presentation of the traditional lore that must
history of Mahaffy for a similar work on be set before the beginner. The attempted
Greek literature, and have intrusted to Mr. demonstration (directed against extreme Ger-
Jevons the preparation of this companion vol. | man scepticism) of the essential architectural
ume. The work, like its companion, is in unity of the Iliad and of the Odyssey, is
tended primarily for students, but the writer original, so far as any word about Homer can
hopes that it will be found interesting to the be original, and seems to have been a labor of
general reader. Unfortunately, even a toler love. Book II., on lyric poetry, presents in
able survey of the entire field of Greek clas convenient summary quite an array of facts
sical literature demands far higher powers regarding the different forms of popular and
than suffice for excellent work in Latin; and lyric verse among the Greeks, their develop-
Mr. Jevons, unless I do him injustice, has ment and mutual relations. The omission of
neither the familiarity with his theme nor the Solon, on the plea that his writings belong to
literary tact of his predecessor. The critic of history rather than to literature, is just one of
those arbitrary deviations from the beaten
path which the writer of a manual should not
est Period to the Death of Demosthenes. By Frank
Byron Jevong, M.A. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
*A HISTORY OF GREEK LITERATURE. From the Earli.
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Solon's verses, but they remained an active "It' is, however, fortunate for the history of
force in Greek literature, committed to mem Greek literature that we should have specimens of
ory by schoolboys, imitated by the dramatists,
choral lyric such as the odes of Victory which have
and pronounced by Plato indicative of a tal-
been preserved. They serve to show us the connec-
tion of choral lyric with previous genres of poetry
ent that had it been devoted wholly to poetry
and its difference from the chorus of tragedy, and
would have sustained the comparison with the thus they exhibit a link in the development of
great epic writers in their own field. The Greek literature which otherwise would have been
neglect of Solon's verse, on the ground that it lost” (p. 179).
is not poetry in the higher sense, is especially In the name of Apollo and all the muses, is
surprising, because, in spite of occasional illus this the spirit in which the student should be
trative citations from Burns and Shelley, and introduced to the grandest verse outside of
in spite of the decoration of the chapter on the Iliad? The odes of Pindar “specimens"
Sappho with some of Swinburne's dithyrambic and “missing links”! Chapters of this dis-
criticisms, Mr. Jevons's interest in poetry mal science will avail less to initiate the
appears to be largely analytic and scientific. I beginner into the true appreciation of Pindar
It is the somewhat barren erudition of the than a single sentence like the following from
different literary genres, and their supposed Ernest Myer's review of Jebb's translations :
correlation with certain forms of social organ “ When we recall the Pindaric lines on which
ization and government, for which he chiefly these are moulded—the canon-ball ictus and
cares. The artistic structure of a poem, thundering close of Baochéă p qavey Kupáva—the
and its dramatic truth, interest him likewise ; wild and wandering melody of εναλίαν βαμεν
but he gives us no subtle and independent Gjy dapa—the triumphant glory of yóvoy dày
observations indicating a sense of the inherent zálneotov avòpãy — then Mr. Jebb and Mr.
and essential charm of poetry—the magic of Browning seem to recede together into the
exquisite phrase, the lingering music of har shadow; the Theban eagle is alone again in
monious rhythm. By way of aesthetic criti his unapproachable heaven,-
cism of the Greek lyrists, he merely repeats
• Sailing with supreme dominion
the familiar contrast between the musing, sen-
Through the azure deep of air."
timental, thought-laden modern, and the free,
Book III. contains a not unsatisfactory sketch
happy, unconscious Greek. “A Greek,” he of the history of the drama. Even here, how-
tells us, "might perhaps have felt, but could
ever, it is to be observed that if the work is a
not have said with Shelley-
text-book, the space given to somewhat desul-
• I love snow and all the forms
tory comparative criticism, could have been
of the radiant frost;
employed more profitably in a direct enumera-
I love waves and winds and storms,
tion of the extant plays with the circumstances
Everything almost
Which is nature's and may be
of their production and the relation of their
Untainted by man's misery.'”
plots to the whole body of Greek mythology;
It is very unsafe to declare in this general while, on the other hand, for the general reader
way what a Greek could or could not have the criticism is deficient in subtle appreciative
said. Shelley's thought will hardly be matched perception of literary beauty, and is burdened
more closely in English literature than it is in with uncertain scientific speculation as to the
the following lines of a minor Greek elegist : necessary relation of the external development
(See Bergk's Anthology, p. 24.)
of the Greek drama to the progress revealed in
“O life . . . . . sweet indeed thou art in its thought. The place and achievements of
all things fair by nature, the earth, the sea, the Æschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, as play-
stars and the orb of sun and moon; but in all else wrights and perfectors of Greek stage machin-
naught save sorrows and alarms."
ery, as dramatists even, and exponents of
In truth, the despised eighteenth century contemporary Greek thought, are clearly and
dogma that the natural man is essentially the not inadequately defined. Their distinctive
same at all times and everywhere, is quite as poetic excellences are not so well brought
true as the modern notion that philosophical out. There is little to convey to the modern
historic criticism must assume the thoughts and reader some sense of the grandeur of “Æs-
feelings of men to be rigidly confined within chylus the thunderous,” the grace of “Soph-
the limits set by national and tribal peculi- ocles the royal,” the pathos of “Eurip-
arities, or by the so-called spirit of the age. ides the human.” The statement that "in
But to return to Mr. Jevons. The chapter Æschylus we have symbolism, in Sophocles
on Pindar is fairly full, and (in spite of the poetic truth,” is monstrous unless it be dis-
misprinted date, p. 173) fairly accurate. Here tinctly understood, as perhaps the context
too the predominance of the scientific interest implies, that “poetic” is to be taken as syn-
makes itself unpleasantly felt in a certain onymous with dramatic. In spite of the dicta
aridity of tone to which even the admission of of able modern critics, however, the two words
literature into the International Scientific series are by no means synonymous, even when we
can hardly reconcile us.
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nition of the superior poetical quality of Æs Lewes's “ Biographical History of Philosophy"
chylus is really a touchstone of the capacity for his authority than to another ; but there is
to appreciate poetry of the grander and sub not the slightest attempt to impart unity to the
limer type. Sophocles may offer the profounder confused notes excerpted from Lewes, Ueber-
criticism of life, and maintain a higher level of weg, and Grote. A few pages of gossip about
dramatic truth-though readers of the Aga Plato's life, a pseudo-scientific discussion of
memnon and of the choruses of the Eumenides the problem why Plato adopted the form of
will be inclined to demur,—but there is an dialogue, and an examination of his style based
imaginative magic in poetry, going beyond all on a dictum of Aristotle, “whose competence
formal criticism of life or mere dramatic con as a literary critic is above doubt,”—this is all
sistency; and sound criticism will always recog. that is offered the student of Greek literature
nize that the style and rhythm of Æschylus are by way of introduction to those writings which,
colored and permeated by this imaginative whatever our opinion of their ultimate philo-
poetic quality, while the style of Sophocles, sophic value, are the source of the most impor-
despite the finish of the rhythm, the exquisite tant and persistent purely intellectual tradition
propriety of the phrase, and the exceptional in literature. Mr. Jevons owes it to himself to
beauty of a few highly wrought choric pas re-write these closing chapters for his second
sages, is essentially prosaic.
edition. In so doing he will doubtless redis-
But the critic who is beguiled into justify tribute the relatives in the following remark-
ing his preferences among the Greek dram able sentence (p. 468): “To this school belonged
atists will find no end in wandering mazes Theodorus, Bion, and Euemerus, who invented
lost; and it is time to turn to the second part of a means of explaining mythology as contain-
Mr. Jevons's book—the history of Greek prose. ing the exploits of famous men who after
The opening chapters maintain about the level death came to be regarded as gods, which is
of the sections devoted to poetry. Consider only now dying out." Examples of like slov-
able information about Herodotus has been enliness of construction are not wanting
collected from Rawlinson, Sayce, and Stein, throughout the book, and the list of misprints
and set forth in compendious form. The treat in the few Greek citations attempted is inex-
ment of Thucydides is sympathetic, evincing cusably long, even when we make all due
an intelligent appreciation of the importance allowance for the present state of Greek proof-
of his philosophic conception of history which reading in America.
is clearly contrasted with the story-telling The severity of this criticism is perhaps
manner of Herodotus. The chapter on Xeno partly caused by the high ideal that the critic,
phon, as already noted, is inadequate, and the with his easy task of examining another's
treatment is quite perfunctory. As for the last work, is led to form of a history of Greek lit-
two books, on oratory and philosophy, we must erature. That ideal, like Plato's divine city,
either suppose that Mr. Jevons's reading has exists as yet in no earthly exemplar, but only
not yet been extended to these fields, or, more somewhere in the heavens—of the critic's
charitably, that he grew weary as he neared imagination. But the true lover of Greek
the goal of his labors, and that the printer's literature, like the true Platonic statesman, will
devil was importuning him for more copy. acquiesce in nothing that falls short of his
The chapters on the earlier orators might be dream. In our comparatively uncreative age,
entitled, “ Miscellaneous reflections suggested there are few higher objects of literary ambi-
by a perusal of Jebb's 'Attic Orators."" Isoc- tion than the successful representation to the
rates, so important for the understanding of modern world of the substance and spirit of
the literary life of the fourth century, is dis- those writings with which, whether in intrin-
missed with a few vague remarks on the peri sic power and beauty or in actual historic
odic and epideictic styles. His works are not influence, no other productions of the human
named; we are told almost nothing about his mind can vie. But no one has yet grasped the
life and personality, and the student is left to prize. Even from the German standpoint of
divine the nature of “the abstract political industrious accumulation and statement of all
propositions” which the great rhetor found the essential external facts, we have nothing
best adapted for development in his ample that can rank with Teuffel's exhaustive statis-
periods. There is a partial recovery in the tical account of the literature of Rome. Bergk
chapters on Demosthenes, which contain some-l and Bernhardy are verbose and incomplete.
what more matter, though here, too, dispropor Mure's colossal fragment, even if completed,
tionate space is allotted to abstract criticism of would not have satisfied the critical require-
style not illustrated by examples. In the fourth ments of our time. Mahaffy's sketch, admir-
book, which deals with philosophy, the debacle, able in its way despite its occasional eccentri-
if I may say so, becomes complete. It would cities, makes no pretense to exhaustiveness on
be unfair to attach importance to the misprint the scientific side, or to anything beyond the
Belissus of Samos,—though such casualties are plainest statement of facts on the artistic side.
more likely to happen to a writer who takes ! But even should some future Teuffel accom-


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plish the Herculean task of accumulating the poets, orators, and philosophers of all the
within the covers of a single book the enor nations that during the last two thousand
mous and ever increasing mass of statistics years have successively borne on the lamp of
required by the student, there would still life first lit in Hellas. Whether such an his-
remain for the Platonic dreamer his unrealized torian is possible or not, we cannot tell ; but
ideal of a history that should itself be a con- | only such a history will satisfy our Platonic
tribution to literature. And he might amuse dreamer. Meanwhile, until our learned men
himself with an enumeration of the qualifica become poets and philosophers or our poets
tions requisite for the production of such a and philosophers learned men, there will be no
work. As an indispensable basis, we must have cessation of these imperfect gropings and striv-
German patience and fidelity of erudition; the ings after the unattained.
critical scholarship of our day will accept noth-
Paul SHOREY.
ing less. This crude learning, however, must
be checked and guided by a literary tact that
will keep ever present to the historian's mind | DOCUMENTS ILLUSTRATIVE OF AMERICAN
the difference between printed matter and lit-
HISTORY. *
erature—a distinction too often ignored in the
case of writings that come to us with the glamor
Mr. Preston's edition of “Documents Illus-
trative of American History, 1606-1863," was
of antiquity; and it must be warmed and col-
intended to be a contribution to a very impor-
ored by a poetical enthusiasm like that which
lends such a glow of life to the classical papers
tant department of historical literature. The
of some of our recent English essayists-as
complete texts of certain noted documents,
Lang, Myers, and Symonds. To these essen-
which are constantly mentioned and referred
tial qualifications-indispensable, the one for
to, are not printed in the standard histories,
accuracy, the other for interest-must be added
and hence they are not easy to find when they
the still rarer qualities of freedom from all nar-
are wanted. Such a document is “ The Body
of Liberties” of the Massachusetts Colony,
row and exclusive prejudices, and of philo-
sophic comprehension of the substance of Greek
1641, which was the basis of all the early New
thought and its relation to the Roman and
England laws, and of laws and customs which
modern world. The historian of Greek litera-
exist at the present day. The Massachusetts
ture may have his preferences, but he must
Colony records do not contain it; and an his-
torical student might be unable to find it.
have no exclusions. He must not disdain the
There is an interest attached to this document
lily because the rose is fair. If the poetry of
from the fact that for two centuries it was
order, simplicity, and measure appeals most
strongly to him, his preference must not blind
lost, and another and wholly different code
him to the rugged grandeur of Æschylus, to
entitled “An Abstract of the Laws of New
the obscure clarté of Pindar. His sense of the
England as they are now established," printed
value of Thucydides's political insight must
at London in 1641, and reprinted in 1655, was
not impair his enjoyment of the simpler charm
supposed to be the genuine document. The
of Herodotus. A taste for metaphysical spec-
“Abstract” was prepared by the Rev. John
ulation must not allure him to give even the
Cotton on the pattern of “Moses his Judicials,"
divine Plato more than his due,-nor if the
and consisted largely of extracts from the Old
Testament; but the code was never enacted.
concrete actualities of life are more interesting
to him must he pettishly contrast the hot and
Its quaint and scriptural phraseology has been
dusty arena where Demosthenes contended
the occasion of many a bitter sarcasm on the
against adverse fate, with the quiet shades of
New England people. Before the genuine
the Academy where the philosopher specu-
document came to light it was noticed that
lated on an ideal state and curled and combed
the London edition of 1641 did not contain
the locks of his sentences till the end. Such
the contemporary quotations from “ The Body
genuine appreciation of opposite ideals and
of Liberties,” or respond to frequent refer-
diverse excellences will perhaps be possible
ences to it.
only to one who possesses the last and hardest
We are sorry to see that so important a doc-
ument as the genuine code, which fills only
qualification we postulate—an adequate philo-
sophic insight into Hellenic thought in itself
twelve octavo pages, is not only omitted, but
that no mention is made of it in Mr. Preston's
and in its influence on the literature of Rome
collection. It was not discovered and identified
and the after world. So equipped for his task,
until 1843, and was first printed in the 28th
the perfect historian whom we imagine but are
unable to point out will tell us again the oft-
volume of the Massachusetts Historical Soci-
I ety's Collections. It should have had a place
repeated story of the poets, orators, historians,
and philosophers of Greece, in language pene-
in the collection. We look also in vain for
trated and steeped with loving reminiscences
* DOCUMENTS ILLUSTRATIVE OF AMERICAN HISTORY,
of their own words and subtly suggestive of
1606-1863. With Introductions and References. By How-
the far-reaching influences of those words on | ard W. Preston. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.


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the American portion of the peace treaty of | One hundred years ago, Ebenezer Hazard, of
1763, which marks the most important era in Philadelphia, was at work on his “Historical
North American history; and for the King's Collections,” which, after much tribulation in
Proclamation of the 7th of October following, | paying the printer's bills, he issued in 1792 and
defining the political boundaries of the immense | 1794, in two quarto volumes. The general
territories which then came into possession of plan of the work was the same as Mr. Pres-
Great Britain. It is difficult to conceive on ton's, but it included only the documents of
what principle these and scores of other impor the 17th century. In the quality of the two
tant documents, which have been seldom works there can be no comparison. Hazard's
printed, have been omitted. On the other has extraordinary merit; its selections are
hand, documents wbich have been printed a made with excellent discrimination; no docu-
thousand times, like the Declaration of Inde- ment is abridged, and the source of each is
pendence and the Constitution of the United indicated. In our day it is one of the rare
States, are all here. More than half the vol. and expensive works in American history.
ume (169 pages) is devoted to the charters of Mr. Preston makes no mention of Mr. Haz-
the original colonies; 70 pages to the Revolu- | ard's work or name, and presumably has never
tionary War; 59 pages to the period from 1783 heard of either. Gov. Hutchinson's “Collec-
to 1800; and 18 pages more bring the record tion of Original Papers, 1769," relative to the
very superficially down to 1863. The docu Massachusetts Colony, is another compilation
ments included are, in several instances, not of the same merit as Hazard's. A reprint of
printed in full. The editor says, in his intro Hazard, and a continuation of the series of
duction to the second Virginia Charter, 1609 : documents to recent times, made with the
“Only the more important provisions of this same accuracy and good judgment displayed
charter are here inserted.” Genealogists will in the original work, would be a blessing to
regard the portions which he has omitted—the historical students. We must enter our pro-
names of the adventurers, some eight hundred test here against Mr. Preston assuming this
in number-as the most important part of the undertaking.
W. F. POOLE.
document. The “Introduction and Refer-
ences” are very scanty in quantity and poor in
quality. The standard authority in the refer-
ences is Bancroft's “History of the United
SWINBURNE, THE CRITIC.*
States” (the citations being to three editions),
the most inaccurate and inconsequential author To any critical reader of poetry who is not
ity that could have been named. The refer what Mr. Swinburne calls a “monotheistic wor-
ences are in many cases copied from Bancroft's shipper” either of Wordsworth or of Byron,
foot-notes, without verification, and hence with
hont verification, and hence with l of Shelley or of Matthew Arnold, and whose
all their errors. Here is a reference (p. 241) sensibilities in literary matters are not too
under “Northwest Ordinance, 1787": "Poole's vibrant, this volume of eloquent praise and dis-
article on Cutter's [Cutler's] Influence, North praise cannot but prove delightful. Mr. Swin-
Am. Review, vol. 53, p. 334 (vol. 122, p. 229]."
| burne is feminine in his subjectivity ; his
This misleading reference was copied from a
literary preferences seem to be largely influ-
foot-note in Bancroft's “History of the Consti enced by personal and political sympathies.
tution,” 1882, vol. 2, p. 107, which is repeated
If the higher criticism requires for its produc-
in his “History of the United States, 1885, tion anything of the philosophic cast of mind,
vol. 6, p. 383. “Dr. Cutter (sic) and the Ordi -if it consists in the patient application of
nance of 1787" appears again in the list of refer acute insight, of trained and well-poised judg-
ences, p. 318. The editor's freedom in spelling ment, and of wide and ready sympathy, to the
proper names is noticeable. To those of libra analysis and interpretation of literature,—then
rians he has given special attention. The sur- is Mr. Swinburne but half a critic. If, on the
name of Justin Winsor, of Harvard University, other hand, criticism is nothing more than
is transformed into Wenser; and that of | eloquent eulogy and lurid invective, accom-
Judge Chamberlain, of Boston Public Library, panied by wonderful poetic insight in details,
into Chamberlin. No mention is made of he is a critic of the highest order. To one whose
the sources whence the documents were literary tastes are yet undecided, Mr. Swin-
taken; and there are no indications that the burne's criticism must seem like some treach-
original manuscripts, most of which are ac erous gulf, upon which the reader's little cock-
cessible, have been consulted. Some of the boat is now borne swiftly along upon a swell-
documents fill many pages; and yet the editor / ing tide of eulogy, and again rudely tossed
and printer, at the expense of the reader, have upon a chopping sea of dissonant diatribe.
saved themselves the trouble of changing the By far the most considerable essay in this
headlines over each document. The same volume is the one entitled “Wordsworth and
headline, which has no meaning, runs through
* MISCELLANIES. By Algernon Charles Swinburne.
the whole volume.
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Byron,”—which might almost as properly be
entitled “Matthew Arnold and Shelley.” Those
who have an hour to spend in such charming
foolery will find it as good as a play to hear
Mr. Swinburne, of all persons, undertake to
read a lesson to Mr. Arnold. Himself assum-
ing that Shelley is the greatest English poet
of the century, Mr. Swinburne formally im-
peaches Mr. Arnold of the high crime and
misdemeanor of plotting to enthrone Byron in
that sacred chair by Wordsworth's side which
belongs to Shelley by divine right of genius.
In the name of “steady-going and rational
students,” Algernon C. Swinburne accuses
Matthew Arnold of being “the most hare-
brained of all eccentric dealers in self-
willed and intemperate paradox,”—one who
actually risks “being confounded with the
Carlyles and Emersons of his day," but
who lacks “the excuse which may be
pleaded alike for the transatlantic and the cis-
atlantic pseudosopher, that each had failed as
a poetaster before he began to yelp at the
heels of poets." The Swinburnian sea breaks
into foam at this point, but here its move-
ment affects less the head than the stom-
ach. This is nothing, however, to the fury of
the breakers along the Byronic coast, which
is said to be strewn with “utterly unutter-
able rubbish” and haunted by sirens three:
namely, a “drawling, draggle-tailed drab of
a muse” and “two squeaking and dis-
jointed puppets,” whose enchanting song
is “jolter-headed jargon” and “monstrous stu-
pidities” couched in “ blundering, floundering,
lumbering, and stumbling stanzas” of “gasp-
ing, ranting, wheezing, broken-winded verse.”
“Inyx, the screaming wry-neck,” accom-
panies the song from her nest where lies “the
vilest and most pretentious dramatic abortions
ever misbegotten by dullness upon vanity, or
by egotism upon envy.” Byron's character
receives no more quarter from our critic than
his verses. Its chief trait is “malevolent and
cowardly self-conceit, ever shuffling and swag-
gering and cringing and backbiting in a breath.
The most remarkable point in his pretentious
and restless egotism is that a man capable of
writing such bad verse should have been capa-
ble of seeing, even in part, how very bad it
was ; how very hollow were its claims ; how
very ignorant, impudent, and foolish, was the
rabble rout of its adorers.” Some of Byron's
admirers who are not “rabble,” Goethe, namely,
and Mazzini, are then ingeniously disposed of,
and his immense continental popularity ex-
plained by the convincing theory that the
stream of translation rises, in Byron's case,
above its source. Having brought the bewil-
dered juror to this point, the dexterous ad-
vocate, confident of the verdict, is ready to
confront Mr. Arnold with his crime.
"And this is the author placed almost at the
head of modern poets by the eminent poet and
critic who has so long, so loudly, and so justly
preached to the world of letters the supreme
necessity of distinction' as the note of genuine
style which alone enables any sort of literary work
to survive! Shakespeare and Hugo are not good
enough for him. . . . . But in
all remembered poets the most wanting in distinc-
tion of any kind, the most dependent for his effects
on the most vulgar and violent resources of rant
and cant and glare and splash and splutter-in
Byron the apostle of culture . . finds a seed
of immortality more promising than in Coleridge or
Shelley, the two coequal kings of English lyric
poetry.”
But the climax of the arraignment is not
here. Mr. Swinburne's real grievance with
Mr. Arnold is not that the latter loves Byron
more, but that he loves Shelley less. Refer-
ring to the words used by Mr. Arnold, in his
preface to the selections from Byron, contrast-
ing that fact with Shelley, Mr. Swinburne
says :
“If I wanted an instance of provincial and bar-
barian criticism, of criticism inspired by a spirit of
sour unreasonableness, a spirit of bitterness and
darkness, I should certainly never dream of seeking
further than this sentence for the illustration
required.”
Something too much of this : amusing it
may be, but not edifying. Had Mr. Swinburne,
like his victim, any critical reputation to lose,
it were well to remind him that even such
nightingale curses as his are kindred in their
habits to the home-bred cackling fowl. One
has only to compare all this violent abuse of
the hapless Byron with Mr. Ruskin's equally
extravagant praise of him by contrast with
Wordsworth, to feel the futility of all such
criticism, however eloquent. How vain such
strife as to who shall be greatest in the king-
dom of poetry! In its many mansions shall
there not be room enough and to spare for
every poet to whom it is given to say to the
children of men a manly, a consoling, a help-
ful, or a beautiful word?
Profitless as all this diatribe is, arrogant and
ignorant as some of these dicta are, the book
as a whole is not merely readable but eminently
read-worthy. In praise of the poets he loves
and honors, Mr. Swinburne finds phrases and
cadences “as musical as is Apollo's lute.” His
poetic insight enables him to hold up to our
duller vision many a beauty that we had be-
fore passed over or imperfectly apprehended.
Of Wordsworth, his praise seems wise and
ample and his censure just and not unsympa-
thetic. He is perhaps entitled, after all, to
our gratitude for having said so brave a word
for Shelley, said though it was with undue and
violent disparagement of others. An idealist
so pure and so lofty as Shelley cannot in these
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danger that undue homage shall be paid him, those whose boyish tastes have been strengthened
such as has in times past been paid to Byron. | with such mental food and quickened with such
On the day when multitudes of men shall
spiritual wine—the meat so carved and garnished,
leave their pleasures and their ledgers, their
the cup so tempered and poured out, by such a
master and founder of the feast-bear witness and
newspapers and their club-room chat, to read
give thanks to so great and so generous a benefac-
the loftiest poets of the ideal, it will be time
tor; who has fed us on lion's marrow, and with
enough to raise a protest against the enthusiasm | honey out of the lion's mouth."
of their votaries. Till then, let those who The omissions indicated are very likely the
have a secret retreat in the kingdom of the best passages ; but with such a taste of its
ideal be thankful that its outposts are
quality the hungry reader will find his way,
guarded, in the very heart of British and without urging, to Mr. Swinburne's board.
American materialism, by warriors wielding
MELVILLE B. ANDERSON.
such radiant weapons as those of Algernon
Swinburne.
Some of the other essays in this volume are
Miss EDITH THOMAS. *
upon Lamb and Wither, Landor, Keats, Ten-
nyson and Musset, Charles Reade, and Mary
It is but yesterday that the magazine public
Queen of Scots. Some of these exemplify, in
welcomed a new writer into their world, who
a milder way, the defects noted above, and,
came without herald or sponsor-a fresh, strong,
needless to say, all contain passages of charm-
ing musical writing-a very language for
buoyant, energizing spirit whose essence was as
lotus-eaters. Does he not compel our
pungent as the air in pine woods or a salt-sea
breeze. “Who is this Edith Thomas?" was
“whistling, grunting, gutteral” to cadences as
the unanimous cry, as article after article
sweet, closes as ravishing, a movement as
| appeared over her name with no diminution in
lithe and sinuous and swift, as any of which
force, clearness, or finish. For awhile she spoke
the Italian itself is capable ? Has any prose
| in prose; then burst into song, and ever in the
writer ever written in praise of poets in so
same smooth, sustained, resonant and flexible
satisfying a way,-in words so suited to still
voice, stirring her hearers to unaccustomed
the poet's longing for cordial appreciation ?
enthusiasm. Her poems have already grown
Others can hold the scales more evenly, others
to a volume; and now her prose sketches,
have a stronger grasp of the entirety of a
attaining similar dimensions, are clasped in a
masterpiece, others are more impartial and less
impetuous, make fewer mistakes, speak fewer
single packet with the adequate title “The
Round Year.”
regrettable words; to this wayward child of
Some particulars regarding the personality
genius it is given to praise good and lovely
of Edith Thomas have escaped through the
verse in words as golden, in praise as worthy,
press ; yet her writings declare plainly enough
as those they celebrate. In atonement for the
the choicest facts of her individual experience.
brief exhibition that has been made of his un-
That she is a many-sided genius there is no
worthier side, let us close with a specimen of
doubt, or that her brilliant gifts have received
his best manner, selected almost at random.
Of Charles Lamb in his relation to the old
a broad and thorough culture. That she has
English dramatists, he says:
lived the free untrammelled life of the country,
is also apparent. The locality of her abode can
“Not all, it may be, who share his love and his
be defined likewise by her frequent allusions and
understanding of Shakespeare or of Hogarth, can
be expected to love him likewise: but surely noth-
her very familiar knowledge of “the inland
ing less than this may be looked for from all whom
sea” near which she resides. There is none of
he has led to the sealed and hidden fountains of the hazard of a guess in saying that she has
English dramatic poetry; from all to whom he has | grown up on a farm and learned in the repe-
opened that passionate and stormy paradise, the tition of the seasons the order in which the
turbulent and radiant heaven of our elder tragic husbandman rotates his crops, how he prepares
writers: for a very heaven it is to those who can
the soil and conducts the routine of his handi-
breathe its eager air,' a very paradise to such as
craft. Edith Thomas has been out of doors at
can walk unhurt among its flaming fires. . . . .
No man ever had less about him of pretension,
all hours of the day and all times of the year.
philosophic or other, than Charles Lamb: but when
She has dwelt under the sky in fact, as much
he took on him to grapple in spirit with Shakes-
at home in the fields and the woods and by the
peare, and with Shakespeare's fellows or followers, water as a wild animal, and as much at one
the author of John Woodvil, who might till then with nature. Her eye has been as keen, her
have seemed to unsympathetic readers of that little
senses as alert ; while her reflections have been
tragedy no more than the moonshine shadow of an
those of a superior human intelligence. She
Elizabethan playwright, showed himself the strong-
est as well as the finest critic that ever was found
has been a vagrant with the bird, the squirrel,
worthy to comment on the most masculine or
and the musk-rat, and a student with old clas-
leonine school of poets in all the range of English | THE ROUND YEAR. By Edith M. Thomas, author of
literature. . . . Truly and thankfully may "A New Year's Masque." Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.


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sical authors and modern men of science. “Flora. Good. I'll risk a blue violet in the
Intent and persistent in her varied pursuits, south meadow.
she has stored in her mental treasury a rare and
“(And still later:)
diverse fund of learning with which she en-
“Fauna, If you listen, this evening, you will
hear a frog in the marsh.
riches her compositions profusely. A poet by
“ Flora. To-morrow I shall send you a basket of
birth, a naturalist by instinct and observation,
cowslips.
a scholar by training, is it too much to state “Fauna. Thanks. I am just starting out a hive
that Edith Thomas is these three in one? Her of bees. Would you like them to scatter pollen ?”
prose is unmeasured poetry. It abounds in How charming is this free and fanciful tran-
imagery always beautiful and apposite, and in scription of the impulses which waken the
classical allusion pertinent and unstrained. organic world into new life at each return of
“Who will read us the idyl of The Sugar the vernal months. Though some days in
Bush?” she asks in “The Spring Opening.” April have the hazy drowsy atmosphere of
“Let us hear no more of the honey of Hybla, or October, the spring is here, and the pulse of
the cates that Hebe and Ganymede serve up to the | every living thing beats with augmented force.
Olympians! Shakespeare may have meant the
"The maple brush left by the choppers last win-
spring harvest of the maple when he said, -
ter is bourgeoning out, in cheerful unconsciousness
Why then comes in the sweet o'the year,
that its veins are cut off from the arterial supply.
And the red blood reigns in the winter's pale!'
The log rotting in the woods, if it puts forth no new
This is the only tree we have that sweats honey.'
life in kind, at least supports a lusty growth of
Into its veins, as into the veins of heroes, the gods ferns and mosses. Who knows how much stub-
have infused ambrosia. . . . . The sap of all born rock went to mill, last winter, to be ground
wood in early Spring is perceptibly sweet. . . . up into good fertile soil ? . . . The innocent
It is plain that Nature drops a little sugar in the acorn Nature puts to bed as early as possible, that
milk on which she rears her nursery. All young
it may make a healthy, wealthy, and wise beginning
ones love sweets, even to the baby leaves on the old on a spring morning; but the cradle that holds the
gall-fly's child she carelessly rocks above ground all
Scanning a meadow which but yesterday
winter. . . The old trees have recorded another
year, letting out their tough bark girdles to accom-
was “Winter's camping-ground,” she observes:
modate the new layer of muscle and adipose. The
“The sun and the south wind have been this way sap now takes to its capillary ladders, climbing
together, .. A few days more of gentle weather, slowly, slowly."
and we see little irregular paths of green winding
But, she concludes, -
everywhere about the pastures; these paths mark the
route taken by Spring on her first stolen, invisible
“If you would have the spring well indorsed,
round. After a while there will be no spot of
walk under the trees this evening, and observe if
ground her quickening feet have not touched. Strip
anything forbids your progress. Nothing but a
off the sodden leaves, which are the patchwork quilt
slight ticklish thread stretched across your eyelids,
Nature spreads over her babes in the wood. A
like the gentlest premonition of sleep. That will
legion of seedlings stretch their whitish-green arms
do. That is the spider's indorsement of the spring,
above the mould. Vegetable crustaceans they are,
When she harnesses her loom, and begins her sea-
extending their tentacles in search of food. Great
son's weaving, you may be sure she has had
mother ! if these bantlings of the oak, the beech,
favorable advices from the head weather clerk.".
and the maple squirm and twist, and find their cra These extracts have been taken from a single
dles too short and too narrow, what will become of essay, yet not because it excels the others in
them by and by, when they require more room for
any degree. All are as rich in delicate obser-
exercise and more abundant nutrition ?"
vation and ingenious figures of speech.
Listening with acutely sensitive hearing to Miss Thomas's essay on “The Sensitive
the inarticulate speech of Nature, she per Plant” indirectly assures us that her organi-
ceives:
zation is as sturdy as it is fine, and that she is
“There is telegraphy in the air nowadays; hourly, not subject to vain, weak or self-conscious
momentary messages flying between the busy rural tremors. “Selfishness," she remarks, “is the
genii. These messages may be taken off' at any big tap-root which feeds the germination and
station along the route where there is a practiced
morbid growth” of sensitiveness in the human
operator, an intelligent and sympathetic ear. One
plant, and it should be treated with “crispness,
hears of the mysterious trysts kept between botany
and zoology,-of plants waking up by alarm-clocks,
-nay, even with some barbarity.” “Doubt
and of birds travelling by midnight express, on
those persons,” she sternly adds, “who are
receipt of expected despatches from headquarters. frequently given to the confession that they
I occasionally hear Flora and Fauna exchanging the are sensitive,-far too sensitive for their own
compliments of the season, and such pleasant gossip good. . . . Having to deal with them, we
as naturally results from their near-neighborly rela probably find that what they mistake in them-
tions:-
“Fauna. I have just sent a minnow up the creek.
selves for fine spiritual acumen and sensibility
“Flora. I've been blossoming out a pussy willow
is something very akin to jealousy,--an un-
there by the bank.
generous distrustfulness of nature."
"(And after an interval:)
The keenness and zest with which Miss
“ Fauna. I venture a bluebird.
Thomas enjoys the freedom and the delights
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of the country are perfectly expressed in the | and his story gains our hearty respect for a hero
chance clause, “If I lived in the builded desert who has every personal qualification to distinguish
of the city.” Every page declares over and
him in the field of exploration.
over how wonderfully sharp and quick her THE bibliographer has an unattractive task; and
sight and hearing are, how trained by constant yet no work is more needed than that which he
use, and how easily and accurately the reports has to do. Lest others be discouraged, the task
they bring to her brain are recorded in con should not be made thankless as well as unattract-
summate phraseology. The temptation is great
ive, and the critic should be very lenient in his
to cite periods in which thought and speech
judgment. It would be easy to point to omissions
and inaccuracies in the “Bibliography of Educa-
are welded in original and exquisite combina-
tion," just prepared by G. Stanley Hall and John
tions. The phases of nature are the favorite
M. Mansfield; but we prefer to signalize the fact
theme of Miss Thomas, and the lightest and that such a work has been undertaken, and, since
most shadowy serve as incitements to the play it is a first effort in this direction, so creditably
of her imagination. Gossamer, thistle-down, carried out. Dr. Hall, in fact, forestalls criticism
grass, frost and moonshine, afford ample sub-| by very frankly acknowledging the imperfections of
stance for a dissertation replete with wisdom
the work. In one respect, the aim of the compilers
gained from nature and the schools, and bril-
is especially deserving of sympathy. Exclusion no
less than inclusion has been their object, and a
liant with tropes teeming from a prolific fancy.
good deal of worthless stuff has been left upmen-
Sara A. HUBBARD.
tioned. If the work of exclusion had been carried
even farther, we should have been even better sat-
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isfied. On this point, Dr. Hall says: “Our work
has been to a large extent a fight against the hack
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS.
writers who have so abounded and have so discred-
ited educational literature in every language, not
The most important recent addition to books of least in English. We have admitted no title merely
African exploration is made by Mr. Walter Mon to give it the benefit of a doubt, but have gone on
tagu Kerr, in his two volumes entitled “The Far the principle of requiring some positive reason for
Interior" (Houghton, Mifflin & Co.). The photo-, admitting every book with which the editors were
graph of the author, fronting the title-page, is a not already acquainted at first hand.” A valuable
good representation of the typical English explorer, feature of the work, and one which we wish were
who is never so much at home as when threading more prominent, is afforded by the notes which are
perilous paths in unknown regions. Mr. Kerr left occasionally introduced to characterize the books
England in December of 1883, to make a tour mentioned. The success of this plan in Prof.
through Central Africa. He had no comrade to Adams's historical hand-book warrants its extension
share his enterprise. He set out alone, trusting to to bibliographical literature wherever the space will
the help of the natives whom he should encounter admit. We close this notice of a book which no
in his march, for the accomplishment of his purpose. educator can do without, by citing a few figures.
Port Elizabeth, in Natal, was his point of departure The titles given are 2139 in number, classified
for the African interior. Late in May of 1884, he under 70 heads. They include English, French,
parted with the companionship of white men, at the German, and a few Italian titles. The works are
mission station of Inyati, in Matabeli-land. His | indexed under 2440 names of authors, this index
course was toward Tette, on the Zambsi river, including many names which are incidentally
whence he meant to reach the shores of Lake referred to in the text. In this index Barnard has
Nyassa, thus traversing ground never trod by a 18 references, Froebel 13, G. Stanley Hall and
European before. He was encumbered by the least Pestalozzi 12 each, and two gentlemen named
possible amount of baggage, made up of articles for Rein, not easily distinguishable, 12 and 14 respect-
barter, scientific instruments, and indispensable
ively.
food and medicines. A part of the way he made
use of a cart and oxen, but on entering the tsetse The exact distinction between a "Worthy" and
country he was obliged to dispense with animals a “Man of Letters," if indeed there be any dis-
and travel on foot with negroes acting as carriers. | tinction, is becoming more and more difficult to
By dint of patience, determination, and tact, he came define with the development of the admirable series
successfully to the end of his route. Nearly a year of biographies prepared under the supervision of
was spent in the journey, during which he encoun- Mr. Lang. The two most recent volumes of this
tered all the hardships, vexations, and disappoint series are devoted to Steele and Jonson,-men
ments incident to travel in the heart of Africa. Yet whose names are not exactly out of place in such a
he appears never to have lost courage, hope, or good collection, but of whom we think chiefly as writers.
nature. Accident robbed him of most of his natural As a writer alone, Steele is so far from occupying
history collections, but not of the results of obser a place in the first rank that perhaps the series of
vations by which he was enabled to correct errors “English Worthies" may be considered to stand as
in the location of many of the points visited and to a special providence in relation to his memory; but
increase our knowledge of some of the native tribes. | Jonson would certainly be claimed by the series of
The conclusion of his tour of investigation was by “English Men of Letters " and probably will be in
the Shire river, which brought him to Quillimane, due course of time, along with several of his con.
on the eastern coast of the dark continent. A lack temporaries in that glorious age of dramatic poetry.
of dates in the narrative interferes with its intelligi Mr. J. Addington Symonds is the writer to whom
bility, as does likewise a want of systematic arrange- has fallen the pleasant task of dealing with this
ment. The author speaks with candor and modesty, sturdy Elizabethan or Jacobean, and his name is


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sufficient warrant for the exceptional excellence of cognized and his fate deplored equally by both. But
the performance. Having been engaged for some the young American patriot who risked and lost his
years upon his history of the Elizabethan drama, life in the effort to procure secret intelligence of the
he has had his material for the present little enemy for the advantage of his commander, has been
volume well in hand, and some of it he has taken less generously treated by his countrymen. Captain
almost bodily from the initial volume of the work, Hale had all the personal qualities which ren-
already published under the title of “Shakespeare's dered André so attractive and his death so affecting.
Predecessors." This biography is very welcome, He was young-only twenty-two when his life
from the undeniable fact that the great dramatists ended, - handsome, cultivated, refined, gentle,
contemporaneous with Shakespeare, although not upright, and trusted and beloved by all who knew
absolutely neglected, are still far from being read him. No pity was extended to him by his execu-
and known in proportion to the value of their work. tioners, and the circumstances of his swift con-
A large share of the attention which is now given demnation and ignominious death were unmiti-
to the artificial and prosaic poets of the eighteenth gatedly cruel. He bore them with the bravery and
century might be diverted to the true poets of the magnanimity of a soldier and a christian. Dr. Los-
courts of Elizabeth and of James, to the great profit sing portrays his brief career with a just and tender
of the reading public at large. As long, however, as feeling which moves the sympathy of his readers.
the Queen Anne writers find such loving expositors A similar sincere appreciation is expressed in his
as Mr. Austin Dobson, they are sure to get more treatment of André, and his defence of the purpose
attention than is relatively due them; and Steele, of Mr. Field in erecting a monument on the spot
considered as an English Worthy, could have where the Major was captured. The “Monody on
found no better biographer. Mr. Dobson has Major André," written by his friend, Anna Seward,
made good use of the old and of some new material, is annexed to his biography.
producing a fascinating volume, and placing before
his readers a life-like portrait of the man without
UNDER the title of a " Teacher's Hand-Book of
assigning to him a greater importance in English | Psychology" (D. Appleton & Co.), Mr. James Sully
literature than is justly his due.
has prepared a condensation of his larger treatise
upon the same subject, with a special view to the
THERE seems to be a congestion of Worthies just
requirements of those who wish to engage in the pro-
at present, for the volumes upon Jonson and Steele
fession of teaching. Whatever we may think of the
were immediately preceded in the series by others
amount of special pedagogical preparation demanded
upon Blake and Raleigh-distinctively men of
for the exercise of that profession, there can be no
action rather than men of letters. Admiral Blake
doubt that a teacher should have a good psycholog-
has found a biographer in Mr. David Hannay, and
ical equipment; for the art of teaching is essentially
Sir Walter Raleigh in Mr. E. W. Gosse. One is
the application of the science of psychology. Mr.
surprised to read in the preface how little has been
Sully's book is an admirable one for the purpose
done for the fame of Blake,mto whom, perhaps more
for which it has been especially prepared, and it is
than to any other one of her naval commanders, it
also an admirable one for use as a text-book in
is due that Britannia was made to "rule the seas." It
schools where elementary psychology forms a part
may be that Blake suffered from the same neglect as
of the course of instruction. In most respects it is
the great statesman under whom he served ; for
the best treatise of its size which we have in Eng-
literature, until the present century, was all in sym-
lish. It has the special merit of avoiding meta-
pathy with the Stuarts, and had little liking for
physical discussions as far as it is possible to avoid
the Puritan Blake. But even his own time left
them, and it is free from the intrusive and offensive
scanty memorials of him, and Mr. Hannay has been
piety found in most books of the sort, although no
able to make but a thin book. For Raleigh, the
more relevant in a book about psychology than in a
materials are of course abundant; and Mr. Gosse had
book about chemistry or the calculus. The work
but to choose what aspect of his life to present.
is no worse a text-book for pupils because it is at
He was embarrassed by the richness, as Mr. Hannay
the same time a guide for teachers in the exercise of
by the poverty, of his resources. With good judg-
their avocation, for the principles of psychology
ment he decided to make his life of Raleigh a biog-
may be just as well illustrated by examples drawn
raphy rather than a history. The present work, he
from and bearing upon the art of teaching as by
says, " is the first attempt which has been made to
those of any other kind. Altogether, the book is
portray his personal career disengaged from the gen-
reasonably sound in principle and attractive in
eral history of his time.” It is also the first life of
statement and exposition.
Raleigh in which the abundant new matter collected
simultaneously, and published in the same year, by
THE “Sháh Námeh," or Epic of Kings, is a book
Mr. Edwards and Mr. St. John, has been collected. | to be found on the shelves of the rich, in the
It is therefore a book of independent historical and sumptuous volume which contains the translation
literary value. Both volumes are well written and made by Miss Helen Zimmern. We do not know
interesting. The series is published by D. Appleton that it is a work for which the poor are especially
& Co.
clamorous, but those of them who wish to possess
it may now easily do so in the form of a volume of
Mr. B. J. Lossing, the veteran historian and bio that cheap and excellent series known as the Chan-
grapher whose sketch of the lives of Mary and Mar-| dos Classics (Frederick Warne & Co.) The version
tha Washington was noticed in the last number of is the old one of Atkinson-an epitomised version
THE DIAL, has now published his account of “The for the most part-originally published in 1832, and
Two Spies, Nathan Nale and John André" (Apple- now revised and edited for this new edition by the
top). Mr. Lossing shows that full justice has been Rev. J. A. Atkinson, the son of the translator. The
done to André by the nation which he served and by translation is in prose and verse, the prose portions
the one he would have betrayed. His virtues were re- | being considerably abridged, and the verse, used


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where the poetical character of the work is espe special place, and, apparently, a full share of the
cially marked, being sometimes blank and some | filibustering spirit, he obeyed a sudden impulse to
times put into rhymed couplets. The story of sail for San Juan, a port in Nicaragua. A civil
Sohrab, which has inspired Mr. Matthew Arnold war was then raging in that state. He became in-
with one of his noblest poems, is given a full trans terested on the side of the democracy, who were
lation in couplets, this being appended to the fighting to relieve themselves from the oppressions
abridgment of the work as a whole. A word of the church and the Spanish hidalgos combined.
should be said of the very neat dress in which the He joined their party, and performed efficient serv-
Chandos Classics now appear. In their present ice in supporting their cause.' He became the aid
form they would do credit to any library, and they and the confidant of Gen. Walker, and, though
place a considerable collection of standard works | disapproving his ultimate projects, stood by him
within the reach of readers of limited means. loyally as long as it was possible to render him
assistance. Mr. Doubleday's reminiscences are de-
THE excursion of the famous "American Four-in-1 tailed in a rambling manner, yet they have an air
Hand in Britain" has been described inimitably by of veracity and are worth preserving as the parra-
the originator of the scheme, Mr. Andrew Carnegie. ; tive of a participant in a curious historical episode.
Whoever attempts to repeat the tale with compara-
ble charm enters upon a difficult task. Mr. John 1 THE material which exists in "Old Cookery
Dennison Champlain, one of the fortunate fourteen Books” for the illustration of English national
included in Mr. Carnegie's party, bas dared to habits and customs has been sought and sifted by
undertake it. He enlisted the services of Mr. W. Carew Hazlitt, and the product incorporated in
Edward L. Chichester, a skilful illustrator, for the i a quaint little volume inserted in "The Book-
adornment of his narrative, and ensured it solid Lover's Library” (George J. Coombes). Mr. Hazlitt
substance by much historical research. He has has been thorough in his search, poring over a mass of
dubbed his account “A Chronicle of the Coach” musty documents in manuscript or print which refer
(Scribner), a veracious title. It records one portion to the condition of the cuisine in England, from the
of the annals of the trip, noting in chronological earliest times down. It is an odd branch of history
order the historical landmarks lying along the route for a man to study, but the results of the investiga-
-the churches, castles, country-seats, cities, vil. tion have an appreciable value. They throw light
lages, ruins, and monuments of every sort; and i on the progress of the people of the mother country
relating briefly the incidents which have given them in civilization and refinement from age to age.
importance. Intermingled with this grave lore, | Much of the character of a person is revealed by
and somewhat brightening its effect, are notes of a the food he chooses and his way of eating it. The
personal character, embracing the daily adventures of English, until a very recent day, were gross eaters,
the happy company who were indebted to Mr. Car- and ostrich-like in digestive power, according to
negie for one of the most delightful of imaginable the account of their dietary furnished by Mr.
experiences in travel.
Haziitt. The work is a suggestive commentary on
the tastes and manners of our old-world ancestors,
The scanty vestiges remaining of the rich and
populous African city which was the contemporary
Rev. WILLIAM BURNET WRIGHT's work on “An-
and rival of Greece and Rome and the ruler of the ! cient Cities" (Houghton, Mifflin & Co.) is devoted
Western Mediterranean, have been skilfully used chiefly to cities mentioned in the Bible, -beginning
in the construction of “The Story of Carthage,” with Ur, in the dawn of bistory, and concluding
by Prof. Alfred J. Church, and his American col-with Jerusalem, in its full daylight. The author
laborator, Mr. Arthur Gilman. The materials for
disclaims any attempt at a learned book, but the
the work have been gathered from original sources,
critic may declare that he has produced an interest-
-the old Roman writers, Justin, Polybius, Diodorus,
ing and instructive one. Though the contents have
Siculus, and Livy, on whom we rely chiefly for
been borrowed from original gleaners, the form in
what we know of a mighty nation which began and
which they are presented is new and attractive.
ended its career in the course of six or seven cen-,
The distinctive facts in the life of each city are
turies, leaving behind it fewer traces than almost
effectively grouped, conveying a clear idea of the
any of the great powers of antiquity. Prof. Church
work it accomplished in building up the civiliza-
has executed his task as historiographer after the
tion of the race. There is a thread of connection
manner of a scholar, simply, seriously and systemat between the different places treated, inasmuch as all
ically. The narrative, as complete as is now possible, had some relation at one time or another with the
is brought easily within the compass of 300 pages.
chosen people whose ancient home was Cangan and
The illustrations are for the most part transferred
whose life centred in Jerusalem.
from Perrot and Chipiez' “Ilistory of Art in Phæ-
nicia,” and are therefore of the highest excellence. CLASSICAL teachers will be glad to have the pages
The volume forms a worthy number in Putnam's of Miss Sheldon's “Studies in History” which
popular series of “ The Stories of the Nations."
concern the classical period, published in a separate
volume, under the title “Studies in Greek and
MR. C. W. DOUBLEDAY, in his narrative of "The. Roman History” (Heath). Whether adopted for
Filibuster War in Nicaragua" (Putnam), relates class use or not, it will be found of great service to
that in the spring of 1854 he chanced to be in San the teacher in the way of stimulus and suggestion.
Francisco, as a miner who had engaged among the į It is hardly exact to call Volterra (p. 141) - near
' earliest in the quest for gold in California. With , Rome": moreover, the map of Roman dependencies
no business on hand, no tie binding him to any | B. C. 146 (p. 159) should include Illyricum,


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BOOKS OF THE MONTH.
TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS.
NOVEMBER, 1886.
Andover Seminary, Constitution of. Andover.
Alcoholic Liquors. W. E. Bradley. Popular Science.
American Hi-tory, Documents of. W. F. Poole. Dial.
Anarebist, The First. A. D. Vinton. Mag. Am. Hist.
Atlantic, Geology of the. W. Dawson. Popular Science.
Beyscblag's “Life of Christ." B. Weiss. Andover.
Books for Citizens. Albert Shaw. Dial.
Book trade in Leipzig. W. C. Dreher. Andover.
Brandock's Defeat. T.J. Chapman. Mag. Am. Hist.
Buried Languages, Resurrection of Princeton.
Burns, Robert Walt Whitman. North American.
Cedar Mt. to Chantilly. A. E. Lee. Mag. Am. History.
Charleston Convention, 1860, A.W. Clason. Mac. din. Hist.
Chelsea. B. E. Martin. Century.
Chevreul at a Hundred. W. H. Larrabee. Popular Science.
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CONTENTS.
VICTOR HUGO ON SITAKESPEARE. Harriet Monroe 181
ELECTRICITY IN THE SERVICE OF MAN. H. S.
Carhart ... ........ ...... 184
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VICTOR HUGO ON SHAKESPEARE.*
When Victor Hugo turned his back on the
iniquities of France, it was on English soil
that he waited for drugged liberty to awake
once more. And well did he and his son repay
the polar hospitality offered by the white.
washed house on the little Channel island; for
the latter made the long banishment fruitful
by translating the plays of Shakespeare into
French, and the great exile himself, while
“gazing at the ocean,” dedicated to England
a ~ Glorification of her Poet,” which is worthy
to rank as the brightest jewel in Shakespeare's
luminous crown of praise.
The volume before us might almost be
called the first English version of this “glori.
fication,” for the amiable Frenchman who un-
dertook to translate it some years ago had
little comprehension of the intricacies of the
English tongue. The present translation is the
work of an accurate and appreciative scholar,
who has fitly rendered the eloquence of Hugo's
style, and furnished foot-notes of warning
whenever the great Frenchman becomes ruth.
lessly destructive in his dealing with facts.
For not in this book should one seek the
little that is known of Shakespeare's life and
the course of his work, or even the progress
of his fame. The exiled poet, far from great
libraries, seems to have relied upon his memory
for dates and details, and his memory often
played him false. Then he yields to various
enticing theories, -as when he would have
us believe that Shakespeare's name passed well-
nigh into oblivion soon after his death, and
that his plays narrowly escaped the tragic
fate which overtook those of Æschylus, who
is "up to his shoulders in the ashes of ages.”
Many are the exaggerations, endless the
digressions, which encumber the winged elo-
quence of this poet-critic; yet in spite of
them we feel that here is one who has a right
to speak, whose high-tuned praise atones for a
thousand errors, for he makes us forget our
clogged mortality and remember our kinship
with immortal minds.
The author felt that the true title of his
work should be “ A propos de Shakespeare,"
for in it he takes the great name as his text
for profound discourse upon life and art, and
the relations of genius to the development of
the race. After a few pages, telling of his
arrival in Jersey and the history of the little
island which for a dozen years had sternly
sheltered the exiles, he opens with that famous
* WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. By Victor Hugo. Trang.
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comparison inspired by his long love of the | God. God expanded is the world.” Believing
ocean :
“in nothing out of God,” believing that “God
" There are, indeed, men whose souls are like the
creates Art by man, having for a tool the
sea. Those billows, that ebb and flood, that inex-
human intellect,” Hugo shows that in accepting
orable going and coming, that noise of all the a more literal and less ennobling idea of inspi-
winds, that blackness and that translucency, that ration, the world has for ages been “the vic-
vegetation peculiar to the deep, that democracy of tim of a metaphor.” “The thicket of Moses
clouds in full hurricane, those eagles flecked with ... and Mahomet's dove ” he rejects, with
foam, those wonderful star-risings reflected in
the familiar spirit attributed by Forbes to
mysterious agitation by millions of luminous wave-
Shakespeare. While Science “has no right to
tops,-confused heads of the multitudinous sea, -
the errant lightnings which seem to watch, those
laugh,” and should test all phenomena, yet
prodigious sobbings, those half-seen monsters,
poetry is the poet's own; “God has not made
those nights of darkness broken by howlings, those
this marvellous distillery of thought—the brain
furies, those frenzies, those torments, those rocks, of man,-in order to make no use of it.” “The
those shipwrecks, those fleets crushing each other, human mind has a summit,—the ideal; to this
mingling their human thunders with the divine
summit God descends, man rises.” We are
thunders and staining the sea with blood; then that
told that the few intrepid madmen who scale
charm, that wildness, those festivals, those gay
white sails, those fishing-boats, those songs amid
this height are equals forever in glory. “Which
the uproar, those shining ports, those mists rising
is the greatest ? Every one.”
from the shore, those cities at the horizon's edge,
In the dynasty of literary artists, "one,
that deep blue of sky and water, that useful as Homer, is the huge poet-child. He is fathom-
perity, that bitter savor which keeps the world less and he is cheerful. All the depth of an-
wholesome, that harsh salt without which all would cient days moves, radiant and luminous, in the
putrefy; those wraths and those appeasements, that
vast azure of this spirit.” “Another, Job, be-
all in one, the unforeseen amid the changeless, the
gins the drama . . . by placing Jehovah and
vast marvel of inexhaustibly varied monotony, that
smoothness after an upheaval, those hells and those
Satan in presence of each other; the evil defies
heavens of the unfathomed, infinite, ever-moving
the good, and behold! the action is begun.”
deep,—all this may exist in a mind, and then that Another, Æschylus, who “has the air of an
mind is called genius, and you have Æschylus, you elder brother of Homer," is “ancient mystery
have Isaiah, you have Juvenal, you have Dante, made man, something like a Pagan prophet.”
you have Michael Angelo, you have Shakespeare, Isaiah is “the great reproacher;" Ezekiel “ the
and it is all one whether you look at these souls or
wild soothsayer.” “Lucretius is that vast,
at the sea."
obscure thing, all” —the “searching spirit,"
From this the poet passes to a picturesque who, having wandered everywhere, at last “put
account of Shakespeare's life. Having brought himself en route for death.” “Juvenal's in-
him to London—that “splendid and melan vective . . . burns Rome in the presence
choly town,”—he describes the conditions of of the centuries.” Tacitus is “the historian.
existence under “Sultan” Henry VIII. and the Liberty is incarnate in him, as in Juvenal,
state of the theatre when young Shakespeare and ascends, dead, to the seat of judgment,
was call-boy, accepting as positive truth the having for a toga its winding-sheet, and
burlesque scenery arranged by the amateur summons tyrants to her bar.” John is "the
actors in “A Midsummer Night's Dream.” An virginal old man,” with the Apocalypse as his
incorrect chronology of the plays follows, and “almost insane masterpiece." Paul “repre-
the completion of the story of the poet's sents that miracle, at once divine and human,
“greatly embittered” life, who, “once dead, conversion." Another, Dante, is “incarnate
entered into oblivion.” To prove this obliv sorrow;" “he has made the epic of the spec-
ion requires many pages of the book, and tres." Rabelais and Cervantes are “two comic
Hugo finally considers the point so well es Homers," epic mockers, placed between the
tablished that we are told: “It required Middle Ages and modern times.
three hundred years for England to catch And Shakespeare, the last of these “immoy-
those two words that the whole world shouted able giants of the human mind," " what is he?
in her ear— William Shakespeare.""
You might almost answer, He is the earth.”
But we are led away from such cavillings to And then, after forty pages of vivid character-
a consideration of “Men of Genius.” “ High ization, whose truth and vigor our summary
art,” cries the seer, “is the region of equals. could but faintly indicate, in which men mean
::. God manifests himself to us in the as well as noble, things little as well as great,
first degree through the life of the universe, are struck by the lightning of his epithets,
and in the second through the thought of man. this foreigner reveals to us the height and
The second manifestation is not less holy than depth of Shakespeare's genius, and we feel,
the first. The first is named Nature, the sec under the guidance of this master-spirit, a
ond is named Art.” “By the word God” he stronger sense of the joyousness, the dreaming
means “the living Infinite,”. “the invisible restlessness, the reality, the universality, the
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who closed the Gothic gate of barbarism, as niators, and dwells upon the grace, philosophy
Homer had closed the ancient gate. Many a and imagination of that poet who is “like
mind has recorded the vastness of that soul creation.” He engulfs with irony the school
which is like the sea, but among them all none of writers whose motto is sobriety and de-
has known so clearly the glory and the terror corum, and who in all ages-yea, even in this
of it, has felt such sublime expansion of his age—have tried to curb and repress the
being in this “vast wind blowing off the shores illuminating spirits who dash headlong into
of a world.”
the infinite. It is the privilege of these spirits
Victor Hugo contends valiantly for the in to create types more real than living men—to
violability of genius, and reminds “Good concentrate all traitors in Iago, who yet is
Taste” that “to give no occasion for attack is none of them; to show in Shylock Judaism,
a negative virtue.” To the six minds who “such as oppression has made it.” The great
reign as equals over the kingdom of thought types are so many Adams—each one a whole
Homer, Æschylus, Job, Isaiah, Dante, and humanity. The man of Homer is Achilles,
Shakespeare—is granted perception of the In father of slayers. The man of Æschylus is
finite, and in the presence of that unknown Prometheus, father of wrestlers. The man of
Something reproaches wither and lie dead. Shakespeare is Hamlet; “to him belongs the
He contends also for the eternal fecundity of family of the dreamers.” “Hamlet is all, in
God in the generation of great minds. To the order to be nothing," a man of the North who
six great names, the future will add more. says, “ What do I know?” “His hands
When people sigh “Poetry is passing away,” | clench, then fall by his side ;" he “acts the
he tells them it is as if they said “There are madman for his safety," and "closes the dread
no more roses.” With the multiplication of drama of life and death with a gigantic point
books, with compulsory education, the human of interrogation.” On a level with Hamlet,
child, six thousand years old, will add to his Victor Hugo places Macbeth, Othello, King
facts ideas, and reach out again to the highest Lear. “Macbeth is hunger; .... he repre-
-to the absolute level where “sublimity is sents that frightful hungry creature who
equality," where the newcomer can never ob prowls through history-in the forest called
scure the glory of those enthroned. Unlike brigand, and on the throne, conqueror."
Science, “whose admirable guesses obliterate Othello is the night, “amorous of day," by
each other," the successive creations of art whose side, as Iago, is evil, “the night of the
abide, and therefore the transformations of art soul.” “He is radiant with twenty victories,
are but “the undulations of the beautiful,” he is studded with stars, this Othello : but he
neither progress nor decay. “Yes, those who is black. And thus how soon the hero be-
cannot be surpassed may be equalled. How? comes the monster, the black becomes the
By being different.”.
negro ! How speedily has night beckoned to
From such arguments the author advances death !” Lear is “the occasion for Cordelia.
to an elaborate eulogy of the life and work of Maternity of the daughter toward the father.
Æschylus, “the ancient Shakespeare.” We .... The young breast near the white beard:
are told how the tragedy of “ Æschylus there is no holier sight.”
Lost” was commenced by envy and finished These four plays are the only ones discussed
by fanaticism-a tragedy which can never be at length, though we are led rapidly through
re-enacted, now that printing is the safeguard the misty world of the comedies, where men
of genius. The First Part closes with a fervid become clouds, villainy dissolves, and fantasy
inquiry into the insolvable mystery of the and laughter reign. Here “it is Shakespeare's
birth of souls, especially of those great will to dream; elsewhere he thinks." He
souls which seem to transcend humanity. The traces the ancestry and the name of Titania to
poet, standing “at the window opening into the Titan Prometheus, creator of men and
the unknown," realizes that “the man who spirits—the infinitely small descended from
meditates not, lives in blindness; the man who the infinitely great. In thirty-four out of
meditates, lives in darkness.” Gazing from thirty-six dramas the author discovers a dou-
“that frightful promontory of thought,” he ble action—“the sign of the sixteenth cen-
maintains the immortality of the soul, without tury,” whose every idea “has a double com-
which all creation is for man "but an immense partment.” He chooses not to criticize this
cui bono?" and affirms the supremacy of the or any other peculiarity offensive to the school-
“ cosmic souls,” the “solar men,” who “seem men, being so far whimsical as to be satis-
full of the dream of a previous world,” and fied if a thing is beautiful.” “To admire,-
conscious of a mission. He closes with a to be an enthusiast,—it has struck me that it
sublime apostrophe to the Infinite Creator, was well to give, in our century, this example
who is “no more exhausted by a Homer than of folly.” “Art enjoys a laugh,” says Hugo;.
by a star.”
yet Shakespeare's humor is that quality of his
Part Second opens with a justification of soul which the Frenchman least comprehends.
Shakespeare against his critics and calum- | For example, Falstaff to him is sheer deform-


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ity and baseness; he does not see that the
laughter-loving knight is a knave only when
knavery is sportive, and that he has a soft
heart under his wide jerkin. From beginning
to end the book is permeated with a majestic
earnestness, studded with epithets like stars.
Men and nations are characterized in burning
words. Science, music—“the Word of Ger-
many,"—the arts, books, epochs, are touched
with light in the vivid panorama of these
pages. His depth of vision goes to prove his
statement that “every poet is a critic.” The
poet identifies himself with the soul he judges,
surely a more effective mode of study than the
bird's-eye-view of a pedant.
Toward the close of Part Second the great
Frenchman passes away from Shakespeare to
brood over is the sombre sea of the poor,” to
plead eloquently for that chaos of souls whose
ignorance must be enlightened that the race
may grow strong. Poets must descend to the
people, that they may ascend to God. Their
love should be deep as the sea, their rage as
potent as the storm, their hospitality to the
wretched and oppressed as wide and gentle as
the air. To think and to love no longer
suffice — they must act and suffer as well.
Theirs is the duty to teach to mankind the
meaning of liberty; and the final message of
the book, as indeed of all that came from
Victor Hugo's pen, is the trumpet-call for
freedom.
What if the work is filled with latent and
manifest egoism? What though the author min-
gles with his praise of the mighty dead self-
justification and applause of the great literary
movement he originated in France ? What
though he fain would offer his own name as
the next one to be added by the author of all
to the mighty series? Perhaps the third gate of
Barbarism—the gate of Revolution is indeed
creaking to its close under his powerful hand.
“The words, “a people liberated,' may fitly
end his strophe." We cannot tell. But if it
be found true in the mind of the next century,
may some soul of the mighty epoch be found
worthy to crown this poet with praise as lofty
as he has given to Shakespeare,—for “men of
genius communicate in their effluence, like the
stars. What have they in common? Nothing.
Everything."
HARRIET MONROE.
from its tireless pursuit, he left to others the
application of the laws he had discovered.
Four months of brilliant labor on the part of
Faraday sufficed to complete his discoveries in
this field; four centuries will probably not
suffice to enable inventors to exhaust the abil.
ity of these laws to minister to the service of
man.
The book before us, while written to meet
the popular interest in electricity, admirably
illustrates the priceless contribution made by
Faraday to the world's welfare. Part II., com-
prising about six hundred of the eight hundred
pages of the book, is devoted to the “Tech-
nology of Electricity”; and nearly all of the
inventions and appliances graphically and cor-
rectly described in these six hundred pages are
the direct and logical sequence of Faraday's
discoveries in 1831. When will the world
learn, as a matter of pure business interest if
for no higher reason, to furnish investigators
of genius and devotion with all the appliances
needful for their work? America has no Royal
Institution like that in London, where Faraday
found the means and appliances to carry for-
ward the work to which he devoted his life;
but America has been greatly enriched by
his discoveries—an immense return for the
prominent part taken by Count Rumford, a
native American, in founding the Royal Insti-
tution.
A hasty glance at this plethoric volume of
Dr. Urbanitzky will convince even the unin-
formed that the applications of electricity are
very remarkable and very serviceable to man.
In fact, modern civilization could not dispense
with the telegraph and the telephone alone;
and very soon one will be justified in placing
the electric light in the same category. Dr.
Wormell, in editing the translation for English
readers, has added much that is purely En-
glish, and has further added to the value of
the book by introducing the statement of laws
and principles in the symbolic or equational
form. American inventions, however, have not
found a very good expositor either at the hands
of the author or his English editor. Edison,
Brush, Weston and Belĩ find ample illustra-
tion, but several important systems of electrical
generation and distribution are not mentioned.
Perhaps this is to be expected in a foreign
work; and the omissions do not materially
affect the value of the book for American
readers, because they are better informed
respecting home inventions than foreign ones.
A few errors and omissions of a different
sort are likely to discredit the book for Ameri-
can readers. We are told (p. 419) that in
America Grove's battery “is still made use of
to a considerable extent on the main wires
between the leading offices.” It is scarcely
possible that a single Grove cell has been used
for that purpose in this country for many years,
ELECTRICITY IN THE SERVICE OF MAN.*
It is only fifty-five years since Faraday made
bis grand discoveries relating to the induction
of electric currents. With a devotion to pure
science that did not permit him to turn aside
* ELECTRICITY IN THE SERVICE OF Man. From the
German of Dr. Alfred Ritter von Urbanitzky. Edited
by R. Wormell, D.Sc., M.A. New York: Cassell & Com.
pany.


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The old value for the electromotive force of a | pressure or electromotive force the energy.
Latimer Clark standard cell is given, instead The energy per second is measured in this
of the correct one determined by Lord Ray- | case by the product of the current strength
leigh three years ago,-an important difference and the electric pressure under which the cur-
in electrical measurements. The “Recent rent flows. If the pipe is without leak, just
Improvements in Batteries” does not include as much water flows out of one end of the
several important ones, notably the substitution system as flows in at the other ; but the pres-
of the sodium for the potassium salt in the sure diminishes gradually from one end to the
bichromate battery. A very amusing error, other by friction. So when power is trans-
and one difficult of explanation, occurs undermitted to a distance by electricity, if no
the heading “Electric Light Companies in leakage occurs, the same quantity of electricity
New York” (p. 544). It is a description of flows out at one end of the conductor as flows
the “Central Electric Lighting Station at Mai in at the other; but the energy recoverable at
land, New York,” with a full-page illustration. the receiving end is less than is expended at
If the word “Mailand” does not attract the the sending end, because the electric pressure
reader's notice, he will probably be puzzled on is reduced in the transit, just as water pressure
learning that “Messrs. Giuseppe, Colombo, is reduced in transmission of power by water.
and Guzzi were consulted as experts "; and In transmission of power by water there is loss
that “the principal consumer is the Théâter by friction in the pipes and losses in the me-
de la Scala." Readers of electrical journals chanism; so in transmission by electricity there
have been familiar with this central station at is loss by electric resistance of the conductor
Milan, Italy, for some time; and New Yorkers and by imperfect efficiency of the mechanism
will learn with some surprise that it is located for the recovery of mechanical energy from
in their own city.
energy in the electric form.
Part I. is devoted to an historical account The present work has an unusual wealth
of theoretical electricity. Both here and in of illustration, and must prove a boon to a very
the more technical portions of the book, typi- large class of persons who are desirous of ob-
cal apparatus for the generation of electricity, taining a connected account of the rise and
the demonstration of its laws, and its applica progress of electrical discovery, without any
tion to useful purposes, are fully and admirably very considerable knowledge of the purely
described. Considerable use is made of the theoretical aspects of the subject. The largest
flow of water through pipes as an illustration portion of the volume is devoted to apparatus
of the flow of electricity through a conductor. for the production of electricity on a com-
The illustration is a very useful one, though mercial scale, and to its use as an illuminant
it should not be expected to hold in all par- and for the transmission of power. The wide-
ticulars. Popularly, electricity is supposed to spread interest in these subjects will be well
be everywhere present in great abundance, met by this connected account of the most
and comes at command from earth, or air, or important apparatus in this line.
sea. But the most impressive fact to learn
H. S. CARHART.
about it is that it requires the expenditure of
more energy to obtain it than can be again
gotten out of it. The energy of a current of
HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH PARLIAMENT.*
electricity must be paid for in kind, just as
truly as when energy is produced in any other Professor Gneist's new work, “The English
form. The conception of water flowing through Parliament,” is intended as a somewhat popu-
pipes helps to make this fact clear. The lar compendium of a part of the English Con-
strength of an electric current corresponds to
stitution to which his earlier works had not
the quantity of water flowing through any | done full justice. His previous labors had
cross-section of the pipe in one second of time. been directed to two principal sides or as-
The electro-motive force is represented by the pects of English constitutional history, the
pressure under which the water flows. The popular, or “Self-Government,” and the cen-
electric resistance of a conductor corresponds tral, or “Administrative;" and the substance of
broadly to the resistance offered by the pipe to these two exhaustive treatises is combined in
the flow of water through it. When water is the “History of the English Constitution,”
pumped into one end of a system of pipes, so as the translation of which was welcomed so
to cause a flow from the other end, the energy
heartily a year ago. “The third chief part of
expended at the sending end may be partly English political life, viz., the Parliamentary
recovered at the outlet by appropriate mechan-
Constitution,” we are told in the Introduction,
ism. It is transmitted from one station to the
*THE ENGLISH PARLIAMENT, IN ITS TRANSFORMATIONS
other by water under pressure. The energy is THROUGH A THOUSAND YEARS. By Dr. Rudolph Gneist,
not the water, nor is it the pressure. So the author of "The History of the English Constitution,"
current of electricity is not the energy that is
Professor of Law at the University of Berlin. Translated
by R. Jenery Shee, of the Inner Temple. Boston: Little,
transmitted by means of it, nor is the electric Brown, & Co.


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.“might have been made over to younger men of the liberal elements of the English Consti-
of learning after the building material for the tution, especially as exemplified in the institu-
whole fabric had been once collected and was tions of self-government, and his sympathy
ready to hand. . . . But inasmuch as his with the liberal interpretation and movements
hope has, as yet, not been fulfilled, the author in the constitution, make his works welcome at a
has undertaken this third task also, which he time when there is so much inclination to dwell
has endeavored to carry out, for the time being, upon the shortcomings of free institutions.
in a short and popular form.”
The chapter entitled “Parliament under the Re-
· The work consists of nine “essays,” treating volution” is a masterly vindication of the great
the history of Parliament in seven periods contest of the seventeenth century against Pre-
the nineteenth century occupying three essays. rogative. “Hardly ever has a reigning family
Why these are called “essays” rather than occupied the throne,” he says, in reference to
“chapters” it is hard to tell. By a volume the Stuarts, p. 211, “which considered itself to
of essays we naturally understand a collection such a degree exempt from the sovereign
of writings which, although they may be upon duty of protection. Their way of regarding
the same subject, are nevertheless disconnected | matters, and of carrying them into execution,
and complete each in itself. But the essays has but little in common with the character of
of this volume form a continuous discussion. English royalty and of the English nation, but
Each may, it is true, be read independently, as belongs rather to the policy of the Guise fami-
treating of an independent phase of the subject; ly, and to the religious struggle of Scotland.
but each depends in a sense on its predecessor. Putting aside other differences in character,
The second essay, “The Anglo-Norman ‘Court there is one thing in common witb these four
Days' and Assemblies of Notables,” begins monarchs, namely, the total want of sense and
with the words: “State and society enter at understanding for the Law of the Land." The
this period upon a new phase”—a clear indi. following passage (p. 219) bears upon the
cation that this essay is really a continuation author's favorite theme, the institutions of
of the preceding one.
Self-Government: “The invisible, yet insur-
The translation is not wholly satisfactory. mountable resistance [to the King] lay in the
Not that it is incorrect, but that the transla sturdy structure of the county, and in its actual
tor has made the mistake of holding too close- | firm coherence with the actual organization in
ly to the German idioms and order of words. town and parish.”
This is the more surprising, as English trans There is an instructive passage about Crom-
lators in general have a very felicitous com well and his constitutions (p. 231). “The
mand of the idioms of their own language. ponderousness of the man, combined with un-
There is a certain hardness and inelasticity of tiring energy and personal courage, the hard,
style in the translation, which, joined with a | uncompromising manner in which he drives
- very faulty punctuation, makes the book heavy straight at his aim, are Puritanism incarnate.
reading—which Gneist is not in the original. In conjunction therewith there was a truthful-
But the hard sentences contain abundance of ness of character and integrity of convictions,
matter, and it must be confessed that a part which has often, in later times, been questioned,
of the hardness complained of comes from the by reason of the biblical unction of his speech,
compactness of the thought that is contained which was the prevailing language of the time
in them.
and of the party. It is a pure misapprehension
It is interesting to note that Henry VIII. is of the real state of things to suppose that the
not judged so severely as has been usual of impossibility of achieving a regular parliament-
late. “In right kingly fashion was his policy ary rule was attributable to the aggressive-
[that of Henry VII. followed out by his suc ness of such a protectorate, whereas it was the
cessor, Henry VIII. By the publishing of the inevitable result of the rending-asunder of the
State papers, so full a light is thrown on the connecting bonds wherewith the parliamentary
services rendered by him, that every new his constitution is interwoven. He was himself as
torical writer might feel prompted to super much quickened by the will to achieve it, as
exalt them. Certain it is that, for the first time, the victorious party itself was ever urging on
the State-administration shows a well-devised its accomplishment. The impossibility of a
forethought for the working classes. . . . parliamentary government, with the needful
Indisputable, above all, is the service rendered foundation, brought together, at this period,
by Henry in choosing highly competent offi seven infructuous attempts, which, in their im-
cials to carry out his behests. ... The practicability, offered striking examples for all
aptness of the Tudors at understanding the time to come.” The analysis of these “seven
legitimate claims of the people, and their respect infructuous attempts” which follows,—the
for the legal institutions of the land, rendered | seventh being the Convertion Parliament of
these sovereigns popular, notwithstanding their | 1660,-is a valuable study in political science.
ever-prevailing harshness" (p. 181).
It ends with the remark (p. 237): “As far as
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is concerned, the Commonwealth remained tion, in its economic aspect and in its rela-
just as fruitless as it was for all the institutions tion to the church, is the real theme of the
of self-government."" And this is well sup present work, and the love story running
plemented (p. 242) by the remark: “The res through it is of secondary consequence. It is
toration of the kingship, was by all parties unfortunate that a writer of Mr. Mallock's
understood to mean, the restoration of the an- ability should be unable to avoid an occasional
cient, prerogative as limited by the `Estates,' lapse into bad taste. Even in “The New Re-
just as it had existed previous to the encroach public,” which is decidedly his best book, he
ments of the Stuarts."
exceeded the bounds of good judgment in his
The mention of “the so-called Short Parlia- | treatment of several of his thinly-disguised
ments” of 1640 (there was but one), is proba personal portraitures. In "A Romance of the
bly a piece of carelessness on the part of the Nineteenth Century,” the fundamental con-
translator: the verb that follows is plural, ception was essentially vulgar, and this taint
which shows that it is not a misprint.
permeated this otherwise powerful production.
W. F. ALLEN. În “The New Paul and Virginia," bad taste
struggled with flat imbecility for the mastery,
= = === =
and they had the entire field to themselves.
In “ The Old Order Changes,” what would
RECENT FICTION.*
seem to be the inevitable exhibition of bad
Few of the novels recently announced for
taste appears in the abusive treatment of Mr.
publication have been looked forward to with
Joseph Chamberlain, who seems to be the par-
as much interest as has awaited the work of
ticular bête noire of the author, and who
Mr. Mallock. This writer is a singular com-
figures in the novel, without actually putting
bination of strength and weakness, but his
in an appearance except upon one trifling oc-
good qualities are so admirable that the de-
casion, as Mr. Japhet Snapper of Birchester.
fects with which they are bound up cannot
Offensive as Mr. Chamberlain and the type
prevent the poorest of his work from being
which he represents may be to a refined sense,
interesting, while the best of it is equalled
Mr. Mallock can hardly be justified in writing
by few of his living contemporaries. In “The
of him in such phrase as this: “The very
Old Order Changes” we have an example of
presence of Mr. Snapper in the Cabinet seems
his better work, one in which his singular
to me like a rotten egg flung in the face of civ-
abilities find scope, and which is relatively
ilization.” “The desire of a Mr. Japhet Snap-
free from the faults of taste which disfigure per to rob the gentlemen of their position is
his earlier writing. This work is far from
simply a fermentation of his desire to lick their
being a novel in the ordinary sense, or even
shoes.” In Mr. Foreman, one of the most
in the sense in which his earlier novel was
prominent characters of the book, there is no
one; it has quite as much of the character of
difficulty in recognizing Mr. Hyndman, the
“ The New Republic” as of “A Romance of
socialist demagogue; while among the minor
the Nineteenth Century.” The social ques-
figures, no one will fail to name correctly “the
atheistic philosopher” Mr. Humbert Spender,
* THE OLD ORDER CHANGES. By W. H. Mallock. New and few will not know Lord Lytton under the
York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons.
title of Lord Aiden. We may recognize al-
SIR PERCIVAL. By J. H. Shorthouse, London and New
York: Macmillan & Co.
ready from these indications the method of
NÆRA, A TALE OF ANCIENT ROME. By John W. Gra. “The New Republic,” and of the new work, as
ham. London and New York: Macmillan & Co.
of the old, discussion forms the substance; a
A MODERN TELEMACHUS. By Charlotte M. Yonge. Lon.
more serious and less satirical discussion, how-
don and New York: Macmillan & Co.
HOUSE PARTY. Don GESUALDO. AND A RAINY JUNE.
ever, which, considering that Mr. Mallock
By Ouida. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co.
conducts it, and that, although a good satirist,
THE PRINCESS CASAMASSIMA. By Henry James. Lon.
he is a very poor philosopher, is also of less
dun and New York: Macmillan & Co.
value. Carew, the hero of the story, is not
THE CASTING AWAY OF MRS. LECKS AND MRS ALESHINE.
By Frank R. Stockton. New York: The Century Co.
cast in the most heroic mould. For the greater
THE HOUSE AT HIGH BRIDGE, By Edgar Fawcett. Bos. part of the time during which he is before us,
ton: Ticknor & Co.
he is engaged in trying to make up his mind
JOHN PARMELEE'S CURSE. By Julian Hawthorne. New
as to which of two women he is really in
York: Cassell & Co.
PALERMO, CHRISTMAS TO WHITSUNTIDE. By Alice Du.
love with. It is not likely that he would ever
rand Field. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.
have settled the question for himself, but one
A DEMIGOD. A Novel. New York: Harper & Bros. of them settles it for him by privately marry-
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT. Feodor M. Dostoyevsky.
ing somebody else. Carew, however, lives in a
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.
ST. JOHN'S EVE, AND OTHER STORIES. By Nikolai Vasi.
castle, and he invites intelligent people to visit
lievitch Gogol, Translated irom the Russian by Isabel him, and these people get up the discussions
which, as we have just mentioned, form
THE BUCHHOLZ FAMILY. Sketches of Berlin Life. By
the real substance of the book. Mr. Mallock
Julius Stinde. Translated by L, Dora Schmitz New
York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
I handles a discussion with unquestionable skill,
F. Hapgood. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.


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but his treatment has one defect. The opinions of sympathy. He endows her with heroic im-
of those with whom he does not agree are clear- pulses, in response to which she sacrifices life
ly stated; those of the persons who have his itself, but he cannot fairly estimate the intel-
sympathies are either unintelligible or but lectual motives of such a nature as hers, and,
feebly justified. There can be no doubt that from the intellectual side, she is made to appear
here the author has put his own views into the almost ridiculous at times. The story, as a
words of Stanley, the cultured Catholic priest, whole, has that fine spiritual atmosphere that
who even expounds them in a sermon, quoted Mr. Shorthouse knows so well how to impart
entire in one of the closing chapters. But this to his work; only once does its expression of
very sermon, to which it is evident that the religious sentiment come dangerously near to
utmost care has been given, is inconclusive, and being offensive, and then it is because the
based upon the very assumption which is up author, as before, is found defective in his
for trial. Right conduct can have no sanction intellectual sympathies. He tells us how
but that which the church bestows; this is the modern science teaches “ that a mother's love
theme of it all. “I maintain,” says the priest, is nothing but healthy digestion ; that a
" that the well-being of this perishing human mother's prayers and despair over a wild son
race, regarded by itself, and apart from any spring from nothing but an unhealthy action
further beliefs about it, is not an object which of the liver.” We are sorry that Mr. Short-
can so present itself to the heart or mind as to house should allow himself to descend so near
force any constant, any general self-sacrifice, as this to the level of cheap travesty, and
for the sake of it.” We may fittingly reply to when we read upon a succeeding page of “that
this in the words of Mr. John Morley, when pseudo-intellect which would gain for hu-
he speaks of “the visible, intelligible, and still manity the knowledge of a Gas and lose it
sublime possibilities of the human destiny, the presence of a God,” we cannot help asking
that imperial conception, which alone can if it be indeed the author of “ John Inglesant"
shape an existence of entire proportion in all who speaks, and not the Boston Monday Lec-
its parts, and leave no natural energy of life tureship or other philosophaster of that stamp.
idle or athirst." This assumption has at least Under the title of “Neæra, a tale of Ancient
an equal claim with the other, and it is not Rome,” Mr. John W. Graham has written a
without the assurance of its own peculiar sanc- historical novel of the conventional type,
tions. “One whose conscience has been dealing with the period of the seclusion of
strengthened from youth in this faith, can Tiberias at Capreæ. With the story of the love
know no greater bitterness than the stain cast of the centurion Martialis for Neæra, a girl
by wrong act or unworthy thought on the of humble nurture, although really, as is after-
high memories with which he has been used wards discovered, of patrician birth, the au-
to walk and the discord wrought in hopes thor has skilfully woven the materials left us
that have become the ruling harmony of his for the formation of a picture of Roman life
days.”
in the first century. He has made effective
In “Sir Percival” we must confess to some use of such legends as those of the last ban-
thing of a disappointment, for we had expected quet of Apicius the epicure, and of the dis-
a novel comparable with “John Inglesant” coverer of the secret of malleable glass put to
rather than a sketch comparable only with death by order of the emperor lest the in-
“ The Little Schoolmaster Mark." The work vention should prove a disturbing element in
manship of Mr. Shorthouse is so finished that the economical condition of the empire. Such
we can hardly pardon him for not continuing stories as these, with something of the Ti.
to work upon the larger scale of his first berian legend as handed down by Suetonius,
achievement. But, accepting the disappoint and something of the intrigues of Sejanus,
ment, there is much to be grateful for in “Sir provide the author with ample groundwork of
Percival.” The very name suggests the life at least a quasi-historical character. The work
of chivalry and saintliness, and it has been the | shows no evidence of any deeper research
author's purpose to show how, even under the than that of the dilettante reader, so that its
changed conditions of modern life, the quest of | merits are only such as it derives from its
the Graal may still be pursued. Three types are character as a piece of fiction. The presentation
presented to us in this romance : Sir Percival, of the life of Tiberius at Capreæ is pleasing,
vowed in his simple way to the knighthood of and the emperor himself appears not alto-
high thought and unselfish endeavor; Con gether as the monster of popular imagination
stance, the spiritual maiden whose gentle life and Suetonian report, but, in one episode at
never stretches out beyond the confines of least, as the beneficent ruler and righteous
dreamland; and Virginia, the woman upon judge. The figure of Sejanus does not occupy
whose soul la maladie de la pensée has fas a very prominent place, and so the story does
tened, and for whom there are no more not include the fall of the minister from
dreams. To her, the author has been a little power; otherwise it is somewhat suggestive
less than just, not from design but from lack of the German work by Lilsen, Der Tusker,


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a novel, it may be incidentally remarked, fauts de ses qualités. Of the admirable finish
which is well worth translating.
of the details of his work it would be difficult
There seems to be no subject about which to speak with too much praise. Of the nebu-
Miss Yonge hesitates to write, and so her lous character of what should be its distinctly
readers will not be greatly surprised to find in defined main lines it is superfluous to speak at
“A Modern Telemachus” a story of shipwreck all to readers familiar with his writings. In this
and capture by pirates of the Barbary coast. new volume he has made something of a new
They will know very well that, however rudel departure in his choice of a subject. His pecul-
the scenes and unpolished the characters may iar vein of social trifling has been rather more
be, nothing indecorous will be said by any of than worked out, and he seems at last to have
them, nor anything done to shock the most fas realized the fact. ' He now takes up the ques-
tidious. Miss Yonge claims a historical basis for tion of socialism, and the principal characters
the main incidents of her story, but, of course, of his new story are, in various ways, inter-
her very “proper” treatment of the material ested in schemes to bring about the social revo-
used removes it altogether from the sphere of lution by violent means. In this respect the
serious literature. It belongs to the class of book is suggestive of the “Sunrise” of Mr.
mildly exciting romances for very good little Black, although, of course, widely different
boys and girls, although the popularity of the in every other respect. If the best qualities
writer will secure for it many older readers. of these two books could have been united,
The title is misleading, being without any ade the admirable narrative quality of Mr. Black's
quate warrant.
work with the equally admirable analytic qual-
A new volume by Ouida is made up of “A ity of the work of Mr. James, the product
House Party" and two other and shorter stories. would have been one of the best of modern .
The truest successes of this writer have been novels. Of course, “The Princess Casamassi-
some of her shorter pieces, for she has been ma” does not enter into comparison with such
forced, by their very form, to tell her story delicate and inimitable trifles as “Daisy Mill-
more directly and simply than she is wont to er,” but we are inclined to say that it should
do in her full-sized novels. "A House Party" be accorded the foremost place among the
has these merits of directness and simplicity, author's more extended and serious produc-
but it has also many of the grave faults so tions.
common to the writer-exuberant language, Those who have been delighted with the se-
characters of impossible quality, and a cyni. rial instalments of Mr. Stockton's latest story,
cism which would be more than usually repellant as presented to the readers of the “Century"
were it not often, as when put in the mouths magazine, will not spend an hour amiss in
of mere children, made simply ridiculous. re-reading this charming extravaganza of “The
Cynicism is a literary quality which may in Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Ale-
some cases find justification, but in these shine.” Mr. Stockton's unique talent has never
novels of Quida we are never made to feel appeared to greater advantage than in this
that it is perfectly serious; it is always theat comedy of the unexpected. The incongruous
rical, and produces the unpleasant impression may fairly be taken as the basis of all humor.
that it is there because it is called for by a | ous writing, and here the incongruous assails
morbid taste on the part of her public, and the reader most unexpectedly at every step,
not because it ought to be there in the nature the peculiar note of gravity which is Mr.
of things as they appear to her. “Don Gesu Stockton's literary cachet completes the charm,
aldo " is a much more agreeable story. In and destroys the reader's gravity most effect-
fact, the transition from one of Ouida's pic ively. He reaches the end with the sole re-
tures of modern society, which she does not gret that there is no more of it, but even this
know, in spite of her pretensions, to one of defect will doubtless be remedied by a sequel,
her pictures of French or Italian peasant life, something which Mr. Stockton is one of the
in the depiction of which she is nothing less few who can write with impunity.
than a master, is like a passage from the sick | “The House at High Bridge” is bulky in
room to the open sky and the green fields. proportion to the length of time during which
The third piece, “A Rainy June,” is one of Mr. Fawcett has abstained from publication.
those clever stories told by means of the let. It is about two years since the appearance of
ters of the characters concerned, and is a very his last novel, and the size of the present one
charming bit of work.
gives evidence that the years have at least been
“The Princess Casamassima” is the longest diligently spent. Such work ought not, how-
of the novels of Mr. James, and consequently ever, to be very exhausting, for the matter of
illustrates at somewhat greater length than this, as of Mr. Fawcett's other novels, is of the
the others his merits and his defects. These most tenuous description, while the main plot
are so intimately bound together that the de- has been transferred bodily from an English
fects may be said to be conditioned by the work, being no other than that employed by Mr.
merits; in other words, Mr. James has les de- | Guthrie in his story of “The Giant's Robe."


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The trouble with this plot is that it was not such faults, the book has a charm which it would
worth taking at all-by Mr. Fawcett. A great not be easy to miss—the charm of soft Italian
analyst, one knowing profoundly the human skies, and of beautiful lives lived beneath them,
heart, a Balzac, in short, might make an effect- something of the sort of charm of that “Story
ive central figure of the unread novelist who of Ida" which we have all read upon Mr. Rus-
becomes famous upon the publication of another kin's recommendation, to be thankful after-
man's work as his own, but the present writer | wards for the suggestion.
is so far from being a Balzac that he cannot The author of “A Demigod ” could not sat-
make such a figure even interesting. The side | isfy himself with an ordinary mortal for the
figures of the story are sketched with consider- | hero of his story, and so constructs a marvel-
able shrewdness, and so the book escapes being ous creature with all sorts of physical and
unreadable; then again, no one can deny that mental endowments, living in a marble pal-
Mr. Fawcett manages conversations with con ace in the Peloponnessus, and surrounded
siderable cleverness. In the present instance by the appliances of modern civilization. A
the author's use of his conversations for the party of traveling Americans are captured by
purpose of expressing his not exalted opinion Greek brigands, rescued by this remarkable
of critics” is quite as amusing as any of the individual, who is known to the country
intentional humor of the book.
people about as the “ anthropodaimon," and
“John Parmelee's Curse” is a novel whose hospitably entertained by him for some weeks,
chief ingredients are a bank robbery, a smooth during which time he falls in love with the
tongued villain, two opium-eaters, a nice little young lady of the party, and, after various
girl, and a benevolent and irrepressible news. heart-rending complications, installs her in the
boy. Mr. Hawthorne is too inveterate a story palace as his wife. The story is the wildest
teller not to mix such ingredients with consid of nonsense for the most part, here and there
erable skill, and the story does not involve | inspired by About’s “Roi des Montagnes," but
those improbabilities and absolute absurdities most frequently by the very crude and ill-
of conception which make his other recent regulated fancy of the writer, who prudently
productions nearly unreadable. Yet its merits remains anonymous.
are almost wholly of this negative sort, and it An attempt was made several years ago to
does not make any enduring impression upon introduce Dostoyevsky to English readers,
either memory or imagination. The literary but it was not very successful. A “craze" for
career would seem to be the one in the world Russian literature was doubtless just as possi-
least advisable for the son of a great writer. ble then as now, but Dostoyevsky was hardly
That no spark of genius need be hereditary is a the author to inaugurate the fashion. He was
truth as clearly illustrated by Mr. Julian Haw too terribly in earnest to interest a public ac-
thorne the novelist, as the truth that a gentle customed to derive sustenance from the current
man's instincts are not always handed down | novels of society. He did not mince matters
from father to son has recently been illustrated at all, whereas the readers to whom he was
by Mr. Julian Hawthorne the journalist.
introduced required a great many matters to
The “ Palermo” of Alice Durand Field, be very thoroughly minced before being served
which was issued last year as an illustrated up. In a word, he flung aside the literary
holiday book, now appears as a modest and conventionalities, and wrote of what men act-
neatly printed duodecimo, and puts in a claim ually said and thought and felt. Now that the
to be read rather than looked at. We cannot | strangeness of the Russian literature is giving
say that it bears the literary test very well. way before an increasing familiarity with its
The faults which were not very noticeable in the masterpieces, we are better prepared for such
Christmas gift-book become apparent in the a writer as Dostoyevsky-prepared to feel
unadorned text of the story-book, and the un- with him and to recognize his almost unique
practiced hand shows itself in many places. power. The “Crime and Punishment,” which
Two very marked faults of style arrest the is now before us, is the accepted masterpiece
attention frequently. The pronoun “one” is of his several works. It portrays the murderer
used a great deal in the very French or Italian as he is hardly portrayed anywhere else in
but very un-English way. “One has vowed literature. The criminal diathesis, both be-
that one will never attempt to sketch you fore and after the commission of the crime, is
again, Edith, or one might attempt it now." described with a searching minuteness to be
Such a passage as this would be almost unin- paralleled only by the descriptions of exact
telligible to a reader unacquainted with the science. The principal character of the story
foreign idiom. The other fault is the confu is a young man who murders two women from
sion of tenses which marks the narrative por the basest of motives, and the story itself un-
tions of the story. This can have no sort of folds the workings of his mind and conscience
excuse or justification. The writer is also a little from the inception of the plan to the volun.
too desirous of bestowing information upon the tary confession of guilt to which he is driven
presumably ignorant reader. But, in spite of l by he sheer moral agony resulting from the


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deed. One might almost say that the real the Russian Dickens. “St. John's Eve,” the
characters in this tragedy are the conflicting story which gives a title to the present col-
motives and states of consciousness of the lection, is a weird and fantastic folk-tale, re-
criminal, and that the mere men and women lated with ghastly skill. The others are of
who appear are only their accessories, so en less consequence, but will well repay perusal
tirely psychological is the interest of the work. for their faithful descriptions and, to us, their
The moral is bound up, as in the operations novelty.
of nature, with the very things which it con- The last book of which we have to speak is
cerns, and not made the perfunctory adjunct one which has enjoyed an immense popularity
which it must be in all narrative writing in Germany on account of its minutely faith-
moral only of set intent and of preconceived ful portraiture of middle-class life. “The
didactic purpose. Realism—that much-abused Buchholz Family” (Die Familie Buchholz) is
attribute of fiction is here carried to its ex- the latest work of Julius Stinde, already well
treme, but the artist, who rejects his right to known as a writer of sketches and dramatic
idealize, asserts his other right to select and to pieces, and is now presented to English read-
arrange, and this saving reservation makes ers in a well-written, although somewhat in-
the product very considerably artistic, when accurate, translation. It takes the form of a
looked at and judged as a whole. There is series of letters supposed to be contributed by
something masterly in the way in which the Frau Buchholz to a Berlin newspaper, and in
external workings of circumstance and the in | which she gossips, in a delightfully naïve
ternal workings of reflection and of conscience manner, of her own and her neighbors' doings.
are kept parallel in pursuance of their course The people whom she writes about are Ber-
towards a common end, that end being the ex- liners, but this, as the Dr. Wrenzchen whom
posure of the crime. The proverbial truth she has so much difficulty in securing for a
that “murder will out” has never before re- son-in-law would say, is only “external," and
ceived so forcible an illustration in fiction, the oddness, the selfishness, the petites misères
because the internal factor has never been of the life she describes belong to bourgeois
given its due prominence as at least the equal, society everywhere. The book is not a story
if not the superior in importance, to the exter | in the ordinary sense, but few stories can com-
nal one. And that other and more profound pare with it in fascination. The most trivial
piece of proverbial wisdom which has received doings of the little circle of acquaintances in
expression in countless forms, that which and about the Landsberger Strasse have an
Shelley, for example, expresses when he says : almost epic interest as they are described by
“There needeth not the hell that bigots frame
Frau Buchholz. The humor of the book is as
To punish those who err,"
rare among German writers as it is delightful.
that truth also finds an ample exemplification
It is impossible to describe its peculiar quality,
in this extraordinary work, which we commend
and if we were to begin with quotation we
should never be able to stop. We can safely
to all those who prefer the strong wine of
literature to its sweetmeats.
say that no one who reads the book will re-
gret having done so. Among works of re-
The transition from Dostoyevsky to Gogol
cent fiction it has something of the effect of
is an abrupt one, for the two writers have lit-
an oasis in a literary desert.
tle in common, whether of style or of subject
matter. The “Taras Bulba” of Gogol has
WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE.
been before the public for some time, the
“Dead Souls” is promised for the near future,
and, in the meanwhile, a selection of five
HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS.
stories has been made from the “St. Peters Among the more notable holiday publications of
burg Stories” and “Evenings at the Farm," the year, the “Book of American Figure Painters"
and admirably translated by Miss Isabel É. (Lippincott) is entitled to the leading place as an
Hapgood, who has recently done so much of
achievement of American artists and publishers.
the good work of accurate translation from
The volume is a massive folio, whose majestic pro-
the Russian. Like Tourguénieff, Gogol first
portions in no way lessen the artistic beauty of the
details. In its production, no effort or expense has
made his reputation by the publication of short
been spared that might advance it toward perfection.
stories and sketches of country life, and those The design for the inner lining of the covers has
which appear in this selection are of the best been the subject of special thought by one of the
of them. The one entitled “Old Fashioned artists, Mr. Maynard. The figures emblazoned on
Farmers” is a delightful sketch—the author the exterior surface have taxed the inventive powers
himself suggests the comparison-of Phile-
of another, Mr. Grant La Farge. Mr. St. Gaudens
mon and Baucis upon a Russian farm. The
and Mr. Babb have worked together upon the title-
page, and Mr. Lathrop has made a draft upon his
story of “How the Two Ivans Quarrelled” is
imagination for appropriate interior decorations.
an inimitable study of manners, which helps | Forty painters in all have given the best fruits of
one to understand how Gogol got his title of their genius to the adornment of the book-the


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best fruits, and the latest also; for with scarcely an tionably that containing Mr. Kenyon Cox's illus-
exception the pictures bear the date of the current trations of Rossetti's “The Blessed Damozel." In
year. They have been reproduced on fine plate paper stength and originality, these drawings recall the
by the photogravure process. Where color has been “Rubaiyát” and “ Lamia” of last year. Without en-
used, the new orthochromatic method of preparing tering into a discussion of the artist's interpretation
the negatives, invented by Mr. Ives, has been for of Rossetti's poem, for which, or for characterizing
the first time applied. The pictures in their perfect the work in detail, there is not space here, it may
state present every variety of subject; for the time | be said that the drawings show some superb exam-
has passed when American artists were confined to ples of figure-work, and are as a whole marked by a
landscape or portraiture. Each artist is represented high degree of grace and dignity. Mr. Cox has
by but a single work. For instance, Mr. Vedder succeeded signally in a most difficult and daring
has a strong figure of “Delilah;" Eastman Johnson, undertaking, and given a profound impression of
artistic power. The folio volume containing the poem
Mr. Blashfield, a fanciful vision of "Sleep and and illustrations is one to which the term sumptuous
Poetry;" Frederick Dielman, a figure of "Pomona;". may be applied in its most unhackneyed sense. The
Mr. Cox, another of "Evening;" Wyatt Eaton, word relating to the publishers (Dodd, Mead & Co.)
“The Judgment of Paris ;” Alexander Harrison, a | must be purely commendatory for the manner in
group of nude figures “In Arcadia;” Mr. Smedley, which they have performed their part. Mrs. Van
an eloquent sermon on “Mild Dissipation;" Mr. Rensselaer's sketch of Rossetti and his work, in an
Millet, “A Cozy Corner," an interesting interior; Appendix to the volume, must not be overlooked by
Gilbert Gaul, a striking presentation of “John Burns either the art or the literary student.
at Gettysburg;” Mr. Bridgman, “The Family Another noticeable specimen of figure-work by a
Breakfast, Cairo." But it is needless to quote fur | single artist is the folio volume containing Mr.
ther from a list of works which every cultivated | E. A. Abbey's highly characteristic illustrations
person interested in the progress of art in America for Goldsmith's comedy “She Stoops to Conquer."
will study at length and for himself. In a gallery | The fine old comedy derives new meanings, and
of pictures made up, like this, from the choicest is read with new pleasure, when accompanied
voluntary productions of our prominent painters, by these capital delineations. It is like seeing
there is material for prolonged and fruitful con the piece played by the finest actors, with stage-
sideration.
settings of the most exquisite kind. Charac-
A joyous feeling of good-fellowship pervades the ters and costumes are studied with the greatest
atmosphere investing A Book of the Tile Club" care, and every detail bears evidence of Mr. Abbey's
(Houghton, Mifflin & Co.) Such a jolly company characteristic touch. The photogravure and process
of clever and high-minded fellows have put their reproductions of Mr. Abbey's drawings are uncom-
souls into it that every page is teeming with jubi monly satisfactory-for the reason, doubtless, that
lant energy. Edward Strahan and F. Hopkinson these graphic methods are peculiarly suited to the
Smith are the spokesmen for the party, and with simple style of black-and-white drawing which is
merry volubility do they demonstrate the spirit and inimitable with him. The decorations by Mr. Alfred
sentiment of their fraternity. It is a select society Parsons, and the versified Introduction by Mr.
of decided personalities, each endowed with some Dobson, give-if such a thing can be considered
special gift in the art of painting, sculpture, or possible-an additional artistic and literary charm
music, and with minor talents in great variety. to the work. The printing and binding of the
One common motive of love for their vocation in- volume are a credit to the publishers (Harper) and
spires them; and with this as a natural outgrowth, to American book-craft.
arise a dignified independence and disregard of the It is a noble adornment which the artist hand of
opinions, the judgments, the conventionalities of | Mr. Ludvig Ipsen and the taste and resources of the
the prosaic world. The meetings of the club in publishers (Ticknor & Co.) have given to those
their secluded rooms are happily described by Mr. | incomparable love poems of Mrs. Browning called
Strahan, who portrays the character of the place, “Sonnets from the Portuguese." The volume is
the habits of the different members, and the manner | unlike any other of this or previous seasons, and
of their association, in a graphic style. Mr. Smith has the distinction of standing quite alone. It is
follows in the same strain, giving us samples of | an oblong folio, sumptuously elegant in execution,
their conversation, and repeating a multitude of yet with every detail scrupulously subjected to the
their bright and witty sayings. The talks of the artistic conception of the designer. Each of the
two artist-authors serve as threads for themselves sonnets is printed by itself on a page, in unique
and their associates to suspend pictures from, and lettering, surrounded by a decorative design by Mr.
accordingly the lines are thickly hung with essays Ipsen. These designs are constantly varied, and are
of every sort, from the suggestive reminiscences in a often of surprising loveliness. Their beauty and re-
sketch-book to the careful embodiment of the work finement are thoroughly in keeping with the poems,
man's loftiest conception. The society is limited in and will lend them new charms in the eyes of their
numbers, but many of our most noted artists belong admirers. As a gift-book, especially between /hus-
to it, -Chase, Vedder, Dielman, Millet, Maynard, bands and wives, it would be hard to find anything
Quartley, Gifford, and Reinhart. Many members more fitting than this beautiful volume.
of the club have contributed characteristic exam Mr. F. Hopkinson Smith is a gentleman who is
ples of their work to this delightful volume, which becoming well known to the public in many clifferent
contains also portraits of some of them. The work ways; and those wbo have heard him talk will be
is issued as an "atlas quarto,” in the superb style | very glad to welcome him in still another character,
which one may rightfully expect from the imprint viz., that of author. For as author, as well as artist,
of its publishers.
he appears in his new Christmas volume "Well-worn
The most important of the season's publications | Roads in Spain, Holland, and Italy” (
Houghton,
representing the work of a single artist is unques- Mifflin & Co.). His second title is “The Travels
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of a Painter in Search of the Picturesque,” and the and buds and flowers of the field and garden. The
two titles together well indicate the character and volume bears the appropriate title of “Home
scope of the volume. It is a large folio, and taste Fairies and Heart Flowers," and contains some
fully bound. It contains sixteen full-page photo twenty studies of children's heads, some of them
types from water-color drawings, in Mr. Smith's drawn from life, and others taken from photo-
well known and effective style, of picturesque views graphs. Each face is accompanied by a floral piece,
in the quaint and beautiful cities of the older and such as, in this new and pleasing language of
more unchanged parts of Europe. They are charm- flowers, seems most expressive of the characteris-
ingly done, and are accompanied by sketches of tics of the little one. Mr. French has done some
the artist's adventures while searching for his sub excellent work in his figure and floral drawings, as
jects and making his drawings. Besides the large well as in the head and tail pieces and the initial
drawings, charming little wood-cuts are scattered letters which embellish the volume. Not all his
through the text,-here a picturesque old jug, there drawings are equally successful; but one needs to
a hanging lamp, here a bit of landscape, and there look no further than the plate of a child in a field
the ever beautiful gondola. As a proof that Mr. | of daisies (page 15), the child's face framed by
Smith can write as well as draw, we give this pas apple blossoms (page 43), and the head of a negro
sage from his preface: “A painter has peculiar boy (page 83), to find examples of honest and mer-
advantages over other less fortunate people. His itorious work by both designer and engraver. The
sketch-book is a passport, and his white umbrella verses by Mrs. Sangster, written to accompany the
a flag of truce in all lands under the sun, be it sav drawings, are, it must be said, somewhat perfunc-
age or civilized; an open sesame,' bringing good tory in character, as is inevitable from the circum-
cheer and hospitality, and entitling the possessor stances in which they were written. Still, they
to all the benefits of liberty, equality, and fraternity. no doubt add a completeness and effectiveness to
I have been picked up by the roadside in Cuba by the volume. The printing of the cuts and letter-
'a Spanish grandee, who has driven me home in his press is noticeably good.
volante to breakfast. I have been left in charge of “The Closing Scene," one of the best poems of
the priceless relics and treasures of old Spanish Thomas Buchanan Read, forms the text of an ele-
churches hours at a time. I have had my beer mug gant Christmas book published by Lippincott.
filled to the brim by mountaineers in the Tyrolean Our most skilled artists and engravers have been
Alps, and had a chair placed for me at the table of employed to illuminate the poem, and their work
a Dutchman living near the Zuyder Zee. All these reflects credit on the author, the publisher, and
courtesies and civilities being the result of only ten themselves. The pictures comprise landscapes and
minutes' previous acquaintance, and only because figure pieces, nobly designed and exquisitely repro-
I was a painter. Truly one touch of nature (with duced by the burin. Soft as the mist, or the purple
a brush) makes the whole world kin.'" Yes; but bloom of distant hills, is the drawing in the frontis-
such delightful experiences as these, while they piece, another in the table of contents, and still
might not befall even a Turner or a Ruskin, taciturn others scattered through the pages. Illustrative
or grumpy, might come quite naturally in the way art can scarcely be carried to a higher degree of
of a genial Hopkinson Smith,
excellence than is here attained. Distinctness is
In the new edition of Scott's “Lay of the Last united with delicacy of touch, producing the most
Minstrel," the publishers (Ticknor & Co.) have refined effects. The list of illustrators is too long
taken pains to make the exterior an index of the for separate mention, but it includes names long
contents; the arms of the Duke of Buccleuch, the and honorably connected with American art.
Lord of Branksome, appearing in the centre of the Messrs. Roberts Brothers produce a volume at
cover, and above the emblazoned shield, the towers once ornamental and substantial, in the series of
and battlements of a feudal fortress. The illustra short dissertations on “Imagination in Landscape
tions were drawn by Harper, Garrett, Nyrick, Mer Painting,” contributed by Philip Gilbert Hamerton
rill, and Ipsen, and were engraved by Anthony, to “The Portfolio,” and now presented in their
Andrew and Son, Sylvester, Lyons, and Johnson. original shape, with the accompaniment of etch-
These names vouch for the general high grade of | ings, engravings, and photogravures. Mr. Hamer-
the pictorial embellishments; yet there is room for ton never approaches a subject on which he has
discrimination in according them merit. The best not something fresh, inviting, and useful to say.
specimens of engraving are found in the head and In the present work, he sets out with the statement
tail pieces and in the representations of architecture. that the imagination of the landscape painter is not
There is a hardness in the landscape drawings of a special kind, but differs from that of other
which provokes criticism, and in some of the figure people in the objects or phenomena with which it
pieces --for example, that on page 33,—there are is occupied. He agrees with Littré in giving two
conspicuous faults in the artist's work. There is a senses to this faculty of the mind: first, that
head lying on Lord Walter's bier, but no body is of recalling images of absent things; and, second,
attached; the pall falls over a nearly flat surface. of arranging them in new combinations. But a
Again, on pages 166 and 168, the half-naked figure painter with the highest endowment of imagination
of Deloraine on the tilting-ground is destitute of will, in Mr. Hamerton's opinion, possess an addi-
dignity. But to pick flaws is not an agreeable task, tional talent, that of fusing images into pictorial
in a work of so many excellences as characterize this wholes. The artist who merely recalls images, and
elegant volume.
depicts them with pencil or brush, may be truthful,
In a quarto which may well be styled “royal,” but not imaginative. The third gift, essentially a
since it is as large as some of the aristocratic folios, creative one, must be added to make him inventive
Harper & Brothers present the joint work of Mr. or original. The paintings of the great masters, to
Frank French as artist and Mrs. Margaret E. Sang which Mr. Hamerton alludes by way of illustration,
ster as poet, in their attempt at elucidating certain are in most instances brought before the reader in
fanciful relationships between types of child-faces black and white. Thus there are given fourteen


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full-page drawings and twenty-six vignettes. These Miss Irene E. Jerome's new volume, “Nature's
are from the works of Turner, Constable, Claude, Hallelujah" (Lee & Shepard), is in the style of her
Poussin, and many others. The engraving after previous ones, a mosaic of prose, poetry, and pencil
Poole and the etching by Chattock are among the sketches. The drawings show a marked improve-
most charming in the collection.
ment in artistic feeling and invention: The in-
Owen Meredith's poem of “The Earl's Return," genuity displayed in their conception, and the grace
essentially commonplace as it is, has furnished Mr. with which they are disposed, are pronounced merits.
W. L. Taylor with the inspiration for some uncom There is a finish, too, in many of them, which is
monly meritorious illustrations, which appear in gratifying. Miss Jerome has sufficient talent to
Messrs. Estes & Lauriat's beautiful holiday edition give us next year a book of drawings developing a
of that work. Mr. Taylor has not attached his name to different scheme from that she has thus far Closely
more beautiful work, and such work has seldom been followed. The publishers of the volume have sec-
as perfectly reproduced by the tools of an engraver. onded the efforts of the artist admirably, heightening
The figure pieces in illustrated books are apt to be the effect of her work by surrounding it with beau-
weak, but in this they give the same satisfaction as tiful accessories.
the landscapes and bits of still life. It is a vigor A volume of “Idylls and Pastorals," recent poems
ous and versatile talent which Mr. Taylor possesses, by Celia Thaxter, comes from the press of Lothrop
and it has received entire justice in the setting fur & Co., with the distinguishing feature of padded
nished it by the publishers. Some of his pictures white leather covers. The twelve pieces of verse
are reproduced by photograving in different tints, forming the collection are illustrated by thirteen
but the most part are in pure engraving. The book full-page photogravures from pictures by American
is a folio, and its broad thick pages encircle the artists. In a number of these examples the advan-
illustrations with a generous cream-colored margin. tages of the process of photograving on the stone
A vast amount of elaborate and exquisite work overbalance the defects. “Lost," by W.L. Taylor,
has been lavished upon the embellishments of Scott's "The Minute Man," by Sandham,“Feeding the
stirring poem, “Christmas in the Olden Time" Doves,” by Henry Bacon, and the second vignette
(Cassell & Company). The letter-press, in quaint by Miss Humphrey, are satisfactory reproductions.
type with illustrated capitals, is confined to the In the other instances, the faults in the original
pages on the left-hand, and is printed in a soft sepia sketches glare out of the engravings with painful
tint. The symbolical designs, framing the text and force. The first four pictures, to speak explicitly,
the engravings opposite, are also in the same pleas may have been agreeable works on canvas, but the
ing color. The chief beauty of the book lies in photogravures excite feelings the opposite of admi-
these tinted drawings, which are expressive in senti ration.
ment and delicate in execution. The head of Scott, Roberts Brothers issue, in elegant form, a limited
fronting the title-page, recalls the famous work of edition of Lord Ronald Gower's historical sketch of
Bartolozzi by its delicacy of line and vigorous "The Last Days of Marie Antoinette.” The work
drawing. The portrait of the damsel in “her kir represents an unfulfilled intention of the author.
tle sheen,” by Edmund H. Garrett, is the most attract It had been his design to write the whole biography
ive of the cuts in black and white. The classic of the unfortunate queen; but the final result is
picture, without a clue to its designer, which ap this sketch of the last seventy-six days of her life.
pears in the fore part of the volume, is very fine in These began the second of August, 1793, when the
conception and execution. Engravers and publishers dethroned widow of Louis XVI. was removed from
have executed their task in a sincere and intelli the prison in the Temple to that of the Conciergerie,
gent spirit, and a finished work is the result.
from which she passed to the place of her execution,
Something of a novelty, even amidst the profu the 16th of October. They were days of the bitterest
sion and variety of holiday volumes, is that entitled | humiliation and sorrow, during which every indig-
“ Grandmother's Garden " (A. C. McClurg & Co.) nity was heaped upon the defenceless woman, and
In it a series of stanzas written by Mr. E. E. Rex she who had been born in the purple, and reigned
ford, describing the familiar features of an old over the most luxurious court of Europe, was sub-
fashioned flower-garden, are fitted with illustra jected to the harshest treatment accorded a common
tions of the various floral favorites, produced in felon. Lord Gower has no new incidents to relate,
photogravure from designs by Mary Cecilia Spaul but has studied so thoroughly everything connected
ding. By the ingenious and artistic use of a variety with the tragical event that each circumstance is
of tints, a very pleasing effect is given to the floral made to tell impressively. A portrait of the queen,
designs. To every bunch of the dear old-fashioned taken during her last days, forms an interesting
blossoms a stanza of the poem is attached, artist adjunct to the volume.
and author illuminating each other. The volume The manual prepared by Maud Naftel, entitled
is one whose simple tastefulness makes it more at: “Flowers and How to Paint Them" (Cassell), will
tructive than many far more pretentious works. be found useful to the student who has passed the
Susie Barstow Skelding has her name on the elementary stages of drawing, and wishes to acquire
title-page of a number of holiday volumes, all wear a knowledge of the application of color. The di-
ing a common likeness in the nature of their con rections are judicious, definite, and clearly stated.
tents. In the one entitled “Familiar Birds," it is In so far as written precepts can take the place of
associated with that of Fidelia Bridges, who fur personal instruction, they furnish a substitute for
nishes the illustrations, comprising a dozen colored lessons in the studio. There are ten studies of
plates figuring an equal number of our well-known flowers, each supplemented with a colored plate,
songsters. Miss Skelding, as editress of the work, and in a number of cases with pencilled outlines.
is responsible for the poetical selections, which are The plates representing the pink Japanese anemone,
borrowed from favorite authors and accord in theme the yellow chrysanthemum, and the pink hollyhock,
with the drawings. The volume is of folio size, deserve especial mention for their grace and truth-
and comes from the press of White, Stokes, & Allen, fulness.


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The Lippincott Company extract from the writings
of Washington Irving substance for three small and
tasteful quartos, which are published under the
titles “Pride of the Village,” “Knickerbocker
Sketches," and "English Sketches." The first com-
prises a half dozen of Irving's favorite tales; the
second, four sketches from his history of New York,
with the original illustrations by F. 0. C. Darley;
and the third, the same number of selections from
his “Sketch-book.” In this inexpensive and attract-
ive form, the volumes will be a welcome accession
to the popular editions of Irving.
The name of Susie Barstow Skelding is associ-
ated with a series of Christmas books linking poems
from prominent authors with floral pieces of her
own composition. The latest in the succession is
entitled " Flowers from Dell and Bower” (White,
Stokes, & Allen). It encloses upward of fifty se-
lections from a wide range of English and Ameri-
can poets, each singing the praises of some lovely
blossom which the artist has represented in an
artistic sketch in colors. There are a dozen floral
designs, representing native and exotic roses, lilies,
jonquils, azalias, violets, daisies, and other favor-
ites of the garden and fields. An ornate cover com-
pletes the equipment of a handsome table book.
There is a store of amusement in “The Good
Things of Life," reproduced in an inviting volume
by White, Stokes, & Allen. The title of the book
announces the periodical from which its contents
are taken. These embrace a collection of pithy
satires and witticisms, the joint product of the pen
and the pencil. The letter-press sounds the key-
note, the illustrations add stress to it in a spirited
echo.-A volume of similar character, issuing from
the same press, contains a selection of “Life's
Verses,” forming a "second series." There is more
pretension in the literary portion of this work, and
less merit, than in the one just named. The verses
aim at the mirth and the drollery of the quip and
jest; but in most cases lack the pungent grain of
attic salt.
The Messrs. Cassell & Company have done what
they could, as publishers, to lend attractiveness to
“A Mother's Song," by Mary D. Brine; but their
effort has been misplaced. There is no real melody
in the song, therefore it must fail to please. The
illustrations by Miss C. A. Northam fall short of
satisfaction likewise. Those of a decorative sort, in
green ink, are too faint and indistinct; while the
full-page engravings are wanting in strength.
W. St. John Harper and W. F. Freer have lent
their pencils to the adornment of Hood's poem of
“Fair Ines” (Estes & Lauriat). The lady's face
which looks out at us from the first page is quite
captivating enough to have inspired the poet's
verses; and again as she leans over the stern of the
steamer which is bearing her off with her lover,
we echo his declaration-
“That vessel never bore
So fair a lady on its deck,
Nor danced so light before."
The book will shine with a modest light amid the
host of more showy volumes on the booksellers'
counters.
E. P. Dutton & Co. put their imprint to a taste-
ful volume in which “The Wreck of the Hesperus,"
by Longfellow, is accompanied with some sincere
artistic work. A number of our best delineators
have been engaged upon the volume with praise-
worthy results. The portrait of the skipper's
daughter, and the groups of sailors by Pierce, Gar-
rett, and Taylor, are noticeably well done.
Lee & Shepard's new holiday edition of Tenny-
son's “Dora' has the convenient square duodecimo
form, and is bound in tasteful gilt muslin covers.
The paper is heavy and fine, and the type clear.
The illustrations, by Mr. W. L. Taylor, evince
thought and feeling which are in harmony with the
poem. The engraving, under the supervision of
George T. Andrew, is, as a matter of course, skil.
fully done,
Two years ago the house of Lippincott issued a
costly edition of Sterne's “Sentimental Journey"
with the exquisite illustrations of Maurice Leloir.
An exact copy of the original work, reduced in
size and expense, puts it this season within reach of
moderate buyers.
A pretty brochure with a tinted title-page pre-
sents under the term “Holy-Tides" (Houghton,
Mifflin & Co.) seven devotional hymns by Mrs. A. D.
T. Whitney. They celebrate the church festivals of
Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Easter, Whit-
suntide, and Trinity.
The bound volumes of magazines appear as
usual, with the close of the year, and form an at-
tractive feature of holiday publications. Foremost
on the list is “The Century," beautiful in its bind.
ing of “cloth of gold," and rich in matter and
illustrations throughout its thousand pages. One
gets & cumulative sense of the charms of this ad-
mirable periodical, in handling its consolidated
numbers in the elegant form which they receive at
the close of each successive volume.
A Browning Calendar and a Hawthorne Calendar
are added to the elegant series of these popular
works issued by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. "The
characteristic features of portraits and appropriate
decorative work appear in these new calendars, and
make them worthy members of the admirable
series to which they belong-representing now, be-
sides the two just named, Emerson, Holmes, Long-
fellow, Lowell, Whittier, and Mrs. Whitney. All
these calendars, it should be noted, are issued for
1887 on a new plan, with entirely new material.
Roberts Brothers issue two handsome “Morning
and Evening Companion Calendars,” artistically
designed and executed; also, a “Calendrier Fran-
cais," printed entirely in the French language,
the selections being made from a wide range of
authors.
A collection of Christmas Cards, from Messrs.
Hildesheimer & Faulkner of London, show some
beautiful specimens of work in this enticing branch.
The designs are of singular variety and novelty,
and represent the best English artists; while the
execution is finer than we have ever seen in such
work. Mr. George C. Whitney, 292 Broadway,
New York, is the American agent for the pub-
lishers.
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BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG.
“ T'he Tales of the Sixty Mandarins,” by P. V.
Ramaswami Raju, is to be ranked among the best
of the children's books produced this season. The
author is a Hindoo scholar of high caste and large
attainments, who was for some time Lecturer on
Tarril and Telugu in the Indian School in London.
He modestly asked the judgment of Prof. Henry
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tales he had gathered from the folk-lore of India Mrs. Clement's “Stories of Art and Artists "
and China, and his friend not only read them with (Ticknor) are related with captivating grace. They
delight but introduced them to the English public begin with the painters and sculptors of Greece, and
in an enthusiastic preface. The “Tales” are short follow the development of the various schools of
and spirited, leading one into another with a lively fine art to the present day. The author has exercised
movement and keeping up an unflagging interest. the right of preference in choosing her subjects, and
They have a merit beyond that of the ordinary these are among the most interesting in the field
fairy stories, as they give us an insight into the before her. They are arranged chronologically, and,
habits and beliefs of the common people of India notwithstanding their informal presentation, afford
and China. The volume is tastefully published by an intelligent view of the progress of the fine arts
Cassell & Co.
and of the great names and works which have given
How to use a gun, to throw a rod, to shoot the them distinction in different countries and times.
bow, to build boats of various kinds, to camp out Mrs. Clement has made such exhaustive studies in
successfully, to swim, to run, to manage the cam the history of art in its diverse departments, that
era, and to practice various athletic sports suit she has acquired a delightful ease and familiarity
able to winter and summer, is told with ample in dealing with any of its phases or eras, communi-
minuteness in “ The Boy's Book of Sports,” edited cating knowledge at every turn without effort to
by Maurice Thompson and published by the Cen herself or her reader. The present stories are in-
tury Co. Nearly a score of writers, skilled in the tended for young people, as we in fer from the terse
sports they delineate, have prepared the papers dedication; yet their style and matter fit them
which make up the volume. They have taken equally for the entertainment of mature minds.
pains to be clear and explicit in their directions, They are illustrated with an abundance of fine en-
and to convey them in the attractive guise of a gravings.
story, or in colloquial form, or in the simple lan Professor A. J. Church, whose stories from
guage which the old and young adopt when talk Homer and from Virgil have earned him a high re-
ing familiarly together. A host of fine illustrations pute as an expounder of classic lore to an audience
throw light on every obscure point in the text. of children, has insured them hours of enjoyment
Col. Knox's account of “The Boy Travellers in in following “The Adventures of a Roman Boy
the Russian Empire” (Harper) is a book of solid Two Thousand Years Ago” (Dodd, Mead & Co.) In
value. Its 500 quarto pages are packed with in depicting the career of this noble youth, Prof.
structive details relating to the past and present Church portrays the scenes which prevailed in the
history of the vast kingdom of the Czar in Europe countries bordering the Mediterranean in the last
and Asia. No nation offers more interesting ma- days of the Roman republic, as vividly as though
terial for study; and notwithstanding its dominant they were visible to-day. Of thrilling interest, the
position, its enormous domain and momentous impression they make on the mind is lasting. Such
activity, none is less accurately understood. The books are gifts which children will appreciate more
youth who reads Mr. Knox's volume carefully will and more as they grow older.
gain a comprehensive idea of the country, its topog “ The Fall of Troy,” as “done into English " by
raphy, resources, inhabitants, government, policy, Mr. Aubrey Stewart, has a wondrous fascination.
and development. The author does not repeat Though we have Homer on our shelves and have
merely what he has read, but draws upon his own read him in many versions, this holds us by a fresh
observations derived from three extensive tours in spell. The tale moves directly and connectedly
the Muscovite empire.
forward, and the English in which it is clothed is
The name “Zigzag Journeys in the South” ac simple and pure. It is prose, yet has much of the
quaints the juvenile public with the general char rhythmical flow of poetry. A style employing mon-
acter of the last new book by H. Butterworth. The osyllabic words chiefly can be made as melodious as
“ Zigzag Series" (Estes & Lauriat) has enjoyed a verse; and as we chant rather than read these lines,
wide popularity with young readers, they are such they break into recurring cadences. The book is
lively and realistic stories of travel in foreign coun an offering to young people, but its charm is not
tries. This last work is identical in its traits with limited to them. (Macmillan & Co.)
its predecessors, blending fact and fiction in agree The work of E. 8. Bowles entitled “Chivalric
able proportions. One or two of the bright lads Days” (Putnam's Sons) is a collection of stories
who have appeared in the former books come for- founded on historical facts. While entertaining its
ward in this, and confer the pleasure of renewing readers with stirring incidents, it will fix in their
old acquaintanceship. The ground traversed by memories the names and deeds of great personages
the tourists lies in and near our own territory, and in the past, who possessed the virtues of courage,
is therefore all the more attractive in its history and “kindliness of heart and knightliness of soul,"
connections.
which were not confined to the distinctive age of
The youth who receives a copy of Mr. Willis Ab chivalry, but have existed among mankind since
bot's “Blue Jackets of '61 " (Dodd, Mead & Co.) the world began. The author goes back to Egypt
will be able to put in his library a book which he will and Carthage and Rome for some of his histories;
never outgrow. Aside from the rich dress in which others he finds in later times, and one even in the
it is arrayed for holiday service, it has a permanent days of the Revolution in the American colonies.
value. Its subject-the achievements of our navy A pretty story of the French Revolution, with
in the Civil War—is important to every young | pretty illustrations in monochrome, bears the name
American, and the style in which it is handled is of “Sylvia's Daughters" (F. Warne & Co.) It is
very entertaining. Mr. Abbot is a near descendant the joint work of Florence and Edith Scannell, the
of the Abbots whose names were popular in our former using the pen and the latter the pencil.
literature a generation ago, and this, his first attempt | Both evince talent, which is perhaps more pro-
in the field of letters, shows that he is a direct nounced in the drawings than in the literary part of
inheritor of their powers.
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The charming story of “Little Lord Fauntleroy,"
by Frances Hodgson Burnett, which gained a mul-
titude of admirers while passing through the “St.
Nicholas " magazine, is published in attractive
book form by Scribner's Sons. The charm of the
work lies in the character of the little seven-year-
old hero, who is a wonderful embodiment of inno-
cence and simplicity. By supposing others to be
as sincere and kind-hearted as himself, he rouses
their better nature, and they finally become what
he believes them to be.
Not a few of the juveniles of the present season
can boast of literary and artistic merits rivalling
those which distinguish the volumes de luxe de-
signed for mature readers. “Christmas Roses,"
by Lizzie Lawson and Robert Ellice Mack, published
by Dutton & Co., may be cited as an illustration.
The small sepia drawings serving as head and tail
pieces are highly pleasing, while the full-paged
colored pictures are full of charming incident which
is carefully reproduced by the engraver and printer.
The letter-press consists of baby-ballads, with the
simple theme and smooth flow which delight little
men and women.
Mrs. Susan E. Wallace will captivate the hearts
of little ones by her delightful prose version of the
story of Ginevra, the ill-fated bride who hid from her
husband on her wedding night, and long years af-
terward was found mouldering in an old oak chest
whose lid had shut her into a living coffin. Mrs.
Wallace is a skilful narrator, and invests this pa-
thetic tale with many literary charms. Her hus.
band, Gen. Lew Wallace, illustrates the story with
a series of interesting pictures; and the publisher
(Worthington) performs his part of the work in an
adequate manner.
“Three Kings: A Xmas Legend of Long Ago,"
is the title in red lettering on a quaint volume pub-
lished by Randolph & Co. The legend is in blank
verse, neatly turned by Mary Leland McLanathan.
A few lines, composing the poem, relate how the
author came across the myth and concluded to
“ Write it that its fragrant breath may blow
On these incredulous days in which we live.
Though of your sharp-eyed faith it ask too much,
Your secret heart may own its freshening touch.”
These lines disclose the quality and motive of the
poem, which is of a length to fill less than thirty
pages. The illustrations by Rosina Emmett are in
keeping with the medieval character of the legend;
as are also the ornamental title-page, vignettes, and
initial letters by Susan Hayes Ward. The work is
executed with scrupulous care, which extends to
every detail of paper, printing, binding, and cover
decoration.
An unsparing use of colored decorations, and an
abundance of rippling rhymes, equip the “Bye-O-
Baby Ballads" (Lothrop) for the amusement of
the children in the nursery. The authors, Charles
Stuart Pratt and F. Childe Hassam, have evidently
enjoyed their work: the latter especially, as he has
crowded the pages with playful designs dashed off
with rapid strokes. The drawings are clever, and
make up in number what they lack in finish.
Two books, uniform in size and appearance, de-
signed for young people by “Uncle Warren,” treat
respectively of Birds” and “Animals ” (Lippin-
cott Co.). The information they afford regarding
the different species mentioned is slight in amount
and dryly presented. The books are in showy
bindings, and are supplied with numerous full-page
wood-cuts; but the ordinary treatises on natural
history would be as interesting and more useful to
the readers for whose amusement these are intended.
Among their numerous holiday publications, D.
Lothrop & Co. introduce “The Minute Man," a poem
by Margaret Sidney, which originally appeared in
"Wide Awake." A heliotype view of French's statue
at Lexington forms the frontispiece of the book; and
original drawings by Sandham, with three colored
heliotypes, are interspersed through the text. The
cover is unique and pretty in design.
There are compositions of striking beauty among
the illustrations adorning the child's book entitled
“From Meadow-Sweet to Mistletoe" (Worthing-
ton). The folio page has given scope for effective
pictorial work, which the author, Miss Lathbury,
has had the talent to use to excellent purpose. Her
figures are not only graceful, but vigorous, and
natural in pose and action. The plates are neatly
printed in colors.
That old-new favorite of children, “ A Visit from
Santa Claus," by Clement C. Moore, appears this
year in a strikingly attractive edition, from the
press of White, Stokes, & Allen. So unfailing has
this ballad proved in evoking visions of the good
genius of infancy driving his reindeer steeds from
house-top to house-top to pour into the stockings
hung in the chimney the treasures with which his
sledge is crammed, that the help of an artist in ma-
terializing his dreams would seem unnecessary.
The pictorial art can, nevertheless, add to the inter-
est of even this poem; as witness the illustrations
by Virginia Gerson, which have translated its con-
ceptions into a new language of form and color.
They are strong interpretations, with a tinge of
grotesquery heightening their significance. The life
and zest in them will give them a lasting power
over the imaginations of children, similar to that of
the poem itself.
Lucretia P. Hale's absurdly funny “Peterkin
Papers" (Ticknor) have a right to a first place
among the new Christmas books of this year, be-
cause of an additional paper never before published
which describes the experiences of “The Peterkins
at the Farm.” The illustrations give zest to the
humor in the papers.
First among the bound volumes of juvenile peri.
odicals is “St. Nicholas,”-as the magazine itself
is first among its class in the language, we might
say in the world. Volume XIII., for the year just
closed, contains something over 600 pictures,
which, like its reading matter, are of the choicest.
“Harper's Young People" for 1886 presents
great attractions in its 900 large pages, profusely
illustrated. The volume, handsomely bound, is a
marvel of cheapness, and affords an apparently in-
exhaustible fount of pleasure for appreciative
youngsters.
D. Lothrop & Co.'s popular juvenile periodicals
all appear in tasteful holiday bindings. “Wide
Awake,” in its Volume U, offers a variety of stories,
poems, and illustrated articles, prominent among
which are writings by “H. H.,” Mrs. A. D. T.
Whitney, and Mrs. J. C. Fremont. Other pretty
anuuals issued by this house are “The Pansy,
“Babyland," and "Our Little Men and Women,"
all illustrated.
"Worthington's Annual” for 1887 presents some-
thing of a novelty, the full-page pictures being
printed in various tints, while the text and smaller,
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TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS.
DECEMBER, 1886.
American Figure Painters. G. P. Lathrop. Lippincott.
Arago, François. Popular Science.
Atlantic, Geology of the. Dawson. Popular Science,
Attention and Volition. J. Cappie. Popular Science.
Beaujéu and Fort Du Quesne. J. G. Shea. Mag. Am. Hist.
Birds' Wings. W. H. Flower Popular Science.
Cedar Mountain to Chantilly. A. E. Lee. Mag. Am. Hist.
Chapu and Dubois. W. C. Brownell. Century..
Christ, Boyhood of. Lew Wallace. Harper's.
Christianity and Modern Competitors. Andover.
Ohurches, Union of. G. R. Crooks. Century.
Clay, Henry. J. O. Harrison. Century.
Creole Peculiarities. P. F. de Gournay. Mag. Am. Hist.
Education, History of. W. R. Benedict. Popular Science.
Education of Woman. Mrs. E.Lynn Linton, Pop. Science.
Eight-hour Working-day, The. Century.
Elective System, The. G. H. Palmer. Andover.
Electricity in the Service of Man. H. S. Carhart. Dial.
English and German. W. T. Harris. Andover.
English Parliament, History of. W. F. Allen. Dial.
Ezekiel, Text of. G. F. Moore. Andover.
Fiction, Recent. Wm. Morton Payne. Dial.
Food Question in America and Europe. Century.
Forests, Our. Abbot Kinney. Overland.
Gettysburg. Atlantic
Gettysburg. H. J. Hunt Century.
Gettysburg, Confederate Right at. E. M. Law. Century.
Halleck and Grant. James B. Fry. Mag. Am. History.
Harper's Ferry, Capitulation of. Julius White. Century.
Harvard College, Admission to. J. P. Cooke. Pop. Science.
Ireland, Practical Help for. Mrs. Ernest Hart. Century.
Library, How to Choose a. H. E. Warner. Lippincott.
Lincoln, Abraham. Hay and Nicolay. Century
Lincoln and McClellan. Horatio King. Mag. Am. History.
Literary Experiences. John Habberton. Lippincott.
Measuring the Earth's Surface. F. Sansone. Pop. Science.
Millerite, A Little. Jane M. Parker. Century.
Mazzini, Guiseppe. Maria L. Henry. Atlantic.
“ Newspaperism." Junius H. Browne. Lappincott.
Ohio. J. H. Kennedy. Mag. Am. History.
Plant-cells, Energy in. T. H. McBride. Popular Science.
Presidents as Gastronomers. F. G. Carpenter. Lippincott.
Russia. Cyrus Hamlin. Atlantic.
Saracens, The. Edward Hungerford. Atlantic.
Schlüsselburg, Up the Neva to. E. Noble. Atlantic.
Science and Theology. John Burroughs. Popular Science.
Shakespeare, Victor Hugo on. Harriet S. Monroe. Dial.
Shakespeare's Literary ecutor. A. Morgan. Am. Hist.
Society, Moral Evolutio 1 of. Andover.
South-Sea Islands, The Cyprian Bridge. Popular Science.
Speculation, Reproach of. Andover.
Sully's " Psychology." C. Read. Popular Science.
mp Angel." The. W. S. Striker. Mag. Am. Hist.
Theism and Evolution. W. R. Benedict. Andover.
University, Object of a Elisha Mulford. Atlantic.
Warming Houses. E. Y. Robbins. Popular Science.
Wood Notes. W. H. Gibson. Harper's.
Zoological Superstitions. Felix L. Oswold. Pop. Science.
Book, or customs, Thomson, Pedi-
Reynard the Fox. After the German version of Goethe.
By T. J. Arnold, Esq. With sixty illustrations from
the designs of W. Von Kaulbach, and twelve India
proof engravings by Joseph Wolf. Large 8vo, pp. 342.
Gilt edges. Elegantly bound in half morocco. Roberts
Bros. $9.00.
Plastic Sketches. By J. G. and J. F. Low. Forty-seven
Illustrations. In satin portfolio. Lee & Shepard.
$7.50.
Imagination in Landscape Painting. By P.G. Hamer.
ton. With many illustrations, etchings and wood.
cuts. Folio. Gilt edges. Roberts Bros. $6.50.
Home Fairies and Heart Flowers, Twenty Studies of
Children's Heads, with floral embellisbments, head
and tail pieces, and initial letters. By Frank French.
Accompanied by Poems by Margaret E. Sangster.
Quarto. Gilt edges. Harper & Bros. $6.00.
A Muramasa Blade. A Story of Feudalism in old Ja.
pan. By Louis Wertheimber. With Quaint Japanese
Illustrations. 8vo, pp. 188. Ticknor & Co. Cloth, gilt
top, $3.00; Janpanese brocaded silk, $5.00.
Christmas in the olden Time. By Sir Walter Scott.
Beautifully illustrated, from designs by Fenn, Sand.
ham and others. Large Svo. Gilt edges. Cassell &
Co. Illuminated gold cloth, $4.00; full morocco,
padded, $6.00.
The Follies and Fashions of Grandfathers (1807).
Embellished with hand-colored plates, including la.
dies' and gentlemen's dress, sporting and coaching
scenes, fanciful prints, portraits of celebrities, etc.
etc., many from original copper-plates. By A. W.
Tuer. 8vo, pp. 366. Gilt top. Scribner & Welford.
Net, $10.00.
The Blessed Damozel. By D. G. Rossetti. With Drawings
by Kenyon Cox, Large quarto. Dodd, Mead & Co.
$15.00.
The Land and the Book, or Biblical Illustrations drawn
from the manners and customs, the scenes and
scenery of the Holy Land. By W. M. Thomson, D.D.
With numerous illustrations and maps. Popular edi-
tion. 3 vols., 8vo. Harper & Bros. $9.00.
English Caricaturists, and Graphic Humorists of the
Nineteenth Century. How they illustrated and in.
terpreted their times. By G. Everett. With numer.
ous illustrations. Quarto, pp. 427. London, $7.50.
More “ Graphic " Pictures. By R. Caldecott. Folio.
G. Routledge & Sons. $3.00.
The Unknown River. By P. G. Hamerton. With nu-
merous etchings by the author. New edition. Hvo, pp.
70. Gilt edges. Roberts Bros. $6.00.
A Mother's Song. By Mary D. Brine. Beautifully il.
lustrated by Miss 0. A. Northam. 4to. Gilt edges.
Cassell & Co. $2.50.
| A Temperance Souvenir. Compiled by Mrs. G. S. Hunt.
Beautifully illustrated by Dora Wheeler. Woman's
Temperance Association. Fancy paper covers, $1.00;
ivorine, $2.00.
Days With Sir Roger De Coverley. Reprint from The
Spectator. With numerous illustrations. 4to, pp. 82.
Macmillan & Co. $3.00.
Three Kings. A Christmas Legend of Long Ago. By
Mary L. McLanathan. With four illustrations by
Rosina Emmett. 4to. A. D. F. Randolph & Co. $2.00.
The Message of the Blue Bird, Told to me to tell to
others. Beautifully illustrated. By Irene E. Je-
rome. 4to. Gilt edges. Beautifully bound, Holiday
edition. Lee & Shepard, $2.00.
The Happy Christmas Time; The Holy Night; Centu.
ries Ago, Songs of Bethlehem; The Song of the
Angels. 4 vols. of hymns and songs. 4to. Printed on
hand-made paper, with beautiful photographic illus.
trations. Bound in illuminated paper covers. A.D.F.
Randolph & Co. Each, net, $1.25.
| The Century. Illustrated Monthly Magazine. Vol.
XII.-May to October 1886. Profusely illustrated.
8vo, pp. 972. The Century Company. Net, $3.00.
She Stoops to Conquer. A Comedy, By Dr. Goldsmith.
With Drawings by E. A. Abbey; Decorations by A.
Parsons; Introduction by A. Dobson. Folio. Illu.
minated leather. Harper & Bros. $20.00.
The English Illustrated Magazine 1885–1886. Profusely
illustrated. 8vo, pp. 832. Macmillan & Co. $2.50.
Les Misérables. By Victor Hugo. With numerous Illus.
trations from designs by De Neuville, Bayard, Morin.
Valnay, and other eminent French Artists. Edition de
Luxe. 5 vols., large 8vo. Vols. I. and II. now ready.
Edition limited. The publishers promise to compl
the work by December 10th, Geo. Routledge & Sons.
Per vol., net, $3.00.
1,000 Quaint Cuts from Books of Other Days. Includ.
ing Amusing Illustrations from Children's Story
Books, Fables, Chap Books, etc., etc. 8vo. Stiff paper
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type Plates from designs by Vedder, Dielman, Millet,
Gifford, Reinbart, Abbey, Weir, F. H. Sunith, Chase.
Maynard, Quartley, Sarony, Parsons, Bunce, together
with numerous illustrations in the text. Large
quarto, beautifully bound. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
$25.00.
The Knight and the Dragon. "An Antient Ballade. By
Tom Hood. With its Modern Illustration by E. M
Jessop. 8vo. Fancy boards. London. $1.50.
Illustrated Hymns and Songs. Abide with Me;
Rock of Ages; Nearer My God to Thee; My Faith
Looks Up to Thee; Home Sweet Home; Curfew Must
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Each, 50 cents.
Grandmother's Garden. By Eben E. Rexford. With
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HISTORY AND TRAVEL.
The Aztecs. Their History, Manners and Customs.
From the French of Lucien Biart. Authorized Trans-
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Our Arctic Province. Alaska and the Seal Islands. I
. H. W. Elliott. Map and Illustrations. Svo, pp. 47
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The Last days of Marie Antoinette, An Historical
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Studies in Ancient History. Comprising a reprint of
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Mexico of To-Day. By S. B. Griffin. Illustrated. 12mo,
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The Volcano Under the City. By a Volunteer Special.
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