var Perkins, and the places, and are faithfully executed. It is evi-
gifted poet, Mrs. Euphemia M'Corkle, of dent that the writing is done with the greatest
Peoria, Illinois, is so irresistibly amusing care, and the product, at its best, is such as to
that we forget to realize how “far-fetched”
deserve a high place in the class of composi-
it is.
tion to which it belongs.
When Charles Kingsley set the literary
WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE.
fashion of “murder grim and great” he could
hardly have imagined that he would be
outdone in that direction by a successor
AN OLD CIVILIZATION IN THE NEW WORLD.*
more daring than himself. The scene of
* slaughter grim and great” in Mr. Haggard's Reverence for antiquity is a natural instinct
* Allan Quatermain” makes the exploit of of the human mind. Each generation has its
lereward at Bourne seem trifling in compari roots in the past. Not a little of the educa-
son And the slaughter of the hundred and tional value of classical study is derived from
hfty Masai by the little band of adventurers the intuitive reverence which men feel for
in central Africa, is only one of the many that which is old. The “Poems of Ossian,”
startling episodes of Mr. Haggard's latest ro so long as they were supposed to be the pro-
mance. The motto of the work-Ex Africa ductions of a semi-fabulous Scottish bard and
semper aliquid novi-will certainly express a
hero of the third century, were far more in-
truth as long as the author chooses to continue teresting to men of letters than they were
in the exercise of his imaginative powers. In after they were discovered to be the forgeries
this fearful and wonderful story we follow the of James Macpherson. And our interest in
fortunes of Allan Quatermain and his fellow antiquity is increased rather than diminished,
heroes of “King Solomon's Mines,” accom whenever difficulty is experienced in compel-
panied by "one Umslopogaas," a Zulu, ling the past to give up its secrets. It is not
through a series of adventures quite as start articulated, well known, thoroughly explored
ling as any which Mr. Haggard has sketched
periods of the world's history that we regard
heretofore. The boys to whom the story is with the pity or reverence due to age, so much
dedicated, in the hope that it may help them
| as it is those imperfect, unformed, uncertain pe-
some day to reach the state and dignity of | riods which seem ever to hover on the verge
English gentlemen,” will doubtless accept Sir of non-existence, and to shrink from the
llenry Curtis as an exemplar of all that it is grasp of our feeble imaginations, as they come
manly and desirable to be, but we fear lest forth from or retire into the impenetrable
some of them should take the injunction lit mists of antiquity. The histories and anti-
erally and start out for Unknown Africa quities of certain countries,-as, for instance,
before they have attained the years or the those around the Mediterranean,—will always
stature of that hero. The author supplies his possess a peculiar interest and importance, be-
book with a satirical postscript on the subject cause these are the parent regions whence the
of "authorities.” Mindful of the exposure civilization and religion of Europe and Amer-
recently made of his not wholly scrupulous ica have been derived. But the antiquities of
literary methods, he calls attention to a few these countries have long been a hackneyed
of the less obvious points of resemblance theme. The traveller of to-day must be a very
between his story and the books that he has learned or a very philosophic man who can
read. The forgets to mention the most strik bring forth original observations or startling
ing resemblance of all that of his descrip discoveries from Palestine or from the Valley
tion of the underground passage to Zu-Vendi
of the Nile, or from investigations into an-
land with a similar piece of description in cient forms of faith.
Jules Verne's “Journey to the Centre of the
* THE ANCIENT CITIES OF THE NEW WORLD. Being
Voyages and Explorations in Mexico and Central Amer.
A volume of short stories by the lady who ica, from 1857 to 1882, by Désiré Charnay. Translated
writes under the name of Octave Thanet is a
from the French by J. Gonino and Helen S. Conant. With
an Introduction by Allen Thorndyke Rice. New York:
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The public attention has so long been occu tec cities, and the capital of the Empire.
pied with essays on the hieroglyphics and Here and at many other points he caused
monuments of Egypt, the explorations in Pal extensive excavations to be made, and thus
estine, the archæology of Cyprus, the sculp brought to light palaces, temples, monuments,
tured caverns of Ellora, the mythological subterranean passageways, sculptures, vases,
literature of the Hindoos, and the recent dis and manifold relics of an ancient people.
coveries of Schliemann, that comparatively That with such rude tools as the Toltecs pos-
little interest has been awakened by the dis sessed, they proved themselves to be skilful
covery of the extensive ruins of an ancient builders of great structures, and were able, out
civilization in Mexico and Central America. / of the hardest substances, to cut sculptures,
Mr. Rice, in his introduction to the splendid bas-reliefs, statues, and inscriptions such as
volume which supplies the theme of this ar are illustrated in this volume, is a marvel, and
ticle, sketches the history of investigations goes to prove that the meaning of the word
which have been made by different explorers Toltec is, as has been supposed, architect or
and discoverers among these ruins. Mr. John builder. M. Charnay thinks that the method
L. Stephens, a United States ambassador to which these people employed in cutting stone
Central America in 1839, was the first to give has probably been lost. He thinks that they
any satisfactory information respecting these came originally from the extreme East, and
antiquities. Since then, and within the last that their settlement in the valley of Tula,
few years, Mr. Hubert H. Bancroft has wrought and on the wide plateaus of which Tula is the
into his careful work all that has been discov. centre, began early in the seventh century,
ered concerning the two civilizations, the Tol and not at so remote a period as many have
tec and the Aztec, which preceded, in Mexico supposed. The modern Tula, through which
and Central America, the Spanish Conquest. the traveller passes on his way to Mexico, oc-
But Mr. Bancroft writes as historian, while cupies but a small part of the area covered by
M. Désiré Charnay writes as archæologist, the ancient city, and is altogether uninterest-
explorer, and traveller. He first visited the ing except for its ruins. Of these M. Char-
country in 1857, having been sent out by the nay found, among many other objects of in-
French government to explore parts of it. terest, caryatides, columns round and square,
But though he was then, as he says, "rich in and capitals, showing that the builders were
hopes and full of grand intentions,” yet he familiar with every architectural device.
was “poor in knowledge and light of purse,” Complete houses were unearthed, consisting of
and his undertaking was of so difficult and several apartments of various size. These
complicated a character that he accomplished houses had frescoed walls painted upon a coat-
nothing beyond “simply photographing some ing of mud or mortar. The outer walls. were
of the monuments” which he visited. His faced with baked bricks and cut stone; they
second expedition, which he entered upon in had wooden roofs and brick and stone stair-
1880, was undertaken under much more fa cases. But the Toltecs were not only build-
vorable auspices. At the very time that his ers, they were also painters and decorators;
government entrusted him with a new commis- for the walls of their houses were covered
sion to explore Mexico, Mr. Peter Lorillard, a with rosettes, palms, and red, white, and gray
rich and liberal citizen of New York, had set geometrical figures on a black ground. Fil-
apart a large sum of money to be used for ters were also found amid these ruins. Straight
the same purpose of supporting an exploring ex and carved water pipes, vases and fragments
pedition in Mexico and had his own mind fixed of vases, enamelled terra cotta cups, seals,
upon M. Charnay as the man to conduct it. and bits of pottery having a striking resem-
When his purpose became known, the two ex- | blance to old Japanese china, besides moulds
peditions were combined under the name of a of various shapes and sizes, and numberless
Franco-American Mission. M. Charnay had arrow heads and knives of obsidian.
also taken occasion, in the interval between These remains M. Charnay regarded as
his first and second expeditions, to add all he “priceless in every respect,” because, being
could to his knowledge of the country, its similar in character to all those which he sub-
history and its ruins. He was thus thoroughly sequently discovered in Teotihuacan, Tenene-
furnished for his second expedition, and the panco, Bellote, Comalcalco, Palenque, Aké,
record of his explorations and discoveries is a and Izamal, Chichen-itza, Uxmal, Mitla, and
contribution of rare interest and value to our all other places where he made his explora-
knowledge of the ancient civilization of the tions, they formed the first link in the chain of
Toltecs. There is probably no other work evidence by which he proved his theory of
accessible to English readers, which is equally the unity of American civilization. It is what
valuable.
our explorer found at Tula, as also at Teotihu-
M. Charnay begins his explorations in the acan and Tenenepanco, 13,000 feet up the side
ancient city of Tula, eighty miles north of the of mighty Popocatapetl above Amecameca,
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having explored, has visited these places, was with the Malays of Cambodia, Annam, and
especially interested in. In the latter place Java. Just when or how they crossed from
he unearthed some terra cotta cups decorated | Asia to this country, the author does not un-
with singularly beautiful and brilliant colors, dertake to explain. Nor does he honor with
which, however, soon faded on being exposed any attention the absurd hypothesis that these
to the air and the light. But his most curious ancient people were the lost tribes or their
“find” here was a perfectly well preserved descendants. In stature they are represented
human brain, the skull of which was gone- as being above the average. They paid great
destroyed, perhaps, by the same chemical attention to the education of the young, not
agents which acted as a preservative of the leaving this, as their successors the Aztecs
cerebral matter; for the soil of the whole region did, entirely in the hands of the priests. It
is saturated with sulphurous vapors. What a is said that “among the various sumptuous
story could that brain rehearse, if it could edifices at Utatlan was the college, having a
have told its own history! Not so old, perhaps, staff of seventy teachers, and five or six
as the Egyptian mummy apostrophized by thousand pupils, who were educated at the
Horace Smith, yet doubtless it lived when public expense.” Polygamy was prohibited
"_ time had not begun to overthrow
among them, and marriage was honored.
Those temples, palaces, and piles stupendons,
When a Toltec maiden was about to marry,
Or wbich the very ruins are tremendous."
her father admonished her with great tender-
As he opened the tombs which he found in
ness, charging her to be simple in her manners
this elevated region, kitchen utensils, vases of
and conversation, neat in person and in attire,
every variety of form and color, fruit cups,
modest, faithful, and obedient to her husband.
jewel cups, chocolate cups, beads, jewels, in To these counsels the mother added others no
short, a whole civilization, emerged, carrying
less wise, charging her daughter not to raise
the discoverer back to the life of the long her voice very high, nor to speak very low-
forgotten people who had once been busy in
“an excellent thing in woman," which Lear
using these things. If he had been permitted
recognized in his lamented daughter Cordelia.
to bring away from the country all the rich She further charged her, saying:
spoils which bere, and in a score of other
"Walk through the streets quietly; do not look
places, he gathered from a remote past, his
hither and thither, nor turn your head to look at
would have been a collection of antiques this and that. See likewise that you neither paint
which, for extent, variety, and rarity, could your face nor your lips in order to look well, since
hardly be matched by any other collection this is a mark of vile and immodest women."
catalogued in any of the museums of the Similarly appropriate counsels were given
world. But the Mexican government, which by his parents to a son about to “enter upon
displays no zeal in setting on foot independent the holy estate of matrimony." We hardly do
explorations of its own, manifests a good deal these things better in our more enlightened day.
of zeal in preventing foreign explorers from Marriage being thus honored, there was in the
carrying away the fruits of their labors. The family life, as might be expected, much that
writer saw in the Museo Vacional in the was commendable. The organization of the
City of Mexico, an unrivalled collection of people was in principle feudal and aristocratic,
antiquities, many of which, very likely, may and their government paternal to a degree in
have been obtained through the enthusiasm which many in our day seem to desire to make
and toil of M. Charnay. In comparsion with our own. The poor were cared for by main-
this collection in the Museo Vacional, the l taining public granaries which were opened to
Cesnola collection in the Metropolitan Mu- | the people in the time of famine. The religion
seum, New York, seems small.
of the Toltecs was polytheistic. They wor-
It would be interesting to follow M. Char shipped images carved by their own hands,
nay to all the places, one after another, where and which were less artistic than many of their
he made his excavations and discoveries. But architectural works. And they worshipped
limits of time and space forbid. One of the also serpents as the gods of wisdom. Coarse
most interesting parts of his work is the ac- and debasing as was their cultus, yet their
count which he gives of the Toltecs as a morals seem to have been less tainted by the
people, their origin, their education, their grossness of their religious faith than is usually
domestic life, their government, and their re the case, and their ideas of the future life were
ligion. As to their origin, he thinks they came, more exalted than have been those of any
as already stated, “from the extreme east." other idolaters of which we have any knowl.
Their architecture, which is almost identical edge. “The Toltec," says M. Charnay, “ is
with that of the Japanese, would make them the only one of idolaters) whose aspirations
kindred with that people. In their decora beyond the grave are free from grousness and
tions they resemble the Chinese; while by cruelty; his heaven is a resting place for the
their "customs, habits, sculpture, language, weary, a perpetual spring amidst flowers,
caste, and polity," they have much in common fields of yellow maize, and verdure."


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The work of the translators of this volume Russian literature, and one upon each of the
has been, in the main, well done. The illus. five most distinguished Russian writers - Pushkin.
trations, more than two hundred in number,
Gogol, Tourguéniefi, Dostoievsky, and Tolstoi. M.
de Vogüe's lack of the requisite critical insight is
are all good, and many of them are superb.
most conspicuous in his treatment of Tolstol. He,
The typography, paper, and binding, are all of
like many other recent critical writers, is so dazzled
the best quality, and, with the illustrations, by Tolstor's gigantic grasp and relentless power
furnish an attractive setting for the deeply of depiction as to imagine that these qualities can
interesting narrative. As a traveller, the outweigh or balance the pure artistic perfection of
author falls into a number of mistakes which Tourguénieff. The quotation, with approval, of
somewhat mar his work; but they are usually
Flaubert's exclamation concerning Tolstol - " He
of minor importance, and need not here be
is a second Shakespeare," shows how far the critic
is willing to go in his admiration. And yet he
pointed out. M. Charnay has given a vast
seems to understand Tolstol's artistic failings, for
amount of information concerning this he writes: "This incorrigible analyst is either
ancient people. He has explored the seats ignorant of or disdains the very first method of pro-
of their organized communities. He has cedure employed by all our writers; we expect our
shown them leading a settled life, capable novelist to select out his character or event, and
of acting with unity and continued effort,
separate it from the surrounding chaos of beings
and possessing a civilization not inferior,
and objects, making a special study of the object
of his choice." Is M. de Vogüé prepared to admit
certainly, to that of the empires of Monte-
that Tolstoi is so great a writer as to be entitled to
zuma or of the Incas. We know enough
set all the laws of art at defiance? If so, he can
of this people to make us greatly desire to only be classed with those critics who think that
know more. Shall we never have any more Whitman has invented a new and superior forin of
light upon the question of their origin? The poetry. The fact is, that in the one case as in the
remarkable structure of their languages
other, this lawlessness is a capital defect, and is
shows that the Indian race, whether of Mexico
only tolerable because the writers in question dis-
or of our own country, were separated from
play an exceptional degree of positive excellence in
other respects. The inability to perceive that
their brethren of the Old World at some very
Tourguénieff's work was done upon a plane to which
remote period. On this subject, and that of
Tolstor has never even approached, marks a critic
very early American history, there is opened as incapable of comprehending the higher aim of
& vast and yet unexplored field of investiga. imaginative literature. “War and Peace” has
tion in which inductive antiquarians and phi. approximately ten times the volume of "On the
lologists may, let us hope, hereafter make
Eve," but as an artistic product it is immeasurably
important discoveries. It is matter of history
inferior; while the masterpiece of Tourguénieff
that soon after the Conquest of Mexico and
probably represents quite as much original labor in
the way of observation and the collection of mate-
Central America, in 1521, there were many
rial, and represents besides the labor of condensing
descendants of native princes who entered the the indigestible mass and evoking order from chaos.
Roman Catholic Church. Having leisure for In a good many minor respects, M. de Vogüé's criti-
the work, they wrote, in their native language, cism of Tourguénieff is seriously at fault. It will
histories and treatises upon the antiquities of
hardly do to characterize as “gentle" the genius
their race. Some of these histories in manu.
that conceived the death of Bazarof. Schopenbauer
script it is supposed may be still preserved in
might as well be called a "gentle" philosopher.
The writer shows his own limitations very clearly
libraries and convents, if the destruction or
when he characterizes Bazarof as “a deplorable char-
confiscation of the latter has not involved the acter, which, however, is not really odious to us,
destruction or loss of these valuable works. excepting as regards his inhumanity, his scorn for
If Spanish indolence or jealousy were not in everything we venerate." But perhaps the most
the way, they might be hunted out of their
extraordinary statement made is that Pushkin is
hiding places, and thus shed much light upon
the only Russian writer who has style and good
the still unsolved problems of this old civiliza-
taste. We are not particularly concerned about
the others, but to deny that Tourguénieff possesses
tion in the New World.
those qualities recalls Voltaire's criticism of Shak.
George C. Noyes. speare or Johnson's estimate of Milton, We must
also call attention to the fact that M. de Vogüé
falls into the bad habit of referring to poetically
written prose as poetry, without any qualification.
BRIEFS ON NEW Books.
He speaks constantly of the " poem" of “Taras
Bulba." Now he undoubtedly knows that the
THE essays of M. Melchior de Vogüé upon the work is not a poem at all, but his readers do not,
Russian writers have been translated from the and would have to examine what he says very care-
** Revue des Deux Mondes," by Jane Loring fully to find out the truth of the matter. In fact,
Edmands, and published in a neat volume (Lothrop). one of them, a lady of marked culture and ability.
While they are somewhat superficial, and while they recently spoke of ** Taras Bulba" as a poem, and
are far from containing the last word of criticism this in perfect literal seriousness, in an article pub-
upon the Russian writers, they are about the best ! lished in the "Atlantic Monthly " magazine. There
work that has yet been done upon that subject. | are several points of minor criticism for which we
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of Roudine on the Parisian barricade by merely have portrayed the battles of the Civil War-above
saying that he “dies in extreme poverty," indicates all, by the simple yet unsurpassable prose of Ameri-
either carelessness or forgetfulness on the author's ca's greatest soldier.
part. The translation of the work is not very well
made. We doubt if M. de Vogüé can be held We can say a cordial word for the two volumes
responsible, for example, for such an extraordinary of Mr. Powell's “ English History by Contemporary
simile as that (p. 28) of the exploded planet. We Writers " series (G. P. Putnam's Sons) which have
also doubt if Lomonosof gave to his epic the French reached us. The aim, as the editor announces it, is
title of “La Peetriade” (p. 38). M. de Vogüé put it to give "a little volume made up of extracts from
in that way for his French readers, but his trans the chronicles, state papers, memoirs, and letters of
lator should not have taken him so literally.
the time, as also from other contemporary literature,
the whole chronologically arranged, and chosen so
IF Mr. Knox, in his “ Decisive Battles since Wa as to give a living picture of the effect produced
rloo" (G. P. Putman's Sons), had borrowed some upon each generation by the political, religious,
thing more than a portion of his title from Prof. social, and intellectual movements in which it took
Creasy, he might have made an important contribu part.” “The Misrule of Henry III." by W. H.
tion to historical literature. Creasy's decisive battles Hutton, draws its material mostly from the admira-
marked the crises of campaigns which decided con ble chronicle of Matthew Paris; although valuable
flicts between political principles and affected the selections are also given from the letters of Gros-
progress of civilization; a number of Mr. Knox's seteste, Adam de Marisco, Simon de Montfort, and
battles were decisive of campaigns which are of no King Henry III., from the state papers, and from
importance to the world at large. No sound prin-| the wonderful ballad literature of that century.
ciple of selection could place the battles of Prome, The extracts are very well made, illustrating the
of Staoueli, of Gujerat, of Khiva, of Geok Tepe, of misrule of the earlier years under the influence of
Miraflores, of El Obeid, of Khartoum, alongside of the foreign favorites, the oppressive exactions of the
Solferino, Gettysburg, Sadowa, and Gravelotte. Papal See as overlord, and the public sentiment as
Even the battles at Sebastopol decided nothing ex to both. The vivid account of the “ drought and
cept that Russia must end that campaign and bide intolerable heat” of the summer of 1241, as well as
her time in 1871. The birth of a Greek nation at of the “intolerably severe cold" in the following
Navarino, of a Belgian at Antwerp, of an Italian at winter, might well have been given as a companion-
Solferino, of a Bulgarian at Plevna, of an Indian piece to the disturbances of the sea and the earth-
Empire at Lucknow and Cawnpore, of a German quake in 1250. The second volume, “Edward III.
Empire at Sadowa, Gravelotte and Sedan,—these and his Wars," by W. J. Ashley, is largely based
are military events worthy of a philosophic his upon gossipy old Froissart, in the quaint Berners
torian's pen. So, too, are the exclusion of absolut edition, but is also indebted to Adam of Munmuth,
ism from America at Ayacucho, the new lease of life Robert of Aursbery, Knighton, Villani, and the
and of territory given to expiring slavery by the cap chronicle of Janercast. Here, also, contemporary
ture of Mexico, the opening of China at the Peiho literature, aside from history, has been drawn upon
Forts. So, above all, are the death-blows dealt for its more animated and lifelike expression of the
to slavery and disunion at Gettysburg, Vicksburg, | times, and goodly sentiments as to trade and usury
Lookout Mountain, and Five Forks. Nor will such are inserted from the Ayenlite of Inuryt, together
a pen despise the naval fight, with a “cheese box" with stirring patriotism from the Songs of Laurence
as its novelty, which has revolutionized the art of Minot on the battle of Nevil's Cross. Several im-
naval warfare as truly as did the introduction of portant statutes are given, among them the famous
steam. But one must object to Mr. Knox, not Statute of Provisors against the Roman church.
merely that he has mixed up the important and the No better work can be done for young students
unimportant, that he has not mentioned Lookout than is here attempted, in placing before them the
Mountain as one of the four giant strides of the very thoughts of the past as a commentary on the
Union army toward victory; but also that he does history it was making. Such a compilation can
not tell his story well, which is all essential to a have but one result in the hands of an inquiring
popular narrative, and such this must consent to be. student: to lead him to the originals, with their
To select one example from a number—no one who invaluable treasures.
goes to this book for his sole information, led by
that interest which “these battles possess for the In a collection of brief essays, newly translated
student of military tactics and strategy," and reads from the Russian by Miss Hapgood and published
the account of Gravelotte, will be able to discover by T. Y. Crowell & Co., the author, Count Tolstoi,
who commanded respectively the "first," "second" has put in various forms the searching question,
and “third ” armies of Germany, which of these What To Do?" The first and most extended of
armies took part in the battle, or what army corps the series relates the author's “ Thoughts Evoked
made up the two armies that did participate. Six by the Census of Moscow." It is a bit of his own
teen pages are given to Ayacucho, of which one is autobiography, covered with a thin veil of fiction to
almost entirely occupied by the muster-roll of the heighten the effect. The narrator professes to be a
patriots; while the battle itself is narrated in eight temporary resident of Moscow, a man of means and
lines, and those a quotation. By ignoring the law refinement, inspired by humane feelings for the des-
of judicious selection, the author has overcrowded titute around him. He assists in the duties of the
his book, and consequently has given sketchy and census enumerator, in order to discover the exact
colorless accounts of battles that live in the burning condition of the indigent classes and thereby to
descriptions of such great war correspondents as devise an effectual remedy for their wretched-
Archibald Forbes. The American public, moreover, ness. With a minuteness moving by its sincerity
has been made exacting, even in military prose, by and fervor, although carried often to the verge
the graphic style in which the “Century's" writers of tedium, he records the history of his inquiries,


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fate was meted to them both of growing up under
influences which blighted every upright instinct in
their natures. It is a sorrowful story, as has been
already said, but contains instruction and warning
for whoever has the heart to measure its dreary
monotony.
emotions, attempts, and disappointments. He
proves by experiment that the mere giving of
money, except in desperate cases of need, is use
less. It is constant and systematic help, by word
and deed, by companionship and example, that
the poor require; and this, he finally concludes,
is to be conveyed only by the consecration of the
entire self to the sacred work. Men must lay aside
the distinctions begotten by wealth and culture,
and, descending to the level of the lowliest, wear
their garb, eat their fare, share their toil, and in all
things enter into their life, in order that the bond
of loving and uplifting fraternity may be made per-
fect. It is the doctrine which Count Tolstoi has
tested by practice, and he declares that he has gained
from it an increase of mental and physical vigor,
together with the peace of a clear conscience. The
essay is profoundly interesting as a chapter in the
personal history of its eminent author, and also as
a fearless and trenchant exposition of his views of
the obligations of the rich to the poor-of man to
his fellow-man. The remaining essays in the col-
lection treat of the ** Significance of Science and
Art," " Labor and Luxury," and the special duty
of women. They are uniform in spirit and method,
and are connected with one another by a similarity
in topics. It is impossible to withhold admiration
for the high purpose of Count Tolstoi, which is
made the law of his life as of his speech, and, with
whatever reservations his views of duty are re-
ceived, their influence cannot fail to be wholesome
so far as they extend.
DR. HOLMES's plensant account of his pleasant
“Hundred Days in Europe," recently concluded in
the “Atlantic Monthly," now appears in book form
(Houghton, Mimin & Co.). The volume is one that
will be treasured by his friends and these include
all his readers for the frank and simple manner in
which he recounts his travelling experiences, and
for the ingenuous satisfaction with which he ac-
knowledges the honors and attentions accorded him
in England. Dr. Holmes spent two years and a
half in Europe at the beginning of his medical
career, studying his profession most of the time in
Paris. Fifty years had rolled by, carrying him
beyond the age of three score years and top, when
he decided to revisit England and Paris, and com-
pare their present aspect with that which he knew
a hall-century ago. On his arrival at Liverpool he
was received with the warmest welcome by admir-
ing Englishmen, and while he remained in their
land, for a period of two months in the summer of
1886, he was treated with all the courtesies which
could be shown a man of deserved distinction.
The character and order of these attentions are
described by Dr. Holmes with his accustomed felic.
ity. It seems for a time as though his account
would be devoted altogether to notes of lunches,
dinners, and receptions, but it finally clears itself
of these, to make room for remarks upon the notable
places which were visited and the reflections they
inspired. It is needless to say that the flash of wit
and the penetrating comment alternate in these
light-hearted pages. They show the wonted marks
of a pen which ever leaves a brilliant trail on the
paper it has touched, and, better still, they admit
the reader to a closer intimacy with the writer, in
the sunny days of his old age, than has been enjoyed
in any of his previous volumes.
TI PI
ONE of the most painful chapters in the history
of the human race is that which depicts the charac.
ter of the Court of Berlin during the reign of
Frederick William I. of Prussia. Its repulsive aspect
is familiar to most intelligent persons, for it has
been delineated by successive historians, chief
among whom is the eminent biographer of Frederick
the Great. He, with the rest, was indebted for
much of his knowledge of the early life of the
monarch last named, to the curious story unfolded
in the * Memoirs of Wilhelmine, Margravine of Bai.
reuth." Through the translation recently made by
Her Royal Highness, Princess Christian, the book
can now be read in an English version (Harper), and
its disagreeable revelations received at first hand.
It is an amazing, a bewildering narrative, exciting
mingled feelings of pity and disgust. It is difficult
to determine how much there is of truth in its
mixture of exaggeration, contradiction, and appar-
ent impossibility. According to its statements, a
more barbarous condition of things could not have
existed in the housebold of any oriental despot than
in this court of one of the leading nations of Europe
in the eighteenth century. It was a compound of
intrigue and treachery, of selfish ambition and
rivalry, brightened by scarcely an instance of noble,
manly or womanly action. The Princess Wilhel-
mine represents herself through all as an innocent
and unoffending victim, and surely she endured
constant abuse from her birth to her death. She
was badgered and beaten and oppressed in turn
by father and mother and sisters and brothers,
and attendants even, until the wonder is that any
spark of right feeling or principle of honor could
remain with her. Yet she seems to have been affec-
tionate and amiable in disposition, and to have
possessed talents of a distinguished order. She
Was gifted, like her kingly brother; but the hard
TIe "Standard Cantatas" is a third volume in
Mr. George P. Upton's admirable series of musical
handbooks (A. C. McClurg & Co.) Mr. Upton
defines a cantata as “a lyric narrative, sacred,
didactic, or dramatic in character, get to music for
the concert stage only, being without dramatis per.
spna in the theatrical acceptation of those words."
In an enumeration of some of the most perfect exam.
ples of this class of compositions, he mentions Men-
delssohn's "Walpurgis Night," Bruch's "Odysseus,"
Gade's “Comala," and Buck's “Light of Asia."
But besides cantatas in this strict sense, he has
included in his work such compositions as Ber-
lioz's “Damnation of Faust,” Händel's ** Acis and
Galatea," and Hofmann's "Melusina." So it will
be seen that the limits of the selection are not very
sharply defined, and that as between this work and
* The Standard Oratorios," its predecessor, there is
no very definite dividing line. The works here
treated are eighty in number and represent forty.
two composers. The names of other and less
important works are given in an appendix. Mel.
delssohn is represented by six works, Buck by five,
and Bach, Bruch, Gade and Paine by four each,
The compositions treated in this volume are as a
rule less familiar than those described in the two


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earlier ones, and, of course, of less average value. America, to which Dr. Jordan has been led by his
The method of treatment is the same as heretofore; experiences as a college president. The varied and
there is a brief biography of the composer, and unconnected character of the sketches, and the
then a popular account of the story and the music agreeable style in which all are written, render the
of each work chosen. The work is thorough and volume an uncommonly readable one. A list of
scholarly, as was to be expected, and completes a Dr. Jordan's published scientific papers, number-
series of volumes which every musician as well as ing 214 titles, is given as an appendix.
every musical amateur cannot fail to find indispen-
sable.
MR. C. F. HOLDER, the well-known naturalist,
has prepared an interesting volume, for readers
MRS. Bolton's “Famous American Authors"
young or old, on the subject of “Living Lights”
(Crowell) is a volume of gushing sentiment poured (Scribner.) Not only animals of various grades in
out indiscriminately upon the devoted heads of
| the scale of creation, but some species of plants
something like a score of writers of all degrees of
also, possess luminous properties and are included in
eminence-from Hawthorne to Will Carleton. One the range of his observations. The minute proto-
would fancy, were he to take these sketches seri zoans which afford the ordinary phosphorescence
ously, that there never were such good men or such of the sea, the jelly-fishes, sea-stars, sea-urchins,
sublime writers as those which the America of the
and myriad other creatures which emit light of
present and the past generation can lay claim to.
different lovely hues on the surface and in the
Each one in his turn is described as a model of all
depths of the ocean, the fire-flies, glow-worms, liz-
the literary and other virtues, and the description ards and even birds which illume the darkness of
is interlarded with those frequent exclamations and
the earth and air with their mysterious fires, the
appeals to the consciousness of the reader which are
flowers of burning tints which give out strange
characteristic of most feminine work. The sketches flashes of light in the dusk in sultry weather, and
are of a kind whose production involves absolutely the fungi which kindle their lamps in mines and
no labor beyond that required to manipulate the
caves and similar hidden places, are comprised in
scissors, the paste-pot and the pen; they are a good
his large and curious collection. The strange phe-
example of the kind of pabulum supplied in what nomena which these “living lights” exhibit are
is facetiously styled the literary” department of
described by Mr. Holder with much fulness and
many of our newspapers. They begin anywhere
entertaining illustration ; but of the value and uses
and end nowhere, combining personal description,
of their peculiar power of luminosity, neither he
biographical detail, excerpts representative and
nor any other naturalist has anything definite to tell
otherwise, and other matter pertinent or imperti- | us. The author has avoided technicalities in the
nent, in one confused jumble. As an example of the
treatment of his theme, securing for his narrative a
impertinent matter may be taken the remark that
popular form adapted to the public he specially
Dr. Holmes, when in England, “visited at 10
addresses.
Downing street, where lives the man whom all the
world delights to honor, William E. Gladstone." MRS. WALWORTH's sketches of life in the South
And yet with all their faults, these sketches are of in the days forever past, which have been gath-
& certain usefulness. While critically worthless, ered from the New York “ Evening Post” into a
they contain a considerable amount of biographical volume entitled “Southern Silhouettes" (Holt),
matter not easily obtainable elsewhere. There are combine the charm of the novel with the value of
some singular omissions from the volume, the names veritable history. The style possesses a distinct
of Whitman, Whittier, and Taylor not being in attraction in its ease and copiousness, and the por-
cluded in the table of contents.
traiture in them is definite and strong. A few of the
pieces present single figures with established claims
DR. D. S. JORDAN'S “ Science Sketches” (A. C. to interest; but the greater number portray domestic
McClurg & Co.) consist of a dozen papers, some of scenes which unite family groups, linking them
which have appeared in leading magazines, and together by the ties of kinship, attachment, or cir-
others are now published for the first time. All cumstance. The negro is an important element in
well deserve a place in this collection. Several of each picture, and is rendered faithfully in the char-
the papers, as those on “The Dispersion of Fresh acter and situation prevailing before the war among
water Fishes” and “The Nomenclature of Amer the servants of a Southern household. There is an
ican Birds,” are in the field in which Dr. Jordan is air of quietness pervading the sketches, which is in
chiefly known among scientists, some of whom may harmony with the slow movement of things in the
be surprised at the facility displayed by him in times depicted, when the institution of slavery was
other branches of authorship. His account of believed by those living under it to rest on immutable
“An Ascent of the Matterhorn” is an excellent foundations. There is, moreover, an accuracy in
piece of descriptive writing, covering some memo the details which form a conspicuous part in the
rable and thrilling experiences. The “Story of a substance of the stories, and a naturalness in the
Salmon” and “Story of a Stone" are bits of popu person and action of the different characters which
lar science for young folks, written in a delight give these narratives an importance not only as
fully enticing style. There are three biographical specimens of clever authorship, but as contribu-
papers-one on Darwin, one on Prof. Felipe Poey tions to the material of our national history.
7" À Cuban Fisherman'), and one on Constantine
Rafinesque (" An Eccentric Naturalist''), than whom THE scheme for the construction of an historical
“no more remarkable figure has ever appeared in manual for young readers, as set forth by Mr. Sam-
the annals of science." The final paper of the uel Adams Drake in his “ Making of the Great
series, on “The Evolution of the College Curricu West” (Scribner), is a commendable one. It has
lum," is devoted to the observations and conclu been his purpose to supply the want of a compact
sions on the subject of higher education in narrative containing a comprehensive view of the


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foundation of the earliest settlements made by
white men in that portion of our country lying west
of the Mississippi. With a proper attempt at sys.
tem, he has divided the work into sections and sub-
sections, and laid out the minor parts in the requisite
array of chapters. But this accomplished, his aim
has been defeated by a lack of command of his ma-
terials and of perspicuity in his language. It is
necessary for an adult reader to go over his sentences
and paragraphs again and again to comprehend their
meaning and connection. What will allure a young
person to undergo such labor? He will pause at the
very beginning of the effort, and give it up in de-
spair. The first essentials of a book for boys and
girls are a clear diction and a coherent story. Des-
titute of these, no other virtues can ensure success.
Sanitary Legislation in American Cities. Century.
Santa Barbara. Edwards Robert. Harper,
School.Boy as a Microcosm, John Johnson, Jr. Lippincott.
Science and Revelation. G. G. Stokes. Popular Science.
Science, Specialization in. G. H. T. Eimers. Pop. Science.
Society. Warfare Against. F. A. P. Barnard. Forum.
South, Here and There in the. Rebecca H. Davis. Harper,
Stars of Autumn. G. P. Servisy. Popular Science.
Sugar Horace White. Century.
Sugar Making in Louisiana. E. V. Smalley. Century.
Utah, Admission of. G. T. Curtis. Forum.
Veto Power, Use and Abuse of. J. D, Long Forum.
Viking Ships. J. S. White. Scribner.
Wagner and Scenic Art. W. F. Apthorp. Scribner,
Washburne, Elihu B. Wm. Henry Smith. Dial.
Washington's Home. Mrs. Burton Harrison. Century.
Wedding Rings. D. R. McAnally. Popular Science.
Working Classes, What Shall We Tell the ? Scribner.
BOOKS OF THE MONTH.
[The following List contains all New Books, American and For.
eign, received during the month of October by MESSRS.
A. C. MCCLURG & Co., Chicago.]
Miss SARAH COOPER's treatise on "Animal Life
in the Sea and on the Land” (Harper), written for
young people, is charming in every feature. Begin-
ning with the lowest forms of the protozoa, it leads
up step by step to the most complex in the crowning
order of the vertebrata. The separate sketches in
the series are necessarily brief, but are admirably
lucid and comprehensive. The style is a model of
simplicity, while the facts and incidents taken from
the voluminous history of the animal world are
skilfully chosen and arranged. The book has all
the fascination of a fairy tale and the advantages of
a truthful and instructive discourse. The illus-
trations with which it is supplied are so profuse and
beautiful as to deserve especial mention.
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TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS.
NOVEMBER, 1887.
rt, and Irmer. Among
Agassiz and Evolution, Joseph Le Conte. Pop. Science.
American Board, The. H. A. Hill. Andover.
Amherst College, Society at. R. S. Rounds. Lippincott.
Ancient Cities of New World, Geo. C. Noves. Dial.
Athlete, Physique of the D, A. Sargent. Scribner.
Basements, Unhealthfulness of. W.0. Stillman. Forum.
Blind as Students. E. B. Perry. Century.
Books That Have Helped Me. Brander Matthews. Forum.
Buenos Ayres. W. E. Curtis. Harper.
Chantilly, Château of. Theodore Child. Harper.
Cbristianity and Communism, H. Van Dyke, Jr. Forum.
Climatic Resorts, Winter. W. S. Brown, Harper.
College Composite Photographs. J. T. Stoddard. Century.
Constitution, Adoption of. John Fiske. Atlantic.
Critics. J. L. Allen. Forum.
Economic Disturbances since 1873. D. A. Wells. Pop. Sci.
English Writers. Morley on. M. B. Anderson, Dial.
Evolution and Am, Zoologists. E. S. Morse. Pop. Science.
Fiction, Recent. Wm. Morton Payne, Dial.
Fort George Island. S. G. W. Benjamin. Atlantic.
Fortunes, Limitation of. E. T. Peters. Forum.
French and English. P. G. Hamerton. Allantic.
Geography, Teaching of. F. A. Fernald. Popular Science.
Grand Kabylia, Algeria. H. M. Field. Scribner.
Grant's Last Campaign. Horace Porter, Century.
Idealism. G. Bradford, Jr. Andover.
Indians, Food Plants of. J.S. Newberry. Pop. Science.
Kitchen College, A. H. B. Davies. Popular Science.
ative Bodies, Incompetence of. Chas. Fiske. Cent.
Life, Object of. W. S. Lilly. Forum.
Lincoln, Abraham. Hay and Nicolay. Century.
Lyman, Chester S. Popular Science.
Lynching. Charles F. Deems. Century.
Miles's Engagement, Gen. 0, 0. Howard. Overland.
Ministers, Professional Education of. Andover.
Mount Vernon. Mrs. Sophie B. Herrick, Century.
Negro Vote, Is It Suppressed? A, H. Colquitt. Forum.
ean. Avoidable Dangers of. V. L. Cottman, Forum.
Oriental Art. Percival Lowell. Atlantic.
Oyster-Fattening. W. 0, Atwater. Popular Science.
Panama Canal. G. C. Hurlburt. Forum.
Paul's Theology. Lyman Abbott. Andover.
Rocky Mountains, The. Clinton Scollard. Overland.
Russian Liberals. George Kennan, Century.
Saint Gaudens, Augustus. Kenyon Cox, Century.
Saint Gaudens's Lincoln, Mrs. van Rensselaer. Century.
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DECEMBER, 1857. No. 92.
CONTENTS.
A NEW BOSWELL. Merille B. Anderson ..... 177
THE GENESIS OF CONSTITUTIONS. J. 0. Puree 190
THACKERAY'S LETTERS. Eduard Gilpin Johnson · 181
RECENT BOOKS OF POETRY. William Morton Payne 183
HOLIDAY P('BLICATIONS .......... 197
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Henry IV.-Lowell's Sir Launfal.-Meynell's The
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Bruce's Old Homestead Poems. Zogbaum's Horse,
Foot, and Dragoons. -Tennyson's Enoch Arden.
Sohiller's Song of the Bell. Goldsmith's The De-
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- Brunner and Tryon's Interior Decoration.--
Gregory's The Photogravure Calendar.- Wesley's
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Susie Barstow Skelding's The Harbingers of
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lads-May Lakeman's Faith's Festivals.-- Words
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BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG........... 191
Boyesen's The Modern Vikings. Weir Mitchell's
Prince Little Boy.-Scudder's The Book of Folk
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-Cox's The Brownies. Hale's In His Name --
Finley's Elsie's Friends at Woodburn. -Joanna
11 Mathews's I'ncle Rutherford's Attic. Brilads
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Sarah Doudney's Prudence Winterbura. - Miss
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Frances Baylor's Juan and Juanita knox's
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- n, Spofford's Ballads about Authors. – Miss
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Mayo's Kaloolah. ('ounters D'Aulnoy's Fairy
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Merrill's Bible stories Amy E. Blanchard's Ida
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A NEW BOSWELL.*
A more excellent specimen of the book-
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seldom been seen of late. Mr. Birkbeck Hill's
stately octavos present a strong contrast, inside
and out, to ('roker's edition of 1831, to which
Macaulay applied the words used by Johnson
concerning a certain piece of roast mutton :
" It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-
killed, ill-kept, ill-dressed.” It is scarcely too
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edition, which called out the famous essays of
Macaulay and Carlyle. Better reviews than
these it will hardly call forth, but it will do
what is better,-it will compel the literary
world to revise its judgments of Johnson and
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than Carlyle's must be substituted.
The mythologizing tendency of the human
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with the gods of Greece. The Ormusd and
Ahriman of modern hero-worship and icono.
clasm, in their alternating and fluctuating
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('arlyle than from the sincere narrative of Bos.
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of his school edition of the selected “Lives of
• BOSWELL'S LITs or JOHNSON, Including Boswell's
Journal of Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary
of a Journey into North Wales. Edited by George Birk.
beck 11111, D.CL. Pembroke (ollege, Oxford. In six
volume, Orford at the Clarendon Press, New York
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many amusing and touching instances of this, and pertinency are admirable. Boswell's every
in at least one of which the equable Sir Joshua word has been scanned, every quotation veri-
himself was so ruffled that he gave Johnson a fied, every literary or historical allusion fol-
stinging retort, which elicited a very humble lowed out and explained, every personal men-
response. Johnson indicated his own practice tion supplemented, corrected, or confirmed,
when he said concerning animated conversa -in brief, the editorial torch is thrust into
'tion : “I do not mean that the victor must every dark corner. Does Boswell inclose in
have the better of the argument, for he may quotation-marks the common enough phrase
take the weak side; but his superiority of parts The busy haunts of men,' the editor vigilantly
and knowledge will necessarily appear :" pres corrects, “The busy hum of men, Milton's
ently quoting the Latin saying,—It is more L'Allegro, l. 118." "Does Boswell mention
eligible to go wrong with Scaliger than to be General Oglethorpe as a patron of Johnson's
right with Clavius.” Johnson had a soldierly early poem, “London,” Mr. Hill appends two
liking for an equal foeman such as he found interesting notes concerning that worthy,-
in Burke alone. Once, being ill, he said of notes whose object is not to save us the trou-
Burke: “That fellow calls forth all my powers. ble of consulting an encyclopædia, but to
Were I to see Burke now it would kill me.” | illustrate the different phases of Oglethorpe's
And Boswell adds: “So much was he accus character and activities by citations from Pat-
tomed to consider conversation as a contest, tison's “Pope," Southey's “Wesley," Frank-
and such was his notion of Burke as an lin's “Memoirs,” and Horace Walpole's “Let-
opponent.” Were the caution not so con ters.” Mr. Hill's method as an editor is not
stantly overlooked, it would seem needless to the cheap one of giving us what we could,
point out that a man of such forensic habits of with a little trouble, find out for ourselves. He
talk is not to be judged by isolated dicta and makes us sharers, rather, in his own unparal-
passionate outbursts, but rather by the whole leled erudition, which has enabled him to find
favor of his life and conversation.
unexpected elucidation and confirmation of
Let it not be supposed that I think Boswell Boswell's narrative in a great variety of
is to be reproached and called bad names, after sources, some of them unexpected enough, and
the manner of Macaulay, for the part he played to add a great number of particulars over-
toward Johnson. The faults referred to are looked by the indefatigable biographer. For
inherent in his method, which is really the best it must be remembered that even Boswell's
imaginable. If Johnson has been in a thou knowledge of Johnson was but fragmentary
sand ways misrepresented and misconceived, and partial. Boswell, who seems to be cred-
the blame is to be parcelled out pretty equally ited by Mr. Hill with that infinite capacity for
between two classes of persons. These are, | taking pains which has been identified with
first, the tattlers, fabricators, and misquoters genius, resided near Johnson, in the aggre-
who have jointly and severally contributed to gate, for but two years and two months of his
create and swell the Johnson legend; secondly, life, so that the most precious part of what
the hard-headed, censorious readers and public we owe him, the conversations of Johnson,
teachers whose contracted imaginations have constitute altogether only a bucketful out of
not permitted them to take Johnson's words the great stream of his talk. Had other
with the grains of allowance due to the mood, friends turned their opportunities to half so
the moment, the company, and the aim. good an account, what an enhanced apprecia-
This edition contains the materials for a | tion we might have had of Johnson's great-
new compendious biography of Dr. Johnson | ness! As it is, we have probably lost more
which shall include much that is fresh and of Johnson than of any of his great contem-
shall throw new light on the character of its poraries. Most of them had the art of put-
illustrious subject. Where is the Macaulay ting their best selves into the books they
or the Leslie Stephen who will attempt the wrote ; while Johnson, great as he is in his
work? Many of Johnson's letters here for books, is thoroughly himself only in conver-
the first time see the light. Questions that sation. Goldsmith “talked like poor Poll”;
require fuller discussion than can be given in Gibbon wrote a life of himself; and of Burke
footnotes are exhaustively handled in appen it was eminently true that his public speeches
dices. A dozen pages are not found too many and papers revealed the man as other men
for a partial list of the works quoted in the only reveal themselves in private correspond-
notes. The index, which fills 288 pages of ence and conversation, and sometimes in auto-
the sixth volume, is probably one of the best biography. When we consider, however, how
ever made for a work of this kind. The con- | little we know of the private life and conver-
cordance of Johnson's sayings, covering 34 sation of Edmund Burke, and of Johuson be-
pages, is very useful, although it might profit fore Boswell's day, we are grieved to think
ably be greatly extended. The notes cover far that so much of virtue, wit, and greatness of
more space than the text, although the text is in soul should have been overtaken by the swift
larger print; their thoroughness, minuteness, I darkness that pursues all things human. And


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the Poets." What a pity that a critic with “talked for victory,” sustaining some strange
such a gift for writing with his eye upon the thesis suggested by the exigencies of discus.
object did not attempt an independent re sion, the desire to correct extreme views, the
construction of Johnson and Boswell! Mr. instinct of fairness, or the thinker's impulse to
Birkbeck Hill, whose fitness for such a task is ventilate thoroughly every side of a question.
even greater, tells us that he had originally Like Lessing, he frequently took the less
intended to enlarge this edition by essays on 1 tenable side for the sake of seeing what could
Johnson, Boswell, Mrs. Thrale, etc., and hints be said, of exbibiting his own powers, and
that he still looks forward to the composition perhaps in order to "give points" io a less able
of such essays, which are, indeed, the one thing opponent. Thoroughly knowing his com-
needful to round out the work to perfection. panions and sure of their indulgence, he was
One of the chief reasons why Johnson and sometimes personal or violent, whimsical or
Boswell have assumed in the popular appreci. charmingly garrulous, letting himself go as he
ation & semi-legendary aspect, has never been never would have done had he suspected that
properly emphasized. It is that the conversa he was being interviewed--not for the morn-
tional obiter dicta of Johnson, as recorded by ing papers but for all time. On one occasion
Boswell, have been invested with an almost he let fall an unconsidered remark about art,
Biblical seriousness and solemnity. Thus and was mortified when some one repeated it,
Johnson's flings at the Scotch, the French, the a moment later, to Sir Joshua Reynolds, whose
Americans, the Whigs, have been soberly inter ear-trumpet had not been adjusted. What,
preted as proofs of a mental narrowness, a then, would have been his feelings had he
spiritual near-sightedness, a contraction of dreamed that his freaks and crotchets and
imagination, a virulence of partisanship, quite perversities were to be trumpeted into the long
at variance with the large make of the man, deaf ears of coming generations ! One has no
Why is it not understood that Johnson is a right to blame Boswell, but it must be admitted
whimsical humorist as well as a grave moralist, that there is in the method of this immortal
and that his gibes at the Scotch are to be taken interviewer an unavoidable unfairness that
much as we take similar deliverances from might have been urged in extenuation of his
Sydney Smith and Charles Lamb? It is evi. assassination by Johnson. Too frequently
dent to the sympathetic student of his charac-| Johnson's every word is faithfully set down, as
ter that his heated outbursts against the if pour serrir at the Judgment Day, without
Americans,-e. !., “I am willing to love all the modifying circumstance, gesture, or twinkle
mankind, except an American,"--are by no of the eye which reveals tenderness in the
means to be taken as the expression of mature | surly word, or good-nature beneath the crab-
conviction. If he said, as is reported, that if bed exterior.
he supposed Boswell was intending to write That, for Johnson, conversation was play,
his life he would prevent it by taking Bos. indulged in with boyish want of self-restraint,
well's, Boswell would scarcely have been justi of forethought, and of afterthought, is amply
fied in taking the precaution to have his in evidence. It was a wrestling-bout, in which
formidable potential assassin bound over to he is the best man who floors his antagonist.
keep the peace. Similarly, by reason of cer. * Oratory," said he, “is the power of beating
tain strictures of Johnson's upon Shakespeare down your adversary's arguments, and putting
and Milton, it has been industriously taught better in their place." In conversation, which,
that Johnson was incapable of appreciating as being private and informal, stands in strong
these poets. Those who cherish the second. | contrast to oratory, the power of “beating
band opinion that the great critic was the down" alone was sufficient, without too great
victim of such atrophy of poetic sensibility as solicitude as to how the argument thus laid
the candid Darwin confesses in himself, would low was to be replaced. “You would not
be astonished to discover how frequently John. i jostle a chimney-sweeper," said Dr. Adams of
son spoke and wrote in reverent and discrim- Pembroke ('ollege. "Yes, sir," said the virile
inating praise of Shakespeare and Milton Johnson, “if it were necessary to jostle him
Again, those who treat all Johnson's con. | down." Goldsmith's saying about the butt.
versational utterances as the matured opinions, end of the pistol has become hackneyed, but
of the man, by which he must stand or fall, do ! the following is less familiar : “ There's no
not sufficiently consider the peculiar conditions' chance for you," said he, “in arguing with
of conversation. In the easy familiarity of Johnson. Like the Tartar horse, if he does
friendly intercourse, Johnson, like most other not conquer you in front, his kick from behind
men, frequently let fall remarks the bearing is sure to be fatal.” Reynolds says that he
of which, like those of another philosophic fought with all sorts of weapons, thinking it
worthy, “lies in the application." Stimulated necessary never to be worsted in argument;
by copious libations of tea, by the presence of but if, after the heat of the contest, he found
an admiring circle, and by the arguments and that his antagonist felt hurt, “ he was the first
retorts of acute and witty antagonists, he often to seek after a reconciliation." There are


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when we reflect what we should have missed right of sovereignty rests,” says he, “I shall
had Boswell not employed as he did those two not concern myself.” The existence of Sov-
precious years of companionship, all spirit of ereignty as a fact it would be absurd to doubt.
fault-finding sinks in a rising tide of admira- Government implies Sovereignty; its entire
tion and gratitude. No higher praise can be absence would be Anarchy. Government in
given Mr. Birkbeck Hill than to say that the the United States, republican and constitu-
manner in which he has performed this great tional in form, has existed for a century as a
task entitles him to be ranked with Boswell fact, and is to-day potent to throttle and sub-
as one of the literary benefactors of mankind. due Anarchy. It is not material to the right-
MELVILLE B. ANDERSON. ful exercise of such Sovereignty that we
should clearly diagnose either its legal or its
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metaphysical origin.
THE GENESIS OF CONSTITUTIONS.* The practical questions which address them-
Judge Jameson's well-known treatise has
selves to Judge Jameson are: Where in the
American state does Sovereignty reside? And
grown in value and importance during the
how does it there exist? These lead up to
quarter-century since its first appearance. It
is that American institution, the written con-
and involve other questions which have been
stitution, which calls for the friendly offices of
largely treated as fundamental to our national
politics. Are the states of the American
the Constitutional Convention; and the pres-
Union sovereign ? Was the Federal Consti-
entation of the fourth edition of this treatise
brings with it a fresh suggestion of the pe-
tution formed by a compact between thirteen
culiarly American flavor of the book.
sovereign states? Does the Union exercise a
The
making and amending of constitutions is one
partial Sovereignty delegated by those states ?
Did that compact open at the organization of
of our industries; and the author's statistical
table chronicles 192 conventions, held for these
each new state, admitting it thereto as a
purposes, since “the embattled farmer stood
grantor ab initio, equally with the original
thirteen, of a portion of the delegated Sover-
and fired the shot heard round the world.”
eignty? But questions like these, in the light
Evidently the American mind is losing none
of its old-time preference for written over
of Judge Jameson's comments, are seen to be
unwritten constitutions. This great develop-
speculative rather than practical. Sovereignty
is political supremacy. It implies, in the feli-
ment of constitution-making naturally stimu-
citous language of Austin, habitual obedience
lates inquiry concerning the agency by which
to the sovereign as a political superior, such
the work is done.
superior not being in a like habit of obedience
An understanding of the process of con-
to any superior. The United States govern-
struction will be a pertinent introduction to a
ment exacts and receives, but does not give,
critical examination of the constitution itself,
habitual obedience. The United States thus
and a treatise on the subject might appropri-
exercises Sovereignty, and is therefore a Na-
ately be made a preliminary study to a course
of lectures on Constitutional Law. It is but
tion. Its power thereunto is conferred upon
a fair estimate of the high merits of Judge
it by the body of the American people. The
whole people is therefore the body in which
Jameson's work, to anticipate that it will be
Sovereignty in this Nation primarily resides.
accorded such a place in every American school
The Federal government and the State gov-
of law or of history, and that it will in time
be recognized as an American classic. In this
ernments are agencies, or, in the language of
Austin, “subject-ministers" of that Sovereign;
author's work, the powers of a mind trained
the first named for general and national, the
in law and logic are combined with a lofty
| last named for local purposes. The phrase
patriotism and a common-sense competent to
“sovereign state” is an unfortunate misnomer;
test specious theories. These characteristics
unfortunate, because it has proved misleading.
find apt play in his discussion of the question
Each state is, for local purposes, and within
of Sovereignty, a discussion preparatory to a
definite limitations, vested with supreme power;
consideration of the powers of a constitution-
but this vestiture is a grant from the Sover-
making convention. He treats Sovereignty
eign, not an exercise by the state as a sover-
as essentially a political and legal fact; a fact
eign, of its own Sovereignty.
which is no less credible because we have not
Aside from the demonstration of the cor-
first accounted philosophically for its exist-
rectness of this theory, afforded by the results
ence. Hence the various theories as to its
origin, while succinctly stated in a note, are
of the civil war, it is evidently growing into
universal acceptance among publicists. Many
dismissed as theories merely. “With the ab-
essayists besides Jameson have recently
stract question of the ground upon which the
adopted it after careful study and research,
*A TREATISE ON CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTIONS: Their and now sustain it stoutly upon logical and
History, Powers, and Modes of Proceeding
John legal grounds. A valuable contribution to the
Alexander Jameson, LL.D. Fourth Edition, Chicago:
Callaghan & Co.
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article in the American Law Review (Vol. 21,
p. 399), by Robert Ludlow Fowler. Inquiry
is there made into the historical source of the
governmental powers exercised under our con-
stitution by the Federal government and the
states respectively. It is clearly shown that
the powers of government, formerly exercised
by the several states in their colonial capaci.
ties, and retained by them as states, corre-
spond closely to those exercised, under the
British constitution of two or three centuries
since, by the parliament in England; while
those powers which the colonies never at-
tempted to exercise, but which were assumed
successively by the Continental Congress and
the congress of the Confederation, and which
devolve upon the Federal government under
the constitution, are those which under the
same British constitution were the acknowl-
edged prerogatives of the sovereign, the
Crown.
Jameson's discussion of these questions leads
up to the conclusion that Sovereignty is not
inherent in the Constitutional Convention, nor
is it vested therein by transfer from the sov-
ereign. The Convention is neither the people
nor a substitute for the people; it is merely a
convenient agent, appointed by the people,
and charged with certain duties. As such
agent, it must act within the limits of its del-
egated authority. This axiomatic proposition
is used by our author to illustrate the powers
which it may properly exercise, in each of
the following respects; (1) in the relations
of the convention to the sovereign; (2) in
its relations to the State as a whole; (3) in
its relations to the electors; (4) in its rela-
tions to each of the three great co-ordinate
departments of the government; (5) in its in-
ternal relations, its powers to control its own
members, fill vacancies, punish offenses, and
order its business, and its attempts to prolong
its own existence. To all these subjects, which
have at various times occupied the attention
of Constitutional Conventions, Judge Jameson
gives the light of his close and logical reason-
ing, from the premises of the fundamental
principle above stated. He recognizes many
of the questions discussed by him as to some
extent still open, and it is his aim to give ma-
terial aid in their settlement, not by attempt-
ing to decide them, but by participating in
their argument. Readiness to argue legal and
political questions so vital, in a manner so
thorough, dispassionate and exhaustive, and
to wait patiently for the calm decision of the
people's tribunal, is a rare trait in our profes-
sional writers; and the nation is fortunate in
the citizenship of one so willing as Judge
Jameson to discharge this duty to his coun-
JAMES 0. PIERCE.
THACKERAY'S LETTERS.
How often have we looked regretfully at
the row of volumes on our bookshelves, pur-
porting to be “The Complete Works of Will-
iam Makepeace Thackeray,” feeling that here
was a source of enjoyment whose early zest
and freshness had departed. The hand that
wrote, the brain that conceived, have long
since lost the power of moving us to tears or
laughter. “The literary play has been played
out, the puppets locked up for good and all,"
and the curtain—“slow falling to the prompt-
er's bell," — has dropped forever.
It is certainly, then, an agreeable surprise
to find that one more work of Thackeray,
from a source unforseen, may be added to our
libraries. The volume in hand ranks easily,
in point of interest, with the best epistolary
literature, and has the rare merit of compris-
ing letters written under circumstances assur-
ing us that they came straight from the heart
of the writer. The regard entertained by
Thackeray for Mrs. Brookfield was of a nature
to be understood only by those capable of
appreciating the rare purity and unselfishness
of his character. To view the letters by them-
selves, and to speculate, in a spirit of “Jen-
kinsism,” upon certain revealed possibilities
which vanish the moment we reflect that it is
Thackeray who writes, is unfair, and a shabby
return to the lady who has kindly afforded us
this opportunity of drawing nearer to the
great novelist.
The pages of this tempting book are aglow
with the chivalrous devotion that character-
izes the best known type of Thackeray's
heroes, and reveals unmistakably the source
of his matchless power of delineating it. No
man can perfectly describe an emotion that he
has not felt. As we read the letters to Mrs.
Brookfield, we realize that Colonel Newcome,
Esmond, and William Dobbin are but mirrors
reflecting the loyal soul of the writer himself.
He writes at all times, and from all places;
everything, however remotely, connected with
his friend, interests him. Her husband and
child are objects of his affectionate regard,
and .even the domestics, Payne and Turpin,
claim his notice. Sentimentalism aside, and
disclaiming any idea of comparing the Rever-
end Mr. Brookfield with George Osborn, one
is often reminded of the devotion of Dobbin
to Amelia, remembering how the kind-hearted
Major watched over her selfish husband, and
bestowed preposterous toys upon her boy. All
honor to the man who is capable of these
sentiments, and to the woman who can inspire
try.
them.
The letters are sometimes playful, often
*A COLLECTION OF LETTERS OF THACKERAY 1847-1855.)
With Portraits and Reproductions of Letters and Draw.
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satirical, but an attentive reader will not fail so lightly that we must laugh with the rest.
to note the frequent outcropping of a vein of
reflectiveness, the half-expressed conviction "Have you heard that I have found Beatrix at
that the world is, after all, but Vanity Fair. New York? I have basked in her bright eyes, but
The jest is often checked by the sigh, the sigh ah, me! I don't care for her, and shall hear of her
by the jest; he wishes to be gay, amusing, to
| marrying a New York buck with a feeling of per-
present a cheerful front to the disenchantments
fect pleasure. She is really as like Beatrix as that
fellow William and I met was like Costigan. She
of life; he reproduces Costigan's brogue,
has a dear woman of a mother, upwards of fifty-
Jeames' “igstrawrnry” orthography, and rem.
five, whom I like the best, I think, and think the
iniscences of genial F. B.; the pages abound
handsomest, - a sweet lady. . . . I can't live
in the most whimsical sketches, many of them without the tenderness of some woman; and expect
representing himself in ludicrous situations — when I am sixty, I shall be marrying a girl of
“conthraytongs,” as Costigan would say,- but twelve, innocent, barley-sugar-loving, in a pinafore.
it is the sombre face of Esmond that peeps
... The lectures are enormously suivies, and I
oftenest from the lines.
read at the rate of a pound a minute nearly. . .
The prettiest girl in Philadelphia has read · Vanity
The book is a veritable mine of good things
ngs | Fair i twelve times. . . . There was a young
in the way of anecdote, and an idea of it cannot
Quakeress at the lecture last night listening about
be better conveyed than by selecting a few of Fielding. Lord! Lord! How pretty she was!
them. He writes from Brussels:
There are hundreds of such everywhere, airy little
“At the table d'hôte I sat next to a French gentle-
beings, with magnolia — no, not magnolia, what is
man and his lady. She first sent away the bread; she
that white flower you make bouquets of, camilla or
then said, 'mais, mon ami, ce potage est abominable;'
camelia — complexions, and lasting not much
then she took a piece of pudding on her fork, not
longer."
to eat but to smell, after which she sent it away. I cannot refrain from quoting at length an
Experience told me it was a little grisette giving | undated fragment epitomizing Thackeray's
herself airs, so I complimented the waiter on the views on religion and human life. It is so thor-
bread, recommended the soup to a man, and took
oughly wholesome, so happily at variance with
two portions of the pudding under her nose.”
a certain morbid phase of thought in vogue
Could George Warrington, of the pipe and now-a-days, that it comes upon one refreshingly
shabby shooting-jacket, or honest Fred Bay - like a sea-breeze. We readily understand
bam, have done more?
that this strong, self-contained Englishman
He advises Mr. Brookfield emphatically : was not the one to torment himself to the
“Get David Copperfield; by Jingo it's beauti verge of suicide with self-evolved, inexplicable
ful; it beats the yellow chap. of this month problems of existence. He seems to have
hollow.” Indeed, the letters abound in allu taken life for granted, so to speak, thankfully
sions to his great rival, showing how thoroughly accepting the good, and bravely encountering
he appreciated him, and how ready he was to the evil; and whatever doubts he may have
acknowledge that the excellence of his work entertained as to the ultimate questions of life,
spurred him to greater exertion.
he wisely kept locked in his own breast, not
“Have you read Dickens," he writes. “Oh! it deeming them of sufficient importance to be
is charming! brave Dickens! It has some of his | placed under glass for the inspection of the
very prettiest touches — those inimitable Dickens | multitude. A wholesome dash of the national
touches which make such a great man of him; and
positivism in Thackeray's nature protected his
the reading of the book has done another author a
sympathies with the lower classes from exag-
great deal of good. . . . Secondly, it has put
geration. He recognized the fact, ever patent
me upon my metal and made me feel that I must do
something; that I have fame and name, and family
to a healthy mind, that each class can find
to support."
profit and pleasure within its own sphere; that
it is no more necessary for the man of letters
At Brighton Thackeray meets Mr. Fon-
blanque, and Richard Sheil the Irish orator,
to seek happiness at the cobbler's bench, than
for the cobbler to forsake his last, and betake
and the wife of the latter. He writes:
himself to literature with a like object.
“It was as good as Mrs. O'Dowd, to hear Mrs.
The “Letters of Thackeray” is a well-
Sheil interrupt her Richard, and give her opinions
on the state of Ireland to those two great, hard-
bound, well-printed, thoroughly readable book,
headed, keen, accomplished men of the world.
chiefly valuable for the insight it affords us
Richard listened to her foolishness with admirable of the writer's personal character. It has
forbearance and good humor. I am afraid I don't been styled “a new classic," and not unjustly;
respect your sex enough though. Yes, I do, when although it is not to be inferred that the let-
they are occupied with loving and sentiment rather
ters are recommended as a standard of episto-
than with other business of life.”
lary excellence. Their extremely unconven-
Thackeray treats the Americans in a thor tional tone and intentional solecisms are
oughly good-natured way — for an English Thackeray's own, and would scarcely be safe
man; is ready to admire our good qualities, in other hands.
and, upon occasion, lays on the satirical lash
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RECENT BOOKS OF POETRY. * this. But, while giving Mr. Howells all
Mr. Howells's work upon the “Modern Ital-
praise for his industry, it must be stated that
ian Poets,” which was announced some time
but few of his translations reproduce the poet-
ical feeling or the subtler harmony of their
ago, has at last been published. As the trans-
lations which it contains constitute a more
originals. Occasionally, the work is admira-
ble from every standpoint ; but more often we
prominent feature of the work than its critical
have literal faithfulness and little else. The
portions, it may fitly be reviewed in the present
translations, like Mr. Howells's original verse,
article. The work has occupied Mr. Howells
show a defective sense of the rhythmical quali-
for a long time. Begun in Italy twenty years
ago, it has been continued fitfully” during
ties of poetry. In his best passages the harmony
the period between that time and the present.
is not sustained for more than a few lines at a
time. Here, for example, is a passage, de-
The completed work forms “a sketch, however
scriptive of the harvesters of the Campagna,
slight and desultory, of the history of Italian
poetry during the hundred years ending in
which opens admirably :
“What tiine
1870,” After an introductory chapter upon
In hours of summer, sad with so much light,
the Arcadian literature of the last century,
The sun beats ceaselessly upon the fields,
there are sketches of a biographical and crit-
The harvesters, as famine urzes them,
Draw hither in thousands, and they wear
ical nature, illustrated by copious translations,
The look of those that dolorously go
of eighteen Italian poets, among whom we
In exile, and already their brown eyes
find the great names of Alfieri, Manzoni, and
Are heavy with the pyison of the air."
Leopardi ; the distinguished names of Parini,
Such a line as that italicised would ruin any
Monti, Foscolo, Pellico, and Giusti; and the passage, and such linés constantly recur in the
comparatively unknown names (that is, outside
blank verse, the form into which a large pro-
of Italy) of Grossi, Carrer, Berchet, Niccolini, portion of the translations are cast. Mr.
Dall' Ongaro, Prati, Aleardi, Carcano, Fusi Howells has come nearer to writing good blank
nato, and Mercantini. The prose part of Mr.
verse in his translations from Aleardi than in
Howells's work may be dismissed very briefly.
those made from either Alfieri or Manzoni.
It is pleasant reading, but he has depended | In his treatment of stanzaic forms Mr. Howells
mainly upon the standard Italian works for has done some surprisingly good metrical
his biography, and upon Emiliano-Giudici, work,- good, that is, as far as the reproduc-
De Sanctis, and Arnaud, for his criticism. It
tion of the form is concerned, for the best of
is essentially as a volume of translations that it fails somehow to have the poetic glow of
the value of the work is to be estimated.
the original, or to move us in like fashion.
It is evident at the first glance that these
The chorus from Manzoni's “Carmagnola,”
translations have involved a great deal of
for example, is translated with astonishing
work. Their literalness and their reproduc-
fidelity to the movement of the Italian, but it
tion of the original metres afford evidence of does not produce a similar poetic impression.
The fact is, that such stanzaic forms are foreign
* Modern ITALIAN POETs. Essays and Version 3. By
to the genius of English verse, and English
W. D. Howells. New York: Harper & Brothers.
verse put into their mould cannot be anything
THE POEMS OF GIACOMO LEOPARDI. Translated by
Frederick Townsend, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. but wooden. We will take in illustration,
UNDERWOODs. By Robert Louis Stevenson. New York: instead of something from this chorus, a
Charles Scribner's Sons.
stanza from the more familiar ode on the
AFTER PARADISE; OR, LEGENDS OF EXILE. With Other
Poems. By Robert, Earl of Lytton (Owen Meredith).
death of Napoleon — the “ Cinque Maggio" of
Boston: Estes & Lauriat.
Manzoni. We have selected the one beginning
SELECT POEMs. By Algernon Charles Swinburne. New
“Come sul capo al naufrago.”
York: Worthington Co.
GARDEN SECRETS. By Philip Bourke Marston. Bos. Mr. Howells's version is as follows:
ton: Roberts Brothers.
“As on the head of the mariner,
SONGS OF THE MEXICAN SEAS. By Joaquin Miller. Bos.
Its weight some billow heaping,
ton: Roberts Brothers.
Falls even while the castaway
COLONIAL BALLADS, SONNETS, AND OTHER VERSES. By
With strained sight far sweeping,
Margaret J. Preston. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
Scanneth the einpty distances
BLOOMS OF THE BERRY. By Madison J. Cawein. Louis.
For some dim sail in vain;
ville: John P. Morton & Co.
So over his soul the memories
COLUMBUS; OR, A HERO OF THE NEW WORLD. An His.
Billowed and gathered ever!
torical Play. By D. S. Preston. New York: G. P. Put.
How oft to tell posterity
nam's Sons.
Himself he did endeavor,
IN REALMS OF GOLD. By James B. Kenyon. New York:
And on the pages helplessly
Cassell & Co.
Fell his weary hand again."
SOCIETY VERSE BY AMERICAN WRITERS. Selected by With the exception of the last two lines, and
Ernest De Lancey Pierson. New York: Benjamin and one word in another, this translation is per-
Bell.
fectly literal, and reproduces the exact met-
THE OLD GARDEN, AND OTHER VERSES. By Margaret
Deland. Boston: Houghton, Mimin & Co.
rical structure of the original. It must have
LYRICS. – THE NEW DAY,- THE CELESTIAL PASSION. been an exceedingly difficult thing to write it,
Three Books. By Richard Watson Gilder. New York: land vet. when written it is harsh and unpo-
The Century Company.


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etical. Now let us look at Mr. Parsons's trans Mr. Howells's version — and Mr. Howells is at
lation of the same stanza:
his best in his translation from Leopardi — is
“As on the shipwrecked seaman's head
as follows:
The o'erwhelming breakers pour,
“Weep, weep, for well thou mayst, my Italy!
Beyond whose foaming fury spread
Born, as thou wert, to conquest,
Around him and before,
Alike in evil and in prosperous sort!
The wretch had vainly gazed to see
If thy sweet eyes were each a living stream,
The intangible, far strand;
Thou couldst not weep enough
Thus o'er that strong but sinking soul
For all thy sorrow and for all thy shame,
Swept memory's whelming tide,
For thou wast queen, and now thou art a slave.
As oft his actions to enroll
Who speaks of thee or writes,
In Fame's records he tried;
That thinking on thy glory in the past
But from the everlasting scroll
But says, 'She was great once, but is no more.'
Fell, faint, his harassed hand.”
Wherefore, oh, wherefore? Where is the ancient
Here we have a version which very satisfac-
strength,
torily reproduces the poetical effect of the
The valor and the arms, and consiancy?
Who rent the sword from thee?
original, and by a slight modification of the
Wbo hath betrayed thee? What art, or what toil,
metrical structure is made thoroughly pleasing Or what o'erwhelming foe,
to the ear. It is not quite as literal, although
Hath stripped thy robe and golden wreath from thee?
How didst thou fall, and when,
the last two lines —
From such a height unto a depth so low?
“E sulle eterne pagine
Doth no one fight for thee, no one defend thee,
Cadde la stanca man!” –
None of thy own? Arms, arms! For I alone
are more literally translated than in Mr. How-
Will fight and fall for thee.
Grant me, 0 Heaven, my blood
ells's version ; but it is, as a whole, quite as
Shall be : s fire unto Italian hearts."
literal as a translation of so difficult a poem
Now we will turn to Mr. Townsend's version:
ought to be, when we consider that literalness
“Oh, weep, my Italy, for thou has cause;
is but one of a number of things to be Thou, who wast born the nations to subdue,
expected in such translations. But the volume As victor, and as victim, too!
Oh, if thy eyes two living fountains were,
of Mr. Howells is welcome, in spite of the
The volume of their tears could ne'er express
faults indicated by a judgment which may Thy utter helplessness, thy shame;
seem hypercritical ; and were it the work of a
Thou who wast once the haughty dame,
And, now, the wretched slave,
writer less able and less eminent than Mr.
Who speaks, or writes of thee,
Howells, it would, perhaps, in view of the low That must not bitterly exclaim:
standard of translation generally accepted, be "She once was great, but, oh, behold her now!'
Why hast thou fallen thus, oh, why?
unfair to criticise it as closely as we have
Where is the ancient force?
done.
Where are the arms, the valor, constancy?
A volume of translations from Leopardi, by Who hath deprived thee of tlıy sword?
What treachery, what skill, what labor vast,
Mr. Frederick Townsend, appears very oppor-
Or what o'erwhelming horde
tunely for consideration in connection with
Whose fierce, invading tide thou couldst not stem,
Mr. Howells's work. Mr. O. B. Frothing Hath robbed thee of thy robe and diadem?
From such a height how couldst thou fall so low?
ham furnishes an introduction to the volume,
Will none defend thee? No?
in which he tells us that Mr. Townsend was
No son of thine? For arms, for arms, I call;
born in New York, but lived many years Alone I'll fight for thee, alone will fall,
And from my blood, a votive offering
in Italy; that the present translation was
May flames of fire in every bosom spring!"
finished at Siena, and that it was the last work
Between these two translations it is difficult
ever done by Mr. Townsend. He also makes
to choose. The latter is much the less literal
the extraordinary statement that Leopardi is
of the two, the line in italics, for example,
“quite unknown in this country.” He is cer-
having absolutely no equivalent in the orig.
tainly known to everyone who knows anything
inal. But the general effect is admirable.
of Italian literature, and it would be equally
“Underwoods” is a volume of miscellane-
true to say that Ariosto and Alfieri are entirely
ous verse by Mr. Robert Louis Stevenson,
unknown. Mr. Townsend's translation in-
cludes all of the “Canti”- that is, all of the
nearly one-half of it being written in “Scots."
With a touch of his characteristic humor, the
poems of Leopardi except a few juvenile
author has dedicated the volume to the
pieces and the translations from the Latin and
numerous physicians whose advice he has
Greek literatures. The workmanship of the
sought of late years. “There are men and
translation is executed in a faithful and schol-
classes of men,” he says, “that stand above
arly fashion, with perhaps as close an adher-
the common herd: the soldier, the sailor, and
ence to the letter and metrical form of the
original as are consistent with good English
the shepherd, not unfrequently; the artist
rarely; rarelier still, the clergyman; the physi-
verse. It is interesting to compare this ver-
cian almost as a rule.”
sion with that made by Mr. Howells. For
Humor also touches
many of the verses, and notably those in the
this purpose we will take a passage from the
“Scots" section of the volume. The verse,
great ode to Italy -“ All'Italia,” — the pas-
as a whole, is serious but not pretentious. Its
sage beginning
chief characteristics are simplicity and exquis-
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ite choice of words. At no point does it else, having three poems to choose from the
become poetry in a high sense, but at no point “Poems and Ballads," have taken “A Forsaken
does it give offense, which is its highest Garden," "A Ballad of Dreamland," and "Ity.
praise. An occasional expression, such as the lus." The five selections from "A Midsummer
- Poor passionate men, still clothed afresh
Holiday" are among the least noteworthy of
With agonizing folds of flesh,"
the poet's achievements, and the same remark
descriptive of a monastic community, fastens may be made of some half dozen other poems
itself upon the mind, and an occasional simple which we find here. We do not mean to say
passage plucks at some inmost emotional tbat these poems are without absolute value,
chord so firmly that it vibrates long after. only that they are, with the exception of "ller-
Such a passage is surely the following “Re. tha" and "Å Forsaken Garden," relatively
quiem":
inferior. Among the finer poems chosen we
l’nder the wide and starry sky,
find the noble series “By the North Sea," sev-
Dig the grave and let me lle.
eral of the loveliest of the poet's child-lyrics,
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.
and the magnificent opening passage of "Tha-
lassius," as far as “The blood and spirit of
* This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies there he longed to be;
one but mortal boy," here entitled “A Foster-
Home is the milor, home from sou,
ling.” “Tristram of Lyonesse" is represented
And the hunter home from the hill."
at somewhat undue length by four passages;
The greater number of these pieces are of a "Atalanta" by the chorus “ We have seen thee,
personal nature, and dedicated to different () Love," etc., and the scene at the death of
friends of the writer. But they all have a Meleager; and “ Erechtheus" by the two great
larger than the personal interest which en choruses “Out of the north wind grief came
tirely warrants their publication,
forth” and “Let us lift up the strength of our
The Earl of Lytton shows a most commend | hearts in song." The remaining dramatic pas-
able perseverance in verse-making, and it is sages are a long scene from the second act of
unfortunate that the poetical gift is so entirely “Marino Faliero," and two from the Mary
denied him. He seems now even to have lost Stuart trilogy-the finest, perhaps, that there
the trick of the shallow melodies of “Lucile" are : the departure of the queen from Scot-
and “ The Wanderer," and his recent produc. land, and the scene between Mary Beaton and
tions are of a dreariness which could hardly the queen in Chartley Castle. It will be seen
be more pronounced. “After Paradise, or Le from what has been said that the dramatic
gends of Exile" is a series of rhymed fancies work of Mr. Swinburne is fairly well repre-
concerning the fortunes of Adam and Eve sented in this volume of selections, while the
after their expulsion from the Garden. The miscellaneous lyric work is so inadequately
miscellaneous pieces which fill out the volume represented that one can get from it no idea
are upon various subjects, handled in a more of the degree and the range of the author's
or less allegorical manner; the obvious intent power. This is unfortunate, because many
of this handling being to produce an im readers for many years to come are likely to
pression of the author's profundity, while its know Mr. Swinburne only through the pieces
actual effect is the production of a great wea | which this volume contains, the score or so of
riness of mind in the reader. It was unwise volumes which make up the original editions
to publish the “Lines Composed in Sleep." being inaccessible to the majority of readers.
One cannot help thinking of “Kubla Khan.” | One thing will greatly puzzle those who rely
Mr. Swinburne's volume of selections from upon this selection in forming their estimate
his own poems cannot fail to be something of of the poet: they will be quite unable to com-
a disappointment to those who are familiar prehend that chapter of modern literary his-
with his work. From no volume which omits tory which deals with the war waged upon
the “Ave Atque Vale” and “The Last Oracle". Mr. Swinburne by a certain class of critics
can the unfamiliar with that work know the twenty-five years ago. That attack, made in
highest height and the utmost power of his | the interests of something which was styled
poetical utterance. On the other hand, the “morality" by its censorious leaders, is diffi-
charge of wordiness, of indulgence in sound cult enough to understand in the light of all
which is not wholly sense-a charge which the documents, and will be found absolutely
finds little support in the greater part of Mr. unintelligible by those who take this selection
Swinburne's work-does find a certain amount | as fully representative of the work of Mr.
of justification in a number of the poems: Swinburne.
which he has seen fit to include in the present The “Garden Secrets" of the late Philip
collection. It is safe to say that no one but Bourke Marston are among the most delicate
Mr. Swinburne would have thought to ade and graceful productions of the true poet
quately represent the “Songs before Sunrise" whose sorrow-stricken life came to a not all
by “ Hertha," the sonnet “In San Lorenzo," | untimely end early in the present year. To
and “A Year's Burden." Nor would anyone collect and publish them in a volume by them-


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selves was a happy thought, and a pleasant | in return, now at the last, when the shadows
tribute to Marston's memory. Mrs. Louise begin to grow long, something of that consid-
Chandler Moulton, who was an intimate friend, eration which, thus far, has been accorded al.
of the poet, has furnished the volume with an ! most entirely by strangers ?"
introductory sketch, telling once more the sad The work of Mrs. Preston is always grace.
story of his brief life. Of these “Garden ful and sometimes strong. It is the expression
Secrets," some of which were published in of a cultured mind, in close sympathy with all
Marston's first volume in 1871, and the others the finer aspects of art and of human life.
in his third and last volume in 1883, Rossetti The religious note which is often dominant is
wrote to the author in these terms: “It is not not often obtrusively so, and is the expression
too much to say of them that they are worthy | of a sentiment about which there is nothing
of Shakespeare in his subtlest lyrical moods." | theatrical or insincere. The volume of “('olo.
The present volume contains them all, and a | nial Ballads, Sonnets, and Other Verse” repre-
few other poems similar in their inspiration, sents the writer at her best, and in a variety
notably the perfect lyric entitled “ Thy Gar of moods. The colonial and other ballads are
den."
simple, and generally in exquisite taste; but
Mr. Stedman speaks, we think, of the “fine i there is a higher poetical expression to be
surprises” offered by Joaquin Miller's verse. | found in the sounets, of which there are a con-
This might be taken to refer to such a pas- siderable number. Such sonnets as “ Sit, Jes-
sage as the famous one which opens the poem sica," “Dante Gabriel Rossetti," and "In the
to Walker of Nicaraguan celebrity-_" He was Pantheon” exhibit a feeling for rhythmical
a brick;" but, taken in the serious sense, it is harmony and a carefulness of workmanship
amply justified by any one of Miller's volumes, which are given to but few poets. We quote
The latest of them "Songs of the Mexican the sonnet first mentioned:
Seas"-has all the old beauties, and, it must be * 1 tbere she stoo1. that sweet Venetian night,
added, all the old faults of his manner. Let
Her pare ince lifted to the skies, swim
With stars from zenith to borizon's rim.
us make a quotation or two:
I think Lorenzo scarcely saw the light
* The rippled rivers of her hair,
Asleep upon the bank, or felt bow bright
That ran in wondrous waves, somehow
The patines were. She alled the heavens for him.
Flowed down divided by her brow,
ind in her low replies the cherubim
lladr mantled her within its cure,
Seemed softly quiring from some lofty beight.
And flooded all, as bronze or now,
In its uncommon fold aud flow."
* And when he drew her down and sootbed her tears,
llow could a poet append that careless last
Stirrel by the minstrelsy, with pasionate kiss,
verse to so glowing a stanza ? This is the typ-
Trembling, as ros* tremble after sips
ical fault of all Miller's work. We cannot Or mnger ters, the music of the spheres
read in it at any length without coming upon
Held not one rhythmie rapture like to this!"
some uncouth or prosaic suggestion which at
We find a touch of Mrs. Browning in many
once cools enthusiasm down to the freezing
of these poems, and especially in those upon
point. The feeling and the inspiration are
Italian subjects. "The Silent Trust" is a
there in abundance, but the lack of restraint, or,
striking example of this. We feel sure that
rather, of discipline, is the almost fatal defect.
| Mrs. Browning would have treated the subject
As a counterpoise, however, to the quotation
on in about the same way. A final word in praise
just made, we will give another of the same i
of the series of exquisite verses on the “Child.
length, and also, which is rare in Miller, of
hood of the Old Masters" should not be for.
sustained beauty.
gotten,
* Live me one day, one narrow night,
The increasing chorus of Southern song is
One second of supreme delight
swelled by a volume of verne entitled - Blooms
Like that, and I will blow like chat
of the Berry," the work of Mr. Madison J.
The hollow your side, and in agh
I loud triumphant laugh, and I.
(aw ein. We do not know that these "berry.
hing like and crowned, will kiadly die.** blooms" are, as the author suggests, "evanes.
The “Songs of the Mexican Sean" contains but cent as their dew;" we are inclined to think
two poems, both of them of discursively nar. thein entitled to a word of less negative praise.
rative character. They certainly show no de- I They show a sympathy with nature and a
cline of feeling or of the power to expres it.mantery of a certain sort of highly-colored
The pathetically - worded note which appears porticale prossion which promine** well, wben
at the close of the volume ought to touch the author shall have learned to exercise a lit
many heart, for surely the poet has not been tle more restraint, and a little greater care in
accorded all the recognition which he deseries his choice of words. There are marrd by some
of his fellow-country men. He writes: * From amount of affectation, and a certain training
the heart of the Sierris, where I one more for eitert which is unpleasant. Such a quat.
hear the awful heart-thrubs of Nature', I now rain in the fuilowing listintrates at their best
enerunt the first reception of these lesmotis en the y melods and the imagery which are
tirely to my own country; and may I no task i characteritie of the author's verne,
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“ The slanted storm tossed at their feet
The first edition of Mrs. Deland's - The Old
The frost-nipped autumn leaves;
The park's high pines were caked with sleet,
Garden, and Other Verses,” published a year
And ice.spears armed the eaves."
or more ago, escaped our notice for some rea-
Mr. Daniel S. Preston is the author of an son, and we seize the occasion of its reappear-
historical drama, having for its hero no less a ance in a new edition to add our word of
person than Columbus, and for its theme the recognition to the many tributes which these
discovery of the new world. It is written in verses have already received. They ring the
fine blank verse, and is eminently adapted for changes upon a few simple themes only: the
presentation upon the stage, in the opinion of flowers, the seasons, love, death, and religion;
so high an authority upon scenic matters as but in the treatment of these subjects there is
Mr. Edwin Booth, whose letter to the author an exquisite sense of balance and proportion,
is appended to the volume. But, whether it and a feeling for the subtler meanings and
should receive the honors of a stage presenta- associations of words that mark the verse as
tion or not, it is a noteworthy contribution to far above the average, and the writer as a
dramatic literature, and is well worth the pe person of unusually true poetical sensibilities.
rusal of lovers of poetry. Space does not per * The Old Garden” is a piece of imaginative,
mit us to make of the work the analysis which | fanciful verse of which any poet might be
it well deserves, or to illustrate its dramatic proud. Four lines are sufficient to illustrate its
force and dignity of diction. An introduc- | poetical quality.
tion, in exquisite verse, dedicates the work to “ Again the drifting shadows wheel and pass
Mr. Lowell, who speaks of it in terms of praise
Across the roof of some far cottage home
Set wbere the waves of golden meadow-grass
in a letter to the author.
Break with white ripples into daisy foam."
A series of pastoral or sylvan poems, con- The publishers have done well by this volume,
ventional in form and expression, and a sheaf | having given the verse a setting which makes
of sonnets, make up Mr. James B. Kenyon's of it as pretty a book as is often seen.
volume, happily called by bim “In Realms of
The poems of Mr. Richard Watson Gilder,
Gold.” Mr. Kenyon's verse is highly finished | published in a single volume two years ago,
and exquisitely melodious; its blending of have been produced in a new edition, and in
nature-worship with classical and historical three beautifully printed volumes, entitled re-
suggestion is accomplished with a degree of spectively “Lyrics,” “ The New Day," and
taste and feeling rare even with more prac “The Celestial Passion.” Besides the poems
tised singers. Two stanzas from “Echo's La-
formerly printed, there are something like a
ment” must here suffice for illustration.
score of new ones, and there has been a gen-
" Here in the shadows, on my changeless bed
eral rearrangement of them all. We can only
repeat what we said of the earlier edition of
Day after day, above my weary head
these poems, that they exhibit the poetical
Slow dripping from each gnarled and twisted bough,
feeling in a very high degree, and that they
Sbatters its big drops on my fiinty brow.
are singularly free from technical faults. The
sonnets, particularly, are very remarkable.
While their inspiration is derived largely from
The trailing banners of the mist are furled,
Rossetti, they are still strong and original
Dost thou not miss me by thy silver spring ?” work, following the spirit but not the letter
Mr. Ernest De Lancey Pierson is the editor
of their model.
of a volume of “society verse” selected from
WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE.
the younger school of American rhymers. It
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is surprising to see how large a number of
HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS.
versifiers have caught the trick of this sort of
composition, and how little of their own indi- | The same noble artistic interpretation of the
viduality they contrive to put into their verses. beauties of Keats which distinguished “Lamia"
There is hardly anything in the volume that among the holiday publications of 1885, has been
might not have been written by any one of
since applied by the illustrator, Mr. Will J. Low, to
his “Odes and Sonnets" (Lippincott). For fifteen
the versifiers whose names appear in the table
months Mr. Low made studies of the text in the stim-
of contents. The selections from Aldrich and
ulating atmosphere of Florence, bringing forth as the
Bunner, of course, rise much above the medi result of his labor forty art and decorative drawings
ocre average of the collection as a whole, but which are here reproduced by the process of photo-
the other pieces might be shaken up, and at gravure. They are beautiful works, well worthy their
tributed indiscriminately to the writers drawn companionship with the poet's verse. The chief
upon, without danger that any one besides
designs are delineations of the female figure, nude
and draped, and in either case are charming per-
the writers would know the difference. Such
sonations, chaste, lovely, and life-like. The artist's
pieces are pretty enough for the periodicals
imagination easily bore the strain of their concep-
in which they mostly see the light, but hardly | tion, as we see in the distinct individuality marking
worth any other kind of preservation.
the separate figures. Each is true to its intention
Beneath the somber trees, I long have lain;
The sad leaves rustle, and the chilly rain,
"AL! when the large, cool-breasted night hath drawn
Her star-wrought mantle from the waking world
And on the hills, where gleam the feet of Dawn,
O Narcissus, while the woodlands ring.


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in sentiment and action. The most impressive de- ||
| passed without comment. The minor illustrations
sign of all is the last but one of the series. In it we in the volume more nearly meet the requirements
look on the dead face of the poet, thrown up from of the theme, and in all cases are exquisitely cut by
the pillow, with bays covering the forehead, and an the engraver.
angel of solemn mien standing behind, touching a A series of sketches of prominent living painters
finger to her lip with fateful significance. In re- | and sculptors, contributed by Wilfrid Meynell to the
spect to paper, typography, and binding, the book “Magazine of Art,” has been republished in book
is a fac-simile of "Lamia."
form by Cassell & Co. The volume is inviting, with
The second number of the great work styled by its handsome cover and multitude of excellent and
its enterprising publishers (Cassell & Co.) “The diversified engravings. The letterpress is not with-
International Shakespeare,” contains the drama of out value, as it presents with some degree of literary
“King Henry IV.," richly illustrated by Edward skill many particulars in the personal history of
Grutzner. The volume has an imperial air, created members of the art guild, which are of interest to
by its grand dimensions, and the costly drapery of the world of art-lovers. But the title chosen is too
purple and fine linen, figuratively speaking, in comprehensive." The Modern School of Art” cov-
which it is arrayed. The text wears a look of un ers much more than fragmentary biographies of a
usual openness, being printed on luxurious paper, few leading artists, belonging almost exclusively to
handmade by Whatman, with red lettering inter England. The selection of subjects by the writer
spersed among the black in the headings and the seems to have been a matter of chance, for names
minor decorative designs. The binding is becom hardly known have an equal place with the most
ing in the plainness suited to books whose contents famous. Leighton is the first in the list, followed
are of a value impossible to be expressed by any by Nicol, Millais, Thornycroft, Hook, Boughton,
exterior display. "The drama of 1. Henry IV." is Halswelle, Fildes, Herkomer, and so on. One
prefaced by an able dissertation, stating the cir- woman, Mrs. Jopling, is admitted to the distinction
cumstances of its construction, and analysing its of a sketch, and three Frenchmen, Meissonier, Bon-
action and the chief characters in the plot. It is nat, and Legros; while at the last one of our own
from the same masterly hand which prepared the countrymen, Eastman Johnson, is honored with a
introduction to “Romeo and Juliet, the initial separate notice. The critical remarks of Mr. Mey-
play in the series,—that of Professor Dowden of nell are not calculated to secure respect; but his
Dublin University. The illustrations, reproduced gossipy account of the lives and homes of men who
by photogravure, will reward long and close study. in our day have made fame and money by their
The motive is vigorous, and is wrought out to the paintings and sculptures, is pleasant and entertain-
last detail with undiminished power. The figures ing reading.
are overflowing with energy, which is diffused A short study of the legend and the poem of
through every feature of their bodies and in every “Faust,” by William S. Walsh, is published in at-
curve and wrinkle of their garniture. They seem tractive holiday form by Lippincott. The essay is
to look, and move, and talk, and laugh, as do the able, and, within its scope, adequate to the theme.
burly creatures in Shakespeare's play, each in keep The author has extended his investigation into
ing with his part and faithful to his nature. The the sources of the legend among different obscure
Falstaff of the artist is the Falstaff of the poet; and authorities of the middle ages, tracing it through
so are Hal, and Percy, and the entire company. Of all its changes, from its origin in the actual personal-
the twelve drawings, four are full-page, and the ity of Dr. Faustus, who died in 1549, to its grand
remainder half the size.
development in the work of the great German poet.
In printing and binding, Houghton, Mifflin & Goethe's poem is closely analyzed and the signifi-
Co.'s holiday edition of Lowell's "Sir Launfal” re cance and connection of its different parts outlined.
flects honor upon their famous press. The book is The subject cannot be exhaustively treated within
printed on heavy card-board, the text being con the limits of a brief paper, but the learning and
fined to the right-hand pages. The thick leaves thought which Mr. Walsh has devoted to it render
open on hinges of linen, and are enclosed in a sub his effort highly satisfactory. His forcible and phi-
stantial binding of half-leather. The cover designs, losophical comments on the true interpretation
the work of Mrs. S. W. Whitman, are well executed. and acceptance of the lessons of the universe and
But in its illustrations the book is painfully disap of life are worthy of attention. The half dozen
pointing. The artists, upon whom so much de etchings by Henry Faber, scattered through the
pended, have failed either in earnestness of purpose volume, are examples of good work with the burin,
or capacity for conception. The portrait of Lowell but the design and the drawing are far from satis-
by Mr. Alexander is a travesty upon the face and factory.
figure we are accustomed to regard with the love and A sad interest attaches to the last book prepared
reverence due to exalted genius and character. The by the author of “John Halifax, Gentleman," for a
work of the engraver, Mr. Juengling, is excellent public which during nearly forty years has been re-
in all the illustrations, and almost redeems the in ceiving stories from her pen, all actuated by a high
efficiency of the designers. The landscapes of Smith, purpose, a pure spirit, a kindly heart, and a catholic
Crane, and Gifford possess a great deal of merit; but mind. Had Mrs. Mulock-Craik foreseen that this
the figure of Sir Launfal, as he sits at idle ease dally was to be her final written word, she could not have
ing with his hound or vaulting through the gloomy wished to make it more gentle and engaging. It
arch on his steed, has no relation to the knight of is a description of a late summer trip in a portion
the Round-table as he is described in the legends of of northern Ireland so seldom visited by English-
the search for the holy grail. The meaning of the men that it is truly to them, as Miss Mulock calls it,
figure by Freer is vainly sought, either in itself or "An Unknown Country.” She had three young
in the text to which it is attached ; and any beauty | girls as travelling companions, and was attended
for which to commend it is sought as vainly. The | by a special artist, Frederick Noel Paton, to make
representations of Christ, by Mowbray, may best be drawings by the way. The notes of her tour, which


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filled a month's holiday, are jotted down in a chatty These volumes are exquisitely printed and bound.
manner without pretense to the dignity of a histor. The reader must be hard to suit who cannot be con-
ical or didactic dissertation. They give, in an in- tented with some one of these excellent editions of
formal way, now a personal anecdote, now some this masterpiece of fiction.
description of the scenery, and again a fragment 1 Uniform with their edition of “Les Misérables,"
of history or an incident illustrating the condition of | Routledge & Sons have issued a handsome illus.
Ireland to-day. She looked about her impartially, trated edition of Alexandre Dumas' famous romance,
determined to learn from unprejudiced observation * The Count of Monte Cristo." The work is in five
some of the reasons for the misery existing in this solid octavo volumes, containing nearly five hun.
fair island. As for the remedy, this she was care- dred strong and spirited illustrations by De Staal,
ful not to prescribe; yet the reader divines the Beauce, and other eminent French artists. The
whole truth of the case in her discreetly measured į translation has been revised and corrected with
testimony. Her touch is light on every point, but great care, and ought to prove thoroughly satisfac-
the effect is vivid notwithstanding. The strokes tory. The volumes are beautifully printed by De
which reveal the loving, charitable, Christian nature | Vinne. Some tastes may object to the glossy paper
of the author's self are perhaps more valuable to | for the text, but its superiority for the cut-work is
her readers than any other part of the book. The obvious. The binding, in olive-green cloth, is at
illustrations are the work of a talented artist, whose once simple and elegant.
eye is as quick to see as his hand is to reproduce One of the least familiar of all Scott's narrative
whatever is salient and striking in the landscape poems, “ The Bridal of Triermain," is issued in a
before him. (Harper.)
showy holiday dress by Messrs. Lee & Shepard. It
Philip Gilbert flamerton's "The Saône" (Rob is a half-folio in form, with gilded covers, and full-
erts) is an account of the author's experiences in a page illustrations by Percy Macquoid. There are
summer voyage on that river. The excursion was elements of strength in the drawings which render
undertaken that Mr. Hamerton might make studies their defects emphatic by contrast. The concep-
from nature, to be set down with both pen and pen tion of Sir Roland is tolerably good, the grace and
cil. He was accompanied during a part of the vigor of knightly manhood blending in his person
journey by a fellow of the craft," Mr. Joseph Pen | and carriage. The representations of King Arthur
nell, who gave his time to making sketches of the are, on the other hand, decidedly ineffective. Plate
scenery through which they passed. Mr. Hamerton VI., in which the king and his steed take a flying
was meantime busy with literary work, which, as leap against & castle wall, is an amazing produc-
they travelled independently on a canal-boat fitted tion, and plate II. is almost as great a burlesque.
up for their convenience, he was able to perform in But there is a grandeur in the landscapes which
as congenial circumstances as could be desired. His compels a certain respect. The artist has a feeling
description of the journey was written in the form for the heroic, but not the power to give it proper
of letters to his publisher, and all who know his expression.
habitual fidelity to detail will understand that every Twenty-four sketches of “ Wild Animals in Cap-
circumstance, however small, was included. The tivity," by J. Fortuné Nott, with over forty full-
voyage was necessarily conducted in a slow and page illustrations by pen and camera, compose the
quiet fashion, favorable to the tastes and intentions substance of a large and inviting volume, published
of the party, and the spirit of the occasion perme. by Dodd, Mead & ('o. The sketches furnish well-
ates Mr. Hamerton's parrative. The drawings in digested life-histories of the noblest beasts which,
the book were made mostly by Mr. Pennell, the au taken from their native haunts in the wildernesses of
thor sharing but lightly in this department of the the earth, have been subject to captivity by man.
work. There are 148 sketches, and each is a perfect The author draws from a good and trustworthy
gem. The subjects in every instance are well-chosen store of knowledge derived more from books than
and are rendered with the most delicate, exquisite original sources. He has the tact of a scholarly
care. The engraving is as finished as the drawing. and practiced writer, who knows how to select and
Genius and conscience have worked together, and arrange his facts for the entertainment of the popu.
the result is delightful and elevating.
lar reader. His manner is dignified, and the matter
It is pleasant to note the awakening interest in presented is useful and instructive. The illustra-
America in the works of Victor Hugo. Last year tions are excellent reproductions of photographs
we had Prof. Anderson's admirable translation of from life.
Hugo's great work on Shakespeare, and also Rout The rhymed story of " Geraldine,” which would
ledge's large illustrated edition of "Les Misérables, pass for an indisputable imitation of “Lucile" did
in five volumes, containing the translation of Sir not its author aver that he had never seen the lat-
Lascelles Wraxall. This year we have three new ter work when his own was written, has been made
editions of *Les Misérables," one in French and two the subject of illustrative and decorative art in a
in English. Of the latter, one is an entirely new trans volume issued by Ticknor & ('o. It has been hand-
lation, made by Mise Isabel F. Hapgood, the well somely treated by bookmaker, artist, and engraver.
known translator of Russian novels. It is published The initials and ornaments by Myrick and the figure-
by ('rowell & Co., in five 12mo volumes, containing pieces by Snyder are evidently new designs growing
160 full-page illustrations by French artists. The directly from a root in the text; but the remain-
volumes are of convenient size, good print, and ing cuts convey the impression that they have
moderate price. The same translation is issued also seen other service. They are, however, as a rule,
in a single volume, by the same house. Little, Brown, 1 interesting in subject, and bear comparison with
& Co. issue a pretty library edition of the work, in the best productions of the American school of en-
five volumes, without illustrations. The translation graving.
used is based upon Wraxall's, but is specially re The gleanings from a traveller's note-book, by
vised for this edition, and is more complete and Mr. W. A. Paton, which in an amplified form have
satisfactory than the earlier one made in 1862. I been christened "Down the Islands" (Scribner),


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of the kind. The author is of that happy dispo- Cutler, is among the handsome table-books pub-
sition which makes itself at home everywhere, be- lished by D. Lothrop & Co. The illustrations, all
cause its sources of enjoyment are inward rather full-page, are of a style which proclaims them
than outward. His voyage to the Caribbees—the from the hand of a master. They were not de-
expedition he describes—was taken on the spur of signed originally for their present use, but they
the moment; and throughout the four weeks it ! seem well adapted to this book. They include
occupied, it was filled with agreeable incidents. some of the most famous works of Millet, Kaul-
The journey is one not often made by the pleasure bach, and artists of their rank.
seeker, and it yielded Mr. Paton a large amount of The illustrations in the edition de luxe of “ The
fresh knowledge. That which was gained by direct Deserted Village" (Lippincott) do not, as they
observation he deepened and broadened by study should, crown the beauties of the volume. They
and research, and the combined results are pre consist of six etchings by M. M. Taylor, which
sented in a narrative constructed of serious and contain some things worthy of praise, especially
amusing elements. The talent, the humor, and the the skies, which are luminous and diversified with
sincerity of Mr. Paton are reflected in the illustra clearly drawn cloud images. But there is a vague-
tions by M. J. Burns. The artist made his draw. ness and indistinctness in the cutting which render
ings from nature, and they have the merit of orig portions of nearly every one obscure.
inality added to their singular beauty.
The picturesque character of Stephen Foster's
The variety of effective design which may be negro ballads is well illustrated in "My Old Ken-
wrought with simply “A Bunch of Violets" is tucky Home," which Messrs. Ticknor & Co. have
shown by Miss Jerome in her latest gift for the holi brought out in holiday form. Mrs. Mary Hallock
days. The book is similar in feature and quality Foote has given play to her delicate fancies in a
to those which for several seasons have come from series of light floral and landscape pieces which are
her hand. The violet is the key-note of the poet interwoven with the text, and Mr. Copeland has
ical text borrowed from eminent authors, and of furnished several full-page illustrations. Some of
the drawings which adorn the right-hand pages of these last are felicitous touches of nature, as for
the handsome volume. A child's figure is intro example the one responding to the hint " when the
duced for the first time, we believe, in Miss Jerome's darkeys have to part;" another, portraying the
pictures, and in attitudes of winsome grace and hunt for the possum and the coon; and another
beauty. The landscapes are interesting and the showing the young folks rolling on the cabin
entire work eviuces careful study and true artistic floor. Some, on the other hand, as “Weep no
feeling. (Lee & Shepard.)
more” and “The head must bow," are common-
Messrs. Harper have sent out from their press a place, the artist failing, for want of time or fertility
number of books for the Christmas trade with the of invention, to bring his work up to a uniform
attractions which publishers of long experience and standard.
abundant resources know how to lavish on their The papers on “Interior Decoration” (Comstock),
choice editions. Among these is a volume of “Old | by Messrs. Brunner and Tryon, are not carried far
Homestead Poems" by Wallace Bruce. The title in either length or elaboration, but they are filled
will find favor with a class of readers who are with suggestions of practical value to the owners
pleased when domestic and home scenes are the and inmates of our homes. The authors are for-
theme of a poet, although he may not be able to tunately not among the extremists who worship
lift it out of the commonplace. The best if not the sunflowers and old china, and transform their rooms
freshest engravings are freely scattered among the into museums. They have preserved purity of taste
pages of the volume.
in the pursuit of the architect's profession, and
It is not often that an able writer and skilful for the benefit of those who have the desire and
artist are combined in one person, as in the case of means to surround themselves with an artistic and
Mr. R. F. Zogbaum, the artist-author of “Horse, tasteful decoration, have thrown out fruitful hints
Foot, and Dragoons" (Harper), sketches of army for the adornment of the principal apartments in a
life in France, England, and America. It would modern house. The papers show what beautiful
be difficult to say which are the better, the text or effects may be produced in even modest homes by
the illustrations, but the latter certainly catch the the application of thought and good taste to the
eye first and convey unlimited gratification. They matter. The illustrations which abound in the
are so boldly drawn, with such knowledge and pre volume are more helpful than the essays themselves
cision, as to leave no room for criticism, Dealing in presenting original ideas regarding the right
with army life, they treat chiefly of the human place and use of ornament and correct and con-
figure, and whether singly or in groups, always with venient forms of necessary articles of furniture.
remarkable success. The horse is as admirably drawn Dainty conceits of the artist, the poet, and the
as his rider. “The Company Guidon” and “The artisan are combined in "The Photogravure Cal-
Vidette" are splendid pieces of work, and praise may endar" by Frank M. Gregory (Stokes & Bro.). It
justly be given to all the pictures in the volume. is fine enough in every sense to ornament the library
Dutton's edition of “Enoch Arden" is a charm or the boudoir. Each leatlet frames a beautiful
ing one. While the illustrations are not, nor could drawing illustrating a text from Shakespeare and
they be expected to be, so fine in conception as the printed in colors with great skill. It is a trifle,
lines they face, they answer admirably the require yet genuine and unique.
ments of the poem. The artists have felt the The drawings designed by Frederick W. Freer
pathos of the story and have entered into its spirit. for Wesley's Christmas canticle, "Hark! the Ilerald
The text and cuts are printed on opposite pages, Angels Sing!” (Stokes & Bro.) do all that drawings
each page being encircled with a wreath. The can to cover a favorite hymn with ridicule. The
volume is filled with tasteful decoration, the result climax of inanity is reached in the illustration to
of earnest and painstaking work.
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upon a big-eyed, empty minded, sensuous girl-face, poem might well deserve to be placed with Long-
the counterpart of which may any day be seen in fellow's Children's Hour." Then follow the sto.
the photograph of a ballet-dancer or comic-opera ries, which are told to “these three little lovely
singer.
vikings,”-stories of wild sports among the frozen
An exquisite booklet comes from Macmillan's lands of Norway and Iceland, such sports as are fa-
press in the shape of Tennyson's “Brook," illus miliar to a bold and hardy race, battles with wolves
trated by A. Woodruff. The illustrations are twenty and waves, and even some encounters with the “lit-
in number and are printed in colors and delicate tle people," the gnomes, familiar to all mountain
tints. The designs, English landscape scenes, are dwellers. “Tharald's Otter," “Big Hans" and
charming, and form a dainty and fitting accompa | "Little Hans,” and “Fiddler John's Family," bear
niment to the poem.
very strongly the impress of true stories, narrating
The lessons in "Elementary Flower Painting," the experience of Norwegians emigrating to this
published by Cassell, are useful to students who country. All the stories are full of life and fresh-
have some knowledge in handling the brush and ness, with a warm appreciation of the Northland,
pencil. They are illustrated by eight colored plates and a friendly feeling for America, particularly
and as many outline drawings, while explicit direc Wisconsin and Minnesota, where so many Norsemen
tions regarding materials and processes materially have settled. They are well calculated to suit the
aid the pupil in the management of lines and tints. taste of any child with a liking for adventure. One
Wholly pleasing in design and execution is the can feel the wind, and hear the storm and the wild
pretty little book called “The Harbingers of Spring" waves of the Norwegian coast, as one reads these
(Stokes & Bro.) There are four colored drawings stories. In one chapter Mr. Boyesen introduces the
representing birds among twigs and sprays of flow boys to a new sport, "skee running," and describes
ers. They are lovely compositions, for which the in detail the making of skees. The illustrations,
artist, Fidelia Bridges, merits commendation. The ten in number, are very effective. As a whole, this
poems, which are mere adjuncts to the illustrations, is certainly one of the choice Christmas books for
were selected by Susie Barstow Skelding.
boys,--and if for boys, why not for girls ?
“Ringing Ballads” is the appropriate title of a Š. Weir Mitchell has given us a charming fairy
collection of poems by Rose Hartwick Thorpe, the book in “Prince Little Boy and Other Tales" (Lip-
author of the well-known stanzas, “Curfew Must pincott). Some of these stories were published in
Not Ring To-night." The poems which follow this 1864, under the title of “The Children's Hour,” in
in the present collection are of a kindred charac aid of the Sanitary Commission Fair at Philadel-
ter, stirring recitals of dramatic incidents. It is the phia, and are now out of print. The stories con-
deed of adventure which creates the interest in this tained in “Fuz-Buz" were written some time later,
writer's songs, and not any special ability in the art in aid of the Children's Hospital. The “Fuz-Buz"
of versifying. (Lothrop.)
stories are told by a Spanish fly to some young spi-
Lee & Shepard have issued the sketch of “Faith's ders, whose mother has caught him in her web, and
Festivals," by May Lakeman, in a holiday dress as they are the price of his life from day to day, like
pure in color as it is in character. The structure of the stories of the “Arabian Nights." They are very
the story is slight, but there is a delicate touch in entertaining and full of quaint conceits, as in the
the moulding of it, and it leaves on the mind a seri story of the “Cold Country,” in which the Bear, the
ous and gracious impression.
Loon, the Owl and the Fox get tired of summer, and
A selection of devout utterances taken by Louise going to the “Cold Country” bring back bags of
S. Houghton from the works of Thomas à Kempis, cold, which the Manitou throws “after the sunset,
Madame Guyon, and other religious writers, is taste and as they broke the white cold fell in little fleecy
fully bound in white illuminated paper covers, bear blankets on the naked trees.” The fly also tells of
ing the title “Words of Peace and Rest." (Stokes the king who drank from the fountain of youth,
& Bro.)
till, growing younger and younger, he became a
Eight new Calendars for 1888 are issued by Hough baby, and died “in his second summer of malignant
ton, Mifflin & Co. They are named after the eight whooping-cough.” The giant Grumblegrum eats
authors, Browning, Emerson, Hawthorne, Holmes, five lawyers “who disagreed with him and also
Longfellow, Lowell, Whittier, Whitney. These with each other inside of him." The book is full
calendars have some marked improvements over
of these bright touches, and the stories generally
those of last year. The selections from the writings are a delightful mingling of magic and fun. We
of the several authors are bound, so that when the cannot help believing that “Real Magic” is from
last leaf has been turned they form little books of real life, it is so natural and childlike.
the choicest literary quality, which can be perma In "The Book of Folk Stories" (Houghton, Mif-
nently preserved. The calendars are printed in flin & Co.) Mr. Horace E. Scudder has collected the
colors and mounted on attractive decorated cards. old-time favorites of the English-speaking people,
All except the Whitney calendar have portraits and such as every child should read as a part of a lib-
other artistic designs drawn from the authors' resi eral education. We find here “ Cinderella," "Sleep-
dences, or from characters or incidents in their ing Beauty,” “Beauty and the Beast," "Jack and
writings.
the Bean Stalk,” “Dick Whittington and his Cat,"
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may be used as a reading book for young children,
BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG.
the author has avoided difficult words, especially
in the first stories, in order to assist the child by
Boyesen's “The Modern Vikings, Stories of Life familiar construction. The book is divided into
and Sports in the Norseland” (Scribner), opens chapters, is of a good size for a child to handle, and
charmingly with a poem of dedication to the au is printed in clear, large type. The author has evi-
thor's three sons, Hjalmar, Algernon, and Bayard, | dently “found the mixture which Alice drank in
whose faces appear at the top of the page. This Wonderland when she wished to bring her heart
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just to a level with the small people," and he has brances in the way of philosophy and extraneous
* produced a book in which a child would feel per incident. The great ingenuity and humor displayed
fectly at home.”
in the narrative can here produce their full effect
Homer Greene's “Burnham Breaker" (Crowell) without anything to mar them; and the wonderful
is a story of much power and well sustained in deeds and strong human sympathy of the colossal
terest. The author may be remembered by his creatures whose good nature was equal to their
story of the “Blind Brother," which took the $1,500 physical proportions will furnish genuine pleasure
prize offered by the “ Youth's Companion." In to both old and young. The illustrations by Doré
this book, as in his former one, the scene is laid in are among the most famous he produced, the text
the coal region of Pennsylvania. The principal lending him subjects perfectly suited to his weird
character, another Charlie Ross, escaping from a imagination. There is the same zest and humor
man in Philadelphia who had stolen him when a in his drawings that distinguished the celebrated
little child, after many adventures finds work at scholar and wit whose work he illustrates.
the coal breaker of a Mr. Burnham's mine. From A book which well repays the reader is “The
this point the book is given up to the unravelling Giant Dwarf, a Story for Young and Old” (Crowell),
of the mystery of the boy's identity. The interest by the author of “Prof. Johnny.” It tells the story
in the trial of this case of identity is well sustained. of Kasper, a poor German peasant boy, who, in
The scene of the burning shaft and Ralph's wan despair at his daily drudgery, with no hope of ad-
derings in the mine are powerfully depicted, as by vancement, and angered by his grandmother's rig-
one who well knows his ground. Ralph's rescue orous discipline, runs away to seek his fortune.
by his old friend Billy adds a final touch of heroic After an unsuccessful search for work in a large city,
self-sacrifice to the well drawn character of this he is befriended by one Herr Michel, the Giant
good old man. Throughout the story Ralph shows | Dwarf," who is a real man, not a fairy, as the name
his inborn noble qualities, and the whole book has would lead one to suppose. Kasper's life at Herr
a genuine and high moral tone.
Michel's home among the mountains, and the way
The young writer, Willis J. Abbot, who made a in which his character is developed under the wise
brilliant success with his “Blue Jackets of '61 ” a guidance of the “Giant Dwarf," is healthful as well
year ago, has followed up his first venture with an as improving reading for any girl or boy. He teaches
interesting account of “The Blue Jackets of 1812" Kasper “that the nobility of any country are its
(Doda, Mead & Co.). He tells the story of the be honest, industrious, God-fearing citizens, and not
ginning, progress, and conclusion of our second those who make a boast of their idleness, their
conflict with Great Britain in an able and impressive pride, and their escutcheons." When the “Giant
manner. The naval battles of the war are the Dwarf” himself, through the unravelling of a plot,
especial subject of the volume, and they are de becomes heir to a barony, he proves that his higher
scribed with so much literary skill that the reader social position is merely valued by him as a broad-
enters into them with all the spirit of a real actor ening of his power for usefulness. The fortunes of
in the scene. History written in such tempting Kasper are interwoven with his to the end of the
fashion has the charm of a romance, even for chil book. The plot is good and successfully carried out.
dren, and serves the double purpose of instructing E. S. Brooks, in “Storied Holydays” (Lothrop),
and amusing them. The volume externally is a adds another to his very interesting historical series,
duplicate of the handsome one which preceded it. which already includes “Chivalric Days," “ His-
In the “Fairy Legends of the French Provinces," toric Girls,” and “Historic Boys.” The style and
translated by Mrs. M. Carey, we have a series of solid worth of his stories are too well known to
very interesting fairy tales, the folk-lore of the need praise or comment. In his preface to this
French Provinces, worthy to be ranked with Miss volume, he says: “The customs of the days
Hapgood's “Epic Songs of Russia” and “ Italian described have been carefully studied, and it is
Popular Tales.” These stories form a valuable con hoped that the frolics and worries of the real boys
tribution to the study of folk-lore. We can, in and girls here set down may interest those other
many cases, easily trace their relation to the tales real boys and girls of to-day.” The Holydays,
of other nations—as, for instance, in “The Fairies twelve in all, include stories of England, Ireland,
and the Two Hunchbacks" to a similar story in the Scotland, Ancient Rome, and our own country.
“ Italian Tales," and the story of “Long Time," Philadelphia is the scene of the story on Independ.
which has much in common with the story of ence Day, and New Amsterdam, in the time of Peter
“ Frederick and Catherine" in Grimm's “ German Stuyvesant, of that on Thanksgiving, -not the
Stories." It adds much to the interest to find the Thanksgiving of the Pilgrims, however. Among
name of the narrator at the end of each tale, as, the other stories we have Christmas, St. Valentine's,
“Told by Madam Richet, aged 77," or, “Related St. Patrick's, April Fool, Michaelmas, a “Great
in Breton by Vincent Coat, a workman in a tobacco Olympiad," and Hallowe'en. The illustrations,
factory." Many of these stories are taken from the wood cuts by Howard Pyle, are fine and effective.
French folk-lore journal, “Mélusine," and some are In the note on page 174, Samuel Adams should be
translated from Paul Sébillot's “ Contes de Provinces read in place of John Adams.
de la France." With the exception of one or two “The Story of the Life of Queen Victoria, Told
colonial stories, they are all from the French prov. for Boys and Girls all over the World,” by W. W.
inces. The book is published by Crowell & Co. Tulloch, B.D., is a plain, straightforward account
François Rabelais's “The Three Good Giants". of the Queen's life, which we may consider accu-
(Ticknor), rendered from the French by John Dim rate, since it is revised by the Queen herself. It is
itry, and illustrated by Doré and Robida, is a book divided into six parts, under the headings “The
to be warmly recommended. The editor has omit Young Girl," “ The Young Queen," “ The Young
ted everything offensive or unclean, and has pre Wife and Mother," "Royal Visits and Visitors,"
sented the story of the famous trio, Grandgousier, “Domestic Events and Public Acts,” and “The
Gargantua, and Pantagruel, frced from all encum- | Queen's Later Life." Of course we have the Eng.


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lish view of all this, and the view of a warm ad- upon some form of mischief or merry-making. Ev.
mirer of the Queen and Prince Consort; but the ery one of the little fellows is so well-drawn that
author has wisely abstained from too many bursts one can tell at a glance the part he takes in the
of enthusiasm, confining himself to a paragraph general merriment. It is a masterly piece of picto-
here and there, and aiming rather to relate many rial delineation, humorous, vivid, and clever to the
interesting facts and events. One of the most pleas last degree. Rhymed stories accompany the illus-
ing features of the book is the charming picture trations,-accompany in the right sense of the term,
which it gives of the home life of the royal family. for the drawings are by far the most interesting
We hear of the Queen's pet dog Dash, that she portion of the work. The “ Brownies” were a
rushed to play with when she returned from her leading attraction in the pages of the “St. Nich-
coronation, when the cheering of the Commons had | olas,” in which they first saw the light.
been led by Mr. Gladstone. We have a funny lit Edward E. Hale's “In His Name, a Story of
tle glimpse of Prince Albert's childhood, when at the Waldenses Seven Hundred Years Ago,” is
the age of six he writes: “I got up well and happy; issued in a new form by Roberts Brothers, with
afterwards I had a fight with my brother. I had illustrations by G. P. Jacomb Hood, R.A. Ever
another fight with my brother; that was not right." since 1873, when this story first appeared as
Later, we hear the joyous cry of the little princes the Christmas number of Dr. Hale's periodical
and princesses, as they welcome the seventh child: "Old and New,” it has steadily gained in popu-
“Now we are just as many as the days of the week!" larity. Besides its large circulation in our own
The story of the children's life at Osborn, in their country, it has already been translated into sev-
little Swiss cottage, is as pretty a picture of child eral foreign languages. The story and the author
life as one would care to see. The narrative of pub are too well known to need any word of ours;
lic events is clear and interesting. The author is but we will quote from the preface of Dr. A. P.
the son of the well-known Principal Tulloch, an ac Peabody: “I last night read 'In His Name,'
count of whose death, and the letters of condolence and I cannot let the morning go by without thank-
from the Queen, occupy one chapter. The work is ing you with all my heart. ... This story has
published by A. C. Armstrong & Son.
moved me so much I must tell you of it. ... I
A history which every boy and girl, and man and have never read anything better. It renewed,
woman too, will warmly welcome is that named though with a far higher consecration, the intense
“Drum-Beat of the Nation," by the well-known feeling with which I read Dickens's first and best
war correspondent, Charles Carleton Coffin. The Christmas Story."
work is happily named, for the ring in the title re Martha Finley's “Elsie's Friends at Woodburn"
sounds all through its pages. Such stirring prose, (Dodd, Mead & Co.) is a book without plot. It is
terse, strong, and impassioned, is seldom met with, simply the sayings and doings of Capt. Raymond's
The present volume records the events of the War family and their friends. These are given in the
of the Rebellion from its outbreak to the close of form of conversations on passing events, inter-
1862. It is a thrilling account, made up of per- spersed with a great deal of moral and religious
sonal recollections, anecdotes, and comment, all talk—surely more than any ordinary boy or girl
woven together with the art of a cunning and prac would think of reading. Many would be repelled
ticed narrator. A gallery of excellent portraits of by such a statement as this, made on page 22: "All
the heroes of the war enriches the book, which human righteousness are as filthy rags." The gen-
should be put in the hands of every "son and daugh eral spirit of the book's religious teaching conforms
ter of those who followed the drum-beat that the to this. There is too much sentimental talk among
nation might live." (Harper.)
the characters, who address one another as “Sweet
The character of its exterior, and the many wood One," "Dearest,” and “My dear love." The step-
cuts accompanying E. S. Brooks's “The Story of mother, who wins the children's affection by her
the American Indian” (Lothrop), would indicate loving kindliness, is the most agreeable character
that the book is intended for young people; but the in the book; while Lulu, the daughter who is try-
grave didactic style of the author removes this im ing to curb a bad temper, is the most prominent.
pression. As a rule only mature readers would be The “Captain," when he does not moralize too
interested in a work whose literary tone is that of much, is manly and strong.
a treatise, and they might feel disposed to question Joanna H. Mathews's “Uncle Rutherford's Attic,
the truthfulness of the picture the author has drawn | a Story for Girls” (F. A. Stokes & Brother) is a
of the Indian. Not but that he is true to his own story the interest of which centres in the results of
convictions and sincere in his presentation of the a shipwreck and a robbery. The scene is laid at a
Indian character as it is found in past and current sea-side house, and in the opening chapter we have
history; but his vision is warped by personal feel an excellent description of the " settin' room” at
ing. The red man is to him an unqualifiedly noble Capt. Forke's, -just such a room as one may see in
being, who has been degraded by centuries of out- any of our old sea-port towns, filled with treasures
rage from the conquering Saxon; and, in relating gathered on many voyages. The principal charac-
his story, the blame of treachery and wrong-dealing ters are a villain-here a drunken, boorish one, who
is thrown on the latter exclusively. That he has is much concerned in bringing about the final catas-
devoted a great deal of honest study to the subject trophe,-an extravagant young lady, and two waifs,
is shown not only by the authorities cited in the the proteges of the oldest daughter of the house.
narrative, but by the appended list of the hundred The plot is well carried out and the interest sustained
best books treating the Indian question, a list which to the end. The book is, on the whole, well writ-
forms a useful feature of the work.
ten, and is free from the slang too often found in
The swiftest peep into Palmer Cox's “The Brown stories of this class.
ies, Their Book” (Century Co.) reveals the wealth A collection of “Ballads of Romance and His-
of amusement it contains. Hordes of grotesque tory," written for young folks by a dozen of our
and comical little elves swarm on every page, intent | most popular authors, can hardly fail to contain
.
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compositions of value. “The Tenement House Bros. The title is “A Garland for Girls." The
Fire," by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, is as stirring and stories are seven in number, and are supplied with
dramatic as one could desire. The story of “The illustrations by Jessie McDermott.
Children's Cherry Feast," by Nora Perry, moves to The work of Lina and Adelia B. Beard, entitled
a stately measure. “The York Garrison,” by Sarah “The American Girl's Handy Book" (Scribner),
Orne Jewett, has the mark of a fine poetic instinct is a veritable treasure for young girls of every land.
in every stanza. “A Story of the Children's Cru It is filled with original practical hints and direc-
sade," by Susan Coolidge, is told in an effective tions for amusements of every kind, suited to every
manner. The ballads by Celia Thaxter and Lucy hour of the day and every season of the year. Many
Larcom are especially praiseworthy. Each ballad is of the pastimes suggested are as useful as they are
illustrated with original and interesting designs. entertaining, and all are innocent and healthful.
The book is tastefully bound, and forms a charming The authors have aimed, while teaching new meth-
juvenile. (Lothrop.)
ods of play and work, to stimulate the invention
The versatile gifts of Howard Pyle are shown in and ingenuity of young folks. There is a world of
the dainty juvenile entitled “The Wonder Clock" profit as well as of pleasure to be derived from the
(Harper). He is always an artist, fertile in idea book, and ever grateful to its ingenious authors will
and skilful in its presentation, whether expressing be the girl who receives a copy among her Christ-
himself by pen or by pencil. There are twenty-four | mas gifts.
fairy tales, one for each hour marked off by "the A companion volume to the “Historic Boys" of
wonderful clock," and these abound in ingenious E. S. Brooks comes from the pen of the same
incidents, simply told, and admirably illustrated. author under the title of “Historic Girls" (Put-
The book is an excellent one, considered either nam). The sketches of which it is composed were
from a literary or pictorial point of view.
printed originally in “St. Nicholas,” where they
Mr. James Baldwin, the author of “The Story of found great favor. They are spirited and life-like
Siegfried” and “The Story of Roland,” continues pictures of the girlhood of such famous women as
his valuable work for boys and girls by his “A Zenobia, Queen Elizabeth, Queen Christina, the In-
Story of the Golden Age" (Scribner). In portray- dian princess Pocahontas, Helena of Britain, and
ing the childhood and youth of Odysseus and weav- Jacqueline of Holland. Their value will extend
ing the choicest legends of Grecian mythology into far beyond the hours spent in reading them, and
the account, this book will enable the reader to future years will reap the results of a love for his-
take up Homer with intelligence and zest. The tory which such writings are sure to awaken.
language used in this classic story flows like music Mr. Perelaer, who tells for the entertainment of
from the author's pen and adds essentially to its children how a party of deserters from a mili-
fascination. The illustrations by Pyle are strikingly tary station in Borneo “Ran Away from the Dutch"
vigorous and beautiful.
(Dodd, Mead & Co.), has not the skill necessary for
Sarah Doudney's “Prudence Winterburn” (T. Y. success in fiction writing. Having been in the
Crowell & Co.) is a simple English story well Dutch Indian service he has a knowledge of the
told. In her preface, the author inscribes it “to attractive country where the story is located, and
girls who, like Prudence Winterburn, are ready to when he draws upon this alone he is rather interest-
devote themselves with romantic self-sacrifice to a ing. But he has not the faculty for creating real
newly-made friend." The “newly made friend”. flesh and blood characters, or defining their action
in this case is a designing widow from India, an with clearness and the semblance of truth. Lacking
unscrupulous woman of the world. The victims this essential gift, he is unable to hold the interest
are Prudence Winterburn, the interesting youngest of his readers or impart satisfactorily the informa-
daughter of an old country family, the invalid tion concerning Borneo which it was his aim to give
nephew of the rector, and the rector himself, whose and would be their pleasure to receive.
property the widow hopes to inherit. The plot is The touching story of “Juan and Juanita," by
welì carried out, the style good, and the moral Frances Courtenay Baylor, is based upon actual
tone healthful. The book contains many charming facts and verifies the saying that truth is stranger
descriptions of English country scenery.
than fiction. Two little Mexican children were
Miss Louisa M. Alcott, whose name is always a captured by the Comanche lndians, and after spend-
good card of introduction to a child's heart, has ing four years with their savage captors, managed
provided a treat for the little ones in “Lulu's to escape, making their way alone and on foot
Library," the second volume of which is now pub across a wilderness of three hundred miles which
lished by Roberts Bros. Most of these stories were stretched between them and their long-lost home.
originally written for her sisters and their friends, The exciting adventures they passed through in their
the little Channings and Emersons, and were first journey are described by the author in an intensely
published as “Flower Fables." Now, with added interesting manner. Juan and Juanita were heroes
stories, they are republished, as she says “for their both, he with the bravery of a masculine spirit and
children's children." They are filled with fairy she with the sweetness of a woman's nature. The
magic about the birds and flowers and frost, and all story is admirably illustrated by Henry Sandham.
the out-of-door world. The little girl in the story (Ticknor.)
of “Brownie and the Princess," who can understand Until Mr. Knox has carried his boy tourists through
the talk of the birds, will be the envy and admira- every country on the globe the interest in their lively
tion of many a child.
adventures will not cease. At Mr. Stanley's special
Another collection of short stories for girls, by request, Mr. Knox has taken the great explorer's
Miss Alcott, written, as she states, for her own “Through the Dark Continent" and condensed it
amusement, “during a period of enforced seclu. into a single volume, adapting it to the character of
sion," when “the flowers which were my solace and his readers. The book is called “The Boy Trav-
pleasure suggested titles for the tales and gave an ellers on the Congo." Mr. Stanley accompanies the
interest to the work,” is issued also by Roberts young voyagers throughout their journey, and a


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fine portrait of him is given in the work, which is and Warner. The sketches are well written, and
well illustrated. (Harper.)
may not be uninspiring to the youthful mind.
The series of poems in which Mrs. Whitney has Captain Marryatt's well-known story of * Poor
cleverly interpreted the “Bird-Talk" (Houghton, Jack," which will always be acceptable to young
Mifflin & Co.) that is to be heard in the orchard or readers, is issued in an attractive form by Frederick
wild-wood in the several months of the year, forms | Warne & Co. The volume is filled with new and
one of the most attractive juveniles of the season. , striking designs by Clarkson Stanfield, and is bound
The cover is adorned with a graceful design; and ' in a novel cover. The same publishers send us a
inside, in the head-pieces for the groups into collection of admirable character sketches by Harry
which the lyrics are separated, there are pretty bits! Parkes, entitled “The Man Who Would Like to
of landscape in which bird-life is prominent.
Marry." all of which are clever and some of which
lloughton, Mifflin & Co. issue a beautiful editionare irresistibly funny. Also, an illuminated toy.
of Hawthorne's "Tanglewood Tales." The illustra. | book, called 'Jappie (happie," whose story of how
tions, by George Wharton Edwards, are of a truly | he loved a Dollie" is told and illustrated in quaint
heroic type. They are animated by the spirit of designs and brilliant colorings by Mr. E. L. Shute.
the Greek myths, and in character and action are Older readers will doubtless recall a favorite story
expressive and striking. They indicate in the de. of their younger days in W. S. Mayo's ** Kaloolah,
signer talent of a high order.
the Adventures of Jonathan Romer." This cele-
Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford offers child read. brated work, of which more than 25,000 copies have
ers a Christmas book made up of six ** Ballads been sold in this country alone, has been issued by
about Authors" (Lothrop). The first ballad, entitled Putnam in a new form, known as the "Frama-
* Goldsmith's Whistle, gives the story of the poet's zugda" edition. The volume is very fully illus-
happy period of vagabondage on the continent, trated by Alfred Fredericks.
during which he paid his way by the music drawn The charming French fairy stories of the Count.
from his flute. The second gives the pathetic inci. ese D'Aulnoy, which for nearly two hundred years
dent of Samuel Johnson's annual penance in l'ltox. have delighted old and young, are printed in a new
cta Market. The third relates to Milton, and the edition by Routledge. The translation is that of
others to Cowper, Collins, and Shakespeare. The J. R. Planché, and is the first complete version of
volume is beatly gottenup, and is illustrated by the tales. The book is handsomely illustrated by
Edmund II. Garrett.
Gordon Browne and Lydia F. Emmet.
The eyes of the little ones will dance with joy l'niform with the D'Aulnoy volume, and issued
at sight of the colored pictures with which Miss by the same house, is a charming little story for
Lathbury has illustrated her latest holiday book, children, entitled "Mattie's Secret," by Emile Des-
**Twelve Times One" (Worthington ('o.). Such beaux. The book is written in a style that will ap-
young eyes will not notice the bad drawing which peal to young minds, and will prove instructive as
weakens the face in each of the twelve portraits, well as interesting. The volume contains 100 illus-
but will be content with the outline and action of trations,
the figures, which are really good, and the glowing The ever-popular "Arabian Nights" is issued in
colors. The minor pieces in sepia are exquisitely a handsome and substantial holiday dress by Fred.
done. The poems that constitute what may be erick Warne & Co. The book is profusely illus.
called a background for the drawings are culled trated with original wood-cuts and sixteen full-page
from various authors and are among the best in our plates in colors.
literature describing the different periods of child. Dodd, Mead & Co. issue F. R. Goulding's well-
hood.
known story of “The Young Marooners" in a new
In “Ways for Boys to Make and Do Things" edition, with an introduction by Joel Chandler
(Lothrop) a half-dozen authors have given practical Harris ("Uncle Remus"'). A peculiar feature of
directions for making all sorts of toys and useful the volume is a number of double-page illustra.
articles, with a great deal of information and valu tions by W. C. Jackson.
able suggestions of interest to every boy.--The same Ruth Ogden's " His Little Royal Highness" (Dut-
publishers send us, in addition to works already ton) is a bright and charming story for children,
noticed, " The Look About Club," by Mary E. Bam its attractiveness lying largely in its simplicity. As
ford, and ** Little Polly Blatchley," à pleasant little charming as the story are the pictures by W. Rainey,
story for girls, by Miss Frances (. Sparhawk. Also, These are mainly figure-drawings, and are delight.
bound volumes of ** Wide-Awake," "The Pansy," fully well done. The book is tastefully bound, with
and * Babyland."
one of Mr. Rainey's groups in gilt on the cover.
In presenting her brief "Life of Washington" A collection of " Bible Stories," told by Jenny
(Worthington ('0.), Virginia F. Townsend has "ien. B. Merrill, is published by (Cassell & Co. with pro.
deavored, while adhering strictly to the truths of fuse illustrations and large print which must appeal
history, to set the great scenes and crises in the | directly to young eyes. The same house issues Col.
career of Washington in a picturesque and dramatic | Knox's ainple collection of “Dog Stories and Dog
form before her readers." The familar facts are pre Lore," also profusely illustrated.
sented in an interesting way, and the book will An uncommonly dainty and artistic child's book
appeal strongly to young readers. The volume is is the "Ida Waugh Alphabet Book" (Lippincott),
tastefully bound, and contains a steel portrait of with verses by Amy E. Blanchard. For excellence
Washington and other illustrations.
of design and beauty of execution this must rank
Mr. W. H. Rideing's ** The Boyhood of Living among the very best juveniles of the season.
Author" contains sketches of the juvenile careers "Ilarper's Young People" for 187 comes in its
of a queer aggregation of talent-Holmes, Aldrich, customary dress of green and red, with its pine
Trowbridge, Gladstone, (larke Russell, Eggleston, hundred large pages crowded with matter fascinat.
Howells, Payp, Knox, Whittier, Stockton, Hale, ing to the young, to whom it is made more irresist-
Lowell, Fawcett, Boyesen, Higginson, Stedman, ible by its pictures upon almost every page.


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