part of the same song, though that is doubt Grown Folks,' has found them fairly bristling
ful. It also refers to the Young Pretender. with morals. She sees in ‘Little Boy Blue' an
References to these historical rhymes might exhortation to youth to shake off indolence and
be multiplied indefinitely. There is · Please to apply himself to duty; ‘Little Jack Horner'
remember the Fifth of November,' referring to she conceives to be a satire on the egotism of the
the gunpowder plot; there is the black man
successful man; “Little Bo Peep' offers com-
upon the black horse,' who was Charles the fort to the disappointed; 'Solomon Grundy'
First; there is 'Hector Protector, dressed all is the epitome of life - a simpler and more di-
in green’; there is “The Parliament Soldiers' rect form of Shakespeare's 'Seven Ages.' The
who are said to have gone to the King' Old Woman whoʻlived upon nothing but victuals
Then there is the rhyme London Bridge is and drink' shows the longing of the unsatisfied
falling down,' which celebrates an event in the soul after things spiritual; Jack Sprat and his
early part of the eleventh century, when King Wife' illustrates the complementary character
Olaf, the Norseman, went to England and of human endowments, each being fitted to its
broke down London Bridge after a battle with place in the economy of nature. It is perhaps
King Ethelred. The victory found a place in true that Mrs. Whitney's corollaries are drawn
the Norse sagas, and the following lines from more in jest than in earnest, but other com-
the . Heimskringla' evidently formed the basis mentators have made a ridiculously serious
of the nursery rhyme:
matter of it. We must remember that the pop-
London Bridge is broken down,
ularity of “Mother Goose' springs from the
Gold is won and bright renown;
child himself, and what child has any vital
Shields resounding,
War horns sounding,
concern as to the lesson in ‘Little Boy Blue'?
Hildur shouting in the din,
If he suspected a lesson in it, he would straight-
Arrows singing,
way lose interest.
Neither is it the wit or humor that appeals
As one looks back over the history of these
to the child. Professor Saintsbury tells of an
old rhymes, he is filled with wonder at their acquaintance who used to be mightily amused at
vitality. Century after century has passed over
the line, Hotum, potum, paradise tantum, peri-
them, and they still find a place in every nur-
meri-dictum, domine, in which he said the
sery - a corner in the heart of every child. phrase, 'Paradise tantum' (only paradise)
Many verses for children have been written in
was the nicest thing he knew. It is probable
modern times which to the adult mind seem
that whoever first evolved this choice pig-Latin
more melodious and attractive, but the child had no thought of doing a particularly nice
looks upon them with more or less of coldness. thing, but perhaps wanted to burlesque some old
They may amuse him for a time, but after all
Latin formula used by the priests. At all
it is his Mother Goose' that he takes to bed events, the child sees nothing witty in it,- the
with him. He knows nothing of its antiquity jingle is what attracts him.
or of its history. He does not know why he The child takes little thought as to what any
likes it, he simply likes it.
of these verses mean. There are perhaps four
A story is told of the daughter of Horace elements in them that appeal to him, — first, the
Mann, who during the tender years of baby-jingle, and with it that peculiar cadence which
hood was studiously kept away from the cor modern writers of children's poetry strive in
rupting influence of all nursery nonsense, and
vain to imitate; second, the nonsense, with just
brought up in an eminently proper intellectual enough of sense in it to connect the nonsense
environment. When she had become quite a
with the child's thinkable world; third, the ac-
large girl, she heard one day, for the first time, tion,- for the stories are quite dramatic in
* High-diddle-diddle,' and was so fascinated by their way; and fourth, the quaintness. Many of
it that she begged to have it repeated to her the objects which are referred to are entirely
until she could learn it. This story proves not uninteresting to him in themselves, - many of
only the futility of keeping children in a strait them entirely strange and beyond his horizon;
jacket, but also the inherent attraction of and perhaps this quality of mystery also adds
Mother Goose, aside from all possibilities of as to them a certain charm. No child knows ex-
sociation or training.
actly what it was that Little Miss Muffet sat on,
What is the secret of this ever-fresh and ever and it is an interesting experiment to get from
enduring popularity ? Some thoughtful per a dozen average children their ideas on this sub-
sons have claimed to find in the old rhymes hints ject. The conceptions range all the way from
of profound philosophy, which they think is a rocking-chair to a mushroom; and I have
the preservative principle that has kept them observed that the artists who illustrate ‘Mother
through the centuries. Mrs. Whitney, in her Goose' are as far apart in their views as the


370
[Dec. 1,
THE DIAL
children. What does interest the child is the
rhyme and the swing of the metre. "Spider' and
Tbe New Books.
'beside her’ fall on his ear quite pleasantly,
Then he has a vague feeling of sympathy or of
contemptuous pity for the heroine, conditioned
THE BROOKFIELD MEMOIRS.*
upon his own relations with spiders in general. In what Tennyson called the 'dawn-golden
I remember, in my childhood, passing through time' at Cambridge, there flourished a famous
both the sympathetic and contemptuous stages, company of gifted youths, the cream of whom
the first, a quite delightful sort of terror
we know as the Apostles,' who almost without
which made me half fear to hear the story; the
exception wrote poetry, of more or less merit;
second, a complacent pleasure which grew out
and of this choice coterie William Henry Brook-
of the consciousness of weakness overcome.
field was not the least illustrious member. It is
What was it that so attracted Horace Mann's
worth noting, before going further, that his
daughter in ‘High-diddle-diddle'? First, un-
birth-year was 1809, and that he of course knew
doubtedly, the metre, which is a waltz move-
Edward FitzGerald, with whom he travelled in
ment, suggesting all the abandon of the un-
France in 1839, besides being intimate with
usual scene which it celebrates - this empha- Thackeray, Spedding, Arthur and Harry Hal-
sized by the alliteration in the first two lines, lam, Lord'Lyttelton (at one time his pupil and
like the beat of some barbaric tom-tom. There long afterward his biographer), Monckton
is, too, an excellent set of rhymes, except in the Milnes, Trench, Maurice, Venables, Frank Lush-
emasculated modern version which substitutes ington, Charles Buller, the Tennysons, the Car-
'sport' for the good old English word 'craft,'—
lyles, the Ashburtons, and numerous other not-
meaning skill, strength, and courage, - and
ables of the early and middle Victorian era. Of
thereby destroys the verse and the idea as well.
the 'set' with whom he and his beautiful wife
Then, there is the very intoxication of move-
consorted after his settlement as a London
ment; everyone is doing something. And
curate in the early forties, we read in the fifth
finally, there is the absolute nonsense of it all.
chapter of Mrs. Brookfield and her Circle,'
I do not wonder that the verse has lasted three
now offered to the public in two attractive, well
hundred years or so,- and it is good for at
illustrated volumes :
least three hundred more, unless children grow
The record of their doings on any given day or
too wise to love absurdities and too proper to
week was then practically a history of every other
feel the swing of a half-savage melody.
one; for the actions of the “Set," as Thackeray
Many good people have tried to improve called a privileged few, became quite charmingly
Mother Goose.' A familiar story is that of the
simple directly any members of it found themselves
in the neighborhood of the others. A close, con
Quaker who revised ‘High-diddle-diddle' for
stant, pleasant intimacy would inevitably ensue and
his little Mary, making the cow to jump under continue until the hour when some of them, forced
the moon, the little dog to bark rather than away by sterner duties, were found to fly "the
festive scene.
“Festive” describes almost ac-
the
laugh, and the cat to run after the spoon
curately most of that wonderful companionship;
dish being debarred from such action on ac they had no wearyings whatever in one another's
count of the manifest impossibility of running society, they extemporized banquets, they strolled
without legs. It is not recorded how little Mary
in and out of each other's dwellings, they assem-
received the emendations, but it may be in-
bled the most brilliant of people on the shortest
of notices; they struck their wits together and al-
ferred that she did not highly approve of them. ways emitted sparks; they took keen and often
Every attempt to alter Mother Goose' for critical interest in each other's life and work, and
the better has resulted in failure. To try to when they parted set forth stimulated to other and
make her sensible is to destroy a chief element
finer achievements, which in many cases were in
due time brought forth to the joy and enrichment
of her charm. To modernize her is to lose that
of the world.'
quaint flavor of things half understood and
The Brookfield memoirs, which have been so
wholly unusual, which appeals to every child.
tastefully compiled by a son, Mr. Charles Brook-
To expurgate her and try to make of her a
field, and his wife, might somewhat better have
moral teacher is to relegate her to the dust-bin.
been called The Brookfields and their Circle,
Some things there are in the old editions which
or even William Henry Brookfield and his
are coarse to modern ears, and judicious editors
Circle'; for Brookfield himself was the last man
wisely omit them; but on the whole there is lit-
to be known simply or chiefly as the husband of
tle danger that the rising generation will have
his wife. Not only was he twelve years older
its morals or its taste debased by this old clas-
sic. To trifle with Mother Goose' is like
than she, but his must appear to the reader as
by far the more striking and pronounced per-
trifling with Shakespeare. We have no men or
women living nowadays who can improve upon
*MRS. BROOKFIELD AND HER CIRCLE. By Charles
and Frances Brookfield.
Illustrated.
her.
WALTER TAYLOR FIELD.
-
In two volumes.
Charles Scribner's Sons.
New York:


1905.]
371
THE DIAL
sonality. He is best remembered for his orator Fortune. Their love letters written during these
ical, mimetic, and humorous powers. Kinglake, pre-matrimonial years are in some respects un-
as quoted by our authors, said of him, “ As an usual, if not unique. On one side we find the
orator of original genius, he possessed marvel- queerest medley of fun and affection, humorous
lous histrionic skill, which he was able to mod- scolding and ardent devotion, paternal counsel
erate in the pulpit’; and in the reading of and brotherly comradeship, familiarity (which
Shakespeare he was never in his time surpassed ocasionally is most strangely permitted to border
by any one'-although his time included such
on coarseness) and the fantastic ebullitions of
Shakespearean readers as Charles Kemble and high spirits and a rollicking humor; on the
his daughter Fanny. Of Brookfield as a hum- other, the ingenuous trust of an unspoiled child
orist Dr. Thompson, Master of Trinity College, and the boundless love of a warm-hearted
Cambridge, said that he had seen a whole audi woman, the merry jests of a quick-witted girl
ence at one of these displays stretched upon their and the tender anxiety of a young person solici-
backs by inextinguishable laughter. Concerning tous to form herself in all respects to please her
his family it will here suffice to say that he was lover. Varied and sometimes amusing are that
the son of a Sheffield solicitor of some note, and lover's modes of addressing his sweetheart, as,
that ‘he was one of a large family, most of my darling child,' sweetest lady, my dear
whom possessed wit of a superior quality, though girl,'' dearest Jenny,''sweet junk, my dearest
brought up in an atmosphere of Puritanism that Glum,'' dearest Jane,' and, after marriage, “ my
was perhaps strict and rigid even for those dearest Desdemona,'' my dearest person,'' Jean
days.
Octavia Relton,' 'young Miss, und dergleichen
Mrs. Brookfield (Jane Octavia Elton) was
the eighth and youngest daughter of Charles Breakfasts at Rogers's, dinners at Hallam's,
Elton of Clevedon Court, afterward seventh bar- and soirées innumerable elsewhere, brought the
onet of that name. Her mother was one of the Brookfields into familiar relations with all the
beautiful Miss Smiths' so often mentioned in
best London society of their time. Of the good
the memoirs of the period, and she was herself stories told at Rogers's table and at other
noted for unusual comeliness and charm, as well hospitable boards, including their own, we find
as for her quick intelligence, her graceful wit,
many quotable examples, as witness the follow-
and her keen sense of humor. Her father's ing, whose immediate source is one of Brook-
sister Julia was the wife of Hallam the histor-
field's letters:
ian, which of course made Arthur and Harry
The new Bishop of New Zealand, in a farewell
Hallam her cousins. And now, having suffi-
and pathetic interview with his mother, after his
ciently introduced our chief characters, let us appointment, was thus addressed by her in such
permit them to speak for themselves, from the sequence as sobs and tears would permit: “1 sup-
pose they will eat you, my dear - I try to think
copious letters and journals of which the book
otherwise, but I suppose they will. Weli!
is largely composed. Here is a characteristic
must leave it in the hands of Providence. But
passage from a love letter, written in London to if they do — mind, my dear, and disagree with
dearest Jane' under the paternal roof in South-
ampton :
Among other amusing amiabilities and whimsi-
'I amuse myself with thinking how delightfully calities of this circle of friends was the playful
jealous you will be all this evening while I am
habit they had of signing their letters with one
dining with Mrs. D., MY OLD FLIRT!!! Yes — I
shall be there — most likely sit next her - say
another's names, or with some fantastic pseudo-
very, very pretty things to her. Seriously I think nym chosen on the spur of the moment, while a
you will be rather uncomfortable! And thou shalt similar spirit of innocent foolery made them
know how sharper than a maggot's tooth it is to
spell phonetically, head their notes St You and
have a faithless love! You know she is really very
pretty and “lights up” like a lustre - and has
St Mee,' address Mrs. Brookfield as the 'Coun-
such winning ways! Ah, Jenny, sweet child — they tess of St. Luke's,' or as 'the Rev. Mrs. Brook-
must have loveliness indeed to win the eye even field.' Harry Hallam would sometimes closely
from your outward and poorest loveliness — and
copy Thackeray's handwriting (they called him
winning ways they must possess that could charm
one's heart into forgetting your fond confiding
Thack ') and then apologize for this base im-
affectionate nature - I never see any slightest ap itation of the Great Humourist.' In a frolicsome
proach to you in head or heart; and I feel it a letter to his mother, Brookfield excuses some
sort of wrong to you to commend your beauty
absurd spelling by explaining, “ I've got such a
when praises so much more honorable are your
due. I fear when my letters come to be printed
cold id by dose I caddot write the letters eb ad
in a breach of promise case I shall be thought a ed. But enough of these pranks—or enough as
great fool.'
soon as we have given the following scene, laid
Like many another engaged couple, William no matter where, time midnight and after. We
and Jane were forced to let the consummation copy from a letter to my dearest Desdemona,'
of their happiness wait on the smiles of dame the writer of it too apparent to need naming:
we
them." ,


372
[Dec. 1,
THE DIAL
re-
'By about 12 most had gone. We had had Meri field survived her husband by twenty years.
vale, Blakesley, Stanley (who wrote Arnold's life),
Had she been inclined to change her state and
Signor Conaro of Venice, Mansfield, Gray, Frank
Lushington, Harry, Self, Venables and others.
move in a higher and more exclusive sphere,'
Only five remained when I proposed reading part write her biographers, she had several oppor-
of a play, each one taking the part that came tunities for re-marrying, but her love for her
successively, reading in a ring - so that, for in-
children made her consider them, and she con-
stance, I began - next party that spoke would be
Harry next Lushington, &c., straight away
cluded to devote the rest of her life to them.
round and round so that one man in his time She did not as a widow remain in retirement,'
played many parts. The absurdity of this I cannot but continued to enliven the company of her old
describe - we laughted into fits — but the
markable thing is the gravity of these youngsters
friends, and graciously welcomed the new,
when there is need of it. Thus Harry woulá be always surprised and pleased that she was still
reading Polonius, Laertes, or Ophelia with the sought out and noticed. Some of Thackeray's
most shameless attempts at propriety, while we were letters to Mrs. Brookfield are already familiar
all splitting around — and he was equally con-
vulsed when others than himself were reading. At
from having appeared both in a prominent
length we were obliged to give it up. At 3 we
magazine and afterward in book form. She is
retired.'
said to have been the original of Lady Castle-
Turning now from such frivolity, let us take wood in Henry Esmond. Her own novels,
a peep at Brookfield dining with the Carlyles on "Only George," Înfluence,' and 'Not a Heroine,
Christmas day of 1852, Mrs. Brookfield being in will be remembered by some readers; and those
attendance on her sick father. From the hus- who knew her in life will recall her rare gift
band's diary we clip the following fragment: as a viva voce story-teller, as well as her refined,
‘Carlyle now and then put a bit of what he
dignified and delicately sympathetic bearing
thought one ought to like = of leg, of loin, or of toward all classes, even the humblest.
fat, on one's plate with a sort of genial, homely The many portraits in this work deserve es-
hospitality which was touching. There was won-
derful nut-brown from the neighbouring "Crick-
pecial mention, some because they are unfamil-
eters,' " Port and Sherry, to which Madam presently
iar, others because they are admirably engraved,
added a bottle of excellent Madeira. Meanwhile, and still others for both reasons. The fourteen-
the talk was incessant but remarkable for nothing
but cheeriness. Then came woodcocks, and finally
page index, too, is useful. And so we close the
a Christmas plum pudding with brandy sauce -
volumes, feeling that it is well to have been ad-
which brought on my story of the Saddleworth mitted, even for a few hours, to the bright and
elector at 'York in Montague Wilson's contest joyous company of a merry-hearted husband and
about 25 years ago. At one of the open Taverns wife and their brilliant circle of high-souled
he called to the waiter: “Waiter! ha' ye nowt
friends.
better nor woin?" "No, sir, nothing better than
PERCY F. BICKNELL.
champagne, port, sherry, whisky, gin, brandy, etc."
“Way thenl bring us a quart of that stuff we
hed we't puddin. Carlyle laughed like a vol-
cano at this and twisted it many ways in the
course of the evening. After dinner and wine C.
A GROUP OF HOLIDAY NATURE-BOOKS. *
and I adjourned upstairs for a pipe of York River
Tobacco
which he talked characteris-
If the Christmas-keeping world no longer
tically, chiefly about Education. Then downstairs cherishes the tradition that the fowls of the air
to cheerful tea — and so made end at ten o'clock, and the beasts of the field celebrate the Nativity,
and I went home in an omnibus with the silent
it at least gives the dumb creatures a larger
cousin who had dined with us, bearing with me
half a dozen old pipes of Co's, and the one he
share each year in its own festival through the
had used that evening for a memorial of a day tribute of interest it pays to their life. No
that I felt very grateful for and not a little elated Christmas-tree is fully equipped which has not
by.'
a flowering of animal story-books somewhere
And now a long leap to the end of the book
among or beneath its branches, and no child
and the death of Brookfield at the early age of
* ANIMAL HEROES. Written and illustrated by Ernest
sixty-five-not sixty-three, as the types have put
Thompson Seton. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
it. His last words were to his wife, Good-bye, NORTHERN TRAILS. By William J. Long. Illustrated
dear Jane, and God bless you ! Beyond being
by Charles Copeland. Boston: Ginn & Co.
By Charles G. D. Roberts. Illustrated by
made honorary chaplain, and later chaplain-in-
Charles Livngston Bull. Boston : L. C. Page & Co.
ordinary, to the Queen, and inspector of schools, THE RACE OF THE SWIFT. By Edwin Carlisle Litsey.
a post which he held for seventeen years, he had
Illustrated by Charles Livingston Bull. Boston: Little,
Brown & Co.
enjoyed little official recognition of his talents.
Two BIRD-LOVERS IN MEXICO. By C. William Beebe.
In literature he lives to us, in a modest way, as Illustrated with photographs from life taken by the au-
thor.
the Rev. Frank Whitestock in Thackeray's
Boston: Houghton, Miffin & Co.
By W. A. Fraser. Illustrated
sketch, "The Curate's Walk,' and also in his by Arthur Heming. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
friend Lyttelton's brief memoir of him, in which THE COUNTRY DAY BY DAY. By E. Kay Robinson. Il-
lustrated. New York: Henry Holt & Co.
are printed eulogistic letters from illustrious
WAYS NATURE. By John Burroughs. Boston:
friends and a sonnet by Tennyson. Mrs. Brook Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
- over
RED Fox.
THE SA ZADA TALES.
OF


1905.]
373
THE DIAL
-
counts his gifts complete without some new ory. If choice were to be made where each is
tale of outdoor life. This year there is satisfac good, perhaps the preference would fall upon
tion for all who love such stories — and in this The Quest of Waptonk,' the tale of a wild
count we all enroll ourselves as children; for goose whose valiant defence of mate and gos-
each of the best-known writers in this field has lings wins the intruder's whole-hearted admira-
given us a new book as good as his best, and tion.
several new writers have brought their offerings. In contrast to the collections of shorter stories,
Among these books none will be more justly it is pleasant to come upon a well-developed
popular than Mr. Thompson Seton's ‘Animal biography such as Mr. Roberts has written of
Heroes.' 'A hero is an individual of unusual 'Red Fox. No fear that so eventful a life-his-
gifts and achievements. Whether it be man or tory will furnish any dull reading, even when
animal this definition applies.' And Carlyle told at length! This ruddy hero is possessed
himself would scarcely deny a meed of hero of unusual strength and cunning, though it
worship to the eight individuals' whom the must be admitted he has no more idea of honor
book celebrates. The fact that most of them among thieves than his less talented kinsmen.
belong to the common tribes rather enhances the His calculations about avoiding traps, stalk-
appreciation of their qualities. Even the Sluming partridges, leading dogs over rotten bridges
Cat, it seems, is worthy to enter the class of that will not hold them, and escaping detection
animals Mr. Seton has known, and though her by riding in a farmer's wagon, may seem a trifle
heroism may not have exactly the same fibre incredible. But he is a fine fellow, who deserves
as that of the Sandhill Stag, it is nevertheless to come off victor in his struggle for life, and
genuine and admirable.
The author's power
every child who reads about him will be glad
has increased as his style has become more sim that the story turns out well.
ple and his allegiance to plain facts more indis A comparatively new writer, Mr. Edwin C.
putable. He has never told a story more dra- Litsey, publishes several short stories, some of
matically than that of Little War-horse, the them reprinted from ‘Leslie's Magazine,' under
Jack Rabbit, or more touchingly than that of the title The Race of the Swift. The stories
Arnaux, the Homing Pigeon. As if to prove,
have marked individuality, though the subjects
too, that his greater command of the common of them a fox, a hawk, a coon, etc., have
place has not lessened the wealth of his imagin- been treated very often before. Each tale moves
ation, he closes his volume with the Legend rapidly and firmly, with perfect adherence to
of the White Reindeer,' a haunting story in the facts of animal life, and without sentimen-
which plain fact runs off confessedly and most tality. Mr. Litsey does not care to blur over the
alluringly into pure fancy. With regard to the cruelty and the tragedy of the wild, but brings
illustrations, one might suggest that here and most of its heroes relentlessly to their death.
there they are too 'sketchy and uncertain to add The very critical may think that in his method
either the humor or the illumination that the of narration he shows too much of the college
author intends. But this suggestion is only a
theme-writer's fondness for the 'sting in the end
marginal note.
of the tail’; but the same critical spirit will
In Mr. Long's ‘Northern Trails' the stories appreciate to the full the keenness of his vision,
are less tense and dramatic, partly because the the accuracy of his style, and the restraint
author is so sensitive to the world in which the
which shows his power.
dumb creatures move his soul, like a wind More sumptuous in make-up and illustration
touched harp, thrilling to the melody of woods than any of the books already mentioned is Mr.
and waters' that he never quite detaches his Beebe's Two Bird-Lovers in Mexico.' As
drama from the background. For this reason curator of ornithology in the New York Zoölog-
his stories have a charm and an excellence of ical Park, Mr. Beebe has acquired a 'taste for
their own. There is a peculiar fascination about birds' such as few even of the professional bird-
these northern trails, not only because in fol lovers possess, and his observations and his pic-
lowing them one finds himself 'face to face tures will be of great value to the scientist, as
with new animals — white wolf, fishes, salmon, well as a pleasure to the untrained reader.
wild goose, polar bear, and a score of others big Moreover Mr. Beebe and his wife had seeing
and little' — but because the far-north country eyes for the land and its people, plants, and ani-
which they traverse, the land of space and mals. They give excellent proof of the fact that
silence,' has an unfamiliar and mysterious
those who travel to see a particular thing see
beauty. The consciousness of this beauty is in more, not only of that thing but of other things,
each of these new stories, softening and human than those who wander aimlessly. It is delight-
izing the effect of them. Yet the stories are ful to find a book which says little of the dust
well told for their own sake, too, and most of in the cities of Mexico, but much of the Audu-
their details stand clearly in the reader's mem bon warblers and Inca doves which fly about the


874
[Dec. 1,
THE DIAL
streets in place of English sparrows; which and accuracy with which this method is car-
instead of scolding at the dishonesty of the ried out, each day chronicling some event
natives records their mercy in driving off the different from every other. Whoever wishes
American plume-hunters who would have to prepare his eyes to see the birds and beasts,
destroyed the entire species of egrets; and which insects and flowers of England, and the subtle
instead of expressing disgust at the myriad life changes which cross the face of that country
which infests the ground and the air, chronicles from season to season - even to the changing
the enjoyment the writers had in watching the tints of the pale thrift, which in earlier
lizards that crept about their camp, and in Summer spreads a pink film over the sea-
studying on moonlight nights the shadows of wastes' — will cherish Mr. Robinson's book
flying-squirrels that made a chute' of their with gratitude.
tent-roof. Mrs. Beebe's closing chapter on 'How Wholly different in character from any of
We Did it contains practical advice about these books, and in some ways more signif-
clothing and camp outfit which ought to tempt icant than any of them, is Mr. John Bur-
other travellers to follow her example.
roughs's ‘Ways of Nature.' Having in mind
Mr. Fraser's · Sa’ Zada Tales' bring echoes
the controversy between those who believe that
from lands more remote than Mexico. The book animals reason and those who do not, Mr. Bur-
is as unique and attractive in plan as in title. roughs has set himself to give a comprehensive
To forget the heat of summer evenings in the
statement of his own views. This he does with
Greater City the animals of the Zoo meet for
considerable clearness, and no apparent rancor
entertainment, each in turn inviting his friends or prejudice; and what he says will command
to gather in front of his 'apartment' and hear
the permanent attention and respect of all na-
the story of his life. Sa' Zada the keeper is ture-lovers. Briefly, Mr. Burroughs thinks that
always present, and has no difficulty in main- animals seldom, if ever, reason. He says:
taining order. Each animal tells a characteristic 'It is as plain as anything can be that the ani-
tale showing the traits of his race and revealing
mals share our emotional nature in vastly greater
his own peculiarities. The stories themselves
measure than they do our intellectual or our moral
nature; and because they do this, because they
are enjoyable, though nearly all, of necessity, show fear, love, joy, anger, sympathy, jealousy,
reach their dénouement in the capture of the
because they suffer and are glad, because they
narrator. On the way in which they are told
form friendships and local attachments and have
perhaps in frankness two comments should be
the home and paternal instincts, in short, because
their lives run parallel to our own in so many
made, — first that no one expects another ‘Jungle particulars, we come, if we are not careful, to
Book' will ever appear, and second that the ascribe to them the whole human psychology. But
dialogue is rather badly managed. Wild ani-
it is equally plain that of what we mean by mind,
mals, even though caged, would probably be
intellect, they show only a trace now and then.
Instinct, natural prompting, is the main mat-
impolite enough to interrupt each other in con ter, after all. It makes up at least nine-tenths of
versation; yet to represent them as doing so
the lives of all our wild neighbors.'
continually, spoils the telling of a story. But in To this belief Mr. Burroughs holds with a
spite of this fault the volume, which is large and fair degree of consistency, working it out in
beautifully illustrated, will be a treasure-trove many interesting details, and explaining away
to children who love animals and who love to many apparent exceptions. His advice to the
hear them talk.
writers of animal stories he sums up thus
For older readers who care less for the story tersely: ‘Humanize your facts to the extent
element, and more for the minute record which of making them interesting, if you have the art
catches the harmonious rhythm of the great to do it, but leave the dog a dog, and the strad-
machine which we call Nature,' Mr. E. Kay dle bug a straddle bug.'
Robinson's book of English out-door life will It is interesting to notice how the books on
prove a special delight. The Country Day which we have been commenting arrange them-
by Day' does for England, but more elabo selves about the line which Mr. Burroughs lays
rately, what Mr. Bradford Torrey's “The Clerk down. On one side are those of Mr. Long and
of the Woods' has done for America. In deli- | Mr. Roberts, who believe that' among the higher
cate appreciation of everything that happens orders the greater part of an animal's life is
under the wide and starry sky the two writers directed not by a blind instinct but by a very
are much alike. Readers trained on Hawthorne wide-awake intelligence”; somewhere nearer the
and Thoreau may think it strange that in mak- line, but still on the 'romancing' side, are Mr.
ing so careful a daily calendar Mr. Robinson Thompson Seton's stories; and well on the other
does not give under each date his observations side are those of the other writers, who quite
for a particular day, but chooses rather to plainly call 'a straddle bug a straddle bug.'
fit the average day with its proper seasonal Undoubtedly the controversy has been a good
event.' But there is no carping at the fulness thing, calling for the confession on the part of


1905.)
375
THE DIAL
6
writers and readers alike that animal psychology Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the rise
is a practically unknown subject, and increasing and downfall of great men, the turn of For-
the desire of both parties in the argument for
tune's wheel. The wondrous mutability of
greater knowledge and greater fidelity to truth. vain honors, brittle assurance of abundance,
MAY ESTELLE COOK.
the uncertainty of dignities, the scattering of
feigned friends, and the fickle trust of worldly
princes’ is easily perceived in this rise to great-
ness, this gathering of riches ' by travail, study
THE RISE AND FALL OF WOLSEY.*
and pains, this elevation to dignity for twenty
years, all to be cast down and destroyed in the
The Life of Wolsey by George Cavendish is a
shortness of a single twelvemonth. The dra-
well-known book, and has interest for many matic character of it all was what struck Caven-
readers. To the historian it gives a first-hand
dish, the enormous pomp and state of the Cardi-
account of an important man. To the student nal's household and the miserable nothingness
of life and manners it gives a most curious to which it all vanished away in the days at
picture of society. To the linguist it gives the Esher, where my lord and his family continued
English of a cultivated speaker at a time when
to the space of three or four weeks, without
such testimonials are not common. To the
beds, sheets, table-cloths, cups, and dishes to
Shakespearean student it gives interesting com eat our meat, or to lie in.' He does not, cer-
parisons with 'Henry VIII.' and indeed other tainly, deal with the matter with great art, nor
plays. To the student of English literature it
with a very clear perception of the true char-
offers the first regular biography in our tongue. acter of Wolsey or of the real reason for his
It is valuable book.
fall. But he does, even in his simplicity, give
As such it was wholly appropriate that it a strong impression of the thing that had so
should be issued in beautiful form. There are
much impressed him. It surely was a remark-
other editions available to the student and those able career and one to cause reflection. The rise
who must limit their book-bills, but there has and fall of Wolsey, - the rise rapid, unscrupu-
been nothing really worthy the character of the lous, and complete; the fall sudden, unavoid-
book, relatively and intrinsically. We rather able, even mysterious, but absolute, the con-
regret that the book could not have been edited
trast was to Cavendish everything. To this he
in such a way as to bring out its literary and
subordinates all, not with art, as it would seem,
linguistic importance. Its vocabulary, for
but simply, as if forced to express the great idea
instance, is curious: it gives us an idea of the that had so imposed itself on him.
general use of words at the time that Sir It is in this more essentially literary way,
Thomas Elyot undertook to enrich the language. as a tragedy of life, that the work makes its
But such matters are not appropriate to such an strongest appeal. The old gentleman usher,
edition as this. What is here proper is clear revolving the fortunes of his former master to
type, beautiful paper, and elegant binding, all whom he was so utterly loyal, becomes almost a
of which we have. Also we very properly find man of letters in his intense appreciation, and
here many very characteristic illustrations, some his direct simplicity has something of the qual-
chosen from Holbein's portraits of the notables ity of fine literary art.
of the period, and some from less known sources.
EDWARD E. HALE, Jr.
The care of the publishers presents the work of
Cavendish in a worthy dress: inside and out all
is well done.
Aside from its attraction to the lover of beau-
BACKWARD GLANCES AT BOYLAND.*
tiful books, however, or to the historian or the
student of language, this book is most interest The times are not nearly so much out of joint
ing. It is an account of a remarkable life at a as some would have us believe. Not everyone
remarkable time, but perhaps its intrinsic inter thinks only of money-getting, or social advance-
est is as great as anything else. George Caven- ment, or other lowering things; and there is
dish in his country home, after his master's fall, a return to nature in more ways than one.
meditated upon the greatness he had known. Nowhere is this tendency more marked than in
He must have composed his book not merely to those books of the backward look in which we
do justice to his late master, but also to free read of the quiet scenes of a simpler America
his mind of the reflections on the instability of than ours, as they shine before the reminiscent
greatness that had thronged about his thoughts eyes of the men and women who have lately
of Wolsey. It was a fruitful theme in the
By Eugene Wood.
• THE LIFE AND DEATH OF CARDINAL WOLSEY.
McClure, Phillips & Co.
by George Cavendish. Illustrated with portraits by Hol-
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
Baker & Taylor Co.
Illustrated.
New
Written
# BACK HOME.
York:
WHEN YOU WERE A Boy.
trated. New York:
By Edwin L. Sabin.
Illus-
bein.


376
[Dec. 1,
THE DIAL
shared with us their recollections of the days Sing Sing he knows exactly what to do, and how
when all the world was young.
to behave. It all comes back to him.'
During the past few years many such books, And thus writes Mr. Sabin of his dog:
of varying excellence, have been greeted with an * Thus the dog vanished from your daily life, and
eagerness which proves that as a people our for weeks the house and yard seemed very strange
hearts are sound at the core, and that even the
without him. Then, gradually the feeling that you
most worldly among us are open to an appeal
were to come upon him unexpectedly, around the
corner, wore off. You grew reconciled. But to this
from the remembered past. This list is now day you are constantly encountering him in dream-
enlarged by the appearance of two clever books, land. He hasn't changed, and in his sight appar-
* When You Were a Boy' by Mr. Edwin L.
ently you haven't changed. You are once more boy
Sabin, and 'Back Home' by Mr. Eugene Wood,
and dog together. This leads you to hope and to
trust - indeed to believe — that notwithstanding
both of which will probably outrival most of your mother's gentle admonition, you will see him
their predecessors in popular favor, since they again, in fact as well as fancy, after all.'
treat of life from a boy's standpoint, -and a
It seems a pity that both books contain so
single boy is, as all the world knows, of more much slang, even so much quite modern
value than many girls, in books or out of them.
slang. It is a pity, too, that Mr. Wood, writing
Perhaps there may be things worth writing of the days of the Rollo and Little Prudy books,
about in the lives of city children. It is hard should have introduced a man who wished to
to believe it, but it may be true. It is certain, enlist in the Boer war, and a baby named
however, that the years are all too short for the Teddy --He's named after Theodore Roose-
stirring events that crowd the hours of the for velt, and they have the letter home, framed, and
tunate child who is born and bred in the coun hanging over the organ.'
try, — or, better yet, in a country town, in The moral of these pleasant books is not for
which there is enough of nature for council and children, as morals are usually supposed to be,
companionship, and enough of man to gratify but for parents. 'Back Home,' they cry, to the
the social instinct and to call into being certain simpler, truer, sweeter life, the saner pleasures,
phases of life impossible alike on the farm and the purer air, that filled the whole world 'When
in the city. Both Mr. Wood and Mr. Sabin You Were a Boy'! SARA ANDREW SHAFER.
were evidently heirs to this golden birthright.
Not else could they have so interpreted the joys
of snowballing, coasting, swimming, the Circus,
the County Fair, the Firemen's tournament,
THE SPELL OF THE ORIENT.*
school-days proper, the Sunday School with its
picnics and Christmas trees, and all the innu Our present list of travel books on the Far
merable happenings of village life. Not else East has nothing to do with the din and diplo-
could they have pictured so vividly that great,
macy of war. Here we return to descriptions
honest, wholesome stratum of society which Mr. of the variegated and multigenerous life, the
Lincoln loved as the plain people. Not else complex and intricate social and political
could they have discerned that in some boys are fabric of peoples who have long held a spell
all boys, — happy-go-lucky, care-free, idle, busy, over Occidental minds. In the list we find
mischief-loving, sound-hearted, as you can see books on India, Egypt, Burma, Palestine, and
(and hear) then a dozen times a day, if you, Equatorial Africa, telling us about the far-off
too, live in a country town and not too far from East and its wonders in town and jungle.
the school-house. The girls do not matter
* EGYPT, BURMA, AND MALAYSIA. By William Eleroy
much, and the grown people only come in now Curtis. Illustrated. Chicago : Fleming H. Revell Com-
and, then. In the text of these volumes, and in
the excellent drawings of Mr. Frost and Mr.
By William Eleroy Curtis. Illus-
trated. Chicago : Fleming H. Revell Company.
Steele, the boy's the thing.
ROMANCE IN THE INDIAN JUNGLE. By
Here is a bit from ‘Back Home' which will Captain A. I. R. Glasfurd. Illustrated. New York: John
Lane Company.
give a taste of its quality :
JUNGLE TRAILS AND JUNGLE PEOPLE. By Caspar Whit-
"We still had some good kind of a time, but
Illustrated. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
nothing like the good times they had out at the FAR EASTERN IMPRESSIONS. By Ernest F. G. Hatch,
school near grandpap's, where I sometimes visited.
Illustrated. Chicago : A. C. McClurg & Co.
There you could whisper! Yes, sir, you could whis-
JOHN CHINAMAN AT HOME. By Rev. E. J. Hardy,
Illustrated. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons.
per. So long as you didn't talk out loud it was
WITH THE EMPRESS DOWAGER. By Katharine A. Carl.
all right. And there was no rising at the tap of the
Illustrated. New York: The Century Co.
bell, forming in line, and walking in lock-step.
TO JERUSALEM THROUGH THE LANDS OF ISLAM. By
Seemingly it never entered the school boards' heads
Madame Hyacinthe Loyson. Illustrated. Chicago : The
that anybody would ever be sent to state's prison.
Open Court Publishing Company.
They left the scholars unprepared for any such THE JORDAN VALLEY AND PETRA. By William Libbey
They have remedied all that in city and Franklin E. Hoskins. In two volumes, Illustrated.
schools. Now, when a boy grows up and goes to New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.
pany.
MODERN INDIA.
RIFLE AND
ney.
M.P.
M.A.
career.


1905.]
377
THE DIAL
Mr. William Eleroy Curtis, the well-known all are explained graphically and concisely.
newspaper correspondent, has many literary Interspersed chapters give us pictures of a
virtues that commend him to his readers. Sim Hindu wedding ceremony, the motions of a
plicity, rapidity, vividness, and a certain vast Mohammedan audience at prayer at Agra,
positiveness, mark his writings, and have won the Taj Mahal, 'the most beautiful building
for him a wide circle of daily readers. He in the world, which many have sprawled all
has unusual faculties for observing the surface over the dictionary without conveying the
life of foreign lands, and the ability to mar faintest idea of its glories and loveliness,' the
shal his data in good order. His two recent gilded marble palaces of the Moguls at Delhi,
books entitled respectively 'Egypt, Burma, and and the holy city of Benares with its two
Malaysia' and 'Modern India' are models of thousand temples, its half a million idols, its
a reporter's note-book in foreign lands. Both beggars, priests, fakirs, ascetics, all living in
volumes contain pertinent and unbiased infor one of the most interesting cities in the
mation about the politics, religions, education, world, yet the most filthy, repulsive, and for-
industries, and society of the countries named. bidding. Concerning Lord Curzon's admin-
In the first named book, 'Egypt, Burma, and istration, Mr. Curtis has only words of praise.
Malaysia,' the author conducts us over the "Lord Curzon's rule has been a conspicuous
usual routes and amid often described scenes. and remarkable success. Although he has been
Port Said, Alexandria, Cairo, 'ever new and severely criticised for his administrative pol-
novel to the oldest traveler,' the Pyramids, the icy, and many of his official acts have been
Sphinx, and the Nile, are of course the main opposed and condemned, the sources from
points of interest in Egypt. To add anything which the criticisms have come often corrobo-
new to these old familiars would be impos rate the wisdom and confirm the success of the
sible; but Mr. Curtis's view-point is at times acts complained of. To catalogue all at
refreshing
It is out of the common run of Mr. Curtis has written about India in this
description to read that the famous ideal of volume would require a column of print.
mystery in stone has 6 no more expression than There is much information, with statistics,
there would be in any sandstone image that about trade, the Hindu caste system, the Mogul
has been hit square on the nose by a three Empire, the mutiny, the number of per-
hundred pound shot fired from a French sons killed annually by snakes, tigers, and
cannon and had its features scattered over a other wild beasts, Indian railways, nautch
square mile of desert.' The Nile, always the girls, fakirs, thugs, Rajahs, Maharajahs,
most interesting of rivers, is to extend its in- Nizams, the Afghanistan frontier question, the
fluence by means of the large dam at Assuan, Lhasa mission, and a host of other things,
which will create a reservoir a hundred and major and minor.
forty miles square, capable of storing several Mr. Curtis's volume on India takes us over
billion tons of water for use in the dry sea the main-travelled roads, but the book en-
son. Mr. Curtis pays due attention and re titled “Rifle and Romance in the Indian
spect to the tombs and temples, the Suez canal, Jungle' leads us into an entirely different sec-
Arabia and the Persian problem, the mission tion in that land of contrasts. The author,
ary problem, and to the redemption of the Captain A. I. R. Glasfurd of the Indian Army,
Sudan. Egypt's rapid advance in civilized
spent nearly fourteen years in the jungly
ways is due, says Mr. Curtis, to two causes : section, and now gives an account of his
the noble work of the missionaries, and to Lord varied experiences in the paradise of big-game
Cromer, the English resident and de facto hunters. In his own words, "These jungle
ruler. To the English and to the Chinese in sketches do not deal with what is perhaps the
Burma also, the credit is given for driving out popular idea of Indian sport — the imposing
much of the darkness and for advancing the line of elephants, the gay party, the “file-fir-
interests of that country.
ing” of the battue, and piles of slain. They
We hesitate to pronounce Mr. Curtis's 'Mod are merely the records of the quiet solitary
ern India’ the best book of its kind,- that shikari (hunter) who, lacking either the
is, a reporter's note-book, - but we can say means or the inclination or both — for the
unreservedly that it is a very helpful book for slaughtering of a large amount of game in a
those who wish data upon which to base a short space of time without the exercise of per-
reasonable judgment of the actual state of af sonal effort of woodcraft, works alone, or in
fairs in that country. The author lays the the company of a single comrade, and with
whole situation before the reader,- the eco his simple equipment penetrates to retired
nomic features, the famine question, the gov spots — the peaceful haunts of game.' The
ernment, the industrial development, climate, chapter titles comprising the volume are sug-
population, religion, and the natural resources; gestive of their enlivening contents. The
6


378
(Dec. 1,
THE DIAL
Biography of a Tiger, The Man-Eater of kraal at Ayuthia, the old Siamese capitol; of
Bélkhéra,' 'A Night by a Jungle Pool,'' Rem the trotting rhino' of Kelantan; of boar-
iniscences of Junglypur,' call up visions of hunting in Malay; and of a wonderfully nerve-
wild chases, hair-breadth escapes, the telling racking experience with a tiger.
But our
shot, and the glory of the chief end of the space forbids. It is sufficient to say that Mr.
hunter - to bag his game. Other chapters, Whitney has written a volume of travel and
such as 'Told by the Doctor," "The Vengeance adventure that will make his name conspicu-
of Jhápoo the Gónd,' and 'Round the Camp
ous among American hunters.
Fire,' are for the time when the pipe draws
well and memory says, "That reminds me.'
The volume entitled 'Far Eastern Impres-
Captain Glasfurd prides himself, we believe, straightforward account of a business trip in
sions,' by Mr. Ernest F. G. Hatch, M.P., is a
on his own drawings in the book; but they are
not artistic, nor do they enhance the realism Japan, Korea, and China. Mr. Hatch made his
of the various scenes he sketches.
tour three years ago, and 'took pains to collect
and note down many facts and opinions bearing
Mr. Caspar Whitney, editor of the 'Outing'
on the Far Eastern problem, and particularly
magazine, who won his laurels as a mighty upon its commercial aspects. His impressions,
hunter some years ago in the Far North, now
which are weighty enough to bear a stronger
adds to his fame by his recent travels in the
word, relate chiefly to politics, concessions,
Far East, in India, Sumatra, Malay, and Siam.
commercial prospects, and railway develop-
His volume bearing the title 'Jungle Trails
and Jungle People is the record of a trip concerning Japan points out that that country
ment, particularly in China. The chief note
prompted by the lust of adventure, and by the
desire to see strange lands and strange peoples, she will be likely to seek to create new and ex-
is rigidly Protectionist, in view of which fact
and to hunt strange animals. Mr. Whitney
clusive markets for herself in the sphere of her
has caught the trick of making a little human
interest enhance the vivid story of some thril-
conquests, and to take all for her own by im-
ling or stirring hunting adventure. Che Poh
posing an exceedingly onerous tariff. Of the
Chinese as allies of the British, the author,
Lek, the King's mahout, interests us almost as
much as does the tale of the royal Siamese
after complimenting the British diplomats on
hunt for wild elephants; Phra Ram, who goes
their British honesty and straightforwardness,
with the author for buffalo in the Siam-Bur-
says: 'Deep down in the heart of the China-
mese section, wins us as an example of Ori-
man there is an abiding faith in our country
ental subtlety and of Far Eastern philosophy; / [England). He believes in our disinterested-
Cheeta, Aboo Din, Jin Abu, Uda Prang, all
ness and our genuine desire to help China. He
hunters or servants, enlighten us as to the
trusts us as he trusts no other outsider.' Much
mental and moral habits of the natives of the
attention is given to railway concessions in
countries described. The too-often maligned China. Mr. Hatch regards the concessions
Siamese finds a defender in Mr. Whitney. given by the Chinese government to various
Here is his picture, taken from the chapter countries for building railroads as indicating
entitled Through the Klawngs (canals) of
very closely the ambition of the international
Siam,' of the life of the Siamese:
giants. Russia, France, Germany, England,
‘My travels have never brought me among a
and America lead in these concessions; and if
people seemingly
contented than these Mr. Hatch's opinion be correct, the first four
Siamese. Their wants are few and easily supplied: are tending to monopolize the concessions, to
a single piece of stuff completes the scanty, inex the detriment of England's commercial and
pensive costume; rice and fruit and fish, to be had
for almost nothing, constitute the food;' betel nuts, political power. On the other hand, British
which high and low chew, may be gathered. Life diplomacy is evidently working to establish a
moves very easily for them, and they go to their great line of railway from Shanghai to Chen
death with unbounded faith that Buddha will take Tu, a line that will ultimately be a bond of
care of the next world, whatever it may be. Living,
they hold to their simple faith as conscientiously
communication between China and the Indian
as the Mohammedans, which is tantamount to say. Empire. An excellent map showing these rail-
ing more conscientiously than the Christian sects. way concessions forms the frontispiece to the
Dying, they pass with confidence into the unknown;
book. If the much discussed break-up of China
and their bodies are burned and the ashes scat-
tered to the four winds. Their attitude toward ever occurs, Mr. Hatch thinks that Japan will
life is truly philosophic; and friends left behind take the lion's share of the spoils; while Eng-
conduct themselves with equal sanity.'
land, if she pursues her present policy, will
We should like to make many and long quo be a good second in the game. Mr. Hatch's
tations from the book, telling about exciting impressions are not mere chance gatherings
affairs in the luxuriant jungle; of how wild and ill-digested glimpses; they are acute and
elephants are rounded up and driven into the weighty observations upon the things that ap-
more


1905.]
379
THE DIAL
peal to a business man interested in politics. was called to the Chinese court to paint the
The volume is well indexed, well illustrated, Dowager's portrait, and for eleven months she
and written in a clear and forcible style. dwelt in a palace next to the throne room.
In striking contrast to the thorough discus-
Moreover, she was, so she says, the first for-
sion of Far Eastern questions in the work just eigner to be domiciled in any residence of a
noticed is the volume entitled 'John China-
Son of Heaven since the time of Marco Polo,
man at Home,' by the Reverend E. J. Hardy,
and the only foreigner who had ever been
who for over three years was Chaplain to His
within the Ladies' Precincts.' Much would
Majesty's Forces at Hong Kong. To vary Moth’s naturally be expected from such a golden oppor-
comment to Costard, Mr. Hardy has been at a
tunity, but we must say that Miss Carl in her
feast of sights and stolen the scraps. His vol-
book called With the Empress Dowager' has
ume is a very medley of things Chinese,— Chi-
not fulfilled the promise of her title. There is
nese cities with their local peculiarities; Chi-
much entertaining tittle-tattle in the volume
nese food, medicine, clothes, houses and gar-
about Chinese court life, but Her Majesty is
dens, servants and laborers; customs of mar-
lost in the distant perspective. Here is Miss
riage, burial, and mourning; Chinese boys,
Carl's description of the Empress, probably the
women, and girls, their manners, education,
first accurate pen picture of the woman:
punishments; religions, superstitions, spirits,
‘A perfectly proportioned figure, with head well
set upon her shoulders and a fine presence; really
monks and priests, foreign missionaries, New
beautiful hands, daintily small and high bred in
Year devotions and rites, government, and shape; a symmetrical, well formed head, with a
much more.
One is tempted to use the simile good development above the rather large ears; jet
of a bushel of chaff, with all these items; but
black hair, smoothly parted over a fine, broad brow;
delicate, well-arched eyebrows; brilliant, black eyes,
such a comparison would convey a wrong im set perfectly straight in the head; a high nose, of
pression of the book. Mr. Hardy takes his task
the type the Chinese call “noble,” broad between
seriously, and does not hold Chinese charac the eyes and on a line with the forehead; an upper
teristics up to ridicule. There may be, indeed, lip of great firmness, a rather large but beautiful
mouth with mobile, red lips, which, when parted
an overplus of small knowledge about the oddi-
over her firm white teeth, gave her smile, a rare
ties and curiosities in this land of topsy-tur charm; a strong chin, but not of exaggerated firm-
veydom, but such knowledge is often indicative ness, and with no marks of obstinacy. Had I not
of the basic life of a people. Certainly Mr.
known that she was nearing her sixty-ninth year,
I should have thought her a well preserved woman
Hardy can hardly be accused of levity when he
of forty. Being a widow she used no cosmetics.
makes the following comparison between John Her face had the natural glow of health, and one
Chinaman and John Bull:
could see that exquisite care and attention were
Englishmen and Chinamen should be good
bestowed upon everything concerning her toilet.
Both
friends, for they have much in common.
Personal neatness and an excellent taste in the
have a great capacity for making, saving, and
choice of becoming colors and ornaments enhanced
enjoying money. Both are enterprising in com-
this wonderfully youthful appearance, and a look
merce, and both will stick to their bargains. Both
of keen interest in her surroundings and remark-
buila substantial buildings, as, for instance,
able intelligence crowned all these physical quali-
bridges, and both take a pride in good work. The
ties and made an unusually attractive personality.'
Chinese are not less characterized by common. Such a description conveys little idea of a
sense than Englishmen, and they have John Bull's
woman with the soul of a tiger' or other beastly
solidity, respect for law, and conservatism. Neither
John Bull nor John Chinaman allow sentiment to attributes by which the Empress has heretofore
interfere with business, and there is nothing they been described. The volume is attractive in
value more than a good dinner.'
physical make-up, and enlivened with pictures
For one who contemplates a hurried journey of an unusual kind.
through the lands of the Son of Heaven,' Mr.
With an avant-propos by Youssef Zia Pacha
Hardy's book will be a most acceptable eye-
El Khalidy, ex-mayor of Jerusalem, a preface
opener to Chinese characteristics.
by Prince de Polignac, Colonel of the French
Sidney Smith once begged Lord John Russell Army in Algiers, and an introduction which is
to write a History of Louis XIV., and put the a confession, Madame Hayacinthe Loyson, an
world right about that old Beast. To apply American-born woman, and wife of the vener-
such a generic term as this latter to the Empress able Father Hayacinthe of Paris, publishes a
Dowager of China would be neither polite nor book with the oracular title "To Jerusalem
politic were it not a fact that less charitable Through the Lands of Islam.' We call the
and more specific epithets have been applied to title oracular, because it partly reveals and
her. As a matter of fact the world knows little partly conceals the contents of the volume. As
or nothing of the personal life of the Empress, a book of travels, it recounts the journey of
and will likely know but little more. Miss Madame Loyson and her husband in North
Katharine A. Carl, through the influence of Africa and Palestine. But the ulterior pur-
Mrs. Conger, wife of the United States Minister,
pose of the Loysons was not to see these coun-


880
[Dec. 1,
THE DIAL
was
splen:
tries with the outer eye; it was rather to view offers the explanation that the river, after
them with the inner eye of the spirit. It reaching a point below the sea level, finds its
a tour of Christian exploration for bed rising, and that this rising to the south
the purpose of reconciling all believers in the would account for the serpentine course of the
same God,- and particularly among Mussel stream. Commenting further on this peculiar-
mans and Christians.' Everywhere in the ity of the sacred river, he says:
book there is the intense spiritual earnestness
'Perhaps the strangest thing about this famous
of a good woman holding conferences with the river is that none of the ancients ever guessed at
leading representatives of Islam. As our in this curious feature of the stream. They journeyed
terest in the book is largely personal, we take
up and down the Jordan Valley since before the
days of Abraham; they climbed down the roads
the following excerpt to reveal the character
from Jerusalem to Jericho and up into Moab and
of the author. She has been in the desert Edom; they built roads east and west of the Jor-
preaching to the whole world, and at night re dan, joining the seacoast and the desert, cutting
quests to be left alone. Her emotions are
the Jordan Valley at many points and angles; they
built roads and bridges and cities at levels far
described as follows:
below the surface of the Mediterranean, and yet
'As the sun's great disk dropped slowly through never seem to have suspected that this stream dif-
the golden atmosphere and touched the horizon, I fered from most of the rivers of the globe in this
was seized with an indescribable but ecstatic awe respect. Greeks, Romans, and Mohammedans, Jews,
which made me tremble in every limb.
Christians, and Crusaders knew every nook and
The stars burst forth in such suddenness and splen cranny of its winding course, but failed to realize
dor that it already seemed midnight! And now that while its head and source rested high on noble
as I mounted a huge wave of sand, the evening Hermon's side, its mouth in the Dead Sea, unlike
breeze which rises from off the Nile at sunset came most other river endings, was far below the sur.
to me in such grateful suggestion that I felt the face of the habitable world and all the surrounding
beating wings of those very angels who bore my oceans.'
glorious Patron, Saint Catherine of Alexandria,
when she was broken and dead, across the desert
Next to the discovery of the famous Moabite
and across the sea, up to Mount Sinai! So exalted stone, Dr. Libbey considers the discovery of
was my soul, that my feet had long ceased to
the remains of an ancient mosaic map at
move, and I stood still,- or rather I was upheld,
Madeba as the most important archæological
for my own volition had vanished; but the angels
- her angels were keeping me company.'
'find’ beyond the Jordan. The map, which
probably dates from the fifth century, is drawn
The most substantial and scientific book in
from east to west, and is possibly a geographi-
our present list is the two-volume work bear-
cal picture of the land which Moses looked
ing the title “The Jordan Valley and Petra,
by Dr. William Libbey, Professor of Physical interest in the map is that it is likely to upset
down upon from Mount Pisgah. The chief
Geography in Princeton University, and Dr.
some old and cherished beliefs in Biblical
Franklin E. Hoskins of the Syria Mission at
geography. The authors spent five days in
Beirut. Their trip, which was made less dif-
the city of Petra, 'a rose-red city half as old
ficult than such trips usually are in Syria and
as Time,' where only twenty-five Europeans
the Holy Land by a letter from the Waly of
Damascus to the Mutaserrif of Kerak, asking ly all of whom entered by stealth, and more
have entered during a hundred years, and near-
him to take them down to Petra and bring
than half were driven out after a hurried
them back again, was from Joppa by sea to
glance at the wonders and mysteries of the
Sidon and eastward to Mount Lebanon, then
place. Not more than three or four were al-
south to the Sea of Galilee, along the eastern
lowed to spend a night within the ruins, but
side of the Jordan Valley to Petra, the valley
our two authors remained five days and floated
of Moses, then back to the Dead Sea, and west
of it to Jerusalem and Joppa. Such a journey cient city. The entrance to this strangest
the American flag unmolested within the an-
leads one 'into regions of country and of
history that are far from the beaten line of city, on our planet,' and the first view of ‘Phar-
aoh's Treasury', are described as follows:
the ordinary traveller.' The book, which con-
tains a unique series of photographs, gives a
Seen at morning, at midday, or at midnight, the
Sik, this matchless entrance to a hidden city is
vivid and picturesque account of the present
unquestionably one of the great glories of ancient
condition of the country through which the Petra. We wandered on, amazed, enchanted, and
children of Islam passed from their bondage in delighted, not wishing for, not expecting anything
Egypt to the Promised Land. From much
that could be finer than this, when a look ahead
warned us that we were approaching some monu-
material in the volumes that is profitable and ment worth attention, and suddenly we stepped out
interesting, we shall confine ourselves to a of the narrow gorge into the sunlight again. There
consideration of three points: the Jordan river, in front of us, carved in the face of the cliff,
the mosaic map at Madeba in Moab, and to
half-revealed, half-concealed, in the growing shad-
ows, was one of the largest, most perfect, and most
Pharoah's Treasury at Petra. Concerning the beautiful monuments of antiquity,- Pharaoh's
meandering of the Jordan, Dr.
Libbey Treasury!'


1905 ]
381
THE DIAL
I.
We have taken more space than usual in til they could discover the secret spring. More
outlining this work, but have fallen short of than half the first volume is occupied with Roman
conveying an adequate estimate of its many
villas; in the second the Florentine gardens are
interesting, unique, and valuable features. The
equally prominent. There is no effort at chron-
volumes are exceedingly well illustrated, and
ological arrangement and no formal study of the
contain scientific data that are not generally development of Italian horticulture, but the read-
er who is so inclined may find plenty of sugges-
accessible elsewhere.
H. E. COBLENTZ. tions for such a study. For example, the pictures
of the villa Garzoni at Collodi illustrate the be-
ginning of the decadence of the art of gardening.
There the ideal of the designer is boldness, sweep,
HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS.
and a grand coup d'oeil as the visitor enters,
instead of the gradual revelation of one beautiful
vista after another that was the peculiar charm
One of the most sumptuous and elaborate of the of the gardens of an earlier day. There are pic-
year's holiday issues is “The Gardens of Italy'
tured other gardens, which, departing entirely
(imported by Scribner), a two-volume crown folio, from Italian artificiality and primness, show
dedicated by special permission to the King of
English effects of park and wild-wood, and gar-
Italy and containing brief descriptions of some dens whose modern owners have defied Italian
forty splendid villa gardens, with over two hun-
conventions by growing masses of lilies, roses,
dred full-page illustrations. The book is pub-
and carnations. If one has seen the gardens of
lished from the offices of the English periodical, Italy he cannot but enjoy and profit by a second
*Country Life,' a fact which will vouch for the
visit under Mr. Latham's able guidance. He who
artistic excellence of the half-tones. These are
has never seen them will find the present treat-
made from photographs specially taken by Mr.
ment at once comprehensive and suggestive. The
Charles Latham, whose very beautiful and dis-
folios are neatly and durably bound in green
criminating work has appeared in former publica-
linen. It is a pity that their sumptuous form
tions from the Country Life' press. The gardens
necessarily puts them out of the reach of many
of the villa Albani occupy the place of honor in
purses.
the first volume and exemplify at once, for the
It is an interesting coincidence of the pub-
uninitiated, the Italian connotation of the term.
lishing season which brings Mr. Howells's 'Lon-
In extent, magnificence, and variety, in the almost
don Films' (Harper) and Mr. Henry James's
complete absence of modern floral effects and the
'English Hours' (Houghton) into juxtaposition
relatively small part played even by formal bed on the reviewer's table. The latter, to be sure,
ding, with the corresponding importance of sta is only an illustrated reprint of essays belong-
tuary and of architectural features done in stone
ing to Mr. James's splendid prime, while the
and marble – terrace stairways, pavilions, foun former is a collection of fresh impressions of
tains, and facades, – in all these respects the
London, based on a recent sojourn there; but
Albani villa is a typical example of the great the contrast is none the less interesting and
Italian garden. Such a garden cannot be viewed profitable. Readers of Mr. James's recent
apart from the villa of which it is an adjunct; the novels, unless they belong to the small minority
pictures show clearly the unity of effect for which
who have fallen uncritically under the spell
the old designers worked. They show, too, that of his vagaries of style, will turn with relief
a garden like the 'Great Cardinal's' possessed to Mr. James at his best, exhibiting at once
all the splendor and variety of a palace, and like his keenest and most lucid analytical genius.
a palace was planned to be lived in day after day,
The zest of living and of knowing life runs
and to satisfy the varying moods of its owner, strongly on every page, despite Mr. James's re-
as well as the variant conditions imposed by cent revision of the essays. The motive of
changing hours and seasons. Accompanying the finding the interesting beneath the
illustrations of each villa is a brief historical place,- surely the artistic motive,- is ever-
and descriptive sketch by Mrs. Evelyn March present. But whereas it has seemed to more
Phillipps. Without being at all abstruse or ana than Peter Bell that Mr. James has recently
lytical, these essays serve to interpret the pictures been devoting himself to the dissection of some
by pointing out the distinctive features of each very faded and unpromising primroses, with the
garden, and tell enough of the villa's history to result that might easily be foreseen,- these in-
furnish the setting of human associations without terpretations of English life carry the reader
which nothing in Italy is really significant. The with them by their quality of tonic freshness,
reader is not allowed to forget the stately and mag which takes the place of the bewildering curios-
nificent past of the Medicis, the Borghese princes, ity about everything and nothing characteristic
and the immortal Boccaccio,– a past now turned of the late novels. All the essays have been
to melancholy silence fraught with memories; nor printed before in one volume or another, most
the 'frivolous, bygone summers,' when gay lords of them in ‘Portraits and Places.' The excuse
and lovely ladies paced the shaded walks, talked for the present reprint is therefore Mr. Joseph
of life and love in the sham-classic temples to Pennell's delightful drawings, which, in gen-
Diana, and amused themselves with the sparkling erous number, punctuate the text. Besides be-
fountains and tricksy water-works, which jetted ing good in itself, Mr. Pennell's style suits
unexpectedly and kept their victims prisoners un Mr. James's. An attractive cover and fine
common-


382
[Dec. 1,
THE DIAL
workmanship make a volume which is mechan and country scenes, of Moorish temples and gar-
ically worthy of its contents.—Mr. Howells him dens, of African mosques and market-places, or of
self accommodatingly furnishes the apt simile Spanish and African types. Besides these pictures
for a comparison between 'English Hours' and there are nearly as many smaller drawings in
'London Films.' The latter, he explains in a black-and-white set in the text, showing interest-
prefatory paragraph, are exactly films - photo ing bits of detail which the larger scope of the
graphic negatives taken by his mental kodak colored plates does not render distinctly. The
and developed for the possible pleasure of the larger plates are richly colored and replete with
kindly reader, who will surely, if he is the
atmosphere and feeling, artistic rather than pho-
right sort of reader, be able to sharpen the tographic, and losing none of this quality by
blurred details, to soften the harsh lights, and reproduction. They put their emphasis upon
blend the shadows in a subordination giving characteristic features in a way that satisfies the
due relief to the best meaning of the print. reader; he can lay aside the book without the
: . If any one shall say that my little pic-feeling he often has that the artist has chosen to
tures are superficial, I shall not be able to
illustrate all the things that no one cares to see.
gainsay him. I can only answer that most
It is a pleasant surprise, too, to find that the es-
pictures represent the surface of things; but
at the same time I can fully share the disap-
says are not mere filling, added to give the book
an appearance of weight. The essayist is equipped
pointment of those who would prefer some such
for her task by a thorough knowledge of the
result as the employment of the Roentgen subject, a gift for analysis, and the ability to
rays would have given, if applied to certain
put the results of analysis into trenchant and
aspects of the London world.' This leaves
finished form. There are frequent and apt quota-
the critic quite without a case. Indeed it is
tions from French commentators, from the study
only because Mr. Howells is so wonderfully
artistic and subtle a photographer, leaving so
of whom, perhaps, has been gained the exceedingly
clear-cut point of view and the judicious and
little necessity for a kindly reader's indulgence,
accurate phrasing. Another merit is the breadth
that one always wishes he would go lower than
the surfaces of things,– that his emotions were
of interest displayed; the analysis of the Spanish
stare is as careful and illuminating as the explan-
both more spontaneous and. more significant.
But it is late in the day to offer analysis of
ation of the French people's various theories of
Mr. Howells's genius. ‘London Films' is bound
colonization. It would be well if more of the
uniformly with some other volumes of his es-
splendid modern editions showed the discrimina-
tion and real distinction of this beautiful volume.
says, and appropriately illustrated with very
artistic photographs. Its 'films' are far more
Special interest attaches to the tenth book of
interesting and significant than some that Mr. Mr. Charles Dana Gibson's drawings, not only
Howells has shown; they are indeed in his
because it is the most representative collection
happiest analytic vein.
he has yet given us, but because it is possibly
"There is certainly something curiously complete
the last. It is announced upon good authority
in a journey through Spain and along the northern
that Mr. Gibson has forsaken the — to him –
coast of Africa; it inscribes a sort of semi-circle
highly remunerative art of black-and-white,
on the map, like an old cuneiform character mark-
because he feels that he has done the best work
ing the inscription of splendid centuries.' So
he is capable of in that medium, and that he will
reads the final sentence of the final essay in that
devote several years at least to foreign study,
sumptuous publication, 'In the Track of the with the intention of working hereafter on a
Moors' (Dent-Dutton). It cannot be called a larger scale and in color. We shall miss the
book of travel in the ordinary sense. The essays
Gibson cartoons. The present collection, issued
contain no personal reminiscence; they are inter-
by Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons, is uniform
pretative rather than descriptive, and they often
in size, shape, and binding with the nine volumes
run far afield into legend, history, politics, race
that have preceded it. It is entitled 'Our Neigh-
characteristics and development, the inter-play of
bors,' a phrase generously interpreted to mean
one race upon another, and other problems remote
all sorts and conditions of men and women. The
from the point of view of the guide-book, whether
Gibson Girl is charmingly portrayed, as well as
brief and unadorned, or sugar-coated with a liter-
the Gibson Man, the Gibson Dowager, and the
ary style and atmosphere. The size and weight of
Gibson Old Gentleman. There are also the street
this book practically precludes its use as a trav-
types, which, though they are less characteristic,
elling companion, and its method equally unfits
Mr. Gibson has lately made his own, Such car-
it for hasty consultation after a day over-filled toons as 'The Baby of the Family,''At the Horse
with sight-seeing. But it is rather as a luxurious
Show,' 'The New Hat,' and 'To See the Art
and leisurely commentary upon travels past or
Editor,' show the artist's humor in its broadest
to come, as a collection of delightful essays and and most representative aspects, and combine the
beautiful pictures, that 'In the Track of the
best elements of both his earlier and later man-
Moors' should be judged and enjoyed. The book
ners. Perhaps Mr. Gibson has done his best in
is the result of collaboration by Sybil and Augus-
black-and-white; at least he will have to do
tine Fitzgerald, the former furnishing the essays
something very good indeed to surpass the gen-
and the latter the pictures