rs as Bertram, Russell, Derby,
Crowninshield, Little, Silsbee, Cleveland, and
others, interesting sidelights on Endicott and
Hawthorne, and appendixed historical docu-
ments of great value.
They were a hardy, robust, heroic lot, these
old skippers, with something of the Puritan
spirit manifesting itself in their remorseless di»-
cipline and sometimes harsh treatment of those
who fell into their hands or were not prompt in
obedience. But they played an important part
in upbuilding Salem when New York and Boston
were hardly known on the seas, and in main-
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the warehouses which were piled with Salem's
wealth in the old days, though rotting away, still
stand on Salem wharves as if gazing out at sea
and wondering why the old clippers are no longer
rounding up from the under-world and heading
to their doors with their treasure; but the story
of its achievements and of its pristine glory has
been preserved by Mr. Paine in permanent
form and told in masterly fashion. There are
few more engaging books for a winter evening
around the fire than this record of " the brave
days of old." George P. Upton.
The Old New York and the New.*
It is natural that the year of the Hudson-
Fulton celebration should yield a full crop of
books about New York. The great city stopped
to take breath and consider its historic past;
the rest of the country went down to help the
New Yorkers make holiday. And the canny
publisher noted the chance to be timely, to con-
vert the quickened interest in New York, Dutch
and American, into a market for his wares.
Three at least of these recent books about New
York are of a character to appeal strongly to
the holiday book-buyer, searching for something
worth while in substance and attractive in ap-
pearance to bestow upon his friends.
The first of them is a faithful study of the
manners and customs of the Dutch founders of
New York, so entertainingly misrepresented by
Washington Irving and rather neglected since
his day. Miss Esther Singleton brings to her
latest research a valuable background of related
information ; for she has already written a book
about Dutch and Flemish furniture, and an
interesting account of " Social New York under
the Georges." Her " Dutch New York" fairly
bristles with facts, documentary evidence, curi-
ous details culled from inventories, letters, and
legal records; but they are all characteristic
and interesting, logically arranged and suc-
cinctly related, so that they hold attention.
Miss Singleton has very little to say of the
geography of old New York, and not much of
its commercial relations ; it is the every-day life
of the transplanted Dutch burghers that she
• Dutch New Yobk. Manners and Customs of New
Amsterdam in the Seventeenth Century. By Esther Single-
ton. Illustrated. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co.
The New New York. A Commentary on the Place and
the People. By John C. Van Dyke; illustrated by Joseph
Pennell. New York: The Macmillan Co.
The Wayfarer in New York. With Introduction by
Edward S. Martin. New York: The Macmillan Co.
tries to reconstruct. They were just that, she
explains; bringing with them to their new
homes all their native customs and cherished
possessions, — their massive "Kasten," with
Delft and porcelain and silver to fill them,
their voluminous and numerous petticoats and
baggy breeches, their big ruffs and jewelled
head-dresses, Great and Little Masters to hang
on their walls, even tulips and hyacinths to
plant in their gardens.
The very earliest settlers, of course, enjoyed
no such luxuries. Miss Singleton devotes a
preliminary chapter to their experiences, mostly
taken verbatim from letters and diaries. A
chapter on "New Amsterdam Housekeeping"
details the daily life of the women, thoroughly
old-world in its laborious devotion to cleanli-
ness. There is also a chapter on servants, who
certainly had a rough time of it in New Am-
sterdam, in spite of all the law could do in their
defence; and one on education, flattering neither
to schools, masters, nor pupils. Religion re-
ceives due attention, as do the curious and elabo-
rate marriage customs which contrast oddly
with traditions of Dutch thrift. One of the
longest chapters in the text, and the majority of
the illustrations, are devoted to the Dutch fur-
niture. There are also several reproductions of
old prints and of the paintings of the period.
A handsome photogravure of Mayor Cornelius
Steenwyck forms an appropriate frontispiece.
There are plenty of books about modern New
York, but " The New New York " stands out
among them, distinguished by the personality
of both author and illustrator. Dr. John C.
Van Dyke is an able and eminent art-critic,
while his wonderful study of "The Desert"
suggests more definitely what he will do here.
Mr. Joseph Pennell's position as etcher and
illustrator needs no comment, and some of his
best work has had New York for its subject.
For "The New New York" he has made a
hundred sketches in black-and-white, and two
dozen or so in pastel. These last are far less
effective than the uncolored drawings; the
method seems ill-adapted to most of the sub-
jects chosen. But at least they add variety,—
and surely variety is one of the chief qualities
in any true picture of the new New York. In
his preface, Dr. Van Dyke thus states the
point of view agreed upon between author and
illustrator as most significant: the representing
of "the life and energy of its people projected
upon the background of its commerce." In
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because it is essentially busy, hurried, crowded
— a tremendous commercial force, with sky-
scrapers, bridges, tunnels, all on a vast and
magnificent scale commensurate with its power
and vitality. This thesis is brilliantly elabo-
rated in an introductory chapter. There follows
one entitled "Seasonal Impressions," full of
subtle understanding of color, material and
spiritual. Some of the other chapters are not
as good. The impression made by a city is far
more complex than that of a desert. Some-
times Dr. Van Dyke loses his way in New York.
We are reminded of a statement in Mr. G. W.
Steevens's "The Land of the Dollar": "The
truth is that New York yields no impression.
... It dazzles and it astonishes, but it does
not make a picture." Certainly it does not
always make a picture for Dr. Van Dyke.
Sometimes it generalizes itself into any city;
for example, much of the chapter on "Shops
and Shopping" would apply equally well to
London or Chicago. Often, too, a little picture
is heavily framed in vague generalization.
"It is usually a more well-to-do class of people seated
in the carriages and cabs than walks upon the side-walk,
and perhaps it represents fashion or society better, since
neither of them cares much for going about on foot in
New York."
One loses interest in a paragraph beginning with
so obvious a statement, but Dr. Van Dyke has a
bad habit of beginning paragraphs in that way.
We wish that he had been more consistently the
artist, and less the omnivorous observer, con-
scientiously attempting to absorb everything that
New York has to show him. But if occasionally
"The New New York " strikes the level of mere
information, as a whole it moves on a much
higher plane, forming a significant, if over-
weighted, impression of our New World metro-
polis, with its unique conception of municipal
beauty, realized and to be realized in years to
come — for the new New York is still very much
in the making.
Last in our present group, we have "The
Wayfarer in New York," a small but very com-
prehensive anthology, with a sprightly essay from
Mr. Edward S. Martin, deftly contrived to put
the reader in the mood for enjoying the extracts
— whether or not compiled by Mr. Martin is
not indicated. These are grouped geographi-
cally, under headings named from the different
quarters of the city; and, roughly speaking,
chronologically, for they run from the Battery
progressively to the Bronx,— that is, from the
old New York to the new. The compiler, who-
ever he be, has appreciated the fact that de-
scription, however picturesque, palls, and has
made human interest the basis of his selection.
The result is a vivid panorama of city life as
our novelists, poets, newspaper reporters, histo-
rians, and other " wayfarers " have interpreted
it, with many intentions and in varying mood.
Edith Kellogg Dunton.
The Charm of China.*
In writing a book on China, Mr. William
Edgar Geil was wise in concentrating upon what
has always been the great mystery of China —
its Great Wall. This mystery Mr. Geil explored
in the spirit of one profoundly impressed with
his subject. There are times when he is almost
lyrical in what he writes of this more than tenth
wonder of the world, — for in his interpretation
it is really more wonderful than all the "nine
wonders" together. He has not attempted
a sober scientific treatment of his subject,—
although his pages reveal no lack of scholarly
equipment, abundant accumulation of material,
and a first-hand acquaintance with Chinese lit-
erature. He has chosen, rather, to blend his
material into a narrative imbued with the charm
of a fervid and enthusiastic style. The result is
a dramatic and highly entertaining book. The
author made the entire journey over the Great
Wall, and his readers share in his admiration of
its extent, its circuitousness, and the numberless
interesting details of its origin and history.
Thus " The Great Wall" becomes almost per-
sonified as the hero of a wonderful tale, and its
builder, China, is individualized as some one of
vast importance and achievement. He exalts
them, indeed, into a sort of epic dignity. "The
Martial Barrier of all under Heaven," in his
rhapsodic phrase, " extends from the Yellow Sea
past the Yellow River to the Yellow Sand, and
thence on to the Big White Water. From the
Yellow to the White is the course of our thoughts
* The Great Wall of China. By William Edgar Geil,
F.R.G.S. Illustrated. New York: The Sturgis & Walton
Company.
The Face op China. By E. G. Kemp, F.RJS.G.S.
Illustrated by the author. New York: Duffield & Co.
China. By Sir Henry Arthur Blake, G.C.M.G. Illus-
trated by Mortimer Menpes. New York: The Macmillan Co.
Court Life in China. The Capital, its Officials and
People. By Isaac Taylor Headland. Illustrated. New York:
Fleming H. Revell Co.
In the Land of the Blue Gown. By Mrs. Archibald
Little. Illustrated. New York: 1). Applet™ & Co.
The Chinese. By John Stuart Thomson. Illustrated
from photographs. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co.
John Chinaman, and a Few Others. By E. H. Parker.
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when looking westward. And many considera-
tions pass through the mind. Will the Yellows
go to the Whites and submerge them? Will it
be from Yellow to White ; or will it be that the
White will become Yellow and that these people
will ultimately predominate? Most of our
thoughts, as we rode toward beautiful Kiayiikan,
were about the movements of nations. We
thought in empires." Mr. Geil's thoughts are
indeed spacious, and though he does not make
the Great Wall particularly a vantage-ground
from which to speculate upon the future of the
Chinese, he does hint that its vastness, even in
decay, speaks of a people whose power has never
slept. "Once the Great Barrier had three mil-
lions of soldiery behind it. Suppose these came
once again to man the towers, with Maxims on
the turrets and seige guns behind the Wall!
Who would dare attack? But suppose they
march forward, who can defend?" Mention
must be made of the pictures, which are so num-
erous and so truly illustrative that they are in
themselves a vivid presentation of this more than
vivid book.
The charm of China is as potent now as ever
to inspire books on the wonders, the mysteries,
the anomalies, and the surprises of that far-
eastern land. In Miss (or Mrs.) E. G. Kemp's
handsome work entitled " The Face of China"
we have the impressions and observations of a
wide-awake and rather courageous woman who
has twice journeyed through the central prov-
inces, and has thrown herself on the courtesy
and chivalry of the natives without finding her
confidence misplaced. The soul of the far East
she leaves it to others to study, and, if they
can, to reproduce; while she is content, as she
says, to set down faithfully the things she has
seen, and thus perhaps induce some of her
readers to visit the country for themselves.
Also, as her title-page tells us, she gives " some
account of the new schools, universities, mis-
sions, and the old religious sacred places of
Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism." Most
interesting and praiseworthy is China's immense
respect for education, even for its own pedantic
system, and still more so its now growing esteem
for Western learning. The marvellous com-
petitive examinations for scholarly rank and
title — physical endurance tests they ought
rather to be called — are described by the au-
thor, who has herself inspected the cells where
the aspirants for honors suffer and even die
in the three-days and nine-days intellectual
combats. Cheerfully bright pictures of many
colors, varied with sepia drawings, all of decided
artistic merit, are supplied with lavish hand,
and render still more attractive a very invit-
ing book. A glaringly misquoted line from
Browning is the only slip of the pen we have
discovered.
Mr. Mortimer Menpes has provided drawings
— sixteen elaborately colored, and sixty-four in
black and white — for one of his handsome
"Crown Series" of large-page books, this time
on "China," with text by Sir Henry Arthur
Blake. The text of the book, with its modicum
of geographical and historical matter, and its
descriptions of Chinese manners and customs,
some of them already well known to the western
world, is little more than an excuse for the illus-
trations; but these are life-like and worthy of
careful study. The subjects are well adapted to
color-printing — to its defects as well as to its
excellences. The clearness and apparent faith-
fulness of drawing, in the colored and uncolored
pictures alike, reveal great care and skill.
Occasion is taken to insert Lady Blake's ad-
dress as president of a women's conference at
Shanghai, in 1900, for the discussion of the
home life of the women of China. Also extracts
are given from the Report of the Singapore
Commission appointed to consider the opium
question. Both the author and thecommissioners
whom he quotes are evidently inclined to regard
the protest against opium-importation as simply
one more " unconsidered outburst of European
sentiment." The book is an art work of merit,
and (no negligible item to many buyers) of
modest price.
"Court Life in China," by Professor Isaac
Taylor Headland of the Peking University, gives
itself largely to the praises (not undeserved) of
the late Empress Dowager. Her obscure origin
was naturally kept as secret as possible in her
lifetime, but the author has discovered, he says,
that she was one of the several children born to
poor parents, and that in her childhood she car-
ried the babies on her back, a la chincrise, and
amused them with the simple toys sold at a cash
or two apiece. Her lamented selection to grace
the imperial court, where it was supposed she
would ever afterward be dead to all the outside
world, and her subsequent memorable experi-
ences and achievements, are chronicled at length.
In a chapter devoted to the reforms instituted
by her, the author presents the opium question
under a quite different light from that thrown
on it in the book we have just noticed, and he
regrets that the reformer's life was not spared
until her beneficent plan had been completely
carried out. The book also eulogizes the late
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Emperor; but as the author was in a position
to obtain full knowledge of what he wrote, there
is little reason to dispute him. Chinese education
is naturally a subject that interests him, and one
in which he succeeds in interesting the reader.
From Mrs. Headland's notebook he has drawn
for information on Chinese women, and between
them both they have made an excellent and an
instructive book. It is well illustrated.
Mrs. Archibald Little has lived among the
Chinese and has written several books about
them. Her latest study of social conditions and
peculiar customs in the Celestial Kingdom is
entitled " In the Land of the Blue Gown." She
well says that "each nation gets accustomed to
its own short-comings, and has wide-open eyes
for its neighbours'," and she views the back-
wardness and the ignorance of China with a tol-
erance born of adequate consciousness of western
defects and abuses. A. welcome departure from
most books on China is found in her long
chapter devoted to "Life on a Farmstead,"
occupying more than a quarter of the entire
volume. There is much that is primitive and
delightful in Chinese rural life. A chapter on
"Little Known Border Tribes," and one de-
scribing an anti-footbinding crusade, which
seems to have met with some success, are also
among the book's novelties. We are told that
in 1906 the movement for unbound feet had
progressed so far, thanks to official favor and
imperial edict, that some ladies of fashion went
to the extreme of stuffing their shoes to make
their feet appear larger than they really were;
and that at a crowded meeting in Shanghai a
committee of Chinese men of influence took over
the management of the reform from the foreign
ladies who had hitherto directed it. Though
foot-binding may still linger among the ignorant
poor in remote districts, this abuse is thought
by the author to have received its death-blow.
Pictures from photographs are generously pro-
vided.
Under the simple title, "The Chinese," Mr.
John Stuart Thomson has written a book of
readable quality, pleasantly enlivened with inci-
dents and anecdotes, and provided with numer-
ous illustrations and a map. The opening
chapter on " Daily Life of Foreigners in China"
and the next following on " The Portuguese and
Camoens in China" are a little apart from the
author's main subject; but when he proceeds to
describe "Incidents of Daily Life among the
Chinese," and to give examples of "Chinese
Humor," he hits on some matters that are dis-
tinctive and worth while. One must, however,
question his assertion that "half of the false hair
used in America and Europe is gathered in
China." Considerations of color and quality
make this doubtful — although it really matters
not at all, one way or the other. As an example
of Chinese humor it is related that one Huan
"had refused to join the local Triad Society in
organizing opposition to an unpopular but pow-
erful magistrate. He thereupon was asked for
his reasons, and replied that he had ten. 'And
what are they?' 'Two wives and eight chil-
dren.'" There is a very western, not to say
American, flavor to that; but the essence of
humor is much the same all the world over. Mr.
Thomson's opinion of the late Empress Dowager
differs widely from Mr. Headland's. He speaks
of her " banyan-like shade" and her " obstruc-
tionist" policy, and ascribes to her character-
istics that are far from admirable. A chapter
on " Chinese Art and Literature " — too big a
subject for even an entire volume — contains
some striking proverbial and epigrammatic
native utterances. Speaking of the late ineffec-
tive Opium Conference at Shanghai, the author
says: "We shall have other conferences, and
America will call them until Britain keeps her
word."
A third edition of Mr. E. H. Parker's " John
Chinaman, and a Few Others" has made its
appearance, nearly eight years after the book's
first issue. It is of an anecdotal and amusing
character, and (if one may credit the assertion
of the writer himself) has met with cordial
welcome as a banisher of dull care. In his
preface to this edition the author writes: "I
am proud to say that several scientific and pro-
fessional men personally unknown to me have
written to thank me for having contributed a
mite to the gaiety of nations in publishing' John
Chinaman'; and I have reason to believe that
at least one of them uses it as Darwin is stated
to have used Mark Twain's 4 Innocents Abroad,'
— as a means of securing sleep in a jolly frame
of mind when he feels overwrought." At any
rate, Mr. Parker has lived in China, has min-
gled with the natives, and has studied their
humors. He divides his matter into sixteen
chapters, and each of these into numerous sub-
sections, with plenty of dialogue and anecdote,
so that his pages have that open, inviting look
that all readers for pleasure know how to value.
Pictures, too, abound, and a glossary is added
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A Pageant of Fair Women.*
"Still with their fires Lore tipt his keenest darts;
As once they drew into two burning rings
All beams of Love, melting the mighty hearts
Of captains and of kings."
The type of woman to which Tennyson here
has reference is the type that inspires not only
the poet but the biographer. The famous woman
iB oftenest interesting because of the world's
perennial interest in the theme of romantic love.
The charming ladies whose sprightly memoirs
are here under discussion possessed many and
diverse talents, but they were all bountifully
endowed with one — the talent for Vamour.
They loved, perhaps not wisely, but with enthu-
siasm. They craved, also, position and power;
and not infrequently they won them, shaping the
affairs of men and the events of history. From
them to the modern woman militant, striving to
overcome mere man by physical force, horsewhip-
ping prime ministers and scuffling with the po-
lice, is a far cry indeed. We point the contrast,
without favoring the methods and manners of
either class.
In the portly volume with the expressive
title "Enchanters of Men," Miss Ethel Col-
burn Mayne has gathered together twenty-three
typical examples, of fascinating femininity
grouped under five headings — "The Royal
Mistress," "The Courtesan," "The Eoyal
Lady," « The Star," and « The ' Egeria.'" In
point of time, these charmers range from Diane
de Poitiers and Bianca Capello, of the sixteenth
century, to Jenny Lind and Evelina Hanska of
the nineteenth. Strange company most of these
enterprising ladies are for our virtuous Scandi-
navian songstress. The writer herself seems to
be conscious of the incongruity; to her mind
there is a lack of spice in Jenny Lind's exem-
plary history, as compared, for example, with
•Enchanters of Men. By Ethel Colburn Mayne. With
twenty-four illustrations. Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs
& Co.
Madame du Barry. By H. Noel Williams. With por-
trait. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
A Rose of Savoy. Marie Adelaide of Savoy, Duchesse
de Bourgoyne, Mother of Louis XV. By H. Noel Williams.
With seventeen illustrations. New York: Charles Scribner's
Sons.
Madame, Mother of the Regent. 1652-1722. By
Arvede Barine. Translated by Jeanne Mairet (Madame
Charles Bigot). Illustrated. New York: G. P. Putnam's
Sons.
A Lady of the Old Regime. By Ernest F. Henderson.
Blustrated. New York: The Macmillan Co.
Chateaubriand and his Court of Women. By
Francis Gribble. With six photogravure portraits. New
York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
Famous Women of Florence. By Edgcumbe Staley.
Illustrated. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
that of Ninon de Lenclos, of Lola Montez, and
of Adrienne Lecouvreur. The book contains a
generous amount of reading matter, and por-
traits of all but one of the "enchanters," with
Lord Byron and Henry of Navarre thrown in
as congenial company.
One of the most seductive, and in some re-
spects most amiable, of the "enchanters " por-
trayed in Miss Mayne's work has been chosen by
Mr. H. Noel Williams as the subject of a much
more elaborate study in his "Madame du Barry."
This author of nearly a dozen books on famous
French women has made himself so well known
to readers of such memoirs that it will here suf-
fice to say that the du Barry is treated with all
his wonted diligence of research and entertain-
ing style of narration. This last of the left-hand
queens of France appeals to us by virtue of a cer-
tain goodness of heart and magnanimity of sen-
timent. Three times she interceded to save con-
demned persons from death; she was a generous
giver, even when her means were small; she was
always moved to indignant protest by the sight
of cruelty or the neglect of suffering; and she
was free from malice, and " had the virtue, rare,
especially ajnongst her own sex, of never speak-
ing ill of anyone." There is no lack of material
from which to put together an account of this
successful aspirant to the "glorious dishonor"
of being a king's mistress, and her latest biog-
rapher appears to have made good use of his
predecessors' labors. He closes his preface by
thanking the Art Reproduction Company for
assistance in selecting the portraits that appear
in his volume, although the most diligent search
fails to discover any but the frontispiece like-
ness, the same, by the way, that is found in
Miss Mayne's book — the simpering miniature
executed by Richard Cosway.
The portraits that may have been intended for
the preceding volume appear in large numbers
in another book by the same author, entitled
"The Rose of Savoy." On the 7th December
1697, Marie Adelaide of Savoy, being then
twelve years and a day old, was united in mar-
riage to Louis of France, Duke of Burgundy,
grandson of Louis the Fourteenth ; and by him
she became, in 1710, the mother of "the
prettiest child in the world" (as she described
him in a letter), the future Louis the Fifteenth
of France. In his ample volume the prolific
Mr. H. Noel Williams has told the story of this
royal marriage, with its preliminaries and se-
quels, and has embellished the whole by the
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accounts of various flirtations and coquetries
indulged in by this Rose of Savoy — even in-
cluding an affair with the Abbe" de Polignac—
it is safe to conclude that her serious-minded
spouse endured some unpleasant quarters of an
hour before the two were cut off by an untimely
death in 1712. "It would be difficult," says
the author, " to find two persons more dissimilar
in character than the young people who thus be-
gan their married life when their united ages
scarcely exceeded thirty years." The young
wife, who was an excellent mimic, went so far
as to bring ridicule on her unhappy husband by
her mimetic performances, which contributed to
the gayety of the court, but not to the serenity
of him who had espoused the Rose of Savoy.
Treating of the same period and the same
court as the last-named book, the posthumous
and not quite completed work of the late Mme.
Charles Vincens ("Arvede Barine"), "Madame,
Mother of the Regent," gives a cleverly-written
account of a German princess married against
her will to a French prince suspected of poison-
ing his first wife and more than suspected of not
leading a highly virtuous life. She survived
her husband by twenty-one years, and lived to
see herself a decidedly important personage as
mother of the Duke of Orleans, Regent upon
the death of the Grand Monarch and before
Louis the Fifteenth had attained to manhood.
Although the writer has been complimented for
her rare gift of making her various historic
characters live and breathe before the reader's
eyes, it is to us of the twentieth century a some-
what artificial, not easily imaginable, set of roy-
alties and courtiers and king's mistresses and
sycophantic hangers-on that make their exits
and their entrances in this thoroughly French
drama of the late seventeenth and early eight-
eenth century. The translation, from the pen
of Madame Charles Bigot, is commendably
fluent and readable; and she has, one infers,
supplied the brief closing chapter left unwritten
by the author. Twenty-four illustrations, mostly
portraits, are scattered through the book.
By a coincidence not unusual in the book-
world, another elaborate treatment of the same
theme as that of the preceding volume appears
at the same time. This is Mr. Ernest F.
Henderson's lavishly illustrated and engagingly
written volume, " A Lady of the Old Regime."
In his pages the corpulent Elisabeth Charlotte
(Liselotte they called her at home, in Heidel-
berg) appears as a very human, far from fault-
less, but extremely companionable sort of person;
and she is made to paint her own good-natured
looking portrait from frequent passages out of
her familiar correspondence. "There are many
places in the Bible," she once wrote," that say
one must mortify the body; the Old and the
New Testaments are full of it. But I think it
is enough to bear patiently the evil that comes
to us from the hand of God without torturing
ourselves. I never could endure La Trappe."
A contemporary diarist, quoted by Mr. Hender-
son, records the satirical epitaph composed on
Madame: "Here lies idleness, the mother of
all vice." But if she lacked energy and indus-
try, partly for physical reasons (she complained
in later life that it made her puff like a buffalo
to walk across the floor), she succeeded, in her
passive Germanly phlegmatic way, in being a
good deal of a personage. Evidently her
strength was to sit still.
From the practised pen of Mr. Francis
Gribble there comes a readable and far from
superfluous volume entitled "Chateaubriand
and his Court of Women." An adequate life of
this interesting man has hitherto been lacking
in English, if not also in French itself. Doubt-
less the Memoires d'Outre-tombe have gener-
ally been felt to cover the ground sufficiently
well; but the recent discovery of many letters
and other documents bearing on Chateaubri-
and's life has, as Mr. Gribble is justified in
thinking, made it possible and desirable to pro-
duce a biography. The title he has chosen is
explained in the author's preface, where he says:
"It seems to follow that the time has come
when a synoptic view of that career may at last
be taken with some hope that the resulting
picture will at once approximate to exactitude,
and bring into due relief those romantic epi-
sodes in it to which Chateaubriand himself
appears to have attached the most importance.
What those episodes were may be inferred from
the fact that, alike as a pilgrim to the Holy
Land and as Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, he wrote that his sole ambition was to
'win glory' in order that he might'lay it at a
woman's feet.'" His "court of women" in-
cludes Madame Recamier, Pauline de Beau-
mont, the Duchesse de Berry, and many others.
The chapter devoted to his American travels is
of especial interest to American readers. Por-
traits of Chateaubriand and five of his 14 court"
are included in the volume.
In Mr. Edgcumbe Staley's " Famous Women
of Florence" there reappears one of the "en-
chanters of men " included in the first book in
the present group, Bianca Capello — or Bianca
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though he prefers to call her Bianca de' Medici
in his chapter narrating her history and her
connection with Francesco de' Medici. The
other characters selected as types of Florentine
womanhood are Beatrice de' Portinari, "the
type of the New Woman in the dawn of the
Renaissance"; Lucrezia de' Tornahuoni, "the
most exalted exponent of the over-ruling power
of woman for good"; Simonetta de' Cattanei,
"the perfect model of woman's physical
charms"; Giovanna degli Albizzi, "the exam-
ple of a duteous daughter, the sympathetic wife
of a man of fashion, and, with him, the highest
standard of the civilization and refinement of
the Renaissance"; Alessandra de' Machingi,
the pathetic example of a shadowed life and a
noble patience; and Lisa de' Gherardini, a per-
son of happy nature and smiling face. These
women, selected out of many that have appealed
to the author in the course of his Florentine
studies, have each a separate chapter, and are
in most cases represented by a portrait. Index
and bibliography give evidence of care in the
book's making, although a list of fifty-five errata
is also proof of carelessness in some quarter.
Holiday Publications,
l
Books of Travel and Description.
Everyone who loves a beautiful book will delight
in the volume on "French Cathedrals," by Mrs.
Elizabeth Robins Pennell, illustrated by Mr. Joseph
Pennell, which appears in uniform binding with
their " English Cathedrals" (Century Co.). Natur-
ally, the illustrations receive first praise. One
hundred and eighty-three of them, the title-page
says there are; but more important than their
number is the fact that the French Government has
acquired the original drawings for the Luxembourg.
Pen-drawings, wash-drawings, and etchings are re-
produced in black and white, or black and tint.
Various in scope, from details of screen or doorway
to vistas of nave or transept and distant views of
"tower and town," they present a series of views
of each cathedral which gives a full impression from
without and from within. One learns from them
not only the features with which each great structure
faces the world, as it were consciously, in the tra-
ditional view, but their unconscious and intrinsic
character, surprised from unexpected points and
revealed in the moods of different atmospheres. It
is for further revelation of this essential character
that the text is most admirable. Mrs. Pennell never
wrote more charmingly, with reminiscence personal
enough, never intrusively so. But more than fluent
style and ample knowledge — which, though she
disclaims the technician's skill, is adequate to the
reader's need — is the fact that she feels her
churches. "There are churches," she says, "as
there are men, who seem to impose on one the
necessity, or at least the desire, to record the effect
made by their personality, or individuality, in the
course of long and close intimacy." These impres-
sions are "deep and vivid " with her, and she records
them sincerely and therefore convincingly. She
sees in the French cathedral a democratic institu-
tion, not shut off, like the English in its close, but
"the centre of the town and town life." "The
people are as out of place in an English cathedral
as in Buckingham palace; in a French cathedral or
church they are as much at home as in their own
cottage or garret." Her characterization of each
famous edifice is penetrating, a challenge for agree-
ment or disagreement. Amiens "has a serenity
which is more in keeping with the spirit of Greek
than of a Gothic beauty." Notre-Dame-de-Paris, for
all its Gothic perfection, is "a church without a
soul." Rheims "the magnificent" is "made for
princes and princely rites," but she " cannot imagine
anyone praying well at Rheims." She recurs most
often to Chartres, the "House of Prayer," where
"long lines of prophets and saints, in garments of
flame, seem to set the cathedral all aglow with the
fiery fervor of their love and praise." A necessary
sequel of her love for the churches is her hatred of
the " restorer." "A church,'' she says, "like a man
or woman, ought to look the part it has played."
Consequently the restorer, who removes the wrinkles
of experience, is a falsifier. One cannot say a better
word for text and illustrations than that they are
worthy of each other, — competent, sincere, beauti-
ful. The binding, in French blue cloth, half gilt,
with the tracery of a rose window on the cover, is
appropriate, if somewhat severely plain.
To travel with Mr. Howells would indeed be the
perfection of journeying, and it is hard to suppress
a pang of envy for any friend whom he happens to
refer to as his companion. Bat, fortunately, Mr.
Howells has that grace with his pen which includes
himself among the realities he presents, and makes
the illusion of listening to him, instead of reading,
quite easy. In "Seven English Cities" (Harper),
he is as gossippy and entertaining as ever. Liverpool,
Manchester, and Sheffield receive his first attention;
and he insists that in spite of the cavalier treatment
these places usually receive from travellers, they are
"worthy to be seen and known." A doubt with re-
gard to Liverpool may still linger in the mind of the
reader, for Mr. Howells scarcely justifies anything in
it except St. George's Hall; but that may be only
because, as he says, most of his memories of the place
have been acquired since his visit. Or it may be
because he is too much occupied in holding up the
mirror to the "fond behavior of arriving Ameri-
cans." But Manchester, with its parks, old-fashioned
mansions, and dignified public buildings, and
Sheffield, with its "dead forest" of chimneys, its
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Mary Queen of Scots, evidently deserve his plea.
York, however, holdB him longest. Here he is
haunted less by the "clutter of incidents" of Eng-
lish history than by Roman associations, and " never
can get enough" of the windows of the Minster.
Marston Moor eluded him, but he was compensated
by "the civility from everyone which had so ineffec-
tively abetted his search." After a glimpse of Dur-
ham, "where the medueval atmosphere is in perfect
repair," he reaches Boston, a city in some respects
unworthy of its New England descendant, especially
in its ignorance of the places hallowed by the
Pilgrims. Aberystwyth and Llandudno, Welsh
watering-places with beautiful curving beaches and
a perpetual supply of negro minstrels, complete the
sacred number of his visitations. The Welsh he
finds, not, according to their reputation, the "prize
liars of the universe," but truthful — although volu-
able, — amiable, and admirably co-educated. The
closing chapter on English character will cause some
discussion. Are the English, as Mr. Howells thinks,
really more courteous than Americans, and also more
loyal, more united, and more charitable? The
volume is furnished with an abundance of half-tones,
which not only really illustrate it, but are accomodat-
ingly placed just where they are wanted.
Mr. George Wharton Edwards has found in
"Holland of To-day" a most congenial and remu-
nerative field for his artistic endeavor. He knows
the country and its people thoroughly, and is evi-
dently an enthusiast on the subject of things Dutch.
He has made for his book — for he is its author as
well as illustrator — a series of beautiful studies of
Dutch types in color, other less elaborate but no less
artistic black-and-white sketches of figures, and
many interesting drawings of Dutch cities, villages,
canals, and farm-houses. The plates are not mere
illustrations, — they are pictures, each a thing of
beauty, and altogether setting forth a view of
Holland which is striking, individual, inviting, and
impressive. Considered as a picture book, this
deserves to be one of the most successful of the
season's output. It is unfortunate that Mr. Edwards
chose to write the text to accompany his pictures;
and more unfortunate, since he has so chosen, that
his work should not have been skilfully edited. The
impression left by the pictures is vivid, clear-cut,
salient; the text is a confused and confusing mass
of detail, the interesting parts jostling the common-
place, the arrangement illogical, a point of view
fatally lacking, the effect incoherent. "Art, Ancient
and Modern," for example, is the heading of one
chapter, — a comprehensive enough topic, one would
think, to fill the eighteen pages allotted to it. But
the fishing industry, horse-racing, yacht clubs,
cycling, skating, and marriage customs in Holland,
are among the other subjects treated in that chapter.
The book is full of information, undoubtedly reliable;
but it overwhelms the hapless reader, who will turn
with relief to the pictures, cheerfully forgiving Mr.
Edwards his literary shortcomings for their sake.
(Moffat, Yard & Co.)
Mr. Robert Haven Schauffier's magazine sketches
of various German cities have been gathered into a
volume entitled "Romantic Germany" (Century
Co.), for which half-a-dozen German artists furnish
illustrations in color and black-and-white. "In the
surfeit of books on Germany," says Mr. Schauffler
in his preface, "one subject has been strangely
neglected, and that is — the land itself." And so
he writes of the picturesque old towns, with their
Gothic houses, mediaeval courtyards, and turreted
ring-walls, — towns that make one think of Germany
as the land of the Nibelungenlied and Grimm's
Fairy Tales, of gnomes and giants, of romance and
poetry and magic. Dantzig, Rothenburg, Hilde-
sheim, Meissen — all have distinct personalities for
Mr. Schauffler, and he delineates their characters
and interrelations most delightfully, as only a tried
and discerning friend could do. Most of the older
German cities, he explains, "are coy, and cover
their charms with a cheap new veil." But for Mr.
Schauffler the veil hides no secret charms; he
understands them all, and makes them concrete for
his readers, until they feel with him as if they were
"walking bodily through the pages of Grimm." The
pictures are in many styles, but all have been chosen
with reference to the romantic note. Tested by
novelty of view-point and charm of style, Mr.
Schauffler's book has few rivals among recent vol-
umes of travel-sketches.
A new and enlarged edition of Mr. John Muir's
"Our National Parks" (Houghton) gives opportu-
nity to express further appreciation of that remark-
able work. Mr. Muir has suffered much at the
hands of the "forty mile a day " tourist, but he still
thinks that "the tendency nowadays to wander in
wildernesses is delightful to see." Certainly his
descriptions of the wild parks of the West, from the
flower-covered tundras of Alaska to the sculptured
walls of the Grand Cafion, will incite a genuine
desire to wander in them. The Yellowstone Park
he would have us know as he does—mountains,
geysers, geology, and all — even to the climbing of
Electric Peak in a thunder-storm, when "every hair
of your head will stand up and hum and sing like
an enthusiastic congregation." Of the Yosemite he
writes still better, for it is his home and his pride.
In this "Paradise that makes even the loss of Eden
seem insignificant," he knows every rock, the name
and habit of every stream and bird and flower.
From his own experience he can say of the trees:
"To learn how they live and behave in pure wild-
ness . . . you must love them and live with them,
as free from schemes and cares and time as the
trees themselves." Both laughable and pathetic is
the story of his disappointment when he failed to
persuade Emerson to spend a night with him under
the stars. "The mountains are calling," he said;
"ran away!" But the "indoor philosophy" of
Emerson's friends objected. "Mr. Emerson might
take cold," and they consigned him to the hotel.
"And to think," reflects Mr. Muir, "of this being
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the glorious transcendentalism!" Mr. Muir is the
prophet of the American forests, and it is for us to
see that he is our Isaiah with regard to them,
and not oar Jeremiah. His closing chapter, on the
American forest, ought to be known by every citi-
zen. The wantonness of destruction, the inadequacy
of our laws, and the whole " bad, black business,"
is set forth with clearness and force, but without
vituperation. This is as near as he comes to unduly
strong language: "God has cared for these trees,
saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and
a thousand straining, levelling tempests and floods;
but he cannot save them from fools, — only Uncle
Sam can do that" In the new edition, maps and
tables increase the book's usefulness, and there are
many half-tone illustrations showing forests, moun-
tains, the Alpine flora of the Sierras, their beautiful
trout streams, and a few of the native denizens of
the Western wilds.
Miss Helen A. Clarke, author of "Browning's
Italy " and "Browning's England," has proved her
interest in the environment of the poets of her own
land by a study of " Longfellow's Country " (Baker
& Taylor Co.). From the quaintly-colored print of
colonial houses and a scarlet-coated goodman on the
cover, to the last of the well-printed octavo pages,
the book is satisfying both to the eye and the mind.
The fact that the subjects of many of the numerous
half-tones are familiar adds to their interest. The
subject-matter insures both popularity and apprecia-
tion by students; for not only does Miss Clarke do
justice to the geographical phase of her subject,
describing with especial vividness the beauties of
the Acadian country and of old Cambridge, but she
presents accurately the sources of most of the poems.
Though "no Skald in song has told" the story of
"The Skeleton in Armor," the "Saga of Eric the
Red" is reviewed for possible suggestions and pos-
sible references to the New England coast, and to
the reader's gratification the legends from which
Hiawatha grew are repeated in full. If Miss Clarke
makes it evident that Longfellow was not " slavishly
accurate as to the succession of events "— or even
as to the events themselves — she gives us all the
more reason to credit him with originality. It may
be disappointing to know that the Acadians did not
live as ideal a life as Longfellow depicts, that the
schooner wrecked on Norman's "Woe was not the
Hesperus, and that Paul Revere did not "stamp
the earth" of the Charleston shore waiting for his
signal. But on the whole the author adds more to
the romance of the poems than she takes away, and
the familiarity which results from her study breeds
new love and admiration.
The rSle of author-illustrator is a difficult one,
too often played badly; but Mr. Ernest Peixotto is
competent for it, as he proves anew by his skilful
conduct of his readers "Through the French Pro-
vinces" (Scribner). Sometimes he takes them by
motor-boat, sometimes by motor-car, but always in
the pleasant company of a traveller alert to discover
picturesqueness hidden in out-of-the-way corners,
and able to impart his enthusiasms with the pen as
well as with the tools of his own craft. His literary
work is not at all remarkable, — only the graceful
and agreeable relation of personal experiences and
impressions, many of which are visualized, naturally
with much more force and finish, in the illustrations.
As an artist, Mr. Peixotto's first interest in rural
France seems to be architecture; for nearly every
picture represents a building or a group of buildings.
Motor-boat excursions down the Seine from Poissy
to Rouen and up the poplar-fringed Oise, trips to
gay Parisian suburbs like "Robinson" or to little-
known chateaux near Fontainebleau, motor journeys
through the provinces, with stops at towns like
Limoges, Carcassonne, Cordes, and Chinon, com-
prise Mr. Peixotto's inviting itinerary. The material-
minded tourist will be glad to know that Mr.
Peixotto is an epicure as well as an artist; he does
not forget to tell which inns are comfortable, as well
as which are picturesque. Indeed, his strong insist-
ence on creature-comforts is a little amusing, though
we refer to it here merely to call attention to the
diversity of interests covered by his book.
The county of Worcestershire is the subject of one
of those beautiful color-books that English artists
and publishers are uniting nowadays to produce in
great profusion. In this instance, Mr. Thomas
Tyndale is the illustrator, Mr. A. G. Bradley his
literary coadjutor, and Messrs. Maemillan Co. are the
publishers. There are twenty-five alluring glimpses
of English villages and country-sides, which go far
to support Mr. Bradley's theory that Worcestershire
deserves more than it gets of the tourist's attention;
and there is a map to freshen one's geographical
memory and at the same time to suggest feasible trips
through the county. The text is a conventional
rSsumS, historical and descriptive in about equal
measure. As the storm-centre of the Civil Wars,
Worcestershire has a romantic past affording ample
material for the historical survey. Topographically,
the river Severn and the Malvern hills lend it a cer-
tain distinction. Mr. Bradley does not deal much
in superlatives, which is no doubt one important
reason why his descriptions are pleasing. Again, he
wisely assumes no responsibility for exhaustiveness,
particularly where architectural or industrial details
are concerned, but follows a leisurely course of his
own, along the Severn and the Avon, and traverses
more hastily the less picturesque north-east section,
loitering in the little villages along the way to point
out what he finds significant or characteristic in each
of them. And in the same spirit of individualism
Mr. Tyndale's pictures are painted.
A picturesque glimpse of a rarely visited portion
of Northern Africa, namely, the state of Tripoli, is
afforded by Mr. Charles Wellington Furlong's
"The Gateway to the Sahara" (Scribner). Mr.
Furlong is fortunate in having a very definite object
in view, and more fortunate in having achieved it.
Here is no ill-assorted guide-book miscellanea, no
mass of unrelated detail passed on from an author
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reader certain to be even more bewildered. Instead,
there is real insight into the unique fascination of
the most unspoiled of the Barbary capitals, pictures,
full of color and atmosphere, of its life and of the
strange peoples who inhabit the oases and plateaus
of Tripoli. The story of the Greek sponge-divers
and of the esparto-pickers is told with vivid detail;
and the same power to vitalize a narrative charac-
terizes the account of a journey across the Sahara.
Mr. Furlong has pointed, drawn, and photographed
Tripoli, besides writing about it; and he has done
all four things well. One of the important figures,
both in pictures and text, is naturally the camel —
"dignified, patient, defiant, imperturbable." Mr.
Furlong understands the camel as he understands
many other things oriental, and the chapter on
"Camel Traits" is one of his cleverest. In this, as
throughout the book, the transcription of Arab
stories and proverbs adds greatly to the effect of
local color.
The cathedral is always the heart of its city —
the magnet that draws and holds the tourist. Its
charm is too complex to be quickly exhausted. Each
new angle of vision reveals fresh wonders, wrought
by many minds and hands, in many periods. Some-
what thus does Miss Esther Singleton justify her
choice of subject for the latest addition to a well-
known series of compilations edited by her,— "Fa-
mous Cathedrals as Seen and Described by Great
Writers" (Dodd, Mead & Co.). It was of course
impossible to include in one volume all the notable
cathedrals; so Miss Singleton has added to those
universally agreed upon as the most celebrated,
others that will offer to the reader the greatest pos-
sible variety of instruction and pleasure. A still
more varied programme is secured by mingling
architectural, descriptive, and historical selections,
and including a few impressionistic pictures, like
Mr. Arthur Symona's of Bourges, and Gautier's
of St. Isaac. Each selection is accompanied by an
excellent photograph of the cathedral in question.
Altogether Miss Singleton has achieved an excellent
handbook, interesting in itself and well adapted to
introduce its readers to more detailed and less
alluring studies of cathedral lore.
Book lovers who have an eye for richly-colored
pictures, and are the better pleased if the scenes are
grand and wonderful, will find their taste abund-
antly satisfied by the volume on Kashmir written by
Sir Francis Younghusband, British Resident at
Srinagar, and illustrated with seventy-five full-color
reproductions of paintings by Major Molyneux.
These views of the lofty peaks of the Himalayas,
with wooded valleys or blue mountain streams or
masses of gorgeous flowers in the foreground, are so
lavishly and strikingly beautiful that they would be
condemned as melodramatic if the text did not bear
them out. Sir Francis's writing is much more
than a gloss for the pictures, and fully describes the
entire region, including its history, government,
industries, and resources — especially its resources
in the matter of recreation and sport. One cannot
close the book without exclaiming with Bernier, " In
truth, the kingdom surpasses in beauty all that my
warmest imagination had anticipated." The volume
is a thick octavo, bound in dark red, half gilt, with
a border suggestive of the designs of elaborate
Indian textiles. (The Macmillan Co.)
Holiday Editions of Standard Books.
Surely no richer tribute could be paid by the
artist brotherhood to a poet's memory than this cen-
tennial year has brought to Edward FitzGerald. At
least five beautiful editions of the Rub&iyit have
been published within three months; two of them
ranking among the few most notable illustrated
books of the year. A gold-and-white cover with
fantastic and beautiful symbolic decorations is in
harmony with the almost fairy-like beauty of the
edition of Messrs. Hodder & Stoughton, for which
Mr. Edmund Dulac has made the illustrations. The
same artist's pictures for the "Arabian Nights"
suggest what he will do here; but in the newer
illustrations the element of grotesqueness is mini-
mized, and the atmosphere of wonder and enchant-
ment, of beauty, mystical, oriental, multi-colored, is
enhanced. There are twenty pictures, some inter-,
preting a stanza, some a line or a phrase. These
are separately mounted on vellum-finished paper
within rich gold borders that have the effect of
frames. The text of the poem is printed in large
clear type on pages with more formal decoration.
In every respect the volume is mechanically worthy
of the art which the illustrator has expended to
make it a thing of beauty. — The "FitzGerald
Centenary Edition" (T. Y. Crowell & Co.) is
illustrated and decorated by another master of the
craft, Mr. Willy Pogany. His designs, richly im-
aginative, very original, and full of oriental imagery
and atmosphere, form an interesting contrast with
those of Mr. Dulac. Mr. Pogany has lettered each
stanza of the poem in a style suggesting Arabic
characters, and made for each a special border in
several colors. — The familiar designs of Mr. Gil-
bert James, with their quaint formality and curious
detail, are the distinguishing feature of a third edi-
tion of FitzGerald's masterpiece, published by the
Messrs. Macmillan. The pictures are reproduced
in full color, and there are borders and other deco-
rations in tint. An introduction and notes by Pro-
fessor Reynold Alley ne Nicholson, lecturer in Persian
at Cambridge University, gives to this edition
scholarly as well as artistic distinction. — A less
pretentious edition comes from the Messrs. J. B.
Lippincott Co., with introduction, notes, and a life
of Omar, by Mr. Joseph Jacobs, and illustrations
and borders by Mr. Frank Brangwyn. The deco-
rative work is very interesting, but the strong real-
ism of the illustrations makes them rather repulsive
to at least one reader.— Finally, we have another
small edition, with Mr. Gilbert James's illustrations
reproduced in tint, from Messrs. Paul Elder & Co.
Like all this publisher's editions, it is attractively
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covers are Japanese in effect, if Japan was not
actually the source of the material used.
Of all Aubrey Beardsley's decorative work, his
drawings for the "Morte D'Arthur" are generally
conceded to be the finest. The original edition
containing them was issued some sixteen years ago,
in two volumes, and has, of course, long been out of
print. All the original designs and illustrations are
now reproduced in a one-volume edition (Dutton),
limited to fifteen hundred copies printed from type.
At present the popular taste runs to colored illus-
tration, which modern processes of color-printing
have made possible in such perfection; but black-
and-white has a charm of its own, and Beardsley's
reputation as one of the greatest artists in that me-
dium is unquestioned. It is unnecessary to speak
of his style, but readers unfamiliar with the first
edition of the "Morte D'Arthur " will like to know
that the present work contains twenty full-page
illustrations, besides numberless chapter headings,
page borders, head and tail pieces, and incidental
decorations. As in the original edition, the text is
that of Caxton, with modern spelling, and there is
an introduction by Professor Rhys. The cover is
embellished with a floral design by Beardsley,
printed in gold on green cloth.
Two illustrated editions of Poe's "Tales" com-
memorate the centennial year of the author's birth.
Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons issue them in a vol-
ume uniform with their illustrated edition of Poe's
poems published last fall, and with two dozen half-
tones from drawings by the same artist, Mr. Fred-
erick Simpson Coburn. Mr. Coburn has already
shown his ability to interpret Poe pictorially, and
here as elsewhere the spirit of his drawings is in
tune with the "grotesque and arabesque" humor of
the text. — " Selected Tales of Mystery" (Lippin-
cott) is the title chosen for the other edition, which
is a stout royal octavo volume, sumptuously printed
in large type, and strikingly illustrated in color by
Mr. Byam Shaw. The cover design at once strikes
the dominant notes of Mr. Shaw's work; it is intense
in coloring, intense in realism, subtle in suggestion.
No half-hearted appreciation of Poe's genius is pos-
sible to the reader of this edition. He will shiver
and thrill perforce to the horror of Poe's grewsome
inventions. He may dislike Mr. Shaw's pictures; he
may decide that they disregard too much the mys-
ticism of Poe, and make the horror of the tales too
earthy. But he cannot fail to get a vivid and vital
impression of some sort, that will, in one way or
another, vivify and vitalize his impression of Poe.
And that is one important mission of the illustrator's
art.
Mr. Clifton Johnson, author-illustrator, has be-
taken himself and his camera to the Maine woods,
and, following the trail broken by Thoreau on his
three trips to the northern wilderness, has brought
back some beautiful photographs of rushing streams,
lonely log-camps, forest-bordered lakes, and wood-
land glens, with a few of campers and canoemen for
variety. These, reproduced in half-tone, with a
photogravure for frontispiece, comprise the illustra-
tive material in a new holiday edition of Thoreau's
"The Maine Woods " (Crowell). Next to " Walden,"
this is probably Thoreau's most popular work. Mr.
Johnson's landscapes make a delightful accompan-
iment to the descriptions; but it seems a trifle pre-
sumptuous to people Thoreau's wilds with figures
obviously of to-day, quite unrelated to Thoreau and
his narrative. A less heavily begilded cover would
also, in our opinion, harmonize better with Thoreau's
style and the taste of his admirers. Print and paper
are excellent.
A dainty holiday edition of Lowell's famous
country idyl, " The Courtin'," comes from the press
of Messrs. Houghton Mifflin Co. A note of intro-
duction explains how the poem came into being
quite by accident, and was finished to meet the
demands of its admirers for an end that did not
exist. The full text of the poem is printed on
pages decoratively bordered; and then follow pic-
tures in color by Mr. Arthur I. Keller, illustrating
it line by line. Finally, there is the facsimile of an
original manuscript of the poem made by the author
for a book of autographs. End-papers gay with
Cupids and a novel cover complete a thoroughly
artistic gift-book. Mr. Keller's work is, as usual,
full of life and humor, and exquisite in finish and
coloring. His incidental decorations are particularly
clever in conception.
Quaint pictures, redolent with Christmas fun and
frolic, gay in spirit and in coloring, old-time in flavor
and very English, are the feature of a new edition
of Washington Irving's "Old Christmas" (Dodd),
that classic account of an old-fashioned English
Yule-tide. The stage-coach and its passengers, the
village choir, the Christmas ball, and the Christmas
dinner — all are depicted by Mr. Cecil Aldin with
wonderful spirit and much humor. On the front
cover the stage-coach, its Christmas travellers laden
with Christmas bundles, puts one immediately in the
holiday mood— the right mood, surely, for enjoying
what is to come. Even the small decorations are
managed in a thoroughly original way. Altogether
this is the most Christmas-like edition of "Old
Christmas" that we remember to have seen.
Illustrated Books of Fiction.
Prominent among the season's illustrated novel-
ettes is Mrs. Kate Douglas Wiggin's "Susanna and
Sue" (Houghton). There are pictures in color by
Mrs. Alice Barber Stephens, and delicately wrought
chapter-headings by Mr. N. C. Wyeth, besides an
especially designed cover and the inevitable page-
borders. But the main thing is the story, which, if
it is not one of Mrs. Wiggin's happiest efforts, is
still thoroughly delightful, with its quaint and un-
usual setting, — a Shaker village in Maine, — its
charming child heroine, and its simple, straightfor-
ward answer to one of the great questions of life.
Susanna married in haste, and, having long repented
at leisure, she suddenly decided to revolt. She chose
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little girl lived for several months, entering into the
wholesome, if drab-colored, life of the community
which brought queer questions to the child's lips, put
new thoughts into the mother's heart, and finally
sent her back, at Thanksgiving time, to the husband
and son she had abandoned. The simple Shakers
are drawn with thorough understanding, and little
Sue is, like all Mrs. Wiggin's children, a very real
and a very lovable child.
Mr. Ralph Henry Barbour has chosen "The
Lilac Girl" as the title of his annual novelette for
1910, and the publishers (Lippincott) have bound
it in lilac, with lilacs on the end-papers and title-
page, besides appropriate marginal drawings and
pictures in color. The tale, like all Mr. Barbour's,
is unalloyed romance. The hero, being engaged in
prospecting for gold, gets a fleeting glimpse of the
heroine on the rear platform of an overland express,
is mistaken by her for a train-robber, tells her that
he loves her, inquires her name, promises to come
for her, and receives as a pledge of her faith "a
faded spray of purple lilac," all within a space of
five minutes. And after many strange complica-
tions and stranger coincidences, he keeps his word,
and wins the somewhat capricious heart of the Lilac
Girl. The tale is at once sufficiently brief, improb-
able, and cleverly told, to make an hour or so pass
pleasantly, and the setting is pretty enough to ensure
the book's being a popular gift "from Him to Her."
"Where the Laborers are Few" (Harper) is the
title of a delightful new " Old Chester Tale," which,
with flowers on the cover, trees, brooks, and corn-
fields in the page-margins, and three illustrations
by Mrs. Alice Barber Stephens, makes a decidedly
inviting gift-book. Dr. Lavender, Willy King, and
the Jay "girls" reappear in the new story, whose
chief character is a one-legged ex-trapeze-performer,
stranded in Old Chester by an accident to his one
remaining "limb," as the Jay girls chastely put it.
When he appeared poor little Miss Jane Jay sud-
denly discovered that there was more in life than
genteel poverty, afghans to knit, and pet cats to love
and to mourn. What she did when the ex-trapeze-
performer limped gayly away from Old Chester is
left to the reader's imagination.
Pictures in color by Mr. Stanley M. Arthurs, and
a preface "setting forth how and why the two tales
are one," comprise the distinctive features of a holi-
day reprint of " Posson Jone' " and " Pere Raphael,"
both prime favorites among Mr. George W. Cable's
many delightful Creole stories. Mr. Cable explains
how he found "Posson Jone" practically ready-
made one day in Royal Street, New Orleans, and
how, after being "kept many years in the closest
companionship of Jules and the Parson by the flat-
tering willingness of public audiences to hear their
episode recounted," he finally "accused his blithe
hero of having another story, as you might say, con-
cealed on his person,"—and the sequel ensued. Mr.
Arthurs's pictures are spirited, and the cover has the
decorative touch that is expected of the artistic
gift-book. (Scribner.)
Appropriately adorned with blue blossoms on
cover and page-borders, Mrs. Frances Hodgson Bur-
nett's "The Land of the Blue Flower" (Moffat,
Yard & Co.) has the right appearance, as well as
the right message, for Christmas. For the blue
flower is the symbol of peace and good-will; in the
land where it flourished there was no time to be
angry or worried or idle or jealous; no place for
gloom or misery. The allegory is simply and prettily
told, and its symbolism runs quite in the trend of
much modern thought. Mr. Sigismond de Ivan-
owski furnishes a very beautiful frontispiece.
"The Star of Love " (Appleton), by Mrs. Florence
Morse Kingsley, is a novel based upon the Biblical
story of Esther. Mr. Arthur E. Becher has made
eight paintings to accompany it, which are repro-
duced in full color, and chapter headings in black-
and-white. In outline, the story follows closely the
Biblical narrative, which is amplified into an absorb-
ing romance by the introduction of much picturesque
detail and effective dialogue. The author is a close
student of sacred history, and her first novel, as well
as several succeeding ones, had a Biblical theme;
though she is probably best known for that clever
little commentary on the mysterious movings of
Providence, " The Transfiguration of Miss Philura."
Under the striking caption, "The Ruinous Face"
(Harper), Mr. Maurice Hewlett retells the familiar
tale of Helen of Troy as the tragedy of a beautiful
woman hungering for spiritual love, which, because
of her overwhelming beauty, never came to her. Mr.
Hewlett brings to this short story all the subtlety,
suggestiveness, and finish that make his novels nota-
ble. Page borders, and reproductions of three fam-
ous paintings of the too-fair Helen, are the decorative
features.
Admirers of the rather obvious humor of "Josiah
Allen's Wife" (Miss Marietta Holly) — and they
are legion — will rejoice to hear that, having fol-
lowed the fortunes of Samantha at Saratoga, St.
Louis, and around the world, they may now hear
■' Samantha on Children's Rights." Samantha's
wit and wisdom on the rearing of the young are
displayed in the course of a story full of children
and fathers and mothers, whose varied relations are
laughable one minute and tragic the next. As
usual, Samantha recounts her experiences in spelling
bewilderingly phonetic. (Dillingham.)
Holiday Akt Books.
One more token of a genius come too late into his
own is furnished by a beautifully illustrated quarto
volume entitled "Simeon Solomon, an Appreciation,"
by Mrs. Julia Ellsworth Ford (New York: Frederick
Fairchild Sherman). To the average reader, the
name of Simeon Soloman conveys nothing; yet in
his own time Rossetti and Swinburne befriended
him warmly, and Burne-Jones spoke of him as " the
rising genius," and called his designs "as imagina-
tive as anything he had ever seen." The wonderful
promise of his early work was never fulfilled; the
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became, in his daily life, a restless fancy that led him
into all sorts of dissipation, wrecked his friendships,
and brought his career to a tragic close. Like
Rossetti, Soloman was a poet-painter. His "Vision
of Love Revealed in Sleep" has lately been twice
reprinted, and his exquisite illustrations for "The
Song of Songs " have appeared in a volume prepared
for publication by Mrs. Ford. Now we have the
"Appreciation." with numerous excellent reproduc-
tions of Solomon's art, — particularly of the ideal
heads in chalk or pencil, of which he was so prolific
in his second period,—and selected passages from the
Vision," with a critical introduction. All this indi-
cates the awakening of popular interest, which Mrs.
Ford's quarto will at once stimulate and gratify.
There are twenty-three full-page reproductions in
tint, which fully exhibit the strength and the weak-
ness of Solomon's achievement. Except possibly in
a dominant note of sadness, the artist's marred life
does not in any way affect his work, which suggests
that of Burne-Jones, at the same time that it is
strongly original. Both the drawings and the poem
will well repay the attention which Mrs. Ford asks
for them, and which her competent criticism and
well-proportioned exposition do much to focus.
Each year Miss Elisabeth Luther Cary becomes
more widely known as an art critic with a keen
appreciation of many types of work, and a sugges-
tive and stimulating manner of imparting her ideas
and opinions. Her latest work, "Artists Past and
Present" (Moffat, Yard & Co.) contains a dozen
"random studies" of as many artists, from Jan
Steen to Miss Mary Cassatt. Most of them, how-
ever, are contemporary, — the only quality they
have in common. One of the best sketches is that
of Carl Larsson, the Swedish painter, with its
pleasant mingling of biography and criticism.
Alfred Stevens is treated almost entirely with refer-
ence to his color-schemes and his emphasis on
costume; Jacques Callot — to go back to a seven-
teenth century engraver — is utilized for a study in
temperament. An essay on " One Side of Modern
German Painting" deals with its "resolute indi-
vidualism, a determination to express the inner life
of the artist, his temperament and predilections and
his mood, at whatever cost of technical facility."
That on "Two Spanish Painters " harks back to
last winter's exhibitions of the work of Sorolla and
Zuloaga. All are keen, penetrating, appreciative,
aud sensible. Three or four illustrations in tint
accompany each study, and, with a tasteful cover,
make the volume as attractive in appearance as it
is stimulating in content.
"Christmas in Art" (Duffield) is the work of
Mr. Frederick Keppel, the well-known connoisseur
of prints and engravings. The many illustrations are
chiefly reproductions of rare prints of the Nativity
by fifteenth and sixteenth century artists; but there
are some more familiar pictures. Each is accom-
panied by a paragraph of comment, skilfully con-
trived to bring out its essential quality or especial
point of interest. The text discusses, in rambling,
informal fashion, the pictures and their artists,
Christmas music and poetry, and quaint Christmas
customs in many lands.
Illustrated Nature Books.
"Dutch Bulbs and Gardens" (Macmillan), with
pictures in color by Miss Mima Nixon and text by
the Misses Una Silberrad and Sophie Lyall, is natu-
rally a book to delight all lovers of flowers and
gardens; but the story of bulb-growing in Holland
is entertaining enough to make a much wider appeal,
and the authors have taken full advantage of that
fact to introduce a variety of interests besides the
horticultural one. The best time to see the gar-
dens, it seems, is in June, when the great mass of
the flowering is over, and individual beauties can
be noticed, when the tall hedges are green, and the
iris, ranunculus, early gladioli, and many lilies, in
addition to the spring bulbs, are in bloom. And the
way to see them is not in a hasty carriage drive,
but in a leisurely walk with the bulb-grower through
his domains. Then you will see not merely im-
pressionistic splashes of wonderful blue or pink or
yellow; but also the flowers. Of course the authors
have visited the bulb-district many times and in
different seasons. Miss Silberrad writes of the
present-day aspects of the subject, while Miss Lyall
tells of the hyacinth and tulip trades in their prime.
The pictures, in generous number, show us the bulb-
gardens in all their glow of multi-colored splendor,—-
until we quite forget Miss Silberrad's stern reminder
that the blossoms are a mere incident, to be ruthlessly
mown down before their beauty is spent; for the cul-
ture and sale of the ugly brown bulbs is the sole
reason for the existence of so much loveliness.
Did the acquiring of a spade and a garden bring
the "Hermit" who writes of "The Garden in the
Wilderness " ( Baker & Taylor Co.) facility with the
pen? If so, it must be conceded that for literary
purposes the spade is more potent than the sword.
The title of the book is misleading, in respect that
the author is a woman, and married, and in respect
that the location of her garden is not a wilderness.
To be literal, the "Hermit" and her husband are
artists who met over a bowl of nasturtiums in a New
York studio, who fell in love, wedded, and moved
into the country. Her stories of Mr. Schweine-
hunden the gardener, Vagrant the dog, Marcus
Aurelius the turtle, and other country friends, are
most entertaining. There is plenty of sentiment,
too; but the ground-work of the little volume is
garden-lore. A dainty green binding with nastur-
tium design, and many half-tones, in addition to
drawings by the Hermit and "Bentley," illustrate
the beauties of the garden.
Anthologies and Year-Books.
Mr. E. V. Lucas, indefatigable maker of antholo-
gies, has this year edited a companion volume to
"The Ladies' Pageant," that happy assembling of
real and imaginary heroines. He calls it "Some
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On the whole, the new hook has less of the charac-
teristic Lucas quality than any of those that have
preceded it. Perhaps Mr. Lucas does not think
playful fancy suitable to the consideration of stern
masculinity. At any rate the nomenclature of his
portrait gallery is straightforward and unadorned,
and he has almost entirely excluded fictitious char-
acters, going to writers like Vasari, Charles Lamb,
Mr. C. J. Apperley, Mr. S. Baring-Gould, George
Borrow, and Dr. John Brown, for keen characteri-
zations of actual persons. A large part of this
material will be absolutely new to the average
reader, who will find this volume, if the least witty,
far from being the least interesting of the Lucas
anthologies.
From the wide fields of English and American
poetry Mr. "Willis Boyd Allen has industriously
culled some of the numberless tributes to the modest
violet; and they are gathered in " The Violet Book"
(George W. Jacobs & Co.). Its pages are strewn
with "pale violets" and masses of "deep violets"
adorn its cover. It is a pity that so pretty a con-
ception should be marred by a tasteless frontispiece
— which also appears on the cover of the volume.
"The Book of Christmas," published by the
Macmillan Co., is an anthology of prose and poetry,
attractively grouped and entitled, in the fashion that
has recently brought the anthology again into popu-
lar favor. A graceful introduction by Mr. Hamilton
W. Mabie analyzes the Christmas spirit and suggests
what a true " Book of Christmas" should stand for.
Scattered through the little book are a dozen appro-
priate reproductions from the Old Masters, and an
ornamental title-page for each group of quotations
has been drawn by Mr. George Wharton Edwards.
Miscellaneous Gift-Books.
Two beautiful illustrated volumes from the presses
of the Tandy-Thomas Co. are based, respectively, on
the text of "Thanatopsis" and the words of our
national anthem — if "America" is our national
anthem. For the latter, Mr. Walter Tittle has
designed pages richly illuminated and lettered in
the style of an old missal, to contain the title of the
volume—"My Country"—a dedication, and a
brief account of the author and the song. A col-
ored portrait of Francis Smith follows, and the
stanzas of the song in facsimile of the author's
handwriting, framed in illuminated borders. For
each line of each stanza there is an illustration, or,
more accurately, a picture suggested by the words.
Many of these are faithful treatments of some
striking American scene, — the statue of Liberty in
New York harbor, Niagara Falls, the Garden of
the Gods, the Capitol at Washington, — each set
within an illuminated border. — The pages of
"Thanatopsis" are of Italian handmade paper, in
a brown tint. On them are mounted thirty etchings,
after designs by Mr. Walworth Stilson. Half are
illustrations; the others contain the hand-lettered
text of the poem sorrounded by appropriate decora-
tions. The book is of quarto size, simply bound in
brown boards, with parchment back. Mr. Stilson's
landscapes are varied and beautiful; and they are
all full of the solemn majesty that is the dominating
note of the poem.
Readers of Miss Mary Caroline Crawford's " St
Botolph's Town " published last year, will be glad
to know that she has continued the history of old
Boston —why should we not say young Boston? —
from the dawn of the Revolution, where she left it,
until the town became a city and thereby entered
upon another epoch. The new book, therefore,
covers the formative period, "when the peculiar gen-
ius of Boston was beginning to find itself in art, in
politics, and in civic life." Miss Crawford does not
say much about politics, and the artists rather than
the arte are her concern. Pursuing much the plan
of "St Botolph's Town," she has made seventeen
related, yet independent, studies of men and move-
ments. The illustrative material is varied and in-
teresting: it includes old prints and engravings, por-
traits, and modern photographs or drawings of his-
toric sites. "Old Boston Days and Ways " (Little,
Brown, & Co.), as interpreted by Miss Crawford
with accuracy, vivacity, and the novelty due to the
use of a considerable body of new material, are cer-
tainly not wanting in interest for readers of to-day.
Several years ago, Mrs. AnnaBenneson McMahan
offered to holiday book-buyers a fanciful little
volume, telling, with imagined detail, the story of
the presentation of Shakespeare's "Midsummer
Night's Dream" at the Christmas revels before
Queen Bess and her court This year, in somewhat
similar vein, she relates " Shakespeare's Love Story,"
weaving into her idyllic picture of his romantic
adventure such of the sonnets as suit her purpose.
She does not mean, she explains, to propound a new
"theory" of their origin; only to show that read
thus in connection with his life, they show him as
capable of inspired love making as he was of in-
spired poetry. The publishers, Messrs. A. C. Mc-
Clurg & Co., have devised a very pretty setting for
the book. The illustrations are printed separately
in tint on thin paper, and framed, as it were, in
tinted borders; while cover and end-papers carry
out the same color scheme.
Fourteen exquisite volumes comprise the output
of Mr. Thomas B. Mosher for the present holiday
season. The smaller books include Milton's "Ode
on the Nativity," Eugene Lee-Hamilton's "Mimma
Bella," Mr. Austin Dobson's "Proverbs in Porce-
lain," Browning's "Rabbi Ben Ezra," Baudelaire's
"Poems in Prose," Pater's "The Child in the
House," Olive Schreiner's "The Lost Joy," Henley*!
"Rhymes and Rhythms," and " A Little Book for
John O'Mahony's Friends," by Mrs. Katharine
Tynan. The five larger books (none of them incon-
veniently large) are, "Silhouettes," by Mr. Arthur
Symons; "A Wayside Lute," by Miss Lizette W.
Reese; " Felise: A Book of Lyrics," by A C. Swin-
burne; "The Land of Heart's Desire," by Mr. W.B.
Yeats; and Francis Thompson's posthumous essay
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garnished in a way that appeals to the most fastidious
taste. As we have often said before, these are the
ideal books for modest Christmas remembrances.
Two books of sermons suggested by the life of
Christ have been issued in illustrated editions.
"Bethlehem to Olivet" (T. Y. Crowell & Co.), by
that well-known writer on religious themes, Dr. J.
R. Miller, is described in the sub-title as "The Life
of Jesus Christ Illustrated by Modern Painters."
In reality, however, Dr. Miller has presupposed on
his reader's part a knowledge of the facts of the
Bible narrative, and, using them merely as points
of departure, brings out the message of each incident
for the world of to-day. For each chapter there is
a suitable illustration from the work of some noted
painter. — "With Christ in Palestine " (R. F. Fenno
& Co.) contains four addresses by Rev. Dr. A. T.
Schofield, of London, all suggested by a recent trip
through the Holy Land, and illustrated by photo-
graphs of the country.
"The Seven Ages of Childhood" (Moffat, Yard)
is a book of pictures by Miss Jessie Willcox Smith,
with verses to accompany them from the versatile
pen of Miss Carolyn Wells. Miss Wells's verses
are neat and witty, and Miss Smith's pictures, which
include large pictures in color and many dainty little
groups at the top and bottom of the pages, are quite
as charming as usual.
The Season's Books for the Young.
The following is a list of all children's books published
during the present season and received at the office of
The Dial up to the time of going to press with this
issue. The titles are classified in a general way, and
brief descriptions of most of the books are given. It
is believed that this list will commend itself to Holiday
purchasers as a convenient and trustworthy guide to
the juvenile books of 1909.
STORIES FOR BOYS ESPECIALLY.
College Years. By Ralph D. Paine. Several stories
dealing with various types of the modern college
youth and his sports and activities. Illustrated.
Charles Scribner's Sons. $1.50.
Captain Chub. By Ralph Henry Barbour. A se-
quel to "Harry's Island," carrying on the story
of the good times of Tom, Dick, Harriet, and
Roy, who rent a house boat for the summer and
cruise up and down the Hudson. Illustrated.
Century Co. $1.50.
The Cave of the Bottomless Pool. By Henry Gardi-
ner Hunting. A sequel to "Witter Whitehead's
Own Story." The scene is a summer camp for
boys and the plot is intricate enough for a de-
tective story. Illustrated. Henry Holt & Co.
$1.50.
A Boy's Bide. By Gulielma Zollinger. The story
is laid in England in the time of King John and
presents a stirring picture of life in medieval
times. Illustrated. A. C. McClurg & Co. $1.50.
Captain Pete of Puget Sound. By James Cooper
Wheeler. The story of a fine comradeship be-
tween two boys, one of whom manages to dis-
perse a band of smugglers on the Pacific coast.
Illustrated. E. P. Dutton & Co. $1.50.
Redney McGaw. By Arthur E. McFarlane. Red-
ney is a typical street gamin who joins a circus,
helps to save a panther-tamer, prevents a train-
wreck, and has a wild ride on an elephant. Illus-
trated. Little, Brown & Co. $1.50.
Longshore Boys. By William O. Stoddard, Jr. The
adventures of three boys on a cruise in Great
South Bay. Illustrated in color. J. B. Lippincott
Co. $1.50.
A Son of the Desert. By Bradley Gilman. The
scene is laid in Egypt, and the hero, the son of a
Bedouin sheik, after being befriended by a young
American boy, repays his obligation in a thrilling
manner. Illustrated. Century Co. $1.50.
For the Stars and Stripes. By Everett T. Tomlin-
son. A Civil War story based upon true happen-
ings, the action centering about the escape of a
young Union soldier from a Southern prison.
Hlustrated. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. $1.50.
The Boy with the TJ. S. Survey. By Francis Rolt-
Wheeler. Full of action and of information
about Uncle Sam's affairs. Lothrop, Lee & Shep-
ard Co. $1.50.
Captain Pete of Cortesana. By James Cooper
Wheeler. A bracing story of the Puget Sound
country. Hlustrated. E. P. Dutton & Co. $1.50.
The Lookout Island Campers. By Warren L El-
dred. Under the care of a tutor and an athletic
young doctor a crowd of boys go into camp for
the summer. Illustrated. T. Y. Crowell & Co.
$1.50.
With Kit Carson in the Bockies. By Everett Mc-
Neil. The story is woven around the desperate
and exciting experiences of a band of trappers
wintering in the mountains. Illustrated. E. P.
Dutton & Co. $1.50.
With Pickpole and Peavyr or, Two Live Boys on
the East Branch Drive. By C. B. Burleigh. The
hero and his friend, Fred Warner, join a crew of
lumber-drivers and have some thrilling expe-
riences. Illustrated. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
Co. $1.50.
Bar B Boys; or, The Young Cow-Punchers. By Ed-
win L. Sabin. A tale of ranch life in the far
west, filled with adventure and the free air of
the Rockies. Hlustrated. T. Y. Crowell & Co.
$1.50.
Ralph Osborn, Midshipman at Annapolis. By Ed-
ward L. Beach. Pictures the life at Annapolis and
tells how Ralph Osborn won his first spurs. Illus-
trated. W. A. Wilde Co. $1.50.
By Beef and Trail: Bob Leach's Adventures in
Florida. By Fisher Ames, Jr. Full of the excite-
ment of alligator hunts and adventures with log-
gerheads, huge devil-fish, etc. Illustrated. Bos-
ton: Brown & Page. $1.50.
An Island Secret. By Earle Cabot McAllister. A
sequel to "On Tower Island," full of mysterious
ciphers, thrilling mishaps, hunts for hidden treas-
ure, etc. Hlustrated. Dana Estes & Co. $1.50.
Dick in the Everglades. By A. W. Dimock. A tale
of two boys who take a hunting trip in the Ever-
glades. Illustrated. F. A. Stokes Co. $1.50.
On the Old Kearsarge: A Story of the Civil War.
By Cyrus Townsend Brady. Begins with the sink-
ing of the "Cumberland" and ends with the de-
struction of the "Alabama" by the "Kear-
sarge, '' the young hero being a member of the
crew on the latter. Illustrated. Charles Scrib-
ner's Sons. $1.35 net.
A Junior In the Line. By T. Truxton Hare. Bob
Walters, now a junior at college, takes part in
exciting football games and field sports. Illus-
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An Annapolis Second Classman. By Lt. Com. E. L.
Beach. Full of vigorous incidents, chief among
which is the discovery and suppression of a plot
against the United States government. Illustrated.
PennPub'gCo. $1.25.
The Short Stop. By Zane Grey. The author of this
exciting tale of the baseball diamond has played
professional ball himself, and so knows the life
he describes. Illustrated. A. C. McClurg & Co.
$1.25.
The School Four. By A. T. Dudley. This first vol-
ume in the "Stories of the Triangular League"
series deals with school athletics, especially row-
ing and football, and the hero leads an exciting
career. Illustrated. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.
$1.25.
The Silver Canoe. By Henry Gardner Hunting. The
story of a secret that had to be kept—the scene
laid in a big metropolitan department store. Il-
lustrated. A. C. McClurg & Co. $1.25.
The School Team in Camp. By John Prescott Earl.
A jolly outdoor story of a football team camping
in the Maine woods, a sequel to "On the School
Team." Illustrated. Penn Pub'g Co. $1.25.
"Chet." By Katherine M. Yates. "Chet" is a
virile, fun-loving boy who learns some of the big
lessons of life from a winsome girl companion.
Illustrated. A. C. McClurg & Co. $1.25.
Winning his Shoulder Straps; or, Bob Anderson at
Catham Military School. By Norman Brainerd.
Bob and his friends are natural, bright, up-to-
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For the Norton Name. By Hollis Godfrey. A re-
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A United States Midshipman in China. By Lt.
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Found by the Circus. By James Otis. The "great
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Joan's Jolly Vacation. By Emilia Elliott. Viva-
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The Wide-Awake Girls in Winsted. By Katherine
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Six Girls and the Seventh One. By Marion Ames
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The Lass of the Silver Sword. By Mary Constance
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The Girls of Fairmount. By Etta Anthony Baker.
Tales of fun and frolic in a famous girls' finish-
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Wits' End. By Amy E. Blanchard. The scene is
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Betty Wales & Co. By Margaret Warde. When
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Helen Grant, Teacher. By Amanda Douglas. This
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A Little Princess of Tonopah. By Aileen Cleveland
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American Patty. By Adele E. Thompson. A story
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A Little Lady at the Fall of Quebec. By Annie M.
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The Coming of Hester. By Jean K. Baird. Hester
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The Little Heroine at School. By Alice Turner
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Peggy-Alone. By Mary Agnes Byrne. Freed from
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Prue at School. By Amy Brooks. A second '' Prue''
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When Sarah Saved the Day. By Elsie Singmaster.
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Felicia's Friends. By Elizabeth Lincoln Gould.
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Dorothy Dainty in the Country. By Amy Brooks.
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Grandpa's Little Girls. By Alice Turner Curtis.
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Carlota of the Rancho. By Evelyn Baymond. Illus-
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The Secret of Old Thunderhead. By Louise God-
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The Four Corners Abroad. By Amy E. Blanchard.
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Cock-a-doo-dle Hill. By Alice Calhoun Haines. A
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When Roggie and Beggie Were Five. By Gertrude
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Dick and Dolly. By Carolyn Wells. Tells of a
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Sure-Dart. By Frederick B. Costello. A story of
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Boys and Girls of Seventy-Seven. By Mary P.
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We Four and Two More. By Imogen Clark. Six
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The Boys' Life of Ulysses S. Grant. By Helen
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The Book of Famous Sieges. By Tudor Jenks. The
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Vicksburg, Paris, and Port Arthur are here de-
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Decisive Battles of America. By various authors;
edited by Bipley Hitchcock. Sets forth the great
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to the Spanish War. Harper & Brothers. $1.50.
Historic Boyhoods. By Eupert 8. Holland. Twenty
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The Story of Hereward. By Douglas C. Stedman.
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England's Story for Children. By E. Baumer Will-'
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Around the World with the Battleships. By Eoman
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When America Won Liberty. By Tudor Jenks. A
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Little Folks of North America. By Mary Hazelton
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Historical Stories of the Ancient World and the
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Little People Everywhere. By Etta Blaisdale Mc-
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Life Stories for Young People. Translated by
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The Story of Rustem, and Other Persian Hero Tales
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Yama Yama Land: An Extravaganza in Book Form
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The Land of Nod. By J. Walker McSpadden. De-
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trated in color. T. Y. Crowell & Co. $1.50.
The Road to Oz. By L. Frank Baum. Tells how to
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Stories of Norse Heroes: Hero Tales from the Eddas
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Overheard in Fairyland. By Madge A. Bigham.
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The Rainbow Book: Tales of Fun and Fancy. By
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Orpheus with His Lute: Stories of the World's
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Donkey John of the Toy Valley. By Margaret W.
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Wigwam Evenings. By Charles A. Eastman. Twenty-
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Dicky Delightful in Rainbow Land. By James Ball
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Mary's Adventures on the Moon. By A. Stowell
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The Boy Pioneers: Sons of Daniel Boone. By Dan
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Trees Every Child Should Know. By Julia Ellen
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Grimm's Animal Stories. A selection of all those
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Wonderful Little Lives. By Julia Augusta
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Shovelhorns: The Biography of a Moose. By Clar-
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In Nature's School. By Lilian Gask. The story of
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John of the Woods. By Abbie Farwell Brown. A
little boy lives in the forest with a good hermit
and learns from him a secret power over the wild
creatures of the woods. Illustrated by E. Boyd
Smith. Houghton Mifflin Co. $1.25.
Kittle Kat Kimmle. By 8. Louise Patteson. The
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everyday life, of her travels and her friends. Il-
lustrated. George W. Jacobs & Co. $1.
Billy Possum. By J. Carter Beard. Illustrated in
color and black and white by Culmer Barnes.
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The Arabian Nights. Edited by Kate Douglas Wig-
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Gulliver's Travels. By Jonathan Swift. A large
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Tales from Shakespeare. By Charles and Mary
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Fairy Tales. By Edouard de Laboulaye. A new
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The Faery Queen and her Knights: Stories Betold
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Stories from the Faerie Queene. Betold from Spen-
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Maggie McLanehan. By Gulielma Zollinger. A new
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Robinson Crusoe. By Daniel Defoe. A new edition
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At the Back of the North Wind. By George Mac-
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Swiss Family Robinson. By Johann David Wyss. A
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Pinocchio: The Adventures of a Little Wooden Boy.
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Lyrics Pathetic and Humorous, from A to Z. By
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Yesterday's Children. By Githa and Millicent
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A Bouquet of Rhymes. By Althea Bandolf. The
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The Animals in the Ark. By A. Guizot. A trans-
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The Kite Book. By B. Cory Kilvert. A humorous
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The Song of Sixpence Picture Book. By Walter
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Little Indian Maidens at Work and Play. By
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When I Grow Up. Pictures and verses by W. W.
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The Roly-Poly Pudding. By Beatrix Potter. A tale
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Hlustrated in color, etc. Frederick Warne & Co.
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The Land of Beally True. By Millicent Olmsted.
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Timothy Trim's Clock Book. A unique book of
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Danny Dime's Bank Book: The Book that Teaches
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The Bunnikins-Bunnies in Camp. By Edith B. David-
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Complete Version of Ye Three Blind Mice. By John
W. Ivimey. Illustrated in color, etc. Frederick
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Bright-Wits, Prince of Mogador, and the Puzzles
he Had to Solve. By Burren Loughlin and L. L.
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Happy Hour Series. Comprising: Play Days, and
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The Circus Book for Children. By Bertha Elinor
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Master Bob Bobin. By Henry Stannard. Illustrated
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Story Land. Edited by Clara Murray. Hlustrated
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The House that Jack Built. Cut in the shape of a
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Notes.
"Divorce: A Study in Social Causation," by Professor
James P. Lichtenberger, is a recent monograph in the
historical series of Columbia University.
Carlyle's "Past and Present," with an introduction
by Mr. G. K. Chesterton, is added by Mr. Henry
Frowde to the series of "The World's Classics."
The late Edward Caird's "Essays on Literature,"
first published in 1892, is now reprinted by the Mac-
millan Co., without change of text, as far as we have
observed.
"Hamlet" and "The Tempest" are the two latest
volumes in " The New Hudson Shakespeare," as edited
by Messrs. E. C. Black and A. J. George, and published
by Messrs. Ginn & Co.
Professor Martin Schutze of the University of Chi-
cago, whose " Hero and Leander " has been well received
by the leading critics, is now completing a poetic drama
dealing with the subject of Judith and Holofernes.
Dr. Paul Cams has translated a selection from the
rhymes of Angelus Silesius, and made an attractive
little book which is issued by the Open Court Publish-
ing Co. Both German text and English version are
given on the same page.
The reported serious illness of Herr Bjornson lends
interest to the announcement that his last novel, " Mary,"
published about two years ago, is now added, in a transla-
tion by Miss Mary Morison, to the English series issued
in uniform shape by the Macmillan Co.
Prescott's "Conquest of Mexico," Macaulay's
"Speeches on Politics and Literature," Trotter's "The
Bayard of India" (Sir James Outram), and George
Smith's "Life of William Carey" are the latest edi-
tions to "Everyman's Library," published by Messrs.
E. P. Dutton & Co.
From England comes the announcement that King
Edward has knighted Frederick Macmillan, the present
head of the English publishing house of Macmillan &
Company, and a director of The Macmillan Company
of New York. Mr. Macmillan is the son of the original
founder, Daniel Macmillan.
Mr. Rutger B. Jewett, manager of John Lane Com-
pany, has lately completed an arrangement with Mr.
Eden Phillpotts by which John Lane Company will, in
future, be Mr. Phillpotts' publishers in America. The
first of Mr. Phillpotts' novels to be issued under this
arrangement was "The Haven."
"A College Text-Book of Geology" is added to the
"American Science Series " of Messrs. Henry Holt &
Co., the authors being Professors Thomas C. Cham-
berlin and Rollin D. Salisbury. It makes a stout
volume of nearly a thousand pages, amply illustrated,
and maintaining in every respect the high standard of
the series to which it belongs.
Mr. £. Byrne Hackett, who for the past three years
has been in charge of the publishing department of
The Baker & Taylor Co., recently severed his con-
nection with that firm to take charge of the affairs of
the Yale University Press, with offices in New York
City. Mr. W. B. Parker, who has had a varied pub-
lishing experience, will take charge at The Baker &
Taylor Company.
Professor J. E. Spin gam's "Critical Essays of the
Seventeenth Century " is now completed by the publi-
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of the period, and including examples of ten writers,
among them being Temple, Wotton, Blackmore, Con-
greve, and Collier. There is a bibliography of the sub-
ject, and an index to the entire work. Mr. Henry
Frowde is the publisher.
A volume of " Reminiscences and Sketches " by Mr.
Charles Forster Smith, mostly reprinted from periodi-
cals, is published by Messrs. Smith & Lamar, Nashville.
Its two dozen numbers include papers upon literary and
scholastic worthies, on literature and education, and on
Southern life and character. We note with particular
pleasure the essays on Charles Kendall Adams and
Richard Malcolm Johnston. There are a dozen por-
trait illustrations.
The celebrated virtuoso Herr Eugen d'Albert has been
enlisted by the Oliver Ditson Co. to edit their selection
of the piano compositions of Beethoven for the "Musi-
cians' Library." The first volume, now published, gives
us five of the earlier sonatas and a group of seven
"Bagatelles." A second volume, with examples of the
later work, will follow, as we are informed concerning
its contents by the prefatory essay, which discusses the
selections in both volumes.
Mr. T. Werner Laurie, the London publisher, an-
nounces a series of new novels, equal in excellence to
the long-established six-shilling book of fiction, and
procurable for the modest sum of two shillings. The
initial volume in this new venture is to be a story of
London and Paris by Miss Florence Warden, with the
title "The Empress of the Andes." Sales three times
as large as those of the old-time novel will be necessary
to secure the same profit to author and publisher.
The "American Publishing Company," doing busi-
ness at Middlebury, Vermont, issues the following
announcement: "The New Physics. Sound. By
Joseph Battel]. 'Truth crushed to earth shall rise
again. The eternal years of God are hers.' This book
demonstrates that sound is corpuscular. The demon-
stration is complete in every particular. 8vo. 335
pages. Price $1.25." Possibly some significance may
be discovered in the fact that this contribution to sci-
ence comes from the Green Mountains.
Messrs. D. C. Heath & Co. send ns the following
modern language texts: "Deutsche Patrioten in Russ-
land zur Zeit Napoleons," by E. M. Arndt, edited by
Professor W. A. Colwell; "Les Maltres de la Critique
LittCraire au XIX. Siecle," being essays by some dozen
of authors, selected by Professor W. W. Comfort; and
"L'Age d'Or de la Literature Francaise," by Mile.
Louise Delpit. Messrs. Henry Holt & Co. publish a
volume of " Exercises in French Composition for Schools
and Colleges," by Mr. William Koren.
The death, on the 19th of November, of the Rev-
erend John Bannister Tabb, of Baltimore, removes an
interesting figure from our literature. Father Tabb had
a varied career, beginning active life on a blockade-
runner in the Civil War, and ending it a Roman Catholic
priest. It was during his first attempt to run the
blockade that Father Tabb was captured and imprisoned
at Point Lookout, Maryland, where he made the ac-
quaintance of Sidney Lanier, a fellow prisoner; this
was the beginning of a strong friendship between the
two men. Like Lanier, Father Tabb was passionately
fond of music, and was himself a musician. As a poet,
Father Tabb confined himself to the shorter forms of
lyrical verse. Many of the most characteristic of his
poems are collected in his volume of "Later Lyrics,"
published by John Lane Company. For a year or more
before his death, Father Tabb was totally blind; and this
affliction was the subject of some of his most touching
and expressive verses.
Messrs. D. C. Heath & Co. publish the following
English texts: "The Essays of Elia," edited by Mr.
H. E. Coblentz; Ruskin's " Sesame and Lilies," edited
by Dr. Charles R. Gaston; and Goldsmith's two famous
poems (with Gray's "Elegy "), edited by Miss Rose M.
Barton. Other English texts are "Narrative and
Lyric Poems for Students " (Holt), edited by Professor
S. S. Seward, Jr.; " Selections from Byron, Wordsworth,
Shelley, Keats, and Browning" (American Book Co.),
edited by Messrs. C. T. Copeland and H. M. Rideout;
and De Quincey's "The Spanish Military Nun" and
"Revolt of the Tartars" (Frowde), edited by Mr. V. H.
Collins.
The richness of illustration which gives "The Inter-
national Studio " foremost place among present-day art
magazines is emphasized anew in the latest bound vol
ume of that periodical, just sent us by the John Lane
Company. A more varied and interesting feast for the
art-lover than that set forth in these four hundred pages
could not easily be found. Every page contains one or
more half-tone reproductions, and there are twenty-one
plates in full color. A leaning toward the more bizarre
tendencies in modern art has always been apparent in
"The International Studio," yet it is not allowed to
become predominant. We are especially glad to note
the increasing attention which American art affairs are
now receiving in this notable periodical.
Mr. Emerson Venable has compiled, and the Robert
Clarke Co. has published, a work called "Poets of
Ohio," containing not only representative selections, but
also notes and biographical sketches. Ohio has had
thirty-three poets deemed worthy of inclusion in this
volume, and many of them are of more than local
renown, as may be shown by mentioning the names of
the Cary sisters, Mr. and Mrs. Piatt, T. B. Read, W. D.
Howells, and Miss Edith M. Thomas. Altogether, Ohio
makes almost as creditable a showing in poetry as in
politics. The book is dignified in appearance and in
editing, but we must confess that it opens up to the
imagination an alarming vista of a future procession of
commonwealths exploited in similar fashion.
"The Best of the World's Classics " is the title given
to a ten-volume compilation of extracts from the great
writers of the world, now published by Messrs. Funk &
Wagnalls. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge figures as the
editor of this latest effort to popularize literary culture,
with Mr. Francis W. Halsey as his assistant, which we
take to mean that Mr. Halsey has done the lion's share
of the work. The volumes, which are of pocketable
size, are devoted one each to Greece and Rome, two
each to the Continent and America, and four to Great
Britain and Ireland. There is, of course, no perspective
in such an allotment, but we never expect it in compila-
tions of this class. The entire representation of "other
countries " of the Continent (besides France, Germany
and Italy) is provided by Erasmus, Cervantes, Ander-
sen, Turge'nieff, Ibsen, and Tolstoy ^— a queerly-
assorted half-dozen. The contents of these ten volumes
are of course good literature, and as such to be recom-
mended; but they are also for the most part snippets,
and as such to be avoided. Only prose selections are
included.


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Topics in Leading Periodicals.
December. 1909.
Act inc. — What It Really Is. Brand er Matthews, ."if unary.
Addams. Jane: Interpreter. Graham Taylor. Rev. of Revs.
African Game Trails. Theodore Roosevelt. Scribner.
Ambling;, The Lost Art of. Holbrook White. Atlantic.
Arnold, Matthew. Florence E. Coates. Lippincott.
Art Tendencies of 1909. Arthur Hoeber. Bookman.
Atherton. Gertrude. Frederick Taber Cooper. Jiookman.
Bibles. Selling; Ten Millions a Year. W. P. Eaton, Munsey.
Big Horn Basin, Reclaiming. O. L. Dickinson. World To-day.
Books, The Convention of. S. M. Crothers. Atlantic.
Bowery, Battered Hulks of the. A.Irvine. World's Work.
Boy Criminals. Ben B. Lindsey. Everybody's.
Briand: Socialist. Andre Findley. Review of Reviews.
British Peers Who Have " Done Things." Munsey.
Carson, Kit: American Frontiersman. W. 8. Bridgman.
China, A Parliament for. P. 8. Reinsch. Atlantic.
Christmas, Origin of, in English. J. A. B. Scherer. Scribner.
Coal Mines. Death Roll of the. H. M. Phelps. World To-day.
College Reform — and Football. Albert Shaw. Rev. of Revs.
Consumptive. The Holy Grail of the. World's Work.
Corporation Neighborliness. G. D'Unger. World To-Day.
Curaco, in the Dutch West Indies. C. J. Post. Century.
Darwin, Some Reminiscences of. James Bryce. Harper.
Detective Story, The. in Germany. G. I. Colbron. Bookman.
Divorce and Public Welfare. G. E. Howard. McClure.
Drama, Platitudes concerning the. J. Galsworthy. A tlantic.
Etchers. Some Women. Frank Weitenkampf. Scribner.
Evangelist's Work. An. "GipBy" Smith. World To-day.
Family, The Cooperative. Francis E. Leupp. Atlantic.
Ferrer, Francisco, Execution of. 8. Tonjoroff. World To-day.
Germany, The New. Rudolf Cronau. McClure.
Government, The Fifth Wheel in our. A.J. Be vendee. Century.
Happiness— Do We Want It 1 Mrs. Van Vorst. Lippincott.
Hearn, Lafcadio, Japanese Letters of. E. Bisland. Atlantic.
Holy Land, The. Robert Hichens. Century.
Horses. Trapping of Wild, in Nevada. R. Steele. McClure.
India. British Rule in. Sydney Brooks. North American.
Individuality. Our Lost. L. H. B. Knox. Atlantic.
International Marriage in American Fiction. Bookman.
Liberia's Hour of Need. George Sale. World To-day.
Literary Agents. Phil Collum. Lippincott.
Macaulay Fifty Years After. Wm. R. Thayer. No. American.
Manchuria, Commercial. E. C. Parker. Review of Reviews.
Mojeska, Helena, Memoirs of. Century.
Music as a Social Force. L. B. Jones. World To-day.
Navy, A Canadian. Watson Griffin. North American.
New York. — How to Civilize It. N. M. Butler. Rev. of Revs.
Norway, A Motor Invasion of. Caroline Thurber. Century.
Novel. The. 2000 Years Ago. G. Bradford, Jr. Atlantic.
Novels of the Theatre. Mabel Taliaferro. Bookman.
Paris, A Hilltop in. Bessie D. Cooper. Harper.
Physical Life, The Nature of. W. H. Thomson. Everybody's.
Pill. Tyranny of the. Elizabeth Bisland. North American.
Police. Mounted, of Canada. A. D. Cameron. Century.
Portola, Discovered by San Francisco. World To-day.
Postal Savings Banks and the People. World To-<lav.
Prosperity with Justice. Peter 8. Grosscup. North American.
Race.TheConaictof—IV. B. L. Putnam-Weale. World's Work.
Radium, The Energy of. Frederick Soddy. Harper.
Reade, Charles, and Laura Seymour. L. Orr. Munsey.
Religion of the Past. Henry Dwight Sedgwick. Atlantic.
Roosevelt in Africa, With. World To-day.
Saint-Gaudens. Robert Underwood Johnson. North American.
Saints. Story of the. Eleonora Kinnicutt. Scribner.
Santa Fe Trail, Story of the. C. M. Harvey. Atlantic.
Schluesselburg. The Secrets of. D. Sosldce. McClure.
School. A, with a Clear Aim. J. F. Carr. World's Work.
Seamen, Merchant — Can America Produce Them? A tlantic.
Securities, Sale of American, in France. F. D. Pavey. No.Amer.
Singapore. Water-Life Aronnd. W. J. Aylward. Harper.
Smith, "Gypsy" — Evangelist. S.Matthews. World To-day.
South America, The New —V. P. 8. Reinsch. World To-day.
South American Republics, Individuality of. North American.
Speed, Harold, The Art of. C. H. Caffln. Harper.
Stanley, Henry M. W. H. Rideing. McClure.
Story. The Modern Short. W.J.Dawson. North American.
Suffrage. A Justification of. Elizabeth Robins. Everybody's.
Tariff Revision. Henry Beach Needham. Everybody's.
Telegraph Key, Heroes of the. A. W. Rolker. Everybody's.
Theatre. New, Literary Mail of the. G. J. Nathan. Bookman.
Transportation, Vertical. H. T. Wade. Review of Reviews.
Trolley Lines, Western. World's Work.
Wilderness. Battle of the — VII. Morris Schaff. A tlantic.
List of Hew Books.
[The following list, containing 167 title*, includes books
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HOLIDAY OIFT BOOKS.
The Heart of the Antarctlo: Being the Story of the British
Antarctic Expedition, 1907-9. By E. H. Shackleton, C.V.O.;
with Introduction by Hugh Robert Mill, D.Sc., and an
Account of the First Journey to the South Magnetic Pole by
Professor T. W. Edgeworth David, F.RB. In 2 volumes,
illustrated in photogravure, color, etc., large 8vo. J. B,
Lippincott Co. $10. net.
Le Morte D'Arthur: The Birth and Acts of King Arthur, of
his Noble Knights of the Round Table, their Marvellous
Encjuests and Adventures. The text as written by Sir
Thomas Malory, with modern spelling; with Introduction
by Professor Rhys. Illustrated and decorated by Aubrey
Beardsley. Limited edition: 4to, 624 pages. E. P. Dutton
&Co. $7.60 net.
French Cathedrals, Monasteries and Abbeys and Sacred Sites
of France. By Elizabeth Robins Pennell; illustrated in tint,
etc., by Joseph Pennell. Large 6vo, 425 pages. Century Co.
16. net.
The Great Wall of China. By William Edgar Geil. Illus-
trated, large 8vo, 393 pages. Sturgis & Walton Co. 15. net.
Seleoted Tales of Mystery. By Edgar Allan Poe: illustrated
in color by Byam Shaw. Large 8vo, 334 pages. J. B. Lippin-
cott Co. tS. net.
The Face of China: Travels in East. North, Central, and
Western China. By E. G. Kemp. Illustrated in color, large
8vo. 276 pages. Duffleld&Co. I6.net.
Seven English Cities. By W. D. Howells. Illustrated in
tint, 8vo, 201 pages. Harper & Brothers. (2. net.
Kashmir. By Sir Francis Younghusband; illustrated in color
by Edward Molyneux. 8vo, 283 pages. MacmillanCo. t6.net.
Travels in Spain. By Philip Sanford Marden. Illustrated,
large 8vo, 429 pages. Houghton Mifflin Co. $3. net.
The Master of dame. By Edward. Second Duke of York.
Edited by William A. and F. Baillie-Grohman: with a fore-
word by Theodore Roosevelt. Illustrated in photogravure,
etc., large 8vo, 302 pages. Duffield & Co. 14. net.
A Hunter's Oamp-Fires. By Edward J. House. Illustrated,
large 8vo, 401 pages. Harper & Brothers. $6. net.
Romantic Germany. By Robert Haven Schauffler. Illus-
trated in color, etc., large 8vo. 397 pages. Century Co.
(3 50 net.
Sailing Ships: The Story of Their Development from the
Earliest Times to the Present Day. By E. Keble Chatterton.
Illustrated in color, etc.. large 8vo, 361 pages. J. B. Lippin-
cott Co. (3.75 net.
Our National Parks. By John Muir. New and enlarged edi-
tion : illustrated, large 8vo, 376 pages. Houghton Mifflin Co.
18. net.
Longfellow's Country. By Helen Archibald Clarke. Illus-
trated. 8vo, 252 pages. Baker & Taylor Co. $2.60 net.
Labrador: The Country and the People. By Wilfred T.
Grenfell, and others. Illustrated, Bvo, 497 pages. Mac-
millan Co. $2.25 net.
Friendship: Two Essays by Marcus Tullius Cicero and Ralph
Waldo Emerson. Decorated in color, 8vo, 237 pages.
G. P. Putnam's Sons. $2.60 net.
Mexico: The Wonderland of the South. By W. E. Carson.
Illustrated, 12mo, 439 pages. Macmillan Co. $2.25 net.
Rome. By Edward Hut ton. Illustrated in color, 12mo, 342
pages. Macmillan Co. $2. net.
Chivalry. By James Branch Cabell: illustrated in color by
Howard Pyle. 8vo, 224 pages. Harper & Brothers. $2. net.
The Lilac Girl. By Ralph Henry Barbour; illustrated in color
by Clarence F. Underwood, and decorated. 8vo, 237 pages.
J. B. Lippincott Co. $2.
Love Letters of Famous Royalties and Commanders.
Selected by Lionel Strachey; with descriptive sketches by
Walter Littlefield. Large 8vo, 361 pages. John McBride Co.
Going Down from Jerusalem: The Narrative of a Senti-
mental Traveller. By Norman Duncan. Illustrated in
color, etc., Svo. 207 pages. Harper & Brothers. $1.50 net.
Irish Life and Humour, in Anecdote and Story. By William
Harvey. Illustrated in color, 12mo, 488 pages. J. B. Lip-
pincott Co. $1.50 net.
Rubalyat of Omar Khayyam: Edward Fit/Gerald's Final
Revision, with The Literal Omar. Illustrated in tint by
Gilbert James. 12mo, 85 pages. Paul Elder & Co. $1.60 net.


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"Fosson Jone'" and Pfere Raphael; with a New Word Setting
forth how and why the Two Tales are One. By George W.
Cable. Illustrated in color, 12mo, 162 pages. Charles
Scribner's Sons. |1.50.
The Motor Routes of England; Southern Section. By
Gordon Home. Illustrated in color, etc., large 8vo, 331
pages. Hacmillan Co. 12.25.
Jane Jones, and Some Others. By Ben King; illustrated in
color by John A. Williams. 8vo, 93 pages. Forbes &
Co. $2.
The Value of Happiness. Edited by Mary Minerva Barrows;
with introduction by Margaret E. Sangster. Decorated, 8vo,
193 pages. H. M. Caldwell Co. $1.50.
The Flayers of London: A Tale of an Elizabethan Smart
Bet. By Louise Beecher Chancellor; decorated by Harry B.
Matthews. Large 8vo, 233 pages. B. W. Dodge & Co.
A Brief Pilgrimage in the Holy Land: A Series of Addresses
Delivered in Wellesley College. By Caroline Hazard. Illus-
trated in color, 12mo, 137 pages. Houghton Mifflin Co.
$1.25 net.
The Wistful Tears. By Roy Rolfe Gilson. Illustrated in
color, 12mo. 318 pages. Baker & Taylor Co. $1.50.
In the Abruzzl: The Country and the People. By Anne
MacDonell. Illustrated in color, 8vo, 309 pages. Frederick
A. Stokes Co. $2. net.
Where the Laborers are Few. By Margaret Deland. Illus-
trated in tint, 8vo, 86 pages. Harper & Brothers. $1.50.
Beasley's Christmas Party. By Booth Tarkington. Illus-
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Two Lovers. By George Eliot; illustrated in color by Howard
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The Ruinous Face. By Maurice Hewlett. Illustrated, (to,
43 pages. Harper & Brothers. $1.
Deportmental Ditties. By Harry Graham. Illustrated,
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"Dame Curtsey" Series. By Ellye Howell Glover. New
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McClurg & Co.
Old Time Reolpes for Home Made Wines, Cordials, and
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You, and Some Others: Being Poems for Occasions. By Agnes
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Giovanni Boccaccio: A Biographical Study. By Edward
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My Day: Reminiscences of a Long Life. By Mrs. Roger A.
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The Incomparable Siddons. By Mrs. Clement Parsons.
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The Exile of St. Helena: The Last Phase in Fact and Fiction.
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Shelley: The Man and the Poet. By A. Clutton-Brock. Illus-
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The Nine Days' Queen: Lady Jane Grey and her Times. By
Richard Davey; edited, with introduction, by Martin Hume.
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The Eleotress Sophia and the Hanoverian Suooesslon.
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Roger Williams: A Study of the Life, Times, and Character
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Lord Ii Naosuke, and New Japan. By Katsumaro Nakamura;
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Higgins: A Man's Christian. By Norman Duncan. With
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HISTORY-.
The Days of the Dlreotoire. By Alfred Allinson. Illustrated
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The Expansion of New England : The Spread of New Eng-
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press is contributed by "an independent journal-
ist " to the last issue of the " American Journal
of Sociology." The writer is fully sensitive to
the evils of our current practice, but does not
indulge in that wholesale condemnation which
weakens the force of so many attacks upon
journalistic methods. His point of view is
stated in the following sentence: "The same
newspaper arouses your enthusiasm at one time,
so that you write, or are tempted to write, to the
editor warmly thanking him for his noble efforts,
and provokes your anger and disgust at another
time, so that you are ready to denounce it at the
breakfast table as a poisoner of the public mind
and an enemy of decency and truth." It is just
as well to see both sides of the shield, and to
recognize the indispensable service which even
the " yellowest" of newspapers may perform for
us, as well as to deplore its sensational or vicious
tendencies. Unless we bestow praise where
praise is due, our indictment will be quashed by
the common sense of the average reader.
The plea upon which journalists excuse most
of their aberrations from truth and decency is
that they are giving the public what it wants,
and that not otherwise may they keep their
heads above water in the struggle for existence.
At least, not otherwise may they conduct profit-
able business enterprises, and secure the circu-
lation in which, even if got by questionable
methods, lies all their potentiality for good.
The plea is a specious one, and is often allowed
without very close scrutiny; our present writer
takes the bull by the horns, and asks if the pub-
lic really does want the things which are dear to
the heart of a great many of our reckless press-
men. "Does the public demand fabrication,
misrepresentation for the sake of effect, sensa-
tionalism in the news columns?" "Can it be
supposed that readers are attracted by crazy,
silly, and grotesque headlines, by headlines that
bear no relation to the text, by a ridiculous mis-
use of words?" "To let correspondents drool, to
fill space with empty interviews, to say a thing
three times over, is not to give the public what
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the public for in the shortcomings of the great
newspaper, there is not the least ground for
debiting it with a preference for dull verbiage,
for inflated egotism in correspondents, for the
multiplication of words. The notion of some
publishers or editors that a paper without
bedlamite headlines, without inane and empty
'despatches,' with excruciating and misdirected
'humor,' would lose circulation, is devoid of all
foundation in experience." All these things
may attract for the moment, but they soon
become a weariness to the sense; and even the
meanest intelligence, although dulled by use, is
likely to revolt against them after their novelty
has worn off. We cannot carry credulity so far
as to believe that any considerable body of
readers will, in the long run, prefer a " faked"
account to a truthful one, an imaginary to a real
interview, a spurious illustration to an authentic
one (or even to none at all), or a blotched and
unsightly page to one whose contents lend them-
selves to continuous reading.
The truth of the matter seems to be that most
of these atrocities have been forced upon an over-
acquiescent public, and that the only demand for
them is a demand that has been artificially
brought into being by insistence and iteration.
That the appetite for these things grows by
what it feeds on, is true only within limits ; that
it can prove a lasting appetite, is contrary to the
most elementary psychology. Taste may be
spoiled, and intelligence blighted, by such de-
vices; but they will hardly create a fool's para-
dise of self-satisfaction. Our writer's alterna-
tive recommendation for the discredited form-
ula is to " trust the public," to " credit it with
sanity and fairness." There could be no per-
manent loss in the substitution of the new motto
for the old one, although there might be some
sacrifice for the time being. "Temporary loss
there might be in a given case, as in rejecting
improper advertisements, or in losing the pat-
ronage of an industrial Bourbon and arrogant
plutocrat. But in the end independence, in-
telligence, reasonable courage, integrity, and
efficiency bring their reward in journalism as in
everything else."
The same shallow plea of giving the public
what it wants is put forward by our theatrical
managers no less plaintively than by our news-
paper proprietors. The fruition of this policy,
as far as the newspaper case is concerned, has
been an almost complete loss of public confi-
dence in the trustworthiness of news columns and
in the sincerity of editorial comment. Leader-
ship has been abdicated, and journalism is con-
ducted with an eye single to the demands of the
counting-room. In the theatrical case, the
process of demoralization has gone still farther,
and the "pocket nerve" itself shows signs of
becoming affected. The public has long been
given what it wanted, in pursuance of the short-
sighted plan of appealing only to its caprices and
of artificially stimulating its lower instincts,
until now it plainly shows signs of not wanting
the fare offered, and of being incapable of digest-
ing anything more nutritious. The popular
stage, long since declared bankrupt of ideas and
of morals, now seems to be facing bankruptcy
of the material sort that gives pause even to its
commercialized managers. Its devices pall upon
a public that has been sedulously diverted from
the permanent things of the drama, and the
apathy is loudly bewailed as the basest of in-
gratitude toward those who have sought only to
please it. The drama will again come to its own,
we make no doubt; but its regeneration will not
be accomplished in a day. The reformation will
begin when its sponsors learn to make self-
respect, rather than box-office receipts, the pre-
vailing motive in their activities.
The pernicious influence of the attempt to
give the public what it wants, instead of giving
it what it ought to have, may be seen in other
activities than those of journalism and the
drama. And always we find the same resort to
artificial stimulation in unworthy directions.
As we have said before, taste grows by what
it feeds on, within certain limits; but when fed
upon garbage, it ceases to grow at all after a
while, then revolts at the offering, but finds that
it has lost its appetite for better food. The sort
of music that is found lying about the piano in
the average household of young people, the
slangy and silly speech which these young
people affect and which is all they have at their
command, the false and highly-colored fiction
which is the staple of their reading, — these are
all familiar results of the deplorable aim of giv-
ing the public what it wants. It is an aim
shared in by many classes of caterers, and the
acquisition of the dollar is the chief apology
offered for its pursuit.
When the public itself becomes the caterer,
as in the case of park concerts and free libra-
ries and schools, there is no shirking the respon-
sibility involved, for the plea that "one must
live" may not here be urged. Democracy
becomes an exquisite absurdity if it be taken to
mean that in these matters there is to be no
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untrained demand. This is too large a subject
for discussion in a single paragraph, and we
will merely note our belief that here the public
often fails lamentably in its duties. This is
especially true in the matter of public education,
which for so long has yielded to the twofold
clamor for the practical and the agreeable that
a whole generation has already been weakened
in fibre and another generation is at present
undergoing the same lax training based upon
the same shallow pedagogy. A misty philoso-
phy, a doctrinaire method, and an infusion of
philistine ideals, are everywhere doing their
enervating or disintegrating work in our schools.
The public is getting what it wants, or what it
thinks it wants, to its own undoing as far as the
real purposes of life are concerned, and the pro-
test of sanity is that of a voice crying in the
wilderness.
CASUAL COMMENT.
The question op a British Academy of
Letters is discussed again by the London "Times,"
which is prompted thereto by a correspondent who
thinks it high time such an institution were estab-
lished. Advocates of a British Academy are wont
to point to the French Academy as in itself a suffi-
cient argument for a similar society in Great Britain.
But the French Academy is a natural and spontane-
ous growth, starting in 1629 in a series of informal
meetings of eight men of letters in Paris, and form-
ally recognized and permanently established six
years later, by Cardinal Richelieu, for the control of
the French language and the guidance of French lit-
erary taste. How is such a body to be created in
cold blood in England? And, if created, who would
recognize its authority? The French have a genius
for organization in art and letters ; they carry their
political instinct, or it carries them, into those
domains; but their over-Channel neighbors, with all
their genius for organization in governmental
matters, and their respect for civil authority, are
intolerant of dictation or control in art and letters,
as is rather clearly and amusingly illustrated by
their fretful chafing under the yoke of a censorship
of plays. The " Times" is inclined to think that a
British Academy, like many clubs, would be carried
on and controlled by bores and busy idlers, because
other men would be too engrossed with their own
more pressing affairs to give their time; and these
bores would crown the books of bores, not from cor-
rupt motives, but from a natural affinity for boredom
and all its works. There seems at present little
danger that the free scope of individual genius, or
even the pyrotechnic tendencies of the most startling
eccentricity, will soon be hampered and suppressed
by any such arbiter of taste as that immortal Forty
so powerful in the French aristocracy of letters.
The retirement of an independent journal-
ist, the reliquishment of his chosen task on the part
of Professor Goldwin Smith, has attracted an amount
of attention that would have been highly flattering
to a man susceptible to flattery. No publicist's pen
has ever earned a better right to honored repose than
that of this sturdy octogenarian citizen of the world.
Characteristic indeed was the inscription he chose
for that handsome seat of polished stone which in
the early days of Cornell University he, the former
Regius professor of history at Oxford, and at that
time the honorary professor of history at Cornell,
caused to be built under a wide-spreading tree on
the campus. "Above all nations is humanity" ran
the legend on its back. The humanist who devised,
or selected, that inscription also gave to the infant
library of the young college his own collection of ten
thousand volumes, sending back to England for the
books when he discovered the sore need of Cornell.
But the publicity given to the act by the American
press disgusted him, and he complained that he was
being made ridiculous in the eyes of England, where
it would be held as utterly absurd to speak of his
modest collection as a " library." Like all men with
the gift of penetration and a command of language,
he has made his enemies; but one strongly suspects
that he prefers the anathemas of the unintelligent to
their commendation. It is greatly to be hoped that
cessation from routine work on Professor Smith's
part will not mean a total suspension of writing
activity.
The vogue of the colored illustration,
which was spoken of by our London correspondent,
in our last issue, as so marked a feature of this sea-
son's holiday publications in England, may perhaps
be attributed not entirely to the artistic merits of the
pictures, which are often slight, but more correctly
to the relief experienced by the eye in passing from
the monotonous and trying black-and-white of the
printed page and the ordinary illustration to the
varied and often restful colors found in Nature.
Oculists now assure us that the harmful effect of the
at present ubiquitous moving-picture show is due, not
to the "flickering" of the scene, but to the strain
caused by too-long contemplation of white light
broken only by black lines and surfaces. The vibra- ,
tions coming from the illuminated screen are con-
stant; whereas in viewing a landscape, or a football
game, or the performance of a play, the optic nerve
responds to color-vibrations of great variety of rapid-
ity, differing perhaps by hundreds of trillions in a
second. Therefore, unless the kinetoscope people
take a hint from the photographers and illustrators
in color, the nervous headaches and the partial
paralysis of the organs of vision now complained of
by those who have contracted the moving-picture
habit will seriously affect the profits of the business.
But it is likely to be many a day before either the
colored illustration or the colored moving film will
be artistically unexceptionable, however commend-
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The origin of an old song, the song known to
thousands, if not to millions, as "Old Grimes," is
now revealed in Mr. Dwight C. Kilbourn's " History
of the Bench and Bar of Litchfield County, Con-
necticut." Those who have heard the quaint rhymes
sung in childhood will recall their comic mingling
of Old Grimes's virtues and the peculiarities of his
person or costume, as —
"He lived in peace with all mankind,
In friendship he was true;
His coat had pocket-holes behind,
His pantaloons were bine."
The authorship of the song is now traced to a
source sufficiently distinguished to excuse, if excuse
be needed, this brief paragraph on the subject The
Hon. Albert G. Green, of Rhode Island, United
States senator, and otherwise noted, studied law in
his youth at the law school then flourishing in the
town of Litchfield. A fugitive slave from Virginia
— who had taken the name of his former master,
William Grimes — was the proprietor of a small
barber-shop in the same town; and at the negro's
request that Mr. Green should make some verses for
him, the young man, who was an inveterate rhyme-
ster on all sorts of themes, turned out the doggerel
known now for nearly a century (for that was in
1812) as "Old Grimes." The runaway slave's
later years were spent in New Haven, where he is
said to have shaven and shorn the Yale students as
he formerly had the Litchfield law students. He
is also said to have published a pamphlet sketch of
his life, with a portrait, and to have died at New
Haven about 1859.
A NEW DEPARTURE IN READING-ROOMS wins the
admiring approval of visitors to the new Smith
College Library, which, through the generosity of Mr.
Carnegie, of alumnae and friends, and of the trustees
of the Rockefeller Education Fund, now furnishes
the students and faculty with the facilities so long
conspicuously absent at that institution of learning.
The reading-room in question is not the general
reading-room, and is not the reference room, nor
the periodical room; but it is a far more inviting
apartment, designed to attract readers who read for
the pure love of good literature, and not because
• certain books or chapters are "prescribed." The
atmosphere is that of the private, not of the public,
library; the books on the wall-shelves are standard
authors, and will eventually number about twenty-
five hundred volumes presented by classes or by
friends of the college. This quiet sanctum, with its
"still air of delightful studies," might well receive
a more distinctive, more aptly descriptive name than
that of "Standard Authors Room"; but such at
present is its designation. It was furnished by
Mr. Clifford Gallagher, of Boston, in memory of his
daughter Edith, of the class of 1907. It is not
impossible that Mr. Gallagher's wise generosity may
have effected more for the cause of literature at
Smith than if he had given ten times as much money
in founding a professorship for the teaching of those
English authors who now make their mute appeal
from the shelves of the Standard Authors Room.
■ • •
A poet as his own parodist is not met with
every day in the week. A Poe parody on the
already much-parodied "Raven" has apparently
come to light in a New York auction-room. At
Anderson's recently there was sold a copy of the
first edition of "The Raven and Other Poems,"
uncut and "in the original wrappers," and having
with it a manuscript copy of verses in the same
metre and style as "The Raven." These verses
are thought to be in Poe's handwriting and also to
be of his own composing. They certainly have the
Poe swing or "lilt." There are eight stanzas,
which have now found their way into print, and of
which the first may here be reproduced as a sample.
"Leave it not so dark, uncertain! lift again the fallen cur-
tain!
Let us once again the mysteries of that haunted room
explore!
Hear once more that fiend infernal, that grim visiter (tic)
nocturnal!
Earnestly we long to learn all that befalls that bird of
yore.
Oh, then tell us something more.''
The despairing " Nevermore" of the original poem
duly reappears at the end of several of the stanzas
of this parody or sequel.
• • •
Father Tabb, the blind poet, whose death was
briefly noted in our last issue, left behind him the
memory of a sweet and strong and beautiful person-
ality. His exquisite bits of verse, always sententious,
often whimsical, but touched with true poetic feeling,
are known to thousands and have received the tribute
of high praise on both sides of the Atlantic. Less
familiar may be his Lamb-like fondness for the
harmless pun. Like Lamb, he could make his own
misfortunes the subject of a merry jest, but was care-
ful never to wound with his wit the sensibilities of
others. One day, when his sight was failing with
alarming rapidity, he told his students (at St Charles's
College, near Ellicott City, Maryland) that he was
planning to go to Baltimore and intended to take his
two weakest pupils with him — which stirred high
hopes in the breasts of the smaller boys. But these
hopes were disappointed, though the promise was
kept, for Father Tabb went unattended to consult
an oculist . . .
A trolley library for working people is
forcibly advocated by Mr. Henry F. Marx, librarian
of the Easton (Pa.) Public Library. His plan
somewhat resembles that already in successful oper-
ation in Washington County, Md., and more than
once approvingly noticed by us. Instead of a book-
wagon, such as now makes its periodical expeditions
from Hagerstown, Mr. Marx would have his wheeled
library take the form of an electric car, which, as
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suitable literature; and then, in order to give the
hard-working tax-payer a proper return for his
money, Mr. Marx would have his electrically pro-
pelled library run in on sidings near large depart-
ment stores and mills for the noon hour, to meet
the convenience and attract the attention of book-
hungry employees. Pennsylvania, with its 3644
miles of street railway, he thinks easily able to in-
stitute a trolley-car free circulating library system.
To furnish this service an hour and a half daily to
busy mill hands and shop girls, and others similarly
occupied, would cost, estimates Mr. Marx, $557 a
year, including mileage of sixty-six miles a week,
lighting, heating, wages, and repairs. If this esti-
mate is correct, and if it includes cost and care of
books, one can hardly think of a better use to which
library funds could be applied.
Tax-remission fok educational purposes may
at first have a strange sound to those who are more
familiar with tax-raising for the same praiseworthy
ends. Professor David Y. Thomas, of the University
of Arkansas, pleads forcibly, in the November
"North American Review," for the repayment to
the Southern States of the sixty-eight million dollars
collected as a cotton tax in 1861-1868. The con-
stitutionality of the tax, which varied at different
times from one to three cents a pound on this lead-
ing agricultural product of the South, has often been
seriously questioned; and since our government has
before now paid back other doubtfully legal tax
levies, and since also it would now be difficult if not
impossible to hunt up all the cotton-tax payers, or
their heirs, the writer urges the Congressional appro-
priation of the amount of this tax as a Lincoln
Memorial Fund for the Advancement of Southern
Education. Such a procedure, commendable at any
time, would be especially fitting in this Lincoln cen-
tennial year.
Scotland's recapture of a rare edition of
Burns's early poems is reported from Boston,
where, at the auction sale of the library of the late
James Brown, the Boston publisher, an octavo vol-
ume entitled "Robert Burns's Poems, Chiefly in the
Scottish Dialect," and printed by John Wilson at
Kilmarnock in 1786, when the poet was twenty-
Beven years old, was knocked down at $1025 to Mr.
George Clark of Kilmarnock. The buyer, recently
come from his home in the Burns country, chanced
to hear of the impending sale of this rare and valu-
able book, and made haste to secure the treasure for
the sake of restoring it to its proper home. Of this
one item of plunder, at least, wrested from Europe
by American wealth, our national conscience is now
clear.
• • *
The abuses of dialect-writing are touched
upon in a short and well-conceived article (" Dialect
in Fiction," by Mr. W. Harold Thomson) in a late
number of "The Author." The excessive strain put
upon the plain reader by some ultra-dialecticians is
justly deprecated by the writer of the article.
"Dialect suggested," he well says, " is in every way
more artistic than dialect written phonetically, and
I think I am correct when I say that he who writes
most broadly is he who knows least about it. In-
deed, any attempt to reproduce on paper the exact
pronunciation and intonation of a man speaking in
the vernacular must almost certainly be unsuccess-
ful ; and should it be successful no good purpose is
served, for the reader is irritated by the difficulty
of construing sense from the printed words, and the
writer, being the unconscious cause of this irritation,
is made to suffer." How many readers must have
been vexed by the persistence of some writers in
indulging in dialectic forms that appeal only to the
eye! Why, for example, is "vittles" preferred by
them to " victuals "? Such senseless practices make
their stories look more like the tracts of the Simpli-
fied Spelling Society than a contribution to literature.
The new versus the old in library manage-
ment has been pithily expressed by Chicago's new
librarian, Mr. Henry E. Legler. "The old-fashioned
idea of the duty of a librarian," he is reported as
saying in a discussion of his own theories, which are,
one hopes, soon to be put into practice, " was to save
the books. The modern notion is that it is his busi-
ness to get the books worn out. The books are our
capital. We cannot afford to let this capital lie idle
on the shelves. We must put it out at interest.
The three great problems of the modern library are
—first, distribution; second, distribution ; and third,
distribution." This is excellent, provided only the
wearing-out process does not so far outstrip replace-
ment that the readers shall be reduced to the neces-
sity of seeking intellectual sustenance in the calf-
bound volumes of the U. S. Government Reports, in
the Proceedings of the Society for the Promotion of
Pedantry, or in the occasional publications of the
Simplified Spelling Board.
• • •
A new play by Madame Sarah Bernhardt,
who has written plays before this, besides trying her
hand at painting and sculpture and memoir-writing
and tiger-taming and heaven knows what not, is
announced for production at the Theatre des Arts
in Paris. The play was written in the summer vaca-
tion of the wonderful woman who for the preceding
eleven months had been acting eight or nine times
a week in other people's plays; and it has not yet
received a name. Those who have witnessed her
"Adrienne Lecouvreur," thrown off in a mood of
dissatisfaction with the long-established version of
that actress's history, will not doubt that Mine.
Bernhardt's vacation has been spent to good purpose.
■ • •
Library methods of handling municipal sta-
tistics are coming into vogue among the more wide-
awake communities. The scientific, if sometimes
painfully rigid, classification of all printed matter, the
perfecting of the card-catalogue, and the elaboration
of the reference and cross-reference system of index-
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able to legislate intelligently and wisely and progres-
sively. The latest bureau of municipal statistics is
to have its abode at the University of Illinois, where
Professor James W. Garner, head of the department
of political science and a member of the Urbana
City Council, has been appointed by a convention of
Illinois mayors as organizer and director of the new
bureau. The increasing adoption by governmental
bodies of what are virtually modern library methods
for keeping themselves informed of what is being
done and what it is best to do in matters of civic
administration, is an involuntary and a sincere com-
pliment to the leaders in library science.
FROM LITERARY LONDON.
(Special Correspondence of The Dial.)
Nothing has yet been published, I think, either in
the English or American newspapers, concerning Mr.
Swinburne's literary remains; although it has been
hinted that Mr. Theodore Watts-Dunton will write
his life. As a matter of fact, I do not believe the
book will ever be written. Mr. Watts-Dunton has
undoubted genius, and would make a beautiful book
upon his friend; but one of his talents is a talent for
procrastination. He waited years before he pub-
lished his charming novel "Aylwin." Any other
writer would have sent it into the world years be-
fore. "Aylwin" has been a tremendous success in
this country, and I suppose also in America. I
believe I am right in saying that in a series of well-
printed shilling books which have sold to the extent
of many thousands in England, "Aylwin " has sold
best of all. Then Mr. Watts-Dunton promised us
another novel, which it was understood at least two
years ago was quite ready for publication. He ar-
ranged with another publisher for a volume to be
called by the picturesque title "The Old Familiar
Faces," which would have introduced us to many of
his old friends whose obituaries he wrote in "The
Athenaeum," brilliant little monographs that some of
us have taken pains to convey to our scrap-books.
In view of these facts, it does not seem likely that
Mr. Watts-Dunton will ever really carry out his in-
tention of writing the biography of his good friend
and brother poet.
Meanwhile I am in a position to state — and here
make, I believe, the first announcement of the fact
— that there will be two volumes of Mr. Swinburne's
essays given to the public at an early date. One
of these is a volume devoted to some of Shakespeare's
great contemporaries ; for Mr. Swinburne's interest
in the Elizabethan Dramatists was profound. There
was no subject upon which he so delighted to con-
verse in that pleasant library of his in which it was
my privilege to discuss the subject with him. His
window overlooked the garden of the house at Put-
ney, and there were points at which it recalled to
me O. W. Holmes's library overlooking the Charles
River at Boston, where also I have been. The sec-
ond volume of Mr. Swinburne's writings will consist
of a gathering together of his various uncollected
papers, including the masterly essay on Dickens
that he wrote for the "Quarterly Review," his first
signed contribution in that great periodical. Among
other Dickens matter in this volume will be the
essay that Swinburne wrote as an introduction to
"Oliver Twist," for a new edition of Dickens pub-
lished in New York.
This does not exhaust my store of information
concerning Mr. Swinburne and his posthumous
works. Apart from the two volumes that I have
referred to, there are to be no less than seven little
books which will for the present be privately printed
by Mr. Thomas Wise, the well-known collector of
London. Only a few copies have been printed from
type, and I do not suppose that more than two
copies have reached America. The series contains,
for example, a prose romance entitled "The Mar-
riage of Mona Lisa"; there is another, also in prose,
entitled "The Portrait"; and a third prose volume
is entitled "The Chronicle of Fredegond." There
are also before me — I count them of priceless
value — four little pamphlets containing ballads.
One is entitled "Margaret"; a second, "Lord
Scales "; a third, " Lord Soules"; a fourth, "Border
Ballads." No doubt these seven little books will
ultimately be given to the public — probably in a
single volume; but they are practically unobtainable
to-day. I think, therefore, that many of Swinburne's
admirers will be glad to see one of these ballads
printed in The Dial, although it is of considerable
length. It may be remembered that, as a North-
umbrian, Mr. Swinburne was brought up in that
border-land between England and Scotland which
inspired this aspect of his poetry.
DURIESDYKE.
A BALLAD.
The rain rains sair on Duriesdyke,
Both the winter through and the spring;
And she that will gang to get broom thereby
She shall get an ill thing.
The rain rains sair on Duriesdyke,
Both the winter and the summer day;
And he that will steek his sheep thereby
He shall go sadly away.
"Between Crossmuir and Duriesdyke
The fieldhead is full green;
The shaws are thick in the fair summer,
And three wellheads between.
"Flower of broom is a fair flower,
And heather is good to play."
O she went merry to Duriesdyke,
But she came heavy away.
"It's I have served you, Burd Maisry,
These three months through and inair;
And the little ae kiss I gat of you,
It pains me aye and sair.
"This is the time of heather-blowing,
And that was syne in the spring;
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The first kiss their twa months had,
Sae fain she was to greet;
The neist kiss their twa months had,
I wot she laughed fu' sweet.
"Coyer my head with a silken hood,
My feet with a yellow claith;
For to stain ray body wi' the dyke-water,
God wot I were fu' laith."
He's happit her head about wi' silk,
Her feet with a gowden claith;
The red sendal that was of price,
He's laid between them baith.
They did not kiss in a noble house,
Nor yet in a lordly bed;
But their mouths kissed in the high heather,
Between the green side and the red.
"I have three sailing ships, Maisry,
For red wheat and for wine;
The main topmast is a bonny mast,
Three furlongs off to shine.
"The foremast shines like new lammer,
The mizzenmast like steel;
Gin ye wad sail wi' me, Maisry,
The waret should carry ye weel.''
"Gin I should sail wi' yon, Lord John,
Out under the rocks red,
It's wha wad be my mither's bower-maiden
To hap saft her feet in bed?
"Gin I should sail wi' you, Lord John,
Ont under the rocks white,
There's nane wad do her a very little ease
To hap her left and right."
It fell upon the midwinter,
She gat mickle scaith and blame;
She's bowed hersell by the white water
To see his ships come hame.
She 'a leaned hersell against the wind,
To see upon the middle tide;
The faem was fallen in the running wind,
The wind was fallen in the waves wide.
"There's nae moon by the white water
To do me ony good the day;
And but this wind a little slacken,
They shall have a sair seaway.
"O stir not for this nied, baby,
O stir not at my side;
Ye '11 have the better birth, baby,
Gin ye wad but a little abide."
Readers of The Dial will perhaps be interested
in seeing the following hitherto unpublished lines
by Mr. Swinburne, which form a dedication to the
faithful friend of years whose full name is Walter
Theodore Watts-Dunton. Ten copies of this little
dedication have been printed by Mr. Wise, of
London, for the benefit of his friends; and the orig-
inal MS., I believe, is in the possession of a citizen
of Chicago, Mr. Wrenn.
To W. T. W. D.
(Written upon the fly-leaf of a copy of " Sympathy, and Other
Poems," by 8. J. Pratt; 8vo. 1807.)
. The tear of Sensibility bedews
These votive offerings of no vulgar Muse.
The effusions of the Bard's compatriot show
A bosom no less apt to melt and glow.
Sure orient Anglia's native airs refine
Each pensive heart that prompts each fervent line.
Tho' higher may stand our elder, what of that?
No living hand may strike the lyre of Pratt. A. C. S.
Three times each year we open our paper with a
lively expectation that a certain number of our
acquaintances will have changed their designation
from plain "Mr." into "Lord" or "Sir." The
three occasions are the late Queen's Birthday, May
24th; the present King's Birthday, November 9th;
and the first of January of each year. The New
Year's honors, as they are called, are generally
understood to be restricted to official persons; but
in May and November we may always look to see
well-known names. My interest in these is mainly
restricted to literature. Were it discreet, one could
reveal some astonishing facts with regard to people
who have not got titles but want them, and others
who have been offered titles and have refused them.
Three of the leading English novelists of our day,
for example, have all refused a knighthood. Yet it
is hardly a secret that there are several novelists
flourishing among us who would almost give their
ears to be possessed of one. The list that has
recently been sent out contains one name generally
esteemed alike in English literature and English
journalism. This is Dr. Robertson Nicoll, now Sir
Robertson Nicoll, or Sir William Nicoll as he will
prefer to be called. His title is a recognition of his
stalwart defence of Mr. Lloyd George's Budget;
but it is as an acute literary critic and scholar that
I most admire the new knight. His knowledge of
nineteenth-century literature is probably greater
than that of any living contemporary, and some day
we shall see good evidence of this in the successive
volumes of his history of that period. The first
volume will not appear for at least two years, how-
ever.
I do not attach much importance to the subject of
the best-selling books; for the best-selling books, at
least in this country, are usually the worst written.
But it may interest American readers to know of cer-
tain books that have been reprinted in this country
during the past few days. They include S ven Hedin's
and Shackleton's well-known volumes; also, several
of the color books that I named in my last letter,
including the Omar Khayyam of Dulac. There is
also a brisk sale for Mr. De Morgan's new novel,
the inordinate length of which seems not to have
deterred the book-buyer. Mr. Kipling's latest vol-
ume also is having an extraordinary sale.
Clement K. Shorter.
London, December 5, 1909.
A biography of Timothy Flint, pioneer, missionary,
author (1780-1840), will be issued shortly by the
Arthur H. Clark Co. of Cleveland. It is the work of
Professor J. £. Kirkpatrick, of Washburn College,
Topeka, Kansas, and will be the first published life of
a man who was an important factor in the early history
of the central, southern, and western parts of the United
States. The author, by diligent research work, has
brought to light a great deal of new material pertaining
to the early history of the United States, and the book
should prove a distinct addition to our permanent his-
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A Great Mind ry the Making.*
The Emerson centenary, in 1903, was marked
in the book world by the publication of a com-
plete annotated edition of Emerson's works, and
it was intended to supplement his more formal
writings with the journals whose daily entries
he drew upon for the raw material — and not
seldom, too, for the finished fabric — of his
lectures, which were afterward further elabor-
ated for appearance in book form. Mr. James
Elliot Cabot, the literary executor of the Con-
cord sage, felt himself too old to undertake the
editing of these journals, which cover more than
half a century, and desired Emerson's son, Dr.
Edward Waldo Emerson, to assume the task.
"Only take time enough," he said; " do not al-
low yourself to be hurried." The request was
complied with, and, assisted by Emerson's grand-
son, Mr. Waldo Emerson Forbes, the editor has
now issued two volumes of generous extracts
from the earlier journals, bringing this remark-
able autobiography of a mind (or, rather, of a
soul) down to the end of 1832 — the writer's
thirtieth year.
Emerson's old friend and schoolmate, William
H. Furness, has written of him that he never
played as other boys play, but that he dwelt
apart and sought his recreation in books and
self-communing and the sympathetic enjoyment
of Nature. "It was as natural for this boy to
write," says his son and editor, in introducing
his copious journals, " as to another to play ball,
or go fishing, or experiment with the tools of a
neighbour carpenter, or feel out tunes on a musi-
cal instrument." As was to have been expected,
there is frequent self-scrutiny and some self-
upbraiding in the young student's diary; but
intellectual dissipation appears to be the worst
offense he has to charge himself with as he con-
templates the range and variety of his reading
and speculation. He also regretted that he
found it so difficult to meet his fellow-men on
a common ground of sympathy and under-
standing. The subordinate place that a person
of rare endowments united with somewhat
over-delicate sensibilities commonly finds him-
self obliged to take in general company was far
from being the position to which he felt himself
entitled. The following confessions, written in
•Joitbnals of Ralph Waldo Embrson. With annota-
tions. Edited by Edward Waldo Emerson and Waldo Emerson
Forbes. Volume I., 1820-1824. Volume II., 1824-1832. Illus-
trated. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.
his twenty-first year, reveal the writer's noble
discontent.
"... I must further say that every comparison of
myself with my mates that six or seven, perhaps sixteen
or seventeen years have made, has convinced me that
there exists a signal defect of character which neutralizes
in great part the just influence my talents ought to have.
Whether that defect be in the address, in the fault of
good forms, — which, Queen Isabella said, were like
perpetual letters commendatory—or deeper seated in an
absence of common sympathies, or even in a levity of the
understanding, I cannot tell. But its bitter fruits are a
sore uneasiness in the company of most men and women,
a frigid fear of offending and jealousy of disrespect, an
inability to lead and an unwillingness to follow the cur-
rent conversation, which contrive to make me second
with all those among whom chiefly I wish to be first.
"Hence my bearing in the world is the direct oppo-
site of that good-humoured independence and self-
esteem which should mark the gentleman. Be it here
remembered that there is a decent pride which is con-
spicuous in the perfect model of a Christian man. I am
unfortunate also, as was Rienzi, in a propensity to laugh,
or rather, snicker. I am ill at ease, therefore, among
men. I criticize with hardness; I lavishly applaud; I
weakly argue; and I wonder with a < foolish face of
praise.'"
Intimately revealing and profoundly significant
are such fragments of self-examination, and for
the sores and bruises of many an aspiring and
stumbling young reader there will be found
in them a most soothing balm. Again, such
passages as the following, the utterance of an
eighteen-year-old boy, have a wonderful way of
striking a responsive chord. The same thought
is expressed by George Eliot in the ripeness of
her genius, but her words are winged with a
force and insight no greater than that com-
manded by the youthful Emerson.
"Never mistake yourself to be great, or designed for
greatness, because you have been visited by an indistinct
and shadowy hope that something is reserved for you
beyond the common lot. It is easier to aspire than to
do the deeds. The very idleness which leaves you leis-
ure to dream of honour is the insurmountable obstacle
between you and it. Those who are fitly furnished for
the weary passage from mediocrity to greatness seldom
find time or appetite to indulge that hungry and boister-
ous importunity for excitement which weaker intellects
are prone to display. That which helps them on to emi-
nence is in itself sufficient to engross the attention of all
their powers, and to occupy the aching void. Greatness
never comes upon a man by surprise, and without his
exertions or consent. No, it is another sort of Genii
who traverse your path suddenly; it is Poverty which
travels like an armed man; it is Contempt which meets
you in the corners and highways with a hiss, and Anger
which treads you down as with the lightning. Greatness
is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it
must be possessed long before it is acknowledged."
A year later he writes again in the same vein,
acknowledging his strong desire to take a high
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but also admitting that "every young man is
prone to be misled by the suggestions of his own
ill-founded ambition, which he mistakes for the
promptings of a secret Genius." The arch foe
to the realization of greatness this indefatigable
youth finds to be "the demon Indolence."
Passages utilized by Emerson in his lecture
writing have been, as a rule, omitted in the
editing of his journals; but it is impossible to
turn the pages without chancing on many a
familiar or favorite thought whose more mature
expression is to be found in one of the essays or
addresses. More than once the great law of
compensation moves him to reflection. At the
age of nineteen we find him writing in this
strain:
"Thus knowledge is a good; but it must be acquired
in different ways, and there is no single way which com-
bines the advantages of all the others. The advantages
which one man enjoys by access to unusual sources of
improvement do, by some necessity, deprive him of
admittance to other sources equally rare and rich. Is
he opulent, and commauds the privileges of libraries
and schools? he wants that vigour and eagerness to use
them which Necessity gives. Is he a traveller and borne
by the winds to every foreign clime, and does he trans-
act affairs amidst the famous ruins of each continent ?—
then his taste has been uncultivated and he views them
all with indifference. Has he wit and industry sufficient
to grasp all knowledge ? — poverty shuts up with iron
bars every avenue to him."
Eight years later, with his heart vibrating to
the iron string of self-reliance, he sets down
some admonitions against self-distrust. "I
have sometimes wished," he confesses, "I had
not some acuteness or minuteness of observation
that seemed inconsistent with dignity of char-
acter; but thus to wish seems to me now to be
false to one's-self, to give up a tower in my
castle to the enemy which was given me as a
bulwark of defence." And thenceforth he scorns
to imitate, scorns to be a secondary man, as he
expresses it.
The editor has closed the record of every
year or two with a list of authors or books men-
tioned or quoted in the journals of that period.
In those early years Milton and Shakespeare
were conspicuous favorites, with the Greek poets
and philosophers in high esteem. In fact, the
great thinkers of whatever age or race early
claimed his attention. His reading was wide,
and must have been somewhat desultory; hence
his confession of intellectual dissipation as his
"cardinal vice." The charm exerted upon him
by so many branches of learning and literature,
and also by the fine arts, is thus touched upon
in a letter (copied in his journal of 1827) to
his Aunt Mary.
"It seems to me lately that we have many capacities
which we lack time and occasion to improve. If I read
the Bride of Lammermoor, a thousand imperfect sugges-
tions arise in my mind, to which could I give heed, I
should be a novelist. When I chance to light on a verse
of genuine poetry, it may be in a corner of a newspaper,
a forcible sympathy awakens a legion of little goblins in
the recesses of the soul, and if I had leisure to attend
to the fine tiny rabble, I should straightway become a
poet. In my day dreams, I so often hunger and thirst
to be a painter, beside all the spasmodic attachment I
indulge to each of the sciences and each province of
letters. They all in turn play the coquette with my
imagination, and it may be I shall die at the last a for-
lorn bachelor jilted of them all."
That Emerson had not only some vague long-
ing to be a painter, but also some skill as a
draughtsman, is one of the pleasant revelations
of his early journals, which are occasionally
adorned with human heads in pen-and-ink,
sometimes from living models, and sometimes
probably from fancy. A few of these essays
in art are reproduced in the published volumes,
and though hastily executed they are by no
means the scrawls of a wholly ungifted hand.
The passion for poetry is evinced not only in
quotations and allusions, but more interestingly
in frequent bits of metrical composition from
the writer's own pen. Some of these early
verses have been polished and preserved in the
published " Poems," but the greater part were
allowed to serve their purpose merely as exer-
cises in poetic expression. These specimens of
draughtsmanship and of versification make one
inclined to dispute what his old schoolmate,
already mentioned, says of him in the Cabot biog-
raphy. "Ralph and I used to sit together,"
writes Mr. Furness. "I can see him now, at
his copy-book; quite a laborious operation it
appeared, as his tongue worked up and down
with his pen. But then, thank Heaven! he
never had any talent for anything, — nothing
but pure genius, which talents would have over-
laid." Rather it was the genius and not any
one of the talents that soon got the upper hand
and gave to the world genuine Emersonian es-
says and poems, instead of characterless por-
traits or novels or other productions of mere
talent.
The high esteem in which Mary Moody
Emerson stood with her nephew is abundantly
proved by the care and thought bestowed upon
his letters to her, letters which he often copies
into his journal together with her letters to him.
She had, as Emerson expressed it, "the fatal
gift of penetration," and promptly made herself
hated by many of those whom she met, because
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ably scrupled not to make them.aware of their
transparency. The value to her nephew of her
example and admonitions becomes increasingly
evident as we study the letters that passed
between them. The originality and force re-
vealed in her epistolary style are in every way
admirable.
The family portraits and other illustrations
included in these first two volumes are wisely
chosen and of decided interest. That the later
volumes, covering the years from 1833, when
Emerson first visited Europe, down to the time
of his full maturity, will contain more that is of
literary excellence, is what may be confidently
expected; yet the freshness and young hope and
eager acquisitiveness that so agreeably meet one
in the earlier journals have a charm that must
necessarily be wanting in the later.
Percy F. Bicknell.
The Charm of Paris.*
When one comes regretfully to the last page
of Mr. E. V. Lucas's latest book, "A Wan-
derer in Paris," an invitation to him takes form
in one's mind: "The readers of The Dial re-
quest the pleasure of Mr. Lucas's presence in
New York and Chicago, for the purpose of ren-
dering such pen-pictures as he has given us of
Paris and London, and of the picturesque cities
of Holland. R.S.V.P."
Our invitation should include Mr. Walter
Dexter, whose paintings, reproduced in color,
add greatly to the charm of the volume.
They have the exquisite carelessness acquired
by infinitely careful workmanship.
To grasp and retain the very essence of the
charm of the places he visits, and to convey an
intimate sense of that quality to his readers, —
this is the difficult task Mr. Lucas accomplishes.
His books are not for the specialist, though the
specialist should enjoy them; nor for the tour-
ist's valise, though they are in a sense guide-
books, idealized guide-books. The catholic in-
terests of their author embrace the diverse tastes
of a multitude of readers. Each fancies that his
own Paris or his own London is that phase of
which Mr. Lucas is especially the partisan. The
only class of readers who might quarrel with
Mr. Lucas are butchers and sewer-contractors;
for he insists that the tourist's partiality for visit-
* A Wanderer in Paris. ByE. V.Lucas. With sixteen
illustrations in color by Walter Dexter, and thirty-two repro-
ductions from works of art. New York: The Macmillan Co.
ing the abattoirs and the sewers of Paris is a joy-
less one. But then, probably, few butchers and
sewer-contractors read Mr. Lucas. His risk of
unpopularity is, after all, slight.
For the rest of us, little is wanting. Descrip-
tions of pictures and statuary often fail to carry
their message; but in this book we are planted
squarely in front of them, spectacles on nose,
and if we don't see them the fault is our own,
not Mr. Lucas's. The boulevards and bridges
— those wonderful bridges of Paris — are not
seen from a distance, dimly ; we cross and recross
them, arm in arm with our delightful guide.
The public buildings are historic monuments,
but they have vitality also; we are told what
happened in them yesterday, and what is going
on to-day. The quays are full of delight to us,
whether we are looking on while Charles Nodier
slips a book into those capacious pockets, "quarto
size," or whether we watch the gamin of to-day
dive into the Seine. We fairly feel the thrill of
the bargain-hunter in the shops. And as for the
cafes,—well, one may be envious of dinners long
since eaten; the sinfulness of envy is confined
to its present and future tense.
Mr. Lucas has the gift of discrimination
among words. Notre Dame, says he, is "to-
ward evening, in the gloom, mysterious and a
little sinister "; the old districts offer " alluring
prospects of narrow streets and high and ancient
houses; — over all, that sense of thorough insan-
itation which so often accompanies architectural
charm in France and Italy and which seems to
matter so little to Latin people." And here
Mr. Dexter's work supplements that of Mr.
Lucas with insight and sympathy. Alluring
indeed are the streets in which he has set up his
easel. His buildings are faithful because they
are suggestive, leaving something to the reader's
imagination or his memory. The Parisiennes
who cross his boulevards are dainty and viva-
cious—and half an inch in height.
Unpretentious, Mr. Lucas never seeks to im-
prove the ultimate expression; he often culls
from Carlyle, and on occasion from others.
Pater and Lowell present us to Monna Lisa.
As to the Venus of Milo, Mr. Lucas speaks
for himself:
"You see her before you all the way along her cor-
ridor: she stands quietly and glimmeringly beckoning
at the very end of it, alone, before her dark red back-
ground. Why the Venus of Milo is so radiantly satis-
fying, so almost terribly beautiful, one cannot explain;
but there it is. It is a cold beauty, but it is magical too;
it dominates, controls. And with it there is peace. The
strangest thing of all is that one never misses the arms.
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And of the Winged Victory:
"It is on the first landing of the Escalier Daru, at
the end of the Galerie Denon, that one of the most
splendid things in the world is to he found: it has
been before us all the way along the Galerie Denon,
that avenue of noble bronzes, the first thing that caught
the eye. Everyone has seen photographs or models of
this majestic and exquisite figure, but it must be studied
here if one is to form a true estimate of the magical
mastery of the sculptor. The Victory is headless and
armless and much mutilated; but that matters little.
She stands on the prow of a trireme, and for every one
who sees her with any imagination must for all time be
the symbol of triumphant and splendid onset. The
figure no doubt weighs more than a ton — and is as light
as air. The ' Meteor' in a strong breeze with all her
sails set does not convey a more exciting idea of com-
manding and buoyant progress. But that comparison
wholly omits the element of conquest — for this is
essential Victory as well."
As we wander through the Louvre, or in the
streets, with Mr. Lucas, he arrests us with
odd unexpected bits of information, recalled by
chance encounters. We pass a group of copyists
in one of the galleries, and he tells us that the
authorities of the Louvre have five hundred
unfinished copies in their hands abandoned by
their authors so thoroughly as never to be in-
quired for again. In all Parisian streets where
signs are hung, the golden key is prominent.
Mr. Lucas therefore invites us to reflect for a
moment on the proportion of locksmiths to the
population of Paris; since their pretty symbol
is seen everywhere.
"The reason of their numbers is not very mysterious,
when we recollect that practically everyone that one
meets in this city, and certainly all the people of the
middling and working classes, live in flats, and all want
keys. The streets and streets of small houses with which
East London is covered are unknown in Paris, where
every facade is but the mask which hides vast tenements
packed with families. No wonder, then, that the
serrurier is so busy.
"Another sign which probably puzzles many English
people is that of the stoppeur. Bellows's dictionary does
not recognize the word. What is a stoppeur, and what
does he stop? I discovered the answer in the most
practical way possible; for a Frenchman, in a crowd,
helped me to it by pushing his lighted cigar into my
back and burning a hole in it, right in the middle of the
coat, where a patch would necessarily show. I was in
despair, until the femme de chambre reassured me. It
was nothing, she said: all that was needed was a stop-
peur. She would take the coat herself. It seems that
the stoppeur's craft is that of mending holes so deftly
that you would not know there had been any. He
ascertains the pattern by means of a magnifying glass,
and then extracts threads from some part of the garment
that does not show and weaves them in. I paid three
francs, and. have been looking for the injured spot ever
since, but cannot find it. It is a modern miracle."
Mr. Pater or Mr. Lowell would have described
the Venus of Milo or the Winged Victory as well
as Mr. Lucas. But would they have discovered
the function of a stoppeur?
Mr. Lucas, visiting the Mint, coins a word;
"mintners" he calls the employees. With one
of them this pleasant conversation is reported:
"An Englishman's perhaps indiscreet questions as to
what precautions were taken to prevent leakage amused
the guide beyond all reason. 'It is impossible,' he said;
'the coins are weighed. They must correspond to the
prescribed weight.' 'But who,' my countryman went on,
in the relentless English way, 'checks the weigher?'
'Another,' said the guide. 'But a time must come,' con-
tinued the Briton,' when there is no one left to check —
when the last man of all is officiating: how then?'
Our guide laughed very happily, and repeated that there
were no thieves there; and I daresay he is right. 'Per-
haps,' I said to the English inquisitor, 'perhaps, like
assistants in sweet-shops, they are allowed at first to
help themselves so much that they acquire a disgust for
money.' He looked at me with eyes of stone. I think
he had Scotch blood. 'Perhaps,' he said at last."
If the present reviewer has chosen to quote
Mr. Lucas at his lightest, rather than at his
best, the reviewer and not Mr. Lucas should be
accused of trifling. His serious and eloquent
periods are more frequent than his contagious
humor; and he often shows himself a sharp
critic. On the whole, it may be as well for us
if he postpones his visit to America. There are
still Rome and Florence for his wanderings.
Munson Aldrich Havens.
In Old Virginia.*
Virginia: surely the name is one to conjure
with. Around the name of what other State of
the Union cling so many romantic associations;
so many memories of dramatic achievement;
such an atmosphere of chivalry and gentlemanly
leisure — all the more seductive because so very
far removed from the atmosphere of this twen-
tieth century. Most of us, if the truth were
told, would not exchange the twentieth for the
eighteenth century; but an occasional visit has
all the charm of a vacation in some beautiful
secluded valley. Therefore we owe a debt of
gratitude to Mrs. Sale, and to her publishers,
for the glimpses they have given us into the
homes and lives of the men and women of the
Ancient Commonwealth. Books such as this
have also a more serious value. They gather
together the rapidly-vanishing records of an age
•Manors of Virginia in Colonial Times. By Edith
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that is gone, to be moulded some day, by the
master mind, into a history of the period. An
English reviewer has described those who per-
form this useful service as the hod-carriers of
history. The characterization is apt, though it
sounds a little ungracious. The true historian
is born but once in a great while; and most of
us must be content to toil upward with the bricks
that he may some day call for. If the bricks
are judged worthy, that should be a sufficient
reward.
As historic bricks, one can find nothing but
praise for Mrs. Sale's records, — though it
would be idle to anticipate the judgment of the
master-builder. The only regret one feels is
that she did not crowd more of them into her
hod. It is tantalizing, for instance, to be told
that Colonel Landon Carter, of Sabine Hall,
was on terms of intimacy with the most dis-
tinguished men of his time, and that his corre-
spondence, which has been carefully preserved,
is interwoven with the names of Washington,
Lafayette, Lee, and Randolph, — and yet be
given no glimpse into this most interesting cor-
respondence.
The author of this entertaining book writes
with an enthusiasm which betrays her into some
faults of style. The reader is carried along on
a sea of superlatives that sometimes leaves him
breathless. One may forgive " this superb old
Commonwealth" and "this God-gifted region
in which every loyal American proudly feels a
personal share," but it strains one's powers of
appreciation to be told of " a surpassingly lovely
wooded roadway," with " exquisite glimpses of
the river " leading to an "incomparable green-
sward"; of a mansion that "graces superbly
one of the choicest river sites," and of the
"incomparable ceiling decorations " of another.
But in spite of such defects the reader will find
many things to repay him in the perusal of
Mrs. Sale's book, — even though he should be
a native of Virginia and think that he already
knows a good deal of the history of his State.
Nothing could be more charming than the homes
of Virginia— except their gracious inhabitants.
Virginian hospitality is something more than a
tradition, and those who have not been privileged
to enjoy it to-day may at least gather from these
pages what it meant in the time of our grand-
fathers. These stately halls echoed the voices
of men and women whose names stood for all
that was most worthy in the commonwealth.
They were gentlemen and gentlewomen in the
truest sense of the term. Their hospitality was
as boundless as it was sincere ; and it was exer-
cised in an environment that was peculiarly their
own. These were homes indeed.
One is helped to a keener appreciation of the
character and quality of the manors of Colonial
Virginia by the many well-chosen and admir-
ably reproduced illustrations with which this
book is equipped. For these, and for the gen-
eral make-up of the volume, the publishers are
deserving of much praise.
Lawrence J. Burpee.
Books about Famous Men.*
Napoleon asked his secretary, Las Cases,
when they were starting for St. Helena, " What
can we do in that out-of-the-world place?"
What he actually did do, the degree of influ-
ence that he still exerted, from his island prison,
on the fortunes of France, and so to some ex-
tent of Europe, is told in sufficient detail, and
with constant reference to published and man-
uscript sources of information, by M. Philippe
Gonnard in his profusely illustrated volume
entitled " The Exile of St. Helena." But the
purpose of the book goes further than this: what
the author has primarily tried to do is to deter-
mine the share Napoleon had in generating the
so-called "Napoleonic legend," — that is, the
legend that he was the disinterested advocate of
the principles of 1789; that, himself a Liberal,
he became Dictator only from sheer necessity;
that, wishing for peace, he was repeatedly
forced into war by the European coalition ; that
he supported and proclaimed the law of nations,
and so on. This "Napoleonic legend," so at
variance with many historic facts, the author
thinks may be traced to its source in the writ-
ings and reported sayings of the St. Helena exile.
"The conclusion to which one comes after such
a study as this," says the author in closing, " is
that the man of St. Helena equalled the man of
Austerlitz. He realised there the political mis-
•Thb Exile of St. Helena. The Last Phase in Faet
and Fiction. From the French of Philippe Gonnard. Hlus-
trated. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co.
The Last Kino of Poland, and his Contemporaries.
By R. Niabet Bain. With sixteen illustrations. New York:
G. P. Putnam's Sons.
Francis Joseph and his Times. By Sir Horace Rum-
bold, Bart. Illustrated. New York: D. Appleton & Co.
The Ikon Cardinal: The Romance of Richelieu. By
Joseph McCabe. New York: The John McBride Co.
Francesco Petrarca, Poet and Humanist. By Maud
F. Jerrold. Illustrated. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co.
Corot and his Friends. By Everard Meynell. With
twenty-nine illustrations. New York: A. Wessels Co.


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takes he had made, and, as far as it was in his
power, he endeavoured to make up for them."
The argument is well handled, and the book
may be read with profit and pleasure in connec-
tion with Lord Rosebery's work, "Napoleon:
the Last Phase," which the French author fre-
quently cites. M. Gonnard's competent trans-
lator is unnamed, but deserves at least a closing
word of praise.
A decadent kingdom tottering to its fall, and
hurried over the precipice by a brilliant but irre-
sponsible and morally worthless ruler, is the
Bubject of the late R. Nisbet Bain's readable and
scholarly volume on "The Last King of Poland,
and bis Contemporaries." It is a department
of eastern European history made familiar to
the author by his previous studies and writings,
and he, better than almost any other English
scholar, was fitted to undertake the reading and
critical study of the numerous Polish, Russian,
and other authorities on the deeds and misdeeds
of Stanislaus Poniatowski. Of course it is no
picture of puritanic virtues and austere living
that we are called upon to contemplate; the con-
spicuous position that Catherine II. occupies in
the canvas is a sufficient assurance of that.
Among the episodes (more amusing and perhaps
more instructive than the main events) which en-
liven the narrative is one in which the sorrows
of an underpaid royal librarian, Reverdil, are
serio-comically narrated by the librarian-author.
Insufficient shelving, no charging system, no
classification, poor lighting, and extreme exi-
guity of income, were among the ills afflicting
this royal library; while its custodian was
obliged to marry two of the King's cast-off mis-
tresses (but not simultaneously) in order to
retain his unenviable position. Portraits of
Stanislaus, the " Prince Charming " of the story,
and of celebrated contemporaries, are liberally
supplied.
Sir Horace Rumbold's late diplomatic experi-
ence, as British Ambassador to the Emperor of
Austria, has qualified him to write understand-
ingly of that monarch and his court. "Francis
Joseph and his Times " is the title of a beauti-
fully printed, well illustrated, and agreeably
written volume from Sir Horace's pen. The
public and the private life of the Emperor are
passed in review, his entrance on the scene being
prepared for by five chapters of historical matter
from the close of the eighteenth to the middle
of the nineteenth century. In dealing with
royalties, as with women, the natural impulse is
to be to their virtues very kind and to their
faults a little blind; and this amiable impulse
the author has indulged. But the aged ruler is
surely a majestic figure. One wishes that Sir
Horace might have thrown some light on the
tragic fate of Crown Prince Rudolf, but the sad
event of now twenty years ago is only briefly
touched upon. The ties of politics and race
uniting the Austrians and the Germans are
regarded by the author as a "baneful bond,"
and he views with not unnatural English appre-
hension a possible welding together of all central
Europe " under the hard, unscrupulous lead of
the most aspiring of Powers." The German
bogy dies hard.
"The Iron Cardinal," by Mr. Joseph McCabe,
modestly disclaims any pretensions to complete-
ness as a biography, but, as indicated by its
sub-title, " The Romance of Richelieu," contents
itself with examining the authenticity of certain
romantic legends that have become associated
with Richelieu's name. In other words, this
hero of the elder Dumas and of G. P. R. James
is dragged with all his trappings of romance
about him into the search-light of history; and
the result is the representation of a Richelieu
rather less darkly repellant and ruthlessly ambi-
tious than is the common conception of him. He
has suffered, pleads the author, from two unfor-
tunate circumstances: "He was born into an
age of national lawlessness, and it took a gener-
ation to destroy it"; and his deeds and char-
acter have been made the fruitful subject of
many memoirs from the hands of his enemies,
while those who knew him best and were not
prejudiced against him have left no written tri-
bute to his memory. The complete life of this
wonderful man remains to be written, is in fact
even now in process of writing by the French
historian M. Hanotaux. Meanwhile this less
serious and far less voluminous study of his
character, with its many portraits and other
attractive features, is welcome.
Petrarch's fame, as Miss Maud F. Jerrold
remarks in the preface to her " Francesco Pe-
trarca, Poet and Humanist," was long that of a
poet, his claims to consideration as a humanist
being obscured by the beauties of his lyric verse.
The purpose of her book is to do equal justice
to the author of those Latin studies which are
now attracting increasing attention, and to the
composer of the exquisite sonnets whose modern
imitators have, by their exaggeration of Pe-
trarch's faults of taste, thrown some shadow of
disfavor upon their model. Accordingly, in a
dozen narrative and critical chapters she tells


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the story of his life and work, drawing freely
for illustration on his vernacular verse and Latin
prose, but condescending to the reader's possible
unfamiliarity with those tongues by supplying
translations, apparently her own in most in-
stances. The influence of Petrarch on English
poetry, with the old argument from the Prologue
of the " Canterbury Tales " to demonstrate the
probability of a personal meeting between
Chaucer and his Italian contemporary, is treated
in a chapter on "Petrarca's School.'' The secret
of Petrarch's charm as a man, the author finds
in the fact that his character shows " a total lack
of the obvious and the consistent, and this it is,
perhaps, which makes him so perennially inter-
esting. There is nothing flatter in life than the
people who are so like themselves, of whom we
can predict what they will say and do on all occa-
sions, and the line of conduct they are sure to
pursue." A more careful avoidance of the tau-
tology illustrated by the last sentence would have
made still more excellent this scholarly treat-
ment of an interesting theme. The appended
bibliography, alphabetically arranged, is to be
commended.
One needs only to look upon the portrait of
Corot to feel the charm of his naturalness and
unaffected goodness. In Mr. Everard Meynell's
"Corot and his Friends " this endearing quality
of the man is emphasized, and the reader is
spared the jargon of the studio and the technical
criticism of the expert. To Robaut's voluminous
work on Corot and to the intimate reminiscences
of MM. Dumesnil and Silvestre the author
acknowledges his large indebtedness. In the
compass of three hundred openly printed pages
he has brought together all that the desultory
student of art history needs to know of this
French painter, and the text is illustrated with
a good number of half-tone prints from his
masterpieces. These mechanical reproductions
do but scant justice to the peculiar excellences
of the originals, but they may at least spur on
the reader to make the acquaintance of those
originals. Some of Corot's attributes as artist
and man are reflected in a friend's account of
him: "He is simple, good, and altogether free
from the vices of genius. He is so sweet and
gentle that he hesitates to awake a dozing model.
He is extremely gallant towards women, ex-
tremely good-natured with children. . . . He
has often said to me, 'When I find myself in
one of Nature's beautiful places, I grow angry
with my pictures.' Perhaps the trials of his
youth, the long contest made against his genius,
had left some bitterness in his spirit."
Books about Famous Vomex.*
The lives of actors, and perhaps even more
of actresses, are likely to be full of interesting
and often racy adventures and experiences, and
their biographies have always made good read-
ing. In her copious octavo on "The Incom-
parable Siddons" Mrs. Clement Parsons has got
together a great amount of entertaining matter
relating to the English stage of a century and
more ago, the histrionically gifted Kemble
family, and the brightly shining light of that
family, Mrs. Sarah Kemble Siddons. To be
sure, there are no scandals to lend their wicked
allurement to the pages of such a life as Mrs.
Siddons's,—and, indeed, one of her earlier biog-
raphers, Thomas Campbell, has complained
that from a memoir-writer's point of view his
subject was all" piety and purity," and had, like
the happy nation, no history. "Dear good Mrs.
Siddons!" he exclaimed; " she was a very angel,
but devils make better stuff for biography."
Almost as much as Queen Victoria, says Mrs.
Parsons, she evoked the plain man's respect for
a good and great woman. The author's studies
for her "Garrick and his Circle " have paved
the way to this second contribution to stage
history, and the lack of any recent and detailed
work on her chosen subject makes her book
timely and acceptable. The long list of works
consulted, and the footnotes, appendices, and
index, are evidences of thoroughness and care
on the writer's part. Eight portraits of Mrs.
Siddons, with other illustrations, are provided
for the adornment of the volume.
A literary puzzle, fascinating to not a few
students of Carlyle, has been the guessing of the
original of "Blumine" in " Sartor Resartus."
Jane Welsh, Kitty Kirkpatrick, and Margaret
Gordon have all been suggested. Some plausi-
bly maintain that each has contributed a feature
* The Incomparable Siddons. By Mrs. Clement Par-
sons. With twenty illustrations. New Tork : G. P. Putnam's
Sons.
Carlyle's First Love. Margaret Gordon, Lady Ban-
nennan. By Raymond Clare Archibald. With twenty-one
illustrations, including one in color. New York: John
Lane Co.
The Nine Days' Queen. Lady Jane Grey and her Times.
By Richard Davey. Edited, and with introduction, by Martin
Hume, M.A. With twelve illustrations. New York: G. P.
Putnam's Sons.
The Life of the Honourable Mrs. Norton. By
Jane Gray Perkins. With portraits. New York: Henry
Holt & Co.
Memories of Fifty Years. By Lady St. Helier (Mary
Jeune). With illustrations. New York: Longmans, Green,
& Co.
Madame de Maintenon. Her Life and Times, 1635-
1719. By C. C. Dyson. With a photogravure portrait and
sixteen other illustrations. New York: John Lane Co.


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or two to a composite "Blumine "j but Mr.
Raymond Clare Archibald, in his exhaustive
researches on the subject, now published in a
book entitled "Carlyle's First Love," throws
out Kitty Kirkpatrick altogether, as never hav-
ing inspired a tender sentiment in Carlyle's
breast, and makes "Blumine" a compound of
the other two, of whom he proceeds to set forth
all that is known or knowable about the fair
Margaret. In addition to printed and manu-
script sources of information, the author has for
several years been gathering scraps of knowl-
edge from persons dwelling in various quarters
of the globe; and if we have not now the real
Margaret Gordon before us, it is hopeless to
expect that we ever shall have. Interesting and
full of character she must have been to attract the
young Kirkcaldy schoolmaster; and her extant
and already published letters to him further
demonstrate her possession of uncommon attri-
butes. A frontispiece portrait, done in colors
from a miniature, pictures her physical charms
at the age of twenty-five; and other illustrations
are inserted in the body of the book.
For a second time within a few years, the
pathetic fate of the young and fair and innocent
Lady Jane Grey has been made the subject of
careful historical study. "The Nine Days'
Queen," by Mr. Richard Davey, is written with
studious regard to the philosophy of history, the
causal connection of earlier with later events.
It was by reason of a remarkable chain of con-
spiracies that poor little Lady Jane, sorely
against her will, found herself exalted, at six-
teen years of age, to the perilous height of
Queen of England — for nine days. What
these conspiracies were, and how they resulted
in the tragedy of an innocent girl's execution,
is duly set forth by Mr. Davey. The volume
has two portraits of Lady Jane, strangely un-
like each other, with portraits of contemporary
celebrities.
It is only necessary to look at Hayter's por-
trait of Mrs. Norton to understand why she has
been an object of unusual interest both to con-
temporaries and to posterity. In " The Life of
the Honourable Mrs. Norton," by Miss Jane
Gray Perkins, her vehement personality is again
presented, portrayed largely by herself in the
many letters, some of them never before pub-
lished, which her grandson has placed at the
author's disposal. It is to do her the justice
which Miss Perkins believes she has never before
received, that this fresh narration of her wrongs
and of her vigorous protest against them is
added to the already existing accounts of her
eventful life. The generous space allowed her
to tell her own story in the form of intimate
letters is a striking and admirable feature of the
book. A glimpse of her also through the eyes
of John Van Buren (son of Martin) is thus
afforded: "She was very gracious to him and
he admired her conversation, but her beauty was
so unlike the fragile loveliness of his own country-
women that he was not entirely pleased with
'that superb lump of flesh,' as Sidney Smith
once jokingly called her." A list, two pages
long, of her novels, poems, songs, and miscel-
lanies, is appended. Seven portraits of this
famous granddaughter of the famous Sheridan
are provided, to complete the reader's conception
of her.
Varied and sometimes uncommon have been
the experiences on two continents of Lady St.
Helier, as related in her "Memories of Fifty
Years." Born in Munich, of Scotch parents,
reared in the far North of Scotland, married
first to the second son of Lord Stanley of
Alderley, and after his death to Sir Francis
Jeune (afterward Baron St. Helier), she gained
a knowledge of the world ranging from a rough
Nevada mining camp which she was the first
woman to visit, to the brilliant society that fre-
quented her drawing-rooms in Harley Street.
She calls her delightfully readable book her
"first literary effort," and confesses that she
has published it " with the greatest diffidence,"
bespeaking her readers' charitable indulgence
for what she fears is "a very rash attempt to
provide them with a little amusement." Not-
abilities without number are encountered in her
pages, always making their entrance without
flourish of trumpets, and generally adding much
to the interest of the scene. She speaks, in pass"
ing, of her first meeting Motley—"at my
Aunt Louisa's (Lady Ashburton) one evening
at dinner, and as he came into the room it
seemed almost as if the most magnificent Van-
dyck you could imagine had stepped out of its
frame." A few portraits, including the author's,
and some sketches by Mr. Harry Furniss and
Sir Frank Lockwood, add to the interest of this
unassuming but very attractive volume.
Convenient length and a readable style are
the chief merits of Mr. C. C. Dyson's " Madame
de Maintenon." The excuse for adding one
more to the almost countless volumes inspired
by that remarkable woman is thus given: "For
the benefit of those who have neither the money
to buy nor the time to study such voluminous
records of life at the Court of Louis the Great,
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and against disputed points, has extracted from
the mass of superfluous matter the leading traits
of her character and the most interesting epi-
sodes of her life, and put them together in a
concise form, hoping to give a clear conception
of Mme. de Maintenon and her career to the
present generation, who for the most part have
but an indistinct idea of her personality, and
still more so of the scope of her great work St.
Cyr." In the weighing of evidence, the scales
tip in favor of Mme. de Maintenon, the book
being warmly eulogistic from beginning to end.
Frequent portraits help to sustain the interest,
a list of twenty-six leading French authorities
precedes the narrative, and a short index is
appended.
Some Recent Books or Travel.*
A family flight «by motor-car through Dalmatia,
Montenegro, Herzegovina, and Bosnia is briskly de-
scribed and copiously illustrated in Mrs. Frances
Kinsley Hutchinson's "Motoring in the Balkans."
Something of the breathless speed of the petroleum
chariot is felt in the exhilarating style of the narra-
tive, which whirls the reader from Trieste down along
the coast of the Adriatic as far as Cetinje, and then
northward again, but further inland, to Vienna.
The Leader, the Cautious One, the Enthusiast, the
Gentle Lady, and Madame Content, are pleasant
characters, and the whole journey is sufficiently
idealized and dramatized and disencumbered of the
commonplace to make it into a very inviting book.
Nearly fifteen hundred miles were covered in forty-
eight days, thirty-six towns were visited, and no end
of fine scenery was viewed. The pictures, a hundred
and eighteen in number, made from photographs
taken by the author, are in an agreeable brown half-
tone, and as they are on inserted leaves the reading
•Motoring in the Balkans, along the Highways of
Dalmatia, Montenegro, the Herzegovina, and Bosnia. By
Frances Kinsley Hutchinson. With map and over one hun-
dred illustrations from photographs by the author. Chicago:
A. C. McClurg & Co.
Travels in Spain. By Philip Sanford Marden. Illus-
trated. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.
A Journey in Southern Siberia. The Mongols, their
Religion and their Myths. By Jeremiah Curtin. With a
map and numerous illustrations from photographs. Boston:
Little, Brown & Co.
Rome. By Edward Hutton. With sixteen illustrations
in color by Maxwell Armfield, and twelve other illustrations.
New York: The Macraillan Co.
Round the World in a Motor-Car. By Antonio
Scarfoglio. Translated by J. Parker Heyes. With seventy
illustrations. New York: Mitchell Kennerley.
Mexico. The Wonderland of the South. By W. E.
Casson. Illustrated. New York: The Macmillan Co.
The New North. An Account of a Woman's Journey
through Canada to the Arctic. By Agnes Deans Cameron.
Illustrated from photographs by the author. New York:
D. Appleton & Co.
pages are free from the eye-wearying gloss that mars
so many process-illustrated books. Mrs. Hutchinson
is already favorably known through her earlier work,
"Our Country Home."
In a handsome volume entitled "Travels in
Spain " Mr. Philip Sanford Marden tells the story
of a springtime journey from Gibraltar, or really
from Tangier on the African side of the strait, across
the Spanish Peninsula and ending at Monserrat. It
is encouraging to intending travellers to be assured
at the outset that no rancor is harbored in the Span-
iard's bosom against the victors in the unfortunate
passage-at-arms of eleven years ago. The announce-
ment that one is an American is almost always taken
to mean South American; but when the error is
rectified no resentment is manifested. Mr. Marden
believes his book will meet a felt want on the part
of visitors to Spain; and it does possess qualities not
found in Murray or Baedeker. In regard to the
numerous pictures he says they are all but two of bis
own making. They were, however, made with the
help of a camera, and therefore call for no comment
on the illustrator's skill as an artist. To the stay-
at-home traveller, no less than to him of more adven-
turous mood, the book may be commended.
The last book (or next to the last, if we may hope
for his still unpublished Autobiography) we shall
have from the pen of the late Jeremiah Curtin,
learned mythologist and wonderfully gifted linguist,
has appeared under the title, "A Journey in South-
ern Siberia: the Mongols, their Religion and their
Myths," issued by his regular publishers, Messrs.
Little, Brown, & Co. Not less interesting than the
narrative itself is the prefatory account of the author
from the pen of his one-time instructor in mathe-
matics at Harvard, ex-President Eliot. Leaving the
book to speak chiefly for itself, we are tempted to
call attention here to one of Curtin's earliest feats in
language-learning. Seven months and a half before
he entered Harvard he did not know a word of Latin
or Greek; yet at the entrance examination he offered
more of each than was required — as Dr. Eliot in-
Labrador. The Country and the People. By Wilfred
T. Grenfell, and others. Illustrated. New York: The
Macmillan Co.
Going Down from Jerusalem. The Narrative of a
Sentimental Traveller. By Norman Duncan. With illustra-
tions by Lawren S. Harris. New York: Harper & Brothers.
The Bretons at Home. By Frances M. Goatling.
With an Introduction by Anatole Le Braz. With twelve
illustrations in color by Gaston Fanty Lescure, and thirty-
two other illustrations. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co.
The Romance of Northumberland. By A. G. Brad-
ley. With sixteen illustrations in color by Frank Southgate,
R.B.A., and twelve other illustrations. Chicago: A. C.
McClurg & Co.
Diversions in Sicily. By Henry Festing Jones. New
York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
The Land of the Lion. By W. S. Rainsford. Illus-
trated from photographs. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co.
In the Abruzzi. By Anne Macdonnell. With illus-
trations in color by Amy Atkinson. New York: F. A.
Stokes Co.
Back to Hampton Roads. Cruise of the U. S. Atlantic
Fleet from Sau Francisco to Hampton Roads. By Franklin
Matthews. Illustrated. New York: B. W. Huebsch.


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forms us on the authority of the manuscript Auto-
biography. That such a linguist (he knew more
than sixty languages, and spoke all the tongues of
Europe and some of those of Asia) was the right
man to make the most of a journey among the
Mongol tribes, is indisputable. His book is one that
probably no other person could have produced with
equal facility. The illustrations are many, and a
map, with notes and two indices, is supplied.
Described with the pen of an enthusiast, the
"Rome" of Edward Hutton should appeal to those
who are quick to feel the charm of any spot that is
old in story and romance. Adorned with sixteen
colored pictures from the brush of Mr. Maxwell
Armfield, and with twelve uncolored half-tones, the
volume, as published by the Macmillan Co., forms
a handy and attractive pocket companion for the
traveller, and also offers pleasant reading to the
armchair tourist at his own fireside. It is no
unsentimental journey that one makes in Mr. Hut-
ton's company. "I feel," he declares, " the eternity
of Home as I feel the brief sweetness of every
passing moment there: she seems to me as eternal
and persistent as life, as strangely various, as mys-
teriously secret. In her name is married domina-
tion and love, ROMA-AMOR, which none may
ever divide or separate." Strength rather than
domination is etymologically suggested by the Eter-
nal City's name; but that matters little. The book
is evidently the mature fruit of a long and loving
acquaintance with that whereof it treats.
"Round the World in a Motor-Car" (Kennerly)
describes the eight-months tour of the globe made
by Signor Antonio Scarfoglio and two companions,
from Paris westward to Paris again. The author is
a young man, apparently in the early twenties (to
judge by the frontispiece portrait), and he writes
with the young man's fresh interest in everything
visible, audible, tangible, or otherwise perceptible.
There is, too, a juvenile proneness to remarks evi-
dently intended to show smartness, but really show-
ing immaturity and crudeness. The publication of
the book in this country would seem to be rendered
somewhat superfluous by passages like this: "I do
not like the Americans as a whole, just as I do not
like the cheesemonger whom a prize in a lottery or a
sudden rise in the price of potatoes has made wealthy.
There is still too much of the herdsman about them,
and their clothes are still permeated by the smell of
the soil." This is much as though we should judge
the people of Italy from the peregrinating organ-
grinder or peanut-vender that adorn our city streets.
The book is translated by Mr. J. Parker Heyes, and
has seventy half-tone illustrations on inserted leaves,
but no map and no index.
The antique and the modern coexist, side by side,
in the wonderful land of Mexico. The automobile,
the electric street-car and the arc-light have come;
but the aboriginal Mexican with his burro, the car-
gador with his burden, and the old-time village
priest, have remained. "Mexico, the Wonderland
of the South," contains Mr. W. E. Carson's account
of his travels from the Rio Grande on the north to
the Gulf of Tehuantepec in the south; there being
no lack of strange things and persons and events to
describe on the way. Among the things to smile
at is a Mexican restaurant-keeper's attempt to nat-
uralize the breakfast foods of the United States. It
can well be imagined that some of our fearful and
wonderful names for various cereal products strained
the Spanish language to the breaking point. The
promise of profit from the development of tropical
Mexico's exceedingly fertile lands will cheer those
readers who have invested their money in any of
the numerous agricultural or lumber or rubber-
producing enterprises that have already drawn
millions of dollars to that land of amazing commer-
cial possibilities (and some actualities). Pictures
abound in the book, and it is in every way as divert-
ing as such a narrative could well be.
Miss Agnes Deans Cameron, who frankly de-
scribes herself as a school-teacher of twenty-five
years' experience, has varied the rigors of the
schoolroom with a summer's jaunt across British
America, from Winnipeg (the journey really began
at Chicago) to the mouth of the Mackenzie River.
"The New North" is the name she gives to her
account of the expedition. It was an arduous under-
taking for a woman, but her full-length portrait
shows her to be no weakling, and the vigorous style
of her narrative is further proof of her abundant
vitality. She is a loyal Canadian and delights to
sing the praises of her native bind; but in claiming
for Winnipeg a "phenomenal growth " unequalled
by any city on the continent in the last thirty-three
years, she goes a little too far. Our great West and
Northwest can show even more surprising examples
of rapid growth — Seattle, for instance. Through-
out her travels, Miss Cameron used her camera to
as good purpose as her eyes; and she has adorned
her book with more than two hundred interesting
views and portraits. Though heavy to the hand,
the volume is by no means heavy reading.
Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell, ever busy with head and
hands in improving the condition of his chosen people
of chilly Labrador, has collaborated with eleven other
interested investigators and students in the prepara-
tion of a substantial volume entitled " Labrador: the
Country and the People." The burden of the work
has, almost inevitably, been shouldered by Dr. Gren-
fell; while chapters on the history, geology, fauna,
flora, and other belongings or characteristics of the
country, have been contributed by Mr. W.S.Wallace,
Dr. Reginald A. Daly, Mr. Charles W. Johnson, Mr.
Outram Bangs, Miss Mary J. Rathbun, and others.
The missionary-doctor's faith in the rich future of
this sub-arctic region is fairly touching. "Surely
it will come to pass," he confidently affirms, "that
one day another Atlantic City will rise amidst these
unexplored but invigorating wilds to lure men and
women tired of heat and exhausted by the nerve stress
of overcrowded centres." Perhaps so; but not, we
fancy, until the terrible mosquito of the short and
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book has, among other merits, that of dealing with
a subject not yet written to death by earlier authors.
The numerous pictures are an important feature of
the work.
Mr. Norman Duncan and Mr. Lawren Harris
journeyed together from Jerusalem down into
Egypt, pursuing much the same route as that fol-
lowed by Joseph in Bible days; and they have put
their noteworthy experiences into book form, Mr.
Duncan supplying the narrative and his companion
the illustrations. "Going Down from Jerusalem"
succeeds in surrounding itself with the right atmos-
phere without tiring the reader with landscape
descriptions. The modest compass of the volume
is mostly filled with the human element, and many
types of the desert and the vineyard and the silent
hills are skilfully presented. Among these the
"desert detective" is not the least interesting. It
is indeed a marvellous thing, as the author says,
that a man should be able to tell whence a camel or
a wanderer comes — whether from city or moun-
tain, sandy desert, or hard-bottomed waste — by the
mere imprint of his feet. Even further than that,
we are assured that he can determine, from this
footprint, the weight of a camel's load, the tribe to
which a man belongs, tbe manner of his passing,
whether by stealth or openly, and much more be-
sides. The many quaint conversations and anec-
dotes recorded make the book diverting, and the
pictures contribute much in the way of " local color,"
though executed in black and white.
The people and the places of old Brittany have
been visited, partly by automobile, incongruous
though that may appear, by Mrs. Frances M.
Gostling, who records her pleasant outing in "The
Bretons at Home." By following her itinerary she
feels assured that travellers will gain a better knowl-
edge of the Province than by spending their time at
the ordinary tourist resorts, which have ceased to be
distinctively Breton. A seven-page introduction in
French by M. Anatole Le Braz commends the book
to the reader's confidence, and numerous pictures, in
color and in half-tone, stimulate the interest. It is
surely a quaint country, unspoiled by modernity,
where the natives still repair to the graveyard and
seek the silent companionship of the dead when they
wish to have a comfortable smoke, to make love, or
to gossip. The unhackneyed and the unartificial are
found in Mrs. Goatling's pages.
The curiosities, antiquities, legends, ruins, natu-
ral beauties, and other attractions of Northumber-
land have received sympathetic and rather detailed
treatment at the hands of Mr. A. G. Bradley in a
compactly printed octavo entitled "The Romance
of Northumberland." The first chapter is physio-
graphical and historical, the last is devoted to an
account of the battle of Flodden Field, and the
fourteen intermediate ones take up the chief points
of interest, one after another. A map precedes, an
index follows, and sixteen colored and twelve uncol-
ored illustrations are interspersed. The brightness
of the colored pictures hardly accords with pre-
conceptions of the gray ness, approaching sombreness,
of the too-often fog-enveloped regions described;
but doubtless even Northumberland has its summer
days of serenity. As a guide book or travel narra-
tive of the intensive sort, the work bears evidence
of diligence and care and minute research.
An odd whim prompted Mr. Henry Festing Jones
to dedicated his little book of "Diversions in Sicily"
to a certain unborn Enrico Pampalone, to whom he
is to stand godfather as soon as the birth is an ac-
complished fact. The whimsical dedication, which
covers three pages, is followed by other things
whimsical or otherwise diverting in the nineteen
short chapters of the book. A good deal about
marionette theatres and the plays there presented is
entertainingly chronicled, and many Sicilian oddities
of other sorts are also encountered. Although the
writer speaks of his sketching in the course of his-
wanderings, he has furnished no specimen of his
artistic skill, the book being innocent of pictorial
embellishment. The recent cataclysm and other
horrors in Sicily are light-heartedly ignored; in fact,
a part of the volume appears to have been written
before ^Etna's late outburst, and is here republished
after appearance elsewhere.
The hunting parson is more common in England
than in this country; but we have at least one Nim-
rod of the Church, and a lion-hunter at that. The
Rev. Dr. W. S. Rainsford, the well-known former
rector of St. George's, in New York, recently spent
thirteen months in East Africa, hunting big game,
and his book, "The Land of the Lion," describes in
detail, and with many pictures from photographs,
the things he did and saw and heard about in that
huntsman's paradise. Keen on the scent for game
though Dr. Rainsford is, it is not the mere butchery
that engrosses him. Among the divers excursory
speculations and reflections that the book contains is
a little homily on the degeneration of the rhinoceros
under the too-easy conditions of his modern life —
"surely," concludes the preacher-hunter," a striking
illustration, in the animal world, of that universal
truth we are so prone to forget: that easy times do
not always make for real usefulness or greatness."
The literature of African hunting, already abundant,
is increasing in these days ; but a more variously in-
teresting book for the stay-at-home general reader
than Dr. Rainsford's will not soon make its
appearance.
The reviewer seldom has an easier or a pleasanter
task than that of unfolding the merits of Miss Anne
Macdonnell's "In the Abruzzi"; for he need do
little besides quoting a few words from the text,
and recommending that the twelve illustrations after
water-color drawings by Miss Amy Atkinson be
seen. The land is "strange, uncouth, primitive,
little distant from Rome in mileage, incalculably
distant in everything else " — especially in having
no present-day art. "Italy, an Italian sky, an
Italian climate — for summer here on the heights is
divine — and no art! Can the honest Briton at
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But " the picturesque is everywhere, and to an ex-
travagant degree." After relieving the traveller's
mind by assuring him that the mountains are much
safer than London, since brigandage has ceased and
there are only occasional wolves, and informing him
of religion, folk-lore, and ancient art, Miss Mac-
donnell conducts him from one beautiful spot to
another, each with its own " flaunting defiance of the
ordinary," and many of them unknown because " the
guide-books dare not star anything so inconveniently
placed." The people from whom sprang Ovid,
Michetti, the Rosettis, and d'Annunzio (who "has
maladies of the spirit which his people have not"),
are " an old race, and by no means simple. They
have long and unquiet memories; and out of the
past there are survivals and dreams that to-day does
not readily understand." The volume is a thick
octavo, modestly bound, and interesting from begin-
ning to end.
In the form of newspaper letters, and afterward
in the shape of a book, Mr. Franklin Matthews has
already told the story of the Atlantic Fleet's cruise
from Hampton Roads to San Francisco. The
account of the remainder of the voyage, from San
Francisco westward to the original starting-point, has
now been republished from the New York "Sun,"
with added matter, in a companion volume entitled
"Back to Hampton Roads." Forty-six thousand
knots, or nearly twice the circumference of the earth,
were steamed by the participating war-ships, and
enough important points were visited to furnish the
accompanying journalist with material for varied
and interesting letters home. Life on shipboard,
too, is made to appear not at all monotonous by the
resourceful pen of Mr. Matthews. His style in this
volume is as brisk and jaunty as in its predecessor.
The book, with its occasional pictures, is all that one
could ask for in its sort.
Holiday Publications.
n.
Illustrated Editions of Standard Literature.
Two additions are made this year to the Shake-
spearian dramas that may be had in beautifully
illustrated quarto volumes. The latest plays to be
given pictorial settings are "The Merchant of
Venice" and "As You Like It," both published, in
daintily bound large print volumes, by Messrs.
Hodder & Stoughton. For "The Merchant of
Venice," Sir James D. Linton has made nearly forty
pictures. They are richly colored; costuming and
accessories are carefully studied; and as decoration,
or as suggestions for staging the play, they are very
successful. As interpretations of the spirit of the
comedy, they fail; for they are lacking in poetic
imagination. Mr. Hugh Thomson's delightful pic-
tures, — daintily colored, elusive in suggestion,
playful, full of romantic imagination as well as of
humor, —are all that Sir James Linton's are not, and
not all that his are. The stage manager would find
them too slight and simple to be of practical value.
Indeed, they have nothing to do with a matter so
artificial as the stage. Pretty Rosalind asleep on a
bank with woodland elves peering at her beauty;
Rosalind with Celia and Touchstone wearily leaning
against a sturdy Arden oak; Phebe imploring Rosa-
lind to love her, while the neglected sheep stare
stupidly from the nearest hill-side, — no scenes like
these were ever played outside the magic bounds of
Arden and men's minds. It is natural to compare
Mr. Thomson's work in color with Dulac's and
Rackham's. "We miss in it the Oriental richness of
coloring and detail that characterizes the one, and
the wonderful densely peopled fairy world that the
other evokes; but upon turning back to "As You
Like It" we perceive a certain suggestiveness and
lightness of touch, veiled humor and subtlety, which,
if perhaps not so compelling as the qualities of the
younger artists, are very charming, and mark this
volume as a distinct achievement for its illustrator,
and as one of the choicest gift books of the year.
A new "Rackham book" has come to be an
annual event of exceptional interest. This year Mr.
Arthur Rackham has several illustrated volumes to
his credit, but all except one are new adaptations
of old work. The completely new work is to
be found in a reprint of De la Motte Fouque"'s
"Undine" (Doubleday, Page & Co.), the text
adapted from the German by Mr. W. L. Courtney,
with fifteen full-page pictures in color and many
decorative bits in black-and-white by Mr. Rackham.
The " fearsome forest " by the fisherman's cottage,
and the " crystal vault" of waters to which Undine
ever returned, the weird beauty of Undine herself,
and her strange adventures with the knight Huld-
brand, afford Mr. Rackham exactly the right motives.
He strikes no new note, and he offers less material, in
bulk, than usual; which means that the "Undine"
is slighter but no less charming than the other
Rackham books.
Robert Browning's "Dramatis Person®" and
"Dramatic Romances and Lyrics" have been illus-
trated in color by Miss Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale,
and are published by Messrs. J. B. Lippincott Co.
in a companion volume to "Pippa Passes " and "Men
and Women," also illustrated by Miss Brickdale.
The text generally follows that of the first editions;
but the first version of " Saul" is omitted, since that
poem is included in full in the other volume. The
illustrations, which are beautifully reproduced, just
as the text is beautifully printed, emphasize the
pictorial and sensuous elements of Browning's poetry,
rather than its deeper significance. The binding is of
gray buckram, with gold lettering and decorations.
As "The Water-Babies" is certainly a fairy tale
for children of all ages, it would indeed be bad logic
to consider Macmillan's new quarto edition with illus-
trations in color by Mr. Warwick Goble as exclu-
sively or chiefly a book for the very young. Mr.
Goble's style is more like Thomson's than Dulac's
or Rackham's, — quaint, simple, suggestive, occa-
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without effort. On the whole, it is very well suited
to depicting water babies, good fairies, "great fish,"
the caves of the sea, and other matters discussed by
Charles Kingsley. The text is in large, clear print,
and the plates are separately mounted on tinted
sheets.
"Friendship Framed in Flowers," the Misses
Cowles might have called the reprint of Cicero's
"De Amicitia " and Emerson's essay on Friendship,
for which they have decorated the margins, if
they had chosen to be both explicit and alliterative;
but they use only the modest title " Friendship," and
allow the reader to learn for himself what they have
added. The editors have provided for each left-hand
page a quotation on Friendship, from someone who
had a good saying about it—though they have missed
some of the best. But in this case the decorations
are the book. Each page is framed in a flower
border, one of pansies, the next of ragged robins, the
next of anemones, etc. They are the perfection of
conventionalized naturalness, some on gold with line
borders, some without background. (Putnam.)
George Eliot's poem of "Two Lovers " is issued
in holiday dress by Messrs. Moffat, Yard & Co.,
with illustrations in color by Mr. Howard Chandler
Christy. Poet and illustrator do not, at first thought,
seem happily matched; but as "Two Lovers " is not
particularly characteristic of George Eliot, the choice
of artist becomes more or less an arbitrary matter.
Mr. Christy's pictures are in his familiar style of
showing pretty well-dressed women admired by
handsome well-groomed men.
Of additions to well-known gift-book series, we
have the usual quota. There are three new " Chis-
wick Calendars" (T. Y. Crowell & Co.), described
more accurately as year-books, with daily quota-
tions from some classic writer, and a portrait fron-
tispiece in photogravure by way of ornament. The
"Thoreau Calendar" is edited by Mrs. Annie
Russell Marble, the "Wordsworth Calendar" by
A. E. Sims, and the "Stevenson Calendar" by Miss
Florence L. Tucker. — Messrs. Duffield & Co. offer
in their pretty "Rubric Series" Emerson's "Na-
ture," Browning's "Pippa Passes," and " Dickens's
"Christmas Carol." — The new volume in Messrs.
H. M. Caldwell Co.'s "Great Galleries of Europe"
is devoted to the Wallace collection. It consists,
like the rest of the series, of about sixty half-tone
plates, each accompanied by a few lines of descrip-
tion. — The Sesame Booklets" boast a long list of
additional volumes: "Great Thoughts from Rus-
kin," "Wayside Thoughts from Shakespeare,"
"The King of the Golden River," "Goblin Mar-
ket," " Gabriel Gent," " Christmas at Dingley Dell,"
"Bardell vs. Pickwick," "The Pied Piper," "The
Nut-Brown Maid," and " Little Essays Abbreviated
from Bacon." Each of the tiny volumes contains an
appropriate frontispiece, and several are fully illus-
trated.— From the Oxford University Press come
four volumes in the "Oxford Moment Series." One
is bound in vellum, one in flowered silk, one in
plain limp leather, and one in leather embossed with
a graceful design; and all may be had in any of the
four styles thus illustrated. Each has a colored por-
trait frontispiece and colored end-papers. In this
dainty form are presented "The Rubaiy£t of Omar
Khayyam," "Moments with Dickens," "Moments
with George Eliot," and" Moments with Robert
Browning."
Illustrated Art Books.
The three volumes in prettily flowered cloth
binding which are dedicated to the "Modes and
Manners of the Nineteenth Century " (Dutton), and
are translated with revisions by M. Edwardes, from
the text of Dr. Oscar Fischel and Max V. Boehm,
bring forward the awesome subject of clothes in a
way not to be ignored. The paradox of ugly gar-
ments shown in lovely prints is constantly achieved
by these plates from English, French, and German
predecessors of " Godey's Lady's Book." The folly of
fashions could not have more charming exposition.
Besides numerous color prints, there are hundreds
of half-tones, some of them from the paintings of
David, Ingres, or Goya. The text is not to be
ignored, either, with its comments, often incisive,
on history, politics, art, and religion, from 1780 to
1870. But all subjects, as the Sartor himself has
told us, lead to clothes; and the way is pointed by
slight but daring signs of philosophy. We knew
that the Empire costume was the natural outgrowth
of the teaching of Rousseau; but had we considered
that the infinitude of flounces which followed was
"the fitting accompaniment for the medley of
chivalry, romance, Weltechmerz, medievalism, mes-
merism, and God knows what else, which in 1830
were all in turn the chief subjects of interest"?
This sartorial philosophy is not pessimistic, for after
seeing how much worse the hats of 1810 were than
those of to-day the reader is encouraged to hope
that the world is growing more sensible — even
though slowly. He might like to suggest that where
the mass of material is so great, an index for both
illustrations and text would be an improvement, did
he not perhaps feel that these volumes, like some of
the women pictured in them, are too pretty to find
fault with.
One of the notable art volumes of the year, com-
bining in unusual degree beauty of illustration with
brilliancy of authorship, is Mr. Haldane Macfall's
"The French Pastellists" (Macmillan), edited by
Mr. T. Leman Hare. The book is quarto size, so
that the beautifully colored illustrations, which are
all separately mounted, are large enough to produce
their full effect. They are fifty-two in number, more
than half of them exhibiting the work of the master
in pastels, La Tour. Rosalba, Boucher, Chardin,
Perronneau, Boze, and le Brun are among the other
artists represented. If the plates whet one's appe-
tite for information, the quality of the text gives it
yet a keener edge. Mr. Macfall writes of the lives
of the pastellists, the times that moulded their work
and gave it vogue, characterizes their art and esti-
mates their significance. His phrasing is epigram-
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affectation, but always significant. He has caught
characteristic anecdotes, names characteristic quali-
ties, pictures vividly the charm of the age and the
men of whom he writes. His work is much too
profound and scholarly to be summed up in any
brief notice such as this, which can only aim at super-
ficial description for the guidance of holiday buyers.
Some of these will remember with pleasure the
"Eighteenth Century French Prints " of last year,
to which the new study is intended as a companion
volume.
Fart of the satisfaction derived from such a sump-
tuous folio as Mr. Francis Lenygon's "The Decora-
tions and Furniture of English Mansions during the
XVII. and XVIII. Centuries" (Scribner) is that we
ourselves need not live under such masses of mag-
nificence. Still, most of us have enough love of
splendor — atavistic, perhaps — to enjoy seeing the
pictured presentment of the elaborately worked ceil-
ings and stairways of Inigo Jones and Sir Christo-
pher Wren, the impossibly heavy and ornate tables
and chairs of William Kent, the chimney-pieces of
Grinling Gibbons, with their "fruitages, herbages,
gumms, beasts, fowls, etc., exceeding natural all
round," and even the screens and paintings in
"Chinese style " for which the wealthy used to spend
their substance. These striking objects are here set
before us in full-page photographs tastefully mounted
on gray paper, or in page after page of admirable
half-tones. The text imparts no small knowledge of
the decorative work of the great architects whose
genius for these lesser things is often overlooked, and
also of the manufacture of tapestries, carpets, lacquer,
mirrors, and other accessories. Many of the things
are very beautiful, especially the walls in natural
wood; but many of them would be much more beauti-
ful if they were more simple.
History.
St. Paul's Cathedral, like its neighbor Westminster
Abbey, has furnished materials for many books;
and it has been supposed that Dean Milman's
"Annals" would have precluded any attempt at
another comprehensive history of the great cathedral.
But the Rev. William McDonald Sinclair, D.D.,
Archdeacon of London, Canon of St. Paul's, and
Honorary Chaplain to the King, finds a raison d'Ure
for his "Memorials of St. Paul's Cathedral"
(Jacobs) in the fact that Milman's "Annals" were
published in 1868, and since that year many changes
have taken place in the great cathedral, and many
reforms have been instituted in the religious life
which centres therein; so that the " Annals " can no
longer be accepted as an accurate description of the
St. Paul's that now is. Many of the reforms were
due to the energy of the present Dean, Doctor
Gregory, for whom the author has great veneration,
expressed not only in the dedication of the book to
him, but in many ways throughout the volume. For
the early history of the cathedral the author has
drawn chiefly upon Milman's "Annals," but with-
out neglecting other valuable books on St. Paul's
and its famous architect. For the later period,
embracing the last half-century, he has been priv-
ileged to have access to the diaries of the late Robert
Green, Dean's Verger, extending over forty-eight
years of service at St. Paul's. Three chapters of
the book are devoted to extracts from these diaries,
with additions and explanatory notes by the author.
The book is both a history and a guide-book, and
contains many valuable biographical notes of the
Bishops of London, Deans, organists, and others
associated with the life of the great Cathedral. The
numerous illustrations, by Louis Weirter, include
ground-plans of St. Paul's so arranged as to com-
pare its size with St Peter's, Rome, and with the old
St. Paul's; and various details of Sir Christopher
Wren's masterpiece of architecture.
The substantial look of Mr. H. B. Wheatley's
"Hogarth's London" (Dutton), with its sensible
binding, will remind many of us of our first sets of
Dickens and Thackeray; and not inappropriately,
since Hogarth did for London with, his engravings
what the novelists did later with their stories. Mr.
Wheatley has not attempted to supersede in any way
Mr. Austin Dobson's authoritative work on Hogarth,
but has only elaborated a sub-topic. In the thirty
years since he first considered the subject, he has
learned much of the life of eighteenth-century Lon-
don in mansion and tavern, church and court-room,
theatre and hospital; and he divides what he has to
say, apropos of the pictures, under these heads. The
pictures given in the very excellent reproductions
are wisely selected, partly from well-known engrav-
ings and paintings, and partly from rare ones. The
interpretations are in many cases quoted from Ire-
land's " Hogarth Illustrated." Mr. Wheatley does
not despise the absorbing question, "Who was this
meant for?" but traces many of the caricatures to
their originals, often with great detail of time and
circumstance. But after all the detail, the reality
which haunts the reader when he closes the book is
not that of London, but of Hogarth himself, the
"unrelenting, uncompromising, uncompassionate"
moralist who showed London to itself in " one of the
worst-mannered periods of our history." The vein
of tenderness in the artist, which has been, too little
emphasized by commentators, is brought out by his
pictures of the "Shrimp Girl" and of his own six
servants.
The France, or rather the Paris, of a bygone age
is capable of reconstruction out of the innumerable
memoirs and diaries of contemporary French cele-
brities, more readily and more accurately than the
same sort of rehabilitation can be effected for almost
any other country or capital of either hemisphere.
"The Days of the Directoire," compiled from many
and trustworthy sources of information, with occa-
sional calls upon secondary authorities of less un-
doubted reliability, is the product of the diligent pen
of Mr. Alfred Allinson, and is published in a sub-
stantial octavo by the John Lane Co. Among the
half-hundred illustrations occur some curious costume
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graph, chosen at random, affords a glimpse of Paris
life under conditions so difficult for us now to realize.
"The theatres," we read, "were in full swing.
Strange as it may seem, it is nevertheless a fact that
a certain number of houses had never closed their
doors, not even in the worst days of the Terror, and
now, in safer circumstances and under more favour-
able conditions, a score or so were giving regular or
occasional performances. Never had the play been
more popular, or audiences more numerous and
enthusiastic."
Wit and Humor.
The bead necessarily escapes somewhat from wit
pressed into a book, but Mr. William Harvey has at
least preserved a good Hibernian flavor in his " Irish
Life and Humour" (Lippincott). The life is not
described except by Mr. Erskiae Nicol's paintings,
which are reproduced in full color, and show a dozen
or more of the sons of Erin and one or two of the
daughters making themselves happy in various char-
acteristic ways. These homely mobile faces supply
the impression of actuality needed in a five-hundred-
page recital of jokes. Not but that the stories are
good, for they are; they will even satisfy the person
who "thinks they will be better than he expects."
Mr. Harvey does well not to over-introduce them,
and not to pad them, but to give them "straight,"
with only such explanation as is necessary to their
understanding. The jokes and stories are not all
new, and most of them are from books; but who
could make a representative collection of which this
would not be true? It is enough that they are well
told, diverting, and convincingly true to life.
Among the humorous booklets of the season, one
of the wittiest is ''The New Golfer's Almanac for
the Year 1910 '' (Houghton), compiled by Mr. W. L.
Stoddard and sympathetically illustrated by Mr.
A. W. Bartlett. The aim of the book is to do for the
golfer ("a large and necessary class") what the
"Farmer's Almanac " does for the agriculturist, viz.:
to present him with a grist of useful information,
and entertaining and instructive reading, assembled,
in this instance, from the choicest prose and poetry
to be found in golfing literature. — " Fore! The Call
of the Links" (H. M. Caldwell Co.) is a collection
of humorous verse about golfers and some other
people, by Mr. W. Hastings Webling. Mr. Webling
compares golf to life in that " it produces inspiration,
and inspiration begets poetry." There are many
illustrations in tint. — Another "large and necessary
class " is provided for by Mr. Arnold Haultain, who
once wrote about golf, and now writes "Hints for
Lovers" (Houghton), a collection of wise, witty,
cynical, and suggestive sayings about girls, men,
women, love, and love-making, beauty, kisses, en-
gagements, marriage, and other allied subjects. A
charming pink-and-silver binding is, happily, the
only decoration. — " Foolish Questions" (Small,
Maynard & Co.), by Mr. R. Goldberg, is a book for
everybody who has ever been asked a foolish ques-
tion. It may also be consulted with profit and
pleasure by those who have the foolish question
habit. It suggests many apt and conclusive answers
to the queries of the "Bromides" whose idea of
startling conversation is the Inquiry Obvious; and
there are illustrations which further elucidate the
subject. — Mr. Harry Graham's "Deportmental
Ditties" (Duffield & Co.) explain, in flowing verse,
the correct and remunerative behavior for every sit-
uation in life. Whether one is choosing a profession,
making or receiving a proposal, dancing, is at sea
or at table, Mr. Graham has entertaining sugges-
tions to offer. — Mother Goose parodies on the
humors of bridge, bridge rules in rhyme, limericks
exploiting the bridge fiend, the novice, the bad loser,
and other familiar types, make up Miss Mabel Allen
Avery's "Mother Goose on Bridge " (Syracuse, N.Y.,
Lyman Brothers). For the confirmed bridge
player, provided he has also a sense of humor, no
better gift could be devised. — " The Thin Santa
Claus: The Christmas Yard that was a Christmas
Stocking" is the inviting if somewhat cryptic title
of Mr. Ellis Parker Butler's latest story. A re-
minder that Mr. Butler is the author of " Pigs is
Pigs" and "That Pup" will perhaps stand in lieu
of any further account of his latest effort. —" Wags"
(A. Wessels), by Mr. Morgan Shepard, is further
described on the title-page as "The Philosophy of
a Peaceful Pup." The Pup is optimistic as well as
peaceful, and his theories of life will cheer and
amuse all " under-dogs" who read them; and who
is not sometimes in the position of "under-dog"?—
"Lays of a Lazy Dog " (Luce & Co.) are "interpre-
ted " by Mr. D. K. Stevens and illustrated by Miss
Katherine Maynadier Browne. The "Lazy Dog"
is a pampered Boston bull; not so pampered, how-
ever, that he has not had many interesting expe-
riences.—" A Night Out" (Moffat), by Mr. Edward
Peple, is the tale of a Persian cat, also pampered,
who spent one "night out" in plebeian company,
and came back "the morning after" damaged but
happy. — Parents and other relatives of brilliant
children will enjoy the late Rear Admiral Preble's
collection of children's bright remarks, called "Did
Your Child Say This?" (John W. Luce & Co.).
Occasional blank pages headed " What Did Your
Child Say?" gives aforesaid parents and relatives
an opportunity to make choice additions to the
printed collection. — Finally, "The Airship Alma-
nac, a Little Light Literature on High Life" tells
with vivid illustrations, how to get off the earth
and how to get on again, including much excellent
advice on how and when to fall, complete list of
official hospitals of the Aero Club, etc. The author
is Mr. Lewis Allen, "Master of Starts, Doctor of
Gravity." (John W. Luce & Co.)
Holiday Fiction.
The elaborately wrought cover, and the richly-
colored prints from paintings by Mr. Howard Pyle,
draw immediate attention to Mr. James Branch
Cabell's collection of romances which appears under
the rather inadequate title "Chivalry" (Harper).
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Dizain of Queens, of that noble maker in the French
tongue, Messire Nicolas de Caen," dedicated to
Isabella of Portugal in 1470. Inasmuch as indexes
of Romance literature know no such person, Mr.
Cabell is likely to receive credit for inventing both
stories and author; but that is probably the more
credit, since it is well done. The stories have to
do with kings and queens of England, and tell how
Eleanor of Provence, wife of Henry III., repented
her of her bloody deeds when a loyal knight gave
his life for her; how Edward I. tempestuously
wooed Elinor of Castile; how even Isabelle the
Cruel, wife of Edward II., had enough of chivalry
in her heart to forgive the lover who abandoned
her; how Henry V. met Katherine of France "all
in a garden fair," and won her love before history
spied upon them; and how many other brave events
came about. There are tense and tragic situations
in plenty, and each brings out some heroic sacrifice.
The tales are told with a fervor which, however
much it may have characterized the people of the
time, has not crept into the manner of their chroni-
cles. But partly for this reason the tales will be
accepted as breathing the very spirit of "the bleak,
florid age." The troubadour's part is justly repre-
sented by many flowing, ardent songs.
A romance of a few days of Shakespeare's life,
written by Louise Beecher Chancellor and called
"The Players of London," brings "the dark lady"
to life in rather a pretty and ingenious way. Shake-
speare has written " Romeo and Juliet" for the Lord
Chamberlain's Company to play before the Queen,
but at the last moment Philip Condell, on whose
beauty and grace in the part of Juliet the success of
the drama depends, is desperately ill. Resolved not
to fail, Shakespeare and Burbage carry their Juliet
to Whitehall, where by accident Shakespeare dis-
covers that the slender actor is not Philip but his
sister Phyllis. He keeps the secret, and Phyllis
carries off the play better than her brother could
have done. But Shakespeare, and later Southamp-
ton, fall in love with Phyllis, and from the resulting
complication the imaginary heroine emerges with
rather more dignity than either of her lovers. If
the reader is willing that this should be so, he will
like the story ; if not, he will at least grow wise from
the careful study of historic background, and will
gather a possible explanation of some of the sonnets.
The book is a large octavo, bound in violet cloth, the
shade of which is repeated in Mr. Harry B. Mathews's
page decorations. (B. W. Dodge & Co.)
Compilations, Calendars, and Year Books.
A compilation, by Mary Minerva Barrows, of
prose and verse quotations on ''The Value of Happi-
ness" (H. M. Caldwell Co.) shows a commendably
catholic taste. A person ought to get a full view of
the subject when he has before him the sentiments
of the wise, from St. Angustine to Amiel, and from
Epictetus to Whittier. No classification has been
made, with the interesting result that one finds, for
example, Lydia M. Child, John Fiske, Carlyle, and
Horace, on the same page. On the whole, the ex-
tracts lean to the safe and serious, — the name of
Bernard Shaw and even of Dr. Holmes being notice-
ably absent The critic might venture the thought
that such a compilation would be more valuable if
the proportion of famous names were greater, and
those not known or little known were fewer; but
that would prove that he had not reached that mea-
sure of contentment which the book is well fitted to
give. Such contentment, however, is sure to come
to him from the tinted decorations which enclose
the text.
In Mr. Lionel Strachey's selection of "Love
Letters of Famous Royalties and Commanders"
(John McBride Co.) the little god of the bow and
arrows takes up the harp of life and smites on all
the chords with considerable force. Noticeable is
the exceeding softness of the stern warrior in suing
for the favor of his mistress. Marlborough, Nelson,
Gustavus Adolphus, Moltke, all surrender uncon-
ditionally to the tender passion. Among the
"royalties," Henry the Eighth of England, Charles
the First and Charles the Second, Henry of Navarre,
and others, are represented by letters — not invari-
ably to their present or prospective wives. The
necessary introductory matter to the twenty-one
series of letters has been supplied by Mr. Walter
Littlefield.
Mr. Peter Newell has this fall centred his efforts
in behalf of the gaiety of nations upon the " Peter
Newell Calendar" (Harper). Each month has a
verse and a picture, into which is deftly introduced
the necessary calendar, the excuse for all this admir-
able fooling.—Serious-minded readers will like Mr.
John T. McFarland's calendar "A Year with the
Master." There is a sheet, printed in two colors,
for each week of the year, giving the Sunday-school
lesson, daily Bible readings, and an extract chosen
from Dr. McFarland's book "Etchings of the
Master."—" The Farm Calendar" has twelve tinted
sheets, each with a landscape appropriate to the
month, and a verse, expressive of farm atmosphere,
by Mr. John Russell Hayes. (Philadelphia, Pa.:
Biddle Press.)
"The Calendar of the Fellowship for 1910"
(Boston : Bacon & Brown), compiled by Miss Harriet
Mason Kilburn, is a year-book with a page for notes
for each week and a corresponding page of selected
quotations. Miss Kilburn has worked upon the
theory that the spirit of fellowship is the dominating
note of the time; and the quotations that interpret
this spirit have been drawn from the writers of all
ages, with a series from Morris's " Dream of John
Ball" as a thread of connection among them.
"The Sense and Sentiment of Thackeray" (Har-
per) has been culled by Mrs. Charles Mason
Fairbanks from the novels and correspondence.
Thackeray, as Mrs. Fairbanks notes in her intro-
duction, has not been generally considered a quota-
ble writer; but she finds ample material to fill a
pocket volume, which is bound in red limp leather,
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A new anthology for the man who smokes has
been arranged by Mr. Joseph Knight, and is pub-
lished in a small volume with photogravure frontis-
piece by Messrs. H. M. Caldwell Co. It is entitled
"A Smoker's Reveries," and contains verses new
and old, including many written especially for this
volume.
Miscellaneous Holiday Books.
Hunters who care for the history of their sport
and have not already possessed themselves of the
Messrs. Baillie-Grobman's folio edition of "The
Master of Game" will grow both wise and happy
over the attractive smaller edition which the same
editors have prepared of this work (Duffield & Co.).
This is the oldest English book on hunting; for the
original manuscript was written in 1387, and though
it was by Gaston de Foix and in French, it was
translated twenty years afterward, with additions,
by Edward, second Duke of York, in the leisure of
his imprisonment for unamiable designs on Henry
IV. Mr. Theodore Roosevelt supplies the foreword
to this reprint. The prologue argues that through
the virtues of their sport hunters escape the seven
deadly sins, and develope "great gentleness and
nobleness of heart." The editors have shown wis-
dom in their modification of Chaucerian English;
for the text is intelligible, and still spicy with strange
words. Although many of the points about boar,
fox, otter, etc., have not been dreamed of in the
natural philosophy of Agassi/., — for instance, that
"harts sing in their language" and have "a bone
within the heart which hath great medicine,"—there
are a few modernly accurate characterizations, such
as this: "If any beast hath the devil's spirit in him,
without doubt it is the cat, both the wild and the
tame." The remaining pages of the two hundred
are taken up with directions for "finding the hare,"
"moving the hart," making the assembly u that men
call gathering," and training hounds and mastiffs.
An elaborate appendix supplies information for
both antiquarian and hunter. The twenty-four fas-
cinating illustrations in black-and-white are taken
from the illuminations of a French manuscript of
the fifteenth century, which is one of the treasures
of the Bibliothhque Nationale in Paris.
The holiday gift-seeker in search of unique and
outrof-the-way volumes may find what he wants in
"Angelus Silesius," a selection from the rhymes of
the seventeenth century German mystic, translated
in the original metres by Dr. Paul Carus (Open
Court Publishing Co.). An interesting preface
introduces the reader to Johannes Scheffler, better
known as Angelus Silesius. The original version
of the rhymes is given with the translations. A
quaint frontispiece reproduced from the first edition,
rubricated rulings on every page, and an artistic
cover, together with handy size, are the embellish-
ments of the volume. From the same publishers,
in equally attractive form, comes another odd vol-
ume, "Edward's Dream: The Philosophy of a
Humorist," translated from the German of Wilhelm
Busch and edited by Dr. Paul Carus. Readers of
"Fliegenden Blatter " may be familiar with Busch's
comic verses and drawings. Even such will enjoy
Dr. Carus's account of Busch, his discussion of the
significance of humor, and his "appreciation" of
Busch's light yet meaningful solution of some of
the problems of life and philosophy.
Several books of recipes in attractive form suggest
themselves as suitable gifts for the perplexed house-
wife, always searching for some new and attractive
dish. "' Dame Curtsey's ' Book of Recipes " (A. C.
McClurg & Co.) is, like the rest of the same popular
series, at once practical and comprehensive. There
are recipes galore, both standard and novel, together
with much other practical information, supplemented
by a generous supply of pertinent and attractive illus-
trations. Handy size and odd binding are the book's
additional recommendations to those in search of a
gift.—" The Up-to-date Sandwich Book" (McClurg),
compiled by Miss Eva Greene Fuller, suggests won-
derful possibilities for varying luncheon and after-
noon tea menus, for Miss Fuller has discovered four
hundred different ways of making a sandwich. The
recipes are attractively printed on tinted paper, with
borders in color; and the cover, gay in hues, is
adorned by a Parisian young person with a huge
picnic basket on her arm. — Miss Helen S. Wright
has turned her attention to reviving a lost art.
"Old-Time Recipes for Home-Made Wines, Cor-
dials, and Liqueurs" (Dana Estes & Co.) tells how
to make a wonderful variety ofdelicious old-fashioned
beverages from tried and treasured formulas. Mar-
ginal drawings in color and a decorated cover bring
this book also into the category of gift volumes.
Mrs. Fanny Purdy Palmer's little volume of
sonnets (Paul Elder & Co.) is artistically printed
on hand-made paper, with especially designed
initials. There are two groups of verses, "Sonnets
of California" and "Post Meridian," each contain-
ing fourteen numbers. — A new edition of Mrs.
Agness Greene Foster's "You and Some Others,"
from the same publishers, contains a number of new
poems, and all the verses have been rearranged
under appropriate headings. The decorations of
Mr. Will Jenkins, and the special typography and
paper of the first edition, have been retained.
Another of Wagner's music-dramas, "The Val-
kyrie," has been retold by Dr. Oliver Huckel in
blank verse, — a narrative paraphrase of the drama's
action, dialogue, and setting that avoids the rawness
of the usual libretto and at the same time conveys
more information. Rubricated headings, frontis-
piece, and decorated binding are the holiday fea-
tures. (T. Y. Crowell & Co.)
"Dame Curtsey's Book of Etiquette " (McClurg),
by Miss Ellye Howell Glover, is attractively bound
in uniformity with the same versatile lady's sug-
gestions for " Novel Entertainments " and " Guessing
Contests." It gives all the latest decrees of Dame
Fashion by calls, cards, invitations, parties of all
sorts, and many allied subjects, simply told and
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Some four years ago the Chappie Publishing Co.
began to collect the favorite songs of the American
people. "Heart Songs," a five hundred page vol-
ume, is the result. It contains hymns, rag-time
tunes, operatic selections, college songs, love-songs,
sea-songs, lullabies,— in short, songs of all conceiv-
able kinds, arranged, apparently, in a hit-or-miss
fashion, to emphasize their wide variety. As some
twenty-five thousand suggestions were considered in
compiling the volume, it may fairly be supposed
to contain at least a few of every one's favorite
melodies.
Miss Marguerite Merington, through whose good
offices "Cranford" has been delightfully drama-
tized, has now made "The Vicar of Wakefield"
into a play. A cover with a vignetted picture in
color of the heroine, and a colored frontispiece, give
the book a holiday air. (Duffield & Co.)
An illustrated edition of some of Ben King's fav-
orite verses is issued by Messrs. Forbes & Co., with
colored illustrations, floral page-borders, and a gay
cover. The collection is entitled "Jane Jones and
Some Others," and contains all of Mr. King's best-
known poems.
Unique among the small books of religious inter-
est is Miss Eveline Warner Brainerd's compilation
of "Great Hymns of the Middle Ages," issued
by the Century Co. in their "Thumb-nail Series"
of miniature volumes. The hymns are arranged
chronologically from the fourth to the seventeenth
century, with an introduction discussing their origin
and authorship. The leather cover is stamped with
an appropriate design, suggesting Fra Angelico's
angels. — Or. J. R. Miller's annual volume of sermons
is this year entitled "The Gate Beautiful" (T. Y.
Crowell & Co.). It includes some twenty addresses,
among them "The Call to Praise," " Guarding Our
Thoughts," and " What God Thinks of Us." — « Go
Forward" is the title of a booklet by the same
author, attractively printed and bound, and illus-
trated in color (T. Y. Crowell & Co.).—Special
paper and typography, and an artistically simple
cover distinguish Miss Edna S. Little's arrangement
of " The Works of Jesus " (Paul Elder & Co.). The
Bible narrative of his acts of healing and other mira-
cles has been chronologically arranged, and is fol-
lowed by the Sermon on the Mount, Christ's own
summary of his teachings. The Da Vinci head of
Christ, beautifully reproduced in tint, serves as
frontispiece. — " Lead, Kindly Light," by Mr. John
Sheridan Zelie, is a series of short sermons, or
"intimations" from Cardinal Newman's hymn, sug-
gestive phrases from the poetry serving as chapter
titles (Dodd, Mead & Co.) — "The Christmas
Child" (T. Y. Crowell & Co.) is a short story of
life on a lonely farm in Wales, written by Miss
Hesba Stretton. There are several illustrations and
colored page borders. — Dr. Charles E. Jefferson,
of the Broadway Tabernacle, has written a sermon
on Christmas giving, which he calls "Christmas
Builders," and Messrs. T. Y. Crowell & Co. have
published it as a Christmas gift-book, its cover gay
with holly. — To their daintily bound "What is
Worth While Series" Messrs. T. Y. Crowell & Co.
have this year added four titles: "What They Did
with Themselves," by Mr. Ernest Hamlin Abbott;
"Until the Evening," by Mr. Arthur C. Benson;
"Homespun Religion," by Dr. Elmer Ellsworth
Higley; and "Why Grow Old?" by Mr. Orison
Swett Marden. — " What Does Christmas Really
Mean ?" a sermon begun by Mr. John T. MuCutcheon
in a cartoon, and completed by the Rev. Jenkin Lloyd
Jones, was privately printed last winter, and was so
well appreciated that it is now reissued in tasteful
and inexpensive form by Messrs. Forbes & Co.
Notes.
"The Book of the Sweet Pea," by Mr. D. B. Crane,
is published by Mr. John Lane in his series of " Hand-
books of Practical Gardening."
A popular edition in a single volume of Mr. A. Henry
Savage Landor's "In the Forbidden Land " (first pub-
lished twelve years ago) is now issued by Messrs.
Harper & Brothers.
"Shakespeare's Plutarch," edited by Mr. C. F.
Tucker Brooke, is an important addition, in two vol-
umes, to the library of "The Shakespeare Classics,"
published by Messrs. Duffield & Co.
Mr. Robert H. Schauffler has compiled, and Messrs.
Moffat, Yard & Co. have published, an " Arbor Day"
book for schools, containing a great variety of selected
passages for reading, from many writers of verse and
prose.
- A Text-Book of the History of Architecture," by
Professor A. D. F. Hamlin, is now republished in an
eighth edition by Messrs. Longmans, Green, & Co. The
revisions incorporated into this new text are few and of
minor importance.
The « First Folio " Shakespeare, edited by the Misses
Porter and Clarke, is enlarged by the publication of
three new volumes — "Titus Andronicus," "Tymon of
Athens," and "Anthonie and Cleopatra." Messrs.
Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. are the publishers.
Two new volumes in the series called "Masters of
Literature," devoted respectively to Defoe and Carlyle,
are published by Messrs. George Bell & Sons. The
former is edited by Mr. John Masefield, the latter by
Mr. A. W. Evans. Shorter works complete, and lengthy
extracts from the more bulky books, make up the con-
tents of these volumes.
"Light" (Columbia University Press), by President
Richard C. Maclaurin, gives the substance of a course
of lectures delivered a year ago at the American
Museum of Natural History upon the Jessup Founda-
tion. They are popular in their mode of presentation
and at the same time abreast of the latest developments
in the science of optics.
The John McBride Co. publish a condensed and
modernized version of "Bradford's History of the
Plymouth Settlement," edited by Mrs. Valerian Paget.
An introduction gives the history of this "the most
precious manuscript on earth," as Senator Hoar called
it, preceding the statement of fact by a rhetorical flour-
ish that is not particularly profitable. We have grave
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text as this, but it will prove its excuse for being if it
really attracts a company of new readers to this
foundation-document of American history.
Mr. W. Dawson Johnston, Librarian of Columbia
University, is preparing for the United States Bureau
of Education a report on Special Collections in Libraries
in the United States. It is planned to make the publi-
cation a record of all special collections in public lib-
raries which are of extraordinary value either because
of their completeness or because of the rarity of their
contents. >
In " Harper's Library of Living Thought" we have
the following new volumes: "Christianity and the New
Idealism," by Professor Eucken; "Revelation and In-
spiration," by Dr. Reinhold Seeberg, and "Paul and
Jesus," by Professor Johannes Weiss. This "Library"
seems to be running mainly to theological discussion,
although literature and science have not been altogether
neglected.
Three exceptionally interesting reprints of English
literature are now published by Mr. Henry Frowde.
One is a reproduction of the 1768 edition of Gray's
poems, with a few later pieces. Another is an exact
reprint of the Keats of 1820, including "Lamia,"
"Isabella," " Hyperion," the great "Odes," and other
poems. The third is "Peacock's Memoirs of Shelley
with Shelley's Letters to Peacock," now edited by Mr.
H. F. B. Brett-Smith.
Adolph Growoll, long and favorably known for his
bibliographical and historical work, and for many years
past the managing editor of the "Publishers' Weekly"
in New York, died in that city on the seventh of this
month, aged fifty-nine years. He was the author of
"The Booksellers' Library and How to Use it," " The
Profession of Bookselling," " American Book Clubs,"
« Booktrade Bibliography in the United States," and a
number of other useful works.
A "mature treatment of history combined with
simplicity of language and diction " is offered in Pro-
fessor V. A. Renouf's " Outlines of General History"
(Macmillan) as edited, with a few changes of minor
importance, for American students by Professor William
Starr Myers. The work has maps and illustrations, and
provides, by differences of type, for a shorter and a
longer course. Originally prepared for Chinese schools,
the book seems well fitted for general use.
General A. W. Greeley's " Handbook of Polar Dis-
coveries," first published about fifteen years ago, now
reappears m a fourth (revised) edition. The author's
comment upon the subject just now of lively interest is
as follows: "Phenomenal as was the success of Cook,
and unsurpassed as were the final marches of Peary,
the writer from his personal knowledge of the Smith
Sound environment, and of both explorers, finds himself
constrained to give full credit to their reports, though
Cook's are bitterly contested." Messrs. Little, Brown,
& Co. publish this work.
We have frequently commented upon the amazing
industry of Dr. Paul Carus, in his capacity as a writer
of philosophical books and editor of two philosophical
periodicals. His industry is impressed upon us anew
by the little book called "Philosophy as a Science,"
which has just been issued by him through the Open
Court Publishing Co. This volume, after au introduc-
tion in which the author sets forth the leading ideas of
the monistic doctrine which he represents, gives us brief
summaries of all his published writings, which amount
to no less than 48 books and 959 editorial articles. All
of these writings are carefully indexed, which makes it
possible to find out readily just what Dr. Carus thinks
about any given subject, and his ideas are apt to be both
well-considered and weighty. The introductory essay
is to be particularly commended, because it gives suc-
cinctly what has been said over-diffusely in many thou-
sands of pages.
Three-quarters of a century is a long time, in our
rapidly shifting American cities, for a business house to
remain in one location; yet this is the period during
which Messrs. Little, Brown, & Co. have had their
quarters at 254 Washington street, Boston, from whence
they have lately "gone up higher " — to Beacon Hill,
with its fine flavor of aristocracy and its genuine Boston
east winds. The old Cabot mansion, at the corner of
Beacon and Joy streets, now handsomely and commo-
diously houses this historic publishing company, which,
as the successor to the firm of Hilliard, Gray & Co.,
and as the more recent purchaser of the business and
literary property of Roberts Brothers, has enjoyed an
increasingly prosperous existence of a century and a
quarter, being in fact lineally descended from the first
publishing house established in Boston. More than
twelve hundred titles are to be counted in the general
catalogue of the firm, and many a name illustrious in
our literature graces its pages. We hope the house will
long continue to prosper and to uphold the best tradi-
tions of the American publishing trade.
IjISt of New Books.
[The following list, containing 1S7 titles, includes books
received by The Dial since its last uiik,]
HOLIDAY GIFT BOOKS.
The FrenohPastelllstB of the Eighteenth Century: Their
Lives, their Times, their Art, and their Significance. By
Haldane Macfall: edited by T. Leman Hare. Illustrated in
color, etc., 4to, 211 pages. Macmillan Co. 110.60 net.
Modes and Manners of the Nineteenth Century, as Rep-
resented in the Pictures and Engravings of theTlme. Trans-
lated by M. Ed ward ea; with introduction by Grace Rhys. In
8 volumes, each Illustrated in color, etc., 8vo. E. P. Dutton
& Co. $7. net.
Rub&iyat of Omar Khayyam. Translated by Edward Fiu-
Oerald; illustrated in color by Edmund Dulac. 4to. George
H. Doran Co. $5. net.
Hogarth's London: Pictures of the Manners of the Eighteenth
Century. By Henry B. Wheatley. Illustrated in photogra-
vure, etc.,large8vo.467pages. E.P. Dutton & Co. $4.80net.
Wanderings In the Roman Campagna. By Rudolfo Lan-
ciani. Illustrated, large 8vo, 378 pages. Houghton Mifflin
Co. IB. net.
Shakespeare's Merchant of Venioe. With introduction by
A. T. Quiller-Couch; illustrated in color by Sir James D.
Linton. Large 8vo, 144 pages. George H. Doran Co. $4 50net.
Shakespeare's As You Like It. With introduction by A.T.
Quiller-Couch; illustrated in color by Hugh Thomson.
Large 8vo. 143 pases. George H. Doran Co. 14.60 net.
Cathedral Cities of Spain. By W. W. Collins. Illustrated
in color, large 8vo. 358 pages. Dodd, Mead & Co. $3.50 net,
Amerloan Inland Waterways: Their Relation to Railway
Transportation and to the National Welfare; Their Creation.
Restoration, and Maintenance. By Herbert Quick. Illus-
trated in photogravure, etc., large 8vo, 236 pages. G. P.
Putnam's Sons. $3.60 net.
Undine: By De la Motte Fouque; translated by W. L. (»urt-
ney. and illustrated in color, etc., by Arthur Rackbam.
Large 8vo, 136 pages. Doubled ay. Page & Co. $2. net.
Dramatis Fersonse, and Dramatic Romances and Lyrics. By
Robert Browning. Illustrated in color, etc., large 8vo. 246
pages. J. B. Lippincott Co. $2. net.
Evolution: A Fantasy. By Langdon Smith. New edition;
decorated, 8vo. John W. Luce & Co. $1.


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Bonnets from the Portuguese. By Elizabeth Barrett
Browning. Illustrated and decorated in color. 8vo. G. P.
Putnam's Sons. $2.
In Japan: PilgrimageB to the Shrines of Art. Br Gaston
Migeon; translated by Florence Simmonds. Illustrated,
12mo, 206 pages. J. B. Lippincott Co. $1.60 net.
The Story of Santa Klaus | Told for Children of all Ages
from Six to Sixty. By William S. Walsh. Illustrated, 12mo-
222 pages. Moffat. Yard St Co. $1.60 net.
Stories from the Operas, with Short Biographies of the Com-
posers. By Gladys Davidson. Third series; illustrated,
12mo, 151 pages. J. B. Lippincott Co. $1.25 net.
English Love Poems, Old and New. Edited by Horatio
Sheafe Krans. Illustrated, l6mo. 208 pages. G. P. Putnam's
Sons. 11.25 net.
The Airship Almanao: A Little Light Literature on High
Life. By Lewis Allen. Illustrated in color, etc., 18mo, 82
pages. John W. Luce & Co. 76 cts.
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