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Terms of Subscription, 82.00 a year in advance, pottage prepaid in the United States, Canada, and Mexico; in other countries comprised in the Postal Union, 50 cents a year /or extra postage must be added. Unless otherwise ordered, subscriptions will begin with the current number. Remtttancks should be by check, or by express or postal order, payable to THE DIAL. Special Rates to Clubs and for subscriptions with other publications will be sent on application; and Sample Copt on receipt of 10 cents. Advertising Rates furnished on application. All communications should be addressed to THE DIAL, So. 24 Adams Street, Chicago. No. 179. DECEMBER 1, 1893. Vol. XV. Contests. PAGE THE PUBLIC LIBRARIES OF THE UNITED STATES 327 AN INSULAR COMMENT ON AN INTERNA- TIONAL ENTERPRISE 329 THE TARIFF ON BOOKS 330 CONSUELO: Two Sonnets. W. R. Perkins ... 330 COMMUNICATIONS 331 Creative Art in Literature. John G. Dow. Cardinal Newman Versus Se. F. H. THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF AN AMERICAN NATURALIST. E.G.J. 333 A NEW HISTOR? OF POLITICAL ECONOMY. O. L. Elliott 336 LIFE WITH TRANS-SIBERIAN SAVAGES. Fred- erick Starr 338 RECENT FICTION. William Morton Payne ... 340 Benson's Dodo.— Mrs. Steel's Miss Stuart's Legacy. —Howells's The Coast of Bohemia.—Frederic's The Copperhead. — Crawford's Marion Darche. — Jack- son's The Son of a Prophet. — Du Chaillu's Ivar the Viking. — Mrs. Harrison's Sweet Bells Out of Tune. — Miss Brown's The Petrie Estate. — Mrs. Cather- wood's The White Islander. — Wedmore's Pastorals of France.—Doyle's My Friend the Murderer.—Sien- kiewicz's Yanko the Musician. — Miss Harrison's Short Stories. — Aldrieh's Two Bites at a Cherry. — James's the Wheel of Time. HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS 344 Chapin's Masters and Masterpieces of Engraving. — Beckford's Vathek.—Holmes's The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. — Reade's The Cloister and the Hearth. —Wright's The Fables of La Fontaine.— Mrs. Clement's The Queen of the Adriatic. — Van Dyke's The Christ-Child in Art. — Daudet's Letters from My Mill.—The Century Gallery.—Anstey's The Man from Blankley's. — Dodge's Riders of Many Lands.—Ruy Bias.—Miss Fielde's Chinese Nights En- tertainments.— Sheridan's The Rivals.— Mrs. Rich- ards's Glimpses of the French Court.—Dobson's Mem- oir of Horace Walpole. — Irving's Knickerbocker's History of New York. — Mrs. Spofford's A Norse Romance.—Carlyle's French Revolution.—Mrs. De- land's The Old Garden.— Page's Meh Lady.—Long- fellow's The Hanging of the Crane. — Miss Jewett's Deephaven. — Blackmore's Lorna Doone. — Ware's Anrelian, Emperor of Rome.—Mrs. Barr's The Bow of Orange Ribbon. CON TENTS-Continued. BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG 348 Newell's Topsys and Turvys. — Cox's The Brownies at Home.—Gilman'sThe Musical Journey of Dorothy and Delia. —Marthold's The History of a Bearskin. —Jacobs's More English Fairy Tales.—Hume's The Chronicles of Fairy Land.—Mrs. Richards's Melody. —Miss Howard's No Heroes.—Ouida's A Dog of Flan- ders.—Mrs. Champney's Six Boys.—Lang's The True Story Book. — Mrs. Burnett's The One I Knew the Best of All. — Henty's St. Bartholomew's Eve. — Henty's Through the Sikh War.—Henty's A Jacob- ite Exile. — Butterworth's The Boys of Greenway Court.—Stoddard's Guert Ten Eyck.—Stoddard's On the Old Frontier.—Munroe'sThe White Conquerors. —Mrs. Seelye's The Story of Washington. — Ellis's River and Wilderness Series.—Ellis's Across Texas. —Optic's A Victorious Union. — Optic's American Boys Afloat. — Knox's Boy Travellers in Southern Europe. — Coryell's Diccon the Bold. — Jcnks's World's Fair Book for Boys and Girls. NEW YORK TOPICS. Arthur Stedman 351 LITERARY NOTES AND MISCELLANY .... 352 Sonnets to Professor Jowett.—Professor Jebb's Trib- ute to Jowett. — Tributes to Edwin Booth. LIST OF NEW BOOKS 353 THE PUBLIC LIBRARIES OF THE UNITED ST A TES. The corner stone of the building which is to be the permanent home of the Chicago Public Library has just been laid, with the ceremonies usual upon such occasions, and the Newberry Library has just transferred its collections to the magnificent structure that has been in process of erection for two years past. These occurrences, which mean so much for the intellectual future of Chicago, make a few remarks upon the libraries of the United States peculiarly appro- priate at the present time. As a basis for such remarks, there comes to us, at the same time, a "Circular of Information " from the National Bureau of Education, giving the most reef nt statistics upon the subject of our public libra- ries. The statistics are for the year 1891, which is as nearly up to date as could be ex- pected of a report prepared by the deliberate methods of our official collectors of such ma- terials. The present report is the third of the sort that has been issued by the Bureau of Educa- tion, the two preceding ones having appeared in 1876 and 1885, respectively. The report 328 [Dec. 1, THE DIAL of 1876 included 3,649 libraries of over 300 volumes, with an aggregate of 12,276,964 vol- umes. The report of 1885 included 5,388 libraries above the same low limit of size, with an aggregate of 20,622,076 volumes. In the present report, all libraries of less than 1,000 volumes have been ignored, and those above this limit number 3,804, with an aggregate of 26,896,537 volumes. While these figures are doubtless sufficiently trustworthy to be used as a basis for general conclusions, our confidence in their entire accuracy is considerably impaired by the fact that careless compilation, or care- less proof-reading, has resulted in discrepancies which, to say the least, should never have been permitted in a government publication. Thus, Mr. Flint, the statistician who has compiled the report, gives us 3,649 libraries for 1876 and 5,388 for 1885. But Dr. Harris, who prefaces the report with a "letter of trans- mittal" to the Secretary of the Interior, gives the numbers 3,647 and 5,338 for those years. Mr. Flint himself gives the number for 1891 in one place as 3,804 and in another as 3,803. Again, his report of the aggregate number of volumes in 1891 gives us, in one place, the figures above quoted, and, in another place, figures differing from these by no less than 70,000. It appears that Mr. Flint has neg- lected the very important duty of "proving" his results, unless the cause of his undoing is to be found in his failure to correct the proofs. The general outcome of this report is cer- tainly very gratifying. Taking the figures ab- solutely, it is interesting to learn that there are half as many books in public libraries as there are people in the United States, that the average size of the nearly four thousand libra- ries is nearly eight thousand volumes, and that such a collection of books is, on an average, within reach of every sixteen thousand men, women, and children. Making a comparison between the figures for 1891 and those for 1885, we find in six years an increase of twenty- seven per cent in the number of libraries con- taining over a thousand volumes, and an in- crease of sixty-six per cent in their contents. When we consider also the great increase of private book-buying during recent years, it will be realized that our reading public is grow- ing very rapidly, and that it is by no means dependent, as is so often assumed, upon the newspapers for its intellectual sustenance. An examination of the statistics which re- port the size of our public libraries yields some interesting results, and also illustrates afresh the unpardonable carelessness of this report. The four largest libraries are the Congress- ional, the Boston Public, the Harvard Univer- sity, and the University of Chicago collections. The first three of these are reported as con- taining more than half a million volumes each, which is true only of the first two. The Har- vard Library is only brought into this class by counting its nearly three hundred thousand pamphlets. But in the report of the aggre- gate number of volumes contained in all our libraries, no pamphlets are counted. It is evi- dent that, if this principle is once adopted, it should be applied consistently in all the classi- fications which follow. The second group of libraries includes those having from one hun- dred thousand to three hundred thousand vol- umes, and in this class twenty-six are reported. Of these, seven are assigned to the State of New York, headed by the Astor and the Mer- cantile (less than a thousand volumes apart, and numbering nearly a quarter of a million each); four to Massachusetts; three each to Pennsylvania, Maryland, and the District of Columbia; two to Illinois; and one each to Connecticut, Ohio, Michigan, and California. But an examination of the detailed reports of the libraries in question reveal the fact that pamphlets must be counted in the case of five of these collections, to make up the mini- mum number of one hundred thousand vol- umes; and that, in three instances, the pam- phlets are to the volumes nearly in the ratio of three to one. The geographical distribution of our libra- ries is a matter of considerable interest, and the report is very instructive upon this sub- ject. The New England and Middle States have more than half of the entire number, New York heading the list with 511, and Massachu- setts closely following with 508. Pennsylvania has 350, and Illinois (thanks to a liberal stat- ute) has 218. Ohio, Michigan, Connecticut, California, Indiana, and Missouri come next, in the order named. No other state has as many as a hundred, and ten states and terri- tories, mostly in the West, have less than ten libraries each. But none, not even Indian Ter- ritory, has less than three. And the library facilities of the West and South are increasing at a satisfactory rate. A few Canadian statistics.are included in the present work. Over two hundred libraries are reported, three-fourths of them in the Province of Ontario, and the aggregate number of vol- 1893.] 329 THE DIAL umes is 1,392,366. The Library of Parlia- ment at Ottawa heads the list with 150,000 volumes, and that of Laval University, with 100,000, conies next. Toronto is fairly well supplied with books, and Montreal not so well. A large proportion of the Canadian libraries belong to Mechanics' Institutes. It would be interesting, had we space for the purpose, to compile from this document the special statistics of school and college libraries, which would be found to contain a large frac- tion of the total number of books reported. Two of the four largest libraries belong to edu- cational institutions, as do also five of the twenty-six constituting the second group. It is probable that the college or school library is of more ultimate value to the community than the library of any other sort. Dr. Harris, in his introduction to the report that we have just had under consideration, gives us some very sensible words on the usefulness of the school library. We wish that he had not coupled them with certain high-sounding ob- servations upon the newspaper as an educa- tional agency of coordinate rank. With the person who reads the newspapers, we are told, "the correlation of the near and the remote, the custom of carrying in his mind the world affairs, develops a sort of epic consciousness vastly more educative than the former village gossip that prevailed in the tavern or in the shop. It elevates the individual into a higher plane of thinking, substituting the universal for the particular." We very much doubt its doing anything of the sort, although it might accomplish such a purpose if the daily newspapers were what they ought to be. But that is another story. We cannot refrain, in conclusion, from ex- pressing a wish that the publications of our national government might be made a little more attractive in appearance than they are. Intellectual work of an excellent sort often goes to their preparation (as, with some reser- vations, in the present instance), but they are, mechanically, about as bad as it is possible for printed books to be. Government printing, like government architecture and a few other things bearing the official tag, has stood here- tofore for work of the cheapest and most taste- less sort. Sometime we shall take a lesson in this matter from, say, the French government; this is one of the good things that may be hoped for when work for the public ceases to be regarded as a reward for services done to some political party. AN INSULAR COMMENT ON AN INTER- NA TIONAL ENTERPRISE. When the British press starts out to display its provincialism, it easily outdistances the most zealous French or German competitors, and no one would deny its claim to the attribute of insularity in all the senses of that term. A beautiful illustration of this attribute, which Mr. Lowell so well knew how to satirize, is offered by the "Saturday Review" in a recent account of the Columbian Exposition. The article begins with the following paragraph: "The Chicago Exhibition has quietly come to au end, the tragic death of the Mayor of the city forming one sufficient reason for dispensing with closing ceremonies. Another may have been a general recognition by the Chicagoans that their show had to some extent fizzled." After this cheerful exordium, we have some re- flections upon the incompleteness of the Fair during its earlier weeks, and a few strictures, not altogether unjustified, upon the conduct of the directors in the matters of Sunday closing and the official system of awards. The article then goes on as follows: "The World's Columbian Exposition had no proper claims on the world's attention, and has therefore, very rightly, not been able to enforce any. It was a colossal show, and a fair number of people—something under a million a week — attended it, of whom a large portion went over and over again, the noughts on the millions being chiefly run up by the local crowds. But there was no reason why the whole world should attend, and it distinctly failed to do so. Dwellers in civilized places appear to have thought that they could see as much of the material side of the Exhibition as they desired in their domestic shop-windows. The great thinkers of the world paid no attention to the invitations of the Congress Auxiliary, a queerly named offshoot from the parent scheme, which begged them to attend in the Art Institute of Chicago, and supplement the material exhi- bition by ' a portrayal of the achievements of the age in science, literature, education, government, morals, charity, religion, and other departments of human activ- ity (!)' The landscape gardens of Jackson Park were chiefly thronged by American sight-seers, and the ses- sions of the Auxiliary Congress were, with but one exception, largely left to the self-advertising idiot and the blue-stocking woman. And the exception owed its partial success to the enthusiasm of an English man of letters." This is so delicious that it is not difficult to take good-humoredly some of the sallower things that follow — the characterization of the "Exhibition" as "a local show," and of the citizens by whom its cost has been "amiably borne" as "the ignorant millionaire, the grain-man, the pig-man, the anar- chist, the Irish politician, and the dude who has bust [sic] and gone West," etc., etc. Of the White City itself — which we now learn was called "the Elfin City, the City of White Palaces, the Western Venice, the Fairy (or preferably Faerie) City, the Dream City (for further variants see the Chicago press),"—we are patronizingly informed that "the conventionally classical buildings had the good taste of their examples." The most preposterous fea- 330 [Dec. 1, THE DIAL ture of the Exposition, from a British standpoint, seems to be the notion that the people who attended it were likely to derive any benefit therefrom. The idea cherished by its promoters—the pig-man. ignor- ant millionaire, "bust" dude, and anarchist—that it might " furnish an object-lesson in civilization," is thus borne down upon by this pot-casqued crusader: "In the thirteen great balls, stuffed with the produce of the world, there was much to be learned by every- body possessing the necessary curiosity and energy. Fishing-tackle and lime-juice preparations, electric plant and bulbs from Holland, crime statistics and furniture from Tottenham Court Road, canned goods am! one thousand and seventy-five paintings by American artists, were all on new. But whether these things had a message for the intellectually starving of the West is very doubtful, and certainly such message was made no more distinct by the reiterated assertions of the press that they could understand it." Intelligent Americans, who are quite used to seeing in " Saturday Review" articles on American affairs an exhibition of John Bull at his worst, will of course find all this amusing enough. But we should hardly suppose it could prove amusing to intelligent and manly Englishmen. Mr. Walter Besant, for example, who has seen the Exposition for himself, and has lately made an impassioned appeal for greater cordiality between the two coun- tries, must find it pretty discouraging. THE TARIFF ON BOOKS. The publication of the Tariff Bill drafted by the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives comes too close to the issue of this number of The Dial to permit of our commenting upon it at any length, but we cannot refrain from an expression of amazement at the retention of the old duty upon English books published within twenty yean from the date of im|mrtation. It is not within oar province to discus* the general features of this, or of any, Tariff Bill; but it is oar duty, as it is the duty of every journal interested in education and the advancement of culture, to protest ai^iinst any embodiment, in our forthcoming tariff legisla- tion, of a tax upon knowledge, whether for the purpose of protection or of revenue. We had every reason to hope and believe that such survivals of barbarism as taxes upon the means of culture would be eliminated from our statute-book in the scientific revision of the tariff to which the party now in power is pledged. But Mr. Wilson's committee has seen fit, it now appears. t<> recommend for con- tinuance the twenty-five jht cent duty upon English books. A more stapid duty could not be imagined; as a means of raising revenue, it is despicable; as a means of protection it is absolutely futile. It simply puU a needless difficulty in the way of stu- dents who wish to purchase such English Inxik* as are not copyrighted in this country. The !>ooks that are thus copyrighted are already protected by the copyright law itself. We hope that every scholar, every educator, and every person having intellectual interests of any sort, will join in a de- mand for the free admission of English books, as a feature of our new Tariff Law. Every such per- son should make an individual appeal to the Repre- sentative from his Congressional District; unless some such concerted action is taken, we shall find that wool, and iron, and tin will absorb the atten- tion of the public to the exclusion of this very important matter. COSSUELO. I list to Cousuelo as she sweeps With passionate touch the ivory organ-keys; Deep in the infinite her spirit sees Themes that the soul of lofty heaven keeps; I>ong-lineaged hope that to the zenith leaps, The joy of time, the secret key of woe, The passion ruling till its potence steeps The conquered Universe within its glow. () Cousuelo! in tby music high. Thy vaguenesses, thy raptured spirit ear, Why not some echo of an earthly cry— The soft, sweet sounds that men are used to hear? Cease to consort with what, like yonder star, Gleams anattained—a splendor from afar. II. Silent the keys, and Consuelo speaks: "O poor diviner of the inmost heart. Thou hast no knowledge of the higher art. Nor feel'st the ecstasy tlmt in me leaps; Thou best fain amid the silent steeps Where Araby her barren mounts displays. And o'er thy spirit with insistence creeps The dull delusion of our later days. The earth is wide, and wider than the earth Is Heaven rearing to the central skj; Think of beginning, think of death and birth, And of life's seeds that fusing long must lie. Sordid is care, and wealth of little worth, But the unseen can never dim nor die." W. R. Pebuuks. A coaRrsroSPEXT of the Loudon " Atheiueum " baa sent to that journal the following sonnet by Wordsworth, which appeared originally in "The Morning Post" of October 10, 1803, and is believed to have been sine* uuprintrd. "I find it written of Simoaidea That travelling in strange eoontriea onre be found A corpse that lav •spiring oa the ground. For which, with paia. ha canst if. 4s* obaaqaias To be performed, aad paid all holy fee*. Soon after, this maa's ghost nato him rtni Aad told hiin not to Mid. as was his aim, On board a ship then ready for the vu. Smonidr*. adruotitfthed by the chtvt, Kemained behind, the ship the following day Sat sail, was wrecked, aad all oa board was last. Thus was the taadereat Port that could be. Who aang in asrieat Grace hie taring lay. >a»ed out uf many by his piety." 1893.] THE DIAL 331 . COMMUNICATIONS. CREATIVE ART IN LITERATURE. (To the Editor of THE DIAL.) - Mr. John Burroughs, in his very interesting articles in your columns, complains that “our poets are more in love with poetry than with things.” That may be be- cause they have nothing to say; and if one has nothing tº say, it is at least better that he should say it weii than say it ill. In any case, if one cannot reach the best results by explicitly and of set purpose following art-methods, neither will he by explicitly and of set purpose ignoring these. Stated in the barest form, the requisites of literary art are, or would seem to be, first, that the artist have some- thing to say; and, second, that he say it well. Art in- cludes both of these, and in so far as one or other is lacking, thus far is the artist's power curtailed and his art defective. But while vast numbers aspire to art in literature, few aspirants combine both requisites; and the rarity of this combination, which is one of nature's own making, has in the past as well as in our own day driven many into one or other of two extremes—either to neglect form and finish, or to neglect idea and ethic. As regards the latter, there is in every art a technical element, and in literature, as in music and painting, there are those who mistake this technical element for the entire art. These commonly sing elegant trifles, because nature has given them nothing more serious or strong or valuable to utter; and while they sing grace- fully, they are emphasizing one essential of true art in literature. In actual criticism, the above distinction takes one a very little way. Still, it is important to emphasize the second aspect of production, especially where we are so prone to haste; and though Poe had done nothing else, he deserves to be perpetually remembered for hav- ing insisted as he did upon the necessity of studying even the mechanical processes of creative art. These processes, however, are less merely mechanical than he suggested, for the artistic instinct is a part of “great creating nature,” and its processes are a reflex of those that we see operating towards perfection of form and finish of detail throughout the material universe. The art to which they belong is an “art which nature makes.” In addition to this, we must remember that art, in whatever sphere, implies not merely an objective result, but also a subjective process of mind; and in this sub- jective creative process form and substance are so inter- blended that no absolute separation is possible. The embodied result, whether it be poem, picture, sympho- ny, or cathedral, will address itself to the intellectual perception of form, unity, and completeness; but its ap- peal will be charged with the emotional and ethical quality of the artist's own soul. This ethic is inevita- ble. The subject-matter of art is human life and hu- man interests; and to exclude the ethic from a consid- eration of human life, or speak of life without an ethic, would be like speaking of a season without weather. It may be indifferent weather, but the weather is there; and if the subject-matter of art is life which embodies an ethic, the only question is how art is affected by this ethic which life embodies. But, besides, the artist can- not, though he would, prevent the ethic of his own character from permeating the substance of his work. Just so the literature of any community or epoch is a reflex of the society which produces and enjoys it; and a noble and healthy life will idealize itself in noble and healthy imaginations, just as surely as an unclean or a blasé society will occupy its mind with corresponding studies. . In respect of creative literature, the ethic ºf art rightly considered, and the ethic of life in its high- est interpretations, will be found not only to move in the same course, but virtually to be identical in sub- stance. By virtue of its ethic, art will endeavor to es- chew what is unwholesome, just as nature endeavors to throw off disease and society to purge itself of social corruption. Being, as it were, the flower of the human instinct after perfection and permanence, it will turn its first desire to those ideas and imaginations that make for health, and will seek to embody them in creations which stir and appeal to all healthful emotions and to the sense of what is both beautiful and good. John G. Dow. University of South Dakota, Nov. 22, 1893. CARDINAL NEWMAN VERSUS SE. (To the Editor of THE DIAL.) Descanting on English Imperfects Passive, in the Ap- pendix to my “Modern English” (1873), I say, re- specting “the sort of phraseology under consideration,” that “some of the choicest of living English writers employ it freely.” I proceed: “Prešminent among these stands Dr. Newman, who wrote, as far back as 1846,” etc. A single relevant citation from him is then adduced. Mr. R. O. Williams, in your issue of September 1, takes exception to my qualifier “freely.” He adds: “Although I have noticed two instances (one in a letter), besides the one cited above by Dr. Hall, where the “imperfect passive’ was employed by Dr. Newman, yet I am confident that its use by him – at least in print—was very rare.” In 1879, the Rev. Professor John Earle published what follows, from a letter addressed by Dr. Newman to the Rev. George Buckle: “It surprises me that my antipathy to “is being' existed so long ago. It is as keen and bitter now as ever it was, though I don't pretend to be able to defend it. . . . Ration- ally, or irrationally, I have an undying, never-dying hatred to “is being,’ whatever arguments are brought in its favor. At the same time, I fully grant that it is so convenient, in the present state of the language, that I will not pledge myself I have never been guilty of using it.” Here we have Dr. Newman all over: a man with whom, avowedly, feeling had the ascendancy over reason; who could hate intensely, however valid the demonstration might be that he should not hate at all; who, nevertheless, was not sure that his hatred, though “undying, never-dying,” had not sometimes been in abeyance; and who could confess all this explicitly. But neither subtility nor learning is any warrant for ethical sanity. And why, one may ask, if imperfects passive are “con- venient in the present state of the language,” would they not have been equally convenient in ages gone by ? His or it sufficed the contemporaries of Henry the Eighth, as a neuter possessive; but would its, if it had been evolved in their day, have proved to be less con- venient than it has proved to be for hard on three centuries 2 As far back as 1838 I began the practice, which I have kept up ever since, of desultorily jotting down notes on points of English. Of those notes, which for many years were made solely for my own instruction, a group stood me in good stead, when, in 1871, I drew up 332 [Dec. 1, THE DIAL ray paper on "English Imperfects Passive," and sent it to America, where it was published in "Scribner's Monthly" for April, 1872. At that time, satisfied, for the most part, analysis apart, with a chronological in- vestigation, and with showing that a noticeable array of authors already become classic — Southey, Coleridge, Lamb, and Landor — had not scorned the construction in question, I troubled myself but little to cite authori- ties for it of more recent date. It was from being re- minded how highly Dr. Newman was esteemed, for his style, among writers then living, that, on recasting my paper in 1873, I summoned him as supporting the form of locution therein discussed. A twelvemonth pre- viously—when, in reading the first series of his " Essays Critical and Historical," I there encountered "are be- ing led "—it occurred to me that I had not brought for- ward anything similar from him in my paper, and it also came back to me that I had, in the past, observed his use, repeatedly, of like expressions. Since 187*2 I have hardly done more than casually dip into any of his writings, his posthumous Letters excepted. True as it is that I quoted him but once for imperfects passive, yet I was convinced, when doing so, that I might speak as I did of his lending them his countenance. My mem- ory, though I seldom trust to it, seldom plays me false. Not only are Dr. Newman's literary productions nu- merous, but the minor ones, of which many have not been collected, are widely scattered: not even the Cat- alogue of the British Museum guides one to anything like all of them. Still, as has been seen, Mr. Williams is "confident" that the occurrence, in them, of imper- fects passive is " very rare." He speaks of two appo- site quotations from them, besides that which I for- merly gave. If he had gone farther afield, he would have made the discovery that the eloquent visionary manifested, practically, nothing perceptible of the "hatred to ' is being'" which he was so incautious and oblivious as to profess. Dr. Newman, in his letter quoted in a preceding par- agraph as well as by Mr. Williams, expresses himself as if, in his eyes, imperfects passive were things to be catholicly eschewed •— ubique, semper, et ab omnibus, — and were on a par with, say, lay for lie, set for sit, and expect for suspect. The latter he would, no doubt, have held to be inexcusable, absolutely; but the former, de- spite his passionate reprobation of them, seem to have been rather attractive to him. Between 1832 and 1846 he was, according to his own adjudication, "guilty of": "I fear the Church is being corrupted by the union." iLet- tere [1891], Vol. I., p. 449.) "You are being taught to unlearn the world." (Ibid., Vol. II., p. 74.) "What a mass of Catholic literature is now being poured upon the public!" (Ibid., Vol. II., p. 252.) "Pusey was being worn out." I Ibid., Vol. II., p. 282.) "Every nerve is being exerted against Williams." [Ibid., Vol. II., p. 366.) "All that is dear to me is being taken from me." tlbid.. Vol. II., p. 464.) It turns out, then, that Dr. Newman's "undying, never-dyiug hatred " of imperfects passive was, in all likelihood, a mere transient spasm of displacency, pos- sibly due to bile or indigestion. Alternatively, may not the abhorrent employment of them have served him as an act of penance, in lieu of cultivating fleas inside bis shirt, or disciplining himself with a cat-o'-nine-tails? Copying passages where, besides signifying an em- phatic aversion to the late Bp. Wilberforce, I refer to somebody as having ridiculed him for using a term which that somebody characterizes as "jargon," Mr. Williams would have me, in the name of consistency, cancel my inclusion of the Bishop among " the choicest of living English writers." But, under favor, things entirely disparate are not to be confounded. "Wc find, we confess," comments Lord Macaulay, "so great a charm in Mr. Southey's style, that, even when he writes nonsense, we generally read it with pleasure, except, in- deed, when he tries to be droll." Why, pray, may not a man be, personally, ever so objectionable, and also go the length of venting the most indisputable balderdash, and yet be, as* rhetorician, a very model of excellence? In the hope, apparently, of scoring a point of some sort against me, Mr. Williams allows himself in a rash venture, or something worse. He credits me with hav- ing contributed to the "New English Dictionary " the quotation in which Dr. Newman has "are being led." liy so doing he assumes to know more than I know my- self. Even if he had ploughed with my heifer, be would not have discovered what he has stated as a fact. (See "The Nation," Vol. XLIV., pp. 447-8.) Asmo- deus ought not to dispense with his spectacles. Nor, perhaps, would it be altogether amiss, if he redoubled his diligence of research. J". JJ. Marlesford. England, Nov. S, 1893. P. S.— For expressions typified by "is being built" I could give, in 1873, only three quotations earlier than 1800, namely, one dated 1795 and two dated 1797. I can now add to them others dated 16(37, 1769, 1779, 1782, 1784, 1785, 1786, 1788, 1792, 1795, and 1796 (two). For the years between 1800 and 1820 I have similar quotations, not before spoken of, from Dr. T. Beddoes, Lord Byron, Sir J. C. Hobhouse, W. H. Ire- land, T. L. Peacock, and several anonymous novels. Imperfects passive have since been used by Dr. J. H. Appleton, Mrs. Sarah Austin, Sir C. Babbage, Mr. R. D. Blackmore, Sir John Bowring, Rev. J. S. Brewer, Rev. Dr. J. W. Donaldson, Archdeacon Farrar, Miss Caroline Fox, Mr. W. E. Gladstone, Lady Duff Gor- don, W. R. Greg, Rev. W. Gresley, Prof. John Grote, Mr. Frederic Harrison, Sir J. F. W. Herschel, Dr. W. B. Hodgson, A. J. B. Hope, J. R. Hope-Scott, Sir H. S. Maine, Rev. Dr. S. R. Maitland, Mr. W. H. Mal- lock, Cardinal Manning, Miss Harriet Martiuean, J. S. Mill, J. C. Morison, Mr. John Morley, Prof. F. W. Newman, Laurence Oliphant, Rev. F. E. Paget, Rev. Mark Pattison, Rev. Baden Powell, Rev. J. Pycroft, Rev. Dr. E. B. Pusey, Lord Salisbury, Mr. Goldwiu Smith, Mr. Herbert Spencer, Sir J. F. Stephen, Mr. Leslie Stephen, Lord Strangford, J. A. Symonds, and many an author here unnamed. The evidence, in all these cases, is at hand. In George Eliot's " Komola" alone, the form of construction referred to is exhibited no fewer than thirty-nine times. Mr. Williams, in " Our Dictionaries," p. 139, pre- mising " 1800," advances the opinion that "from about that time . . . the innovation" presented in is being "must have spread with great rapidity." As a collo- quialism, it may have done so; but it certainly did not do so in books till as late as 1830, or somewhat later. "Was being done away" is offered, by the Bible re- visionists, as a variant rendering in II. Corinth., iii., 7. Yet, in I. Peter, iii., 20, they have retained the now vulgar " while the ark was a preparing." To some, it is conceived, these particulars may be of interest. p u 1893.] 333 THE DIAL ®!je Nefo Boofts. The Life and Letters of ax American Naturalist.* While the "Letters of Asa Gray," recently issued under the editorship of Jane Loriug Gray, appeal, prima facie, chiefly to the scien- tific reader, they will be found fairly rich in matter of general interest and entertainment. Happily, with Dr. Gray, intense devotion to a specialty did not result in a form of brain par- alysis as to interests outside of it. He was an enthusiastic traveller, a lover of art and of literature, and his letters and the records of his European journeys testify throughout to his liberal tastes and his lively concern in the bustling activities of the unlearned world about him. In point of style, the letters, while they lack that special literary charm which has its pictorial analogue in color, show the same excellent prose qualities of clearness and pre- cision that go to make the writer's botanical text-books the best of their kind. His corre- spondence with eminent co-workers, Darwin, De Candolle, Dr. Torrey, Hooker, and others, is, of course, well seasoned with scientific dis- cussion and comment; and here his habitual effort at clear and full expression — largely the fruit of much expository writing and lec- turing—stands the lay reader in good stead. In making her selection, the editor has aimed to present the story of Dr. Gray's life as far as possible in his own words, and to this end she has prefixed to the "Letters" a brief "Autobiography "—a dry abstract of the writer's early life, chiefly valuable for the glimpses it gives of his boyhood and his ances- try. Serious biographical deficiencies in the epistolary record are supplied by a running thread of editorial comment and rather full notes. Dr. Gray came, on his father's side, of that sturdy Scotch-Irish stock to which America owes so many strong men and excellent women. His early life was not without its privations, but he was of the right metal to bear them cheerfully at first and to turn them to account afterwards. Born in 1810 in Sauquoit, Oneida County, N. Y., his first recollections were of Paris Furnace Hollow, a neighboring village where his father had set up a small tannery. Of this establishment he retained some vivid recollections, especially those connected with •The Letters of Asa Gray. Edited by Jane Loring Gray. In two volumes. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. "the first use to which he was put," the driving round the ring of the old horse that turned the bark-mill, and the supplying the mill with its small grist of bark—which, adds Dr. Gray with some feeling, was "a lonely and monot- onous occupation." He was sent to the district school at the age of three, and, later, to a small "select" school at Sauquoit, whence, at twelve, he went to the Clinton Grammar School, where he was drilled in the rudiments of Latin and Greek for two years, "excepting," he writes, "the three summer months, when I was taken home to assist in the corn and hayfield." From the Clinton school he was transferred (1825) to Fairfield Academy, Herkimer County, N. Y.; and at this point in his recital the Doctor pauses to say something of that " omnivorous reading which was, after all, the larger part of my education." History he "rather took to," but (like Kant) he especially delighted in voyages and travels. In the little circulating library at Sauquoit there were no plays, not even Shakespeare, but there was a comfortable sprinkling of novels; and the future botanist spent many cheerful and not unprofitable hours over those honored favorites, "Rob Roy," "Quentin Durward," "The Children of the Abbey," and, notably, that soul-stirring pro- duction, " Thaddeus of Warsaw." Later, he obtained access to the Phoenix Society library, of Hamilton College, which was especially "strong in novels." "I suppose," says the Doctor, without any apparent twinges of the scientific conscience, "that I read them every one." In the autumn of 1826 Dr. Gray (compelled to abandon the idea of going to college) entered the medical school at Fairfield; and here, dur- ing the winter of the following year, his tastes and energies were half-fortuitously turned into their final channel by the article in Brewster's "Edinburgh Encyclopaedia " on " Botany "— •' a poor thing," he says, "but it interested me much." What the fatal map of Namur was to Uncle Toby, the article on Botany proved to be to Dr. Gray; and thenceforward his progress was rapid. His interest in botany began thus, in midwinter, when he was out of reach, as he says, even of a greenhouse or of a potted plant. Early in the spring, however (1828), he sallied forth into the bare woods— eager as a boy to his first trout-stream—and found, to his great joy, an early plant in flower, peeping through the dead leaves at the vanish- ing winter. This treasure he bore home, and, with the aid of Eaton's " Manual," he ran it 334 [Dec. 1, THE DIAL down to its name, Cluytonia Virginica. "I was well pleased," he writes, "and went on collecting and examining all the flowers I could lay hands on. ... I began an herbarium of shockingly bad specimens." In the spring of 1830 Dr. Gray became professor of natural sciences at Mr. Bartlett's School at Utica, and in the autumn of 1836 he was appointed cura- tor of the new Lyceum of Natural History, New York, whose hall was his home for a year or two. In 1838 he was appointed professor in the University of Michigan, with the under- standing that he was to have a year abroad. Of this first European journey a detailed and lively account is given in the letters and jour- nals already alluded to. On his return from Europe, in 1840, the University of Michigan not yet needing his services, he settled in New York to his work on the "Flora of North America" (already begun by his life-long friend, Dr. Torrey), and Parts 3 and 4 of Vol. I. were issued in June of that year. The au- tobiographical fragment closes abruptly about the period of Dr. Gray's acceptance (in the spring of 1842) of a chair at Harvard. He writes: "Sometime in January, 1842,1 made a visit of two or three days to B. D. Greene in Boston; the first time I ever saw Boston. Came out one day to Cambridge, dined with his father-in-law, President Quincy; the company to meet us was Professor Channiug and Pro- fessor Treadwell. Sometime in April, I received a letter from President Quincy, telling me that the cor- poration of the university would elect me Fisher Pro- fessor of natural history if I would beforehand signify my acceptance. The endowment then yielded fifteen hundred dollars a year. I was to have a thousand and allow the rest to accumulate for a while. Meanwhile I was to give only a course of botanical lectures, in the second spring term, and look after the Garden. But more work was soon added. I came in July, in the midst of vacation, before Commencement, which was then in September; got lodgings, with room for my then small herbarium, in the house of Deacon Munroe." Of Dr. Gray's character and personality, the editor affords us some interesting glimpses. He was a singularly amiable, engaging man, alert, merry, animated, in touch with current life and thought, not at all the conventional Gelehrter (Erasmus in the study and Kaspar Hauser out of it) of the cloistered German type, yet not, it seems, without a touch of the artlessness in lesser practical matters that so often forms an agreeable foil to profound learn- ing. Deeply interested in the religious thought of the day, he was (like all thinking men who have the matter at heart) reticent as to his own religious feelings, and sensitive about any exhibition of them. He was a constant church- goer. When travelling, he always made Sun- day a resting day, and he would slip away quietly in the morning to find some place of worship. He enjoyed the Episcopal service, though early habit and training had made him a Presbyterian. He once wrote: "In fact, I have no more fondness for high Calvinistic theology than for German neology. . . . But I have no penchant for melancholy, sober as I sometimes look, but turn always, like the leaves, my face to the sun." Reading between the lines here, one fancies that the hiatus above, if supplied, might per- chance contain a reference to the binding, if sometimes unwelcome, force of strict dialectics. We have alluded to the Doctor's character- istic alertness. Says the editor: "In the street he was usually on a half run, for he never allowed himself quite time enough to reach his destination leisurely. When travelling by coach and climbing a hill, he would .sometimes alarm his fellow- travellers by suddenly disappearing through a window in his eagerness to secure some plant he had spied; his haste would not suffer him to open a door. As his motions were quick, so that he seemed always ready for a spring, so he found instant relaxation by throwing himself flat on the floor when tired, to rest, like a child." At the time of the Civil War, Dr. Gray threw himself into the current of discussion with his usual earnestness. His letters of the period ring with a fine, uncompromisiug patri- otism, and he put his own hand to the work so far as he was able. "A company of the men who were too old or other- wise incapacitated from going to the front was enlisted in Cambridge to guard the State Arsenal there, and also to be ready to be summoned in any emergency; and he joined the ranks and was faithful in the drilling and every duty to which they were called." Like his friend Darwin, Dr. Gray was devoted to pets — especially to " man's friend, the dog." His prime favorite was the black- and-tan terrier "Max," an animal neither especially beautiful nor gifted, but interesting for its warm affection and the power it had of developing its intelligence. "To be near and to please his beloved master was enough for him. Anything his master did was right and to be submitted to. Max had conscience, but it did not restrain him from showing his vexation when left at home, by throwing Dr. Gray's hat and gloves, etc., on the floor; but his shame and penitence always betrayed him. It seemed as if the joy of his master's return had killed him." Max's pathetic demise is thus chronicled by his master in a letter to Darwin: "Let me add, being sure of your sympathy, that our poor dog Max peacefully breathed his last to-day, after a happy life of twelve or thirteen years. We are glad he lived till we returned, and greeted us with his absorb- ing and touching affection. In a few days came a par- 1893.] 335 THE DIAL tial paralysis, some convulsions, and then a quiet and seemingly painless ending. He is immortalized in your book on Expression, and will live in the memory of his attached master and mistress." Passing on now to the letters, our remaining space shall be given mainly to citations from an interesting series classified by the editor as written to "Darwin and Others—1860-1868." Unfortunately, the letters written to Darwin previous to 1862 were destroyed — save the one dated January 23, 1860, published in his "Life and Letters," and reprinted in the pres- ent work. Dr. Gray seems to have met Dar- win first in 1839, at the London College of Surgeons; and, later, we read in Mrs. Gray's English journal (1851) of "an invitation to lunch from the Hookers, 'to meet Mr. Darwin, who is coming to meet Dr. Hooker; is dis- tinguished as a naturalist.' "—" Mr. Darwin was a lively, agreeable person." "The Origin of Species " having appeared in 1859, the letters from which we quote were written while discussion of its main position was at a white heat. Writing to J. D. Hooker, Jan- uary 5, 1860, Dr. Gray says: "The principal part of your letter was high laudation of Darwin's book. "Well, the book has reached me, and I finished its careful perusal four days ago; and I freely say that your laudation is not out of place. "It is done in a masterly manner. It might well' have taken twenty years to produce it. It is crammed full of most interesting matter, thoroughly digested, well expressed, close, cogent; and taken as a system it makes out a better case than I had supposed possi- ble. ... "I doubt if I shall please you [in his review for 'Sil- liman's Journal'] altogether. I know I shall not please Agassiz at all. I hear another reprint is in the press, and the book will excite much attention here, and some controversy. . . ." Writing to the author himself, January 23, 1860, Dr. Gray says: "I hope next week to get printed sheets of my review from New Haven and send them to you, and will ask you to pass them on to Dr. Hooker. "To fulfil your request, I ought to tell you what I think the weakest, and what the best, part of your book. But this is not easy, nor to be done in a word or two. The best part, I think, is the whole, that is, its plan and treatment, the vast amount of facts and acute infer- ences handled as if yon had a perfect mastery of them. I do not think twenty years too much time to produce such a book in. "Style clear and good, but now and then wants re- vision for little matters (p. 97, self-fertilizes itself, etc.). "Then your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmount- able at least for the present. I know some people who never have any difficulties to speak of. "The moment I understood your premises, I felt sure you had a real foundation to hold on. Well, if one ad- mits your premises, I do not see how he is to stop short of your conclusions, as a probable hypothesis at least. "It naturally happens that my review of your book does not exhibit anything like the full force of the im- pression the book has made upon me. Under the cir- cumstances I suppose I do your theory more good here, by bespeaking for it a fair and favorable consideration, and by standing noncommitted as to its full conclusion, than I should if I announced myself a convert; nor could I say the latter with truth. "Well, what seems to me the weakest point in the book is the attempt to account for the formation of or- gans, the making of eyes, etc., by natural selection. Some of this reads quite Lamarckian. The chapter on Hybridism is not a weak, but a strong chapter. You have done wonders there. But still you have not ac- counted, as you may be held to account, for divergence up to a certain extent producing iucreased fertility of the crosses, but carried one short, almost imperceptible, step more, giving rise to sterility, or reversing the ten- dency. ... I am free to say that I have never learnt so much from one book as I have from yours." Writing to R. W. Church, May 7, 1861, Dr. Gray defends and defines his review of "The Origin of Species" ("Darwiniana"): "I am gratified, also, by your apprehending the spirit and object of my essay on Darwin so much bet- ter than many who write to me about it. All it pre- tends to is to warn the reckless and inconsiderate to state the case as it is; to protest against the folly of those who would, it would seem, go on to fire away the very ramparts of the citadel in defense of needless out- posts; and, as you justly remark, to clear the way for a fair discussion of a new theory on its merits and evi- dence. We must use the theory a while in botany and in zoology, and see how it will work; in this way a few years will test it thoroughly. I incline to think that its principles will be to a certain extent admitted in science, but that, as Darwin conceives it, it will prove quite in- sufficient." In a letter to Darwin of October 10, 1860, the Doctor, alluding to British comments on American illiteracy, offers an amusing tu quoqite: "Some of the representations of us in the English pa- pers would be amusing if they did not now do so great harm. One would think it was generally thought that there was no law and order here, nor gentlemanly con- duct, nor propriety of deportment among the poorer and laboring people. I wish you could come and see. As to such things, and as to intelligence, education, etc., I have sometimes thought of the picture one could draw from individual cases. Take one — very confidentially —for I would not hurt a really good fellow by expos- ing his ignorance of what he might be expected to know. Here we lately had a Cambridge graduate (F.L.S., and godson of an English baronet) who «i one conversation let us know most frankly that he had no idea where Quito was, or that there were two houses of Congress in the United States, and was puzzled to know whether Boston, United States, time was faster or slower than that of Greenwich! . . ." The following note may smack of irreverence 336 [Dec. 1, THE DIAL and of a disregard for constituted authority; but we quote it for its humor: "There is some jolly science in the 'Saturday Re- view,' now and then; as in December 28, p. 605, where we are informed that icebergs 'are formed by the splashing of the waves on the coast of Labrador.'" In letters to Darwin written May 26 and July 21, 1863, we find some interesting refer- ences to Professor Owen: "Your letter on heterogeny is keen and good; Owen's rejoinder ingenious. But his dissent from your well- put claims of natural selection to attention and regard is good for nothing except on the admission of the view that species are somehow derived genealogically; and this I judge, from various of Owen's statements, that he really in his heart believes to be the case, and was (as I long ago intimated my suspicions) hunting about for some system of derivation, when your book came down upon him like a thunderclap." "I have been reading Owen's Aye-aye paper. Well, this is rich and cool! Did I not tell you in the 'At- lantic ' long ago, that Owen had a transmutation theory of his own! It is your Hamlet, with the part of Ham- let left out! But as you say now, you don't so much insist on natural selection, if you can only have deriva- tion of species. And Owen goes in for derivation on the largest scale. You may as well lovingly embrace! Oh, it is rare fun! . . ." In a note to Darwin, April 14, 1871, there are some humorous signs of yielding on the Doctor's part. "You have," he says, " such a way of putting things, and you write in such a captivating way. One can only say: Almost thou persuadest me to have been 'a hairy quad- ruped, of arboreal habits, furnished with a tail and pointed ears,' etc." Dr. Gray's critique of the popular little book called "How Plants Behave" is amusing: "By the hand of an old correspondent of yours, and cousin of ours, Mr. Brace, I send you a little book, which may amuse you, in seeing your own science adapted to juvenile minds. In some of those hours in which you can do no better than read, or hear read, 'trashy novels,' you might try this instead. It will hardly rival the 'Jumping Frog,' and the like speci- mens of American literature which you first made known to us. ..." We may fittingly close our perhaps rather too-Darwinian series of extracts with the fol- lowing note (embodying an important autobio- graphical fact) to Dr. G. F. Wright (1875): "... A minister out in Illinois has written me, tak- ing me seriously to task for altering my opinion after the age of forty-five, and for abetting disorder, by sup- porting theories tWtt disturb the harmony of opinion that ought to prevail among scientific men. "He is one of those people who think that if you shut your eyes hard, it will answer every purpose; in- deed, from the ease with which he confutes Darwinism, I suppose he finds no call even to shut nis eyes." Convinced of the probable truth of Darwin- ism, and welcoming it as a good working hy- pothesis, the writer saw in it nothing to disturb, or, indeed, to trench upon, his religious beliefs. Matters of faith and matters of possible knowl- edge he kept separate and distinct, each in its own province. Dr. Gray's "Letters" are interesting and valuable not only through the eminence of the writer, but through that of the recipients — the drift of whose replies is usually fairly inferable. The editor has done her work thor- oughly and well, and the publishers have con- formed to their usual standards. There are four good portraits of Dr. Gray (one of them "In his Study "), and a view of the Harvard Botanical Garden in 1893. E G j A New History of Political Economy.* Dr. Luigi Cossa's " Guide to the Study of Political Economy," translated into English at the instance of Jevons, has long maintained a high reputation in America. The " Introduc- tion to the Study of Political Economy," be- gun as a revision of the " Guide," but really a new work, is far more comprehensive and im- portant, and, as an interpreter of the history of the science, is, for English readers, without a rival. The " extraordinary extent and accuracy of Dr. Cossa's knowledge of the economic lit- erature of almost all nations," which Jevons noted in the "Guide," is here extended and deepened, and enriched by a luminous style full of felicitous, penetrating, and discriminating statements. In closeness of texture and in con- structive grasp the work is perhaps inferior to Ingram's "History of Political Economy"; but Cossa, though chatty and conversational in tone, is far more complete and necessarily in better perspective. The main part of the book is taken up with an historical review of economic doctrine from the earliest antiquity down to the latest manu- script treatises of the year 1893. This prodi- gious task, requiring for its successful perform- ance enormous learning, patient analysis, and intelligent sympathy, is so well done as to leave almost nothing to be desired; and the earlier writings take their proper place as fragment- ary speculations. The order of economic de- velopment, the priority of ideas, the gradual and partial attempts at systematization, and *An Introduction to the Study of Political Econ- omy. By Luigi Cossa, Professor in the Royal University of Pavia. Translated from the Italian by Louis Dyer, A.M. New York: Maemillan & Co. 1893.] 337 THE DIAL the flowering of the science in Adam Smith and his successors, are exhibited with great skill. The author's conception of current economic tendencies is also keen, and his analysis of cur- rent economic writings shows no lack of in- sight and critical grasp. Here, however, the reader's perspective is more or less lost, and naturally there will be less agreement with the author's judgments. Throughout, there are many felicitous characterizations,— as, for ex- ample, of the economy of the churchmen (p. 138), of the mercantile system (p. 207), of pro- tection stumbling upon the unity of all indus- trial action (p. 240). Not less suggestive is the theoretical side of the book. The mooted points of definition, re- lation to other branches of knowledge, char- acteristics, terms, and method, are treated with thoroughness and moderation. The author is not an economic eclectic, but belongs to the militant wing of the reformed classical school. Much of the vigor and sustained power of the book undoubtedly conies from his steady ad- herence to the point of view; and this also marks its limitations. There is no better place anywhere to study the excellences and defects of the new classical school. Cossa does not believe that a single position won by orthodox economy has been surrendered. "Fifteen years ago waverers stood trembling by while skeptics predicted the ruin, total and immediate, of English economics. But facts are stubborn things, and facts have gone against them" (p. 354). But English economy is not the thing it has been popularly represented to be. The extravagant assump- tions and deductions of the earlier and middle years of the century are unceremoniously dis- carded. Indeed, these assumptions and deduc- tions, he tells us, were never really justified by the classical writers. It is not the fault of Mal- thus and Ricardo that they failed to make them- selves understood. The " Manchester School" is a German myth (pp. 361, 369); Bastiat, with his physiocratic notions of " indefinite pro- gress," and some few second-rate writers, are its real representatives. '•'•Laissez-faire is any- thing but a scientific dogma. It is nothing but a hypothesis in social economics, and in polit- ical economy it is a rule of art, subject as such to noteworthy exceptions" (p. 104). The "all sufficiency of enlightened selfishness " goes by the board. "Another serious error of Ques- nay's school was their assertion of laissez-faire as a scientific axiom, when it is no better than any other rule of thumb, and requires frequent violation in cases where otherwise there would be collision between private interests and the common weal" (p. 271). Of the economic struggle in England during the present century, for whose attitude toward it the classical school has been so severely censured, he says: "Many vexatious and outward forms of governmental interference were abrogated, to the delight of all, while little account was taken of doctrinaire scruples in favor of laissez-faire" (p. 325). The "healthy liberty favored by the classical school" thus disarms criticism, while the "hard- and-fast dogmatism of laissez-faire defended by the optimists "(p. 400) and the " barbaric lit- eralness of Spencer " (p. 362) are made to serve as scapegoats; and he speaks of Berardi, " who coznpounded out of Ferrara and Herbert Spencer a deadly decoction of laissez-faire " (p. 506). The main premises of the classical school are given on page 74. These are, first, the law of the least sacrifice. In economic functions the lead- ing motive of average human action is profit and loss, which prompts us to aim at the greatest gain in return for the least possible expenditure of effort, sacrifice, and risk. Second, the law of diminishing returns. Third, the law of population—man's proneness to multiply upon the earth beyond the means of subsistence. These, taken together with hypothetical free competition, are the basis of the deductive theories of the classical school. Attention is called to the accidental and various causes which science neglects, but which rarely fail to traverse the foreseen results of constant causes (p. 75). Cossa's definition of the sci- ence is much broader than the traditional one. "Not wealth, which is but a complex and shifting sum of material goods, but man's business with wealth, is the subject-matter of political economy" (p. 10). Pure and ap- plied economics are rigidly separated. "Pure economics explains phenomena for which it is not responsible, and which it cannot alter." "The field of a science is one thing, and the rules of an art are another" (p. 28). "It is one thing to determine fair wages, . . . but it is quite a different thing to state in a strictly and scientifically correct fashion the economic theory of wages" (p. 13). The reformed clas- sical school, however, is willing to concede that there is such a legitimate thing as applied economics, and, granting its main contention regarding the functiou and method of pure economics, it is ready, as Cossa shows, to take a very generous view of the importance of the art of political economy. 338 [Dec. 1, THE DIAL "Ethieal considerations modify in various ways the action and reaction of profit and loss, which is the chief force in economic phenomena taken in the concrete" (p. 29). "Applied economics must rank as subsidiary and inferior to ethics, because the attainment of no purely economical advantage can justify a violation of ethical principles. Wealth is only a means to the end of pre- serving man and bringing him to ethical perfection. Ac- cordingly, in any partial conflict between ethical and economic motives the former must prevail. For in- stance, the employment of child-labor in factories would be regulated by State interference on ethical grounds, even if there were no other reason or justification what- ever for interference" (p. 30). This is a very different classicism from what we were accustomed to hear expounded in the school-room a generation ago. Yet, with alt its modifications, it re-affirms the fundamental premises of the classical school, and these, Cossa believes, cannot be seriously shaken. Ethical considerations modify in various ways, —" but Dargun cannot be right in asking any- one to build up a new economics based upon sympathy or on love for one's neighbor" (p. 29). Indeed, this idea of substituting the Golden Rule for the economic motive of self- interest is to Cossa unthinkable. "Grant to the socialists their delusive dream, wipe out of existence wealth as a social system, humor them and allow that injustice is inherent in the exercise of liberty, winch brings inevitable pauperism and constantly recurring crises wherever it goes, what will socialism thus humored to the full of its bent do for you? It will create a system of economic policy tending wholly to eliminate or at least partially to paralyze private property and competition. What experience have we of any system of economic order which does not hinge upon these two cardinal institutions in the established order of to-day?" (p. 516). Alas! alas! And yet there are those among us foolish enough to contemplate such a possi- bility without a shudder, and to dream, in spite of Cossa's fantastic anathema (p. 515), of that time when the Kingdom of Heaven shall really come on the earth! This notice should not close without acknowl- edging our debt to the translator for the ad- mirable rendering into English, and to the publisher for the excellence of typography and PaPer- O. L. Elliott. Life with Trans-Sibekiax Savages.* In Mr. Douglas Howard's little book, "Life with Trans-Siberian Savages," we have a sketchy — all too sketchy — account of expe- riences among that most interesting people, the Ainu of Saghalien. Our author claims to * Life with Trans-Siberian Savages. By B. Douglas Howard. New York: Longmans, Green, & Co. have lived with them, to have tilted in medical contest with their Shaman, to have been in- ducted into a chieftaincy. These are unusual advantages, and we are justified in expecting much new matter from his pen. He himself realizes this, and trusts that his book will be "found both interesting and instructive to the general as well as to the scientific reader." Unfortunately, however, he adds little to our actual knowledge of the Ainu. Mr. Howard shows himself unacquainted with the history of exploration among the Ainu. It is scarcely true that no one has written about the Saghalien Ainu for nearly three hundred years. Batchelor's book appears to have suggested Howard's name for the peo- ple of whom he writes. Most authors speak of Ai'no or Aino, of Ai'nos or Ainos: Batch- elor insists that we should say Ainu, and uses the same form in singular and plural. How- ard, however, uses Ainus for a plural—a rather unwarranted proceeding. There is much yet to learn of the physical characteristics of the Ainu, and Mr. Howard might have made observations, a report of which would have great value and interest. But he does not add anything to our knowl- edge in these respects. The description of the first Ainu he saw will show how little exact science may gain from him. He says: "The flesh-tint of this human phenomenon was that of pale Turkish tobacco; the frame massive; face large, stupid, blank, expressionless; forehead low, and almost concealed by a mass of hair as black and shiny as a highly polished boot. This was parted, with much evi- dent care, exactly in the middle, and hung loosely over the shoulders after the fashion of Eve by the old mas- ters." There is another page full of similar descrip- tion. Here and there, in his narrative of inci- dents of travel, not unpleasantly told, we gather bits of interesting ethnographic matter. A vil- lage is described; food and cookery, dress, fishing, hunting, the use of inaos, treatment of disease, care of the dead, are matters referred to more or less fully. No one, so far as we know, gives so good a description of friction- made fire among Ainu: "A rough little apparatus was produced, consisting of two little blocks of wood. Between these was placed a bit of very dry elm stick, one end, which we will call the lower end, being pointed so as to fit loosely into a hole in the lower block; the other end, also pointed, being in contact only with the flat under surface of the upper block. A bow was then unstrung at one end, the string was passed once round the middle of the dry stick, and the free end was loosely re-attached. The bow was then worked with wonderful celerity, until the lower end of the stick first smoked, and then passed 1893.] 339 THE DIAL into a fitful blaze. This was communicated to some fine dry twigs." The fish-skin suits worn in Saghalien are de- scribed as thin, tough, and pliable, elaborately but coarsely embroidered. The use of dogs by the Ainu is more fully treated than by other writers. The dog of the Ainu is of the size of a foxhound, but has a much smaller head and is lighter built. Of a sandy color, darkening along the back, he is in form some- what like the wolf or fox. His gait is wolfish and his appearance stupid and selfish. These creatures, half-wild, filthy, acting as scavengers, displaying no fondness for man and only kept at work by hunger, are yet of great import- ance to the Ainu of Saghalien. They are used in fishing, in driving deer, in hunting bears, in drawing sledges. Although never tied, they do not stray, and when working they are al- ways in packs or bands. Their use in fishing is novel, and is well-described. A fishing party started for the sea with about thirty dogs. Ar- rived at the scene of action, dogs and men were separated into two parties stationed at points two hundred yards apart. At a given signal the dogs plunged boldly into the water and swam out single file in two columns. At a sig- nal they wheeled toward each other, and when they had completed a crescentric line turned in toward the shore. As they drew near the land and the line contracted, fishes were driven in to shallow water. Here the dogs seized them and brought them to their masters. From Mr. Howard's description of the bear-hunt it appears that the animal's throat is severed im- mediately after he is killed; the heart is re- moved, and the blood-vessels are opened. Mr. Howard twice refers to message sticks. There are reasons why fuller details regarding these would have been of great interest. Possibly the most interesting ethnographic item is in reference to the preparation of ar- row poison. Mr. Howard claims to have been regularly instructed in this art. Aconite roots, carefully cleaned and scraped, were sliced and pounded to a powder. This was placed in water, and boiled until two-thirds of the fluid had evaporated. It was then strained, and still further reduced by boiling. The residue was placed in a sea-shell. Six dead spiders were then powdered, put into water, and boiled down. This was put in a second shell. The gall bladders of three freshly-killed foxes were then taken, and the gall boiled down and put in a third shell. The two valves of a bivalve were now carefully cleaned. In one of them the three materials were carefully mixed with a little spatula of bone or wood. The unmixed mate- rials and the mixture were both sanctified by ceremonies before the sacred whittled sticks or inaos. After testing the mixture by dipping the tip of a spear of grass into it and touching it to the tongue, the upper valve was adjusted to the one containing the poison and the edges were gummed together. It is when we read a description as exact as this that we most regret that our author has not given us more of value. It happens that the Ainu just now are at- tracting considerable attention. Batchelor's wonderfully good book on the Ainu of Yezo is recent. Now we have this volume of Howard's, and very lately David MacRitchie's work, "The Ai'nos," appeared. This last, a very curious and interesting book, is by a man who has not seen the Ainu himself. It consists of the re- production of a remarkable series of Japanese drawings and paintings of Ainu, with some notes and remarks upon the people and their customs as therein shown. The pictures (the originals of which are in various European museums of ethnography), printed in their original colors, fill nineteen quarto plates and represent many interesting scenes. One con- stantly wonders at the fidelity and truth of most of these Japanese artists, even in minute details. We have, carefully delineated, the dress, ornaments, houses, mats, boats, inaos. We have, scrupulously depicted, movements, gestures, feasts, hunts, all occupations. Where ethnographic details are so elaborately worked out we are justified in expecting in these quaint pictures some data regarding the physical char- acteristics, which Howard fails to give us ; and these we find in MacRitchie's book. These artists of Japan represent the Ainu with hairy body, shaven heads, skin diseases on the head. They also picture them with curiously irregu- lar feet furnished with claw-like nails and with a curiously deep fold in the sole of the foot. MacRitchie calls attention to these peculiarities, and finds in them the basis for a theory of the primitive Ainu. He believes that these were less human than any savage people now living. It is interesting to put with this Mr. Howard's suggestion that the Ainu are " straggling Ary- ans." But much yet remains to be done, before the origin of the Ainu is settled. Men who work more carefully than Mr. Howard must repeat his " life among trans-Siberian savages" before we shall know much about Saghalien Ainu, Oh, for a Saghalien Batchelor! Frederick Starr. 340 [Dec. 1, THE DIAL Recent Fiction.* Mr. E. F. Benson's "Dodo" shows us that the son of an Archbishop of Canterbury may display a bent anything but ecclesiastical, or even ethical. It also shows us that the writer is a keen observer of things and men (includ- ing women), and that he has no little sense of humor. Dodo is a delightfully wicked crea- tion, although we cannot take her quite as se- riously as the author would evidently have us do. She clearly belongs to the world of con- ventional art of which Lamb discoursed in his essay on the dramatists of the Restoration; a world that lies apart from the one in which we actually live, a world whose people may do and say what they please without the remotest dan- ger of influencing the conduct of anybody in the real world. A large part of the book sim- ply reports Dodo's conversation, of which the following is a good example: "Yes, I know, but you do me an injustice. I shall be very good to him. 1 can't pretend that I am what is known as being in love with him — in fact, I don't think I know what that means, except that people get in a very ridiculous state, and write sonnets to their mistress's front teeth, which reminds me that I am going to the den- tist to-morrow. Come and hold my hand — * Dodo: A Detail of the Day. By E. F. Benson. New York: D. Appleton & Co. Miss Stuart's Legacy. By Mrs. F. A. Steel. New York: Macmillan & Co. The Coast of Bohemia. By W. D. Howells. New York: Harper & Brothers. The Copperhead. By Harold Frederic. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Marion Darche: A Story without Comment. By F. Ma- rion Crawford. New York: Macmillan & Co. The Son op a Prophet. By George Anson Jackson. Bos- ton: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Ivar the Viking. By Paul Du Chaillu. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Sweet Bells Oct op Tune. By Mrs. Burton Harrison. New York: The Century Co. The Petrie Estate. By Helen Dawes Brown. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. The White Islander. By Mary Hartwell Catherwood. New York: The Century Co. Pastorals of France; Renunciations. By Frederick Wedmore. New York: Imported by Charles Scribner's Sons. My Friend the Murderer, and Other Mysteries and Ad- ventures. By A. Conan Doyle. New York: Lovell, Coryell A Co. Yanko the Musician, and Other Stories. By Henryk Sienkiewicz. Translated from the Polish by Jeremiah Cur- tin. Boston: Little, Brown, & Co. Short Stories. Edited by Constance Cary Harrison. New York: Harper & Brothers. Two Bites at a Cherry, with Other Tales. By Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. The Wheel of Time; Collaboration; Owen Win- grave. By Henry James. New York: Harper & Brothers. yes, and keep withered flowers and that sort of thing. Ah, Jack, I wish that I really knew what it did mean. It can "t be all nonsense, because Chesterford 's like that, and he is an honest man if you like. And I do respect and admire him very much, and I hope I shall make him happy, and I hear he's got a delightful new yacht; and, oh! do look at that Arbuth- not girl opposite with a magenta hat. It seems to me inconceivably stupid to have a magenta hat. Really, she 's a fool. She wants to at- tract attention, but she attracts the wrong sort." This sort of thing is almost preternaturally clever, and there is a great deal of it in the book; in fact, there is little else that arrests the attention. But it palls after a hundred pages or so, and most of the other characters are lay figures. "Dodo" has been, we under- stand, a great success in England, which is not surprising, but it will be equally surprising to find anybody reading it a few years hence. It has the meteoric quality of such books as "Mr. Isaacs" and "Helen's Babies," and its bril- liancy is but for the hour. Mrs. Steel is the latest accession to the ranks of the writers from whom we are at last learn- ing what manner of people the East Indians really are. Mr. Kipling has done much to dis- abuse the public of conventional prejudices concerning the Indian Empire and its popula- tion, and Mrs. Steel's work is planned upon similar lines. The fault of these writers is that they take too much for granted an acquaintance with the Anglo-Indian vocabulary, that they are in a certain degree obscure, if not from in- tention, at least from lack of consideration for their public. "Miss Stuart's Legacy" is an exceptionally instructive and interesting tale. Its native characters have all the appearance of faithful studies of the types which they rep- resent; we may safely assume them to be in all the essentials trustworthy. The English characters are equally well done, and one of them—John Raby—is very nearly a triumph. He is the evil genius of the story, but the au- thor has resisted the temptation to paint him wholly in black; he deserves, at times, a con- siderable share of our sympathy, and the half- tone sketch of his commonplace character illus- trates the old truth that the treatment, rather than the type selected, is what makes a char- acter interesting. Mr. Howells has always had a pretty taste in titles, and "The Coast of Bohemia," by its name alone, brings pleasurable anticipa- tions. Nor are they doomed to disappointment 1893.] 341 THE DIAL in this instance, for the story is pleasing in all its aspects. The Bohemia upon whose coasts it bids us linger is the somewhat sophisticated and denationalized Bohemia of the New York art schools and studios; the flavor of its life is very different from that of the enchanted re- gion which Murger opened for us, but its ways are engaging if decorous, and its denizens are very much alive while not too much in earnest. We do not discover among them any of the queer creatures that we have rather learned to expect in a novel by Mr. Howells—for once those crea- tures with their fads seem to have been shelved —but find merely a little group of humanly in- teresting men and women, leading lives rational in the main, and brought into relations which elicit the author's best powers of serious anal- ysis, relieved by touches of his dry and delight- ful humor. The manner is still that of real- ism, but a realism not too exclusive of the methods of art, and capable of giving the name of Charmian to one of the characters, no slight concession to the enemy. Moreover, the story is essentially a love-story, and it comes to the proper conclusion of love-stories, although there is one period of suspense when, knowing the perverse capabilities of the writer, the reader wonders if it really is going to end anywhere. It is well that there should be searchings of soul, but it is not well that they should rob stories — as Mr. Howells sometimes permits them to—of their legitimate endings. Realism still more unrelieved than in the case of Mr. Howells is to be found in "The Copperhead," Mr. Harold Frederic's new novel. But in this case it portrays a type and a set of conditions of great historical and social inter- est, and we may hardly make of its fidelity to fact a matter of reproach. The lot of the Northern man who, during our Civil War, openly professed his sympathy with the South- ern cause was made hard for him in a variety of ways, and of this Mr. Frederic has given us a very vivid illustration in the character of Abner Beech, the New York farmer. Toler- ance for the political opinions of the other party was, during that period of riotous passions, as unknown a quantity, either North or South, as was any form of religious tolerance to the Con- gregation alist of Puritan New England. Mr. Frederic has chosen to tell the story of his "copperhead" in the words of a boy who was growing towards manhood during the eventful years of the Rebellion, and we fancy that the author has put not a little autobiography into the narrative. The story is so naturally and unaffectedly told that it is difficult to believe it entirely " made up" by the novelist. "Marion Darche " will add nothing to Mr. s~ Crawford's reputation. That skilled and ver- satile novelist could hardly fail to construct a plot of a certain degree of interest, to give life-like portraiture to the characters, and to tell his story in the literary way. These things he has done in the present instance, but they are not sufficient to lift the work above the level of mediocrity. We understand that " Ma- rion Darche " is written as a sort of pendant to a play upon the same theme, and the in- fluence of the dramatic manner is apparent in a number of scenes. It is also shown by an absence from the book of that padding in the use of which Mr. Crawford has been so great a sinner. His villain is really too despicable for probability, a defect which will be still more evident before the footlights than upon the printed page. Mr. Jackson's "The Son of a Prophet" is so serious and so ambitious a piece of work that we regret to describe it as failing to inter- est. But the most inveterate reader of historic fiction finds it hard to follow the tangled thread of the narrative or to project himself by its aid into the unfamiliar scenes and times with which it is concerned. These times are those of King Solomon, and the main purpose of the author is stated as " an attempt to create the character which uttered itself in the Book of Job, and to trace certain conditions, political, intellectual, and spiritual, which compelled this utterance." In assigning the composition of Job to this pe- riod, Mr. Jackson is undoubtedly in the line of the best critical opinion, and his book through- out has the marks of wide and careful scholar- ship. It contains eloquent pages also, and, considered in any other aspect than that of a work of fiction — as a religious or historical study for example — it deserves high praise. But the reader of novels wants his history more diluted and his religion more animated than he will find them in "The Son of a Pro- phet," and we would not lure him on to disap- pointment by concealing the shortcomings of the work, as they exist from his standpoint. "Ivar the Viking " hardly pretends to be a work of fiction. Taking for his theme the life of a fourth century Norseman, Mr. Du Chaillu gives us a reconstruction of the typical viking character, showing us his hero in all the rela- tions of life, from the cradle to the grave. The book is really an archaeological treatise in dis- guise. That the author was competent to han- 342 [Dec. 1 THE DIAL die this subject is not to be questioned; few men, even among Scandinavian antiquarians, have so thoroughly qualified themselves, by mastery of the materials, for such a work. Mr. Du Chaillu once more asserts his pet theory that the English people are of Norse rather than Saxon descent — a theory to which he clings undeterred by the fact that it practically finds no acceptance among serious scholars — and devotes a lengthy preface to its defence. Even Mr. Gladstone is invoked, and a letter is reproduced in which that versatile politician thus expresses himself: "When I have been in Norway, or Denmark, or among Scandina- vians, I have felt something like a cry of na- ture from within, asserting (credibly or other- wise) my nearness to them." This is interest- ing, but hard-headed men of science will find it about as convincing as the same writer's vagaries in Homeric speculation. But Mr. Du Chaillu's hobby does not materially hurt his book, which is to be commended for its vivid portraiture of an age and a race among the most interesting known to history. Mrs. Burton Harrison contrives to put into her work a sweet and wholesome quality that is not common in fiction, least of all in fiction that has to do with the artificial life of "so- ciety" in the narrow sense. She almost per- suades us that "society" has enough human interest to be worth writing about; at all events, she convinces us that real human beings are sometimes found among the followers of its ignoble ideals. The sort of " society" to which we are introduced by such a book as "Sweet Bells Out of Tune" could not be adequately described without a sense of its "humors," or without a readiness to satirize its trivial pre- occupations. Mrs. Harrison has both this sense and this readiness, and her book, in conse- quence, has much of the higher truthfulness of art. This becomes very apparent when we contrast it with novels that take "society" seriously—with Mrs. Cruger's books, for exam- ple. How animated is Mrs. Harrison's style, and how exceptionally entertaining she can be, is particularly well illustrated by the interna- tional episode near the close of the present story. A wealthy social struggler from America is seeking entrance to London " society," and has planned a "function " which a titled English dowager graciously consents to superintend. We quote a delightful conversational passage: "' The best way for you to know America is to visit it yourself some da}',' said Mrs. Vane-Benson politely. '"Me? God forbid!' said the dowager. 'We must have all one kind of flowers in the big saloon; foxgloves, perhaps, or orchids—does your friend know orchids? And there must be plenty of champagne. Your friend must be made to understand beforehand about cham- pagne.' "' We drink champagne by the gallon in America,' retorted Mrs. Vane-Benson in desperation. "' Oh, I think not,' said Lady Shorthorn without a change of expression on her large, fair face. 'It would make you so very sick. Lord Midlands himself told me when he dined at your—er—ah—chief palace, you know—the White House—yes, a few years ago—they gave him Apollinaris only, and handed boiled milk with the coffee, in large cups, during dinner. You see, I've made quite a study of America.' "' I suppose, when you get everything arranged for the ball,' resumed Mrs. Vane-Benson, struggling no more, 'it will be well to let the newspapers have a list of the expected guests.' "' Perhaps; it don't signify—who reads newspapers?' said her ladyship,- comfortably. 'There are so many things in them one really can't believe. Imagine one of them saying, the other day, that your Mr. What's- his-name had taken Guelph House for the season, and if he liked it, after staying here a while, he would probably buy England. Now, fancy buying England— how could he, possibly ?'" A simple love-story, told with good taste in excellent English, with a distinct undertone of ethical meaning, is given us in "The Petrie Estate." The substance of the story is famil- iar enough; the estate in question, by reason of a misplaced will, goes, first to her, then to him, and finally to both. The charm of the book consists, first, in the style, then in the no- bility of the two chief characters, and, finally, in the poetic touch of the closing chapter, which gives us a glimpse of the happy pair upon the great stairway of the Louvre, their attention arrested by the Samothrace Victory, seeing in that glorious figure some sort of concrete em- bodiment of the ideals toward which their lives have been set. The story is unpretentious, but pleasing and wholesome. Mrs. Catherwood's "The White Islander" seems to us the most exquisite piece of work that the writer has yet done. Its effects are produced by broad strokes of the brush, and the canvas must be kept at a suitable distance in order that their real truth and harmony may become apparent. Readers of the photographic sort of current fiction will need to readjust their vision if they would get the proper effect of Mrs. Catherwood's subtle impressionism. The "white islander " is an orphaned French maiden protected by an Indian chief who has planned to make her his wife. The Island of Mackinac, as it was in the old days before the white man had taken possession of its beauti- ful shores, is the scene of the story, and the 1893.] 343 THE DIAL freshness and fragrance of a primitive world breathes from many a descriptive passage upon the reader's transported sense. A sweet and simple love story is the central theme of the narrative, relieved by venturous episodes and thrilling escapes from peril. We fancy that Mrs. Catherwood's Indians are sometimes shown in too romantic, or at least artificial, a light, but it must be remembered that inter- course with priests and traders had already begun upon them the work of sophistication. The study of the chief Wawatam, in whose breast barbaric and civilized instincts struggle for the supremacy, is certainly well conceived and finely executed. The illustrations of the story, mostly simple figures, are very attractive. "Pastorals of France " and " Renunciations" are the titles of two collections of stories by Mr. Frederick Wedmore; the first of them published as long ago as 1877, the other during the present year. Both collections are now re- published in a single exquisite volume. There are but three stories in each set, and the second of the two titles might fitly have been given to the entire volume, for each of the stories is a study of renunciation, imposed either by duty or social conditions ; or, in one case, by nothing more imperative than an over-exacting aesthetic sense. In each of the six it is love that is re- nounced, and in the last of them both love and life are yielded up together. This last story, with its impressive picture of the two lovers, in the presence of imminent death free at last to declare themselves, is a minor masterpiece upon the theme of Renan's famous "Abbesse de Jouarre." It is a curious coincidence, by the way, that the last of the stories in Mr. Aldrich's volume also touches upon this theme. Mr. Wedmore's three French "pastorals" are very subtle of workmanship, and very truthful in their realization of provincial types. Their pathos is subdued rather than poignant, but is without trickery or artificiality, and absolutely simple and genuine. One may read many vol- umes of the best current fiction without encoun- tering as fine a literary art as Mr. Wedmore displays in this collection. Admirers of Dr. Conan Doyle will do well to pass by the collection of stories last published. They are the veriest pot-boilers, and wholly unworthy of his exceptional talent. It is dif- ficult to believe that they ai-e recent work at all; they rather bear the marks of a prentice hand, and we venture the guess that they have been unearthed from the magazines or story- papers of some years ago. They include tales of Australian bush-rangers, Russian nihilists, and South-African diamond hunters, and are crude, extravagant, and sensational. The volume of short stories by the author of "With Fire and Sword," translated by Mr. Curtin, exhibits the remarkable genius of the Polish novelist in a new light. Three of them are exquisitely pathetic little sketches ; a fourth —" Bartek the Victor "—although richly sup- plied with incident, is essentially a psychologi- cal study of the Polish peasant-soldier; while the fifth, failing sadly in the attempt to be humorous, is yet interesting as a reminiscence of the author's sojourn in our own American West. "Bartek the Victor" fills nearly half the volume, and comes near to being a master- piece in its kind. The collection of small volumes known as the " Distaff " series was designed, we are told, to illustrate the best work done by women of the State of New York in contributions to periodical literature. Mrs. Burton Harrison has edited a volume of "Short Stories" for this series, and the result is, to say the least, disappointing. Mrs. Harrison's own story, "Monsieur Alcibiade," is a gem, and belongs at the beginning rather than at the end of the volume. The four stories that precede it do not rise above a low level of mediocrity, although there are flashes of a sort of rude genius in "My Own Story," by Mrs. R. H. Stoddard. Miss Chesebro, Miss Crosby, and Mrs. Slosson are the other New York women represented. It is a long while since we have had a volume of stories from the author of "Marjory Daw," and the new collection is very welcome. Nor has the pen lost its cunning that so took us unawares at the close of "Marjory Daw," for "Two Bites at a Cherry" ends in quite as amusingly unexpected a fashion, while a mild surprise, at least, awaits the reader of "Goli- ath " and " My Cousin the Colonel." Fantastic imaginings, such as few but Mr. Aldrich can deal with, are found in "The Chevalier de Resseguier" and one other story, while pathos overshadows the two remaining tales. We may suggest to Mr. Aldrich, a propos of a passage in "My Cousin the Colonel," that it is the dyer's hand, not his arm, that Shakespeare informs us is subdued to what it works in. We may also question the use of the word "smelting," as applied to the liquefaction of the blood of St. Januarius, and possibly criti- cise the preciosity which has transformed a familiar colloquialism into the following state- ment: "Mrs. Wesley is a lady that does not 344 [Dec. 1, THE DIAL allow any species of vegetation to accumulate under her feet." These be trifles, but Mr. Aldrich is a verbal artist, and his responsibil- ities are greater than most writers have to bear. Some of Air. Aldrich's phrases are irresistible, such as the soliloquy of the relativeless man: "I wonder that I was allowed any ancestors: why wasn't I created at once out of some stray scrap of protoplasm?" Or the remark of Dr. Downs, who is about to cross the seas with the woman whom he hopelessly adores: "If I am not to have earthly happiness with her, I am at least to have some watery happiness." Mr. Aldrich's humorous touches are never far away, and they are always a delight. The short stories of Mr. James have often been chargeable with a sacrifice of interest to subtlety of analysis. The more recent of these stories, while losing nothing in subtlety, have distinctly gained in interest. This remark is particularly applicable to the three stories of the collection now at hand. In one of them, "Owen Wingrave," there is actually a myste- rious death, and, although we have more than a suspicion that the murderer was a ghost, it is gratifying to find in a story by Mr. James anything of so startling a character. "Colla- boration " seems to us the most highly finished of the three. It is an international episode, but this time Franco-German, instead of Anglo- American, and art for art's sake is its theme. That principle has fallen into much discredit of late, mainly through the extravagances of its later devotees, but we cannot afford to let it go altogether, and Mr. James reminds us in his suggestive indirect way, that it is still worthy of at least a limited acceptance. "The Wheel of Time" is a less striking story than either of the other two, being in the familiar manner of a long series of its predecessors, a manner to which the author is by this time so accus- tomed that production must result from some sort of reflex action rather than from any very energetic exercise of imaginative volition. William Morton Payne. A new life of Dickens lias been undertaken by Mr. Thomas Wright. "The information brought to me," Mr. Wright boldly says, "in the form of reminiscences and published notes, etc., will make a volume that will put Forster's life a long, long way in the background. I shall be able to throw light on the early life of Dickens just ljefore he began to be famous. Some curious recol- lections concerning Dickens' method of work will be embodied in the life, and a chapter will be devoted to the novelist's humor, as contrasted with the humor of our other great laughter-compellcrs." Holiday Publications. i. Holiday purchasers whose Christmas gifts take the suitable and sensible form of beautiful books need this year find little difficulty in making a se- lection, save, indeed, that arising from an embar- rassment of riches. Despite the present commercial depression (commercial hesitancy is perhaps the better word) the Holiday output is larger than usual, and the average of merit is higher — a fact implying a spirit of enterprise and of public faith on the part of the publishers that should not go un- rewarded. "It's an ill wind that blows no man good"; and we venture to predict (with an optimism perhaps rather one-sided) that the ''hard times" will inure during the Holiday season, in a way. to the benefit of the bookseller. The making of Christ- mas presents is nowadays really more a matter of obligation than of choice. Not fewer gifts, but less expensive ones, will be in order; and the bookstore is obviously the best place to lay out a moderate sum to advantage. The following list includes mainly the publications received earliest by The Dial, some important titles being reserved for no- tice in our issue of December 16. First on our list conies Messrs. Harper and Brothers' sumptuous art-work, "Masters and Mas- terpieces of Engraving," by Mr. Willis O. Chapin, — a work of permanent interest and value, but so obviously suited to the wants of the more critical class of Holiday buyers that we include it in the present category. Mr. Chapin has furnished an intelligent, logically-coherent survey of the main phases of the engraver's art and of its evolution — a happy mingling of history, biography, technical exposition, and criticism and appreciation of lead- ing men and works. The subject is popularly, yet soberly and critically, handled. The author lias aimed to trace for the general reader the history of the art from its beginnings down to our own time, including in his narrative some account of the en- gravers themselves and of their several theories and methods. Having discussed in the opening chapter the origin of the art, he proceeds to trace, in suc- cessive chapters, its development, in Italy. Germany, Holland and Flanders, France and England. The revival of wood-engraving, started by Bewick in the eighteenth century, is treated in a separate chapter; and the volume closes with an account of •• Various Modern Engravers," including those of the United States. The work is richly illustrated with sixty engravings and heliogravures-—some of them notable specimens of their class. Raimondi's "Lucretia" (after Raphael), Durer's "The Nativ- ity," Van Leyden's '■ David before Saul." Van Dyck's "Lucas Vosterman," are superb plates; but where merit is so even, it is needless to partic- ularize. For the connoisseur fastidious in the arts and refinements of book-manufacture, there is probably nothing on our list likely to prove more attractive 1893.] 345 THE DIAL than the captivating edition of Beckford's "Vathek," one hundred and fifty copies of which are issued for America by Messrs. Macmillan and Co. The vol- ume is a dainty nine-inch octavo, bound in green silk, with an arabesque cover design stamped in gold. The text is clearly printed upon the lightest and flakiest of hand-made laid paper; and there are eight full-page etchings by Mr. Herbert Nye, which display a facile fancy and good technical skill. That the plates do not include a portrait of the author may perhaps be thought a regrettable omission, the more so as the editor. Dr. Richard Garnett, has supplied a rather full notice of Beckf ord. "Vathek," facile princeps among Oriental tales by English writers, furnishes a fair literary analogue to the famous forensic effort of "Single-Speech" Hamilton — a solitary flash of genius from out the obscurity of a generally mediocre career. It has long been regarded as a striking exception to the maxim, Nil sine magno Vita labore dedit mortalibus." But-Beckford's assertion (or rather Redding's ver- sion of it), that he wrote the tale in one sitting of three days and two nights, is now disproved on the evidence of Beckford's own statements in his letters to Henley, the original translator and annotator. Dr. Garnett goes into these critical issues very thoroughly in his Introduction. As to the literary qualities of "Vathek" not much need be said. It has held its place for a century, and has made its au- thor famous. Byron pronounced it far superior, as an Eastern tale, to " Rasselas"; and Dr. Garnett thinks it the only modern Oriental story worthy to appear in the "Arabian Nights," with "Aladdin on its right hand and Ali Baba on its left"— which is a pretty high rating. Its beauties are not recondite, and inability to enjoy it results from a dislike to its genre, from personal deficiency,— in short, from a lack of the mental qualities it presupposes in its readers. We have all met the unhappy being who "can see nothing funny in Pickwick," and to the man born deaf the Anvil Chorus remains forever a profound silence. A copy of this beautiful edition of "Vathek" should please the most critical. That ever-green favorite, "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table," makes its appearance in a neat two-volume edition (Houghton), with illustrations by Mr. Howard Pyle as the special feature. We are glad to note that Mr. Pyle has not lowered his work and degraded his author by any concessions to the popular taste for the comic. His illustration is not overdone, and it does not savor of caricature. In many of the plates one distinguishes the genial features of the "Autocrat" himself; and several of the more fanciful ones, notably "The Old Vio- lin " and "First Love," are charmingly conceived. There are two capital frontispiece portraits of Dr. Holmes. Besides the regular edition, which is ele- gant enough for ordinary tastes and purses, the pub- lishers have provided a large-paper edition which is one of the choicest publications of the season. Admirers of Charles Reade's fine novel of "The Cloister and the Hearth" will welcome the chastely- elegant two-volume edition of it issued by Messrs. Harper and Brothers. The volumes are made up in the tasteful French style — a rivulet of print in a broad field of margin; moderately glazed paper, thin and pliant; with a great number of delicately- toned vignettes (in treatment nicely poised between the illustrative and the ornamental) set in the text, or at the head or the foot of the page. The artist, Mr. William Johnson, has done his work with tact, skill, and historical accuracy as to costumes and ac- cessories. He has not swamped the dainty text with too-profuse decoration, and he has caught and re- flected the essential temper and spirit of the story. Technically, Mr. Johnson's drawings call for high praise. Some of the figures are really models in precision of line and delicacy of modelling; while the little groups are full of energy and dramatic force throughout. Turning over these tempting pages, we are pleasantly reminded of the time when we first read the story, in the serial form, and with the quaint, strong cuts of the older editions. And what a story! ■—decidedly not the finical work of the artist in verbal filigree, who in the end tells us nothing save the tale of his own pretty dexterities, but a romance, rich and full-bodied, strong in plot and swift in ac- tion, a drama of human life and human nature broad and undiluted, as the writers of a less critical and more inventive age loved to tell it. We are glad to see our old favorite in so fine a garb. In their attractive reprint of Elizur Wright's trans- lations of "The Fables of La Fontaine," Messrs. Estes and Lauriat have made a happy choice of sub- ject for a Holiday book. Wright's is still, all in all, the best English version of the chief of modern fab- ulists, and it is the only complete one—except Thorn- bury's, which is to be had only, we believe, in an un- wieldy quarto with Dore"s dubious plates. Wright's work originally appeared in Boston in 1841, went through six editions in three years, and then passed out of print. George Ticknor praised it, and Long- fellow, Prescott, Chancellor Kent, Bryant, and others, assisted and encouraged the translator in getting it published. The sixth edition was slightly expurg-' ated, and the expurgator's self-exculpatory protest in his preface is worth quoting: "In this age," he says, "distinguished for almost everything more than sincerity, there are some people who would seem too delicate and refined to read their Bibles" — to which reflection we take the liberty of adding the fabulist's couplet,— "A filthy taint they soonest find Who are to relish filth inclined." The present edition contains thirteen well-executed etchings by Le Rat, from the designs of E. Adam. The bindings are extremely chaste and pretty. Another pretty book in Messrs. Estes and Lau- riat's creditable list is Mrs. Clara Erskine Clement's "The Queen of the Adriatic," handsomely printed at the University Press, and illustrated with views 346 [Dec. 1, THE DIAL of Venice in photogravure, in the style of the same firm's "The Lily of the Arno" of last year. The exceedingly tasteful cover—white cloth stamped in blue and gold, with the lion of St. Mark and fine tracery—calls for special notice. Mrs. Erskine's story of mediaeval and modern Venice is spirited and graphic, and the book may be commended as a fair complemental volume to Mr. Horatio M. Brown's philosophical study of the Republic, no- ticed in our issue of June 16. A beautiful and seasonable book is "The Christ- Child in Art" (Harper), a collection of the series of richly illustrated Christmas articles on the child- hood of Christ and its several phases as reflected in mediaeval and modern art, contributed by Mr. Henry D. Van Dyke to "Harper's Magazine." The au- thor, by-the-bye, should not be confounded with that competent art-critic John C. Van Dyke, with whose spirit and methods he has little in common. Regarding his theme mainly from the literary and emotional standpoint, he sheds over it a flood of pious enthusiasm which is always sincere and some- times eloquent — but is not art-criticism. We do not mean that Mr. Van Dyke is without feeling for the special qualities which artists and artist- critics insist, on as the prime qualities; but he be- longs to the class of art-writers who occasionally read into a picture high-sailing notions which the painter himself (honest man!) nine times in ten never dreamed of putting there—and appraise it accordingly. As a narrative, the work is interest- ing and valuable, and its many beautiful plates after mediaeval and modern masters make it an ac- ceptable gift-book. Mr. F. Hunter Potter's translation of M. Dau- det's "Letters from My Mill" (Dodd, Mead, and Co.) is generally satisfactory—rather unusually so, we think — and the publishers have given it the handsome setting it deserves. We need not dwell here upon the charm of these crisp and delicate sketches. The "Lettres" are gems of French lit- erary art, and in them, to our thinking, M. Daudet has touched his high-water mark. We are glad to see them" made accessible in a respectable English version. The colored full-page plates by Mme. Madeleine Lemaire have a fine decorative effect, and Mr. George Wharton Edwards's headpieces are acceptable. The etched portrait of M. Daudet is an admirable plate. "The Century Gallery" (Century Co.), a gener- ously-filled portfolio containing sixty-four selected proofs from " The Century Magazine," is a pro- duction of the pronounced Holiday order and will doubtless make its way. Twenty engravers are represented. The engravings, each of which is printed on heavy plate paper 13x17 inches, offer great variety of subject and are of very uneven merit. Some of them, as Mr. T. Cole's " Madonna and Child," after Boticelli, are clear and strong in line and modelling; others, as Mr. Robert Blum's "A Love Story," are somewhat indistinct. The ensemble, however, is attractive enough, and most of the names represented are a guaranty for the original quality of the work. That "The Man from Blankley's" (Longmans) is reprinted from the London "Punch" need not deter the wavering American buyer, as the humor of the book is not of the unleavened or Passover brand one looks for in that respectable " Weekly." The volume contains a series of dialogue sketches by that delightful and ingenious humorist, Mr. F. Anstey. Mr. Anstey takes the reader the round of various London shops and places of amusement, singles out little groups of shoppers or sight-seers, and sets them to talking with the most delightful results. His reproductions of the dialect of Cock- aigne are almost as good as Dickens's. Not less capital than the text are Mr. Bernard Partridge's drawings. Col. T. A. Dodge's fine volume on the " Riders of Many Lands" (Harper) is already too fa- miliar to our readers generally to need extended comment. It embraces a series of descriptive and historical chapters on equestrianism in America, and on Arabian, Egyptian, Turkish, and other Ori- ental riders. The text is embellished and illustra- ted by the spirited drawings of Mr. Frederic Rem- ington, and by photographic plates of Oriental sub- jects. We are glad to note that Mr. Remington's work is tolerably free from what may be called Muybridge effects — for which we own to a decided dislike. Colonel Dodge is master of his theme, and his book contains many practical suggestions for amateurs ambitious to "witch the world with noble horsemanship." Messrs. Estes and Lauriat are to be congratulated on their fine edition de luxe (limited to five hundred copies) of "Ruy Bias." The work is illustrated with etchings by Champollion, after the very spir- ited and graceful compositions of Adrien Moreau. Notably good are the little headpieces representing scenes and incidents in the drama. The book is, in general make-up, one of the finest on our list, and he will be a very captious person indeed who will not rejoice to find it among his Christmas gifts. "Chinese Nights Entertainments" (Putnam), a collection of forty brief tales translated by Miss Adele M. Fielde from the Swatow vernacular, afford some amazing examples of Oriental skill with the long bow. The stories are strung, in Eastern fash- ion, on the thread of a longer romance; and they were gathered by the translator when "travelling in a slow native boat, or sitting in a dim native hut, with almond-eyed women and children, in the east- ern corner of the Kwangtung province, in Southern China." Their quaint fancies and native flavor give them a decided relish. There are some draw- ings by native artists; and these are surprisingly free from the usual tea-tray effects and general topsy-turveyness of the school. Messrs. Dodd, Mead and Co. issue " The Rivals" in a style generally similar to their "School for 1893.] 347 THE DIAL Scandal" of last year. Mr. Frank M. Gregory again supplies the illustrations — five colored full- page aquarelles, and thirty-eight black-and-white text drawings, in several of which he is fairly suc- cessful. Mr. Gregory's work shows improvement, but there is a lack of verve in the conception and of finish in the drawing. Mrs. Laura E. Richards's volume of "Glimpses of the French Court" (Estes and Lauriat) com- prises a series of sketches from French history — "The Story of Jean Baptiste," "Turenne," "A Corsair .of France" (Jean Bart), etc. The author writes in a brisk, chirping, fairy-tale sort of style, that is at times oddly at variance with the gravity of her topic. But the book is wholesome and spir- ited, and it should prove a welcome and useful gift to younger readers. There are a number of por- traits, one or two of them exceedingly well done. In our December issue of 1890 we praised a sumptuous edition of Mr. Austin Dobson's "Me- moir of Horace Walpole," with etchings by Percy Moran. The publishers, Messrs. Dodd, Mead, and Co., now issue, in a new style, a more practical and less expensive edition of the work, in make-up sim- ilar to their pretty " Eighteenth Century Vignettes" of last year. There are fourteen well-made and well-chosen process-work portraits of celebrities, mainly of Walpolian times. Among these we note "David Hume," a placid, strong face, "Lady Montague," "Mrs. Give," "Mme. du Deffand" ("old blind debauchee of wit," as caustic Horace styled her), "Thomas Gray," "Lady Walpole," "Hannah More"—the dainty Quakeress of whose charms the great Johnson was once slyly mindful as Boswell tells us; and, lastly, the volatile virtuoso of Strawberry Hill himself, whose likeness rather bears out Macaulay's conception of his character. There is an appended list of books printed at the Strawberry Hill Press. We have already praised Mr. Dobson's sprightly anecdotal "Memoir," which was originally issued, we believe, by its present pub- lishers. Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons' elaborate "Van Twiller" edition of Irving's " Knickerbocker's His- tory of New York " follows in most points its pro- totypes, the "Darro " edition of "The Alhambra" (1891), and the "Agapida" edition of "The Con- quest of Granada" (1892). In the present work the decorative page-border is of a paler tone, and, in the plates, for the sun's pencil is substituted that of Mr. E. W. Kemble. Mr. Kemble's designs are irre- sistibly funny—not over-refined or over-artistic, cer- tainly, but bubbling over with humor. He has drawn Irving's many-breeched, cabbage-loving (and cab- bage-headed) Dutchmen to the life—though without much regard for the ancestral pride of their des- cendants numbered among Mr. MacAllister's 400 Brahmans. The " Van Twiller" edition is finely printed and richly bound, and it should repeat the success of its predecessors. "A Norse Romance" (Putnam) is a thin quarto of the familiar Holiday type, containing a brief poem, with crayon drawings, by Mrs. O. M. Spof- ford. The quality of Mrs. Spofford's verse may be indicated in the following selection: "Like winged beasts the waters rise, Or sink with snllen roar; From deep green depths the lurid eyes Of monsters seem to tower." Mrs. Spofford's drawings are rather better than her verses. Considering the modest price asked for it, Messrs. T. Y. Crowell and Co.'s two-volume edition of Car- lyle's "History of the French Revolution " is a very satisfactory one. The print is new and bright, the paper fairly good, and the volumes (respectively 361 and 435 pp.) are desirably compact. Carlyle's "History" is still unapproached for the dramatic splendor of its narrative, the vigor of its portrait- ure, and the vivid impression it leaves upon the mind of the reader. There are few books of which one retains more that is worth retaining, without special effort. The portraits, where they are well verified, add much to the pictorial force of the nar- rative. A striking and unique book externally is "The Old Garden, and Other Verses" (Houghton), by Margaret Deland. The text is printed in black- letter, and each page is showily decorated in mis- sal style and colors by Mr. Walter Crane. As a novelty the book is very well, but Mrs. Deland's graceful verses do not seem to call for a setting quite so " unprofitably gay." Viewed away from the ensemble, Mr. Crane's designs are attractive enough. Readers for whom seventy pages of unbroken Negro dialect have no terrors will look with favor upon the tasty volume containing Mr. Thomas Nel- son Page's familiar story " Meh Lady" (Scribner), with Mr. C. S. Reinhart's familiar plates. The book is nicely and modestly bound, and will doubtless find friends. A tasteful booklet is Longfellow's "The Hang- ing of the Crane, and Other Poems of the Home" (Houghton). Paper, binding, and typography con- sidered, the little volume is an almost flawless piece of book-making, while the eight process cuts serve their modest purpose. The poems, ten in number, are selected on the principle indicated in the title, and the circumstances under which Mr. Longfellow wrote them are given in the appended notes. Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin and Co.'s new edition of Miss S. O. Jewett's "Deephaven," with its all too-shiny paper and its (to our thinking) rather crudely-conceived cover, is scarcely recognizable as "a Houghton" publication. The best part of the book—barring, of course, the story, which is charm- ing—is the illustration by Charles and Maria Wood- bury. Some of Miss Woodbury's Yankee types, notably " Mrs. Dockum," " Skipper Scudder," and the bucolic group surrounding a circus elephant, are capitally drawn. The continned"|popularity [of Mr. Blackmore's 348 [Dec. 1, THE DIAL strong novel, "Loma Doone," is evinced by the several new editions of it issued this Autumn. Among them is one, from Messrs. T. Y. Crowell and Co., in two volumes, with illustrative drawings by Mr. F. T. Merrill, that, its very moderate price considered, will be hard to match. Messrs. Estes and Lauriat have made William Ware's " Aurelian, Emperor of Rome "—a tale of the Empire in the third century — the basis of a rather attractive gift-book. It is well printed at the University Press, and contains twenty full-page plates, mostly photographic, of Roman views, art- works, portraits, etc. The cover, white and red with gilt tracery and stamped medallion, is very ornate. Messrs. Dodd, Mead, and Co. have made a pretty book of Mrs. Amelia E. Barr's old New York romance, "The Bow of Orange Ribbon." The text is well printed on highly-glazed paper, and the large colored plates and fancifully disposed vignettes have a pleasing effect. The artist is Mr. Theodore Hampe. Books for the Young. L The best of the books for the young are those which tell a dramatic historical tale vividly, describe pictur- esquely and truthfully the life of foreign countries or the heroes of our own, or appeal to the imagination through fairies, folk-lore, or heroic deeds. There are some of these among the publications of this season, but they are not numerous. Most of them follow the gen- eral run of stories for boys. We find such familiar names among the writers as those of Messrs. G. A. Henty, William O. Stoddard, Kirk Munroe, and Oliver Optic, all of whom write vigorous, healthful stories of advent- ure, very good of their kind. Mr. Hezekiah Butter- worth and Col. Thomas W. Knox send their customary books of travel, and Mr. Andrew Lang, Mrs. Burnett, Mrs. Champney, and Ouida have each something to offer us. The notable novelties are few. The Century Com- pany's "World's Fair Book," with its excellent illustra- tions from photographs and from Castaigne's beautiful drawings, will be deservedly popular; and Mr. Henry M. Stanley's tales of his "Dark Companions" (Scrib- ner) will doubtless have a wide circulation. Mrs. Seelye follows up her last year's "Story of Columbus" with a "Story of Washington" (Appleton), which, in spite of our ill-directed familiarity with that stately figure, is badly needed. The discoverers are considered in Mr. F. Gordon Stables's "Westward with Columbus " (Scrib- uer) and Mrs. Bolton's "Famous Voyagers and Explor- ers" (Crowell); and there are one or two books of nat- ural history. Of the story books, besides those already mentioned, Mrs. Richards publishes one for girls and Mrs. Champney another for boys. Blanche Willis How- ard has also joined the ranks; but Mrs. Burnett's auto- biographical study, "The One I Knew the Best of All" (Scribuer), takes the place of her usual volume of tales. Mr. Andrew Lang's "True Story Book" (Longmans), from which much was expected, is rather disappointing. Artistically, this season's crop is rather below the average of former years. But one ingenious volume, "Topsys and Turvys" (Century Co.), will certainly make a sensation among the little people. The draw- ings, of which the book is made up, are the work of Mr. P. S. Newell; and so cleverly are they designed, that one may turn the picture upside down and find, from that point of view, that its lines make a totally different picture, furnishing the sequel to the story told by the first. This kind of puzzle is attractive to chil- dren, and to the child in each of us, and the artist is so ingenious and has so large a fund of humor at his dis- posal that the book is very diverting. He has, too, a sense of color, so that his pictures are generally decor- ative Mr. Palmer Cox issues the third of his popular Brownie books, this time "The Brownies at Home" (Century Co.). It seems to belie its name, however, or to prove the cosmopolitanism of these midgets, for the author describes their wanderings through the South, Washington, New York, and the World's Fair. The latter episode is badly treated, however, and the draw- ings illustrating it are not only inaccurate, but inartistic, which is much worse. The Brownies themselves, though, arc amusing, and their comical expressions and costumes will serve to entertain many idle half hours -In "The Musical Journey of Dorothy and Delia" (Crowell), also, the drawings are more important than the text, although the story is bright and original. It is written by Mr. Bradley Gilman to enliven the tasks of plodding little musicians, and it may easily serve to give an imagina- tive lift in the mind of the student to the dry ranks of notes in the music-book. The frolics of the naughty notes described here would give them a new character to a child, endow them with life and animation enough to make them interesting. The drawings by Mr. F. E. Attwood, which illustrate the book, are thoroughly charming and give a fascinating individuality to the wayward notes and puzzling musical terms With these may also be mentioned, because of its cleverly-drawn illustrations, " The History of a Bearskin" (Dodd, Mead, and Co.). It is from the French of M. Jules de Mar- (Imlil, but its illustrations, by J. O. B., are not trans- lated; they are French to the core, gay, dashing, orig- inal, and delightfully humorous. There are quantities of them scattered through the text, and not one is with-- out character. The story itself is a fit accompaniment to these drawings. A French peasant, who by luck, rather than merit or ambition, became a grenadier dur- ing the Napoleonic wars, is the hero, and his naive self- assurance, together with a kind of bravado in his cow- ardice, are very entertaining. The story sparkles with wit, and its presentation of peasant types is extremely clever, though rather too sophisticated, perhaps, for young readers. One of the most notable books of the season contin- ues the series of fairy tales which have been published from year to year by Mr. Joseph Jacobs, the editor of "Folk-Lore." The present book is called "More En- glish Fairy Tales " (Putnam), being the second collection which this indefatigable scholar has gathered from En- glish sources. They are excellent stories, admirably told. They all seem to come direct from the people, so straightforward are they in thought, so clear and dra- matic in plot and construction, and so simple and forci- ble in style. The editor's work lias been done extremely well, and the result is a collection of tales fascinating to children of all ages. Several old favorites are among them: the Pied Piper in an English setting, the Three Bears, the Children in the Wood, and others; but most of the tales are new to our ears, and all of them have the delicious fragrance of the soil. Mr. Jacobs's work 1893.] 349 THE DIAL in collecting these tales is invaluable and deserves our special gratitude. The book is illustrated by Mr. John D. Batten, whose drawings are original and very artistic; he has the true decorative touch, and this, with his hu- mor, makes his designs an education to children and a rare pleasure to their elders.—Of very different calibre is the other volume of fairy-tales in this year's collec- tion. "The Chronicles of Fairyland" (Lippincott), by Mr. Fergus Hume, are such fantastic tales as the most limited imagination could evolve. They are goody- goody stories, too, in which the moral strikes one in the face; but the ideal of honor which they create is not al- ways of the highest. When one is shown the misery to be produced by sin and the happiness gained in renounc- ing it, it is easy enough to choose the right course, like the little crossing-sweeper in one of these stories; but the lesson to be gained from this, that material rewards always accompany virtue, is of questionable beneficence. "Melody, the Story of a Child" (Estes) will doubt- less be very successful, if for no other reason than be- cause it is written by Mrs. Laura E. Richards, the au- thor of "Captain January." It is a sweet and simple story of a blind girl, who is gifted with a remarkable voice. The adopted child of two maiden ladies in a little New England village, she is stolen from them by an ambitious musician; and the tale of her unhappiness, ending finally in a joyous return to her home, is prettily told. The subordinate characters are well handled and have much individuality; and in the little heroine, Mrs. Richards has really created a starry soul.—A "very dif- ferent kind of hero is represented in the little book for boys which Miss Blanche Willis Howard has just pub- lished; a much more practical, every-day type, but one thoroughly boyish and genuine and fine. The title of the book, "No Heroes" (Houghton), is given in allu- sion to Bob's lament that he was not born in the olden time, when there were knights and ladies, and a man could be a hero. The story of his own unconsciously heroic sacrifice, which follows, is told in a straightfor- ward, vigorous way which will appeal to boys and girls. - It has the touch of strong feeling in it, without losing in the least its masculinity. Louisa de la Rame' (Ouida) is less successful in her work for children this year than last, when she published some charming fancies. "A Dog of Flanders, and Other Stories" (Lippincott) contains four tales which are rather old and rather melancholy for the cheery temperaments of children. Each one of them has a tragic end, and enough of the bitterness of life to give a distinctly morbid tone. This is hardly mitigated by the fine and noble characters, for they are so invariably unhappy that the effect of the tales is doleful. "A Leaf in the Storm " is the most inspiring of them, with its fearful picture of the brutality and the heroism evoked by the Franco-Prussian war. But the last one should never have been included in a book for children, so sophisticated is it in plot and emotion.—A vigorous, healthful story comes this year from Mrs. Elizabeth W. Champney. It is called "Six Boys " (Estes), though one of the set is a girl, and describes their adventures through the complications resulting from an attempt at robbery. Suspicion is thrown upon the one who is afterwards shown to be the bravest and manliest of them all; and though the misundeistandings are finally straightened out, they are exciting enough in the telling. The style is brisk and vivacious, and there is neither coarseness nor sentimentality in the natural boy-life presented.—The conception of "The True Story Book" (Longmans), by Mr. Audrew Lang, was an admirable one, for no more fascinating stories of adventure could possibly be devised than some which have been enacted in this work-a-day world. This volume takes the place of Mr. Lang's annual fairy book, and relates strange episodes from the lives of Prince Charlie, Grace Dar- ling, Benvenuto Cellini, Cervantes, Baron Trenck, Caesar Borgia, Cortes, and many another scapegrace and hero. The stories are fine, but the book is something of a dis- appointment, because they are not simple enough in style, nor direct and forcible enough in arrangement. They are not well focused, in short, a defect which might have been obviated by the suppression of some details and the accenting of certain others. They remind one of Mr. Oscar Wilde's lament that life is not artistic. Nevertheless, to boys of about fifteen these tales will give stirring matter for reflection In "The One I Knew the Best of All" (Scribner), Mrs. Frances Hodg- son Burnett has related in the most delicate and charm- ing way her memories of her own childish impressions. It is really a valuable record of the development of a child's mind which she has produced, and the pictures of her successive mental struggles in adjusting herself to the forms and conventionalities of the world are vivid and enlightening. The book, however, is rather for the mothers of boys and girls than for the children them- selves, for it is a study of mental processes and impres- sions which may increase their understanding of childish fancies and broaden their sympathy with them. That the boys and girls of to-day should lack histor- ical knowledge seems very far from the desire of those who write for the young, if one may judge from the outpouring of books having their foundation in fact. It is perhaps a fortunate thing that the books having such a foundation are usually superior in literary merit to those that are purely fiction. One of the most deserv- edly popular of these writers of historical fiction is Mr. G. A. Henty, who this year sends three new volumes to delight his youthful admirers. One of these, "St. Bartholomew's Eve" (Scribner), is an exciting tale of the adventures of a young English lad who goes to France and engages with his relatives in the Huguenot wars. His mother is a French-Huguenot fugitive to England, and it is for her sake that he casts his lot with the persecuted French Protestants. His experi- ences bring him into relations of intimacy with the frank and kindly young King of Niavarre, and the book closes with the terrible scene which gives it its name. There is a good spicing of romance with it all, for the young hero saves the life of a fair young French- woman, and in the end we hear the echo of the wed- ding-bells "Through the Sikh War " (Scribner), from the same pen, deals with the problems that confronted the English in the conquest o"f India. It has about it the fascinating atmosphere of that laud of fable, of Oriental magnificence, of turbaned rajahs and dusky servants. It gives a very spirited account not only of the daring exploits of its boy-hero, Percy Groves, but of the intrigue and assassination, the play and counter-play, which characterize the strategic warfare of India. — In "A Jacobite Exile" (Scribner), Mr. Henty has built upon the foundation offered by the life of an English boy in the service of Charles XII. of Sweden. With his father and friends he is unjustly exiled for his fondness for the Stuarts, and in the course of the years thus spent has many thrilling adventures. His meetings with Peter the Great, while unconscious of the latter's identity, are very entertaining, and give a 350 [Dec. 1, THE DIAL graphic picture of that monumental character. If one were disposed to criticise Mr. Henty's work, it might be said that his heroes bear a decided family resem- blance, — in other words, they are not very sharply individualized; but the type of boyhood he chooses is such a manly one that there is little room for complaint. The style is clear and forceful, and the atmosphere pure and bracing. The illustrations of these three vol- umes are usually good. "The Boys of Greenway Court" (Appleton), from the pen of Mr. Hezekiah Butterworth, is a rambling story with an Indian Summer atmosphere about it. The characters of Washington and the young friends who were wont to gather with him at Greenway Court, the home of Lord Fairfax, are sketched with few lines. A very pleasant picture is this.of the old Virginian lord, stern but kindly, living in the midst of his vast estates, and, while devoutly loyal to the king, unconsciously moulding the characters of these young men who in after years set that same king at defiance. The hero is a lad by the name of Harry Mendell, whose faithful- ness to the injunction "Be true to the best that is in you" proves a source of sufficient trouble to make a thread of romance about which to weave the truth. Mr. Butterworth chooses to make but few moral points, but they are so well made that they are likely to stick in the memory. The chief drawback to a thorough enjoy- ment of his work, however, is' the very jerky character of the style. The American Revolution seems to offer unlimited possibilities for thrilling stories; and it is this field which Mr. W. O. Stoddard enters twice this year. "Guert Ten Eyck" (Lothrop) is a stirring narrative of pre-Revolutionary times in New York, the story eliding with the execution of Nathan Hale. The hero, Guert Ten Eyck, is a thoroughly enterprising aud wide-awake Yankee boy, in spite of his Dutch ancestry. He enters, heart and soul, into the feelings of his elders, and very materially assists the cause of freedom by his work as messenger and scout. Two very picturesque characters are introduced: an old slave, and a Manhattan Indian who is the last of his race, and who assists in the attempt to expel the English because in the simplicity of his heart he believes the island will be his when they are gone. Young Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton figure prominently. The writer catches the true spirit of those exciting times, and never allows the interest to flag. —It is a sadder though no less truthful side of the same struggle which is given by the same writer in " On the Old Frontier" (Appleton). This work depicts the last raid of the Iroquois upon a little fort in Western New York. The type of character that held its own against these Indian raids, and pushed forward, fighting at every step, to lay the foundations of a great state, is finely drawn. The book is one which will give some of our boys a new idea of what privation means, and teach them to honor the memory of those pioneers whose stead- fast courage made their present comfort possible. The illustrations of Mr. Stoddard's books leave much to be desired. It is with a different period of history, and one not so often treated in books for boys, that Mr. Kirk Munroe deals in "The White Conquerors" (Scribner). This story is free from sensationalism, and gives a straight- forward but exciting account of the conquest of the wonderful Aztec Empire by Cortez and his handful of Spanish followers. The central figure is not the white leader, but a young Toltec, Huetzin by name, who be- longs to the earlier race driven out by the Aztecs. His hatred of that race and of their religion is as great as that of the white men. The symbol of the Toltec reli- gion is, curiously enough, the cross, and this forms a bond of union between them and the foreigners. There are picturesque descriptious of scenery and of life among the natives, and accounts of battles and stratagems full of fire and dash. "The Story of Washington" (Appleton), written by Mrs. Elizabeth Eggleston Seelye and edited by Dr. Edward Eggleston, is a book that should be welcomed with delight by all who have the best interests of young Americans at heart. As in "The Story of Columbus," which appeared last year, the author has striven to strip away the glamour of romance thrown around the hero by a doting generation, and let him stand before the world as a man and not as the godlike being of tra- dition. He loses not a whit by the operatiou; in fact, -he is the gainer. Mrs. Seelye has striven to give all the more interesting facts of the period of which Wash- ington is the central figure, and to give them in an entertaining style that is not lacking in energy and spirit when occasion offers. The volume is prettily bound, and is profusely illustrated by Miss Allegra Eggleston, whose drawings from old pictures, with charming sketches of scenery, add much to its beauty. Mr. Edward S. Ellis offers this year " The River and Wilderness Series" (Price-McGill Co.), three volumes entitled,.respectively, "The River Fugitives," "The Wilderness Fugitives," and "Lena-Wingo, the Mo- hawk." The volumes form a narrative of the advent- ures of three young people in escaping from the English and Indians, after the Wyoming Massacre. Mr. Ellis certainly shows ingenuity in his plot, and cleverness in carrying it out; yet we cannot but feel that the basis of the narrative (the attempt of the brutal commander of the English forces, Colonel Butler, to capture the pretty sister of one of the boys, and their efforts to compass her escape) is hardly a suitable subject for a young mind to dwell upon. — Mr. Ellis also completes his "Wild Wood Series " (Porter and Coates) with a' volume entitled "Across Texas," a spirited account of the dangers and excitements incident to a journey on horseback across Texas and New Mexico. "Oliver Optic " adds to his "Blue and Gray Series" (Lee and Shepard) a volume entitled "A Victorious Union." The works of this veteran writer are so dear to the heart of every American boy that they need no introduction. The present one is endowed with the same spirit aud enthusiasm that characterized its pred- ecessors, and is certain of its welcome, as is the new volume in his " All Over the World Series," entitled "American Boys Afloat," issued by the same publishers. —That constant favorite with boys, Colonel T. W. Knox, makes his customary annual contribution to his "Boy Travellers " series (Harper), this time taking his youug excursionists through Southern Europe. As in the pre- vious volumes, the descriptions are given with painstak- ing care, aud the narrative is full of historical allusions. The illustrations are both very numerous aud very good. A little late to be in the flood-tide of popularity comes another story of Columbus and the discovery of Amer- ica, " Diccon the Bold " (Putnam), by Mr. John Russell Coryell. Yet, though late, it will be found entertaining. The hero is a blundering, heedless lad, whose warm heart and sturdy frankness prove the means of getting him into many difficulties, but also are the means of gaining him many warm friends, among whom is the 1893.] 351 THE DIAL great explorer. Besides accompanying Columbus on his first and most famous voyage, Diccon joins the Cabots in many of their expeditions, which are enter- tainingly described. As the Columbian Exposition furnished the great attraction of the year to travellers and sight-seers, it has naturally furnished also the material for what is likely to prove the most attractive juvenile book of the season. "The Century World's Fair Book for Boys and Girls," prepared by Mr. Tudor Jenks and published by the Century Co., is a clever idea cleverly executed. The two lively boys who visit the Fair with their tutor seem to permit very little to escape their vision. They hunt out all the more interesting exhibits, visit the mar- vels of the Flaisance, laugh over the remarks of unso- phisticated fellow-visitors, make pencil sketches and take " snap-shots " of things which interest them. Be- sides these rough sketches, there are many fine photo- graphic views, and some exquisitely poetic drawings by Mr. Castaigne, several of which have already appeared in "The Century." The book will be a delight to the children who had the good fortune to see the glories of the White City; while to those who had not, it will be a never-ending source of pleasure and profit. New York Topics. New York, Nov. 23, 1893. The opening of the new Institute for the employees of the Clarendon Press has again drawn attention to the concentration of the management of this ancient organ- ization, in all its branches, into the hands of persons di- rectly responsible to Oxford University. All its affairs are now controlled by a board of delegates or trustees, by whom a managing secretary is employed to conduct the Press and to supervise its publications in all the stages of manufacture. The books, when completed, are put into the hands of a publisher acting as agent for the Press, who manages their sale. Mr. Henry Frowde, of London, is now agent for Great Britain, and Messrs. Macmillan & Co., who preceded him in that capacity, still retain, through their New York house, the Amer- ican agency. These facts are of interest in connection with an agitation in behalf of a proposed similar Press, which has been going on in this city for the last two years, or practically since the new movement toward a broader educational basis began at Columbia College. The teaching force of this University lias increased to nearly two hundred and fifty memliers, who publish in the course of the year upward of a thousand books, pamphlets, and articles, in the various departments of creative and technical literature. The number of stu- dents and alumni who are doing effective work along the same lines is also rapidly growing larger. Hence it has seemed necessary to provide an organization for the publication of the best of this material under the supervision of officers of the University. Last summer the Columbia University Press was quietly incorporated at Albany, under the "club act," for "economic, his- toric, and literary purposes." The president of Colum- bia College is, ex-officio, president of the board of trus- tees of the Press, and the nine trustees are, presumably, gentlemen connected with the University, which has au- thorized the formation of the new corporation, although assuming no financial risks in its behalf. Besides Pres- ident Low, the first board of management is composed of Nicholas Murray Butler, dean of the faculty of philoso- phy, secretary; Francis B. Crocker, professor of electrical engineering; George M. Camming, professor of law, treasurer; Brander Matthews, professor of literature; Richmond Mayo-Smith, professor of political economy; Henry F. Osborn, professor of biology; H. Thurston Peck, professor of Latin; T. Mitchell Prudden, M.D.; and Mr. John B. Pine, a trustee of the University. It will thus be seen that the several faculties and the trustees have each a representative in the Press board. An executive com- mittee for the transaction of routine business will be composed of the officers. The board will move with great conservatism at first, and does not expect its plans to reach a full degree of development for several years. It will, I understand, assume financial responsibility for its ventures, and will invite subscriptions and bequests to this end. Its present aim is to associate with itself some reputable publishing firm who will manage its sales and perhaps conduct its manufacturing depart- ment. Important technical works, which would not pay expenses if published in the ordinary way, will be un- dertaken, and the numerous periodicals edited wholly or in part by the teaching staff of the University may be invited to issue from the Press. The Press has adopted for its imprint the words " Columbia "and " Uni- versity Press " displayed on either side, surmounted by a representation of the iron crown presented to Colum- bia (then Kings) College by George III., and, under- neath, the legend "in litteris libertas." Above and be- low the word "Columbia" are the figures 1754 and 1893, the dates of the founding of the College and of the Press respectively. The season for lectures is now well under way. Prob- ably the most interesting announcement of the kind yet made is that Prof. Charles Eliot Norton will de- liver a series of lectures on Dante before the Johns Hopkins University this winter, which, I am told, will be the third course given on the Percy Turnbull poetry foundation. Professor Jebb's course, delivered last sea- son, has just been published by Messrs. Houghton, Mif- flin & Co. as "The Growth and Influence of Classical Greek Poetry," and it seems likely that these yearly courses of lectures on poetry will be regularly printed by the Riverside Press, as suggested by the first lecturer a year or more ago. Mr. George W. Cable, whose in- activity in a literary way has been so much regretted of late years, will give readings in various cities of Pennsylvania during December, from a new and unpub- lished novel, and it may be taken for granted that the book itself will be in the hands of his readers before the end of 1894. Mr. Theodore Roosevelt has just com- pleted a course of seven lectures at Columbia on "The Westward Growth of the United States during the Rev- olutionary War," but this formidable title does not con- vey any idea of the entertaining manner in which Mr. Roosevelt mingles history and frontier "yarns " to the edification of a crowded lecture-room of students. Mrs. S. J. Higginson's " A Princess of Java," pub- lished five or six years ago, was remarkable for its combination of a most interesting story with attractive pictures of native life in the equatorial island where her husband was United States consul for a considerable period. Mrs. Higgiuson is now living in New York, and has lately been occupied with the writing of a new novel, "A Bedouin Girl," which Messrs. J. Selwin Tait & Sous are about to publish. The author has made use of personal observation in the case of this book also, having made the Haj or Holy Pilgrimage. The same firm will publish early in December a new novel by 352 [Dec. 1, THE DIAL Mrs. Craigie ("John Oliver Hobbes") with the title, "A Bundle of Life." Mrs. Craigie's previous novels have been the most successful of the new "Pseudonym Series." Their author is an American by birth, although a resident of London. A widely circulated report that Mr. Samuel L. Clem- ens has retired from the publishing firm of Messrs. Charles L. Webster & Co. is authoritatively denied. It may be stated that this firm has disposed of its sub- scription business to another house, in order to enter more actively into trade publication. The announcement of Mr. Joaquin Miller's new poetic romance and a well-considered critique of the poet's writings reached me at the same time. The latter was the final essay of a series on "Living American Writers," written by Mr. Henry C. Vedder of the San Francisco " Examiner" for that paper. These essays have attracted considerable attention here for their able treatment aud classification of the leading American authors of the period. They will be published in book form next year. In his critique of Mr. Miller, Mr. Vedder does not hesitate to say that the poet's early- transatlantic success was founded on British insularity and ignorance of the real literary significance of his writings. The critic considers Mr. Miller at his best in his lyrics, and concludes by saying: "Certain per- sonal eccentricities have also stood between him and a just appreciation of his work. There is so much that is finely imaginative in his verse, so much that is genuine in feeling and powerful in expression, that, in spite of his maddening shortcomings, the perverse wil- fulness of his errors, he deserves, and should before this have been awarded by general suffrage, an honored place well up on the roll of American poets." Arthur Stedman. Literary Xotes and Miscellany. Prof. R. T. Ely's "Taxation in American States and Cities" has been translated into the Japanese language. Professor Ernst Curtius is to publish his miscellaneous essays and monographs under the title of *' Gesammelte Abhandlungeu."" It is announced that a French publishing house is about to start, in January probably, a rival to the "Revue des Deux Mondes," which is supposed to have somewhat lost favor in France of late under the editor- ship of the younger Buloz. Messrs. Charles L. Webster & Co., of New York, write to us denying the rumor that they intend to retire from the book-publishing business. The rumor seems to have started from the fact that they have re- cently disposed of the subscription department of their business. Mr. Benson, the author of " Dodo," was educated at Marlborough and King's College, Cambridge, where he gained a scholarship which enabled him to spend a large portion of his time in Greece, where he is engaged in archaeological work. For some time past he has been engaged in digging up Megalopolis, the ancient capital of Arcadia. The posthumous volume of Emerson's works, " Nat- ural History of the Intellect and Other Papers," includ- ing also a General Index to Emerson's Collected Works, 13 issued by its publishers (Houghton, Mifflin & Co.) in both the ordinary and the large-paper editions. Sub- scribers to the latter may obtain the new volume uni- form with the sets already in their possession. "From the time when he became in a manner a dom- iciled Englishman, his improvement was quite astonish- ing," is the amiable comment of the " Saturday Review" upon Mr. Lowell, in an article upon the recently pub- lished "Letters." This instance of "condescension" would have been so keenly relished by its subject that it is a pity he could not have lived to witness it. The following anecdote of the late Professor Jowett appears in an English journal. A somewhat pretentious youth was enlarging in the master's presence on " Our Debt to France." To France we owe our art, the best of our literature, etc. "Do you know," said Jowett, "what is inscribed over the gate of hell?" The youth quoted Dante's well-known line. "No," was the reply. "The inscription is, 'let on parle Francois.'" Mr. Thomas B. Mosher, of Portland, Me., announces for early publication "Songs of Adieu," a collection of recent English lyrics compiled mainly from inaccessible sources; and "Old World Lyrics," a collection of translations from Villon, Du Bellay, Ronsard, and other French lyrists. These little books are printed from type on Van Gelder handmade paper, and are modelled on an old-style format calculated to appeal to book- lovers. These books, like others previously issued by- Mr. Mosher, will not be reprinted. The ceremonies attending the unveiling of a memorial to James Russell Lowell in the Chapter House of West- minster Abbey were held November 28—the memorial consisting of two stained-glass windows, one of them containing a portrait of the poet. A distinguished com- pany was present, comprising many of the foremost men in English literature and public life. Mr. Leslie Stephen, as Chairman of the Memorial Committee, said in his address that the committee had received many offers from the United States regarding the memorial, but it had been thought fit to decline them because they wished to show that Englishmen themselves knew how to honor a great American in the spirit in which Lowell spoke and wrote. "The reason we have met here to honor Lowell is suggested to any one visiting the Poets' Corner. The long line of illustrious men whose monu- ments are there and who passed the torch of literature from Chaucer to Tennyson would doubtless recognize Lowell as a congenial disciple. Scarcely one of these followed letters with more unflagging zeal. On him fell the spirit of the great masters." TRIBUTES TO EDWIN BOOTH. The exercises in memory of Edwin Booth, arranged by the Players' Club, in New York City, November 13, included notable tributes from distinguished fellow- actors, among them Signor Salvini, Mr. Irving, and Mr. Jefferson. Signor Salvini said in part:—. "Among the sweetest pleasures of my dramatic career none is more sweet than this, that I have enjoyed fra- ternal relations with actors of a different tongue, and highest of all I count and boast the satisfaction of hav- ing been the companion, even for a brief period, of Ed- win Booth. In this time of happy recollection, the esteem which I had long cherished for him became established, and I had opportunity to observe that while genius attended him as an artist, refinement, culture, delicacy, and right feeling were never absent from him as a man. With good reason he enjoyed the love of his fellow-citizens, and confided in the sympathy and 1893.] 353 THE DIAL respect of his comrades on the stage, to whom he was a miracle of good counsel, of masterly teaching, and of liberality; to whom he dedicated the Players' Club, as a conspicuous proof of his enduring affection for his art and for his interpreters." Prof. George E. Woodberry read an elegy composed for the occasion, from which we make a brief extract: "O tender soul of human melancholy That o'er him brooded like the firmament I Thence had his eyes their supernatural fires And his deep soul its element of night; Thence had he felt the touch of great thoughts wholly That with mortality but ill consent, The star-crost spirit's uuconfined desires. That in this brief breath plumes its fiery flight; And on his brows hung ever the pale might Of intellectual passion, inward bent, Musing the bounds of Nature's continent, In that great shadow where the mind aspires, With flashes beautiful and eloquent; There love, that flies abreast with thoughts of youth, Aud glides, a splendor, by the wings of truth, Over the luminous vague to darkness went,— Like some slow-dying star down heaven's pole, It moves o'er earth's blind frame and man's dark soul And passes out of sight. And the lone soul once more inurns its light. So in his blood the poet's passion wrought, His nature from within dark influence lent, While with his body, there, the spirit blent, And stamped the changeling of creative thought— The soul incarnate in its mortal bloom, The infinite, shut in how little room— The word, the act,—no more; yet thereof made The player who the heart of Hamlet played! Ah, who shall e'er forget the sweet, grave face, The beauty flowering from a stately race. The mind of majesty, the heart of grace?" PROFESSOR JEBB'8 TRIBUTE TO JOWETT. The following tribute to the late Master is paid him by Professor R. C. Jebb, in the "Cambridge Review": "Slowly it dawned on one how maturely and firmly he possessed that which J. S. Mill recognizes in the old classics,'the wisdom of life '■—a fruit difficult to gather and to store; he was indeed, in the best way, a consum- mate man of the world, while at heart so utterly un- worldly. His aim in education was to mould men who should be good and useful, whatever they might have to do; and with this aim he bad cultivated a sense of proportion, a perception of the relative importance of things, which he always wished to be shared by his friends, young or old. For instance, it was rather as an educator than as a specialist that he looked at class- ical studies; his ideal scholar was Erasmus, with whom, indeed, he had much in common. Erasmus sought, by his own methods, to make the best parts of ancient lit- erature widely profitable. Jowett, by that translation which is so matchless in its grace and charm, has added Plato to the favorite authors of thousands who cannot read Greek. The future of literary education in En- gland was a subject of which he thought much towards the close of his life. He would have liked some plan in which the great masterpieces of ancient and modern literature might equally find a place." SONNETS TO PROFESSOR JOWETT. Mr. Theodore Watts dedicates to Mr. Swinburne, and publishes in the "Atlieiiseum," these three sonnets to the memory of Professor Jowett, with "The Last Walk from Boar's Hill" for a title: 'One after one they go; and glade and heath. Where once we walked with them, and garden-bowers They made so dear, are haunted by the hours Once musical of them who sleep beneath; One after one does Sorrow's every wreath Bind closer you and me with funeral flowers, And Love and Memory from each loss of ours Forge conquering glaives to quell the conqueror, Death. Since Love and Memory now refuse to yield The friend with whom we walk thro' mead and field To-day as on that day when last we parted, Can he be dead indeed, whatever seem? Love shapes a presence out of Memory's dream, A living presence, Jowett golden-hearted. "Can he be dead? We walk through flowery ways From Boar's Hill down to Oxford, fain to know What nugget-gold, in drift of Time's long flow, The Bodleian mine hath stored from richer days; He, fresh as on that morn, with sparkling gaze, Hair bright as sunshine, white as moonlit snow, Still talks of Plato while the scene below Breaks gleaming through the veil of sunlit haze. Can he be dead? He shares our homeward walk, And by the river you arrest the talk To see the sun transfigure ere he sets The boatmen's children shining in the wherry And on the floating bridge the ply-rope wets. Making the clumsy craft an angels' ferry. 'The river crossed, we walk 'neath glowing skies Through grass where cattle feed or stand and stare With burnished coats glassing the colored air— Fading as color after color dies: We pass the copse; we round the leafy rise — Start many a coney and partridge, hern and hare; Then win the scholar's nest — his simple fare Made royal-rich by welcome in his eyes. Can he be dead? His heart was drawn to yon: Ah! well that kindred heart within him knew The poet's heart of gold that gives his spell: Can he be dead? Your heart being drawn to him, How shall ev'n Death make that dear presence dim For you who loved him — us who loved him well?" List of New Books. 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John liascom 392 HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS 395 l)e la Rocheterie's Life of Marie Antoinette.—Bede's The Adventures of Verdant Green. — Loftie's Inigo Jones and Wren. — Estes & Lauriat's Ivanhoe. — Across France in a Caravan.—Mrs. Kavanagh's Wo- men in France during the Eighteenth Century. — Frances Elliot's Old Court Life in France. —■ Journal of Eugenie de Gu^rin. — Mrs. Gatty's Parables from Nature. — Crowell's handy edition of The Abbe1 Con- stantin.- Frederika Bremer's The Home.—Harlow's The World's Best Hymns.—Kate Holmes's Pictures from Nature and Lite. — Estes & Lauriat's Lucille. — Trumbull's The Legend of the White Canoe. — Crowell's new edition of The Imitation of Christ. — Helpful Words from Edward Everett Hale.— Whit- taker's Christmas Carols. — Appleton & Co.'s Picci- ola. — Poems of Nature by Bryant. — Dobson's Pro- verbs in Porcelaine.—Redgrave's A Century of Paint- ers of the English School. —Michel's Rembrandt. — Thompson's In the Track of the Sun.—Barber's Pot- tery and Porcelaine of the United States.— Porter & Coatee's Lorna Doone. — Scribner's Some Artists at the Fair. — Humorous Poems by Hood. — Gypsying beyond the Sea. BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG 399 Stanley's My Dark Companions. — Stables's West- ward with Columbus.—Mrs. Seawell's Paul Jones.— Mrs. Bolton's Famous Voyagers and Explorers. — Kirk Munroe's The Coral Ship.—Harry Castleraon's Rodney the Overseer. — Horatio Alger's In a New World. — Bangs's Half-Hours with Jimmieboy. — Lowell's Jason's Que»t.—Miss Miller's My Saturday Bird-Class.—Mary Howitt's Sketches of Natural His- tory. — Miss Bamford's Talks by Queer Folks. — CON TEN TS- Continued. Bridgman's Odd Business. — The Sunny Days of Youth. — Miss Plymnton's Robin's Recruit. — Mrs. Alden's Stephen Mitchell's Journey.—Stoddard's The White Cave. — Andersen's The Little Mermaid, Bain's translation. — Barry's The Princess Margar- ethe.—Crowell's new edition of Alice in Wonderland. — Miss Mulock's Adventures of a Brownie. — John- son's The Country School. — Trowbridge's Woodie Thorpe's Pilgrimage. — Robert Grant's Jack Hall and Jack in the Bush. — Ballantyne's The Walrus Hunters.—French's Oscar Peterson. — Knox's John Boyd's Adventures. — Leighton's The Wreck of the / Golden Fleece.—Billings's Marking the Boundary.— tg Laurie's Schooldays in Italy. — Jayne's Through Apache Land.—Denison's The Romance of a School- boy.—S irah Morrison's Childhood Days.—Miss Ray's Margaret Davis, Tutor.—Comic Tragedies by "Jo and Meg."— Miss Yechton's Ingleside. — Miss Cool- idge's The Barberry Bush. — Mrs. Alden's Worth Having. — Otis's Jenny Wren's Boarding House. — Miss Forbes's The Children's Year Book.—Palmer's A Question of Honor.—Miss Paull's Ruby's Ups and Downs.—Miss Blanchard's Little One's Annual and Twenty Little Maidens. — Margaret Sidney's The Child's Day Book.—Chatterbox for 1893.—Harper's Young People for 1893.—Riis's Nibsy's Christmas.— Under the Nursery Lamp.—Mrs. Fairatar's Memoirs of a London Doll and The Doll and her Friends. — Mrs. Champney's Witch Winnie in Paris.—Miss Fin- ley's Elsie at Ion. NEW YORK TOPICS. Arthur Sledman 402 LITERARY NOTES AND NEWS 403 TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS 404 LIST OF NEW BOOKS 404 JOHN TYNDALL. Looking over the death-roll of the past year, we are more than once reminded of Lear's terrible fatalism: "As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods. They kill us for their sport." Freeman, hardly beyond his prime, found his death in a Spanish inn, the victim of a pox- infected mattress. Symonds, with many fruitful years seemingly before him, was taken off by a cold that passed into pneumonia, while return- ing from the last of his Italian journeys. To Tschaikowsky, on a visit to St. Petersburg, death came in a pestilential draught of water, and Cholera marked him for her own in the fulness of his powers. Last of all, and most ironical in its accent, comes word that John Tyndall is dead, but from no blow dealt by the legitimate assailants of mortality. An overdose of chloral, given by the fatal error of a loving wife, has cut short that career, prematurely, we must say, although the best of his work was doubtless accomplished. 378 [Dec. 16, THE DIAL Professor Tyndall occupied a large place in English scientific thought, and the vacancy caused by his death will not easily be filled. His original researches resulted in important contributions to knowledge, especially in the domain of molecular physics. Although they do not place him in the first rank of nineteenth century Englishmen of science, they secure for him a high position in the second. He belongs with Professor Huxley and Lord Kelvin, rather than with Darwin and Maxwell. He had the German training, and he combined the German thoroughness with the English instinct for sys- tematic and perspicuous presentation. Great as was his service in the character of an investi- gator, he did a still greater service to his coun- trymen in the character of an expositor. What Professor Huxley did for the hew biology cre- ated by Darwin, was done by Professor Tyndall for the new physics created by Joule and Far- aday and Maxwell. It is customary in certain quarters to sneer at popular science ; and there is not a little popular science, so-called, which justifies the attitude of contempt. But no such reproach attaches to the work of men like Tyn- dall, whose knowledge of the subjects with which he dealt was both thorough and accurate. It is difficult to estimate the full value of the work done for the advancement of English public opinion in matters of science by the group of writers to which Tyndall belonged, and of which Professor Huxley is the most distin- guished remaining representative. They came at just the right time, and they brought just the right kind of powers to their task. Without the labors of these men, the great nineteenth century revolution in physical and biological science would indeed have been, none the later, a fait accompli; but it would have taken much longer to reach the popular consciousness. Professor Tyndall stood in the vanguard of the revolutionary forces, and bore the brunt of the battle. Twenty years ago, he incurred the odium theologicum by an article in "The Con- temporary Review," proposing that the efficacy of prayer should be subjected to a scientific test. He little thought, good easy man, what a hor- nets' nest this cold-blooded suggestion would bring about his ears. When, in the year fol- lowing this incident, he was presented at Oxford for the honorary doctorate, he found his can- didacy bitterly opposed by one of the professors of divinity in the University, on the ground that his teachings contravened "the whole tenor of that book, which with its open page inscribed Dominus illuminatio mea the University still bears as her device." Only a year later than this, his address before the Belfast meeting of the British Association, in which address he professed to discern in matter " the promise and potency of every form and quality of life," again aroused his theological opponents, and fanned afresh the flame of their zealous indignation. Only three or four years before these occur- rences, Professor Huxley, in a lecture upon Descartes, speaking of the religious persecution of which that philosopher was a victim, had said: "There are one or two living men, who, a couple of centuries hence, will be remembered as Descartes is now, because they have produced great thoughts which will live and grow as long as mankind lasts. If the twenty-first century- studies their history, it will find that the Chris- tianity of the middle of the nineteenth century recognized them only as objects of vilification." The vilification to which Tyndall was subjected, in consequence of the acts above alluded to, came as a prompt and striking new illustration of Professor Huxley's remark. Most earnest men, watching the world from day to day, get impatient because it moves so slowly. And yet, looking back over a few years, the same men will find cause for astonishment at the rapidity of its advance in this nineteenth century of ours. The Copernican doctrine re- quired from one to two centuries to make its way; the Darwinian doctrine accomplished an equal revolution of thought in one or two de- cades. The suggestions that seemed so startling when made by Tyndall twenty years ago would to-day hardly cause a ripple of excitement any- where. Few intelligent people, whatever their religious beliefs, are now shocked at the admis- sion of spontaneous generation as a necessary link in the evolutionary chain, and few of them hold to a doctrine of prayer that invites such tests as that proposed by Tyndall in the early seventies. Of recent years, Tyndall has been assailed by the politicians almost as vehemently as he was once assailed by the theologians, and time will bring him a justification similar to that which it has brought him in the earlier con- troversy. In his denunciation of the recent Gladstonian attempt to dismember the United Kingdom he joined himself with such men as Tennyson and Matthew Arnold, and his mem- ory need fear no defeat in that alliance. The noble intellectual temper of the man that has just died, the bent of mind which we venture to call essentially religious in spite of the religious antagonisms which it evoked, and the eloquence of expression that he knew how to im- 1893.] 379 THE DIAL part to the subjects which so deeply concerned him, may most fittingly be illustrated by the clos- ing paragraph of .the famous Belfast Address: "And now the end is come. With more time, or greater strength and knowledge, what has been here said might have been better said, while worthy matters here omitted might have received fit expression. Bnt there would have been no material deviation from the views set forth. As regards myself, they are not the growth of a day; and as regards you, I thought you ought to know the environment which, with or without your consent, is rapidly surrounding you, and in rela- tion to which some adjustment on your part may be necessary. A hint of Hamlet's, however, teaches us all how the troubles of common life may be ended; and it is perfectly possible for you and me to purchase intel- lectual peace at the price of intellectual death. The world is not without refuges of this description; nor is it wanting in persons who seek their shelter and try to persuade others to do the same. I would exhort you to refuse such shelter, and to scorn such base repose to accept, if the choice be forced upon you, commotion before stagnation, the leap of the torrent before the stillness of the swamp. In the one there is at all events life, and therefore hope; in the other, none. I have touched on debatable questions, and led you over dan- gerous ground — and this partly with the view of tell- ing you, and through you the world, that as regards these questions science claims unrestricted right of search. It is not to the point to say that the views of Lucretius and Bruno, of Darwin and Spencer, may be wrong. Here I should agree with you, deeming it in- deed certain that these views will undergo modification. But the point is, that, whether right or wrong, we claim the right to discuss them. The ground which they cover is scientific ground; and the right claimed is one made good through tribulation and anguish, inflicted and endured in darker times than ours, but resulting in the immor- tal victories which science has won for the human race. I would set forth equally the inexorable advance of man's understanding in the path of knowledge, and the unquenchable claims of his emotional nature which the understanding can never satisfy. The world embraces not only a Newton, but a Shakespeare — not only a Boyle, but a Raphael—not only a Kant, but a Beethoven ■—not only a Darwin, but a Carlyle. Not in each of these, but in all, is human nature whole. They are not opposed, but supplementary — not mutually exclusive, but reconcilable. And if, still unsatisfied, the human mind, with the yearning of a pilgrim for his distant home, will turn to the mystery from which it has emerged, seeking so to fashion it as to give unity to thought and faith, so long as this is done, not only with- out intolerance or bigotry of any kind, but with the en- lightened recognition that ultimate fixity of conception is here unattainable, and that each succeeding age must be held free to fashion the mystery in accordance with its own needs—then, in opposition to all the restric- tions of materialism, I would affirm this to be a field for the noblest exercise of what, in contrast with the knowing faculties, may be called the creative faculties of man. Here, however, I must quit a theme too great for me to handle, but which will be handled by the loftiest miuds ages after you and I, like streaks of morning cloud, shall have melted into the infinite azure of the past." This fine peroration, which we have quoted in its entirety, serves better than a volume of comment to explain the influence which Tyn- dall has exerted upon his contemporaries, and especially upon the younger generation. The scientist of the dryasdust type may scoff at it as mere rhetoric, but it has stirred many of its readers as with a trumpet-call to steadfast- ness and honesty of purpose in the pursuit of truth. The power to write in this fashion, backed by the power to employ the most rigor- ious of scientific methods in his own researches, made of Tyndall one of the most vital of the directive intellectual forces of his age, and brings to his memory a host of mourners who early caught the contagion of his spirit, and have sought to follow in his footsteps. BIOGRAPHY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY. John Tyndall was born August 21, 1820, in the village of Leighlin Bridge, Carlow, Ireland. His parents were poor, and could give him only a com- mon-school education. In 1839 he took a position with the Irish Ordnance Survey. In 1844, he be- came a railway engineer. In 1847, he became a teacher in Queenwood College, Hants, a technical school. Here he met Dr. Frankland, and his stud- ies were definitely turned in the direction of phys- ical science. The next year he went to Germany, and studied at Marburg under Bunsen and others. From Marburg he went to Berlin and there contin- ued his studies under Magnus. His first scientific paper was on screw-surfaces, and his second a study in the magnetic properties of crystals. The latter was published in 1850. He then returned to En- gland, and settled in London, where he became ac- quainted with Faraday. In 1852 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and in 1853 was ap- pointed a professor of natural philosophy in the Royal Institution of Great Britain. He afterwards succeeded Faraday as Superintendent of that Insti- tution. He had already, as early as 1849, visited the Alps for recreation, and the habit thus acquired lasted for the rest of his lifetime, resulting, among other things, in that classic of mountaineering, "Hours of Exercise in the Alps" (1871). His first scientific expedition to the Alps was made in 1856, in company with Professor Huxley, and resulted in the joint treatise " On the Structure and Motion of Glaciers." Other fruits of his Alpine experiences were the "Glaciers of the Alps" (1860), and "A Vacation Tour" (1863). In 1859 he began his re- searches in radiant heat, which resulted in the works, "Heat as a Mode of Motion" (1863), "On Radi- ation" (1865), and "Contributions to Molecular Physics in the Domain of Radiant Heat." He pub- lished a work on "Sound " in 1865, and a similar volume on " Light" in 1870. Other publications of this period were "Faraday as a Discoverer" (1868), "On the Scientific Use of the Imagina- tion" (1870), the first volume of "Fragments of i¥) [Dee. 16, TIIE DIAL f!871,. and -The Forms.,!* Water" (1872.. la this latter year he Iwcored In the United "Hate*, giving thirty-five addresses in ill These lecture* were largely attended, and the net proceeds- aavxi^ting to >^.'""». were pta^td in the hand* of a t!«an;:u« to be used for the end>w- mect of research in American colleges. Cambridge had made him an LL.D. in i*-V> and Edinl*irgfa in 1 V>i: Ll !873 Oxford made him. despite the pro- test of the theologian*, a D.C-L- The Belfast Ad- dress *ai given in 1874. In 1876 he married the eldest daughter of Lord Claud Hamilton. He has held a number of posts uxder the English govern- ment. Among hi* later works mar be mentioned -On the Transmission of Sound by the Atmo- sphere™ ^ 1*574 ). - Le»sons in Electricity *" < 1876 ». - Fermentation ~ < 1877 ». - Essays on the Floating Matter of the Air" I 1*^I i. and a second series of the popular - Fragments of Science ~ (1892). He died on the fourth of this month at his home in Haslemere. Ntrrer. BAD*LIFFE COLLEGE. The change of name and of constitution whereby the Harrard Annex has become Badeliffe College calls for the heartiest congratulations from all work- ers in behalf of the higher education of women. At the same time, the nature of the change effected has been in some respects misinterpreted by the news- paper reports. To correct mistaken impressions, we reprint the resolutions in which the new plan is for- mulated. These resolutions were passed by the An- nex Corporation, and accepted by the Corporation and Overseers of the University. "Voted, That it is desirable to change the name of this corporation to Badeliffe College, and that proper legal steps be taken to effect that change. u Voted, That h U desirable that this corporation give degrees in arts and sciences, and that a committee of three person* 1* appointed by the president to take steps to oUain from the legislature the necessary power. *- Voted, That the president and fellows of Harvard College be and hereby are made and appointed the vis- itors of this corporation, and hereby vested with all vis- itorial power and authority as fully as if the same had been originally conferred upon the said president and fellows by the charter or articles of association of this corporation. This vote shall take effect upon an ac- ceptance by the said president and fellows of the powers hereby conferred, but with the provision that the said president and fellows at any time may abandon and sur- render or limit such powers upon notice to this corpor- ation. "Voted, That no instructor or examiner of this cor- poration shall be appointed, employed, or retained with- out the approval of the visitors of this corporation man- ifested in such way as said visitors may prescribe. "Voted, That in case the president and fellows of Harvard College accept the powers conferred by the foregoing vote, the said president and fellows be re- quested to empower the president of Harvard Univer- sity to countersign the diplomas of this corporation and to affix the seal of Harvard University to said diplomas." The change has not been made, as has been statc*i- in conseij'^ence of any endowment, nor does it mean co-ed ^-ation. B^n :: does provide for bestowing the U-:verchy degree apon graduates of what has be*rn knows as the Annex, in place of the certificates heretofore issued. The institution has recently come into possession of two gins, amounting, jointly, to about *15".»■■). Since the fees from students hare exceeded the expenses of the Annex tor tKe past five years, the new college is in a satisfactory tnatcial condition. Its name is- very appropriately, that of the first woman who ever made a gift at monev to Harvard. THE FEBSISTESCE OF THE BOMASCE. The now palpable reaction from the realistic, so- called, in English fiction to the romantic as a form and a method, suggests an historical retrospect. The fact is. the romance, in its several kinds, has persisted for centuries in our native novel, and its resurgence to-day is only a demonstration to be prophesied from past experiences in fictional evolution. Nor is the explanation far to seek. AD the world loves a story, as it does a lover: and psychologic interest, the analysis of motive and character, will never take the place of that object- ive interest which centres in action, situation, and drwiiii'mfnt. Our age takes more kindly to such methods and motives than did its predecessors: in- deed, it has been taught to do so. and the novel of subjective tendency may be styled the chosen vehi- cle of expression. But always those who read as they run. and the more critical class which seeks in books illusion from the workaday world, will desire the adventure story and the heroic presentment of human hie. A host of people agree with Balzac that the writer of fiction should strive to portray society not solely as it is. but as it is hoped it will be in that -possibly better" state suggested by present improvement. One is struck by this in the simple inductive process of inquiry among intelli- gent book-lovers: the present writer has found that a large proportion go to novels for rest and recrea- tion, rather than for a criticism of life or aesthetic stimulation, least of all for spiritual profit. If this last is to result, let it be unobtrusive, by way of in- direction, not through the avowed tendenz fiction, seems to be the cry. Text-books are fond of emphasizing the birth of the modern analytic novel with Richardson and Fielding, as if thereafter the whole trend were toward the subjective social study. It is true enough that a new impulse and manner were intro- duced by those worthies: but twenty odd years be- fore '-Pamela" and "Tom Jones." De Foe"s •• Rob- inson Crusoe" was in the field to represent that undying creature, the Romance: and if Mr. Kipling and Mr. Stevenson. Mr. Hall Caine. Dr. Doyle and General Wallace hark back to the seamy Daniel as prototype, he in turn derive? from the picaresque 1893.] 361 THE DIAL tales that had gone before, and, to look to origins, is justified by the Spanish fictionists from whom our romance sprang. An early English example of the picaresque is Nash's "Jack Wilton," which, clumsy as it is, and naively childish to modern taste, does nevertheless explain De Foe on the one hand and the penny-dreadful on the other. Jack, a page in the English army in France at the siege of Tourney, and a fellow of infinite gusto, much travel, and many escapades, is perhaps the first picturesque rascal in a genre to be afterwards enriched by Du- mas and broadened and modified by Le Sage, Hugo, Scott, and Dickens. He is the father of harum- scarums, and he initiates for all time the type of the picaresque story—that division of the romance the essence of which lies in brisk, breathless adven- turing, and a lusty enjoyment of life as incident and spectacle. Such later divisions, of course, as the pastoral romance—early exampled in Lyly's ■"Euphues" and Sidney's "Arcadia," and finding its modern representation in Mr. Black, Mr. Black- more, and others, — and the bombastic pseudo- romance borrowed from the French of Scarron et Cie., and—thank heaven—pretty much dead to-day, swell with contributory streams the now stately river of romance. But the adventure - tale that eventuates in "Kidnapped" and "The Refugees" is to be tracked down to "Jack Wilton," artless product of Elizabethan times. Nor, if we overlook the mere matter of prose form, may we hesitate to go further back in look- ing for the genesis of the spirit and purpose of the English romance. We shall meet with it several centuries earlier, in that sterling, sturdy literary form the ballad; in certain of the verse narratives of Chaucer; yes, in the Old English epics them- selves. Other times, other customs, and saga, epic, apologue, ballad, or novel may be the chosen vehi- cle; but the liking for story is a constant factor. The instinct for romance is the instinct for illu- sion, a request for pictures of a livelier and love- lier world than that we live in; it were foolish not to expect its gratification in art all along in the de- velopment of our literature. With this continual ■outcropping, this cyclic persistence, of the romance in English fiction, notable contributions in this kind may be anticipated in the near future as a rebound from the deification of the psycho-analytic. The public is eager for it (apply the test of sales in the case of recent prominent romantic novels) ; and the writers of fiction take heart for the attempt, or by a natural resilience are of the tribe of Dan. But whether the movement produce marvels of roman- tic composition this decade or the next century, it is safe to say that the field will always be cultivated, appealing as it does to a permanent taste and sat- isfying an inevitable hunger. By no means is it to be said that the school of Messrs. Howells and James is in its decadence; fruitful and important work is sure to come thence, and its possibilities, especially in the domain of psychology, are as yet but half realized. But it is well to bear down on the fact that the pedigree of this school is no better than, is indeed not so old and honorable as, that which has De Foe as past-master in the last century and is vigorously championed in fin de siecle En- glish letters by Messrs. Kipling and Stevenson. And it should be understood that this reaction toward incident in fiction is a phase of the wider protest against the abuse of that misnamed realism for which partialism is a fitter term. It is part of a tendency which has produced in Paris, the strong- hold of the opposite influence, a revival denomi- nated neo-idealism, resulting in symbolism in poetry and M. Wagner's noble trumpet-call to the younger generation. Romanticism is to idealism in the novel what the garment is to the soul. In this broader implication, the romance includes Mrs. Ward's '* David Grieve " and Mrs. Hunt's " Ramona," books treating life in its more ideal aims and relations. The romance of the future will present such high interests keeping pace with the evolution of society; and its vantage-ground over the romance of years agone will be that it is firm-based on truth to the phenomena of life, and is thus, in the only true sense, realistic. Nobler in content, and persist- ent in type, the romance, broadly viewed, may be regarded as that form of literature which more than any other shall reflect the aspirations of the individual and the social progress of the state. Richard Burton. SONNET-GOLD. We get it from Etruscan tombs, hid deep Beneath the passing ploughshare; or from caves, Known but to Prospero, where pale green waves Roll up the wreck-gold that the mermaids keep; And from the caverns where the gnomes upheap The secret treasures which the Earth's dwarf slaves Coin in her bosom, 'til the red gold paves Her whole great heart, where only poets peep; Or from old missals, where the gold defies Time's tooth, in saints' bright aureoles, and In angels' long straight trumpets, all its flash; But mostly from the crucible where lies The alchemist's pure dream-gold: while he The poet steals it, leaving him the ash. 11. What shall we make of sonnet-gold for men? The dove-wreathed cup some youth to Phryne gave? Or dark Locusta's scent-phial, that shall have, Chiselled all round it, snakes from Horror's den? Or that ill ring which sank in fathoms ten When Faliero spoused the Venice wave? Or Inez' funeral crown, the day the grave Showed her for coronation, all myrrh then? The best would be to make a hilt of gold For Life's keen falchion; like a dragon's head, Fierce and fantastic, massive in your hold; But oft the goldsmith's chisel makes instead A fretted shrine for sorrows that are old, And passions that are sterile or are dead. — Lee Hamilton in the London Academy. J^ 382 [Dec. 16r THE DIAL COMMUNICA TIONS. THE LIBRARY OF THE CHICAGO UNIVERSITY. (To the Editor of The Dial.) In your excellent notice, in the current number of The Dial, of the recently issued government report on Libraries, you refer to the statement, made in that re- port, as to the four largest libraries in the country, for the purpose of pointing out an error by which the Bos- ton Public Library is credited with too large a number of volumes. Apparently you overlooked the fact that the most glaring discrepancy in the list is in assigning to the University of Chicago 380,000 volumes. I am just collecting the statistics of libraries for my forth- coming book, "Public Libraries in America," and Mrs. Dixson, the acting librarian of the University of Chi- cago, gives me the present number of volumes as about 250,000. The recently issued Register of the Univer- sity puts the number at 232,000. Mrs. Dixson reports that 75,000 of the present 250,000 have been acquired during the past twelve months, so that the library can hardly have numbered more than 150,000 volumes when this U. S. report was made up. How its size came to be so over-stated is an interesting question. W. I. Fletcher. Amherst College Library, Dec. 5, 1893. [We did not question the figures given for the library of the University of Chicago, because no one seems to know just what those figures should really be. The bulk of the library is made up of a collection purchased from Calvary, of Berlin, nearly two years ago. This collection seems to have been purchased on the "pig in a poke" principle, and was estimated to include something like 300,000 volumes, a large proportion of these (perhaps one- fourth) being unbound dissertations. We under- stand that the whole of this collection has not yet been housed in the library. It was, however, owned by the University at the time when the government report was prepared. From statements made to us at various times by the authorities of the Univer- sity, we concluded that the number of volumes re- ported was approximately correct, if pamphlets were counted, as in the case of the Harvard (not the Boston Public) Library. The report of 232,000 volumes in the University Register expressly ex- cludes pamphlets and books not actually in the library—Edr. Dial.] "AIRS AND MANNERS" IN THE OLD DOMINION. (To the Editor of The Dial. ) In reading Mr. Thomas Nelson Page's rather florid article on "The Old Dominion," in the December " Har- per," one cannot but be struck by the continuous strain of old-time laudation of Virginia and everything Vir- ginian, that savors strongly of the somewhat boastful period "before the war." The women are prettier, the men more brilliant and gallant, the children more inter- esting, and all, old or young, "have something about them — an air, a manner, a something — which is more attractive" than one can discover in mortals north of the Potomac. Altogether, it is a picture in high lights; there are no shadows. One may read the article from beginning to end, without discovering that a Virginian ever had a fault. Mr. Page's Colonel Carters of Car- tersville have all the virtues of Mr. Hopkinson Smith's, but none of their weaknesses. They even talked so well that "it is said that Thackeray stated that he heard the purest Saxon English iu Virginia that he had ever heard. Freeman and Matthew Arnold are quoted to the same effect at a later time." But the reader who is curious to note the signs of the times will find more significance in the political than in the social aspects of Mr. Page's article, coming as it does from a writer who has grown up since the war. There is nowhere in it so much as a hint that the Vir- ginians were wrong in following the hot-headed and unreasoning states of the South into that rebellion which* Virginia first condemned and then embraced. On the contrary, the tone of approval and laudation is still dom- inant. In speaking of Richmond, the writer says that "for a hundred years and more the city has been asso- ciated with all that Virginians are proud of"; and he then proceeds to enumerate some of the things of which they are proud: "Here sat and deliberated [!] the Se- cession Convention during the period when Virginia stood as the peace-maker between the two sections. Here she finally declared her decision to secede from the Union. . . . Here the Confederate government passed its life, and from here the Southern side of the war was fought. . . . Whilst Richmond stood the Confederacy stood," etc. Such are the things that give the city its chief glory in the eyes of true Virginians. Northern conservatives, who have been inclined to sympathize with the South in its recent unfortunate condition, will be surprised and pained to read many things in this article. They have been wont to think that sensible Southern people had seen that the Rebel- lion, with its fruitless loss and devastation, was at least a mistake, and not a thing to be especially proud of; but such utterances as these will lead many to donbt whether it is not yet too early to cherish or express sympathy with those who still maintain such sentiments. It seems a pity that such an article should have been written or printed, representing as it does a class who have learned nothing from experience, and have forgot- ten the present and the future in blind admiration of an ignorant and often mistaken past. x. C. McC. Summtrville, S. C, Dec. 3, 1893. WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH JOHN BULL? (To the Editor of The Dial.) To a logical mind, there is always a satisfaction in finding persons and things consistent with themselves; and this form of satisfaction is ours on reading the characteristic comments of the leading John Bull organ, the "Saturday Review," on the subject of the Colum- bian Exposition, as reprinted in your last issue. Those comments are about such as might have been expected from such a source; hence they afford the logical satis- faction referred to, and are also delightful in many ways. Nowhere else could we expect to find, at this stage, the Exposition styled a " local show " and a " fiz- zle," or its promoters and managers so courteously and discerningly individualized as "the ignorant million- aire, the grain-man, the pig-man, the bust dude, the Irish politician, the anarchist," as it is given in the ele- gant phraseology of this uncompromising defender of the classic. No one who knows the John Bull type of Englishmen will be surprised that they should regard the Exposition as a "local show." Of course it seems local to them; anything beyond the coast of Britain is, 1893.] 383 THE DIAL to the arboreal fancy of these belated Druids, necessa- rily local and despisable. It seems to me the practical question is, how shall these familiar exhibitions of "John Bull at his worst" be treated in America? Shall his primitive insularity and his native proneness to Philistinism be regarded, in Carlyle's phrase, as an "insuperable proclivity," and therefore he be let alone? Or, if to familiarize him with modern ideas and world-tendencies be thought possible and desirable, how shall the requisite mission- ary labors be directed? And ought we not to take into account what we should lose if these efforts were success- ful? Is not J. B. more amusing, and hence more de- sirable, as he is? Byron, a good judge of European traits and manners, recorded his opinion as follows: "The world is a big load of hay; Mankind sire the asses that pull; Each tugs in a different way — But the greatest of all is John Bull." Would it not, therefore, be more profitable to us Amer- icans, who inherit still a trace of the bear-baiting pro- clivities of our British ancestry, to allow him to con- tinue in his favorite role as the ass par excellence among national characters? Who is there to take his place? where else among the nations of the earth could so amusing a character — such a possierlicher Dummkopf— be found? Unameliorated by the refining influences of foreign civilization, John Bull is pretty sure to be John Bull for a long time to come; bugging himself closer in his insularity, and throwing dust and mud over every- thing that is new and unintelligible to him — which leaves to him yet a very large field for the exercise of his peculiar powers. All these points and more are in- volved in the interesting problem, What shall we do with John Bull? Jonathan. Chicago, Dec. 6, 1893. A DISCLAIMER AND AN EXPLANATION. (To the Editor of The Dial.) As was the surprise of Monsieur Jourdain, ou being told that he talked prose, even so was mine, when I found myself credited by Mr. W. H. Johnson (in The Dial for Nov. 1) with a "style," nay, "a peculiarity of style." There are, however, in the case of every one, things growing out of his idiosyncrasy which others are beforehand with him in discovering. Reputation for a literary style those may spell for who are so inclined; but why should it be assumed that I am one of them? As to the way in which my trivi- alities are expressed, I have never given the subject a thought, regard for intelligibility and verbal economy excepted. A commonplace person who aims at no more than this, and succeeds in his aim fairly well, will deliver himself only indifferently, at best; and to say that he has a style, or effects any approach to one worth speak- ing of, is, it appears to me, making too much of his insignificance. My fashion of writing, which I had all along thought to be precisely such as that just described, was, I had hoped, so unnoticeable as not to divert atten- tion from my matter to my manner. My hopes have been doomed to disappointment. Mr. Johnson is of opinion that my sentences too often have a "broken character." Let me, in passing, regret that they have broken his aesthetic repose. To make good his complaint, he quotes from me at length, adding the judgment that parallels to his quotations "would not be from writers who have won any reputation for grace- ful expression of their ideas." But, as a prudent cripple would not attempt to dance, why should Awk O'Speech be ambitious of a distinction which he knows he could never achieve, do what he might? Suppose that nature and circumstances, in malign conspiracy, have turned a man ont rhetorically left-handed, crump-shouldered, lop-sided, baker-kneed, ungainly all round. What is there, pray, for such a hapless abortion to do, except to throw himself on the compassion of his fellow-creatures, and to thank destiny that there are constellations more sinister than the one which was told off forjiiin? We all of us write pretty much as it pleases Providence. Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio, I shall not admit. Though I study to be concise, my drift, unless I deceive myself, is always unmistakable. Nor is perplexity entailed by the involutions which, brevity consulted, are frequently necessitated by the qualifications requisite in order to the exact conveyance of my meaning. Where these involutions occur, and also on other occasions, I try to lighten the labor of the reader by free recourse to commas, using them largely instead of brackets; and hence it is that Mr. Johnson detects, in my sentences, what he designates as a " broken character." This de- signation is not, to my mind, altogether appropriate. Be that as it may, however, my critic is perhaps a trifle flattering, when he silently takes it for granted that others, if unaided by the clue of liberal punctuation, would approve themselves his match in threading my labyrinths. The question of expressional uncouthness having been started, I transcribe some specimens of it, in presence of which those that Mr. Johnson takes from me must hide their diminished heads. I came on them in Thomas Hope's "Essay on the Origin and Prospects of Man," published in 1831: "Sometimes, after of compounds certain substances are, by effervescence or fermentation, thrown off, the remaining ones, instead of being left to subside, again from without take in new gases, which again of the compound change the nature and the faculties." (Vol. I., p. 293.) "Of the heat in the daytime from the sun radiated to the earth, at night, when, of this radiance from without the pres- sure ceases, a certain portion is from the earth and from its productions again radiated into outer space." (Vol. I., p. 294.) "Thus, of heat a certain portion, in a body by cold solidi- fied penetrating, confined and accumulated, till by its pressure from within that body on its surrounding envelopes, it dis- tends and dissevers these inclosures, and is again by them let out and left to cooperate, will by the very excess of its strength lose that strength, and again, as it again spreads further, proportionably weaken." (Vol. III., p. 222.) That these passages fell from the pen of the author of " Auastasius " seems almost incredible. For curiosities of felonious construction well-nigh as striking as those given from Hope, Jeremy Bentham, among modern authors, might be cited to any extent whatever, desirable or undesirable. Guided by a ra- tional taste, Sydney Smith, iu reviewing the famous "Book of Fallacies," introduces its author to the public only "after that eminent philosopher has been washed, trimmed, shaved, and forced into clean linen." Whitefield, we read, once fancied, for a while, that the Lord "required him to go nasty"; and not a few writers, entreated spitefully by the fates, and wrestling with them in vain, " go nasty," metaphorically, all their days. The pity which the benevolent are moved to bestow on their unhappy case I would be allowed to participate. F. H. Marlesford, England, Nov. 16, 1S9S. 884 [Dec. 16, THE DIAL Efje Iffeto Books. Walter Scott's TjEtters.* In the preface to the abridged edition (1848) of his Life of Scott, Lockhart inserted the following paragraph: "I should have been Kiore willing to produce an enlarged edition; for the interest of Sir Walter's history lies, 1 think, peculiarly in its minute details — espe- cially in the details set down by himself in his letters and diaries; and, of course, after the lapse of ten years more copious use might be made of those materials without offense or indecorum." Near half a century has elapsed since these words were penned; and in the interim the "Journal" — covering the period from 1825, just before the Constable and the Ballantyne failures, to 183E, the year of Scott's death — has appeared. Tne "Life" and the "Journal" having thus been issued, only the "Letters " were needed to complete this unu- sually full, rich, and significant life-record; and these now lie before us. The editor, Mr. David Douglas, has executed his trust with the same care and minuteness shown in his editing of the " Journal "—perhaps this time with some- thing of that loving over-elaboration which one is apt to bestow upon a specially congenial task. The letters are placed in chronological order, and they are grouped in twenty-four brief chap- ters, each of which is prefaced by a useful table of "Family Annals and Literary Work," as well as by a rather supererogatory motto, gen- erally a passage selected from Sir Walter's poetical works. Mr. Douglas's notes are very full—unfashionably full; but they are in them- selves so entertaining, so rich in lively personal chat and ana, that we should be sorry to spare one of them. The letters range from 1797, the year of the writer's marriage, to 1825, the eve of the period when, at the age of fifty-five, overwhelmed by a debt of £150,000, he sat down at his desk to begin a struggle for honor's sake which was to end six years later, not in a loss of courage, but in a decline of the powers necessary to carry it on. The annals of Scotia are eminently rich in examples of patient hero- ism in adversity—a quality that, like love of clan and country, seems inherent in her people. But none of her plaided or her mail-clad heroes have shown a braver front to disaster than did her great romancer. To Scott, filled as he was with the (to the modern view) Quixotic tradi- * Familiar Letters of Sir Walter Scott. In two vol- umes, illustrated. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. tions and ideals which formed the flower and finer spirit of the older Toryism—Feudalism, if you will — the call of honor, the claim of an obligation, was a peremptory one that brooked no denial or thought of denial. The distinction, born of commercial usage and expediency, be- tween a mercantile and personal obligation, was not for him. To the Master of Abbotsford a debt incurred was a debt to be wiped out to the uttermost farthing; and so he labored on to the end, with the dogged pertinacity of his nation, at the Sisyphus-stone of vicarious debt that finally crushed him. In making up the present volumes, the editor has prudently and widely departed from his original plan of including in them only the letters addressed by Sir Walter to members of his own family. A number of letters written to some of his closest friends have also been introduced; and in addition to these are some notable ones addressed to Sir Walter by such correspondents as Jeffrey, Lady Stuart, Joanna Baillie, Crabbe, Charles Lamb (who makes an appeal in behalf of the impecunious Godwin), Washington Irving, etc. The letter from the last-named writer is the reply to a proposal to become editor of a Scotch newspaper — a post for which Irving acknowledged himself to be eminently unsuited. He writes: "Your literary proposal both surprises and flatters me, as it evinces a much higher opinion of my talents and capacity than I possess myself. I am peculiarly unfitted for the post proposed. . . . My whole course of life has been desultory, and I am unfitted for any periodically recurring task, or any stipulated labor of body or mind. I have no command over my talents such as they are; am apt to be deserted by them when I most want their assistance, and have to watch the veerings of my mind as I would those of a weather- cock. Practice and training may bring me more into rule, but at present I am as unfit for service in the ranks as one of my own country Indians or a Don Cos- sack. I must therefore keep on pretty much as I have begun, writing when I can and not when I would." The "Letters" begin, as we have said, in 1797, the year of Scott's marriage; and the opening ones, addressed to Miss Carpenter, afford, it must be owned, some rather doleful specimens of the Caledonian love-letter. The last one, in particular, closes with a passage that would have done credit to Mr. Pegotty's "lone and lorn " inmate, Mrs. Gummidge: "When you go to the South of Scotland with me," writes the expectant lover, after alluding to some an- cestral matters, "you will see their burying-place, now all that remains with my father of a very handsome property. It is one of the most beautiful and romantic scenes you ever saw, among the ruins of an old abbey. When I die, Charlotte, you must cause my bones to be 1893.] 385 THE DIAL laid there; but we shall have many happy days before that, I hope." To this cheerful and timely request Miss Car- penter — a lively young woman endowed with scant reverence for ancestral bones —• sensibly replied: "What an idea of yours was that to mention where you wish to have your bones laid! If you were mar- ried I should think you were tired of me. A very pretty compliment before marriage! I hope sincerely I shall not live to see that day. If you always have those cheerful thoughts, how very pleasant and gay you must be! Adieu, my dearest friend. Take care of yourself if you love me, as I have no wish that you should visit that beautiful and romantic scene, the bury- ing place." One fancies that the lover must have derived chagrin and solace in about equal measure from this satirical epistle. Viewing the Letters as a whole, and seek- ing for their prevalent and distinctive note, we should say that it lay in a certain largeness and manliness of tone, and in an impersonal and ingenious way of viewing men and motives that is rare enough in the familiar letters of the brethren of the genus irritabile. There are many allusions to brother authors (a term that usually scarcely expresses the actual relation), but nowhere is there a hint of jealousy or de- traction — not even at the period when the writer's own poetical star was unmistakably paling before that of Byron. For this declen- sion Sir Walter was certainly well indemnified by the magnificent success of his prose tales; but the provocation, nevertheless, was sharp enough, and the rival was an especially vulner- able one. To those who know Scott at all it is scarcely necessary to say that his letters have the prime epistolary merit of frankness; not frankness of the morbid, self-dissecting sort, but the hearty outspokenness of the large- souled, cordial man, who invites the confidence of his friends, and gives them his own in re- turn. Scott's writings are always the whole- somest of reading. There is that in them that tones and braces the mind, as the breath of his own heath-clad hills and moors tones and braces the body: but in nothing that he has written is this rare tonic quality so marked as in his admirable letters. What could be more thor- oughly sound and excellent, albeit in a somewhat homely way, than the following " Letter to a Schoolboy," written to a lad of fifteen who had sent the author of "Marmion" some speci- mens of his own versification: "... The friends who know me best, and to whose judgment I am myself in the constant habit of trusting, reckon me a very capricious and uncertain judge of po- etry; and I have had repeated occasion to observe that I have often failed in anticipating the reception of po- etry by the public. Above all, sir, I must warn you against suffering yourself to suppose that the power of enjoying natural beauty and poetical description are necessarily connected with that of producing poetry. The former is really a gift of Heaven, which conduces inestimably to the happiness of those who enjoy it. The second has much more of a knack in it than the pride of poets is always willing to admit; and, at any rate, is only valuable when combined with the first. ... I would also caution you against an enthusiasm which, while it argues an excellent disposition and a feeling heart, requires to be watched and restrained, though not repressed. It is apt, if too much indulged, to engender a fastidious contempt for the ordinary business of the world, and gradually to render us unfit for the exercise of the useful and domestic virtues which depend greatly upon our not exalting our feelings above the temper of well-ordered and well-educated society. No good man can ever be happy when he is unfit for the career of simple and commonplace duty; and I need not add how many melancholy instances there are of extravagauce and profligacy being resorted to under pretense of con- tempt for the common rules of life. Cultivate, then, sir, your taste for poetry and the belles-lettres, as an elegant and most interesting amusement; but combine it with studies of a more severe and solid cast, and such as are most intimately connected with your prospects in future life. In the words of Solomon, 'My son, get knowledge.' ..." The above letter is worth quoting, were it only as an index to a leading trait in the wri- ter's character — his overflowing kindliness. Many tyros went to him for advice (which in such cases usually means for approval), and while some of them undoubtedly went away disappointed, no one certainly went away cha- grined or empty-handed. In the Abbotsford collection there are many letters from boys and young men seeking literary counsel, all of which Sir Walter appears to have replied to, and then folded carefully, writing name and date on the back of each. How many incipient Chatter- tons he thus turned from the squalid garrets of the Edinburgh Grub Street into the respect- able, if prosaic, paths of process-drawing and cheese-mongering, history tells not; but the number may well have been considerable. We have spoken of Scott's letters touching his great rival and poetical successor, Byron; and as this portion of his correspondence can- not fail to be of general interest we shall quote from it pretty freely. The first two cantos of "Childe Harold" appeared in February, 1812, and in the following May Scott wrote to Mr. Morritt: "I agree very much in what you say of ' Childe Har- old.' Though there is something provoking and insult- ing both to morality and to feeling in his misanthropical humor, it gives, nevertheless, an odd pungency to his descriptions and reflections, and upon the whole it is a 386 [Dec. 16, THE DIAL poem of most extraordinary power, and may rank its author with our first poets. I see the 'Edinburgh Re- view' has hauled its wind, which I suppose is as much owing to Lord Byron's political conversion as to their conviction of his increasing powers." Writing to Lady Abercorn in January, 1813, Sir Walter goes on to say of " Childe Harold": "You ask me how I like Lord Byron's poem, and I answer, very much. There is more original strength and force of thinking in it, as well as command of lan- guage and versification, than in almost any modern poem of the same length that I have happened to meet with. It is really a powerful poem,—the more power- ful because it arrests the attention without the aid of narrative, and without the least apparent wish to con- ciliate the favor of the reader, but rather an affectation of the contrary. I say an affectation of the contrary, because I should be sorry to think that a young man of Lord Byron's powers should really and unaffectedly en- tertain and encourage a contempt for all sublunary com- forts and enjoyments. . . . This tinge of discontent, or perhaps one may almost say misanthropy, is the only objection I have to Lord B.'s very powerful and origi- nal work." There is an expression in the letter above that is very characteristic of the essential man- liness and candor of Scott's nature. To admit, as he did, that Byron's verse could dispense with "the aid of narrative," was to admit its poetical superiority to his own chansons de geste, in which the epic element was confess- edly the vital one. Between "Childe Harold," with its splendid power and energy, its pro- found passion and sustained melody, and his own "Marmion," with its ballad lilt and easy sentiment, there was obviously a difference not only of kind but of rank; and Scott could ac- knowledge this the more readily in that he saw that where he himself- was undeniably strong, his rival was lamentably weak. Scott is, all in all, the best of story-tellers; it is not too much to say that Byron is one of the worst. No less sober and discerning than his appraisal of Byron's verse is his appraisal of his charac- ter. Scott saw in the fashionable bard neither a sublime and mysterious "Lara "-—an incar- nation of the sombre and misanthropic heroes he chose to portray—on the one hand, nor, on the other, a mere attitudinizing coxcomb. The ultra class of Byron's admirers delighted to in- vest his career with something of the pseudo- grandeur of veiled and romantic crime; clear- headed Sir Walter saw that mere vulgar vice, such as any sixpenny rake in Cheapside might indulge in, had been much more in his lord- ship's line — and he was generous enough to deplore the fact, and to try to palliate it. His final word on Byron is expressed in a letter to Lady Abercorn, dated June 4, 1824: "I have been terribly distressed at poor Byron's death. In talents he was unequalled, and his faults were those rather of a bizarre temper, arising from aa eager and irritable nervous habit, than any depravity of disposition. He was devoid of selfishness, which I take to be the basest ingredient in the human disposi- tion. He was generous, humane, and noble-minded, when passion did not bliud him. The worst I ever raw about him was that he rather liked indifferent com- pany, than that of those with whom he must from char- acter and talent have necessarily conversed more npon an equality. I believe much of his affected misanthropy (for I never thought it real) was founded upon in- stances of ingratitude and selfishness experienced at the hands of those from whom better could not have been expected. During the disagreement between him and his lady, the hubbub raised by the public reminded one of the mischievous boys who pretend to chase run- away horses,— 'And roar, Stop, stop them! till they're hoarse; But mean to drive them faster.' Man and wife will hardly make the mutual sacrifices which are necessary to make them friends, when the whole public of London are hallooing about them." Sir Walter's letters are naturally full of al- lusions to other contemporary authors, and we may allow ourselves one more extract — an amusing note on Jeffrey, who comes in for pretty frequent mention, kindlier mention, in- deed, than that caustic critic deserved at the hands of the author of " Marmion." Writing to Miss Seward in 1806 Sir Walter says: "I think were you to know my little friend Jeffrey you would perhaps have some mercy on his criticisms; not but that he often makes his best friends lose pa- tience by that love of severity which drives justice into tyranny: but, in fact, I have often wondered that a man who loves and admires poetry so much as he does can permit himself the severe, or sometimes unjust, strict- ures which he fulminates even against the authors whom he most approves of, and whose works actually afford him most delight. But what shall we say? Many good-natured country Tories (my6elf, for example) take great pleasure in coursing and fishing, without any impeachment to their amiabilities, and probably Jeffrey feels the same instinctive passion for hunting down the bards of the day. In common life the lion lies down with the lamb; for not to mention his friendship for, me, now of some standing, he had the magnanimity (ab- solutely approaching to chivalrous reliance upon the faith of a foe) to trust himself to Southey's guidance in a boat on AVindermere, when it would have cost the poet nothing but a wet jacket to have overset the critic, and swum triumphantly to shore, and this the very day the review of ' Madoc' was published." In closing, we may say of these volumes, that they form in every way a desirable supplement to the great work of Sir Walter's son-in-law. No one who values the one work can afford to leave the other unread. Indeed, we believe it may fairly be claimed for these Familiar Let- ters that they bring the reader a degree nearer the author of "Waverley " than either of their 1893.] 387 THE DIAL predecessors do. We need scarcely say that the publishers have given the letters a suitable setting—sound, serviceable, and elegant. There is an autographic plan of Abbotsford, and a fine steel portrait of Scott, after Chantrey's bust. E. G. J. Mr. Spencer on the Principles of Beneficence. * There is a touch of pathos in the avowal with which Mr. Spencer introduces the last part of his Ethics, the conclusion of the great task to which the second half of his life has been con- secrated. Satisfaction in the achievement, he says, is somewhat dashed by disappointment at the meagreness of the ethical result. "The Doctrine of Evolution has not furnished guid- ance to the extent I had hoped." A successful life has been defined as a great thought conceived in youth and executed in ma- turity. But when the great thought assumes the form of a scheme of Universal Philosophy, the execution will inevitably fall short of the conception. The ambitious edifice will be structurally weak in places, and many of its chambers will be vacant or furnished only with casual or commonplace borrowings. Human thought, as Carlyle warns us, vainly strains to "swallow this universe," and where a hundred generations have failed the individual thinker will not succeed. Each man, now as in the days of Empedocles, really believes only in that on which he has chanced to alight; and what- ever high-sounding titles he inscribes on the cover of his book, he can in the end tell us only of the little world of his own experience, exper- iment, and reading. Mr. Spencer conceived in his youth two great thoughts: his formula of an Evolution wide enough to include both astronomy and biology, and his conception (elaborated in the "Prin- ciples of Psychology ") of life and mind as self- adjusting correspondence with the environment enforced by the death penalty. Even in his "Psychology" and "Sociology" these ambi- tious generalizations, though interpreted by in- genious analysis and illustrated by vast collec- tions of facts, failed to do justice to the infinite subtlety and diversity of nature. In ethics they are not merely inadequate, but positively misleading, owing to the distinctly anti-ethical associations that they necessarily convey to the majority of readers. The conception of life • The Principles of Ethics. By Herbert Spencer. Vol- ume II. New York: D. Appleton & Co. and conduct as a gradual adjustment to the conditions of self-preservation is more harmful to sound ethical feeling than it can possibly be helpful to intellectual apprehension of the gen- eral conditions under which ethical and uneth- ical acts arise. The interpretation of our moral experience is not aided by such a formula as this: "And along with this greater elaboration of life produced by the pursuit of more numer- ous ends, there goes that increased duration of life which is the supreme end." Rather must we say with Plato: "To preserve himself such as he is, and to keep safe his possessions, is not the end and aim of the virtuous man. Sweet is this little life, but the true man will live well while he may; how long or short he will permit to heaven." It is idle to reply that the one sentence is a bit of fine sentiment, the other a formulation of a scientific law. The ethics of evolution, too, must recognize the danger of what George Eliot calls "the hard, bold scrutiny of imperfect thought into obligations which can never be proved to have any sanctity in the absence of feeling." The moralist who writes, "Death by starvation from inability to catch prey shows a falling short of conduct from its ideal," by his lack of humor and failure in literary tact encourages such imperfect thought far more than he can check it with all his science. A further cause of the inadequacy of Mr. Spencer's treatment of ethics is to be found in the nature and limitations of his studies. They have not been those that qualify a man to deal with ethical problems in a sympathetic and illuminating way. For that, the humanistic and historic culture which he neglects is indispen- sable. Lastly, nearly all that he now has to tell us has been anticipated. During the long years of the postponement in which the unfin- ished structure of the " Synthetic Philosophy" has stood before us awaiting its ethical coping- stone, the special workers in this domain have not been idle. It was not difficult for them to prolong the lines in imagination, and make fairly accurate forecast of the completed edifice. The supplementary qualifications which the ethics of Evolution adds to the old Epicurean ethics of the utilitarian and association ist school have all been foreseen, and the issues thus raised with the opposing intuitionalist school in its various forms have been repeatedly debated. The highest point yet reached in the discussion is marked by Mr. Leslie Stephen's "Science of Ethics" and by his recent thoughtful reply to Professor Huxley's brilliant but inconclusive 888 [Dec. 16, THE DIAL Romanes Lecture. One turns with relief from the languid prolixity of the master to the trench- ant vigor of the disciple. But comparisons between inventor and perfeetor are invidious. The volume before us treats of beneficence, and begins by defining anew, with ponderous dialectic, the too-often neglected line of demar- cation between beneficence and justice, between things which are to be accepted as benefactions and things which may be claimed as rights. Justice aims to secure to every man the good or evil that naturally flows from his own acts, so far as this is compatible with the mainten- ance of social life. A secondary law of the highest social life requires that strict measures of justice be supplemented by spontaneous good- will. But this quality of mercy cannot be strained, and its enforcement as a right wrongs the benefactor and weakens the moral fibre of the beneficiary. Beneficence is negative when it acts as a check on the unbridled use of our powers, positive when it prompts their active employment on behalf of others. With the aid of this* somewhat artificial classification, Mr. Spencer propounds and discusses with ingenious naivete an immense number of special problems of casuistry. In business competition, for ex- ample, negative beneficence rebukes the conduct of " a man named Stewart" who lived in New York and acquired a colossal fortune by the practice of suddenly lowering his prices to an unremunerative rate, " seriously damaging nu- merous small traders." But it does not coun- tenance the claim of the trades-unions that only a "scab" will beat his fellows on a stint of work. Voluntary limitation of their field of activity by the successfnl lawyer or doctor pre- sents a more delicate problem; for the welfare of society may require that the competent pro- fessional man should undertake all the work he can faithfully perform. Again, negative beneficence demands the voluntary relinquish- ments of the advantages of a hard contract, as it on the other side forbids the laborer's striking when there is a big job on. It would restrain the pernicious activity of the soft-hearted woman who gives pence to the organ-grinder who makes day hideous to her philosophic neighbor, and it prohibits overpayingof cabbies, and the tipping of guards, porters, and waiters, in order to obtain better than the average ser- vice. It imposes flashes of silence on the bril- liant conversationalist, will not permit a tennis player to beat a father whose son is watching the game, or a keen reasoner to expose a man's fallacies " if his fiancee is present." It softens censure, though not to the extent of altogether suppressing anger, which is frequently a moral and salutary feeling. And it also checks the impulse to bestow excessive praise, especially if the recipient is "a handsome young lady accustomed to tribute in words and looks. . . . Shall you give her the pleasure she seeks hy letting your glances be seen? If you think only of proximate results, you may ; but not if you think also of remote results." The requirements of positive beneficence are elaborately discussed in relation to marriage, parenthood, kinship, aid to the helpless or sick, relief of the poor, etc. Mr. Spencer still cher- ishes his fine fear of excessive altruism, but otherwise has little to add to the judgments of common-sense in these complicated matters. The chapters on social and political benefi- cence are less languid in tone, and reveal some- thing of the old fire of the Essays. "Benefi- cence tells no man to help in keeping up the movement of the social treadmill." "Life is vitiated," especially, it would appear, for the bachelor, "by making attractiveness of ap- pearance a primary end. Such is the expe- rience all through the day, from the first thing in the morning, when, while standing dripping wet, you have to separate the pretty fringes of the bath towel which are entangled with one another, to the last thing at night, when the boot-jack, which, not being an ornamental ob- ject, is put out of sight, has to be sought for." The silver butter-knife, we are told, is a typi- cal instance of a thing which has no raison d'etre save display. Pretentious funerals and wedding presents make life a burden. Man- kind waste their time in " buying or producing pretty things so-called, which are mostly in the way." We smile to see the philosopher in his old age renewing his youthful tilt against social wind-mills. But no American can afford to smile at the sermon preached by Mr. Spencer from the text, Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty and good government. Political benefi- cence condemns the false sentiment of partisan loyalty which constrains a man to vote for a pernicious bill in order to "put the other side in a hole." It will not hold guiltless the man of ability who withdraws himself from all con- cern in public affairs in order to make money or enjoy his leisure. Above all, the sense of public duty demands that we incur the odium of protesting against mismanagement and wrong- doing at all times and seasons, even where the immediate evil consequences cannot be dis- 1893.] 389 THE DIAL cerned. Life is vitiated by just such trifles as the acceptance by a too complaisant inspec- tor of a bad road or an unsafe building, the passing by a gentlemanly examiner of a loose or inaccurate bank statement. "Most men assume that things are going right until it is proved that they are going wrong; whereas the as- sumption should be that things are going wrong till it is proved that they are going right." In the final chapter a word is said of the inspiring dream of a society so constituted as to render superfluous these precise prescriptions of a transitional ethics. Mr. Spencer wisely admonishes the socialist dreamers that they can- not colonize their Altrurias with any breed of man now existing on this planet. But after ii'ims of Evolution, he foresees a humanity that may realize the visions of Plato and Shelley. This illusion will at least work no practical harm — though perhaps here too the poet is wiser than the philosopher: "Far away beyond her myriad coming changes earth will be Something other than the wildest modern dream of you or me." Paul Shorey. An American Arch./kol,ogist and his Work.* We venture to predict that the time will soon come when there will be a widespread in- terest in America in the life and work of Mr. Adolphe Francois Bandelier, whose writings at present appear too rarely before the gen- eral reading public. As it is, a few meager details gathered up from a variety of sources, but chiefly from his own writings, may be in- teresting to our readers. His name (he writes it Ad. F. Bandelier; it appears on some of his books Adolf, on others Adolphe; upon whose authority some one sup- plies the Francois, we do not know) implies that he is of French family. Our impression is, however, that he is a native of this country, and that he claims Illinois as his home. If not a native, he has at least been long enough a resident of this country to record in admirable English the scientific data gathered by him, and to set forth the results of his researches in a most fascinating style; and he has so thor- oughly identified himself with ethnological and archaeological studies in this country as to jus- tify our claiming him for an American. Apparently his earliest contributions to his- *The Gilded Man (El Dorado), and Other Pictures of the Spanish Occupancy of America. By A. F. Bandelier, author of "Mexico," "The Pueblos of Pecos," etc. New York: D. Appletim & Co. torical literature were reports to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, "On the Art of War and Mode of Warfare of the Ancient Mexicans" (1877), "On the Distri- bution and Tenure of Lands and the Customs with respect to Inheritance among the Ancient Mexicans" (1878), and "On the Social Or- ganization and Mode of Government of the Ancient Mexicans" (1879). As the result of his researches among the Pueblo Indians, he submitted to the Archaeological Institute of America, in 1881, a "Historical Introduction to Studies among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico " and a " Report upon the Ruins of the Pueblo of Pecos." The following year he sub- mitted to the same Institute his report of " An Archaeological Reconnoisance into Mexico, in the year 1881," which has since been published in a richly illustrated royal octavo volume of over three hundred pages, and has negatived the author's own modest opinion of the popularity of his work by going to a second edition and sell- ing at six dollars a volume. In 1885 he read an admirable paper before the New York Histor- ical Society on "The Romantic School an Amer- ican Archaeology," published in a pamphlet. He was the official historical investigator of the Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition in 1887-88. During his residence in New Mexico he amassed and arranged a large collection of historical material relative to the aborigines and the Spanish occupancy of Amer- ica. Eight years and more spent among the Pueblo Indians resulted in "The Delight Makers," a romance of life among the aborig- inal Queres and Tehua Indians, published in 1890, and reviewed in The Dial for August, 1891. The publication of his previous works had been controlled by the various societies to which he had reported ; "The Delight Makers" was prefaced and seen through the press by the author. The latest result of his historical stu- dies, of which the public is to have the benefit, is published while the author is absent in Peru engaged on archaeological work. Mr. Bandelier has written for European peri- odicals and has met with a hearty recognition among the savants of Europe. We have heard of a " History of the Church in New Mexico" written by him for presentation to Pope Leo XIII., and that he has been engaged upon a comprehensive History of the Southwest. With an apparent genius for acquiring languages, and familiarity with the principal Indian dialects, and having access to documents of the greatest value and rarity, no person could be more thor- 390 [Dec. 16, THE DIAL oughly equipped for such a work, and we look forward to the appearance of this history with confidence that it will place its author in the front rank of American historians. Meanwhile, Mr. Bandelier now and then makes a valuable fragmentary contribution to our historical knowledge, as in "The Gilded Man." The desire to correct the errors of ear- lier historians seems to be the principal stimu- lus of his own painstaking labors. From the present work it may be learned that El Dorado is not "the golden land," as many suppose, but a contraction of El Ilombre Dorado — the gilded man. Although the basis of wildly ex- aggerated tales, El Ilombre Dorado was an actual personage in aboriginal history, an In- dian chief in South America, whose body, in the course of a regularly recurring ceremonial, was covered with a resinous gum and then sprinkled with gold dust, which adhered until the chief bathed in a certain lake and thus completed the ceremonial. It was information of this that reached the European colonists of South America in the sixteenth century, excited their characteristic thirst for gold, and led to the disastrous expeditions in search of El Do- rado, narrated in the first four chapters of the book before us. The "Other Pictures of the Spanish Occu- pancy of America" consist of an account of similar will-o'-the-wisp expeditions in search of the Seven Cities of Cibola; a carefully- digested account of the Massacre of Cholula (1519); a paper on "The Age of the City of Santa Fe"; and an account of one of the mur- derers of La Salle, Jean L'Archeveque, derived from ecclesiastical archives to which the author had access in the Indian pueblo of Santa Clara, New Mexico. The entire collection of papers reflects the conscientiousness with which the author conducts all his researches in a field which is peculiarly his own and in which he is justly entitled to be considered an expert. Arthur Howard Noll. AVhitmaniana.* "In Re Walt Whitman" is a curious me- lange of memorabilia, criticisms, and unpub- lished fragments, edited by the literary exec- utors of the poet, and designed to supplement Dr. Bucke's volume published several years ago. It contains some matter that is valuable, . *In Re Walt Whitman. Edited by His Literary Exec- utors, Horace L. Tranbel, Richard Maurice Bucke, Thomas B. Harried. Philadelphia: David McKay. much that is interesting, much also that is fool- ish, and a few things that are simply deplora- ble. No student of Whitman or of American literature can afford to dispense with it, for it is rich in biographical and critical material; yet its general tone of indiscriminating eulogy operates many times to make the judicious grieve. Walt Whitman's figure is surely one of the most commanding in American litera- ture, yet its full stature will never be real- ized by the cultivated public at large, so long as the fanatical devotees of the poet's memory continue to lavish their extravagant encomiums upon his faults and his virtues alike. In the very forefront of this volume, we come upon the following extremely uncritical (as well as unliterary) comment: "Whitman had cosmic breadth and port. His' Leaves' foliage the heavens. He was so complicated with all men and all phenomena that his very voice partook of the sway of elemental integrity and candor. Nature has not shame nor vain glory, nor had he, and there was never a breath of distrust in his utterances from first to last. Absolutely candid, he was absolutely una- fraid. 'Leaves of Grass' has a tone peculiarly its own aud strange in all the annals of literary crea- tion. Whitman speaks in it as would heaven, making unalterable announcements, oracular of the mysteries aud powers that pervade and guide all life, all death, all purpose." The volume contains a good deal of this sad and turgid stuff, and to that extent does posi- tive injury to the memory whose claims it ad- vocates. In the way of memorabilia, we are given some notes from conversations with Mr. George W. Whitman; Dr. Bucke's remarks on " The Man Walt Whitman"; Mr. Sidney H. Morse's jottings on "My Summer with Walt Whit- man "; an account of the poet's last sickness and death, by Mr. Daniel Longaker; the " Last Days of Walt Whitman," by Mr. J. W. Wal- lace; and a number of papers by Mr. Trau- bel, including the report of a " round table" symposium having Whitman for a central fig- ure, and an account of the poet's funeral. All this matter is of value, although it might prof- itably have been pruned of many trivialities. Mr. Morse's notes furnish an exceptionally in- teresting contribution to the study of the poet's intimate personality. Of Whitman's own prose work we are given a number of examples. There are three re- views of his poems, written by himself many years ago, but never before published over his signature. They inform their readers, with many a flourish, that we have "an American bard at last." They also proclaim that Amer- 1893.] 391 THE DIAL ica is now to start an athletic and defiant lit- erature, that "the interior American republic shall also be declared free and independent" —phrases which recall more recent pronuncia- mentos of the same sort, and which mean about as much as prospectuses of Keeley motors or programmes of new religions. Whitman's let- ters of 1873, written, when sick at Washing- ton, to his mother, are of far more value than the anonymous effusions above mentioned; they afford a simple and unaffected revelation of the man himself, when unconcerned with what he conceived to be his mission. A few further fragments of Whitman's work are scattered through the volume, that called " Immortality" l)eing the most important. Tributes to Whitman, critical and uncriti- cal, in prose and verse, occupy a considerable portion of the contents of this work. The terza rima poem on "Love and Death," by John Addington Symonds, is the most impor- tant piece of verse, and thus apostrophizes the poet to whom it is incribed: "Bard sublime, To whom the keys of mysteries are given. Throned in thine orb, fulfilling Space and Time, Noting the world's words with unerring ear! How shall I dare in this ephemeral rhyme To tell what thou hast taught me, to unsphere The new-born star, thy planet, the desire Of nations faltering in a night of fear,— More marvellous than Phosphor or the fire Of Hesperus love-lorn, not less divine Than that first splendor from the angelic choir Flashed on poor shepherd-folk in Palestine? Thou dost establish — and our hearts receive — New laws of Love to link and intertwine Majestic peoples; Love to weld and weave a Comrade to comrade, man to bearded man, Whereby indissoluble hosts shall cleave Unto the primal truths republican." Mrs. Gilchrist's estimate of Whitman, pub- lished by Mr. W. M. Rossetti in 1869, is here reprinted, and was particularly deserving of preservation. There is an interesting but over- heated letter by W. D. O'Connor, apropos of the Harlan episode, now printed for the first time. Mr. R. G. Ingersoll's lecture on " Lib- erty in Literature," delivered for Whitman's benefit in 1890, is given entire. It is, of course, more rhetorical than critical, and its eloquence is not more than second-rate; but it has the sympathetic quality in abundant measure, and constitutes one of the more important features of the volume. A still more important feature is provided by the groups of critical articles translated from other languages. They include contribu- tions from the French of M. Gabriel Sarrazin, the German of Herren Karl Knortz and T. W. Rolleston, and the Danish of Herr Rudolf Schmidt. These Continental tributes bring with them the broader outlook of criticism that assumes the world-standpoint, and naturally have much more to say about the poet's thought than about the poet's form. It is interesting to read M. Sarrazin's translations from Whit- man. The poet seems, if anything, to gain by translation, a fact which recalls Mr. Swin- burne's explanation of Byron's astonishing vogue upon the Continent. Even the magnifi- cent Lincoln monody (surely Whitman's high- water mark as mere poetical expression) reads well in the French version. "Non pour vous, non pour vous seul, Mais des fleurs et des branches vertes a tous les cercueils j'apporte, Car pour vous je veux chanter un chant frais comrae le ma- tin, 6 mort saine et sacree, Partout des bouquets de roses, 0 mort, je vous couvre de roses et des premiers lis, Mais surtout a cette heure du lilas qui fleurit le premier, J'en apporte en abondance, je brise les branches des massifs, Les bras charges j'arrive, et les re'pands pour vous, Ponr vous et pour tous vos cercueils, o mort." Herr Rolleston makes a palpable hit when, speaking of the grossness beyond which many readers of Whitman refuse to let their vision take them, he says: "Indecent, in my opin- ion, these poems are not; but the criticism which universally selects them for discussion and condemnation is extremely indecent." Mr. John Burroughs makes two contribu- tions to this collection. One, entitled "Walt Whitman and the Common People," is the briefest of sketches. The other, " Walt Whit- man and His Recent Critics," is based upon a collection of newspaper clippings made soon after the death of the poet. The comment is not without humor, as may be seen from the following bit: "The New York 'Herald' had said, 'He struck his lyre with his fist at times, instead of his finger-tips.' A Western editor hastened to say that was the best way to strike a liar." We regret to find in this article by Mr. Burroughs a passage so deplorable that it is simply amazing that he should have allowed it to be printed. The passage is this: "The British press lias first and last had its spiteful flings at Whitman, one of the latest at least, that of Theodore Watts (whoever he be) in the 'Athenseum,' betraying an aggressive specimen of the dirty thick- witted cockney blackguard. A cur is never more a cur than when [the words that follow are not of a quotable character]; and did cockney criticism ever appear more currish aud contemptible than when in the person of this man Watts it made haste to defame and dishonor the memory of our poet?" Upon the taste of these words there is no need to comment. Whatever the provocation, 392 [Dec. 16, THE DIAL or however obscure the critic, they would be indefensible. As for the suggestion implied by the phrase "whoever he be," it can only pro- voke a smile. The first of living English critics and one of the first of living English poets is not thus to be disposed of. Suppose, to take a fairly analogous case, that some English writer had taken umbrage at one of Lowell's essays. He would hardly have strengthened his case by speaking of "James Russell Lowell (whoever he be)." Leaving this unpleasant subject, let us hasten to say that Mr. Burroughs has written thoughtfully and well of Whitman's life and work; so well, indeed, that we cannot better end this review of an extremely heterogenous volume than by quoting the closing passage of his longer contribution. "The law of life of great poetry or great art is: he that would lose his life shall find it; he that gives him- self the most freely shall the most freely receive. Whit- man merged himself in the thought, in the love, of his country and of his fellows; he identified himself with all typesmnd conditions of men; he literally made him- self the brother and equal of all. He thought of himself only as he thought of others in and through himself. In his life he was guilty of no self-seeking; he deliberately put by all that men usually strive for—immediate suc- cess and applause, wealth, honors, family, friends—that he might the more fully heed the voice from within. He chose the heroic part in his poetry and in his life." William Morton Payne. The Unity of Faith.* The fact in the religious world which most con- stantly attracts the attention of the devout mind, and most uniformly disturbs it, is the dissolving * Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy. By William G. T. Shedd, D.D. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Theology of the Old Testament. By Ch. Piepenbring, Pastor and President of the Reformed Consistory at Stras- burg. Translated from the French by H. G. Mitchell, Pro- fessor in Boston University. New York: T. Y. Crowell & Co. The Bible and its Theology, as Popularly Taught. By G. Vance Smith, B.A., Philos. and Theol. Doct. London: Swan, Sonnenschein & Co. The Bible: Its Origin, Growth, and Character, and its Place among the Sacred Books of the World. By Jabez Thomas Sunderland. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. The New Bible and its New Uses. By Joseph Henry Crooker. Boston: George H. Ellis. Jesus and Modern Life. By M. J. Savage. Boston: George H. Ellis. The Witness to Immortality. By George A. Gordon, Minister of the Old South Chinch. Boston: Houghton, Mif- flin & Co. Natural Selection and Spiritual Freedom. By Jo- seph John Murphy. New York: Macmillan & Co. The Spiritual Life: Studies of Devotion and Worship. Boston: George H. Ellis. Aspects of Theism. By William Knight, LL.D. Lon- don: Macmillan & Co. Biblical Essays. By the late J. B. Lightfoot, D. D., D.C.L., LL.D. London: Macmillan & Co. effect which criticism has had on religious organi- zations; the reduction of cohesive force in churches. The Parliament of Religions may be said to have been a tentative search, a plaintive cry, for more and wider unity. Are we departing from an or- ganic spiritual life, or drawing near it? We cannot answer this question till we see what is the true form and centre of unity. This centre is not to be found in any one church, in any organ- ization already achieved. The churches alike fall under existing criticism. The present separation of opinion has arisen under one wide protest against the various sects as a sufficient expression of the re- ligious life. We cannot, then, be called on to select any one of these detached masses as the centre of a new movement. They are all condemned, though not equally condemned, as adequate expressions of the Divine Mind. Yet, is there not at this very moment more spir- itual unity—if we mean by unity not an outward form but an inward force — among men than ever before? This unity is the unity of movement in one direction, under comprehensive and equivalent spiritual incentives, pushing all toward the truth. The divisive sectarian sentiments are simply the inertia offered to this impulse. A long, loosely-bound raft of logs threads its way slowly through the narrow and sinuous current of a sluggish stream. It readily coheres and quietly creeps on. At length a rapid is reached. The foremost logs are violently tossed and soon torn asunder. As each portion of the float approaches the centre of contention, it too dissolves away, till the river, far and near, is filled with single logs and single sections, all hurrying on under an energy each feels in a diverse degree. If unity means inward, adequate movement, then the unity is greater, not less, after than before the disruption. The unity of religious faith to-day is the unity of many men and many bodies of men responding in an unwonted degree to a truly divine energy that is hurrying them forward in the spiritual world. They are not yet ready to be bound up again in a single church, but when they shall coalesce it will be at a point far on toward the Kingdom of Heaven. Among the facts that indicate the rapidity of evo- lution in our time, hardly another is more startling than that so many books, charged to overflowing with one spiritual purpose, touching reverently and boldly the deepest facts in our religious life, should force themselves singly and in shoals on our atten- tion. Before me are a half-dozen volumes any one of which would have been disturbing a score of years since. This is not less belief, it is more and deeper and wiser belief. "Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy," by Dr. Shedd, gives a milestone well back from which to measure our movement. Dr. Shedd was a professor at An- dover in my seminary life. He was a man of marked ability and of a very lovable character. But he then seemed to me, and has always seemed, one born out of due time, thoroughly belated in the 1893.] 393 THE DIAL spiritual world. He is a man to be gratefully ac- cepted, but a fact not easily to be expounded on the basis of rationalism. His latest volume is made up of comparatively short excerpts from promiscuous addresses and articles bearing on the spiritual out- look of our time as taken from the extreme height of orthodoxy. Professor Shedd's philosophy of re- ligious life is as simple and positive as that of the peasant who refers every difficulty directly to the devil. "There is nothing new in the orthodoxy of to-day; and nothing new in the newest heterodoxy." It is hardly worth while to have lived so long for so little. The professor thinks the "infidelity" of to-day characterized by the "error, effrontery, and meanness" of infidelity in all previous periods. In spite of my life-long veneration for this truly noble man, I must think that an orthodoxy which shows itself so completely unable to understand its own times, to profit them or to be profited by them, thereby stands thoroughly condemned. The pro- fessor's earnest exhortation to courage, directed to the young men going forth from his instruction to encounter this unbelief, is such as might easily have come from a doughty old knight, who had not felt the sting of a bullet under his own corselet, urging novices in arms to meet boldly the new weapons. The second volume on our list, "Theology of the Old Testament," by Pastor Piepenbring, is a con- cise yet comprehensive work, presenting the gen- eral theory of interpretation which is associated with Kuenen. The book is especially valuable because it does its task so independently and directly. It discusses the three periods, Mosaism, Prophetism, and Levitism, and sustains the discussion through- out by a very full reference to Scripture. The reader is thus in a position easily to judge the roundness of the method and the force of the argu- ment. It is a very helpful book. "The Bible and its Theology," by Dr. G. Vance Smith, is a work that lies in general tendency in the same direction as the last, but is very different in method. It pertains to the New Testament more than to the Old Testament. It discusses especially the religion which is embodied in the life and words of Christ and in the uses of Scripture. It attaches little importance to current dogmatic opinion. "My one single and earnest wish in this volume has been to exhibit the teaching of the sacred books, on cer- tain great subjects of general interest, simply as I have found it." The author has very constantly in view some special point of controversy with Dr. Liddon and others. As the style is clear and in- cisive, this raising of special difficulties tends to make the book not less interesting and not less in- fluential. He puts the unity of faith in this form: "Christianity, objectively considered, is Christ him- self-—the mind, life, character, and spirit of Christ." The work throughout rests on religious truths as addressed directly and independently to the reason of man. "The Bible: Its Origin, Growth, and Character," by the Rev. J. T. Sunderland, is a systematic and carefully complete presentation of the results of modern criticism, both in connection with the Old and the New Testament. Higher criticism, while still showing diversity of opinion in details, is becom- ing harmonious in its general view of the origin of the books of the Bible and of their authority. Our author gives us a concise and comprehensive pre- sentation of the sources of the several portions of Scripture, and discusses in full its authority and the service fulfilled by it. He gives the results of the last score of years of inquiry in the direction indi- cated by Wellhausen and Kuenen. He says, in his preface, that he has endeavored to bring to his task a candid, catholic, and reverent spirit. The book sustains this affirmation. It is accompanied with a full bibliography. "The New Bible and Its New Uses," by the Rev. J. H. Crooker, is a book lying in much the same direction as the previous one without aiming to be as comprehensive. It answers the problems, What the Bible is, What it claims for itself, and What are its real uses. The results reached are those of the higher criticism. The author is scholarly, clear- minded, and very much in earnest. Such men are not only not to be feared, they give the light and promise of our day. The work is pervaded by so earnest and intelligent a temper as to be thoroughly readable and stimulating. "Jesus and Modern Life," by the Rev. M. J. Savage, is a series of discourses on the teachings of Christ. The general outlook is again that of the higher criticism. The book has in style a swing and a positiveness that belong to a popular preacher. The results of criticism are stated and accepted in a somewhat absolute form. The temper of the au- thor is excellent, and the aim of the book is to lead us back to the real centre of our faith—the words of Christ. He presents these teachings at a variety of points. In the discourse on what Jesus taught about prayer, we find an example of the kind of conflict that has sprung up in many minds between phys- ical and spiritual law. Our author is unwilling to accept the extension of prayer into the physical world. The two worlds are thus made to lie apart from each other in an impenetrable way. This con- ception seems to me inadmissible. The two halves of the world must be bound in closer, not less close, interlock, as thought advances. "The Witness to Immortality," by the Rev. George A. Gordon, is an extended and meditative renewal of the sentiments and insights which issue in the belief in immortality. The work is not framed as an argument. The two great items of faith, the being of God and immortality, can never be reached with the full force that belongs to them by the formal processes of proof. The premises from which these beliefs arise and by which they are constantly renewed and deepened are too com- prehensive, too emotional, too much a matter of personal experience, to admit of adequate state- ment. It is the entire drift of thought, rather than any one line of thought, that carries the mind over to 394 [Dec. 16, THE DIAL them. Appreciating this fact, our author seeks to renew, in a full and deliberate way, the feelings which issue in the belief in immortality. He pre- sents these sentiments in connection with the He- brew prophets, the poets, the philosophers, with St. Paul, and with Christ. The book is fitted pleasur- ably to restore and deepen impressions already pres- ent. "Natural Selection and Spiritual Freedom," by Joseph John Murphy, is a series of not very closely connected discussions which show throughout a clear rational temper, associated with very positive belief. The immediate occasion of the work is found in the volume of Professor Drummond, " Natural Law in the Spiritual World." The wide practical power of the author has given that book an influence that does not belong to it. In itself it is an unsuccess- ful combination of scientific notions and orthodox dogmas. There is no luminous coherence in it as a system of belief. This opening criticism leads Mr. Murphy to a wide discussion of the relation be- tween the physical and the spiritual worlds; of the character of the analogies which lie between them and in each of them; of natural selection in the spiritual world; of future punishment and of moral freedom. These points are handled sagaciously by one whose mind responds directly to current reli- gious belief, to science, and to philosophy. The line of thought is thus vigorous and suggestive. The volume entitled "The Spiritual Life" is composed of six essays by as many different authors. Each treats of some portion of the history of the church in connection with mysticism. The recent devotional literature of England and of America constitute each a distinct part of the work. In this country, Channing and Emerson and Whittier are accepted as leaders of that devout tendency which subordinates dogmas and rites to the inner expe- riences of faith. The mysticism discussed is sim- ply the predominance of the personal spiritual life over all its adjuncts. Mr. George Willis Cooke says of Emerson: "His temper is devout; his habitual thought is spiritual; his aim is ever toward holy living." The sketches are chiefly historical, but are also free in quotation. The indomitable belief implied in mysticism, asserting itself in the face of all destructive criticism, is a fact in the history of religion of which we are too little cognizant. Be- lief seems, at times, crumbling away before the manifold attacks to which it is subjected; but here is a faith, and that of superior minds, which is un- touched by all assaults. Inscriptions here and there on a great monument may suffer some effacement, while the monument itself remains unmoved by the erosions of time. Such interior, invincible thoughts does mysticism disclose as belonging to our faith. "Aspects of Theism," by Dr. William Knight, is a vigorous rendering of an old theme. It is hardly worth while for one to re-state the argument for theism, unless he is possessed of a sound philosophy, a thorough comprehension of scientific methods, and a penetrating insight into the spiritual purposes that are now subserved by a belief in the being of God. Yet it is desirable that this argument should often be gone over. A new statement, in any meas- ure adequate, is sure to gather up some fresh im- pressions, and lead us, in our estimates of the nature and character of God, to a little different goal. Our conceptions of the nature of the Divine Being must be the fruit of many personal elements, must sweep in very varied experiences, and be for each mind, in a high degree, its own solution of last questions. It is not wise to expect that those who have faith should travel quite the same paths, or reach identi- cal conclusions, in theism. The discussion in the present volume is wide and penetrative, it encoun- ters the real difficulties of belief, and so will help many and give adequate guidance to a few. The work is especially full in its treatment of the per- sonality of God. "There exists within the universe, as its latent essence, pervading it in all its phenom- enal life, a Principle which is also a Force unfold- ing itself through law, a Power which reveals itself in life, and a Character which assumes a vast vari- ety of phases—all of which are equally true and beautiful and good" (p. 155). The author accepts an intuition of God—a doctrine not easily conceded. "It may be most fitly described as a direct gaze, by the inner eye of the spirit, into a region over which mists usually brood. The great and trans- cendent Reality, which it apprehends, lies evermore behind the veil of phenomena" (p. 119). What can an intuition of this order give which is not phe- nomenal? If it be phenomenal, what can the phe- nomena be? If it be a conception, why is not that conception simply a rational product in view of just- ifying data? "Biblical Essays," by Bishop Lightfoot, is made up of discussions, a few of which have appeared in periodicals, but most of which are put together from notes of lectures given at Cambridge. The subjects are the authority of St. John's gospel, Paul's pre- paration for the ministry, the chronology of St. Paul's life and epistles, the churches of Macedonia, the church of Thessalonica, the Mission of Titus to the Corinthians, the structure and distination of the epistle to the Romans, the distination of the epistle to the Ephesians, the date of the pastoral epistles, Paul's history after the close of the Acts. The dis- cussions are characterized by a full, candid, and adequate treatment. Bishop Lightfoot was con- servative in his tendency, but in no way disposed to belittle objections, evade them, or bear them down. One finds in a work of this sort the very grave satisfaction of feeling that our current histor- ical convictions are by no means so accidental and ill-grounded as the facile criticism of a few bold minds is wont to imply. A good deal of criticism virtually destroys itself by the ease with which it sets aside accepted opinions, and transforms the his- torical field into a region of loose conjecture. This volume can be heartily recommended as combining, in" a high degree, a cautious temper with liberal scholarship. John Bascom. 1893.] 395 THE DIAL Holiday Publications. u. Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co.'s handsome edition of Maxime de la Rocheterie's "Life of Marie An- toinette" (well translated by Cora Hamilton Bell) should prove one of the most popular publications of the season. M. de la Rocheterie's book is a mas- terpiece in its way—a rare combination of brilliant, warmly-sympathetic portrayal, with candid and impartial criticism. The book is not for one mo- ment to be confounded with the mass of flimsy and deleterious trash which has been written concerning this period of French history. Marie Antoinette has suffered about equally from unmerited praise and unmerited aspersion. Her critics have painted her as angel or as demon, according to their own bias. It has remained for M. de la Rocheterie to paint her as woman; and. happily, he has not for- gotten that absolute truth of portraiture is perfectly compatible with the graceful brush and the brilliant setting. Nowhere else, in short, is this sad episode in a chapter at once the brightest and the darkest in the world's history — brightest as to its benign ideals, and darkest as to its means and methods — so fascinatingly and so impartially told. The wri- ter's present estimate of this heroine does not dif- fer from that formerly expresssd in reviewing "The Correspondence of the Comte de Mercy with Maria Theresa": "Marie Antoinette was not a sinner, neither was she a saint. She was a pure and charm- ing woman, somewhat heedless and frivolous, but always cha te; a queen somewhat too hot-headed in the patronage she bestowed, and inconsiderate in her political actions, but proud and energetic; a true queen, by reason of the dignity of her bearing and the splendor of her majesty ; a true woman, in virtue of the seductiveness of her manners and the tenderness of her heart, till she became a martyr, through the extremity of her trials and her trium- phant death." The material features of the book also call for commendation. Print and paper are good, the twenty portraits are acceptably done, and the cover is quiet and tasteful. There is also a sumptuous large-paper edition. Messrs. Little, Brown, & Co. issue a spick and span new edition of that old-time favorite and rol- licking picture of English University life forty years back, "The Adventures of Verdant Green," by Cuthbert Bede. The book was vastly popular in its day (over 150,000 copies have been sold), and we are a little curious to learn how it will strike the present public. If one is to implicitly believe the author (which we doubt), Oxford life at the period treated was a wild hurly-burly of carousing, hazing, cricketing, boating, steeple-chasing, rat-baiting, town-and-gown rows, etc., with a very mild season- ing of the classics thrown in, while the Oxford under- graduate was a sorry (if amusing) scamp, usually of the type of Lever's "Frank Webber" or Thack- eray's "Foker." Some of Bede's characters are almost classic, in their small way,—as "Mr. Boun- cer," "Gig-lamps" himself, "Mr. Blades," "Four- in-hand Fosbrooke," and last but not least "the Putney Pet." Who that has read it (as a boy) can forget Bede's epic description of the great town-and- gown battle, and the prodigies of valor performed therein by this battered hero of the "P. R."— deeds not unworthy of Diomede and Ajax Telamon! Recalling them, one is almost inclined to agree with Mr. Besant that "The decay of boxing during the last twenty-five years has been certainly followed by a'great decay of the national pluck and pugnacity, and therefore, naturally, by a decay of national en- terprise." Therefore—exclaims Mr. Besant, fired by memories of the palmy days of Spring and Broughton, of "Tom" Sayers and "Jem" Belcher "the bravest of the brave"—"let all our boys be taught to fight! let there be no nonsense listened to about brutality. The world belongs to the men who can fight." We fancy we hear a pavid chorus of maternal dissent from this eminently Anglo- Saxon monition; but the monitor is more than half right. The boy who "takes the wall" at school is usually father of the man who keeps it through life. The new edition of the "Verdant Green" books is a very attractive one, with its bright, clear print, showy bindings of green and gold, and with all the original mirth-provoking illustrations. "Inigo Jones and Wren; or, The Rise and De- cline of Modern Architecture in England" (Mac- millan), a handsomely-appointed quarto, by Mr. W. J. Loftie, is written, says the author, not for archi- tects, but in the earnest hope that it may reach some of those by whom architects are employed. Our examination of the book, however, leads us to think the professional architect will find both text and illustrations of very considerable interest, despite the fact that Mr. Loftie has avoided the pedantry of talking obscurely and learnedly about triglyphs, drops, modillions, architraves, entablatures, etc., in, a work meant to be intelligible to the lay reader. As the title implies, the work treats of the style of architecture practiced by Jones and Wren; and to this kind the author applies the term "Palladian," which he prefers to the only other possible word ",renascence or renaissance," as being more defi- nite. The influence of the style, Mr. Loftie thinks, was nowhere more marked than in England, where it was adopted (chiefly through the publication in 1570 of Palladio's book) as representing classical or learned, as distinguished from Gothic, art. The book is agreeably and intelligently written, present- ing matter that is of great interest to the profes- sional reader in a style not beyond the capacity of ordinarily well-read mortals. A feature of the work is the illustrations. These are mainly from cuts published during the golden age of English Palla- dian; but there are many fine photographic views, especially of the beautiful buildings of the transi- tional period found in the western counties, where the Bath stone furnishes a relatively plastic vehicle for the expression of sentiment in building. Partisans of the penny-whistle order of fiction 396 [Dec. 16, THE DIAL assure us that "Scott has gone out of fashion." A great many good things have gone out of fashion (and it is no less cheerful than wonderful to note how surely and overpoweringly they come in again), but the dictum about Scott does not seem to be well founded. It is not borne out, certainly, by the ap- pearance of Messrs. Estes & Lauriat's fine new Holiday edition (in two volumes) of "Ivanhoe," a copy of which is now before us. The book is soberly yet richly bound, and it contains twenty full- page illustrations, handsomely printed on light vel- lum paper. These are about equally divided in sub- ject between illustrative plates proper, representing scenes and characters of the story, and photographic views of "Ivanhoe " scenery—the latter class being, in our judgment, the more successful. The editor is, of course (why say it?) the omnipresent and pro- tean Andrew Lang; and this recalls an unknown poet's recent plaint that — "Over every mortal thing 'b The spoor of Andrew Lang." Even this angry bard must, however, admit the modest way in which his enemy has here performed what Macaulay calls "the humblest of literary of- fices." He has furnished, it is true, an Introduction of some sixteen pages; but he sticks to his book and his author, and is phenomenally forgetful throughout of Mr. Lang. He tells how " Ivanhoe" was written, discusses the story in some detail, an- swers pedantic objections to its historical and archae- ological slips, and presents, in closing, some inter- esting extracts from contemporary reviews. To Mr. Ruskin's talk of the ''nonsense of 'Ivanhoe,' the in- credibly opportune appearances of Locksley, the death of Ulrica, the resuscitation of Athelstane, as partly boyish, partly feverish," Mr. Lang rather feebly replies, "Perhaps Mr. Ruskin was never a boy"; which answer is a pretty fair case of ignor- atio elenchi. Sir Walter himself admitted that the Athelstane resurrection was "a botch." To our thinking, a critical Introduction which deals with and therefore suggests to the mind of the reader all sorts of pettifogging objections is not just the best appetizer for a romance like "Ivanhoe." One should go to such books fresh and unsophisticated, ready and anxious to be deluded and befogged to any ex- tent; but Mr. Lang had his task assigned him, and lie has done it precisely as it should be done. The English tourist has always contributed freely to the gayety of continental nations, but the author of " Across France in a Caravan" (Randolph) seems to have rather outdone his predecessors in liberality. The book embodies the story of a trip, a la Mrs. Jar- ley, from Bordeaux across France and the Riviera in one of those lumbering four-wheeled vehicles, half house, half wagon, affected by Gipsy tinkers and peripatetic photographers. This "caravan" had been named by her former owner (a man of strong fancy) the " Hirondelle." But as the " Hi- rondelle" weighed over two tons, and had never in her speediest swallow-flights been known to make over two miles an hour, her new owner concluded to re-christen her the "Escargot." The crew of the "Escargot" consisted at the start of the author, his patient and long-suffering wife, and a collie dog which seems to have enacted the role of an uncom- monly captious first-cabin passenger. Essentially, the narrative is the "Escargot's" log. The story is amusingly told, and the little party made so light of their mishaps and so much of their windfalls, and had, on the whole, such a jolly, wholesome, happy- go-lucky, novel sort of time of it that the reader feels half inclined, on closing the book, to eschew Pullman cars for the future, and to take to the "car- avan" himself. The author's account of a French sportsman is diverting: "Just before we reached Finhan we met a gentleman attired in all his glory of hunting-cap, velvet coat, top-boots, French horn, network gamebag, and gun, and enough dogs to- make up a respectable pack of beagles, which they very strongly resembled. We were wondering what he could have come out to shoot. To our minds it couldn't be anything less than a wild boar, but he very soon satisfied our doubts by suddenly turning aside off the road, throwing himself onto one knee with his gun at the present, and, after taking delib- erate aim of quite two minutes, blazing away into a flock of sparrows who were feeding on the ground." The volume is gotten up in approved Christmas style, and the illustrations, after sketches by the au- thor, add much to the humor of the text. Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons reprint in attrac- tive style Julia Kavanagh's "Woman in France during the Eighteenth Century"—a work which at least attests its author's copious reading. Unhap- pily, Mrs. Kavanagh starts out with what may be called the vindicatory tone. She proposes to vindi- cate the claim of her sex to having exercised some influence on French affairs in the eighteenth cent- ury—or, to put it another way, to having been then, and a fortiori now, an integral and efficient part of the human race. The proposition does not seem, on the whole, a difficult one; and we are always at a loss, when we hear it advanced, to know when or by whom it was ever controverted. Man, we know on episcopal authority, "is vile." Besides, he is notoriously prejudiced against a sex to which his mother and sisters belong, and from which he must perforce choose his wife. But we doubt if he is unreasonable enough to deny that woman has been, time out of mind, a potential factor in the progress and the propagation of the human race. We get a little weary sometimes of this gratuitous clatter over the question as to the comparative efficiency of the sexes. Why not argue, by way of a change, as to which blade of a pair of scissors does the more cutting? Mrs. Kavanagh's work is superficial, but it is chatty and anecdotal enough, and the portraits on steel and other embellishments bestowed upon it by the publishers make it an alluring gift-book. Outwardly similar to the work just noticed is the Messrs. Putnams' new two-volume edition of Fran- 1893.] 397 THE DIAL ces Elliot's lengthy historical romance, "Old Court Life in France." The tale is laid in the sixteenth century, and the author has aimed, as she says, to work into her dialogue "each word and sentence recorded of the individual, every available trait of character to be found in contemporary memoirs, every tradition that has come down to us." Ob- viously, such a method does not admit of much play of imagination, and is eminently conducive to scrap- piness. As a historical picture the story is of some interest, and it forms an excellent basis for the many and interesting illustrations, mostly portraits, contained in the present edition. These have been reprinted from the plates in Miss Pardoe's "Me- moirs of the French Court." Very neat and serviceable is Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co.'s compact edition, in two volumes, of the "Journal of Eugenie de Guenn." To speak of Mdlle. de Guerin is to recall Matthew Arnold, who, in praising her, quite forgot what Mr. Lowell called his "jury-addressing manner," and warmed into something like Mr. Lowell's own munificence. Eu- genie de GueVin, says Mr. Arnold, was "the most devoted of sisters, one of the rarest and most beau- tiful of souls. . . . Her soul had the same charac- teristic quality as her brother's talent—distinction. Of this quality the world is impatient; it chafes against it, rails at it, insults it, hates it; — it ends by receiving its influence, and by undergoing its law. ... To the circle of spirits marked by this rare quality, Maurice and Euge'nie de Guerin be- long; they will take their place in the sky which these inhabit, and shine close to one another, lucida sidera." Mr. Arnold's estimate of Mdlle. de Guerin was doubtless warmed and heightened by his inter- est in her touching story. The " Journal" (written for her brother's eye alone) remains, however, one of the few examples in literature of frank self-dis- closure; and as such, if for no other quality, it de- serves to live. Mrs. Alfred Gatty's "Parables from Nature" are issued in two rather pleasing volumes by Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons. Mrs. Gatty's productions will doubtless always find readers; but we confess to some doubt as to the precise class of them she means to address—whether adults or children. The teach- ing of the "Parables " seems a little too elementary for "grown-ups," while the language in which it is couched must baffle the intellectuals of any child short of an infant phenomenon. The text is well printed on lightly-glazed paper, and M. de Long- pre"s drawings are so graceful and pleasing as to make one wish there were more of them. Messrs. T. Y. Crowell & Co.'s neat and inexpen- sive edition of "The Abb^ Constantin" (Handy- Volume Classics) bids fair to score " a palpable hit." It is nicely printed and bound, and contains a great number of text illustrations, in half-tone, by Made- leine Lemaire, with a frontispiece and ornamental title-page in photogravure. Those who already have M. HaleVy's classic tale in the large and sumptuous editions, which are meant to be looked at, will be glad to find it in this pretty and portable volume, which is meant to be read. Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons add to their excel- lent series of Representative Novels Frederika Bre- mer's "The Home; or, Life in Sweden," in Mary Howitt's standard translation. The work is in two shapely 16mo volumes, and the good paper, bright new type, and neat exterior should assist materially in rehabilitating this prime favorite of near half a century ago. A seasonable gift-book and an approved compila- tion is Mr. Louis K. Harlow's " The World's Best Hymns" (Little, Brown, & Co.). Mr. Harlow also furnishes the illustrations — a number of pretty landscape sketches, in which he has aimed to reflect the mood and sentiment of the accompanying verses. The collection is a book of hymns, rather than a hymn-book; and Mr. Harlow has tried to include in it " the best English lyrical poetry that has been immediately associated with sacred music, and hal- lowed by long and constant use in the service of song in the home and the church." Few of the old favorites will be missed, and hymns by Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes, and Mrs. Stowe are included, by permission of the publishers. The black-letter titles and rubricated initials have a good decorative effect. The small quarto volume entitled " Pictures from Nature and Life" (McClurg) contains a collection of poems by Kate Raworth Holmes, copiously illus- trated by Helen E. Stevenson. The illustrations to the opening poem, which describes a day's outing in "Merrie England," are apt and effective, with one unfortunate exception. The final plate, repre- senting an everyday young man posing for his por- trait in a sack coat and an exasperatingly senti- mental attitude, coming as it does after the dreamy bits of English landscape, views of hallowed histor- ical sites and memorials, etc., savors a little of pic- torial bathos. Perhaps the young man meets the exigencies of the text; but we think he could be spared. Notably graceful and natural are the sprays and nosegays of leaves and blossoms strewn through- out the pages. The ever-popular " Lucille" makes its periodical appearance, this time in imperial 8vo, and resplend- ent in a cover of white vellum-cloth decorated with rich tracery and medallions in gilt, red, and blue. (Estes). The text is largely and clearly printed on rather thick paper, and there are a goodly num- ber of illustrations, partly illustrative drawings, and partly photographic views of scenery, works of art, etc., touched upon in or suggested by the text. The volume is showy without being tawdry, and it should attract attention. Mr. William Trumbull's romantic poem. "The Legend of the White Canoe" (Putnam), profusely illustrated in photogravure from the designs of F. V. Du Mond, forms a sufficiently striking presenta- tion volume. The poem is based on the tradition | touching an old custom of the Indian tribes of 398 [Dec. 16, THE DIAL Western New York to assemble on certain occasions at Niagara and offer sacrifice to the Spirit of the Falls. "The sacrifice," explains Mr. Trumbull, "consisted of a white birch-bark canoe, which was sent over the terrible cliff, filled with ripe fruits and blooming flowers, and bearing the fairest girl in the tribe who had just attained the age of womanhood." We may add that in the poem which ensues mat- ters are reversed, and it is the girl, not the canoe, that plays the leading role. Mr. Trumbull's verse is rather above the average of its class, and as much may be said of Mr. Du Mond's drawings. In the middle of the last century the King's Li- brary at London had sixty-three editions of Thomas tt Kempis's "The Imitation of Christ," including translations into eight languages. The number of editions has increased considerably since then; and Messrs. T. Y. Crowell & Co. now add their quota in the shape of a dainty 18mo that should prove a delight to pious souls. It is illustrated with fifteen drawings depicting scenes in the life of Christ, by H. Hofman, Director of the Royal Academy of Arts at Dresden. "Helpful Words" (Roberts) is the truthful and sufficiently explanatory title of a sheaf of monitory passages from the writings of Edward Everett Hale. They are compiled by Mary B. Merrill; and each extract is faced by a drawing by F. T. Merrill, whose designs, though slight, are apt and pleasing. The little booklet is prettily bound in white and gold. "Christmas Carols" (Thomas Whittaker), a comely booklet suggestive of old-fashioned Christ- inas cheer and observances, contains the words of the three fine carols, "In the field with their flocks abiding," "In sorrow and in want," and "All jubi- lant with psalm and hymn "—each with two photo- 'gravure plates of the Madonna and Child, after well- known originals. The Carols are printed by per- mission of Canon Farrar, who will doubtless be pleased to see them so satisfactorily mounted. Messrs. D. Appleton & Co. issue a new edition of "Picciola," in form generally similar to their "Co- lette" and "An Attic Philosopher" of the past two seasons. Since M. "Saintine" (or rather M. Joseph Xavier Boniface) won, in 1837, the Mon- tyon prize of 3,000 fr. for his pretty and touching tale it has gone on reproducing itself, so to speak, at a marvellous rate. In 1861 it reached a thirty- seventh edition; and since then there have been probably half a score more. One has only to read "Picciola" to learn the secret of its surprising vi- tality. The publishers have made, in some res- pects, a pretty volume; but candor compels us to say that J. F. Gueldry's drawings are sad produc- tions. Emerson observed of Bryant that he has so con- trived to levy on all American nature that there is no feature of day or night in the country which does not, to a contemplative mind, recall his name. This is certainly putting the case pretty strongly— though we fancy, indeed, that there are at least few people upon whom the sight of the fringed gentian or of a waterfowl does not have the effect indicated. Bryant loved nature and painted her accurately, as many of the selections in Appleton & Co.'s "Poems of Nature, by William Cnllen Bry- ant" attest. The volume is of the ornate class, and it is profusely illustrated by Paul de Longpre". Some of M. de Longpre"s drawings, as the sheaf of golden-rod on page 45 and the dainty vignette to "Robert of Lincoln" on page 88, are pretty and graceful; but there is a tendency to over-elabora- tion— which in work of the kind always means stiffness. M. de Longpre"s slighter drawings are invariably the happier. As a collection, the volume is an excellent one. There are forty-five poems in all, beginning with the fine lines "To a Waterfowl" and ending with "Our Fellow-Worshippers." One of the daintiest of Holiday souvenirs is a reprint of Austin Dobson's " Proverbs in Porcelain," from the press of Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons, with twenty-four illustrations and ornamental vig- nettes by Bernard Partridge. The "Proverbs" were first published in 1877, and to them is now added the "dramatic vignettes " "AuBevoir," from "At the Sign of the Lyre." The quality of Mr. Dobson's airy little studies is already known to our readers, and it only remains for us to commend Mr. Partridge's extremely clever and vigorous draw- ings—a thought too vigorous, perhaps, for their del- icate setting. The intrinsic merit and fair exterior of the new and modified edition of Redgrave's standard "A Century of Painters of the English School" (im- ported by Scribners), combine to make it a desira- ble gift-book. The work was first issued in 1865; and in preparing the present edition some abridge- ments have been made with a view of making it a more suitable and convenient manual for art stu- dents and amateurs. The merits of Mr. Redgrave's book, and his own exceptional qualification as a historian of British art are too well established to need comment. There are a number of wood-cuts of varying merit; and the futile strivings of British art in the direction of " the Grand Style " are strik- ingly exemplified by the plates after Northcote and Haydon—and, we regret to add, Reynolds. Why the gracious Sir Joshua, the painter, par excellence, of England's charming women and children, should be represented in a history of English painting by his vapid and w»-representative "Head of a Ban- ished Lord " passeth understanding. Gainsborough fares better. His "The Cottage Door" forms a lovely frontispiece. The following, much to our regret, reached us too late for anything beyond an enumeration in the present category: "Rembrandt, his Life, his Work, and his Time," from the French of Emile Michel, by Florence Simmonds, published by Messrs. Scrib- ner's Sons ; Frederick D. Thompson's " In the Track of the Sun" ( Appleton) ; Edwin A. Barber's "Pot- 1893.] 399 THE DIAL tery and Porcelain of the United States" (Putnam); Messrs. Porter & Coates's two-volume edition of Blackmore's "Lorna Doone"; "Some Artists at the Fair" (Scribner); "Humorous Poems by Hood," (Macmillan), illustrated by C. E. Brock; and " Gyp- sying beyond the Sea" (Randolph), two volumes of travel-sketches. Books for the Young. ii. "My Dark Companions and their Strange Stories" (Scribner) is from no less famous a pen than that of Henry M. Stanley. The book is a collection of legends and folk-tales related at different times by the dark companions of his travels, as they sat about the camp- tire after a long day's march. The stories possess a kind of primeval freshness and originality. They are often picturesque, sometimes weird, occasionally humorous. The first legend, which gives an account of the creation of man, offers a very ingenious explanation of the pres- ence of sin in the world. When the earth lay awaiting the coming of life, its sole inhabitant was a great ugly toad. The moon and the toad each wished to have the honor of creating man. The toad accomplished his pur- pose first, producing an ugly, ill-formed, degraded crea- ture; and when the work was finished, the toad died. The moon did all she could to repair the error by re- moulding the creature, and succeeded in giving him a fairer form and a more enlightened mind; but do what she would, there was left in his soul the stain from the hand of his creator. Such stories render the book scarcely less interesting to the folk-lore enthusiast than to the children for whom it is primarily intended. "Westward with Columbus" (Scribner) is still an- other tribute to the greatness of the Genoese explorer, in which the author, Mr. Gordon Stables, R. N., seeks to present in story form a rather detailed account of the life of the great mariner from the beginning to the close. The work is done in an appreciative way, with a manifest reverence for the greatness of the hero, and an unmis- takable ring of earnestness about it. It is, however, to be regretted that what is in many respects a charming book should be marred by the occasional use of a forced and stilted style. The mechanical neatness of the vol- ume is to be commended, and the illustrations by Mr. Alfred Pease are good. Mrs. Molly Elliot Seawell has, in her book entitled "Paid Jones " (Appleton), entered a field which is com- paratively new to this form of tillage. The work is avow- edly a romance, but the figure of our gallant first Commo- dore is one that readily lends itself to fiction, the sim- plest account of facts of his life reading like the most exciting novel. Our boys and girls cannot become too familiar with the character of this brave, dashing, yet gentle and kindly man. Mrs. Seawell is obviously a hero-worshipper, but she has chosen her hero so judi- ciously and tells his story so acceptably that her little book should be given a hearty welcome. A book of interest to older readers as well as young is Mrs. Sarah K. Bolton's "Famous Voyagers and Ex- plorers" (Crowell). It consists of eight sketches of men who have given their lives to increase the sum of human knowledge. The lives of Columbus, Marco Polo, Magellan, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir John Franklin and other Arctic explorers, Dr. Livingston, and Commo- dore Perry are given in a clear, sympathetic, enthu- siastic way, the salient points in the history of each be- ing made prominent, while the whole series forms a narrative of events very stirring and inspiring in them- selves. The book is well illustrated with portraits of the famous men described. The loss of a galleon laden with gold from Mexico, and its discovery more than three centuries later after having been turned into a veritable ship of coral by the indus- try of the tiny inhabitants of the sea, is the basis of a story by Mr. Kirk Munroe, entitled "The Coral Ship" (Putnam). The adventures of the three boys cast away on a lonely island, their discovery of the sunken ship, their efforts to recover the treasure, and their final rescue will make entertaining and exciting read- ing for any boy. As in all of Mr. Munroe's works, the style is crisp and spirited. In " Rodney the Overseer" (Porter & Coates) Mr. Harry Castlemon continues a series of war stories in which the scene of action is Louisiana. An interesting and politically instructive phase of the great struggle between the North and South is told with vigor and fairness. "In a New World " (Porter & Coates), by Mr. Horatio Alger, Jr., continues the narration of the adventures of an American boy, and takes him with a companion to the gold fields of Australia in search of a fortune, which, after adventures with bushrangers, struggles with pov- erty, and disappointments, they find in the shape of a phenomenally large nugget. "Half-Hours with Jimmieboy" (Russell), by Mr. Johu Kendrick Bangs, will afford many a half-hour's pleasant diversion to the busy little men who seem al- ways to need "some new thing." The astonishing ad- ventures which overtake this youthful hero in the Land of Nod are recounted with a sympathetic appreciation of a child's fantastic imagination. The idea of the Bicyclopiedia Bird will delight any fun-loving child be- cause of its supreme absurdity. The various stories are very acceptably illustrated by several artists. In his search for material for a young folks' book, Mr. D. O. S. Lowell has left the modern work-a-day world and gone back to the inexhaustible mine of Greek mythology, giving as a result of his labors a little volume entitled " Jason's Quest" (Leach, Sewell & Co.). In it he has undertaken the task of giving this and a few other Greek myths a fit setting for young readers; and he has succeeded better than many of those who have attempted similar feats, for be gives the stories with truthfulness and poetic feeling. He has been careful not to permit too many parallel myths to appear, thus escaping a fruitful source of failure; as too great a pro- fusion of details tends inevitably to confuse and bewilder the mind of a child. Mr. C. W. Reed has illustrated the book with several spirited drawings. Of quite a different sort is the book by Miss Margaret Miller, "My Saturday Bird Class" (Heath). As the author says in her preface, she seeks to induce others to interest children in Nature, and especially in birds. Teachers will find the little book useful, through the concise information concerning different bird families, which is appended to each chapter. The chapter on "Billy Wren's Housekeeping," which has appeared be- fore, is especially sweet and attractive. Somewhat similar in purpose is the little volume of tuneful rhymes by Mary Howitt, entitled " Sketches of Natural History" (Nelson). The writer certainly prs- 400 [Dec. 16, THE DIAL sesses a strong love for nature and a comprehension of its beauties. The habits and haunts of animals, birds, and insects are described in a very pleasing style. Oc- casionally a bit of philosophy is introduced rather beyond the comprehension of a child, but it is as an undercurrent, and does not materially mar the effect. The many en- gravings, from drawings by H. Giacomelli, have the high merit which we wish all illustrations for children's books might possess. Mary E. Bamford, the author of "Talks by Queer Folks" (Lothrop), certainly brings to her task an en- thusiastic love of nature. As in her previous work, she has chosen a very pleasant way of teaching the charac- teristics and habits of well-known animals and insects. They are made to speak for themselves, and in a very chatty and friendly way tell of their own virtues and the faults of their friends. Many Indian and Oriental legends connected with them in the past are related in the book. In the complicated process of a child's education his sense of humor should not be neglected. For this rea- son, any book should be welcomed which in a clever way rises above the dead level of commonplace serious- ness and appeals to this side of his nature. "Odd Busi- ness " (Lothrop), by Mr. Lewis Bridgmau, is such a book, replete with fun and fancy. A short series of mock advertisements, which give the book its name, form a laughable collection of jingling rhymes and startling puns, but its most charming feature is the col- lection of little stories dealing with the mischievous In- dian fairies, the Puk-Wudjies mentioned by Longfellow in "Hiawatha." They have about them the untram- melled freedom of the forest, and are as dainty and fan- tastic as could be wished. The sketches accompanying them are capital; indeed, the illustrations throughout the book show artistic feeling as well as a keen sense of humor. Boys are not much addicted to reading essays, but if any who are old enough to grasp some of the problems of life chance to look into the pages of the little volume called "The Sunny Days of Youth" (Scribner) they will find plenty to repay them. This is a collection of essays full of common-sense and good advice for boys and young men, enlivened by stories and humorous an- ecdotes. The exterior of the book is pleasing, and it may well form a part of any boy's library. A sweet little story of childish faith and its triumph is told by Miss A. G. Plympton in "Robin's Recruit" (Roberts). Robin is the little son of a captain in the army stationed at a frontier post, who takes a childish fancy to a rough soldier of whom everyone else expects only ill. The little fellow's confidence and affection shame the man whose past life has been a long chapter of wrong-doing, partly the result of the careless heart- lessness of his fellows. He at last plans to desert; but the thought of his little friend holds him back. The next day there is a fire which threatens the lives of the whole garrison. The rough soldier is the means of sav- ing the fort, but loses his own life. The story is told with interest and feeling, and teaches a forcible lesson, though it never preaches. "Stephen Mitchell's Journey" (Lothrop) is a story from the pen of the indefatigable Mrs. Alden, who writes, as usual, with an earnest purpose. The picture she draws of the hero—a rough, uncouth, unawakened lad, listening to a lecture by some famous preacher and won- dering if be can be speaking English, so strange it all sounds,—is full of tragic significance. The story hinges upon the efforts of a young minister and his sister to bring the civilizing influence of a practical Christianity to bear upon the family of a poor and ignorant farmer. Unlike Mr. W. O. Stoddard's other books this year, "The White Cave" (The Century Co.) deals with a subject not at all historical. He takes his readers far away to the wilderness or " bush " of Australia, and gives them enough excitement to satisfy the wildest desire of any boyish heart. The adventures crowd thick and fast; one hair-breadth escape follows another. The whole is a bewildering melange of English gentry lost in the woods, of bushrangers, wild black men, and for- est wolves. On the whole, the work savors a little too much of sensationalism to be entirely wholesome. Hans Christian Andersen's story of " The Little Mer- maid," with a few "Other Stories" added, comes in the form of a charming gift-book from the Putnam Press. The translator, Mr. R. Nesbit Bain, gives a biographical sketch of his author, together with a rather disparaging criticism of previous English translations of his work. For his own version, it must be said that his English is simple and strong, and that he catches the quaint humor which is one of the chief charms of this children's friend. The volume is very dainty as to its cover; and the drawings by Mr. J. R. Wegueliu are de- lightful. The dedication of Mr. John Barry's little tale of "The Princess Margarethe" (Allen)—"To all little girls who wish to be princesses "—tells its purpose very fairly. The story is a very sad one, being an account of the un- happiness of a little princess during her short life of five years. She is neglected by her ambitious parents, who cannot forgive her for being a girl; and she is left to her dreams and her fancies, which are often full of poetry. The little volume appears in a very attractive form. Two very dainty little volumes appear in the "Chil- dren's Favorite Classics Series" (Crowell). Both are reprints — one, of the ever astonishing " Adventures of Alice in Wonderland"; the other," The Adventures of a Brownie," a delightful bit of nonsense, by Miss Mu- lock. The illustrations of the two volumes, with the exception of the two ill-fitting prints that serve as fron- tispieces, are very clever. A sober little volume in russet binding, written and well illustrated by Mr. Clifton Johnson, is called "The Country School" (Appleton). School life in the coun- try when the century was young, and also that of the present time, are portrayed with sympathetic fidelity. The hardships and the simple pleasures, the punish- ments and rewards, the quaint customs and primitive methods, are all pictured with graphic touches. "Woodie Thorpe's Pilgrimage" (Lee & Shepard) is a collection of short stories by Mr. J. T. Trowbridge, whose stories always show that he understands boy character and knows how to delineate it. His boys are healthful energetic youngsters, with plenty of spirit and adventure. The present volume is perhaps not quite up to his usual standard, though there are a number of wide-awake boys and many interesting happenings in it. Genuine American boy-life is depicted by Mr. Robert Grant in the two juvenile books he offers this year, "Jack Hall" and " Jack in the Bush " (Scribner). Jack is not by any means perfect; he gets into numberless scrapes, but is so manly and frank through it all that he can be forgiven. The first of the two volumes is a story of a boy's life at a large boarding-school; and the descriptions of baseball and rowing contests will delight 1893.] 401 THE DIAL the soul of any fun-loving boy. "Jack in the Bush" takes the same hero, with five comrades and two older friends, into the wilds of the Maine woods. The moral atmosphere of both books is fresh and pure, and several useful lessons are unobtrusively taught. Somewhat out of the usual field of romance lies the region of ice and snow claimed by the Esquimaux; but it is into this land of doubtful promise that Mr. Bal- lantyne has penetrated, and he has brought back a tale which he calls "The Walrus Hunters" (Nelson). His wish in writing it, as defined in his short prefatory note, is to urge the abandonment of war and the estab- lishing of more peaceful relations between nations. The characters of the book are so far removed from common experience that the lesson is perhaps the more willingly accepted. There are a number of ex- citing encounters between the Esquimaux and their neighbors the Dogrib Indians; and the romance wrought from the lives of an Esquimaux youth and a Dogrib maiden is quite poetic in its simplicity. Mr. Henry Willard French, in "Oscar Peterson, Ranchman and Ranger " (Lothrop), takes for his theme life iu the Far West in the earlier and rougher days. It seems a wildly improbable and wholly useless nar- rative. Additional stories for boys, for which we have space left for hardly more than an enumeration, are "John Boyd's Adventures" (Appleton), a story of a sailor- boy's life at the beginning of the century, by Thomas Knox; " The Wreck of the Golden Fleece" (Scribner), written by Robert Leighton, and possessing a well-laid plot vigorously handled; "Marking the Boundary" / (Price-McGill Co.), by E. E. Billings; "Schooldays in Italy" (Estes & Lauriat), by Andre1 Laurie; "Through Apache Land" (Price-McGill Co.), by Lieutenant Jayne; "The Romance of a Schoolboy " (Price-McGill Co.), by Mary A. Denison; and " Childhood Days," a simple and effective little story of pioneer life in Tennessee, by Sarah E. Morrison. The books avowedly for girls are very much iu the minority this season. Though these few possess usu- ally the right flavor, we regret to say that if our girls confined their attention to the books written especially for them they would be much the losers. Fortunately, however, many of the very best juveniles are as good for girls as for boys. Miss Anna Chapin Ray's "Margaret Davis, Tutor" (Crowell) is one of the most delightful girls' books that the season offers. Miss Ray's style often reminds one of Miss Alcott's unerring judgment as to what will suit young folks. The conversations are clever and bright, and the life of the young tutor and her charges is a very engaging one. The love-episode is not unduly forced into prominence, and its modest treatment adds another charm to what is really a very fresh and invig- orating book. Like the voice of an old friend to the many girls whose hearts warm at the name of Louisa Alcott will come the "Comic Tragedies" (Roberts), written by "Jo and Meg," and acted by "The Little Women." This is a collection of six plays written and acted by Miss Alcott and her sisters when they were girls at home forty years ago. Though full of fantastic senti- ment, overstrained feeling, and absurd situations, these youthful effusions show the play of a very lively imag- ination and a sparkle of dramatic fire. "Ingleside " (Crowell), with Barbara Yechtou's name on the title-page, has about it an atmosphere as sweet and pure as that of the old garden beside the mansion which gives the story its name. The theme—reconcil- iation through the love of a child — is an old one, but Miss Yechton has not let it lose any of its freshness. The dear little maiden, with her quaint name, Theodosia, is very sweet and winsome as she tries to forget her homesickness when left alone with her stern grand-aunt. The drawing which Jessie McDermott has made of the little maid, arrayed in one of her grandmother's gowns, is very fascinating. A collection of nine stories for girls, entitled " The Barberry Bush" (Roberts), comes from Miss Susan Coolidge. They are all bright aud entertaining sketches of girl life, the one which gives the book its name be- ing perhaps the best. Besides her story for boys, Mrs. Alden has this year a little volume for girls which includes a number of short stories entitled "Worth Having" (Lothrop). Each one has a very marked lesson to teach, "In the Great Walled Country " being by far the best. "Jenny Wren's Boarding House" (Estes & Lauriat), by Mr. James Otis, tells of the efforts of a poor young girl to keep a boarding-house for newsboys. The boys themselves are the directors and managers, and their business efforts are often as absurd as those of their elders. "The Children's Year Book" (Roberts) is an extens- ive collection df quotations from the Bible and from the writings of famous men, carefully selected by Miss Edith Emersou Forbes. They seem a little beyond the comprehension of the readers aimed at, yet children will often catch the beauty of a simple thought. "A Question of Honor" (Dodd, Mead & Co.), by Lynde Palmer, is a book to interest both boys and girls. It deals with a question of business morals, and works out the solution iu the mind of the hero on the line that Emerson takes when he speaks of changing one's " mar- ket-cart for a chariot of the sun." There is no false sentiment in the book; nothing but stem truth, and just treatment of it. For very little folk but few books are offered this year. We may mention "Ruby's Ups and Downs" (Estes & Lauriat), by Miss Minnie Paull, which seems to point a moral with undue clearness; "Little Ones' Annual" (Estes & Lauriat), and " Twenty Little Maid- ens" (Lippiucott), by Amy E. Blanchard. A few other books for children must be dismissed with a word of mention. "The Child's Day Book" (Lothrop), by "Margaret Sidney," gives prayers and verses for each day of the week, and has five full-page colored inserts. "Chatterbox " (Estes), which is always with us, appears as varied and attractive as ever in the volume for this year. The bound volume for 1893 of "Harper's Young People " needs no word of praise; it is full of good things, and the best of all is the frontis- piece, Mr. Kruell's engraving from a photograph of Abraham Lincoln. Mr. Jacob A. Riis has put his ac- quaintance with the New York slums to good purpose in " Nibsy's Christmas " (Scribner), a collection of three stories for children, dedicated, for her charitable activ- ities, to the Queen of Denmark. "Under the Nursery Lamp" (Randolph) is a collection of verses by various hands, having childhood for their subject, and illus- trated by photogravures; most of the pieces are un- named, but among the others we note verses by Messrs. Dobsou and Stevenson. Two exquisite little gift-books, 402 [Dec. 16, THE DIAL boxed together, are " Memoirs of a London Doll " and "The Doll and Her Friends" (Brentano), by Mrs. Fair- star, who wishes " to say a word in favor of that good old-fashioned plaything, the doll"; the illustrations are by Mr. Frank M. Gregory. "Witch Winnie in Paris" (Dodd, Mead & Co.) is written in the fresh and breezy style of its author, Mrs. E. W. Champney. "Elsie at Ion " is the nineteenth volume in Martha Finley's "El- sie Books" series, issued by the same publishers. New York Topics. New York, December 9, 1S0S. It is a far cry from New York to San Francisco, and the proof-reader's insertion of the latter city's name be- fore "Examiner," in my last letter, apparently trans- ferred my friend, Mr. Henry C. Vedder, the whole dis- tance in one breathless leap. I say "apparently," be- cause everybody knows that the "Examiner" is the leading Baptist weekly in the country and is published here iu New York. No, Mr. Vedder is still managing editor of the "Examiner," and has no present intention of leaving that periodical for the "San Francisco Ex- aminer " or any other daily newspaper. The series of essays which he lias been printing on " Living American Writers" has, then, appeared in the "Examiner" of this city and there only. Mention of a religious weekly reminds me how numerous and how ably edited this class of periodicals is in New York. The "Independ- ent " and the " Outlook " (formerly " Christian Union ") seem to take the lead from a literary point of view, but the "Observer," the "Churchman," the "Examiner," and the "Evangelist," although more sectarian in char- acter, follow the others very closely. The "Christian at Work" publishes its "annual literary number" this week, containing a number of interesting articles, not- nbly one on the history and personnel of our leading publishing firms, by Mr. Henry W. Domett. Professor TyndalPs death calls to mind his close rela- tions with the firm of D. Appletou & Co., who introduced his works in this country, and have since remained his American publishers. He was also an intimate friend and correspondent of the late Professor Edward L. Yomnans, founder and so long editor of the "Popu- lar Science Monthly." When Professor Tyndall came over, in 1872, to deliver his lectures on the phenom- ena and laws of light, it will be remembered, he de- clined to profit by the venture. "I will not lecture for the sake of money," he said, " nor would I bring away a dollar of the proceeds of my labor." All the receipts above actual expenses were put in the hands of three trustees, the interest of the fund to be used for the as- sistance of such young men as desired to devote them- selves to original scientific study and research. The plan did not work very well, however; it was hard to reach desirable beneficiaries, and so, in 1885, with Pro- fessor Tyndall's consent, the fund—which had meanwhile increased from 813,000 to 832,000 — was applied to the founding of scholarships iu physical science at Har- vard, Columbia, and the University of Pennsylvania. This final disposition was arranged by Mr. William W. Applcton, who has kindly permitted me to make ex- tracts from two or three of Professor Tyndall's letters to Professor Youmans. When lecturing in Boston, the former wrote: "The lectures are going on, but they are difficult. The people crowd to hear them, and Mr. Lowell declares that never previously were they held so fast in the lecture-room. I give them an hour and a half, though warned that they would not stand more than an hour. . . . Go on and prosper, my dear Youmans, in the work you have un- dertaken. I hardly know any man in Europe or Amer- ica who enjoys your opportunity of doing good, and the best of it is that it is an opportunity created by your- self." (This refers to the " International Science Series.") Again, after his return to England, Professor Tyn- dall wrote: "I have just time to say that before this week ends a revised copy of the Belfast Address shall be on its way to you. It has caused a tremendous com- motion. How foolish they are! . . . Cardinal Cullen has just appointed three days of prayer to keep infidel- ity out of Ireland!" (The address had been denounced as a declaration of materialism.) Mr. Ripley Hitchcock, with Messrs. Appleton & Co., has summed up Tyndall's character for Thk Dial in a few well-chosen words as follows: "Personally, Tyn- dall was very modest, quiet and reserved, and a hater of notoriety. When he was lecturing in this country he refused many invitations and was sometimes considered unduly reserved. Among his friends, however, he was very genial and entertaining; and he was the life of the little club of scientists iu London, to which he belouged in company with Spencer, Huxley, and others. He was devoted to science, to the exclusion of most outside dis- tractions except the society of his close friends, although in later years he naturally took an active interest in the administration of scientific departments of the English government." I learn from Messrs. Harper & Brothers that Miss Constance Fcnimore Woolson has given up her house at Bellosguardo, Florence, and has taken an old pahice at San Gregorio, Venice, which city she now intends making her home for several years. This will be a genuine disappointment to Miss Woolson's friends, who have understood that she contemplated an early return to America. Her new novel, "Horace Chase," which has been running in " Harper's Monthly," will be pub- lished in book form early in the new year. Messrs. Harper have just brought out the first volume of "Ora- tions and Addresses " by George William Curtis. There will be three of these handsome octavos, and a fourth volume of the same author's "Essays." The firm had succeeded in interesting Mr. Curtis in this project only a short time before his death, he considering his speeches on public occasions too ephemeral for preservation. Those who were fortunate enough to hear his remarks at the dinner in honor of the passing of the International Copyright Bill, or indeed any of his more notable ad- dresses, will look for these volumes with interest. The same firm has also just issued Mr. Richard Harding Davis's "The Rulers of the Mediterranean," compiled from his articles in the "Weekly." It is characteristic of the period that when Mr. Davis sailed from New York in search of the material for this book, he had as a fellow-passenger Dr. Henry M. Field, of the "Evan- gelist," who was also bent on obtaining matter for a similar volume. Dr. Field's letters appeared in the "Evangelist," and, as already announced in Thk Dial, are published by Messrs. Scribner as "The Barbary Coast." To cap the climax and end this merry compe- tition, the books came out on the same day this week. One of the most interesting announcements for the new year is the curly publication by Messrs. Scribner of the authorized "Life " of Dean Stanley, by Rowland E. Prothero, late Fellow of All Souls' College, Oxford,— 1893.] 403 THE DIAL doubly interesting ou account of Mr. Prothero's having just accepted the editorship of the " Quarterly Review." It is pleasant for all who met that eager and lovable young Englishman, Gleeson White, during his year's editorship of an art journal in this city, to learn that the London "Studio " is achieving such a marked suc- cess under his management. Mr. Gleeson White is also editing the new "Ex Libris " series, of which two vol- umes have already appeared, "Printers' Marks " by W. Huberts, and " English Book-Plates " by Egerton Castle. A third is just announced, the "Little Passion " of Al- bert Diirer, with an introduction by Mr. Austin Dobson. As to books for book lovers, editions de luxe, etc., printed in this country, I have been much impressed in recent letters from English friends to find frequent mention of —the Riverside Press, Mr. De Vinne, or the University Press, say you?—no, indeed, Mr. Thomas B. Mosher, of Portland, Maine. He stirred up the younger English "illuiniuati " mightily with his beautiful reproductions of Meredith's "Modern Love " and Thomson's "City of Dreadful Night," for which, I remember, Mrs. Cavazza wrote the "forewords." Now he is bringing out a lovely little "Bibelot Series," as all may know by his advertisements; but what all may not know is that he has had the title-pages of the two anthologies already issued, "Old World Lyrics" and "Songs of Adieu," specially cut after the style of the Aldines. He got this idea from reading Pollard's "Last Words on the His- tory of the Title-page." There is much of interest to chronicle, but I suppose the reviews of Christmas books will not permit a long letter. I cannot help referring to the amusing adver- tisement of a publisher in an English literary weekly. A long list of books by more than one nobody in partic- ular is given, while underneath the whole is a notice to the ett'ect that " Authors (known and unknown) desirous of having their Works published to the best advantage should communicate with , , & Co., Publishers, • St." What a dreadful slaughter of innocents! We do this thing more discreetly in the " States," bearing in mind the advice of good Master Isaak Walton, who tells us how to impale Master Froggy upou a hook for our bait, and who advises us, in so doing, to "use him as though you loved him, that is, harm him as little as you may possibly, that he may live the longer." Arthur Stedman. TjIteuary Notes and News. Messrs. I). C. Heath & Co. announce an abridged school edition of "Ekkehard," edited by Miss Carla Wenckebach. "The Midland Magazine," a new monthly, to be ed- ited by Mr. Johnson Brigham, is announced for early publication at Des Moines, Iowa. The Johns Hopkins Press has just published "The Genus Salpa," a comprehensive monograph by Professor W. K. Brooks. The work is in two volumes, one of them containing fifty-seven colored plates. Madame Taine is said to be correcting the proofs of the last instalment of her lamented husband's "Origines de la France Contemporaine," the volume dealing with the clergy, which was left nearly finished at the author's death. The Open Court Publishing Co. announces "The Redemption of the Brahman," by Professor Garbe, of Kiinigsberg, who was a delegate to the Philological Congress held in Chicago last summer. The book is a philosophical novel. Messrs. Macmillan & Co. announce "Pain, Pleasure, aud ^Esthetics," by Mr. H. R. Marshall; "Mental De- velopment in the Child and the Race," by Prof. J. M. Baldwin; and a volume of lectures on modern mathe- matics, by Professor Felix Klein. On the 19th of next April—the Concord anniversary— a Latin play will be given by Harvard students in the college theatre. The " Phormio " of Terence has been chosen, and music has been written by Prof. F. D. Allen. Professor Greenough has written a prologue, and the libretto is now being printed at Cambridge. As we surmised, in our recent mention of " My Friend the Murderer," the volume turns out to have been a collection of early stories and sketches. We now learn that they were republished without the author's sanction, and Dr. Doyle has issued a card of protest against the "enterprise " which has thus misrepresented him. Mrs. Edwina Booth Grossmann, the daughter of Edwin Booth, is writing some reminiscences of her father, and requests his friends who possess letters from him to send her transcripts of such as they may wish to add to her publication. They should be addressed to Mrs. Ignatius R. Grossmann, 12 West 18th Street, New York. To the list of biographies of Confederate generals will soon be added a life of General Polk, written by his son, Dr. William Polk, of New York, aud to be pub- lished by Messrs. Longmans, Green, & Co. The work will contain a full account of Polk's labors as Bishop of Louisiana, of his founding the University at Sewauee, aud his actions in the war till his death on the field of battle. It will be illustrated with portraits aud with original maps and battle plans. The recent reduction of nearly one-half in the price of "The Forum" is doubly gratifying. It is fortunate that this excellent review should be brought so much nearer the reach of the public, and it is pleasant to think that public appreciation of its value should already have placed it in a position to make the reduction pos- sible. "The Forum" has steadily improved in quality during the past two or three years, and our only quar- rel with it is that its articles are not always long enough to give adequate treatment to their subjects. "Social England," a work in six volumes, edited by Mr. H. D. Traill, but written by many hands, will soon be published by Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons. The work has been primarily designed, the editor states, "to supply a clear and consecutive account of the progress of the people of England in the several departments aud activities of human life. The subjects considered have been so framed and the material so arranged that the work can be read with pleasure and instruction by the general reader interested simply in the wonderful story unfolded by it, while it has been planned expressly with reference to the requirements of students engaged in the investigation of the history of English letters and learning, English art aud science, English industry and commerce." Messrs. George H. Richmond & Co., New York, an- nounce for immediate publication "Fadette," translated from the French of George Sand by Miss Jane Minot Sedgwick, with an etched frontispiece by Mr. E. Abot. Twenty-five copies are to be on Japan paper, 250 on Dickinson hand-made and 750 on Windsor hand-made paper, all numbered, and choicely printed at the De- 404 [Dec. 16, THE DIAL Viune Press. It will be remembered that "La Petite Fadette " lias been dramatized under the title of "Fan- chon the Cricket." The same publishers have in pre- paration, uniform with "Fadette," a series of George Sand's novels, to be translated by Miss Sedgwick. Messrs. Copeland & Day (Boston) announce for early publication " The House of Life," a collection of sonnets by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, to be printed from new type resembling that used by Mr. William Morris at his Kelm- scott Press, with initials and borders designed by Mr. Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue. They are also the Amer- ican publishers of Mr. Francis Thompson's Poems; Mr. Oscar Wilde's "Salome"" (Englished edition), with illustrations by Mr. Aubrey Beardsley ; and the " Hobby Horse." It may interest the curious to know that the publisher's device to be used by this Arm is combined from those used by William Copeland and Richard Day, both noted English printers of the XVI. century—Day's father being John Daye, royal printer to " Bloody Mary." "Exhibitions " of famous authors are now the fashion in Europe. We bave mentioned, during the past year, the Dante and Shelley "exhibitions " held in London, and now have to chronicle a "Faust-Ausstellung" at Frankfurt, in the very house where Goethe was born. Its object is to show the influence of the Faust legend on the intellectual life of Germany. Beginning with the historical Faust, the development of the legend is traced by contemporary accounts, including the various versions, native and foreign, of the Faustbiicher. 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