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Under the fully illustrated by the distinguished water-color artist, title of " THE MILITARY ROMANCES OF EDMUND H. GARRETT. Mr. Garrett's exquisite illus CHARLES LEVER" will be issued a series of the best trations will commend the volume to all lovers of choice stories of the famous Irish novelist; and “ CHARLES books; and it will also present the highest skill in print- O’MALLEY, the Irish Dragoon,” and “ THE ing, with black-letter headings, initial letters, and am- ple margins ---the whole combining to produce a choice CONFESSIONS OF HARRY LORREQUER,” and exquisite page. 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The volume is an octavo, superbly printed on clear white hand-made paper, and beautifully bound in white- A large-paper issue, consisting of 250 copies, has and-gold covers, $6.00; half crushed Levant morocco, been printed on hand-made paper, with the plates on extra, gilt top, $9.00. There are also 225 signed and imperial Japan paper ; price, $5.00 net per volume. numbered copies, text and plates printed on imperial Subscriptions received only for the nine volumes. Japan paper, and bound in vellum, $12.00 net. - - A Romance of the Court of Henri II. New Juveniles. " THE PRINCESS OF CLEVES,” an histor- For children may be recommended "Nora Perry's ical romance of the Court of Henri II., by Madame DE “ ANOTHER FLOCK OF GIRLS,” with illus- LA FAYETTE, written in 1678, although a celebrated novel, will doubtless possess the charm of novelty for trations by REGINALD B. Birch and Charles COPE- many readers. It has been praised by such writers and LAND; small 4to, cloth, gilt, $1.50. Miss Perry's rep- critics as Sainte-Beuve, Boileau, George Saintsbury, and utation as a writer for girls, which her first book of the Van Laun. The translation is by THOMAS SERGEANT kind, “ A Flock of Girls and their Friends,” gained for PERRY, and is exquisitely illustrated with a portrait of her, is constantly increasing, and the entire press of the Madame de la Fayette, four full-page etchings, and country united in praising her new book, "Another Flock of Girls.” “ THE CHASE OF THE METEOR, eight etched vignettes, by JULES GARNIER, engraved by LAMOTTE. There are two editions : one in two and Other Stories,” by Edwin LASSETER BYNNER, 16mo volumes, choicely bound in white-and-gold covers, contains nine stories for young people, by the popular $3.75; and a limited edition of 250 copies, text and author of “Agnes Surriage” and “ The Begum's Daugh- plates on imperial Japan paper, 2 vols., 12mo, vellum and ter," with ten full-page plates by F. T. 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All of the books described have been carefully printed in the best manner at the University Press, Cambridge. Most of them can be had in choice library bindings as well as cloth. Illustrated Catalogue mailed to any address. LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY, 1891.] 255 THE DIAL Just Published by Little, Brown, & Co. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. New New Volumes of Dumas. and greatly enlarged edition. Eight new volumes complete the choice library edition Those who have had occasion to search for the author- of Dumas. They are : “ THE BLACK TULIP," ship of a favorite quotation (and who has not ?) will be one volume; “ THE PAGE OF THE DUKE OF pleased to learn that a new and greatly enlarged edition SAVOY,” two vols.; “ THE TWO DIANAS,” of “ FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS : A Collection three vols.; and “THE REGENCY ROMANCES," of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs traced to their comprising “ THE REGENT'S DAUGHTER,” Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature,” one vol., and “ THE CHEVALIER D'HARMEN- by John BARTLETT, crown 8vo, cloth, $3.00, is just TAL,” one vol. Price of the set, cloth, extra, gilt top, ready. The new edition, the ninth of this favorite work, $12.00; or in half calf or half morocco, gilt top, $24.00. long since accepted as an authority and as an indispen- The other works embraced in the set are: 1. “ THE sable book for the reader and the scholar alike,--a book, D’ARTAGNAN ROMANCES,” comprising the indeed, for almost daily household use,-embodies years famous story of “ The Three Musketeers," two vols.; of labor and research upon the part of its author, and its sequel, « Twenty Years After," two vols.; and “The is announced as the final edition. The additions are Vicomte de Bragelonne; or, Ten Years Later,” six vols. large and important. The new edition includes nearly 2. “ THE VALOIS ROMANCES,” embracing 850 authors, and 12,000 lines have been added to the Index. 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The best works of Dumas are now obtainable in the compass of forty volumes, of uni- A Sequel to “With Fire and Sword.” form 12mo size and clear legible type, at $1.50 per vol., Among the most successful works of fiction issued the translations being for the first time unabridged. last year was a translation by JEREMIAH CURTIN of The books are illustrated with historical portraits, “WITH FIRE AND SWORD." an historical ro- and any story can be obtained separately. mance of Poland and Russia, 1648-1651, by HENRYK SIENKIEWICZ, of which the “ New York Tribune ” said: Four Beautiful Books, choicely illus- “ The only modern romance with which it can be com- ! i trated and moderate in price. pared for fire, sprightliness, rapidity of action, swift changes, and absorbing interest, is The Three Mus-; “A WOMAN OF SHAW MUT: A Romance keteers’ of Dumas.” We shall shortly issue a sequel of Colonial Times ” (Boston, 1640), by EDMUND to this great novel, introducing the same characters and JANES CARPENTER, with twelve charming illustrations some new ones, entitled “ THE DELUGE.” It will, and numerous chapter headings by Frank T. 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No. 140. --- - - - - -- - -------- CONTENTS. -Miss Plympton's Betty, a Butterfly.Stella Aus- tin's The Little Princess Angel.-Miss Bouvet's Lit- tle Marjorie's Love Story.-Ruth Ogden's Courage.-- Miss Lippmann's Jock o' Dreams.- Miss Wessel- hoeft's Rough the Miser.- Miss Loughead's The Abandoned Farm.- Atkinson's The Last of the Giant Killers.- Trowbridge's The Electrical Boy.- Ellis's Tad.- Lockwood's Little Captain Doppel- kop. - Hale's Four and Five. – Fry's Shreds and Patches.-Virginia Townsend's Mostly Marjorie Day. --Mrs. Ward's A Lost Hero.-Martha Banks's Prin- cess Dandelion's Secret. - Mrs. Champney's Witch Winnie's Mystery.- Kirk Monroe's Prince Dusty.- Allen's John Brownlow's Folks.- Searle & Gorton's Holiday Booklets.--Anna Ray's Half a Dozen Girls. -- Cowan's The Jo-Boat Boys.--- Mrs. Molesworth's Nurse Heatherdale's Story.--Crane's Queen Summer. -- Maud Humphrey's Mother Goose. - Tom Tucker and Little Bo-Peep.- Toy-Book Novelties.-Fletch- er's Marjorie and Her Papa.--Chatterbox for 1891-2. - Children's Picture Books.--Bound Juvenile Peri- odicals.-Rose and Lavender.--Martha Finley's El- sie's Vacation.--Jennie June's Thrown upon Her Own Resources.--Miss L. T. Meade's A Sweet Girl Grad- uate.--Miscellaneous Children's Books. TOPICS IN DECEMBER PERIODICALS . . . . 290 BOOKS OF THE MONTH . ......... 291 = ======= == ========= A PESSIMISTIC BIOGRAPHY OF COLUMBUS. C. A. L. Richards . . . . . . . . . . . 265 THE NEW “BARTLETT'S QUOTATIONS.” Mel- ville B. Anderson . ........... 268 ENGLISH LIFE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CEN- TURY. Marian Mead .......... 270 SHAKESPEARE'S AVON. Anna B. McMahan . . 273 RECENT BOOKS OF FICTION. William Morton Payne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274 HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS ......... 280 Garrett's Elizabethan Songs. – Howells's Venetian Life.--Irving's Alhambra, Darro edition.-Carlyle's French Revolution.--Mrs. Oliphant's Makers of Flor- ence.--Wallace's Ben-Hur.- Mrs. Mason's Women of the French Salons.-Child's Art and Criticism.- Dean Stanley's Westminster Abbey.-Oscar Brown- ing's Bartolomeo Colleoni.- Jerrold's Gustave Doré. ---Reynolds's Discourses on Art.- Laurel-Crowned Verse.-- Regina Roche's Children of the Abbey.- Jane Porter's Scottish Chiefs.—Gibson's Sharp Eyes, A Rambler's Calendar.-Harlow's Bits of Old Con- cord.--Wedding Bells. - Farrar's Places that our Lord Loved.-Wadsworth's Leaves from an Artist's Field-Book.-Through Woodland and Meadow.- Holmes's The One Hoss Shay.-Whittier's Snow Bound.-Longfellow's The Day is Done.-Garrett's Flowers of Fancy and Roses of Romance.-Garrett's A Calendar of Sonnets.-Kennan's Siberian Papers. --Arnold's Japonica.- Lever's Charles O'Malley.- Griffis's The Arabian Nights.--Morris's The Knights of the Round Table.-The Log-Boke of Columbus. --Kate Woods's Grandfather Grey.-Dobson's Four French women.- Ocean Steamers. — Baker's Point Lace and Diamonds.--Smith's Drift from the Sea of Life.- Beal's Songs of the Sea.- Riley's An Old Sweetheart of Mine.--Literary Gems, third series.-- Morris's Where Meadows Meet the Sea.-Kapplan's The Baby's Biography.-- Gregory's Magnificat. - Songs from the Operas.- Bourdillon's Ailes D'Allou- ette.--Tennyson's Maud, “ Vignette" series.- Du- mas's Regency Romances.-Bartholomew's Popular Hand Atlas.-- Forbes's An Artist's Story of the Great War.--Ticknor's Artistic Homes.- Century Magazine, May to Oct., 1891.-Roe's Near to Na- ture's Heart.---Calendars for 1892. BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG .......... 286 Pyle's Men of Iron.-Pyle's A Modern Aladdin.--- Stoddard's Little Smoke.--- Henty's Held Fast for England, The Dash for Khartoum, and Redskin and Cow-Boy.-Ellis's Lost in Samoa.--Leighton's The Pilots of Pomona.-Abbot's Battle-Fields and Vic- tory.-Page's Among the Camps.-Castlemon's Marcy, the Blockade-Runner. Seawell's Midshipman Pauld- ing.-Brooks's The Boy Settlers.-Davis's Stories for Boys.-Knox's The Boy Travellers in Northern Eu- rope.- Mrs. Ewing's Last Words.- Mary Smith's Jolly Good Times at Hackmatack.-Octave Thanet's We All.- Straight On.- Mrs. Jamison's Lady Jane. A PESSIMISTIC BIOGRAPHY OF COLUMBUS.* Mr. Justin Winsor's work on Christopher Columbus is certainly a very handsome volume, altogether worthy of the Riverside Press, whose imprint it bears. In type and paper and bind- ing, and in its copious illustrations, it leaves nothing to desire. Its illustrations from old charts and contemporary portraits are, as they should be, not decorative but truly illustrative. They shed light upon the text and are a part of it. If it is important to quote a contemporary description of the person of Columbus, it is important to present a contemporary delinea- tion of it. If it is worth while to know the opinions of Albertus Magnus and Prince Henry, the Navigator, it is worth while also to be helped to an estimate of their character by the counterfeit presentment of their face and figure. The volume before us is very rich in such illus- trations of the men, of the charts they studied, of the ships they sailed in, and of the instru- ments they used. The very title-page gives two outline sketches of the Western hemi- * CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, and How He Received and Imparted the Spirit of Discovery. By Justin Winsor. Bos- ton: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 266 [Dec., THE DIAL from which, in his ailed fremhers at the ecture, of sphere, which are a compact revelation of four tury before Christ to Columbus's own day. centuries of history. One is from a map of Pierre d'Aily, in his “Imago Mundi” of 1410, Martin Behaim, of 1492, and represents the from which Columbus seems to have derived knowledge, largely mingled with conjecture, of most of his knowledge of ancient authorities, the best informed geographers at the moment gives references to Plato, Aristotle, Eratos- when Columbus sailed from Palos on his first thenes, Hipparchus, Ptolemy, Seneca, St. Au- voyage for “ the Indies." The other portrays gustine, Bede, Dante, Albertus Magnus, and the actual facts of the world as known to the Roger Bacon, as maintaining that the world map-makers of to-day. The contrast is in is a sphere. Columbus did not discover this structive and striking. The former puts Ci fact, nor hold any other opinion of it than his pango, or Japan, about where California lies ; educated contemporaries or their predecessors and fills half of the Pacific Ocean, which then held. It is his glory that his opinion was a had no recognized existence, but was included conviction, was alive and working; that he with the Atlantic, in the great Western Ocean, was willing to put it to the test; that he had with a prolongation of China or Cathay, far the intellectual, moral, and physical courage to eastward of its true position. It omits, of act upon his belief, and to confront the doubts course, the entire Continent of America. It of his own spirit, the indifference and ridicule sprinkles the sea with imaginary islands, some of his fellows, and those unknown and awful of which, curiously enough, so slowly do out leagues of sea. That was glory enough, deduct worn traditions die, — retained their place up what we may from his knowledge, and stain on the English admiralty charts until past the as impartial history must stain the whiteness middle of the present century. One of them of his character. Columbus was not a modern indeed, Jacquet Island, was referred to as a man of science, considering nothing true that convenient half-way station for the submarine may not be past peradventure proven ; he was cable, so lately as the days of Mr. Cyrus Field not a cool man of affairs, speculating upon and his great oceanic enterprise. : commerce with unexplored lands; he was not Two blunders in the geography of the fif a devoted philanthrophist, concerned chiefly teenth century inspired courage for the dis with the good of mankind; he was not a sub- covery of the Indies by ą western route. One lime saint, bent solely upon the glory of God. was the supposition that the world was only He cared for fame, for fortune, and power. three-quarters of the now ascertained dimen He was a splendid visionary, a glorious ad- sions-only 18,000 miles in circumference in venturer, who could dare all things for a stead of 24,000 miles ; and the other was the dream that happened to come true; - or, fancied extension of Asia one or two thousand rather, we should say a dream that came far miles farther east than its actual place. The better than true. It was the strange lot of reckoned distance between Asia and Europe Columbus to set sail for Cipango and Cathay across the untracked seas was thus reduced | and drop anchor upon Hispaniola and Trini- seven or eight thousand miles, with an archi dad, to discover an island and believe it a con- pelago of fabulous islands to furnish conven- | tinent, to land upon a continent and not be ient stopping-places all along the way. It was sure it was more than an island, to imagine he venturesome enough in Columbus to launch out had neared the Ganges and to actually enter into the deep and tempt unknown seas, but the the mouth of the Orinoco and be swept north- difficulty and peril of his enterprise were ma- ward by the current of the Gulf Stream. He terially diminished to his imagination by these sought golden ingots, and gained fetters of iron false suppositions. He expected to arrive at more honorable than the extorted gold. He Japan after a voyage that would not really sought wide dominion, misused and forfeited enable him to attain Newfoundland. Both it, and gained, unconscious of his gain, im- these blunders are indicated on the sketch- / mortal fame as the Discoverer of a New World. map of Martin Behaim, as well as in the num He builded better than he knew. Four hundred erous other maps or charts of the period which years after he sailed from the port of Palos, Mr. Winsor has so lavishly furnished us. the civilized world does homage to his mem- That the world was round, and that there ory; a land of which he never dreamed, dreamer fore the Orient could be reached by sailing as he was, keeps high festival in his honor, and westward, had been now for some time among on the seas his timid keels first cut stream the philosophers the accepted conclusion. It had fleets of the nations bearing whole tribes and been a growing conviction from the sixth cen- | peoples to inhabit the new world which he 1891.) 267 THE DIAL discovered. It is a wonderful story, that can- tried by any test that finds the perennial in not grow hackneyed or obsolete, that stirs an holy acts." This may be fine writing in the American's heart like a trumpet, however it latitude of Boston, but it is not plain English be told. anywhere. Irving and Prescott sinned, each How has Mr. Winsor told it? With all after his fashion, and labored their rhetoric in fulness of knowledge, certainly. That may be praise of their hero ; but they remained intel- taken for granted in the case of so thorough ligible. The most you can say of Mr. Win- and scholarly an investigator. With probable sor is that with a little pains you can usually fairness of judgment, seeing things in the cold make a guess at his meaning. When he com- light of critical history. But not with much plains of " the elegant wariness of certain wri- imaginative insight or personal sympathy for ters” as “ beguiling the reader's mind," you his hero, not with much artistic skill of pre- are disposed to wonder if inelegant unwari- sentation, and with none of that charm of style ness may not be quite as fatal, though less with which Prescott and Irving enthralled their beguiling. readers. To tell the truth, one is disposed to | In a life of Columbus on so large a scale the wonder how a man of Mr. Winsor's general reader might fairly expect considerable matter capability and previous practice could have directly from the discoverer's pen. “ Ninety- written so many pages—six hundred and six- seven distinct pieces of writing by the hand of ty of them — and not acquired in the process Columbus either exist or are known to have something more approaching clearness and existed. Of such, whether memoirs, selections, simplicity. He tells us that the face of Colum | or letters, sixty-four are preserved in their en- bus was - longer by something more than its tirety.” Modern biographers have learned to breadth"; a statement from which not a New- put their conjectures and opinions, and, above ton nor Laplace could calculate its proportions. all, their rhetorical flourishes, into the back- He talks of “a handsome euphuism,” where | ground, and to let their subject as much as the context (p. 504) makes it very evident possible speak for himself. Mr. Winsor gives that he means a handsome euphemism — a us half-a-dozen different early portraits of Co- clumsy enough phrase even then. He tells us lumbus to choose from,— it is fair to say that of “ the dim spaces that skirt the world's geo- they have very little mutual resemblance, and graphy," and is not thinking of the gaps in the that in no one of them is “ the face longer by world's knowledge, but of the regions of earth's somewhat more than its breadth,”—and so per- surface which are imperfectly explored. He mits us to form our own judgment as to the speaks of the “ confessed impressiveness” of personal appearance of the discoverer ; but he the character of Columbus, but compares it to | is “ elegantly wary" of quoting his words. He - a gyrating storm that knows no law but the gives us small opportunity of forming our own vagrancy of destruction.” He speaks of Co-opinion from those unconscious revelations lumbus as displaying in his journal his “ur of character that an unpractised writer like gency for some responsive wonderment at every Columbus is sure to afford us in almost any experience,” and appears to mean that he writes serious document. What Irving well calls with undue eagerness and excitement. He de “ the simply eloquent yet artless language” of scribes the efforts of certain French writers to Columbus (in a hasty postscript to a letter to ascribe to Columbus all the virtues of a saint, his son Diego on the death of Isabella) is of and adds that “the reaction from the lauda more interest to the reader of to-day even than tion of the Canonizers has not produced [does Martin Behaim's map or a fac-simile of the he mean induced ?) any writer of consideration MS. of Miguel Cortereal. We want to be to array such derogatory estimates as effectu brought directly in contact with the much en- ally as a plain recital of established facts would during visionary who not only saw what to do it.” He tells us, “ So much does the ver- | | other men was invisible but dared go forth and dict of history lodge occasionally more in the lay his hand upon it. We do not want Co- narrator of events than in the character of lumbus muffled in the bedizened finery of the them, that in Humboldt's balancing of the French Canonizers. We do not want him baser with the nobler symptoms of Columbus's pruned down to any standard of classic ele- nature, he does not find even the most de gance with Prescott. We do not want him graded of his actions other than powerful in flushed with the rhetoric of Irving, whose his- will, and sometimes, at least, clear in intelli toric fancy was more active than his critical gence.” He finds Columbus to fail “ when judgment. We do not want him subjected to hat all fford 1.5 ug we 268 [Dec., THE DIAL possible, his face mirrored book is the New Wo CHARDS. the undue scepticism of Harrisse, or carica- will certainly restore the balance and lower the tured and degraded by Goodrich. We do hero's pedestal quite enough. want him, so far as possible, portrayed by his But in sober truth, Columbus is not the hero own hand. We want to see his face mirrored of Mr. Winsor's volume. The title of the in his own writing. Out of his own mouth book is a misnomer. It should be - A Dis- we would wish to judge him. Mr. Winsor covery of the New World, Who Made It, and minimizes our opportunities. He has appar What Came of It.” The Genius of Discov- ently accepted a brief against Columbus, and ery is his hero, and Cristopher Columbus but is the Advocatus Diaboli in the face of the the foil, or relief, or blackened background. Canonizers. He quotes him mainly to dispar- The historian, the annalist, the geographer, age him. He accuses him of habitual false- the pessimistic student of human-nature, the hood, of eager greed, of remorseless cruelty, grammarian or rhetorician looking for pass- of shameless hypocrisy. He implies that he ages to be corrected, examples of how not to is - a hero without heroism and a martyr who write English, will often consult this volume. makes a trade of it.” He speaks of his “un- They will find it full of precious substance for wholesome deceit and overweening selfishness”; them all. But the great multitude which fills tells us that Columbus “ had a talent for deceit the land to which Columbus, groping in the and counted it a merit”; reiterates in various darkness, led the way, will wait for some other, shapes the charge of hopeless “ confusion that some more sympathetic portraiture of the belongs to anything dependent on Columbus's great dreamer, the dauntless adventurer, the own statements”; finds it “almost a matter of tragic sufferer, who in his faults was of his course ” that his statements should be mutu- age, but in his glory for all time. ally contradictory; speaks of his “ plebian C. A. L. RICHARDS. nature and sordid cravings ” ; tells us that Columbus “ never sees what it pains him to see, forgets everything that an enemy would THE NEW “BARTLETT'S QUOTATIONS."* remember, finds it difficult to tell the truth”; talks of his “ besetting cupidity,” “his pitiful In 1882 appeared the eighth edition of aberrations of intellect,” “ his painful and Bartlett's “ Familiar Quotations.” In the maundering wailing ”; declares that “no child number of quotations and the variety of au- of any age ever did less to improve his con thors cited, it was a great advance upon pre- temporaries”; implies that he could infreceding editions. The only unfavorable com- quently “ divert his mind from a purpose to ment which could be made was that the author make the Indies a paying investment,” and had perhaps put upon the word “ familiar" says that his journal is full of “ the common a somewhat too liberal interpretation. Now, place exaggeration which in our day is con after an interval of nine years, we are happy fined to the calls of speculative land com to greet a Ninth Edition, and a definitive one, panies.” Mr. Winsor says of Irving that “his of a work which has for well-nigh half a cen- avoidance of exaggeration gave a force to his tury been a favorite with the judicious, and eulogy, but there was little need to exagger has grown in favor as it has grown in bulk. ate merits if defects were blurred.” But why The author says in the Preface: should Mr. Winsor, blurring as he does all “Of the last two editions, forty thousand copies were excellences in the character of Columbus, printed, apart from the English reprints. The present enlargement of text equals three hundred and fifty think it necessary with weary iteration to pages of the previous edition, and the index is in- fasten upon his defects? The truth is, it is creased with upwards of ten thousand lines.” well for a biographer not to be a eulogist ; but he need not stand up so straight as to lean To this statement, let me add the result of backward. He need not aggravate his impar- a comparison which I have found interesting. tiality into positive distaste for his subject. It The index of the eighth edition contains the may be well for an author “ to dissemble his names of 635 authors, not including the Bible, love” for his hero, but why should he “ kick the Book of Common Prayer, the New En- him down stairs?” gland Primer, the Letters of Junius, the con- If he thought so ill of him after four centuries of investigation, were tents of the Appendix, and the list of Pro- it not better to let him alone? After all, a # FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS: A Collection of Passages, biographer ought to a little idealize his sub- Phrases, and Proverbs, traced to their sources in Ancient | and Modern Literature. By John Bartlett. Ninth Edition. ject, --- for dull human-nature in his readers | Boston : Little, Brown, & Co. 1891.] 269 THE DIAL ---- - - -- ------------ verbial Expressions. The present edition cites and Walt Whitman, have said not one word 801 authors, besides a list of “ Anonymous that is yet familiar to the circle of Mr. Bart- Books including those mentioned above and lett's collaborators. Doubtless this circum- several others. The present edition contains stance is partly due to the wise conservatism 250 pages more than the preceding one. The which has given this book its unique place as page is somewhat larger and the paper thinner. a collection of really familiar quotations, and Noteworthy among authors represented for not merely an anthology or jumble of “elegant the first time in the present edition are the extracts”; possibly, also, one may trace here following: Matthew Arnold, F. W. Bourdil a mark of the editor's personal equation,— a lon, W. E. Channing, Thomas and William disposition to close the ear to certain modern Drummond, Du Bartas, Epictetus, E. E. Hale, voices. J. A. Kinglake, W. S. Landor, Marcus Aure The present edition assumes in certain re- lius, R. M. Milnes (Lord Houghton), Wendell spects a different complexion from the last. Phillips, Pilpay, the Elder and the Younger Noteworthy is the largely increased space Pliny, Bayard Taylor. Some of the more or given in footnotes and in the appendix to less recent catch-words and shibboleths of our parallelisms; the attention to the sources of political history are quoted, and ascribed to familiar expressions; and the systematic in- such names as Isaac H. Bromley, Grover clusion of large masses of translated quota- Cleveland, John A. Dix, U. S. Grant, R. B. tions from ancient authors like the Greek Hayes, Andrew Johnson, Horace Porter, Bishop | dramatists, Plutarch, the Plinies, Epictetus, Potter, Winfield Scott, W. T. Sherman, Roger Marcus Aurelius, Pilpay, and many others, B. Taney. From Lincoln there were in the and from early modern authors like Rabelais, eighth edition but two quotations ; in the pres Montaigne, Cervantes, Du Bartas, and others. ent there are five. From Grant there are also In fact, this last is now a special feature of the five; from Cleveland four; from Hayes and | book. Exclusive of the Bible, the translated Johnson one apiece; while Presidents Arthur, quotations from ancient and modern classics Garfield, and Harrison are not quoted. The filled but nine pages of the eighth edition ; shibboleths of modern scientific writers are but | here they fill one hundred and twenty, scantily represented by a few phrases under Increased attention is given to the tracing the names of Darwin and Spencer ; expres- of familiar sayings to their sources. Some- sions as familiar as many of those quoted in times, though not often, the editor has allowed the book might have been added from Agas himself to be diverted from his proper aim by siz, Huxley, and Tyndall. that afflicting species of bore whose supreme The new quotations in the present edition satisfaction is attained by inquiries of this will indicate the growing popularity of cer nature. For example, Mr. Bartlett has been tain recent authors. In the eighth edition badgered by inquiries for the authorship of Matthew Arnold was “conspicuous by his ab- the line — sence”: here he occupies nearly a page; but “Tho' lost to sight, to memory dear”, many of his felicitous definitions, which have into devoting more than a page to so obscure stamped themselves upon the memories of all a man as George Linley and his rather com- his readers, are not yet included. The growth monplace song. Strangely enough, the very in popularity of Lowell and the Brownings is familiar and very apt and eternally applicable well illustrated. Lowell here occupies some line — four times as much space as in the previous “Coldly correct and critically dull”- edition ; for the one quotation there from Mrs. is not included here. It is a pity that it Browning, we have sixteen here; while Brown should be left to me to worry Mr. Bartlett ing, from whom a decade ago seven lines concerning its authorship. Edward FitzGer- were thought enough,— and who occupied less ald remarks in one of his letters that he saw space than such writers as N. P.Willis, Charles it in some book as early as 1837. Mackay, Alfred Domett, and Bailey with his The well-known taste which has from the “ Festus,'' — is now honored with more than first presided over the formation of this incom- nine pages. The number of quotations from parable collection, and the genuinely familiar Tennyson is increased by half. W. S. Lan character of the quotations that have found dor, who was not quoted in previous editions, admission to its pages, make this book the sur- receives nearly two pages. On the other hand, est of guides, if not to the popularity, at least Dobson, William Morris, Rossetti, Swinburne, 1 to the comparative quotability, of the great au- admission to the not to the poput the great au 270 [Dec., THE DIAL thors of our language. On this subject per- ought to look a given horse in the mouth.". haps the reader will pardon a few more figures, And let us do what in us lies to make this which speak volumes. familiar book familiar to a wider circle, in the Of American authors, Lowell deservedly spirit of that fine Lowellian paradox (not leads with eight pages ; Emerson presses him quoted here) that “the things everybody closely with seven, Longfellow fills six, Web knows are the things best worth knowing.” ster five. To Holmes are devoted three and a MELVILLE B. ANDERSON. half pages, to Bryant one and a half, Whittier fills one page, while Bret Harte and Irving receive seven and five lines respectively. Haw- thorne is not quoted. ENGLISH LIFE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.* Of the greater English writers, Shakespeare leads with 121 pages, or more than one sev | What McMaster's - History of the People enth of the whole mass of quotations ancient of the United States” has so charmingly done and modern, Biblical and profane, classical . for our own country in the early days of its inde- and vulgar. In other words, it would have pendence, has now been done for the England of required but six other Shakespeares to invent the eighteenth century. Mr. Sydney's book, all the apt and wise and witty and pathetic helpful as the works of the never-to-be-men- sayings with which the great English race tioned-lightly Baedecker, introduces us to the points its speech and decorates its current lit objects of interest in the vast collection belong- erature. Six Shakespeares against the com ing to the period of Queen Anne and the early bined genius of the race! But where are the | Georges. The Londoner of the age, in all his six ? varieties — the bewigged beau, the quack doc- The whole Bible follows Shakespeare a long tor, the watchman of Dogberry-like capacity, way off with thirty-eight pages; then in close the chivalrous highwayman who begs to kiss order come Pope with thirty-three; Milton the white hands he would fain relieve of their with thirty-two; Wordsworth and Byron with rings, the prisoner eating his heart in pestilen- twenty-two each ; Plutarch with twenty. Ten tial dungeons, the Grub Street author translat- nyson, Dr. Johnson, John Heywood, Cowper, ing ten hours a day for the wages of a ditcher, and Dryden, are respectively quoted about -with these and many others we are made half as extensively as Wordsworth; a little be acquainted. Passing from the haunts of fash- low these come Goldsmith, Scott, and Moore. ionable society, where fantastically dressed Comparing English with American authors, beaux and belles found congenial recreation in it appears that three B's, Browning, Burton, gambling, flirting, scandal, and the consump- and Bacon, respectively, are quoted about as tion of tea or stronger liquors, one discovers much as Lowell; and two B's, Samuel Butler the joys of those who were not “ people of and Burns, each as much as Emerson ; Cole quality” to have consisted largely in the amia- ridge is in the same rank. Gray, Chaucer, ble amusements of bear-baiting, gin-drinking, and Dr. Young furnish respectively about as cock-fighting, injuries and insults to passengers many quotations as Longfellow; Burke and on the streets, and, as a rich treat, pelting of- Swift each as many as Webster ; Spencer, fenders in the pillory with mud and still more Thompson, and Shelley, respectively, as many unsavory missiles. as Dr. Holmes ; Ben Jonson, Chapman, Beau- Thus the two extremes of society met on the mont and Fletcher, and Dr. Watts, somewhat common ground of reckless frivolity and dead. fewer. Beaumont and Fletcher conjointly have ness to finer promptings. No doubt a saving two and a half pages ; Fletcher alone two. The remnant existed in the middle strata ; but as rest were long to tell. good citizens, like happy nations, have no his- It would, of course, be easy to point out tory, the respectable and sober members of the striking omissions, but as this is the definitive community appear, as a rule, only when they edition it seems more graceful to reserve such become conspicuous by falling into the hands suggestions for some Bartlett of the twentieth of their unscrupulous neighbors. Mere respect- century. Meantime, let us be thankful for ability, however, can hardly be said to make this fruit of the industry and taste of our old | the glory of a nation. That there was no ap- friend, mindful of the time-honored injunction * ENGLAND AND THE ENGLISH IN THE EIGHTEENTH CEN- (which is here traced back through Heywood TURY. By William Conner Sydney. In two volumes. New and Rabelais to St. Jerome) that " no man | York : Macmillan & Co. 1891.] THE DIAL 271 - --- ------------------- preciable following of higher aims, is clear to the neighbourhood convivial," that Montes- the reader of Mr. Sydney's book. Deep moral quieu should have written, « Il n'y a pas de and religious feeling seemed almost unknown. nation qui ait plus besoin de religion que les Although the rites of the church were attended Anglais." Yet this nation, with its virtual by rich and poor, they were looked upon as scepticism, its spiritual rottenness, could still mere opportunities for social reunion. The be agitated to the core by the Catholic Relief box-like pews concealed the exchange of scan Bill of 1778. The atrocities of the Gordon dal and small-talk, the liveliness of which often Riots disclose the deep-rooted tendency of hu- drowned the voices of the priests. So devoid man nature to cling with fiercer tenacity to the were congregations of the sense of reverence, letter of religion in proportion as its spirit has that they ignored the commonest forms pre departed. scribed by the rubric, kneeling in church being To the low tone of religious life must be a thing so rare as to excite comment. A curi added, in the charge against the eighteenth ous instance may be given of the spirit in century, the demoralizing influences of govern- which the most sacred office of the church was | ment. Not to mention the characters and court approached : of the Hanoverian sovereigns, for which Thack- "I shall here subjoin a list of a dozen designs son eray has taught us such admiration, there are fans), elegantly executed, which at a late celebration of stains upon the state which can be relieved the communion in a certain church of this metropolis / only by comparison with modern Russia. The were actually displayed by way of screens to so many pretty faces, disposed in a semi-circular arrangement corruption of politics before the days of the about the Holy Table : 1, Darby and Joan with their Reform Bill is notorious. But this seems a attributes; 2, Harlequin, Pierrot, and Columbine; 3, slight abuse beside the frightful condition of The Prodigal Son, copied from The Rake's Progress; other departments of public service. The in- 4, a rural dance, with a band of music consisting of a humanity of the penal code was a fruitful fiddle, a bagpipe, and a Welsh larp; 5, The Taking of Porto Bello; 6, the solemnities of a filiation; 7, Joseph source of the crimes it was intended to sup- and his mistress; 8, the humours of Change Alley; 9, press. The “ darkest England” revealed by the Silenus with his proper symbols and supporters; 10, pages dealing with this subject is a thing ut- the first interview of Isaac and Rebecca; 11, The Judg terly hideous and heart-rending. As a mem- ment of Paris; 12, Vauxhall Gardens with the decora- ber of the human race, one feels almost a per- tions and company." sonal responsibility for the fate of those poor The condition of the clergy was no better and ignorant beings who suffered death with than that of their flock. The honorable names tortures which disgrace humanity, for such of Bishops Butler, Wilson, Berkeley, and crimes as picking a pocket, or stealing a sheep, Warburton, and dear Gilbert White of Sel- or often for a mere suspicion of guilt. It is not borne, may be mentioned, among others, as surprising, since nature demands some form shining exceptions to the prevailing ignorance of mental support under torture, that bravado and indifference among leaders of the church. and the determination of “dying game” be- But a disgraceful plurality of benefices, acquired came the ideal of the criminal population ; an as rewards for political aid, was the rule among ideal so dazzling to minds of a certain order ecclesiastical dignitaries ; while the greater cal dignitaries ; while the greater that it is easy to understand the increase of number of the rural clergy, living on the mag- crime under such conditions. nificent annual income of from twenty to eighty Another authorized cruelty was the employ- pounds, regarded it as “ a white day ” when ment of press-gangs to force able-bodied men they were “ admitted into the kitchen of a into the military or naval service. Impress- great house, and regaled by the servants with ments were effected with entire disregard of cold meat and ale.” A typical country parson merey or justice, the gangs seizing great num- of the age is - bers upon whom they had no legal claim, and “ The reverend Jack Quickset, ... a divine who throwing them into prison until they were saw • his dearest action on the field,' and who boasted that he had in his stables a brace of hunters as good as needed, to prevent their escaping or communi- ever leg was laid over,— whose life was mostly spent cating with their friends. The slave trade was in hunting and shooting,-- who found the Sunday dull then in a flourishing condition, 417,000 negroes and tedious, and who made up for the loss of it by being conveyed from Africa to the West In- going out a-cock-shooting very early the next morning."" dies, between 1783 and 1795, in ships belong- No wonder, in the face of such advertise- ing to Liverpool merchants. It was also a ments as this, “ Wanted, a curacy in a good common practice in London to kidnap youths sporting country, where the duty is light and I and sell them to Hindustan or North America. 272 [Dec., THE DIAL Minor abuses tolerated by government were was another dodge to which London thieves often suc- the scandalous Fleet marriages, duelling, the cessfully resorted at that time.” cruel sports of bear-baiting and cock-fighting, Ranelagh and Vauxhall Gardens were among and the wretched condition of public roads, the attractions of London in these days. Al- which had the effect of practically isolating the though they had a long run of popularity, much provinces. The introduction of gin into Eng diversity of opinion is expressed as to their land during this century was the beginning of merits. A young lady in Smollett's “ Hum- an almost endless catalogue of crime and misery. / phrey Clinker” writes : Fielding, in 1750, declared that gin was the “Ranelagh looks like the enchanted palace of a genie, chief sustenance of more than a hundred thou- adorned with the exquisite performances of painting, carving, and gilding ; enlightened with a thousand sand people in the metropolis alone. golden lamps that emulate the noonday sun ; crowded But the gloom of this picture must be re with the gay, the rich, the happy, and the fair ; glitter- lieved by such lights as the whims and artific ing with cloth of gold and silver lace, embroidery and iality of the time can afford. There is an at- | precious stones. While these exulting sons and daugh- ters of felicity tread this round of pleasure, or regale tractiveness about this old London, in the days ... with fine imperial tea and other refreshments, when Mayfair was still celebrated with all the | their ears are entertained with the most ravishing de- splendors of cakes, ale, and merry-andrews; lights of music, both instrumental and vocal.” when Soho Square was a new and fashionable Matthew Bramble, in the same book, takes part of the town, whose inhabitants would have a different view of the matter : been shocked indeed at the thought of a pickle “What are the amusements at Ranelagh ? One half factory's occupying the place of honor in their of the company are following one another's tails, in an precincts; when Tottenham Court Road “ had eternal circle, like so many blind asses in an olive mill, where they can neither discourse, distinguish, nor be hedges which in summer were redolent of haw- distinguished; while the other half are drinking hot thorn,” where the smoky bouquets nowadays water, under the denomination of tea, till nine or ten pressed upon the passer, and the wares of the o'clock at night, to keep them awake for the rest of the occasional lavender-seller, may be intended as evening." dismal suggestions of a vanished flora. There One of Mr. Sydney's chapters is given to were real Queen Anne houses in those days, the clubs and coffee-houses, so invariably as- devoid evidently of many conveniences of their sociated with the literary life of the age. An- modern namesakes; for McCarthy observes other is devoted to the fashionable health re- that it was mentioned as a recommendation of sorts, foremost among which stands Bath. The new houses that the staircases were sufficiently account of Beau Nash's career there as a social broad to allow two persons to go up abreast. reformer is very entertaining. The chapter on In other points, however, the Londoner of “ Popular Credulities” is still more amusing. the eighteenth century was more closely allied One of the charms relating to that most fruit- to modern taste. Goldsmith writes : ful question, finding a husband, has a plausible sound : “What chiefly distinguishes the sex at present is the “On the eve before Valentine's Day I got five bay train. As a lady's quality or fashion was once determ- leaves and pinned four of them to the four corners of ined here by the circumference of her hoop, both are my pillow, and the fifth to the midde, and then if I now measured by the length of her tail. Women of dreamt of my sweetheart, Betty said we should be moderate fortune are contented with tails moderately married before the year was out. But to make it more long, but ladies of true taste and distinction set no sure I boiled an egg hard and took out the yolk, and bounds to their ambition in this particular.” filled it with salt; and when I went to bed, eat it, shell The tricks played upon simple rustics or un and all, without speaking or drinking after." wary citizens in the London streets would It is hard to doubt that the additional pre- hardly appear out of place if recorded in our caution would fail to bring about the desired own newspapers. result. Another charm, to be written and worn “ It was a common practice .. for thieves to carry in a bag round the neck, for the ague, has a a parcel of old books to the town residence of some simplicity quite pathetic : family known to be away, and to represent to the serv- “When our Saviour Christ saw the cross whereon be ant who opened the door that they had called from the was to suffer, his body did shake; the Jews said unto bookseller for the second subscription, which if not paid, | him hast thou an aaga; he answered and said unto their master or mistress's order would be cancelled. them, whomsoever beareth this in mind or in writing This ruse often ended in the unwary servant parting shall not be troubled with an agua nor feaver. So Lord with a guinea. . . . To watch servants' masters help thy servant, and they that put their trust in thee.” out, and then to call in the guise of a coffee-house waiter for their master's great-coat, or in that of a tailor's ap- Quotations from the book must end with a prentice or journeyman for a suit of clothes to alter, I few delicious advertisements : 1891.] 273 THE DIAL « A lad from 14 years to 18, that is used to go clean, of so general a nature, the details should have of a good character, may hear of a beneficial place, by been coördinated with a skill sufficient to con- inquiring at the Globe in Hutton Garden, this day or to-morrow." ceal the lack of any true principle of progress- “Whereas a certain young clergyman received on ion. Repetition, and a heavy, laborious style, Saturday last a poetic epistle from a supposed lady, be- are faults that should have been carefully ginning with these words - avoided. The “ familiar quotations” with No one on earth with more pleasure attends which Mr. Sydney endeavors to lighten his To hear the account of a fault from their friends, sentences — these occasionally of a rather sur- this is to desire the said lady to explain herself more prising construction -- have sometimes a de- explicitly, as the said clergyman does not really under- plorably clumsy effect. In short, those who stand her meaning.” like their information, as the Poet Laureate is “Whereas a tall young gentleman above the common said to prefer his mutton, “in chunks,” ought size, dressed in a yellow grounded velvet (supposed to be a foreigner), with a solitaire round his neck and a to find this book a treasure ; but persons whose glass in his hand, was narrowly observed and much ap feebler palate demands dishes of a more recher- proved of by a certain young lady at the last ridotto. ché confection will not find its flavor entirely This is to acquaint the said young gentleman, if his to their taste. Not that " what we have we heart is entirely disengaged, that if he will apply to A. B., at Garraway's Coffee House, in Exchange Alley, he prize not to the worth ” ; but the very interest may be directed to have an interview with the said of the material occasions regret that it could young lady, which may prove greatly to his advantage. not have been more effectively presented. Strict secrecy on the gentleman's side will be depended MARIAN MEAD. on." In view of the labor and wide research which = have been necessary to bring together such a number of details, it may seem ungracious to SHAKESPEARE'S Avox.* notice omissions. Yet there are several sub | Not every Shakespeare lover can have the jects of which an extended account would have good fortune to make the journey over-seas increased the value of the book. The London and view with his own eyes the country where penny post — a wonderful thing in those days Shakespeare was born and lived; failing this, — and the practice of inoculation, might have he gladly welcomes anything which seems to been given a few sentences (the latter is men reveal the influences which surrounded the tioned once, the other not at all). The account great poet from his childhood, anything which of the degenerate condition of the universities serves to explain the “ local color” which per- should certainly have been supplemented by vades all his writings. Next to actual personal some description of the little society at Oxford vision is the satisfaction to be derived from a for spiritual advancement, presided over by book which, by means of picturesque descrip- John Wesley, which from 1729 to 1735 tion and artistic illustrations, reproduces to the nourished the seeds of a movement in the di- | imagination that quiet, peaceful, old-world rection of religious earnestness. That move country where Shakespeare's youth and prime ment itself, which, contrasting vividly with the were spent. Such a book is “ The Warwick- apathy of the Established Church, could have shire Avon," written by Mr. A. T. Quiller- been brought out as a telling point in such a Couch and illustrated by Alfred Parsons. To- book, is treated too hastily, considering the gether, author and artist made the journey, on wideness of its influence. foot or by canoe, from Avon's source, through- But perhaps the most surprising omission is out its windings, until it empties into the Sev- the neglect of Handel,- a neglect parallelled ern. Pausing in the villages to gaze upon the during his life by the English public, always old half-timbered houses on which Shakespeare so appreciative of dead geniuses. Still, since must have looked ; listening to the speech that there was a Handel, a season of Italian opera, he must have spoken ; gathering the flowers and an Academy for Music, it would have which make his plays sweet with country fra- been proper, surely, to give some account of grance; recognizing the old names on the signs them, if only of their unpopularity. or wagons, whose present owners live in sunny From a literary point of view, Mr. Sydney's old manor houses, - they make us feel that we book has its defects. So large a body of facts have somehow come nearer to Shakespeare, the requires the utmost care in arrangement. The | living man, than the commentators are wont supposed thesis of the work — the inferiority "THE WARWICKSHIRE Ayon. By A. T. Quiller-Couch. of the eighteenth century to our own — being | Illustrated by Alfred Parsons. New York: Harper & Bros. 274 [Dec., THE DIAL to bring us. A grave and peaceful country so often quoted, the man's passionate dread lest his we find this Warwickshire,- a land of great bones might be Aung in time to the common charnel- woods and heavy fallows, wide views and slow house, the passionate longing to lie here always in this dusky corner, close to his friends and kin and the famil- streams, big trees and rank meadows, fine old | iar voices that meant home — the talk of birds in the houses, and the prettiest villages in all England. near elms, the chant of Holy Trinity choir, and, night Naturally, one's chief interest centres about and day, but a stone's throw from his resting-place, the the places most closely associated with tradi- whisper of Avon running perpetually.” tions of Shakespeare's own doings and sayings. In the production of this delightful volume, In the production of this delight At Charlecote, where Shakespeare did not the artist was evidently in thorough sympathy steal the deer, our travellers find the loveliest with the author ; the illustrations are both so and most human of all the old Elizabethan numerous and so beautiful that, simply as a houses. Within the hall where Shakespeare collection of choice pictures, it would be hard was not tried for deer-stealing, they find the to find a more pleasing portfolio. The white picture of Sir Thomas Lucy, upon whom the vellum of the binding, the handsome covers, world has been so hard by identifying him the heavy paper and wide margins, are all in with Justice Shallow. the same artistic keeping, so that in all respects " Isaac Oliver painted it, and though men have for we find here almost an ideal Holiday book. gotten Isaac Oliver, yet will we never, for he was a mas- Anna B. McMAHAN. ter. The knight's embroidered robe is right Holbein; but the knight's beautiful, subtle face is more. It teaches with convincing sincerity what manner of being a gentleman was in the spacious days of great Eliza- RECENT BOOKS OF FICTION.* beth'; and the lesson is the more humiliating because men have during three centuries accepted the coarse In the days when the tales of " The Earthly mask of Justice Shallow for the truth.” Paradise" were beguiling us with their rest- Stratford itself seemed somewhat unworthy, ful charm, it was the fashion of criticism to -- the Henley Street birthplace crammed with find in Mr. William Morris a belated Chaucer, worthless mementoes and pencilled over with with the spiritual birthright of a time five inconsiderable names ; the fussy inept Memor- * THE STORY OF THE GLITTERING PLAIN: Which Has ial Theatre; the New Place, where certain holes Been also Called the Land of Living Men, or the Acre of the protected with wire gratings mark what may Undying. By William Morris. Boston: Roberts Brothers. have been the foundations of Shakespeare's DONALD Ross OF HEIMRA. By William Black. New York: Harper & Brothers. house. But when, with the quiet falling of BLANCHE, LADY FALAISE. By J. H. Shorthouse. New the day, they strolled across the meadows to York: Macmillan & Co. Ann Hathaway's cottage at Shottery, they felt THE STORY OF Francis CLUDDE. By Stanley J. Wey- at last that they had found the Shakespeare man. New York : Cassell Publishing Co. The Witch OF PRAGUE: A Fantastic Tale. By F. Marion that eluded them while his name was echoed Crawford. New York: Macmillan & Co. in the market-place, on the lips of guide and THE MAMMON OF UNRIGHTEOUSNESS. By Hjalmar Hjorth sightseer, or shone on monuments, shops, inns, | Boyesen. New York: John W. Lovell Co. and banking-houses. A PURITAN Pagan. By Julien Gordon. New York: D. “Here and at this hour it happened to us that, our Appleton & Co. THE YELLOW SNAKE: A Story of Treasure. By William hearts being uplifted, we could measure Shakespeare Henry Bishop. New York: John W. Lovell Co. for a moment; could know him for the puissant intelli- THE SPANISH GALLEON. By Charles Sumner Seeley. Chi- gence that held communion with all earth and sky, and cago : A. C. McClurg & Co. all mortal aspirations that rise between them; and THE SQUIRREL Inn. By Frank R. Stockton. New York: know him also for the Stratford youth treading this The Century Co. very footpath beside this sweet-smelling hedge towards THE HOUSE OF MARTHA. By Frank R. Stockton. Bos- those elms a mile away, where the red light lingers, | ton: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. and the cottage below them, where already in the win The Faith Doctor : A Story of New York. By Edward haway trims her lamp. . . . It was Eggleston. New York: D. Appleton & Co. easy now to forgive all that before seemed unworthy in ON NEW FOUND River. By Thomas Nelson Page. New Stratford -- easy next morning, standing before Shake- York : Charles Scribner's Sons. speare's monument, while the sunshine, colored by the Elsker, and Other Stories. By Thomas Nelson Page. New eastern window, fell on one particular slab within the | York: Charles Scribner's Sons. chancel rails, to live back for a moment to that April THREE Tales. By William Douglas O'Connor. Boston: morning when a Shakespeare had passed from the Houghton, Mifflin & Co. earth, and earth must mourn therefor’; to follow his HEADLONG Hall. By Thomas Love Peacock, Edited by · coffin on its short journey from the New Place, be Richard Garnett, LL.D. London: J. M. Dent & Co. tween the blossoming limes of the Church Walk, out of CHARLES AUCHESTER. By Elizabeth Sheppard. With an the sunlight into the lasting shadow, up the dim nave | Introduction and Notes by George P. Upton. In two volumes. this spot; and easy to divine, in the rugged epitaph, 1 Chicago : A. C. McClurg & Co. 1891.] 275 THE DIAL - - - -- - centuries gone. And yet the reader of Mr. “Fair was the spring, but amidst his greening Morris's first volume of poems might have Grey were the days of the hidden sun ; Fair was the summer, but overweening, discerned therein glimpses of the author's affin- So soon his o'er-sweet days were done. ities for an art even less sophisticated than the “Come then, love, for peace is upon us, Chaucerian, and of the ideals of a still more Far off is failing, and far is fear, primitive age. The subsequent development Here where the rest in the end hath won us, of the author's genius has made this clear In the garnering tide of the happy year. enough, and the types of thought and speech “Come from the grey old house by the water, Where, far from the lips of the hungry sea, which he has delighted to embody have grown Green groweth the grass o'er the field of the slaughter, more and more archaic and remote. He has And all is a tale for thee and me.” found the true springtime of the world, not As for the prose of the narrative, it is so even in the poems of Homer, but in the sagas even in style that little choice is offered. The of Iceland, in the conditions of Teutonic life following may serve as an example : of which Tacitus affords us a glimpse, and in “Therewith was come the eventide and beginning of the still more primeval regions which myth night, warm and fragrant and bright with the twink- and folk-lore enable us to penetrate. And he ling of stars, and they went into the King's pavilion, has developed a style in keeping with the life and there was the feast as fair and dainty as might be; and Hallblithe had meat from the King's own dish, and which he depicts, a style which has permitted drink from his cup; but the meat had no savour to him him to translate the Saga literature as it was and the drink no delight, because of the longing that never translated before, a style of severe and possessed him. And when the feast was done, the noble simplicity from which the Latin element damsels led Hallblithe to his bed in a fair tent strewn of the language is all but wholly banished. with gold about his head like the starry night, and he lay down and slept for sheer weariness of body.”. *The House of the Wolfings” was an example of what Mr. Morris could do in this manner, The American edition of this book is a reprint and a still more perfect example is offered by in facsimile, reproducing the type and decora- his new volume. The title of this work, which tive initials designed by Mr. Morris and used is literature in a very high sense (and, we may by him at his own Kelmscott Press. add, in a sense in which ordinary fiction is not | It is not often that a book is equally success- literature at all), runs as follows: “The Story ful as a story and as a tract, but Mr. Black's of the Glittering Plain : Which Has Been latest novel, “ Donald Ross of Heimra," while also Called the Land of Living Men, or the a fluent and satisfactory work of fiction, is at Acre of the Undying.” It is a work of pure the same time as instructive an account as may imagination, and bears with it that breath of be found in Blue Books or elsewhere of the incontaminate springtide which Mr. Lowell felt Highland crofters and their grievances. Mr. whenever he read - The Canterbury Tales.” | Black naturally sympathizes with the Highland We trust that no one will endeavor to find in tenantry, but not to the extent of encouraging it an allegory, or extract from it a system of them in their blind opposition to economic philosophy. Possibly it would be legitimate laws, and very impartially states and illustrates to compare it with “ The Lotus Eaters” and the question from the standpoint of the pro- the - Ulysses ” of Lord Tennyson, and to say prietor and cultivator alike. His heroine is a that it teaches us to prize the strenuous en young woman who, coming into possession of deavor of the life of men to all elysiums, how a Highland estate, determines to be just to ever peaceful; but we would hardly venture to her tenants, and hopes thereby to win their glean even so much of didacticism from its confidence and their affection. With this ob- pages. It is simply a beautiful story, so beau ject in view, she goes to live in their midst, tiful that its prose borders upon the realm of and gradually finds her way into their suspic- poetry, and that there seems to be no real trans ious hearts. There is naturally one into whose ition when the form of poetry is assumed in a heart she finds her way with particular force song like this: of penetration, and this provides the love part of the story. Mr. Black's description of High- * Fair is the world, now autumn's wearing, And the sluggard sun lies long abed ; land scenes and characters are, of course, such Sweet are the days, now winter's nearing, as he alone can write, and we read them with And all winds feign that the wind is dead. a zest which is probably quite equal to that “Dumb is the hedge where the crabs hang yellow, with which he prepares them for our delec- Bright as the blossoms of the spring; tation. Dumb is the close where the pears grow mellow, And none but the dauntless redbreasts sing. The studies in fiction (we can hardly call 276 [Dec., THE DIAL - - -- them novels) with which Mr. Shorthouse has, well worth reading about as are those of our at intervals, followed up the great success of contemporaries. This is, we believe, but the “John Inglesant,” are always interesting and second of Mr. Weyman's novels ; we trust that valuable on account of their rare qualities of | it is also the forerunner of a long series of his- style and character delineation. « Blanche, torical fictions from his hand. Lady Falaise,” is a study of the morbidly spir | The (literary) crimes committed in the name itual type, which Mr. Shorthouse knows how | of hypnotism are as great as those thought by to portray with such delicate insight, contrasted Madame Roland to be committed in the name with the healthy type of the well-balanced and of liberty. One of the latest and worst of the high-bred aristocrat, in whose value he believes with all the strength of his Tory convictions. ford, whose novel, “ The Witch of Prague," The undertone of the author's feeling upon outvies “ Mr. Isaacs " in its extravagant ab this subject comes to the surface in his intro- surdity. Mr. Crawford really takes the mat- duction, where we read that, in spite of the ter seriously, and evidently believes any kind restless iconoclasm of the present, " the Dux, of a yarn bearing the hypnotic label. Fearful the leader, will reappear. The Norman, the lest his readers should prove incredulous, he aristocrat, like my Lord Falaise, will come to supplies, when his tale is two-thirds told, a the front. The oaks will grow again ; Nature note to the effect that “ all the most important is more apt than any of us in recovering lost situations have been taken from cases which ground.” The writer whose aim it is to depict have come under medical observation within the more exalted moods of the spiritual life the last few years.” In another place he says, cares little for action, and of action this narra- | - The development of psychologic research in tive is almost devoid. It is written by a con- our day has proved beyond a doubt that individ- templative mind for an audience of like tem uals of a certain disposition may be conscious perament. We cannot refrain from noting, as of events actually occurring, or which have a matter of surprise, that so good a stylist as recently occurred, at a great distance.” Now Mr. Shorthouse should fall (more than once) this sort of thing is what makes the book so into the amazing solecism of which the follow- irritating. Of course psychologic research has ing sentence is an example: “ Dr. Boteraux really proved nothing of the sort, and never would have given all he had to have taken his will ; but we should not particularly object to visitor at his word.” We do not expect such a novelist's making the assumption, if it ena- a writer to do such things, and they come upon bled him to write an interesting story. Many a us with a shock when we find them in such good story, from “ Frankenstein ” to “ Zanoni," pages as these. has been based upon a frank acceptance, for Considered simply as a carefully constructed, the time being, of the supernatural or impos- straightforward, and interesting story, “ The sible; but their writers knew better than to in- Story of Francis Cludde” easily takes the troduce elaborate arguments, quasi-scientific in place of first importance in our list. It has no form, in support of the romantic machinery subtleties, no wearisome analysis, no pedantic that they saw fit to use. But Mr. Crawford digressions, and no touch of morbidness. Its feels bound to explain his marvels, with the framework is historical, for it is a picture result that his readers feel bound to explain of England in the days of Queen Mary and the explanations, and so are never permitted Stephen Gardiner, of whom the latter is drawn to lose themselves in the world of the author's for us with a firm hand in the earlier chapters. | imagination. As for the stilted and melodra- It is a story of intrigue, of plot and counter- matic passion of the work, it is not redeemed plot, of hair-breadth escapes and startling reve even by the excellent literary style that Mr. lations. And yet these qualities make it merely Crawford commands, while the story is swelled dramatic, not sensational. It makes us think to several times its natural bulk by the most sometimes of Scott, and sometimes of “ The unconscionable padding. Mr. Crawford's re- Cloister and the Hearth.” Such work as Mr. fections upon love, life, death, and other sub- Weyman has given us in this volume, together jects, are out of place in a novel, and are not with such work as that of Mr. Doyle in Micah | sufficiently original to deserve attention on Clarke ” and “ The White Company,” shows their own account. us very clearly that all the good stories in The title of Professor Boyesen's latest novel, English history have not yet been told, and “The Mammon of Unrighteousness," offers a that the deeds of our forefathers are at least as key to its theme. What the mammon of un- 1891.] 277 THE DIAL righteousness and its worship 'mean we have accepted him, after all, for better, for worse. plentiful occasion to observe about us, and the In these outlines the theme, though threadbare sermon that such a text inspires is needed, in enough, is a worthy one, and the situation is frequent repetition, more than any other. But simply and strongly portrayed. But the greater for the purposes of semi-didactic fiction, the part of the story does nothing more than chron- lesson is to be effectively enforced only by icle the utterly uninteresting sayings and do- showing how the worship of this base ideal can ings of a group of “ society” people, the term warp a naturally generous soul, can impart being taken in its most offensive sense. It is " the contagion of the world's slow stain ” to the obvious fact that the writer takes this part a spirit originally pure and lofty. Something of her task seriously, that removes her story like this Mr. Charles Dudley Warner did in from the category of strong and useful work. his last novel, and did unusually well. Pro- It will not do to say that this is a kind of life, fessor Boyesen, on the other hand, has drawn and deserves treatment as does any other. The for us a man who seems to have been born | kind of treatment it deserves is what it gets with low impulses, who seems never to have from Thackeray, for example; treatment filled known what honor might mean. While the with a sense of its emptiness, its vanity, and story of his degradation is impressive, it would its fitness for jest. We do not wish to com- have been more so had we been permitted to pare - Julien Gordon ” with a writer who is contrast what the world made him with what almost wholly without her restraint and her in- his own nature would have made him had cir- cisive style, yet there is much in her treatment cumstances been favorable to a different sort of social life that suggests nothing higher than of development. But we cannot conceive of the lucubrations of “ Quida.” And a serious Horace Larkin as anything but corrupt and writer should avoid any such suggestiveness as despicable under the best of conditions. Con- she would the pest. trasted with him is his brother Aleck, who has Treasure-hunting has supplied romance with chosen the other path of life, but whose person- a theme of perennial interest from the earliest ality is only vaguely realized for us by the au- days of fiction, and in this interest there are thor. The scene of the story is placed in a no symptoms of decline. Unfortunately, as ex- university town, the founder thereof playing a ploration advances, the treasure-hunter becomes conspicuous part in the narrative. The author more and more restricted in his field. Aus- expressly disclaims the ascription of his scenes tralia and the polar regions are not promising and characteristics to any particular university areas for his work, and Mr. Rider Haggard or founder of a university, but the temptation has about exhausted the possibilities of South- to identify both is very strong, and few will ern Africa. But there remain the great unex- be able to resist it. This is the most distinct- plored districts of Central Asia, as well as a ively American story that Professor Boyesen number of attractive regions in Central and has yet written, and although the note of real- Southern America. As for Mexico, Mr. Hag- ism is at times too harsh for us, he holds the | gard has already surveyed the field, and Mr. attention by his acute comment upon the too Janvier has shown us something of its possibil- familiar aspects of our society and our politics. | ities. Mr. W. H. Bishop, likewise, has shown “A Puritan Pagan” is a title that finds us, in “ The Yellow Snake,” that a very fasci- what justification it may have in the character nating story may be told of treasure-hunting of the hero, Norwood, who proves himself in our sister republic to the south. His idea something of a pagan by faithlessness to his of a stream of molten gold, the result of vol- wife, and a good deal of a puritan by his sub- canic action, is a little startling, but we have sequent repentance and remorse. She, on the accepted improbabilities equally great from other hand, is so much of a puritan that the other writers, and should not grudge him a revelation of her husband's sin makes her re- hearing. The incidents of a Mexican revolu- gard him with loathing and to forsake his roof. tion are very skilfully woven into this story of Then she goes into “ society." That is, she gold, and the result is highly satisfactory, love consorts with a lot of people whose lives are story and all. certainly useless, and by no means as certainly The love story is the weakest part of Mr. ornamental. After a few years of this sort of Seeley's novel, “ The Spanish Galleon,” and existence she forgives her recreant husband its strongest feature is the ingenuity of the and returns to him, her conscience having at castaway treasure-hunter in making the best last struggled to the realization that she had l of an awkward situation, and raising his sunken 278 [Dec., THE DIAL ship with the resources offered by a desert to it these very sensible prefatory remarks : island. Spanish ships will continue to be the | “In one age men cure diseases by potable gold and refuge of treasure-hunting novelists as long as strengthen their faith by a belief in witches, in another any of them remain unraised, and even when they substitute animal magnetism and adventism. With- in the memory of those of us who are not yet old, the they have all yielded up their treasure there religious fervor of millenarianism and the imitation sci- will remain the inexhaustible field of pirate ence of curative mesmerism gave way to spirit-rap- hoards. So this kind of novel is not likely to pings and clairvoyant medical treatment. Now spirit- fail us for some time to come. ism in all its forms is passing into decay, only to leave the field free to mind-doctors and faith-healers. There It is a patient and much-enduring man that is nothing for it but to wait for the middle ages to succeeds in reading to the arid end Mr. Stock pass; when modern times arrive, there will be more ton's long stories. Two of them have just been criticism and less credulity, let us hope.” published in book form, having previously run But will the “ middle ages " ever pass? How their course in the magazines for which they many of our presumably enlightened there are were written. “ The Squirrel Inn” is resur who, while laughing at the superstitions of the rected from “ The Century," where it should past, fondly cherish those very superstitions in have remained entombed ; and the remark ap new forms! plies equally to “ The Atlantic Monthly” and On Newfound River,” Mr. Thomas Nel- - The House of Martha.” Both stories begin son Page's first novel, is a charming story of well enough — the former with a man left in Old Virginia, in which the types of character charge of an abandoned infant, and the latter made familiar to us by Mr. Page and others with a returned traveller vainly searching for in those sketches of plantation life that have an appreciative listener, but the conceit is filled so many pages of the recent magazines, soon exhausted, while the stories meander aim- are reproduced in fuller delineation and more lessly along through hundreds of dreary pages. vivid coloring. The hot-tempered and impet- Mr. Stockton's humor is of a sort that does not uous Squire and his more impetuous son and bear dilution, and he has not the art of gradu heir, and the faithful negro-servant, more de- ally replacing it by real human interest. Of voted to his master's fortunes than when he the two stories, “ The House of Martha" is the | was a slave, are drawn for us with truthfulness more objectionable because much the longer. and deep human sympathy. There are also It is a number of years since we have had a a love story, a long-standing feud, and a plen- new novel by Dr. Eggleston, but " The Faith tiful display of the humors of the country town. Doctor ” doubtless has its clientèle ready and | What dialect the author introduces is easily waiting. It is a story of New York society, intelligible, and he avoids using it with weari- the principal characters being a commonplace some profuseness. The story is simply and young man inclined to be conventional, and an | gracefully told, and claims the attention to the emotional young woman who is very uncon end. ventional. The latter is led to believe that | Five of Mr. Page's short stories form another she has an aptitude for effecting “ faith cure," volume from this always welcome writer. Three and proceeds to act upon the belief, which nat- of the five are tales of Virginia, one is a story urally distresses the young man, for he ex- of the Franco-Prussian war that Daudet might pects to make her his wife, and is, although have signed, and one, giving a title to the col- commonplace, a person of intelligence and dis-lectionis the result of Mr. Page's observa- cernment. So a rupture ensues, and the es- tions of man and nature in Norway. “Els- trangement lasts until Phillida comes to her ket” is a pretty name, although it will hard- senses, and realizes the folly and absurdity of ly do as the proper name of a heroine, being her “faith doctoring.” The story is pleasantly nothing more nor less than the past participle told, but it would be impossible to construct a of the verb “ to love." Indeed, it is not always really good novel upon such a theme. There complimentary to dub a person a past participle, is not a little of quiet humor as well as a fre- as the famous case of General Trochu, whom quent touch of satire in Dr. Eggleston's de Victor Hugo derisively addressed as the “par- scription, but somehow or other the characters ticipe passé du verbe trop choir,“ sufficiently all seem to use the same kind of language, attests. However, Mr. Page doubtless meant and the fact is borne upon the reader that the no harm, and the exquisite sweetness of his author is really an essayist in disguise. As story would atone for many more serious faults. for the peculiar form of idiocy that provides This tragic little tale of love, betrayal, and the book with its motive, Dr. Eggleston devotes' death, is told in a vein with which the author 1891.] 279 THE DIAL has not heretofore made us familiar, and we is the first volume of this new edition, and to trust that it is the forerunner of other work of it Dr. Garnett has prefixed a memoir altogether the same sort. admirable in tone and contents. It is, perhaps, The late William Douglas O'Connor was not generally known that Peacock's “ real somewhat widely known as a defender of the works,” like Lamb's, were written for the In- Baconian lunacy and as an expounder of the dia office, where he held for many years the gospel of literature and life according to Whit position occupied before him by James Mill man. As a writer of fiction (not Baconian in and after him by John Stuart Mill. His place theme), he was less known, although far bet in literature is that of a satirist, although a ter deserving of fame. The - Three Tales," kindly one, as “ Headlong Hall ” amply shows. just collected into a volume, are strong and This tale, by the way, must be regarded as the original pieces of work, in which pathos and real literary ancestor of one of the most amus- rugged force alternately arrest the attention. ing satirical works of our own day, the “ New Mr. Whitman writes a prefatory tribute to his Republic” of Mr. Mallock; and Peacock made friend, the author, and Mr.Whitman undoubt sport of his own contemporaries, Gifford and edly sat for the portrait of “ The Carpenter," Southey and Coleridge, upon very much the whose Christmas Eve appearance in the house same plan as that followed by his imitator. hold of Elkanah Dyzer brings with it such a Here and there the resemblance is quite strik- benison. “The Ghost" is also a Christmas ing, although the modern work is without the story, and one of the best we have ever read. delicacy of its model. “ Headlong Hall,” like * The Brazen Android,” which was recently Peacock's other tales, contains a number of published in the “Atlantic Monthly," is a very interspersed lyrics whose charm is even greater different type of tale, taking us back to the than that of the prose text of their setting. England of the thirteenth century, of Roger Another book of a past generation, the Bacon and the Earl of Leicester. This story “ Charles Auchester” of Miss Sheppard, has is no mere exhibit of pedantic scholarship, but just been reproduced in a tastefully printed rather an imaginative tour de force based up edition, with an introduction and notes by Mr. on two or three historical and legendary inci George P. Upton. Mr. Disraeli, to whom this dents. rhapsody in praise of music was dedicated, To the general reader, the name of Thomas called it " the imaginative classic of that divine Love Peacock recalls little but its associations art," and we may remark parenthetically that with that of the greatest of English lyric poets. the author of “ Contarini Fleming ” was just It brings to mind the friend of Shelley to whom the sort of person, and the only sort of per- the Italian letters were addressed. But to the son, who could have applied to it such a de- student of our literature, the name means far scriptive phrase. It is, of course, anything but more than this, for it is the name of a writer a classic; it is simply the extraordinary liter- whose literary vein is more distinctive than that ary performance of a girl of sixteen in the of many men of far wider fame, whose unob acute stage of Mendelsohn worship; its pre- trusive talent is sure to impress with the sense cocity and the saving grace of its girlish en- of its individuality any reader of taste who thusiasm have rescued it from oblivion. Young may chance upon it, and the intrinsic excel people given themselves to enthusiasm may lence of whose work will always command for read it with delight, and older people may find it that audience “ fit though few” which is, | some of their past enthusiasms reawakened by perhaps, better worth securing than the larger, its perusal. It would be ungenerous to treat noisier, and less discriminating audience of our such a production critically, and we have al- popular writers. Peacock has never been with ready said what it is essential should be said out such an audience, nor will he lack it until of it uncritically. Mr. Upton's introduction literary taste wholly declines. The new edi- is a brief but interesting account of the writer, tion of Peacock's tales, edited by Dr. Richard and of the circumstances under which her work Garnett, is made welcome to the book-lover as was produced. It, together with the notes, such by the tastefulness of its mechanical exe answers the greater number of the questions cution, and the lover of literature regardless which “ Constant Reader ” and “Old Sub- of externals is thankful to have so good a pre scriber” are in the habit of periodically ad- text for re-reading these minor classics of En- dressing to the long-suffering editor of their glish fiction. “ Headlong Hall," written in favorite newspaper. 1815, and consequently Peacock's earliest story, ! WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE. 280 [Dec THE DIAL -- - HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS. needs comment. “ Venetian Life” was written OUR publishers are in general to be felicitated some twenty-seven years ago, when Venice was under Austrian rule and in the grip of an Austrian upon the good taste in matter and form displayed garrison ; hence the social and political life depicted in their Holiday wares this season; and one is not by Mr. Howells differs in some respects from that to forget in this connection,— quality of supply be- of the present — a fact, however, that in no wise ing nicely indicative of quality of demand, — the detracts from the charm and interest of the narra- credit due in the matter to that abstract, much tive. The book is a delightful one, fresh, witty, patronized individual, the “ general reader.” Def- and — shall we say it? — pleasantly tinged with erence to his requirements no longer piles the that glamour of romantic sentiment befitting an ac- Christmas counter with garish trifles attractive to count of the “ Queen of the Adriatic.” Readers of the eye of childhood or savagery; and one finds the latter-day Mr. Howells will meet with occasional nowadays compact, correctly printed, artistically il- little surprises in this early flowering of his literary lustrated classics, in place of the ornate nondescripts talent. For instance, after pleasantly describing a — things in book's clothing — so popular a few years certain picturesque coffee-grinder, he observes : ago. “ Simple, abstract humanity has its own grandeur As an example of choice, exquisite bookmaking, in Italy, and it is not hard here for the artist to of the dainty Dresden-ware order, Messrs. Little, find the primitive types with which genius loves Brown & Co.'s " Elizabethan Songs in Honour of best to deal.” The volumes are beautifully bound Love and Beautie” easily heads our list, indeed, in the Venetian colors, with slip covers of dead gold. we do not remember to have seen anything quite so pretty in its way in any former season. The A notably sumptuous and artistic work is Put- book contains about one hundred and twenty-five nam's two-volume “ Darro Edition" of Irving's of the choicest songs of the Elizabethan age (using “ Alhambra.” It is beautifully printed, from new the term in a broad sense, for the selections come plates, and is magnificently illustrated in photogra- down as far as Waller and Herrick), representing vure from views of the Alhambra specially selected some thirty authors -- Beaumont, Carew, Dekker, for it. A unique feature is the deep marginal Jonson, Marlowe, Lodge, Daniel, Drayton, etc., border, on each page, of dark red stamped with “names that carry a perfume in the mention.” The arabesques in dead gold, which lends to the ensem- selections seem to have been well made, though we ble a strikingly rich Oriental effect. The volumes wish Drayton's magnificent lines beginning, “ Since throughout touch the high-water mark of this pop- there's no help, come let us kiss and part,” had ular style of Holiday book-making; and we may been included. Perhaps, however, the sentiment is add that the price is, quality considered, astonish- not quite in accord with the spirit of the collection. ingly low. The distinctive Holiday feature of the volume is Carlyle's “ History of the French Revolution" Mr. Edmund H. Garrett's illustrations, comprising is better suited than most histories to illustration. four headpieces in photogravure, and twenty-one The author was, despite his pretensions as a social full-page plates from water-color drawings; an philosopher, an artist at bottom, and he did artist's etched title, with vignette portrait of Queen Eliza work. The special merit of the narrative is its beth, and fifty headings and tailpieces from pen picturesqueness,-- it evokes the past and makes it and-ink drawings. Mr. Garrett's designs are, for live. Therefore, the sixty admirably chosen and the most part, graceful and artistic, reflecting suc admirably executed photogravures of the important cessfully the sprightly, buoyant spirit of the verse, personages and scenes of that stormy period, with and the reproduction is up to the best French work. which Messrs. Porter & Coates have enriched their Mr. Andrew Lang has furnished a suitable Intro new Holiday edition of the work, add materially to duction, in which he briefly discusses the absence the distinctive value of the text-its graphic quality. in latter-day English poetry of the true singing This new edition is issued in three handy octavo quality. Mechanically, the volume is a beautiful volumes, tastily bound in dark blue cloth sprinkled one; the paper is of the choicest, and the letter with gold fleurs de-lis, the whole gotten up in the press is in the best style of Messrs. John Wilson & | best style. Son of Cambridge — than which no further com Messrs. Macmillan & Company's extra-illustrated mendation is needed. edition of Mrs. Oliphant's popular “ Makers of Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.'s two-volume Florence” fairly approximates the worthiest form edition of Mr. Howells's “ Venetian Life” bids fair, reached in the evolution of the Holiday book — a we think, to be the popular hit of the season. We union of good literature, good art, and stable ele- note nothing on our list more generally attractive gance of form. The volume is a medium octavo, than these shapely little books, with their dainty with dark wine-colored binding backed with white plates — bright-colored aqua-tints, mostly of the cloth of stouter web; there are fifty text illustra- splashy “impressionist " order, illustrative of Ven- tions engraved on wood from drawings by Professor etian scenes and characters, after original designs Delamotte, and twenty new full-page plates, notable by Childe Hassam, F. Hopkinson Smith, Mrs. R. for their delicate accuracy of line and finish, from H. Nicholls, and Ross Turner. The text scarcely | paintings by famous Florentines, Cimabue, Giotto, 1891.] THE DIAL 281 -- --- - Fra Angelico, Fra Lippo Lippi, Botticelli, Signor- ographs — “ Sandro Botticelli,” “ Some Modern elli, etc. These plates are admirable interpretations, French Painters,” “ Jean François Millet," " Mun- and materially enhance the charm of the narrative. kacsy,” “ Modern French Sculpture,” “A Pre- The history of Florence resolves itself largely into Raphaelite Mansion,” etc.,— by Theodore Child. the biographies of its famous citizens; and Mrs. Mr. Child's topics are timely and interesting, his crit- Oliphant's book (* short swallow flights of biograph- icism intelligible and free from æsthetic pedantry, ical essay,” she too modestly styles it) presents a and his descriptions of art and artists calculated to very fair picture of the more romantic side of the help the general reader to information rightly looked ** Lily of the Arno,” — the tangled web of intrigue, upon by cultivated people as indispensable. There the swift kaleidoscopic change of rulers and polity, are a number of fine illustrations, chiefly engrav- the endless plots, assassinations, exilings; and all ings and photographic prints of famous paintings, along the magnificent unfolding of the twin flowers bronzes, marbles, etc.! of Florentine art and letters thus mysteriously Messrs. A. D. F. Randolph & Co. offer in Holi- springing from a soil literally watered with Floren- day dress a new and less expensive but sufficiently tine blood. The scope and merits of the book are sumptuous edition, in two volumes, of Dean Stan- too well-known, however, to need comment. ley's exhaustive “ Historical Memorials of West- The Orientalism of Lew. Wallace's “ Ben-Hur" minster Abbey," which they first brought out in warrants perhaps unusual elaborateness of setting ; 1887. The original cuts have been generally used yet, to our thinking, Messrs. Harper & Brothers in the new edition, although the full-page etchings have been somewhat over-lavish, in point of illustra- are replaced by the fine pen-drawings of Herbert tion, in their handsome two-volume Holiday edition Railton, -- an exchange that need cause purchasers of the famous story. In addition to the twenty no serious regret. Mr. Railton has the secret of fine full-page photogravures, mostly Palestine views, good illustrative architectual drawing — a due tem- there are over one thousand marginal drawings pering of literal accuracy with the more graceful (every page has its quota) by William Martin qualities that address themselves to the æsthetic Johnson. Mr. Johnson's designs are in themselves sense. Meagre impressionism in work of this sort well chosen and well drawn, and repay close inspec is inane; and Mr. Railton has the ability and the tion; but the general effect seems to us rather cha honesty to make his sketches both accurate and otic. The frontispiece to Volume I. is a portrait picturesque. The delicate bindings — backs of of General Wallace ; that to Volume II. is a beau-l white and gold and half sides of mauve -- are tiful photogravure presenting the illustrator's ideal shielded by slip covers of silver gilt, the work of the Jewish hero. The volumes are richly bound, throughout displaying taste and thoroughness. and encased in a substantial hinged - Gladstone” The Arundel Society publishes, from the press of Messrs. E. & J. B. Young & Co., a handsomely One of the most sumptuous books of the season printed quarto volume entitled “ The Life of Bar- is Amelia Gere Mason's - The Women of the French tolomeo Colleoni,” by Oscar Browning. Colleoni Salons” (The Century Co.). The volume, a stately (1400-1475) was a notable figure in the domestic large octavo, with a cover stamped with gold fleurs wars of medieval Italy - the last of the condottieri, de-lis and scroll-work, is enriched with fifty-four and the best; one who did not, says his biographer, engravings, which are mostly portraits of that gal seek to make himself a prince or a duke, but who axy of brilliant Frenchwomen who, in the palmy sought a comparatively modest patrimony as a re- days of the salon, played so important a rôle in ward for his labors, and studied to surround him- French society, politics, and, indirectly, in literature, self with the grateful participants of his beneficence - for they would seem, for the most part, to have and good fortune.” Colleoni served under Braccio, accepted the not altogether flattering advice to their Caldora, Carmagnola, the Duke of Milan, and died sex of Le Brun: “ Inspire, but do not write.” The Captain-General of the Venetian forces. The nar- author has aimed to gather within a limited com rative is not uninteresting, and Mr. Browning, who pass the women who represented the social life of says what he has to say clearly and soberly, without their time on its most intellectual side, and to trace attempt at picturesque effect, has drawn his material lightly their influence upon civilization through the from the best Italian sources. It goes without say- avenues of literature and manners. Women who, ing that the art features of the work are of the first like Madame de Maintenon and Madame de Staël, rank in their class. They consist of eight full-page occupy a conspicuous space in written history, yield, plates, superbly executed by Messrs. Lemercier et in the present volume, the pas to their less distin- Cie. of Paris, presenting portraits of Colleoni, guished sisters. The narrative is easy, graceful, medals, heraldic bearings, etc., and a fine view of spiced with anecdote and epigram, and brings within the castle of Malpaga, near Bergamo. convenient compass the pith of records not easily Blanchard Jerrold's new “Life of Gustave Doré” attainable. | (Cassell ) is a good piece of biographical writing, Messrs. Harper & Brothers have collected, in a and furnishes a clear and in many respects instruc- handsomely appointed large octavo entitled “ Art tive portrait of a character of more than average and Criticism," a series of twelve studies and mon- | interest. Doré was an eminently engaging charac- box. 282 THE DIAL [Dec., = ter — a gracious, large-souled man of genius, with a the more trustworthy editions, author's notes being full measure of the capacity for doing and for suf supplied where such exist, and editorial personality fering with which men of genius are blessed and appearing only indirectly in the careful prepara- cursed. His life presents two well-marked phases, tion and arrangement of the work. This firm also that of the illustrator or draughtsman, and that of issue finely printed and bound two-volume editions the painter; and of this natural division the author of those old friends, “ The Children of the Abbey," has availed himself, giving a graphic chronicle of by Regina Maria Roche, and Jane Porter's ever- the struggle between the blithe, free-minded Doré popular “ Scottish Chiefs.” It is a pleasure to see of early manhood, and the sad, morbidly sensitive these fine old-fashioned romances, brimming with painter of the great canvases now stored, for the most the now rare quality of naïve sentiment naïvely ex- part, in the Bond Street Gallery in London. Mr. pressed, in a dress that will tempt the younger gen- Jerrold was a personal friend of the fecund artist, eration. and his narrative abounds in anecdote and remin- “Sharp Eyes: A Rambler's Calendar of Fifty- iscence — the right essence of biography. Friend- two Weeks among Insects, Birds, and Flowers" ship has not, however, blinded him to those natural (Harper) offers exceptional attractions, in the way and educational limitations which have warranted of description and illustration, to inquiring lovers the world in preferring Doré the illustrator of Rab- of out-of-door life. The reputation of the author, elais, Cervantes, and Dante, to Doré the aspiring Mr. William Hamilton Gibson, as an oracle in his ideal and historical painter — of whom Mr. Jerrold chosen field, has brought with it the penalty of a forms, on the whole, a just estimate. The artistic special correspondence, “ amounting occasionally to value of the book is emphasized by the 138 cuts an inquisition,” he tells us; and this has suggested after drawings by Doré, including a great number the idea that a book based upon the average que- of his boyish sketches, as well as preliminary stud ries would meet a genuine need. The work should ies for his more famous paintings. prove a boon to young naturalists; and to those of An instance of the happy combination of good us to whom the virtues of a country walk are com- and fit literary material with artistic and appro prised in the benefits to lung and limb, its pages, priate illustrations and pleasing and correct typog rich in the results of intelligent personal observation raphy is afforded in Sir Joshua Reynolds's “ Dis. of the pageant of the seasons, will prove a revela- courses on Art,” as reprinted by Messrs. McClurg & tion. The text is conveniently classified and in- Co. These famous discourses, fifteen in number, dexed, and is enriched with a profusion of unusu- orginally delivered by Sir Joshua before the stu ally accurate and graceful drawings — the work of dents of the Royal Academy, have long been known the author. The sumptuous material appointments to students of art literature as having the very of the volume render it a suitable Holiday gift. highest value and interest, and the present edition The distinctively American character of the Holi- renders a real service in making them at once ac day publications of Messrs. L. Prang & Co. is well cessible and tempting to the general public. The exemplified in their “ Bits of Old Concord ”- a publishers have given them an elegant though un series of six full-page photogravures after the really pretentious form, and have furnished them with artistic designs of Louis K. Harlow. To those twenty beautiful photogravure plates from subjects among us whose sentiment for such things is not chosen from among Reynolds's most celebrated por hopelessly swamped in devotion to material inter- traits. The editor of the volume, Mr. Edward G. ests, “ Old Concord” is classic ground, and to such Johnson, has given, in an excellent Introduction, a we take pleasure in commending these - bits” of sketch in miniature of English art at the time of it. The plates comprise — The Old Bridge,” Sir Joshua, and of his relation to and proper place “ The Old Manse,” “ The Alcott House," "The therein, together with suitable biographical and Emerson House," " Walden Pond,” - The Barrett critical details of the great painter and his work. House,” — each cut being faced by a brief descrip- The notes are judicious and not too profuse, the tion. Plates and leaves are encased in a cover of text is carefully printed, and the volume might well white vellum, gold-lettered and tied with a bow of serve as an object-lesson in that painstaking and bright ribbon, forming a tasty and inviting ensemble. unobtrusive style of editing which ought to be the - From the same publishers we have received standard. - - Other tasteful reprints, by the same “ Wedding Bells," a series of verses and mottoes firm, may be mentioned here, and notably the se severally adapted to the usual wedding function- ries entitled - Laurel-Crowned Verse,” edited by aries, each page adorned with graceful floral designs Francis F. Browne,-- the aim of the series being in colors, that compare favorably in mechanical ex- to render accessible to modern readers a correctly ecution with the best foreign work of the class ; and printed, comely, inexpensive edition of favorite “ Places that Our Lord Loved,” by Frederic W. English poems. The four volumes thus far pub Farrar, D.D., illustrated with views in color and lished contain, Scott's “ Lady of the Lake,” By monotint by F. Schuyler Matthews, and containing ron's “ Childe Harold,” Moore's “ Lalla Rookh,” | an excellent portrait of Canon Farrar. and Tennyson's Idylls of the King.” The text In “ Leaves from an Artist's Field-Book" (Loth- of the poems is based upon the careful collation of | rop) Mr. Wedworth Wadsworth, assuming the dual 1891.) 283 THE DIAL rôle of poet and artist, has fitted a number of stray and contents, or more likely to please the fastidious, sketches, bits of forest, meadow, stream, and beach, than two little booklets, appropriately boxed to- with an accompaniment of descriptive verse also of gether, from Messrs. Roberts Brothers, entitled, his own manufacture. While it can scarcely be “ Flowers of Fancy” and “ Roses of Romance," said of Mr. Wadsworth (taking the present book containing respectively choice selected poems from as a criterion) that his pencil, like Reynolds's, is Shelley and from Keats. The volumes are chastely “ striking, resistless, and grand," some of his draw bound in white and gold, and each has a brightly ings are -- like his verses --- pretty enough in their tinted frontispiece with a number of other draw- slight way. The engraving, by Andrew, and the | ings from the facile pencil of Edmund H. Garrett. material features of the book, are good. A series of twelve sonnets by Helen Hunt Jack- * Through Woodland and Meadow" (Dutton), a son, severally descriptive of the twelve months, is nosegay of verses pleasantly redolent of the sweets issued by Messrs. Roberts Brothers in a dainty vol- of rural nature, and suitably illustrated (in color ume, under the title of “A Calendar of Sonnets." and monotint) by Marie Low and Maud West, | It should be noted that the book is not of the alma- should prove alluring to those whose tastes incline nac order. The smooth versification, freshness of to books of the pronounced Christmas type. The imagery, and genuineness of sentiment usually ap- illustrations (mostly graceful knots and sprays of parent in the poems, warrant the elegance of the bright-hued leaves and flowers) are exceedingly setting. Each sonnet is adorned by two pretty vig- pretty and tastefully arranged, and the poems are nettes by E. H. Garrett, and faced by a full-page well selected. The volume, with its quiet binding design by Emile Bayard, who seems somewhat handi- of dark-blue cloth stamped with a spray of white / capped by triteness of theme. blossoms and light-green leaves, makes a handsome, The Century Co. reprint in two well-appointed and not too ornate and cumbrous, table book. | volumes George Kennan's widely discussed - Siber- Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. supplement their ian Papers” (revised and brought down to date by new - Riverside” edition of Dr. Holmes's works the author and with additional maps, statistics, by a little Holiday volume, illustrated by Howard plans, etc.), familiar to readers of “ The Century Pyle, containing the three kindred poems, " The Magazine.” Mr. Kennan's point of view, his mer- One Hoss Shay," " How the Old Horse Won the its and his limitations, are too well known to need Bet,” and “The Broomstick Train.” In the first- comment. A feature of the book that will com- named piece the illustrator has done fairly well,— mend itself to all is the illustrations, which are the “ evolution and final disintegration” (as Mr. numerous and instructive. Spencer might term it) of the “hahnsum kerridge” Messrs. Scribner's Sons reprint in a richly-finished being set forth with some humor; the remaining large octavo of Christmas favor, under the title cuts seem to us of milder quality. The volume is of Japonica,” the pleasing articles on Japan writ- bound in a quaint cover of undressed leather sug ten for - Scribner's Magazine" by Sir Edwin Ar- gestive of the equipment of the Deacon's Master nold. The author supplies a graceful preface, in piece. A preface is furnished by the author. which he pays a tribute of manifest sincerity to the A pretty, inexpensive gift will be found in Messrs. good qualities of the kindly folk who made his Houghton, Mifflin & Co.'s new Holiday edition of sojourn among them, he says, “ one of unbroken Whittier's perennially popular “Snow Bound ” - grace, profit, and pleasure.” Mr. Robert Blum's a tasteful volume, bound in blue and white with illustrations add much to the beauty and interest vellum slip cover, illustrated with nine photogra- of the book. vures by Edmund H. Garrett. There is a portrait The advance volumes of Messrs. Little, Brown, of Mr. Whittier, and a pleasant prefatory note by & Co.'s new library edition of Charles Lever's Mil- him descriptive of the scene and characters of the litary Novels are in no wise disappointing. Print, poem. binding, and paper are all that they should be, and Longfellow's tender and charming lines, “ The the publishers have wisely retained the inimitable, Day is Done,” have in them that saving quality of uproariously funny designs of “ Phiz” and George genuineness --- the true preservative myrrh and Cruikshank, which, with all their exaggerations sweet amber of verse — that will keep them fresh and occasional monstrosities, are essential and in- and fragrant perhaps longer than his more studied tegral parts of the text. Lever, good as he is, works. Messrs. E. P. Dutton & Co. have published minus “ Phiz” and Cruikshank would be to his them in a new and comely Holiday volume, illus- ! old readers like champagne without the sparkle. trated in color and monotint; and to emphasize Lever was a sort of epitome of the pleasanter qual- their faith in the maxim that one cannot have too | ities of his countrymen -- inclusive, we may add, much of a good thing," they print the poem twice of certain amiable national failings, and his books over in the same volume, with two sets of illustra are brimming with the ready wit, fertile invention, tions — a device more original than commendable, rollicking spirits, and romantic sentiment, proverbi- we think. ally characteristic of the sons of Erin. The pub- We note nothing among the less expensive treas lishers are to be credited with the first adequate ures on our Holiday table more inviting as to form | library edition of these delightful novels. 284 [Dec., THE DIAL In respect of their new four-volume library edition | Roland, de Lamballe, de Genlis), the text of which of “ The Arabian Nights,” the Lothrop Company has already been reviewed in THE DIAL (March, have established no slight claim upon the gratitude 1891). The feature of the book is fourteen illus- of the reading public. It is precisely such an edi trations, mostly portraits, in photogravure. They tion as was needed — handy, well-printed, inexpen- are excellent examples of the capabilities of the sive, and with such expurgation of the over-hardy | process. Oriental phrasing and incident of the literal ver In making up their fine Holiday book, “Ocean sions of Lane and of Burton as to render the work Steamers,” Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons have a fit tenant of the family book-shelves. The editor, availed themselves of the series of articles recently Rev. Wm. Eliot Griffis, a skilled Orientalist, has contributed by various maritime experts to “ Scrib- supplied a scholarly Introduction sketching the his ner's Magazine” on the construction, management, tory of the tales, and has done yeoman service in development, and appliances of steamships. The condensing within the bounds of endurance certain articles are handsomely illustrated and fairly brist- long-winded preliminary matter and repetition with ling with practical information. Every ocean tour- which former translations are burdened. There are ist should read them. over forty full-page plates, and these seem to us Messrs. F. A. Stokes Company's “ Point Lace worthy additions to the text. These delightful tales, and Diamonds,” a flat quarto volume in a cover of so well adapted to foster a taste for reading in the two shades of green with gilt title and scroll-work, young, are classic; and Dr. Griffis's edition should and a design in colors, comprises a collection of find its way into every American library. society verse by George A. Baker, Jr., author of Charles Morris's “ The Knights of the Round “ West Point.” The book is embellished with twelve Table " comes to us in three shapely little volumes, full-page fac-simile water-colors, for which Mr. from the J. B. Lippincott Company. Mr. Morris has Francis Day is responsible, and a number of vig- put Malory's quaint prose in modern dress; and nettes in black-and-white, - among the latter a por- in thus putting the pith of the old romances (a gen- | trait of Mr. Day himself, who is thus surrounded, eral knowledge of which is so essential to the full like " Mr. Venus,” “ by the trophies of his art.” enjoyment of polite literature) into a readable Two kindred volumes, Drift from the Sea of continuous narrative, he has rendered good service. Life" and " Songs of the Sea ” (Stokes), illustrated The little set makes a specially useful gift for respectively by C. McKnight Smith and Reynolds younger readers. Beal, are made up, as the titles imply, of sea poems The swelling tide of Columbian literature is in- | and sea songs drawn from various sources. The creased by Brentano's in the shape of a queer-look- | text is liberally decked out with bits of seascape, ing production, “ The Secrete Log-Boke” of Chris- lighthouses, ships, masts, spars, oars, blocks, tackle topher Columbus, described as being “ Noted and - the gatherings of the junk-shops — and other Written by Himself in the Year 1492–3; Fished | maritime objects dear to the soul of “Ed'ard Cut- up on the 14th of August, 1890, and Imitated after tle, mariner.” the Original Log-Boke.” The effects of age and James Whitcomb Riley's touching verses, “ An long immersion are ingeniously simulated, and the Old Sweetheart of Mine," come to us in an attract- watery mildewy effect of the whole is enhanced by ively modest oblong volume, with full-gilt card- the bunches of sea-weed and shells clinging to the board leaves, illustrated in colors and monochrome. crinkled rust-colored cover. There are a number The child-faces in the monotint drawings are notably of quaint cuts and initials, and an enclosed slip, winning and artless. (Bowen-Merrill Co., Indian- with seal, of a copy of Columbus's commission from apolis.) Isabella of Castile. Those whose tastes run to the The third series of Messrs. Putnam's Sons' fantastic will welcome the “ Log-Boke.” dainty set of tiny booklets, “ Literary Gems,” com- From the press of Messrs. Lee & Shepard comes prises Montaigne's essay on “ The Education of an oblong royal octavo volume containing Kate Children,” Ruskin's "Pre-Raphaelitism," Coleridge's Tannatt Woods's “ Grandfather Grey,” a compan “Ancient Mariner," John Bright's “ Speeches on ion poem to her “Grandmother Grey” issued last America,” Irving's "Legend of Sleepy Hollow," and year. The quality of verse and sentiment may be a collection of Browning's “Lyrics." Each volume indicated by a specimen stanza : has a frontispiece — the portrait of Ruskin being “ Again he saw the old spelling-school, especially good. In the way of print, binding Where 'taters' the candlesticks made; (flexible morocco), and contents, these little books And the flickering light on the roughened walls — each may be slipped into a capacious waistcoat Made pictures never to fade.” pocket--well deserve the common title “Gems." The illustrations, by Charles Copeland, seem to us “Where Meadows Meet the Sea" (Lippincott) decidedly better than the poetry. The volume is is a collection of sea songs and pastoral lays edited neatly bound. with taste and discrimination by Harrison S. Mor- Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co. have made a pretty ris. The verses are of the sort that warrant illustra- Holiday volume, shapely, compact, and well-printed, tion; and Mr. F. F. English, in his chaste and deli- of Austin Dobson's “ Four Frenchwomen” (Corday, I cately finished drawings, has succeeded in his dual 1891.7 285 THE DIAL task of transcribing the face of nature and of inform Through the cheap and convenient medium of pho- ing it with the poetical mood and expression indicated tographic process-work, the varied and graphic contents in the several poems. The volume is not, as its title of the sketch-books of Mr. Edwin Forbes, special artist might suggest, of the ornate “table-book" class, and with the armies in the field during the Civil War, have requires no more space than its merit justifies. been made generally accessible in a publication entitled Brentano's list offers a number of rather tempting “An Artist's Story of the Great War.” The forty etch- publications of the distinctively Holiday order, among ings produced by Mr. Forbes some ten years after the which we note “ The Baby's Biography," designed by war are doubtless familiar to most readers; and the A. O. Kaplan and illustrated in colors by Mrs. F. W. present work gives, besides these sketches, about 220 Brundage, a large quarto of seventy-two pages, ornately more, large and small, the whole being accompanied bound in several styles. The book is essentially an by descriptive text. While we think Mr. Forbes's pub- album arranged for the convenient noting of the sa- lishers are injudicious in claiming high artistic quality lient events of babyhood,- date of birth, date of first for work done under circumstances that distinctly pre- tooth, first word (which is usually, like the auguries of cluded it, we may say that the drawings have a fair “Jack Bunsby," of highly general application), and the share of the rough fidelity and spirit to which those like “ trivial fond records " momentous to parents and circumstances were favorable. As historical material, harrowing to casual visitors. “Magnificat” is a series and as a repository of facts for future illustrators, the of twenty-five designs illustrative of the beautiful can- work is of value; and its accuracy is vouched for by ticle of the Evening Service, painted by Frank M. such witnesses as Charles A. Dana and Gen. Nelson A. Miles. (Fords, Howard & Hulbert.) Gregory (who, we fear, intends a certain benevolent looking old gentleman with a flowing beard to represent Messrs. Ticknor & Co. have issued a fifth edition, the Almighty,— if he does not, we beg his pardon), revised, of their “Artistic Homes ”—a finely equipped printed in two monotints and tastily bound. A series oblong quarto with seventy full-page plates from draw- of “ Songs from the Operas " comprises “ The Torrea- ings and photographs, together with a number of arch- dor Song" from Carmen, “ The Flower Song” from itectural plans and drawings that should be usefully Faust, and - The Swan Song" from Lohengrin -- each suggestive to prospective house-builders. We may song accompanied with music arranged for the piano, note that the title “Artistic Homes” does not, as it and each illustrated by Mr. Gregory, who has here dis- should not, in all cases imply expensive homes, many played good taste and drawing, notably, we think, in of the plans and sketches given being quite within the * The Torreador Song.” reach of a modest income. "Ailes D’Allouette” (Roberts) is the apt title of a The bound volume of “The Century Magazine," | May to October, 1891, makes a creditable showing dainty booklet, bound in white and gold, containing a number of couplet verses by F. W. Bourdillon, charm- both as to its artistic and its literary features. One ingly illustrated by Edmund H. Garrett--whose pencil, might easily select from it a dozen plates -- say T. Cole's superb engravings from the Italian painters — by the way, seems to have been specially active this intrinsically worth the price asked for the volume. year. Many of the leading essayists, short story writers, and The F. A. Stokes Company have added to their fa- illustrators of the day, figure in its table of contents, miliar - Vignette Series ” “ Maud, and Other Poems ” | and the tastes of the " practical man" are in no wise by Alfred Tennyson — a comely volume in a delicate overlooked. As a gift-book it has the peculiar merit binding of cloth besprinkled with orchid blossoms, and of the German prescription: it contains something of prettily illustrated by Charles Howard Johnson. The “ Vignette Series” should prove an enticing one to Hol- everything and will meet all cases. Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co.'s Holiday edition of E. iday buyers. P. Roe's widely-read novel ~ Near to Nature's Heart” From Messrs. Little, Brown, & Co. we have received will find favor with admirers of that popular writer. another instalment of their elegantly made “Library The externals of the book are inviting, and it is suit- Edition" of the Dumas Romances, already favorably ably illustrated by F. Dielman. It contains a good noticed in The DIAL. The volumes are “ The Regent's portrait of the author. Daughter " and « Le Chevalier D’Harmontal," classed As usual, the taste and ingenuity of our publishers as “ The Regency Romances.” The edition is now, we has been taxed to supply the demand for decorative believe, about complete, thus bringing to an end a laud- Christmas Calendars. It seems, however, that, in point able enterprise creditably carried out, which is likely of invention “panting time toils after them in vain,” to meet the substantial approval it deserves. for we find our Holiday table strewn with a full quota A good atlas is an absolute sine qua non to the intel of pretty pondescript devices for marking the foot- ligent profitable reading of history, or, indeed, of the steps of the Scythe Bearer in 1892. Among them we mere daily records of current events; and we take note: “ The Mother Goose Calendar" (Stokes), adorned pleasure in commending Messrs. Thos. Nelson & Sons' with twelve fac-similes of water-color drawings of “ Popular Hand Atlas of the World,” by John Barthol pretty children, from the tasteful pencil of Maud Hum- omew, F.R.G.S., as a work likely at most points to phrey; “ The Society Calendar” (Stokes), with suit- please the exacting. It is a thoroughly good piece of able « society” designs by Francis Day; « The Sea of map-inaking, -- accurate, scholarly, fairly full, intelli Life Calendar” (Stokes), with maritime sketches by gible, and in point of engraving and coloring as grate C. McK. Smith; “ The Surprise Calendar” (Stokes), ful to the æsthetic sense as an atlas can well be. A twelve fac-simile water-colors by Mrs. Pauline Sunter; useful feature is a descriptive Index- a sort of geo- a series of three “ Shaped Figure Calendars ” (Stokes), graphical dictionary -- of thirty-five thousand places. each representing four child-figures, after water-colors The material features of the work are quite handsome by Maud Humphrey; and - The Watermelon Calen- enough to render it a suitable, as it is a most useful, dar," with twelve figures in color--a procession of pick- gift-book. aninnies representing the months of the year. 286 THE DIAL [Dec., = = = - - BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG. Dash for Khartoum : A Tale of the Nile Expe- dition,” and “ Redskin and Cow-Boy.” These three “Men of Iron” (Harper), cleverly written and volumes are sure of a large circle of readers beautifully illustrated by Howard Pyle, is a roman- among the boys. tic story of English life under Henry IV., touching E. S. Ellis's “ Lost in Samoa" (Cassell) recounts largely the martial scenes and knightly observances the thrilling adventures of a plucky young American, incident to the routine of a great mediæval house- - Evan Spencer," who sails to Samoa in quest of a hold. The action is well sustained, and the hero hidden treasure, the location of which is known - Myles Falworth” -- who enters the service of the only to a reformed (and astonishingly self-denying) “ Earl of Mackworth ” as squire, and fights his way | ruffian whose life Evan's father had saved, and who up in approved style until he wins a bride and his wishes out of gratitude to divulge the secret to his father's pardon in a tourney — is sufficiently en rescuer. Upon this sufficiently promising ground gaging. There is sword-and-buckler play, splinter the author works in a variety of exciting incidents ing of lances and cleaving of helms galore, with - the evil element being supplied by a band of the due admixture of the smiles and favors of ap prowling “ beach-combers.” The lad finally emerges proving beauty. Mr. Pyle's description and his from their toils, and triumphantly secures the trea- narrative is better than his dialogue, his characters sure, “a tin case that contained fully fifty diamonds being endowed with a speech too bombastic even of the first water, which must have been worth for the exigencies of romance. His boy readers are several hundred thousand dollars ” — as the author not apt to be squeamish on this point, however. judges. * A Modern Aladdin ” (Harper), an extravaganza As a piece of literature, Robert Leighton's " The in four acts, written and illustrated by Howard Pyle, Pilots of Pomona” (Scribner), a tale of the Ork- is extravagant and spasmodic enough to beggar de- ney Islands, ranks higher than most books of its scription. While it is, in a measure, creditable to class. It presents an interesting study of the life the writer as a tour-de-force of the imagination, (it and manners of the Islanders ; the individual char- suggests throughout Mr. Stevenson's weird early acters are well and sharply drawn, and the author's tales, “ The Suicide Club,” etc.), it seems to us too style is exceptionally good. The tale has a suffi- incoherent and far-fetched to interest young readers. cient spice of romance, and there are several thrill- The volume is a very pretty one externally. ing situations — some of them possibly a little too Mr. W. O. Stoddard has compressed enough of melodramatic, although young readers will scarcely the thrilling circumstance of frontier life and Indian censure them on that score. The volume has several fighting into his tale of " Little Smoke” (Apple- illustrations by John Leighton. ton), to satisfy any reasonable boy; and his narra Mr. Willis J. Abbot continues his series of pop- tive is handsomely sustained by the really artistic ular war histories for boys, with “ Battle-Fields and Fred S. Dellenbaugh. The plot ad- | Victory," a narrative of the principal military oper- mits of some interesting details of Indian camp-life, ations of the Civil War, from the accession of Grant martial sports and exercises, etc., and of this the to the command of the Union arınies to the end of author avails himself with evident familiarity with the war. Mr. Abbot writes in an entertaining hit-or- his theme. The hero of the tale, an Ohio boy who has miss sort of style, usually hitting it very well. The followed a gold-hunting uncle to the Black Hills, is illustrations, which are to be credited to Mr. W.C. captured by a band of Ogalallah Indians, who spare Jackson, are also of a hit-or-miss style, and usually his life and give him the freedom of their camp. miss it. They are crude and inartistic, and ab- “ Bert” joins the young savages in their sports, surdly inadequate for any purposes of illustration. and saves the life of the Sioux boy “ Little Smoke,” Five pretty stories, contributed by Thomas Nel- who eventually connives at his escape at the mo son Page to Harper's Young People," collected in ment of Custer's defeat — an incident related in the | a volume entitled “ Among the Camps” (Scrib- closing chapters. To Mr. Dellenbaugh's full-page ner ), will prove interesting to young folk of either plates are added many marginal cuts of Indian sex. The scenes are laid in the South during the weapons, implements, ornaments, etc. Civil War,-- the graphic quality of the recital de- Mr. G. A. Henty's stories are precisely the kind noting that the writer has drawn generously upon that any well-regulated boy takes delight in. Mr. personal recollection. Mr. Page has the right gift Henty has evidently been a normal boy himself; of telling his stories simply and sincerely, without for his rattling story, "Held Fast for England: A listening too much to the sound of his own voice ; Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar” (Scribner), narrat- and there is, withal, a note of feeling that lends ing the adventures of one “ Rob Repton,” who, at them a distinctive charm. The book is nicely the famous siege of Gibraltar by France and Spain bound and illustrated. in 1779-83, performs all kinds of not too improb A readable number of “ Castlemon's War Series" able deeds of derring-do - is of the true stripe. is “ Marcy, the Blockade-Runner ” ( Porter and The same publishing-house issues two others of Mr. Coates ), by Harry Castlemon,- a stirring tale of Henty's stories, equally attractive in matter and a boy's exploits during the Civil War. The book form with the above. They are entitled “ The l is brim-full of enlivening incident, and it is written 1891.7 THE DIAL 287 - - --- - in a spirit well calculated to foster boyish patriot- / will welcome the very charming portrait at the be- ism and love of manly self-devotion in times of ginning of this volume. peril. In the line of historical fiction for children, Mary In Molly Elliot Seawell's “ Midshipman Pauld- C. W. Smith (P. Thorne) gives us “ Jolly Good ing" (Appleton), we have a worthy companion to Times at Hackmatack" (Roberts), a story of life her “Little Jarvis” of last year. “ Midshipman in a Western Massachusetts village in the time of Paulding" is the son of the John Paulding fam- | Andrew Jackson. The book abounds in lively in- ous for his capture of Major André, and the scene cidents of those primitive times, when the cheer and of his exploits is in the region of northeastern New the toil were shared by all. We have a delightful York and the great lakes, in the War of 1812. account of the New England Thanksgiving, and of The style is vigorous, clear, and graphic, and the the puritanical Sunday, which, though strictly ob- incidents are sure to excite a boy's interest in the served, did not lack its element of enjoyment. The history of his country. The illustrations, particularly accounts of the district school, of the young student the portrait of Paulding, are good. from Williams who taught it, and of the evening The struggles of the old “ free-state” settlers singing-school, are excellent. We are glad to see in Kansas in 1854-5 have furnished a theme for the two illustrations which introduce the book per- many stories, but that the theme is not yet ex petuating the memory of the “pantalette” and the hausted is proved by Noah Brooks's “ The Boy " surtout,” those honored garments of the childhood Settlers: A Story of Early Times in Kansas " of the now elder generation. (Scribner). The story has already appeared in The name of Octave Thanet as author prejudices the pages of “ St. Nicholas,” but it will, we think, us in favor of " We All ” (Appleton), rather than find a host of new readers in its new form. The the title, which seems to us badly chosen and not style is brisk and to the point, and the narrative is worthy to introduce so good a story. A bit of full of the adventure and exciting incidents of the backwoods Arkansas life, just after the war, is made settler's life in a new, rough country. Such books real to us in the events that centre round the family are excellent reading for boys. of Col. Seyton, an ex-rebel and the leading man in Mr. Richard Harding Davis's “Stories for Boys” | the neighborhood. The local coloring is intensified (Scribner) is a collection of varying merit. Several by the liberal use of the Arkansas dialect, both of of the stories have appeared in the juvenile maga the whites and the negroes; and several entertain- zines. “The Reporter Who Made Himself King," | ing talks and stories of the negroes well illustrate and agitated the powers of Europe by his cable- | their unreasoning irresponsible nature, demoralized grams, is decidedly the best of the lot; it is, indeed, by long years of slavery. exceedingly entertaining, both in conception and | “Straight On ” (Appleton), a story for young execution. The other stories are bright and read- and old, is from the pen of the author of “ Colette.” able, and will be especially appreciated by the aver- - one of the purest, brightest, most charming pieces age boy whose daily joy is in out-of-door sports. of latter-day French fiction; and it goes without Colonel Knox continues the “ personally-con- saying that, as an example of literary art, it out- ducted ” migrations of his “ Boy Travellers,” this ranks most volumes in the present category. It is year's narrative taking them through Holland, a delicious book, pure and fragrant, and abounding Prussia, Denmark, and Norway. The volume is in those exquisite touches peculiar to French art at one of the most interesting of this excellent series, its best. There are 86 spirited illustrations by and is copiously and effectively illustrated. (“ Boy Edouard Zier. Travellers in Northern Europe," Harper & Bros.) The exquisite story of “ Lady Jane” (Century), We are pleased to note a new volume of stories by Mrs. C. V. Jamison, is already known to a from the pen of Mrs. Juliana Horatia Ewing, whose circle of readers through the pages of “ St. Nich- work is too well known to need any introductory olas,” and now, in its pretty holiday binding, it is praise. The only feeling of regret that this volume to be hoped it will reach many more. Aside from can cause will be in its title, “ Last Words” (Rob the fortunes of the little orphan, Lady Jane, there erts Brothers ). In this collection, as in all of Mrs. is much of interest attaching to the lively descrip- Ewing's, is disclosed a fine appreciation of child tions of the Creoles in New Orleans, among whom ren's fancies, and great power in portraying them. Lady Jane's lot is cast after her mother's death. We are glad to find in this book “Sunflowers and Especially picturesque is a description of the fes- Rush Lights," which we believe has never before tival of Mardi-gras, in the celebration of which appeared in her collections in this country. "Mary's Lady Jane gets decidedly mixed up and experi- Meadow,” a story much more widely known here, ences some strange adventures. The pictures are but well deserving a permanent form, occupies about | numerous and well-executed. a third of the book. The greater part of these | In Miss A. G. Plympton's little story of “ Betty, stories, if not the whole, are taken from that mine a Butterfly” (Roberts), we have the same delicacy of good reading for children, “ Aunt Judy's Maga- of touch and the same appreciation of a refined and zine.” Mrs. Ewing has become a personal friend sensitive child-nature, that the author gave us last to all her readers, and it is with that feeling they ! year in her - Dear Daughter Dorothy." Betty is 288 THE DIAL (Dec., - --- -- - == ---= a romantic little creature, who, brought up among readers will welcome Miss Julie M. Lippmann's the prosaic workers of a New England farm, finds “ Jock o' Dreams” (Roberts Brothers). Some of her gay imaginings and her love of nature looked these stories, like “ Betty's By and By,” are already upon purely as faults indicative of an idle, frivol- familiar to the children through the columns of “ St. ous character. But her nature, which is really deep, Nicholas,” but this is no drawback to their interest, strong, and loving, finds its true expression in her for what story that is really worth reading once is devotion to her only relative, her Uncle Richard, not worth reading again? The style is simple in whose studio she at last leads the life fitted for and graceful, and the fancies will be sure to please her. There is little of incident in this life, but it any child. The illustrations in sepia are delicate is portrayed in a truthful and picturesque manner, and artistic. and forms altogether a pleasing story. The book A thoroughly wholesome and readable book is is illustrated by the author. Flora Haines Loughead's “ The Abandoned Farm " In “ The Little Princess Angel ” (Dutton ), by (Houghton), the story of three children who, being Stella Austin, we feel something of the same fascina- | thrown upon their own resources, by dint of pluck, tion that bound us to Little Lord Fauntleroy”--the | perseverance, and upright dealing, manage to fight fascination of a quaint, lovely child-nature, shedding out the battle of life to a happy dénouement. There sweetness and brightness upon all around. This little is a commendable absence of the luridly sensational princess brings youth and joyousness to an old es element, the book being one which will commend tate where they had been strangers for twenty years, itself to the most exacting parent. inciting deeds of love and friendliness. A most in- As a penance or means of coercion for naughty teresting part of the story is the little princess' life children, Rev. J. C. Atkinson's “ The Last of the with a wandering gypsy circus, where she is re- | Giant Killers, or the Exploits of Sir Jack of Danby garded as a superior being, winning the humble de Dale” (Macmillan ), should prove efficient. After votion of the clown and the rope-dancers, and bear- a first reading, the most refractory child must suc- ing her own sorrows uncomplainingly, as she thinks cumb to the threat of a second. The author's style a princess should. The story is a beautiful one, is verbose and involved to a degree; and the stories and cannot but prove interesting to young and old. throughout are hopelessly lacking in that lightness “ Little Marjorie's Love Story” (McClurg) is of touch and fancy essential to this class of literature. the title of a new book from the pen of Marguerite | In this day of electricity, Prof. John Trowbridge's Bouvet, whose “ Sweet William” met with such “ The Electrical Boy” (Roberts) will be sure to success last year. It is a pathetic little tale of the find many readers among the ever-increasing class unrequited devotion of an unattractive sister to a l of boys who incline to scientific pursuits. The talented but selfish older brother. The style is book is not a scientific treatise by any means, but simple and often picturesque, sometimes verging on merely the story of a homeless street waif - a boy the sentimental, but on the whole pleasing. It will who is befriended by a man interested in the study appeal to rather an older class of readers than most and phenomena of electricity. Our young hero is so-called juveniles. The illustrations are excellent. speedily initiated into the mysteries of the electric Ruth Ogden was so favorably introduced to the fluid, and his successes in life are all gained from public last year by her - Loyal Little Red-Coat,"' this knowledge. He turns it to account in many that her new story “ Courage” (F. A. Stokes Co.) ingenious ways, -- in defending a mining camp is sure to find many eager readers. The plan of against hostile Indians, in expelling the carbonic the new story is much the same as in the old, being acid gas from a cave of treasure, etc. The story is a tale of the every-day life of a child. It centres | spiced with adventure, and the dramatic situations around the personality of little - Courage” Master are numerous. son, a poor child who feels the responsibility that “Tad, or Getting Even with Him” (Cassell). her name implies, and nobly meets it. The book is by E. S. Ellis, is a capital sketch of village-life, a good one to place in the hands of any child as an into which the author contrives to instil a whole- incentive to painstaking in the common tasks and some and not too obtrusive moral. The central in- little duties of every-day life. It has several pleas cident is a base-ball match ( aggravatingly broken ing and artistic illustrations. off by a cyclone of generous proportions ), which is The denizens of the woods and fields are brought described with a realism that will reach the heart before us again this year by Miss Lily Wesselhoeft of the boy reader. The hero of the story, a " Mr. in her story of Rough the Miser" (Roberts Broth- | Hyland," a college athlete turned schoolmaster, is ers). The plot of the new book is one to interest | notably well drawn. young readers, who will follow the doings of the The idea which Ingersoll Lockwood embodies in chief figure in the story -- a villainous old water- - Little Captain Doppelkop”. (Lee & Shepard) is rat -- with keen zest, and a feeling of satisfaction certainly laughable enough to amuse old or young. at the old fellow's final overthrow and punishment Two children start out on a voyage of discovery by his former victims. The book is well illustrated. through a wonderful Bubbleland, meeting all kinds A visit to dreamland is always a refreshment in of mysterious creatures — the gummi-hummis, the this prosaic, every-day life of ours, and hence young / strengoookies, and, most important of all, the learned 1891.] THE DIAL 289 - - - - - -- -- - --- stork Al-Witen. Their adventures are related in school-girls; and although they have in this book good Munchausen style, and profusely illustrated no grand work to do, like the regeneration of Rick- by Clifton Johnson. While a joyous and rollicking ett's Court,” their helpful spirit is shown in the acts spirit pervades the book, it never inclines to vul of every day. If all girls' compositions ” were as garity, and is perfectly safe to put into any child's i entertaining as Winnie's, the weekly " rhetoricals” hands. in our schools would not be the dreary farces that Edward Everett Hale gives his young readers, they often are. The note to · King's Daughters," in - Four and Five" (Roberts Brothers), the story at the foot of page 376, deserves a prompt and of a camping party of boys, who not only - lend a hearty response. hand " themselves, but induce many others to do! Twenty-five years ago, the oil regions of Penn- the same, till the four and five" become forty. The | sylvania were the scene of wild excitement among story is natural and enjoyable, with that elaborate speculators and fortune-hunters; and it is in this attention to detail which would become wearisome region and at this time that Kirk Monroe locates in less skilful hands than Dr. Hale's. his story of - Prince Dusty" (Putnam). It tells The redeeming part of Shreds and Patches". of the adventures of a brave descendant of an hon- (E. P. Dutton & Co.), by E. N. Leigh Fry, is the orable old Virginia family, whose sterling qualities really touching story of the waif Billy and his 'ingratiate him with train men, oil men, and tramps heroic death. Asiile from this, the book is ill alike. The illustrations are merely passable. aclapted to interest or instruct children. While - John Brownlow's Folks" (Lothrop), by Willis here and there we find a pleasing incident, like · Bovd Allen, is a simple, pleasing narrative of the Alec's political speech to the rioters, the interest is doings of a well-to-ilo midille-class Boston family, ----- not well sustained. (lillren learn slang easily ! ordinary, warm-hearted people, ready to go through enough without book-instruction in such phrases as a wood deal to enjoy Nantasket beach or the Bos- - I've made a thundering ass of myself” and “ I ton Museum (including the wax-works), and eager was jist going an awful mucker." The illustrations to lend a helping hand at home or abroad. It is a are decidedly inferior both in design and execution. wholesome story, and the illustrations help to make The title of - Mostly Marjorie Day” (Lee & ' up an attractive volume. Shepard) certainly is not prepossessing. We are Messrs. Searle & Gorton, of Chicago, issue a led to expect sentimentality; and we find it in ex- series of five attractive Holiday booklets, which cess in the first half of the book, though in the la:- should prove popular for low price and high quality ter half Marjorie regains her common sense at times, of contents. They consist of an entertaining little and acts like a reasonable being. The plot is the parlor-play by Abby Morton Diaz, entitled - Mother regular old-fashioned novel-plot, in which the de- ' Goose's Churistmas arty"; - How the Rose Found serving heroine inherits a fortune at the end. The, the King's Daughters," by Maude Menefee, a col- style is altogether too gushing, and is marred by | lection of short stories suggestive of Hans Chris- various manufactured words which might better tian Andersen ; a new naval story by Willis J. have been replaced by honest English. Abbot, entitled - Midshipman Davy”; and two The touching story of - A Lost Hero,” by Eliza- į sketches devoted to the cause of Our Dumb beth Stuart Phelps-Ward and Herbert D. Ward, is Friends, --- -- Pete: The Story of a Chicken," by already familiar to readers of - The Youth's Com- Helen Ekin Starrett. and - Sly and His Neighbors," panion," and now appeals to an extended constitu- ' by Frances Power Cobbe. ency in the very acceptable book form given it by A simple story of the life of a group of girls Messrs. Roberts Brothers. The story itself is beau- in a country town is told by Anna Chapin Ray in tiful in spirit and expression --- a worthy tribute her - Half a Dozen Girls ” (Crowell). These girls to humble heroism. are girls in the true sense, not afraid to climb a tree Persons who are especially interested in mission- or to play a rollicking game of hide-and-seek. The ary enterprises may think Martha Burr Banks's characters are well drawn, and the life depicted is * Princess Dandelion's Secret" (D. D. Merrill Co., i natural and healthful. The moral tone of the story St. Paul) rather an attractive book; but those who is altogether a good one, and the book deserves to are misled by its title and artistic exterior into be placed in the hands of every normal girl. supposing it an interesting book for children, will R ev.J. F. Cowan's story of The Jo-Boat Boys" be likely to find it a disappointment. The descrip- (Crowell) reveals a phase of life probably un- tions are too long and wordly, and there is too much known to most readers. - life among a lot of out- lack of incident, to commend it to the unvitiated casts dwelling in boats along the river-fronts of tastes of childhood. Pittsburg. The especial fortunes of two boys of The opening chapters of - Witch Winnie's Mys- this class, who black boots and sell papers in the tery" (Dodd, Mead & Co.) will be a little disap- i streets of Pittsburg, is woven by the author into a pointing to those who read Mrs. Champney's Witch very interesting story, well worth the reading, show- Winnie ” of last year. But as the story progresses, ing as it does the essentially human side of lives so the personality of the characters becomes more entirely outside the ordinary knowledge or experi- marked. They cease to be a mob of chattering | ence. 290 [Dec., THE DIAL Mrs. Molesworth, in her latest juvenile, “ Nurse piece to the volume. “A Sweet Girl Graduate” (Cas- Heatherdale's Story” (Macmillan), has avoided the sell) is a story for girls, by Miss L. T. Meade, with moralizing strain that weighed down her earlier works, illustrations. Two stories by Rosa Nouchette Carey, and has thus produced a more than usually pleasing “Our Bessie ” and “Averil," are published, with illus- book, to which the illustrations, by Leslie Brooke, add trations, by the Lippincott Company. Messrs. Porter an attractive element. & Coates inaugurate a “Wild-Woods Series ” with The season brings the usual collection of charming «Through Forest and Fire,” by Edward S. Ellis. “With color-books for young folks, among which the palm for the Green Jackets ” (Brentano's) is a narrative of “ the artistic merit must be awarded to Walter Crane's life and adventures of a rifleman,” by J. Percy Groves. “Queen Summer, or The Tourney of the Lily and the The same publishers issue “ The Black Police," a story Rose" (Cassell). Some of the color effects in this of modern Australia, by A. J. Vogan. “Princess Girl- volume are very striking and pleasing, to old eyes as ikin; or, The Fairy Thimble,” by Ida Preston Nichols, well as young.“ Maud Humphrey's Mother Goose " with “ Other Fairy Tales " by Mary De Morgan, is a (Stokes) is another charming color-book, whose dainty volume of elegant appearance, issued by Dutton & Co. drawings and artistic coloring render one but little dis- “ The Little Millionaire” (Lothrop) is a story written posed to question the publishers' claim that it is the by Martha L. Moody, for the purposes of portraying “ handsomest • Mother Goose' ever published.” “Tom the disadvantages of money to a spoiled child,-a task, Tucker and Little Bo-Peep " (Cassell) contains a col- one would think, of obvious supererogation. “ Princess lection of lively variations upon “Mother Goose" Ilse” is a story translated from the German by Flor- themes, by Thomas Hood, with original illustrations by ence M. Cronise, illustrated by John E. Bundy, and Alice Wheaton Adams. Two amusing novelties of the published by Albert, Scott, & Co., Chicago. “An En- toy-book order are «The Brownie Paper Dolls”(Stokes), tire Stranger” (Crowell) is a story by Rev. T. L. Baily, and “ Sea-Side Fun" with a series of " surprise model with school-teaching experiences as a subject and a pictures ” (Brentano's). " school-ma'am" as a heroine. - The Knighting of the Prominent among books for the littler children are Twins, and Other Stories,” by Clyde Fitch, is a prettily “ Marjorie and Her Papa," by R. H. Fletcher, printed illustrated volume, published by Roberts Brothers. “Led in Unknown Paths," a prize story written by Anna in large type, with numerous illustrations (CenturyCo.); “ Chatterbox” for 1891-2, with innumerable pictures F. Raffensberger for a religious paper, is reprinted in and much “miscellaneous " reading (Estes & Lauriat); book form, with illustrations, by Crowell & Co. A col- “ The Little Ladies,” by Helen Milman, illustrated by lection of Jessie Benton Fremont's sketches of frontier Emily F. Harding (Lippincott); “ My Little Margaret" life, originally published in “ Wide Awake,” are re- and - The Little New Neighbor,” both written by Mary printed by Lothrop Company in a volume entitled “The D. Brine and illustrated by Miss A. G. Plympton (Dut- Will and the Way Stories." Miss L. T. Meade's story, ton); “ New and True," by Mary Wiley Staver, a col- “ The Children of Wilton Chase," with illustrations by lection of " rhymes and rhythms and histories droll, for Everard Hopkins, is published by Cassell Publishing Co. boys and girls from pole to pole," profusely illustrated (Lee & Shepard); and a new edition of "Baby World,” a collection of stories, rhymes, and pictures, compiled TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS. from “ St. Nicholas ” (Century Co.) December, 1891. The quality of children's periodicals seems to be Americans and Money. J. H. Browne. North American. steadily increasing, both in reading-matter and pictures, Annunciation, The. (Illus.) H. Van Dyke. Harper. and the bound volumes of these popular publications are Astronomical Discoveries. Camille Flammarion. Arena. a notable feature of the Holiday trade. First on the Athletics and Heart Disease. D. A. Sargent. Educ'l Review. list is “St. Nicholas," whose numbers for 1891 are Blackfeet, Among the. (Illus.) Julian Ralph. Harper. bound in two parts, in the customary red-and-gold cov- Botany, Economic. G. L. Goodale. Popular Science. ers, containing 968 pages of matter and 800 pictures, Bowery, New York. Illus.) Julian Ralph. Century. 26 of the latter being full-page. Scarcely inferior in Capital and Labor. R. G. Ingersoll. North American. Citizenship and Suffrage. Francis Minor Arena. attractiveness, while superior in cheapness, is “ Har- Columbus, Pessimistic Biography of. C. A. L. Richards. Dial. per's Young People,” with its 860 pages and 800 illus Competition Self-destructive. A. F. Walker. Forum. trations, bound in a single volume in covers of green Congress Reforms. G. H. Walker. Chatauquan. and-gold. The well-known “Lothrop Magazines ”_ Connecticut's Lost Volcanoes. (Illus.) W.M. Davis. Pop. Sci. “ Wide Awake," " The Pansy,” “Our Little Men and Corporal Punishment. Dean of St. Paul's. North American. Women,” and “ Babyland,” — appear in the usual bound Dead Blue River. (Illus.) J. S. Hittell. Overland. form, with decorated covers and a generally attractive Dog Training. (Illus.) Wesley Mills. Popular Science. Dust. J. G. McPherson. Popular Science. air. Education, Modern. Frederick Harrison. Forum. In Holiday publications, as in other things, some of | Elective Franchise. R. H. Williams. Arena. the best may come last; and limitations of space and ! English Life in the Eighteenth Century. Marian Mead. Dial. time prevent more than a bare mention of the books Faith in God. C. A. Bartol. Irena. remaining on our list, many of them deserving of an Fiction, Recent Books of. W.M. Payne. Dial. extended notice. “ Rose and Lavender” (Roberts) is ! Flower and Seed Growing. (Illus.) Ninetta Eames. Overland. a sweet little story by that excellent writer for the Football : Sport and Training. J. H. Sears. No. American. young, the author of " Miss Toosey's Mission." The France and Germany. Camille Pelletan. Forum. familiar - Elsie Books," by Martha Finley, are contin- Gold Cure. L. E. Keeley. North American. Harvard, Poor Man at. North American. ued by “ Elsie's Vacation, and After Events” (Dodd). | Italy and the Pope. Ex-Minister Crispi. North American. «« Thrown upon Her Own Resources; or, What Girls Japan's Most Ancient Shrine. Lafcadio Hearn. Atlantic. Can Do" (Crowell) is a contribution to the discussion Jewish Persecution. A. Leroy-Beaulieu. Forum. of business opportunities for women, by “Jennie June," Literature in the South. T. N. Page. Lippincott. of whom a very pleasing portrait is given as a frontis- ! Lowell as Educator. Seth Low, Educational Review. 1891.] 291 THE DIAL Lower Animals' Progress. E. P. Evans. Popular Science. Where Meadows Meet the Sea: A collection of Sea Songs Mental Telegraphy. Mark Twain. Harper. and Pastoral Lays. Edited by Harrison S. Morris. Illus. Moore, Albert. (Illus.) Harold Frederic. Scribner. by F. F. English. 12mo, pp. 300, full gilt. J. B. Lip- Mozart. (Illus.) Amelia G. Mason. Century. pincott Co. In box, $3,50. Nile, Afloat on the. (Illus.) E. H. Blashfield. Scribner. In the Yule-Log Glow: Christmas Tales from 'Round the Nile, A Trip up the. (Illus.) A. De Potter. Chatauquan. World. Edited by Harrison S. Morris. In 4 vols., 16mo, Vegro Superstitions. Sara M. Handy. Lippincott. gilt tops, rough edges. J. B. Lippincott Co. In box, $3. New England Theology. A. V. G. Allan. Atlantic. Wedding Bells. By Isabel Gordon. Illus. in color and gilt, New Mexico. (Illus.) C. F. Lummis. Scribner. oblong, gilt edges. L. Prang & Co. Boxed, $3.00. New York Working-Girls. Edgar Fawcett. Arena. Japonica. By Sir Edwin Arnold, M. A. Illus. by Robert Ocean from Real Life. (Illus.) J. A. Beebe. Century. Blum. 4to, pp. 128, gilt top, rough edges. Chas. Serib- ner's Sons. $3.00. Pacific Coast Defenses. (Illus.) A. H. Sydenham. Overland. Ocean Steamships: A Popular Account of their Construc- Painting in France. C. H. Moore Atlantic. tion, Development, etc. By F. E. Chadwick, U.S. N., Parnell, C.S. R. D. St. John. Chatauquan. and others. Illus., large 8vo, pp. 298. Chas. Scribner's Pastel-Painting. (Illus.) Mrs. E. W. Champney. Century. Sons. $3.00. Pension Degradation. A. R. Foote. Forum. The Bookworm: An Illustrated Treasury of Old-Time Lit- * Per Capita” Delusion. Century. erature. Large 8vo, pp. 380, uncut. A. C. Armstrong & Philæ to Wady Halfa. (Illus.) G. Effendi. Cosmopolitan. Son. $3.00, Pottery Industry. (Illus.) E. A. Barber. Popular Science. With Wind and Tide: Homeward Bound. Illus. in monc. Protection or Free Trade. D. A. Wells. Arena. tint, by G.W. Benneman. Oblong 4to. De Wolfe, Fiske, Punitive Prison Management. E. C. Foster. Forum. & Co. Boards, $2.50. Over the Bounding Waves of Life. Illus, in monotint, Quorum in European Legislatures. North American. by Frederick Marschall. Oblong 4to. De Wolfe, Fiske, Railway Rates. Horace Porter. North American. & Co. Boards, $2.50. Raphael. (Illus.) W.J. Stillman and T. Cole. Century. King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table: A Mod- Rapid Transit. (Illus.) L. M. Haupt. Cosmopolitan. . ernized Version of the "Morte Darthur." By Charles Religious Dress. (Illus.) Fred’k Starr. Popular Science. Morris, author of “Half-Hours with the Best Authors." Richmond Society during the War. (Illus.) Cosmopolitan. In 3 vols., 16mo. gilt top. rough edges. J. B. Lippincott Roman Amphitheatre Massacres. (Illus.) Cosmopolitan. Co. In box, $2.25. Santa Barbara Islands. (Illus.) M. Kinsell, Overland. Bits of Old Concord, Massachusetts. Illus, with photo- Science and Immortality. A. J. Du Bois. Century. gravures by Louis K. Harlow. Oblong, ribbon tied. L. Sevem, Joseph, and his Correspondents. W. Sharp. Atlantic. Prang & Co. Boxed, $2.00. Shakespeare's Richard III. J. R. Lowell. Atlantic. Roses of Romance and Flowers of Fancy. From the Sherman and the San Francisco Vigilantes. Century. Poetical Works of Keats and Shelley. Selected and illus. by E. H. Garrett. In 2 vols., 16mo, full gilt. Lit- Tennyson, A Day with. Sir Edwin Arnold. Forum. tle, Brown, & Co. In box, $2.00. Trenton and Princeton, J. C. Ridpath. Chatauquan. Places that Our Lord Loved. By Frederick W. Farrar, Tudor London. (Illus.) Walter Besant. Harper. D.D. With water-color and pen sketches by F. Schuyler Type-Casting Machines. (Illus.) P. D. Ross. Popular Science. Matthews. L. Prang & Co. Boxed, $2.00. War, Benefits of. S. B. Luce. North American. Friendship. By Cicero, Bacon, and Emerson. With por- War, Praises of. Agnes Repplier. Atlantic. traits, 8vo, pp. 104, gilt top. Albert, Scott & Co. In Whittier, the New England Poet. George Stewart. Arena. box, $2.00. Workingman and Free Silver. T. V. Powderly. North Am. The Lover's Year-Book: A Collection of Love Poems for Working-Women's Clubs. Helen Campbell. Irena. Every Day in the Year. By Horace Parker Chandler. World's Columbian Exposition. Century. Vol. I., January to June. 16mo, pp. 176, gilt top. Rob- erts Bros. $1.25. ---- - - -- - - -- --- = Family Record. By Lizzie K. Harlow. Illus. in colors, sm. 4to. L. Prang & Co. $1.25. BOOKS OF THE MONTH. Wedding Bells: A Book for Marriage Records. By H. Emilie Taylor. 18mo. F. A. Stokes Co. $1.00. * The following list includes all books received by The DIAL Bonnets and Hąts: Portrayed from Youth to Age. Poem by Mary H. Huntington, illus. by Helen A. Goodwin. In during the month of November, 1891.] shape of bonnet. L. Prang & Co. In box, $1.00. No Sect in Heaven. Illustrated and Engrossed by F. ILLUSTRATED HOLIDAY BOOKS. Schuyler Matthews. Oblong. L. Prang & Co. In box, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. By Lew Wallace. Illus. 75 cts. with 20 photogravures and 1,000 marginal Drawings by The Prize Piggies: A fac-simile painting by Miss S. A.Winn. W. M. Johnson. In 2 vols., 12mo, gilt top, uncut edges. In mat, size 219 x 13%. L. Prang & Co. 75 cts. Harper & Bros. In cloth box, $7.00. The Old Farm Gate. By Lurabel Harlow. Illus, by Louis Venetian Life. By William Dean Howells. In 2 vols., K. Harlow. In shape of an old gate. L. Prang & (o. illus. in aqua-tint, 12mo, gilt tops. Houghton, Mifflin Boxed, 75 ets. & Co. Boxed, $5.00, A Day's Fishing. By Lucie A. Harlow. Illus, in monotint, Art and Criticism: Monographs and Studies by Theodore In shape of basket. L. Prang & Co. 50 cts. Child. Profusely illus., 4to, pp. 313, gilt top, uncut A Christmas Salad: After Sydney Smith. By Lizzie K. edges. Harper & Bros. $6.00. Harlow. In shape of leaf. L, Prang & Co. 30 cts. Siberia and the Exile System. By George Kennan. In 2 | A Tennis Set. By Lucie A. Harlow. Illus. in monotint. L. vols., with many illustrations. Svo, gilt tops, rough edges. Prany & Co. 50 cts. Century Co. In box, $6.00. Clouds and Sunshine. By Margaret Deland. Two colored Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey. By Ar- illustrations. L. Prang & Co. 50 cts. thur Penrhyn Stanley, D.D. In vols., illus., Svo, gilt June. By Mary A. Conroy. Illus. in color. L. Prang & tops, rough edges. A. D. F. Randolph & Co. In box, Co. 27 cts. $7.30). Rose-Time. By Mary A. Conroy. Hlus. in color. L. Prang Sharp Eyes: A Rambler's Calendar of Fifty-two Weeks & Co. 25 cts. among Insects, Birds, and Flowers. By William Hamil- All Around the Year Calendar for 1892: Twelve de- ilton Gibson. Illus. by author, large Svo, pp. 322, gilt signs in color by J. Pauline Sunter. Gilt edged, tied. top, uncut edges. Harper & Bros. $5.00. 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