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indeed. It is an even farther cry from
The makers and heroes of New Japan.-—“Winding
and willow-fringed Connecticut." - - Libraries as
the dry light and the desiccated dialogue of “ A
antidotes to newspapers. -- Poetry in the counting Doll Home” to the glowing color and riotous
room. – A philosophical history of the Civil War.
poetic imagination of “ Peer Gynt.” For one
- Making the human family acquainted. — The
recreations of a veteran astronomer. — The strenu-
thing, Mr. Mansfield's enterprise for the first
ous existence of invalidism. — Episcopalian bishops time sets Ibsen before the theatre-going public
and archbishops.
in something like the right perspective. As we
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330 have been urging at many times for many years,
the true Ibsen, the Ibsen who may fairly be
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of modern social life that have hitherto monopo with Shakespeare and Schiller, we were pre-
lized public interest in his work than the author pared for a greater violence to the framework of
of the two great dramatic poems, “ Brand” and the piece than was actually in evidence. The
“ Peer Gynt,” with which that interest has been fact must be taken into account that a complete
almost wholly unconcerned. Mr. Mansfield de production of Peer Gynt ” is as impossible as
serves much gratitude for the conspicuous way a performance in its entirety of either - Hamlet”
in which he has now put the emphasis in the or the second part of “Faust.” Many pages
right place, and employed all the resources at must necessarily be excised to bring the perform-
his command for the proper presentation of a ance even within the four-hour limit. Allowance
work compared with which Ibsen's social dramas must also be made for the further fact that
of the later period are of trifling significance. Ibsen himself did not expect the work to appear
The first production of “Peer Gynt" in the upon the stage in the form in which he wrote it.
English language, which took place in Chicago He published it as a book, and hardly expected
a few days ago, must be regarded as a literary it to be produced at all. It was not until six
event of the first importance, and we make no or seven years later that he began to look at it
apology for considering it in that light. from the stage standpoint, and then, when he
We wish that it were possible to give hearty asked Grieg to write the incidental music for the
praise to the literary form in which the work production, he outlined many changes from the
appears, but that we are unable to do. Mr. printed text. He even went so far as to say
Archer's translation, which is the basis of Mr. that 66 almost the whole of the fourth act is
Mansfield's prompt-book, is very unsatisfactory. to be omitted in the performance," with the
It preserves the rhythm of the lines in a rough substitution of “ a great musical tone-picture,
fashion, but it makes no attempt to reproduce suggesting Peer Gynt’s wandering all over the
the rhymes, and the result is a sort of hybrid world.” He advised the omission of other scenes
composition to which either good literal prose also, and suggested various condensations in the
or free poetic paraphrase would be preferable. text of scenes that could not be wholly spared.
We know the difficulties attendant upon any Mr. Mansfield, in dealing with this difficult
kind of a translation of “ Peer Gynt,” and are question, has adopted some of Ibsen's sugges-
well aware that an adequate translation is an tions, but rejected others. His initial perform-
impossibility; but something better than this ances included a number of scenes that were
might have been done with the text. Profes- afterwards excised owing to the great length of
sor Herford's extraordinary rhymed version of the play.
the play. The first three acts are given with
"Brand" gives us the example of what a really few cuts and with little shifting of parts. The
inspired translator might have made out of the fourth act, which Ibsen thought should be left
companion work, and makes it clear that our out altogether, is represented by the scene upon
demand is not a mere counsel of perfection. the coast of Morocco, with the banquet, the
Furthermore, the most difficult scene in “ Peer stolen yacht, and the miraculous appearance of
Gynt,” the indescribably moving and pathetic the emperor's white charger. To this is added
scene of the death of Aase, has been translated a rather meaningless dance of Anitra and her
by Mr. Gosse in a way that is marvellously attendant maidens, which Anitra has to explain
reproductive of its poetical and emotional effect, in an interpolated passage, for the scene in
and Mr. Mansfield would be well-advised to sub- which that designing young woman cajoles the
stitute this version for the inferior one that he masquerading prophet out of steed and treasure
now uses of this particular scene. It would be is not given at all. The Sphinx and Memnon
so much of clear gain. For the rest, Mr. Archer episodes, followed by the scene in the mad-house
fails at countless points to convey the poig- at Cairo, are omitted. The momentary vision
nancy, it may be, or the grotesque humor, or of Solveig, so reminiscent of Faust's vision of
the acrid satire, of this passage or that ; in his Gretchen in the midst of the Walpurgis night
version the keen edges have become dulled, and revelry, is transferred from its desert setting to
the gold transmuted into baser metal.
a place at the opening of the fifth act. This act
In preparing his acting version of the play, also suffers greatly from curtailment. We have
Mr. Mansfield has been forced to take great the scene of the shipwreck, but not the subse-
liberties. To make of “ Peer Gynt” a prac- quent struggle in the water. The graveyard
ticable stage-drama a free hand was necessary, scene is omitted, as well as the suggestive scene
and we are not disposed to be unreasonable in in which Peer finds in an onion, with its many
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character. We are not given the symbolical and he has given us a characterization which
scene of the yarn-balls and the dead leaves and outranks the best of his previous efforts. In
the broken straws, for practical reasons which no single work that he has hitherto attempted
are sufficiently obvious. With the entrance of
With the entrance of has he shown such histrionic versatility, and in
the button-molder the closing scene begins, and none has he given us so complete a revelation of
this is condensed in a way that considerably the deeper possibilities of his art. He has risen
impairs its logical force. Nevertheless, the out- magnificently to a great occasion, and he has his
come is wonderfully impressive. On the whole, reward. His own summary of “Peer Gynt
our criticism on this score of condensation is di- illustrates the completeness with which he has
rected not so much against the lengthy excisions penetrated into the meaning of the poem, and
as against the occasional omissions of certain
may be suitably quoted as an appendix to our
pregnant phrases. Among such unaccountable
comment upon the performance. “This phan-
omissions we note, in the scene of Aase's death, tasmagoria, or comedy of human life, embraces
Peer's momentary and ventriloquial assumption all the elements of the serious, the pathetic, the
of the character of God the Father; in the scene tragic, the grotesque, the real and the unreal,
on the coast of Morocco, after his yacht has gone the actualities and the dreams, the facts and the
to the bottom, his plaint to the effect that Divine consequences, the ambitions and the disappoint-
Providence is anything but economical in its ments, the hopes and the disillusions, and the
methods; and in the scene with the button dread and terror, and the resurrection in love, of
molder, the latter's words : “ Both strength and the human soul."
seriousness are needed for a sin."
The vast audiences that are filling the play-
house nightly for week after week to witness THE HUNGER-MOTIVE IN FICTION.
this remarkable production must include many
Poets are not plagiarists, but men are the same.
types of spectators, but so rich is the play in The distribution of myths, the reappearance of inci-
various kinds of interest that no one is likely dent, the repetitions of history, all point, not to
to go away altogether unrewarded. At one tradition or heredity, but to the rooted likeness of
extreme of appreciation we have the devotee of men and circumstance. Nature and humanity -
musical comedy and spectacular fable and at
this is the world ; and the world of art is like unto
the other we have the lover of poetry and the
it. The works of this last world vary according to
seeker after ethical truth, and both may find in
their intensity, their differing admixture of plot and
“ Peer Gynt" something of their affair. For
character, and by the quality of soul in the creative
artist which gives him his originality of thought and
those whose dramatic ideal is found in “ The
separateness of expression.
Wonderful Wizard of Oz” there is the giant Hunger is the great motive for the work of the
pig, and the ugly urchin, and the dance of the world. Nearly all industries, warfares, adventures,
Arabian maidens, and the gorgeous scene at the displays of wealth, social arrangements as far as
court of the old man of the mountains. What property is concern
erned, are bottomed on this fact.
better sport than this could the most frivolous Half the happiness or misery of mankind arise from
ask? For those who ask the stage to present
it. The mere will to live expresses itself as hunger
before conscious identity is established. And the
an embodiment of poetry and pathos there are
the Solveig scenes and the death of Mother
old woman in “ Punch,” who, when her clergyman
Aase, accompanied by Grieg's inspired music. inquired of her what blessings she was most grateful
for during her long life, answered, “My wictuals,”
And for those who look to the drama for an
said a true thing.
envisagement of the deepest problems of char-
What would fiction do without eating and drink-
acter and fate there are the striking symbolisms ing? If I were asked to name the difference between
of Böjg and the button-molder, the contrasted dramatic and narrative art, I think I should say
that
philosophies of self-sufficiency and self-realiza- it consisted in the way that respective poets feed
tion, and the stern enforcement of the only law their characters. Of course there are some pick-
by which a man may save his soul. Truly, here ings on the tables of the dramatists. The Thyestian
is a feast whereof the scraps alone would suffi- banquet is at least mentioned in the Agamemnon,
ciently furnish forth any ordinary dramatic
and in the Cyclops we almost assist at a similar
banquet-table.
cannibalistic feast. Shakespeare in general is a “poor
provider," though the Duke feasts in Arden, and
Of Mr. Mansfield's personal part in the pres Macbeth sits down to the ghost-interrupted banquet,
ent noteworthy production we would say just and Falstaff consumes at least one pennyworth of
this : He has seized the greatest opportunity bread. If Shakespeare had had a real feeling for
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the viands about as he did. No; the dramatists do an island, has the dishes whisked away from him
not much condescend to eating. They can handle before he can taste them. Cervantes, indeed, is full
liquor very prettily. Don Juan drinks to the Com of delightful episodes of eating, and though Don
mandante. The boors tipple in Auerbach's cellar, Quixote may have to discourse over a banquet of
and Carl Moor and his comrades swig in the forest. acorns, or Sancho gorge himself with cow-heel, they
But they do not fall to like honest trenchermen. both make up for it at Camacho's wedding, where
Possibly it is because in a play they have not the the squire is given a long fork and told to browse
time. A glass of wine can be tossed off in a second, at large among the steaming cauldrons.
but nobody would believe that a character could get Fielding and Smollet, as befitted their lusty na-
through a satisfactory meal in the brief moment tures, gave their heroes large appetites and let them
allowed by stage action.
loose on an innkeeping world. Fielding even endows
But the narrative poets and novelists ! What his heroines with a certain touch of that feeling for
banquets, feasts, dinners, luncheons, snacks, they food which is probably out of the reach of the femi-
provide, primarily for their characters and second-
nine soul. That supper of stewed mutton, was it
arily for their readers' regalement! To begin with not? — which Amelia prepared for Captain Booth
Homer: his heroes are always eating, and we are deserves Thackeray's praise. Sir Walter Scott was
even allowed to see the cooking of the huge joints hardly inferior as a trencherman to his predecessors.
of beef that nourish their mighty ardor. De Quincey The scene where the pious Clerk of Copemanhurst
found out that Odysseus ate four dinners in one first denies and then accords King Richard his hos-
night! Probably he was laying in for a campaign, pitality is one of the decisive dinners of fiction. But
like the Esquimaux who eat enough blubber and the culinary gods of literature are surely Dumas
whale-oil at one meal to last them a month. The and Dickens. Their books exhale, not the odor of
old Irish epics reek with the kitchen smell. Their Russia leather or celestial gums, but the fragrance
heroes fought magnificently for their cattle-spoils, of delightful cookery. We open one of them with
and devoured them nobly. The worst reproach a the same feeling with which we approach a country
bard could cast upon a man was to say that in his inn at the coming of dusk, and see the windows
house “the guests did not grease their knives.” glowing red and the gray smoke curling up from the
Chaucer is a very lord of hospitality. One of his chimneys. Nor are we ever disappointed. What
most amiable characters is the Frankelein in whose a savory succession of viands do we enjoy! What
house “it snowed of meat and drink.” Milton, the a motley and magnificent company of boon comrades
loftiest of poets, is liberal enough to Adam and Eve do we meet! How often have we lunched, guests
in the matter of fruits and nuts and such like food unseen, with D'Artagnan and his comrades in the
- rather cold comfort, one would think, though the Bastion St. Gervais, or watched Chicot in the Paris
Archangel partakes affably enough when he drops tavern persuade Dom Modeste out of his fasting and
in to take pot-luck with our first parents. Keats's his sermon! How often have we been with Dick
pretty“ spread” in the “Eve of St. Agnes” reminds Swiveller and the Marchioness at their frugal meal,
me of a supper I once sat down to after a long cold or looked on as Tom Pinch's sister made the meat
day's ride. It consisted of four kinds of cake, three pie! But perhaps the full enthusiasm, the very rigor
kinds of pie, and a half-dozen different preserves. of the game of eating, is to be found, not in a novel,
But Keats's meal was purely an æsthetic one, for but in the “Noctes Ambrosianæ
the eye. It does not appear that the parties in in-
terest partook of it at all. They tripped away into “concoctive heat." As compared with other writers
the night, and left the cates and dainties untouched who imaginatively tickle the gustatory nerves, Wilson
in Madeline's chamber.
reminds me of the placard in a Western restaurant:
After all, it is to the prose writers that we must “ Dinner fifty cents; an immortal gorge, one dollar."
go for the full fury and fervor of appetite and the Even Homer did not catalogue all the heroes on
satisfaction thereof. Petronius devotes nearly the the plains of Troy, and I cannot begin to name the
whole of his book to Trimalchio's dinner. Some novelists to whom hunger and its satisfaction are
library-giving philanthropist should make this work sources of incident. In general, the keener the want
accessible to the poor of all the world. There is the keener the zest of eating, both to the character
enough food in it for an army. Reading it is as and the reader. When one of Mr. Clark Russell's
good as a meal, any day. One can say of the “Ara sailors, after tossing about for days in an open boat,
bian Nights” that the people in it are great dinner climbs aboard a deserted ship, breaks into the store-
givers. They never meet together in a social way room, eats his fill and takes an inventory of the
but someone claps his hands and servants appear provisions at hand, our mouths water in sympathy.
with salvers laden with food. Of course, to a flesh The lists of provisions given in books of Arctic
eating Northerner the temperate Arab's predilection exploration are delightful reading, though no one
for dates and figs and sherbets seems trifling. The would care to wade through a grocer's catalogue.
celebrated Barmecide dinner is only their ordinary In a higher way there are carefully-wrought scenes
fare pushed to the extreme. Mention of this meal of hunger in fiction which impress us by their pathos.
brings to mind that other state banquet where Sancho Jane Eyre's starvation on her flight from Thornfield
Panza, at the height of his felicity as governor of Hall is one. The incident in Feuillet's novel, where
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man.
the starving young nobleman takes a piece of bread
The results belong to history rather than to
which his sister is about to throw away, and tells fiction, but literature takes the historic legend for
her that he will give it to a poor man, is another. its own. The Pandu brothers, Herakles, Agamem-
Starvation, indeed, is one of the long-suits of the non, Cæsar, Attila, Vasco de Gama, Columbus,-
novelist to engage our sympathy.
the names are endless of those who explore or
Pestilence, disease, resulting as they mostly do struggle for dominion.
from a lack of proper nutrition, are powerful agents There is a whole section of literature which deals
of plot and situation. For the first, there is the with the growing of crops, the raising of cattle, the
Florentine plague which serves as a sombre back annual replenishment of man's stock of food. The
ground to the gay scenes of the Decameron, the
pastoral poetry of the world, the idyls of Theocritus,
similar pestilence which is introduced into Manzoni's Virgil's Georgics, the Italian and English shepherd
Promessi Sposa, and the death-scourge at Philadel plays, are all based on this theme. Goldsmith's
phia which is the main subject of one of Brockden “ Deserted Village gives the idea in reverse. A
Brown's novels, I think “Edgar Huntley.” Disease thousand modern novels deal with the life connected
in individuals is too common in literature to need with pastoral occupations. Half the charm of “Lorna
specification. I will only name André Chenier's Doone” resides in the pictures of farm-life the
poem, the Jeune Malade. Convalescence, too, which corn waving on the hillside, the poultry cackling in
is a sort of new birth with a special keenness and the yard, the pigs fattening in the pen, all of which
delicacy of appetite and sense, is a good theme. edibles are to furnish provender for the mighty
Thomas Gray has a poem on the subject, and there appetites of John Ridd and his compeers. The novels
is a novel by Edmond About describing the recovery of Thomas Hardy also are full of such scenes. The
of a consumptive girl in the South of Europe which
sense of growing things pervades them all.
treats the matter with great charm.
The nomad life of hunting and fishing is almost
Wealth, which is a sort of concentrated food, or
equally represented in fiction. Rama and Sita and
at least a safeguard against hunger, is an ingredient Laksmana in the Indian jungle, the Hunt in Calydon
in most plots. The Argonauts sail for the Golden
which has inspired more than one ancient and mod-
Fleece; King Lear gives his property away and
ern tragedy, Der Freishätz, Melville's “Moby Dick,"
comes to grief; the envious uncle does the Babes in
- these are only a few instances. There is an
the Wood to death in order to inherit their estate;
American author of the past, who used to be called
the Nabob from India comes back in the nick of time
the “Shakespeare of nature-writers," whose hunting
to endow a heroine or rescue a scapegrace nephew, sketches and stories have a freshness and zest all
- obviously this branch of our inquiry is so large their own. No one has expressed better than Frank
that one can only hint at it. Adventures to gain a Forrester the primal savagery of man in preying
fortune, treasure-seeking, and so forth, come under
upon the lower creatures, his delight in hunting,
this head. Dumas's “Monte Cristo," Poe's “Gold
tracking, killing, and eating his game. With our
Bug," and a myriad other stories, body forth the
more recent nature-writers the bird or beast “ sits
primal idea of wealth as a shield and a weapon.
not as a meat but as a guest,” which is more humane
Perhaps “Robinson Crusoe” is the central book of
but hardly as true.
the world in symbolizing the desirability of property. Commerce has to do with the hunger idea also,
When Crusoe is cast away and has stripped the
as providing the means for distribution of earth's
wreck of all available articles, he boasts that he has
a greater stock of necessities than was ever gathered products. And with commerce come in the themes
of houses, inns, cities, roads, rivers, the sea. And
together for one man's use before. Yet he goes on
these themes bourgeon out into innumerable minor
building, planting, breeding, and is really the type
ideas of home, hospitality, journeys, highwaymen,
of our race. Balzac is the novelist of modern times
voyages, pirates, and so forth forever. Science in
who has most realized the value of wealth. Money
use has provided weapons to fight hunger, and
is the great theme of all his works. Other novelists
writers like Jules Verne and Mr. Wells have drawn
and dramatic writers have made the miser a comic
inspiration from its inventions.
or despicable figure, but old Grandet is almost re-
spectable. The getting of money with him is a duty
Lastly in our category, there is the hunger of the
earth and the hunger of the ocean. The earth, like
and a religion.
Kronos, devours its own children, trees, vegetation,
There are many figures in fiction that stand for
men, cities. This theme is best expressed in Gray's
the negation of wealth. The hermit idea is best
"Elegy " and Bryant's "Thanatopsis." The ocean
embodied in the Hindoo epics and dramas; but the
Philoctetes of Sophocles, the Timon of Shakespeare,
finally devours the earth and all that is thereon.
Scott's Black Dwarf, are European examples. Per-
Cities which have slipped into the sea have furnished
haps Thoreau's Walden may be accepted as our
matter for many a legend and song, as have the
American contribution on this theme. Wars, con-
stories of burned galleons and fleets. After the Duke
of Clarence's vision in Shakespeare, Mr. Janvier's
quests, discoveries of new lands, colonizing, and such
“Sargasso Sea ” is the most wholesale and impres-
enterprises, are for the most part only larger exhibi-
tions of the greed for wealth, the desire to make
sive treatment I can think of regarding this theme.
life secure. The multitude moves, instead of one
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ume.
was years ago well characterized and in part accounted
COMMUNICATION.
for by Dr. G. Stanley Hall in a little book written on
DEVIOUS METHODS OF BOOK ADVERTISING.
his return from a sojourn abroad. But we have pro-
gressed since then. With the development of national
(To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
consciousness and conscience come larger literary free-
The “boom” spirit, of which the Western town has
dom and independence, and one day we shall wake
often been said to have a monopoly, makes its appear up and feel no more afraid of the older families of our
ance in strange surroundings. A few evenings ago kind across the water. Walt Whitman, of all our poets,
I was greatly enjoying that wise and human book by
was least afraid of them, and they seemed to like him
Benson, “From a College Window.” Under the spell the better for it.
of the thought and the charm of the style, I was living
in another world from that in which hard material THE IMPRACTICABILITY OF INTERNATIONAL DRAMA
standards have so much sway, when suddenly I came is stoutly maintained by that competent critic, Mr.
upon the following passage:
William Archer. Every nation," he contends, “mast
"I was reading the other day a sensible and appreciative hold up its own mirror to its own soul — else is the
review of Mr. Lucas's new biography of Charles Lamb."
theatre a mere plaything, an article of luxury.” And
At the right of the last word in the sentence stood a again: “ As a general rule, only third-rate, conventional,
figure ?, an addition the more distracting because it was machine-made plays are capable of exportation." But
a reference to one of the only two foot-notes in the vol Mr. Archer has just been paying a visit to Berlin, where
So, the spell of the book broken, I studied the he finds that one can see more of Shakespeare on the
note. It read:
stage than in London, and at least as much of Ibsen as
"E. V. Lucas: The Life of Charles Lamb. 2 vols. G. P. Put in Christiania; and he also discovers that Björnson,
nam's Sons, New York."
Strindberg, Maeterlinck, Oscar Wilde, and Mr. Bernard
The spirit of inquiry was now aroused, so I turned
Shaw are all, in a greater or less degree, naturalized on
back to the title-page; then I realized that the enter-
the Berlin stage. We must hold — and it is hard to
prising firm of publishers of " From a College Window" believe that Mr. Archer would seriously dispute it-
had seen, and seized upon, the opportunity to advertise that the best in dramatic as in other literature has some-
another of its valuable publications. Into the midst of
thing of the universality of light and air, of blue skies
a bit of writing full of unworldliness, and formed by and of the mind of man.
the artistic spirit, they had interjected a bit of commer-
cialism. It was as if a salon picture had been exhibited THE LAKE-DWELLERS' CIVIC PRIDE will be gratified by
with a “paster” on the centre of the canvas proclaim Mr. Frederic Harrison's remarks on Chicago in his new
ing its price and the name of the agent of sale. It book, “Memories and Thoughts." He says: Chicago
reminded one
to compare small things with great struck me as being somewhat unfairly condemned as
of Lowell rudely awakened from his twilight reverie in devoted to nothing but Mammon and pork. Certainly,
the Cambridge fields by the patronizing appeal of a during my visit, I heard of nothing but the progress of
German beggar. If such a use of books for advertising education, university endowments, people's institutes,
purposes is unassailable by any but a squeamish criticism, libraries, museums, art schools, workmen's model dwell-
may we not expect that some day the foot-notes of our ings and farms, literary culture, and scientific founda-
volumes of essays or of poems, perhaps even of our tions. I saw there one of the best equipped and most
manuals of devotion, will contain such sprightly refer vigorous art schools in America, one of the best Toyn-
bee Hall settlements in the world, and perhaps the most
“Why not buy 'The Fighting Chance' when you take your rapidly developed university in existence. My friends
next railway journey? D. Appleton & Co. $1.50.”
of the Union League, themselves men of business proud
Our readers will welcome more Dissertations by Mr. Doo-
ley.' Harper & Brothers. $1.50."
of their city, strongly urged me to dispense with the
The book to which the author refers is one of our publica usual visit to the grain elevators and the stockyards,
tions, a complete price list of which will be sent on receipt of a where hogs and oxen are slaughtered by millions and
two-cent stamp."
consigned to Europe, but to spend my time in inspecting
One cannot help wondering how Mr. Benson, lover as
libraries, schools, and museums. No city in the world
he is of a good book, and thoroughly contemptuous of
can show such enormous endowments for educational,
whatever would debase it, would treat such a turn-a-
scientific, and charitable purposes, lavished within ten
penny intrusion upon his readers' peace and satisfaction.
years, and still unlimited in supply." Really, we are
EDWARD S. PARSONS.
getting on! It is not so long ago that another English
Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Nov. 10, 1906. traveller disposed of Chicago by a single line in his
book on America: “I did not visit Chicago, — why
should I care for pig-sticking ?” Why, indeed ? It has
CASUAL COMMENT.
long puzzled the people of Chicago to tell why the
tastes of so many English visitors should run that way.
THE TIMIDITY OF AMERICAN POETRY is a quality We
e are glad at last to have become objects of interest
pointed out and commented on by an English critic in to a class who, like Mr. Frederic Harrison, have an eye
a London journal. This lack of confidence, often ap for something besides pigs.
pearing under the guise of sentimentality, is attributed
partly to the fact that our poetry is no spontaneous na THE PRINTING OF NEW PLAYS is urged upon English
tional song, but rather voices “the traditions of a race and American playwrights by Mr. Henry Arthur Jones
which, by the time when American poetry can first be in “ The Theatre Magazine " for October. German and
taken seriously, had become an alien and distrusted French plays appear in book form as a matter of course,
race"; and partly is it ascribed to the Calvinism that and are often in the hands of the public before their
forms an element in the American temperament. It is presentation on the stage. “Surely in France," writes
this want of assured poise in us as a young people that Mr. Jones, “the art of acting, as well as the art of the
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drama, stands upon an immeasurably higher level than tate to say, does not exist among us.
We have an
in England; and this is partly due to the differentiation elementary system of cram and drill directed by the
in the public mind of the art of the drama from the art soulless automata it has itself produced; a secondary
of acting. Both are judged in their due relation to each system of athletics and dead languages presided over
other, and both are judged on their respective merits by gentlemanly amateurs; and a university system which
instead of being carelessly muddled together. And in - well, of which I cannot trust myself to speak.” With
weighing the advantages and disadvantages which would the humor of the book there is a sufficiency of wit to
accrue to the actor were every play to be published keep sweet the temper of this many-voiced discussion,
simultaneously with its production, he may be asked to in which the reader watches with curiosity and amuse-
reflect that the printing and reading of plays tends to ment “one building after another laboriously raised by
raise the intellectual level of the drama, and with it the each speaker in turn, only to collapse ignominiously at
intellectual quality of the acting and the intellectual the first touch administered by his successor.
status of the actor. No actor who respects and loves
his art . . . can consistently object to the immediate THE PERFECT TYPE OF CITY-LOVER, we take it, was
publication of a play on the eve, or on the morrow, of Charles Lamb. His was “a mind that loves to be at
its production.” A movement is noted on both sides of home in crowds"; and to such a mind, he tells us, even
the Atlantic toward the publication of English and the mud of London is pure gold. Quite naturally, then,
American plays, and a leading New York publishing we should look for much of Lamb in an anthology
house has undertaken to issue some of Mr. Clyde Fitch's celebrating " The Friendly Town," and particularly so
dramas. Several of our college professors of English when the compiler happens to be so devout an Elian
are furthering this movement by putting their classes as Mr. E. V. Lucas. There is a good deal from Lamb
through a course of lectures and examinations on cur in Mr. Lucas's pretty volume, but the selections seem
rent plays of the better sort. Of course the theatre to us for the most part irrelevant. One searches in
managers and syndicates constitute a power to be reck vain for the first passage that inevitably comes to mind
oned with in effecting this innovation, but their opposition when one thinks of Lamb and London:
may be overcome here as it has been elsewhere.
The lighted shops of the Strand and Fleet Street; the
innumerable trades, tradesmen, and customers, coaches, wag-
BLUNDERS OF TRANSLATORS are again going the rounds
gons, playhouses; all the bustle and wickedness round about
Covent Garden; the very women of the Town; the watchmen,
of the literary journals. Old wood to burn, old wine to drunken scenes, rattles; life awake, if you awake, at all hours of
drink, old friends to trust, and old jokes to laugh at. the night; the impossibility of being dull in Fleet Street; the
Along with the ancient tested and approved absurdities
crowds, the very dirt and mud, the sun shining upon houses and
pavements, the print shops, the old bookstalls, parsons cheapen-
in this department of whimsical literature are cited sev-
ing books, coffee-houses, steams of soups from kitchens, the
eral more modern instances. « La Dernière Chemise de
pantomimes - London itself a pantomime and a masquerade –
l'Amour” (“Love's Last Shift”) is classic; but “ Frappé all these things work themselves into my mind, and feed me,
ou Mademoiselle” as a rendering of the title of the
without a power of satiating me. The wonder of these sights
impels me into night-walks about her crowded streets, and I
farce “ Hit or Miss,” and “ Le Ministre Assassin " as an
often shed tears in the motley Strand from fullness of joy at 80
equivalent of “ The Stickit Minister,” may possibly still much life."
have a flavor of novelty to some readers. Goldsmith's If there is not in this, and other similar passages from
line “ As ocean sweeps the labored mole away” (from Lamb not made use of by Mr. Lucas, the very essence
“ The Deserted Village ") is said to have been Gallicized of the urban spirit, where may it be found ?
by one of these ingenious mistranslators, « Comme la
mer détruit les travaux de la taupe.” Truly, the per LIMITED EDITIONS OF STANDARD AUTHORS offer en-
formances of the literal translator are almost as amusing couraging testimony of those authors' continued vogue,
as those of the phonetic speller.
at least among the more well-to-do, despite the not in-
frequent purchase of these sumptuous sets for purposes
THE HUMOR OF MR. G. Lowes DICKINSON is an ele of show rather than use. Such editions of Dickens and
ment of his art that might well have received at least Stevenson are now announced. The elder novelist's
a passing word in Mr. Hellems's appreciation recently works, in a National Edition” of forty volumes, in-
published in these columns. It is a humor that is as cluding more than 130 pieces now first collected, are
modestly unobstrusive as it is quietly enjoyable - to issued by Messrs. Chapman & Hall of London, who
the reader who is content to be amused without burst began to publish for Dickens seventy years ago. The
ing five buttons off and tumbling in a fit. The opening pictures, 850 in number, comprise all the original draw-
of Arthur Ellis's slap-dash harangue in “A Modern ings, with other illustrative matter. Forster's life of
Symposium ” is an illustration, especially when taken the author is also included. The edition is strictly
in connection with the immediately preceding speech. limited to 750 sets for England and America,” and the
“This,” he begins, “is an extraordinary discovery Wilson English price, with the English fondness for the odd
has made, that fathers have children, and children fa penny, is just sixpence over half a pound per volume.
thers! One wonders how the world has got on all these All this is well enough, except that the raking and
centuries in ignorance of it. It seems so obvious, once scraping together of hitherto uncollected (and, inferen-
it has been stated. But that, of course, is the nature of tially, unimportant) matter is of doubtful wisdom. The
great truths; as soon as they are announced they seem Stevenson enterprise, undertaken by Messrs. Cassell &
to have been always familiar. . . It is the privilege Co. with the sanction of all parties legally concerned,
of genius to formulate for the first time what everyone and with Mr. Edmund Gosse as editor, is more generous
has been dimly feeling.” Humor, too, of a grim sort, in the fixing of its limit - 1550 copies, at ten guineas
imparts flavor to this same Wilson's somewhat aggres each, being promised. The speedy rise in price of the
sively arrogant assertions. “ What else the state can Edinburgh edition of twelve years ago appears to ensure
do,” he says in the course of his address, “it must do the success of this new and, as may be hoped, equally
by education; a thing which, at present, I do not hesi excellent issue of a popular author.


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life; my sympathies were altogether elsewhere; I was
The New Books.
at home rather in the study than in the antechambers
of notoriety; it has, indeed, always been only by a strong
effort that I have been able to bring myself to those acts
AN ENGLISH JOURNALIST IN PARIS.* of importuning others which the profession of reporter
Baudelaire, as quoted by Mr. Sherard in
exacts. For the foreign correspondent is, in the first
place, a reporter."
prefacing his “ Twenty Years in Paris," used
to say, “ J'ai plus de souvenirs que si j'avais diffidence. On another page he declares, “ There
Yet he appears bravely to have overcome his
mille ans.' For one with only the twenty-
second part of a thousand years to look back
is one excellent thing about the new journalism,
upon, this Englishman in Paris is surprisingly When one has either to do or to “get left,' and
and that is that it dispels all false modesty.
fertile in reminiscences, and also, it may be
added, almost as garrulous — in an entertaining
when to get left usually means to die of hunger,
fashion – as one might imagine Baudelaire's
one develops remarkable energy in the assertion
hypothetical millennarian to be. He says he
of one's personality.” Yes, and the more 's the
is conscious “ that many people have been left pity. Of the notabilities that figure most con-
unnamed who ought to have been named, and
spicuously on Mr. Sherard's ample page, we will
that many things have not been told which na
name de Lesseps, Zola, Daudet, Oscar Wilde,
the ill-fated Ernest Dowson, and Mr. Edison.
ought to have been told.” But his five hundred
Our author's literary leanings are sufficiently
large pages of recollections will do very well for
indicated by his ardently-expressed admiration
a young man, and we can patiently wait awhile
for the many people and the many things here
of Zola and Mr. George Moore. As Paris cor-
omitted. In fact, it would not be hard to point
respondent of a new York paper, Mr. Sherard
out some omissible passages even in the present
called upon de Lesseps, in 1887, to question
volume, as, for example, this sage reflection near
him on the subject of the Panama Canal. What
the beginning :
the great promoter is reported to have said has
“Slanderers are a very contemptible race.
a present-day interest.
Indeed,
their very practice and infamy are confessions of their
««I am as full of confidence as ever. If you are &
own inferiority. The harm they do is incalculable.
shareholder in the Panama Company, let me advise you
Few people there are who have not cause to regret
to put your shares away in a safe, and to bolt and bar
having listened to their evil tales about their contem-
them in. We shall open our canal at the end of 1889,
poraries."
after the Exhibition here, or at the very latest at the
beginning of 1890. That is certain. I say it and I mean
This ostentatious avoidance of gossip is a famil-
it. What was the reason of the recent fall in the shares ?
iar and amusing feature in both talkers and The manæuvres of certain rogues, speculators of course,
writers. However, the author has done himself who trade on the pusillanimity of the shareholders."
no serious discredit in the present instance; and A few words from M. Eiffel, another and a
though he is fond, perhaps pardonably fond, of more fortunate director of great engineering
advertising his own foresight after the event, works, will interest statisticians, and others also.
and nothing loth to represent himself as enjoy “ • It has been ascertained by statistical observation
ing the friendship of great men before as well that in engineering enterprises one man is killed for
as after they had achieved greatness, the whole
every million francs that is spent on the work. Thus,
narrative moves so briskly, the dialogue is car-
supposing you have to build a bridge at an expense of
one hundred million francs, you must be prepared for
ried on by so many and so interesting actors,
the death of one hundred men. In building the Eiffel
the stage is so crowded, and the scenes succeed Tower, which was a construction costing six million and
one another so quickly, that it would be unhand a half, we only lost four men, thus remaining below the
some to feel otherwise than friendly toward the
average. In the construction of the Forth Bridge, fifty-
purveyor of so much varied entertainment.
five men were lost in over forty-five million francs' worth
of work. Here the average is much exceeded; but when
Mr. Sherard is too well known in the world
the special risks are remembered, this number shows as
of letters to need many words of introduction a very small one, and reflects very great credit on the
here. He says of his entrance into journalism : engineers for the precautions which they took on behalf
of their men.''
“It was by mere accident that having come to Paris
to lead a life devoted to literature and to study, and to The author appears to have made a slip just
seek the companionship and instruction of the great before this in making the same speaker say, in
minds in the capital of the world's intellect, I was drawn
reference to this bridge, that “the number of
into the vortex of journalism. I had no training for this
workmen who were killed during the carrying
* TWENTY YEARS IN PARIS. Being Some Recollections of a out of the work was much below the ascertained
Literary Life. By Robert Harborough Sherard. Illustrated.
Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Co.
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To pass from the fashioning of iron to the italics] speed, light; still lower something else,”
shaping of sentences, here is what the younger he represents either Mr. Edison or himself
Dumas said to Mr. Sherard on the subject of as deficient in the very rudiments of molecular
literary style, when the name of Jules Verne physics. On one page he says of the murderer
had been introduced :
Aubert's kindness to animals, This character-
“I am trying to get the Academy to recognize his istic has been often noticed in those who have
merits. I am pushing his claims to be admitted. But no kindness for their fellow-creatures." But in
why will he live au bout du monde ? Why does he live
a later chapter he declares, à propos of Mme.
in Amiens ? “Les absents ont toujours tort," and the
fault that they find with him is that his style is bad,
Bernhardt's alleged cruelty to a pet cat, “I
that he has no style, as if that were not a contradiction don't think that there is ever anything very
in itself. To have no style is to have a good style. wrong about a man or woman who is kind to
Dumas had no style. I have no style. Style is a neces animals.” Two descriptions, fortunately brief
sity only to the writer who has nothing to say.'”
and as inoffensive as such descriptions could
In vindication of Maupassant's true-hearted well be, are given of executions, a triple and a
ness and warmth of affection, the author writes: double one, at which the author was present ;
“ As a matter of fact, those who knew the intimacies yet it is in reference to scenes of this sort that
of Guy de Maupassant's life, knew of a love story in
which he had shown himself the most impassioned of
he gravely writes : “ When the law affords such
wooers, and of lovers the most ardent and faithful. It disgusting spectacles as the slaughter of a hu-
was my privilege to have in my hands a collection of man being, it can hardly be expected that the
love-letters written by him, and I sometimes regret that better and humaner classes will be represented
I did not consent to make use of them for publication.
They were models of the style, and I do not think that amongst the spectators.” He does not, however,
de Maupassant ever surpassed in any of his works the make it appear that his own presence was on
beauty of this prose.”
either occasion indispensable, and with reference
Mr. Sherard makes himself a bit tiresome to one of them he distinctly says that he attended
with his excessive admiration for Oscar Wilde, to oblige a friend.
about whom he has elsewhere written so fully. The book has eight portraits of well-known
He also enlarges on the part he took in enlight- Frenchmen, and two facsimile letters, a charac-
ening the world as to Captain Dreyfus's inno- teristic one from Mr. Edison and one of grapho-
cence and in predicting its ultimate vindication. logical interest written by the murderer already
And this naturally brings in Zola, and the mentioned.
mentioned. But to leave off with something
author's stanch advocacy of the French realist's pleasanter than murder, let us give a bonmot as
claim to greatness long before England would quoted by Mr. Sherard. “A very distinguished
consent to tolerate him. A little less insistence was once asked that tiresome question,
by Mr. Sherard on his own courage and perspi “ If you were to be allowed only one book, what
cacity in this matter would have sufficed. Yet book would
book would you choose?” “ The Book of Job,"
his self-complacency is not unpardonable. was the reply. “And why?” persisted the
The author's style is, of course, journalistic, curious questioner. “To learn patience when
but not pronouncedly so. He could study meth- worried with foolish questions.
od and brevity with advantage. An occasional
PERCY F. BICKNELL.
Gallicism, as the use of the definite article with
abstract nouns, is not surprising in an author
who has lived so long among Frenchmen. The WALT WHITMAN, FIFTY YEARS AFTER.*
occurrence of “ ridded,” “ frightened of,” “ mid-
It is fifty years since the publication of the
dle of the ages," " gazetteer” (meaning jour- first edition of Walt Whitman's “ Leaves of
nalist), here and there attracts attention, even Grass," with its strange electric message, so
though the writer may be guilty of nothing disconcerting and so irritating to such of the
worse than an unusual or an obsolete form. general public as tried to read it. It is not yet
But when he writes of an “argument ab im- quite twenty-five years since the last mistaken
probabile," and then two lines below, as if to effort at suppression occurred in Boston, when
prevent any charitable ascription of this "im-
the publishers of the poems were officially de-
probable Latin to the compositor, speaks of nied the privileges of the public mails at the
“ arguing ab improbabile,” he exposes himself instigation of the Society for the Suppression of
to the critic's shaft. And when he makes Mr. Vice. But the general grounds for a discussion
Edison say of electricity, “ It is a mode of mo of Walt Whitman's claims as a poet have long
tion, a system of vibrations. A certain speed
* WALT WHITMAN. His Life and Work. By Bliss Perry.
of vibrations produces heat; a lower Cours the Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
>
man
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since shifted from the question of "his morality fellowship between Whitman and Emerson, the
to a question regarding his technique. We intimate appreciation of Burroughs, the friendly
comprehend better, to-day, the thought of the criticism of Matthew Arnold, the cordial words
man who declared,
from Tennyson, to say nothing of German,
“ I have said that the soul is not more than the body, Danish, and French endorsement, and we have
And I have said that the body is not more than the an expression of approval that must have been
soul,
balm indeed to the poet whose work had been
And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's
self is."
described, characteristically, in “ Putnam's
And now our debate is over the point whether
Monthly" as “a compound of the New England
or no the thing that has been said, with the
transcendentalist and New York rowdy.”
manner of saying it, is poetry. It will be
As it is largely on the intrinsic merit of
thought significant by some that in the volume
“Leaves of Grass" that Whitman's place and
of carefully selected verse published last year by
fame depend — in his own estimate surely, as
our best-known Boston book
in that of the critic's, - it will be especially
use, a volume
entitled “ The Chief American Poets,” Walt interesting to readers of the new biography to
Whitman was given a place, and on equal
see what this author has to say with reference
terms, with our recognized classic group; and
to that important work. Thus does he set forth
Whitman's idea :
now we receive from the same firm a very note-
worthy life of Whitman, written by Mr. Bliss
· Very deliberately, as was his manner in all things,
this ruminative and unpractical carpenter began to plan
Perry, the editor of “ The Atlantic Monthly."
an extraordinary thing - a book which should embody
Surely, it may be said that the “good gray himself and his country. All that he had experienced
poet” is at last coming to his own!
was to be a part of it; the life which he had hitherto
Walt Whitman, however, came to his own
caressed casually, as one touches now the cheek and
now the hand of the beloved, was to yield itself wholly;
a long time ago. For, in spite of the divergent
to lose, as it were, its own individual existence, and to
views so frankly and so emphatically expressed reappear as a Book, but a Book with all the potencies
by opposing camps, it is doubtful if any other of life so coursing in it that it should seem not so much
verse-maker ever received more immediate and
a Book as a Man."
more illustrious recognition along with much There is an interesting study of Walt's pe-
forthright and vigorous abuse. The opposition culiar measure, and his embarrassing manipu-
was natural enough, was indeed to be expected; lation of the device of catalogue ; a discussion
the applause was so notable that it is worth of the peculiarities of rhythmic prose and the
recalling. Mr. Emerson's impulsive but per-
influence of writers like Blake, Macpherson,
fectly sincere letter of 1855, with its memorable and Tupper (in his “Proverbial Philosophy")
I greet you at the beginning of a great career,” on the methods of this new bard; but most
is of course remembered by everyone. Let us significant of all, Mr. Perry thinks, was the
quote Mr. Perry here, with reference to the wider publication in 1851 of a “ Lyrical Soliloquy,
recognition :
by Samuel Warren, entitled “ The Lily and the
“While Burroughs and O'Connor argued, and Whit- Bee,” in which the curious reader finds a com-
man read by his new astral lamp or tramped the streets plete prototype, in most of its peculiarities,
of
with Peter Doyle, some of the most subtle of the
“Leaves of Grass.” That the poetry of Whitman
younger English critics were finding in Leaves of Grass
is to be read as declamation, or rhapsody, is in-
a new world of poetry. Frederick W. H. Myers, then
a fellow of Trinity, read from the book to John Adding-
sisted upon. “To interpret as
what
ton Symonds, an Oxford inan of brilliant mind and deli was intended as rhapsodical speech is to misread
cate body, who listened with thrills to the very marrow Walt Whitman."
of his bones. Edward Dowden, Tyrell, and other young Now, what of the finished product? To quote
Irish scholars were reading it in Dublin. William Bell
Scott the artist, who had received a copy from Thomas
Mr. Perry again,
Dixon the cork-cutter,' Ruskin's friend, introduced it
“ As by the ebb and flow of the tide, the universal
to the notice of Swinburne and W. M. Rossetti. It will frame of things thus becomes flooded with personality:
be remembered that Emerson had sent a copy to Car-
in one moment things are made anthropomorphic, and
lyle, ten years before. Thoreau had sent one to his in the next men and women are de-personalized into
friend Cholmondeley, and a few other copies had found scarcely sentient flesh. Never was there a stranger
their way to England. But here was a band of clever pantheism, flexible, reversible at will. The Song of
university men, scholars and poets of a new generation,
Myself' is full of sexual imagery, and the constant shift-
who became convinced of Walt Whitman's claims to be ing of the word . I' from its individual to its symbolic
the representative poet of democracy."
meaning - that is, from the actual Walt Whitman to
Add to this the fact of Thoreau's enthusiasm,
the typical human being whom the “I'is often used to
represent — frequently gives this sexual imagery a
the subsequent pleasant interchange of social startling character. The human body is stripped bare;
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and in the emotional frenzy which masters the poet, the cratic figure, this powerfully assertive soul
conventions, and occasionally the decencies, are clean always assertive, always democratic - from the
always be to the fastidious, - - it is as if the beasts days of early childhood when the sturdy, fair-
spoke,' said Thoreau, — sprang from a profound sense
skinned, black-haired youngster tumbled in the
of the germinal forces of life. It was a Titanic en clover by the small weather-beaten house where
deavor to express the spirit in terms of the flesh. It
he was born, listening to the phæbe bird,
was predestined to partial failure, not only because that
feat is so insuperably difficult, but also because Whitman
smelling the lilacs, complacent, absorbing these
was after his fashion a philosopher and prophet as well
well things
as a poet, and this was a task calling for pure poetry." “ And the third-month lambs and the sow's pink-faint
In his final chapter, “ After Fifty Years,"
litter, and the mare's foal and the cow's calf,”
the writer includes the following suggestive and all the vegetable and animal and human
paragraphs :
life around him, — from these days of earliest
“To appreciate Leaves of Grass as a product . . youth to the time of old age in the squalid
of Transcendentalism, one should read it, not after a Camden cottage, the exit, the nightfall, and the
course in Nietzsche and Ibsen, much as they enforce
good-bye. It would be easy to linger over the
and illuminate its teaching from various points of view,
but after Carlyle s Sartor Resartus and Emerson's Essays
details of this unique life, but Walt Whitman's
and Thoreau's Journal. Its eccentricities, like its noble compelling figure has long since made itself
ness, are a part of the sansculottism and the exaltation familiar,
familiar, - here, leisurely strolling through the
of the time. It would be unfair to say of Whitman,
New York streets, now surveying the human
as Emerson did of Gibbon, . The man has no shrine; a
man's most important possession." He had altogether comedy from the top of a Broadway omnibus,
too many shrines. Monist as he was in philosophy, he
or looking out from the pilot-house of a ferry-
was a polytheist in practice: he dropped on his knees boat on the busy panorama of the East River,
anywhere, before stick or stone, flesh or spirit, and this free-hearted warm-blooded caresser of life,
swore that each in turn was divine. He would have no
lover of man, comrade of pilots and car-drivers,
hierarchy. The lesson of gradation, taught by the very
stars in their courses, he would not learn. The gentle-
volunteer nurse, stalwart, health - breathing,
man was no higher than the man, the saint no finer bending over the tortured bodies of sick soldiers
product than the sinner. With a soul that instinctively in the tainted atmosphere of crowded hospitals,
eried "Glory! Glory!' he nevertheless did not perceive bending and touching — with a hand like a
that the glory of the terrestrial was one, and the glory
woman's for tender ministration — the pain-torn
of the celestial was another."
The foregoing passages — and for the pur-
bodies, saying comfortable things, bestowing his
little gifts, taking the last message, kissing the
poses of this brief review we have restricted our
citations to those paragraphs in which the au-
dying boy: we remember the picture of Walt
thor deals with this most important and typical his mother, his plain, wholesome,“ perfect ” old
in war-time. He himself writes these things to
of Whitman's compositions — are sufficient to
mother; how affectionately he writes to her.
show that Mr. Perry's critical judgment is
calm, sane, and discriminating. His attitude is
Later, in the cloudy days, his health broken by
friendly always, at times enthusiastic, although
the hospital service, depressed by the attacks of
never that of an enthusiast; he never slips his
malignant virtue,” he writes again to her from
Washington :
moorings, critically. His comments are bright-
ened, too, with an occasional flash of quiet spend in my attic - I have laid in wood and can have
“I pass the time very quietly — some evenings I
Yankee humor, revealing the presence of elec a fire when I want it I wish you was here.”
tricity in the atmosphere without any roll of
How natural it is to turn rhapsodist over this
thunder following; as when he says, for instance, singer and lover of the universal ; but the editor
of “ The Atlantic'
” does not rhapsodize, nor
“ He is often like a yard-man coupling parlor-cars
whose names are rich in individual associations -
does he represent a cult. 6. The close atmos-
Malvolio, Manitoba, Mazzini, Manchuria, Maria. phere of a cult is not healthful for anybody,'
however excitedly those musical names are ejaculated, he says; and shows its bad effect on Whitman
this does not start the train."
in old age. The true lovers of Whitman will
In its presentation of Walt Whitman's pic- welcome this clear, sincere interpretation of their
turesque personality, Mr. Perry's book is, as it prophet all the more warmly for its conscien-
could not fail to be, delightfully entertaining. tious frankness and its dispassionate tone. How-
The frankness which appears judicially in the ever realistic the study, in the presence of such
criticism of the poet's work is found also in the a portrait one can but echo the words of Lincoln
narrative of his life.
when he first saw Walt Whitman : “ Well, he
There are many vivid glimpses of this demo- looks like a MAN!”
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We cannot better end our account than by
allowing the author of this admirable biography
in his own words to summarize the poet's mes-
sage and its claim on the interest of posterity.
The fiction calls for no extended comment.
It appeared first in one of the popular maga-
zines. « The Perfect Tribute" on the Gettys-
burg' speech is rendered directly to Lincoln, in
* Upon the whole the most original and suggestive a Washington hospital, by a wounded soldier
do so.
poetic figure since Wordsworth, he gazed steadily, like who had read the address in a morning news-
Wordsworth, upon the great and permanent objects of
nature and the primary emotions of mankind. Of the
paper, — the President having been accidentally
totality of his work one may well say, “The sky o'er-
called in to draw up a will for the dying man.
arches here.' Here is the wide horizon, the waters The basis, if any exists, for the improbable story
rolling in from the great deep, the fields and cities is not known to the reviewer; but if the author
where men toil and laugh and conquer.
Here are the
has taken as many liberties with it as with the
gorgeous processionals of day and night, of lilac-time
and harvest. The endless mystery of childhood, the
facts regarding the delivery of the address itself,
pride of manhood, the calm of old age are here; and it may well pass for pure fiction. The special
here, too, at last is the
train from Washington to Gettysburg is made
'Dark mother always gliding near with soft feet,' to start in the morning instead of at noon. Mr.
the hush and whisper of the Infinite Presence. These Everett is placed on the train with Mr. Lincoln,
primal and ultimate things Whitman felt as few men instead of coming directly from Boston. Mr.
have ever felt them, and he expressed them, at his best,
Lincoln is made to write his speech on a scrap
with a nobility and beauty such as only the world's
very greatest poets have surpassed. Nilbers count for of wrapping-paper on the train, although that
nothing, when one is reckoning the audience of a poet, story is known to be apocryphal. He “ leans
and Whitman's audience will, for natural reasons, be slouchingly,” and “slouched back across the
limited to those who have the intellectual and moral
platform" at Gettysburg, as he may have done
generosity to understand him, and will take the pains
But no American poet now seems more sure
in his early days in a country court-room. Mr.
to be read, by the fit persons, after one hundred or five
Everett is made to congratulate Lincoln imme-
hundred years.”
diately after the conclusion of the address in
W. E. SIMONDS. words which he really wrote to Lincoln the fol-
lowing day. However, leaving veracity out of
consideration, it must be confessed that the little
THE LONG STORY OF A SHORT ORATION.* story is written with a tenderness of touch and
In a period of so extensive an output of books
a delicacy of diction which make it delightful
as prevails at present, literary coincidences are
reading
to be expected ; but rarely have three books
The second book, "Gettysburg and Lincoln,”
appeared simultaneously, bearing upon so minor
by Mr. Henry S. Burrage, is best described as an
an incident as the delivery of an address, strictly
unofficial history of the steps taken to preserve
occasional, by a man who was not a noted orator.
the battle-field, preceded by a brief sketch, with
The occasion referred to was the dedication of diagrams, of the three days of battle. The sketch
a portion of the Gettysburg battlefield as a
is well written and to the point; it takes no part
cemetery; and the speaker was President Lin-
in the many controversies arising from the con-
coln. This Gettysburg speech, occupying barely federate and Federal alike in matters of praise
duct of the opposing armies, and treats Con-
thirty lines of type on an ordinary page, has be-
come a classic, declaimed in the schools and used
or censure. The bulk of the volume is devoted
to the work of the Memorial Association which
as a model for the rhetorician. The events con-
nected with its delivery have consequently as-
had charge of the field in 1893, and the National
Park Commission in control since that date under
sumed an unusual importance. Of the three
authors whose books, treating these events, are
Congressional appropriations. Various states
now before us, one weaves the incidents into
contributed $835,625.55 to the purchase and
the form of fiction based presumably on fact ;
ornamentation of the 1380 acres in the reserva-
another approaches the topic as a historian deal- tion, and this sum has been supplemented by
ing with collected materials; while the third
an almost equal amount from Congress. In the
writes reminiscently, having been officially con-
chapters devoted to the dedication exercises,
nected with the exercises.
Major Burrage has followed contemporary ac-
counts, and these differ in many particulars
* THE PERFECT TRIBUTE. By Mary Raymond Shipman
Andrews. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
from the personal recollections of Colonel Carr,
GETTYSBURG AND LINCOLN. By Henry Sweetser Burrage. which form the material of the third book of our
Illustrated. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.
group.
LINCOLN AT GETTYSBURG. By Clark E. Carr, author of "The
Illini," etc. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co.
Mr. Carr was the Illinois member of the


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Memorial Association, and occupied a place on
HIGHER EDUCATION IN AMERICA.*
the platform at the dedicatory exercises. After
a lapse of half a century, his remembrances of Concerning education in America, there are
the occasion are given to the public in a book many conflicting voices, some finding no praise
let which is a tasteful specimen of the art of high enough, others crying only of its errors
printer and binder. He invites confidence in and defects. We would be the last to deny the
his recollections by confessing in certain in- possibilities of almost limitless improvement in
stances that he did not observe or cannot recall. our system : too often superficiality marks our
He accepts the Nicolay statement that half the theories, and false economy alternates with prod-
address was written before Lincoln started from igality in our administration ; our compulsory
Washington and the remainder in Gettysburg attendance is largely a farce; our professional
on the morning of the dedicatory day. Mr. training of teachers touches only the margin of
Burrage inclines to the story that the address the field. Notwithstanding all this, and much
was fully blocked out in Washington and re more, the record of American education is one
written in Gettysburg during the evening after
to warm the heart of every one of us, and deepen
Lincoln's arrival. Both authors reject the story
our just and reasonable pride in our nation and
that he wrote it on the train, or on his hat held our history. Most of all is this true of higher
in his lap while Everett was speaking. Mr. education, in which America has distinguished
Burrage accepts the reportorial interpolations herself in more ways than are commonly recog-
of “Applause” and “Long continued applause
nized.
as eyidence that both audience and speaker were
President Thwing's “ History of Higher Edu-
satisfied with the effect produced by the address. cation in America” is animated and rightly
Mr. Carr, however, hints that these were inven- influenced by a sense of the greatness of the
tions of the reporters. “Except when he con theme, and will be welcomed by an unusually
cluded,” he says, “I did not observe it (the large and varied body of readers. The book
applause), and at the close the applause was has a very distinct character of its own : first,
not especially marked.” He also says : “ Time
it does not contain an uninteresting page; the
and again, expressions of disappointment were
reader who takes it up is likely to read from
made to me. Many persons said to me that page to page and from chapter to chapter until
they would have supposed that on such a great he reaches the end.
he reaches the end. The author has ransacked
occasion the President would have made a the sources, and has shown uncommon discern-
speech.” This disappointment is ascribed to the ment in what he has brought away for his
brevity of the speech, to the confusion attend readers ; we imagine that few will read it with-
ing the coming of the President to the front of out frequently meeting what is new to them, or
the platform, and to the impression that he was even surprising ; most of us have some vague
uttering commonplaces — nothing new which idea that lotteries were far commoner once than
was not self-evident. “ So short a time was they are now, but how many are aware that
Mr. Lincoln before them that the people could “Down to the beginning of the fourth decade
scarcely believe their eyes when he disappeared 1 of the eighteenth century] nearly all colleges
from view. They were almost dazed. They were enriched through lotteries "? (p. 328).
could not possibly, in so short a time, mentally The elective system, usually thought so recent
grasp the ideas that were conveyed, nor even an arrangement, we find was in force, at least
their substance. ... Not until it had been in the College of William and Mary, in the time
read and commented upon on the other side of of the Revolutionary War (p. 62). Not a little
the Atlantic did we place it in our own minds
of the interest of the work is due to the constant
among the masterpieces.
use of concrete description; the actual life of
EDWIN ERLE SPARKS. the student is portrayed in many cases by the
aid of quotations from diaries, letters, and other
first-hand records.
A PAMPHLET “In Remembrance of the Ceremonial
Unveiling of the Pilgrim Fathers' Bronze-Tablet Pre The history is personal and biographical to
sented by the Boston Congregational Club to the Delfs a great degree, — indeed, we think to a fault;
haven Reformed Church, September 28, 1906 " comes the constant prominence of the figures of indi-
to us from Herr J. M. Bredée, Rotterdam. Besides vidual teachers, administrators, students, grad-
several plates, and other matter, it gives us the address uates, founders, and friends, robs the larger
made by Dr. W. E. Griffis upon the occasion in ques-
* A HISTORY OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN AMERICA. By Charles
tion, printed both in the original English and in Dutch.
F. Thwing, LL.D. New York: D. Appleton & Co.


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.
0
.
aspects of the theme of their due space and at own message, and together they convey a vivid
tention. But it cannot be denied that the per- and touching picture of what the outbreak of
sonal quality enhances the interest, for not only the war meant to these men engaged in the
is it true that the proper study of mankind is peaceful pursuit of knowledge. No citation
man, but it is also a fact that most of us like to which we can make here can fairly represent
see the individual in propria persona, and not the chapter, but we select one or two striking
veiled under a colorless general term. So the and descriptive passages.
These are from stu-
book abounds in men, great teachers like Silli- dents' letters : “ It was impossible for me to
man and Agassiz, administrators like Josiah carry on my studies with any degree of interest
Quincy and Eliphalet Nott; and many brilliant or of profit to myself.
I felt that if I re-
names from outside the field of education, such mained at college, I could derive no benefit
as those of Jefferson, John Adams, Franklin, whatever while my mind was so entirely inter-
and Webster. Here is perhaps the place to ested in another direction.” “It is not congenial
express our surprise that nowhere in the book
to my
tastes to go to war,
but it seems now that
have we been able to find any mention of one all who love their country ought to be willing
of the largest figures of the latest period of to take up arms in its defense.” The chapter
higher education in America, William Rainey fitly closes with the well-known lines composed
Harper ; it is hard to see how such a history can and spoken by a college professor to college
be thought complete without mention of this students :
man and his work.
" What were our lives without thee ?
What all our lives to save thee ?
Dr. Thwing does not content himself with
We reck not what we gave thee;
any external account of educational affairs and
We will not dare to doubt thee,
institutions, but seeks everywhere for their mo-
But ask whatever else, and we will dare."
tive and spirit. The
many human figures that As the author says (p. 374), “The lesson
enliven the narrative are there because they is the general lesson of the patriotism of the
embody the ideals, the aspirations, the enthusi American college. There is no antago-
asms, which were the true creative forces pro- . nism between culture and patriotism. ... The
ducing the outward and visible forms of educa- American college is the nursery of patriotism."
tional institutions. Religious and moral purpose, It is of course impossible to do justice to the
devotion to higher thought and to pure science, history of higher education in America within
the spiritual influence of France and Germany the limits of five hundred pages; there is, then,
at different epochs, receive full recognition the more need for keeping true proportion, and
among the formative principles of our institu above all not omitting any essential elements.
tions of learning. This quality of our author Dr. Thwing's book seems to us to be defective
finds its best expression in the closing chapter in this regard. The most conspicuous cases of
on the general results of higher education in this defect are found in the neglect of several
America ; here he sets forth with insight and distinctively American characteristics. First
warmth what he regards as the services which
among
these
we would
name the American
higher learning has rendered to the common college as an institution markedly different in
wealth, intellectually, religiously, socially, polit- organization and function from any foreign
ically. One would be cold or skeptical indeed type. We cannot feel that this great fact in
who could read this chapter without a glow of our history receives adequate recognition in the
sympathetic enthusiasm.
book. It is possible that all the actual material
We have already spoken of the author's skill for such recognition is included, much of it, for
in the selection of materials ; this quality, per instance, in Chapter XVII., on “Undergraduate
haps the very first essential for good composi- Affairs and Undertakings,” but the material is
tion of any sort, springs from a certain natural nowhere concentrated
nowhere concentrated upon the significant point.
sympathy and comprehension which enable the Again, the whole subject of technical education
possessor to choose from a mass of details those is slighted, in spite of the fact that America
which men will love to hear. Dr. Thwing's has actually created an institution and a method
power in this respect shows itself particularly for such education, and in consequence has been
in felicitous quotation, and is perhaps at its best able to send her men and her machinery to
in the fine chapter on “The Colleges in the Civil all parts of the world in successful competi-
War.” There are sentences or paragraphs from tion with the output of older nations (and we
letters written by students and teachers of both may add that calling this a characteristic achieve-
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that it is one of her greatest or best achieve- lepistemiad is hardly to be called “ mongrel,”
ments). Thirdly, the State university, now odd as it is; nor does the context make clear
looming so large upon the future of higher edu- just how it is “ significant” (p. 202). More
cation, and indubitably a natural outcome of seriously wrong seems the statement that “ the
our educational and social history, is almost method and purpose of the French nation (at the
ignored in Dr. Thwing's account. Naturally, end of the XVIII. century] were one with the
the experiment station and the agricultural col- method, purpose, and power of the new Ameri-
lege share the same neglect.
can nation” (p. 193). Nor do we think it true
Besides these cases of the neglect of pecul- that the degree of Ph.D., in America at least,
iarly American elements we note that insufficient “ has come to represent what the degree of
attention is given to the rise of American sci Bachelor stood for in the continental universities
entific and professional literature ; our scholars six hundred years ago " (p. 429). This would
and scientists have done their best, in the face be nearer the truth if asserted of Germany,
of some adverse conditions, to contribute to the where the Ph.D. is considered the minimum
store of human knowledge, and not a few jour- qualification for giving any higher instruction ;
nals of the many established have attained in but even there the resemblance is slight, for
ternational reputation. Finally, is not German the Bachelor of the fourteenth century, like the
influence even more deserving of a separate Bachelor of to-day, after taking his baccalau-
chapter than French ?
reate degree, resumes his attendance at the lec-
When we turn to the style of the book, we tures of the regular university masters or
are met by astonishing inequality. Some of the professors. (See Rashdall, “Universities of
chapters are clear, strong, often fluent, and at Europe,” I., pp. 443-448.)
times almost grand ; such, for example, is the But these defects are of secondary importance,
treatment of Jefferson and the University of to be regretted in a dignified work, yet not
Virginia in Chapter VII. Some of the earlier seriously impairing its value. The book is con-
chapters, on the other hand, are marred by ceived and executed in a large and generous
petty imperfections, and by the prevalence of a spirit, combines accuracy and interest in an
disjointed, almost jerky, structure. Examples unusual degree, and is a notable addition to the
of this last fault would take too much space; literature of our educational history.
specimens occur on page 19 (last seven lines),
EDWARD O. SISSON.
page 68 (last paragraph), page 89 (first nine
lines). To illustrate the numerous small flaws
referred to, we give the following: “A little of
history, and a little of botany" (p. 29). “The
A CRITIC MILITANT.*
college was placed at Cambridge, first called There are critics and critics. There is the
Newtown, in recognition of the English origin critic who is chiefly concerned with matters of
of the foundation” (p. 9). “Gowns, silver style and technique, who views literature as a
pots, ... and the services of a barber are ele- thing apart, and pronounces Rhadamanthine
ments quite as significant as in some instances judgments upon poems and novels and plays.
more costly than the room and tuition ” (p. 41). Then there is the critic who is preoccupied with
One need not be a purist to object to the repeated categories and classifications, who an exponent
use of share for part (pp. 19, 26, etc.), obtained of what he calls the philosophy of literature,
for prevailed or existed (pp. 27, 29, etc.), and and whose mission it is to develop abstract prin-
represent in such phrases as “ boxing matches, ciples out of concrete materials. And then there
dancing : : . represented severe (sic!] offenses” is the critic who finds literature to be primarily
(p. 34 fin). These petty faults of style and the criticism and the expression of human life,
diction, even though they rarely destroy the and is all the time bent upon pointing out its
sense, do annoy the reader and distract his at-
relations to the political and social and intel-
tention. Surely no reputable writer can afford lectual environment of the men who are its
to let his work get into public print unpurged producers. To this class of critics Dr. Georg
of such blemishes.
Brandes clearly belongs ; and if we add that he
Some other minor criticisms might be made : puts into his work an aggressive or militant
definite information is often omitted, or con element, that energy means more to him than
cealed in a mass of detail, particularly in the art (although art is by no means left out of the
case of the dates of opening of the early colleges
*REMINISCENCES OF MY CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH. By George
(see pages 54f, 67f, 111f). The name Catho-
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1
question), and that his aim is quite as much the Christian Andersen, and the estimable Frederika
propagation of ideas as the evaluation of pro Bremer. This is very much as if an intelligent
ducts, we have a reasonably accurate formula of foreigner should have thought of English liter-
his activity. He is one of the foremost of living ature as mainly adorned by Cudworth, Harriet
critics by virtue of his immense knowledge of Martineau, and “ Lewis Carroll.” Now many
literature and the devotion which he has applied of the names mentioned by Dr. Brandes are
to its interpretation for something like forty doubtless of no more than parochial interest,
years. The importance of his work has won its but there are many others of which no cultivated
deserved but long-delayed recognition through- person can afford to be ignorant. Such writers
out the European world, and particularly, since as Holberg, Oehlenschläger, Kierkegaard, and
the publication of his Shakespearean studies, Drachmann to mention Danes alone_count
the English-speaking public has learned to know for a good deal in the history of literature ; and
and value his critical product.
we have always been thankful to our author for
Under these circumstances, then, it is safe to the calm assurance with which he has named
say that his volume of “ Reminiscences" will
will them in his books whenever their example would
find many eager readers in both England and serve his purpose, as if taking for granted that
the United States. No one who has felt the they would be no less familiar than examples of
influence of his work can fail to be attracted by similar weight drawn from other literatures.
his own account his own frank and intimate “ If you have never heard of them, so much the
revelation--of the unfolding of his intellectual worse for you " is the unspoken "aside" which
life, and the shaping of the ideas about modern accompanies many references in “ Main Cur-
literature that he has enforced with so much rents” and the other works.
impressiveness in so many books. The vigor But if we are to co ey ny idea of the
and the vitality which characterize his treatment quality of these “ Reminiscences,” we must cut
of other writers are equally characteristic of this short our preliminary observations, and busy
account of his own career, and impart even to ourselves with extracts. The story begins at
the most trivial happenings a high degree of the beginning.
interest. Nor is interest of a more objective sort “He was little, and looked at the world from below.
lacking. Although this instalment of what we All that happened went on over his head. Everyone
hope is to be a complete autobiography takes us
looked down to him. ... The trying moment of the
day was when he had to go to bed. His parents were
only to the early seventies, when the writer has
extraordinarily prejudiced about bed-time, just when
just turned thirty, its scope embraces the spo he was enjoying himself most."
liation of Denmark by Germany (a chapter of He was a delicate boy physically, but his eager
history which was the occasion of much soul- little mind was working at an early age, and
searching for Scandinavian youth) and the later
serious problems perplexed his tender years.
spoliation of France by Germany after the ex-
“God was strange, too, in other ways; He was present
citing months of the War and the Commune.
everywhere, and yet mother was cross and angry if you
These happenings, and the contemporary hap- asked whether he was in the new moderator lamp, which
penings in Italy, all figure in these reminiscent burnt in the drawing-room with a much brighter light
pages, and gain fresh interest from their reflec than the two wax candles used to give. God knew
tion in the consciousness of this independent impossible to hide the least thing from Him. Strangest
everything, which was very uncomfortable, since it was
observer. We have also glimpses of famous of all was it when one reflected that, if one knew what
men — Taine, Renan, Mill — with whose friend God thought one was going to say, one could say some-
ship the youthful critic was honored, and to thing else and His omniscience would be foiled. But
whom he has elsewhere paid more formal
of course one did not know what He thought would come
next."
tributes.
Of Scandinavian personalities there is of
The child who thus reasoned about “ fate, free-
Aside from Ibsen and
will, foreknowledge absolute"
course much mention.
was the father of
Björnson, the men introduced to us are little
the man in a more than usually accurate sense.
One childish experience made a great impression.
more than names to the general reader, whose
knowledge of Scandinavian literature, if not an
He noticed that for some time, when out walk-
absolutely minus quantity, is at best apt to be ing with his nursemaid, boys in the street had
haphazard or accidental. Before the two great
been making faces at him and calling him names.
men just named appeared above the horizon,
“One day when I had heard the shout again, I made
up my mind that I would know, and when I came home
our public thought of Scandinavian literature
asked my mother: What does it mean?' Jew!' said
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arena.
me.
66
mother, smiling, sometimes very ugly people, but not man from his first appearance in the intellectual
always. Could I see a Jew?' Yes, very easily,' said
The following incident is illuminating :
mother, lifting me up quickly in front of the large oval
mirror above the sofa. I uttered a shriek, so that mother
“One day in 1868 the much-respected Pastor Hoh-
hurriedly put me down again, and my horror was such
lenberg walked into my friend Benny Spang's house,
that she regretted not having prepared me. Later on
reprimanded her severely for receiving such an un-
she occasionally spoke about it."
doubted heretic and heathen under her roof, and de-
manded that she should break off all association with
Thus early in life was learned the lesson of As she refused to do so and turned a deaf ear to
race-prejudice, so wide-spread, so dishonoring his arguments, losing all self-control, he flung his felt
to human nature, and so terrible in its occa-
hat on the floor, continued to rage and rail against me,
sional consequences.
and, no result coming of it, dashed at last, in a towering
passion, out through the door, which he slammed be-
Although of the Jewish race, the boy's family hind him. There was a farcical ending to the scene,
was anything but orthodox.
since he was obliged to ring at the door again for his
“ Nothing was ever said at home about any religious
hat, which, in his exasperation, he had forgotten.”
creed. Neither of my parents was in any way asso It is no wonder that such provocations as these
ciated with the Jewish religion, and neither of them
ever went to the Synagogue.'
developed the aggressive side of the student's
personality, and made him a critic militant, a
Nevertheless, the boy was in due time con-
firmed, according to law and custom; but his literary interest. Referring to the above inci-
critie of many other matters than those of purely
rationalizing instincts had already asserted
dent, he says:
themselves, and he looked upon the ceremony
“ This was a kind of private prologue to the ecclesi-
with something like disdain.
astical drama which from the year 1871 upwards was
The confirmation, according to my mocking sum enacted in most of the pulpits of the country. Only the
mary of the impression produced by it, consisted mainly parsons, instead of flinging their hats upon the floor,
in the hiring of a tall silk hat from the hat-maker, and beat their hands against the pulpit."
the sending of it back next day, sanctified.
The silly
The young man's vocation was early declared.
custom was at that time prevalent for boys to wear silk
hats for the occasion, idiotic though they made them
“I felt an inward conviction that I should make
look. . . When called upon to make my confession of my way as a writer,” he says, speaking of his
faith with the others, I certainly joined my first • 'yes' feelings at the age of eighteen, when he had
this touching a belief in God, to theirs, but remained
silent at the question as to whether I believed that God
just passed his philosophical examination. “It
had revealed Himself to Moses and spoken by His
seemed to me that a deathlike stillness reigned
prophets. I did not believe it. I was, for that matter,
for the time being over European literature, but
in a wavering frame of mind unable to arrive at any that there were mighty forces working in the
clear understanding: Under these circumstances, silence.” That same year he wrote in his diary
my young soul, feeling the need of something it could
as follows:
worship, fled from Asia's to Europe's Divinities, from
Palestine to Hellas, and clung with vivid enthusiasm to
“We Danes, with our national culture and our knowl-
the Greek world of beauty and the legends of its Gods.
edge of the literatures of other countries, will stand
From all the learned education I had, I only extracted well equipped when the literary horn of the Gods re-
this one thing: an enthusiasm for ancient Hellas and sounds again through the world, calling fiery youth to
her Gods; they were my Gods, as they had been those battle. I am firmly convinced that that time will come
of Julian. Apollo and Artemis, Athene and Eros and
and that I shall be, if not the one who evokes it in the
Aphrodite grew to be powers that I believed in and North, at any rate one who will contribute greatly
rejoiced over in a very different sense from
toward it."
any
vealed on Sinai, or in Emmaus. They were near to me. To prepare himself for the fray, he studied lit-
So he goes on to relate that Thorwaldsen's erature, art, æsthetics, philosophy, political
Museum in Copenhagen became the temple in science, even jurisprudence and music. He must
which he worshipped, and that he found his have had an enormous power of assimilation in
“ soul's true native land” through the revela those early years, for the ground that he cov-
tions of the great Danish sculptor.
ered was simply amazing. Here is to be found
The youth whose attitude toward religion was the fundamental explanation of his later influ-
thus early defined, and in a sense so antagonistic
ence as a critic.
It is not merely because he
to conventional beliefs, was naturally destined has always related literature to life that he
ap-
to a somewhat uncomfortable career. The odium peals to us so forcibly, but it is also because
theologicum is the meanest and the most ma his writings, whatever their theme, always re-
lignant of all the foes of intellectual freedom, flect a wide range of thought and observation,
and a large part of Dr. Brandes’s life has been always reveal a mind that has subjected itself
spent in defending himself from its attacks. to severe and various disciplines in its formative
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Dr. Brandes was fortunate enough in his early After having been obliged to surrender the supreme
manhood to attract the attention and gain the
command, he followed the army, like a mock emperor,
confidence of three of the leaders of European
a kind of onlooker, a superfluous piece on the board. ...
The Revolution of September 4th was not an overturn-
thought, Taine, Renan, and Mill. Of the three, ing of things; it was merely the ratification of a state of
Mill was the one who most deeply impressed affairs that people were already agreed upon in the cap-
and influenced him, and his characterization of itol, and had been even before the battle of Gravelotte."
the English philosopher is of much interest. It With these few extracts from this extraor-
was in the summer of 1870, only a few days dinarily interesting volume our review must
before the declaration of war, that the two men close. Many aspects of the work have not been
first met.
touched upon at all, and little has been said of
“ At that time Mill was without
any doubt
among
its character as an intimate and charming per-
Europe's most distinguished men, the greatest admirer sonal revelation. The writer declares that one
of French history and French intellectual life to be found
of the deepest impressions of his early life came
outside of France; but he was of quite a different type
from the French, even from those I esteemed most
from his reading of Goethe's “ Dichtung und
highly. The latter were mprehensive-minded men, Wahrheit," and this we may well believe, for he
bold and weighty like Taine, or cold and agile like has himself produced an autobiography of the
Renan, but they were men of intellect and thought,
same type and having the same sort of attract-
only having no connection with the practical side of
iveness. The story, as now told, leaves the au-
life. They were not adapted to personal action, felt no
inclination to direct interference. Mill was different.
thor in Italy, at the age of thirty, and on the
Although he was more of a thinker than any of them, eve of his return to Denmark. We trust that
his boldness was not of the merely theoretical kind. he plans to continue the narrative; his failure
He wished to interfere and re-model. ... Thus in him
to do so would be nothing less than a literary
I met, for the first time in my life, a figure who was
the incarnation of the ideal I had drawn for myself of calamity. WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE.
the great man. This ideal had two sides: talent and
character; great capacities and inflexibility. The men
of great reputation whom I had met hitherto, artists
and scientists, were certainly men richly endowed with
talents; but I had never hitherto encountered a per-
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sonality combining talents with gifts of character.
Now I had met a grand inflexibility of ideas in human
The origin and development of “The
form, and was impressed for my whole life long. .
and heroes of New Japan" continues to be a fas-
New Japan.
In Mill I learnt at last to know a man in whom the
cinating subject of inquiry. What
power of action, disturbance, and accomplishment were were the forces and what the combinations that
pro-
devoted to the service of modern sociological thought.” duced the "youngest child of the world's old age"?
A few days after this first interview, the author
The historian of both events and tendencies, who
made a visit to England, and enjoyed frequent inquires into the inner workings of mind as well as
conversations with his new friend,
of things outward, would wish to know what prepar-
conversations
atory thinking was done by the Japanese themselves.
which had a fertilising and helpful influence"
At what were their men of vision and foresight
upon all the rest of his life.
active a century or two before Townsend Harris ?
The following glimpse of Louis Napoleon in The writer who looks at the problem from the
1870 is interesting :
European side will tell you much about British and
“The Emperor himself was a wreck. I had had no other naval operations. Probably the American
doubt of that since I had one day seen him at very close missionaries who, as early as 1859, began to train
quarters in the Louvre, where he was inspecting some the modern intellect of Japan and to make it a seed-
recently-hung decorative paintings. It was quite evi-
bed for thought brought from the West, could tell
dent that he could not walk alone, but advanced, half-
most of all. Yet not the least important side is that
sliding, supported by two tall chamberlains, who each
seen from the view-point of the foreign servant of
gave him an arm. His eyes were half-closed and his
the Japanese government, who a generation ago
gaze absolutely dulled.
The dressed and waxed mous-
tache, which ran to a needle-like point, looked doubly taught material civilization and matters of engineer-
tasteless against his wax mask of a face. He was the
ing interest to eager pupils in Japan. Such an author,
incarnation of walking decrepitude, vapid and slack.” competent and clear-headed, although not a past-
How utterly this arch-criminal had become re-
master in literary composition, is Mr. J. Morris, who
duced to the condition of a mere simulacrum of
spent some years of his early manhood in helping
the Japanese to learn the arts and sciences by which
a man appears from what is written of him a
they afterwards were able to humble Russia. In the
few weeks later, after the early disasters of the
twenty-two biographies, each accompanied by a full-
war. Despised by all parties alike, his name
page reproduction of a photographic portrait, that
was already half-consigned to oblivion.
compose
his volume entitled “The Makers of Japan"
“ He himself hardly dared to send any messages. (McClurg), he sets out to show who these makers
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really were. He tells us of Keiki, the still-living towns gradually became absorbed into that of their
last of the shoguns, and of the three men who, seeing respective states. Among the prominent episodes
the American treaty ships coming when these were included in this section are the separation of the
yet below the horizon, wanted their country to wel. Rev. Thomas Hooker and his followers from the
come them, but who, in the sixties, met what may Bay government, the beginnings of Yale College,
be called the death of martyrs. Then he pictures the battle of Bloody Brook, the Sack of Deerfield,
the two bright lads who, exchanging the incendiary's the war of the New Hampshire Grants," and the
torch and the assassin's sword for the ways of peace establishment of Dartmouth College. The second
and law, stole away to Europe and came back to be part, “Romances of Navigation,” treats of the river
the unquailing champions of civilization, now known as an early colonial highway, traces the establish-
as the Marquis Ito and Count Inouye. The two ment upon it of various locks and canals, tells of the
Kioto court nobles who formed the link between the efforts to carry steamboating up the river and of its
throne and the people, Iwakura and Sanjo, are next final disappearance at the coming of the railroads.
set before us. After that follow the great statesmen, The third section, on the “ Topography of River
soldiers, and creators of New Japan, each with a and Valley,” takes the reader from source to mouth,
chapter. If Mr. Morris had the literary skill, he describing special points of formation and scenery,
would have made a book of value and interest far and pointing out historic spots and buildings on the
beyond the writings of Lafcadio Hearn, who is banks and in the bordering towns. For those who
popularly supposed to be “ an inspired exponent of have once visited these lovely scenes, as well as for
Japanese esoterics,” but who has built not a few the intending traveller, this section is naturally the
theorems out of materials supplied by his own en most interesting, although the entire book may be
thusiastic admiration. Basing his narrative on facts, read with pleasure and enlightenment, in spite of its
Mr. Morris has made a book probably as readable faults. Numerous instances could be adduced of
as his novel of 1895, “ What Will Japan Do?” He careless writing (sometimes no doubt of careless
has furnished a handbook of biographical informa- proof-reading) --- such as the indiscriminate use of
tion immensely superior to Mr. Lanman's “Leading the words "Mahican” and “Mohegan,
Men of Japan.” A good index furnishes the key to Smith for Sophia Smith (the founder of Smith Col-
open the treasures here presented with a richness lege), "goal" for "gaol," etc. There is a fairly
that reminds one of Ali Baba's cave. It is just the good index, but Mr. Bacon would not have erred in
book needed, and often called for in vain, at many providing a list of authorities or an occasional foot-
libraries.
note of reference. A word should be said concern-
" Winding and
In “ The Connecticut River and ing the numerous illustrations, which are attractive
willow-fringed the Valley of the Connecticut " (Put and well-executed photographs, but to our thinking
Connecticut.”
nam), the author, Mr. Edwin Mun do not include a sufficient number possessing his-
roe Bacon, has brought together about the “Beautiful toric interest or significance.
River” and its immediate neighborhood the stories
and history of the settlers and settlements of that
With his wonted clearness and force,
region, whether in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Ver-
and in English that it is a delight to
mont, or New Hampshire. He dwells in consider-
read, Mr. J. N. Larned, well known
able detail upon many points that general histories as former librarian of the Buffalo Public Library
of the United States mention but casually, while at and as the editor of a very useful encyclopædia of
the same time he has drawn from local histories history, emphasizes the urgent necessity of spread-
only those facts (or legends) that contribute to the ing the culture of good literature among the people
unity of the treatment. That he has relied
upon
his at large. His little volume on “Books, Culture, and
predecessors in the field (though none had hitherto Character” (Houghton, Mifflin & Co.) is made up
chosen his precise localization) more than upon of seven addresses, or parts of addresses, delivered at
original sources, seems probable, inasmuch as he is various times between 1883 and the present year.
much given to quoting felicitous phrases without In his opinion, the importance of libraries and the
credit to the authors. The historical section of the benefits accruing from the study of history are be-
book begins with the year 1614, when Adriaen yond estimate. His enthusiasm renders almost im-
Block, “ first of European navigators to enter and practicable for most readers his advice on historical
explore ” the Connecticut River, laid the foundation reading. In American history alone he names, as
for the struggle between the Dutch and English if in passing and as a mere preliminary to larger
along its lower banks — a struggle that finally re undertakings, books to be read that aggregate per-
sulted in the English supremacy, through the instru haps twenty thousand pages. In biography, he
mentality of those rebels against the Massachusetts makes somewhat light of Boswell's hero, but he says
Bay leaders who sought and finally obtained per a good thing about biographical reading in general.
mission to establish themselves apart. The history “I have never known one person,” he declares,
of the valley, as its settlements extended slowly up “who enjoyed what may be called the fine flavors
the river, is followed to the end of the eighteenth of character in biography who had not fine tastes
century, after which time the history of the valley in all literature.” In his abomination of sensational
Libraries
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-
journalism he ventures to affirm, “I would prefer
A philosophical
In “The American Ten Years' War,
absolute illiteracy for a son or daughter of mine, history of the 1855-1865” (Sigma Publishing Co.,
Civil War.
total inability to spell a printed word, rather than
St. Louis), Mr. Denton J. Snider has
that he or she should be habitually a reader of the attempted a philosophical interpretation of the
common newspapers of America, and a reader of causes, conditions, and results of the American Civil
nothing better.” One more quotation may fittingly War. For this task he certainly has some qualifica-
close this brief notice of an excellent book. “ I am tions, particularly on the philosophical side, since we
by nature an optimist. Things as they are in the are told that he has already exhibited his views in
world look extremely disheartening to me; but I twenty-six published volumes, of which nine were
think I can see forces at work which will powerfully on Shakespeare, Goethe, Homer, and Dante, six
change them before many generations have passed. on philosophy, three on kindergarten subjects, three
Among such forces, the most potent in my expecta on miscellaneous matters, and five were of poetry
tion is that which acts from the free public library. covering the field from “ Agamemnon's Daughter
Through its agency, in my belief, there will come a to “Johnny Appleseed's Rhymes.” Now with his
day - it may be a distant day, but it will come twenty-seventh volume Mr. Snider enters the his-
when the large knowledge, the wise thinking, the torical field. It must be said that he follows no old
fine feeling, the amplitude of spirit that are in the paths, but breaks a road for himself. He begins
great literatures, will have passed into so many with the Kansas troubles in 1855, and traces sec-
minds that they will rule society democratically, by tional controversies down to the surrender of Lee.
right of numbers.”
He uses much philosophical jargon, has much to
say about Folk Soul, World Spirit, Spirit of the
Trifles of airy lightness, and having Age, Conscience, etc., all of which, and much else,
Poetry in the
also something of etherial grace, make he writes with capital letters. Everywhere is evi-
counting-room.
up Mr. George Knollys's “ Ledgers dence of wide acquaintance with the classics, but
and Literature" (John Lane Co.). The character one searches in vain for signs of superior historical
of these essays is well indicated by their having knowledge. Clearly he knows much more about the
already appeared, in part at least, in a private maga Peloponnesian War than he does about the American
zine entitled “Sense and Nonsense.” The first paper Civil War. The entire philosophical structure is
is on “The Romance of Book-keeping surely based on a weak foundation of facts. However,
a contradiction in terms, one would say.
But read valueless as much of this work is, there are here
it and see.
The
very
balance-sheet “is almost hu and there some keen observations, evidently based on
man in a sense, and so does it get hold of our psy- personal experience, in regard to conditions in the
chology that even now we feel that anything said West before the Civil War, especially with reference
against it might be to our detriment. For nothing to the Western attitude toward slavery and negroes,
in life, not even a half-developed young woman, is to the Western leaders, and the Kansas emigrants.
so freighted with contradictions as this document.” Some suggestive points are brought out relative to
Other chapters treat, with much delicate sentiment the influence of abstract ideas in the sectional con-
and a most engaging playfulness, of dining, of troversy and to the immense power of the public
lunching in the city, on the advantages of living in press.
a lunatic asylum, on the cultivation of the spirit of
Old Mother Earth, after having con-
Making the
Greek archæology, and several other matters. Some human family trived to bring her children of the
of these humorously fanciful sketches might almost
acquainted. East and the West face to face, is
have come from the pen of Charles Lamb at his now busy with the new economy of making the
desk in the East India House; and one notes with various members of her family understand each
approval the author's expressed admiration of Elia. other. Japan, after a thousand years of intellectual
With almost equal satisfaction we greet his tribute life, has produced very little in the field of pure
to Horace: “Before me lies a night with Horace, of philosophy which is likely to win the respect of the
all the Latins my favourite." But, alas, why will world. Her ancients and classics are in India and
he run the risk of spoiling everything, of turning the China ; her genius is in their selection and assimi-
cordial ardor of our appreciation and enjoyment into lation. Dr. George William Knox, in his scholarly
the cold aversion of surprised disgust by making so philosophical work on “The Spirit of the Orient”
vulgar and so needless a word-blunder as meets our (Crowell), gives four chapters to the discussion of
pained and astonished gaze on his forty-third page? what the Japanese call the treasure lands” — India
Valentine, a sentimentalist and a dreamer, wanders and China, and two to “ the great borrowing nation,"
in the murmuring woods and lays on the grass. Nippon. In a final essay upon the New World, in
The sentiment and the poetry vanish irrevocably. which he interprets the significance of the victory
It is as if a beautiful young lady were caught of Japan, he sees no “ yellow peril” or any likeli-
eating with her knife. Some dedicatory lines to hood of Japan wanting to make more war. He
Mr. G. K. Chesterton follow the title-page, and knows that the Japanese are a very young people,
other verses occur in the body of the book and at and sees in them an unconquerable determination to
its close.
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the Chinese are ever likely to conquer anybody, or book's sub-title, “the power of the will ” to combat
that they even have the desire to do so.
He sums
physical infirmity. Curiously enough, and sadly
up his thinking by showing us how we can teach enough, while the book was in the printers' hands
the East by showing them the value of personality. | Professor Shaler, himself one of the noblest proofs
As action and reaction are equal, he predicts that of this will-power to hold the suffering body to its
the old Asiatics are yet to lead us away from our task, succumbed at last to an attack of pneumonia.
absorption in the things of sense, and to introduce To his memory his wife has added a supplementary
new elements into our life and thought. The su chapter, the freshest and best in the book. The
preme conflict of the coming centuries, — rather, tone of the work as a whole is a little suggestive of
we may say, the progress that will result in recon the excellent Dr. Smiles's “Self-Help,” being a some-
ciliation and unity, — will be in finding the balance what similar combination of biography and anecdote,
between East and West. In the Orient, the politi- with here and there a timely pointing of the moral.
cal organism is supreme; in the Occident it is the In classifying her illustrious invalids, the author's
individual. From the union of East and West shall inclusion of Napoleon among the epileptics, even as
come forth the higher and better humanity, and the a historically doubtful example of that malady, is
new world in which peace and truth abide.
likely to give many readers a little start of surprise.
In the footnotes credit is given to the standard bio-
The recreations
Professor Simon Newcomb is gener-graphies consulted. For the details of Laura Bridg-
of a veleran ally conceded to be one of the fore-
man's life the writer appears for some unknown
astronomer. most astronomers of the world, and
reason not to have drawn on the latest and best bio-
thus one of its leading men of science. His intel-
graphy of her, that prepared by two of Dr. Howe's
lectual interests cover a wide range, and now in the
daughters. Mrs. Shaler's book should give chronic
ripeness of years he writes much and admirably upon
invalids renewed courage, and should help them to
a variety of topics. His latest work, “ Sidelights resist the disheartening downpull of bodily weakness
on Astronomy" (Harper) consists of a collection
and decay.
of twenty-one essays and addresses most of which
originally appeared in the pages of popular maga-
Any book which the Rt. Rev. Henry
Episcopalian
zines, and are now revised for appearance in this
bishops and Codman Potter, Bishop of New York,
archbishops. would write could not fail of inter-
more permanent form. Two-thirds of them are on
astronomical themes, and several of these touch upon
est to a large number of readers. Nevertheless,
his “Reminiscences of Bishops and Archbishops”
the great problem of the structure and extent of
(Putnam) fails to gratify the expectations created by
the universe of stars by which we are surrounded.
its title or to fulfil the promises of its preface. One
Among the non-astronomical chapters are those
entitled “The Fairyland of Geometry,” “Can We
of the causes of disappointment is that out of the
Make It Rain?” and “The Outlook for the Flying- Church in this country with whom he was associated
hundred or more Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal
Machine.” It goes without saying that Professor
Newcomb treats all these subjects in an illuminating
as Secretary of the House of Bishops, all of them
way. His "geometrical fairyland” is space of four
more or less interesting characters, he has selected
but ten; and of these he presents formal biographies
dimensions, in which a football might be turned in-
side out without tearing it; a man turning a somer-
rather than personal reminiscences. Another cause
sault in such space would find every part of his body
of disappointment is that so much of the matter used
in these ten sketches is derived from other sources
exchanged — right for left, and vice versa, when he
and is not of the nature of the personal reminiscences
resumed his original upright position. Years of
agricultural prosperity have driven the rain-maker
of the Bishop whose name appears on the title-page
from the public eye, so that the author's contention
of the book. Fully a third of the matter comprised
in the ten biographies is quoted. Still, the first ten
that explosions cannot produce rain will fall upon chapters of the book are a valuable biographical con-
listless ears. In opposition to the hopes of various
enthusiastic experimenters that a successful flying Church, made all the more valuable by the accom-
tribution to the history of the American Episcopal
machine will at last be evolved, our author firmly
believes that no possible combination of structura) panying portraits. And the concluding chapter,
Recollections of Three Archbishops," compensates
materials, machinery, and forces now known, can
render aërial navigation practicable.
for the disappointment felt in the rest of the book.
The strenuous
An eloquent plea against limiting the
existence of bestowal of college aid to the physi-
BRIEFER MENTION.
invalidism.
cally robust is found in Mrs. Na-
thaniel Southgate Shaler's book, "The Masters of
Four volumes, the seventh to the tenth, are added
to the handsome"
Fate" (Duffield). Her opening paragraph refers to
Gettysburg” edition of Abraham
Lincoln's complete works, published by the Francis D.
the now well-known Harvard proposal to make this
Tandy Company. We have recently described this
limitation; and then follow, grouped in chapters work, and need only indicate its progress and the special
according to their ailments, numerous examples of features of these new volumes. They include Lincoln's
great men with puny bodies, all illustrating the writings and telegrams during nearly the whole of the


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selection, grouping, and annotation, it follows the ex-
ample of the “ Belles Lettres " volume rather more
closely than the ethics of this sort of book-making will
justify. – The volume called “Anactoria and Other
Lyrical Poems,” published by Mr. Mitchell Kennerley,
is a pretty booklet containing fifteen pieces only. One
or two of the selections are unexpected, but all are
good poetry. — Of the “ Selected Lyrical Poems,” pub-
lished by Messrs. Harper & Brothers, we must say
emphatically that the title is a misnomer. The volume
is not a selection at all, but a complete reprint of the
first volume of “Poems and Ballads,” with thirteen
other poems chosen in accordance with no imaginable
principle of taste and tacked on at the end. There may
be rhyme to this volume, but there is no reason employed
in its construction.
NOTES.
war,
from September, 1861, to February, 1865, the
period of his greatest growth and greatest service,
revealing to us in his own words the breadth of his
statesmanship and the greatness of his manhood. The
addresses and tributes included in these volumes are by
Robert G. Ingersoll, George Bancroft, Charles Sumner,
and Henry Ward Beecher, and are exceedingly valuable
as contemporary judgments on Lincoln. They contain
also the usual fine portraits of him and those asso-
ciated with him, and among the poems the well-known
“ Punch ” poem attributed to Tom Taylor. These vol-
umes confirm and strengthen the good opinion of this
edition that we have already expressed.
A happy inspiration has added a volume of “Fifty
Shakspere Songs” to the “ Musicians Library,” pub-
lished by the Oliver Ditson Co. The contents are
grouped as follows: Songs mentioned by Shakespeare
in his plays, Songs possibly sung in the original per-
formances, Settings composed since Shakespeare's time
to the middle of the nineteenth century, and Recent
Settings. The third group includes two by Purcell,
three by Arne, and two of Schubert's most heavenly
lyrics. In the fourth group we find represented a num-
ber of the most promising of our younger writers. The
editor of the collection is Dr. Charles Vincent, who
supplies an introduction and notes.
The Chandos por-
trait is given for a frontispiece.
Mr. George P. Upton's “ The Standard Operas” is
reissued by Messrs. Ā. C. McClurg & Co. in an enlarged
and revised edition. The enlargement consists in the
added descriptions of operas that have been produced
of recent years, and in a generous array of portrait illus-
trations, representing famous singers in characteristic
costumes. There are nearly a hundred of these por-
traits, while among the later operas described are Mr.
Damrosch's “Scarlet Letter,”Herr Goldmark's“Merlin,"
Herr Humperdinck’s “ Hänsel und Gretel," Mr. Pader-
ewski's “Manru," Herr Strauss's “Feuersnoth,” and
Tschaikowsky's “ Eugen Onegin.” In its present form,
this work is far more useful and attractive than it ever
was before, and we predict for it a long lease of re-
newed popularity.
“ The International Library" of works devoted to the
movement for peace and arbitration is slowly assuming
substantial dimensions. There are seven volumes now
published at what is practically cost price, and no little
good may reasonably be anticipated from their circula-
tion. The seventh volume, just added to the list, is a
treatise on “ The Moral Damage of War," by the Rev.
Walter Walsh, of Dundee. It is a new work in twelve
chapters, each of which discusses some special aspect of
the moral damage of war. Thus, the effects of war
upon the soldier, the politician, the preacher, the mis-
sionary, and many other types of men, are successively
considered, a matter of treatment which results in a
terrific indictment, for every count of which the author
cites chapter and verse. The work is published by
Messrs. Ginn & Co. for the International Union.
The appearance, within little more than a year, of
four volumes of selections from Mr. Swinburne's poems
appears to be symptomatic of the growth of that gen-
eral recognition which has hitherto been withheld from
his work. The anthology made by Dr. Payne for the
“ Belles Lettres" series of Messrs. D. C. Heath & Co.,
and published last year, is now followed by three other
selections. The first of them, made by Dr. Arthur
Beatty for the Messrs. Crowell, illustrates what is pro-
verbially known as the sincerest form of flattery. In
A fourth edition, revised and extended, of Dr. C. T.
Stockwell's suggestive essay on
« The Evolution of
Immortality ” has recently been published by the James
H. West Co. of Boston.
The Riverside Press Editions of “The Song of
Roland” and “The Idylls of Theocritus” have been
delayed from various causes, we are informed, but are
now promised for publication early in December; so
that book-lovers who are accustomed to choosing their
Christmas gifts from these choice editions are not likely
to be disappointed this year.
The Memoirs of the late Chancellor Prince von
Hohenlohe, which seem to have been the literary sensa-
tion of the year in Germany, will be published in this
country at an early date by the Macmillan Co. The
late Chancellor is said to have revealed very frankly
the inside history of the Kaiser's dismissal of Bismarck,
and other secrets of German diplomatic and political
history.
The Life of Sir Leslie Stephen, K. C. B., by Dr.
Frederick William Maitland, about which we recently
had something to say, is announced among the Novem-
ber publications of Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons, who
are the American publishers of Stephen's works. Dr.
Maitland was a close personal friend of Sir Leslie and
his family, and is at present Downing Professor of Law
at Cambridge University.
Another important bird book is announced by Messrs.
Henry Holt & Co., who have concluded arrangements
with Dr. Frank H. Knowlton, President of the Biologi-
cal Society of Washington, for a volume on “ Birds of
the World,” edited by Robert Ridgway, Curator of
Birds in the National Museum. This book will appear
in the new “ American Nature Series,” recently inaugu-
rated by Dr. C. William Beebe's “ The Bird."
The hundredth anniversary of the birth of Longfellow
will occur February 27 next, and will be made the occa-
sion of a special celebration at Cambridge, the poet's
home. All the schools of the city will take part, and
among the speakers at the public exercises will be Mr.
Howells, President Eliot, Colonel Higginson, and Profes-
sor Norton. In commemoration of this interesting event
a special Longfellow medal, in bronze, will be prepared,
of a beautiful and appropriate design, and will be
offered to a limited number of subscribers at the price
of ten dollars each, which may be sent to Mr. Oscar
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LIST OF NEW BOOKS.
[The following list, containing 160 titles, includes books
received by THE DIAL since its last issue.]
97
The authorized American edition of the first story in
the Fogazzaro Trilogy, of which Il Santo (“ The Saint”)
was the third, will be published shortly by Messrs. G.
P. Putnam's Sons. This book, issued in Italy under the
title of Piccolo Mondo Antico, will be published in the
English and American editions as “ The Patriot.” It
will be followed shortly by the authorized edition of the
second story in the Trilogy, Piccolo Mondo Moderno,
which will probably bear the title of “The Man of the
World."
A limited reprint of Viscount Wolseley's sketch of
General Lee, originally published in “Macmillan's
Magazine " for March, 1887, has been issued by Mr.
George P. Humphrey of Rochester. It will be recalled
that Wolseley met Lee in 1862, and spoke later of him
in these strong terms: “I have met many of the great
men of my time, but Lee alone impressed me with the
feeling that I was in the presence of a man who was
cast in a grander mould, and made of different and finer
metal than all other men.”
The monumental “ History of English Literature”
in fourteen royal octavo volumes which the Cambridge
University has recently undertaken, will be published
in this country by Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons. In
scale and plan it will more or less resemble the “Cam-
bridge Modern History.” It will embrace the whole
course of English literature from Beowulf to the end of
the Victorian age. The action of foreign influences and
the part taken by secondary writers in successive lit-
erary movements will receive a larger share of attention
than is possible in shorter histories, in which lesser
writers are apt to be overshadowed by a few great
names. Each volume will contain a sufficient bibliog-
raphy. The history will be edited by Dr. A. W. Ward,
Master of Peterhouse, and Mr. A. R. Waller.
We do not often receive books bearing Khartoum as
an imprint, and this fact alone makes somewhat note-
worthy “ The Second Report of the Wellcome Research
Laboratories at the Gordon Memorial College.” The
volume (a quarto, with many illustrations) is edited by
Dr. Andrew Balfour, and published by the Department
of Education of the Sudan Government. The most im-
portant of the papers included relate to studies of mos-
quitoes and other insect pests. There is also an inves-
tigation of the disease called trypanosomiasis, and a
report from the chemical laboratory upon such varied
subjects as the Nile waters, the milk supply of Khartoum,
“Gum Arabic,” and the Nyam Nyam arrow poison.
Judging from the rich material here offered, the
Laboratories seem to be abundantly justifying their
existence.
Since the publication by Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin
& Co. of “ The Chief American Poets,” edited by Pro-
fessor Curtis Hidden Page, the publishers have been
planning for the preparation of a series of volumes, to
be entitled “The Chief Poets Series," which shall con-
tain all the best work of the principal poets and drama-
tists of different epochs; and they now announce for
early publication the following volumes: “ The Chief
Elizabethan Dramatists” (except Shakespeare) to the
Close of the Theatres, edited by Professor William A.
Neilson of Harvard University; “The Chief British
Poets of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries,”
edited by Professor Curtis Hidden Page; “ The Chief
British Poets of the Eighteenth Century,” edited by
Professor Curtis Hidden Page. In general character-
istics these books will resemble Professor Page’s “Chief
American Poets."
BIOGRAPHY AND REMINISCENCES.
Lew Wallace : An Autobiograp In 2 vols., illus., 8vo, gilt
tops. Harper & Brothers. $5. net.
Some Reminiscences of William Michael Rossetti. In
2 vols., illus. in photogravure, etc., large 8vo, gilt tops.
Charles Scribner's Sons. $10. net.
Twenty Years in Paris : Being Some Recollections of a Lit-
erary Life. By Robert Harborough Sherard. Illus., large
8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 479. George W. Jacobs & Co. $4. net.
Life and Letters of the First Earl of Durham, 1792–1840.
By Stuart J. Reid. In 2 vols., with photogravure portraits,
large 8vo. Longmans, Green, & Co.
Lord Randolph Churchhil. By Lord Rosebery. With por-
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Three Magnificent Stories for Christmas
RIDOLFO By Egerton R. Williams, Jr.
A Tale of the Renaissance. Illustrated in color by J. C.
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A Charming and
Original Book
for Children
by
LUCY FITCH
PERKINS
THE GOOSE GIRL
VALOR
There isn't any Giant
Within this forest grim;
And if there were, I wouln't be
A bit afraid of him!
THE ANCIENT FISH-
ERMAN
There was an ancient fisher-
MOTHERS
LAP BOOK
SOF
RHYMES
AND
PICTURES
THE GOOSE GIRL
Oh, I'm a goose, and you're
a goose, and we're all geese
together;
We wander over hill and
dale, all in the sweet June
weather ;
While wise folk stay indoors
O'er dusty books for learn-
ing's lore;
How glad I am, how glad
you are, that we're birds of
a feather,
That I'm a goose, and you're
a goose, and we're all geese
together.
and pore
man
Upon the Zuyder Zee,
And all the fishes that he
caught
He threw back in the sea!
"Oh, fishing is a noble sport,
A noble sport," said he,
“But I fear the fish dislike it,
So I throw them back, you
see.
By LUCY FITCH PERKINS
Most of these rhymes and
pictures have appeared in
St. Nicholas, where
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Six Seasonable Suggestions
from
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CASTLES AND
OLD TOURAINE and the Loire Country
By FRANCIS MILTOUN
Author of “Cathedrals of France,” “Cathedrals and Churches
of the Rhine," etc.
With cover design, eight colored plates, and 50 full-page illustrations and many decorations from drawings
by BLANCHE McMANUS. Octavo, decorated cover, boxed, $3.00.
" The author knows every nook and cranny of the old chateaux, and has their histories and legends by heart. His
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splendid illustrations." — Boston Transcript.
JUST PUBLISHED
Uniform with “ Little Pilgrimages Among English Inns,” etc.
AMONG BAVARIAN INNS
By FRANK ROY FRAPRIE
Octavo, decorated cover, with many illustrations in duogravure, $2.00.
A record of travel and observation in that part of Europe perhaps the most Bohemian and pleasure-loving.
The various phases of life in Munich are described ; the famous old inns, quaint medieval cities, and the
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A Unique Volume of Travel
A WOMAN ALONE IN THE HEART OF JAPAN
By GERTRUDE ADAMS FISHER
With frontispiece in color and 32 reproductions in duogravure from original photographs, boxed, $2.50.
The author went into the remotest districts of Japan to study the habits of the people, their quaint customs
and the conditions of their life, so novel to the Western civilization.
The New « Little Colonel” Book
THE LITTLE COLONEL, MAID OF HONOR
By ANNIE FELLOWS JOHNSTON
Author of The Little Colonel (trade mark) Series. Cloth decorated, illustrated, $1.50.
There are no better books for girls than The Little Colonel books," - The Outlook.
Whatever she does, or wherever she goes, the chronicle of her adventures is sure to be entertaining, pure
and wholesome in spirit, and free from mawkish sentimentality. The Little Colonel' is a thoroughbred."
- New York Sun.
The second volume in “The Rival Campers Series”
THE RIVAL CAMPERS AFLOAT
By RUEL P. SMITH
Author of “The Rival Campers.” Illustrated, $1.50.
* Henry Burns, the hero, is the Tom Brown' of America." – New York Sun. " It is the best boys' book since
Tom Sawyer.'” - San Francisco Examiner.
CAPTAIN JACK LORIMER
By WINN STANDISH
Illustrations by ARTHUR W. BROWN. $1.50. A story of high school athletics for boys and girls.
Jack Lorimer is a boy's ideal, a splendid specimen of young American manhood, and a champion of clean,
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veins." — Boston Herald.
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The Last Ride Together
By ROBERT BROWNING.
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A new and handsome edition of perhaps the most beautiful of Browning's lyrics.
In Thamesland
Cruises and Rambles through England from the Sources of the Thames to the Sea.
By HENRY WELLINGTON WACK, F. R. G. S., author of "Romance of Victor Hugo and
Juliette Drouet," etc.
With about 100 illustrations, from photographs, and a map. 8vo. Net, $3.00
"An excursion into history and literature that will delight every cultured reader."
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The Idyllic Avon
With Songs and Pictures of the River and Its Neighborhood.
By JOHN HENRY GARRETT.
8vo. With 87 illustrations and 2 maps. Net, $3.00
"Written in a bright and charming style, with much historic matter presented in a manner
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Life in the Open
Sport with Rod, Gun, Horse and Hound in Southern California.
By CHARLES HOLDER, author of "Life of Darwin,” “Log of a Sea Angler," etc.
With 93 full-page illustrations. Large 8vo. Net, $3.50
"We never read anything that gave so attractive a description of any country.”—London Spectator.
"A truly superb book." —N. Y. Globe.
The Connecticut River
and the Valley of the Connecticut—Three Hundred and Fifty Miles from Mountain to Sea-
Historical and Descriptive.
By EDWIN M. BACON.
Large 8vo, with about 100 illustrations. Net, $3.50
"A story of romance, of stirring incidents, of thrilling adventures, of the exhibition of hero-
ism, devotion, broad enterprise, and true American spirit.”—Boston Herald,
The Ohio River
A Course of Empire. By ARCHER B. HULBERT.
8vo, with about 100 illustrations. Net, $3.50
This work presents in a consecutive narrative the most important historic incidents connected
with the river, combined with descriptions of some of its most picturesque scenery and
delightful excursions into its legendary lore.
On the Great American Plateau
Wanderings among canyons and buttes in the land of the Cliff-Dweller and the Indian of to-day.
By T. MITCHELL PRUDDEN. Crown 8vo, with 68 illustrations from photographs
and from original drawings by Edward Leaming, and a map.
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Full of the romance of the early Spanish explorers, with descriptions of the quaint customs
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Romance of the Italian Villas
By ELIZABETH W. CHAMPNEY, author of "Romance of the Feudal Châteaux," etc.
8vo. With 1 colored, 9 photogravure, and 44 other illustrations. Net, $3.00
A delightful blending of history, art and romance. It fully carries out Guizot's suggestion—"If you are fond of
romance, read history."
Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France
By ELSIE WHITLOCK ROSE. With 4 photogravure and 200 other illustrations from
original photographs by Vida Hunt FRANCIS, and a map, 2 volumes, 8vo.
Net, $5.00
A charming description of the cathedrals of the Provinces of Provence, Languedoc, and Gascony, presenting
many fresh and interesting sidelights on the history of these most fascinating structures.
Princesses and Court Ladies
By ARVÉDE BARINE, author of “Youth of La Grande Mademoiselle." "Louis XIV. and
La Grande Mademoiselle," etc.
8vo, Fully Illustrated. Net, $3.00
The stories of several ladies who played important roles in the great world, and whose careers were watched with
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vivacity.
The History of Painting
By RICHARD MUTHER, Ph.D., Professor in the University of Breslau; author of the
"History of Modern Painting,” etc. Translated from the German and edited with critical
notes by GEORGE KRIEHN, Ph. D. 2 vols. 8vo, with 85 Full-page Illustrations. Net, $5.00
Richard Muther is a critic of art at once brilliant and sound, whose reputation is now world-wide. The aim of the
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man documents and manifestations of the dominant feelings and tendencies of the epochs to which they belong.
Madame Recamier and Her Friends
By EDOUARD HERRIOT.
Authorized English Version.
2 vols. 8vo, with 15 photogravure portraits. Net, $6.50
It seems extraordinary that a woman of such commanding beauty and fame should not have had more attention
from biographers. The present volume is the result of much careful sifting of available material by M. Herriot,
and forms an absorbing and valuable work.
The Life of Sir Leslie Stephen, K.C.B.
By F. W. MAITLAND, Downing Professor of Laws, Cambridge.
Tran
8vo, with 5 photogravure portraits. Net, $4.50
The distinguished authorship of this Life, written as it is by one whose memory is stored with personal recollections,
and the attractive and distinctive personality of the man with whom we become more intimately acquainted,
make this volume one of singular interest and importance.
David Garrick and His Circle
By Mrs. CLEMENT PARSONS.
8vo, 36 Illustrations. Net, $2.75
Not merely a biographical account of the great actor, but also a survey of the various circles of English social life
in which he played his part-a survey, that is, of literary and theatrical circles, and, too, of the world of rank
and fashion, in which Garrick was always a welcome guest.
George Herbert and His Times
By A. G. HYDE.
8vo, with 32 Ilustrations. Net, $2.75
A study of one of England's few distinctly religious poets, and one of a group of men—at once Christians, church-
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THE VERY SMALL PERSON
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THEIR FIRST FORMAL CALL
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THE LIFE OF CHRIST:
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By ONOTO WATANNA
The author relates the fortunes of a mixed American and Japanese
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SOME SUCCESSFUL MARRIAGES
By ABBY MEGUIRE ROACH
This volume shows that marriage is not necessarily the end, but may
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CERTAIN DELIGHTFUL
ENGLISH TOWNS
By W. D. HOWELLS
A companion volume to London Films, in which Mr. Howells
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towns, with glimpses of the country in between. The author
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Mr. Howells is especially alert for details that link English history with our own, and have a special
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Illustrated. Price, $3.00 net. Tourist's Edition, limp leather, $3.00 net.
LEW WALLACE
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
The famous author of “Ben-Hur"
devoted his last years to the prepara-
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LORD
RANDOLPH
CHURCHILL
By LORD ROSEBERY
The distinguished ex-Premier gives
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THE AMERICANISM
MY PEOPLE OF
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THE PLAINS
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By ETHELBERT TALBOT, D.D.
Dr. Van Dyke answers those critics and historians A volume telling of the various experiences of
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Oblong 10mo. Price, 50 cents.
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THE FUTURE IN AMERICA
By H, G, WELLS
Mr. Wells's recent visit to America has enabled him to view our
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Notable Fiction and Holiday Books
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A. Conan Doyle's Sir Nigel
The companion volume to The White Company”
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romance of knight errantry to · The White Com-
you know • The White Company'in which Sir Nigel
pany,' a representation of mediæval manners, only
less brilliant, it has been declared, than the master-
was middle-aged, you must have him now as an
piece of Charles Reade."— N. Y. Globe.
adventurous youth.” — Cleveland Leader.
Six illustrations by The Kinneys. $1.50
Marjorie Powers' splendid Italian romance The Viper of Milan
“A really magnificent story. It will be the exceptional person who will not be roused to unwonted
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Stanley J. Weyman's delightful novel Chippinge Borough
( Mr. Weyman's fine art of re-creating another period is here displayed at its highest. Here again is the
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Eden Phillpotts' and Arnold Bennett's new novel Doubloons
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An exquisite new Holiday book by C. N. & A. M. Williamson
Rosemary in Search of a Father
Q“ An exquisite bit of literary handicraft, and fascinating beyond words," says the Buffalo Courier.
« The
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the heart like a cordial kiss.”— Chicago Record-Herald. With six superb illustrations in photogravure and
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The Complete Photographer
Queens of Old Spain
By MARTIN HUME
Q This superb contribution to the literature of the
Eight intimate portraits of brilliant Spanish
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Spanish consorts.
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The Works of G. Lowes Dickinson
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The Meaning of Good
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The Greek View of Life
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The Modern Symposium
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Letters from a Chinese Official
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Religion:
A Criticism and a Forecast
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paid, 55 cents; net, 50 cents.
Ralph Waldo Trine's vital important book In the Fire of the Heart
This little volume deals, concretely and simply, with certain facts and forces in connection with our
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Great Fortunes
The Religion of all Good Men
The Winning and The Using
By H. W. GARROD
By JEREMIAH W. JENKS, Ph.D.
Fellow and Tutor of Merton College, Oxford
Professor of Economics, Cornell University
Professor Jenks author of « The Trust Prob Five scintillating essays by one of the most bril-
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BLIND ALLEYS HEARTS AND THE CROSS
By GEORGE CARY EGGLESTON, author By HAROLD MORTON KRAMER.
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Nights story in following the career of Dr. Field writers that are proudly claimed by Indiana."
Stanfield.” — Springfield Union.
Boston Transcript.
THE PRESIDENT OF QUEX
A WOMAN'S CLUB STORY
By HELEN M. WINSLOW. Illustrated, $1.25.
This is the first novel to deal with women's clubs from the inside, and Miss Winslow is the best
equipped of all the women writers, both in experience and in force and charm of style to do this.
No sweeter, saner, or more lovable heroine appears in modern fiction than the “President of Quex.”
JUVENILES
WITH MASK AND
DAVE PORTER IN THE SOUTH SEAS
MITT
Second volume of "Dave Porter Series." By EDWARD
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Fourth volume “Philips-Exeter Series." Illustrated, $1.25.
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FOUR BOYS IN THE YELLOWSTONE
First volume of Our Own Land Series." By EVERETT T. TOMLINSON. Illustrated. $1.50.
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First volume of "Raymond Benson Series.” By CLARENCE
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Fourth volume of "Helen Grant Books." By AMANDA M.
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Helen Grant has won the friendship of a very large
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in college.
NEW HOLIDAY EDITION
FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS AND HOW THEY GREW
By MARGARET SIDNEY. Illustrated in color by HERMAN HEYER. Handsomely decorated cover.
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"No element is lacking to make this the most desired of all choice gifts for the young." – Albany Journal.
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TWO LITTLE FRIENDS IN NORWAY
First volume of "Two Little Friends Series." By MAR-
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A bright little American girl who, traveling in Norway,
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Jane
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JANE CABLE
By GEORGE BARR MCCUTCHEON
Author of “Graustark," " Beverly of Graustark,” etc.
MR.
R. McCUTCHEON is the prince of American story-tellers,
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“From cover to cover the reader is kept on the qui vive as
to what will happen next.”— Brooklyn Eagle.
Illustrations in color by HARRISON FISHER. $1.50.
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The Chase of the Golden Plate
Prisoners
By JAQUES FUTRELLE
By MARY CHOLMONDELEY
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A STORY of surprising interest. There is an absorbing
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stories that recent years have produced.”
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Versailles and the Trianons
By PIERRE DE NOLHAC, The Keeper of Versailles
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THE great popularity of "Cathedral Cities of England ” last
By MAURICE MAETERLINCK
year has convinced the publishers that there is a growing
Author of "The Life of the Bee," etc.
demand for color books" of the kind at a moderate price.
The color work in "Versailles" is quite equal in every respect AN unusually handsome holiday gift book, issued as a.com-
to the first volume, and the text is a sympathetic and interesting panion volume to Mr. Maeterlinck's earlier works, “Our
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Charles Dickens, a Critical Sir Joshua and
His Circle
By Professor HARRY THURSTON PECK,
By GILBERT K. CHESTERTON
By FITZGERALD MOL-
L.H.D., LL.D.
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LOY
FOR a great many years Professor Peck has been
etc.
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Author of “The Russian
American politics. “Twenty Years of the Repub-
THERE are few men whose position in English
literature is more fiercely disputed, nor in
Court in the Eighteenth
lic,” from the Cleveland-Blaine campaign of 1884
Century," "TheRomance
regard to whom critics differ more widely than
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of Royalty," "The Sailor
man who is giving reign to a favorite hobby. It Charles Dickens.
King, His Court and His
reveals not only to the wide and mature point of Mr. Chesterton's book on Dickens is intended
view of the trained scholar, but also the many as a general justification of that author and of
Subjects," etc.
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liarities, the seemingly trivial incidents which go
which he was the last but not the least gigantic
est grade. Two vols.,
so far toward making history, but which are so
survival. He treats each of the novels in turn,
with two photogravure
easily and quickly forgotten. Such a history is
and he devotes the latter part of his book to
frontispieces and 16 full-
very valuable, both now and in the future. It
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importance to the student. Net, $2.50.
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Bettina von Hutten
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Patty's Summer Days
Historic Buildings of
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THE CHATEAUX OF TOURAINE
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New Light on Abraham Lincoln
LINCOLN THE LAWYER
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SEEING FRANCE WITH UNCLE JOHN
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JUVENILES
Miss Christina Gowans Whyte's
The Story Book Girls
is the simple, unpretentious story to which was awarded some months ago a prize offered
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Ibe
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Ernest Ingersoll's Eight Secrets
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ERNEST INGERSOLL
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Dr. Edward Everett Hale's
Tarry-at-Home Travels
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PERSONAL REMINISCENCES
Memoirs of the late Chancellor
Prince von Hohenlohe
The literary sensation of the year in Germany, since it is said to reveal very frankly
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It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of this work which has made an
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Tarry
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Dr. James Ford Rhodes's History of the United States
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History of Modern England
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Correspondence of William Pitt
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The Novels of Ivan Turgenev
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A Semi-Monthly Journal of Literary Criticism, Discussion, and Information.
ENTERED AT THE CHICAGO POSTOFFICE AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER
BY THE DIAL COMPANY, PUBLISHERS
No. 491.
DECEMBER 1, 1906.
Vol. XLI.
MISCELLANEOUS HOLIDAY BOOKS- Continued.
Williamson's Rosemary in Search of a Father. --
Barbour's A Maid in Arcady. — Dickens's Mr.
Pickwick's Christmas, illustrated by George A.
Williams. — Crowell's Thin-Paper Poets, and Thin-
Paper Two-Volume Sets. Blaisdell's Animal
Serials. — Johnson's Beastly Rhymes. — VerBeck's
Book of Bears. — Kipling's They, illustrated by
F. H. Townsend. - Miss Macvane's The Adven-
tures of Joujou. - Cable's Old Creole Days, illus-
trated by Albert Herter. — Miss Watanna's A
Japanese Blossom. - Riley's When the Heart Beats
Young. — New volumes in the Thumb-Nail Series.
Mrs. Sangster's Fairest Girlhood. – Some whim-
sical holiday booklets. – Müller's Memories, illus-
trated by Helen and Margaret Armstrong. --
Hughes's Col. Crockett's Co-operative Christmas.
NOTES
399
THE SEASON'S BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG 401
LIST OF NEW BOOKS
405
.
.
CONTENTS.
PAGE
O TEMPORA! O MORES!
. 379
CASUAL COMMENT
381
The value of sympathy in literary criticism. — Lit-
erature of the department store. - The seventieth
birthday of two literary notables. — Some interest-
ing notes on the technique of poetry. — The reading
habits of our people. — French praise of an Ameri-
can author.
COMMUNICATION
382
“Devious Methods of Book Advertising - The
Publisher's Side. G. P. Putnam's Sons.
A DISTINGUISHED HOLIDAY ART-BOOK.
Frederick W. Gookin
383
BIOGRAPHIES IN HOLIDAY FORM. Percy F.
Bicknell. .
384
Fitzgerald's Sir Henry Irving. — Mottram's True
Story of George Eliot. — Gibbs's Men and Women
of the French Revolution. - Trowbridge's Court
Beauties of Old Whitehall. - Williams's Five Fair
Sisters. — Baily's Emma, Lady Hamilton. Marie
Hay's A German Pompadour.
NATURE-BOOKS FOR THE HOLIDAYS.
May
Estelle Cooke
387
Beebe's The Log of the Sun. — White's The Pass.
- Mrs. Austin's The Flock. — Dewar's Bombay
Ducks. — Crawford's From Fox's Earth to Moun-
tain Tarn. - Ingersoll's The Wit of the Wild. –
James's The Story of Scraggles. — Hawkes's
Shaggycoat. — London's White Fang. -- Huston's
Around an Old Homestead. - Abbott's Rambles of
an Idler. - Long's Brier-Patch Philosophy.
HOLIDAY BOOKS OF TRAVEL. Wallace Rice , 390
Hale's Tarry-at-Home Travels.- Hornaday's Camp-
Fires in the Canadian Rockies. — Howells's Certain
Delightful English Towns. Shelley's Literary
By-Paths of Old England. — Lucas's & Wanderer
in London. — Mrs. Caird's Romantic Cities of Pro-
vence. --- Seymour's Saunterings in Spain. - Will-
iams's Granada. - Allen and Williamson's Cities of
Northern Italy. - Peixotto's By Italian Seas.
Strasburger's Rambles on the Riviera. -- Miltoun's
Rambles on the Riviera. — Miss Meakin's Russia. --
Jackson's Persia, Past and Present. — Miss Fisher's
A Woman Alone in the Heart of Japan. — Pratt's
Two Years among New Guinea Cannibals.
MISCELLANEOUS HOLIDAY BOOKS — I. 393
Mrs. Lansdale's The Chateaux of Touraine. — Mil-
toun's Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and
the Loire Country. - Atkinson's Touraine and its
Story. Miss Wade's The Stained Glass Lady.
Thackeray's Ballads and Songs, illustrated by H.
M. Brock. — Moses's Famous Actor Families in
America. Kobbé's Famous American Songs. --
Hulbert's The Ohio River. — American Country
Homes and their Gardens, - Whittier's Snow-
Bound, illustrated by Pyle and others. - Longfel-
low's Hiawatha, illustrated by Harrison Fisher. -
Holme's The Art Revival in Austria. – Holme's
Old English Country Cottages. - Mr. and Mrs.
O TEMPORA! O MORES!
It is with something more than Ciceronian in-
dignation that the morals of the London “Times"
are now being denounced by the almost unani-
mous voice of the publishing and bookselling
interests of the United Kingdom. For some
months past a fierce conflict (not of words only)
has been raging in England, aroused by the
enterprise of “The Thunderer" in seeking to
enlarge its circulation by offering its subscribers
alluring opportunities for the purchase of new
books at reduced prices. Since not only the
newspapers and trade journals, but the authors
as well, have taken a hand in the controversy,
it is given an unwonted zest, and the famous
newspaper which has provoked it is made the
target of bolts quite as Jovian as those of which
it has long had the traditional monopoly.
At our distance from the scene of action, it
is not altogether easy to view the line of battle,
or to appreciate the strategic moves made by the
respective forces; but the situation is clear
enough in its general outline, and of enough
interest to readers everywhere to warrant dis-
cussion by the American outsider. The struggle,
moreover, involves a question which has arisen
in some form in almost every country of literary
importance, and finds its American counterpart
in the efforts of our own publishers to establish
a fixed uniform price for net publications, and
to preserve the bookseller from the extinction
with which he is menaced by the department
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edly discussed the question in these columns, dently buying books for their friends also; the
and trust that we have left no doubt in the bookshops were deserted, and the publishers
reader's mind that our sympathies are with the came to realize that their sales to the “ Times"
legitimate seller of books. There is no doubt were being made at the expense of more profit-
in our mind that this is a case in which what is able sales to other middlemen. Thereupon war
sometimes termed an agreement in restraint was declared. The Zauberlehrling had turned
of trade," despite the sinister monopolistic asso on the water, and now frantically sought to turn
ciations of the expression, is necessary for the it off. The
proper
form of incantation has not
true interests of intellectual prosperity. yet been found, but dismay has at least given
The analogous case presented by the London place to hope, and united action against the
“ Times” and its assailants may be briefly stated. common enemy is doing something to restore
That venerable three-penny organ of conserva-
confidence to the hearts of authors, publishers,
tive opinion, seeing itself of late years greatly and booksellers.
outdistanced in circulation by the penny press,
That both publishers and booksellers are
and finding its traditional methods inadequate united in their opposition to the Times' Book
to cope with the enterprise of sensation monger Club is evident from the action taken by their
ing journalism conducted upon the American official organizations. The publishers made
plan, has been casting about for devices where the modest request that the “Times” should
by to meet the new competition. When certain not resort to undercutting during a period of six
wily Americans appeared upon the scene with a
months from the date of a book's appearance.
plan for a combination offer of the “ Times” This was flatly refused, and the possibility of
and the “Encyclopædia Britannica," its pro a modus vivendi was ended. Thereupon the
prietors seized the opportunity, launched the publishers withdrew their advertisements from
enterprise, and, by dint of an unprecedented the paper, and refused to sell it their books
campaign of advertising, gained many subscrib upon
trade terms. The “ Times” retorted by
ers and much profit. Having once doffed the declaring a boycott on the obstinate publishers,
robe of journalistic dignity, these same pub- and went so far as to urge its readers not to buy
lishers were ready for another scheme, which any of the publications of a specified list of
the same wily Yankees were prompt to supply. famous houses — a list headed by the name of
It took the form of the “ Times Book Club," an the Messrs. Macmillan. Here the matter now
organization whereby subscribers were to have stands, with the odds decidedly against the
the right to borrow new books, and, if they “ Times," as that journal practically admits. If
liked, to buy them in a practically unsoiled con it cannot buy books at trade prices, the jig is
dition at bargain prices. This is the scheme up, and it is now driven to the desperate resort
which has aroused the angry passions now rife of an appeal to prejudice after the fashion of
among English publishers and dealers, and pre the yellowest of the American newspapers. The
cipitated the new “ battle of the books” which London “Times” and the New York “Journal"
has become a matter of such absorbing interest. make strange bedfellows, but to this association
For a time the implications of the scheme they have been brought, and both of them put
were not fully apparent. The publishers began forth the same disingenuous plea against a pre-
to receive large orders from this unexpected tended monopoly in the interest of a plan which,
quarter, were willing to accord the “Times” a rightly considered, would prove it a monopoly of
“ most favored nation” treatment in the matter the most vicious sort. The argument that pub-
of terms, and even accepted, without making lishers make a profit of eight hundred per cent
too wry a face, the condition of buying from on their wares is not likely to impose upon
the newspaper a certain amount of advertising many readers ; it is surprising that the constitu-
a percentage based upon the book-orders ency of the “ Times” should include
any
readers
which really amounted to so much additional capable of being misled by so palpable an ab-
discount on the sales. But presently the face surdity. All that the publishers need to do at
of the matter changed. It was discovered that present is to “sit tight,” and, as one of them
the members of the Times' Book Club— that expresses it, “ their position is as impregnable
is, subscribers to the number of about eighty as Wellington's was behind the lines of Torres
thousand - were purchasing the latest publica- Vedras.”
tions within a few weeks of their issue, and at As for the authors, they are for the most part
prices that practically ignored the question of quick to perceive the ultimate consequences of
profit. These subscribers, moreover, were evi such a bookselling monopoly as the “Times”


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would like to establish. It would work a greater there are few or many bookstores in a great
injury to them than resulted from the old “cir- city, whether a small town has or has not such
culating library” system which they succeeded an establishment. Mr. Hall Caine notes that
in overthrowing a few years ago.
With fresh there were once some twelve hundred book-shops
memories of one old man of the sea, they are not in and about London, whereas there are now
likely soon to fall into the clutches of another. only an eighth of that number. It would be
Mr. Kipling sees the point clearly enough, and extremely unfortunate should the figures of
states it with his wonted bluntness.
their census be still further reduced, no matter
“As for the Times's' claim to benefit the public by how plausible the argument for economy by
supplying it with cheap literature, it offers no guaran which the reduction were defended.
tee that prices once lowered to secure control of a market
may not be raised when that market is secure; nor is
the record of other trusts reassuring on this head.
“ The end seems simple enough. The author, cut off
CASUAL COMMENT.
from his bookseller, who is his distributing agent, must
lie absolutely at the mercy of the Times. So the THE VALUE OF SYMPATHY IN LITERARY CRITICISM
public will have exchanged the right of reading at fixed is urged anew, with an emphasis worthy of Matthew
prices whatever they wish to read for the privilege of Arnold himself, in an able review of recent critical
buying at whatever price the Times' may appoint pre literature in the current “Edinburgh Review.” In the
cisely whatever the Times,' in its judgment, allows to course of the article, Mr. George Brandes receives some
reach them.
rather hard knocks. While the writer admits that “no
“ This arrangement may pay the Times,' but it seems other critic could bring more knowledge, a clearer dis-
to be on the way to depriving literature, the author, and cernment of finer distinctions, a more discriminating
the public of a certain amount of freedom."
and resolute grasp of characteristic qualities, a more
Not only have many authors as individuals many-sided intellectual culture to his task,” he at the
expressed themselves in similar terms, but the
same time contends that no other critic could bring “a
Society of Authors has also stated its position individual ideals, sentiments, and emotions of the authors
more solidly unsympathetic moral aloofness from the
in a series of emphatic resolutions. The authors' he reviews. . . He exposes without ruth the littlenesses
point of view is admirably summed up by Mr. of the great. His strictures are warrantable. But dis-
G. Herbert Thring, secretary of the Society, in
paragement of the immortals by dispraise of their
the following language:
works of inferior merit, however warrantable, is to lower
the estate of the whole art of criticism. . . . To dem-
“ If the methods of the Club be allowed to continue, onstrate the base concomitants of the soil where
they will spread. Imitators will arise. The author will gems lie embedded, to the obscuring of the vital light-
be no longer the partner able to demand his fair share. giving properties of those gems, is to render ill service
He will be at the mercy of a few large concerns' to the memory of those whom death has dispensed from
which can take his books at their own price or refuse to all dependence on opinion, and to mankind at large.
take them unless he accepts it, whose sole interest is It is, moreover, when all is said and done, the interpre-
cheap buying and quick scrapping,' whose interest in tation of the stars, not of the “unpurpled vapours,'
literature is limited to the question how they can best which leads the world errant on the path of truth.”
make the buying and selling of books a useful subsidi All this is curiously in accord with some things that
ary means of promoting the yield of their advertise Mr. Brandes, in his recent autobiography, has said, and
ments, the popularity of their aërated water, or the has quoted from others, about himself.
vogue of their toilet soap. Where lies the advantage
to the author, either to his pride or to his pocket ? It LITERATURE OF THE DEPARTMENT STORE is the latest
would be contrary to general opinion and experience to thing to emanate from Boston. The salesmen and sales-
suppose that in the long run the public would find their women of a large department store in that literary centre
benefit in a state of things savouring far more strongly write, edit, and publish a monthly review whose purpose
of monopoly than the present organizations either of is to promote “cultural education ” — thus distinguish-
publishers or of booksellers or of authors - a state of ing, it seems, between mere business training and that
things at least threatening a despotic control of the lit of a finer and more intellectual character. Schools and
erary profession and of the book trade by a small group colleges have for some time offered commercial courses;
of persons, firms, or companies, whose methods and and now we have a commercial house, or rather its
objects alike are totally alien from literature, from any employees, offering a course in literary training. Yet
desire to promote the production and appreciation of the business aspect of the matter is not lost sight of:
good books.”
one can sell goods all the better, it seems, for a little
This is a nutshell form of the argument for
“cultural education.” As the writer of the leading
prices fixed by agreement. Books are more than
article puts it, “ Application to study gives one self-
merchandise, and the multiplication of book-
confidence through ability to concentrate one's mind on
whatever matter may arise, in addressing people under
stores, even if it means an increased cost of conditions where a wavering manner would lose the
handling, is essential to the interests of culture. case.” And further, “ By reading standard literature
It does not greatly matter whether there are few
we unconsciously acquire the use of good English and
the ability to paint mind pictures, both of which are
or many centres for the distribution of soap or
strong factors in impressing the superior merits of our
shoes or sausages, but it matters much whether business upon the public, the first being also necessary
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in our dealings with manufacturers, because good En-
glish is impressive and presents arguments and needs
in a most effective manner.” A literary magazine
issuing from a dry-goods emporium is a striking and
not unpleasing phenomenon in the world of letters and
of commerce.
fourth place is held, not by an Eastern state, but by Cali-
fornia; after which come, in order, Vermont, New York,
Maine, Rhode Island, Montana, Delaware, the District
of Columbia, Colorado, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Ohio,
Michigan, and Illinois. At the other end of the scale
the list reads backward from Florida, Mississippi, Ala-
bama, and Arkansas, through other Southern states,
where the colored population greatly depresses the
average. Gold-seekers, or other miners for wealth, ap-
pear to bring up this average in the mineral regions.
The British gold-mining colonies, too, are great book-
The reading habit and visions of Eldorado
do they go together? One other significant fact: New
England, which leads in book-reading, has also by far
the highest birth-rate of genius.
consumers.
THE SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY OF TWO LITERARY NOTA-
BLES, Mr. Henry M. Alden and Mr. T. B. Aldrich, fall-
ing on the eleventh of November, and the presence of
the Ponkapog poet at the Franklin Square party in
honor of the New York editor, not only furnish a pleas-
ing spectacle to the contemplative on-looker from afar,
but may also serve to recall attention to the works and
worth of these two literary veterans, both of them
authors, and magazine editors as well. A selection
from the poems of the “enamored architect of airy
rhyme,” entitled “A Book of Songs and Sonnets,” is a
timely and welcome issue from the Riverside Press.
We hear of no re-issue of “God in His World” and
“A Study of Death,” by Mr. Alden, but these too will
bear re-reading. It is many days now since Mr. Aldrich
was editor of “The Atlantic," but Mr. Alden's skilful
and faithful hand is still at the editorial helm of « Har-
per's Magazine,” whose course he has directed so long
and well.
FRENCH PRAISE OF AN AMERICAN AUTHOR is found,
in generous measure, in a 29-page review of “The
House of Mirth," in the Revue des Deux Mondes of No-
vember 1. This very commendatory notice of Mrs.
Wharton and her work is from the pen of Mme. Blanc
(« Th. Bentzon"), who has already, notably in the case
of Colonel Higginson, expressed her appreciation of cur-
rent American literature in the pages of the Revue. In
Mme. Blanc's opinion, Mrs. Wharton “ has written per-
haps the best novel that has appeared this year in En-
glish "; and further, “Mrs. Wharton can write nothing
that lacks distinction "; she is “infinitely witty," her
characters talk charmingly (causent à ravir), and “we
know of no dialogues better carried through than hers.”
This critic calls « The House of Mirth" as interesting
and as pitiless a novel, at one end of the world and at
one extremity of the social ladder, as Zola's L'Assommoir
at the other. The chief difference is that its author
has the marvellous gift of saying everything tactfully,
in precise language, which, without avoiding anything,
never offends against modesty."
COMMUNICATION.
SOME INTERESTING NOTES ON THE TECHNIQUE OF
POETRY are contributed to the November “ Fortnightly
Review” by Mr. Charles F. Keary. Rejecting the
theory that poetry is merely translated prose, as Camden
and Ben Jonson professed to believe, Mr. Keary main-
tains that the poet thinks in lines, not in single words.
Passion seeks utterance in phrases. Singing, it has been
conjectured, preceded articulate speech, and the unit of
song is not a single sound, but a musical phrase, which,
in some sort of cadence and contrast of sound, must
have been evoked by emotion before language was
formed. Verse is neither an accident nor a choice nor a
trick, nor a translation of prose, but a necessity for cer-
tain modes of thought and feeling. The cæsura Mr.
Keary makes to follow the stressed word in the line,
and if there is more than one such word there is more
than one cæsura. Incidentally, the writer says that
Shakespeare's prose is often used for greater impres-
siveness. “ It is certain," he writes, “that Hamlet's
personality never shows itself more vividly than when
he speaks in prose”; and he quotes in illustration from
the very grave-digging scene which Sill (see “The
Prose of Edward Rowland Sill”) some years ago cited
to prove the opposite. Sill declares that when Hamlet
speaks prose “ there is no deep feeling or earnestness of
purpose in what he says.” Shylock, according to Mr.
Keary, is “never so tremendous as in his prose out-
bursts” (“ Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew
hands ? ” etc.); while Sill maintains that the trivial
business of every-day life is what gets itself expressed
in Shakespeare's prose. Each is partly right, partly
wrong; but Sill is probably supported by more examples.
* DEVIOUS METHODS OF BOOK ADVERTISING."
THE PUBLISHERS' SIDE.
(To the Editor of The DIAL.)
We have read with interest the communication of
your correspondent, Professor Parsons, of Colorado
College, in regard to a note which he finds in the vol-
ume “From a College Window," by Mr. Benson, pub-
lished by our house.
Professor Parsons takes the ground that to utilize
in a work of literature a note so worded as to constitute
an advertisement of another book, is bad form; and that
nothing in the shape of an advertisement ought to be
connected with the text of a work of literature.
We find ourselves fully in accord with this position.
The publishers are, of course, responsible for the text
of any volume issued with their imprint. It may be in
order to explain, however, that this particular note was
added, while the work was going through the press, by
the hand of an over-zealous proofreader; and until our
attention was called to the matter through The DIAL,
we had in fact no knowledge that any such note had
been inserted. Instructions have been given for the
cancelling of this note before the printing of another
edition of the Benson volume.
G. P. Putnam's Sons.
New York, Nov. 21, 1906.
THE READING HABITS OF OUR PEOPLE are interest-
ingly revealed by Mr. Gustave Michaud in the Novem-
ber“ Putnam's Monthly.” Statistics of book-circulation
in public libraries tend to show that New England, as
might have been expected, is far more given to reading
than the rest of the country, and that of the New En-
gland states Massachusetts stands well in the lead, with
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the Edge of the Forest,” and “ The Vine Dres-
The New Books.
ser.” It would have been well had the sizes and
the whereabouts of the originals been indicated.
A DISTINGUISHED HOLIDAY ART-BOOK.*
In passing, it may be remarked that these
drawings are not, as stated on the title-page,
The perfecting of photo-mechanical processes “of” Millet, but are by him. This locution is
for reproducing drawings has made possible a
becoming almost as common as the dreadful
class of books for which there is reason to be “ different to” that mars the workmanship of
grateful. Ownership of original works by ac-
so many English writers.
knowledged masters of the brush and pencil is It
may be taken as a general rule that an
necessarily the privilege of the few. Exhibited artist's sketches and studies often exhibit more
in art museums and public galleries they may force than his finished pictures. However skil-
be viewed by the many, but under conditions
ful the replication, some loss is inevitable. Of
that make long looking a weariness to the flesh, the truth of this, Millet's works afford a con-
absorption in the joy of æsthetic contemplation spicuous example. It is to his drawings rather
soon giving way under the distraction of physi- than his pictures that we must look for that
cal discomfort. And long looking is for most
most precious quality, “the instant magic of
people the only pathway to assimilation. At
the realizing hand,” as it has been aptly termed.
best a public collection can impart but in rare These sketches and studies serve also to empha-
instances, even to its frequenters, that sense of size the truth -- a truth imperfectly realized by
intimate personal relation between the observer most of our modern artists that the basis of
and the things observed through which alone all art that is worthy of the name is composition.
art becomes a part of life and a tonic to the In the last analysis, the secret of Millet's power
soul. For this, nothing else can take the place to charm will be found to lie in the skill with
of the close daily association which the true art which he brought all the elements of his designs
lover feels to be vital to his spiritual well-being into harmonic unity. The extreme simplicity
Such books as “The Drawings of Jean of many of them gives at first sight the impres-
François Millet” minister directly to this need sion that they afforded no opportunity for the
by bringing examples of the work of a great exercise of such refinement. As a matter of fact,
master within the reach of people of moderate the niceties of composition are in inverse pro-
means. Fifty of this artist's drawings, repro- portion to its complexity: the simplest is the
duced in phɔto-lithography by the Hentschel most exacting, and calls for the truest feeling.
colortype process, with an introductory essay by Few artists of modern times have been more
Léonce Bénédite, make up a volume that can written and talked about than Jean François
fitly be described as distinguished. The exam Millet. The story of his life is almost a house-
ples given have been selected with the design of hold word. Who does not know about his boy-
covering as wide a range as possible. They hood on his father's farm at Gruchy; of the
show well the method of the artist as applied to gentle home-life in which he was there reared ;
varying themes. Most of them are studies in
of the years of bitter struggle in Paris ; of his
crayon or charcoal for pictures afterward painted retirement to Barbizon, and his devotion thence-
in oil. One, the charming sketch entitled - The
forth to rustic themes ; of the greatness and
River," was done entirely with the brush. The
tenderness of his heart; of his pathetic battle
majority are in simple black and white; a few
with poverty; of the indifference of the public
have slight touches of other hues. In one, the during his lifetime and the fame he has since
original study in colored chalks for “ The achieved ? His devotion in his later years to
Angelus," the complete color-scheme is effect-
the expression of what he used to call “ la vie
ively indicated. Taken together, they form a de l'ensemble” - the life of the universe as a
fairly representative collection. Included among whole, and the extraordinary degree in which
them are studies for such well-known paintings his art was made the vehicle of his thought, has
as “The Gleaners” (now in the Louvre), the
caused attention to be centred upon its sub-
“Charcoal Burner's Hut,” “Going to the jective qualities almost to the exclusion of its
Fields," "The Sower," "The Muleteer," "The aesthetic side. It is not strange that it should
New-born Calf,:' “ Shepherdess and Flock at
be so.
The more carefully his drawings are
THE DRAWINGS OF JEAN FRANCOIS MILLET. With fifty
studied the more apparent is it that technique
Facsimile Reproductions of the Master's Work, and an Intro-
was nothing to him except as a means to an end.
ductory Essay by Léonce Bénédite. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippin-
But also will it be perceived that to make us
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feel with him the dignity of human labor and man who always painted resignation, never re-
man's relation to the planet he inhabits, there volt, and who asserted that he had “never
had to be the master's sensitiveness to beauty of dreamt of pleading a cause of any sort” – was
line, and the unerring sense of harmonic propor the forerunner and in a sense the prophet of
tion by which he ordered his darks and lights, the realists.
his masses and vacant spaces.
Otherwise we
FREDERICK W. GOOKIN.
should have had sermons only, not works of art.
There would be no need of calling attention
to this so particularly were it not so commonly
BIOGRAPHIES IN HOLIDAY FORM.*
overlooked. Unlike the human message em-
bodied in the artist's work, it does not insist In a group of handsomely illustrated bio-
upon recognition, nor does it appeal to such a graphies, individual and collective, that await
wide audience. For upon their subjective side review, the ladies, of various sorts and condi-
Millet's compositions touch us all. We must, tions, and of reputations spotless and otherwise,
if we are not hopelessly devoid of all sympathy are in an overwhelming majority. Thus we find
with human emotion, feel the reverent tender curious conjunction !–George Eliot rubbing
ness in such drawings as “The Knitting Les-
elbows with Lady Hamilton, Hortense Mancini,
son,” the “Young Mother Nursing her Baby,'
the "wanton Shrewsbury," and numerous others
and the “ Almsgiving ” - to name a few of those of not unblemished fame. Some readers may be
reproduced in the volume under consideration. so cruel as to see a certain significance in bracket-
And who can fail to be affected by the charming with these notorious offenders the great
of the masterly “ Shepherdess and Flock at the
novelist who dared to violate English marriage
Edge of the Forest," or the realism, impressive law and custom. But in this instance the asso-
despite its sketchy treatment, of the “Charcoal ciation is purely one of chance, not of design.
Burner's Hut" in winter?
While
many of the women treated of in these
The tone values of the original drawings and works are not characters that the lover of bio-
the quality of the artist's line have been excep- graphy is warmly interested in, yet their doings
tionally well preserved in the reproductions and misdoings are discreetly handled, and as
before us. More than this can hardly be asked ;
their names are of more or less historic import-
but in calling them facsimiles a claim is made ance we must not let our prudery get the better
that is not strictly accurate, as the shiny surface
The merit of the volumes as handsome
of the paper upon which they are printed con holiday publications is considerable, but space
stitutes a substantial difference in the result. is lacking for anything like detailed criticism of
Doubtless, in selecting a paper having this un the narrative matter accompanying the abun-
pleasant characteristic the publishers were actu dant and on the whole excellent illustrations.
ated by the desire to obviate as far as possible In taking up the books, one by one, we give
the chief shortcoming in all mechanical repro the precedence not to the ladies this time, but
ductions. The tendency is to modify both the
to the lamented stage favorite, Sir Henry Irving.
lights and darks, with the result of taking away
A pen-picture of this actor by his thirty-
some of the vivacity, the “ life,” of the draw years friend, the veteran author of " David
ing. The difficulty is the greater when, as in Garrick" and many other biographical studies,
the case of Millet, the drawings were made * Sir HENRY IRVING. A Biography. By Percy Fitzgerald.
without any thought of their suitability for
Illustrated. Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Co.
THE TRUE STORY OF GEORGE ELIOT IN RELATION TO " ADAM
“ processing.” Our modern illustrators, in an Bede." By William Mottram (grand-nephew of Adam and Seth
endeavor to overcome this tendency, force their
Bede, and cousin to the author). With 86 illustrations. Chicago:
A, C. McClurg & Co.
work into an abnormal key by greatly intensify MEN AND WOMEN OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTIOX. By Philip
ing both the high lights and the deep shadows.
Gibbs. Illustrated with twenty-eight photogravures reproduced
from contemporary prints. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co.
In his admirable introductory essay, Mr. COURT BEAUTIES OF OLD WHITEHALL. Historiettes of the
Bénédite reviews the leading events in Millet's Restoration. By W.R. H. Trowbridge. With thirty-two illus-
trations. New York: Imported by Charles Scribner's Sons.
life-history. With fine appreciation, the excep-
talian Episode at the Court of
tional figure of the master is set before the
Louis XIV. By H. Noel Williams. With photogravure plate
and sixteen other illustrations. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.
reader, special attention being given to his re EMMA, LADY HAMILTON. A Biographical Essay, with a
lation to the ideals current in his day. Thus, Catalogue of her Published Portraits. By J. T. Herbert Baily.
With twenty-three plates. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co.
he shows how it was that the semi-recluse who
A GERMAN POMPADOUR. Being the Extraordinary History
held himself aloof from the movement with of Wilhelmine von Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg.
A Narrative of the Eighteenth Century. By Marie Hay. Frontis
which his name is inevitably associated — the piece. New York: Imported by Charles Scribner's Sons.
of us.
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is sure to be skilfully executed. This latest a flourish, he gives us a chapter explaining and
printing of Mr. Fitzgerald's work is, he tells us, justifying her relations with G. H. Lewes as if
“ practically the third issue. It was written he were publishing new facts; but he offers
under Irving's hearty encouragement, and all hardly anything not already known to students
the earlier sheets were revised and corrected by of her life. As a whole, the book is written in
him. ... It has been thoroughly revised a tone of alternate religious devotion and per-
large additions have been made which cover a sonal panegyric that becomes tiresome to the less
period of some ten years, and bring the work piously enthusiastic. The eighty-six portraits
down to his lamented death." Greater atten-
Greater atten- and illustrations are good process prints, and
tion is given to the man than to the actor, and rival the text in interest. Especially is this true
a very winning personality he is made to appear. of a surprisingly attractive frontispiece portrait
In one of the passages devoted more especially of George Eliot in her young womanhood.
to professional matters, some comparison is “ This is not a history,” admits Mr. Philip
drawn between Irving and Booth, as they ap- Gibbs, in prefacing his “ Men and Women of
peared together at the Lyceum in 1881, and the French Revolution ”; and he proceeds to
the honors are emphatically given to the host, style it “ rather, perhaps, a psychological study
the actor who trod his own boards, rather than of some of the actors in the great drama, so
to the visitor amid strange surroundings. It is arranged, however, that the thread of narrative
more than implied, too, that Booth failed to is not confused or lost." The text of this book,
requite his host's hospitality when the English he frankly avows, “ does not compare in interest
actor visited America. Prejudices in his friend's with the illustrations. They are the excuse and
favor are excusable in the author, and so are
the value of the volume. These contemporary
dramatic criticisms with which the reader can French prints, mostly reproduced for the first
not always agree. This volume cannot compete time in this country, are surprisingly inter-
in wealth of detail with Mr. Bram Stoker's esting. In thus deviating from the beaten
longer work already noticed in these pages; but paths of history and giving rather free play
*it can well supplement it, and perhaps the two to his own fancy in this “ psychological study,
can on some points serve as a sort of check to the author has produced a work more attractive
each other. Both are written by friends of some in some respects than the formal chronicles of
thirty years standing. There is still room, how the period. As a handsome holiday book that
ever, for a full critical account of Irving the may induce some to enter upon a more serious
actor. In one of his closing paragraphs Mr. study of what the author rightly considers “ a
Fitzgerald laments (rather incoherently, it is period of inexhaustible interest,” the work is of
true) that “ though some months have elapsed value. The numerous photogravures are works of
since his [Irving's] death, the great actor's art, the quarto size of the page contributing not
name is scarcely mentioned. He seems, indeed, a little to their excellence. Of the many impor-
forgotten. For many a “cheap' celebrity, there tant characters whose portraits had to be omitted
are committees and subscriptions and memorials simply because some limit was necessary, one
and statues ; but nothing of the kind has ever notes especially the omission of Charlotte Corday
been suggested.” Mr. Fitzgerald justly prides and Louis XVI.
himself on the number and excellence of the In the annals of woman's frailty, Mr.W.R.H.
illustrations he has provided for this book from Trowbridge's “ Court Beauties of Old White-
his “twenty huge folios” of Irving pictures. hall” will take no prominent place either for
The Rev. William Mottram has collected into original research or for naughty piquancy of
a book his series of articles on George Eliot style. These “ Historiettes of the Restoration,
originally contributed to “ The Leisure Hour," as the sketches are called in a sub-title, give in
and four new chapters are added. First cousin, readable form the stories of eight lovely butter-
once removed, to George Eliot, he writes with flies that fluttered about the radiance of royalty,
the authority of near kinship and familiar asso most of them singeing their wings more or less,
ciation. From an unpublished autobiography and most of them also ending their days in ob-
of Seth Bede (Samuel Evans) and a brief pub- scurity if not in wretchedness. It is significant
lished autobiography of Dinah Morris (Mrs. that, of these eight brief biographies, the ac-
Samuel Evans), the author reproduces some count of the Comtesse de Gramont, “la belle
noteworthy passages. The original of Mrs. Hamilton,” the best woman of them all, is the
Poyser he finds in the novelist's mother, and of shortest ; so much more eventful are the annals
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land;
.
The volume has thirty-two portraits, including some less favorable presentation of the famous
a first reproduction of the only extant likeness courtesan. An antidote is found, for example,
of Armand, Comte de Guiche. The author in a reference to her from a letter of Sir Gilbert
speaks of this as engraved from the original ; Eliot to his wife, wherein he speaks of her as
but it is evidently a process print, and either showing the ease of a barmaid, and adds that
a very poor one or from a blurred and faded “ her person is nothing short of monstrous," and
painting, - probably the latter. The chapters, in "her language and conversation (with men) are
their order, treat of Hortense Mancini, Duchesse exaggerations of anything I ever heard any-
de Mazarin ; Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleve where.” This, to be sure, was when she had
** la belle Stuart,” Duchess of Richmond; attained to matronly maturity. Of two of the
la belle Hamilton," Comtesse de Gramont; four children commonly said to have been born
" the lovely Jennings,” Duchess of Tyrconnel ; to the fair Emma, this biographer makes no
“wanton Shrewsbury,” Anna Maria, Countess mention ; and he repeats the seemingly false
of Shrewsbury ; " Madame," Henrietta, Duchess account of her death in such poverty that she
of Orleans; and Louise de Kéroual, Duchess had to be buried in a deal coffin at the cost of
of Portsmouth.
a charitable English lady. Paget's memoirs
The subject of the first chapter of the book relate, on the authority of Lady Hamilton's
just mentioned reappears as the leading char- daughter, that she was buried in an oak coffin
acter in Mr. H. Noel Williams's “ Five Fair and with a degree of ceremony that brought the
Sisters." Hortense Mancini and her four sisters funeral expenses up to £28 10s. Readers of
receive the honor of a 422-page history at the “ Fenwick's Career" will enjoy the more than
hands of this prolific author of French memoirs. hasty glimpse of Romney that this book affords.
Of these sisters, the eldest, Laure, who married The list of engraved portraits of Lady Hamilton
the Duc de Merceur and became the mother of enumerates more than forty such reproductions,
the Duc de Vendôme (renowned in the Marl- much the greater number being after Romney.
borough wars), appears to have been the only A wealth of elaborate embroidery upon a pov-
one of unchallenged virtue, being also the one erty of historic fact is furnished in the 358 large
of least personal beauty ; while Olympe, Marie, pages of Miss Marie Hay's pseudo-biography
and Hortense the three really meant when entitled “ A German Pompadour.” So far as
reference is made to Mazarin's nieces - attained vice can be rendered attractive by throwing on
to European fame of an unenviable sort. De it the glamour of romance, the unvirtuous life
tails cannot here be entered into concerning of Wilhelmine von Grävenitz, mistress of Eber-
these ingenuously immoral young ladies, nor is hard Ludwig, Duke of Würtemberg, has been
it necessary, with so full an account of the thus treated in being made to serve as the theme
Mancini family now at the reader's service. of a love story that is not uninteresting as a skil-
Lely's portrayal of Hortense's seductive charms ful bit of fiction, and has something even of salu-
forms the frontispiece in a handsome photogra- tary warning in its gloomy ending. The author
vure; and photographic reproductions of nu writes with a clever woman's knowledge of the
merous other portraits, including her four sisters, human heart, but her style occasionally borders
are interspersed through the volume. Scattering on the luscious, as may be illustrated by a sen-
footnotes mention some of the numerous me tence from an early chapter representing the
moirs available for the making of such books as heroine as poised on the giddy brink of her ruin.
Mr. Williams's.
The Duke has wrapped Wilhelmine's cloak
A sumptuous set of twenty-three large plates about her, and as he did so his hand involun-
of Lady Hamilton's portraits by Romney, Rey- tarily touched the soft skin of her shoulder, and
nolds, Lawrence, Mme. Le Brun, and Masque- Eberhard Ludwig flushed to the edge of his white
rier, furnishes Mr. J. T. Herbert Baily, editor curled peruke as he murmured : « Au revoir,
of “The Connoisseur,” an excuse for telling Philomèle!' and Wilhelmine daringly whis-
anew her rather pathetic story in his “ Emma, pered back : « Au revoir, gentil poète.' The
Lady Hamilton.” Romney's numerous Cassan words 66
bigamist” and “ bigamy
are misused
dras and Circes and Bacchantes, depicting in by the author, who applies them to Wilhelmine
various costumes and attitudes the charms of and her conduct in marrying the already-wedded
this Trilby-like beauty, are more or less familiar. Duke.
Duke. “ The mills of God grind slow, but they
Mr. Baily's narrative, short and readable, is grind exceeding sure,” she writes, in quotation
apologetic and even warmly eulogistic in tone, marks, altering without improving the familiar
and may well be supplemented and corrected by rendering of this line from Friedrich von Logau.


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An inviting appearance and an artistic frontis- for in that case he is of course hopeless. The
piece portrait of the Grävenitz are among the author who preferred a dead snake to a live man
best features of this volume, which lacks index, or woman has not spoken recently, either with
list of sources, critical notes, and all other his own voice or that of any of his colleagues.
bibliographical accompaniment. It is a book for The most sumptuous nature-book of the year,
the novel reader, not for the student.
Mr. Beebe's "Log of the Sun," is also, as its
PERCY F. BICKNELL. title indicates, the most comprehensive. Any
one who absorbs this book will become in his
own person a fairly accomplished naturalist,
besides having a very good time in the process.
NATURE-BOOKS FOR THE HOLIDAYS.*
Mr. Beebe scarcely carries out his intention of
Lovers of out-door life have much to be thank- keeping the bird's or insect's point of view, but
ful for this season in the variety and good qual- he succeeds nevertheless in his main purpose,
ity of the new books which have stored up
the
which is “ to reveal beauties which are wholly
memory of summer days for winter use. One invisible from the usual human view-point.
satisfactory generalization which can be made
Whether he writes of birds that have so far
about them is that they are fairly sane with learned the lesson of nature's economy as to use
regard to the value of human life as compared the cast-off fur of animals for their nests, or of
with animal life. Man is admitted to be the night-hawks that nest upon the tar-and-gravel
equal of most of the creatures he has dominion
roofs of city houses, or of the squid that changes
over, —or, rather, it is admitted that he may color at will, drawing its color cells together
be their equal if he will learn from them the
until they seem confluent, as if the freckles
lessons he was meant to learn. Now no nature-
on a person's face should all be joined together,"
lover objects to being sent to the ant for instruc-
- he communicates secrets which only intimate
tion, or to any created thing that walks or
acquaintance would have discovered. Keeping
crawls or flies, provided only that after he has
the log of the year week by week somewhat
gone to them he may be credited with the wis- disturbs the continuity of subject, making many
dom he has acquired, and be recognized as
digressions and returns necessary; but no real
himself belonging to a hopeful species. This inconvenience results, since the book is too large
spirit of tolerance toward humanity so far pre- for continuous reading. It will be used rather
vails in the season's books that one may read for reference and inspiration, a chapter or two
them without being oppressed by a sense of his at a time. Mr. Stone's fifty-two full-page draw-
own inferiority — unless indeed he is a hunter, ings in color, and the generous number of pho-
*The Log of the Sun. A Chronicle of Nature's Year. By tographs, deserve an appreciable share of credit
C. William Beebe. With fifty-two full page illustrations by
for the admiration the book will receive. Espe-
Walter King Stone, and numerous vignettes and photographs
from life. New York: Henry Holt & Co.
cially the photographs of snow-flakes, and of
The Pass. By Stewart Edward White. With frontispiece
in color by Fernand Lungren, and many other illustrations jelly-fish and other forms of sea life, are mar-
from photographs. New York: Outing Publishing Co.
vels of skill. The titles of chapters which con-
THE FLOCK. By Mary Austin. Illustrated by E. Boyd Smith.
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
sider unusual subjects are “ The Personality of
BOMBAY DUCKS. An Account of some of the Every-day Birds Trees," “Ghosts of the Earth" (mushrooms
and Beasts found in a Naturalist's Eldorado. By Douglas Dewar,
and toad-stools), “ Turtle Traits," " Insect Mu-
F.Z.S., I.C.S. With numerous illustrations from photographs
of living birds, by Captain F. D. S. Fayrer, I.M.S. New York: sic," “ Night Music of the Swamp," — but the
John Lane Co.
FROM Fox's EARTH TO MOUNTAIN TARN.
list is too long to finish. One of the most valu-
Days among the
Wild Animals of Scotland. By J. H. Crawford. Illustrated. able suggestions of the book is that civilization
New York: John Lane Co.
may be a boon to birds and insects if man so
THE WIT OF THE WILD. By Ernest Ingersoll. Illustrated.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co.
wills, as is witnessed by the fact that sixty-one
By George Wharton James.
Illustrated. Boston: Little, Brown & Co.
species of birds nested last summer in the New
The Biography of a Beaver. By Clarence
York Zoological Park, " while many places of
Hawkes. With illustrations by Charles Copeland.
delphia: George W. Jacobs & Co.
equal area in the country which are harried by
Illustrated by Charles boys and cats are tenanted by a bare dozen
Livingston Bull. New York: The Macmillan Co.
species.”
AROUND AN OLD HOMESTEAD. A Book of Memories. Illus-
trated. By Paul Griswold Huston. Cincinnati: Jennings &
Mr. Stewart E. White's “ The Pass” is an
Graham.
account of how the explorer, with his wife, his
THE RAMBLES OF AN IDLER. By Charles Conrad Abbott, M.D.
Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Co.
guide, and their two dogs and four horses, made
BRIER-PATCH PHILOSOPHY. By “ Peter Rabbit.” Interpreted the first crossing from the head-waters of Roaring
by William J. Long. Illustrated by Charles Copeland. Boston:
Ginn & Co.
River to those of the Kaweah. It is told simply,
THE STORY OF SCRAGGLES.
SHAGGYCOAT.
Phila-
WHITE FANG.
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in a style as crisp as mountain air. Though this stricture does not apply to the volumes
the author writes modestly of the “ petty but by Mr. Dewar and Mr. Crawford, “ Bombay
real difficulties to be met with on such an ex Ducks” and “ From Fox's Earth to Mountain
pedition," and says that “anyone could have Tarn." Both these books, one treating of the
done it," the reader recognizes the heroic en birds and small animals of India, the other of
deavor. It scarcely seems a petty difficulty when wild life in Scotland, are of ample size, with
Dinkey, “the cocky, self-confident little horse," excellent photographs, and both touch upon sub-
falls over the edge of a precipice, or Old Slob jects of more than local interest. Mr. Dewar
overjumps on a slippery bridge, or especially explains in his preface that though the term
when the whole party, worn and bruised, are “ Bombay Ducks ” really means pieces of dried
turned back late in the day to retrace steps fish, he has chosen to use it for the birds and
which have taken them since sunrise, or when animals in which he is interested. He treats of
they make their final descent across the face of them like a writer, not like a scientist forced to
a sheer cliff on a hair-line ledge which is scarcely use his pen in the service of his subject; and
visible in a photograph. The book is of good his style is piquant and refreshing. On Eliza
size, and has dainty marginal sketches, with Cook's saying that “ Linnets teach us how to
some attractive full-page illustrations.
love, and ring-doves how to pray," the author
From lower levels of a neighboring region comments :
comes Mrs. Austin's unique study of “ The “ Had that estimable and well-meaning lady invested
Flock.” The poetic temperament which so well
eighteenpence in one of the cooing community she might
have said of them. They teach us how to swear.' But
fits Mrs. Austin for writing stories of the West
the question would arise, do men need to be taught that
has been of equal advantage to her in telling accomplishment? I am inclined to think that swearers,
of the shepherd-life, with its background of like poets, are born, not made.”
wild beauty, mixed romance, and unaffected Such glints of philosophy keep the book, ex-
savagery.” A prefatory chapter," which is haustive as it is, from ever becoming dull.
not on any account to be omitted," tells how in
Mr. Crawford's book, "From Fox's Earth to
1770 Rivera y Moncada brought the first flocks Mountain Tarn,” makes an equally thorough
from Velicata to the newly-founded Mission at study of the wild life of Scotland, traversing the
San Diego, and how ever since, in that land of
country from Ailsa Crag and the Tweed to the
“ the indolent lapping of the nights and days,” | Shetlands. The contention of the book is that
the dust and blether of a flock has been a rescue
sport, in the artificial form it has taken, is de-
“ from the clutch of great Tedium.” Lambing- stroying wild life. For the sake of the hunt, the
time, shearing, the work and character of dogs fox is allowed to thrive, though he destroys
and shepherds, the depredations of enemies,
grouse, pheasant, and rabbit ; to make room for
and the journeys through valleys, up mountain putting-greens on the coast golf-links, terns and
slopes, and across open ranges, are described with eider ducks are driven from their breeding-
an eye quick to see and a word competent to
places. Worst of all, the falcon, “ the sporting
suggest every significant and picturesque detail. bird that would rather a long chase than an easy
It is not often that a reader can have such capture, rather a swift wing than a fat meal," is
implicit trust in an author's use of words as in being exterminated. Thus sport becomes ugly,
Mrs. Austin's. What, for instance, could be when there is no longer " the instinct of fair
more accurate or more musical than this account play, which is the vital spark of sport.” Mr.
of the coming of night in the mountains?
Crawford has a way of saying things that makes
" In the Wild, the night moves forward at an impulse one think. The debt of the huntsman to the
flowing from unknowable control. Darkness comes out
birds whose swiftness disciplines his marksman-
of the ground and wells up to the cañon rims, light still
diffusing through the upper sky, a world of light beyond ship is thus effectively pointed out:
our world. Few things besides man suffer a check in • The falcon gave the flight feathers, lengthened and
their affairs. The wind treads about the forest litter pointed the wing. The eagle touched the plumage with
on errands of its own; you hear it but the more plainly, moorland hues, whose charm was the greater because
as if blackness were a little less resistant to sound.” of the exquisite sympathy. The reaction is marked ;
Whatever is needed by the imagination that
the eye of the eagle became keener.
Even the by-play
is of infinite interest. The protective shades of grouse
words cannot supply is given by Mr. Smith's
give the nose of the pointer; less cunningly hidden, and
skilful but unobtrusive drawings.
a coarser sense were enough. An interesting three are
Usually foreign nature-books are less inter grouse, sportsman, and dog. The hawk established
esting than our own, because we know too little their delicate relations."
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In dim ways
good general observation of wild life in our own Wild " is a dog with wolf blood, who goes from
country, is Mr. Ingersoll's “ The Wit of the a home where he is loved and petted, through
Wild.” Interesting comparisons with man's experiences of hardship and brutality, back to
ways are the most unique feature of the book ; | the life of the wilderness. White Fang, a wolf
for instance, the wasp's habit of storing up with dog blood, is born in the wilderness, and
spiders for her larvæ is called “ life insurance after experiences of hardship and brutality is
for wasps,” and the rattlesnake's “ shaking of brought at last to a home where he is loved and
castanets,” the coloring of fire-toads, the songs petted. There is as much that goes against the
of birds and calls of animals at mating-time, are reader's sympathy in one book as in the other ;
described in a chapter on “ Animals that Ad- but because the story of White Fang ends hap-
vertise.” A chapter on " Bluffing ” leads to the pily, much of the cruelty in it will be forgiven
conclusion that “ animals are probably able to and forgotten. The early life of White Fang
bluff more effectively than men, because they is narrated with an understanding of animal
are in such deadly earnest about it and do it so psychology which seems almost uncanny, yet
often." If there are no strikingly new facts in shows Mr. London's power in one of its best
Mr. Ingersoll's book, there is a new way of em- phases. When the young dog-wolf first saw the
phasizing old ones, and “a truth of simplicity Indians about their camp-fire “ a great awe de-
which constitutes a charm often lacking in scended
upon
him. .
he recog-
elaborate fiction.”
nized in man the animal that had fought itself
The three stories of individual animals to primacy over other animals of the Wild.”
“Scraggles,' “Shaggycoat,” and “White Fang.” He joins the camp, and becomes the dog of
are destined for popularity, with scarcely a Gray Beaver. His master is his god, but not
choice as to which best deserves it. Perhaps for love. “ There were deeps in his nature which
Mr. James's touching history of Scraggles, the had never been sounded. A kind word, a caress-
unpromising little song-sparrow which he took ing touch of the hand, on the part of Gray
to his home and his heart for its three months Beaver might have sounded these deeps; but
life, will appeal most to girls ; but they are not Gray Beaver did not caress nor speak kind
the only ones to whom it will appeal. Scraggles words. His primacy was savage." The reign
tells her own story of how she became the Pro of hate brings White Fang to be the fighting-
fessor's companion, helping him write his book dog of a white man. But from his last fight -
on the Old Missions of California, following him and there is no more blood-curdling dog-fight
out of doors on his walks, and sleeping in his in literature - he is rescued by the love-master.
shoes. Only at last, when her strength fails, By this patient, kind man, his brute nature is
does the author take up the pen in his own per- redeemed, and for the master he loves he learns
son and complete the tearful little record. to endure the restraints of civilization. The book
“Shaggycoat,” Mr. Clarence Hawkes's story will be judged inferior to “ The Call of the
of a beaver, will be fascinating to boys, though Wild” by sticklers for “ strong” endings;
they again will not be the only ones. Attention nevertheless it will be more enjoyed by the
is called to the fact that the Hudson Bay Com mass of readers.
pany, and many great families — the Astors, A finely-made book, whose open print and
for instance owe much of their wealth to this abundant pictures will especially delight old
industrious builder, who, “ like the red man, is people, is Mr. Huston's “ Around an Old Home-
a true American, for he was here before Colum- stead.” This “ book of memories,” though it
bus, and whose pelt was the prize for which the celebrates a particular house, will serve to stir
wilderness was scoured." Mr. Hawkes gives home memories in the heart of anyone
who has
this important animal biography in a simple, lived in the country. It has much to say of
straightforward way, and earns our gratitude by the house itself, the open fire, the orchards, the
leaving it with a happy ending in spite of the woods, the squirrels, the dogs, and the activities
fact that the beaver tribe is being ruthlessly of farm life. If the citing of authors, from
wiped out.
Tennyson to W.C. Gray- and one can scarcely
In “ White Fang,” Mr. Jack London has think of anything appropriate that has been
given us a book that probably will be more read omitted — seems to the over-critical too plentiful
than anything else he has written. It is a re and premeditated, it will probably not seem so
markable story for its own sake, and is further to those who take their reading in snatches.
remarkable for being the converse of “ The Call Since the study of out-door nature leads as
of the Wild.” The hero of “ The Call of the certainly to philosophy as does that of human
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nature, it is not strange that two of the new Why is it, he asks, that to change a habit of
books in our list should be given over to philoso- thinking among men requires centuries, and
phizing. Dr. Abbott's “ Rambles of an Idler” generally the blood of a few martyrs; while the
does not attempt to point a moral, except that animal changes his simple habits in a single
it is well to ramble and enjoy one's self. The generation, led by his own reasonable experi-
author “ goes hand in hand with day-dreams,
ence" ? Why do men eat when they are not
and his mind makes material out of whatever his hungry, breathe bad air when they might have
eye lights upon. His philosophy, if discursive, pure air, work for money that they do not need,
is cheerful and pertinent, - as in this example: and make slaves of themselves when they might
“I find, where I walk, a rusty pan among the dead be free ? At least “ Peter Rabbit” asks ques-
leaves and a vesper mouse has made a snug home of it. tions that are hard to answer, and in the end
It suggests that the art of much comfort from little is
better than supposititious ease from much. He really
wins gratitude for letting poor humans off as
does not enjoy nature who demands it
excess, and easily as he does. And Mr. Long, in this seri-
must have oceans and mountains, and spurns the modest ous piece of work, has made a contribution to
hills and wood-girt ponds that are round about him." animal study that will have permanent influ-
The book is good proof of how genially a man is
ence. It should be said, moreover, that the unus-
affected who spends much time in the sunshine. ually animated illustrations save the book from
In contrast with the general tone of Dr. Ab- being too serious. MAY ESTELLE COOK.
bott's philosophy is the particular intention of
Mr. Long's. The object of “ Briar Patch Philos-
ophy” is to establish the thesis that animals
HOLIDAY BOOKS OF TRAVEL,*
think. The words are put into the mouth of
"Peter Rabbit,'' but as this plan affects the
It may be that travel-books, like some other things,
manner of them only to the extent of naming the
should begin at home. Dr. Edward Everett Hale's
Rabbit"I" and human beings "you," the author-
book of “Tarry-at-Home Travels” does this, and does
it
ship is not much disguised. Mr. Long bases
very gracefully. Outside of the author's own New
his belief that animals think on the fact, admitted
* TARRY-AT-HOME TRAVELS. By Edward Everett Hale. Illus-
trated. New York: The Macmillan Co.
by all great naturalists, that they have minds, CAMP-FIRES IN THE CANADIAN ROCKIES. By William T.
and the theory that since the laws of the uni-
Hornaday, Sc.D. Illustrated by John M. Phillips. New York:
Charles Scribner's Sons.
verse are constant the laws of mind must be con-
CERTAIN DELIGHTFUL ENGLISH TOwns. With Glimpses of
stant. “Any truth, therefore, which you discover
the Pleasant Country Between. By William Dean Howells.
Illustrated. New York: Harper & Brothers.
about your own mind-
which constitutes your
LITERARY BY-PATHS IN OLD ENGLAND. By Henry C. Shelley.
psychology — must apply to any mind in the
Illustrated from photographs by the author. Boston: Little,
Brown, & Co.
universe, wherever you find it." That is, since
A WANDERER IN LONDON. By Edwin Verrall Lucas. With
animals have minds, they must use them as men
illustrations by Nelson Dawson, and from photographs. New
use theirs. The reasoning, though supported by ROMANTIC CITIES OF PROVENCE. By Mona Caird. With illus-
characteristically close observation, is from anal trations by Joseph Pennell and Edward M. Synge. New York:
Imported by Charles Scribner's Sons.
ogy,and readers will value the conclusions accord-
SAUNTERINGS IN SPAIN: Barcelona, Madrid, Toledo, Cordova,
ing to their valuation of that method. Certainly
Seville, Granada. By Frederick H. A. Seymour. Illustrated.
Mr. Long carries it rather far when he says: GRANADA: Memories, Adventures, Studies, and Impressions,
“ Your dog certainly does not obtain his idea of a By Leonard Williams. Illustrated. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippin-
master's spirit through the senses, for to his senses man
cott Co.
CITIES OF NORTHERN ITALY. By Grant Allen and George C.
is not nearly so powerful or noble as many of your great Williamson. Two volumes, illustrated. Boston: L. C. Page & Co.
beasts. Whatever idea your dog has of you, as his BY ITALIAN SEAS. By Ernest C. Peixotto. Illustrated by the
Master, is the recognition in you of some mental or
author. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
spiritual quality, and is gained by him through some
RAMBLES ON THE RIVIERA. By Eduard Strasburger, F.R.S.,
Translated from the German by O. and B. Comerford
mental or spiritual perception. What is there, therefore,
Casey. Illustrated in color by Louise Reusch. New York: Im-
to prevent all animals from feeling more or less surely ported by Charles Scribner's Sons.
the simple presence of one whom all your religions rec RAMBLES ON THE RIVIERA. Being Some Account of Journeys
ognize as a master and ruler of the solitudes, present and
Made en Automobile, and of Things Seen in the Fair Land of
active in all things, though no mortal eye can see him
Provence. By Francis Miltoun. Illustrated and decorated by
Blanche McManus. Boston: L. C. Page & Co.
nor any ear hear the sound of his footsteps ?”
RUSSIA: TRAVELS AND STUDIES. By Annette M. B. Meakin.
Still, if one cannot follow Mr. Long in grant-
Illustrated. Philadelphia: J. B, Lippincott Co.
PERSIA, PAST AND PRESENT, A Book of Travel and Research.
ing religion and a belief in immortality to dumb By A. V. Williams Jackson.
New York: The
creatures, one cannot help enjoying the clever-
Macmillan Co.
A WOMAN ALONE IN THE HEART OF JAPAN. By Gertrude
ness with which he defends his belief. 6 Peter
Adams Fisher. Illustrated. Boston: L. C. Page & Co.
Rabbit" sees some things about his human Two YEARS AMONG NEW GUINEA CANNIBALS: A Naturalist's
Sojourn among the Aborigines of Unexplored New Guinea. By
neighbors that make him wonder if they think. A. E. Pratt. Illustrated. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co.
York: The Macmillan Co.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co.
D.C.L.
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England, the book is concerned only with the State It would be hard to find fault with a traveller who
of New York and with the city of Washington. It was so prepared to enjoy his sojourn in a strange
contains much that is old — old enough, for the land, and one wherein he felt himself to be no
most part, to have become new again to Dr. Hale's stranger. It was this attitude toward life that went
readers; and it is laden with reminiscences from a far toward making both journey and the account of
day more remote in feeling than in time. The it so cheerful. The book has the usual charming
author tells us that the work was inspired by the and idiomatic style of Mr. Howells, who should now
conviction that there are not books enough concern be persuaded to do as much as much as he can,
ing travel in these States; and he set himself to the that is in the same vein for some of our American
task of remedying this lack in our literature, just as cities. Some charming pen drawings by Mr. Ernest
he performed a similar service for our national Haskell, together with numerous reproductions from
balladry. His first paragraph reads as follows: photographs, add not a little to the attractiveness of
“ It seems to me curious that so few people write about this pleasant volume.
travels in the United States. One in a thousand of the intelli-
gent Americans who travel in Europe puts his observations
Mr. Henry C. Shelley strays even farther from
into print. One in fifty of the people who cross Asia does the
the beaten path than does Mr. Howells, for in his
same; and every one who crosses Africa does. But of the " Literary By-Paths in Old England" he has under-
travellers of America, you might count on the fingers of two taken to follow the haunts and dwelling-places of
hands all who have written anything worth reading that has
been printed in the last twenty years."
Spenser, Sidney, William Penn, Gray, Gilbert
The illustrations are profuse and well-chosen, con-
White, Goldsmith, Burns, Keats, Carlyle, and Tom
sisting of reproductions of old prints and portraits Hood, concluding with the multiplicity of literary
and photographs of present-day scenes.
interests that centre in "royal” Winchester. The
novelty of the work does not consist so much in new
Mr. William T. Hornaday, the well-known travel discoveries, for there are none of consequence, as in
ler and writer on natural history, found in the Cana- presenting his subjects in a light not usual.
One
dian Rockies material for what President Roosevelt
thinks of Goldsmith, for instance, and one thinks of
might well call a “bully” travel-book.
there especially to find mountain goats -- and he cer-
yet somehow it is a novelty to think of Auburn itself,
tainly found them. A short quotation will show what
as it stands, still deserted, in its (and his) native
happened while he was studying a herd of twenty- | Ireland, and to think of Goldsmith in just that con-
eight of these animals which their dogs had brought nection. So Keats, though known to have been a
to bay long enough to have them photographed. chemist and student of medicine, is so entirely the
“Suddenly sharp cries of surprise came up from the camp, poet in the popular estimation that his signatures
and I sprang up to look about. Three goats were running
past the tents at top speed, --- a big billy, and two smaller
as a student of chemistry and medicine possess a
goats.
curious human interest. The book furnishes abun-
6. Hi, there! Goats! Goats!' cried Smith and Norboe. dant opportunity for illustrations, which are supplied
“The cook was stooping over the fire, and looking under from photographs taken by the author.
his right arm he saw the bunch charging straight toward
him, at a gallop. A second later, the big billy was almost
Mr. E. V. Lucas, in his attractive volume entitled
" A Wanderer in London," adds his charming prose
“Hey! You son-of-a-gun!' yelled Huddleston, and as and even an occasional modest verse to his minute
the big snow-white animal dashed past him he struck it
knowledge of locality and literature, and the result
across the neck with a stick of firewood. The goat's tracks
were within six feet of the camp-fire.”
is a book well worthy the attention of any visitor,
As was to be expected, the book abounds in vivid
actual or intending, to the British capital. Such a
descriptions of wild animals; and it gives also
paragraph as this, chosen quite at random, illustrates
many extremely interesting pictures made from pho-
its wealth of reference and its author's interesting
tographs taken at ranges almost inci edibly close. manner of presentation :
Grosvenor Square is two hundred years old and has had
In one or two places in his admirable book,
many famous residents. It was in an ante-room of the Earl
“Certain Delightful English Towns," Mr. W. D. of Chesterfield's house here that Johnson cooled his heels and
Howells shows a tendency to apologize to the people
warmed his temper. Mr. Thrale died in Grosvenor Square,
of England for the unkind words he has sometimes
and so did John Wilkes, at No. 30. At No. 22 lived Sir
William and Lady Hamilton, with · Vathek’ Beckford, and
written of them. Witness such a paragraph as this: thither went Nelson after the battle of the Nile."
“On the tender was an Englishman whom I asked which
And so on,
for
page
after
page,
and
was the best hotel in Plymouth. At first he would not com-
pres-
mit himself; then his humanity began to work in him, and
ent are allied with the strongest ties of association
he expressed a preference, and abruptly left me. He returned and charm of literary treatment. The sixteen col-
directly to give the reasons for his preference, and to excuse ored pictures by Mr. Nelson Dawson are charming;
them, and again he left me. A second time he came back,
with his conscience fully roused, and conjured me not to
and there are many other illustrations.
think of going elsewhere. I thought that charming, and I Mrs. Mona Caird brings a romancer's love of sen-
afterwards found the hotel excellent, as I found nearly all timent and an artist's powers of description to her
the hotels in England. I found everything delightful on the “Romantic Cities of Provence,” with the happiest
way to it, inclusive of the cabman's overcharge, which
brought the extortion to a full third of the just fare of a
results. Avignon, Uzès, Barbentane, the lagoons,
New York cabman."
Arles, Tarascon, Beaucaire, Carcassonne, and many
upon him.
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more of these old romantic places, are duly entered, time employed in manufacture. With these economies my
their atmosphere absorbed, the local legends studied, lowest possible price is fifteen centimos, and yet you sell for
and the result given in entertaining and often bril-
twelve. How can you do it for the money?'
liant passages of descriptive writing. In the matter
"• Why,' replied the other, unabashed, ' you see I steal my
brooms ready-made.''
of dates and merely useful knowledge, Mrs. Caird
A beautiful frontispiece in color from Mr. A. M.
has been, as she says, “ frugal”; but the essentials
Foweraker's painting of the Alhambra, together
for an understanding of the people are nowhere
with twenty-four reproductions from photographs,
lacking. It is the festival in the beloved city of
make up the pictorial equipment of the book.
Tarascon that evokes the following:
“No one can be in the South, above all in Provence,
One reads with some surprise the name of the
knowing of its ancient festivals, its music, its farandoles and late Grant Allen on the title-page of a new book,
Saracenic dances, and fail to be startled into new realization “Cities of Northern Italy," and with hardly less
of this element that has passed out of our life, the menace
surprise the naive statement of his supposed colla-
that lies in the pervading dulness, that benumbed worship
of sorrow, of 'work' and duty' without understanding and
borator, Mr. George C. Williamson, in the preface,
without freshness, that absence of fantasy and outcry that from which it does not appear that Allen's interest
binds the modern world in a terrible and unnatural silence. or share in the book ever went beyond the stage of
Of what avail is it that the people are law-abiding at the
suggestion, though he did prepare some historical
cost of the very spring and essence of being ?
We e are reminded of the annual protest against such guides dealing with the cities now treated. It would
seem, therefore, as if the question needed some clear-
few holidays as we permit ourselves, and of the
curious
ing up. Of the two volumes presented, the first deals
of work and quest that we regard as an
orgy
essential preparation for them. The book breathes entirely with Milan, and the second with Verona,
Padua, Bologna, and Ravenna. There appears to
the very spirit of holiday. Of equal interest with
be a remote kinship with Allen's work on Florence,
the text are the numerous illustrations from pen-
but it is with his scheme rather than his style or
drawings by Mr. Joseph Pennell and Mr. Edward
treatment. The illustrations, including two plates
M. Synge.
in photogravure, consist of reproductions of the art
It is no great way from Provence to the begin- and architecture of the region dealt with.
ning of Mr. Frederick H. A. Seymour's “Saunter-
ings in Spain,” and he has succeeded in giving his
Mr. Ernest C. Peixotto holds closely to his title,
“By Italian Seas," throughout the pleasant and
book something of the same charm, because his first
interest lies in the cities of the Moors, and they have
informing book he has prepared both text and pic-
left behind them many elements of joy not essen-
tures for. The Riviera di Ponente, Genoa, the
Riviera di Levante, the Dalmatian coast to Cattaro,
tially Spanish. The manner in which Seville
celebrates the feast of Corpus Christi appealed to
thence to Naples, and so on to Sicily and Malta, are
Mr. Seymour as an admirable opportunity to study
included in his itinerary, from which it will be seen
that he has wandered on and off the beaten track of
a Spanish crowd, and the following are among his
observations :
tourists. Interesting in the extreme is the account
of the marionetti of Sicily, “almost invariably
“ The men generally are singularly plain. But the ladies'
eyes would deserve a chapter
Ariosto's · Orlando
or even chapters
the same theme
to do
justice to them. The eyes are never still. They glide, they Furioso,'” with the air of the age of chivalry most
swim, they dilate, they contract, they half close, they lan carefully preserved and reproduced. Nor is it quite
guish, they curve, they sweep round the corners, and, pre-
ternaturally recovering themselves, they drop upon yours
reassuring to those engaged in the “ elevation” of
with a sudden glow. They do all things that eyes and tongue
the English-speaking stage to learn that these puppet-
and lips can do. But one thing they cannot do, and that is shows, accu
curately costumed and with their verses
to keep still; but they never stare."
well rendered, are the habitual recreation of the poor
Yet the book is more deeply laden with useful knowl in that sunny island. The illustrations are nearly
edge than most, the studies of the art galleries in four score in number, both full-page plates and
Spain being particularly close and appreciative. drawings in the text, and the cover bears a striking
Twenty-four reproductions from photographs illum- design in gold and colors.
inate the text.
“How fortunate it is," observes Dr. Eduard
Mr. Leonard Williams does not appear sympa- Strasburger, " that even on the darkest days imagi-
thetic with the Spanish character, in his book en nation can raise us up above the clouds !" Yet the
titled “Granada: Memories, Adventures, Studies, and seven journeys in Italy which he commemorates in
Impressions." The author is concerned, of course, his " Rambles on the Riviera" are so emphatically
more particularly with the old Moorish kingdom; those of a scholar — and first of all a botanist -
but he finds time to write a tractate upon the
gypsy that one's interest in his luxuriously printed and
of those parts, introducing into it one story worth illustrated book is primarily scientific. Vast learning
repeating
regarding the history of familiar plants is placed at
“Gypsy peddlers were hawking brooms about the streets the disposal of the reader, and accuracy is ensured
and plazas of Granada, when one of them called the other to
by the reproduction in color of nearly every plant
his side. Speaking,' he said, ' with perfect frankness, I make
my brooms myself, and steal my rushes, my handles, and my
mentioned. These illustrations, together with numer-
cord for binding. Nothing proceeds from me except the ous vignettes of scenes on the Riveria, are contrib-
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success.
uted by Louise Reusch. Printed as they are in the tesy when she came upon a country lad unawares
text, they present an unusually novel and attractive and he apparently mistook her for an apparition.
appearance.
Many of the photographs in the work are as new as
Of an entirely different and more conventional the matters they illustrate, and the book has sincer-
sort is the volume bearing the identical title of Dr. ity and candor.
Strasburger's, just noticed, but written by Mr. Francis Cannibalism appears only in the title of Mr. A.
Miltoun. Its opening scenes are in Provence, whence E. Pratt's “Two Years among New Guinea Canni-
the reader follows the author in his automobile bals," and the people who figure in its pages seem to
journeyings to Marseilles and Toulon, and it is not be mild-mannered and amiable. Now that Africa has
until near the close that the Riviera and Monaco been practically explored from end to end, New
are reached. The book abounds in descriptions of Guinea remains the largest unknown tract of land
natural scenery:
One reads that at Cannes " local on the habitable globe, and it has been Mr. Pratt's
professors’ have a busy time of it, in season and good fortune to cover portions of territory in the
out, teaching what they call the “idiome britan Dutch portion of the island previously unknown.
nique' and the “argot Américaine.” One wonders This was merely incidental to his main purpose as
just what this latter can be, and if it is taught to the a naturalist; and here, too, he met with marked
British as well as the French. A frontispiece in
One of his Christmas dinners is thus de-
color and numerous full-page wash drawings are
scribed :
supplied by Miss Blanche McManus