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THE NOTE OF MODERNITY
225
A NEW MASTER OF ENGLISH PROSE. F.B.R.
Hellems.
226
230
CASUAL COMMENT
The reading of Shakespeare. — President Eliot's
plan for limiting college aid.-Sir Leslie Stephen's
Life and Letters. -- Mr. Howells's plea for spelling
reform. - Literature repeats itself. — Browning's
defense of his alleged obscurity of style.
THE NOTE OF MODERNITY.
6. There are still those who view all modern
work with timorous suspicion,” says a writer in
a recent English periodical ; "to them I would
plead for a juster vision of the artistic possi-
bilities which lie before us, in the near future ;
plead for a realization of the fact that modernity
does not necessarily spell affectation, that novelty
of technique and idea need not be ephemeral,
but that the workers of every age must seek new
tools, and that the age which is now on us calls
for utterly different methods of expression from
those of the past; plead also for recognition of
the fact that the classics of tomorrow are being
created to-day.” The substantial soundness of
the view thus expressed is obvious enough, and
the history of genius exemplifies it in manifold
instances. All art tends to become fossilized
under the pressure of precept and tradition, and
can save itself from death only by a succession
of fresh departures. And every artist knows, as
Wagner did,
“ That art is still athirst
For water from the deep and living spring
Of nature, that of all its aims the first
Is beauty, that death's bondage it must burst
In every age anew, and boldly fling
Aside the cerements that about it cling."
Nevertheless, the writer whom we have quoted
seems to be needlessly concerned. The “
thing,” whether in literature or music or paint-
ing, is likely to get too large, rather than too
small, a share of the attention of our curious and
restless modern public. The time is past when
a bright light could remain long concealed under
a bushel, and the present danger is rather that
we may mistake a farthing dip for a beacon. The
artistic atmosphere is so surcharged with electri•
city that we get sparks from the most unexpected
We caught the conservative “ Satur-
day Review” a few weeks ago complaining of Mr.
Alfred Austin because of all reasons! his
poems fail to strike the modern note as we hear
it in the lucubrations of Mr. Bernard Shaw and
Mr. H. G. Wells. When such a plaint is heard
from such a quarter, we should say that the time
had come, not to rally under the banner of modern-
ity, but rather to champion more stoutly than ever
before what has been tried and approved rather
than what is experimental and of clubious worth.
THOREAU IN TWENTY VOLUMES. F. B. Sanborn 232
LANDSCAPE IN POETRY. Charles H. A. Wager 235
WASHINGTON AS HOUSEKEEPER AND FARMER.
Walter L. Fleming
237
new
.
THE EASTERN COURSE OF CONQUEST. H. E.
Coblentz .
239
RECENT FICTION. William Morton Payne . 240
Macphail's The Vine of Sibmah. Deeping's Bess
of the Woods. — Mitchell's In Desert Keeping.
Young's The Sands of Pleasure.- Baroness Orczy's
A Son of the People. -- Mrs. de la Pasture's The
Man from America. -- Mrs. Wood's The King's
Revoke. — Miss Syrett's The Day's Journey.
Schauffler's Where Speech Ends. — Forman's Bu-
chanan's Wife. — Hopkinson Smith's The Tides of
Barnegat. — Chambers's The Fighting Chance.
sources.
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS.
213
Studies in the mental growth of a little child.
Essays worth preserving. — The creative imagina-
tion. “Picturesque Brittany." — The history of
a famous disputed election. Idiosyncracies of
noted men. — Tennyson as seen by a little child.
NOTES
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LIST OF NEW BOOKS
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Confining our attention to art in its literary that he falls in with the intellectual fashion of
manifestations, let us attempt some sort of the day, and is the puppet of his environment
analysis of what the term “ modernity” means rather than a shaper of new issues. At worst,
when thus used as a shibboleth or watchword. it means that he is a conscious time-saver rather
In the first place, it nearly always means some than a devoted knight of the spirit. The favorite
form of marked novelty in expression. No mat of the hour may seem to be the very
incarnation
ter how shallow a writer's thought, and how of modernity — but it is for the hour only. Soon
empty his mind of all real ideas, if he can con he will be seen to have been but a unit in a long
trive to give his work a certain pungency by the procession of barely remembered figures, while
use of strange vocables in unexpected colloca some one of his contemporaries, unappreciated
tions he will pass as an original thinker with when living, may be seen to have been the truer
readers who do not think for themselves. A deft modern, in the sense that his thought really
employment of the catchwords of the clique, or anticipated the now realized future. It is not
of those phrases which are the ripples of the fash- in the market-place, but in the den,
ionable literary current, will win for him the
“In far retreats of elemental mind,”
reputation of being abreast of the latest thought. that the problems are worked out whereby
If, in addition to this journalistic instinct for mankind grows in spiritual stature. In a broad
actuality, he develope an aptitude for paradox, sense, Goethe was the greatest of all the mod-
his admirers will multiply; for paradox always erns, and we now understand this fact far better
suggests, to minds that cannot sound its hollow than it was ever understood when he was alive.
ness, concealed reserves of intellectual energy. If, The conservative attitude toward literary
finally, he become boldly radical, and denounce innovation is doubtless the only safe one to
as prejudices the most cherished beliefs and the
assume, although a too rigid conservatism has
most solemn convictions of the serious-minded, its dangers also. But there is nowadays so much
he may become the founder of a cult and find noisy trumpeting of unimportant writers that
himself invested with the robes of the prophet. we shall be right nine times out of ten in view-
Some sort of novelty, then, achieved at no ing such cases with suspicion, and in remaining
matter what cost of beauty or sanity, is an es unperturbed by the clamor. Schopenhauer dis-
sential part of the equipment of the “modern” coursed wisely upon many subjects, but upon
in literature. The semblance of freshness thus none more wisely than upon this. By way of
acquired, the pretence of original thought thus conclusion, we may suitably reproduce some of
exploited, will impose upon many minds, and, his words:
to use Bismarck's famous description of Lord “ The history of literature generally shows all those
Salisbury, the “ lath painted to look like iron " who made knowledge and insight their goal to have
will deceive most careless observers. The cour-
remained unrecognized and neglected whilst those who
age which prompts this pose is that of ignorance paraded with the vain show of it received the admira-
is that of ignorance tion of their contemporaries, together with the emolu-
rather than of conviction, but the credulity of ments. . . . It is a prime condition for doing any great
those who accept it for what it appears may be work — any work which is to outlive its own age, that
trusted to bear the strain. It is from ignorance a man pay no heed to his contemporaries, their views
of the most invincible kind that these novelty- and opinions, and the praise or blame which they bestow.
This condition is, however, fulfilled of itself when a
mongers derive their self-assurance, and it is the
man really does anything great, and it is fortunate that
same proud possession that prevents their fol-
it is so.
For if, in producing such a work, he were to
lowing from ever discovering how false are the look to the general opinion on the judgment of his col-
gods of their worship. To make the pose com-
leagues, they would lead him astray at every step.
plete, a herald of the new enlightenment must
Hence, if a man wants to go down to posterity, he must
withdraw from the influence of his own age.'
affect a scornful condescension toward his prede-
cessors in the particular field he may have chosen,
and he may rely upon his henchmen to better
the instruction thus offered. So we sometimes
A NEW MASTER OF ENGLISH PROSE,
witness the instructive spectacle of a Shavian or AND SOME THEORIES OF VALUE.
an Omarian patronizing the great poets and dram-
atists, of a Nietzschian or a Spencerian consign-
In entering upon a somewhat extended consid-
eration of the work of a new English writer, Mr.
ing all past philosophers to the rubbish-heap.
G. Lowes Dickinson, may we unmask ourselves at
When we hear some contemporary writer once with the frank avowal that we regard him
acclaimed as a typical representative of the as one of the greatest living masters of English prose,
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enlightened and reassuring ideals of a groping and the soul, to slough dead husks that we may liberate living
troubled age? If his books are not destined to out-
forms, to abolish institutions that we may evoke energies, to
last the pyramids, he will at any rate escape Libitina
put off the material and put on the spiritual body, that,
whether we fight with the tongue or the sword, is the inspir-
for many generations, and our literature is appreci-
ation of our movement, that, and that only, is the true and
ably richer for his contributions. Moreover, it is safe inner meaning of anarchy.""
to predict that Mr. Dickinson will come into his own How
many of us ever dreamed of anarchy voiced
not altogether slowly; for, despite the baneful sweep in words like these? And yet MacCarthy is possibly
of utilitarianism, we do respond in some measure to the speaker with whom the master of the banquet
the call of the ideal and the beautiful ; despite dis (who is, of course, Mr. Dickinson in propria persona)
heartening and deadly failures, we feel that, even in has least sympathy. In our own experience, each
our daily round, “Life it is that conquers and death
new page
left us more convinced that we were deal-
it is that dies." If this is true, our Cambridge | ing with a man who had seen the whole in its parts
essayist may expect from his age a favorable verdict and the parts in the whole, who had kept his feet
not long deferred, for in his pages the cause of Life upon solid earth while his eyes were turned to the
and Hope and Beauty is pleaded with the convinc- signals from the heights, so that with each step we
ing power of an able mind and the winning charm found ourselves more willing to follow his upward
of an almost perfect style.
leadership. And the heights to which he leads us,
Before speaking as an advocate, however, he has or rather to which he invites us to climb by his side,
examined as a judge; and his plea for the things are always beautiful, albeit occasionally dimly des-
which are better appears as a natural result of an cried by myopic eyes or not quite to be scaled by
investigation at once reasonable, penetrating, and the wayfaring man. The greatest height, indeed,
sympathetic, into the world about him and the vari he himself never confidently achieves; for he con-
ous standards of life. In his “Modern Symposium,” cludes his dialogue on “ The Meaning of Good,” a
for instance, we have as participants a tory, a liberal, search for reality, with a glorious allegorical vision,
a conservative, a socialist, an anarchist, a professor, and waking from it says:
a man of science, a poet, a gentleman of leisure, a “So that I have had to go on over since with the know-
member of the Society of Friends, and a man of ledge I then acquired, that whatever Reality may ultimately
letters; and in every case the speaker puts his views
be, it is in the life of the affections, with all its confused
so well that the most ardent advocate of the partic-
tangle of loves and hates, attractions, repulsions, and, worst
of all, indifferences, it is in this intricate commerce of souls
ular doctrine or theory could hardly desire a more that we may come nearest to apprehending what perhaps we
attractive exposition thereof. To take an extreme shall never wholly apprehend, but the quest of which alone,
case of this clairvoyant sympathy with the views of
as I believe, gives any significance to life, and makes it a
thing which a wise and brave man will be able to persuade
others, let us write down part of a speech from the
himself it is right to endure."
lips of Angus MacCarthy, the anarchist :
“Oh!' he broke out, ‘ if I could but get you to see that Accordingly, with his great Greek master and not a
this whole order under which you live is artificial and unnec-
few others from the kings of thought, he seems to
cessary! But we are befogged by the systems we impose end his climbing in a cloud ; but it is a cloud light-
upon our imagination and call science. We have been taught ened by hope rather than darkened by despair, and
to regard history as a necessary process, until we come to
enforces the thought that “They see not clearliest
think it must also be a good one; that all that has ever hap-
pened ought to have happened just so and no otherwise.
who see all things clear.” To other peaks, however,
And thus we justify everything past and present, however he leads us, where the vista is as clear as it is beauti-
palpably in contradiction with our own intuitions. But these ful, and even the paths through the lower lying
are mere figments of the brain. History, for the most part,
valleys have their own appropriate charm.
believe me, is one gigantic error and crime. It ought to have
been other than it was; and we ought to be other than we
The themes treated by Mr. Dickinson are not
There is no natural and inevitable evolution towards new, nor does the form of his treatment offer any
good ; no coöperating with the universe, other than by con innovation. Religion, the meaning of good, litera-
nivance at its crimes. That little house the brain builds to
ture, art in general, - in short, the things of the
shelter its own weakness must be torn down if we would face
the truth and pursue the good. Then we shall see amid what
mind and the spirit, are treated in essay or dia-
blinding storms of wind and rain, what darkness of elements | logue or letter, and we do not need to be reminded
hostile or indifferent, our road lies across the mountains to that these forms were brought to artistic perfection
wards the city of our desire. Then and then only shall we
in olden days. The fact is merely that having chosen
understand the spirit of revolution. That there are things
so bad that they can only be burnt up by fire; that there are
immortal topics he has treated them with not less
obstructions so immense that they can only be exploded by largeness of outlook than clearness of inward vision,
dynamite; that the work of destruction is a necessary pre and has exhibited unerring judgment and unfailing
liminary to the work of creation, for it is the destruction of
skill in adapting his form to his matter. Thus he
the prison walls wherein the spirit is confined; and that in
that work the spirit itself is the only agent, unhelped by
is manifestly right in his feeling that a discussion of
powers of nature or powers of a world beyond, - that is the the meaning of good belongs “to the sphere of right
creed — no, I will not say the creed, that is the insight and opinion and perception, rather than to that of logic
vision by which we of the Revolution live. By that I believe and demonstration, and seems therefore to be prop-
we shall triumph. But whether we triumph or no, our life
itself is a victory, for it is a life lived in the spirit. To shat-
erly approached in the tentative spirit favoured by
ter material bonds that we may bind the closer the bonds of the Dialogue form"; nor can we refuse to agree
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this literary form comes closest to the interchange noblest spiritual progress where the lustrous and
of actual conversation, “from which we gain our rapturous river from the pagan springs of Love and
best lights on such a subject.” The same unerring Beauty and Wisdom meet the more sober stream of
instinct or judgment leads him to put his contrast ideals from the fountain of Christianity. The last
between Eastern and Western ideals (“Letters from speaker in the Symposium, who “expressed himself
a Chinese Official") in the form of letters from an in a style too intellectual for lovers of poetry, too
enlightened Chinaman who has resided long in En- metaphorical for lovers of philosophy,” voices the
gland without losing his affection for his native land thought in this glowing deliverance uttered in the
and all that it represents. Howbeit, other men are glamor of the dawn.
writing on these same eternal subjects without fail " It is only in the soil of_Paganism that Christianity
ing to choose appropriate garb therefor, so that we can come to maturity. And Faith, Hope, Charity, are but
are driven to the provocative statement that our
seeds of themselves till they fall into the womb of Wisdom,
author treats the themes with greater power than
Beauty, and Love. Olympus lies before us, the snow-capped
mountain. Let us climb it, together, if you will, not some
most of his contemporaries and' makes the appro on the corpses of the rest; but climb at least, not fester and
priate garb more beautiful. In the nature of things, swarm on rich meadows of equality. We are not for the
it is impossible to justify such a statement by frag-
valley, nor for the forests or the pastures. If we be brothers,
mentary excerpts and curtailed arguments; but we
yet we are brothers in a quest, needing our foremost to
lead. Aphrodite, Apollo, Athene, are before us, not behind.
should be thoroughly surprised if many intelligent Majestic forms, they gleam among the snows. March, then,
readers should rise from a perusal of Mr. Dickin men in Man!”
son's works with any strong dissent from the judg- If we add this half-mystic flight to the formal state-
ment we have submitted.
ment essayed above we shall probably draw as near
Recognizing freely this impossibility, we must to the inner sanctum as our philosopher-priest cares
still face the duty of giving at least an adumbration to allow the profane to approach without longer
of our author's position with reference to some of service; and even those who cannot accept his relig-
the central themes of life, and we may as well fail
ion and worship in his spirit must feel their hearts
on Religion as on any other subject. His attitude, quickened and their lives enlarged from visiting the
then, in marred and imperfect form, is about this :
courts of the temple by his side.
I. Religious truth is attainable, if at all, only by
From his views on art and literature there will
the method of science. There is no " revelation be fewer dissenters. Where can we find anything
in the accepted usage of the term.
on letters more exquisite than the sentiments of our
II. Religion is a "reaction of the imagination Chinese official?
upon
the world as we conceive it in the light at once
“Our poets and literary men have taught their successors,
of truth and of the ideal,” which amounts to saying for long generations, to look for good, not in wealth, not in
that religion is a certain attitude toward life, willing power, not in miscellaneous activity, but in a trained, a choice,
to recognize the helpfulness of ideas not based on an exquisite appreciation of the most simple and universal
relations of life. To feel, and in order to feel to express, or at
definitely ascertained truth.
least to understand the expression of all that is lovely in
III. If this definition is too wide, we should con Nature, of all that is poignant and sensitive in man, is to us
sider that there is something between hope and faith, in itself a sufficient end. A rose in a moonlit garden, the
but nearer to the latter and called by its name,
shadow of trees on the turf, almond bloom, scent of pine, the
an attitude of “active expectancy, the attitude of a
wine-cup and the guitar; these and the pathos of life and
death, the long embrace, the hand stretched out in vain, the
man who, while candidly recognizing that he does
moment that glides forever away, with its freight of music
not know, and faithfully pursuing or awaiting and light into the shadow and hush of the haunted past, all
knowledge, and ready to accept it when it comes,
that we have, all that eludes us, a bird on the wing, a perfume
yet centres meantime his emotional and therefore his
escaped on the gale, -- to all these things we are trained to
respond, and the response is what we call Literature."
practical life about a possibility which he selects be-
cause of its value or its desirability.” In other
Hardly less effective is the treatment of Art in the
words, for practically all men there must be a “voli-
dialogue on “ The Meaning of Good,” a treatment
tional assumption,” not based upon knowledge, as to
almost as perfect in its way as the well-known
the worth-whileness of existence, if life is to be most
stanzas quoted from the “Ode to a Grecian Urn”in
noble and most fruitful.
the course of the discussion, to which we can only
The objections to such a view were too manifest
allude. Again, in the third or central chapter of
to escape our thinker, and he has stated them fairly,
the essays on Religion we may find the following
thereby relieving us from enlarging upon them; and
thoughts on the contribution of architecture to re-
we may merely point out that this is the faith not ligion.
of an ecclesiastic but of a platonizing philosopher.
“It has raised the material habitation of the Divine, and
And yet, with the more recent work of our author
in doing so has reflected, I think, by a perhaps unconscious
symbolism, the forms in which that Divine has been con-
before him Mr. Gilbert Chesterton could not have ceived. Surely, at least, one might question whether the
written his flamboyant if futile chapter on Neo difference between a classical temple and a Gothic church is
Paganism. Mr. Dickinson does not attempt “merely
to be attributed only to a difference of climate, or of technical
skill and tradition. It would be a curiously happy chance,
to revive the pagan idea of a simple and rational
if it were merely chance, that made the house destined for
self-completion." Rather, he looks for the tide of
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ing marble set on a hill by the sea, perfect in form, brilliant
in color, a jewel to reflect the sun and the sky, a harp for the
winds to play upon, an incarnation of the spirit of the open
air, of the daylight and of the blue heaven; while, for the
mysterious Jehovah and the God Man His Son, there rose into
gray and weeping skies huge emblems of the cross, crowned
with towers aspiring to a heaven unexplored, and arched over
huge spaces where the eye is lost in the gloom, where form
is dissolved in vagueness, and the white light of day, rejected
in its purity, is permitted to pass only upon condition that
it depicts in sombre colors the pageant of the life of the soul.
That architecture has, whether by chance or no, a symbolic
value, as well as one purely and simply æsthetic, will not, I
think, be disputed by those who are sensitive to such impres-
sions; and, so regarded, architecture has been, and might be
again, one of the chief expressions of religion.”
One recognizes throughout the doctrine of Goethe
that art rests fundamentally on a kind of religious
sense, and therefore unites so readily with religion ;
but one recognizes also an insistence with Morris on
the possibilities of an intimacy and tenderness of
art that shall allow it to become more easily an
integral part of our daily lives.
Foregoing the pleasure of commenting on other
phases of Mr. Dickinson's works, we must content
ourselves with a brief mention of his attitude to our
own land. To the present reviewer he seems to be
absolutely fair and candid, albeit his candor is of
the unflinching sort. Far too many of his readers
both in America and in England will be prone to
find his final verdict in the speech of Arthur Ellis,
the travelled journalist, and inasmuch as that contri-
butor's arraignment of our “worship of acceleration”
“doctrine of progress
” is not less quotable
than powerful, the reviewers and others will be sure
to keep it before the public. Herein, however, we
should be erring grievously ; for Ellis, although the
giver of the intellectual feast regards his attack
as formidable, sits down amid a “hubbub of laugh-
ter, approval, and protest, confusedly mixed "; and
a little later Sir John Harington, a gentleman of
leisure interested mainly in art, takes up the jour-
nalist's diatribe with the expression of a strong hope
that the better age for artistic interests may after
all dawn in America. But from neither journalist
nor artist should we accept our essayist's real views,
which may be best understood from his own delib-
erate words in the introduction to the American
edition of the “ Letters from a Chinese Official.”
“For it is impossible not to recognize that the destinies of
Europe are closely bound up with those of this country; and
that what is at stake in the development of the American
Republic is nothing less than the success or failure of Western
civilization. Endowed, above all the nations of the world,
with intelligence, energy and force, unhampered by the splen-
did ruins of a past which, however great, does but encumber,
in the old world, with fears, hesitations, and regrets, the diffi-
cult march to the promised land of the future, combining the
magnificent enthusiasm of youth with the wariness of maturer
years, and animated by a confidence almost religious in their
own destiny, the American people are called upon, it would
seem, to determine, in a preëminent degree, the form that is
to be assumed by the society of the future. Upon them
hangs the fate of the Western world.”
One who did not know many sides of Cambridge
would hardly be prepared to hear this voice from her
and our
academic shades; but, having heard it, one feels no
serious rebellion against this other assertion about
America :
For a century past she has drawn to herself, by an irre-
sistible attraction, the boldest, the most masterful, the most
practically intelligent of the spirits of Europe ; just as, by
the same law, she has repelled the sensitive, the contempla-
tive, and the devout. Unconsciously, by the mere fact of
her existence, she has sifted the nations; the children of the
Spirit have slipped through the iron net of her destinies, but
the children of the World she has gathered into her gran-
aries. She has thus become, in a sense peculiar and unique,
the type and exemplar of the Western world. Over her unen-
cumbered plains the Genius of Industry ranges unchallenged,
naked, unashamed."
With the spirit of these words from the aged uni-
versity beside the Cam, who shall quarrel? Nay, is
it not the best evidence of our strides toward health-
ful manhood that we have no longer the childish
and neuralgic sensitiveness we manifested under the
searching criticism of a gifted son from the sister
university on the Isis ? Such critics as Matthew
Arnold and Mr. Dickinson must help us to receive
“the spirit of the world that created manners, laws,
religion, and art, — which is hovering even now at
our gates in quest of a new and more perfect incar-
nation.” Well will it be for us, and for the world at
large, if this incarnation is achieved while our nation
is yet young and time itself has not grown old.
For a consideration of Mr. Dickinson's style per se,
we have little space remaining. However, the fore-
going quotations have spoken for themselves, and
we may
limit our excerpts to one example of simple
description, perhaps the most difficult form of artis-
tically effective prose. It is introduced by the author
in partial answer to the query as to what manner of
men these Orientals are.
“Far away in the East, under sunshine such as you never
saw (for even such light as you have you stain and infect
with sooty smoke), on the shore of a broad river, stands the
house where I was born. It is one among thousands; bat
every one stands in its own garden, simply painted in white
or gray, modest, cheerful, and clean. For many miles along
the valley, one after the other, they lift their blue or red-
tiled roofs out of a sea of green; while here and there glitters
out over a clump of trees the gold enamel of some tall
pagoda. The river, crossed by frequent bridges and crowded
with barges and junks, bears on its clear stream the traffic
of thriving village-markets. For prosperous peasants people
all the district, owning and tilling the fields their fathers
owned and tilled before them. The soil on which they work,
they may say, they and their ancestors have made. For see!
almost to the summit what once were barren hills are waving
green with cotton and rice, sugar, oranges, and tea. Water
drawn from the river-bed girdles the slopes with silver; and
falling from channel to channel in a thousand bright cascades,
plashing in cisterns, chuckling in pipes, soaking and oozing
in the soil, distributes freely to all alike fertility, verdure,
and life. Hour after hour you may traverse, by tortuous
paths, over tiny bridges, the works of the generations who
have passed, the labors of their children of to-day; till you
reach the point where man succumbs and Nature has her
way, covering the highest crags with a mantle of azure and
gold and rose, gardenia, clematis, azalea, growing luxuriantly
wild. How often here have I sat for hours in a silence so
intense that as one of our poets has said, you may hear the
shadows of the trees rustling on the ground '; a silence
broken only now and again from far below by voices of labor-
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day.”
by the sound of gongs summoning to worship from the tem out excitement or elation the duties of the new
ples in the valley. Such silence! Such sounds! Such perfume !
Such color! The senses respond to their objects; they grow
exquisite to a degree you cannot well conceive in your northern
It would be easy to select the writers who have
climate; and beauty pressing in from without moulds the influenced Mr. Dickinson most, but it must suffice to
spirit and mind insensibly to harmony with herself.”
recall that his reading represents the curriculum of
To borrow from an old critic, anybody could write a Fellow of a Cambridge college with a cultured
that except those who have tried. But with our
taste for literature and philosophy. We must point
excerpts before us we feel most keenly that they out, however, that the Greek classics have occupied
have utterly failed to convey any idea of the charm
the fundamental position in moulding his style and
of the complete works, and we fear we should feel thought, and we regard it as a thrice happy accident
the same even in the presence of the better selection that we were introduced to him through his “Greek
that
any of our readers could have made.
View of Life," * for it is the natural portal. With
Of the various works we have mentioned, the
modern literature he is only less fainiliar; and
“ Modern Symposium
American readers will even find manifest traces of
seems to us the finest, al-
though the others in their own way achieve an ex-
Walt Whitman. In every case, however, the trace-
cellence that need not fear comparison and will
able influence is entirely free from any suggestion of
doubtless be preferred by not a few readers. The plagiarism, and we have no mere collection of jewels,
scene of the masterpiece is laid on a Sussex terrace
but a new and finished product. Even the metri-
in the month of June, and the dialogue, or rather
cal quotations inspire the feeling that they should
the series of monologues, lasts from the late evening have been written for exactly the place they occupy.
light to the dawn; but the reader feels that there
Over all of his writing is shed just enough of the
was never a flagging moment from the opening poeticus color to make his style charming as well as
speech of the comfortably discouraged Tory speaking effective. Indeed, for those of us who see in English
prose one of the highest forms of art,
- all the more
appropriately after a comfortable dinner, to the semi-
oracular utterance of the poet-philospher speaking important because it can ultimately be made to ap-
- Mr.
with even greater appropriateness while the glamor peal to a practically unlimited constituency,
of dawn passed into the clear light of morning.
Dickinson at his best fulfils Sainte-Beuve's critical
Every character is made to speak in the language demand upon poetry, - il fait battre le cour.
and style one feels inevitable. Indeed, one could
F. B. R. HELLEMS.
easily transfer the speakers from the printed page Reviewed under the caption "The Old Untroubled Pagan
to their accustomed walks of life, and in some cases
World,” in The Dial for March 16, 1906.
could assign a definite name. There is not a faulty
word at any turn, nor the least suspicion of striving
for effect. The very transitions from character to
CASUAL COMMENT.
character seem to bind the parts together and dis-
appear in their service. Never has art been con THE READING OF SHAKESPEARE is enjoined upon all
cealed more skilfully than in these pages, where Mr.
by Professor James M. Hoppin, as conducive to success
Dickinson is most himself. In
of his other
in various walks of life. His recent little book, the title
many
of which is found in the first four words of this para-
writings one can put a hand on this passage or that,
graph, tells us that “statesmen, political orators, preach-
and murmur Goethe, Landor, Pater; but in this
ers, essayists, journalists, authors, even poets, should
work one feels strongly only the great master of
speak only what they know and feel from the bases of
them all, who wrote the parent Symposium. And fact and nature, with Shakespeare's real knowledge;
perhaps one could pay no greater tribute to the con and though they might not become Shakespeares, they
temporary Symposium than to say it is not unworthy would come nearer to him in the plain path he led, and
to stand beside the Platonic original. Of course it nearer to truth and sources of power.” And yet Mr.
falls far short of the older diaglogue in imaginative
Bernard Shaw insists that, so far from being a guide to
range, which is merely saying that it does not
us in practical affairs, Shakespeare could not and would
attain the unattainable and ought not to be com-
not grapple with reality; that to escape it he ran away
pared with the incomparable, for Plato's Symposium other man's moonshine. That view of things is real to
and poeticized. Well, what is one man's reality is an-
and Phædrus still occupy a niche by themselves in us with which we are most familiar. As Mr. G. Lowes
the hall of fame of imaginative prose. In one re Dickinson observes in an article on Ibsen in “ The In-
spect, however, the modern product is, perhaps, not dependent Review," Shakespeare saw the world broadly,
inferior, for it does keep a shade more closely in as Æschylus saw it. He saw man in antagonism with
touch with our human hopes and needs. From the a power or fate stronger than himself, and he was fond
master's banquet one rises amidst the fumes of the of choosing such types (like Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello)
strong wine of almost demoniacal possession, such
as should emphasize this antagonism; although he could,
as Plato himself describes in his doctrine of enthu-
and did, with his boundless sympathy and insight, create
any kind of character in any sort of situation - a Fal-
siasm, stimulating, exhilarating, sweeping us to the
staff or a Doll Tearsheet as readily as a Mark Antony
skies of fancy. At the disciple's feast is still strong or a Coriolanus. To us of the workaday world, he is,
wine ; but it is the wine of helpful, aspiring reason, as Mr. Hoppin says he should be, a friend and guide
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in trouble. How many of us he has helped to “bear
those ills we have” rather than “fly to others that we
know not of." A solace in vexation, if not in crushing
sorrow, is the reflection that “there is nothing either
good or bad but thinking makes it so"; and when things
are at their very worst, we can still be sure that, “ come
what come may, time and the hour runs through the
roughest day.”
faultlessly phonetic, not only for London, but also for
Boston and Indianapolis and Cape Town and Melbourne,
how long would such an alphabet remain phonetic ?
Pronunciation is slowly but constantly changing, as we
occasionally learn to our surprise in reading old poetry.
The human throat itself, and the vocal chords, are not
fashioned after one invariable pattern. The Latin alpha-
bet was probably once approximately phonetic to the
Romans, the Greek to the people of Hellas; but to Rome
and Greece of to-day many of the letters of these alpha-
bets stand for quite other sounds. Shall we then, in
Mr. Howells's plan, have a new alphabet every five
hundred or thousand years, for example ? The obvious
loss would be greater than the possible gain. All spell-
ing is and must be largely a matter of convention.
PRESIDENT ELIOT'S MUCH-DISCUSSED PLAN for limit-
ing the bestowal of college aid is thus curiously pro-
pounded by one of its advocates: “The proposal referred
to is that all applicants for scholarships be submitted to
a physical examination in order that the trust fund at
the disposal of the college for the maintenance of indi-
gent students may be given only to such applicants as
care to live long enough to give an adequate return for
the payment.” As if, forsooth, it were merely a matter
of preference with the physically weak whether they
shall resign this pleasing, anxious being, or continue to
haunt the warm precincts of the cheerful day! More-
over, is it not known to be often true that genius, no
less than conceit, “ in weakest bodies strongest works,”
and that the sustaining power of a lofty intellectual or
moral purpose will uphold the frail tenement long after
its downfall has been predicted by the physician? Had
Immanuel Kant, the poor saddler's son, been debarred
by his physical frailty from receiving the pecuniary aid
that he must have received (but whether from the
Königsberg University we are not sure) in order to get
an education, should we now have any “Critique of
Pure Reason," and what would modern philosophy be
like? And Kant's example is but one of many.
LITERATURE REPEATS ITSELF, as history does. M.
René Doumic, reviewing a group of new books on the
theatre in a late number of the Revue des Deux Mondes,
takes occasion to write: “Why does the dramatist strive
so eagerly after realism? Because he knows that the
public dearly loves to be thrilled by it. . . . In short,
the playwright is inclined to be satisfied if he wins the
approval of the public, and the public goes to the theatre
simply and solely to be entertained. It demands sen-
sationalism, to be made to laugh, cry, shudder, thrill;
but cares not a straw how this is effected.” What is this
but Plato's old plaint in the second book of the “Laws" ?
He there
says:
« The ancient and common custom of
get Hellas, which" still prevails in Italy and Sicily, dideer?
SIR LESLIE STEPHEN'S LIFE AND LETTERS, pre-
pared by Mr. F. W. Maitland, is an announcement that
arouses very pleasurable anticipations. A quiet humor,
“ a humor with American touches that our men rarely
attempt,” was, as Mr. Frederic Harrison has remarked,
one of Stephen's most enjoyable qualities. A very evi-
dent and engaging candor was another. He meant what
he said and said what he meant. “I like him because
he's always the same, and you 're not positive about
some people," was Crossjay Patterne's encomium on
Vernon Whitford in “ The Egoist ”. Whitford, as we
know, being Mr. Meredith's conception of Leslie Ste-
phen, the “ Phæbus Apollo turned fasting friar,” the
“ lean long-walker and scholar," who traced a connec-
tion between virtue and pedestrianism. On resigning
his Trinity Hall Fellowship and abandoning his last lin-
gering intention of entering the Church, Stephen turned
to literature with the modest ambition to acquire suffi-
cient facility with the pen to turn out an acceptable
newspaper article. Poetry he appears not to have
attempted. “I have,” he confesses, “always had the
difficulty which Jonathan Oldbuck tells us prevented
him from being a poet: I could not write verses.” Our
best wishes are with Mr. Maitland in his undertaking,
and our hope is for its speedy accomplishment.
tainly leave the judgment to the body of spectators, who
determined the victor by a show of hands. Yet this
custom has been the ruin of poets; for they are now
wont to compose with a view to please the bad taste of
their judges, and the result is that the spectators become
their own teachers, which has operated to degrade the
theatre. When they (the spectators] ought to have
characters exhibited to them that are better than their
own, and thus receive a higher pleasure, they themselves
make these characters inferior."
BROWNING'S DEFENSE OF HIS ALLEGED OBSCURITY
OF STYLE is now pretty well known. Nevertheless the
following passage from a letter of his, preserved in the
Ruskin Museum at Coniston, may be of interest. « In
your bewilderment,” he says, writing to Ruskin, “ how
sball I help that? We don't read poetry the same way,
by the same law, it is too clear. I cannot begin writing
poetry till my imaginary reader has conceded licenses
to me which you demur at altogether. I know that I
don't make out my conception by my language -- all
poetry being a putting the infinite within the finite. You
would have me paint it all plain out, which can't be.
But by various artifices I try to make shift with touches
and bits of outline which succeed [one another), to bear
the conception from me to you. You ought, I think, to
keep pace with the thought, tripping from ledge to ledge
of my "glaciers,' as you call them — not stand poking
your alpenstock into the holes and demonstrating that
no foot could have stood there. In prose you may criti-
cise so, because that is the absolute representation of
portions of truth — what chronicling is for history; but
in asking for more ultimates you must accept less medi-
ates.” This, except that “less ” for “ fewer" will annoy
the purist, is well put. It emphasizes the value of the
suggestive in art. The unfinished is sometimes better
than the carefully elaborated; "the half is more than
the whole," as the Greeks expressed it.
MR. HOWELLS'S PLEA FOR SPELLING REFORM, which
has been widely quoted, complains of our present spell-
ing that it does not spell anything, that it is a sort of
picture-writing of a purely conventional sort. He fore-
casts a glad future when we shall have an entirely new
and strictly phonetic and absolutely representative
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as commonly reprinted in America. Dickens was .*,
printed in fourteen volumes, four of which have
The New Books.
already been given to the eager lovers of this
ever-youthful poet.
It was his poetic, ideal, transcendental side
THOREAU IN TWENTY VOLUMES.*
that Thoreau himself most valued ; and it first
It was a bold venture in book-publishing to attracted his few readers of 1840–44 in the pages
promise the world an edition of Thoreau in more of Margaret Fuller's and Emerson's “ Dial.”'
volumes than there are of Dickens the novelist In 1852, he writes in his Journal (Feb. 18):
“ It is impossible for the same person to see things
born five years earlier, and lived sixteen years from the poet's point of view, and that of the man of
longer; he was and is the most popular English
science. The poet's second love may be science, not his
first, — when use has worn off the bloom. I have a
novelist, and will long have many more readers
than Thoreau.
commonplace-book for facts, and another for poetry;
But when we consider that
but I find it difficult always to preserve the vague dis-
Thoreau could only find a publisher for his first tinction which I had in mind; for the most interesting
book at his own expense, that he was more than and beautiful facts are so much the more poetry, and
four years paying for that first edition of a thou-
that is their success. If my facts were sufficiently vital
sand copies — which, if they could have been
and significant, I should need but one book, of poetry,
to contain them all."
sold at the average price they have fetched in the
past ten years, would have netted $20,000,-
Earlier (Jan. 26, 1852), he wrote: “ Poetry
and that during the twenty-five years of Tho- implies the whole truth. Philosophy expresses
reau's literary life he probably received less than
a particle of it.” And later (July 18, 1852):
$2000 for all that he published, the present
“Every poet has trembled on the verge of
science."
undertaking of the publishers appears really
extraordinary. Yet it is supported by the con-
Again (Oct. 20, 1852), after his first visit
with Ellery Channing to the Peterboro Hills
stant growth of appreciation for the genius of
and to Monadnoc, he wrote:
this long obscure author, and by the fact that
Many a man asks if I took a glass with me.
his most casual bits of handwriting now sell for
No
doubt I could have seen further with a glass, could have
more than their weight in gold. In 1905 I
counted more meeting-houses, but this has nothing to
knew a half-ounce of his manuscript to bring do with the peculiar beauty and grandeur of the view.
$40, which was five times its golden equivalent It was not to see a few particular objects, as if they
in weight; and for what sum in dollars would
were near at hand, that I ascended the mountain, but
to see an infinite variety, far and near, in their relation
the owner of the thirty extant volumes of his
to each other, - thus reduced to a single picture. The
Journals now part with them?
facts of science, in comparison with poetry, are wont to
Thoreau was the most industrious of all mod be as vulgar as looking from Monadnoc with a tele-
ern authors, and the one who devoted himself scope. It is a counting of meeting-houses."
And yet very few men, technically scientific,
Literature rather than Nature-study, though the ever made so many and so close observations in
world has long otherwise fancied. True, he certain fields of natural history as Thoreau did.
pursued the study of Nature, as he did that of He was naturally an observer, and he narrowed
Greek and Latin, of Indians and land-surveying. his circuit of observation so as to facilitate accu-
But his ultimate aim was literature and philos- racy. His present editor — himself an ornithol-
ophy; and the celebrity that his writings are ogist, as Thoreau never was, technically, — finds
now attaining proves that he succeeded in this a few instances in which this poet-naturalist was
steady pursuit.
His most intimate and appre-
late or inexact in naming his bird. But let it
ciative friend, Ellery Channing, styled him be considered that he began these journals, and
“the Poet-Naturalist," and the title has been the chapters that he made up from them, at the
generally accepted; yet he might with almost age of twenty, and that he ceased to journalize
the same felicity be called a poet-philosopher, at forty-four,
at forty-four, - his noteworthy observations in
the term by which his eloquent friend Emerson his Minnesota tour (now in type for issue by
has long been recognized. The poetic element the Boston Bibliophile Society) never having
in Thoreau is easily seen ; not so easily his been written up by him because of his steadily
philosophic wisdom and originality. This grows failing health. What other naturalist, who was
more and more striking as we are allowed to first and foremost a poet and man of letters, has
read more in the Journals, which are now being
ever made better observations, while educating
himself to his chosen task of writing books ? His
• THE WRITINGS OF HENRY DAVID THOREAU. Walden Edi-
tion. In twenty volumes. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. collegiate course, except as fitting him somewhat
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heard of you.
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in mathematics, did little to qualify him in natural —and few men were ever more patient—and the
history; but his occupation as land-surveyor (a mercurial impatience of Channing both revolted
mathematical out-door trade) came in his mature a little, at times, at the fact that they were chiefly
years to supplement his early poetic opportuni- known through other authors, and not by their
ties in seeing and delineating Nature, as she own essays and verses. In April, 1852, the
showed herself in the valleys of the Concord and Journal records this :
Merrimac. His account of those streams and “I asked Ellery Channing yesterday if he had ac-
their phenomena would have been fuller and quired fame. He answered that, giving his name at
richer if he had published his “ Week” in 1859
some place, the bystanders said: “Yes, sir, we have
instead of 1849; for it would have had ten years
We know you here, sir. Your name is
mentioned in Mr. Blank's book. That's all the fame
more of fluviatile, riparial, and celestial observa I have had, to be made known by another man.”
tion behind it. But it would have been less
poetical, and less saturated with the literature
This remark of Channing was made at the time
of imagination and religion. What that was
when he was offering himself as a lecturer in
Concord, Boston, Providence, and elsewhere,
from 1837 to 1847, when he left his hut by
with a success far less than Thoreau's at the
Walden, may be seen by the fragmentary note-
books printed in the first volume of the Journals.
same period. Yet Thoreau, except in Concord,
It was never Thoreau's intent to print these
and gradually in Worcester, did not prove a
Journals as they now appear, still less as they
very attractive lecturer. As a promoter of other
were partially published by his editor after 1876,
men's lectures he was indefatigable, like Emer-
Mr. Blake. This third editor of the departed which much was dropped before it went to press,
son. In the original draft of Walden," from
poet Emerson and Ellery Channing having I found this passage which no longer appears
preceded him in the task for a few years,
in the Journal as here printed :
although a dear friend and almost an idolater of
Thoreau, did not quite comprehend the sequence
How much, for instance, might be done for this
town [Concord) with $100, if there were a man to do
and connection of thoughts in that peculiar mind.
it! I myself have provided a select course of lectures
He therefore rather broke up and parcelled out for a winter, together with room, fuel, and lights, with
the Journals while editing them, and thus pre that sum; which was no inconsiderable benefit to every
sented them as detached and disconnected writ-
inhabitant."
ings, instead of making them centre around a It then occurred to me to look up in the records
special subject, which was Thoreau's manner. of the Concord Lyceum, of which Thoreau was
It may even be doubted if Mr. Blake ever actu often an official, the list of these lecturers, which
ally sorted out and classified the great mass of he had carefully entered in the book, with the
manuscripts which Sophia Thoreau left to him, price paid to each. The date was about sixty-
a task of real difficulty, as every posthumous two years ago. The list included Emerson
editor has found. He was Thoreau's senior in (three lectures), who received nothing ; George
years, although long outliving him, and had a Bancroft, $10; Theodore Parker, $3 ; Wendell
delicate modesty which withheld him from that Phillips, nothing; Horace Greeley, nothing ; Dr.
strict dealing with his author of which Emerson Charles T. Jackson (Mrs. Emerson's brother),
manifested rather too much. The letters and $10; Henry Giles, $10; Rev. E. H. Chapin,
verses of Thoreau which Emerson held back from $8; James Freeman Clark, nothing ; Thoreau
publication, because they might alter that view himself (several lectures) nothing, and so on.
of his younger friend which he had long and It was a distinguished roll of names. The
rather wilfully held, were placed in my hands financial statement was there too, drawn up by
by Mr. Blake, or by Sophia Thoreau ; and I am Thoreau, — receipts, $109.20; expenses (care-
told they have materially modified the opinion fully itemized), $100 ; balance on hand, $9.20.
earlier readers had formed from the Emersonian Seldom has so much wisdom and eloquence been
legend and presentation. I felt sure that they furnished to a Yankee village for so small an
would, as, indeed, Channing's inimitable and outlay.
racy life of Thoreau, first published in 1873, Thoreau, like others, had his own explana-
had already modified the opinion of such as read tion of Shakespeare ; and it is to be noted, for
it against the restrictive view given by Emerson. all his criticism is worth heeding. He did not
The Journals, as now published, will still more often read him, but he knew what his value
correct the imperfect picture of Thoreau's mind was, though he preferred Milton, as he once told
and heart which was for forty years at least the In the Journal for January, 1852, he
prevailing impression. The patience of Thoreau has a suggestive comment.
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“ The one word which will explain the Shakespeare This story bears the marks and has the errors
miracle is . unconsciousness.' If he had known his own of tradition. « Baldwin” was the sheriff who
comparative eminence, he would not have failed to pub- arrested Dr. Jones (and perhaps his brother
lish it incessantly."
Thoreau was by no means unconscious of his
Simeon), and he may very well have connived
at the
escape from the authorities of Massachu- ·
own powers ; indeed, few men of genius are.
setts. We know that Dr. Josiah Jones, and
He valued himself for what he knew he was ;
but he was neither conceited nor did he pose, as
another loyalist described as “the notorious Dr.
Hicks,” were imprisoned for attempting to send
some of his critics have fancied. He could
undervalue himself upon occasion ; and in one
in supplies to the British army besieged in Bos-
ton; and we have
of the passages omitted from “ Walden”, he in the way indicated, and took refuge in Colonel
no reason to doubt they escaped
wrote:
Jones's unused cider-mill. Possibly Simeon was
• If the reader thinks that I am vainglorious and set
myself above others, I assure him that I could tell a
with them. All but three of the brothers of Mrs.
justified story respecting myself as well as him, if my
Dunbar had to leave the country for their Tory-
spirits held out; could encourage him with a sufficient ism, and the family property was lost or dimin-
list of my failures, and flow as humbly as the gutters. ished by their taking the wrong side. At the
I think worse of myself than he is likely to think of
me,—and better, too, perchance, being better acquainted
same time, Thoreau's grandfather, John Thoreau
with the man.”
from the isle of Jersey, was privateering on the
How, then, did Thoreau acquire his singular which he left to his heirs in 1801. Henry’s grand-
American side, and thus beginning the fortune
genius and character ?
Like most men, by
descent and environment -- chiefly the former.
father Dunbar, a graduate of Harvard in 1767,
The editor of these Journals does not appear to
headed a college rebellion in 1766, and found
know the family story; nor was Thoreau him-
so many supporters among the wealthy students
and their families that he was never punished,
self perfectly informed upon it. On the mother's
side he was descended from a Tory family -
but graduated with honor. He was first a clergy-
that of Colonel Jones of Weston, an old town
man at Salem, then studied law, and retired to
seven miles from Concord. This gentleman, Keene, N. H., near his brother-in-law Daniel
who died in Boston just before our Revolution, Jones, practised law there and was active in Free-
had one daughter, Mary (who became the grand masonry for a few years, and died in 1787, before
mother of Henry Thoreau), and fourteen sons,
his daughter Cynthia, who married John Thoreau,
of whom twelve grew up. Eight or nine of these
the father of Henry, was born. From this mixed
descent, with which a Scotch strand was twined,
sons joined the Tory faction, and most of them
had to go forth from their native land into exile
Thoreau inherited his mingled and rather con-
in consequence. Several of them served in the
flicting qualities, his gravity, his humor, his
British army against their countrymen, and one
touch of wildness, his mercantile method, and
of them, Dr. Josiah Jones, was a political pris-
his independence of thought. Something ap-
oner in Concord jail while the battle of Bunker peared in him, too, a spark of genius, which
Hill was going on, June 17, 1775. Mary, his
none of his known ancestors had shown. He
sister, then Mrs. Asa Dunbar, carried him food
was remotely of Norman, even of Norse, descent,
from Weston on that day, as she did on other probably, as so many of the Jerseymen were; if
days, before and after. The family tradition on
he had French ancestors, they had long ceased
this point, which Thoreau recorded in his Jour-
to live in France, though speaking that patois
of French which was the dialect of Jersey. A
nal (not here quoted) was curious, but not quite
correct. He wrote:
certain French elegance of style in prose early
“ Col. Elisha Jones, my great-grandfather, was the
marked the writings of Thoreau, and the beauty
owner and inhabitant of an estate in Weston,
of style in the unstudied journal entries here
of standing and influence among his neighbors. He was published will attract frequent notice.
a Tory. His son Simeon was confined in Concord jail Of all the writers of the Concord group,
four months and a fortnight. His sister Mary brought Thoreau will be held hereafter as the most
every meal he had from Weston. He was afraid he
might be poisoned else. There was one Hicks, and one
original, where all were original in their own
more, imprisoned with him. They secreted knives fur way. He was less dependent than Emerson or
nished them with their food, sawed the grates off, and Hawthorne or Alcott on the books he had read
escaped to Weston. Hid in the cider-mill. Mary heard and the traditions he received ; more indebted
they were in the mill; she took old Baldwin's horse from
the lower part of Weston, and Simeon went to Portland
to Nature and his own free thoughts. The
with him, and then wrote back to Baldwin where he ten volumes before me prove this, and those
would find his horse, by paying charges.”
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is no
dict thus far reached. He is fortunate, in this ing them to be the contrary by fact.” The fact,
posthumous edition, to have the aid of an ad of course, is that the charm of poetry is, to no
mirable photographer, Mr. Herbert Gleason, small degree, the charm of landscape back-
who in years past, "all for love and nothing ground. Fancy the Odyssey without Calypso’s
for reward," searched out and took pictures of grotto and the harbor of Ithaca, Chaucer with-
those impressive scenes which Thoreau had so out his green and flowery May mornings, Spen-
pictorially described ; and from these two or ser without his trackless woods and his dazzling
three hundred views the publishers have selected if not wholly convincing gardens, Shakespeare
a hundred to be reproduced for these volumes, without the matchless scenery that is of the very
five in each. The process by which they are texture of his plays ; fancy Eden without its
printed has darkened a little the delicacy of the “bowery loneliness," its “ bloom profuse and
original, but they are still wonderfully true to cedar arches "; fancy Keats without “the green
the nature amid which Thoreau was most se world” of his daffodils and the “hurrying
renely at home.
freshnesses" of his brooks, Wordsworth with-
The form and typography of the volumes leave out his “ mountains where sleep the unsunned
little to be desired. There are some minor errors tarns" - to use a Wordsworthian line of Brown-
arising from the indistinctness of Thoreau's ing's, - and Tennyson without his enchanted
manuscript in places, and from the editor's lack forests and his “dim, rich " cities. If the per-
of that minute local knowledge in which his ception of these things is one of the keenest
author was so remarkable. For instance, there æsthetic delights of poetry, surely one of its
“ Woods' Bridge” in Concord, and never highest practical benefits is to make us more
was, though the “wooden bridge ” near the vividly aware of the beauty of the world.
railroad
may sometimes have been so called, as The dearth of books in English on this inter-
leading to the farm of the Woods. It should esting subject is rather remarkable, though it is
always read “wooden bridge,” as distinguished no doubt due in part to the infrequency of a
from the “ stone bridge close by. Again, literary scholarship that is at once minute and
there was a Concord weekly newspaper entitled comprehensive, and in part to the absorption of
• The Yeoman's Gazette,” and its name should our students of literature in questions of literary
stand in capitals. An occasional mistake in history rather than in the more essential prob-
spelling is to be noted. But on the whole this lems of art. Professor Palgrave's well-known
“ Walden Edition” is every way satisfactory, “ Landscape in Poetry " is sketchy and inade-
in its different forms for different purchasers quate. One reads it with a painful sense of a
and prices.
F. B. SANBORN.
missed opportunity.
Its range is not wide
enough, and it is poor in examples. In this
respect, Herr Biese's book on “ The Feeling for
LANDSCAPE IN POETRY.*
Nature” is highly commendable. Within the
There are few subjects more attractive to
limits that he has imposed upon himself, he has
students of literature than the treatment of land-
brought together a large and well-chosen body
scape in poetry. To perceive the varying func-
of passages that constitute the chief value of his
tions of natural description in the work of faultless, and has led him to lay undue emphasis
work. His sense of proportion is, however, not
different races, ages, and poets, the personi-
fied nature of the Hebrews, the serene and vivid
on many obscure German poets and prose writ-
landscape of the Greeks, the delicate vignettes of modern France, - De Lisle, De la Prade,
ers, to the neglect of the really significant names
of the Middle Age, the detailed but conven-
Heredia, and the rest, — not to mention English
tional backgrounds of the Renaissance, the Heredia, and the rest,
poetry of the later nineteenth century, which he
expressiveness of the inanimate world to modern
eyes, — this involves an endlessly fascinating stock, Jean Paul, Rousseau, Lamartine, and
almost ignores. While he treats Goethe, Klop-
Despite the fundamental correctness of Lessing's Hugo with a gratifying fulness, yet it seems a pity
main position in the Laocoon, the history of
to neglect the intensely expressive landscape of
modern French and English poetry and emo-
poetry gives abundant warrant for his caveat :
tional prose, especially as in these the feeling
“ How many things would appear incontestable
in theory, if genius had not succeeded in
for nature is more simple, less complicated with
prov-
what Herr Biese calls “ the amorous passion,”
* THE FEELING FOR NATURE. Its Development in the Middle than in the work of the early Romantics. Surely,
Ages and in Modern Times. By Alfred Biese. Translated from
the German. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co.
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and Arnold are to be reckoned with, even in the
his 66
grasp of nature was intenser, more indi-
most general survey of European literature. To vidual, and subjective ” than that of any preced-
Wordsworth, indeed, Herr Biese devotes a part ing poet, with the possible exception of Dante.
of two pages, though the following critical re To the vitality and significance of Dante's
mark, which is also the only one, is hardly either touches of description, Herr Biese hardly does
intelligible or adequate :
justice ; while his praise of Petrarch and of the
“ His real taste was pastoral, and he preached freer Renaissance attitude in general toward nature,
intercourse with Nature, glossing his ideas rather arti both in Italy and England, is plainly excessive.
ficially with a theism, through which one reads true
love of her, and an undeniable though hidden panthe-
That “ English lyrists of the fifteenth and six-
ism” (p. 326).
teenth centuries showed deep feeling for Na-
The famous skating scene is mistaken for a
ture" (p. 222) cannot be maintained, despite the
abundance of descriptive and pastoral poetry.
description of " sledging." But if Wordsworth
is comparatively neglected, Byron, as is usual
In no respect does Shakespeare tower above his
with continental students of our literature, is contemporaries more unmistakably than in the
treated with fulness and enthusiasm :
sincerity and vitality of his attitude toward
nature. Spenser's description of the Garden of
“ All that previous English poets had done seemed
harmless and innocent in comparison with Byron's revo-
Acrasia (F. Q., II. 12. 58), quoted by Herr
lutionary poetry. Prophecy in Rousseau became poetry Biese as evidence of the “ deep feeling for Na-
in Byron” (p. 327).
ture” in the sixteenth century, is highly gen-
It is the more remarkable that Herr Biese eralized, wholly conventional, and therefore
did not push his researches into recent French abstract and unreal. Moreover, it is an exceed-
literature, because, as his own examples prove, ingly close imitation of Tasso (Ger. Lib., 16.9).
no German save Goethe equals Lamartine in It would hardly be more absurd to talk of “the
the blending of precise observation with pro- deep feeling for Nature” of the eighteenth cen-
found feeling ; and the question would therefore tury pastoralists. The conventional images and
seem to be inevitable, 6. How far have modern ideas of the Elizabethan lyric are shown, by
French poets entered into the spirit of the Medi- Herr Biese's own examples, to be derived in
tations ?” The following from Jean Paul ad most cases directly from Petrarch.
mirably illustrates the tone and manner of the The critical and historical generalizations of
German Romantics, and incidentally has a curi- the volume are not of so much importance as the
ous resemblance to the landscape in Henley's examples. They are in most cases not very defi-
beautiful lines Margarito Sorori :
nite, nor are the different stages in the develop-
“ The sun sinks, and the earth closes her great eye
ment of the feeling for nature in mediæval and
like that of a dying god. There smoke the hills like modern literature sharply discriminated. Per-
altars; out of every wood ascends a chorus; the veils haps they cannot be, except in the most general
of day, the shadows, float around the enkindled, trans-
way. And yet one clearly perceives the possi-
parent tree-tops, and fall upon the gay, gem-like flowers.
And the burnished gold of the west throws back a dead
bility of a more satisfactory treatment than Herr
gold on the east, and tinges with rosy light the hover-
Biese has given us. His programme, however,
ing breast of the tremulous lark — the evening bell of is admirable. He attempts to trace the feeling
Nature” (p. 348).
for nature from the Christian writers of the first
Not
many of the illustrative passages, it must ten centuries, in whom pagan elements still per-
be confessed, are as successful as this. The sist, to what he calls “ the universal pantheistic
occasions are few when one feels the instant feeling of modern times,” though, as we have
thrill of response to a direct, sincere, unconven seen, he ignores its more recent manifestations,
tional and imaginative natural touch. Phrase The “ naïve ” feeling of the period of the Cru-
after phrase of description passes under the eye, sades, the Troubadours, and the Minnesingers,
leaving no definite image upon the mind, touch the “individualism and sentimental feeling" of
ing no chord of feeling. All is vague, remote, the Renaissance, 6 the enthusiasm for nature
abstract, lifeless. In spite of the clear objective among the discoverers and Catholic mystics,”
beauty of the pictures in the Odyssey, one be the artificial treatment of landscape, during the
gins to suspect that the mere ability to see the seventeenth century, in Germany and France,
significant aspects of what is under one's eyes and the beginning and full tide of romantic feel-
is a modern achievement. To the passages from ing, with all its sentimental exaggeration, —
Shakespeare, however, this objection does not these are the principal stages through which,
apply. While the list of examples is not, of according to Herr Biese, the treatment of land-
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was
devotes a few, not very illuminating, pages, also, bargains, sueing for bad debts, collecting rents,
to the history of landscape in painting.
and making investments. The material of the
The
vague
and unsatisfactory impression left volume is in three divisions : first are the letters
by his generalizations is, no doubt, due in some of Washington to his Secretary, Tobias Lear,
degree to his style, though for this the translator relating to domestic affairs at Philadelphia and
may be to blame. On the whole, however, the Mt. Vernon ; next is reprinted in full Lear's
translation is workmanlike, and we fear that the account of the last illness and death of Wash-
responsibility for such sentences as the following ington, the funeral and after; third are mis-
rests with Herr Biese :
cellaneous letters of Washington relating to
“ (Schiller] called nature naïve (he included natural domestic and agricultural affairs at Mt. Vernon
ness in Nature); those who seek her, sentimental; but after 1790. There is a brief introduction by
he overlooked the fact that antiquity did not always
Louisa Lear Eyre, granddaughter of Tobias,
remain naïve, and that not all moderns are sentimental”
which tells us that she has a Martha Washing-
[p. 346). “ And since Shakespeare's characters often
act out of part, so that intelligible motive fails, while it ton quilt, a Tobias Lear portrait, and a George
is important to the poet that each scene be raised to Washington lock of hair, and that she “
dramatic level and viewed in a special light, Goethe's defrauded of the originals of these letters."
words apply,” etc. (p. 167).
There is no further explanation of the last state-
There is far too much of the solemn pseudo- ment. The Lear correspondence given is from
technical jargon that often makes German copies made by Lincoln Lear, son of Tobias, for
criticism such desperately hard reading. The Jared Sparks, who later gave the copies to Miss
ingenuous reader believes, or at any rate hopes, Louisa Lear, daughter of Lincoln Lear. Some
that he is not reading nonsense, but he has the
of the letters have not been printed before. Of
disappointment of embracing a shadow whenever editing there is practically none; and to the lack
he attempts to grasp the meaning. The style, of it, as well as to careless proof-reading, is due
too, is without that coherence that depends upon the perpetuation of the copyist's misreadings of
distinctness of articulation -- a quality in which Washington's spelling - such as “over par
French criticism, for example, is almost never for overseer, “ Molly" for Nellie, * Curtis” for
wanting. There is, moreover, a good deal of that Custis, etc. And surely there is something
specious encyclopædic abundance which is so
wrong where Lear's figures make Washington's
easy to obtain ; it consists in the indiscriminate length after death only five feet three and a
heaping up of names and dates that suggest, to half inches. A foot more will be necessary to
be sure, completeness of treatment, but really satisfy the popular notion of the tall first Presi-
breed confusion.
dent. The reviewer has been unable to find
Whether the translator is responsible for plac- anything in the book that will justify the word
ing Drayton and Drummond of Hawthornden in
“ Recollections” in the title. There is no index.
the eighteenth century (pp. 223, 224), we do The letters are filled with facts about the
not know; but he must at any rate be held ac servants, the slaves, the household economy ;
countable for such eccentricities as Bernard von
schools for young relatives ; crops, fertilizers,
Clairvaux, Hugo von St. Victor, Vincentius seeds, cattle, horses, sheep, overseers, soils, farm
von Beauvais, and for the odd locution, " The implements ; rents, investments, land sales, and
real Aristotle was only gradually shelled out all that interested a progressive farmer of a
from under mediæval accretions ”(p. 200).
century ago. Some of them certainly make the
CHARLES H. A. WAGER. Father of his Country seem very human and
un-heroic, and dim the halo that Parson Weems
and others have created for us. For instance,
WASHINGTON AS HOUSEKEEPER no housekeeper of to-day faces a more trouble-
AND FARMER.*
some servant problem than did George Wash-
A volume of the Letters and Recollections ington during the last ten years of his life. It
of George Washington” is sent out with the seems that he preferred white servants who were
explanation from its publishers that it is meant honest, frugal, neat, and did not drink; but
to show the great Virginian in a new light -
these were hard to get, and were always wanting
that is, as a domestic man managing household their wages raised.
raised. He refused to bring two
affairs ; as a planter looking after crops, cattle, kitchen servants from New York to Philadelphia
and overseers ; and as a business man driving because they were not neat enough, and the
“ kitchen [being] in full view of the best rooms."
* LETTERS AND RECOLLECTIONS OF GEORGE WASHINGTON.
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co.
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ond
nor noth-
ington declares that “it is inconceivable to me personal attention to his farms, all went well,
how other families on 25 hd. or 3,000 dollars crops were good, cattle were improved, the wool
should be enabled to entertain more company production doubled, etc. He believed in the
than I could do for 25,000 dollars annu modern methods of intensive farming, and was
ally.” He comes to the conclusion that it is convinced that if we were to reduce our culti-
partly on account of the expense of the “ Sec vation ... to half the present quantity, and
or white servants' table. “I strongly manure and till that half well, our profits would
suspect that nothing is brought to my Table of be greater.” In engaging a manager to look
liquors, fruits, and other things, that is not after Mt. Vernon while he was in Philadelphia,
used as profusely [at the servants' table].” And Washington wrote:
to Lear, when engaging servants for the Phila “ As I am never sparing in furnishing my Farms with
delphia establishment, he wrote, “ Be him or any and every kind of Tool and Implement that is cal-
them whom they may, it must be expressly un-
culated to do good and neat work, I not only authorize
you to bring the kind of ploughs you were speaking to
derstood that wine is not permissable at their
me about, but any others, the utility of which you have
Table. Even while President he looked after proved from your own experience.
I shall begrudge
the negroes' clothes, bought their caps, chose no reasonable expense that will contribute to the im-
the wall-paper and carpets, saw to the proper
provement and neatness of my Farms:- for nothing
placing of the furniture and ornaments in
pleases me better than to see them in good order, and
every
everything trim, handsome, and thriving
room, looked after the wood supply, engaged
ing hurts me more than to find them otherwise, and the
washerwomen, traded laundry implements and tools and implements laying where they were last used,
furniture with Mrs. Robert Morris, ordered exposed to injuries from Rain, sun, etc."
preserves and butter put up for winter, and per- This was bis farmer's platform, and it explains
formed numerous other duties that we think how he was able to live from the proceeds of his
Mrs. Washington might have claimed as her own. farms and yet serve his
country without
pay
for
Either he was a meddler, or he deserved the title long periods of time. But evidently there were
of “George Washington, Housekeeper."
many who were not up to his standard ; for when,
Nothing is clearer than the double fact that in 1790, he wanted to lease the Mt. Vernon
Washington liked neither slavery nor slaves. place, he refused to do it to the slovenly farmers
He was careful of the comfort of his servants, of this Country,” and later, when he wanted to
as he called them, was kind to them, and enclosed sell land, he tried to get English and Scotch
with his own their love-letters to their « delto farmers to buy, “ for I have no idea of fritter-
bosos "'; but he had lived long enough in the ing up farms for the accommodation of our coun-
North to see the advantage of a homogeneous try farmers whose knowledge centres in the
white population, and to the end of his days he destruction of land and very little beyond it.”
hoped to get rid of his slaves and get English We learn that he gave children lottery tickets,
and Scotch farmers in place of them. To a and that he had a distillery; that he could write
friend he wrote: “ I do not like even to think, a scorching dun to a bad debtor; that he believed
much less to talk, of [slave property]. . . in strict discipline over school children, and that
Were it not that I am principled against selling in enquiring about a school he asked first about
negroes as you would do cattle at a market, 1. the discipline and the master, next if the pupils
would not in twelve months ... be possessed were “genteel," and finally and incidentally,
“ but imperious necessity compels Among other things enquire what is taught at
until I can substitute some other expe these schools.” There are many other interest-
dient."
ing and homely facts in these letters which throw
Perhaps of most interest and value are the a new light on Washington, and in a way help
letters to overseers and others regarding farm to bring him down from the heights to earth
management. Washington was not a planter, again — to the earth where he certainly liked to
but a farmer; Mt. Vernon was not a planta- live.
WALTER L. FLEMING.
tion but a congeries of small farms. Hence
the labor system was not well organized, and
The following, unearthed by the indefatigable author
Washington had much difficulty in keeping of " Pryings Among Private Papers," invites comment,
things in running order. He complains of
but demands none. “On Wednesday evening Mr.
indolent negro labor, stupid overseers, “worth-
Johnson & I had another tete a tete at the Mitre.
less white men” who have “no more authority
Would you believe that we sat from half an hour after
eight till between two & three ? He took me cordially
over the Negroes . . . than an old woman by the hand, & said, My Dear Boswell, I love you very
would have." Yet when he was able to give much. . .
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THE EASTERN COURSE OF CONQUEST.*
study of this system shows that it is possible to
connect Merv, the terminus of the Murgab Valley
From the time of Cæsar, one of the favorite
division, with the Indian system of railways at
methods of conquest has been the subjection of
savage and semi-civilized races under the plea and Kandahar in the south, thereby lessening
New Chaman, by the way of Herat in the west
of pacifying and protecting them. From the
negative position of protection it is only a step India by seven days' journey. There is no
the travelling distance between England and
to positive direct control. We see much of this
method of conquest in our own time. One of probability, however, that this scheme will be-
come a reality. Russia will not consent to the
the best examples is probably the growth of
Russian authority over Central Asia. Another building of a line which will so much profit her
enemy. Russia's policy, according to Mr. Ham-
good illustration in the making is the British
ilton, will be to extend the Tashkend road along
frontier protectorate over Afghanistan. It is in
the northern Persian and the northern Afghan
this region of Central Asia that we are now
borders in order to control the military and
beholding the subtle and fascinating game of trade conditions of those strong strategical posi-
diplomacy most cunningly played. Russia, de-
tions. It is Russia's purpose, undoubtedly, to
feated in the Far East, must now return to her
extend the system to Herat, the key to India,
former field of conquests to extend her powers
on the western border. Such a line, once estab-
and to recuperate her losses. England, recog- lished, would give Russia the advantage in the
nizing this advance of Russia southward, must
event of an outbreak of hostilities.
now zealously guard her protectorate over Af-
At Kandahar and the southern border of
ghanistan, that no direct attack may be made
Afghanistan, the question of railway building
on her Indian possessions. The diplomatic re-
is also the chief political concern of England.
lations are involved, the conditions are intricate,
Kandahar is of more importance as a trade
and the outcome is not at all certain.
centre than Herat, and is of almost equal im-
To understand the circumstances and condi-
tions, the temper and character, of these Afghans the British position in southern Afghanistan is
At present
portance in strategical position.
requires an intimate knowledge of every point
involved in such a complicated political, geo-
en l'air, but a railway from Kandahar to New
Chaman in India would link Afghanistan to
graphical, and historical situation. Few stu-
India in a more tangible way. It seems likely
dents of Central Asian affairs know all these
that such a line will be established before long.
conditions so well as does Mr. Angus Hamilton,
British interests, while favoring this short line,
author of a notable book on Korea, and for some
are inimical to a trans-Afghan system ; for in
time a correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette"
from Central Asia. His volume on Afghanistan, is necessary that Afghanistan shall remain a
order to preserve the integrity of the state it
like that on Korea, is heavy, but it is substan-
buffer state, whereas a trans-Afghan railroad
tial and instructive reading. He marshals an
would make her a gateway to India.
astonishing array of data on the commercial and
So runs the story of the whole book. Were
political affairs of that country, but out of the
we to summarize Mr. Hamilton's account of
dry material thus offered he makes an able di-
every district of Afghanistan, we should only
gest and conclusion of present conditions that repeat what we have said about Herat and Kan-
are interesting to the student of geography, dahar
the importance of the railway problem,
politics, and trade, in that part of Asia. Above
and the admonition regarding Russia's advance.
all things, his volume is pregnant with ideas
Mr. Hamilton's whole thought and tone is
concerning the conflict between Russia and En-
summed up in the following quotations from
gland for prestige in Central Asia.
his book :
Of primary importance in either the subjec-
Russia is really the supreme and dominating factor
tion or the protection of Afghanistan is the rail-
in Afghanistan, not only along the northern, eastern and
way. The Orenburg-Tashkend Railway, which western frontiers, but throughout the kingdom.”
has been but recently completed, now reduces “ The policy of this country [England] should be
the previous long journey from St. Petersburg
mistrustful of Russia always, and our attitude should
to Tashkend to the small matter of twenty-four
be actively suspicious.”
hundred miles, thus making a close jointure
The pessimistic views of the author are pro-
between the military and commercial depôts, bably accentuated by two further facts revealed
between the capital and the frontier. A further in the latter part of his book — the failure of
Sir Louis Dane's Mission to make a favorable
AFGHANISTAN. By Angus Hamilton. With Illustrations
and Maps. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
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bility of the weak-willed ruler of Afghanistan, chiefly occupied with the puritan settlement of New
Amir Habib Ullah. Like the men in the nur-
England. Mr. Andrew Macphail is the author, and
sery rhyme who marched up the hill and then the story is something more than readable, although
marched down again, the Dane Mission return-
it is long-winded throughout and drags not a little
toward the end. The hero is one Nicholas Dexter,
ing from Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan,
a valiant captain under Cromwell, and, when the
had to report meekly that the Amir had been
elevated to the height of an Independent King, from the vengeance of the King. Escaping from
story opens on the eve of the Restoration, a fugitive
that he was permitted to import arms at his England with the connivance of a daring sea-dog
pleasure, and that his government was to be named Phineas Pratt, he seeks a home in Boston ;
released from the arrears which had accumulated but, finding the theological atmosphere of the Bay
in the Indian treasury.
As an offset for these too stifling to breathe, he soon again becomes a
concessions, the Mission reported that the Amir wanderer. The particular object of his quest is
was disaffected and untrustworthy! Mr. Hamil-
a maiden whom he had rescued when she was but a
ton is gracious enough to think, however, that child, and whom he now seeks as a lover. Her
this affront was due more to the conspicuous fortunes have been no less chequered than his, and
vanity of the Amir than to the manifestation of
the pursuit leads him a merry chase from Boston to
the Bahamas, and thence again through Boston
his ill-will. And herein lies the promise of
to the northern wilderness. Of course she is
trouble for Afghanistan. As a man and ruler, found at last, and she turns out to be the long-lost
the Amir is so strongly marked by a capricious daughter of Phineas Pratt. Mr. Macphail knows
temper and a weak will that his seat on the something of the early history of the Bay, but his
throne is not at all secure. Surrounded by knowledge is far from accurate, and a critic of the
an all-powerful priesthood opposed to foreign more microscopic sort might pick many flaws in his
advice; intrigued against by relations, both
narrative.
masculine and feminine, who, led by his strong-
Mr. Warwick Deeping, is to be warmly congratu-
willed brother, Nasr Ullah Khan, are waiting lated upon his latest story, which he has entitled
“* Bess of the Woods.” It is a story of country life
for a propitious moment to overthrow him ;
unbeloved, although amiable in disposition, by century, and accomplishes the difficult feat of pre-
in England, dated in the latter half of the eighteenth
his subjects, he may at any time become the senting that period in romantic coloring, while
centre of a rebellion. Then will be the moment remaining faithful to its artificial speech and its
for active hostilities between Russia and England. | social usages. Gentlefolk and rustics are alike de-
The volume is dedicated to the late Viceroy lineated with truth and sympathy, and in the contrast
of India, Lord Curzon, whose knowledge of between these two groups, brought into close relations
Central Asian affairs is unsurpassed. All the by the hero's romance, the author finds one of his best
helpful means for understanding the text, such
artistic effects. We have, on the one hand, besides
as illustrations, maps, tables, appendices, are
the hero, his delightfully cynical and selfish aunt, who
abundantly provided. At times, however, when
is a seasoned campaigner, and the baronet his neigh-
bor, whose family includes a swaggering son and a
our interest is aroused by some picture it remains
shrewish daughter of more summers than she would
unsatisfied so far as any comment in the text is
willingly acknowledge. This young woman marks
concerned. But then, Mr. Hamilton's view the hero for her own, and he becomes so entangled
point is not often that of picturesqueness. in his own strained notions of honor that he is well
H. E. COBLENTZ. nigh victimized, being saved, however, by an infusion
of good sense which results from certain interviews
with his malicious but clear-sighted aunt. On the
other hand, deep in the neighboring forest there lives
RECENT FICTION.*
a small community of peasants, whose chief occu-
“O) Vine of Sibmah; thy plants are gone over the pation is smuggling, and among them the heroine,
.” This quotation accounts sufficiently for “ The who is believed to be of their blood, but who has in
Vine of Sibmah the title of a historical romance reality been left in their hands as a child after a grim
A Relation of the Puritans. By THE KING'S REVOKE, An Episode in the Life of Patrick
Andrew Macphail. New York: The Macmillan Co.
Dillon. By Margaret L. Woods. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co.
BESS OF THE Woods. By Warwick Deeping. New York:
By Netta Syrett. Chicago: A. C.
Harper & Brothers.
IN DESERT KEEPING. By Edmund Mitchell. London: Alston WHERE SPEECH ENDS. A Music Maker's Romance. By Robert
Rivers.
Haven Schauffler. New York: Moffat, Yard & Co.
THE SANDS OF PLEASURE. By Filson Young. Boston: Dana BUCHANAN'S WIFE. A Novel. By Justus Miles Forman.
Estes & Co.
New York: Harper & Brothers.
A SON OF THE PEOPLE. A Romance of the Hungarian Plains. THE TIDES OF BARNEGAT. By F. Hopkinson Smith. New
By the Baroness Orczy. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.
York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
THE MAN FROM AMERICA. A Sentimental Comedy. By Mrs. THE FIGHTING CHANCE. By Robert W. Chambers. New
Henry de la Pasture. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co.
York: D. Appleton & Co.
sea.
as
• THE VINE of SIBMAH.
THE Day's JOURNEY.
McClurg & Co.


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scene of murder and robbery committed many years hero, his infatuation brought under control, is again
before. She is, in fact, another Lorna Doone, and found at the scene of his labors, the difficult process
the patriarchal government of the clan is rather of regeneration at work within his soul. The episode
closely patterned after that of Blackmore's famous of a visit to a Trappist monastery contributes notably
nest of outlaws. How hero and heroine meet, how both to his strenghtening and to the impressiveness
they heed the voices of their hearts, with what machi of the book's implied teaching. It is not a book for
nations of craft and villainy they are compassed the young to read, but it is one that will work no
about, and with what triumph they finally escape harm to mature and balanced minds.
from the toils, are the matters set forth in this ex Madame Emma Magdalena Rosalia Maria Josefa
tremely interesting, well-written, and artistically- Barbara, Baroness Orczy, has given us, in “ A Son
framed romance, which has not had many equals of the People," a deeply interesting romance of the
in the fiction of recent years.
Alföld, or great Hungarian plain. The peasant and
“In Desert Keeping,” by Mr. Edmund Mitchell, the magnate's daughter provide the romance, which
is the story of a secret murder which the desert does is worked out upon a familiar plan. The magnate
not, however, keep very long, and which when dis- has impoverished himself by agricultural experiments
closed brings about a pretty complication. The victim and a reckless scale of living ; his estates are heavily
has been, in days long past, the lover of his slayer's mortgaged, and the rich peasant becomes his princi-
wife; and it is their son who discovers the secret of pal creditor. The latter has long worshipped the
the crime, believing all the time that the slayer and magnate's daughter from afar, and proposes to relieve
not the slain is his father. The son, being the legatee the financial situation by making her his wife. This
of the dead man's fortune, is charged with compli- sordid arrangement is effected, and the wedding
city in the crime, which keeps the reader in a con takes place. But the aristocratic heroine, scorning
dition of tense excitement for quite a while. It is her base-born husband, overwhelms him with her
a rather poor story, on the whole, but not without contempt, and he makes no effort to keep her at his
some slight merits of characterization and plot. side. Eventually, however, the nobility of his char-
Mr. Filson Young, who under the name of “Guy acter is revealed to her, and her scorn dissolves in
Thorne” will be remembered as the author of the the love which she has long half-consciously felt for
rather crude and sensational novel " When It Was him, thus bring the tale to a happy ending. It is a
Dark,” has given us in “The Sands of Pleasure" a strong and attractive piece of work, vivid in descrip-
far more acceptable and serious work. Its hero is tion and characterization, dramatic in action. Depict-
an engineer by profession, and the first section of ing the kind of life with which the romances of Jokai
the novel presents him occupied with the task of con have make us fairly familiar, it has in some respects
structing a lighthouse on the Cornish coast. There an advantage over those fantastic inventions. At
is much display of technical information in this de- least, it conforms more closely than they to the
scription, but it is discreetly handled, and the picture accepted European ideals of orderly movement and
of the struggle with the sea is singularly impres- logical structure, while sacrificing nothing of their
sive. When his work is practically over, the hero intensely national character.
goes to Paris for relaxation, and for the first time “ The Man from America,” by Mrs. Henry de la
in his life comes into contact with the world of Pasture, is described as “a sentimental comedy.” It
pleasure-seeking and sordid vice. This second sec is a story without a problem or a purpose, as these
tion of the work thus deals with debatable matter, terms are used by the strenuous modern novelist,
and with a frankness hitherto almost unexampled but simply a charming study of some young people
in English fiction; but we are given fair warning of Devonshire, with an ancient expatriated French-
of what is to come, and the author's defence of his man and a few visiting Americans thrown in for
course is not without weight. “ It is obviously im- | variety. It is decidedly pleasant to be in the society
possible,” he
says,
“ that
everyone
should know the of the old Frenchman and of the two grand-daughters
half-world at first-hand ; but there is every reason upon whom his affection is lavished. The book's
why mature people should read about it, not bitterly chief excuse for being is that it affords us this plea-
or unpleasantly, but as pleasantly as possible, in the sure; the fact that the story is all the time slowly
mirror of a page written without moral preoccupa- leading up to a series of happy and reasonably roman-
tions.” So Mr. Filson's heroine (as far as the book tic marriages is only a secondary consideration.
has one) is a demi-mondaine, a creature of delicate That the work is fresh, human, and altogether de-
and elusive charm who captivates for a time the lightful, must be the verdict of every reader.
senses of the hero, yet who is not portrayed with the We expect work of very high character from Mrs.
artificial sentimentality of “La Dame aux Camel- Margaret Woods, and “The King's Revoke" does
lias,” but is presented in a light clear enough to not disappoint us. This “ episode in the life of
illuminate the ugliness of her life no less than its Patrick Dillon” bears the date of 1808, and is con-
attractive aspects. We may hardly quarrel with a cerned with the efforts of the young Irishman, in
writer who so conscientiously aims at artistic truth, the service of the Spanish royalists, to rescue the
however much he may startle us by the boldness of young King from captivity in the hands of Napoleon.
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canvas.
time-serving afrancesados, and the English army is human beings, having their little eccentricities, no
pounding away at the ramparts of his kingdom. doubt, but on the whole very much like other people.
Meanwhile, Ferdinand the Desired, to whom the The writer seems to understand, moreover, that music
mass of the Spanish nation are passionately attached, is an art having real relations to life. Says the
lives in enforced seclusion in Touraine, a guest at Princetonian who follows his bent and becomes a
Talleyrand’s chateau. He proves a most unheroic fiddler : “My chums on the campus call me hard-
hero, for when the plot for his liberation is at the hearted and disloyal, and say I don't love the old
point of successful issue, he sets the plans of the university properly. They can't know, of course,
conspirators at naught by refusing to hazard his that the orchestra is the most deeply sociable insti-
precious skin, hoping that in the end the imperial tution going ; they can't conceive the ecstasy of
French usurper will prove his most useful friend. joining with a hundred kindred musicians and a
The conspiracy which thus ends in failure is both thousand kindred hearers in that very apotheosis of
ingenious and intricate — rather too much so to be the brotherhood of man, the Ninth Symphony."
altogether intelligible. The main part of the ro The characters in this book are for the most part
mance has its scene in Touraine, and introduces us members of the Chicago Orchestra. This statement
to a mixed and interesting society of English déte must not be taken too literally, for the figure of old
nus, Spanish nobles, and Frenchmen of various Wolfgang is hardly to be taken as a portrait of
ranks. Young Dillon cuts a dashing but not always the late Theodore Thomas, despite a few realistic
dignified figure in the plot, and his shady accom touches. But the scene is Chicago, with the definite
plice, Count d'Haguerty, provides an interesting naming of localities, and even the recognizable de-
study in character. One figure, that of the beau scription of personalities. The writer has a keen
tiful and high-souled Marquesa de Santa Coloma, faculty of humorous observation, which may
be illus-
stands out above all the others upon this crowded trated by this thumb-nail sketch of the old kettle-
drummer at the festive board: "At his food Loewen
“The Day's Journey," by Miss Netta Syrett, is was always a pleasing and curious spectacle. He
an old story tricked out in modern habiliments. Its had done military service in his youth, and four
garb of speech and incident is so extremely modern times a day his early training cropped up in him.
that we are apt to forget how old the story is in all He was always militant at his meals. · Before attack-
its essentials. When it opens, the hero and the hero ing a roll his face would take on an invincible expres-
ine have been married for five years, and the dream sion. Then the resolute jaws would bury themselves
of love has given place to the grey consciousness of in it and one could see the dozens of valiant little
a lost illusion. The man has become wearied of do wrinkles that would scale the cheeks and lodge about
mesticity, and is seeking for distraction elsewhere. the discolored temples. He handled a knife like a
The woman thus neglected has at last, after much sabre, a fork like a bayonet, and his infrequent
silent suffering, ceased to care greatly for anything. operations with a finger-bowl partook of the nature
Then the opportune reappearance of an old-time of ablutions before inspection.” There is pathos,
lover restores something of her interest in life, and too, in the book, of a sincere and appealing kind.
and her youth and beauty burst once more into The plot is unimportant, although it gives us a hero
bloom. She separates herself from her husband, who (or possibly two) and a heroine, with a villain whose
then begins to realize what she has been to him, machinations keep the lovers apart for a time. But
while at the same time he discovers how insincere the story is essentially one of incidents, loosely strung
and self-seeking is the character of the other woman together, charming in their freshness, and intimate
who has been the cause of his infidelity. Eventually in their revelation of the musician's every day life.
his wife takes pity upon him, and a sort of recon It makes reading of an altogether wholesome and
ciliation follows, bringing the book to a close. This delightful sort.
complex situation is handled with delicacy through “ Buchanan's Wife,” by Mr.Justus Miles Forman,
out, and the whole story is told in a crisp style which is the story of a woman who has married for
money,
never drags and which is always charming.
and whose husband, a man of moody and occasion-
A sentimentalized literary” description of the ally vicious temper, makes her life unbearable.
Fifth Symphony, by Dr. Henry van Dyke, serves Matters are further complicated by the existence of
as prelude to “Where Speech Ends," a novel by the man whom she ought to have married. Presently
Mr. Robert Haven Schauffler. It is a musical novel, Buchanan disappears mysterously, and long after-
as this title and this fact indicate; but the reader wards a body is discovered which the wife identifies
need not be apprehensive. There is no vague rhap as that of her lost but not mourned consort. Then
sodizing in its pages ; the hero is not a romantic she marries her lover. But the fact is that she has
tenor, and the heroine is not a moon-struck damsel. lied in identifying the corpse, and presently Buchanan
Nor is there any attempt to represent the artist as turns up in the form of a consumptive tramp, who
an unbalanced and irresponsible creature, whose has forgotten the facts of his former life, although
genius is a sufficient excuse for his moral aberra haunted by intangible fancies, which become danger-
tions. On the contrary,
the
group of musicians with ously vivid when he is brought once more into the
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one can-
So we
to conceal the fact of his existence, but her second
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS.
husband finds it out. Then follows an exciting scene
in which the real husband dies, the nominal husband
Professor Major's "First Steps in
Studies in the
barely escapes with his life, and the blackmailing mental growth
Mental Growth” (Macmillan) is
villain is torn to pieces by an infuriated dog. Thus of a little child. mainly a record of observations upon
ends a preposterous yarn which has little power to his own eldest son during the first three years of
arouse sympathy, and which depends for its effects life. It is true, as the author says, that “
upon trickiness and crude melodrama.
not undertake the arrangement of material of this
Mr. Hopkinson Smith's new novel strikes a deeper kind without thinking about it,” and in consequence
note, and is altogether of more serious quality than more or less interpretation has been included. It is
most of his productions. It is a story of a New | hard to say whether more data or more interpreta-
England coast town, with a light-house and a life tion is the greater need of child-study just now;
saving station, both of which adjuncts are effectively probably both must advance together. Until we have
used in its development. It is thus, to a consider more trustworthy facts, theorizing is hazardous ; and
able extent, an open-air story, with effects of storm yet until we have some more definite lines of hypoth-
and sunlight that the author knows how to put to esis the task of the observer is a blind one.
picturesque uses. Essentially, however, it is the life may welcome all such work as this of Professor
history of two sisters, one of whom is a selfish Major's, giving us the benefit of the observation of
worldling, a girl who lapses from virtue, and success a trained psychologist at close range with his infant
fully, until near the end, conceals her misdoing. This subject. We cannot, indeed, have too many such
concealment is made possible by the devotion of the records. The author is in general remarkably sane
other, who sacrifices happiness and even good repute and conservative in his inferences, and seems always
in the endeavor to save the erring sister's name from on his guard against asserting the inner psychic
stain. The book is one of much simple strength and event upon any but convincing evidence. He often
human sympathy.
takes the attitude expressed by his words on page
Mr. Chambers has many admirable qualities as a 197 : “ But reflection will show that the case is not
novelist, and his work is always interesting, but the quite so clear as seems at first sight.” Only by such
novel of character is not his affair. Consequently, vigilant caution may the psychologist hope to escape
the praise which is justly due his romantic inven- reading into the psychic state what is not there at
tions (even the most fantastical of them) and his all. The old ambiguity as to Imitation crops out
fictions having a historical framework must be re in Chapter V. “The idea of a movement,” we are
luctantly withheld from “The Fighting Chance," told, “ is already the beginning of that movement.'
which is a story of the idle rich in their favorite True enough ; but in the subsequent discussion it
haunts. Here is a book without a single character is not always remembered that it is the idea of a
who has ever done anything to justify his existence, movement in oneself, and not the vision or image
without a worthy ideal of any kind to bestow upon of a movement in another, that is the beginning of
it a genuine human interest. Of course there is a the movement. The refusal of the child to "imitate”
brave pretence of depicting this seamy phase of our various simple and apparently tempting acts (p. 129)
society in such a light as to expose its snobbishness is easily explained on this basis ; seeing the father
and corruption, but we cannot feel that the exposure clapping his hands produces an idea of a movement,
is made in full sincerity. We have all the time a it is true, but no immediately dynamic or ideomotor
consciousness that the writer is quite as much con idea. The most serious lack in the book seems to
cerned to show how intimately he knows the life of us to be the neglect of the will. Mere physical con-
“the smart set” as he is to hold it up for reproba- trol is treated, of course, in the chapters on move-
tion. Even the novels of Mrs. Wharton and Mrs. ments, drawing, imitation, play, language ; but the
Ward give us something of this feeling, and the beginnings of ethical control are slighted. Nor is
present work impresses it still more strongly upon this book alone in this regard, but in general little
us. The heroine is another Lily Bart, and the final attention has been given by the psychologists of
triumph of love over worldliness in her case is rather childhood to the origin and development of the dis-
a concession to romantic sentiment than the revela- position and the habitual moral attitude, especially
tion of anything particularly admirable in her such matters as habits of obedience and disobedience,
character. The hero is a semi-reformed drunkard cheerfulness, activity, affection, and the like. On the
whom the author's best efforts cannot succeed in whole, Professor Major's book is one of the safest
making otherwise than superficially attractive. Such and most fruitful of its class.
books as this play with the glittering surface of life,
but have nothing to do with its deeper realities. If
Collected and reprinted book-reviews
Essays worth
Mr. Chambers is well-advised he will return, after
too often have this, and this only, in
preserving.
this unfortunate experiment, to his métier as a
common with life: that they are
writer of historical romance and interpreter of the
tedious as a twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of
drowsy man.” Hence the satisfaction with which
poetry of nature.
WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE. we hail such exceptions to the rule as are found in
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R. H. Hutton's trenchant and vigorous book-notices, fields of the mental domain, has focussed his ma-
in Ainger's gentle and genial literary appreciations, terials and his methods upon the task of presenting
and in Mr. Herbert Paul's able and scholarly sur the rôle of the imagination in the intellectual en-
veys of current noteworthy publications. The vol deavor; and the essay has tempted the translator
ume entitled “Stray Leaves" (Lane) comprises ten to render accessible the data to English readers in
essays contributed by Mr. Paul to “ The Nineteenth a volume entitled “The Creative Imagination” (The
Century” and “The Independent Review,” six of Open Court Publishing Co.) The analysis, the de-
them being criticisms of books, one a chapter in velopment, and the types of this faculty occupy the
praise of Peacock's novels, one a strong plea for serial enfoldment of the tale, and afford some insight
Greek but not for its compulsory study, still another into the sorts and conditions of its manifestations,
having to do with “The Religion of the Greeks” from the myth-making tendencies of primitive man
being suggested by Miss Jane Harrison's - Prole to the discerning and daring guesses of the well-
gomena to the Study of Greek Religion”- and equipped latter-day worker in science. The current of
finally, though first in the order of position, a eulo the analysis never runs very deep; and a great mass
gistic sketch of the late Bishop Creighton. Jour of interesting and pertinent detail is lightly touched
nalism is dignified by such pens as Mr. Paul's upon and well marshalled, — quite enough to suggest
none too numerous, unfortunately. Biography, and that a more serious voyage of discovery along the
history too, have received no mean contributions same stream would be variously profitable. Yet
from his scholarship and energy.
In the present the excursion fairly well meets its purposes, and
volume of miscellanies there is something ingratia- offers suitable guidance to the average, or more than
ting in the way he disclaims all erudition in Greek average, excursionist; though it suggests, as trans-
language and literature, and then goes on to show lations commonly do, that an independent tour de
à great deal of curious and special knowledge in signed to meet the precise needs and modes of
matters relating to his theme, as in the Greek schol- travel of the Anglo-Saxon mind would be yet more
arship of English writers from Bentley to Brown successful. As a manual to a region well worthy of
ing. He has no fear that Greek literature will fall exploration, the volume may be recommended both
into neglect unless the study of it be kept up by in the original and in the present form. The psycho-
compulsion. Here he sounds a brave note. But he logist welcomes such aids to the comprehension of
sadly errs in declaring very roundly that “the study his purposes, though he regrets that they so largely
of Greek is time thrown away unless it results in a replace, rather than summarise, the more important
familiarity with the style and idiom of the Greek records of the advancement of his pursuit.
writers from Homer to Theocritus, at least equal
Brittany is always an alluring subject
to an educated Englishman's acquaintance with Picturesque for the pen of the descriptive writer
French.” Must we easy-going scholars, who delight Brittany."
and the brush or pencil of the artist.
to sit down with our “Iliad” in one hand and our
This ancient province, with its forbidding coast
“ Autenrieth” in the other, believe that we are
tortured into a thousand fantastic shapes, its wild
wasting our time, and that we might as well be
hilly inland districts, with their foaming torrents,
reading Pope's epic of the same name ? No, indeed.
streams, and rivulets, its barren wind-swept moors
FitzGerald loved the very lexicon he thumbed so
and heaths, with their ponds and marshes, is essen-
thoroughly in reading his favorite "Don" in the
tially different from the rest of France. The Britons,
original Spanish. Cannot we too get a smack of the
true Homeric flavor by aid of grammar and dic- intermarrying as a general rule amongst theinselves
moreover, have ever kept themselves a race apart,
tionary? Nay, more, is there a Greek scholar in
only, speaking their own language, now broken up
all England, or in all Europe, who can read a tragedy
into several dialects, and clinging with almost pa-
of Æschylus as easily and as rapidly as a tragedy
thetic devotion to traditions and customs long since
of Corneille or Racine? Apart from this absurd
abandoned elsewhere. In the opinion of many
notion as to the uselessness of a little Greek, Mr.
scholars, it was amongst the glades and oak-groves
Paul has written a good book.
of the primeval forests of Brittany that was first
Man does not live by bread alone ; evolved the Arthurian romance that has exercised so
The creative
and the spicing or the garnish or the great an influence over modern literature and art.
imagination.
relish that makes his diet palatable King Arthur himself, the greater number of his
and even sustaining is furnished by the imagination knights, the mighty enchanter Merlin and the fair
that both guides and vivifies the steps of his intel Vivien who wrought his ruin, are all supposed to
lect. Inspiration at the highest, originality or in have been of Briton birth ; and not so very long
itiative at the simplest, puts the cutting edge on our ago any presumptuous skeptic who should have
faculties and shapes our several achievements to their dared, in certain districts of Brittany, to scoff at the
several ends. To fathom the inner nature of this legend of the Holy Grail, would have been in dan-
phase of human endowment has ever been an allur ger of rough treatment at the hands of the natives.
ing and ever will remain a legitimate problem in In fact, the Britons still retain the poetic imagina-
the psychologist's programme. Professor Ribot, well tion of childhood; they live in an ideal world of
known for his interesting popularizations in diverse their own, and are proud of the limitations which


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are counted to them by outsiders as a reproach. North, were guilty of the most irregular practices in
Thus, to the student of folk-lore, as well as to the throwing out votes to secure the election of a ticket.
archæologist, the historian, and the artist, this land which would have been successful with a fair and
of many memories offers an inexhaustible field. free vote. The act creating the Electoral Commission,
The latest of its explorers to put the results of their he asserts, was, without a shadow of a doubt, one of
travels and observations into a volume are Mr. and the wisest pieces of statecraft ever evolved by an
Mrs. Arthur G. Bell, Mrs. Bell furnishing the de American Congress; the procedure and decision of
scriptive matter and her artist husband the pictures the Commission on all the points before it was con-
for the handsome work entitled “ Picturesque Brit sistent and in accord with the law, and the American
tany" (E. P. Dutton & Co.). To journey through people ratified the decision by electing one of its
this romantic region with such accomplished guides members (Garfield) President.
is indeed a privilege, and the twenty-six illustra-
Of books manufactured in cold blood
tions are a gallery of choice color to which one
Idiosyncrasies
enjoys turning again and again.
and put upon the market at so much
of noted men.
by the pound, we have every day an
Mr. Paul Leland Haworth's book on increasing number. Many of them are ingenious
The history
of a famous “The Disputed Hayes-Tilden El and amusing, others are of useful information all
disputed election. tion of 1876” (Burrows Brothers ) compact, and some contain things that are not so.
is the first adequate history of " the most memorable Mr. John Fyvie’s well printed and illustrated com-
electoral controversy in the history of popular govern-pilation entitled “Some Literary Eccentrics” (James
ment.” Thirty years have passed since this remark Pott & Co.) has characteristics of the first two classes,
able contest; the chief candidates, most of the party and is not wholly free from those of the last. The
managers, and all but two of the members of the opening chapter treats of a forgotten eighteenth-
Electoral Commission are dead, and most Americans century author highly commended by so distinguished
have no personal recollection of the events described. a critic as Hazlitt. Thomas Amory, whose chief
Mr. Haworth is therefore correct in believing that work was that strange hodge-podge of a novel called
the time has come when its history may be written “ John Buncle,” is styled by Hazlitt the English
impartially, and judgment passed without prejudice. Rabelais, as Mr. Fyvie takes occasion to remind us.
The book bears evidence of painstaking research and In a later chapter, Hazlitt himself comes in for con-
study. Besides more than 20,000 pages of Congres- sideration as one of the eccentrics, which may seem
sional documentary evidence, the author has drawn the more natural and fitting after his hyperbolic
his material from a variety of other sources, and has praise of Amory. The author, in recording the visit
personally interviewed the more prominent survivors of Hazlitt's father to America, says that “he founded
who figured in the controversy. He reviews the the first Unitarian church in Boston, after the con-
political situation at the close of the Reconstruction clusion of the war, in 1783.” But, if accuracy here
Period, and describes the demoralization which is worth while, “The Monthly Repository,"Vol. III.,
brought about the revolt in the ranks of the Repub- page 305, informs us that this dissenting minister
lican party and culminated in the Democratic arrived in Boston May 15, 1784; and that he so
triumphs of 1874 and 1876. He discusses in detail used his influence, especially by publishing a tract
the violence and intimidation which marked the in confutation of the Thirty-nine Articles, that the
elections of 1876 in Florida, South Carolina, and congregation of King's Chapel, then under Dr. Free-
Louisiana ; draws a vivid picture of the excitement man's liberal leadership, came out openly for Uni-
and intense strain which followed; summarizes the tarianism; all of which may be found in Mr. George
constitutional provisions for counting the electoral Willis Cooke's “Unitarianism in America," and
votes; reviews the precedents regarding the electoral elsewhere. The other eccentrics described are Thomas
count, and discusses the various schemes proposed Day(of “Sandford and Merton,") William Beckford,
by both parties for settling the controversy, the crea Landor, Crabb Robinson, Babbage, Douglas Jerrold,
tion of the Electoral Commission, and the processes the poet Wither, James I., and Sir John Mande-
by which it reached a decision. Mr. Haworth's own ville. Among the not too familiar good things in the
judgment is that many regrettable things were done book occurs a curious illustration of the “scientific
by both parties, but that the desperation to which the imagination.” Babbage, the calculating machine,
people of the South had been driven by the long once capped the poet Rogers's story of having caught
period of misgovernment serves in a measure to cold from mistaking a single-paned window for an
palliate the violence and intimidation which they open one, with the following: “When I go to the
practised in order to carry the elections. This vio house of a friend in the country and unexpectedly
lence and intimidation was mild in most cases, remain for the night, having no nightcap, I should
although in some instances it was horrible beyond naturally catch cold. But by tying a bit of pack-
belief. Had there been a fair election, he asserts, thread tightly round my head I go to sleep imagining
in the disputed states, there is every reason to believe that I have a nightcap on; consequently I catch no
that all would have returned substantial majorities cold at all.” Taken for no more than it professes
for Hayes, and that the Republican returning board, to be, the book is a good one; moreover, its chapters
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me it
editors ; and, finally, if it be true, as John Stuart North’s translation of a group of " Plutarch's Lives”
Mill maintains, that eccentricity and strength of
(Coriolanus, Cæsar, Brutus, and Antonius), edited by
character often go together, these studies of some
Mr. R. H. Carr, is a recent publication of Mr. Henry
notable variations from the type are not beneath our
Frowde at the Oxford Clarendon Press.
attention.
“ Brooks's Readers,” by Mr. Stratton D. Brooks, are
a new series in eight numbers published by the Ameri-
Incurably shy of lion-hunters in his
can Book Co. They are easily graded, attractively illus-
Tennyson as
lifetime, Tennyson has since his death trated, and altogether very acceptable in appearance.
seen by a child. fallen victim to countless chroniclers - The Young Folks Cyclopædia of Persons and
of reminiscences of the poet, chiefly as seen (how Places,” by Mr. John Denison Champlin, a work ap-
often it must have been against his will) in his island proved by a quarter-century of childhood use, is issued
retreat of Farringford. To this mass of Tennyson in a revised edition (the fifth), by Messrs. Henry Holt
iana, this parasitic growth that flourishes on the great
& Co.
man's fame without lessening its vitality, Mrs. Edith
“ Latinitas and Hellenismos," by Professor Charles
Nicholl Ellison has added “A Child's Recollections
Newton Smiley, is published by the University of Wis-
consin, and is a study of the influence of the stoic theory
of Tennyson” (Dutton) in a pretty illustrated book-
of style as illustrated by the writings of a group of
let that can be easily read at a sitting. Mrs. Ellison
seven Latin authors.
is the daughter of Dean Bradley of Westminster.
“ Book by Book,” by a group of English theologians
In her childhood the family used to spend a week
headed by the Bishop of Worcester, is a recent publi-
or two twice a year in the Isle of Wight, two miles cation of the J. B. Lippincott Co. It is a series of
from the Tennysons; and as the children of the two popular studies upon the canonical books of the Bible,
households were playmates, her opportunities to see two volumes bound in one, covering respectively the
the poet were many. Her childhood impressions of
Old and New Testaments.
him, as recalled after an interval of half a century, Thomas Nelson Page's first long story, “On New-
are eked out with recollections of some of his friends,
found River,” is being published by the Scribners in a
and with other not always closely related matters.
new and enlarged edition. Mr. Page has rewritten and
The writer says incidently of herself and playmates,
added much new material to the story, making it almost
“ There were few of Tennyson's poems which we
entirely new. lllustrations have also been provided for
it by J. E. Jackson.
could not pour forth in moments of enthusiasm”.
A small treatise on "The Principles of English Verse,"
which would indicate that they were remarkable
by Professor Charlton M.Lewis,comes to us from Messrs.
children. As a sample of the book's contents, let us Henry Holt & Co. It is in the main a plea for common
close with the following anecdote, which is fraught sense as opposed to metaphysics in the treatment of the
with a deeper meaning. “One summer day he (the subject, and many a bewildered reader of larger works
writer's father) arrived at his Freshwater home in will be grateful for the breath of fresh air that comes
high spirits, and almost immediately rushed off to
to them from these pages.
see his poet friend. ... My father smote him im Four new volumes in the "Standard English Classics”
petuously on the shoulder, calling out, Hullo! how
of Messrs. Ginn & Co. are the following: Dickens's “ A
Tale of Two Cities,” edited by Mr. James Weber Linn;
are you?' The poet answered in a deep voice, and
Franklin's Autobiography, condensed by Mr. D. H.
without even turning his head, • Tired of life!' At
Montgomery, and introduced by Professor W. P. Trent;
this time, as it happened, Mr. Tennyson was particu-
Mrs. Gaskell's “ Cranford,” edited by Professor W. E.
larly prosperous and fortunate in every way." Simonds; and Arnold's “Sohrab and Rustum,” with
other poems, edited by Professors W. P. Trent and
W. T. Brewster.
Part II. of the Elementary Chemistry, Progressive
NOTES.
Lessons in Experiment and Theory,” by Messrs. F. R.
L. Wilson and G. W. Hedley, is published by Mr.
Charles Dickens's daughter, Mrs. Kate Perugini, has
Henry Frowde. It is a handsome text-book of about
written a book about her father and his work. It is
four hundred pages From the same publisher we have
called " The Comedy of Charles Dickens."
a reprint of Mary Wollstonecraft's "Original Stories”
A new edition (the fourth) of Mr. C. T. Stockwell's
(dated 1791), with Blake's illustrations and an intro-
“ The Evolution of Immortality” is published by the duction by Mr. E. V. Lucas. Mr. Frowde also sends
James H. West Co.
us a new edition of Palgrave's “ Treasury of Sacred
Emerson's essay on “Compensation,” with an intro- Song," an always acceptable book
duction by Mr. Lewis Nathaniel Chase, is a pleasing The preoccupation of Dr. Paul Carus with Chinese
pamphlet publication of the Sewanee University Press.
subjects, to which many recent articles in “The Monist”
Messrs. Henry Holt & Co. publish a new edition of and “The Open Court" bear witness, has just produced
Maine's “ Ancient Law," brought into touch with recent two little books of much interest. One is the “ Yin Chih
political science by a special introduction and notes sup Wen,” or “Tract of the Quiet Way," and the other is
plied by Sir Frederick Pollock.
the “ T'ai-Shang Kan-Ying P’ien,” or “ Treatise of the
The Macmillan Co. publish an “ Elementary Com Exalted One on Response and Retribution.” The trans-
position," by Miss Dorothea F. Canfield and Professor lations are by Mr. Teitaro Suzuki and Dr. Carus, and
George R. Carpenter; also a text-book of “ Exposition the books come from the Open Court Publishing Co.
in Class-Room Practice," by Mr. Theodore C. Mitchell From the same source we hear “ Amithaba, a Story of
and Professor Carpenter.
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LIST OF NEW BOOKS.
[The following list, containing 155 titles, includes books
received by THE DIAL since its last issue.]
BIOGRAPHY AND REMINISCENCES.
Reminiscences of Childhood and Youth. By George
Brandes. 8vo, pp. 396. Duffield & Co. $2.50 net.
Queen Louise of Prussia. By Mary Maxwell Moffat. Illus.
in photogravure, etc., large 8vo, pp. 323. E. P. Dutton & Co.
$3. net.
Walt Whitman: His Life and Work. By Bliss Perry. With
portraits, 12mo, pp. 318. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $1.50 net.
The Life of Sir Henry Vane the Younger, with a History
of the Events of his Time. By William W. Ireland. With
portraits, large 8vo, uncut, pp.504. E. P. Dutton & Co. $3. net.
Reminiscences of a Missionary Bishop. By the Rt. Rev.
D. S. Tuttle. With portrait, 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 498. New
York: Thomas Whittaker. $2. net.
Reminiscences of Bishops and Archbishops, By Henry
Codman Potter. With photogravure portraits, 8vo, gilt top,
uncut, pp. 225. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $2. net.
John Calvin: The Organiser of Reformed Protestantism, 1509–
1564. By Williston Walker. Ilus., 12mo, pp. 456. “ Heroes of
the Reformation." G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1.35 net.
A Sailor of Fortune: Personal Memoirs of Captain B. S.
Osbon. By Albert Bigelow Paine. 12mo, pp. 332. McClure,
Phillips & Co. $1.20 net.
Campaigning with Grant. By General Horace Porter, LL.D.
New edition; illus., 8vo, pp. 546. Century Co. $1.80 net.
The Life of Alfred de Musset. By Arvède Barine; done
into English by Charles Conner Hayden. With portrait, large
8vo, uncut,pp. 176. Edwin C. Hill Co. $1.50.
HISTORY.
The Canadian War of 1812. By C. P. Lucas, C.B. With
maps, large 8vo, uncut, pp. 267. Oxford University Press. $4.15.
The Great Revolt of 1381. By Charles Oman, M.A. With
maps, large 8vo, gilt top, pp. 219. Oxford University Press.
Interest in the Rubaiyát of Omar Khayyam shows no
signs of waning. Messrs. A. C. McClurg & Co. have in
press for early publication an entirely new version, pre-
pared by Mr. George Roe. The little book is to be issued
in beautiful style, uniform with Shirazi's “Life of Omar,"
published last Fall, and will be brought out simultane-
ously in England and America.
The “ Pocket Edition” of Sir George Meredith's
writings, published by the Messrs. Scribner, is now com-
pleted by the appearance of eight new volumes, six of
which are novels, while one contains short stories, and
one the poems. This neat edition of sixteen volumes is
very satisfactory for its purpose, and its appearance
betokens a gratifying increase in the popularity of one
of our greatest living writers.
The Messrs. Crowell publish in their “ Handy Vol-
ume Classics ” a volume entitled “ Excursions,” selected
from Thoreau, with Emerson's biographical sketch;
Thoreau's “ The Maine Woods,” edited by Mrs. Annie
Russell Marble; a volume of “ Fireside Travels,” by
Lowell, with an introduction by Professor Trent; and
Longfellow's “ Tales of a Wayside Inn,” with an in-
troduction by Mr. Nathan Haskell Dole.
A second edition, entirely re-written, of Mr. William
Warren Vernon's “ Readings on the Inferno of Dante,"
based upon Benvenuto da Imola and other authorities,
is published by Messrs. Methuen & Co. There is an
introduction by Dr. Edward Moore, and the work occu-
pies, as before, two dumpy volumes. The paper is
thinner than in the previous edition, and the price some-
what reduced. We need hardly add that this is one of
the indispensable works for the student of the Italian
poet.
Following closely upon the announcement of the Presi-
dent's intended visit to the site of the Panama Canal
comes the announcement of another new book on the
subject. This one is from Messrs. Henry Holt and
Company, and its title is “ Panama and the Panama
Canal.” However, it is said to be unlike its prede-
cessors, but is believed to be the first complete history
of the four centuries of canal agitation and attempts at
creation available in any language. Dr. Willis Fletcher
Johnson, the author, since de Lesseps's time has been a
close student of and frequent writer on Isthmian Canal
affairs. He has been on the spot with Secretary Taft,
to whom by permission the book is dedicated.
A luxurious new edition of Benvenuto Cellini's Auto-
biography will be issued shortly by Brentano's. An
edition in handsome form has long been needed. This
one has been planned to meet the requirements of both
the student and the collector. The two volumes have
been made at The Merrymount Press. The decorative
title-page has been designed by Mr. Thomas Maitland
Cleland, and the cover is adapted from a design by Mr.
Laurence Housman. There are forty illustrations,
reproductions in photogravure of Cellini's own sculptures
and of portraits by Titian and others of personages
mentioned in the Autobiography. The translation used
is that produced by the late John Addington Symonds,
the historian of the Italian Renaissance, who had an
enthusiasm for autobiographies and made his version of
Cellini's famous book a labor of love. Symonds's notes
and his sketch of the author are included in this edition,
for which a special introduction on Cellini as an artist
and as a writer has also been prepared by Mr. Royal
Cortissoz, the literary editor and art critic of the New
York Tribune.
ESSAYS AND GENERAL LITERATURE.
Books, Culture, and Character. By J. N. Larned. 12mo,
pp. 185. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $1. net.
Charles Dickens: A Critical Study. By C. K. Chesterton.
12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 300. Dodd, Mead & Co. $1.50 net.
The Poetry of Chaucer: A Guide to its Study and Apprecia-
tion. By Robert Kilburn Root, Ph. D. 12mo, pp, 298. Hough-
ton, Mifflin & Co. $1.50 net.
Readings on the Inferno of Dante based upon the Com-
mentary of Benvenuto da Imola and other authorities. Text
and literal translation by William Warren Vernon; with
Introduction by Edward Moore, D.D. In 2 vols., second
edition entirely rewritten; illus., 12mo, pp. 681. London:
Methuen & Co. $4.
Edward Young in Germany: Historical Surveys, Influence
upon German Literature, Bibliography. By John Louis Kind,
Ph. D. Large 8vo, pp. 186. "Columbia University Germanic
Studies." Macmillan Co. $1. net.
Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln. Edited by John
G. Nicolay and John Hay; with Introduction by Richard
Watson Gilder and others. Vols. VII., VIII., IX., X. New and
enlarged edition; with photogravure portraits, large 8vo, gilt
tops, uncut. Francis D. Tandy Co.
The Oxford Treasury of English Literature. Vol. I., Old
English to Jacobean. By G. E. and W. H. Hadow. 12mo,
pp. 356. Oxford University Press. 90 cts.
Addresses of John Hay: A Collection of the More Notable
Addresses Delivered by the late Secretary of State during the
Last Years of his Life. With portrait, 8vo, gilt top, pp. 300.
Century Co. $2. net.
My Impressions of America. By Charles Wagner; trans.
from the French by Mary Louise Hendee. 12mo, gilt top,
uncut, pp. 296. McClure, Phillips & Co. $1. net.
The Americanism of Washington. By Henry van Dyke.
16mo, uncut, pp. 72. Harper & Brothers. 50 cts.
Historia Amoris: A History of Love Ancient and Modern. By
Edgar Saltus. 12mo, gilt top, pp. 278. •Mitchell Kennerley.
$1.50 net.
Putting the Most into Life. By Booker T. Washington,
With photogravure portrait, 12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 38.
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The Happy Family. By George Hodges. 12mo, gilt top,
pp. 59. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. 75 cts. net.
American Character. By Brander Matthews. With photo-
gravure portrait, 12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 34. Thomas Y.
Crowell & Co. 75 cts. net.
Great Riches. By Charles W. Eliot, LL.D. With photogravure
portrait, 12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 38. Thomas Y. Crowell &
Co. 75 cts. net.
NEW EDITIONS OF STANDARD LITERATURE.
New Pocket Edition of the Works of George Meredith.
Concluding vols: The Amazing Marriage, Lord Ormont and
his Aminta, Poems, Short Stories. 18mo, gilt tops. Charles
Scribner's Sons. Per vol., leather, $1.25 net; cloth, $1.
Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country. By
Alexander Smith; with biographical and critical Introduction
by John Hogben. With portrait, 18mo, gilt top, pp. 281.
Mitchell Kennerley. $1. net.
Anaotoria, and Other Lyrical Poems. By Algernon Charles
Swinburne. 16mo, gilt top, pp. 76. Mitchell Kennerley. $1.
Handy Volume Classics. New vols.: Thoreau's The Maine
Woods, with Introduction by Annie Russell Marble; Long-
fellow's Tales of a Wayside Inn, with Introduction by Nathan
H. Dole; Lowell's Fireside Travels, with Introduction by
William P. Trent; Swinburne's Poems, selected and edited
by Arthur Beatty; Thoreau's Excursions, with biographical
sketch by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Pocket edition; each with
frontispiece, 18mo. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. Per vol., 35 cts.
BOOKS OF VERSE.
Night and Morning. By Katrina Trask. 12mo, gilt top,
uncut, pp. 72. John Lane Co.
Trumpet and Flag, and Other Poems of War and Peace. By
Edward Sydney Tylee. · 18mo, gilt top, pp. 132. G. P. Put-
nam's Sons. $1.25 net.
Ecclesiastes in the Metro of Omar, with introductory
essay on Ecclesiastes and the Rubáiyát. By William Byron
Forbush. 8vo, uncut, pp. 105. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
$1.25 net.
The Treasury of Sacred Song, Selected from the English
Lyrical Poetry of Four Centuries. With explanatory and bio-
graphical notes by Francis T. Palgrave. 18mo, gilt top.
pp. 375. Oxford University Press. Leather.
FICTION
Sir Nigel. By A. Conan Doyle. Illus., 12mo, pp. 346. McClure,
Phillips & Co. $1.50.
A Spinner in the Sun. By Myrtle Reed. 12mo, gilt top,
pp. 393. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1.50.
Disenchanted. By Pierre Loti; trans. by Clara Bell. 12mo,
gilt top, pp. 381. Macmillan Co. $1.50.
Saul of Tarsus : A Tale of the Early Christians. By Elizabeth
Miller. Illus., 12mo, pp. 442. Bobbs-Merrill Co. $1.50.
Don-a-Dreams: A Story of Love and Youth. 12mo, pp. 412.
Century Co. $1.50.
Casa Grande: A California Pastoral. By Charles D. Stuart.
12mo, pp. 367. Henry Holt & Co. $1.50.
Caybigan. By James Hopper. With frontispiece, 12mo, pp. 340.
McClure, Phillips & Co. $1.50.
The Court of Pilate: A Story of Jerusalem in the Days of
Christ. By Roe R. Hobbs. Illus., 12mo, gilt top, pp. 332.
R. F. Fenno & Co. $1.50.
The Prince Goes Fishing. By Elizabeth Duer. Illus., 12mo,
pp. 299. D. Appleton & Co. $1.50.
The Subjection of Isabel Carnaby. By Ellen Thorneycroft
Fowler. With frontispiece in color, 12mo, pp. 357. Dodd,
Mead & Co. $1.50.
The Plow-Woman: A Story of Pioneer Life in the Northwest.
By Eleanor Gates. 12mo, pp. 364. McClure, Phillips & Co.
$1.50.
Dunny. By Philip Verrill Mighels. 12mo, pp. 264. Harper &
Brothers. $1.25.
The Dream and the Business. By John Oliver Hobbes.
With portrait, 12mo, pp. 385. D. Appleton & Co. $1.50.
A Modern Madonna. By Caroline Abbot Stanley. 12mo,
pp. 401. Century Co. $1.50.
The County Road. By Alice Brown. 12mo, pp. 341. Hough-
ton, Miffin & Co. $1.50.
The Song of the Pines. By Robert V. Mathews. Illus., 8vo,
pp. 350. Edwin C. Hill Co. $1.50.
Traffiic: The Story of a Faithful Woman. By E. Temple
Thurston. With frontispiece, 12mo, pp. 379. G. W. Dilling-
ham Co. $1.50.
The Battle of the Weak; or, Gossips Green. Illus,, 12mo,
pp. 362. G. W. Dillingham Co. $1.50.
Confessions to a Heathen Idol. By Marion Lee. Ilus..
12mo, gilt top, pp. 350. Doubleday, Page & Co. $1.50.
Listener's Lure : A Kensington Comedy. By E. V. Lucas.
12mo, gilt top, pp. 286. Macmillan Co. $1.50.
Ring in the New. By Richard Whiteing. 12mo, pp. 309.
Century Co. $1.50.
Tinker Two: Further Adventures of the Admirable Tinker.
By Edgar Jepson. 12mo, pp. 320. McClure, Phillips & Co.
The Robberies Co., Ltd. By Nelson Lloyd, With frontis-
piece. 12mo, pp. 404. Charles Scribner's Sons. $1.50.
The Queen's Hostage. By Harriet T. Comstock. Ilius.,
12mo, pp. 319. Little, Brown, & Co. $1.50.
Shorty McCabe. By Sewell Ford. Illus., 12mo, pp. 316.
Mitchell Kennerley. $1.50.
The Victory. By Molly Elliot Seawell. 12mo, pp. 405. D.
Appleton & Co. $1.50.
Joseph Vance : An Ill-written Autobiography. By William
de Morgan. 12mo, pp. 528. Henry Holt & Co. $1.50.
Cupid's Middle-Man. By Edward B. Lent. Ilus., 12mo,
pp. 336. New York: Cupples & Leon. $1.50.
The Shadow of the House. By Ivan Strannik; trans. from
the French by Emma A. Clinton. 12mo, pp. 307. McClure,
Phillips & Co. $1.50.
The Silver Maple : A Story of Upper Canada. By Marian
Keith. 12mo, pp. 357. Fleming H. Revell Co. $1.50.
The Gentleman Ragman. By Wilbur Nesbit. 12mo, pp. 312.
Harper & Brothers. $1.50.
Under Castle Walls. By H. C. Bailey. 12mo, pp, 367. D.
Appleton & Co. $1.50.
Letters to Women in Love. By Mrs. John Van Vorst. 12mo,
pp. 308. D. Appleton & Co. $1.50.
Moon-Face, and Other Stories. By Jack London. 12mo, gilt
top, pp. 273. Macmillan Co. $1.50.
The Pets. By Henry Wallace Phillips. Illus., 18mo, pp. 47.
McClure, Phillips & Co.
Two-Legs. By Carl Ewald ; trans. from the Danish by Alex-
ander Teixeira de Mattos. 18mo, gilt top, pp. 148. Charles
Scribner's Sons. $1.
The Perfect Tribute. By Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews.
With frontispiece, 18mo, uncut, pp. 47. Charles Scribner's
Sons. 50 cts. net.
The $80,000 Bequest, and Other Stories. By Mark Twain.
Illus., 12mo, pp. 522. Harper & Brothers. $1.75.
The Ladder to the Stars. By Jane H. Findlater. 12mo.
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The Master Spirit. By Sir William Magnay. Mus., 12mo,
pp. 319. Little, Brown, & Co. $1.50.
Affairs of State: Being an Account of Certain Surprising
Adventures which Befell an American Family in the Land of
Windmills. By Burton E. Stevenson. With frontispiece,
12mo, pp. 335. Henry Holt & Co. $1.50.
The Wooing of Folly. By James L. Ford. 12mo, pp. 291. D.
Appleton & Co. $1.50.
Set in Authority. By Mrs. Everard Cotes (“Sarah Jeannette
Duncan"). 12mo, gilt top, pp. 287. Doubleday, Page & Co.
$1.50.
The Burglars' Club: A Romance in Twelve Chronicles. By
Henry A. Hering. Illus., 12mo, pp. 280. B. W. Dodge & Co.
$1.50.
TRAVEL AND DESCRIPTION.
Persia Past and Present: A Book of Travel By A. V. Wil-
liams Jackson. Illus., large 8vo, gilt top, pp. 467. Mac-
millan Co.
The Spirit of the Orient. By George William Knox. Illus.,
12mo, gilt top. pp. 308. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. $1.50 net.
In London Town. By F. Berkeley Smith. Illus., 12mo, pp. 272.
Funk & Wagnalls Co. $1.50 net.
RELIGION AND THEOLOGY.
The Open Secret of Nazareth. By Bradley Gilman. Illus..
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The Apostles' Creed in Modern Worship. By William R.
Richards. 12mo, gilt top, pp. 168. Charles Scribner's Sons.
$1. net.
The Evolution of Immortality: Suggestions of an Individual
Immortality Based upon our Organic and Life History. By
C.T. Stockwell. Fourth edition, revised and extended ; 18mo,
gilt top, pp. 190. James H. West Co. $1, net.
What is Worth While Series. New vols.: The Power of
Personality, by Orison Swett Marden and Margaret Connolly:
Does God Comfort? anonymous; Christmas Making, by J.
R. Miller: The Challenge of Spirit, by Ellis A. Ford. 12mo.
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A Heart Garden. By J. R. Miller, D.D. 18mo, pp. 294. Thomas
Y. Crowell & Co. 65 cts. net.
POLITICS.-ECONOMICS.
The Nature of Capital and Income. By Irving Fisher, Ph.D.
8vo, pp. 427. Macmillan Co. $3. net.
The English Patents of Monopoly. By William Hyde Price,
Ph.D. Large 8vo, pp. 261. " Harvard Economic Studies."
Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $1.50 net.
The Spirit of Democracy. By Charles Fletcher Dole. 12mo,
gilt top, pp. 435. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. $1.25 net.
NATURE AND OUT-DOOR LIFE.
The Pass. By Stewart Edward White. Illus. in color, etc.,
8vo, pp. 198. Outing Publishing Co. $1.50.
Brier Patch Philosophy. By "Peter Rabbit”; interpreted
by William J. Long. Mus. in color, etc., 8vo, gilt top, pp. 279.
Ginn & Co. $1.50 net.
The Wit of the Wild. By Ernest Ingersoll. Illus., 12mo,
pp. 288. Dodd, Mead & Co. $1.20 net.
The Story of Scraggles. By George Wharton James. Illus.,
12mo, pp. 88. Little, Brown, & Co. $1.
Farm Animals. By E. V. Wilcox. Illus., large 8vo, pp. 357.
“Farm Library.” Doubleday, Page & Co. $2. net.
PHILOSOPHY,- PSYCHOLOGY.
The Syllogistic Philosophy; or, Prolegomena to Science.
By Francis Ellingwood Abbot, Ph.D. In 2 vols., large 8vo,
gilt tops. Little, Brown, & Co. $5. net.
Brain and Personality. By W. Hanna Thomson. 12mo,
pp. 320. Dodd, Mead & Co. $1.20 net.
SCIENCE.
Mars and its Mystery. By Edward S. Morse. Illus., large
8vo, gilt top, pp. 192. Little, Brown, & Co. $2. net.
Side-Lights on Astronomy. By Simon Newcomb, LL.D.
Illus., 8vo, pp. 349. Harper & Brothers. $2. net.
EDUCATION.
A History of Higher Education in America. By Charles
F. Thwing. 8vo, gilt top, pp. 501. D. Appleton & Co. $3. net.
The Psychological Principles of Education: A Study in
the Science of Education. By Herman H. Horne, Ph.D.
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The mechanical spirit of the age.—“On Behaviour
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• In the episodes in which Herr Frenssen gives poet-
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“ Zwischenspiel " is thus introduced :
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THE INTIMATE LIFE OF SIR HENRY IRVING.
Ingram A. Pyle
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CANADA SEEN THROUGH ENGLISH EYES.
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tangle of infidelity, suspicion, attempted recon Manuel Palacio. Although all three lived to
ciliation, and final separation. The play proves, an advanced age, and had probably given their
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conceptions of morality are themselves made to The important enterprise of the resuscitated
furnish the proof,” which is a most excellent “ Biblioteca de Autores Españoles” is discussed
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discoursing. The novelist, he says,
already published. It seems that works in
“ Has the health and sturdy independence of one who Catalan and in Latin are also to be included
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and turns his clear gaze up to the stars in visionary
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thought. · [The dramatist) is the neurotic, moody, sen-
Episodio Nacional ” entitled
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“La Vuelta al Mundo en la Numancia," de-
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and to whom reality appears illusion, and illusion real well as the most effective, of his symbolical
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other according to our temperament, but neither can be
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mismo,” by Señor Valdés, and “La Maja
Three novelists
Dr. Guido Biagi's notes on Italian literature Desnudo,” by Señor Ibáñez.
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author of Del Hospital"; Señor Sanchez Diaz,
author of Juan Corazon"; and Señor Miro,
upon another page of this issue. This book, the
author of " Del Vivir." All three are 6 remark-
writer remarks,“ produces the effect of those
ultra-modern religious pictures in which Christ
able for energy of thought and expression, for
is seen appearing at a supper of persons clad in
the realistic sincerity of their transcriptions,
evening dress. The violent contrast between
and for an engaging audacity of view."
Russian literature, of which Mr. Valerii
the theme and the modern and mundane atmo-
Briusoy is the chronicler, has been much affected
sphere destroys all verisimilitude.” We have
already said something like this about « Hill- by the revolutionary movement and the com-
igenlei," ” and the observation applies to “ 11 parative freedom that the press has enjoyed
Under these
Santo with perhaps greater truth. Other during the past year or more.
Italian fiction of the year includes Signora changed conditions, we are told,
Serao's “Dopo il Perdono” and Signor Diego
“ Numerous new periodicals appeared in Russia, with
Angeli's “L'Orda d'Oro,' which is a story of
very varied objects, and extending to social democratic
and revolutionary programmes. Many of these were
" that cosmopolitan society which flocks to
suppressed after the first numbers or after an existence
Rome in search of the distractions offered by of some weeks, but they were soon reissued under an-
the only capital in existence that can boast of
other name, and readers recognized this change of masks.
two Courts and two diplomatic worlds, where
Satirical magazines appeared in numbers, ridiculing the
higher ranks of the Government and their activities;
carnival and dance can be had in double doses."
and in this way in Russia, after a long interval, political
A highly important work in the dramatic field and social satire arose. Pamphlets on political subjects
is Professor Luigi Rosi's “ Italian Comedians," had a great circulation (for the most part translations
being two richly illustrated volumes upon the
of chapters of books by Marx, Kautski, Labriola, Van-
dervelde, and Kropotkin), sometimes running to hun-
history of the Italian stage. A few other works
dreds of thousands of copies. At first pamphlets of a
are “La Poesia Popolare Italiana," by Sig. A. social-democratic tendency had the greatest success;
d'Ancona ; “Nuovi Studi Danteschi," by Sen in the later period those dealing with the advocacy of
ator F. d'Ovidio; “La Donna Fiorentina del anarchist theories were in the greatest demand."
Buon Tempo Antico," by Professor 1. del Many books of a kind heretofore impossible in
Lungo; and a " Manuale Comparativo di Let Russia also found publication - books about
terature Stranieri," by Professors G. Mazzoni the Decembrists and studies in constitutional
and P. E. Pavolini.
law. Even such a work as Radistchey's - Jour-
Don Rafael Altamira says that “the balance ney from St. Petersburg to Moscow,” which
of the last twelve months has been rather against caused the writer to be severely punished in
Spanish literature.” The death of Valera a year 1790, has at last been permitted to see the
ago has been followed by that of Pereda, the light. Mr. Andreev's “ To the Stars” is the
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year. Although the censorship keeps it from
the stage, it has been widely read and discussed.
" In this play a savant is represented who is
entirely devoted to astronomical questions, and
there is a circle of revolutionaires occupied en-
tirely with contemporary matters, the burning
questions of the day.” Mr. Andreev has also
collected his best “ Tales" into a volume. - The
Red Sword " is a collection of stories by Mrs. Z.
Gippius, “written in an elaborate and original
style.” Professor Merezhkovski has been the
most conspicuous literary figure of the year,
having published three books which are thus
described :
“* The Coming Vulgarian' characterizes A. Chekhov
and Gorki as writers without religious feeling: in their
success, especially that of the latter, the author sees a
symptom of the coming triumph of the vulgar fellow,
everything that is grovelling in man. In • The Prophet
of the Russian Revolution,' he gives a totally new point
of view of Dostoievski. The author shows that there
is a profound disagreement between Dostoievski's offi-
cial Slavophile views, justifying Russian autocracy, and
the spirit of revolt which lies hid in his work. The
terrible force of revolution is more dangerous to society
than all the attempts of the throwers of bombs. His
third work, «Gogol and the Devil,' gives an original
interpretation of the person and fate of Gogol.”
over all these things in silence. Do not give dogs your
bones to crack under the table, or feed the cat, or en-
courage animals to jump on the table.” Above all, “ do
not lick your plate; it is an act that ill-becomes a cat,
let alone a gentleman.” To descend some rounds on the
literary ladder, possibly a novel-reader here and there
may recall that Trollope makes Conway Dalrymple, in
“ The Last Chronicle of Barsetshire,” refuse on prin-
ciple Mr. Dobbs Broughton's '47 claret when that gen-
tleman had himself praised the wine and told its price.
But it is doubtful whether Dalrymple, or even Trollope,
knew that he was here frowning on the violation of one
of Erasmus's rules. This brief reference to the learned
Dutch scholar and one of his minor works is prompted
by a peep into Mr. Richard Davey's recent interesting
volumes on “ The Pageant of London."
THE ART OF SOLITUDE, if the expression is allowable,
appears to be in some danger of becoming a lost art in
these crowded hours of glorious life. The means of
intercommunication are superabundant, and we run the
risk of forgetting Sir Thomas Browne's wholesome ad-
vice. “ Be able to be alone,” he counsels the reader, in
his “Christian Morals.” “Lose not the advantage of
solitude, and the society of thyself; nor be only content,
but delight to be alone and single with Omnipresency.
He who is thus prepared, the day is not uneasy, nor the
night black unto him. Darkness may bound his eyes,
not his imagination.” As if with these last words of
Browne's in his mind, Lowell says in his essay on
Dryden: “Solitude is as needful to the imagination as
society is wholesome for the character." Gibbon in
his memoirs has left this stately note of a yearly custom
of his:
“On the approach of spring I withdraw without
reluctance from the noisy and extensive scene of crowds
without company, and dissipation without pleasure
The golden mean is of course the thing to aim at.
“ Here again, as so often,” writes Emerson, “ Nature
delights to put us between extreme antagonisms, and
our safety is in the skill with which we keep the diag-
onal line. Solitude is impracticable, and society fatal.
We must keep our head in the one, and our hands in the
other. The conditions are met if we keep our independ-
ence, yet do not lose our sympathy. These wonderful
horses need to be driven by fine hands."
CASUAL COMMENT.
THE MECHANICAL SPIRIT OF THE AGE, so far at least
as it shows itself in the production of mechanical music,
is deplored by Mr. Sousa in a recent magazine article.
The protest comes none too soon. For a number of
years now it has been possible to soothe the savage
breast by dropping a coin into a penny-in-the-slot
machine, to soften rocks by gramophone, and to bend a
knotted oak with the pianola. The camera and process-
printing devices combine to give us cheap machine-made
art; type-setting machines and steam presses facilitate
the wholesale manufacture of make-believe literature
for the market-place; type-writers, phonographs, and
stenographers do their united utmost to verify Cowper's
familiar line and make poetry itself a mere mechanic art.
“ON BEHAVIOUR AT MEALS,” a quaint and curious
essay written by Erasmus five centuries ago, lays down
some rules that are almost too homely for quotation,
but that help the modern reader to believe the world is
really improving, if not in its major morals, at least in
its minor. This is comforting, unless one happens to be
disquieted by a lurking suspicion that refinement of
manners may be attended by a corresponding refine-
ment of wickedness. However that may be, the essay-
ist gravely admonishes his readers that it is “very rude
to blow your nose on the table-cloth,” or “to wipe your
fingers on your neighbor's coat.” “Never praise the
results of your cook's labours or press your guests to eat,
whether they like or not. Never criticise your host's
dinner unfavourably even if it be badly cooked. Pass
THE GREEK VASE, so effectively used by Keats in
his finest ode, has again been admirably employed as an
illustration, or symbol, by Dr. Edward Everett Hale,
in a recent public address. The “ Attic shape" served
the speaker to typify the contrast between American
civilization and that of Continental Europe. A pyramid
is the form taken by European society, broad at the
base and tapering upward to the point for whose sup-
port all the substructure has its being; and, it might be
added, the base of the pyramid is little less likely to
rise than is the peasant of Europe. American society,
on the other hand, is viewed by Dr. Hale in his indom-
itable optimism as having the graceful and flowing out-
lines of a Greek vase, contracted at the base, swelling
to ample proportions in the middle, and narrowing only
a little as it nears the top. In other words, the mud-
sill of our social structure presents itself to the speak-
er's eye as no more conspicuous than such a fundament
ought to be in a well-designed piece of architecture.
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neither poverty nor riches” has been granted - Dr.
Hale holds that neither the arrogant plutocracy above
The New Books.
nor the brutality and ignorance below can avail to
diminish its strength and vitality. This striking image
of Dr. Hale's was modestly offered the other day as
A BIZARRE BOOK ON DICKENS.*
nothing new, being casually thrown out in the course of
a long address with the remark that the speaker Chestertonese, like Johnsonese, has so marked
believed he had said the same thing in the same place and invariable a character that it is easy to rec-
twenty years before.
ognize and not difficult to imitate, however hard
THE NEWSPAPER HABIT is deservedly stigmatized in
it may be to equal. One might discourse for
a timely little volume of essays on bookish themes by hours in the Chestertonic manner, beginning
one who, as librarian, and in other capacities, has rend somewhat as follows: There is a very common
ered honorable service to the cause of culture. Without saying that virtue is its own reward ; but noth-
searching his pages for arguments and proofs, anyone
ing could be further from the truth : virtue is
might with little difficulty show that an indiscriminate
newspaper diet cannot but produce flippancy, superfi-
its own penalty. And then, by placing oneself
ciality, aimlessness, vulgar curiosity, commonplaceness,
on one's head and viewing all things inverted,
laziness, mental flabbiness, disregard for truth, a grow one could easily demonstrate the collective wis-
ing thirst for sensation, and many other undesirable
dom of the sages to be foolishness, tear to tat-
qualities. In these days when the chief purveyor, in
ters the maxims of world-old experience, and
this country, of this variety of literature, and that too
in its most objectionable form, is manifesting ambitions
leave the generally accepted conventions not a
of a kind that, unless checked, might bring him in the leg to stand on. To a fluent writer with a well-
end to sit in very high places, no condemnation of this developed bump of destructiveness, this is as
demoralizing species of reading-matter can be made too exhilarating as smashing window-panes is to the
emphatic or repeated too often. It is true that the
rising tide of newspapers is not to be swept back with
small boy with a pocketful of pebbles. But to
the broom of literary censure; yet as honest Sancho has
maintain the sensation in its first riotous inten-
assured us that “there is a remedy for all things but sity, the window-panes must increase in size, the
death,” even the literary critic may take heart. At the
paradoxes must grow ever more paradoxical.
very worst, the disease will probably, in the fulness of
time, work its own cure. When the reading public has
That Mr. Chesterton indulges in his wonted
had its nausea raised to the right pitch, the stomach will
orgy of paradox in his already famous book on
refuse to receive any longer its unsavory food. Dickens, is only saying that he is still the Mr.
Chesterton of " Varied Types” and “Heretics.”
LIFE'S LITTLE IRONIES give a never-failing piquancy Some one has spoken, perhaps a little unkindly,
and charm to the daily round of otherwise humdrum of his tremendous, breathless, bank-holiday vol-
duties and vapid pleasures, even as destiny's grim mock-
eries impart a tragic meaning, awful in its fascination, superabundant health and high spirits is not in
ubility of expression.” This rushing overflow of
to the larger concerns of life. Thomas Wotton, the
father of Sir Henry, was wont to declare again and
itself a thing to be condemned so much as won-
again, “ That if ever he did put on a resolution to
dered at and enjoyed. Taking passage in one
marry, he was seriously resolved to avoid three sorts of
of his breezy volumes, we straightway find our-
persons: namely, Those that had children; Those that
selves (to adopt a current favorite metaphor and
had Law-suits; And those that were of his kindred.”
Nevertheless he wedded as his second wife a woman in
nomenclature automobiling—we are tempted to
whom was found “a concurrence of all those accidents say “ automobubbling” over the literary high-
against which he had so seriously resolved,” and who, way in a quite breathless and pulse-quickening
be it added, became the mother of Sir Henry. “When fashion. To be sure, the machine has some little
me they fly, I am the wings," is fate's mocking com-
tricks of its own, - a way of jerking the pas-
ment on those that think to escape their destiny.
Rings thrown into the sea in the morning are served senger's breath out of his body and shaking him
up in the fish course at dinner. Cinderella, banished up now and then, that is rather disconcerting at
to the kitchen hearth, weds the handsome prince. first, but at last becomes merely monotonous and
Cyrus, delivered to Harpagus to be killed, lives to de tiresome. For example – and the figure must
throne his hard-hearted grandfather Astyages. (Edipus,
maimed and exposed on Mt. Cithæron by his father
now be dropped — three times at least in the
Laius, survives to perpetrate, unwittingly, the most
book under review democracy is characterized
terrible crimes. And so on, in an unending variety of as undemocratic. “ The democracy,” declares
fable and legend illustrating the same familiar theme. Mr. Chesterton, has a hundred exuberant good
These reflections, the triteness of which is not denied, qualities ; the democracy has only one outstand-
are the fruit of a pleasant hour with Walton's " Lives.'
From the trivialities of modern members one turns with ing sin—it is not democratic.” And again, speak-
relief to the old masterpieces of biography, simple and ing for Dickens, and as if expressly commissioned
stately, presenting the larger outlines of character and
CHARLES DICKENS. A Critical Study. By G. K. Chesterton.
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by him : “ He realized that representative gov- syncrasies. As to the substance of his book, he
ernment has many minor disadvantages, one of is successful in showing the reasons of Dickens's
them being that it is never representative.” The popularity, in tracing the development of Dick-
initial major defect has here become a minor. ens the writer from the early “ Sketches by Boz”
Still again, in the same strain : “ Carlyle fan- through the transitional “ David Copperfield
cied that our modern English government was to the final and unfinished - Edwin Drood.”
wordy and long-winded because it was demo - Pickwick” he considers the flower of Dick-
cratic government. Dickens saw, what is cer ens's genius, although it is not a novel ; for,
tainly the fact, that it is wordy and long-winded excepting “ The Tale of Two Cities,” Dickens
because it is aristocratic government.
wrote no novels. He was the showman of cer-
Before dropping the subject of mannerisms tain immortal and familiar types. Like the
and taking up the consideration of Mr. Ches- folk-lore legends handed down from age to age,
terton's book as a whole, a few more instances Dickens's stories have no rounded completeness,
may be cited. A straining for startling effects with definite beginning and end. They are
and for epigrammatic smartness is, of course, myths, capable of indefinite expansion. As Mr.
all too apparent, though it would probably be Chesterton expresses it,
nearer the truth to call this not a straining, but “ Dickens was a mythologist rather than a novelist;
an over-indulged natural inclination. He writes : he was the last of the mythologists, and perhaps the
The common mind means the mind of all the
greatest. He did not always manage to make his char-
acters men, but he always managed, at the least, to
artists and heroes; or else it would not be com-
make them gods. They are creatures like Punch or
mon. Plato had the common mind ; Dante had Father Christmas. They live statically, in a perpetual
the common mind ; or that mind was not com summer of being themselves. It was not the aim of
mon.” And on an earlier page : “ Carlyle
Dickens to show the effect of time and circumstance upon
killed the heroes; there have been none since
character; it was not even his aim to show the effect of a
character on time and circumstance. It is worth remark,
his time. He killed the heroic (which he dearly in passing, that whenever he tried to describe change in a
loved) by forcing upon each man this question : character, he made a mess of it, as in the repentance of
· Am I strong or weak?' Another instance : Dombey or the apparent deterioration of Boffin.”'
“ And while they might easily get more satis Considerable space is given to the American
faction out of a screaming article in The War experiences and impressions of Dickens, and
Cry than out of a page of Emerson about the the writer is friendly to us in his treatment of
Over-soul, this would not be because the page the subject. He sympathizes with the Amer-
of Emerson is another and superior kind of lit ican resentment of Dickens's
eager advocacy of
erature. It would be because the
page
of Em international copyright. 66 A beautiful
young
erson is another (and inferior) kind of religion.” dreamer,” we read, “ought not to be even
And finally : “ There is no idea more vulgar or conscious of copyrights. For it is quite unjust
more ignorant than the notion that a gentleman to say that the Americans worship the dollar.
is generally what is called refined." The au They really do worship intellect — another of
thor's favorite mode of emphasizing a writer's the passing superstitions of our time.” The
excellences is illustrated by the following char- following comment on
following comment on - Martin Chuzzlewit "
acterizations of Dickens's art. “ We may,” he contains more than a grain of truth.
writes, “almost say this: that he could only make “ Martin Chuzzlewit's America is a mad-house: but
his characters probable if he was allowed to it is a mad-house we are all on the road to. For com-
make them impossible.” “ Dickens's art is like pleteness and even comfort are almost the definitions of
life because, like life, it is irresponsible, because,
insanity. The lunatic is the man who lives in a small
world but thinks it a large one: he is the man who lives
like life, it is incredible.” Is not this the very in a tenth of the truth, and thinks it is the whole. . .
false gallop of consecutive reasoning ? It is a Hence the more clearly we see the world divided into
perpetual game of bluff; the reader has no Saxons and non-Saxons, into our splendid selves and
sooner recovered breath after one startling asser-
the rest, the more certain we may be that we are slowly
tion than he is again struck speechless with
and quietly going mad. The more plain and satisfying
our state appears, the more we may know that we are
another.
Credo quia impossibile, is all he can living in an unreal world. For the real world is not
gasp under this bombardment of paradox. One satisfying. . . . The real world is full of bracing be-
outrageously Chestertonian phrase, “a raving
wilderments and brutal surprises."
windmill of pessimism," seems made expressly Who of us, with even the dimmest remem-
to fit Shakespeare's designation of “wild and brance of his youth, can read without respon-
whirling words."
sive twinge what Mr. Chesterton says about
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“ The bitterness of boyish distresses does not lie in therein ; and if the elder writer was always
the fact that they are large; it lies in the fact that they striving for the pungent perfection of epithet,”
are small. About any early disaster there is a dreadful
the
finality; a lost child can suffer like a lost soul. It is
younger is not less eager in the quest. Those
currently said that hope goes with youth, and lends to
who like literary fireworks will thoroughly enjoy
youth its wings of a butterfly; but I fancy that hope is the book. The more sober-minded will deplore
the last gift given to man, and the only gift not given the fatal facility of this vigorous and original
to youth. Youth is preëminently the period in which thinker, a facility that has drawn him into pro-
a man can be lyric, fanatical, poetic; but youth is the
period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of
lific authorship before his mind has been sea-
every episode is the end of the world. But the power soned with long years of study and observation
of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the and silent thought. He has made haste to set
soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration every stitch of canvas before a favoring breeze,
comes to the middle-aged; God has kept that good wine
until now.
It is from the backs of the elderly gentle-
without adequate ballast in his hold. He has
men that the wings of the butterfly should burst. There
achieved his reputation at an age when many a
is nothing that so much mystifies the young as the con-
scholar is, with much self-questioning and many
sistent frivolity of the old. They have discovered their doubts, first venturing to contribute of his accu-
indestructibility. They are in their second and clearer
mulated treasure toward the enrichment of the
childhood, and there is a meaning in the merriment of
their eyes. They have seen the end of the End of the
world's thought. Never can the bizarre, as such,
World.”
be of enduring worth. PERCY F. BICKNELL.
It is in passages like this that the writer speaks
with a happy insight and a telling force of ex-
pression that make one almost forgive him his
AFTER THE WAR IN DIXIE.*
irritating perversities and eccentricities. Espe-
cially good also is what he has to say about During the past few years there have appeared
Dickens's faulty management of his characters, a number of interesting books of war reminis-
although the good things are, as usual, clothed cences by Southern women. Two of the best
in paradox. A chapter on the great characters of these, “ A Virginia Girl in the Civil War"
of Dickens is followed by one on his optimism, and “A Diary from Dixie," were edited by
and this by a final brief chapter on his probable Mrs. Myrta Lockett Avary, a native Virginian,
future. The author ventures to suggest that who now appears again in print with a volume
Dickens's “place in nineteenth century England of her own on “ Dixie after the War,” the first
will not only be high, but altogether the high- book written by a woman dealing with that
est '; and further, with the current wrong use stormy period and the smouldering fires of con-
of a much over-worked word, “I venture to offer troversy which it enkindled. Owing to the
the proposition that when more years have exceeding interest of the subject, it is probable
passed and more weeding has been effected, that this volume will be followed by others of
Dickens will dominate the whole England of the
a similar nature. Such books are valuable, but
nineteenth century; he will be left on that plat- they can hardly compare in popular interest
form alone.” This and other judgments in the with those dealing with the more heroic phases
book display such a lack of judicious deliberation
of actual war. The mere mention of Recon-
and seemly moderation as to injure the work as struction causes an unpleasant feeling ; people
a piece of criticism. As a life of Dickens it on both sides of the line are still irritated about
does not profess to have value. At the same it; they are not agreed, and it will be long be-
time, it is entertaining, suggestive, brilliant in fore they are. Consequently no book that
spots, the very last book one would go to sleep touches its vital problems will be accepted with-
over. As a self-portrayal of Mr. Chesterton, out controversy. No one, unless it be some
rather than a picture of his greater fellow-coun- scientific historian, now believes that an unbi-
tryman, it has decided merits. The eye sees assed account of the happenings of those times
only what it brings with it. Again and again could be written ; no one with human feelings,
Mr. Chesterton hits off his own characteristics Northerner or Southerner, can read or write of
in seeking to detect those of his hero. “Up- many of the happenings of that time without
roariously readable” he calls Dickens; and up- exasperation.
roariously readable one is at times inclined to Probably about all we can reasonably expect
call Mr. Chesterton. Dickens's delight in“ great in the way of fairness and soberness, in dealing
draughts of words” is surely equalled by his
An Exposition of Social Condi-
latest critic's. If Dickens possessed hilarious
tions existing in the South during the Twelve Years succeeding
the Fall of Richmond. By Myrta Lockett Avary. New York:
self-consciousness," his eulogist is not lacking Doubleday. Page & Co.
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with the Reconstruction period, has been done following is a good example. It is taken from
in the volume under review. Its thirty-three a diary of the time.
chapters treat, from the Southern woman's “At church I saw officers wearing side arms. They
point of view, practically all that was of interest, come regularly to watch if we pray for the President
as shown by such variety and range of topics as
of the United States. I hope they vere edified. A
these : The last campaigns of the war in the
number stood up during that prayer. Among the most
erect were the M-girls, who have very retroussé noses.
heart of the Confederacy ; the dissolution of the
The Yankees reported: • Not only do they stand up
Confederate government; Lincoln in Richmond; when the President is prayed for, but they turn up their
the military occupation, military government,
noses.' They sent word back: “A mightier power than
and relations between the soldiers and the South-
the Yankee Army turned up our noses”?!
ern whites and blacks; the home-coming of the
The military commanders were gentlemen,
Confederates ; the imprisonment of Southern
and shielded the people in many ways, often
leaders ; the negroes and freedom ; the aftermath making themselves offensive to radical politi-
of war —
want and suffering among whites and
cians. The enlisted men were prompt to aid
blacks; religious affairs, amusements, fashions ; the helpless and relieve suffering. One would
the initiation and continuance of negro govern- give his rations to the hungry; another would
ment ; illegal secret societies ; relations between guard the homes of unprotected women. The
the races during the Reconstruction period; the following story, told of an Atlanta lady now
carpet-bagger's crooked political methods, and living, then a young wife whose husband had
the overthrow of Reconstruction ; race preju- not yet returned after the surrender, is one of
dice and “ crimes against women ”; and, finally, the best in the book :
the meaning of Memorial and Confederate pa “ A big-hearted Irishman caught the little lady strug-
triotic societies. The author does not pretend gling over soap-suds. It looked as if she would nev
to deal with the purely political problems, but
get those clothes clean. For one thing, when she tried
to wring them, they were streaked with blood from her
aims rather to show what the Southern people
arms and hands. . • Faith an' bejabbers,' said Pat,
of both colors were doing and thinking and say «an' what is it that you're thryin' to do?' "Go away,
ing after the war. Her sources of information and let me alone ! • Faith, an' if you don't lave off
are her own experiences, journals and letters of
clanin' thim garmints, they 'll be that doirty — "Go
friends, contemporary newspapers and public other soide if the tub without puttin' me to the in-
'way!' Sure, me choild, an’ if ye'll jis' step to the
documents. A wide acquaintance with the lit convaniance -. He was about to pick her up in his
erature of the period is shown, and there are mighty hands. She moved. . . . Sure, an’ it's as good
few slips as to facts, names, and dates. The
a washerwoman as ivver wore breeches I am,' said Pat.
book is written in a lively anecdotal style; the
. . In short order he had all the clothes hanging snow
author has a keen sense of humor and a pro-
white on the line; before he left, he cut enough wood
for her ironing. •I'm your Bridget ivery washday that
found conception of the value of a good story. comes 'roun,' he said. . . . This brother-man did her
She has the right knack of selecting the most wash every week.”
striking facts, and presenting them at the proper Naturally there was little social mingling of
time and place in her narrative. Her work will Northern people and Southerners; the women
throw many side-lights on the dreary political especially kept at home, with windows closed,
history of the times. While the book is written but we have the author's word for it that the
from the Southern woman's point of view (and young ones often peeped through the blinds to
she says that Southern women have found it see what the Northern visiting ladies wore.
difficult to get over war and Reconstruction), it “I will never forget how queer we thought the dress
is generous and fair. In describing the military of the Northern ladies. . .
occupation, she says: “ I hate to say hard things walking length, and their feet could be seen quite
of men in blue, and I must say all the good plainly. That style would be becoming to us, we said
I got one as soon as I could.
things I can. Because many were unworthy to
We thought (their hats] the most absurd and trifling
wear the blue, many who were worthy have things. But we made haste to get some.”
carried reproach.' The undisciplined black
A Southern girl who accepted the attentions
troops were guilty of horrible outrages ; but for of a “ Yankee beau” was frowned upon. It
the white troops she has little but praise. The
was considered unfair to the dilapidated Con-
most irritating parts of the military régime, federate swains now returning from the war.
the frequent compulsory oath-takings, the flag But some amusing things happened through this
persecutions, the “ button” order, the regulation exclusiveness. For example :
of church services and marriages, — are de-
“ Our ladies went veiled on the street. . . . There
scribed in a series of anecdotes, of which the
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much as behold our pretty girls, much less make eyes white mother hitch herself to a plow which her eleven-
at them. ... Mary Triplett, our famous blonde beauty, year-old son drove, while another child dropped into
was walking along, when the wind took off her veil and the furrows seeds Northern charity had given. I saw
carried it to the feet of a young Federal officer. He in Virginia's Black Belt a white woman driving a plow
bent, uplifted the vagrant mask, and with his cap held to which her young daughters, ,one a nursing mother,
before his eyes restored it."
were hitched."
Some of the most instructive chapters in the
The book is packed full of such incidents,
book are devoted to the conduct of the negroes illustrating every phase of domestic life among
after the war.
In spite of all demoralization, the Southern whites and blacks. As affording
it is clear that they took their freedom well. much material to explain the present problems
For their ill behavior, others than themselves of the South, the work is valuable, whether
were mainly to blame. Of Lincoln's first and one accepts the author's conclusions or not.
only speech to the Southern blacks, Mrs. Avary The numerous pictures of Southern women of
says :
the time cause one to reflect on the great change
“ Mercurial blacks collected about Mr. Lincoln, im that has taken place in Southern ideas as to the
peding his progress. kneeling to him, hailing him as publicity of women's names and pictures. Forty
• Saviour,' and My Jesus!' They sang, shouted, danced.
years ago it would have been a mortal offence
One woman jumped up and down, shrieking, • I'm free!
to publish these portraits. Now, young women
I'm free!' Some went into the regular Voodoo ecstasy,
leaping, whirling, stamping, until their clothes were half (except perhaps in Charleston ) keep supplies
torn off. Mr. Lincoln made a speech in which he said: of photographs for the society pages of the news-
• My poor friends, you are free. . . . But you must try papers. Compare these pictures with those of
to deserve this priceless boon. Let the world see that the South Carolina legislature (p. 354), and the
you merit it by your good works. Don't let your joy jury that indicted Davis (p. 238), and one has
carry you into excesses. Obey God's commandments
and thank Him for giving you liberty, for to Him you a long story without words.
The book opens
owe all things. There, now, let me pass. I have little with a quotation from the last public speech of
time here and much to do.'”
Jefferson Davis ; it closes with one from Presi-
Great were the expectations of the newly- dent Roosevelt's Richmond address. Each in
freed blacks. Some of them started North to itself is proof of great changes in feeling since
the promised land ”; some expected to turn the days of which Mrs. Avary has so interest-
white. “ Ole Miss," asked one pickaninny, | ingly written. WALTER L. FLEMING.
“ now I'se free, is I gwin' turn white lak white
folks ? . . I'd ruther be white, Ole Miss."
Washington was the place of miracles. When
Uncle Peter went there, some tricksters told
THE INTIMATE LIFE OF SIR
HENRY IRVING.*
him his wool could be made straight, and his
color changed. “Said dey could make it jes
As Johnson had his Boswell, so it may well
lak white folks' ha'r," he informed his mistress, be said in years to come that Irving had his
mournfully, when he had paid the price Stoker. And in justice to the gentleman last
nearly his whole capital — and returned home named, we may add that the statement is made
with flaming red wool. His wife did not from a literary point of view, with due considera-
know him, or pretended not to, and drove him tion of the art of biographical portraiture: to
out of the house. One old colored lady, wear exaggerate Boswell's weaknesses is perhaps im-
ing her mistress's clothes, followed in the rear possible, but the talents mingled with them have
of Sherman's army in her mistress's carriage, sometimes been underrated, and a paradoxical
fanning herself, in the dead of winter, with a antithesis has been set up between the folly of
huge fan. Someone asked her, “ Why Aunt the man and the greatness of his book.
Sallie, where are you going ?” “ Law, honey! For upwards of thirty years the author of
I’se gwine right back intuh de Union ! ” these Reminiscences was an intimate friend of
The negroes fared better than most of the Sir Henry Irving, in certain ways the most in-
whites. They were the wards of the nation ; the timate friend of his life; and it is truly said
whites were just then disfavored step-children.
that he knew him as well as it is given to any
Colonels and generals came home to sell pies man to know another. In a prefatory note
and tea and oysters, to make a bare living. The Mr. Stoker points out that the fame of an actor
story of the poorer white people is told in the is won in minutes, not in years, the latter being
following incident:
only helpful in the recurrence of opportunities;
“A Northern missionary said in 1867, to a Philadel PERSONAL REMINISCENCES OF HENRY IRVING. By Bram
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that it is not practicable to record adequately cially in religious matters. For instance, when
the
progress of his work, for that in its perfec- the church scene of “ Much Ado about Noth-
tion cannot be recorded, as words can convey ing” was set for the marriage of Claudio and
but faint suggestions of awakened emotion. Nero, he got a Catholic priest to supervise it,
“So much, then, for the work of art that is not who pointed out that the white cloth spread in
plastic and permanent. There remains, therefore, but front of the Tabernacle on the High Altar meant
the artist. Of him the other arts can make record in so
far as external appearance goes. Nay, more, the genius dered a cloth of gold ; when the red lamp hung
that the Host was within, whereupon Irving or-
of sculptor or painter can suggest - with an under-
standing as subtle as that of the sun-rays which on over the Altar-rail by his direction, for purely
sensitive media can depict what cannot be seen by the scenic effect, was pronounced a sacramental sign,
eye — the existence of these inner forces and qualities
he replaced it by others to destroy the significance.
whence accomplished works of any kind proceed. It is
to such art that we look for the teaching of our eyes.
But not so when, as Becket, he put on the pall to
Modern science can record something of the actualities
go into the cathedral, where the murderous
of voice and tone. Writers of force and skill and judg- huddle of knights awaited him. There were no
ment can convey abstract ideas of controlling forces and feelings to be offended then, though the occa-
purposes; of thwarting passions; of embarrassing weak-
sion was in itself a sacrament - the greatest of
nesses; of all the bundle of inconsistencies which make
up an item of concrete humanity. From all these may
all sacraments, martyrdom. All sensitiveness
be derived some consistent idea of individuality. This regarding ritual was merged in pity and the
individuality is at once the ideal and the objective of grandeur of the noble readiness, “I go to meet
portraiture.”
my King.
Forty years ago, provincial playgoers did Perhaps no successful play ever had so little
not have much opportunity to see great acting, done for it as “ The Bells on its production.
except in star parts. It was the day of stock com When Irving took the management of the
panies. Mr. Stoker first saw Irving as Captain Lyceum, this play was one of its assets. The
Absolute in “The Rivals,” at the Theatre Royal, original choice of the play is an object-lesson
Dublin, on the evening of August 28, 1867. of the special art-sense of an actor regarding
It was nine years before, as dramatic critic on his own work. As Mr. Stoker points out, it
the "Dublin Mail," he met the actor. Their would be difficult for an actor to explain in
friendship began at a dinner, after which Irving what this art-sense consists, or how it brings
asked permission to recite Thomas Hood's poem, conviction to those whose gift it is. Irving's
“ The Dream of Eugene Aram.” Stoker sat own views upon this interesting point are well
spellbound. Irving had found an understanding worth quoting.
and appreciative friend; and the friendship thus
“ It is often supposed that great actors trust to the
begun continued till the end of Irving's life.
inspiration of the moment. Nothing can be more erro-
In the present work the author has aimed not neous. There will, of course, be such moments when
so much at a formal biography as to present a
an actor at a white heat illumes some passages with a
picture of his subject's life by showing him
flood of imagination (and this mental condition, by the
way, is impossible to the student sitting in his armchair);
amongst his friends and explaining who those
but the great actor's surprises are generally well
friends were, by affording glimpses of his inner weighed, studied and balanced. And it is this accumu-
life and mind as gained by intimate association. lation of such effects which enables an actor, after many
To trace Irving's career for several years after years, to present many great characters with remarkable
their first meeting is only to follow him from
completeness. It is necessary that the actor should
learn to think before he speaks. .. Let him remem-
one scene of triumph to another. During these
ber, first, that every sentence expresses a new thought,
years his one ambition was to have a theatre to and therefore frequently demands a change of intona-
himself where he would be sole master, an am tion; secondly, that the thought precedes the word. Of
bition which was realized when he took the
course, there are passages in which thought and lan-
guage are borne along by the streams of emotion and
management of the Lyceum and made Mr.
completely intermingled. But more often it will be found
Stoker his acting manager. During Irving's that the most natural, the most seemingly accidental,
personal management of the Lyceum he pro effects are obtained when the working of the mind is
duced over forty plays, making an average of
seen before the tongue gives it words.”
two plays each year from 1878 to 1898. The This chapter on Irving's Philosophy of his
memorable series of Shakespearean plays were is one of the most interesting in the entire
a part of these. Never before had such scru book.
pulous attention been given to the details of Irving's first visit to America, in 1883, was
stage-production. Irving was always careful a matter of considerable importance. At that
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know much about America, and did not care a
CANADA SEEN THROUGH ENGLISH EYES.*
great deal, according to the present author.
“ The welcome which Irving received on that night
Nothing reveals more strikingly the changed
of October 29, 1883, lasted for more than twenty years
attitude of Englishmen toward Canada than the
until that night of March 25, 1904, when at the Har space given to Canadian questions in contem-
lem Opera House he said. Good-bye' to his American
porary English literature.
Scarcely a month
friends forever! Go where he would, from Maine to
Louisiana, from the Eastern to the Western sea, there
goes by but one or more of the English reviews
was always the same story of loving greeting; of appre- publishes an article on some aspect of Canadian
ciative and encouraging understanding; of heartfelt au life, political, industrial, or intellectual; the great
revoirs, in which gratitude had no little part. As Ameri- | London dailies, that not so long ago clipped
cans of the United States have no princes of their own,
they make princes of whom they love. And after eight ciated Press despatches, now have their own cor-
a Canadian item here and there from the Asso-
long winters spent with Henry Irving, amongst them I
can say that no more golden hospitality or affectionate respondents in Canada ; and not content with
belief, no greater understanding of purpose or enthusi- this, every now and then they send out a special
asm regarding personality, or work, has ever been the correspondent to study conditions on the spot.
lot of any artist - any visitor — in any nation. Irving These special correspondents, generally expe-
was only putting into fervent words the feeling of his
own true heart, when in his parting he said: "I with
go
rienced and well-informed journalists, have done
only one feeling on my lips and in my heart — God a great deal to break down the wall of compla-
bless America !'"
cent ignorance that shut out the average En-
Another particularly interesting chapter is glishman from any intelligent interest in Colonial
devoted to Ellen Terry, whose artistic life was affairs. Their letters are given a prominent
so closely associated with Irving's. She is position in one or other of the great daily news-
treated only incidentally, but is pictured as a papers, and are read not only in London but
great artist — the greatest of her time.
throughout the United Kingdom; and finally,
In the closing chapter of the book, Mr. Stoker according to the established practice, they are
explains the cause of Irving's illness during the gathered together in book form, and serve a
last seven years of his life. Here we learn for further useful purpose as books of reference on
the first time the details of his patient suffering contemporary conditions in Canada.
Little wonder that, when the 13th of October, Two such books are “ Canada the New Na-
1905, came around, he was tired, tired out. The tion," by Mr. H. R. Whates, and “ Canada as
actual cause of his death was physical weakness; It Is,” by Mr. John Foster Fraser, both authors
and the last words he spoke on the stage were being well-known London journalists. The
Becket's last words in the play: “ Into Thy books cover substantially the same field, — that
hands, O Lord ! into Thy hands."
is to say, the Canada of the twentieth century,
That Sir Henry Irving had many rare and with its marvellous potentialities, and its young
winning gifts of mind and soul ; that his impulses and vigorous people just awakened to the knowl-
were right and noble ; that most of those who edge of a mighty future. The subject is one
knew him best seem also to have loved him most that must appeal irresistibly to the intelligent
dearly; that his ambition, large as it was and onlooker with the proper point of view. Both
growing with what it fed on, seldom if ever out these observers have, on the whole, acquitted
ran his honesty of purpose, or turned his proud themselves creditably. They have studied Cana-
self-reliance into uncharity and self-conceit; that dian questions and conditions on the spot, taking
he had his dramatic principles and never sacri- nothing at second-hand; they have not contented
ficed them to a greed for wordly advancement; themselves with the lifeless reports of govern-
that he had a fine scorn for hypocritical pre ment officials, but have gone among the people,
tenses of every kind, and a fine sense of honor always with the acute ear of the trained news-
for himself, are convictions which are confirmed paper man, interviewing everyone from hod-
by Mr. Stoker's book. His candid Reminis-
His candid Reminis- carrier to cabinet minister, and recording their
cences have opened the actor's life and character impressions while they were fresh and vivid.
to the public. The wit, the wisdom, the anec This method of writing contemporary history has
dote, the talk by famous men and about them, its limitations, but these exist in any method.
the strangeness and vivacity of many of the inci Mr. Whates was so anxious to get first im-
dents and eminence of many of the characters. pressions in his study of Canadian problems
combine to render the work fascinating and in
* CANADA THE NEW NATION. By H. R. Whates. New York:
qructive. It is in two handsome volumes, ade
By John Foster Fraser.
uately illustrated. INGRAM A. PYLE.
E. P. Dutton & Co.
CANADA AS IT Is.
Cassell & Co.
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that he travelled steerage” from Liverpool to snow, there are nasty, chill, and continuous
St. John ; tried snow-shovelling in St. John, to rains.” Alberta is now a province, though no
satisfy himself that an emigrant need not starve doubt it was still a territory when Mr. Fraser's
if stranded at that port in winter-time; spent a book was written. There is not now, and never
few days in a typical New Brunswick lumber has been, a Province of Vancouver. Mr. Fraser
camp; took up a free homestead in the Sas no doubt means British Columbia. The “ nasty,
katchewan Valley, to get in touch with the chill, and continuous rains ” might apply to the
conditions to be faced by the would-be Canadian rainy season on the coast ; certainly nothing of
farmer ; explored the northern clay-belt through the kind is found in Alberta. But these are
which the new transcontinental railway is to only the trifling faults that must creep into any
run; and admired the magnificent mountains similar attempt to handle a big subject rapidly
and beautiful valleys of British Columbia. and in small compass. Mr. Fraser's discussion
Of certain classes of Canadians and certain of Canadian political and social problems is in-
Canadian characteristics, Mr. Whates has no teresting, if not always convincing. The same
very high opinion ; but for what he calls the criticism applies to Mr. Whates's treatment of
“average Canadian of the prairie and the back the same problems. The advantages of an out-
woods” he has nothing but praise. He finds side point of view are obvious, but no journalist
him - a man whose virile character and keen with only a superficial knowledge of conditions
intellect, bodily hardihood, self-dependence in in another country can hope to probe success-
isolation, heroic endurance of long, fierce win- fully the depths of its political and social life.
ters, strength of will and patient courage in Mr. Fraser's remarks upon the growing spirit
converting primeval wastes into a noble home of “ Spreadeagleism” in Canada are timely, and
land, make him the typical figure of Canada, should prove a wholesome corrective. Canada
the New Nation."
is just now entering upon that period of early
Mr. Whates has much to say as to the ad manhood may one call it national hobblede-
vantages of the Dominion as a field for British hoyhood ? which is so trying to older coun-
emigration, but at the same time strongly, and tries. The United States went through the same
justly, condemns the “indiscriminate emigra exasperating period some time ago ; and Cana-
tion of people who find themselves crowded out dians, if they are wise, will profit by the lamen-
of the English labor-market and are weakened table experience of their American cousins.
in physique and morale by long endurance of Both these books are provided with numerous
defeat in the battle of life in great cities.” Of illustrations from photographs, well selected,
the American immigrant, he has the highest and with a distinct bearing on the text.
opinion. • The American immigrant is a pio-
LAWRENCE J. BURPEE.
neer, and accustomed to deal with new condi-
tions and adapt himself to them. He is a man
of the plains — resourceful, self-reliant, and
enterprising. And he often brings growing
MORE LIGHT ON THE PHILIPPINES.*
boys and girls with him the best asset that Despite the slackness of popular interest in
Canada can attract, for what she needs mostly Philippine questions, industrious authors con-
is young men and women. ... He is, indeed,
tinue to offer the public information on our
an aristocrat among Dominion immigrants; and, Eastern possessions. Nearly all literary forms
it should not be forgotten, he is an English- have now been tried — the narrative, the didac-
speaking immigrant.
tic, the geographical treatise, and most of all the
Mr. Fraser also has travelled far and wide
statistical enquiry, to say nothing of the orator-
throughout Canada. Gifted with a quick eye, ical outbursts with which the Congressional
and the wide if not always very deep knowledge Record and the imaginative pages of campaign
of the experienced journalist, he has produced books are burdened. It has not been until the
an entirely readable little volume. It appears present time that the publication of personal
that for some years he has made a careful study correspondence has been resorted to as a means
of Canada, its growth, its possibilities, and its of conveying solid fact to American readers who
sentiments toward the parent country and the would be glad to shut the whole subject out from
United States. It is a trifle surprising, how their thoughts.
ever, to find such careful preparation resulting “ An Englishwoman in the Philippines” is
in statements like this : “ In Alberta Territory
• AN ENGLISHWOMAN IN THE PHILIPPINES. By Mrs. Campbell
and Vancouver Province, where there is little
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the title of a large volume of letters written by ence to the needs of the population either native
Mrs. Campbell Dauncey to some unnamed cor or foreign. The cost of living, instead of being
respondent in England. Covering 346 pages low as in other Oriental countries, is abnormally
of good size, and treating easily of subjects vary- high, even when judged by the standards of
ing as widely as the mode of tariff administration Western countries, and exceeds that of house-
under the insular government and the disagree- keeping in England. The natives, owing to a
able traits of American office-holders, the book false standard of social relations set up by the
arouses some doubt in the mind of the reader as American residents, are not only naturally lazy,
to whether the 6 letters were written to some like most tropical peoples, but have added to
actual person or are merely a chosen literary this normal laziness a contemptuous disregard
form. The first letter is dated November 27, of all regular methods of getting a living that
1904, the last, August 22, 1905. Mrs. Dauncey involve real labor. Few opportunities to learn
must have indeed been a constant correspondent any useful trades or professions are afforded
to write in that time her forty-two letters aver them, the education offered being academic in
aging nearly ten pages of close print each. At character, based upon the ideas developed in
all events, the product is an amusing, and at Western countries, and especially in the United
times extremely instructive, book for readers States. Business in the islands, Mrs. Dauncey
who have the slightest desire to be informed finds, upon the evidence of her husband and his
on Philippine events. Nearly every subject of friends, as well as upon that of stray American
popular interest in connection with Philippine acquaintances, is in a languishing condition, and
matters is treated more or less thoroughly, in- nothing is being done toward the development
cluding the trip of the Secretary of War and of the resources of the country. Officials, it is
his party through the islands in the summer of intimated, are largely incompetent, and in some
1905.
cases corrupt, or maintain themselves by virtue
It is not a pleasant picture of Philippine life of political favoritism.
At times they appear
that Mrs. Dauncey draws. Particularly striking (even some of those in relatively high positions)
is the contrast developed in the first pages be-
to be unfamiliar with the usages of ordinary
tween life at Hong Kong, with its orderliness, polite society. Perhaps the most timely part
prosperity, and comparative comfort, and the of the book is the section which deals with Mr.
high prices, vexatious taxes and tariffs, and un Taft's visit to the Philippines and the disap-
cleanly ways of living encountered in Iloilo, the pointment of the natives at learning from his
second city of the Philippines, where Mrs. Daun own lips that the promises and vague hopes of
cey spent most of her sojourn. There are chap- | independence fostered during his former stay in
ters, too, upon Manila ; an interview with Mrs. the islands as governor cannot be gratified
Wright, the wife of the Governor; and impres- within any reasonable future time. The fol-
sions of the city itself which do not differ ma lowing bit of conversation, reported by Mrs.
terially from those gained during the stay at Dauncey as occurring at the close of the ball
Iloilo. Mrs. Dauncey's husband being the man given in honor of the Secretary during his stay
ager of an English firm engaged in business in in Iloilo, summarizes a long and unusually
the islands, her point of view may at times be graphic chapter describing Mr. Taft's sojourn
regarded as colored by the alleged prejudice felt
at that place :
by English residents of the Phillippines toward “ At the top of the staircase, I met a very Prominent
the American régime there. The most apparent
Citizen, who remarked that this had been a great occa-
sion for Iloilo. I said: “He spoke a great many truths;
evidence of such a bias, and one of the worst
what he said was very straightforward.'
blemishes upon the book, is found in frequent 6. Yes,' said the P. C., . but he should have said all
slighting remarks about conditions in the United that two years ago.'
States, a country which the author herself has “ And that I find is the unanimous verdict of every
never visited. Barring several ludicrous blun-
class and nationality about Mr. Taft's subtle and rather
tardy interpretation of the promises he made when he
ders thus almost wilfully made, the letters stick
was Governor of the Philippines. Next evening, a
with great faithfulness to conditions as person Prominent Citizen of our acquaintance came walking
ally observed, and have the touch which comes past. It was a fine show,' we said. "Why, yes,' he
from direct observation.
agreed; •I guess the Filipinos did their best for the
Secwar.' I think he disappointed them, though,' said
Briefly summarized, and eliminating the bulk
C. "Well, I should smile; I guess Secretary Taft 's
of incident and experience which chiefly give the best hated man in these islands now.' And that, I
the volume its interest, Mrs. Dauncey finds the believe, is the unfortunate truth."
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ume.
there can, unfortunately, be very little doubt. prose trilogy which has occupied the author for
The outlines and the incidents are altogether many years.
Lest this statement deter some
too familiar to anyone who has had even the readers from making its acquaintance, we hasten
briefest Philippine experience. It is not likely to add that the book is a fairly independent en-
that any responsible person will try to make tity, to be enjoyed without a knowledge of its
rebuttal of the very serious criticisms of the predecessors, although appreciation will doubt-
American administration conveyed in this vol- less be made more complete by a preliminary
The personal character of the narrative reading of “ Piccolo Mondo Antico ” and
and the limitation of the statements to actual " Piccolo Mondo Moderno." But these books
observations and incidents leave the reader to have not yet, to our knowledge, been translated
draw his own inferences, and the most that can into English. In the first of them, one Don
be offered in answer is the stock insinuation of Franco Maironi gives his life for the cause of
prejudice and bias which is even now heard in freedom. In the second, his son Piero, artist
certain political circles as to this very book. and dreamer, bound to one woman who is insane,
Meantime, Mrs. Dauncey's amusing letters re and loving another who is separated from her
main as not the least count in the indictment husband, runs the gamut of sinful passion and
of American rule in the Philippines.
remorse and religious conversion, and disappears
H. PARKER WILLIS.
from the view of his associates. It is to this
Piero Maironi, in his character of the saint,"
that we are now introduced anew, after the lapse
of three years devoted to austere practices for
Two VISIONARIES.*
the chastening of his soul. Some acquaintance
A great poet and a great novelist constitute with his past, and with that of the woman who
the claim of present-day Italy to a leading place loves him, is of course essential to the under-
among the literary nations. Few other nations standing of the situation now offered ; this diffi-
may claim as much — England certainly, Ger- culty has been skilfully dealt with by the nov-
many possibly, and Norway until a few months elist, who by means of allusion and suggestion
ago --- so capriciously does the World Spirit be- puts us into possession of all we need to know,
stow the gift of genius. The fame of the poet, without for a moment making us feel that these
considered from the cosmopolitan point of view, retrospective glimpses are forced or inartistic.
must inevitably suffer from the impossibility of The reader who takes up “ The Saint
translation, and Sig. Carducci, venerated by his pecting to find it a novel of plot and incident
own people, is even to-day little more than a will be disappointed, and should be warned in
name to the rest of mankind. The fortune of advance. While the work is not devoid of dra-
the novelist is happier, for his work is suscep- matic passages, it makes no appeal whatever to
tible of reproduction without serious impairment the sensational instincts and resorts to no form
of its artistic quality, and the latest work of of trickery. It is a psychological study of va-
Sig. Fogazzaro has within a year found its way rious types of Italian society, including within
to the cosmopolitan public, and gained recog- its scope the troubled seeker after truth, the
nition as a masterpiece throughout the culti- worldling, and the peasant. It is a work pre-
vated world. In the very acceptable English occupied with the fundamental problems of con-
version now given us, it naturally demands a
science and the innermost significance of religion.
more detailed consideration than we are accus-
Mr. W. R. Thayer, who provides it with a sym-
tomed to give the ordinary novel, although pathetic introduction to the American public,
even this tribute to its distinction does not suffi groups it with “ John Inglesant” and “ Robert
ciently emphasize the fact that the work differs Elsmere"; holding it far superior to either by
not merely in degree, but almost in kind, from virtue of “its subtler psychology, its wider hori-
books of fiction in the ordinary sense. In Italy, zon, its more various contacts with life.” The
it is being acclaimed as ranking with “ I Pro author has the temperament of a mystic, com-
messi Sposi,” which is the extreme of all possi- bined with the intellectual outlook of the ad-
vanced modern thinker, and both these qualities
“Il Santo" is the concluding section of a
are reflected in his hero. He is not blind to any
* THE SAINT (Il Santo). By Antonio Fogazzaro. Authorized
aspect of reality, but he believes the most im-
With Introduction by portant of realities to be those of the spirit, and
Wm. Roscoe Thayer. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.
HOLYLAND.
this thesis he unswervingly defends. He be-
By Gustav Frenssen. Translated by Mary
Agnes Hamilton. Boston: Dana Estes & Co.
lieves, moreover, that the Church is the divinely
ex-
ble praise.
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instituted interpreter of God to man, and holds is worth noting. It is not alone in the fact that
unassailable the rock upon which it is built, but
which it is built, but these two men have recently become the foremost
he believes the Church to have been wounded in novelists of their respective countries that the
the house of its friends, to have suffered ossifi- coincidence occurs ; it is found also in the fur-
cation in its frame, and paralysis in its vital ther fact that each has sought to express, in his
activities. It suffers from the spirits of false- latest work, the same essential idea.
Wide as
hood, and clericalism, and avarice, and immobi are the differences between the two men in both
lity. It opposes science, which means that it temperament and environment, great as is the
has lost faith in itself. “The Catholic Church, diversity of the methods and materials they em-
which proclaims itself the minister of Life, to- ploy, they have in common the same fundamental
day shackles and stifles whatever lives youthfully ideal of a regenerated faith, they voice the same
within it, and to-day it props itself on all its protest against ceremonial and dogma, they
decadent and antiquated usages." We do not make the same plea for the validity of the modern
wonder that the Curia, its faults thus relentlessly rationalized conception of religion, and they
set forth, should have retaliated by including urge the same passionate defence of the spirit
the book in the Index Librorum Prohibitorum. of Christianity against the ecclesiastical perver-
Happily, this is in our own days a futile method sions that have come so near to stifling its breath.
of suppression, for so vibrant a voice as speaks One does not discover all this in “Hilligenlei”
to us from these pages is not to be hushed by (entitled Holyland” in the translation) until
ecclesiastical condemnation.
well along in its pages. The fundamental im-
In reading “The Saint” we have thought pression which it is the author's purpose to pro-
more than once of Ibsen's “ Brand.” Both duce is created by a long succession of delicate
works have the same tonic character; both en touches, working upon the sub-consciousness of
force the precept that a man consecrated to the the reader, and gradually combining in cumu-
Christian life should exemplify in every word lative effect. The story begins in a haphazard
and act, absolutely and uncompromisingly, the sort of way, introducing one character after
faith which he professes. We may refuse to another seemingly at random, and stringing
grant the premises, but having once allowed together loosely related incidents of various
them, there is no escape from the writer's logic. sorts. All this is done with a deftness of delinea-
Again, we cannot avoid a comparison of this tion, a faculty of vital observation, and a strength
work with Zola's “ Rome," or even with Mr. of homely sincerity that reveal evidences of
Caine's “ The Christian,” a comparison useful mastery quite sufficient to hold our attention,
for its effective contrast between sincerity and but it is long before we realize that anything
sensationalism, between life and stagecraft. more is being offered than the contemplation of
Such a comparison is made inevitable by the a group of simple human lives - humble peas-
climactic episode common to the three books, ants and sailor folk toiling for a precarious
the hero's interview with the Pope. The Saint's existence by the shores of the North Sea. It is
impassioned appeal to the Pontiff to drive the some time before the reader can even determine
money-changers from the temple, to cleanse the which of the characters (growing up from child-
Augean stables of clericalism, to turn his face hood under his eyes) is destined to be the real
from the past to the future, to welcome the con hero of the novel. As for plot, there is none at
quests of science, and to come forth from the all for a while, and little enough afterwards,
Vatican into the world, constitute what is prob- yet somehow the relations of these people whom
ably the most eloquent section of the whole work.
we come to know so intimately slowly assume
This is the programme which is put forward order and significance and beauty, until we see
by the younger generation of earnest Italians that a constructive ideal has been all along in-
who, unwilling to sever their relations with the cluded in the author's plan.
Church, have acclaimed Senator Fogazzaro as
The motif of the work is introduced in the
their leader, and, in defiance of its condemna- following words :
tion, have accepted “ The Saint” as a concrete
“ Round about the bay of Hilligenlei, at the foot and
embodiment of their ideals. A book that has
under the shade of the great sea dyke, clustered many
such fortunes is more than a publication, it is little houses, in which dwelt laborers, fishermen and
an event.
small farmers. Thesepeople, living extraordinarily lonely
The coincidence that brings to us Pastor
lives in their dark, low-roofed rooms, far away from the
church, had from long time past brooded over a peculiar
Frenssen's “ Hilligenlei” and Senator Fogaz- faith. They called themselves “Holyland men” and
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.
the country round the bay would be one day a rcal
Holyland. They looked for the Kingdom of God in
the bay."
This traditional faith, imperfectly conceived
by most of the country folk, and often inter-
preted by them in anything but a spiritual
sense, at last finds lodgment in the soul of a
sensitive boy. He dreams of it when a child,
and broods over it in the reflective years
of early
manhood. And his soul is slowly shaped, by
the rough ministries of the struggle for existence,
of physical breakdown and unrequited love, to
become, in some sense, an instrument for the
fulfilment of the old-time prophecy. His ma-
tured thought is embodied in these words:
“Once more our nation is convulsed by the need of
a renascence of the three great powers, to which itself
gave birth, Authority, Religion, Custom; once more it
is rent by the longing to return to nature, to the beauty
of religion, of social justice, and a simple and genuine
ideal of life.”
The culmination of this work is reached in a
sixty-page chapter entitled “ The Manuscript.”
The visionary who is the central figure of the
story, after much soul-searching and tribula-
tion, feeling that his end is near, elaborates a
statement of the rationalized faith which is the
final product of his meditations. This statement
is in its substance a life of Christ, so narrated
as to bring it into vital relations with the actual
world. It is analogous, in some ways, to Count
Tolstoy's analysis of Christianity, in others, to
the work of those modern painters who have
represented the divine figure in the guise of a
modern man of the people. In whatever aspect
we may regard it, this manuscript, bequeathed
to his fellows by the dreamer of Hilligenlei, is a
wonderfully impressive document, made so by
its earnest sincerity and its poetic vizualization.
It will be anathema to the official exponents of
the Christian faith, but its teaching cannot fail
to make a powerful appeal to the open-minded
and untrammelled seeker after truth. Those
who are clear-sighted enough to perceive that a
radical reconstruction of the forms of religious
belief is inevitable, and even now impending,
will welcome this attempt to disengage the
essence of Christianity from its accidents.
WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE.
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS.
Mr.T. Baron Russell indulges in some
Pleasant fancies
pleasant dreams in his book, “A
of an optimist.
Hundred Years Hence" (McClurg),
which will hold the attention of all disciples of
Mr. Bellamy. Even regarded as the baseless fabric
of a vision, the book has a certain fascination; but
its forecasts are not without a foundation of scien-
tific probability. In material progress we are picking
up speed at an astonishing rate, so that fifty years
of the present era are better than a cycle of antiquity.
In mental and moral advance, too, the author be-
lieves that we are moving at an accelerating pace;
but here his predictions are somewhat less convinc-
ing than when he confines himself to our material
betterment. As to the latter, however, he seems to
err in some matters of detail. Discussing new sources
energy, he speaks of the end of the coal age as
“ already well in view," whereas recent discoveries
of rich veins, the likelihood of other such discoveries,
and more careful surveys of leads already being
worked, tend to push the evil day into the indefinite
future. Some new and cheap method of decompos-
ing water is expected by Mr. Russell to make avail-
able this "inexhaustible supply of energy.” Is not
this the perpetual-motion fallacy in a new form ?
The energy required to separate the oxygen and
of
veloped by their recomposition, just as the energy
needed to vaporize water is never less than the power
exerted by the steam in moving the engine, while
the incidental waste of energy through friction, radi-
ation of heat, and other forms of leakage, is very
great. Water, even that of Niagara, is a medium,
not a source of energy.
The author takes a some-
what exalted view of the virtues of Americans,
as when he says : “ In America, where there is
practically no standing army, the people are
conspicuous for manliness, for high endurance, for
patience under the reverses of fortune, for tem-
perance: and in the average of physical courage
America far excels any military nation.”
Philosophy
The importance of American learn-
and psychology ing in the higher disciplines of phi-
at Harvard.
losophy and psychology was most
appropriately brought to general notice by the dedi-
cation last winter of Emerson Hall at Cambridge.
A commodious and substantial building, bearing a
name intimately associated with the pursuit of ideals
in an American spirit, was then dedicated to the
cause of that learning which has ever been and ever
will be a dominant expression of human interests
and human aspirations. Doubtless the portion of
the building that would most surprise the Concord
sage would be the equipment of the top floor, in which,
with the aid of specialized and elaborate apparatus,
the twentieth century aspirant for the doctor's
degree is seeking to penetrate a slight step or two
farther into the modus operandi of our complex
mentality. The layman is not likely to be tempted
“ EDWARD YOUNG IN GERMANY,” by Dr. John Louis
Kind, is a monograph published at the Columbia Uni-
versity Press. It will be surprising to all but close
students of the relations between English and German
literature to hear how serious an influence was exerted
by the author of the “ Night Thoughts” upon a whole
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ness.
an attempted
a
to delve deeply into the 644 pages that form the and possible starvation under wholly untried con-
second volume of the “ Harvard Psychological Stu ditions. Apart from this half-innocent deception
dies,” just appearing with the imprint of Messrs. in its general tone and appearance, the book is to
Houghton, Mifflin & Co.; yet if he did so he would be commended. Most eulogists of the simple life
certainly be interested in the description of the seem to be ever peeping out of one corner of their
purposes and arrangements of the Psychological Lab eye to see whether the great world is taking proper
oratory in Emerson Hall, as set forth by its able note of their fine carelessness of its opinion. But
Director, Professor Muensterberg. This appropri- Mr. Dawson is free from this offensive self-conscious-
ate introduction to the appearance of the Studies in A student of social problems, he has things
a newer and more independent form is a desirable to say about the evils of city life and the advantages
record of the purposes that inspired the erection of of country life that are worth saying and worth
that building. In addition, a group of twenty-three reading.
special studies, dealing with widely different phases
In "Brain and Personality" (Dodd),
of the psychologist's pursuit, present an admirable
Mind and body:
Dr. W. Hanna Thomson presents a
survey of the spirit and the method of stating and popularization. theme well worthy of popular treat-
answering problems which to-day animate this
ment in the light of the extended knowledge of
science. Technical though this be, and saturated
latter-day science. Such popularization requires, in-
with the data that the experimental scientist seeks
deed, a master-hand well versed in the bearings of
and elaborates, it yet has its bearing upon the larger concept and principle, and equally expert as a phy-
problems of life and mind that warrant the instal-
siologist and a psychologist. It is perfectly true that
ment of this discipline in a building devoted to the the relations of mind and body have been measura-
interest of the humanities. Such a set of studies
bly transformed by the researches of the foremost
likewise reflects the high place that has been accorded
ranks of time; and it is equally true that to render
to the philosophical disciplines at Harvard,
the results of such increased insight available to the
place that could have been achieved only by the lay mind is a worthy and profitable task. Dr. Thom-
services of such men as Professors James, Royce,
son's motives are well justified. It is much to be
Palmer, Peabody, Muensterberg, and a group of regretted that the performance falls so decidedly
younger men quite ready and worthy to succeed in
short of the promise of the title. Much of what is
their turn. The reputation of American scholar-
set forth is true and pertinent; possibly more is of
ship is something that is gradually achieving the
that “ nearly true” order which is more pernicious
appreciation it deserves; it is as a significant con-
than error itself; so that on the whole, when the
tribution to an important phase thereof, issuing from
array of evidence comes to the test of an aperçu and
an inspiring centre, that these Studies make appeal
a practical application, commendation is wholly out
to the wider public that cherishes the arts of culture.
of the question. Prone upon slight provocation to
A literary hoax of a mild sort is per-
deride metaphysics, the author is hoist by his own
petrated by the Rev. W. J. Dawson petard, and erects the personality into a figment of
spectacles.
in his pleasant book, "The Quest of
a crude philosophy, that suddenly becomes potent to
the Simple Life," just issued in this country by E. P. explain what it feebly describes. In brief, popular-
Dutton & Co., some time after its London appear-
ization is a difficult art, and should flow from that
In form it is autobiographical, narrating the
fulness of knowledge, chasteness of spirit, and tact
happy escape of a London clerk, after twenty years of expression that are reserved to a master of his
craft.
drudgery in the city, to the free air and manifold
Volumes like the present, that fail of this
delights of a horticultural, piscatorial, and literary through fundamental lack of fitness, do not aid the
life in the lake district. To heighten the verisimil-
cause which they espouse with good faith and earnest
intention.
itude, minute details and tables of comparative
expense (city and country) are scrupulously set
More worthy
A recent worthy addendum to the
down; and the whole outcome is so successful and
literature of the Civil War comes in
so satisfying in the reading that one wishes, with a
a volume entitled “From Bull Run
brief but consuming desire, that one were a London to Chancellorsville” (Putnam). The author, General
clerk on a salary of £250, with a wife and two Newton Martin Curtis, was an officer of the Six-
boys, just to repeat the experiment. But on recall teenth Regiment of New York Volunteer Infantry,
ing the writer's actual life-history, his early entry and his original intention was to write a history of
into the Methodist ministry, and his later successes that regiment only; but he was gradually drawn to
in a Congregational pulpit and as a lecturer and include other military organizations from northern
writer, all these pleasing bucolic visions die away New York, which were part of the Army of the Po-
and fade into the light of common day. It is to be tomac contemporaneously with the Sixteenth. The
hoped that the seductive volume may not fall into engagements in which the regiment participated
the hands of any London-weary clerk who shall include Bull Run, Fair Oaks, Antietam, and Chan-
mistake its plausible fictions for the gospel truth cellorsville. Its history, consequently, touches some
hebdomadally preached by its author, and shall of the most critical events of the war. The author
leave his friendly desk to court disappointment | draws for his material upon personal experience,
Country life
thro' London
ance.
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A model
official reports, and writings of participants on both French original of this anonymous translation. As a
sides. He endeavors to be fair to both friend and result, the historical reality of this Count de Cartrie
foe, and recognizes the devotion and unanimity with (incorrectly written “Comte de Castric” in the
which the Southern people supported secession and manuscript), and the truth of his Vendéean and En-
risked their all for their cause.
Few writers on glish adventures, are reasonably established, -an in-
events and conditions during the Civil War have quiry in which the abundant memoirs of the period
approached the subject with a better fund of his-proved useful; but the lost French original of the
toric information, and few have the vivid yet plain narrative has not yet turned up. Curiously enough,
power of narration possessed by General Curtis. A the English translation has now been re-translated
regimental roster is appended, showing the later into French for publication in France. To both En-
careers of many of the members and the ravages glish and French versions M. Frédéric Masson con-
death has made. This feature will prove of especial tributes an extended historical introduction, while
interest to the survivors, while the entire book can the nameless translator's introduction is itself added
be read with profit by those interested in the actual in an appendix - in the English edition, at least.
experiences of army life during the great conflict. Another appendix and eleven pages of fine-print
notes are furnished by M. Pichot, many illustrations
Mr. Ford Madox Hueffer's Mono-
are interspersed, and an index completes the volume.
biography graph on Holbein, published in the
of an artist.
As a tale of adventure, the work cannot fail to
“ Popular Library of Art” (Dutton),
attract.
is a model of what such a study should be.
It also has value as a side-light thrown on
The
small size of the volume imposed severe restrictions,
a memorable epoch in French history.
but on the whole these have made for good : the
In the “Grafton Historical Series”
Places, events,
absence of padding and irrelevant matter of any
and people of
(The Grafton Press), it is proposed
kind is refreshing. The treatment is critical in old Connecticut. to issue, in convenient and uniform
the best sense of the term. Appreciation of the style, a number of books upon the early history of
master's transcendant qualities goes hand-in-hand our country, - short genealogies, biographies, and
with equally keen realization of his limitations. reprints of important old books and documents. The
Ardent admiration of his great achievements in first volume of the series is entitled “In Olde Con-
portraiture is coupled with frank recognition of the necticut,” and is written by Mr. Charles Burr Todd.
essential wrongness in principle of his designs for It is made up of a series of essays pertaining to that
decoration. Cogent reasons are given for rejoicing State, collected from various periodicals where they
that such works as the wall-paintings in the council first appeared, and put together without much con-
chamber of the Rathhaus in Basle have not survived.
tinuity or coherence, except that all bear some rela-
They could only have intensified the pernicious
tion to Connecticut. They vary in time from the
influence exerted by Holbein's marvellous vision days of the Pequot Indians to the beginnings of the
and suberb draughtsmanship when misapplied in 80 Hartford and New Haven Railroad. Among the
called ornament. As little is known with certainty places described are Saybrook and Guilford, Groton,
about the detail of Holbein's life, the rival conjec- | Mystic, New London, Fisher's Island, Mount Tom,
tures are set before the reader impartially, with the Litchfield, and Greenfield Hill, together with the
author's reasons for regarding one or the other as the Burr Mansion and the Trumbull House. Among
more probable. Many, but not all, of the artist's
the legends re-told is that of the frogs of Windham
paintings are passed in review. A notable omission
and the “ earthquakes” of Mount Tom. A chapter
is any reference to one of his most wonderful per-
is devoted to the burning of Fairfield by the British
formances, technically considered, the “Young Man in 1779, and another to the whaleboat privateers-
with a Book,” in the Imperial Gallery, Vienna. men of those days. One of the best descriptions is
Numerous illustrations, excellent in spite of the small that of the old Revolutionary prison at East Granby,
scale of reproduction, help to make the book useful
near Hartford. The little book will
prove
of
espe-
and attractive.
cial interest to persons connected by birth or kinship
A French
In a 24-page “publisher's advertise-
with Connecticut, and will also be read with pleasure
royalist's ment,” Mr. John Lane tells the story and profit by the general public.
adventures.
of the manuscript which he has pub-
lished under the title, “ Memoirs of the Count de
There is little about Whistler in Mr.
Cartrie : A Record of the Extraordinary Events in on Whistler Frederick Wedmore's “ Whistler and
the Life of a French Royalist during the War in
and others.
Others” (Scribner). The essays and
La Vendée, and of his Flight to Southampton, where fragments that make up the volume are in part
he followed the Humble Occupation of Gardener.” reprinted from various periodicals. Some of them
To prove the genuineness of these memoirs, a careful seem hardly of sufficient importance to warrant the
examination of the manuscript was made by M. more permanent form. Easily the best are
Pierre Amédée Pichot, a scholar well equipped for Place of Whistler” and “The Print Collector.” In
such research. Advertisements, too, were printed these the author, who is well-known to a limited
in the leading historical and literary papers of En circle through his catalogue of Whistler's etchings,
gland and France, to recover, if possible, the lost is on sure ground. He writes from the point of view
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of the collector and connoisseur; and the words of inent magazines, and some of them have gained a place
a man who has become an expert through the in standard anthologies among the best representatives
exhaustive concentrated study that successful col of her country's poetical literature. Her old friends,
lecting demands are worth listening to whether one
and we hope many new ones, will welcome this com-
always agrees with him or not. His assertion that
plete collection of her poems. The volume has two
portraits of the author, which, with the brief introductory
the average citizen does not really care for art has
sketch giving some intimate details of her early life and
evoked adverse criticism from reviewers who mistake
the influences that shaped her literary career, impart
languid interest for affection; but it is true, never additional personal interest to the poems.
theless, as every genuine art-lover knows. Mr. The latest addition to the “ Heroes of the Reforma-
Wedmore's preface offers food for reflection on this tion " series (Putnam) is a life of John Calvin, by
point, and may be commended to those who doubt Professor Williston Walker; and it is an excellent
the statement.
piece of work. Professor's Walker's previous work
A traveller writing his impressions
has shown that he is thoroughly equipped in the ecclesi-
A book of thanks of a foreign land usually does it for
astical history of the Reformation period, and he has
for social favors.
shown in this book the other qualities of a good biog-
the instruction or entertainment of rapher. While by no means light reading, the book is
his own countrymen. Not so Pastor Wagner, the clear and straightforward, and it makes the real man
genial and naïve author of “ The Simple Life,” Calvin live before us his strange life, so far-reaching in
whose "impressions of America" (McClure, Phillips its influence. The author has done this by giving special
& Co.) are only too evidently written for Americans attention to Calvin's training, spiritual development,
to read. M. Wagner has a great many friends in
and constructive work, rather than to the minutiæ of
the United States, with President Roosevelt looming
his Genevan contests, or the smaller details of his rela-
tions to the spread of the Reformation in the various
large among them. These friends will no doubt
countries. Twenty helpful illustrations add to the
enjoy reading his unstinted praise of everything value of the book.
American. The book is, in fact, not much more
than the equivalent of what in common parlance is
called a “ bread-and-butter letter” - the returned
guest's thanks for courtesies received. From a lit-
NOTES.
erary point of view, it is about nil; as also from the “ The Life of Christ Without-Within" is a volume
point of view of the American who desires to see his which reprints two of Henry Ward Beecher's sermons,
country more clearly through the eyes of a stranger. and is published by Messrs. Harper & Brothers.
In this respect it contrasts strikingly with the work “Romola” is published by Messrs. Thomas Nelson &
of the famous French scholar, Hugues Le Roux,
Sons in their « New Century” edition of George Eliot.
after his visit a year or two ago. Perhaps the au-
The tasteful volumes of this edition are printed on thin
thor intended it as an atonement or apology for his
paper and have covers of limp leather.
fellow countryman's lack of gallantry, especially
The second American, from the eleventh English,
toward American women.
edition of Anson's “Principles of the English Law of
Contract," is edited by Professor Ernest W. Huffcut,
and published by Mr. Henry Frowde at the Oxford
University Press.
Miss Eva March Tappan's “ American Hero Stories,"
BRIEFER MENTION.
now published by Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.,
“ The Oxford Treasury of English Literature,” of
shares its title with an earlier volume by the same
which the first volume has just been published by Mr.
author, but is designed for child-readers of somewhat
Henry Frowde, is a work designed “to indicate, as far
more advanced years.
as the limits of space permit, the chief landmarks in “On Newfound River," one of Mr. Thomas Nelson
the
progress of English literature.” The plan of the Page's pleasantest tales, has been enlarged by the author
work is to provide few but significant examples of En-
to the dimensions of a sizable volume, and is now pub-
glish verse and prose, accompanying them by a moderate lished in its new form, with illustrations, by Messrs.
amount of critical, biographical, and explanatory matter.
Charles Scribner's Sons.
The first of the three volumes which the work will The Messrs. Putnam are publishing a new edition,
comprise has for a sub-title “Old English to Jacobean," styled “Knutsford,” of Mrs. Gaskell's writings. "Ruth,"
and is edited by Messrs. G. E. and W. H. Hadow. “Cranford,” and “Mary Barton" are the three volumes
The work is admirably done, and wholly worthy of the now at hand, each having an etched frontispiece and
distinction of its Oxford imprint.
an introduction by Dr. A. W. Ward.
Messrs. Alden Brothers, New York, send us, in a « The American Jewish Year Book” for 5667, edited
volume of over six hundred pages, the complete Poems by Miss Henrietta Szold, is issued by the Jewish Pub-
of Miss Amanda T. Jones. The book embodies all the lication Society of America. The significant words
author's previous works Ulah,” “ Atlantis," “ A stamped upon the cover, “From Kishineff to Bialystok,"
Prairie Idyl," and the lately-published "Rubaiyat of indicate the leading feature of the contents.
Solomon "; and represents a full half-century of poet “Moorish Cities in Spain,” by Mrs. Walter Gallichan,
ical achievement. Miss Jones's work has several times is an addition to the “ Langham Series of Art Mono-
been noticed in The DIAL, and commended for its sin graphs,” imported by the Messrs. Scribner. Cordova,
cerity, originality, and often forceful and felicitous Toledo, Seville, and Granada, are the subjects of the
diction. Many of her pieces have appeared in prom four chapters of which the little book consists.
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6
Bridge, Abridged," by Miss Annie Blanche Shelley,
is published by Messrs. Duffield & Co. It includes
the revised laws adopted by the New York Whist Club
and a chapter on the etiquette of the game.
“At the Sign of the Sphinx,” by Miss Carolyn Wells,
gives us a second series, numbering over a hundred, of
the rhymed charades which Miss Wells is so deft in
composing. Messrs. Duffield & Co. are the publishers.
“ The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories,” by Mark
Twain, is a stout volume containing matter new and
old, selected from the miscellaneous writings of the
humorist. It is published by Messrs. Harper & Brothers.
“ The Pilgrim's Staff” is a pretty little anthology of
“poems divine and moral,” from Spenser to Stevenson,
selected and edited by Mr. Fitz Roy Carrington, and
daintily printed in old-fashioned style, with portrait
illustrations. Messrs. Duffield & Co. publish this charm-
ing little book.
The increasing publication of plays in book form is
an encouraging sign of the times. The Bobbs-Merrill
Co. now send us Miss Merington's favorite “ Captain
Lettarblair," while from the Messrs. Harper we have
“ Kate: A Comedy,” which is a new work by Mr.
Bronson Howard.
The H. M. Caldwell Co. send us four dainty booklets
in flexible leather covers. The set comprises Ruskin's
“King of the Golden River,” Longfellow's “ Tales of a
Wayside Inn,” Eric Mackay's « Love-Letters of a
Violinist,” and a volume by Dickens called “Sketches
of Young Couples."
A revised American edition of Professor J. M. D.
Meiklejohn's “The English Language: Its Grammar,
History, and Literature,” is published by Messrs. D.C.
Heath & Co. This compendious work has been proving
its usefulness for many years past, and in its present
form will be found more valuable than ever before.
An“ Advanced Geography,” by Mr. Charles F. King,
is published by the Messrs. Scribner in their series of
“King's Concrete Geographies.” The inductive method
is employed throughout, with results which contrast
surprisingly with text-books of the older type. The
illustrations are profuse, and include a number of very
attractive colored plates.
“ The Stress Accent in Latin Poetry,” by Miss Eliza-
beth Hickman Du Bois, is published by the Macmillan
Co. for the Columbia University Press. The aim of the
writer has been “ to establish an explanation of the
purely quantitative Latin poetry which shall reconcile
the opposing views as to an apparent clash between
word accent and verse accent."
The writings of Mr. Upton Sinclair, author of “The
Jungle,” have been thoroughly revised by him, and will
be published by Messrs. Doubleday, Page & Co. during
the autumn. The first to appear is “ King Midas,” the
author's earliest book. Its original title was “Spring-
time and Harvest.” It will be followed by “ The
Journal of Arthur Stirling," for which the author has
written a new preface.
A new edition of “Christabel,” illustrated by a fac-
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Ernest Hartley Coleridge, is announced by the Oxford
Clarendon Press. Fresh material has lately come to
light in the shape of a fourth MS. copy, which has been
collated for the forthcoming edition; while Mr. Cole-
ridge's recent researches have enabled him to elucidate
several interesting points — topographical, chronologi-
cal, etc., — connected with the poem,
Thackeray's “Henry Esmond,” edited by Professor
John B. Henneman, is quite the dumpiest volume thus
far published in the Pocket Classics" of the Mac-
millan Co. It fills, with the notes, nearly six hundred
pages, which is certainly good measure for the price.
Emerson's “ Representative Men," edited by Mr. Philo
M. Buck, is also now added to this series.
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Keble's “ The Psalter in English Verse,” with an intro-
duction by the Archbishop of Armagh; and a selection
from Calverley's “ Verses and Translations,” with an
introduction by Mr. Owen Seaman.
“Zarathustra and the Greeks," a volume of lectures
by Professor Lawrence Heyworth Mills, is a very im-
portant new issue of the Open Court Publishing Co.
À second volume is announced for later appearance.
The same publishers send us a discussion of “Space
and Geometry, in the Light of Physiological, Psycho-
logical, and Physical Inquiry,” by Dr. Ernst Mach,
translated by Mr. Thomas J. McCormack.
A biography of the late Mrs. Craigie (“ John Oliver
Hobbes”) is now in preparation. Mr. John Morgan
Richards (56, Lancaster Gate, W., London) as his daugh-
ter's executor, will be obliged if those who possess
letters from Mrs. Craigie, or other materials likely to
be of service, will entrust them to him. All documents
so lent will be copied and returned without delay.
Mr. T. Fisher Unwin will be the publisher of the work.
A volume by Mr. Sidney Lee, entitled “ Shakespeare
and the Modern Stage, with Other Essays,” will be pub-
lished at once by the Messrs. Scribner. The book
mainly consists of articles on various aspects of Shake-
spearean drama which bear on current affairs. Most
of the essays have been contributed to periodicals
during the past few years, and they have now been
thoroughly revised. A paper on “ Aspects of Shake-
speare's Philosophy ” has not been printed before.
One of the three posthumous volumes by “ Fiona
Macleod ” has just been published in England. “Where
the Forest Murmurs is a series of nature sketches
written at different times and in different countries.
The second posthumous volume, to be issued later
6 The Immortal Hour". will contain two tragic dra-
mas;
and the third will be a collected edition of poems
old and new, written under the name of Fiona Macleod.
Mrs. William Sharp intends also to arrange for publi-
cation a selection from the three published volumes of
verse by her husband two of which are out of print -
and to add to it a number of recent poems.
The Bureau of Statistics and Municipal Library of
the City of Chicago has for distribution a number of
souvenir volumes, recently published for the League of
American Municipalities. The contents of the volume
comprise a review of Chicago's Administrative History
from 1837 to September, 1906, by Hugo S. Grosser;
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a History of the League of American Municipalities,
by John MacVicar. The volume numbers over 200
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