been worthy of attentive study and thought.
factorily many important topics necessary During fifty-two years of a life now running
to a just estimate of his work, the paper de out the sands of its seventy-second year, the
voted to him—a calm and judicious produc views of Mr. Tilden on public affairs have
tion is not too long. There is no poetry in been sought and valued by the leading men of
the catalogues of things that are peculiar to the time in which they were uttered. At the
Whitman, and he says a good deal that does pace we are living to-day, it is hard to realize
not betray the bard. Half of his verse might what this means. But we have only to read
be eliminated without injury to his fame or to Mr. Tilden's letters to the Kinderhook “Senti-
the interests of literature.
nel” and the Columbia “Sentinel” in 1833, to
The last chapter, “The Outlook," is a rare the New York “Standard and Statesman” in
piece of composition. None but experienced 1834, and the democratic (!) New York
writers can well appreciate the difficulty of “ Times” in 1837, to know that he was a
treating successfully the subject which in Mr. young but recognized contemporary of Web-
Stedman's hands is so clearly, gracefully, and ster, Jackson, Clay, Adams, and Van Buren,
fairly handled. He writes with a comprehen in the vigor of their prime. It is a remarkable
sive view of the situation, and with a temper feature of Mr. Tilden's life, as seen through
ate prophecy of the future of American poetry. his writings, that his mind was never only half
His characterization of the minor poets is mature. From youth he appears to have
neatly done, and few will dispute his verdict, leaped immediately into the most serious reflect-
in most instances, concerning familiar names. ive manhood. From the feet of the political
It is rather to be regretted that he did not Gamaliels he sprang into the seat of a teacher
group in one list the Decorative Poets, wher of political truths.
ever any admit of such classification. The Through his speech to the Democracy of
other names mentioned would then be more Columbia in 1868, we of this later generation
accurately associated in the mind of the read catch a glimpse of the shy youth of fourteen
ing public.
or thereabouts, a silent but absorbing quantity
This volume is highly creditable to the pub in his father's household. There he was
lishers, and is a very important contribution taught that the first duty of a citizen of a
to our critical literature. If some one who republic was to take his fair allotment of care
understands Mr. Stedman as he understands
and trouble in all public affairs. How many
our other singers should write about him as of the youth of to-day receive any such useful
honestly and ably as he has written about
teaching with their daily bread around the
others, then the portraiture of American poets family board ? At the New Lebanon home-
and poetry up to this time would be all that stead he became acquainted with the great
could be desired. HORATIO N. POWERS. statesmen of the Jacksonian period. There
too he met Martin Van Buren, Silas Wright,
William L. Marcy, Albert Gallatin, and many
TILDEN'S PUBLIC WRITINGS AND others whose names and works are familiar to
SPEECHES.*
students of the history of fifty years ago. Of
"In all that my childhood, while living among
all these, none exercised a stronger influence
you, I had listened to the tales of our Revolutionary
upon the receptive mind of young Tilden than
ancestors-yours and mine. I had heard the story Gallatin, the traces of whose views upon cur-
rency and financial problems are to be found
* THE WRITINGS AND SPEECHES OF SAMUEL J. TILDEN.
Edited by John Bigelow. New York: Harper & Brothers. | down to the latest utterances of the democratic


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sage. Many will join with Mr. Tilden in his for legislation to lift the clouds. “When,”
regret, expressed in 1874, that “we have had he exclaimed, “will men learn to trust more
lately no schools of statesmanship in New | to the laws of trade and less to artificial
York or in the nation” comparable with that regulations' of government; more to the
which in 1833 sent him fully equipped into the wise arrangements of Providence and less to
field of political controversy. He learned their own cunning devices ?”
statecraft from the fathers, and in“ the simple Incredible as it may seem to readers who
habits, moderate tastes and honest purposes of know little of Mr. Tilden's career prior to his
the rural community” in which he was reared | fight with the Tweed ring, he was a democratic
he saw the best assurance of the lasting wel “mugwump” and honorable Free-soiler in
fare of his country.
1848. In that year, the New York delegation,
While still under twenty, Mr. Tilden entered of which he was a member, was denied admis-
the ranks of political discussion in the defense sion to the democratic national convention at
of Jackson against Calhoun and the nullifiers. Baltimore, because the state convention by
Like all the writers of that period, there is which it was accredited had declared against
a marked rhetorical finish, not to say flourish. the extension of slavery into the free Terri-
about his letter to the Kinderhook “Sentinel” | tories. The report of the excluded delegates
with which Mr. Bigelow opens his interesting to the New York state convention was
series of Tilden's public writings and speeches. | written by Mr. Tilden. It is a calm and
He wrote, even then, as a man sure of his dispassionate presentation of their right of
facts and confident of his judgment. If one | unpledged admission to the convention. This
could close the mind to the style of his com being denied, they declined to take part in
position, it would be difficult to distinguish the proceedings or to consider the nomina-
between the reasoning of Tilden at twenty tion of Lewis Cass as binding upon the
and at seventy. His financial opinions—some! democracy of New York. The outcome was
might call them instincts-matured early, and the nomination of Martin Van Buren by the
have remained with little change until now. | Free-soilers, and the consequent election of
It would be difficult to find anywhere a better Zach. Taylor, the Whig candidate, by a
history in brief of banking systems than that
given in his speech on currency, prices, and The position of the democratic party upon
wages, at New Lebanon, October 3, 1840. Mr. | the prohibition question was never more suc-
Tilden was opposed unalterably to the United, cinctly stated than in Mr. Tilden's reply to its
States Bank, and claimed that a separation of adherents when he was a candidate for the
the Government from the banks was the only attorney-generalship, in 1855. “It is no part
mode by which business could be extricated of the duty of the state,” he wrote, “to coerce
from “the vortex of party politics.” It was the individual man, except so far as his con-
in this speech that he declared the distinction duct may affect others, not remotely and
between nominal wages and real wages to be, consequentially, but by violating rights which
that the one was estimated in money, the legislation can recognize and undertake to
other by the amount of the necessaries and protect.”
comforts of life which they will purchase. Mr. Tilden's public utterances just prior to
He viewed taxation in much the same way and during the war are strong in their deter-
as Dr. Johnson did the excise, which is de- mination that the Union must be preserved,
nounced in his dictionary as a hateful tax mingled with the fear that the nation might
levied upon commodities by wretches hired by come out of the struggle with a crippled con-
those to whom it is paid. Mr. Tilden in 1840 | stitution. But this did not prevent his saying
quoted with approval the saying of a true that the duty of the hour was “to save the
patriot, that “a public debt is a calamity and Union first, and to repair the damages which
a curse, and a perpetual blight upon honest our political system might sustain, when the
industry and productive labor.” This entire more imminent danger had been provided
speech, by a man of twenty-six, is a great against.” His keen foresight as to the means
repository of political wisdom and financial by which the Rebellion was to be crushed was
sagacity. After reading it one does not shown in the remark to Secretary Stanton :
wonder that the man who made it so ordered “You cannot count upon finding generals of
his own affairs that he is to-day one of the great military genius, such as the whole
wealthy men of America. He built up his | human race produces but once in several
own fortune by practicing in his business the | centuries; you must make available the
theories he preached to the public.
superiority of the North in population, and its
Mr. Tilden never placed much faith in legis vastly greater superiority in material re-
lating good times. An exclamation of his sources.” He foresaw the war as inevitable
while a member of the legislature in 1846 through the vast property interests involved-
may be commended to those who, in periods | placed by him in 1860 at not less than three
of financial depression, are always clamoring thousand million dollars—threatened by the


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ascendancy of an inimical party which had no in 1879. As he moved along past the great
support in a single Southern state. Sectional mastiffs, the observer might have noticed that
division, he said, educated the people for dis | he understood the animals and that they rec-
union; and he had no patience with those ognized a friend. I have never since believed
shallow sophists “who, wiser than Washing the more common stories to Mr. Tilden's dis-
ton, braver than Jackson, more skilled in our credit. A dog's instinct is a safer thing to
complex government than Jefferson, scoffed at predicate a man's true nature upon than half
the danger and at all who saw it, as insincere the tales one hears of a politician who has
or timid.” But Tilden's patriotism was un- been in the arena for half a century. Tilden
swerving. While he remained a stanch demo- | may be the sly and evil genius his enemies
crat through the war, he held that in time of paint him, but in his writings and speeches
such a struggle the opposition party should do will be found the evidence of remarkable ob-
nothing whereby the enemies of the Union could servation, a thorough mastery of economic
be encouraged or its defenders embarrassed. principles, a comprehensive philosophy and
He never directly quite did justice to Lincoln; sound morality. No better illustration of this
and he espoused the cause of Johnson, in 1866, could be chosen to conclude this review than
as the “firm, hardy, courageous, indomitable two sentences from his speech to the Young
man who yesterday stood by us, by the Union, Men's Democratic Club of New York in 1874,
and the government, alone among the Southern when he said: “I have never known a man so
senators, and almost alone in his own state,” eager for objects of ambition or of fortune
and “who has perilled more and sacrificed that he sought to obtain them by indirection,
more for the Constitution and the Union than who did not find, when they were attained,
any other man now living.” In the words that they failed to satisfy. The human heart
which I have italicised I think I find Tilden's is incapable of being satisfied with anything
tardy recognition of the services of Abraham but real victories in the race of life; and
Lincoln to his country and humanity. They therefore, young men,—and this is the last
seem to say of Johnson: “ Though I crown observation I have to make to you,—ever feel
thee a heroic man, had another been spared, that the right will be successful, and the right
thou, with all thy sacrifices and honors, would
only.”
Slason THOMPSON.
only have been second.”
---
The idea of General Grant's first candidacy
was distasteful to the civilian mind of Tilden.
PACIFIC COAST HISTORY.*
“We are not going to have another war," he
exclaimed, in 1868, “ and if we were, the place Alexander von Humboldt wrote an account
for General Grant is at the head of the army, of the “ Kosmos” in five volumes, and the
and not in the presidency.”
work was esteemed a model of comprehensive
Of Tilden's more recent public utterances it erudition. But Mr. Hubert Howe Bancroft
is needless here to speak." His great services does not feel that he can write a satisfactory
against Tweed and the corrupt canal rings are account of that small portion of the cosmos
recalled by several speeches and letters in Mr. known as the Pacific Coast in less than thirty-
Bigelow's collection. No man more forcibly nine volumes of most goodly size. When he
impressed upon the democracy that “The | made the announcement of his plan, ten years
adoption of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amend ago, it was greeted with considerable incre-
ments to the Federal constitution closed dulity; for the work which he proposed to un-
one great era in our politics; it marked the | dertake was one whose magnitude had rarely
end forever of the system of human slavery if ever before been equalled in the history of
and of the struggles that grew out of that | individual effort. But in spite of incredulity,
system. The questions settled by the war are the history began to appear. First came the
never to be reopened.” So wrote Mr. Tilden five volumes upon “ The Native Races of the
in his first annual message as Governor of Pacific States," constituting a work of enor-
New York.
mous research, complete in itself, although
Was Mr. Tilden always sincere in what he really but a precursor of what was to come;
wrote and said. Quien sabe ? Even as early a “feeler" which was expected to test in some
as 1837 he was charged with a lack of frank way the sentiment of the public as to the value
ness and manliness in his public utterances. and interest of the work as projected in its
He acknowledges that at different times he entirety. Then, after a pause of some years,
has been characterized as “one of the most during which this preliminary work met with
active intriguers of the day,” as a fertile en a most flattering reception from the scholarly
gineer of “wonderful mines and counter world, the history proper was inaugurated by
mines,” etc. This I do know. The first time a volume upon Central America. This was
I ever saw Mr. Tilden he was passing slowly —
in front of the boxes at the Bench Show of * THE WORKS OF, HUBERT HOWE BANCROFT. History
of California-Volume III., 1825–1840, San Francisco: A.
the Westminster Kennel Club of New York, 1 L. Bancroft & Co.


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soon followed by two upon Mexico, and a gift to literature for which no commensurate
second upon Central America; and from that pecuniary return can possibly be expected, his
time to the present the large octavos of the work is a great public benefaction. The
series have been produced at the rate of about other feature of the enterprise which we
one in every three months. There have now wish to mention is found in the magnificent
been published eighteen volumes of the pro preparations made by Mr. Bancroft before
jected thirty-nine, and the material for the beginning the actual composition of his his-
odd score of them to follow has been mostly tories. A fire-proof building constructed for
collected and is in process of active elaboration. the purpose near the outskirts of San Fran-
The successful completion of the task being cisco, contains the library, which has been
now practically assured, the question as to brought together by thirty years of assiduous
how it is done naturally arises. How can a collecting. There are some fifty thousand vol-
man produce thorough and scholarly histories | umes of books and manuscripts relating to
at the rate of a volume in three months? The the Pacific Coast, most of them rare and many
answer to this question constitutes one of the of them unique-one of the largest and most
most interesting episodes in literary history; valuable of special collections ever made.
for it is an account of the successful applica- This library is so closely catalogued that its
tion of the principle of coöperation to the pro entire contents are made as available as are
duction of a gigantic work which yet remains those of a single volume by its index. With
to all intents and purposes the work of the indi- | such resources as these, and in such a spirit of
vidual who has planned and directed it. The devotion to knowledge as we have seen him
work of many hands has gone to the making to possess, Mr. Bancroft has steadily pursued
of these histories ; but this labor has all been his way, elaborating into enduring history the
guided by the man to whom the honor of the material delved out and roughly hewn into
work as a whole is clearly due, and directly shape by his trained assistants, and carrying
from whose own hands it is given forth in its the annals of the Pacific Coast, all the way
final form. That which makes the enterprise from Alaska to Panama, successfully on from
perhaps unique in the history of literature is the dawn of its history to about the middle of
the rare combination of qualifications possessed the present century.
by Mr. Bancroft. There is first the material It is to be observed that the sequence of the
qualification of a large fortune. Without publication of these volumes is chronological,
this, no efforts and no abilities could succeed which will account for the appearance of the
in such a task, while with it there are few | first three volumes upon California before the
indeed who would be able to do what Mr. completion of the series upon Central America
Bancroft has done. Then there is the directive and Mexico. Besides the original five volumes
ability which the work so largely calls for, upon the “Native Races," there have now
and which is possessed by few literary men. been published two of the projected three
Also, there is the special ability of the his | upon Central America; five of the six upon
torical student; the nice discrimination, the Mexico; one of the two upon the North
power to sift and to weigh evidence, the Mexican States and Texas; the two upon the
judicial attitude, and the command of Northwest Coast, preceding those which are to
language. All of these necessary qualifica treat separately of Oregon, British Columbia,
tions seem to be united in Mr. Bancroft, as is and Alaska; and three of the seven volumes
happily demonstrated by this colossal enter which are to contain the history proper of
prise, now half completed.
California. Volume three of the California
There are two points especially to be noted series has just appeared, and is the subject
in connection with the preparation of this of the present review as well as the occasion
work. The first of these is the steadfastness for thus characterizing the enterprise as a
with which, his end clearly in view, Mr. | whole.
Bancroft as a young man set about the The first two volumes upon California take
creation of a fortune for the purpose of | the reader down to the year 1825 ; the present
attaining that end. He made the fortune, and volume carries it on to 1840. In the year 1823,
expended a large portion of it upon this the brief Mexican empire of Iturbide came to
work. It is not an easy thing for a man an end with his downfall and execution, and in
actively engaged in money-getting to remem the following year the Mexican republic was
ber all the time that the accumulation of organized and a federal constitution adopted.
wealth is in no high sense an end in itself, but Luis Argüello, who was at that time Governor
merely the means whereby some useful end of California, received this constitution early
may be accomplished. But Mr. Bancroft has in 1825, and at once placed it before the
not forgotten this important truth, and has set | people for ratification. Under its provisions,
a noble example to his countrymen—an California, lacking the population necessary
example more needed in America, perhaps, for a state, was formally made a territory of
than anywhere else. As an example, and as a | the republic, and José María Echeandía was


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appointed to succeed Argüello as its ruler. The period with which this volume deals is
His rule continued for eight years, during the not the most interesting in Californian history,
last two of which, however, his authority was but Mr. Bancroft has treated it with the con-
in dispute, and California in a condition little scientious thoroughness which characterizes all
short of anarchy. One of the leading inci- of his work, and given to many of its episodes
dents of the rule of Echeandía was a revolt, that interest which must always attach to the
headed by Solis, and probably abetted by vivid and realistic presentation of the play of
Herrera, which was suppressed with difficulty. human motives and actions, be they never so
During this period, important steps were | petty or insignificant. For the most part, he
taken toward the secularization of the missions. can here give us only a densely-marshalled
These years were also those of the early con- | array of minute facts; but when, at times, he
tact of Spanish California with the Americans, escapes from the burden of detail, and permits
whose history from this time onward becomes himself to indulge in reflections of a more
more and more closely interwoven with that | general nature, his style has a simple dignity
of Mexico. American traders by sea, and which cannot fail to impress the reader, and
American hunters and trappers by land, pene make him feel that besides knowledge and
trated to this remote region-pioneers of the | industry and patience, the work of Mr. Ban-
new civilization which was before long to sup croft has, as far as such a work permits, that
press and supplant the old.
crowning excellence which comes from the
Figueroa was the next ruler of the territory. command of fitting words.
He arrived early in 1833, and died two years
later. He is regarded as the best Mexican
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governor ever sent to California. During his
RECENT FICTION.*
rule, an important scheme of colonization from
Mexico was set on foot under the leadership There is no more creditable work now being
of Híjar and Padrés; but political ambition done in American fiction than that of some of
seems to have inspired them, and the scheme our woman novelists. It is perhaps safe to say
met with such opposition that it ended in com that they are doing no less for the dignity and
plete failure. All this time the work of secu the honor of that department of literature
larization was being carried on, and the visits than is being done by the sex reputed to be the
of strangers became more and more frequent, stronger. And it is certain that among the
both by land and by sea. Among these visitors works of invention and imagination which this
may be mentioned the Scotch botanist, David autumnal season has brought forth, the first
Douglas, and R. H. Dana, whose adventures, places clearly belong to the “Andromeda ” of
as told in “ Two Years Before the Mast,” are Miss Fletcher, the “Aulnay Tower" of Miss
well known. In 1834 the first book was Howard, and the “ Prophet of the Great Smoky
printed in California. At about this time the Mountains” of Miss Murfree. Each of these
State department at Washington had some novels is an example of the writer's work at its
thought of purchasing Alta California from the best, and one of them, at least, stands upon a
Mexican republic. The next four years of Cali higher plane of achievement than any of her
fornian history are occupied almost wholly | earlier writings occupy.
with the revolt of Alvarado. This revolt grew
*ANDROMEDA. By George Fleming. Boston: Roberts
out of disaffection with the home government Brothers.
on the part of large numbers of Californians,
AULNAY TOWER. By Blanche Willis Howard. Boston:
owing to the real or fancied neglect of their
THE PROPHET OF THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS. By
interest. The revolution began with the at Charles Egbert Craddock. Boston: Houghton, Mithin
tack and capture of Monterey, and surrender
FOR A WOMAN. By Nora Perry. Boston: Ticknor & Co.
of the governor, late in the year 1836. Alta
California was declared to be a free and sover MARUJA. By Bret Harte. Boston: Houghton, Millin
eign State, and Alvarado was made its ruler.
& Co.
A MISSION FLOWER. By George H. Picard. New York:
But Alvarado found the south arrayed against
White, Stokes, and Allen.
him and his government, and, after several A LITTLE UPSTART. By William H. Rideing. Boston:
indecisive campaigns, submitted again to
Cupples, Upham & Co.
THE LAST MEETING. By Brander Matthews New
Mexico as the only means of uniting the sec-
York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
tions into which California itself had become LOVE-OR A NAME. By Julian Ilawthorne. Boston:
divided. He was confirmed in his rule by the
Ticknor & Co.
A FAMILY AFFAIR. By Hugh Conway. New York:
home government, and the year 1840-down
Henry Holt & Co.
to which date the present volume takes us SLINGS AND ARROWS. By Hugh Conway. New York:
found him still at the head of Californian
Henry Holt & Co.
As IT WAS WRITTEN. A JEWISH MUSICIAN'S STORY. By
affairs. A number of concluding chapters con-
tain the local annals of the different sections COLOR STUDIES. By Thomas A. Janvier. New York:
of the country for the decade whose general
Charles Scribner's Sons.
PÈRE GORIOT. By Honoré de Balzac. Boston: Roberts
history has already been given in full. .
Brothers.
Ticknor & Co.
& Co.
MRS. KEITII'S CRIME. New York: Harper & Brothers.
Sidney Luska. New York: Cassell & Co.


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This work, to which we are inclined to give phere than that in which ordinary mortals, or
the place of honor in the present article, is the even novelists, breathe. The story is simple,
“Andromeda” of George Fleming—a pseudo- and in most respects conventional; but it is
nym beneath which it is well known that the not commonplace. It has touches of the ideal
personality of Miss Julia Fletcher is concealed. which lift it above the level of everyday life.
*Andromeda” is the fifth of her novels, and is We are tempted to say that it suggests George
also distinctly the finest thing that she has done. Sand. Aulnay Tower is the seat of a French
It is the old story of pity mistaken for love nobleman of the old school. It is so near
before love's advent, and the anguish which Paris that when the Germans invest that city
comes when love stands indeed revealed. | in the war of 1870, it falls within their lines,
This story has a quality which recalls some-, and extends its enforced hospitalities to a
thing of the emotion of that tale of Paolo and number of the enemy's officers. The marquis,
Francesca which has been forever consecrated his widowed niece, and the abbé—that figure
by the immortal tears of the Florentine. But so familiar in French history and literature-
the shadow of sin which darkens the tale of are the residents at the chateau, and are all
the lovers of Rimini is missing here: we have, | united in hatred of the invaders. But the
instead, self-repression and heroic abnegation, disagreeable situation must be accepted, and
love purified by suffering, and friendship each makes the best of it after his own par-
tempered to new strength by sacrifice. The ticular fashion. The marquis maintains an air
Marchese San Donati is a young Italian, whose of infinite condescension towards his self-
nobility includes the character as well as the invited guests. The abbé becomes apparently
name. A slight deformity has embittered his most studious of books, but really studious of
life by debarring him from his due share in the plans and operations of the enemy thus
the ordinary pursuits of men, and his life has brought under his immediate observation.
been, in a measure, solitary and reflective. His The countess, who is of a generous nature,
English friend Nevil Marlowe stands in finds her prejudices soften as the association,
marked contrast to him as the possessor of fine at first so much abhorred, is prolonged, and
physique and exuberant cheerfulness of dis- ends by converting the situation into a romance
position. Now the perversity of circumstance wherein one of the German officers, whose
will have it that these two men love the same delicate attentions and nobility of character
woman; and she, having but imagined that she have won her heart, figures conspicuously.
could return the love of San Donati, and The book is a very slight thing, and is not
having given him her pledges, learns that in so without faults, chief among which is the
doing she has acted without full self-knowl | prominence given to a pert serving-maid of
edge, but still bravely contrives to conceal the the countess, whose presence constantly jars
misery that is hers when she realises that she upon the reader. But it deserves the welcome
loves and is loved by Marlowe. The conduct which should be given to all sincere and well-
of the lovers, when each has thus the other's considered work which does, or nearly does,
secret, is honorable; but the keen eye of San all that it aims to do.
Donati soon discerns how matters really Unlike the two preceding novels, “The
stand, and he nobly renounces his own hap- Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains” is a
piness to secure that of the two human beings work of purely indigenous growth, and its
whom he loves best upon earth. But no dry | realism contrasts strikingly with the romantic
analysis of the plot can give any idea of the | quality of “Andromeda ” and “Aulnay Tower.”
delicacy and the strength combined with which It is, on the whole, the best thing which Miss
this situation is wrought out. Both the ex- Murfree has done, and the humble and homely
pression and the thought of the book are har-| life which it depicts becomes, under her treat-
monious; the delineation of character is ment, invested with the interest which more
admirable in its firmness; the critical moments readily attaches to higher and more heroic
in these three closely interwoven lives are themes. Perhaps it would be better to say
charged with that intense vitality which makes that the theme of a novel is, after all, of second-
such moments of more consequence than or ary importance, and that human life, in any
dinary years; and the Italian setting of the of its manifestations, may be so figured, or
story very clearly comes from an association rather transfigured, by the power of the
of the familiar eye and the loving hand. novelist as to appear worthy of the most
Against these broad positive merits some few | serious contemplation. Miss Murfree has
slight faults of detail might perhaps be set, worked this transfiguration upon the unpromis-
but the balance would remain greatly in favor ing material which is offered by the unlettered
of the book as a piece of very admirable art. inhabitants of the Tennessee mountain district.
We always expect Miss Howard's work to Her men and women speak in an uncouth
be well done, and “Aulnay Tower” offers us tongue, and the range of their ideas is limited
no reason for disappointment. There is about to the very narrow circle of their material
it, as there was about “Guenn," a finer atmos- | environment, with such slight admixture of


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extra-material suggestion as is offered by of the children is taken from her by scarlet
crude notions of religion, but their merely fever, and the other shows symptoms of con-
human nature appears through, and in spite of, sumption so pronounced that it becomes
this disguise of dialect, mannerism, contracted necessary to take her to the warmer climate of
provincialism, and other accidents. That the | southern Europe. Mrs. Keith is with much
rustic maiden and the itinerant preacher of difficulty enabled to take the child with her
the tale speak the English language after their to Malaga, where some weeks are spent, but it
own rude and unregulated fashion, does not is found impossible to save its life, and the
make the one a less sweet or the other a less mother herself fails rapidly. The greatest
heroic figure; and the finely imaginative treat- | terror of all awaits her when she learns that,
ment which is given to their natural surround- | few as are the days remaining for the child,
ings lends something of its own impressiveness, there are still fewer left for herself. That her
to the obscure lives of these people. In spite dear one shall be left to linger and die thus
of her admirable treatment of character, we among strangers is a thought unbearable to the
still think that the writer's strength is chiefly mother; and when at the point of death her-
shown in her treatment of nature. Her de self, she mercifully puts an end to its life.
scriptions are terse and powerful. They have This is the “crime” up to which the entire
the magical style and the synthetic feeling of narrative leads. While there is much that is
the larger utterances of poetry. “ Always crude in the language and the construction of
enwrapped in the illusory mists, always touch the story, it has an undeniable, if hysterical,
ing the evasive clouds, the peaks of the Great force. We may more than fancy that the
Smoky Mountains are like some barren ideal, writer has put into her book much that is
that has bartered for the vague isolation of a taken from the most bitter chapter of her own
higher atmosphere the material values of the experience. It is not many years since she
warm world below. Upon those mighty and accompanied a beloved husband to these same
majestic domes no tree strikes root, no hearth is southern scenes, there to watch over his last
alight; humanity is an alien thing, and utility hours and endure the agony of the final
set at naught." These very first words of the parting. This book is a transcript from the
story illustrate well enough what is meant. pages of memory quite as fully as it is a work
Such pictures are not easily effaced from the of the imagination.
mind. This sympathetic interpretation of The invention of Mr. Bret Harte appears
nature in terms of human feeling has the inexhaustible, and his story of “Maruja" is as
power to impress the memory indelibly.
bright and fresh as if the ground covered had
A pretty little love-story, which can be read not already been gone over a score of times
in half an hour, is called “For a Woman,” by the author. Southern California, and the
and is the work of Miss Nora Perry. It is a contact there of the old Spanish and the new
drama in two acts. The first of them is American civilization, has been repeatedly
placed in the Maine woods, and strongly sug shown by Mr. Harte to offer the novelist all
gests “A Chance Acquaintance." There is the elements of romance, and he has again
the same young girl, the same scheming sister, treated these elements in his most fascinating
the same young man, and the same fortuitous manner. The story has a charm which forbids
concourse of circumstances which throws us to question over-closely the inherent proba-
them all together. But the young man turns bility of the plot, and makes us willing to
out to be possessed of a crime-clouded past, accept thankfully whatever is overdrawn and
and the curtain falls upon the distress occa exaggerated about it. Happily, Mr. Harte
sioned by this discovery. The second act is has not succumbed to the lethargic influence of
shorter, and the scene is laid in Naples during the latest schools in fiction. He does not sac-
the cholera season of 1884. The two lovers rifice romance to realism, nor is he psychologi-
are again brought together, and arrive at a cal at the expense of being objective. Ameri-
happy understanding. The story is non-pre can fiction to-day has no stronger or more
tentious, as befits its exceedingly modest | healthy representative.
merits.
The reader may linger awhile longer among
We turn now to a novel entitled “Mrs. these Californian scenes, if he takes up “.
Keith’s Crime," the work of an English woman, Mission Flower” after laying “Maruja"
which has attracted considerable attention, aside. And if he once catches sight of the
partly on account of its inherent power, and attractive exterior of the book, he will be
partly because, although anonymous, it is | likely to explore its contents. This story is
understood to be written by the wife of the the work of Mr. George H. Picard, and seems
late Professor Clifford. The story is very to be based upon some slight familiarity with
slight indeed. A young woman, widowed by Californian life, but has not the strong local
an accident, is left with two children and but color of the last sketch by Bret Harte. It is,
slender resources for their maintenance. | however, pleasing as a story, and not without
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success of the book, and the characters of the Matthews, and is certainly a good story, if its
two girls are drawn with delicacy. There is power to sustain the excited interest of the
little of nature and correspondingly much of reader be the test applied. Once begun, it
life in these pages; yet the life is surprisingly will hardly be laid aside until read to the end;
inactive, and a very few words would sum up and this is clearly a positive merit. But the
all that happens from the first chapter to the reader will at the same time do well if he keep
last.
from a critical attitude, for the main incident
One of the brightest and most readable of of the story is of the most sensational and
the stories in our list is called “A Little Up improbable sort. The young man who is
start,” and is the work of Mr. William H. captured in the streets of New York, drugged,
Rideing. It is a Bostonian novel, and has and shipped as a common sailor under the
certainly no lack of local color. Many of the auspices of the “Brotherhood of the Sea,"
characters and incidents are strongly suggestive with the prospect of successive reshipments,
of real persons and things, and we suspect that conducted in the same peculiar fashion, for the
a closely initiated person may do much reading remainder of his natural life, is an interesting
between the lines. A young girl from Ver person to read about, but one who hardly
mont has published a novel, in which she has occurs in reality in these degenerate days.
innocently put a number of the inhabitants of Yet the story is so ingenious and so well
her country home. The slight pretense of managed that even this is pardonable; and we
disguise in which she has veiled the sayings do not presume that Mr. Matthews expects his
and doings of her old friends and acquaintances | readers to take him very seriously. We meet
does not deceive them at all, and she finds, to here several of our old friends-Dear Jones,
her dismay, that the dovecotes of the Green Baby Van Rensselaer, and the Duchess of
Mountain district are somewhat angrily flut | Washington Square—and also make some new
tered at being thus depicted. Her book is de ones, the Englishman, Mr. Hobson-Cholmon-
void of literary merits, but it is so direct a deley, being a person whose acquaintance we
transcript of actual experience that it attracts hope to cultivate further in future.
much attention and enjoys a large popular “Love, or a Name”—for that is the title of
success. The writer is taken up by a vulgar Mr. Julian Hawthorne's latest novel-tells a
female tuft-hunter, and under her auspices is most preposterous tale of a New York capi-
introduced to Boston society, where she makes talist who schemes to do no less a thing than
a considerable sensation. But her sweet overthrow the government of the United
simple nature seems to pass unharmed through States, and establish in its stead some form of
the ordeal of noisy recognition to which she monarchy controlled by himself and his tools.
is subjected, and she is found so attractive by The exact nature of his plan is left to the sur-
a very fastidious young man with the bluest mises of the reader, who receives only enig-
of blood in his veins that he asks her to marry matical hints concerning it. As chief of the
him. He is himself a writer, and knows how tools which are to aid him in this work, the
worthless her work is when judged by any ambitious schemer has selected a young man
high standard; but her fresh young grace has who has the rare virtue of uniting blunt out-
for him an irresistible charm, and he makes spoken honesty with a large capacity for
her his wife in spite of the disapprobation of double-dealing and underhanded trickery.
family and friends. Unfortunately, however, Just how this may be done, Mr. Hawthorne
she cannot resist the temptation to write does not inform us. The great scheme natur-
another novel. This turns out as much of a ally comes to grief, and its promoter to suicide;
failure as her other had been a success, for the while the young man manages to escape being
simple reason that she has nothing more in the involved in the ruin. There are two young
way of real experience to offer, and has no women in the story. One of them has
imaginative resources to fall back upon. The “golden eyes,” which is the only especially
dreadful female with whom she is unfortu interesting thing about her; the other is
nately associated encourages her in the delusion brought in to console the young man for the
that she has literary talent, and causes a tem failure of his plans. It is the dreariest piece
porary estrangement from her husband. She of work that we have seen for many a day, and
soon learns her mistake, however, and the much the weakest thing which Mr. Hawthorne
quarrel is made up happily. The style of this has done. The title has no relevancy, and the
simple narrative is admirable, and Mr. Rideing story to which it is attached is ill-conceived,
is to be congratulated upon his success. The and almost completely devoid of any interest,
story is almost wholly free from those false human or otherwise.
notes which are so apt to mar a brilliant piece The last novel of the late Mr. Fargus is no
of work.
more intrinsically deserving of notice than
“The Last Meeting" is a mixture, in about any of his earlier ones, but the extraordinary
equal parts, of clever conversation and Cor popularity of the writer makes the mention of
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be omitted in a chronicle like this. “A Family recent translation that calls for special notice,
Affair” is not a ghost story, and so its incidents both on account of the importance of the
come within the range of possibilities; but original and of the manner in which the
the main situation which it presents is strained translation is made. We regret to say that
to the verge of absurdity, and there is too we can mention the work only to condemn it.
large an infusion of melodrama to suit tastes “ Le Père Goriot" is not yet placed within the
of any refinement. We do not think that it reach of English readers, for the reason that
is an exactly creditable state of public opinion the present translator has presumed to make
which can make it possible for a Hugh Con- | impertinent substitution of his own literary
way to have the sort and amount of literary taste for that of the master whose work it is,
success which he undoubtedly secured during and to revise and alter the text in an utterly
his meteoric career as a novelist. We note shameless fashion. This work of Balzac is
also an additional volume of short stories by one of the masterpieces of the world's litera-
the same writer. The longest of them is enti ture; it may be called the King Lear of
tled “Slings and Arrows,' and gives a title to modern prose; and the translator should
the collection. It is one of the best things touch it with a reverent hand. Vandalism
that Mr. Fargus has written, being simple, may revel unchallenged in the alteration of
straightforward, and probable. Three shorter ordinary books, but when it raises its hands to
sketches go with it to make up the book.
make miserable pretence of improvement in a
The immense popularity of Hugh Conway's work of this character, it should not be coun-
stories could hardly fail to make for him tenanced by anyone who holds literature in
imitators, and now, evidently suggested by respect. If other of the works of Balzac are
the work of that ingenious inventor of impos to follow the present one, as the publishers
sible scenes and situations, we have a story announce, we hope that their translation will
called “As It Was Written,” by Sidney Luska. be entrusted to persons with some reverence
Now this tale, while it is certainly original in for art. An accurate and scholarly translation
its plot, has exactly the manner and much of of the entire “ Comédie Humaine” would be a
the style, if such a word may be used in such most welcome gift to English readers.
a connection, of “Called Back.” It is told as
WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE.
a personal narrative, and it makes, in spite of
its absolute impossibility, the same pretence of
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS.
reality which gave to that fantastic perform-
ance what slight degree of power it might lay THE two volumes containing the life and corre-
claim to. It is perhaps even more direct and spondence of Louis Agassiz, edited by Elizabeth
forcible than “Called Back," and the intro-
Cary Agassiz, and published by Houghton, Mifflin
duction of the impossible solution of its mys-
& Co., unfold the characteristics of a man of emi-
nent genius and of winning personality. They
tery is delayed until the very close, or until
exhibit the always enticing picture of the bents and
the reader's interest is fully awakened by
methods of effective work, of the results it accom-
legitimate means. Then comes the strictly plished, and the influence it exerted in the advance-
illegitimate explanation, and the reader is ment of knowledge. They reveal the contact and
justly indignant at being made the victim of coöperation of one strong mind with others of his
so miserable a trick-unless, indeed, the
age, and present a cheering view of the warm and
general tone of what has gone before has led
generous fellow-feeling which animates men labor-
him to suspect something of the sort. It need
ing sincerely in the fields of thought for the devel-
opment of universal truth. Finally, they show the
not be said that this sort of stuff is unde-
large and impartial comprehension of the scope and
serving of the name of literature.
worth of Agassiz's plans and action which qualified
It seems that the artist stories written over the wife who survives him for the part of a help-
the name of “Ivory Black," which have de mate while he was living and for that of his biog-
lighted readers of the “ Century” during the rapher when he had passed away. Mrs. Agassiz
past year, are the work of Mr. Thomas A.
has kept herself wholly in the background in the
Janvier; for that is the name which appears
delineation of her husband's career. A stranger
on the title-page of the little volume of
could not have preserved more perfect neutrality.
We miss from the story a satisfactory view of the
“ Color Studies ” into which they have now
domestic side of Agassiz, which must have been
been collected. There are four of them alto prominent in one of his ardent nature; but it was
gether: “Rose Madder,” “Jaune d'Antimoine," his intellectual and public life that the writer de-
“Orpiment and Gamboge,” and “Roberson's sired to describe, rather than his personal and pri-
Medium.” Those who have read them once vate relations. Agassiz filled so conspicuous a place
will be likely to read them again in this con-
in science during the latter half of his life, that
venient form, for they are among the best
Americans of intelligence are familiar with the
general tenor of his pursuits; yet a few signal
and brightest of short stories, although that
points in his history deserve mention here. He was
species of composition is now practiced by
a native of Switzerland, of the village of Motier,
many adepts in this country.
on Lake Morat, where he was born in 1807. His
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from their letters, were persons of superior refine If there are persons upon whose sense of the ludi-
ment and ability. Louis's love for natural history crous even the drolleries of Mark Twain have begun
was pronounced from infancy; his childish amuse to pall, we commend them to M. de Bacourt's “Sou-
ments and occupations evincing decidedly the tastes venirs of a Diplomat," where they will find inex-
and faculties which were to define the sphere of his haustible stores of humor, all the more delicious for
life-work. He entered school at the age of ten, being quite involuntary. These “Souvenirs” were
spending four years at the college at Bienne, three published in France several years ago, and are now
at Lausanne, two at the medical school at Zurich, issued in an English edition by Holt & Co. The
one at the university of Heidelberg, and two at author, the Chevalier de Bacourt, was the representa-
Munich. At twenty-three he received diplomas in tive of the French Government at Washington from
the departments of medicine and philosophy, with June 1840 to July 1842. During his residence in
the hearty commendations of the teachers and pro this country he maintained a constant correspond-
fessors who had watched his diligence, earnestness ence with his family at home, communicating with
and enthusiasm in study. His parents had chosen considerable minuteness his daily experiences and
for him the calling of a physician, and he endeavored impressions. These letters, written, as we are in-
honestly to adapt himself to that profession. But formed, without a thought of publicity, were given
his passion for science was too strong for subjection. to the world, from a feeling of duty, by his niece,
At nineteen his profound attainments in natural his the Comtesse de Mirabeau. As she naively acknowl-
tory caused him to be selected to conclude an im edges in her prefatory sketch of M. de Bacourt, he
portant publication by classifying a series of fishes found “nothing to sympathize with, nothing to
and insects from Brazil, a work which filled two inspire confidence, nothing to admire” in this new
folio volumes. The great achievement which and energetic nation, but was disgusted at every
secured him his high position among scientists, the turn. Our hotels were comfortless; our means of
analysis of Fossil Fishes, was begun in his student travel execrable; our people wretchedly vulgar
days and prosecuted amid harrassing difficulties. | boors, the most cultivated rating only with second
He was in indigent circumstances, an allowance of | or third rate Englishmen; and our entertainments,
$250 a year being all he had to cover living expenses both public and private, shocking in every way to
and the cost of artists and assistants essential to the a refined Parisian taste. The fault of Boston, in
perfection of his undertaking. Cuvier and Humboldt his eyes, was that “the inhabitants hate the
aided him by their friendship and encouragement, French”; a foible which would render his stay there
and the leading men of science throughout Europe “for any length of time insupportable." After
were early interested in his promising enterprises. dining with Mr. Seaton, editor of the National
When twenty-five years old, he accepted the chair Intelligencer," he records that he “did not wish
of natural history at Neuchatel, which he retained to hurt his feelings by refusing the invitation;
until his departure for America, despite alluring besides, in this country, almost all the more distin-
offers from older and richer institutions of learning. guished gentlemen are journalists." He found that
In 1832 Agassiz was married to Cecile, the sister of American girls become frightful physical wrecks at
his life-long friend, Alexander Braun. In 1833 the an extremely early age. “Generally very pretty,"
first number of his “Fossil Fishes” received the | he remarks, “ from sixteen to eighteen, they soon
Wollaston prize from the Geological Society of lose their teeth, their color, and at twenty look
London. The following year he made his first visit twice their age.” No person or thing escapes the
to England, where he was heartily welcomed by the censure of this unhappy exile, whose feelings are
distinguished men of science. There is not room summed up in the exclamation: "My God! What
in this notice to speak of his successive enterprises, have I done to be obliged to live amongst such
but his life was devoted to fervent and successful people ?" In her short sketch of the diplomatic
studies in various departments of natural science. career of M. de Bacourt, the Comtesse de Mirabeau
His study of the glaciers occupied much of his states that he was a handsome man, of elegant man-
time, and were of peculiar value. The accounts of ners, amiable disposition and estimable talents. He
his explorations in the ice-fields of the Alps has the was a favorite of M. de Talleyrand, and to him was
charm of a romance. In 1846 Agassiz came to the finally entrusted the duty of preparing the memoir
United States in search of fresh material for the of that celebrated man which the world awaits with
elucidation of the glacial problem. His reception curious expectation in the year 1888.
was so cordial, he found such sympathetic and
munificent friends and an arena for useful work so The opera-goer often wishes to read up" an opera
vast and untilled, that his intended sojourn of in advance, in order that he may give his undivided
months was merged into a permanent residence in / attention to the performance when it begins. But
the country. His great achievement in America to do this he must unravel the mystery of the
was the foundation of the Museum of Comparative | "argument”--that unintelligible preface to a
Zoology in Cambridge, which, through his efforts | libretto,-or wade through the dreary length of the
and those of his son and successor, has become one | libretto itself, a task sufficient to appal the most
of the noblest institutions of its kind in the world. resolute. A little book prepared by Mr. George P.
Although it does not bear his name, it will perpetu Upton (Jansen, McClurg & Co.) does away with all
ate his memory, recalling to the generations bene- | these disagreeable necessities by presenting in con-
fited by its treasures a gifted, active, genial and un- cise form the stories of the better known operas, and
selfish savant. Not long after his arrival in the by telling them in such a way that they become
United States, Agassiz was aflicted by the death of | interesting even as stories. In addition to this we
his wife, who had remained with his daughters in have some facts of interest concerning the history
Germany. In 1850 he was united to Elizabeth of each opera, the cast with which it was originally
Cabot Cary, an accomplished lady, whose name was given, and the date of the performance, together
often and honorably associated with his in the per with brief biographical notes of the composer. AV.
formance of literary and scientific work.
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arly, and that his extensive musical knowledge and the position that certainty is unattainable by our
experience as a critic of operatic performances must reason. Truth there is or may be, but we cannot
give to such a compilation as this a very unusual grasp it. The senses are deceptive, hence there is
value. Sixty-three operas are treated of altogether, nothing upon which reason can build. What then
including all that an American who stays at home is is one to do? Withhold judgment regarding all
likely to hear, and, unfortunately, some that there is things, have no fixed opinions, assert nothing dog-
little chance of his hearing. All of the music- matically; in action, follow that which is most
dramas of Wagner are described; next in numerical likely to be true; take a broad survey of all the
importance comes Donizetti, eight of whose tuneful circumstances, choose that which seems nearest the
works are included; then follow Meyerbeer and truth, accept probability as the guide of life. Thus
Verdi, who are represented by six operas each. I will the philosopher be free from error and be able
Auber, Balfe, Bellini, Gounod, Mozart, and Rossini to maintain peace of mind. The position closely
have three works apiece in the list. Twelve other resembles that of a large class of modern thinkers;
composers are included as the authors of one or two the question at issue was never more warmly dis-
works each. The selection of works from among so cussed than now. This edition of the Academica
many claimants was a difficult task, but it has been is therefore opportune. By a careful revision of the
remarkably well done. The only opera which we text, and the addition of a full and scholarly com-
particularly miss is the “Gioconda" of Ponchielli, , mentary, the editor has made even the obscurest
which is a notable work, and has been notably per-| portions of the Latin clear. A comprehensive and
formed in this country. The book appears in a well-written introduction discusses the character of
mechanical form of appropriate artistic excellence. Cicero's philosophical writings, the sources and aim
of the Academica. A translation, by the same
COL. T. W. Higginson's “Larger History of the editor, will shortly appear. (Macmillar
United States to the Close of President Jackson's
Administration” (Harper & Brothers) is, in its matter, THE “ American Catalogue," projected by the
press-work, and illustrations, one of the most attract | late Frederick Leypoldt, was published in three
ive books which has appeared for many a day. Col. quarto volumes in 1880. It contained the titles of
Higginson some years ago put forth a “ Young all books, with a double arrangement under author
Folks' History of the United States," which has and subject, which had been printed in the United
been immensely popular with the young people, and States, and were still in print and for sale in the
is so well know that the author has called his new trade July 1, 1876. The work was very faithfully
work the “Larger History." It is not, however, a and accurately compiled, and has been a standard and
large book, being only an octavo of 470 pages. It most useful work of reference in libraries and in the
was written for maturer minds than was his former | trade. Mr. R. R. Bowker, Mr. Leypoldt's successor
book, with more detail, and in a more elevated style. in the publication of the “Publishers' Weekly,"
The author seems still to have been writing for the “Library Journal," etc., has issued two supple-
young people—those in the higher teens--who will mentary volumes in the same style, which give the
read the volume with delight. It is a book to put titles, under author and subject, of all books pub-
into the hand of a bright boy or girl who has passed lished in the United States from 1876 to 1884,
through the drudgery of school days, as a Christmas which are in print and on sale. These five volumes
present. In the picturesque treatment of historical are a valuable contribution to American bibliogra-
subjects, and in the use of a pure English style, few phy, and there is nothing else which covers the
American writers equal Col. Higginson. The text same or a wider field, nor is there likely to be. They
also shows a very careful study of the original sources do not, however, constitute a complete bibliography
of American history, a familiarity with special of American books. They answer fully, as re-
monographs, and the results of the best recent his- gards many books, such questions as whether a
torical criticism. His narrative of the persecution book is on sale, by whom it is published, and
of the Quakers in Massachusetts, and of the witch-| the price. This is about all the average book-
craft delusion, are instances of his breadth of read seller, or the person who is collecting a small
ing. His Pocahontas did not save the life of library, wants to know. The bibliographer, on the
Captain John Smith; and thus one by one the myths other hand, is more inquisitive, and wants to know
of American history disappear in darkness. The about books which are out of print and are not on
mature student of history will read the book with sale. The rarer the book, the more is his curiosity
interest for the evidence it gives of progress in his awakened. It will be long before we have such
torical investigation and criticism; and for the works as Watt's “ Bibliotheca Britannica,” Querard's
encouragement it affords that we are, at some time “La France Littéraire," or Kayser's Bücher-Lexicon.
in the future, to have a history of the United States
which is not permeated with stale errors, myths, and The spirited history of Kansas during the terri-
delusions. The illustrations of the work are numer torial period has found a spirited narrator in Pro-
ous and excellent. The portraits of statesmen are of | fessor Leverett W. Spring, who is the author of the
extraordinary merit as works of art.
latest contribution to the series of “American Com-
monwealths" (Houghton, Mifflin & Co.) Professor
Tue most important classical work that has ap- Spring's work is perhaps the most interesting of the
peared in England this year is an edition of Cicero's entire series as far as published, and is made so,
Academics, with the text revised and explained by first, by his ability as a writer; and, second, by the
James S. Reid, M.A., of Cambridge University. i narrowness of his subject matter. The greater part
Cicero is most widely known as an orator; but his , of the volume deals with the doings of a few men,
philosophical writings are of even greater interest within an area some fifty miles in diameter, during
and value than his orations. The Academica is a a period of about five years. With so contracted a
discussion of the fundamental question of philosophy, | field as this, the writer is naturally able to put us
the basis of human knowledge. The author takes | upon terms of familiarity even with the details of


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the most important among those especially adapted
to women. It may be regarded as a part of their
peculiar work, and should be understood, in a fair
degree, at least, by every one of them. A cursory
reading of Miss Weeks's text-book affords a multi-
tude of practical hints of great utility, but a serious
study of the work would give one the comparative
mastery of a department of knowledge of inestimable
service in the ordinary experiences of life.
his subject. He has succeeded in giving a very
graphic and vivid picture of the struggle between
slavery and freedom, of which Kansas territory was
the scene, and from which such momentous issues
were to arise. Kansas counts but a few years of
history altogether, but her history during those
years was of pational consequence, and drew to:
itself the national attention. Professor Spring's
admirable work has evidently been written on the
spot, and with command of all sorts of personal and
documentary evidence. The series to which this
book belongs now numbers six volumes, and is doing
much to popularize American history in general, as
well as to awaken an interest in local annals. Few
people know as much of their own State as they
ought to know, although it concerns their interests
much more closely than the national government.
It is not often that a book supplies so decided a
need as is the case with Dr. Francis B. Gummere's
“Handbook of Poetics" (Ginn & Co.) We know
of nothing in the language of similar scope, or
which thus occupies an intermediate position be-
tween the chapters contained in an ordinary treatise
upon rhetoric, and the laborious works of the Ger-
mans. Sidney Lanier's remarkable book upon the
* Science of English Verse" may be very helpful
and suggestive for the profound investigator, but is
hardly the thing for the average student. The
present work is very thoroughly done, and is pre-
pared from a wide knowledge of the subject. The
whole range of English literature, from Beowulf to
Swinburne, is drawn upon for illustrations of points
of metrical structure. We have examined the book
somewhat carefully, and have not found anything
which calls for serious criticism. The subject is
treated under the three heads of subject-matter,
style, and metre. After a characterization of epic,
lyric, and dramatic poetry, and the varieties of each,
the subject of poetical style and the figures which
occur in poetry is discussed and very fully illustrated.
Then comes a consideration of metre in general, and
of the metrical and stanzaic forms of English poetry.
The attractiveness of this book is largely due to the
good literary taste of the writer. His selections and
illustrations are such as to show that he has feeling
for poetry as well as knowledge of it. We cannot
too warmly commend the work to students and to
general readers.
THE “Text-Book of Nursing,” prepared by Clara
S. Weeks, Superintendent of the Training-school for
nurses at Patterson, New Jersey, and published by
D. Appleton & Co., is so complete a treatise, so
comprehensive in instruction, so clear in statement
and so systematic in arrangement, that it may take the
place of a teacher as far as a manual can. It sup-
plies a need that has been felt in the education of
professional nurses, but it also provides the private
student with a guide for the treatment of the sick
which is of the utmost value. The various sections
of the book cover every point included in the
province of the nurse, the management of the sick
room, the care of the patient, the administration of
remedies, foods, and beverages, with special infor-
mation applicable to different forms of disease and
their numerous phases. The explanations and di-
rections are full and explicit, leaving no detail in
doubt or obscurity. An ample supply of wood-cuts
exhibiting the anatomy of the human organism, aid
the writer in expounding her subject with intelli-
gence and precision. The art of nursing is one of
How BEST to introduce pupils in our high schools
and academies to the English classics is a burning
question which ought to have the attention of all
thoughtful teachers, and every careful experi-
ment toward its solution should be welcomed.
Smith's “Studies in English Literature” (Van Ant-
werp, Bragg & Co.) is an attempt in the right
direction. The author's aim seems to be twofold:
first, to group the history of our literature, from
Chaucer to Dryden, about the personalities of its
greatest representatives; secondly, to place the
pupil's mind in contact with a few masterpieces.
Accordingly, a good deal is said about Chaucer,
Spenser, Shakespere, Bacon, Milton; less about
their greatest contemporaries; while the usual epi-
taphs accorded to relatively obscure writers, whose
works a busy man can hardly expect to reach much
before the tenth century of his existence, are
omitted. The selections from the five great masters
mentioned are as complete as possible, the whole of
the “Merchant of Venice," of the “Prologue," and
of “Comus," being given. The notes and refer-
ences do not interpose themselves like a fog between
the pupil and his author's thought: judicious help
is furnished, and much is done to prompt the pupil
to think for himself. The work is by no means
flawless; but, in the hands of an intelligent teacher,
it would be more likely to develop the power of
discriminating “between literature and books"
than most of the manuals now in use.
Nor many years ago, two young American girls
wanted so much to enjoy the pleasures of foreign
travel that they courageously set out, unac-
companied, to visit the Old World. They were
discouraged in the undertaking by well-meaning
friends and acquaintances; but they believed that
it was not impracticable, and proceeded resolutely
to carry it out. They found the obstacles against
which they had been warned for the most part
imaginary; and the comparatively modest plans
with which they started out became so expanded as
to include visits to the North Cape, Russia, and the
East. After two years of pleasant experiences, the
venturesome young ladies returned home, and one of
them, Miss Mary L. Ninde, has written an account
of the journey, which is now published with the
title “We Two Alone in Europe,” (Jansen, Mc-
Clurg & Co.) To this title Asia and Africa might
both have been added without exceeding the truth,
for the travellers went up the Nile to Luxor, and
through Palestine to Damascus. Miss Ninde's nar-
scarcely fail to be affected by the writer's enthusiasm,
and will find a certain pleasure in seeing things
with her eyes, although the things seen are for the
most part the ordinary features of European travel.
If the reader be a young lady, she will probably
want to follow Miss Ninde's example: something
which is not, perhaps, to be recommended to young
ladies in general.


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MESSRS. G. P. PUTNAM's Sons have projected a them consecutively and clearly, and as parts of a sys-
series of historical works for young readers, to tem which is complete and symmetrical. His treat-
which they have given the general title of The ment removes expression in piano-forte playing
Story of the Nations." The initial number, " The equally from the domain of the mechanical and the
Story of Greece," is by Prof. James A. Harrison. The emotional, and subjects it to simple and rational
scheme of this opening volume is good. It aims to rules which remain ever the same and ever within
centre the thought upon the leading and decisive the control of the intelligent performer. Mr. Chris-
events in the history of the Greek nation, and to tiani possesses literary as well as musical culture, and
discard minute details which serve to burden the his book is written in excellent style.
memory without a corresponding increase of knowl-
edge. A good deal of room is given to the mythol. In “The Wit and Wisdom of Bulwer," Miss C.
ogy of the Grecks, to the legends contained in the L. Bonney has gathered from the best-known
songs of Homer, and the tales and traditions belong. novels of that versatile writer many of the moralising
ing to the different eras and localities of the Grecian | dcductions and sententious aphorisms with which
period. The author has been especially happy in his works abound. The excerpts are preceded by a
his selection of titles to the forty odd chapters brief biographical sketch, noticeable not only for
of his narrative, and in all respects has evidently the absence of the air of patronage usually assumed
tried hard to meet the requirements of a history by those who write about Bulwer, but also for a
intended for the young. Unfortunately for his suc courageous refutation of the oft-repeated charge
cess, he does not possess a style sufficiently easy and that his works have an immoral tendency. Com-
simple. He labors to bring his subject within the mendable taste is evinced in the extracts chosen, and
comprehension of immature minds; he employs co lists are given of the leading characters in each
pious illustrations and anecdotes, and adopts the work laid under contribution. The selections have
story form in order to captivate his intended readers; been taken from the novels and one drama only; a
but his literary style thwarts his purpose. His sen- / book of equal importance might be compiled from
tences are heavy and obscure, and laden with big the poems, plays, essays, and speeches, which are
words that would drive the average boy and girl to less widely known than the fictions, but were
despair.
ranked higher by their author, who was a severe
critic of his own writings. A few inaccuracies
THE “Marvels of Animal Life" (Scribners) is a
have crept into Miss Bonney's volume: Bulwer was
book of the “popular science" sort, written by
born in 1803 (not 1805); he died at Torquay (not
Charles Frederick Holder. It is a collection of
London); an edition of his poetical (not political)
sketches of some of the more curious forms of ex-
and dramatic works was issued in 1852; and the
istence, well enough known to the naturalist, but
first extract on page 200 is not by Bulwer but
likely to be new to the average reader, and certain
Raleigh.
to interest him. The book is especially designed
for young readers, who are appealed to by a com-
THE “ Historical Atlas" of Robert H. Labberton,
paratively untechnical style and also by startling published by Townsend MacCoun, New York, will
illustrations of such things as tree-climbing fishes, be found to be exceedingly useful as an aid to the
sea-serpents, restored monsters of remote geological student. It is compact in size, neat in appearance,
epochs, and attacks upon boats by sword-fishes and and systematic in its arrangement. There are 141
sharks. Mr. Holder is an experienced observer, and maps altogether, large and small, each one giving
his descriptions are, for the most part, taken from at a glance as much information as could be con-
life and on the spot. They are mostly of marine densed in ten times the amount of print. No one
forms, but they cover a wide range. “The way to can read history intelligently without some such
study the sword-fish is to go sword-fishing if you graphic aid as this, close at hand; and those who
can,” says Mr. Holder; but this is a pastime which do not care to purchase the larger work of Mr.
few will find within their reach, and most people Freeman will find the present one admirably
must be contented to do their sword-fishing in imag adapted to all ordinary wants. The maps are faced
ination, with the aid of books like the present one. by a descriptive text, to which the student may
Judging from the illustrations of this particular refer if he does not quite understand their meaning.
sport, the amusement seems to be confined to the
fishes; whereas the reader who is satisfied with the
- - - - - -
fishes in the book can view the situation from either
LITERARY NOTES AND NEWS.
standpoint and extract amusement from both.
MR. JOHN PAYNE is at work upon a translation of
ADOLPH CHRISTIANI's treatise on “ The Principles
the “Decameron," to be printed for the Villon So-
the
of Expression in Pianoforte Playing ” (Harpers) is a
| ciety.
work which commends itself to scholarly musicians,
Miss MURFREE (Charles Egbert Craddock) has
It is not necessary to be a pianist in order to enjoy
undertaken a new serial story for “Wide Awake,"
it. It is so broad, thorough, and comprehensive, so
to run through about six numbers.
sage, original, and enlightened, that every intelli-
gent reader will appreciate its value. The author
An “Introduction to the Language and Verse of
writes of music as Hamerton writes of painting, or
Homer," by Prof. Seymour of Yale College, is soon
Sidney Lanier of poetry: with a philosophic under-
to be issued by Ginn & Company.
standing of its province, its spirit, and its laws.
ARCHDEACON FARRAR'S volume of Sermons and
While treating it technically, he has the ability to
Addresses delivered in America will be published
preserve its charm, and to invest with a lively
by E. P. Dutton & Co. during the coming winter.
attraction what in other hands might prove the THE new cover that adorns the November number
dryest details. It is an intellectual treat to follow of “St. Nicholas” is so far an improvement upon
his exposition of the principles which govern the the old as to leave little to be desired by the artistic
rendition of piano-forte music. He demonstrates | taste in the make-up of this superior periodical.


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be issued by Cassell & Co. The same publishers an-
nounce a new volume by Lieut. Schwatka, " Along
Alaska's Great River," an account of the exploring
expedition of 1883; and a volume of the poems of
Miss Helen Gray Cone, a frequent contributor to the
magazines.
The library of the late Richard Grant White is to
be sold at auction by Bangs & Co., New York, who
have prepared a catalogue of some two thousand
titles. Judging from this catalogue, it would seem
that many of Mr. White's books must have been set
apart for other purposes, leaving the odds and ends
for purchasers at the sale. Still, the catalogue con-
tains many valuable entries, particularly in Shaks-
periana and works on the English language.
DR. HOLMES's “New Portfolio" will be issued in
book-form, under the title of “A Mortal Antipathy,"
by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. They announce also:
Mrs. Whitney's new story of “Bonnyborough," and
“High Lights," a story by an anonymous author;
Mr. Ropes's political and military sketch of the
First Napoleon; an account of the life of Myrtilla
Miner, who opened the first school for colored chil-
dren in Washington; a new octavo edition of Longfel-
low's poems, with portrait and 300 illustrations, and
a complete edition of the prose and poetry of E. C.
Stedman; “ The Life and Times of John Bunyan,"
by the Rev. John Brown; and “Old Lines in New
Black and White," a series of large charcoal sketches
by F. Hopkinson Smith, inspired by passages in
Whittier, Holmes, and Lowell.
= = -- ----- ----- --- -- ----- --
TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS.
NOVEMBER, 1885.
THE admirably written and illustrated article on
the New York Stock Exchange, in the November
“Harper's," is supplemented by an article on the
London Stock Exchange, in the “Fortnightly."
The poems of Sidney Lanier, recently published
by Scribner's Sons, have, we are glad to learn,
reached a second edition, in which some needed im-
provements in paper and typography render the vol-
ume more worthy the high character of its contents.
A MANUAL containing sixty-four pages of selec-
tions from Browning and other authors, designed
for use in the opening exercises in public schools,
has been prepared by Miss Mary E. Burt, a teacher,
and published in neat but inexpensive form by the
Colgrove Book Co., Chicago.
MR. FREDERICK HARRISON has returned to Messrs.
Appleton & Co. a check sent by them as his share of
profits in the volume of essays by him and Mr. Her-
bert Spencer, recently published by that firm, and
regarding which there was a somewhat heated con-
troversy between the joint authors of the essays.
L. PRANG & Co. have in preparation an interest-
ing souvenir of General Grant, consisting of a por-
trait surrounded by vignettes representing various
episodes in his military career. The work is designed
by Mr. De Thulstrup, whose battle-pieces in “ The
Century' have attracted much attention.
HISTORICAL students will be interested in the an-
nouncement of a new quarterly, “ The English His-
torical Review," the first number of which will
appear January 1. It will be edited by the Rev.
Mandell Creighton and Reginald Lane Poole, with a
corresponding editor and several contributors in the
United States.
TENNYSON's new volume, to be published by Mac-
millan & Co. early in December, will consist almost
entirely of new poems, several of them of consid-
erable length. Some of the titles are: “ Tiresias,"
“The Ancient Mystic,” “ The Wreck," and a new
“Idyll of the King" called “ Balin and Balan.”
There will also be a poem in Lincolnshire dialect,
“ The Spinster's Sweet-'arts,” and one in Irish
brogue.
PUTNAM's Sons announce for early publication:
“ Problems in Philosophy," by Dr. Bascom,
President of the University of Wisconsin; “Poetry
as a Representative Art,” by Prof. George Z. Ray-
mond, of the College of New Jersey; “Railway
Transportation, its History and Laws," by Prof. A.
T. Hadley, of Yale College; and "Postulates of
English Political Economy,” by the late Walter
Bagehot.
LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE will hereafter make a
special feature of contributions by transatlantic au-
thors, among whom are named W. E. Norris, W.
H. Mallock, "Quida,” James Payn, F. Anstey, Wm.
Black, E. Gosse, Andrew Lang, Austin Dobson,
Matthew Arnold, Edwin Arnold, and Swinburne.
The usual list of American contributors will be
retained. “Lippincott's” will follow the precedent
of THE DIAL and “The Century," and hereafter
appear on the first of the month for which it is
named: a commendable change, which is announced
also by the “North American Review” and the
“Overland Monthly."
Miss J. L. GILDER, editor of “The Critic,” has
prepared a novel poetic anthology, described by its
title, “Representative Poems of Living Poets, Se-
lected by the Poets Themselves.” Some seventy or
eighty poets will be represented. The volume will
Bulgaria, United. Eugene Schuyler. No. Am. Review.
Calvary, Site of. Selak Merrill. Andover Review.
Chautauqua Literary Circle. E. E. Hale. Century.
Churches, United, of the U.S. C. W. Shields. Century.
Clover. Grant Allen. Popular Science.
Color in Animals. M. P. Marchall. Popular Science.
Criticism, Principles of. E. R. Sill. Atlantic
Democracy in Europe. Emilio Castelar. No. Am. Review.
Education, Higher. C. A Eggert. Popular Science.
Education, The New G. H. Palmer, Andover Review.
English Literary Study. T. M. Hunt. Andover Review.
Familstère at Guise, France. Edward Howland. Harper's.
Fiction, Recent. William M. Payne. Dial.
Fort McAllister, Capture of. C. C. Jones, Mag. Am. Hist.
Flying Machines. T. W. Mather. Popular Science.
Garrison, William Lloyd. Samuel Willard, Dial.
God, The Idea of. John Fiske. Atlantic.
Graham Affair, The. Theodore Hittell, Overland.
Grant at Mt. McGregor. Century.
Grant, U. S., Memoirs of. Century.
Grant, Recollections of. Admiral Ammen. No. Am. Review.
Guatemala. P. Frenzeny. Harper's.
Houghton, Lord, Recollections of. Jolin Bigelow. Harper's.
Indian Journey, An. Lucy C. Lille. Harper's.
Instantaneous Photography. A. Leffingwell. Pop. Science.
Investing, Art of. J. F. Hume. Popular Science.
Kentucky Campaign of 1861-2. W.F. Smith, M. Am. Hist.
Lincoln. A., in Illinois. E. B. Washburne. No. Am. Reviewo.
Lunatics, A Belgian Colony of. H. De Varigny. Pop. Sci.
Mills College, California. Katherine Fisher. Overland.
Nass to Skeena, From. Dr. Chismiore. Overland.
Negro Education, Twenty Years of. J.M.Keating. Pop.Sci.
New York Stock Exchange. R. Wheatley. Harper's.
Novel. A Typical. H. W. Mabie. Andover Review.
Otter Hunt in the Hebrides. R. D. Somers. Harper's.
Panda, Cruise of the. Overland.
Petra, A Visit to. T. W. Ludlow, Century.
Portfolio, The New. O, W. Holmes. Atlantic.
Race Prejudice. Gail Hamilton. No. Am. Review.
Science and Thought, Modern. S. Laing. Popular Science.
Science and the Public Weal. Lyon Play fair. Pop. Sci.
Scriptures, The. Andover Review
Sculptor's, Living English. Edmund Gosse. Century.
Seamen, Impressment of. Edward Stanwood. Atlantic.
Seaports, Defense of Our. H. P. Wells. Harper's.
Setters, Typical. Century.
Sheridan, A Ride with. A. D. Rockwell. Mag. Am. Hist.
Silver. Shall It be Demonetized? No. Am. Review.
Slang in America. Walt Whitman. North American Review.
Statecraft and Priestcraft. Philip Schatl. No. Am. Review.


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Stedman on the Poets of America. IL N. Powers. Dial.
Style and the Monument. No. Am. Review. .
Thackeray as an Art Critic. Ephraim Young. Atlantic.
Théodicee of Leibnitz, H. A. P. Torrey. Andover Review.
Thibetans, Home-Life of. C.H. Lepper. Popular Science.
Tilden, Samuel, Writings of, Slason Thompson. Dial.
United States as Employers. James Parton. No. Am. Rev.
Utal, Conquest of. D. L. Leonard. Andover Review.
Wadsworth House at Geneseo. Mag. Am. Hestory.
Washington, Burning of, in 1814. II. King. Mag. im. Hist.
Will and Motor Centers, The. V. Horsley. Popular Science.
Witchcraft in Illinois. J. H. Gunn. Mag. Am. History.
Wyoming Anti-Chinese Riots. A. A. Sargent. Overland.
Yosemite, Camping Trip in. Jos. Le Conte. Overland.
The Inca Princess. An Historical Romance. By the
Author of Sir Rae," "Iris," etc. Illustrated from
Paintings by Church, Chase, Davidson, Fredericks,
Pule, Schell and Siedley. 8vo. Gilt edges. J. B. Lip-
pincott Co. $2.50.
Flowers from Sunlight and Shade. Poems. Arranged
and Illustrated, by Susie B. Skelding. 4to, pp. 128.
White, Stokes & Allen. $3.50.
Flowers from Here and There. Poems. Arranged and
Illustrated, by Susie B. Skelding. 4to, pp. 136. White,
Stokes & Allen. $3.50.
Miss Skelding's remarkable illustrations of flowers are
too well known to need comment.
Good Things of “ Life." Second Series. Humorous
Sketches, with text. Oblong quarto. White, Stokes
& Allen. $2.00.
"Not to be matched for point, wit, and excellent
drawing, by any collection of society art in the world."
--The Independent.
Beauties of Tennyson. Twenty Illustrations by F. B.
nell. 4to. Porter & Coates. Cloth, gilt, or alliga
tor, each $1.50.
Ode on Immortality, and Lines on Tintern Abbey. By
W. Wordsworth. Illustrated. 4to. Gilt edges. Cas.
sell & Co. $1.00.
Heartsease. Poems of Pansies. Arranged and Illus.
trated, by Susie B. Skelding. Vellum. White, Stokes
& Allen, 50 cents.
BOOKS OF THE MONTH.
[ The following List includes all New Books, American and For.
eign, received during the month of October by Messrs.
JANSEN, MCCLURG & Co., Chicago.]
BIOGRAPHY.
William Lloyd Garrison. 1805-1879. The Story of his
Life, told by his Children. 8vo, 2 vols.--1805–1810. The
Century Co. Net, $1.00.
“A much-abused rather than much discussed charac.
ter stands here thrown fully open for inspection .
with a w.alth of documentary evidence, much of which
has never before been published-now for the first time
enables the man to be seen in his true light."- The Nation,
Louis Agassiz. His Life and Correspondence. Edited
by Elizabeth C. Agassiz. 2 vols. Portrait. Houghton,
Mimi & Give is rich inds of thi
ILLUSTRATED GIFT BOOKS.
The Day Dream. By Alfred Tennyson. Beautifully Il.
lustrated from Drawings by Harper, Woodward,
Peirce, Garrett, Copeland, Harry Fenn, and W. J.
Fenn. Folio, richly gilt. E. P. Dutton & Co. Cloth.
$6.00; tree calf or full morocco, $12.00,
A sumptuous volume beautifully illustrated.
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. A Romaunt. By Lord
Byron. Illustrated. 8vo, pr. 236. Gilt edges. Tick.
nor & Co. Cloth, $6.00; tree calf or antique morocco,
$10.00.
"The value of the edition lies in the beauty and finish
of the mechanical execution, which is in all respects
worthy of the great poem."'-The Independent.
Favorite Poems. By Jean Ingelow. Songs of Seven,
The High Tide, The Shepherd Lady, and other Poems.
Beautifully illustrated, and with unique embossed
covers. Svo. Gilt edges. Roberts Bros. 85.00,
The binding is unique. The embellishment consisting
of a relief design in guld, bronze, or silver, of St. Botolph
Church in Boston, England, inserted in a paneled cloth
cover.
English Etchers. Fifteen Etchings by Murray, Strang,
Chattock, Pennell, Lalanne, Toussaint, and others,
with descriptive text, by G. W. H. Ritchie. Folio.
Dodd, Mead & Co. $12.50.
A magnificent volume of Etchings.
Half a Score of Etchers. Ten Etchings by the great
French Artists, Appian, Pauligney, LePage, Laucon,
Martial, Buhot, Chauvel, Nehlig, Burnand, Beauverie.
Folio, with text. Dodd, Mead & Co. 87.30,
Wild Flowers of Colorado. From Original Water Color
Sketches, Drawn from Nature. By Emma H. Thayer.
Folio. Gilt edges. Cassell & Co. $7.50.
* Tells the story of her trip last year in the Colorado
mountains in a delightfully leisurely way, and exhibits
in twenty full.page lithographic illustrations, the beauti.
t'ul plants that flower in that region.". The Independent,
Tuscan Cities. By W. D. Howells. With Illustrations
from Drawings and Etchings by J. Pennell and
others. Svo. Gilt edges. Ticknor & Co. $5.00.
"A series of recent sketches of certain famous Italian
cities, hisiorical, instructive, personal and diverting.
They are also admirably illustrated by Pennel, who was
sent abroad for the purpose."- Publisher's Announcement.
Iduls of the Months. Poems and Drawings. By Mary
A. Lathtbury. With Beautiful Colored Designs, Em.
blematic of the Year. Geo. Routledge & Sons, $.3.50
Brilliantly illustrated.
P cms of Natuure. By J. G. Whittier. Illustrated from
Nature by E. Kingsley. Royal 8vo, pp. 101. Gilt
edges. Hougliton, Mifflin & Co. $6.00.
“He (Mr. Kingsley, the engraver) has visited the places
described in the poems, and bis illustrations are an art.
ist's transcript of the actual scenes which inspired the
poet."--Publisher's Announcement.
Red Letter Poems. By English Men and Women. II.
Tustrated eclition. Pp. 6-18. Gilt edges. T. Y. Crowell
& Co. 31,50,
" It is, in iny opinion, by far the best collection of Eng.
lish poetry ever made." - II. T. Suduth, Professor of Eng-
lish Literature, Ohio University.
Lucile. By Owen Meredith. Illustrated. Svo, pp. 369.
Gilt edges. JI. B. Nins & Co. $2.50.
Yoricegian Pictures. Drawn with Pen and Pencil.
Containing also a Glance at Sweden and the Gotha
Canal. By R. Lovett, M.A., with a map and 127 illus.
trations. Large 8vo, PP. 224. Gilt edges. Thos. Nel.
son & sons. $3.30.
Another volume in the popular “Pen and Pencil” se.
ries, beautifully depicting the wild, majestic scenery of
Norway.
" The narrative is rich with the treasured thoughts of
milny of the leading minds of the century."--Literary
World.
The Life of George Brummell, Esq. Commonly called
Beau Brummell. By Captain Jesse. Revised and An.
notated Edition from the Author's own Interleaved
Copy. With forty portraits in color of Brummell and
bis conteinporaries. 2 vols.. Svo. Scribner & Welford.
$12.00.
Montcalm and Wolfe. By Francis Parkman. New and
cheaper edition. Little, Brown & Co. $3.00.
Soutenirs of a Diplomat. Private Letters from America
during the Administrations of Presidents Van Buren,
Harrison, and Tyler. From the French of the Chev.
alier De Bacourt, Minister from France. With a
memoir of the Author by the Comtesse De Mirabeau.
Pp. 297. H. Holt & Co. $1.50.
John Amos Comenius, Bishop of the Moravians. His
Life and Educational Works. By S. S. Laurie, A.M.,
F.R.S.E. Second edition, revised. Pp. 240. London. Net,
$1.05.
Abraham Lincoln. By E. Foster. Pp. 128. Cassell & Co.
50 cents.
Benjamin Franklin. By E. M. Tomkinson. Pp. 128.
Cassell & Co. 50 cents.
Richard Cobden. By R. Gowing. Pp. 128. Portrait.
(assell & Co. 50 cents.
Florence Nightingale, Frances R. Harergal, Catherine
Marsh, Mrs. Ranyard ("L. N. R."). By Lizzie All.
dridge. Pp. 128. Portraits. Cassell & Co. 50 cents.
HISTORY.
John De Witt. Grand Pensionary of Holland; or, Twenty
Years of a Parliamentary Republic, By M. A. L. Pon.
talis. Translated by S. E. and A. Stephenson. 2 vols.,
8vo. Houghton, Mitllin & Co. $9.00
A Larger History of the United States of America, to
the Close of President Jackson's Administration,
By T. W. Higginson. Illustrated. 8vo, pp. 470. Har.
per & Bros. $3.50.
" It will meet the popular demand for a one.volume
history of our country which, while absorbingly inter-
esting and filled with charming bits of description and
picturesque incident, is at the same time wholly re-
liable."
The Peace of Utrecht. Allistorical Review of the great
Treaty of 1713-14, and of the principal events of the
War of the Spanish Succession. By J. W. Gerard.
8vo, pp. 420. G. P. Putnam's Sons. 83.00.
" Mr. Gerard's narrative is forcible and picturesque,
and is enlivened by much curious anecdote and pre.
viously unprinted correspondence."--Publisher's Announce-
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A Narrative of Military Serrice. By General W. P. The Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's
Hazen. 8vo, pp. 450. Portraits. Ticknor & Co. $3.00. Recreation. By Izaak Walton. Being a fac-simile
"The work will prove a valuable addition to the al.
reprint of the first edition, published in 1653. Pp. 246.
ready voluminous Civil War History.'-Cincinnati En-
Baker & Taylor. $1.25.
quirer.
By-Ways of Nature and Life. By Clarence Deming.
Kansas. The Prelude to the War for the Union. By L. New edition. Pp. 383. Paper. G. P. Putnam's Sons.
W. Spring. Pp. 334. "American Commonwealihs." 50 cents.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $1.25.
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CONTENTS.
JOHN DE WITT. Herbert Tutlle ......... 205
STUDIES IN SHAKESPEARE. David H. Wheeler . . 208
RECENT ECONOMIC WORKS. Albert Shaw . . . . 210
THE RISE OF CLASSICAL POETRY. Melville B.
Anderson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS .......... 215
Whittier's Poems of Nature, Illustrated by Kings.
ley.-Holmes's The Last Leaf, Illustrated.-Gold.
smith's The Hermit, Illustrated by Shirlaw.-
The Sermon on the Mount, Illustrated.-Miss
Thayer's Wild Flowers of Colorado.-Tennyson's
Complete Works, Illustrated.-Jean Ingelow's
Favorite Poems, Illustrated.-Byron's Childe
Harold's Pilgrimage, Illustrated.-Miss Lath.
bury's Idyls of the Months.-The Modern Cupid.
-Wood's Nature's Teachings.-Murray's Break-
fast Dainties.-Bradley's and Holroyd's Hidden
Sweetness.-Miss Havergal's Songs of the Master's
Love.-Stockton's Rudder Grange, Illustrated by
Frost.-Wordsworth's Ode on the Intimations of
Immortality, Illustrated.-Toland's The Inca
Princess.---Thomson's The Land and the Book.
---Mrs. Clement's Outline History of Sculpture
for Beginners and Students.-Scott's Through
Spain, a Narrative of Travel and Adventure in
the Peninsula.-Moore's The Queen's Empire,
or Ind and her Pearl.-Wood's Horse and Man,
Their Mutual Dependence and Duties.-Keats's
Eve of St. Agnes, Illustrated by Garrett.-
Beauties of Tennyson, Illustrated by Schell.
Bound Volumes of Illustrated Periodicals.--
Calendars for 1886.-Christmas Cards.
BOOKS FOR CHILDREN ........... 219
Art for Young Folks.- Margaret Sidney's The
Golden West.-Agnes Sadlier's History of Ire.
land.-Mrs. Pierson's Lives of the Presidents of
the United States.-Pratt's St. Nicholas Songs.-
Butterworth's Zigzag Journeys in the Levant.-
Morrison's Songs and Rhymes for the Little Ones.
-The Fitch Club.-Mrs. Wright's Children's Sto.
ries in American History.- Eggleston's Strange
Stories from History, for Young People.-D'An.
vers's Heroes of American History.--Shepard's
Young Folks' History of the Roman Empire.-
Brooks's Heroic Boys.--Bound Volumes of Juve.
nile Periodicals.--Miss Andrews's Ten Boys Who
Lived on the Road from Long Ago to Now.-Mrs.
Molesworth's Us, an Old-Fashioned Story.-Bra-
bourne's Friends and Foes from Fairy-Land.-
Richards's Joyous Story of Toto.-Caryl's Davy
and the Goblin.-- Mrs. Harrison's Bric-a-Brac Sto.
ries.-Witherly's Through the Meadows.-Pyle's
Pepper and Salt.--Tileson's Sugar and Spice and
All That's Nice.-Knox's Boy Travellers in South
America.-Hale's Family Flight Through Mexico.
-Miss Champney's Three Vassar Girls in Italy.-
Richards's Four Feet, Two Feet and No Feet.-
Brooks's No Man's Land.-knox's Travels of
Marco Polo.-White's Young Folks's Pliny.
COMMUNICATIONS .............
LITERARY NOTES AND NEWS ........ 223
TOPICS IN DECEMBER PERIODICALS. ..
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BOOKS OF THE MONTH .......... 224
JOHN DE WITT.*
The fate of John De Witt, grand pensionary
of Holland, is one of the most mournful and
touching in all the records of political murder.
For twenty years the leading minister of the
United Provinces, guiding their affairs with
singular ability, serving them with a pure and
unselfish devotion, and setting in his own life
an example of all the republican virtues, he
was in the end foully murdered by a mob of his
ungrateful countrymen in the streets of the
capital itself. This career, so full of pathos and
so full of instruction, M. Lefèvre-Pontalis has
undertaken to describe in a work of which an.
excellent English translation has just been
published.
This work may be commended without
reserve as a learned, able, and effective pro-
duction. The style is grave, weighty, clear,
and is marked in a high degree by that almost
uniform good taste which characterizes the
historians of France. The incidents of the
story are unfolded in a natural and orderly
sequence, and the author has complete com-
mand of his materials, which seem to be ex-
haustive. We say his materials seem to be
exhaustive, referring to the intrinsic evidence
from the text itself of the work; for beyond the
general enumeration of sources in the preface,
the English edition leaves the reader in com-
plete ignorance of the authorities on which the
author relied. It is true that the translators
excuse the omission of the notes by the con-
sideration that the general reader does not
need them, while scholars will naturally look
to the original. This has undoubtedly some
force. But in one respect, at least, the exact-
ness which even the general reader ought to
desire is often lost through the absence of the
explanatory references. The text itself is
economical of dates, which in the original are
doubtless supplied in the notes or on the mar-
gin, and the translation is accordingly actually
deficient in that very useful and often indis-
pensable class of facts. For instance, one of
the errors imputed to De Witt was his alleged
incredulity about the hostile intentions of
Louis XIV. toward the republic, and it be-
comes of interest therefore to learn when he
awoke from that delusion. On this subject M.
Lefèvre-Pontalis quotes from a dispatch of the
French ambassador: “ The grand pension-
ary told me two days ago that if his advice
were followed there would be more extensive
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*THE LIFE OF JOHN DE WITT, Grand Pensionary of
Holland; or, Twenty Years of a Parliamentary Republic.
By Antonin Lefèvre-Pontalis. Translated by S. E. and
A. Stephenson. In two volumes. Boston: Houghton,
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preparations made,” etc. (vol. ii., p. 183). A him by these victories the grand pensionary
note doubtless gives, in the French edition, the carried through first the perpetual edict for-
date of this dispatch; but the English reader is ever abolishing the office of stadtholder in
left to his own conjectures.
Holland, and next the act of harmony making
The problems which John De Witt had to the same office even in the other provinces in-
face were, first, those common to all small compatible with that of captain-general. By
states surrounded by envious and aggressive these measures De Witt thought he had ren-
neighbors; second, those of federal states as dered impossible the acquisition by the Prince
such; and third, those peculiar only to repub of Orange of the combined civil and military
lican confederations, which have within their power of the republic.
borders a family of pretenders. The wonder But this achievement was the culmination of
is therefore not that he finally succumbed un his career as the opponent of the house of
der the weight of all these trials, but that he Orange. He gained one great diplomatic vic-
withstood them, and maintained himself in tory in the triple alliance, by which the
power, for so long a time. The government of United Provinces, England and Sweden,
the United Provinces, as established during checked the French schemes of conquest in
their war for independence, resembled much the Spanish Netherlands. But this incident
more nearly our own union under the Articles raises in its details some doubts about the real
of Confederation, than our union under the motives of De Witt. It is admitted that he
Constitution. The only office common to the took part in earlier negotiations having in
whole republic was that of commander of the view a partition of the Netherlands between
land and naval forces, which was held by France and Holland. M. Lefèvre-Pontalis
William the Silent and his successors down to asserts that by this course he only sought to
the death of William II. in 1651. The chief gain time, and never intended to be a party to
political officer in each province was the stadt such a scheme of spoliation. This may be
holder, and it was only by procuring himself true. But the evidence—unless, indeed, it be
to be named to this office in all the seven found in the missing notes—does not clearly
provinces that the captain and admiral general appear. Be that as it may, the negotiations
could unite in his own person the office of failed. Louis invaded the Netherlands, and
commander-in-chief and that of first magis annexed some of the frontier towns; but the
trate. The Orange family had strong claims triple alliance prevented further progress.
upon the confidence of the republic, which The Grand Monarque recoiled before a league
some of the members abused. Maurice, the of which the plebeian head of a republic was
son of William, was concerned in the murder | the original author.
of Olden Barneveld and the imprisonment of From this time, Louis was the implacable
Grotius. William II. attempted a coup d'état enemy of the Dutch confederation. By his
which though frustrated in the first instance money and his diplomacy, he broke up the
might eventually have succeeded, if his sudden triple alliance. England passed completely
death had not saved the country. A posthu | over to his side. With an overwhelming
mous son was born a week after his death. force, led by such generals as Condé, Turenne,
At this time John De Witt came to power and Luxemburg, he invaded the republic, occu-
as grand pensionary of Holland, the most pied almost without resistance three provinces,
opulent, most powerful, and most strongly re- and was arrested in his career of conquest only
publican of all the provinces. The title of by the inundation of the country, which the
stadtholder had become odious, but the house government, as a last desperate resort, had
of Orange, though seriously discredited by effected by cutting the dykes.
the attempted usurpation of William II., still In the meantime the Prince of Orange,
had many active, aggressive, and unscrupu having attained his majority, had been ad-
lous partisans. The republic was on the eve of | mitted to the council of state, had been made
a war with England, which soon afterwards captain and admiral-general, and, through the
broke out, and ended disastrously. Among combined force of public opinion and mob
the conditions of peace which Cromwell im violence, had recovered the stadtholdership.
posed was the exclusion of the Prince of | De Witt had been forced to make these suc-
Orange from power. After the restoration cessive concessions as he felt power slip-
the state of things was reversed. Charles II. ping out of his grasp. But they came
was as zealous for the young prince, his nephew, 1. too late to save him. The disasters of
as the Protector had been hostile to him. But | the war were all charged to him, and the
the war which he undertook against the rage of the populace, skilfully encouraged by
United Provinces ended less honorably for the Orange partisans, at length broke out into
England; the Dutch fleets were nearly every open violence. An accusation which an infa-
where successful; and Ruyter's ships, sailing mous scoundrel brought against Cornelius De
up the Thames, carried dismay even to the heart | Witt, the grand pensionary's brother, at length
of London itself. Using the advantage given precipitated the final catastrophe. Cornelius


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was put to the rack, which he bore without form their opinion of William III. from Ma-
flinching, and the charge utterly broke down. caulay's glowing panegyric may complain that
But some of the judges were enemies of the author, led astray by his prejudices, has
the De Witts, and, with those who gave way belittled the character of that prince. It
before the popular clamor, were enough to must be remembered, however, that he lays
bring in a sentence of exile. This the mob down his pen just as William is entering upon
regarded as insufficient. They demanded blood, his career. He draws him from the character-
and breaking into the prison seized Corne | istics which he had revealed up to that time,
lius and John, who was then with him, dragged and had, therefore, no occasion to set off
them out upon the public square and beat against his coldness, reserve, selfishness, and
them to death with muskets and clubs. Fi dissimulation—unlovely qualities in a young
nally, in order that no atrocity might be want man of twenty-two—the priceless services
ing, the two mangled bodies were suspended which he rendered in later years to his native
side by side from the hangman's gibbet and country, to England, and to Europe. In any
left exposed to the derision of the populace. event, M. Lefèvre-Pontalis, if not an accurate,
During all this time the municipal authorities is at least a skilful artist. He has a happy
did nothing to prevent, even if they did not | gift of sketching even the minor characters
secretly encourage, the crime. And the even who appear on the scene, with a few bold
less pardonable inaction of the Prince of strokes which leave them clearly impressed
Orange, who must have foreseen the end to upon the mind of the reader.
which the violence of his partisans was tend His account of the social and political insti.
ing, and the rewards which he afterwards gave tutions of the United Provinces is not less
to the leading actors in the drama, left a stain lucid and instructive; and Americans may
upon his reputation, which M. Lefèvre-Ponta draw from his pages a useful lesson in compar-
lis lays bare in all its ugliness.
ative politics. The government of the repub-
The only serious charge against John Delic was by no means democratic. It corre-
Witt was that he had begun secret negotia sponded more nearly to what Montesquieu calls
tions with France for a treaty of peace, which an aristocracy—that is, not government by
should have the Prince of Orange for one of its the best, but government by the few; and
victims. The story is improbable on the face | these few consisted of two classes, those who
of it. Notwithstanding his earnest efforts to were noble by birth, and those who were noble,
prevent the revival of the stadtholdership, in a political sense, by wealth. The distinc-
his fears for the liberty of the provinces if tion of classes was then nearly as rigorous as
the house of Orange should be restored, his in any monarchy. The artisans and peasants,
deep distrust of William III. and the injustice deprived of any legal voice in public affairs,
with which he had been treated by him, De were driven to mob violence whenever they
Witt could hardly have been guilty of the wished to make themselves heard. The mech-
folly of bargaining with the enemies of the | anism of the system, too, seemed almost pur-
republic for the overthrow of a leader, whom posely designed to prevent promptness and
an imperious public sentiment had just called vigor of action. There was no central execu-
to power. Yet M. Lefèvre-Pontalis' treat tive for civil and political affairs; the author-
ment of the charge seems to stop just short of ity, which a Prince of Orange as stadtholder,
a complete refutation. He shows that the or a John DeWitt as grand pensionary of Hol-
principal evidence against De Witt was found land, wielded, was personal rather than official.
in the correspondence of Louvois and Luxem | The only representative body for the entire re-
burg, which was published a century later; public was the States-General. Yet many of
and, after admitting that the affair has at first the most important resolutions of the States-
glance an ugly look, he shows by an examina General had to be ratified by the estates of the
tion of some of these letters that they will several provinces, and in some cases even by
bear a different and more favorable construc the councils of the leading cities. The defects
tion. But is it not at least a doubtful infer of such a system are seen as soon as they are
ence of the author, that Luxemburg invented enumerated. Usage made it necessary also
or exaggerated the story for the purpose of that in time of war every fleet and every army
discrediting De Witt? A secret correspond should have with it delegates of the civil au-
ence between two prominent servants of Louis thority. John De Witt himself once accom-
could not well influence public opinion in Hol panied Ruyter in such a capacity. Cornelius,
land, and there is no proof that it was intended his brother, was more frequently employed in
for publication at the only time when it could this service; and M. Lefèvre-Pontalis repre-
have served any practical end.
sents him as seated, during one of Ruyter's
M. Lefèvre-Pontalis is an admirer of De naval battles, on the deck of the flagship, in a
Witt, and it is a loving hand which sketches chair of state surrounded by a guard of honor
that learned, able, austere, and incorruptible with halberds, to represent the sovereignty of
magistrate. On the other hand, readers who l the republic. Ruyter and Cornelius worked


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harmoniously together, but the lay deputies largest work, this volume of sketches will be
were often a serious obstacle to belligerent welcome and useful. It is made up of articles
operations.
which the author contributed to the magazines
The faulty mechanism of the Dutch system, and some fresh matter on Shakespeare Glossa-
the indolence of wealth, and the spirit of fac ries and Lexicons. The book has a melancholy
tion, paralyzed the energies of the republic at interest because the preparation of it was the
the moment when they were most needed for last work of its author. He revised the essays
resistance to foreign invasion. In despair the for this volume, and they therefore present
people threw themselves into the hands of a his matured opinions upon Shakespearean sub-
dictator. The upright republican magistrate jects. The matter of the volume is divided
was sacrificed for the faults of a system for into four parts: I., on reading Shakespeare;
which he was not responsible, and William III. II., narrative analysis; III., miscellaneous;
was the Cæsar who happily wrought the deliv IV., expositors. The prominent characteristics
erance of his country.
of the book are brightness and animation.
It was said above that the English version
of M. Lefèvre-Pontalis' work was excellent. obscure. In a long life of Shakespearean
The fidelity of the translation can of course be criticism he had acquired some very strong
verified only by comparing it with the original; opinions, and he always had the art of ex-
but it reads smoothly, and has every appear- pressing them strongly and even vehemently;
ance of accuracy. Attention must, however, and yet in the volume before us we are sur-
be called to one suspicious statement in the prised to find a matured belief in his capacity
translators' preface. We there read, “The for critical animosity seriously weakened. For
translators have been careful to verify all quo though there is much strong expression it is
tations from English sources, and have in some always remarkably reasonable. He has to
instances corrected misapprehensions which oc write of very unreasonable opinions and very
cur in the original work with reference to gross errors; but it would be difficult for any
English affairs.” The latter clause may refer one to be faithful to his own convictions with
only to misapprehensions caused by faulty less of aspersity and with such an entire
quotations. But if the translators have actu absence of vindictiveness. Few books of the
ally tampered with the text, they have a se size contain so much instruction, and one must
rious account to render to the public.
search long to find one in which wisdom bas
Our review may now be fitly concluded by so attractive a dress.
an extract from the preface of the author him On reading Shakespeare, Mr. White wrote as
self: “ The services,” he says, “ which he-De a master who knew all about his subject and
Witt—so gloriously rendered to his country yet could make it attractive to those who
are sufficient to prove that the prolonged dura knew little or nothing about it. He expresses
tion of power, worthily exercised by a great the opinion that “most boys who are Shake-
minister, is the best guaranty for the liberty speare-lovers have the love strongly upon them
and prosperity of a republic. On the other before they are sixteen"; and adds that such
hand, the public calamities, under the weight was his own case. He tells us that “the young
of which he succumbed, demonstrate with reader may begin Shakespeare reading at the
equal clearness that a nation whose independ first temptation to do so. A one-volume edi-
ence is menaced by conquest cannot defend tion of Shakespeare's plays is a good book to
itself better than by placing itself under the leave in the way of young people. It may do
guardianship of an ancient dynasty.” Does them a great deal of good; it can do no one of
this refer to the republic of France, which them any harm.”
has the good fortune to possess the house of A few of Mr. White's matured convictions
Orleans ?
HERBERT TUTTLE. with regard to Shakespeare's work are set
forth in these essays with considerable breadth.
For example, the fact that Shakespeare in-
STUDIES IN SHAKESPEARE.*
vented nothing but characters, that he drew
Probably no one will deny that in the death
his material and his plots from other sources,
of Richard Grant White we have lost our best
that he had absolutely no dramatic invention,
Shakespeare scholar. Mr. White traversed
is maintained with the stoutness which we ex-
a large area of English scholarship, and as a
pect in Mr. White. On page 22, he says that
critic of the modern uses and abuses of the “the pretence which has been made for Shake-
language he rendered his countrymen no small
speare, that none of his work at any period of
service; but his most thorough work was done
his life resembles that of any other poet or
in the field of Shakespearean literature. To
playwright, and can always be separated from
readers who cannot avail themselves of his
that of his co-workers, is entirely irrecon-
cilable with the facts and probabilities of the
* STUDIES IN SHAKESPEARE. By Richard Grant White,
case, and with the history of all arts, poetry
| included. True, Shakespeare's mind was, in
editor of the Riverside edition of Shakespeare's works.
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the highest and largest sense of the terms, | the opportunity of observing * * * *
original and creative. But such minds, no | would not have deceived a school-girl. Des-
less than others of narrower and inferior demona would have been far beyond their
power, are imitative in their first essays." He | shallow scheming, and Othello would have
repeats over and over again in various forms brushed them out of the way with a back
that Shakespeare invented nothing in his plots. blow of his mailed hand.” The worst Iago
On page 230 he says: “ What Shakespeare was that of Salvini, a sort of noisome venom-
did not do as well as what he did do as a ous reptile-—"an insect, for he had not
playwright has no better proof or illustration the dignity of a vertebrate animal.” Edwin
than in his Fools. He did not invent the per Booth's conception of the character is com-
sonage; he found it on the stage. Indeed, he mended as fine, delicate, and complex; but
invented nothing; he added nothing to the even Edwin Booth's Iago “is not the lago
drama as he found it; he made nothing, not that Shakespeare drew."
even the story of one of his own plays; he Mr. White had a profound contempt for the
created nothing, save men and women, and theory that Bacon wrote the Shakespeare
Ariels and Calabans.” He then proceeds to plays. He begins his essay on this subject
point out how Shakespeare transformed the with: “Would to Heaven there were unques-
fool of the stage and gave him in each play a tionable evidence that Bacon did write the
personality. Along with this negative Mr. plays contained in the famous folio volume of
White's positive is stated with equal strength. 1623.” And his reason is that he has not the
It is in human character and motive that smallest concern for the personal fame of
Shakespeare is supreme, sublime, unapproach-, either. He examines in this essay the work of
able. He is so little a master of dramatic Mrs. Henry Pott on the Promus of Bacon, and
workmanship that he accepts and makes use the poor lady is made very ridiculous by the
of plots and incidents which are thoroughly examination. This Baconian theory is now
unreasonable. The story of Lear, for example, nearly thirty years old, having been invented
is profoundly unreasonable; but Shakespeare by a Miss Bacon, who, very naturally, died in
did not make the story; “in the construction an insane asylum. The whole subject has just
of the tragedy all that is his is the uniting of | had a very broad treatment in the Revue des
two stories—that of Lear and that of Glouces Deux Mondes. Of course the theory is re-
ter—which he wrought into one by mighty jected by all persons having some comprehen-
strength and subtle art, welding them together sive knowledge of the Elizabethan period and
white-heated in the glowing fire of his imagi of Francis Bacon. Some of Mr. White's re-
nation."
marks in summing up the discussion ought to
Another of the pronounced convictions of be corrective of the tendency to this delusion.
our author is that the attempts to make out a “ Bacon, a logician; Shakespeare, one who
philosophy of Shakespeare's dramas, and to set logic at naught.” “Shakespeare, the most
find psychological purpose in incidents, is an heedless, the most inconsistent, the most in-
absurd business. Shakespeare was engaged exact, of all writers who have risen to fame;
in interesting audiences in the Globe Theatre Bacon, the most cautious and painstaking, the
and in making money. His purpose was to most consistent and exact of writers.” “Ba-
entertain his hearers profitably to himself. He con, without humor; Shakespeare's smiling
himself disappeared in this work. His char lips, the mouthpiece of humor for all human
acters are not himself under various masks: kind.” “Bacon, shrinking from a generaliza-
they are creations. He did not in them ex tion even in morals; Shakespeare, ever moral-
press his own personality; he gave them being, izing and dealing even with individual men,
personality, and independent life, out of a and particular things in their general rela-
creative faculty which is unparalleled in its tions.” “Bacon, a highly-trained mind; Shake-
power. One may find abundant faults in speare, wholly untrained.” “Bacon, utterly
Shakespeare, but they almost always attach to without the poetic faculty, even in a secondary
that part of his plays which is not his. Some degree; Shakespeare, rising with unconscious
times he tones down an incident; he always effort to the highest heaven of poetry ever
relieves it, as far as it is possible to do so, by reached by the human mind.” “To suppose
fidelity to the character which he has first that one of these men did his own work and
accepted from other writers and then wrought also the work of the other, is to assume two
out into flesh-and-blood reality. Mr. White miracles for the sake of proving one absurd-
is very severe with the actors of Shakespeare. ity." And Mr. White concludes that the
His remarks on the acting of Iago are not theory “is not worth five minutes' serious con-
flattering to any of the distinguished trage- sideration by any reasonable creature."
dians of our time. Of the average Iayo he
David H. WHEELER.
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RECENT ECONOMIC WORKS.*
valuable hints for public school teachers as
Our progress in no other line of study has
well as college professors. A fairly well chosen
been more rapid, sound, and tangible, of late
bibliography for a “teacher's library” is a
feature which commends the volume to the
years, than in political science. A comparison
general reader no less than to teachers.
of the provision made by leading colleges
twenty or even ten years ago for teaching polit-
Mr. Bagehot remarks of a certain class of
economists that they are conversant with the
ical economy and kindred subjects with that
which the same schools now make, evinces this
abstractions, but deal with the facts “like as-
tronomers who have never seen the stars."
progress most strikingly. The Johns Hopkins,
Professor Simon Newcomb's critics might be
Michigan, Pennsylvania, Cornell and Columbia
tempted to say that he treats of political econ-
Universities have established important post-
omy like an astronomer who has seen the stars,
graduate schools of political science, and their
and nothing else, all his life. It is true that he
thorough work meets with gratifying public
is eminent as an astronomical mathematician
recognition. Scores of colleges are giving
and a maker of nautical almanacs, and that he
political science a new prominence in their
has a more intimate knowledge of Uranus and
courses, and are employing trained and quali-
Neptune than any other living man, not to
fied instructors. Professor Laughlin of Har-
mention the transit of Venus. But it is much
vard, in his little volume on “ The Study of
to his credit that a gentleman so distinguished
Political Economy" presents a tabulated con-
spectus of the instruction offered at Harvard,
for knowledge of celestial things should take
an active interest in things terrestrial. When
Yale, Michigan, Cornell and Columbia respect-
ively, in the years 1860, 1870 and 1884.
on one occasion he turned from his tables of
The
Uranus and his nautical almanacs to annihilate
middle date has little progress to show. Up
the theological doctrine of “final cause," the
to 1870 the study of political economy in the
colleges was almost insignificant.
transition was in some sense natural. Most
The text-
great astronomers have gone into theology
book and lecture courses of 1884 in their num-
more or less. But it is not a little noteworthy
ber and specialization show a remarkable
that there should have come forth from the
development of the study. Not the least sig-
naval observatory at Washington the most am-
nificant mark of our progress in economics is
bitious treatise on the “Principles of Political
the recent formation of the “ American Eco-
Economy” that any American has written in
nomic Association,” under circumstances so au-
recent years. The preface states that “the
spicious and on a basis so scientific and modern
main improvement which the author has at-
as to give promise of a still greater impetus to
tempted is the presentation of the subject in a
economic investigation, study and authorship.
scientific form as an established body of prin-
Professor Laughlin's modest volume discusses
ciples.” The work is in five books on an orig-
the causes of this new interest in economics,
inal plan of division, as follows: I., Logical
sets forth the distinctively economic character
Basis and Method of Economic Science; II.,
of most of the leading questions of the day,
Description of the Social Organism; III., The
shows the character, value and disciplinary
Laws of Supply and Demand; IV., The So-
power of political economy as a study, urges
cietary Circulation, and V., Applications of
its important relations to the law, the ministry
Economic Science. This division evidently
and journalism, and furnishes a chapter on the
rests upon the vivid conception of economic
best methods of teaching it which is full of
life as a symmetrical organism or system in
which there is constant harmonious circulation,
* THE STUDY OF POLITICAL ECONOMY. By J. Laurence
Laughlin, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in Harvard Univer. subject to a fundamental law. Though per-
sity. New York: D. Appleton & Co.
haps unconsciously, our author must have had
PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY. By Simon New.
comb. Ph.D., LL.D.. Professor of Mathematics, U.S. Navy
an analogy in his mind,—the solar system. Let
and Johns Hopkins University New York: Harper & us apply the divisions as given above to a trea-
Brothers,
tise on Astronomy. We shall have: I., Scien-
THE POSTULATES OF ENGLISH POLITICAL ECONOMY.
tific Basis and Method of Astronomy; II.,
By the late Walter Bagehot, M.A., Fellow of University
College, London. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Description of the Solar System (Physical As-
Sons.
tronomy); III., The Law of Gravitation; IV.,
MALTHUS AND HIS WORK. By James Bonar, M.A.,
The Celestial Motions (Mathematical or Theo-
Balliol College, Oxford. New York: Harper & Bros.
PROTECTIONISM - THE ISM WHICH TEACHES THAT retical Astronomy); V., Applications of As-
WASTE MAKES WEALTH. By William Graham Sunner,
tronomical Science (Practical Astronomy).
Professor in Yale College. New York: Henry Holt & Co.
The parallel is too exact to be a mere fancy.
PRACTICAL ECONOMICS; A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS. By
David A. Wells, LL.D., D.C.L. New York and London: In fact, an unexpected confirmation of our dis-
G. P. Putnam's Sons.
covery that Professor Newcomb has carried
RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION, ITS HISTORY AND ITS
LAWS. By Arthur T. Hadley, Connecticut Com. of Labor his conception of the solar system down into
Statistics and Instructor in Yale College. New York and his theory of the social organism is afforded,
London: G. P. Putnam's Sons.
since the preceding sentence was written, by
THE SCIENCE OF BUSINESS. By Roderick H. Smith,
New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons.
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tronomy written a dozen years ago by our widely known. The first essay is introductory
author. Now it is undoubtedly true that there to a series in which it was proposed to discuss
is an analogy, and a somewhat striking one, be severally and critically the leading assump-
tween the solar system with its harmonic move tions on which the English political economy
ments under the dominating law of gravitation, is based. The second deals with the postulate
and the economic organism with its ceaseless of the transferability of labor. The third ex-
circulation under the dominant law of sup amines the assumption of the transferability
ply and demand. But this analogy can scarcely of capital. It was clearly Mr. Bagehot's pur-
be said to furnish the most useful mode of ap pose to have examined a considerable number
proach. It is hardly necessary to say that the of the premises assumed by the English
book exhibits, throughout, the mental habit of school. He shows that these postulates, far
the mathematician. Professor Newcomb is not from being principles of universal application,
a novice in economic science, and his work are true only as applied to the most highly
could not be otherwise than logical and vigor developed industrial nations of very recent
ous; but his aptitude is for principles and facts times, and, in the strictest sense, to English-
that fit easily into syllogisms. His first work speaking countries alone. This argument,
in economics was, naturally, in the special de showing that many of the fundamental no-
partment of finance, and the subjects of money, tions of the English economists are insular
banking and exchange are adapted to his mode rather than general, is not urged with the pur-
of treatment. But in matters of social organi pose of demolishing the English system of
zation, his astronomical bias is vitiating. Mi doctrine, but to set it right. The importance
nor faults and errors are not few, nor on the of Mr. Bagehot's line of thought lies in its
other hand are the positive merits of the book. bearing upon what the American Economic
Unfortunately, it does not meet a want. There Association in its statement of principles calls
are plenty of theoretical summaries of the prin “a progressive development of economic con-
ciples of political economy. What the progress ditions, which must be met by a corresponding
of the science now requires is investigation in development of legislative policy.”
special fields with a view to the extension and The first edition of the famous “Essay on
greater precision of economic knowledge. Population” appeared in 1798, and the last
Though a monometallist, and in sympathy with revision in 1826. Its author, the Rev. Thomas
rather extreme Manchester doctrines, Professor Robert Malthus, died in 1834. Although his
Newcomb makes a creditable endeavor to state work has of late had a truer appreciation,
controverted questions fairly.
Malthus has in general been singularly misun-
Economic specialists are of one accord in derstood and undervalued. But it seldom
admitting the extraordinary value of the late happens that a man whose reputation has un-
Mr. Walter Bagehot's contributions to the justly suffered finds at length an advocate so
science. Whether he wrote of current politi skilful as the one who now comes to the res-
cal machinery as in his “Essays on the Eng-| cue of the discoverer of Malthusianism. Mr.
lish Constitution,” of the evolution of political James Bonar of Oxford, in his brilliant book
society as in his “Physics and Politics,” of “Malthus and his Work” has not only vindi-
finance and banking as in his “Lombard cated his subject, but has himself made a
Street,” or of purely economic questions as in notable contribution to economic literature and
the fugitive pieces which were posthumously furnished one of the most readable books of
gathered into a collection of “Economic the season. Nearly half of it is devoted to a
Essays,” the distinguished editor of “The review and discussion of the “Essay on Popula-
Economist” showed an insight into social tion," while the second part treats of the other
phenomena and a freedom from the blinding economic writings and the general economic
and biasing influence of traditions and ac doctrines of Malthus, and the third part
cepted views, unequalled by any of his con deals with his moral and political philosophy,
temporaries. By mental endowments and by reviews his critics, and contains a biographical
fortunate training and experience, Mr. Bage sketch. Malthus and Ricardo were the
hot was the best equipped political scientist of rival successors of Adam Smith. Ricardo,
this generation. If he had lived he would with his arithmetical methods and his
surely have written a great critical work on systematic treatment, exercised the more
political economy. Three of his essays have shaping influence upon the course of English
now been reprinted in England and in this political economy, although Malthus was the
country in a little volume entitled “The Postu better economist, the broader thinker, and the
lates of English Political Economy," with a more original investigator. To Malthus be-
preface by Professor Marshall of Cambridge. longs the credit of first clearly enunciating the
They originally appeared in “The Fortnightly great doctrine of rent, although it is. com-
Review," and in 1880 were published in the monly ascribed to Ricardo. The elder Mill,
collection of “Economic Studies,” which is, McCulloch, and Nassau Senior, were Ricardo's
we believe, out of print, and has not been | disciples. Sismondi was the ally and in some


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sense the successor of Malthus. Mr. Bonar States when neither professional protectionists
finds in Thornton, Cliffe Leslie, and Walker- nor professional free traders will be permitted
and doubtless he would include Sidgwick to block the progress of the science or to
the lineal inheritors of Malthus, although their speak in its name.
revolt against Ricardianism is not usually con Under the title “Practical Economics,” Mr.
nected with the name of Ricardo's great rival. David A. Wells brings together a collection of
The Ricardians made Wealth the basis of essays and review articles, chiefly from the vol-
their science. Malthus had the human elementumes of the extinct “Princeton Review." The
in him, and his political economy was the “Princeton ” plates are used, as in Professor
science of Wealth as related to the Welfare of Sumner's recent volume of essays; but, unlike
Man. Mr. Bonar shows that Malthus was the | Professor Sumner, Mr. Wells kindly deigns to
veritable precursor of the “new school," inform the reader when and where each essay
which studies human society as it actually | first appeared. The volume contains six arti-
exists, cares for its improvement, and labors cles on the tariff question, three on monetary
to build up the “neglected pathology of subjects, and four on “Our Experience in Tax-
economic science.”
ing Distilled Spirits.” At a period when fiat
It is not pleasant to turn from a work of money nonsense was debauching the country,
such scholarly excellence and literary charm Mr. Wells appeared as a champion of specie
as Mr. Bonar's “Malthus,” to Professor Sum payments. He rendered inestimable service in
ner's new volume which he has chosen to pointing out the fallacy of irredeemable paper.
entitle “Protectionism, the -Ism which teaches It was highly natural that the “hard-money"
that Waste makes Wealth.” In his preface doctrine of that time should take the form of
the author states: “Protectionism seems to gold monometallism. The question of bimet-
me to deserve only contempt and scorn, satire allism was not under discussion. Specie pay-
and ridicule. It is such an arrant piece of ment meant gold payment. Gold production
economic quackery, and it masquerades under was increasing annually, and current facts
such an affectation of learning and philosophy, seemed to have ordained beyond a question the
that it ought to be treated as other quackeries wisdom of a single gold standard. Mr. Wells
are treated." These sentences sufficiently indi. grappled vigorously the practical money ques-
cate the character of the book. “Contempt tion of ten or fifteen years ago; but if his essay
and scorn” are Professor Sumner's principal on “The Silver Question” (written in 1877)
literary stock in trade. Those who read his represents his present opinions, it is manifest
last book, “Essays in Political and Social that he has no grasp upon the very different
Science,” will remember that he expressed practical money question—an international one
“contempt” for bimetallism, metaphysicians, -now confronting the commercial world. The
and an astonishing number of other persons essays on the internal-revenue liquor tax are
and things ; and the book next preceding | highly valuable, and their reproduction more
(“Social Classes") breathed scorn upon phi than justifies the volume. The tariff essays
lanthropists, German economists and social are sturdily partisan, but not without weight.
reformers of all sorts in the most dreadful The great desideratum, of course, is a scientific
manner. “Protectionism” rather exceeds its study of the tariff in its facts and bearings by
predecessors in trenchant name-calling and economists of the historical and statistical
berating. This sort of warfare, however, school, who feel neither admiration and devo-
usually redounds to the benefit of the enemy. tion to the tariff nor “moral indignation"
What Mr. Sumner calls “the cause of free against it, and who work as dispassionately as
trade in the United States” is as much harmed chemists. Mr. Wells has made up his mind in
by books like this as it is helped by the advance, and seeks arguments to sustain a posi-
kindred literature occasionally launched by the tion already taken.
other party to the controversy. But if it is | From the special pleading and prolixity of
unfortunate for the cause of free trade, this the tariff discussion, it is a positive relief to
book's appearance is fortunate for the cause take up such a book as Mr. Arthur Hadley's
of political economy in the United States. It “Railroad Transportation, its History and its
has been the misfortune of the science that Laws.” A more thorough, judicious, timely
persons claiming to speak authoritatively in and scholarly piece of economic investigation
its name have made no other use of it than to has not appeared in a long time than this work.
drag it perpetually into their exchange of Mr. Hadley is an instructor in political science
epithets and sarcasms on the tariff question. in Yale College and the commissioner of labor
Professor Sumner has, fortunately, carried the statistics for Connecticut. He has made the
thing so far that everybody can see that he railroad question his special study, and his book
has stepped out of the economic into the is an admirable specimen of the kind of eco-
merely partisan sphere. The tariff question is nomic work which the “new school”advocates,
a very small part of political economy, and it outlines the development of the modern
the time seems to have arrived in the United | transportation systems of Europe and America,


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and goes to the very heart of the problems of THE RISE OF CLASSICAL POETRY.*
combination, competition, management and le-
This volume, of exquisite typographical
gal regulation. Its great number of citations
and bibliographical references, far from being
execution, professes to be an inquiry concern-
ing the development of what is called classical
cumbrous or pedantic, have extraordinary
poetry in England. This obscure and intricate
value in that they put the reader on the track
tract of our literary history has long waited
of the entire literature of railroad economics,
whether American, English, German, French
for a competent surveyor. Literary historians
have hitherto hurried over it or passed it with
or Italian. Its high scholarly merit detracts
nothing from the readableness of a book which
averted eye, as if it had terrors for them.
Yet nothing would be more interesting than to
is a model of lucidity. It ought to have a wide
know all the causes of this apparent break in
popular reading, and especially it ought to be
the continuity of literary style, influence, and
carefully studied by every Congressman and
tradition. Why within a quarter of a century
State legislator. It will have a permanent
after Shakespeare's death had men apparently
place and influence.
The “Science of Business," by Mr. Roderick
forgotten that he had ever existed ? How was
it that, all through the latter half of the 17th
H. Smith, is the misleading name of a book
century, critics could have been so unanimous
which discusses the periodic, or “rhythmic,”
in lauding Mr. Waller as “the parent of
fluctuation of prices and commercial activity,
English verse, and the first that showed us our
and attempts to find a philosophical basis for it
tongue had numbers and beauty in it;" while
in the inscrutable nature of things. The first
Dryden, the greatest poet of the age, felt no
part of the book dwells upon the propositions
that all motion is in the direction of the least
need of going beyond Denham's “Cooper's Hill”
resistance or the greatest traction, and that all
for a model of " majesty of style”?
These questions, and many others, Mr.
motion is vibratory, or to use the author's
word, “rhythmic," and that this is eternally
Gosse raises, and he provides them with an-
swers more or less satisfactory. What he has
and mysteriously so of all things whether ma-
really accomplished is to indicate, in an agree-
terial, intellectual or spiritual. The transition
is obvious. “Business," or commercial activity,
able, suggestive, rather discursive essay, a
is a form of motion. It is therefore subject
fascinating problem, and to take one step to
to the laws of motion, including the law of
its solution. All that relates to Waller's
achievement in bringing the pentameter coup-
"rhythm." Successive chapters give statistics
let to a high degree of perfection long before
and use graphical devices to show the periodic
he and his disciples were brought under the
advances and declines in the iron business,
sway of French influence by their exile in
railroad building and the consumption of rails,
France during the Civil War, and to Waller's
immigration, stocks, bank clearings, foreign
subsequent influence upon taste and style, is
trade, and the production and value of crops.
The general coincidence of movement in these
clear and convincing. “That precise, mundane,
and rhetorical order of poetry” which we call
different items is then pointed out, and the con-
classical is not mainly due to the sway of
clusion is drawn that the rhythmic law of mo-
tion is responsible for the striking facts.
French taste, but is, in common with that
It is
taste, a result of a multitude of causes which
held that the recurrences are inevitable, can be
almost exactly predicted, and should be under-
shaped not only poetry but civilization itself,
and which are to be sought in the whole set and
stood and provided for by business men. It
trend of the human mind at that time. All
does not seem to have occurred to the author
this is made to appear, although it might have
to consider the effect upon the crisis itself of
discounting it in advance. Would a commer-
been more fully illustrated. Had Mr. Gosse
treated some of the many interesting phenom-
cial crisis, generally expected and prepared for,
be a commercial crisis? Mr. Smith has entered
ena connected with this prodigious revolution
a most interesting field of investigation, and
in taste, as fully as he has treated the develop-
has collected a valuable body of facts; but his
ment of the pentameter couplet, his work
would have been of much more permanent
apparent lack of scientific training renders his
value. Considering the vast nature of the
theories and philosophizings wholly valueless
from the economic standpoint. It is, however,
inquiry proposed upon the title-page and in
the first lecture, it must be admitted that this
most desirable that profound study, in the
book, charming in style and fresh in informa-
light of very recent facts, should be bestowed
tion as it is, is somewhat disappointing. It is
upon this special topic; and Mr. Smith has
rendered a useful service in calling public atten-
difficult to perceive how the numerous pages
devoted to the biographies of Waller and
tion to the importance and timeliness of such
investigation. It is to be hoped that his book
*FROM SHAKESPEARE TO POPE. An Inquiry into the
may be followed by some more exhaustive Causes and Phenomena of the Rise of Classical Poetry in
treatise.
England. By Edmund Gosse, Clark Lecturer in English
Literature at the University of Cambridge. New York:
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others materially further the aims of this of poetry at the close of the sixteenth century
“Inquiry," while it is evident that the omission came too soon, into a language and a literature
of these would have made space for the fuller too crude, to be supported. There was cer-
consideration of many important questions tainly no depth of cultivation, no broad and
which are slurred. No doubt, as Mr. Gosse deep literary civilization, in the age of Eliza-
says, the account of Waller's plot is more beth.” And he goes on to say, in substance,
complete and accurate than any hitherto pub that, setting aside Shakespeare, Spenser, Ba-
lished; no doubt the details of Waller's Italian con, and Jonson, the Elizabethan literature is
and Alpine journey with Evelyn and the “huge more or less barbaric, and that its tide ebbed
filthy cur," are piquant; but in what respect away leaving no impress upon the shores of
are they causes or phenomena of the rise of the next age. No competent person will deny
classical poetry in England ?
that there was much of crudity and barbarism
A curious inadvertence occurs at p. 208. | in the literary work of the period of doubt
Two dates are given for the death of Sir John and disappointment which followed hard upon
Denham, namely, 1668 and 1688. In a foot the fine enthusiasm of Shakespeare's time.
note Mr. Gosse states the facts and decides But Mr. Gosse finds that it serves his purpose
that the latter date “seems highly improb. better to suggest that Shakespeare and Spen-
able.” He proceeds upon this assumption at ser came too soon. Surely the ripe and sane
p. 209, where he says of Waller, who died in judgment is rather that so eloquently stated
1687, that he survived Denham nearly twenty | by Mr. Lowell in his essay on Shakespeare.
years. But upon the preceding page occurs | Shakespeare came in the fulness of time. “All
this sentence: “The last twenty years of his favorable stars seem to have been in conjunc-
[Denham's] life, as far as we can perceive, tion at his nativity.” The great writers of
were darkened by domestic suffering.” This Elizabeth's reign were not, says Mr. Gosse,
suffering was the result of an illicit amour | “educated at all points up to the pitch of their
between Lady Denham and the Duke of York, genius.” Had they been so educated, he thinks
which, as we are informed in the foot-note, the classical reaction would have had no ex-
began in 1666 and soon drove the poet mad. cuse. Probably not,—but what great writer
It would seem from this that Mr. Gosse, after ever was educated at all points up to the pitch
writing his foot-note, changed his opinion as to of his genius? It must be admitted that these
the date of Denham's death, but omitted to illiterate poets left a very favorable represent-
correct the statement based upon his discarded ative of their culture in Milton, the lineal
opinion. Strange that a man could read con- descendant of the Elizabethans, who carried
flicting statements like these to so many dif- the traditions of that great age away past
ferent audiences without either noticing them Cowley and Denham on to the middle of the
or having them pointed out to him by critical reign of Charles II., when it was the fashion
hearers! A more trifling instance occurs at to praise Waller, with the confidence of igno-
p. 51, where Waller is spoken of as “boyish " | rance, as "the parent of English verse." Then,
and “not yet of age” when he attended the first too, if more education was the one thing need-
parliament of Charles I., in August, 1627. Heful for the Elizabethans, is it not a curious
was born March 3, 1605. There are several fact that Shakespeare, almost the only one of
trifling misprints which any reader can correct them who had not received a classical training,
for himself.
was the least “barbaric," the most artistic of
In his wide and profound study of seven them all? It is not a sufficient reply to say
teenth century poetry, Mr. Gosse's mind has that Shakespeare and Milton were exceptional
become, in a measure, like the dyer's hand, men; so were Marlowe and Chapman,-so is
“subdned to what it works in.” Ile seems every poet. The vast sweep of Neptune's
sometimes disposed to adopt something of the orbit is no less a subject of rational investiga-
attitude of that time toward the great Eliza- tion than the race-track of one of Jupiter's
bethan poets. At p. 11, in contrasting the moons.
circumlocutions of the classical school with If the great Elizabethans came too soon, it
those of the Shakespearian, he says very justly would be interesting to know just what period
that the classical poet's principle is “restriction, Mr. Gosse would have chosen for them. Would
ingenuity, and strait-laced elegance; the ro they have been better poets had they enjoyed
mantic poet's principle is liberty even though the education of Cowley and Waller, or had
it lead to license.” But he takes care not to l they lived in the intellectual and moral atmos-
add that the circumlocutions of the Shake- phere of the mad and merry court of Charles
spearian school are ideas and spring from II.? If so, then doubtless Homer had been a
mental exuberance, while those of the classical better poet could he have enjoyed the tuition
are mere phrases ineant to cover a mental bar- | of the literati and academicians of Alexandria
renness which they really reveal. Again, at in the time of the Ptolemies ! Again, Mr.
p. 217, occurs the following notable passage: | Gosse assumes, without telling us why, that
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was one of such broad and wide literary civil work upon the period discussed in this vol-
ization that it could afford to look with some ume; but nothing is more certain than that the
degree of contempt upon the crudity of Shake insidious tendency which makes itself felt here
speare's time. Possibly I am discovering in and there in this book to write down to the
Mr. Gosse's major premise conclusions and level of fashionable audiences, will frustrate
assumptions which he would repudiate. There any such high aim. To conclude, then, Mr.
would have been no ground whatever for these Gosse has called from time's “ vasty deep"
remarks had Mr. Gosse restricted his imputa- | spirits which he has not had the power to dis-
tions of crudity, and barbarism to the post- pel. They are likely to haunt us until the
Shakespearian dramatists and to the poets so more potent conjurer appears who shall speak
absurdly dubbed by Johnson “metaphysical,” | them peace. But who is better equipped for
who have “all the contortions of the sybil such a task than Mr. Gosse himself? It is to
without the inspiration.” Finally, Mr. Gösse be hoped that he will begin by giving us
in the same passage assumes that the “bar-| the full biography of Waller, for which he
baric” nature of the Elizabethan culture ex tells us materials exist: and that then he will
plains the fact that this literature, with its gird himself for the labor of writing An In-
boundless energy and its unfettered play of quiry, not into one but into all, “the causes
mind, exerted no influence upon the next and phenomena of the rise of classical poetry
age. “The mediocrities of the age of Charles in England.” Meantime, the present volume
I. did not model their prose on Bacon or their should be attentively read and re-read.
verse on Shakespeare.” The mention of the
MELVILLE B. ANDERSON.
prose of Bacon is irrelevant, as this inquiry
excludes prose, and the superiority of the prose
of the classical school is admitted. But this
HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS.
is all very inconclusive. It does not appear The generous folio volume containing Whittier's
that the failure of the great Elizabethans to “Poems of Nature," with illustrations by Elbridge
influence the next age was due to any such Kingsley, is a fine specimen of the productions of
radical defect in their culture. If they stood the Riverside Press: which is equivalent to saying
throughout the long cold “age of prose and
that it is an example of the best work done in Amer-
ica. The fifteen poems in the group include “ A
reason," like mighty forest-trees in winter,
Summer Pilgrimage," "Summer by the Lakeside,"
“bare ruined choirs where once the sweet
"Mountain Pictures, " “ June on the Merrimac," and
birds sang," they were not therefore barren other pieces which give the artist suitable scope
cumberers of the ground. Under whose foliage for the use of his pencil. The drawings by Mr.
did the first heralds of the spring-time of Kingsley have for the most part been taken from
nineteenth-century poetry find shelter, in
nature, and present veritable landscapes from the
whose boughs hospitable welcome and nour-
scenery of New England. They are full-page, and
ishment?
have the benefit of the finest workmanship of the
engraver, together with ample margins to set them
Several other passages have been singled
off to the best advantage. The view of “Mount
out for comment, but this article is already too
Chocorua " is imposing; that of the “Gateway to
long. And perhaps what has been said will the White Mountains " is good, but less grand in
indicate with sufficient clearness the nature of character; while the “Evening by the Lakeside,"
the shortcomings as well as the excellence of
“Deer Island Pines," and "The Old Burying
this book. I am anxious not to appear to do
Ground," are pleasing. The sea-view's are less suc-
injustice to Mr. Gosse. But no greater injus-
cessful. The cloud in the "Storm on Lake
Asquam " looks too much like a flapping curtain,
tice could be done a man of his serious attain-
and vague and unmeaning lines obscure the story
ments than to test his work by a low standard
of all the other water pieces, making it hard to
of criticism. If works of this class were likely distinguish the sky from the ocean, or the fluid
to be widely read by non-literary people, they from the solid elements represented. The ctched
should be made readable, and not over-complete | portrait of Whittier, by S. A. Schoff, is a noble
and squeamishly accurate. But as Mr. Gosse picture.
is neither a Taine nor a Macaulay, his books
The superb volume in which Houghton, Mifflin &
Co. have enclosed “ The Last Leat," Dr. Holmes's
will be read little save by people who have
most popular poem, elicits unreserved admiration.
some reason for being interested in the sub-
It is, from frontispiece to finis, of most artistic
jects upon which he writes. Mr. Gosse's style
workmanship. The minutest accessory has that
is an admirable example of the restrained, un delicate finish which is the product of refined
rhetorical style of low pitch,-a style perfectly thought and skill. No detail has been omitted
adapted to the treatment of literary history. or slighted which could add to the completeness of
His works will, however, be read not for their
the book. The text of the poem is an exact counter-
style but for their substance,—for whatever
part of the author's hand writing. The full-page
illustrations are strong in design and adequate in
of new disclosures or original views they may
execution. Each has notable merits, and shows
contain. Mr. Gosse has ability and accomplish-
| honest, painstaking, conscientious labor. The art-
ments enough to make him one of the critics of ists, George Wharton, F. Hopkinson, and Edwards
the future: he could, if he would, give us a classic | Smith, have not been afraid of their'sketches, but


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have added the last one required to tell their story
plainly. In this day of slurred and blurred paint-
ing and engraving, it is gratifying to meet clear and
carefully eleborated pictures in which there are no
slovenly passages or obscure corners. The pages
facing the illustrations are ornamented with dainty
designs so intelligently conceived that one would
not add or take away a line. To close all, the
author has written a little history of the poem,
which will give it additional interest for all its ad-
mirers.
The name of Walter Shirlaw is known as that of
an artist who has done good work and gained honor-
able repute; consequently its appearance on any
artistic production, a painting or an illustration,
conveys a promise and excites expectation. It is
associated this season with Goldsmith's beautiful
ballad of “The Hermit,” to which it will lend a
new and strong interest. The poem-a brief tale
of love told in the simple words and artless manner
which have endeared the writings of Oliver Gold-
smith to all cultivated readers—is a series of
pictures in itself, images starting up with the
vividness of life at the unfolding of successive
stanzas. The artistic imagination should be stimu-
lated by them to its happiest creative action. But
Mr. Shirlaw has not put himself in harmony with
the spirit of the poem. It has failed to conjure
before him the visions of unaffected youth touched
by genuine feeling, which the author has por-
trayed in his lines. Note the manly figure of
Edwin as Goldsmith painted it, and then observe
the conception Mr. Shirlaw has worked out on
page 30. In none of the illustrations is there a
form answering to the idea of the hermit which the
poet evoked. The artist's work is throughout
theatrical, exaggerated, and incoherent. It is
perhaps a fine example of the impressionist school,
whose effects are to be pondered and wondered over,
guessed at but never really understood. Mr. Jueng-
ling is an engraver of fine ability, and has assisted
in the presentation of the artist's designs with his
usual skill. The publishers (Lippincott Co.) have
not been lacking in their efforts to present “The
Hermit” in a manner suited to the merit of a master-
piece. Its outward attire is elegant in every par-
ticular.
The artists who were entrusted with the task of
enriching the text of the Sermon on the Mount
with illustrative and decorative designs, have
treated it with a dignity and reverence commen-
surate with its sublime character. Nothing light
or weak has been suffered to enter into the compo-
sition of any design which has been used by way of
interpretation or embellishment. All is serious,
elevated, devout. As an introduction to the artistic
work, the Rev. E. E. Hale has written a discourse
on the Sermon, explaining the conditions under
which it was addressed to the disciples, and ex-
pounding its doctrines. The illustrations, on folio
pages, embrace text, borders, and drawings. The
text and half-titles are exquisitely engrossed by
Charles Copeland; an intermingling of ornamental
capitals and decorative figures furnishing them with
a delicate embroidery. The borders by Sidney L.
Smith, filled with expressive and elaborate emblems,
are models of chaste and tasteful design. Fenn,
Sandham, Harper, Taylor, Fraser, Church, and
Schell, share the burden and the credit of the ma-
jor illustrations. Most of the drawings by Harry
Fenn are from sketches made by him in the Holy
Land. Mr. Sandham has distinguished himself by
his noble conception of the leader and law-giver,
Moses; by his admirable delineation of the secret
alms-giver; and by the strong figures in the group
of hypocrites and Pharisees. His designs are gen-
erally vigorous and suggestive. Mr. Church is rep-
resented by an interesting composition illustrating
the persecutions which have been endured “for
righteousness' sake." The artists have, without
exception, worked in harmony with their subject.
They have dedicated their highest powers to a
religious service, lending to the words of the great
masterpiece of the Savior's teaching, the beauty
and enlightenment of their art. The publishers
(Roberts Brothers) have neglected no mechanical
detail that might add to the excellence of the work.
Mesers. Cassell & Company have published a
handsome table-book which appeals to the taste of
a variety of readers. The botanist, the artist, the
traveller and the littérateur, will look at the “ Wild
Flowers of Colorado," by Emma Homan Thayer,
with agreeable interest. The plates embrace
twenty-five specimens of the flora of one of our
western territories, which are a vast garden during
the summer season, glowing with gorgeous colors.
The flowers which Miss Thayer has transferred from
their native soil to her sketch-book are among the
most striking or showy or chracteristic of the
species peculiar to the western continent. She has
succeeded, with one or two exceptions, in preserv-
ing their distinctive features and traits; and, painted
in colors on a folio page, they produce a brilliant
effect. It is a difficult and expensive process to
reproduce by chromo-lithography the delicate shades
and gradations of color which are displayed in a
flower. We must not be captious if art fails to
imitate the miracles of nature. It should satisfy us
at present that such copies of flora's jewels are
given us as appear in the present work. As an ac-
companiment to her color-sketches, Miss Thayer has
written a chatty history of the tour through Colo-
rado which enabled her to collect and paint the
flowers in her novel bouquet. Her literary style is
not without fault, but her amiable and animated
manner, with the pleasant incidents she has to
narrate, so amuse us that they disarm criticism.
Among the volumes de lure which Thomas Y.
Crowell & Co. have issued this season, is one con-
taining the complete Poetical Works of Alfred,
Lord Tennyson, from the author's text. It is nearly
sixty years since Tennyson published his first verses
(1887), and all through this long period his fertile
muse has been most productive. Nevertheless it is
a surprise to find that an octavo of nearly nine
hundred pages is required to hold his collected
poems. The succession of booklets he has sent out
during two generations has not conveyed an impres-
sion of the fecundity of his genius as does their
enormous volume. The publishers have presented
this new and compact edition in a becoming style.
It is a rich and comely book, although rather heavy
to handle. The pages are bordered with a design
printed in golden brown to match the brown-and-
gold binding. The illustrations are by such ac-
credited artists as F. S. Church, Harry Fenn, and
F. Dielman. Some of them are highly satisfactory,
as the marine, by E. B. Schell, p. 135; the Watcher
by the Sea, by Harry Fenn, p. 474; the Prin-
cess, by W. St. John Harper, p. 390, etc. Others
challenge criticism, as Mr. Church's Lotos-eater, who
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feet and legs soaking in the water; and Mr. Taylor's and artistic. The poems, brief and rhythmical,
lackadaisical youth (p. 121,) holding up a tomb- are printed on an ecru-tinted page, and surrounded
stone with the pressure of a back evidently too weak by appropriate emblems and embellishments, colored
for the burden imposed upon it. Mr. Fenn has sev in sepia. The exterior of the volume is in keeping
eral good sketches, but in that on p. 481, the Old with its contents, forming altogether a noteworthy
Yew, which is the central figure, is set on the specimen of the book-maker's art.
ground in a very rickety manner, instead of growing The portfolio of sketches by Ch. Daux, accom-
firmly out of it as trees have a habit of doing. The panying a light love-ditty by M. Mounet-Sully of
engraver and printer often fail to do justice to the the Comédie-Française, bears the true Parisian stamp.
work of the designer, but in these instances the de- It is named “The Modern Cupid" (Estes & Lauriat),
fects mentioned may undoubtedly be referred to the and delineates the conduct of love on the railroad.
latter.
A traveller is smitten with the fair face and sweet
The lids of the beautiful casket enclosing the voice of a fellow passenger. He speaks to her with
“Favorite Poems” of Jean Ingelow (Roberts his eyes, he offers her an arm on alighting, he sits
Brothers) must claim the first words, as they do the by her side, he ventures some little attentions, he
first view, of reader and reviewer. A plate let into | dares to kiss her when passing through a tunnel,
the centre of the upper cover displays in bas-relief and finally he holds her hand an accepted lover. It
the tower of St. Botolph church in the city of Bos is a slight story, a mere episode, but neatly elabor-
ton, England, where Miss Ingelow was born. It is ated in fifteen stanzas. These are printed separately
a unique and admirable bit of decoration. The on folio sheets, and each is illustrated with dainty
“favorite poems" include the " Songs of Seven," devices. The figure of Cupid is always present,
"The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire," and in his various attitudes is eloquently expressive.
“ The Shepherd Lady," and a few other pieces The drawings are very delicately executed, the
almost equally familiar. The illustrations, scattered hand that traced them evidently being thoroughly
profusely through the letter-press, are the work of trained. They are printed in colors. The whole is
our best designers and engravers. More than this | but a trifle, yet the French have the art of elevating
it is superfluous to say of them. The paper, print, | nothings into matters of deep consequence.
and other accessories of the volume, are of a choice 1 The Rev. J. G. Wood, the author of a num-
character, meeting in all respects the demands of a ber of valuable popular works on natural his-
fastidious taste. The excellent portrait of Miss In- tory, has enclosed the fruits of his later researches
gelow which fronts the title-page must not be in a volume illustrated with 750 engravings, and
passed without mention. It is one of the important entitled “Nature's Teachings" (Roberts Brothers).
adjuncts of an opulent volume.
The subject to which it relates is the likeness bé.
Byron's largest and noblest work, " Childe tween the inventions of mankind and the creations
Harold's Pilgrimage,” has been chosen by Ticknor of nature. Mr. Wood has proceeded upon the
& Company for their leading holiday book. The theory that human discoveries and human appli-
text is mostly of the richest setting, affording a | ances have their prototypes in nature; that the most
sterling basis for whatever elaborate and costly ingenious contrivances by which the human race
embellishments may be lavished upon it. The have lifted themselves from the level of the brutes
publishers have produced the work in a most and become masters of the earth, its elements, its
creditable manner. A fine portrait of Byron is inhabitants and its products, have their parallel in
the first of a series of illustrations, executed by | some structure, some growth, some process in the
talented artists working under the supervision lower world. Thus the boat, the oar, the paddle,
of A. V. S. Andrew, which enrich the volume; and the screw, have their prototype in the water-snail,
handsome print, heavy paper, and a tasteful bind the water-boatman, the feet of the duck, and the
ing, complete the attractions of a work which is a tail of the fish. He presents multitudes of instances
prize for any book-lover.
in support of his proposition, choosing them from
One of the most charming of the gift-books different fields of activity, as navigation, architec-
offered this season is the “Idyls of the Months,” ture, war, and hunting, tools, optics, the useful arts
prepared by Mary A. Lathbury, and published by and acoustics. The amount of study which has
George Routledge & Sons. The motive of the book been necessary to collect these examples is enor-
is the ancient superstition that certain precious mous. Only by the most assiduous industry and
stones possess special powers for the protection and patient observation could such stores of minute and
advantage of those who own them. Many nations curious material be accumulated. Admiration is
and individuals in the present day have faith in this divided between the ingenious conceptions of the
mystic notion, and cherish particular gems for the author and the thoroughness with which he has
sake of the charm believed to reside in them. In worked them out. The purpose of all this work is
Poland, as Miss Lathbury relates, the stone that stated in a few preliminary paragraphs, the entire
belongs to the month of one's nativity is held in body of the book being occupied with the facts used
high esteem, and an amulet made of the gems of by way of explanation. The deduction which Mr.
the different months is a priceless treasure. Seizing Wood desires the reader to make, is that as exist-
upon this fruitful conceit, Miss Lathbury has wrought ing human inventions have been anticipated by na-
it into a series of poems and pictures running through ture, so have those which may hereafter be produced,
the year. Twelve full-page single-figure pieces alter and therefore, “the great discoverers of the future
nate with twelve metrical compositions, all corre- will be those who look to nature for art, science and
sponding in subject and spirit with the months and mechanics."
the gems to which they refer. The figure-pieces are The annual cook-book of Thomas J. Murray,
very attractive representations of womanly beauty, published by White, Stokes, & Allen, is composed
graceful in form and pose, lovely in feature, and this year of recipes for the manufacture of “Break-
clothed or draped with exquisite taste. They are fast Dainties." The author treats of food materials
done in colors which are in every instance harmonious and their preparation for the table, and offers various


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hints, most of which are useful and some original, deservedly popular. The present volume is the third
regarding the compounding and cooking of different in a series by the same author, the first being given
dishes. For the sake of these the progressive house to Southern Palestine and Jerusalem, and the
wife will be willing to buy his little book, which is
second to Central Palestine and Phoenicia. Harper
put up in dainty covers to make it attractive to the
& Brothers publish the series.
Christmas shopper.
Clara Erskine Clement, who has prepared some
A collection of poems by Mary Bradley, under the
very acceptable books on Art, including an excel-
title of the leading one, “Hidden Sweetness," is
lent History of Painting, is the author of "An Out-
line History of Sculpture for Beginners and Stu-
published in pretty holiday form by Roberts Broth-
dents” (White, Stokes, & Allen). Mrs. Clement
ers. The book is a square duodecimo, and the pages
always writes entertainingly, and the present work
are ornamented with floral designs by Dorothy Hol is to be heartily commended as a popular hand-
royd, which are pleasing in subject and arrange book. It is copiously illustrated, and has the great
ment, and, being printed in umber, give a bright | advantage of a good index.
effect to the remaining black and white surface. Two uncommonly handsome books of travel are
The poems are pervaded with a tender and devout “ Through Spain, a Narrative of Travel and Adven-
religious feeling, full of trust, hope, and submission.
ture in the Peninsula," by S. P. Scott, and “The
In sentiment and structure they are marked by a
Queen's Empire, or Ind and her Pearl," by Joseph
genuinely poetical spirit, and will commend them-
Moore, Jr., F.R.G.S., both works published by J.
selves to many readers. '
B. Lippincott Company. Mr. Scoti's narrative is
Selections from the devotional verse of Frances
full of spirited descriptions of the country and
Ridley Havergal have been made the subjects of
people visited, and many bits of history are inwoven
in a most entertaining way. The letter-press of his
decorative treatment by E. P. Dutton & Co. They
volume is noticeably elegant, and the illustrations,
appear in a square octavo, gayly dressed in gilt and
though somewhat uneven in quality, are well-
colors, and bearing the title “Songs of the Master's chosen, and belong to the text which they interpret.
Love." The poems are printed in a brown tint, with Mr. Moore writes in a light, good-humored vein,
a scriptural text above in gold, and the initial letter and is evidently an accomplished traveller and a
elaborated with landscape and floral designs in careful observer. His volume is exquisitely illus-
colors. On the alternate pages single stanzas are
trated with fifty phototypes, which have a novel
encircled with wreaths of flowers.
and pleasing effect.
That clever work, “Rudder Grange," by Mr.
Lovers of horses will appreciate the attractive
Stockton, is well worthy the illustrated form which
and useful work of the Rev. J. G. Wood, on “Horse
its publishers (Scribners) give it this year. The
and Man, their Mutual Dependence and Duties"
pictures by Mr. A. B. Frost seem to fit perfectly
(Lippincott). Aside from what may be called the
with the text, and lend a new charm to this enjoy-
ethical treatment of the subject, the book is filled
able book, which, in its way, is one of the master-
with practical information regarding horses and
pieces of our humorous literature.
their proper treatment by man, and is fairly well
In noticing an illustrated copy of Wordsworth's
illustrated.
“Ode on the Intimations of Immortality" a year
Keats's “Eve of St. Agnes” is issued in small
ago, we said that the poem is one which the illus-
quarto form by Estes & Lauriat, with twenty-four
trator cannot touch without profaning it.
The
new illustrations, designed by E. H. Garrett.
The
statement is confirmed by a new edition of the
drawings are spirited and original, and the engrav-
ing, by Andrew, is very effective. The same work
poem, published by Cassell & Co., and illustrated
is issued in larger quarto, with India-proof impres-
by various artists. We have only to repeat that
sions of the engravings.
pictures are out of place in connection with this Porter & Coates issue a small quarto containing
great poem.
some of the “ Beauties of Tennyson," with twenty
"The Inca Princess” is an ambitious essay in illustrations from designs by F. B. Schell. The
verse, by M. B. Toland, published with all the ad drawings are on the whole very satisfactory; the
holiday volume (Lippincott). The sub- sea-view for the lines “ Break, break, break," and
ject is a romance connected with the conquest of the figure-piece for "See what a lovely shell," being
Florida by De Soto, which is narrated in five cantos.
conspicuously good.
The form of the poem is iambic tetrameter with
The bound volumes of the illustrated periodicals
alternate rhymes, the lines being divided into
are an important feature of holiday books, and
combine attractive contents with low price. The
stanzas of twelve each. It is a lifeless production,
eighth volume of the “ Magazine of Art” (Cassell)
without strength or spirit in the story or the style.
forms a substantial quarto of six hundred pages,
The illustrations are contributed by talented artists. handsomely bound, and tilled with engravings,
The sea-view by Davidson is notably good. Others,
many of them of a high order, including portraits,
by Fredericks, Church, and Chase, are meritorious. reproductions of old masterpieces, and pictures
Dr. Thomson's “The Land and the Book" seems from original designs. The contributors to the
brought within the holiday category by the abun volume number Austin Dobson, Andrew Lang,
dance of its illustrations. They are nearly one hun Mary A. F. Robinson, Sidney Colvin, W. J. Loftie,
dred and fifty in number, and represent various Cosmo Monkhouse, and others of high literary re-
scenes and characters in the countries described pute. — “The Century" (Volume XXX.) appears in
Lebanon, Damascus, and Beyond Jordan. The | the usual beautiful gold cloth covers, with decorated
author of the work was for forty-five years a mis | linings, the etfect of the whole being artistic in the
sionary in Syria and Palestine, and to his personal highest degree. The volume contains nearly a
familiarity with the regions described he has added thousand pages, and three hundred and seventy
a knowledge of the writings of others, particularly illustrations, of which twenty-three are full-page
the archæological researches of the American Pales- pictures. The series of illustrated articles on the
tine Exploration Society and of the Palestine Ex Civil War, by distinguished participants, gives a
ploration Fund of England. He writes in a chatty, special value to this volume. “The Quiver” (Cas-
entertaining style, which, with the large fund of sell & Co.) presents its twentieth volume in covers,
information at his disposal, renders his works forming 762 pages of letter-press and illustrations.


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The number of elegant Calendars for 1886 shows Cards which show a high degree of artistic merit.
anything but decadence in this agreeable form of They are in a great variety of styles, representing
holiday publication. In artistic attractions they flowers, birds, figures, and innumerable devices; but
seem, indeed, to surpass the productions of previous all are marked by beauty of design and cleanness
years. Two new ones-a Lowell Calendar and a l of execution. It is no wonder, with such pro-
Whitney Calendar-are added to the excellent ductions, that the demand for Christmas cards
series which Messrs. Houghton, Miffin & Co. offer should every year increase. D. Appleton & Co.,
to the readers of their standard American authors. New York, are the American agents for these
The Whitney Calendar has a charming design in works.
gold and light tints, emblematical of the four sea-
sons, which are symbolized by figures of little girls
dressed in “Kate Greenaway" style, bearing a gar-
land of Spring and Summer flowers, Autumn fruits,
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and Winter holly. The effect is peculiarly dainty
and jocund. The Lowell Calendar is more sedate,
D. Lothrop & Co. have struck a new vein in the
as befits its subject. The colors are rich and sub-
field of juvenile publications for the approaching
stantial, and the design includes an excellent por-
Christmas-tide. Their "Art for Young Folks” in-
trait of the poet, and a view of Elmwood, his Cam-
troduces its readers to a scene of busy and fruitful
bridge home. The popular Holmes, Emerson, labor which is quite an unknown land to the great
Longfellow, and Whittier Calendars are reissued majority. In the first part of the book, two "studio
this year, their selections being newly arranged. children, born amongst easels and palettes, lay-
All these Calendars are uniform in size and price. figures and model-stands, and reared on high-art
- The largest and most striking Calendar design is along with their oat-meal and milk,” occupy the at-
that prepared by Mr. W. H. Low for the “Golden
tention with their peculiar modes of amusement de-
Treasury Calendar” (Lippincott). The color-print-
rived from visits to picture galleries, and prowlings
ing is very rich; and the literary selections, from
about the corridors, and covert looks in at the open
Palgrave's “Golden Treasury," justify the appro-
priate motto “Infinite riches in a little room." --
doors of the painters and sculptors and etchers who
The “Louisa Alcott Calendar” (Roberts) has a sober
have apartments in the studio building where the
but artistic design, containing a portrait of the
strange little fellows, the aforesaid “studio chil-
author so pleasing that it must endear her anew to
dren," have their abode. The wise youngsters were
the hearts of her loving readers ; also a view of
tolerable art-critics at the ages of nine and eleven,
“Orchard House,” the Alcott residence, at Con and enlighten the reader with sage comments on the
cord, and the historic one-arch bridge which is | works and the styles of different artists. Resolving
so famous a feature of the town.-Another to turn painters themselves, the odd pair seek infor-
woman honored by a calendar is Miss Frances mation as to the proper method of effecting their
E. Willard, whose portrait appropriately appears object, from a professor, whose lessons on art make up
on a “Temperance Calendar” published by the
Part II. of the volume. The remaining part is de-
Woman's Temperance Association of Chicago. voted to sketches of eminent American artists and of
The portrait is a good one, and the card design,
their studios. All this matter, pleasantly related,
executed in colors by Prang & Co., is of course
and illustrated with portraits of artists, news of their
meritorious. The quotations for daily perusal are
more or less aphoristic utterances on the subject of
work-rooms, and copies of their pictures and stat-
temperance. A sample one, by Stonewall Jackson,
ues, makes a volume second to none in value and
is very characteristic: “I never touch it Miquor). I
interest.
am more afraid of it than of Yankee bullets.”— The latest book by Margaret Sidney, entitled “The
A“ Dickens Calendar" should surely not be wanting, Golden West" (Lothrop), will give many happy
and a very satisfactory one is issued by John Wana hours to its child readers. It is a lively and grace-
maker, Philadephia. The card design includes the ful narrative of travel across the continent, from the
perennial Mrs. Gamp weeping at thoughts of this borders of the Atlantic to the shores of the Pacific.
"wale of grief." Peggotty's house at Yarmouth, the A large family party of grown folks and children
Old Curiosity Shop, the Little Wooden Midshipman,
make the overland trip from Boston to San Fran-
and card-playing scene between Mr. Richard Swiy-
eller and the Marchioness.
cisco, and the every-day happenings in their experi-
The calendar must
ence are detailed in an easy and entertaining man-
prove very “ taking."- A novelty, both in form and
design, is the “ Schiller Calendar," issued in English
ner by the historian. An original scheme for their
and German by H. B. Nims & Co. The shape is
benefit and amusement is devised by the maiden
that of a palm-leaf fan, and the design includes
aunt of the party, who sets the younger members to
charming bits of landscape and flowers, with por-
hunting in their memories and their guide books for
traits of Schiller and some of the characters treated
all the information that can be gathered concerning
in his works: Wallenstein, Mary Stuart, William the cities and States they pass through, and the
Tell, and the Maid of Orleans. The whole is very prominent objects along the way. By this shrewd
effective.—The same publishers issue a “Calendar plan the days spent on the cars are beguiled of
of the Year, with verse by Austin Dobson,” a their weariness, and the youthful travellers arrive at
smaller and daintier affair, containing twelve cards, the end of their journey with a stock of important
each with a monthly calendar and seasonable lines
knowledge which it was sport rather than work to
by Dobson, set in floral and landscape designs of
accumulate. The illustrations accompanying the
quiet elegance, and the whole tied between covers
text are plentiful and above the average in merit.
of rich and harmonious coloring. It is one of the
The History of Ireland, written in words of one
prettiest and most tasteful calendars of the season.
-The “Cupid's Calendar” (Estes & Lauriat) is
syllable by Agnes Sadlier, is an ingenious composi-
heart-shaped, with a gaily-decorated cover, en-
tion. The skilfully constructed sentences flow in a
closing sheets on which are printed dates and a love rhythmical measure almost as musical as verse.
motto for each. The arrangement is by weeks, They read more like a chant or a song than like or-
instead of by days or months.
dinary prose, and the result is charming. It shows
We have received from Messrs. Hildesheimer & the noble qualities of our Saxon language when un-
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To make a study of the literary style of the work play which the others enact; and thus each develops
would be an excellent exercise for any one wishing some special faculty which benefits himself and the
to acquire the art of writing pure English. The rest. While pursuing this amusement they are help-
book is one of a series published by Routledge & ing each other in various other ways, and learning
Sons, intended for the instruction of the youngest insensibly the blessedness of unselfish and friendly
readers. In another of the numbers, “The Lives feeling. The motive of the story may be somewhat
of the Presidents of the United States” are related exaggerated, but it is told naturally and is decidedly
by Mrs. Helen W. Pierson, who has given a previ engaging.
ous example, in a “History of the United States," The exquisite tact exhibited by Mrs. Wright in the
of her aptness in the management of a monosyllabic construction of " Children's Stories in American His-
narrative. The value of such books is readily per tory” (Scribners) is remarkable even in this era of
ceived. They are within the comprehension of the skilled juvenile writers. The author is a master of
youngest child. They train the ear to the sound of the English language, and one reads first of all to
beautiful language, and they make history as de enjoy the pure and limpid style. The stories them-
lightful as a fairy-tale. Both volumes are copiously selves are about the daring explorers who first dis-
illustrated.
covered the regions of the new world and led the
A rare treat for the children, and hence for way for less venturesome people to come in and in-
entire households, has been prepared by Mr. Waldo habit them. There is no material which can be
S. Pratt, in the volume of "St. Nicholas Songs”. transformed into more captivating tales than the
(The Century Co.), set to music, with piano-forte incidents belonging to the early history of America,
accompaniment. The songs, which number 112, and the author has made the most of her opportu-
are among the best of those published in the first nity.
juvenile magazine in the world. They are various “Strange Stories from History for Young People"
in character and adapted to the many moods of (Harpers) is the title under which Mr. George Cary
childhood. Most are merry; a few are lullabies, and a Eggleston has gathered a number of short sketches
few are merely descriptive or didactic. The music published originally in various children's magazines.
has been contributed by thirty-two different com The themes are taken from the history of different
posers, all men of acknowledged ability, and many nations and from the biography of great men of Eu-
of them widely known. It is original and scholarly, rope and America. They are sprightly and engaging,
and cannot fail to please listeners and performers. the author having the knack of talking to his read-
The pages of the volume are enlivened by plenty of ers as though he was actually with them in person.
pictures of an admirable quality. They, too, have Such writers do not fail to hold the attention of
been borrowed from the St. Nicholas, and have the those they are addressing, and are always warmly
freshness and humor and grace which mark the pic appreciated.
torial department of that periodical.
In “Heroes of American History” (Routledge) N.
Young readers need no assurance of the stores of D'Anvers has given another version of the lives and
amusement waiting for them in Mr. Butterworth's achievements of the chief explorers and pioneers of
“ Zigzag Journeys in the Levant” (Estes & Lauriat). the western continent. His work has the grave and
They have travelled too often in the company of didactic character belonging to historical narrative,
this clever writer not to remember gratefully how and must depend upon enlisting young readers on
charming and instructive a fellow-tourist he is. account of its educational value instead of its attract-
This year he takes his friends through Egypt and iveness in point of style.
the Holy Land, and dazzles them with a narrative Mr. William Shepard's “ Young Folks' History of
woven out of the facts of history and biography, the Roman Empire” (Lippincott) would have been
and illuminated with a multitude of impressive well named “The Story of the Roman Emperors,”
pictures. It is a fascinating book for readers of as it is occupied principally with the lives of the
any age, and as instructive as it is fascinating. rulers who wore the imperial purple during the 433
A benefactor of childhood, Mary J. Morrison years between the accession of Octavius and the depo-
(" Jenny Wallace"), has compiled a mass of sition of Romulus Augustulus. The book is intended
“Songs and Rhymes for the Little Ones" (Putnam's to stimulate the youthful appetite for information
Sons), which fill a thick square octavo volume. on the great subject it treats, rather than to satisfy
There are enough for mother and nurse to croon it. The history is condensed within the limits of a
to the younglings all through their babyhood. It single volume, and many features are purposely
would seem that all the rhymes ever written for omitted to adapt it to the circle for whom it is pre-
little folks must be gathered into the collection. pared. The author has known how to imbue his
At any rate, few of the favorites are missing. The narrative with interest, giving it the light and
songs are framed in pretty designs printed in colors, spirited air of a diverting communication.
which make the pages of the book very attractive. Mr. E. S. Brooks has a gift for teaching boys and
"The Fitch Club," written by “ Jak and pub girls, investing the dryest facts he wishes them to
lished by Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., is a story with learn with a racy flavor which renders them pala-
a valuable moral lesson running through it. This table even to a frivolous taste. His “Heroic Boys"
is not in any way obtrusive, and is felt rather than (Putnams) affords an example of this peculiar talent,
read in the letter of the text. A Mr. Silas Fitch, He has chosen twelve of the characters eminent in
who is the good genius of a little community, in the world's history-Marcus of Rome, Brian of Mun-
duces a group of boys and girls to form a club in ster, Olaf of Norway, William of Normandy, and
which each furnishes a part of the entertainment others of equal fame, and out of the incidents of their
falling directly in the line of his or her capacity and early life and the circumstances of their age and
attainment. One, fond of reading, gives a little country he has wrought tales which are stranger and
lecture on history; another, who loves to dabble in more thrilling than any romance. While devouring
chemicals, performs some interesting experiments; a such annals, as children eagerly do, they are ac-
third, who has a dramatic talent, writes a little quiring unconsciously a familiar knowledge of


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important passages in the history of mankind, and The charm that lies in a graceful, natural style
are learning to esteem the grand qualities which asserts itself triumphantly in Charles E. Caryl's story
make boys and men heroic.
of “Davy and the Goblin” (Ticknor). It is a fairy-
The juvenile periodicals appear, as usual, in com tale made up of ridiculous and impossible incidents
plete volumes, bound in attractive covers, and offer brought about by the witchery of imaginary and
ing much entertainment for little cost. “St. Nicho whimsical spirits; yet it beguiles a matter-of-fact
las" sends out its twelfth volume, in two parts, reader by the art with which it is told. There is a
bound in decorated covers of red and gold, its 960 wonderful potency in a skilful use of words; and
pages containing 650 beautiful illustrations and the
this distinguishes the book under notice from others
choicest writings of a large circle of authors who
of its class, like a king among common men.
have been so fortunate as to endear themselves to
Mrs. Burton Harrison's - Bric-a-Brac Stories"
the youthful heart. —The sixth volume of " Harper's
Young Folks” contains nearly 850 pages and 700
(Scribners) are ingenious and diverting. A mother-
illustrations, several complete serial stories, a large
less boy, living much by himself in a grand house,
number of shorter tales, and an endless variety of falls asleep in the drawing-room, and in his dream
reading matter, by skilled and popular writers, on
the pieces of elegant bric-a-brac about him tell him
topics in which boys and girls are interested. stories of the lands from which they came. These
“ Wide-Awake” (Lothrop) issues a six months' stories are the folk-tales of different nations adapted
volume, with a charming colored frontispiece, a by the author to the circumstances in which she
special attraction in Charles Egbert Craddock's
places them.
story of “ Down the Ravine," and the usual variety
The children should have clean hands and clean
of pictures and reading-matter.—The volume of the
aprons on, when the elegant book “Through the
child's magazine called “Sunday” (Young & Co.)
Meadows" (Dutton) comes into their possession. It
is very attractive, with its myriad pictures and
is too fine a thing to be soiled by a spot or stain.
stories and poems. Its varied contents differ but
little from those in our week-day periodicals for
Every page has a beautiful illustration-now a fig-
young folks, except that there is a perceptible re-
ure-piece in colors by M. E. Edwards, and then a
ligious tone.-Other bound periodicals are: “Our
vignette in black and white by J. C. Staples. All
Little Ones” and “The Nursery” (Estes & Lauriat),
have a high degree of merit. The figures are true
bound together, and forming a volume of 380 pages to life, and the landscapes and floral decorations are
with 350 illustrations; “Babyland” (Lothrop) a veritable transcripts from nature. The work of the
prettily illustrated volume for very young readers; engraver and printer is also the best of its kind. In
and “Chautauqua Young Folks' Annual” (Lothrop), books of this sort it is the pictures which claim most
208 pages, with numerous illustrations.
notice, and yet the letter-press is an essential part.
A young folks' book capitally planned and capit-
It consists in the present instance of songs by Fred.
ally executed is Jane Andrews's “ Ten Boys who
E. Witherly, written on themes which children ap-
Lived on the Road from Long Ago to Now" (Lee &
Shepard). By an ingenious plan, the “road from
prove.
Howard Pyle's “Pepper and Salt" (Harpers) is
long ago" is made to represent the course of history
from Aryan times to the present. This is divided
a clever production, combining stories in prose and
into ten periods, and each of them finds its his-
verse with profuse illustrations. All are the work
torian in the person of “a boy with a story to tell.”
of the author, and all are capitally done. It is sel-
The whole scheme is so cleverly worked out that
dom that poet and prose writer and illustrator are
the book must be a veritable “ find" to any bright united in one person, but Mr. Pyle is that exceptional
boy or girl, who, once opening its leaves, will pro- individual. The dominant characteristic of his gen-
nounce the narrative scarcely less captivating than ius, as here expressed, is humor. He has set out
the spirited engravings which illustrate it.
to be funny, in order to furnish merriment for young
A pair of six-year-old twins are the hero and hero people; and he is funny. His quips and conceits
ine of “Us,” Mrs. Molesworth's “old-fashioned have a strong element of grotesquerie, but are kept
story" (Macmillan). They are interesting little safely on the side of delicacy and refinement. They
creatures, and excite sympathy by their innocence are also marked by a penetrating sagacity. The
and helplessness. But they are represented as pre author is as wise as he is witty. There is a moral
cocious beyond all probability. They are as staid capping the climax of every song and story, but a
and demure as a little old man and woman, and such moral which makes one laugh instead of feeling dis-
phenomena are among the most tiresome in real life mal. Mr. Pyle has performed a kindly service for
or in fiction,
the children by putting forth his efforts solely to
Lord Brabourne gratifies his own and the chil evoke their smiles, and the heart warms to him as he
dren's love for fairy-lore by writing tales of goblins sits in the frontispiece clad in motley with cap and
and witches and elves in some of his leisure hours. bells for a crown, and his bauble beside him, play-
Three of these stories are bound together and named ing on a pipe to the intense delight of a little group
collectively “Friends and Foes from Fairy-Land”. around him.
(Little, Brown & Co). The author has fair powers How the caterers for young folks ever contrive to
of invention, and a polished but slightly heavy style. get up so many novel and beautiful books to put in
His readers will not be critical, however, under the the pouch of Santa Claus every year, is a mystery.
spell of a fairy-tale.
Language is exhausted in describing them. What
Laura E. Richards's “Joyous Story of Toto” (Rob can be said but to repeat over again the expressions
erts) does not announce in the title or betray in the of admiration already worn threadbare, as one after
first few pages, that it is a fairy-tale; but it is, and a another of the charming volumes is taken in hand?
lively one too, in which birds and beasts talk like There is often a feeling on opening their covers--as
human beings, but in an eccentric fashion, and all of this next one in the long succession, “ Sugar and
sorts of strange things come to pass through the Spice and All That's Nice” (Roberts)—that there
agency of an old woman's wand. The volume is cannot be anything new and worth reading inside.
prettily dressed in holiday attire, and has a plentiful But this very instance proves the error of such pre-
supply of interesting pictures.
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courses on natural history have been remodelled by
Dr. John S. White. The life of the old Roman is
presented in the Introduction, after which the book
is filled with extracts from his history of the earth,
of men, of wild and domestic animals, of birds,
fishes and insects. The chapters are exceedingly
interesting in themselves, and are curious illustra-
tions of the knowledge which the ancients had of
the natural world. Young readers must be careful -
although warnings are abundant in the foot-notes-
not to accept Pliny's statements as according with
the science of to-day. There is a great deal of fable
mixed with fact in his writings, but we may rely
upon him as a witness who tells what was believed
by the most learned natural historians of his time.
the book, showing childhood in its manifold interest-
ing attitudes and occupations, and no end of rhymed
stories with just the merry step and rattling jingle
which children love. The author Mary W. Tileson,
editor of “Quiet Hours," has gathered the “Sugar
and Spice” from many sources, and displayed ad-
mirable taste in selecting goods of the choicest
quality.
Three capital juveniles, somewhat similar in char-
acter, are Knox's “Boy Travellers in South America".
(Harper), Hale's “Family Flight through Mexico”.
(Lothrop), and Miss Champney's “ Three Vassar
Girls in Italy” (Estes & Lauriat). Each recounts
the experiences of a party journeying through a for-
eign land, and improves the opportunity to furnish
useful and interesting information concerning the
places and peoples encountered on the road. Mr.
Knox conducts his “Boy Travellers" with their
train of readers over a part of our western world
which is not yet on the highway of commerce or
opened up throughout to civilization, and is com-
paratively unvisited. The same may be said of the
region on our southern borders which Mr. and Miss
Hale chose for the scene of their narrative. Both
countries lie under a tropical sun and teem with
wonderful forms of animal and plant life, and both
are partially inhabited by races still in a semi-savage
state. Hence there is no lack of novel and curious
objects to delineate. Mr. Knox's book is crowded
with wood-cuts of the best class; the “Flight
Through Mexico " boasts of fewer, but they are also
of the first quality. Miss Champney's “Three Vassar
Girls" are familiar to many readers. They have
been abroad in previous years. Now they are wan-
dering through classic Italy, and its treasures of art
and of history are revealed anew as they journey on.
Original drawings by “Champ” are mingled in the
illustrations with wood-cuts that have seen service
before.
Happy will be the child who finds Laura E. Rich-
ards's stories of animals with “Four Feet, Two Feet
and No Feet” (Estes & Lauriat) in the Christmas
stocking. It is so bewitching that even the adult
who peeps into its pages will find it hard to lay it
down until the last leaf is examined. The best that
author and artist can do to render a subject amusing
to little folks seems to have been done in this case,
and the result is a collection of stories of the queer
and surprising ways of the animal creation, with
illustrations, which altogether are unsurpassed.
Mr. E. S. Brooks's “No Man's Land" (Lothrop)
sparkles all over with glee. The pages bristle with
jests and quips and puns. The parodies on “Casa-
bianca," “Douglas, Douglas, tender and true," and
other popular songs, are very clever. But there is
not a dull line in the book. The author has not
labored over his conceits; they were spontaneous, and
therefore natural and buoyant and fresh. The draw-
ings by Mr. Hassam are full of life and spirit.
Colonel Knox's volume containing “ The Travels
of Marco Polo" (Putnams) gives the old narrative in
a framework of pleasant colloquy. A club, made
up of young and old, meet to discuss the explora-
tions of Marco Polo, and while one reads from the
ancient chronicle, others throw light on every ob-
scure or doubtful observation by their remarks and
enquiries. By this means the information given by
Marco Polo is verified and increased, and the circum-
stances of his career are brought out as clearly as may
be at the present date. The same publishers present
& “Young Folks' Pliny," in which some of the dis-
COMMUNICATIONS.
To the Editor of THE DIAL:
Please accept my thanks for the kindly notice of
my“Wit and Wisdom of Bulwer," which appears in
your November number. Yet in expressing my
appreciation of the same, may I not answer briefly
the charge of “inaccuracies” therein given?
As to the date of Bulwer's birth, I have as my
authority for 1805, the new “Encyclopædia Britan-
nica," the “ American Cyclopædia,” and Hart's
“English Literature." Other and lesser authorities
concur with these.
A biography from which I obtained some of the
facts used in my sketch, gave London as the place
of Bulwer's death; but according to the "American
Cyclopædia,” it occurred at Knebworth, Herts, not
at Torquay, as stated in your notice.
The quotation referred to on page 200 of my book
was given in an edition of Bulwer's works, without
quotation marks, which naturally led me to suppose
it to be original. But I find that it is now generally
ascribed to Joshua Sylvester, not to Raleigh, who
was at first supposed to be the author.
Yours sincerely, CALLIE L. BONNEY.
Chicago, November 13, 1885.
Our correspondent citeş good authorities, but we
think there are better ones. The Life of Bulwer by
his son states in the first chapter that he was born
on the 25th of May in the year 1803; and the
inscription on his tomb in Westminster Abbey reads
“ Born 25 May 1803. Died 18 January 1873." That
Torquay was the place of his death is apparent from
any contemporaneous English newspaper. A refer-
ence to “Blackwood's Magazine" for February 1873
will show a letter from Bulwer written on the last
day of his life, and a telegram from his son announ-
cing his death, both dated at Torquay. The most
exquisite tribute to the memory of Bulwer was a
poem by Miss Braddon, which may be found in the
twentieth volume of “Belgravia," beginning thus:
“I came to see the place where thou didst die-
A bay engirt with wood.crowned hills that climb
Orest above crest to meet the blue warm sky,
And white-walled villas perched on heights sublime
Beautiful as a dream of Italy."
Knebworth is a country-seat in a level district;
London is not conspicuous for “wood-crowned hills"
and “white-walled villas; ” but Torquay is very
aptly described in the lines quoted. We cannot
admit that the poem “Go, soul, the body's guest,"
is Sylvester's; but the point now is that it is not
Bulwer's. —EDR. DIAL.]


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To the Editor of THE DIAL:
We desire to call your attention to the fact that in
the otherwise excellent review of " A Mission Flow-
er," in your November number, the reviewer criti-
cises the novel for its lack of “local color,” compar-
ing it unfavorably with “Maruja” in that respect,
and stating that the scene of A Mission Flower is laid
in Southern California. We think this an injustice,
doubtless unintentional, and hardly see how it could
have occurred, as constant reference is made through-
out the book to “the midland country,” etc., and
other matters which could not possibly apply to
California. As a matter of fact, the scene is laid
near Topeka, Kansas, at an old Indian mission, and
the field is one almost wholly untouched by the nov-
elists. The reviewers of that region have recognized
Mr. Picard's pictures as wonderfully faithful ones.
We trust that you will oblige us by inserting this
in your able and fair review.
Truly yours, WHITE, STOKES, & ALLEN.
New York, November 15, 1885.
[The reviewer of “A Mission Flower” cheerfully
acknowledges his error. A too vivid recollection of
the stories of Bret Harte and of “Ramona” led him
to take it for granted that any story of Indians and
Catholic missions, of Jesuit priests and Spanish gen-
tlemen, must be laid in Southern California; and he
found nothing in the course of this story to contra-
dict the assumption except certain vague references
to a “midland country," into whose meaning he did
not seek to inquire too closely. This will also ac-
count for the not surprising fact that he found the
story deficient in the sort of “local color” which
he expected. The mistake is sufficiently evident to
him now that the key is supplied; but he still
thinks that without such a key a reader would find
considerable difficulty in assigning this pleasant
piece of romance to the particular locality wherein
its scene is said to be laid.-EDR. DIAL.]
ADELAIDE NEILSON, the actress, is the subject of
a biographical sketch by Laura C. Holloway, soon
to be published by Funk & Wagnalls. The book
will be illustrated with nine portraits by Sarony.
MR. RossITER JOHNSON has begun in the New
York “Examiner” a series of carefully-studied
articles setting forth the causes and principal
events of the American Civil War. The series will
afterwards appear in book form.
A LIFE of the late Rebel General Stuart, by Major
H. B. McClellan, is just published by Houghton,
Mifflin & Co. Also, “The Thankless Muse” (poetry),
by Prof. Henry A. Beers; and a volume of * Select
Poems" by Mrs. Piatt.
The December “Harper's” is one of the strongest
Christmas numbers of a periodical ever issued.
The literature is crisp and unhackneyed, and the
illustrations are of remarkable beauty and variety.
The number is richer in attractions than many
Christmas works costing ten times its price.
We are glad to learn that the important “Narra-
tive and Critical History of America," projected by
Mr. Justin Winsor as a coöperative work by various
writers, has been assumed by Messrs. Houghton,
Mifflin & Co., who will issue it in eight volumes of
600 pages each, with illustrations, in the style of
the * Memorial History of Boston.”
THE “ Magazine of Art” has some notable pictures
in its December number, including Elihu Vedder's
illustrations of Heuley's “ Ballad of Dead Actors,”
and a photographic reproduction of Van Ruysdals
“Cascade, with Watch Tower,” good enough for
framing. Art-loving people would do well to make
this handsome magazine a regular visitant. Pub-
lished by Cassell & Co., New York.
The monthly monographs in historical and polit-
ical science, issued by the Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity, will begin a new series in January, to be
devoted chiefly to American City Government,
National Constitutional History, and Agrarian
topics. The cities of Baltimore, Chicago, New York,
Philadelphia, San Francisco, and St. Louis, will
each form the subject of a monograph.
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MR. EDWIN ARNOLD, author of “The Light of
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January.
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