Pollard. Professor Pollard
adolescent period. The reader who shares the ten evidently believes that the work of administrative
dency of the times to consider this period extraor and commercial reform was, for the scattered prov-
dinary in character and preěminent in importance inces of Prussia, more essential than the grant of
will be disappointed with the scanty eight pages a parliamentary system of government. The vol-
here devoted to it, and that without mention of two ume also contains a special chapter on “ Economic
of the most significant elements in the period — the Change," but so much of positive fact is crowded
development of sex, and the rise of vocational im into its thirty-five pages as nearly to smother definite
pulses and ideas.
impressions. As in previous volumes of this series,
To the student of the history of education since foreigners have been called upon for contributions
the Revival of Learning, one of the momentous within their fields. In addition to Professor
facts is the passing of Latin and Greek as the sole Bourgeois, there are Dr. Askenazy for Russia and
vehicle of knowledge and culture, and the rise of Poland, Professor Segrè for Italy, and Professor
literature and science in the vernacular tongues. Altamira for Spain. This diversity of authorship
To him, the keynote of a discussion concerning the results occasionally in an embarrassing diversity of
value of the ancient languages in education may well views. For example, Lady Blennerhasset writes
be put in Professor De Garmo's own words: “The that the policy of Consalvi “impressed upon the
more a given group of studies is urged as a necessity Papal restoration a stamp of high statesmanship
in education, the more imperative becomes the need and moderation,” while Professor Segrè remarks
of determining its inherent worth, lest the tradi that “ The Church had restored a government far
tional estimate of its value be over or under rated ” more despotic (than that of the Austrians in Lom-
(p. 103). We cannot resist the conviction that the bardy], and rendered more destructive and oppres-
author has not lived up to this principle with respect sive by its internal confusion - a blind, changeable
to the study of foreign and especially ancient lan and capricious government," etc. Again, referring
guages in the secondary school. The reasons for to the period after the commotions of 1830, while
this conviction cannot be given here in full ; one Professor Segrè characterizes Louis Philippe's
fact is, however, suggestive: eighteen pages are Italian policy as “ timid” and “uncertain," Profes-
devoted to linguistics, five to literature in general, sor Bourgeois thinks the Citizen King steered amidst
one to literature in the mother tongue.
Nor can
the rocks of foreign intervention with consummate
we feel that this is an accident, but rather that it. skill and foresight. In the present volume there are
is indicative of the real attitude of the discussion. chapters which fill lacunæ left in the two earlier
Truly, we have wandered far from the educational volumes, notably the chapter of Mr. Kirkpatrick on
ideals of our spiritual ancestors the Greeks! the Spanish Dominions in America, which intro-
The style is everywhere clear and readable, and duces his chapter on the Establishment of Inde-
the make-up of the book is satisfactory, in spite pendence in Spanish America. The chapters on
of a few typographical errors. One or two minor English and German literature also cover much of
criticisms may be suggested : on page 129 we should the eighteenth century.
If there
appears
less unity
surely read hundreds instead of “thousands of years in this volume, because there is no great central fig-
ago”; it is not clear why the Oberrealschule is ure or theme, it nevertheless possesses sound utility.
omitted from the list of German secondary schools
(p. 172); is not “many-sided attention ” a contra-
To most readers, Jean Rotrou is
diction in terms? Doubtless many-sided interest is
A contemporary little more than a name; to some
of Corneille.
meant (p. 121).
EDWARD O. Sisson.
he is not even that. Born in 1609,
three
years after Corneille, his literary career was
begun and finished before that of his glorious rival.
Rotrou's first play was produced in 1628, Corneille's
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS.
in 1629. His last drama is dated 1649, Corneille's
Europe after
For the ordinary student, the period | 1674. The author of Le Cid called the author
the downfall of the Restoration, coming after the of Saint Genest “his father.” In fact, Corneille
of Napoleon.
tragic and spectacular collapse of the absolutely eclipsed Rotrou, of whose thirty-five
Napoleonic empire, seems filled with dreary details plays two only are now remembered, read, and
of petty repression. A closer scrutiny has credited sometimes acted. These plays are now offered
it with some distinguishing merits, - the preserva-
for the first time to students of French, by Prof.
tion of peace for a half-century, so necessary for the T. F. Crane, who has done much to direct the
restorative
process in the higher sense of the word. public into untrodden literary fields. His choice of
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one. By placing side by side Saint Genest and graphical writer with abundant material for de-
Polyeucte, which treat the same subject, we can scription and picturesqueness. To the several lives
measure the distance separating a clever second of Owen in various languages, Mr. Frank Podmore
rate dramatist from a playwright of real genius. As has added an excellent and well-balanced biography
for Venceslas, it was very much admired during in two large volumes with numerous illustrations
the eighteenth century. Voltaire considered some (Appleton). The' author does not approach his
parts of it masterly; it was acted by Lekain subject with zeal for any cause he represented, nor
and Talma, and given at various theatres until with a spirit of eulogy, but gives a fair picture of
1875. Saint Genest, more popular in our day, the man in his strength of individual persistence and
was put on the stage of the Odéon as late as 1900. his weakness of impracticability. Large research
In their general treatment and atmosphere both was necessary to the complete sketches the author
plays differ so much from the pure classical trage- gives of the various enterprises with which Owen was
dies that Emile Deschanel has found in them “some connected, and this is shown also in the appended
thing Shakespearian,” while Sainte-Beuve consid- bibliography. Owen's theories are deduced from
ered them the forerunners of the Romantic move his various writings and lectures, but not introduced
ment. “ Saint Genest is, in the midst of the seven in sufficient quantity to cause tediousness or distrac-
teenth century, the most Romantic play imaginable." tion. In short, the two volumes furnish an excellent
Undoubtedly this flavor of modernism, this bold example of what unbiased and unprejudiced biog-
mixture of the tragic and the comic, so marked in raphy should be. Comparisons with modern prob-
these “tragi-comedies,” will appeal to the readers lems of child-labor and conditions of workingmen
whom the monotonous solemnity of the classical are inevitable in the reader's mind, and modern
drama sometimes wearies. In his 135 page intro- improved conditions are appreciated when one reads
duction, the editor has well brought out the char- that at New Lanark Owen found in his newly
acteristics of the two plays. The picture of the purchased cotton mills no less than five hundred
condition of the French drama before 1636 - the children apprenticed from the parish workhouse.
date of Le Cid - the account of Rotrou's life and At the same time, one queries how modern work-
literary activity, his tragic death during the plague men would take Owen's method of hanging beside
at Dreux, the illuminating study of his style and ver each spinner a wooden paddle painted to show his
sification, which applies to the whole seventeenth conduct on the preceding day, - i. e., white for
century tragedy, the estimates of all the critics from excellent,” yellow for “good,” blue for " indif-
Voltaire to Brunetière, will be found entertaining ferent,” and black for “bad.” Mr. Podmore's work
and instructive by the general reader. Only the will be found of value to students of present social
special student, however, will care for the detailed conditions, as well as to those interested in early
comparison with the Spanish models, and the extracts history in the Middle West of America.
in the appendix. The notes are extremely useful
for the understanding of the style of the period, and
No one should be deterred by the
as complete as could be desired; the bibliography
sensational title from reading Lieu-
of Japan.
covers all that is of prime importance on the subject.
tenant Sakurai's recital of his expe-
This edition of Rotrou, prepared with the minute
riences in the campaign against Port Arthur. By
“ Human Bullets"
conscientiousness shown in the other works of the
a figure of speech characteris-
same author, is the result of several years' labor
tically Japanese he signifies the masses of living
and travel. It will be indispensable to all who care
men that were hurled against the fortifications guard-
to study French tragedy at its sources.
Published ing the stronghold in desperate attempts to carry
by Messrs. Ginn & Co., Boston.
them by storm. The book is a soldier's story of what
he witnessed with his own eyes from the time he left
Robert Owen,
Robert Owen might have ranked home until he fell grievously wounded and was left for
among
the best-known philanthro dead on the field. In Japan it reached its forty-first
philanthropist. pists of the early part of the last thousand within a year of its publication, and the
century if he had not embraced in his views com- Emperor, in token of his appreciation, bestowed
munism and various heterodoxies. As it was, he upon the author the signal honor of a private audi-
ran the whole gamut of socialism. Profit-sharing,
It has been translated into Russian, French,
cooperation, education of children, child-labor, trades and German, and now appears in an English ver-
unions, communities, spiritualism, all came within sion (Houghton).
sion (Houghton). The narrative, presented in a
his realm of social reform and reorganization. At series of vivid word-pictures, is impressive from its
one time the head of the labor-community at New sincerity. There is no boasting, no attempt at self-
Lanark, Wales ; at another, working with equal zeal glorification. Instead, there breathes throughout the
in a community at New Harmony, Indiana ; offered spirit of lofty devotion to duty that made General
the freedom of the House of Representatives' hall at Nogi's army invincible.
Nogi's army invincible. The sense of personal
Washington for a lecture which was attended even responsibility for the outcome of the war, that was
by the President of the United States; and later felt by all from the highest to the lowest, is a domi-
attacked by the clergy of England, insulted, and nant note, constantly recurring. Since some must
mobbed in the holy war,” Owen furnishes a bio- | fall, each man went forth not expecting to return, and
A soldier
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ence.


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travel book.
counting it the greatest of honors should he be one pains to do, and we are willing to leave it to her
of those privileged to make the supreme sacrifice whether her chapters shall contain a greater measure
of giving his life for his country. We are shown of literary reminiscence or of traveller's lore. The
something of the appalling horror of war as seen book is discriminatingly illustrated, - we are glad
by the man in the ranks, but this is not dwelt upon not to be obliged to use the conventional adjective,
unduly. The things brought into prominent relief fully, in this connection, — and is bound in a style
are the intense patriotism of the army and the rela at once artistic and dignified.
tion that existed between officers and men, which
A Japanese
we are told was exceedingly close and tender, and
Dr. Masuji Miyakawa, the Japanese
effort to explain
akin to that between parents and children. Con Japan to
attorney who defended the students
sidering the great difficulty of finding English
Americans. recently barred out of the San Fran-
phrases to give the exact meaning of the original, cisco schools, makes an attempt to bring to “mil-
the translation has been very well done, though lions of American homes” knowledge of Japan and
occasionally the.choice of words is not happy. No Japanese conditions, in a work entitled “ The Life
review of the work would be quite complete without of Japan" (Baker-Taylor Co.). Apparently the book
some reference to the colored frontispiece, repro is the outcome of many questions put to the author
duced from a drawing made by the author with by well-meaning but not well-informed people whom
his left hand after he had lost his right in the war.
he has met during his residence in this country.
The spirited composition and the force and suavity The religions,“ moral ethics,” customs, and habits of
of the brush-strokes indicate decided artistic talent. the Japanese people, and the salient features of the
history of Nippon, are briefly reviewed ; and inter-
Now that all the world goes a-travel-spersed between the chapters are quotations from
An unusual
ling, the days of the machine-made distinguished writers, with translations of poems,
popular guides to the art, architecture, chiefly from the “Manyefushifu” and other classics.
literary memorials, and scenery of Europe are num As might naturally be expected, there are some
bered. Excellent in their place, they must find that amusing errors of diction, as in the reference to
place narrowing with every summer's invasion of
works on the scenery of Japan : “ This kind of book
Europe by the reading public of America. It is
is quite harmless, for it is merely the making of
therefore a pleasure to discover that Miss Betham-
a picture gallery or conemetograph;” and again :
Edwards’s“ Literary Rambles in France” (McClurg) “ August . . . is the time the temperature on the
belongs, not to the appalling multitude of “popular
summit of Fuji can be tolerated when it is reached.”
guides,” but to the small and delightful company | The naive acceptance of such legends as the simul-
of artistic and illuminating travellers’ sketches.
taneous formation of Mount Fuji and Lake Biwa
They have, in the first place, the note of spontaneity in the year 286 B. C. would hardly be echoed by
Their author is an English woman, but an officier de scholars. For the most part, however, the book is
l'instruction publique of France, and is naturally
accurate and well suited to the needs of readers who
quite at home in the domain of French letters. In
do not care to go deeply into the subjects treated.
like manner her travels in France are leisurely and
To such it may be commended in the hope that it
intimate wanderings, covering many years and all may, as the author desires, help to promote friendly
seasons, enjoyed with rare insight, and described in feeling between the people of America and Japan.
a suggestive fashion that, far from exhausting the
resources of the subject, hints at unrevealed charms,
Experiences in giving talks about old
whets the reader's appetite, and makes him resolve
China at afternoon parties in London
to take the earliest opportunity of seeing Flaubert's porcelain.
convinced Mrs. Willoughby Hodgson
quaint study at Croisset, of summering where that a large amount of good Chinese porcelain is
Michelet wrote “La Mer,” of penetrating the Brit owned by persons who know nothing at all about its
tany of Emile Souvestre, of going “On the Track of characteristic beauties or its value. She has accord-
Balzac” to Limoges, Angoulême, and Saumur, and ingly prepared a manual on the subject for amateur
* In the Footsteps of George Sand” to La Châtre students and collectors, entitled “How to Identify
and Nohant, and then to the Bibliothèque Nationale, Old Chinese Porcelain” (McClurg). Mrs. Hodgson
where the correspondence of George Sand and does not attempt to be either exhaustive or original.
Alfred de Musset is preserved. The chapter about She professes indebtedness to a variety of writers of
these letters is entitled - A Last Word about George more elaborate and expensive works, and refers her
Sand," and is a delightful character sketch. The readers to them and to certain great ceramic collec-
chapter on “Flaubert's Literary Workshop "is, after tions for more complete knowledge. Mrs. Hodgson
two or three pages of description, a brilliant study leaves anecdotes and personalities alone, and attends
of temperament and of the literary methods that strictly to the business of classifying glazes and
reveal it. “I always object to making a toil of pastes, describing styles, colors, decorations, and
pleasure, and am the most incurious traveller alive," date-marks of typical specimens, explaining what
confesses Miss Betham-Edwards, a propos of some is meant by “crackle,” how to distinguish between
unexplored grottoes. But she gets to the heart of the Chinese and English “ blue," and how to know
matter, as more curious travellers seldom take the Oriental “Lowestoft” from English. A careful
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bond lyrics.
study of her brief and accurately worded chapters “ A Tennyson Calendar," selected by Miss Anna
should enable the beginner to view collections,
Harris Smith, makes a small book published by Messrs.
classify his own specimens, and buy others, with a
Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. A companion volume is
fair amount of intelligence; and this is more than
“ A Christmas Anthology” of poems and carols.
he could do after perusing many more ambitious but
Three pretty booklets published by Messrs. Duffield
& Co. give us, respectively, Lincoln's inaugural and
less systematic treatises.
Gettysburg address, FitzGerald's Omar Khayyam, and
Helps, new and In the “ Book of the Wisdom of
“The Canticle of the Sun" by St. Francis of Assisi.
old, to right
living and
Solomon ” it is written, “ And if a
“ Adventures of Uncle Sam's Soldiers" is the title
thinking. man love righteousness, her labors are
given to a new volume in “Harper's Adventure Series."
virtues ; for she teacheth temperance and prudence,
There are a dozen stories, and among their authors are
Julian Ralph, John Habberton, and Gen. Charles King.
justice and fortitude: which are such things as men
A monograph on « The Esthetic Doctrine of
can have nothing more profitable in their life.”
Montesquieu,” by Dr. Edwin Preston Dargan, is pub-
With these words Mr. Paul Revere Frothingham lished by the J. Å. Furst Co., Baltimore. It is a Johns
opens the first chapter of his book of essays, or ser Hopkins doctoral dissertation of the normal type, and
mons, entitled “The Temple of Virtue” (Houghton, of something more than the normal interest.
Mifflin & Co.). The emphasis placed on these Professor Earle W. Dow's “ Atlas of European
cardinal virtues by Plato and Aristotle is pointed out, History," published by Messrs. Henry Holt & Co., is a
and their nature is explained and illustrated in the
volume of moderate dimensions, and, of course, better
succeeding chapters. But the final discourse, “The than its predecessors because it embodies the latest
Altar of Love,” calls attention to the blindness
pagan
political arrangements of Europe, Asia, and Africa.
The
to the highest virtue of all, love — the love of God
poems
of the late Richard Hovey are now pub-
and one's neighbor. The book is a help to right volumes, five of which are devoted to the several parts
lished by Messrs. Duffield & Co. in a neat set of six
living, and it is written in an unpretentious and
of the dramatic cycle “ Launcelot and Guenevere.” The
pleasing style, with occasional apt quotations from
sixth volume is “ Along the Trail,” a collection of vaga-
Bacon, Harnack, Aquinas, Paulsen, Franklin,
Pausanias, and a considerable range of other writers, An edition of “Grace Abounding" and " The Pilgrim's
ancient and modern. Unity of design, however, Progress,” included in a single volume, is now added to
holds together all this variety of detail, and each the “Cambridge English Classics," of which the Messrs.
chapter is succinct, simple, and direct. The little Putnam are the American publishers. Dr. John Brown
volume can be read pleasantly and profitably at a
has edited the text from the most complete editions.
single sitting, or it can be digested piecemeal.
Dr. Charles Seignobos's “ History of Mediæval and of
Modern Civilization,” in a translation made by Professor
Under the title of “Shakespeare as
James Alton James, is published by the Messrs. Scribner.
The moral
system of
a Dramatic Thinker” (Macmillan),
This is the second of a series of three volumes which
Shakespeare. Professor Richard G. Moulton has
will reproduce, altogether, the essential parts of the
re-issued his “Moral System of Shakespeare"
author's “ Histoire de la Civilisation."
(reviewed in The Dial for November 16, 1903). public a “ Lexicon to the English Poetical Works of
Miss Laura E. Lockwood offers to the academic
A new introduction has been supplied; otherwise,
John Milton,” the result of labors extending over a
except for slight alterations in phraseology, the book
dozen years. The usefulness of such a work to literary
remains unchanged. Up to a certain point, the students is so obvious that no comment is needed. The
author is undoubtedly right in his contention that pages are double-columned, and there are nearly seven
Shakespeare's plots reveal his attitude toward the hundred of them. The Macmillan Co. are the publishers.
problems of life ; but one must observe carefully The H. W. Wilson Co., Minneapolis, publish a
wherein Shakespeare followed his sources and “Swedish Grammar and Reader," the work of Professor
wherein he intentionally modified his stories. The
J, S. Carlson. This is a book that has been much
weakness of the book lies chiefly in just this neglect needed, and does for the student of Swedish what
Professor Julius Olson's similar work does for the
of the oft-despised sources. The reputation of the
work as suggestive and stimulating is of course de-
student of Norwegian. The selections which fill the
“ reader” section of the volume are judiciously made
served, and it will doubtless long continue to serve
and of much interest.
as a useful guide in a fruitful kind of study.
The Messrs. Putnam, who, soon after the death of
Frederick Law Olmsted, had the good judgment to
republish his narrative of “ A Journey in the Seaboard
NOTES.
Slave States," have now continued the good work then
begun by following it with a new edition of " A Journey
The Macmillan Co. publish a new edition, in two in the Back Country.” This work, like its predecessor,
volumes as before, of Mr. Philip Alexander Bruce's very fills two large volumes. It was originally issued in 1860,
valuable « Economic History of Virginia in the Seven and the experiences which it relates date six or seven
teenth Century.”
years further back. As time goes on, these books will
“ A Student's History of Philosophy,” by Professor become more and more important to the historian, and
Arthur Kenyon Rogers, is a work now six years old, it is safe to predict that the late twentieth century will
and has attained the dignity of a new revised edition. think of them, and use them, as we now use and think
It is published by the Macmillan Co.
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LIST OF NEW BOOKS.
[The following list, containing 182 titles, includes books
received by THE DIAL since its last issue.]
The Tragedie of Romeo and Juliet. Edited, with notes,
introduction, etc., by Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke.
With photogravure frontispiece, 16mo. gilt top, pp. 285. "First
Folio" Shakespeare. T. Y. Crowell & Co. 75 cts.
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An Artist's Reminiscences. By Walter Crane. Illus, in
photogravure, etc., large 8vo, gilt top, pp. 520. Macmillan
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Jay Cooke, Financier of the Civil War. By Ellis Paxon
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The Last Empress of the French: Being the Life of the
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It has long been a thought of mine that a collec-
tion should be made of the best specimens of English
narrative verse, corresponding to the many anthol-
ogies of lyric and ballad poetry. To do this
adequately would require that some of the crown
jewels of English literature should be torn from their
settings — that the epics and long poems should
be dismembered. Sacrilege this, but perhaps the
fragments would show to as much advantage in
juxtaposition with rival pieces as they do in their
present frameworks.
Lyric poetry we have always with us.
much the natural language of the human heart, so
much the necessary instrument of personality, that
one cannot imagine it ever becoming unfashionable
or obsolescent. The drama, too, holds its own, partly
by help of the stage and partly by its own inherent
virtue, as the most concentrated form by which action
can be presented. We cannot afford to neglect the
drama of the past, though we may refuse to pay any
attention to the plays of the present. But epic and
narrative poetry have fallen upon evil days. They
have suffered far more than the other two supreme
forms of verse by the competition of the novel and
the short story. Verse undoubtedly makes greater
demands upon a reader than prose. To read a
novel is as easy as to forget it. To read verse
requires either an instinct or an education. But its
stamp endures. It has form, where prose has merely
force. It has architectural symmetry, sculpturesque
outline, color, and music, — qualities which are only
faintly present in prose. The vast increase of readers
among the untrained and flabby-minded is respon-
sible for the present occultation of poetry. They
follow the line of least resistance, and read what
gives them the least trouble. And some of our chief
American prosemen, who ought to know better, take
advantage of this condition and affect to speak super-
ciliously of verse. They talk mysteriously of their
new art,” of the “more subtle methods” of their
prose, and relegate the eternal forms of literature to
the garret as outworn lumber. The casual observer
can see no new art in their books, only an art as old
as commonplace has always been, and a method as
obvious as mediocrity has always used. It is hard
to convince one that a photographic album of an
ordinary American family is a
more valuable
national possession than the Vatican or Uffizi gal-
leries. It is not difficult to cut off seventeen yards
of pump-water and call it a novel, or to string
together vague phrases and solemn puffery and call
it an essay. Even the really great prose works of
WEST POINT HALF A CENTURY AGO. Percy
F. Bicknell.
310
ALL ABOUT EVERYTHING IN HOMER. F.B.R.
Hellems.
311
THE ENGLISH NOVEL AND THE RASCALLY
ANTI-HERO. Edith Kellogg Dunton
315
RECENT FICTION. William Morton Payne . . . 317
Mrs. Wharton's The Fruit of the Tree. -- Mrs.
Atherton's Ancestors. — Mrs. Burnett's The Shut-
tle. — Friedman's The Radical. - Parrish's Beth
Norvell. --Garland's Money Magic.-Parker's The
Weavers.—Horniman’s Lord Cammarleigh's Secret.
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS
319
The history of slavery in Cuba. — Tennyson's life,
art, and ideals. — Factors in modern history.
Eulogy of a self-confessed mountebank.-The most
"improvable" world-race.—Astronomy up to date.
-American history from an English point of view.
BRIEFER MENTION
322
NOTES
322
LIST OF NEW BOOKS
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our language have not the form of adamant and soul and Honoria” and “Cymon and Iphigenia.” I do
of fire of the great poems.
The best of our novels, not see how we could do without the whole of Pope's
if brought into competition with " Paradise Lost,' “Rape of the Lock," a work so brilliant in design
would disappear like the serpents of the Magi before and execution, so airy in invention, and so studded
Aaron's animated rod. The best of our short stories with glittering lines and passages, that it is mere
would show like shadows beside the white enchant pedantry to refuse it homage as a poem. Artificial
ment of “ Christabel” or the glowing splendor of it is, of course; but it is Nature which makes that
“ The Eve of St. Agnes.”
art, as Shakespeare assures us. Fops and bells, and
A collection such as I suggest would have to begin powder-puffs and silver buckles, are all in the uni-
with Chaucer. Langland's “Piers Plowman" is, versal round.
for any practical purpose, not English; and Beowulf The main force of eighteenth-century verse in
and the great Welsh and Irish legends and epics are England was diverted from the three primitive forms
not English at all. What poet better than Chaucer of poetry into satire, didactic and descriptive work.
for the fore-front of such a book ? The morning Great things were done in these, but not until the
freshness, the spring vitality of his landscape, the Romantic Revival came in sight did creative art in
lusty vigor and naturalness of his people, would open poetry again rear its head.
the collection with a thrill and tingle of life. The Aside from his songs, Burns is a satiric and
Prologue to the “Canterbury Tales” to show his didactic writer. Only his “Tam O'Shanter” could
humor and creative force, the “Knight's Tale," per be gathered into our casket. Wordsworth in the
haps somewhat condensed, to show his romantic main is didactic and descriptive, yet he would yield
strain and the richness of his verse, and the us at least three narrative pieces – “ Michael,”
" Prioress's Tale” to show his pathos, would be my “ Hart-Leap Well,” and “Laodamia.” Hazlitt gave
selections.
his vote for two lines of the last-named piece as the
English narrative verse leaps from Chaucer to best in the language. The whole poem is of solemn
Spenser, from the realist with romance in his and ineffable beauty. Goethe's “Bride of Corinth,”
blood, to the idealist touched with the love of the a piece far superior to Wordsworth's in dramatic
flesh and the adornments thereof. Spenser's sen effect and story-telling technique, is a mere fool to
suousness, however, is at second-hand; it is the it in depth and compelling power.
mirrored reflection of great galleries of pictures, Coleridge's “Christabel ” and the “ Rime of the
rather than of the wide world itself. The opening Ancient Mariner” are two pinnacles of pure art. In
canto of “ The Faërie Queene,” the canto describing them the absolute, the perfect simplicity of word
the garden of Acrasia, and one dealing with and cadence, is substituted for style, and the mys-
Britomart, Spenser's most brilliant heroine, would terious utterance of impassioned reverie for thought.
be a fair representation.
Coleridge is the inspired bard, the true descendant
The vast mass of Elizabethan verse would hardly of the Druids. I think there can be no doubt as to
yield more than one poem, Marlowe's “ Hero and his original, though perhaps vague, plan for the
Leander.” It is a translation, but it has all the completion of " Christabel.” How could the child,
merits of an original, and it glows like a clear star the Climber elf” of the wonderful concluding lines,
amid the fogs and clouds of Daniel, Drayton, and have got into the
poem
if he had no meaning ?
the other epic writers of the time. ' Shakespeare's Scott's poetry is a good deal better than it gets
two narrative pieces show the crescent might of the credit for being. It is not made out of the original
master's hand, but they are encumbered and tire elements, as the poetry of Chaucer and Burns is,
some and altogether unable to hold their own with at least those elements are fused and distilled in an
the work of the real story-tellers.
alchemist's retort, in the hope to get something finer
Again there is a wide gap, until we come to Milton. than Nature. But the product is healthful and
I would choose the first four books of “Paradise invigorating. One might take from him the first
Lost," and should think it no irreverence to the great canto of the “ Lay,” the first canto of the “ Lady of
poet to tear them from their place. In the rest of the Lake," and the last canto of “ Marmion."
the work we are moving in a high region; but we The great personality of Byron - a volcano which
are hardly conscious of the height, and we are spouted fire and ashes over Europe, whose track can
conscious of many inequalities and dreary wastes. be traced to this day — required a personal form of
The first precipitous rising of the eternal peaks, the expression. His greatest work is autobiographic or
outlook over illimitable horizons, are lost to us. If satiric. He did not take much interest in anybody
nothing remained of the poem but the scenes in hell but himself, and so was unfit for the drama or the
and the opening view of paradise, we would gaze
in epic. Yet " The Vision of Judgment," while it is
wonder on the unparallelled fragments and declare satire, is also magnificent narrative. “The Prisoner
that the hand that wrought them was the mightiest of Chillon " has a sombre greatness, and the Haidée
in the history of literature.
book of “ Don Juan" is enchantingly beautiful.
Dryden's superb and manly genius hardly ever The Northern Lights of Shelley's verse — thin,
showed to greater advantage than in the Fables of wavering, unsubstantial did not concentrate into
Of these I should choose " Theodore any solid epic creation. Probably his best narrative
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work is the translation of the Homeric “Hymn to the soliloquist might talk aloud. But a soliloquy
Hermes,” where the Greek original kept him within in plain air, with no compelling cause, seems folly's
measurable reach of reality. "Julian and Maddalo" farthest flight in literature.
has fine lines and passages, and a brooding depth From Mrs. Browning one could take " Lady
of tone. “The Sensitive Plant” is characteristically Geraldine's Courtship,” “The Rhyme of the
and entirely Shelleyan.
Duchess May,” and “Bertha in the Lane.” There
The “Hyperion” of Keats seems to me the per is unquestionably a touch of over-wrought sentiment
fect model of English narrative verse. Greek where in these poems, but they are the utterances of a
Milton is Asiatic, plastic where Coleridge is vision noble mind, and, what is more to the purpose, they
ary, manly where Tennyson is feminine, he is, in are delightfully readable and rememberable.
mere manner, nearer than anyone else to the Ionian The question of admitting the ballad form of
father of them all. His assimilative genius comes poetry might come up in Rossetti's case.
The
out in “ Lamia,” where, adopting Dryden's style, he ballad, as I take it, is the naïve relation of an
far surpasses
his master in originality of design and incident with no conscious effort of art. If this is
wealth of detail. “ The Pot of Basil” is the most
80,
Rossetti's
poems are not true ballads at all, for
human of his poems, and “The Eve of St. Agnes they step forth in powder and plumes and war-paint
the most complete exhibition of all the resources of and with all the paraphernalia of the artist's study.
the poetic art. Never was the Muse more decked “Sister Helen," "Rose Mary," and "The King's
and adorned, or more irradiated with inward light. Tragedy” would be good representations of his fine
Our book ought to contain something by Crabbe though somewhat elaborate poetry. William Morris
and by Moore, in the first case to show how far is one of the most voluminous writers of narrative
poetry can descend into prose herd swine like the verse in the language. But the grey monotony of
Prodigal Son — without forfeiting its birthright, his poetry — its lack of saliency in phrase, picture, or
and in the second case to show how it can put on character — keep it from preëminence. No greater
tinsel and false gauds without losing its character critical mistake was ever made than the equalling
for right virtue. One of Crabbe's “ Tales of the of this builder of misty dreams in rhyme with the
Hall” would do; and, on the principle of taking a fresh, vivid, poignantly real Chaucer. But he
man's most characteristic piece in this kind, Moore's deserves a niche in our book, and his “ Atalanta " is
“Paradise and the Peri” might be a good selection. probably as good a piece as could be chosen.
It is sweetly pretty anyhow. For various reasons, We are all apt to be a little cautious in suggesting
Blake, Campbell, Leigh Hunt, and Tom Hood hardly our near neighbors for apotheosis. The American
seem to yield anything to our purpose.
poetry of the past should furnish its quota to this
I should give a good part of Landor's “Gebir,” | collection, but our literature has not extended
whose Laconism is a thing by itself in our literature. itself much in the line of epic or narrative verse.
And I should include the first half of Horne's Perhaps a good part of Longfellow's “Evangeline,"
“Orion," a poem which, though it echoes Milton Lowell's “ Vision of Sir Launfal” — whose opening
and Keats, holds itself not unworthily on a level verses are the most exquisite movement he ever
with their best, and which has, besides, a spiritual achieved — and Poe's “Raven” might be allowed to
individuality of its own. Arnold's “ Sohrab and stand as our best specimens of this kind of poetry.
Rustum ” would complete this noble group of blank The foregoing poems, with perhaps a few others
verse poems.
unintentionally omitted, could probably be comprised
A collection such as is suggested would, by bring in two not over-thick pocket volumes. These would
ing widely separated poems together, compel them indeed contain “infinite riches in a little room.”
to justify themselves. Each poet would be tried by And their publication ought to be a factor in the
a jury of his peers. The over-great reputation of coming and inevitable Revival of Poetry.
Tennyson's narrative poetry would thus probably
CHARLES LEONARD MOORE.
stand corrected. His sun would be shorn of some of
its beams. “Maud,” his best effort, I should say,
in
A REMARKABLE
BOOK-
creative art, is hardly narrative, and could not be ad-
TITLE was effected by the San Francisco fire — which
mitted. The “Morte D'Arthur,” “Elaine,” “Vivien,” wrought other transformations also. President Jordan's
and “ Guinevere” would have to be the selections. little book, “ The Philosophy of Despair,” destroyed
Browning's magnificent “Childe Roland to the (that is, the plates were destroyed) in the conflagra-
Dark Tower Came” and the delightful “ Flight of tion, now rises from the fiery furnace, transfigured and
the Duchess” would claim admittance. Browning's glorified, as “ The Philosophy of Hope,” á title which
most characteristic form of art is the monologue. is thought to be more cheerfully descriptive of the
“ The Ring and the Book ” is a collection of mono-
author's purpose.” This, of course, is not the first time
logues. This bastard form, which is neither drama
that real and apparently overwhelming disaster has
proved itself the one thing needed to convert a fancied
nor narrative nor lyric, seems to me thoroughly despair into a living hope. Probably the publishers
unnatural. A soliloquy in a play is bad enough, had no intention to point a moral by this change of
but it is sometimes a matter of sheer necessity to a names, but to the person fond of moralizing — and
dramatist, and it is always remotely possible that who is not? - the moral is there, nevertheless.
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CASUAL COMMENT.
9
con-
this sense of him, as some small, precious object, like
a lost gem or a rare and beautiful insect on which one
might inadvertently tread, or might find under the sofa
or behind the window cushion, that leads me to think of
· Hop-o'-My-Thumb' as my earliest and sweetest and
most repeated cupful at the fount of fiction.”
THE JUBILEE NUMBER OF "THE ATLANTIC
tains a very interesting account, by Professor Charles
Eliot Norton, of how the magazine was launched in
the fall of 1857. An active existence of half a
century is enough to make venerable any institu-
tion (for surely “ The Atlantic” is an institution), and
almost any man of parts, in this country. In Mr.
Norton's case the activity has covered considerably more
than fifty years, while his mere continued existence as
an individual has now added him to the honorable roll
of octogenarians. To be precise, the present issue of
THE DIAL is dated upon Mr. Norton's eightieth birth-
day, which gives us a pretext for paying once more our
tribute of respect to the fine intelligence which he has
so effectively brought to bear upon so many problems
of art and conduct, and to the ethical idealism which he
has ever sought to translate into action in our public and
private life. Although his professional interests have
been those of the scholar, he has never lapsed into the
indifferentism that scholarship often assumes as its pre-
scriptive right, and his influence has made itself felt for
good in many a great public cause. The moral strength
of his inherited puritanism has blossomed into sweetness
in the genial sunlight of modern liberal thought, and his
life stands for us as an embodiment of those qualities
which we cherish as characteristic of Americans in the
best sense.
A man is in no way better tested than by
the friendships he makes, and no American of our time
better meets this test. Longfellow and Emerson and
Lowell and Curtis on this side of the Atlantic, Ruskin
and Carlyle and FitzGerald and Leslie Stephen on the
other, all bestowed upon him their intimacy, and enriched
his life with their affectionate regard. And the esteem
in which those men held him has been shared by count-
less others, unknown to fame, whose ideals he has helped
to ennoble, and whose gratitude they would find it diffi-
cult to put into words.
THE LAND OF JUVENILE DELIGHTS is undoubtedly
Fairyland. What particular nook or corner, or grove
or glen, or hill or vale, has most attracted great men in
their tender infancy, has been inquired into by an enter-
prising publishing house; and as a result of the investi-
gation we now have - after a more than sufficient course
in books that have helped me something about
“ books that have enchanted me." A volume entitled
“ Favorite Fairy Tales: The childhood choice of Repre-
sentative Men and Women” presents sixteen selected
stories, the favorites of twenty judges of wide repute in
the literary world. But there is no unanimity of choice:
the highest number of votes cast for the same tale is five;
“ Cinderella” and “ Jack the Giant-Killer” received
each that number, while even such nursery favorites
« Little Red Riding Hood” and “ Beauty and the
Beast” had only a single champion apiece. More
authoritative and valuable would be -- if we could
have it the actual childhood choice, as uttered in
childhood instead of in retrospect, of all these illus-
trious ladies and gentlemen, or perhaps even the
childhood choice of the same number of bright boys and
girls not yet illustrious. Would the six-year-old Henry
James, for example, have made the same choice, and in
the same words, as the sexagenarian Henry James?
This is what he characteristically says about “Hop-o'-
My-Thumb,” which finds in him its single admirer
among the twenty judges: “It is the vague memory of
HUMORS AND ODDITIES OF ADVERTISING are too
novel, and often too amusing, to pass unnoticed in
these days when advertising is cultivated as a fine art,
and each advertiser seems determined to outdo his rivals
in the invention of some extraordinary eye-attracting,
attention-compelling, interest-awakening device in words
or pictures or in both. Lady Betty Bulkeley, in that
popular novel, “ Lady Betty Across the Water,” found
the advertising pages not the least interesting part of
American magazines; while more than one American
visitor to England has discovered most amusing reading
in the " want” columns of British
newspapers.
What
a wealth of homely detail in the following: “The
invalid widow of an army officer would like to exchange
a talking parrot for a second-class railway ticket from
London to Glasgow." Henry Kingsley, half a century
ago, in one of his many confidential asides to the readers
of “ Ravenshoe,” professed to be able at any time to
banish care by reading — reading anything, even adver-
tisements. In the “help-wanted ” columns of a great
city daily there has just appeared a gem of the litera-
ture of its kind. Let us quote: “I desire to secure
the services of a woman — - not the usual type of refined
lady' who is constantly on the hunt for a job — but a
masterful, dignified woman of character, common-sense,
and good breeding, who is qualified by temperament
and education to take charge of my twelve-year-old
daughter. The religious convictions of applicants are
of no concern to the advertiser, nor need applicants
possess an academic or university degree, but their
English must be sound
- grammar perfect. I would
not care to seriously consider engaging a woman who
combined daisies and violets on her winter bonnet, or
one who referred to crockery as “ porcelain,' or one whose
elegant repose of manner is mere vacuity, or one who
bids for sympathy by frequently recurring, in soreness
of spirit, to her past reverses which are responsible for
present anomalous and unfortunate circumstances,' or
one who extorts reluctant gleams of pleasure only from
melancholy pangs of grief, or one who beflours her face
with the incessant acil de poudre, or one who in manner
may be likened unto a hurricane.” Thus by the method
of exclusions do we gain a more and more definite con-
ception of the kind of woman desired; though the acil
de poudre must remain a puzzler to masculinity.
as
THE INGENUITY OF THE ANTIQUARY has just been put
to a sharp test in determining the proper house to be
graced with a memorial tablet to Charles Lamb. Per-
plexing difficulties were encountered by those engaged
in this search. It was commonly held that the house at
19 Colebrook Row had once been occupied by the Lambs,
but a rather prosaic and disenchanting bit of evidence
was brought forward to disprove this. Certain old
sewer-rate books were disinterred and consulted, and
thus it was demonstrated that no person by the name
of Lamb had paid sewer rates in Colebrook Row within
the period in question. So at last the right house was
found at 64 Duncan Terrace, Islington, where the tablet
has with proper formalities been set. This recalls the
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his quest.
Thomas upset the accepted tradition — accepted by masculine and feminine use of the library, as far as
no less an authority than Peter Cunningham in his numbers go. It is certain that as a rule the men read
“ Handbook of London " that No. 4 Brooke Street less fiction, and it is interesting to note that every
was the house where Thomas Chatterton lodged after Saturday in March showed a decided preponderance of
leaving Mr. Walmsley's in Shoreditch, and where he men users of the circulating department." The various
took that fatal dose of arsenic. It was a very neat piece reading rooms of the reference department were found
of antiquarian research that corrected the error. Exam to be frequented by men and boys in a great majority
ining the poor-rate books for 1772, Mr. Thomas found over women and girls, or seventy-three per cent. It
the name of Frederick Angell (it was with one Mrs. is pleasing to meet this evidence that man, the bread-
Angell that Chatterton lodged) as one of the rate-payers winner and the busy member of the family, is neverthe-
in Brooke Street, where the houses were unnumbered. less a library-goer, even if he has largely ceased to be
The exact place of this name in the list was noted, and a church-goer Unlike the husband who took shelter
it was surmised that the collector of rates would natur behind his wife, who had “ got religion” for the two,
ally have made his calls in order, going up one side of the paterfamilias of to-day need not point to his better
the street and down the other. Then, in Holden's half as monopolizing the culture of the partnership. For
Directory of 1802, two of these Brooke Street rate helping to redeem the human mind from error on this
payers' names were found: they were still alive and disputed question, we thank the Pratt Institute librarian.
occupying houses at that time definitely numbered.
After this it required but a little counting on the fingers,
THE HORSE IN DRAMATIC LITERATURE has never
with the old list before one, to determine the exact
played a more conspicuous part than in the new play of
position of the Angell house - which turned out to be
“ Black Beauty," a dramatization by Mr. Justin Adams
(with hardly the shadow of a doubt) No. 39 instead of
of Miss Anna Sewall's famous story of the same name.
No. 4. One likes to imagine the successful hunter's
Not even the bloodhounds in “ Uncle Tom's Cabin
satisfaction after thus cleverly attaining the object of
make such an appeal to gallery, balcony, orchestra, and
dress circle (and boxes too) as does the splendid,
A BRITISH CONFESSION OF BRITISH INCOMPETENCE
carefully-trained animal that pranced onto the stage at
AND IGNORANCE is an uncommon but not an unpromis-
Salem, Mass., and showed himself letter-perfect in his
ing occurrence.
From his first entrance as a sleek,
That mouthpiece of all that is most
heart-inoving rôle.
determinedly and defiantly British, the London Times," well-groomed, beautifully-caparisoned riding-horse, to
in speaking of the third volume of Sir George Trevel-
the pitiful scene where he is beheld vainly tugging at a
yan's “ American Revolution,” acknowledges that “it is
monstrous load up a terrible hill in a blinding snow-
not a story which can be very pleasant reading to an
storm, Black Beauty commands the breathless attention,
Englishman even now, and even with all Sir George
and sometimes the tear-moistened handkerchiefs, of his
Trevelyan's literary skill to help it. Whatever were
audience - or, better, spectators. He is well supported
the virtues of Washington, whatever the courage and
by Ginger and Merrylegs, his two equine companions,
endurance of those who fought under him and some of
and by Jerry Parker's dogs. An automobile also figures
those who fought against him, it remains the melancholy
(ingloriously) in the play. Preparations for this pro-
truth that the governing factor of the situation, the
duction have long been in progress, and, as might have
thing which lost and won America, was nobody's genius
been expected, Mr. George T. Angell has shown the
keenest interest in its success.
and nobody's heroism, but the criminal ignorance of
In fact, it appears to
have been his offer of a thousand dollars for the best
English statesmen and the slow incompetence of English
generals.” Of course the time is long past for declaim-
dramatization of the story that led to the interesting
event at Salem. Miss Flavia Rosser's version, with the
ing against the “pestilent rebellion ” of the American
colonists, and no Englishman now thinks of refus-
scene laid in England, took the prize, and will probably be
ing to dignify that colonial uprising with the name
staged before long. The play has elements of popularity,
“ revolution"; but a refreshing if belated candor is
as well as other points of excellence, and is likely to have
evinced in the above extract, in which, if scant credit is
a successful run.
given to Washington and his compatriots, the grains of
THE UNPROFESSIONAL READER, like the unprofes-
comfort for the British side are few and innutritious.
sional critic, is sometimes visited with flashes of insight
denied to members of the guild. A good story is told
MEN AS PUBLIC-LIBRARY USERS are commonly held about the rejection and the subsequent acceptance of
to be so greatly outnumbered by fiction-foolish women Joseph Vance," the predecessor of “ Alice-for-Short."
and children as to make but a pitiful showing for them- Having finished the story two years after the first sug-
selves. Some interesting statistics (perhaps the first gestion of it had occurred to him, Mr. De Morgan sent
of the kind ever compiled and made public) from the the manuscript to a publisher, who promptly returned it
Pratt Institute Free Library of Brooklyn go far toward with the comment that the tale was too long. Two
proving the general impression erroneous. The Pratt hundred thousand words, written by hand, do make a
Library is a fair sample of the average public library, formidably bulky appearance, and therefore the author
serving the wants of an average community. The month decided to see whether a type-written copy might not
of March, one of the busiest in the library world, was fare better. He sent the manuscript to a type-writing
chosen for a test. In that month 8934 persons came establishment, whose head, a woman of intelligence,
to the delivery room to draw or return books, and of noticed a little later, in the course of her rounds, that
these persons 55 per cent were found to be women and one of her girl typists was in tears. Inquiry revealed
girls, and 45 per cent men and boys. The librarian the fact that this display of grief had been caused by an
adds: “ As we know from observation that there are incident in “ Joseph Vance,” which the girl was copying.
many more women and girls who come to get books A friend of the intelligent woman, an art publisher,
for father, husband, or brother, than there are men and heard of the incident from her, asked to see the manu-
boys who come to get them for mother, wife, or sister, script, read it with zest, and carried it to another
we conclude that there is very little difference in the publisher, with the result now known to the world.
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THE AMERICAN MARKET FOR
If this diagnosis is correct (and few will think that
FRENCH BOOKS.
it is wholly wrong), the remedy proposed hardly seems
likely to result in a complete cure. What is suggested,
PARIS, November 4, 1907.
beyond the more effective organization of publishers to
What is the matter with the market for French books
push their interests over-sea, is nothing more than a
in the United States ? This is the interesting question
kind of inspection to which literature for export, at
that has lately been under discussion in the columns of
least to the United States, is to be subjected. No work
several of the important journals of Paris. That inde-
shall be allowed to pass that cannot be branded as sound
fatigable gentleman, M. Hugues Le Roux, has been
and wholesome.
investigating the case, and he has called in consultation
To say nothing of the discrimination which such
a number of the literary doctors most in repute at
action contemplates against the home market, it may
the moment, such as Messieurs Paul Hervieu, Marcel
be doubtful whether it can possibly accomplish its
Prévost, Jules Claretie, Henri Houssaye, and Abel
purpose. Inspection may have saved the foreign
Hermant. All are agreed that the reputation of the
market for American meat. But a book is a very
French book among us is in a very bad way, and that
different thing from a piece of meat. If a book is
something ought to be done at once. We may well be
stamped as unclean, it is not at all sure that it is thereby
interested in their efforts. For if the United States
irrevocably consigned to the soap-vat. If there were a
should cease altogether to be importers of French books,
lively demand for tainted meat for food, it is pretty
it would not be the French authors and publishers who
sure that some would find its way to the eager purchaser.
would be the only losers. We should be immeasurably
Of course the littérature pornographique is not published
poorer without the part that France can contribute to our
from unselfish motives, nor thrust by missionaries into
intellectual life.
the hands of unwilling readers. In producing books of
It would appear, from the diagnosis of M. Le Roux,
this kind, authors and publishers are reckoning on a
that the trouble may be traced to a variety of causes.
public demand. If they find them profitable, how are
In the first place, in the words of one of the journals
they to be convinced that it would be still more profit-
referred to, there is a united effort on the part of com able not to publish them, or not to allow them to reach
peting nations to stifle the propagation of the French
a certain region of territory or a certain circle of readers ?
language and French thought in the United States.
And how could they prevent them from reaching that
These competitors, among whom the Germans occupy
circle of readers if they were so convinced ?
naturally a foremost place, have found most efficient
And then comes the question, What are the boun-
allies in the teachers of French in our schools, colleges,
daries of this literature, and how is it to be defined ?
and universities, of whose incompetence M. Le Roux
Are the tales of Maupassant to be included within it ?
draws a terrifying picture. The teaching of French in
Is Zola a pornographic author ? Are all the doctors
the United States, it seems, is almost wholly in the hands
whom M. Le Roux has called in consultation, — M.
of Germans, Swiss, Belgians, and Americans, equally Marcel Prévost, for example, in position to cast the
unable, for different reasons, to interpret French thought
first stone at some unexportable brother? I strongly
and initiate our youth into the real secrets of the French
suspect that, while their diagnosis contains much truth,
language. As M. Le Roux visited not a few of our
it does not contain all the truth, and that the American
schools and universities as the official lecturer of the distrust of the French book is based partly upon a deep
Alliance Française, it is to be supposed that this sweep-
difference, national and racial, of habit and feeling with
ing condemnation is based upon personal observation,
regard to certain matters - that difference that made
and I suppose it would be out of place on the part of
so intelligent and liberal a critic as Matthew Arnold,
one of these same incompetent Americans to protest.
with all his recognition of the eminent and superior
And in support of this opinion, M. Maxime Ingres, who,
I presume, is not yet forgotten in Chicago, has sketched, against that people the charge of worshipping at the
qualities of the French mind and its achievements, lodge
in the Matin, what he avers to be the exact and lifelike
shrine of the Goddess Lubricity. The agitation of the
portrait of the professor of French in our country, but
question, a propos of the commercial interest which the
what appears to one of the incompetents to be a most
American market offers, is worth noting rather as a
grotesque caricature. To say the least, M. Ingres has
symptom of awakening consciousness in this direction
not been scrupulously exact in his statements of fact.
than as promising any great direct or immediate result.
But all these enemies, active and passive, wilful and
We may regret that it seems rather a sordid motive
unconscious, of the French book among us would not
that prompted this consciousness to express itself; but
have brought it to the sorry pass in which it now is were
as a symptom it is none the less most welcome, and
it not for an unclean sore that it bears within itself. For
infinitely more important than any practical measures
it is agreed among our doctors that if the good name of
that it may provoke. ARTHUR G. CANFIELD.
French literature is in a decline, and consequently the
demand for French books has fallen off, a principal
reason is to be found in the charge of lubricity and
indecency to which they are so often open. La littérature
COMMUNICATIONS.
pornographique is largely responsible for the situation.
Authors and publishers, catering to the debauched taste GENERAL HOWARD AND LINCOLN UNIVERSITY.
of the sensual reader, have so swollen the mass of this
(To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
ill-smelling literature that it is beginning to be taken to I have just read, with much satisfaction, the interesting
represent French letters, to their serious hurt. The and appreciative review of my brother's autobiography,
hasty and unwarranted conclusion has been drawn that in your issue for October 16. The notice, all in all, is
all French books are alike, and no better than the worst; so satisfactory to General Howard's many friends that
and as a result the great American public, whose modesty | I the more readily ask your attention to one or two very
is so sensitive, almost irritable, will have none — or very natural errors, which you may deem it worth while to
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In the first paragraph, Lincoln Memorial University, and continued with numerous frivolous answers to the
of Cumberland Gap, Tennessee, is classed as one of the query in the first line.
schools for “colored youth.” It has never had a colored The other piece had been written somewhat earlier,
student, and was not designed for such, but for the and in a very different mood. Its subject was rather
American Mountaineers — from which racial stock ambitious: human personality, the ego, especially the
Abraham Lincoln is supposed to have had his origin. feminine ego, the summing-up of all life in the individual
President Lincoln himself personally directed General soul. Titles are very boresome, and I had never found
Howard's attention to the loyalty of these mountaineers, a good one for this poem. “ The Answer," “ The
and though in the Reconstruction period Geueral Howard Question,” “Myself” were some rather inadequate
founded a number of schools for colored youth, like experiments, and I scarcely knew under which of them
Howard University in Washington, D.C., this University it had gone to the magazine.
at Cumberland Gap was designed exclusively for whites, Judge, then, of my horror when, in a recent issue of
and for the past fifteen years or more General Howard the same magazine, I found the two poems printed
has devoted almost his entire time and energies to the together! The valentine poem became “ The Question,”
laying of its foundations and building it up, not only by the other “ The Answer,” and both, by the unhappy
ample endowment, but also in the confidence and affec association, were stabbed, killed, reduced to ashes.
tion of the mountain people.
My heart went out to the hapless reader who should
One other point, which might seem to you as merely obediently take the two pieces together and try to make
technical, is the reference to General Howard's military the second answer the light question of the first. Whether
career as reaching only to the command of an Army he would read them both as serious, or both as a joke,
Corps. As a matter of fact, he became the Commander my jumbled brain scarcely dared inquire. Twice in
of the Army of the Tennessee, the same army with vain I had written the editor for proofs, and thus he and
which Grant captured Vicksburg, and which Sherman fate flouted me. Not only that, but here, in the serious
commanded in one or two campaigns and at the battle poem, was a pivotal word deliberately changed to a weak
of Chattanooga. It consisted of three full Army Corps one without so much as a “ by-your-leave.
and other detached bodies, amonnting to over a hundred Had I no right to feel aggrieved? And now, being
thousand men. The three Corps were the 15th (Logan's), an editor yourself and therefore solicitous for the honor
16th (Dodge's), and the 17th (Blair's). As General of your clan, will you rescue a poem in distress? Will
Howard is the only remaining Army Commander of the you untangle my verses on human personality — on the
Civil War, it seems worth while to keep this fact in ego, myself (you may find a title if you can) — from the
view in considering the value and merit of these two evil meshes in which they were smothered, and let them
volumes of autobiography.
C. H. HOWARD,
stand free at last upon your page?
Glencoe, I., November 5, 1907.
Here are the verses:
What am I? I am Earth the mother,
THE RESCUE OF A POEM IN DISTRESS.
With all her nebulous memories ;
(To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
And the young day, and night her brother,
Do you ever listen to an author's tale of woe
And every god that was and is.
a poet's ? May I tell you the sad story of the sacrifice
As Eve I walked in paradise,
of a poem - two poems, indeed - not to the eccen-
Dreaming of nations, braving death
tricity of printer or proof-reader (that would be too
For knowledge – yea, nor grudged the price
common), but to an editor's curious mismating of titles, a
When the first baby first drew breath.
mockingly perverse juxtaposition? Poems are sensitive
I sang Deborah's triumph song;
products; as a wind makes sport of a rose, so but I
I struck the foe with Judith's sword;
will proceed.
'T was I who to the angel said,
Four or five years ago one of the minor magazines
"Behold the handmaid of the Lord !”
offered a number of prizes, one being á prize of two
I was fair Helen, she for whom
hundred dollars, for the best poem less than thirty-six
A nation was content to die;
lines in length. Inspired by a gambler's hope of wealth,
And Cleopatra, in whose doom
I sent the editor four or five pieces, concealing my name
The world went down with Antony.
in a sealed envelope, according to the rules of the game.
I am the harlot in the street,
In two or three months came an envelope from the
And the veiled nun all undefiled;
editor's sanctum. Conld I be the lucky winner? But
In me does queen with beggar meet,
my hope of riches subsided when I read the contents: the
Wise age hark to the little child.
editor asked me to divide the prize with no less than
I am the woe that ever is, -
nine other poets!
Yea, and the glory that shall be;
I will not comment upon the point of editorial honor
The sin that dies, and the brave bliss
involved in this method of securing large returns of
That mounts to immortality.
poetry for a very small outlay of dollars. My grievance
HARRIET MONROE.
vented itself in laughter; I let the editor have the poem, Chicago, November 8, 1907.
and also three others for which he nobly offered sixpence
apiece. In a few months the first was published, and a
second soon after.
CAPTAIN MARRYATT's “ Mr. Midshipman Easy” is
Of the two which lingered in the editor's desk, one, published by the Messrs. Putnam in an illustrated holi-
which I called “The Question," had been written in the day edition. Other novels now appearing in similar
lightest spirit of badinage for a “Little Room” valen guise are Mr. Cobb's “The Grandissimes,” which the
tine party. It began:
Messrs. Scribner send us, and Mr. Stewart Edward
What is love? Love is a fire,
White's “The Blazed Trail,” which comes from the
But tears can't quench it, -
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It so
section room. His voice too had barely changed at all;
The New Books.
it was still pitched in the same mellow, clerical key, and
accompanied, when humorous in its vein, with the same
boyish smile in his earnest blue eyes,
eyes always
WEST POINT HALF A CENTURY Ago.* filled with that light of another and a holier land, the
fair land of the Christian's gaze."
The
pages
of General Schaff's “Spirit of Old
West Point” breathe at once the poetry and ro-
As there are few now living who have seen
mance of warfare, as the poet and the romancer
and can distinctly remember General Winfield
are fond of conceiving it, and also the grim hor-
Scott, it may be worth while to take a look at
ror and sad pity of it all, as seen and felt by the
him through the younger soldier's eyes. The
soldier on the battlefield. This curious mingling
old warrior was, at the time now recalled, in
of seeming incompatibles, symbolic of the self-
command of the army, with his headquarters at
West Point.
contradictory element in life itself, shows the
author to be a poet as well as a warrior, a man
“ The old General made himself heard, considered,
and felt throughout the country. He was over six feet
of imagination as well as a man of action. His
six inches tall, and in frame was simply colossal.
love of poetic imagery, his tendency to infuse happened that only the rail separated his pew in the
with life and feeling the inanimate objects about chapel from the one which I occupied, - it was four or
him, his fondness for drawing spiritual truths
five pews back, on the right side facing the chancel,
from material facts, give to his narrative a higher
and I felt like a pigmy when I stood beside him. The
old fellow was devout; but it was said that whatsoever
beauty and a deeper meaning than we are wont church he attended, Episcopal, Baptist, Methodist, or
to find in a soldier's reminiscences.
Roman Catholic, he threw himself into the service with
Graduated from West Point in 1862, the au-
the same depth of reverence. Nevertheless he would
thor was sent at once to the field, where he served
sometimes swear like a pirate. Surely, I think nature
under Meade, Hooker, and Grant. Thus it is
must have been in one of her royal moods at his birth,
for there was magnificence in the dignity of his great,
that his memories of the Military Academy, and kingly, illuminated countenance. ... We were all proud
of his instructors and fellow-students, are con of the old hero, and more than ever when, in the blaze
tinually calling up other memories of campaigns
of full uniform and with uncovered head, he stood at the
and battlefields where some of those teachers and
left of the present King of England at the review given
for him at West Point in 1860."
classmates played more or less important parts.
General Schaff's estimate of West Point as
This repeated jumping from the bank of the
Hudson to that of the Potomac, from the cadet
a character-builder and a maker of men finds
chapel to the Wilderness, from the recitation
repeated expression in his book. To him his
alma mater is indeed a gracious mother of noble
room to the field of Gettysburg, makes rather
sons, and his ideal of a liberal education is a
jolty reading, but gives variety and life to his
chapters, and affords frequent opportunity for
four-years course under her fostering care. He
pen-painting and for outbursts of patriotic elo-
dwells fondly on the Academy's honored past,
on its historic antecedents which have made it
quence. A reverent and at times a devout tone
what it now is. At the same time the man of
sounds through the book and shows this soldier
to have been equipped for spiritual no less than
letters speaks in him when he ventures to criti-
for carnal conflict.
cize what he thinks an excessive devotion to
He
was,
while at the Acad-
emy, a member of “Howard's little prayer claims of history and literature. However, he
science in the curriculum, and urges the counter-
meeting,” which never numbered more than ten
or fifteen souls, and which General Howard has
continues in panegyric strain :
himself described in his own memories of West
“ But weigh the course as you may, - and certainly
her graduates have worthily met the mighty problems
Point. The almost simultaneous appearance of
this must be said: West Point is a great char-
the older and the younger West Pointers' books acter-builder, perhaps the greatest among our institu-
adds interest to the following passage from the
tions of learning. The habit of truth-telling, the virtue
junior's pen:
of absolute honesty, the ready and loyal obedience to
authority, the display of courage,
that virtue called
* My other instructor in pure mathematics was Major-regal, to establish these elements of character, she
General 0. 0 Howard, probably known more widely labors without ceasing. The primary agency in accom-
among the church-going people of our country than any
officer of his time. His head is now almost snowy white,
plishing her ends is, and has been, the tone of the
cadets. This tone, the very life and breath of the Military
and his armless sleeve tells its story; yet when I saw him
last there was the same mild, deeply sincere, country-
Academy, tracks back to a fine source, to the character
of Washington and the best society at the time of the
bred simplicity in his face that it wore when, so many Revolution, for, since the day when he had his head-
years ago, I sat on the bench or stood before him in the
quarters at West Point, it has been exclusively a mili-
* THE SPIRIT OF OLD WEST POINT. 1858-1862. By Morris tary post, completely isolated from the social ferment
Schaff. Illustrated. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
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standards of private and official life, and those of the
officers and the gentlemen of his day, were the standards
of his immediate successors, who, in turn, transmitted
them unimpaired to those who came after. Moreover.
at his suggestion, West Point as an institution of learn-
ing came into being; and its foundations were laid on
the solid virtues of his example."
The author's course at West Point, falling
in the exciting times immediately preceding and
following the outbreak of our Civil War, was
no sleepy Sunday-school session. The partisan
strife within the Academy walls may have been
something like a tempest in a teapot, but from
the very fact that the lid of the teapot was so
firmly held down by the authorities the occa-
sional outbursts of steam were violent. Southern
blood was hot, and Yankee principle was unbend-
ing, so that the wonder of it all is, as the author
says,
that
any
West Point men from the South
remained loyal to the flag. Yet loyal they did
remain, to the number of more than half the
Southern graduates. But there is no occasion
here to stir the smouldering embers. Let us
turn to a significant passage in which the soldier-
author deplores what seems to him a present
tendency to subordinate scholarly to military
interests at his old school.
in his presence and natural in his manner, gentle in voice,
of absolute purity in speech, of unaffected, simple dignity,
Grant threw a charm around his camp-fire. West Point
never graduated a man who added so little austerity or
pretense to the peak of fame.”
The foretaste that " Atlantic" readers have
had of these very readable chapters ought to
give additional relish to the completed book,
which contains much additional matter, as well
as numerous and excellent views of West Point
buildings and scenes, past and present. One
looks in vain for the author's portrait among the
plates ; but regret at not finding it would prob-
ably have given place to a greater regret had
General Schaff overcome his modesty and put
in his picture. So hard is human nature to
please. The only misprint noticeable to us in
this handsome volume is in General James H.
Wilson's name, which
appears
in the index as
James H. Willson" and on page 169 as
- James M. Wilson.” PERCY F. BICKNELL.
ALL ABOUT EVERYTHING IN HOMER. *
From various volumes on Homeric subjects
the rather rebellious reviewer happened to turn
to
and a kindly Athena guided his eye to this
delight:
" POLUPHLOISBOISTEROUS Homer of old
Threw all his augments into the sea,
Although he had often been courteously told
That perfect imperfects begin with an e:
But the Poet replied, with a dignified air,
* What the Digamma does anyone
'care ?
And in all seriousness what does anyone care
about nine-tenths or more of the flood of Homeric
controversy and commentary ? For instance,
may we beg the courteous reader to turn his
twin-eyed gaze upon the following tabulation
from a German scholar, and the generalizing
comment ?
Homeric
Warfare. Warfare.
Wounds on the Head, 21 per cent.
Wounds on the Neck, 11 per cent.
Wounds on the Body, 54 per cent. 21 per cent.
Wounds on the Lower Limbs, 7 per cent. 6 per cent.
Wounds on the Upper Limbs, 7 per cent. 44 per cent.
From this table it is seen that the Homeric
warrior aimed with the spear at the head and
neck, while the modern bullet is directed from
a greater distance at the whole body.” Perhaps
the joyous German insistence on these details
was innately military ; perhaps it was even
proudly national, intended to offset the enthusi-
astic Frenchman who suggested that the author
* LIFE IN THE HOMERIC Age. By Thomas Day Seymour.
changed places with the Military Staff in the active and
formative influences of West Point life. But I cannot
resist the conclusion that, if militarism grows more
ascendant, serious changes must take place in the ideals
of West Point; for ideals feed on culture, they lie down
in the green pastures of knowledge, their shrines are not
in drums but in the aspirations of the heart. Militarism
once fully entrenched tolerates no challenge of preced-
ence and culture; scholarship, idealism, those great
liberating forces, must grow less and less influential as
less and less they are appreciated and reverenced.
Nothing, it seems to me, could be worse for West Point
or worse for the army as a profession than to have the
Academic Board sink to the level of mere teachers; in
other words, to see West Point fall from the level of a
university to that of a post school at a garrison .
Among the post-graduate reminiscences so
generously interspersed, nothing is better than
this picture of General Grant:
“ Let me say in this connection that of all the officers
of high rank whom I have ever met, only Grant and
Sherman did not charge the atmosphere about them with
military consequence. While at City Point I frequently
joined my friends of General Grant's staff . . . at his
headquarters. The General, in undress uniform, always
neat but not fastidious in appointments, would sit at the
door of his tent, or sometimes on one of the long settees
that faced each other under the tent-fly, smoke, listen,
and sometimes talk; and not a soul of us, from the
youngest to the oldest, ever had a thought of rank.
Without lowering his manner to the level of familiarity,
he put every one at his ease by his natural simplicity.
He had none of the caprices of moods or vanity. Quiet
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of the Iliad was aide-de-camp or military sec cataclysmic as we were asked to believe, but
retary to Agamemnon. Be that as it may, let still a material change ; and the golden glories
us try to imagine the thrill of enlarged horizons gave way to an age that was yet wealthy and
conveyed by the above to a reader who has been comfortable, although its life was simpler and
following Achilles in his death-dealing rage, or its crafts more humble. During this period
standing by Menelaus when the truce-ending the Homeric poems were either evolved or
arrow of Pandarus had brought him nigh to created, the work of countless minor bards, or
death, and blood was staining his shapely thighs, of several great poets, or primarily of one
“even as when a woman, Mæonian or Carian, supreme master. Personally the present writer
stains ivory with purple, to be a cheek-piece has always been inclined to believe roughly in
for horses.' And, lest Philology should be the essential unity of final authorship. This
preëminent in pedantic motley, her sister does not preclude either the free utilization of
Archæology occasionally assumes the jingling rich material by the fashioning author, or minor
bells and sings that “one square half-inch of accretions from later hands. At any rate, the
ancient potsherd is worth a hundred written Iliad and Odyssey came into being in the course
tomes.” Fortunate was the boy who began his
of this second era. From an exact date one
Homer with few notes and no problems. His still shrinks, although M. Bréal is willing to
was the joy, in some measure, of the old Greek assign “ the works passing under the name of
audience that hung on the winged words as they Homer” to the era of the last Lydian kings.
came from the lips of Ion or some other rhap- Between eleven hundred and eight hundred B.C.
sodist; for even yet the divine magnetism of would seem as close an approximation as would
which Plato tells may stream through the series
be safe at present. The poems. certainly con-
of rings from poet to reader, and work compel- tain traces of the earlier “golden ”civilization,
lingly upon the mind of man. Howbeit, the and we need not be regarded as very terrible
two sisters in their ordinary mood of loving and stratifiers if we cannot limit the picture to quite
laborious ministry have achieved notable results as short and definite a period as does Mr. Lang.
and have deserved thoroughly well of the one We have spoken of the poems as things writ-
demi-god or the thousand men who moulded the ten; and it is pleasant to reflect that one more
Homeric poems. They have brought us to a bogy of our childhood days has been laid to rest:
delectable inn, where, as we enjoy our poet, we “ necessary oral transmission ” has disappeared
may order almost any favorite theory and have
favorite theory and have before evidences of writing long antecedent to
it served by at least one eminent scholar while the composition of the Iliad and Odyssey. Fur-
our stupid opponent is being equally well served thermore, they were written in a conventional
at the neighboring table. If the descendants dialect that does not belong to any one of the
of Wolf still seek to tear the poems asunder, recognized ethnical or linguistic divisions of the
Mr. Andrew Lang sturdily defends their essen early Greeks, such as Æolic or Ionic. To this
tial unity; if a few still cling to the “ ballad an interesting parallel has been found in the
theory, M. Bréal pins his faith to a real epopee Troubadour use of Limousin, wherein are
emanating from a formal or even courtly civil mingled many Provençal, Italian, and other
ization. Moreover, while the sisters leave us forms. Such a settled dialect and the elabo-
this pleasant luxury of wavering about numerous rate hexametrical verse point to a long line of
questions, they have in many cases enabled us singers as well as to an audience with a trained
to exchange an old problem for a new one, and taste. Indeed, there is much to support the
not a few of the difficulties they have actually contention that the poetry is primarily court
settled.
poetry, if we use the term with due reserve
Some time in the course of the second mil as to the connotation. For oftimes the court
lennium B.C., — say from the seventeenth to must have been very simple ; and the connec-
fourteenth centuries,
- an opulent civilization tion between princes and retainers was so close
of a decidedly oriental tinge spread over the that for the most part they doubtless heard the
sprinkled isles of the Ægean and some of the songs together. And the singers sang of count-
neighboring shores. At various centres were less things, alike of those that had been, and
dynasts of great wealth, having at their com those that were, and those that could never be.
mand skilful artificers in many crafts, par-
To help us understand the song, many men
ticularly cunning workers in metal, whose have written many books, the latest being from
Products still delight our eyes and command the hand of the honored Hillhouse Professor
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e. g.,
also be recalled that on the site of the city Pro-
point of view has been philological, not archæo-
fessor Dörpfeld found nine strata, representing
logical. From the poet's language he has
nine successive settlements, and that he places
attempted to discover what was before the Troy in the sixth layer from the bottom. As one
poet's mind.” Archæological studies are warmly listens to the eminent German's own arguments,
recommended in conjunction with the author's
work; but his own book « seeks to set forth glowingly delivered amid the pathetic ruins, one
is almost enthusiastically sure of his correctness
with regard to Homeric antiquities simply what
even in details ; but cold reason would indicate
may be learned from the Homeric poems them-
that some modifications of his views are quite
selves, with such illustration as is obvious or
possible if there shall be any serious excavation
naturally presented from other sources." The
by other hands, -an unlikely contingency for
outcome is a volume of the Realien type so
common in Germany. Thus, one chapter th
the present generation. Touching some minor
treats of " Trade and the Crafts,” another of shifting as the bed of the Scamander itself, with:
points on the plain, the views may well be as
“ Animals, Fishes, Birds, and Insects," another
of “Homeric War,” and so on.
out marring either our enjoyment or our essential
Then under
understanding. Professor Seymour's chapter
each subdivision, “ Fortification of the
offers an accessible and reliable summary of the
Homeric Age” or “ Behaviour with different
most recent conclusions, and his readers should
Wounds," -- all the pertinent passages are care-
feel comparatively at home in the passages in-
fully collected and briefly commented upon.
Not infrequently there is an archælogical refer-
volving a conception of these storied scenes.
ence or a helpful parallel from the Old Testa-
The chapter on the Troad is separated from
ment.
its important kinsman dealing with “ Cosmo-
In accordance with the general plan,
everything in the poems, from olives to Olympus, ture of current interest is the controversy as to
graphy and Geography.” Here the main fea-
is pigeon-holed and made immediately available.
One of the most attractive chapters bears the Ithaca, or Leukas. Our author pronounces no
whether the Ithaca of the poems is the modern
caption “ The Troad.” Every man has visual- decision, but seems inclined to favor Professor
ized a Troad of his own; and some are in a
Dörpfeld's choice of the latter island. In a
position to share the enthusiasm of Professor later chapter, however (p. 94), he speaks of the
Seymour's traveller.
island of Ithaca as though it had been definitely
“I took advantage of a little leisure to read the Iliad identified. In recent Homeric geographical dis-
over again in the presence of the great natural features
of the scene. No one who has not seen the magnificent
cussion the most startling thing is " M. Bérard's
outline which bounds the horizon of the plain of Troy sumptuous book intended to prove that the
can bring home to his mind the stirring and marvellous Odyssey was only a Greek paraphrase of the
narrative of the poet as Homer meant it to affect his Sailing Directions of Phoenician mariners.'”
readers, or rather hearers.”
This work is promptly and deliberately shelved
We too remember some days of dream in the by Professor Seymour, and few will question
Dardanelles or on the Troad. Agamemnon the soundness of his tenet that “ we need not be
Schliemann was our cabin-mate, and the expe more definite than Homer.”
dition was under the leadership of Professor allowed to mention, in passing, that parts of
William Dörpfeld, as brilliant as he is thorough. M. Bérard's adventurous essay are uncommonly
But after all, as we look back, we are not sure readable. It is so pleasant to have every possible
that the elusive genius loci was not caught as or impossible Homeric place identified beyond
well in the ill-equipped schoolroom of our boy- controversy; and this the zealous Frenchman
hood days as it was in the material Troad, vis- does for us with truly national charm.
ited even under such glorious conditions. And Many other captions invite comment, partic-
we are grateful to the Yale classicist for pointing ularly “ The Homeric State"; but we must
out that Homer was not a topographer. As a limit ourselves to a brief note on “ Women
matter of fact the writer of the Iliad needed and the Family.” This chapter begins with a
no more knowledge of the plain of Troy than depiction of eight women selected as Homeric
could be attained by a man who had learned his types. Here too our author follows the same
geography from others — pirates, travellers, or conscientious method of quotation and comment
what not. We know now that Hissarlik is the that he does elsewhere. Although this involves
site of Troy; that the coast-line is not materially rather uncomfortable limitations, inasmuch as
changed; that the Menderé is the Scamander, it is a little hard to conceive of Helen and
and that the Dumbrek is the Simois. It will Andromache as Realien, it certainly precludes
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effusiveness. And if Professor Seymour does one. The laundrying expedition of Nausicaa is
no undue glorifying, neither does he sin with mentioned ten or twelve times, and she almost
Lemaître in his Contes, and a few serious invariably “laves the linen ” when one would
critics, by spoiling the white picture of the girl so much prefer to have her wash it. But there is
Nausicaa, and troubling with little Parisian peb a larger question involved; for if we are dealing
bles of doubt the still sweet depths of Penelope's with a very late epopee and a very artificial
faithful heart. To the topics taken up
later court life, we should have to regard Nausicaa's
in the chapter, the Realien method is better fateful expedition as the caprice of an archaiz-
adapted; and we have a clear treatment of such ing princess who would certainly 6 lave the
questions as the heading of the chapter would linen.” However, it is probable that even M.
readily suggest.
Bréal would not carry the point to such a logi-
Of the foregoing, as of all other sections of cal conclusion, and Professor Seymour is doubt-
“Life in the Homeric Age,” it may be said that less repeating a phrase, not advocating a theory.
they represent painstaking erudition. Professor And it may well be that we should have left this
Seymour has spent a large part of a studious life for the classical journals, to which we must
in preparing himself for the writing of such a surrender so many opportunities to air our
book; and it is probably a rash reviewer who presumptuous differences of opinion on technical
would assail him, save in the numerous details points.
that are always debatable in such a connection. Despite all our efforts, the patient reader will
And yet, in all respectful honesty we must point have noticed our skepticism as to the final value
out some not unimportant grounds for unfavor of many books of the Realien type ; but if we
able criticism. The most serious disappointment are to have them, they should adhere strictly to
is due in part to the fact that the title, “ Life their plan and not exhibit an unnatural admix-
in the Homeric age,” suggests a volume teeming ture of æsthetic criticism. If one is occasion-
with movement and inspiration; whereas the ally tempted to believe that there is nothing less
very method of treatment precludes the realiza real than Realien, one is often sleepily forced
tion of any such conception. In the second to conclude that there may be nothing more
place, the work seems too detailed for a younger
anæsthetic than æsthetics. In this respect
student, while for an advanced worker it ought Professor Seymour is above reproach.
to embody more results from Archæology and The seven hundred pages are well and cor-
the increasingly important science of Anthro- rectly printed, and the binding is exceptionally
pology. Again, one is compelled to notice a appropriate and attractive. The illustrations on
regrettable lack of proportion, a habit of repeti- the whole are helpful and well-chosen, although
tion that might be called otiose if one did not one queries the appositeness of the Apollo
know the over-conscientious author, and a con Belvedere (facing p. 176). There is an English
stant recurrence of a negative method of eluci index as well as a Greek one. To the service-
dation. Of this last tendency one could quote able Bibliography even the general reader should
scores of instances. Thus : “ The Achæans had now add Mr. Andrew Lang's "Homer and his
no written documents ; and no mortgages to Age ” and M. Bréal's “ Pour mieux connaitre
foreclose. “Nothing indicates the existence Homère," which are mentioned in the preface
of detailed rules for the bringing up of chil as appearing after most of “ Life in the Homeric
dren.” The next two sentences show in addi- | Age” was in type. Both of these books are stim-
tion a modernity that the reviewer feels to be ulating and enjoyable. On the purely archæo-
thoroughly infelicitous : “The success or failure logical side, we should probably recall “ The
of the fight does not rest with him [the private Discoveries in Crete” by Professor Ronald
soldier): he is not the man behind the gun.'” Burrows, who discusses the points of contact
6. This is · team work’ rather than individual between the recent excavations and the problems
play’; but it is not a Macedonian phalanx." of the Homeric poems.
F. B. R. HELLEMS.
The explanation of the painful frequency of
these examples is doubtless to be sought in the
prior employment of much of the material in
“OLD GERMAN LOVE SONGS” is the title of a book just
the class-room, where every device to arouse issued from the University of Chicago Press. It is the
and maintain interest may be not only legitimate work of Mr. Frank C. Nicholson, who has translated into
but laudable. In an ambitious and dignified acceptable English verse a considerable selection of lyrics
work, however, they are surely out of place. the twelfth to the fourteenth century. The translator
by the Minnesingers who kept German poetry alive from
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ially when he is as competent to do so as Pro-
THE ENGLISH NOVEL AND THE RASCALLY fessor Chandler.
ANTI-HERO.*
As has been already suggested, Professor
Eight years ago the Macmillan Company Chandler's new book is a study of the develop-
published a book by Professor Frank Wadleigh ment of one branch of modern fiction. The
Chandler entitled “The Picaresque Novel in preface states the purpose of the work so accu-
Spain,” further described on the title-page as rately and so interestingly that it deserves to
Part I. of “ Romances of Roguery.” It was one be quoted in full, but an excerpt must suffice.
of the Columbia University “Studies in Liter-
“ In the broadest sense, this history follows the for-
ature,” the result of a detailed research into tunes of the anti-hero in literature. More narrowly, it
the character and development of the Spanish is a study of realism, for it investigates the rôle enacted
picaro. With humor and appreciation un-
in literary art by the observation of low-life. Specifi-
usual in combination with so much erudition, it cally, it traces in English letters a notable series of
gradations from the first crude records of actuality to
showed forth the picaresque rascal, deliciously the complete re-shaping of experience by the imagination,
light-handed, hard-hearted, and glib-tongued, and in this process it points a constant tendency toward
but quite lacking in subtlety of motive — so mer romanticism, counteracted at times by fresh returns to
cenary indeed as fully to warrant Professor
fact. It aims therefore to do a three-fold service: first,
to exhibit in its origins and organic growth a body of
Chandler's epithet for him of “anti-heroic.”
literature of considerable extent and intrinsic interest;
It was by virtue of the light that this primitive secondly, to trace the development of anti-heroism in
anti-hero throws upon the hero - and the anti letters as reflecting the disintegrating play of the forces
hero as well — of later and more sophisticated of evil in society; and thirdly, to exemplify a significant
romance, — by virtue, that is, of the position of
process and tendency in art.”
picaresque literature as an episode in the history In accordance with this plan, the opening
of the novel, — that Professor Chandler claimed chapter defines the rogue as differentiated from
a larger interest for his work than its specialized other delinquent types, and the literature of pre-
character might otherwise have warranted. But ponderant roguery as differentiated from that
he developed this interesting thesis largely by in which the anti-hero is only a minor character
implication, promising to make it explicit in a or a mere foil for the virtuous hero. It then
later work, which should rest on the strong takes a rapid survey of the early stages of the
foundation afforded by a scholarly investigation rascal romance in Spain, France, Germany, and
of Spanish origins.
Holland. Next follows an account of roguery
And now Professor Chandler has fulfilled his in English literature as it was developed through
promise. We do not mean to imply that he the Georgian era, at which point the first volume
necessarily regards 6. The Literature of Ro closes. With the consideration of the eighteenth
guery, 'just published in two volumes by Messrs. century novelists, the study necessarily becomes
Houghton, Mifflin & Co. in their “Types of more limited, more detailed, and for the general
English Literature ” Series, as a substitute for reader probably more interesting. With the
the projected Part II. of his earlier work; but possible exception, however, of a part of the
we are satisfied to accept it as such, hoping, how first chapter, there is nothing esoteric or aca-
ever, that he will continue to make further con demic about Professor Chandler's work. Indeed,
tributions to a subject which, in its endless and its greatest charm lies in its peculiar combin-
delightful ramifications, he has made peculiarly ation of authority with human interest, of
his own. Indeed, we feel that he really owes scholarly methods and an imposing bibliography
us at least one more volume as a forfeit for his with a fine sense of proportion,
a large grasp
choice of too general a title for this one. Some of the matter as a whole and in its relation to
of the most delightful rascals in literature are other lines of literary research. The style has
quite outside the main trend of the novel's de- the same two-edged appeal ; it is keen, clear-cut,
velopment, and if the ballad rascals, Burns's and subtle, keeping the fine line between the easy
Father Prout's heroes, and the rogues so deftly dogmatism of ignorance and the over-qualified
sketched in by essayists like Lamb, Leigh Hunt, hesitancy of the absorbed student, oppressed by
and Douglas Jerrold, receive only casual con masses of detail.
sideration or entire omission in a volume en It is of course impossible to make adequate
titled "The Literature of Roguery,” the author comment upon any part of Professor Chandler's
surely ought to make suitable reparation, espec- study in a brief review. Investigators in related
fields will like to know that there are complete
dler. In two volumes. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. bibliographies for every section of every chapter;
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66
and they will be particularly interested in orig “ Defoe had no perception of fine shades of character
inal studies of types like the anatomy of roguery
or of character-development; the feelings he presents
and the criminal biography, which are here for
are the simplest; and emotion with him is the exception
rather than the rule. Maternal affection, for example,
the first time defined and brought into connec although Moll Flanders is the mother of twelve children,
tion with imaginative literature. On the other finds no expression in action, and but little in words."
hand, the general reader — to employ a much
to employ a much In speaking of some of Dickens's
rogues
he
abused term — will enjoy such topics as roguery writes :
in recent fiction, cockney rogueries, and Borrow's Dotheboys Hall of Wackford Squeers is as much a
and Thackeray's rascals (the two authors are place of torment as the school of Doctor Cabra attended
classed together under the suggestive heading, by Don Pablos. But Dickens's earnestness of purpose
Sympathetic and Satiric Rogue Realism”). over-emphasis, are in contrast with the rollicking trav-
and special plea for educational reform, if they favor
The reader will appreciate, too, the catholic esty of the Spaniard. eers is a rascal, deserving of
taste and the open-mindedness which show the his sentence to transportation. . . . The plotting felon,
same interest in modern detective tales and Brooker, and the swindler, Sir Mulberry Hawk, verge on
seventeenth-century jest-books, and which link
the villainous; but the itinerant Crummles family and
Greene's conny-catching pamphlets with Flynt's pleasantly picaresque.”
sly Mantalini, gone to the demnition bow-wows, are
Tramping with Tramps,” and the Georgian
Finally, we will let Mr. Chandler's concluding
dramas with Pinero's “ Profligate and
paragraph state what he feels that his book has
McLellan's 6 Leah Kleshna."
Professor Chandler understands the arts of
accomplished.
“ As a force moulding literary history the English
apt quotation and trenchant summary. As in
literature of roguery hạs proved most potent in affect-
his first book, he develops his second and third ing the drift of the drama in the early seventeenth
theses largely by suggestion, stating facts at century, in coöperating to create the novel in the eight-
length and conclusions briefly, and depending
eenth century, and in amplifying the scope of that novel,
and in producing the detective story in the nineteenth
upon the sympathy and good judgment of his
century. If it has stood at a far remove from art in
readers to amplify whatever part of his thesis such departments as the anatomies of roguery and the
interests them most. One issue not explicitly criminal biographies, and in such a work as “ The
stated in the preface is the development of the
English Rogue,” it has also achieved artistic distinction
in the later fiction, and it has reckoned among its
æsthetic concept of roguery from the naïve
devotees many whose names rank high in the annals of
gaiety of the pícaro or the crude outline sketches
literature. Most picturesque in the days of Elizabeth,
offered in early treatments of the Robin Hood most immoral in the days of the Stuarts, and most earnest
and Robin Goodfellow legends, to the sophisti and at the same time most merry under the Georges, it
cation of a Becky Sharp, a Pringle, or a Tom
has become since the advent of the nineteenth century
Sawyer, and finally to the evasion of the whole
most diffused, complex, and varied. Now it views sordid
actuality in the dry light of reason; now it yields to the
moral issue as personified in Dr. Weir Mitchell's play of imagination and of sentiment; now it is merely
Quack, in Kipling's "Soldiers Three,” in Raffles, ingenious. It receives the tribute alike of the roman-
gentleman thief, and in Sherlock Holmes, ticist and of the realist. It adapts itself equally well to
detector of crime, but possessed of all the sang
the purposes of the moralist and to those of the jester,
to the propaganda of the humanitarian reformer, or to
froid, dash, and daring that in earlier literature
the inventions of the light-hearted teller of tales. To
are the special prerogatives of the rogue him entertain has ever been its purpose, but although much
self. All this is of course implied in a study of of it has done only this, in the main the genre has
rogue literature, but Mr. Chandler's method acquired significance in so far as it has also subserved
the ends of satire, or revealed the manners and life of
brings it into special prominence; and many
the underworld, or contributed to an understanding of
readers will find it the most interesting feature
character, or furthered a study of social conditions with
of his work.
a view to social improvement. In some or all of these
To illustrate the unusual distinction of Mr. directions the literature of roguery has successfully
Chandler's style, we make a few quotations, adventured in the past, and these remain the pathways
chosen almost at random. Of Jonathan Wild
open to its progress in the future.”
EDITH KELLOGG DUNTON.
he writes :
“ England sank to the nadir of social misrule in the
first third of the eighteenth century, and its prince of
A SERIES of booklets entitled “The Great Operas" has
darkness was Jonathan Wild. He represents the acme
been undertaken by M. J. Cuthbert Hadden, and the
of professionalism in crime. As a terror inspirer he has
volumes are published in this country by the Frederick
long been invoked by novelists and dramatists, and every
A. Stokes Co. Five are now at hand, their subjects
criminal chronicle holds him its darling.”
being " Tannhäuser,” “Lohengrin,” « Faust,” “Carmen”
and The Bohemian Girl.” They have illustrations in
Again, in placing Defoe in the picaresque
color, and the text tells simply about both the music and
stream,
he
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to react upon it in their special modes of pity and
RECENT FICTION.*
indignation. It is such an example that she has
The figurative application of a Scriptural text is presented, with moving effect, in "The Fruit of the
a favorite device of Mrs. Wharton's, and it again | Tree.” Perhaps we get as near as anywhere to the
appears in “ The Fruit of the Tree,” her latest work author's point of view in the following passage about
of fictiop. A note of seriousness, and of deep under the woman whose act is held before our gaze: “She
lying purpose, is thus struck by the very title-page ; accepted the last condition as she had accepted the
and it need hardly be said at this late day that, other, pledged to the perpetual expiation of an act
besides its accomplished artistry, Mrs. Wharton's for which, in the abstract, she still refused to hold
work always gives us the sense of ethical responsi- herself to blame. But life is not a matter of abstract
bility. Her latest theme is perhaps the most daring principles, but a succession of pitiful compromises
that she has dealt with, and certainly the one which
with fate, of concessions to old tradition, old beliefs,
most demands a responsible attitude, for the par-
old charities and frailties. That was what her act
ticular case of conscience here brought under her had taught her - that was the word of the gods to
analysis is that of the right to shorten human life the mortal who had laid a hand on their bolts." He
when its prolongation means only suffering with no
would be a harsh moralist, who, in the presence of
attendant hope of recovery. Such action as this is the poignant tragedy portrayed in this book, should
justified (in theory) by many people who take life maintain that the woman's punishment does not meas-
seriously and look it squarely in the face, although ure up to her desert, and who should not be able to
the law gives the action no countenance, and the make large allowances for an act which, however
instinctive inheritance of many centuries of Christian intrinsically horrible, is the outcome of the purest
civilization causes most of us to recoil with horror pity and the tenderest love.
from the suggestion. And even those who are per The great San Francisco earthquake now makes
suaded to give theoretical approval to the principle its appearance in fiction, serving as an effective
would find it impossible to formulate a safe working- climax to Mrs. Atherton's new international novel.
rule for its application. We fancy that the con The book is entitled “ Ancestors," for no more dis-
sciousness of this difficulty, almost as much as the cernible reason than is offered by the fact that the
instinctive revolt against any violation of the sanctity heroine is of Spanish origin, and is supposed to
of human life, helps to line up the professional exhibit certain ancestral traits. However, novelists
moralists in a solid opposing phalanx whenever the nowadays are hard pressed for titles, and almost
humanitarian plea for mercy to the condemned suf- anything will serve. Mrs. Atherton's hero is a
ferer is voiced. On the other hand, the sternest young Englishman in political life - a sort of
champion of the law, whether moral or civil, which Rosebery-Curzon-Churchill blend — who becomes a
forbids the taking of human life, would be likely to peer much to his disgust, and is thereby precluded
weaken inwardly when confronted by some partic- from what has seemed to be his destined leadership
ularly heart-rending case of agony for which no na-
of the Commons. The heroine is an American
tural end but death is possible, and which might be
cousin from California, who at this juncture per-
summarily ended with relief to all concerned. In
In suades him to forsake English politics, come to
such a case, the ethical philosophy which is no more America, and there carve out for himself a new
than a calculus of pleasure and pain is apt to make
About a third of the book is taken up by
all idealistic systems appear ineffectual. And the these preliminaries, and then the scene is shifted to
one who should, in such a case, translate this phil-California, where it remains for something over four
osophy into action, although a criminal in the eyes hundred pages. The English peer becomes plain
of the law, would at least be entitled to a certain John Gwynne, a rancher, and a student of political
awful kind of sympathy. These are among the life in his new home. The fact that, by an accident
reflections that come to us while reading Mrs. Whar of travel, he had been born in Virginia, permits him
ton's novel. As a conscious artist, she realizes that to claim American citizenship by a technicality, and
it is not her business to take sides, but rather to supports the visionary suggestion that he may be
present a concrete example, and leave her readers eligible for the presidency. When the story closes,
however, he has got no farther toward this goal than
*THE FRUIT OF THE TREE. By Edith Wharton. New York:
Charles Scribners' Sons.
a sort of local leadership. But he gets his American
ANCESTORS. A Novel. By Gertrude Atherton. New York: cousin before the curtain falls, which is what the
Harper & Brothers.
novel-reader chiefly demands. The strength of this
THE SHUTTLE. By Frances Hodgson Burnett. New York:
The Frederick A. Stokes Co.
book is found in its intimate depiction of California,
THE RADICAL. By I. K. Friedman. New York: D. Appleton
both natural and social. Here the author is on firm
ground (to speak with only figurative intent), and
BETH NORVELL. A Romance of the West. By Randall Par-
rish Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co.
writes whereof she knows, albeit with some exagger-
MONEY MAGIC. A Novel. By Hamlin Garland. New York:
ation and crudeness of coloring. But the story is
Harper & Brothers.
made fairly tedious by endless passages of analysis
THE WEAVERS. A Tale of England and Egypt of Fifty and discussion, and its inordinate length is not
Years Ago. By Gilbert Parker. New York: Harper & Brothers.
justified by a corresponding richness of invention
LORD CAMMERLEIGH'S SECRET. By Roy Horniman. Boston:
Little, Brown & Co.
and imagination. Of its style there is not much ot
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say. It exhibits rawness rather than refinement, him. Probably Mr. Friedman is not quite as pessi-
and is almost wholly devoid of charm.
mistic as this outcome would seem to indicate, for
Another novel of the international type is “The the closing page seems to hint that we are not
Shuttle," by Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett. Here through with the hero, whose last recorded words,
again we have a title with only the vaguest sort of as he departs from Washington, are to the effect
relevancy, one that has to be justified by the occa that the White House has both a front and a back
sional insertion of figurative reflections upon the web door. Still, a story of this type which ends in de
of comity that fate is weaving between the shores feat is something of a novelty, and attention must
of England and America. In the present case it is be called to the fact. The scene of Mr. Friedman's
a snarl that is woven rather than a web, for the story story is placed, for the most part, in the national
starts with an international marriage that proves most capital, and it is evident that the author has spent
distressing in its results. Suffice it to say that the some time there, note-book in hand. He is well-
bride, who is the daughter of an American magnate equipped with the facts of political life, and with the
of fabulous wealth, is so cowed by the brutality of social sympathies needed for their effective interpre-
her noble and vicious spouse that she supinely places tation. He writes as an avowed spokesman of our
her fortune in his hands, ceases to communicate present-day militant democracy, which is probably
with her own family, and sinks into the position of a as biased, in its own way, as the effete aristocracy
drudge, an unconsidered appendage of his decayed which it antagonizes. And we must add that the
household. This situation is, of course, improbable present book, in the details of its workmanship, is
to the verge of being preposterous, but it provides a not as finished a production as the author's previous
setting for the main part of the story, which begins writings would lead us to expect.
when Betty appears upon the scene. Betty is the Things happen to a surprising extent in the novels
younger sister of the abused wife, and as soon as of Mr. Randall Parrish, and more of them than
she reaches the age of discretion, she starts for Eng usual happen in “Beth Norvell,” his latest fiction.
land on the mission, long cherished in secret, of dis The scene is in the mining region of Colorado, the
covering and rescuing the lost member of the family. hero is a mining engineer, and the heroine a young
She arrives at a time when the villainous husband woman who has run away from her villainous hus-
is absent in parts unknown, grasps the situation, and band, and is supporting herself by enacting various
presently dominates it. Her doings are of a nature parts as leading lady of a theatrical company.
to astonish the natives and everybody else, and when The hero succumbs when he first sees her, and
the husband re-appears, he discovers that he has a applies for a position as scene-shifter and general
new member of his household, a rehabilitated estate, utility man with her troupe. This enables him to
and a wife who shows signs of possessing a will of be on hand at various critical junctures, and he
her own. These phenomena surprise him at first, and knows how to utilize his opportunities. In the end
then make him more malignantly villainous than he the villain is conveniently disposed of, and all is well.
had been before — there can be no doubt that in this It is all melodrama of a rather preposterous sort,
portrayal Mrs. Burnett gives us good measure. The and the hero's conversation is a little more prepos-
element of sentimental romance in the book is pro terous than anything else in the book.
vided by Betty's relations with a neighbor, an im Another story of the West, but one considerably
poverished nobleman, a figure of the taciturn-heroic more serious in artistic intent, is “Money Magic,”
type, whom everyone but Betty misjudges. She dis by Mr. Hamlin Garland. The hero is a reformed
covers him to be a diamond of the purest water, al gambler and the heroine an emancipated “biscuit-
though a rough one, and all is well in the end, save shooter.” The gambler reforms because that is the
for the villain, with whom all is ill, yet not ill in condition the “ biscuit-shooter" imposes upon him,
proportion to his deserts. Betty seems to us an un and her emancipation is from the drudgery of the
usually fine character; fine, that is, in the sense of country hotel in which her days have been spent.
artistic and sympathetic portrayal. The story is a Just as this arrangement has been effected between
long one, and might be shortened to its advantage. the two, a "bad man” gets the gambler off his guard,
Mr. Friedman, in “ The Radical,” gives us and “fills him with lead.” (We drop into these
another variant upon the well-worn theme of the playful idioms as a natural consequence of associa-
political leader engaged in the struggle with the tion with the unspoiled figures of Western romance.)
hydra-headed (or octopus-footed) monster of corrup The gambler is supposed to be on his death-bed, and
tion. His hero makes his way upward by sheer a marriage is hastily contrived; but he unexpectedly
strength of character and rugged honesty. After recovers, although remaining a cripple. The couple
he has served his apprenticeship in municipal and now remove to the Springs, where they occupy a
state politics, he becomes a Representative at Wash palatial residence, and get into “society.” The
ington, and eventually a Senator. But after this, woman develops possibilities, which a young lawyer
his career does not present the record of successful (who now comes into the foreground) is quick to per-
achievement so popular with the novelists who por ceive. Various affecting scenes then follow, grow-
tray this type of character; for our author gives us ing out of the wife's struggle with her awakened self,
the novelty of a hero who is defeated in the end, and and the pathetic self-effacement of the husband. The
forced to succumb to the forces of evil arrayed against effacement is finally made complete, and the story
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in Cuba.
ends with a new life in prospect for his widow. There enough; and this, we take it, represents a more
is a certain amount of truth in this narrative, and artistic method of dealing with the impossible than
fairly effective characterization, although the latter that which demands our acceptance of new miracles
must be described as crude rather than subtle. Mr. in every chapter. The hero is an audacious youth
Garland has done much better work than this, and of parts, introduced to us upon the verge of starvation.
will, we trust, do it again.
At his wits’ ends, he one day comes across Lord
“Whatever thy task, thou art even as one who Cammarleigh, whom he has never seen before, notes
twists the thread and throws the shuttle weaving the a look of terror upon his face, and whispers to him
web of Life. Ye are all weavers, and Allah the dramatically: “I know your secret.” Thereupon
Merciful, does He not watch beside the loom ?" he is at once taken into his lordship's household,
This impressive quotation (is it from the Koran ?) installed as private secretary, given the power of the
at once introduces and sets the keynote for “The purse, and made practically master of position and
Weavers,” a new novel by Sir Gilbert Parker. The fortune. He uses the opportunity to such excellent
words presage breadth of treatment and a serious effect that he eventually marries an aristocratic
underlying purpose.
Their omen is not without maiden, gets a seat in Parliament, and sequestrates
fulfilment, for the author has embodied their mes for his own benefit a large share of Cammarleigh's
sage in a work that, despite certain quite obvious fortune. As for the secret, he never finds it out,
faults, is nevertheless endowed with unity of design and, what is worse, even the reader gets no hint of
and fine idealism. The faults may be dismissed its nature. But it is dark and deadly enough to
with a few words. They are found in a somewhat make Cammerleigh a puppet in the hero's hands,
heavy and repetitious style, an excess of melo and to give us the delight of following the career
dramatic action and of Egyptian local color, and an of a particularly engaging adventurer.
element of what is intended to be comic relief,
WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE.
provided by a stray American whose language and
conduct are alike impossible. Allowing for all these
things, there remains a tale of varied and absorbing
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS.
interest, the most ambitious and probably the most
successful of Sir Gilbert's writings. The story is of
Since the reversal in our foreign and
The history
Egypt fifty years ago, but of an Egypt brought into of slavery colonial policies which has taken
such relations with England as to justify the large
place since 1898, American students
share of attention given to English scenes and are devoting more attention to the history of Latin-
characters. The author has imagined a young America. The most recent product of investigation
Englishman of Quaker nurture, transferred by acci in that field is “ A History of Slavery in Cuba, 1511
dent, as it were, to the Egyptian court, and placed to 1868 ” (Putnam), by Herbert H. S. Aimes. The
in a position of such responsibility that the destinies title is too comprehensive, since the only subject
of the country are in his hands. There is a little of treated is the slave-trade to Cuba, legal and illegal.
Lord Cromer and a good deal of Gordon in his The author traces the history of the trade from the
make-up, and his career is in many respects strik- beginning to the end, describing the policy of Spain,
ingly like that of the last-named Englishman, whose the desires of the Cuban planters, the methods of
personality and situation in the eighties have been the traders, attempts at suppression, and the slave
borrowed for the uses of this romance of the sixties. trade in international politics, with bere and there
Particularly is this description true of the relations some remarks
upon the economic situation in Cuba
between our Quaker David and the home govern and its relation to the slave traffic. In a sense, this
ment, which supports him in a half-hearted
way,
and is a scholarly work. It is the result of much labor,
finally abandons him to his fate. More fortunate and is based upon the best authorities, Spanish,
than Gordon, however, he is saved from his desper French, and English, both documentary and printed.
ate peril, and his enemies are routed when all hope But the narrative in which the author presents the
seems lost.
This situation provides a tense climax results of his work is something fearful and wonder-
for a work that lays a strong hold upon our sympa-
ful in its raw and careless crudeness. It would seem
thies, and that depicts, in a manner that is something that no effort was made to give the work a clear and
more than superficial, the sharp contrast, if not the readable form. At times it is difficult to under-
deep essential antagonism, between East and West. stand the author's meaning; there is unnecessary
Sir Gilbert is a man of the world whose thought is word coining ; technical terms are not sufficiently
tinged by poetic imagination, and it is to this unusual explained ; quotations are not well introduced, and
combination that the effectiveness of his work is due. indirect quotations are in bad form; too many
"Lord Cammarleigh's Secret” is a diverting tale minute facts are given, and not enough effort is
by Mr. Roy Horniman. By way of anticipating its exerted to work them into a logical narrative, - in
strain upon the reader's credulity it is styled “a fact, the author seems to have lost himself in his
fairy story of to-day” upon the title-page, and with mass of details. But in spite of all these defects,
this warning we are measurably prepared to be sur we can dig out, with the author's assistance, certain
prised. Granted, however, a single initial impossi- general conclusions, such as these: the Spanish
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modern
(24 d
the Cuban planters wanted more slaves than they excellence that it is a little disturbing to catch him
were permitted to import, though at times they writing of a "perspicuous critic." Surely, so accom-
showed a lively sense of the danger of having large plished a classicist ought not to ignore the distinction
numbers of negroes; but few female slaves were between perspicuus and perspicax. The inter-
imported for a long time, and thus the slave trade spersed comments on Tennyson's metres tend to
was considered more necessary; though illegal after show what an amazing command of his instrument
about 1820, it was practically impossible to prevent the poet had. In fact, the whole book sends one
the smuggling in of slaves in large numbers. Of back to the poems themselves with increased admi-
enlightening comment and well developed conclu ration and renewed zest.
sions, there is a distinct lack. There is no descrip-
“Factors in Modern History" (Put-
tion of the plantation economy in Cuba. The point Factors in
of view of the author is unusual: he writes of the
nam) is the promising though some-
history.
what indefinite title of a recently
slave-trade in exactly the same spirit that he would
write of the sugar-trade; there is no horror of the
published volume of lectures by the eminent English
traffic, no preaching, no apology, no defense or attack.
historian, Professor A. F. Pollard of the University
Throughout the book one finds expressed the author's
of London. The author's purpose is, however, not
opinion that for the development of Cuba slave labor
so broad as the title-page would suggest: his aim is
was needed and Spain should have allowed unlimited
to point out and discuss the nature of the forces
traffic in Africans an opinion not warranted by
that directed the course and shaped the events of
the experience of the past nor proved sound by
English history during the sixteenth and seventeenth
conditions of to-day.
centuries, the Tudor and Stuart periods. The work
is therefore not a history as that word is commonly
Mr. A. C. Benson's “Tennyson" understood; it is not a re-statement of historic events,
Tennyson's life,
(Dutton) is written with a threefold but an effort to bring out the significance that lies
art, and ideals.
object, — (1) to give a simple beneath the ordinary well-known facts of the period
narrative of the life of Tennyson, with a sketch of under discussion. Among other “factors,” the author
his temperament, character, ideals, and beliefs ; (2) discusses nationality, the rise of the middle class,
I have tried from his own words and writings to the growth of parliamentary independence, the new
indicate what I believe to have been his view of the monarchy, conflicting religious and political ideas,
poetical life and character ; (3) I have attempted and colonial expansion. On some of these subjects
to touch the chief characteristics of his art from the Professor Pollard offers little that is either novel or
technical point of view, here again as far as possible startling, but in every case the manner of treatment
using his own recorded words.” The book gives us is interesting and suggestive. Of greatest interest
Mr. Benson at his best, lingering in the quiet of his is the author's review of the early Tudor period, in
study over the pages of a beloved author, and desir which he re-states the conclusions published in his
ing, as he says, “ to share with others an inheritance biographies of Cranmer, Henry VIII., and the Pro-
of pure and deep delight.” Nothing new is offered, tector Somerset. He still holds that while Henry
or attempted, in the brief outline of the poet's life, VIII. was only in a minor degree responsible for the
nor is there anything novel or startling in the dis Anglican reformation, he was directly responsible
cussion of his works and his art; but a quiet sym for the growth of parliamentary vigor and inde
pathy, a genial appreciation, pervades the book and pendence that proved so fatal to the pretensions of
makes it most enjoyable, even inspiring, reading. the Stuarts. As he reads the records, there was
The author holds with FitzGerald, and with many more tyranny, more coercion, more interference
less critical readers, that Tennyson's early poems with parliamentary freedom, in the reign of Queen
were his best, that his “real gift was the lyric gift,” Elizabeth than in that of her father. It will interest
and that “while he continued careless of name and the reader to note that to emphasize the virtues of
fame he served his own ideal best.” In charging the “flexible " British constitution Professor Pollard
Tennyson with obscurity in the speeches he puts into contrasts it with our own, under which neither
the mouths of his characters, as in “The Princess" House nor ministry can remove the other; they
and the "Idylls" – an obscurity even surpassing can only annoy one another, and impede one
that of Browning - he goes too far. Tennyson another's action until the period preordained by the
never throws grammar and syntax to the winds, nor Constitution has elapsed.” The work closes with a
does he make his verse stagger under a load of lecture on the present condition of historic study at
obscure and unimportant Italian allusion. Some of the University of London, which is interesting for
Tennyson's terse and humorous comments on his its own sake, but hardly belongs in a volume
brother poets throw gleams of light on the concep devoted to the “factors in modern history.” A
tion he had of his art. Wordsworth, for his lack of word should be added in appreciation of the author's
fire, seemed to him “thick-ankled ”; of Ben Jonson literary style: the reviewer recalls no other discus-
he said, "To me he appears to move in a wide sea sion that brings out the humor of history so freely
of glue"; and Horace's Sapphic stanza, he used to and so delightfully. Professor Pollard's latest work
declare, " is like a pig with its tail tightly curled.” is one that lovers of history will read with enjoy-
Mr. Benson's style is, as usual, of so scholarly an ment as well as with profit.


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Eulogy of a
Astronomy
up to date.
“I am a natural-born mountebank,” of their civilization, to which he has contributed no
self-confessed frankly declares Mr. Bernard Shaw, small share himself, is marked by a spirit of genuine
mountebank.
and it is this unabashed admission of sympathy and good-will. Of the influence exerted
all that is charged against him that makes him a by foreigners in Japan, he says, they not only sowed
rather piquantly interesting and oddly amusing the first seeds of knowledge, but that they created
figure to contemplate in the brief study of his life and new sciences, inaugurated railroad and telegraph sys-
work offered by Mr. Holbrook Jackson, published tems, built steamships and lighthouses, and in a thou-
by Messrs. G. W. Jacobs & Co. Conceiving that sand ways taught the Japanese how to utilize the
the press and the public have failed to understand forces of nature, develop their national resources, and
Mr. Shaw and to take him with sufficient seriousness, improve the condition of man. He considers the
Mr. Jackson has presented him, carefully and admir- Japanese the most“ improvable" race in Asia, if not
ingly drawn, in fourfold phase, — “The Man,” “The in the world. In spirit, body, institutions, mental
Fabian,” “The Playwright,” and “The Philosopher." initiative, and methods of life, they are, Dr. Griffis
The book is well written, and, in its biographical declares, radically un-Mongolian, and should not be
pages especially, highly entertaining. Its subject is classed as Mongolians; indeed, they refuse to be
certainly a man of unusual endowments, and is just classed as such. He praises the alliance with Great
now making himself heard in tones that men cannot, Britain, and says the Japanese owe the British peo-
or will not, shut their ears to. As the author says ple more than money for their friendship. Of
that Mr. Shaw looks upon himself, not primarily as Japan's position as a world-power, Dr. Griffis writes
an artist, but as a philosopher, we need not here pass interestingly. He denies that her statesmen are ani-
judgment on his books and plays, but may content mated by any policy of aggression, and affirms that
ourselves with querying whether his philosophy, her highest ambition is self-preservation.
despite the attention it is now commanding, will
prove to have in it anything of permanent worth.
Mr. W. W. Bryant, who has charge
He wakes up the drowsy, and makes them gasp and
of the magnetic and meteorological
stare ; but (to use the language of pragmatism) new
work of the Greenwich Observatory,
truth, in order to vindicate its claim to be truth at
has written a "History of Astronomy” (Dutton)
all, must not merely be novel and forward-reaching, which is neither so long as to repel a reader whose
but must at the same time be sufficiently in harmony time is limited, nor so short as to be unsatisfactory.
with old and accepted truth to coalesce with it and
The author has treated the ancient worthies in small
grow naturally from it. Nature makes no leaps, and compass, and devotes most of his book to a consid-
your saltimbanque is a prodigious leaper. In other eration of what has been done in this science during
words, are we ready to throw overboard the greater the last fifty years. Before that time, astronomical
number of our cherished ideals, to hold with this progress was associated almost entirely with the
new philosopher that “duty is what one should never greatest exponents of the science, and the treatment
do,” to bow down to the Life-force as the
supreme
of the subject is therefore almost necessarily bio-
object of our worship, to intermit our homage to cour-
graphical. But during the past fifty years there
age and justice and fidelity and chastity, and all the have been so many worthy workers in various astro-
other old-fashioned virtues ? Shall we cease to nomical fields that the biographical treatment of the
demand in our prophets and teachers that modest
earlier times is supplemented by a topical one. Here
dignity and self-respecting reserve that seem to us wide and accurate knowledge is shown by the author,
(whether rightly or wrongly) so sadly lacking in the who brings the discussion of each topic thoroughly
brilliant author of “Man and Superman”? How-
down to date; in one case he inserts some informa-
ever he may entertain and even stimulate at times, tion gained while the book was being printed. The
it seems absurd to compare him, as does Mr. Jackson, reader is thus led to feel that the presentation is
with Carlyle in his day and with Swift in his. thoroughly modern. Upon disputed topics, like that
of the supposed inhabitability of Mars, a conserva-
The most
“The Japanese Nation in Evolution”
tive opinion is expressed. Thirty-five plates of a
"improvable” (Crowell), by Dr. William Elliot high order illustrate the text.
world-race.
Griffis, the well-known writer on
Japanese affairs, is a popular resumé of the impor American A new edition of Mr. Frederick
history from
tant events in the history of Japan, from the earliest
an English
Scott Oliver's “Alexander Hamilton,
times to the beginning of the present year. The point of view. an Essay on American Union” (Put-
author is conceded to be the best informed Ameri nam) gives opportunity to express renewed appre-
can on the subject concerning which he writes. He ciation of this study of our Revolutionary and early
was the first of that army of foreigners (the number national history from the English point of view.
is not less than five thousand) who have been called The author is a careful and judicial student, and
into the service of Japan in pursuance of the cele the study is valuable in itself; but its chief value
brated Charter Oath taken by the Mikado in 1868, comes from the outside' treatment of the period that
his arrival in the flowery kingdom dating back to has been most idealized by our own writers. The
January, 1871. Dr. Griffis is an enthusiastic ad- reader sometimes receives a mild shock when the
mirer of the Japanese, and his story of the growth | traditional ideals are treated irreverently; but the


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treatment is never flippant. It seems impossible
NOTES.
for any American writer to discuss the character
and achievements of Hamilton without enthusiastic The J. B. Lippincott Co. publish a new edition of Mr.
admiration or violent denunciation, according to
J. W. Clark's “Cambridge,” a very.readable book with
the writer's political bias, so positive was Hamilton's
many illustrations.
character and so striking his achievements. Mr.
Trollope's “ John Caldigate,” in two volumes, is now
Oliver is an ardent admirer without partisan pre-
added by Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co. to their “ Manor
House" edition of the novelist.
judices, seeing in Hamilton the guiding intellect in A First Course in the Differential and Integral
national affairs during the whole period of his ac-
Calculus,” by Professor William F. Osgood, is a college
tivity. Rather scanty weight is allowed even to text-book just published by the Macmillan Co.
Washington's influence and initiative.
“ Forage Crops for Soiling, Silage, Hay, and Pasture,"
by Dr. Edward B. Voorhees, is now published by the
Macmillan Co. as a volume in their useful « Rural
Science Series."
BRIEFER MENTION.
“Water-Lilies and How to Grow Them,” by Messrs.
“ Ancient Hebrew Literature,” in four volumes, edited
Henry S. Conard and Henri Hus, is the latest addition
to the “ Garden Library” of Messrs. Doubleday, Page
by the Rev. R. Bruce Taylor, is a welcome addition to
& Co.
the “Everyman's Library” of the Messrs. Dutton. It
is simply an edition of the Old Testament and Apocrypha,
Messrs. Henry Holt & Co issue a new edition of
the books classified under such heads as law, history,
Auerbach's “On the Heights," as translated by Mr.
philosophy, and poetry, and printed without artificial
Simon Adler Stern, and first published over thirty
division into chapters and verses. The authorized ver-
years ago.
sion is the basis of the text, although absolute mistrans-
“Golden Thoughts from the Gospels” and “Golden
lations are corrected. This set of volumes, together
Thoughts from Sir Thomas Browne,” the latter edited
with the New Testament volume edited for the same
by Mr. Herbert Ives, are two pretty booklets published
series by Principal Lindsay, gives us a complete Bible
by the John Lane Co.
that may be read as another book, with eyes unvexed by
“ The Human Harvest,” by Dr. David Starr Jordan,
the typographical devices that make hard reading of the
is a small but weighty book published by the American
Scriptures in the ordinary form of publication.
Unitarian Association. It contains two addresses, the
A new volume has been added to the late Philip
titular essay, and the essay called “The Blood of the
Schaff's “ History of the Christian Church,” the labor
Nation,” which appeared some years ago.
of carrying on the work having been undertaken by his
“ Montaigne" is the subject of a new volume of
son, Dr. David S. Schaff. The special period of this
“ French Classics for English Readers,” as published by
volume is the Middle Ages, and, with another volume
the Messrs. Putnam. The editor is Professor Adolphe
now in press, the work will be brought down to the
Cohn, who has selected the essays from Florio's trans-
Reformation. Thus the lacuna left in the history by lation, and contributed the usual introduction.
Philip Schaff's death will be filled, and the continuous “ The Great Galleries of Europe” is the title of a
history, in eight volumes, will be available for study and series of booklets started by the H. M. Caldwell Co.
reference. Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons are the pub They are books of pictures with practically no text, and
lishers of this, as of the preceding volumes.
the subjects of the four now issued are the Louvre, the
“ A Book of Quotations, Proverbs, and Household Luxembourg, the National Gallery, and the Tate Gallery,
Words,” edited by Mr. W. Gurney Benham, is a stout What is probably the most desirable edition of Poe's
volume of more than twelve hundred pages, published poems is offered by the volume which forms a part of
by the J. B. Lippincott Co. It is described as “a collec the edition of Poe's works, in ten volumes, edited by
tion of what is quotable, as well as of what is quoted.”
Messrs. Stedman and Woodberry a dozen years ago.
The first third of the book is given up to quotations from
The volume of the poems is now published separately
individual authors; then we have groups of quotations
by Messrs. Duffield & Co.
under various miscellaneous categories, and then nearly Books about the music-dramas of Richard Wagner
three hundred pages of quotations from foreign lan multiply apace. We now have “ The Wagnerian Ro-
guages, ancient and modern. An extensive selection of mances,” by Miss Gertrude Hall, who simply tells the
proverbs follows, and an elaborate verbal index com stories, and, for some curious reason, tells them in the
pletes the work. We know no other book of the kind reverse of their chronological order. The John Lane
that contains so much matter, and we can heartily rec Co. publish this book. From Messrs. Dodd, Mead &
ommend it as an addition to the reference shelf. Co. we have “ The Story of the Ring," by Mr. S. H.
· Narratives of Early Virginia” is a new volume in Hamer, a book which merely analyzes the plot, and illus-
the series of “ Original Narratives of Early American trates it in musical notation.
History,” published by Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons. We have frequently made mention of Mr. Albert F.
It is appropriately and intelligently edited by the Presi Calvert's “Spanish Series” of illustrated guides to the
dent of the oldest of Virginia colleges, Dr. Lyon treasures of Spanish Art. Two new volumes, “ Toledo "
Gardiner Tyler. Selections from the doughty John and “Granada and the Alhambra,” have just been added
Smith fill about two-thirds of the volume; the remain to the series, volumes of unusual thickness, and remark-
ing contents include narratives and letters by George able for the amount of descriptive and illustrative ma-
Percy, Lord De-la-Ware, Don Diego de Molina, Father terial they provide for a small price. Each of these
Biard, John Ræfe, and John Pory. The period covered volumes, in addition to the text, contains about five hun-
is that from the first settlement to the dissolution of dred full-page photographic plates. The series is pub-
the Company in 1624 by the aggrieved monarch. lished by the John Lane Co.
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A Semi-Monthly Journal of Literary Criticism, Discussion, and Information.
PAGE
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No. 515. DECEMBER 1, 1907. Vol. XLIII.
MONCURE DANIEL CONWAY.
It was a rich life, and a helpful one, that
CONTENTS.
ended when Dr. Conway died in Paris, on the
MONCURE DANIEL CONWAY
363 fifteenth of last month. It had covered just
three-quarters of a century, and had entered into
CASUAL COMMENT
365
active relations with many of the most signi-
A naval captain and a literary stylist. — Miss
Alma-Tadema's sunny philosophy.-A new library ficant developments and personalities of the
journal. - Public library borrowers of fiction. - period. He said in his Autobiography published
The status of the librarian. — The disadvantages
of universal culture. - The Columbia craze for
three years ago :
spelling-reform. — The books of Leslie Stephen.-
“ The eventualities of life brought me into close con-
Sir Oracle incarnated as G.B.S.-Hard times and nection with some large movements of my time, and
the book trade.
also with incidents little noticed when they occurred,
COMMUNICATIONS
367
which time has proved of more far-reaching effect than
Browning's Narrative Verse. Clark S. Northup.
the immediately imposing events. I have been brought
Tennyson's “ The Passing of Arthur.” O. R.
into personal relations with leading minds and characters
Howard Thomson.
which already are becoming quasi-classic figures to the
youth around me, and already show the usual tendency
QUEEN VICTORIA AS LETTER-WRITER. Percy of such figures to invest themselves with mythology."
F. Bicknell.
368
A life which may be described in such terms as
NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS IN WOOD EN these cannot fail to be of deep and instructive
GRAVING. Frederick W. Gookin
370
interest, and, now that its accounts are closed,
SOME PLEASANT BOOKS OF TRAVEL. H. E. many readers should wish to make acquaintance,
Coblentz
371
renewed or original, with the volumes which con-
REMINISCENCES OF AN ENGLISH ARTIST . 374 tain its autobiographical record. Few volumes
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Chancellor's History of the Squares of London.
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Probably the most essential characteristic of
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Dr. Conway's life was its open-mindedness, and
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living. Starting on his career as a narrow
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-Barham's Ingoldsby Legends, illustrated by became a powerful exponent of liberal religious
Rackham. - Longfellow's Hanging of the Crane,
illustrated by Keller. — Storin's Immensee, trans-
thought; born into a slaveholding family, and
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became an impassioned ally of the abolitionists,
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Under the Holly Bough. – Miss Curtis's The
incidentally liberating his own family slaves,
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Mrs. McMahan's Shakespeare's Gift to Queen Bess.
ciple of the noble life now brought to its close,
-Miss Pasteur's Gods and Heroes of Old Japan.
and constitutes its fundamental title to our
NOTES
385
respect.
The events of Dr. Conway's early life may
THE SEASON'S BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG . 385
be very briefly summarized. Dickinson College,
LIST OF NEW BOOKS
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ated him at the age of seventeen.
He studied In 1875, Dr. Conway made a vacation visit
law for a time, then went into the ministry. to the United States, but it was not until 1884
His adoption of Unitarianism was made at about that he finally severed relations with his London
the time when he became of age, and the change congregation, and came home for good. This
in his religious outlook was largely due to the latter statement, however, needs much qualifica-
influence of Emerson. This year of his majority tion, for he continued to make frequent journeys
he spent the summer at Concord, where he met abroad, and, as we have seen, it was in a foreign
the gentle sage with whom he was to become so land that his career came to an end. How far
intimately associated. A year of study in the afield his wanderings took him appears from
Harvard Divinity School followed; it was the “My Pilgrimage to the Wise Men of the East,"
year of the Anthony Burns episode and of the that fascinating supplement to a fascinating
Kansas-Nebraska bill, which matters confirmed | Autobiography. His deep interest in the oriental
the young man in his anti-slavery principles. religions made him eager to study them at first
During the next seven years, he occupied Uni- hand, and enter into personal relations with their
tarian pastorates in Washington and Cincin- leading exponents. Long before he made this
nati. The Washington incumbency ended with pilgrimage he had published “The Sacred An-
a “fatal sermon,” too outspoken for the slavery thology,” a collection of passages from the great
interest to stomach, and the preacher, charged religious writings of the East, which had been
with “ desecration of his pulpit,” was promptly one of his most widely-circulated books. Other
dismissed. He removed to Cincinnati in 1856, books resulting from his studies in comparative
and it was there that he was married. It was religion were “Demonology and Devil Lore,"
also there that he edited “The Dial," second of “The Wandering Jew,” and “Solomon and
that name, a monthly magazine which lived Solomonic Literature.''
exactly one year.
The literary activities of his later years were
The outbreak of the Civil War brought Dr. mainly devoted to subjects connected with
Conway to the East again, and engaged him in American history. He had seen some of the
many intellectual and humane activities in the most important parts of American history in
cause of the Union, which was to him emphat- the making, and had been deeply impressed
ically the cause of freedom. Soon after the with the fact that every historical happening
Emancipation Proclamation went into effect, he tends to become quickly obscured by legend.
accepted an offer from England to lecture in In particular, he knew well from his own expe-
that country. He thus entered upon what was
rience how widely variant from the truth was
to be a foreign sojourn of more than twenty years,
the popular or legendary idea of the Civil War
during which time he acted as minister of the and its chief actors that had come to be gen-
South Place Chapel in London, besides doing erally accepted a generation later. When he
much work in journalism, scholarship, and lit- turned to make researches in our earlier annals,
erature. He sums up in these words his record he kept this lesson at heart, and in the true spirit
up to the time of his change of residence: of exact scholarship went straight to the docu-
“I had said my say in America; I had borne my
mentary sources and did not allow traditions to
testimony, as the Quakers say, in all the towns of Ohio, cloud his vision or impair his judgment. His
in every important town of New England, and in the method is exemplified by his biographies of
chief cities of New York, in Philadelphia and surround-
Edmund Randolph and Thomas Paine. His life
ing places, and in Washington. I had written innum-
of Paine, in fact, together with his critical edi-
erable articles and letters in papers and magazines, and
my two books on the crisis were in wide circulation. It
tion of Paine's writings, constitutes the chief
appeared, therefore, a fair time for me to go for a few literary monument of Dr. Conway's career. It
months to represent the moral and political situation as revealed the subject as he really was, and dis-
viewed by American anti-slavery people.”
pelled forever from all serious minds the bogy
The life of the score of years that followed, as that for generations had been on pulpit exhibition
we read of it in the Autobiography, is rich in for the pointing of a cheap and sensational moral.
many kinds of interest.
Dr. Conway had the Dr. Conway's books, unless we except the
social instinet to a remarkable degree, and his Autobiography, will not perpetuate his memory
combination of intellectual force with sweetness with the wider public. His voluminous output
of temper won for him both the respect and the of writing was either frankly ephemeral or nar-
affection of a great number of the leading rowly specialized, and these are not the qualities
spirits of the time, on the Continent as well as in that make for lasting fame. But the memory
England.
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another generation by those who were privileged ing"! But of course all this is unimportant. Perhaps,
to hold intercourse with him. He was one of
like the higher mathematics, this grammatical hair-
the best of talkers and one of the sincerest of splitting has a fascination inversely proportional to its
utility.
friends, and his sympathies radiated upon all
Miss ALMA-TADEMA'S SUNNY PHILOSOPHY finds
who came within their range. He will be missed
pleasant expression in her reported conversation regard-
in his familiar haunts — the Century, and the
ing her forthcoming book on the simple life, the ethical
Authors, and the homes that knew him as a loved basis of happiness, and kindred themes of interest to the
and honored guest. But the sadness caused by homely philosopher that dwells in each one of us. « This
his death will be tempered by the thought that
book of mine," she is quoted as saying, " has never been
he lived his life fully, and made the world a better published, and I came over here to give a few readings
from it because I have always loved to read, and because
place than it would have been without him.
I wanted to see my friends here, and I thought that
would be a pleasant way of doing it. My book isn't at
all a practical handbook of happiness. Perhaps some
day I shall write a more practical book on the subject;
but it seemed to me the ethical part, the spiritual basis,
CASUAL COMMENT.
came first."
To Miss Alma-Tadema, happiness is very
much what Boston is to the true Bostonian. Just as to
A NAVAL CAPTAIN AND A LITERARY STYLIST are not
him Boston is not a geographical locality but rather a
every day encountered in one and the same person; but state of mind, so to this cheerful lady happiness is
this unusual combination exists in Captain Alfred T.
“ something quite apart from outward circumstances;
Mahan, whose books owe no small part of their popu it is a matter of the mind,” and “if we have the
larity to the graceful and readable style in which they right attitude of mind nothing can make us really
are written. In his new volume, " From Sail to Steam,”
unhappy.” She does admit, however, after experience
one of the personally reminiscent chapters treats of the
of an Atlantic voyage, that “seasickness damps one's
author's development of his own medium of expression,
ardor for life, though it doesn't last long.” As to
and shows that, whatever he may believe as to the poet,
loneliness, she says: “I don't see how one can be lonely
he holds that the prosateur is born and made. With
when there is always Nature; but I believe the best
Dr. Johnson, he would reject the first spontaneous utter happiness comes from being always ready to give friend-
ance and substitute the embellished and full-rounded
ship and fellowship and affection, and to receive it.”
period. His remarks, the fruit of his own experience as In all this, and in more which we do not quote, there is
a writer, are of interest to anyone who holds a pen; and
sanity and sense that could hardly be improved upon
is there anybody who does not? At the same time, just unless one were to “beat the Dutch"; for Miss Laurence
as one takes a malicious pleasure in convicting a gram Alma-Tadema is the daughter of a Dutch father (as
marian of a solecism, so one feels a mischievous tempta everyone knows), and so, if not exactly a daughter of
tion to expose one or two little faults of style in this
Holland, is at least a grand daughter of that brave little
admirable writer's observations on style. Among the
country.
“minute details” that seem to him “worthy of the ut-
most care "is the following: “ to avoid an adjective which A NEW LIBRARY JOURNAL is one of the palpable
belongs to one of two nouns being so placed as to seem results of the recent thirtieth annual convention of the
to qualify both.” “To avoid an adjective's being placed” British Library Association at Glasgow. Some time
would be correct (so the purists say) although awkward; before that event, the Board of Education had sent
better, “ to avoid placing,” etc., or “never to place," etc. out a circular to the public libraries of the kingdom,
The Captain tells us that he abhors the split infinitive, urging their coöperation with the National Home
and we are not very fond of it ourselves; but he also Reading Union in furthering the interests common to
shuns the relative “that.” In this we think he deprives both. The outcome of this and subsequent agitation
himself of a useful and indeed almost indispensable and discussion has now appeared in the shape of an invit-
word. Where the relative clause completes the mean ing monthly magazine called “ The Readers' Review,"
ing of the antecedent, “ that” is the proper pronoun to
which will treat not only of matters pertaining espe-
use, though“which“' is often allowed to take its place. If cially to the Union, but also of such themes as the
the Captain will permit one further suggestion, would it libraries subscribing to it shall choose to bring forward
not be well to make more generous provision for the sup for discussion; and it will thus serve as the official
port of one's present participles? To leave a poor parti organ of the local library at the same time that it
ciple all alone, with no friendly noun or pronoun to lean stands for the larger interests of the Home Reading
against, is almost cruel. For example, in his recent Union and of public libraries throughout the land. The
entertaining magazine article on “Old-time Naval Offi Union undertakes to provide sixteen pages of literary
cers,” our author says, speaking of the flag-officer and matter and important news items, and the Library Asso-
himself: “Going ashore one day with him for a constitu ciation is invited to nominate an editorial committee as
tional, he caught sight of my necktie," etc. The sense its own representative — or perhaps to take entire charge
is plain enough, but “going” agrees with neither “he” of the editorship. This point is not quite clear to us.
nor “necktie”; in fact, its hopeless disagreement Book-lists and local advertisements are spoken of as to
amounts to a sort of grammatical dyspepsia. Again, ten be forthcoming from the various subscribing libraries,
lines further down the page: “Going ashore together and these libraries may either sell or distribute gratui-
one day for a walk, the surgeon sinudged his clothes,” tously the copies for which they subscribe. The saving
etc. Once more: “ Judging by my experience, the in printing expenses to the several libraries by this coöp-
life of an aide is literally that of a dog.” How simple erative action, and the gain expected from advertise-
and satisfying to have put “judged” instead of “judg ments, will more than pay for the copies of the period-


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ical taken by the coöperating libraries. It is reported benefactor and from the public treasury. Librarian-
that the scheme has already met with favor from some ships, like professorships, might well be endowed. This
of the principal boroughs in the kingdom, although by way of suggestion to any man of millions who is
London itself is moving slowly in the matter. The haunted with the fear of dying disgracefully rich.
whole plan illustrates for us our British cousins' superior
aptitude and fondness for coöperation. In coöperative THE DISADVANTAGES OF UNIVERSAL CULTURE, granted
schemes they are a long lead ahead of us.
the possibility of the whole world's ever attaining to what
we here and now regard as culture, must have suggested
PUBLIC LIBRARY BORROWERS OF FICTION are much themselves to many an idle muser As a man thinks,
fewer in proportion to the whole number of public so is he. A world in which all nations and races cher-
library patrons, than an unthinking reader of circulation ished the same ideals and thought the same thoughts
statistics would infer. For example, the Grand Rapids would be insufferably monotonous. For one thing, would
Public Library numbers about 15,000 card-holders; but not all men come to look alike? Even as it is, with the
in the past year, as has been ascertained, only 3890 of spread of international communication and the inter-
these persons drew fiction, while of this number 1050, change of Eastern and Western ideas, national types
or barely seven per cent of the library's patrons, drew are said to be disappearing, and all mankind is assuming,
more than sixty per cent of all the novels drawn, and or in danger of assuming, a dreary sameness of linea-
152 drew sixteen per cent. Therefore the familiar re ment and expression. A German artist who makes a
port that two-thirds, or three-quarters, or four-fifths, of speciality of studying the lines and features of the hu-
a library's total circulation has been fiction, need not man face declares that we are all getting to be as like
induce gloomy apprehensions of a softening of the public as peas in a pod. The final result will be the composite
brain. Probably not more than a quarter of the card human being, like the composite photograph; and the
holders —and those largely in the sentimental stage of
standardized face, like the standardized railway, the
their adolescence - are readers of novels only. In standardized flour-barrel, or (terrible thought) the stand-
deed, it is probable that not so many as one-quarter
ardized spelling. Already this student of physiognomy
read nothing more serious than story-books from Jan finds the same characteristics in Irishmen as in American
uary to December; and even readers of innumerable Indians, and in the Esquimaux as in the Japanese.
novels may actually spend more time over a few serious However, this retrograde movement from complexity
books than over fiction in the course of the year. Ten and differentiation and specialization back to primal
historical or scientific works might easily demand more uniformity and sameness will not go very far in our day
hours of reading and study than a hundred novels of the and generation. One can comfortingly say to oneself,
day. The latter are often run through at odd moments as one does in estimating the probable duration of the
as a “rest cure," after strenuous intellectual labors. sun's heat, “ The world will last out my time, any way.”
Furthermore, hundreds and thousands of novels are
taken from the library and returned unread or but partly THE COLUMBIA CRAZE FOR SPELLING-REFORM reached
read. A chapter, a page, a turning of the leaves per its climax in the late formal acceptance by the Board
haps, or a glance at the end, may convince the borrower of Trustees, in council assembled, of one hundred and
that the book has no meat for him, and back it goes. eighty “reformed
words. These redeemed repro-
While, then, signs of serious-mindedness are always to bates, having been brought to see the error of their
be welcomed in public-library patrons, there is no cause ways, having put off the old man, which is unphonetic,
for despair in statistical evidences of even a greatly and put on the new, which is created in the office of the
disproportionate borrowing of fiction.
Spelling-Reform Association, are henceforth admitted
to good and regular standing in the Columbia vocabu-
THE STATUS OF THE LIBRARIAN as the representa- lary. But no punishment-neither suspension nor expul-
tive of a learned profession was commented upon by sion, nor even so much as a censure will be inflicted
Mr. Carnegie in his speech at the recent laying of the on those students who still prefer the unregenerate
corner-stone of a new library building in Glasgow. He spelling. The list invites a few comments. Shorter
deplored especially the low estimation in which librarians and simpler than a catalogue of words in -or would have
are held in Great Britain, and urged a more generous
been an enumeration of those in -our, if
any such are
recognition of their services. These words of the Laird to be sanctioned. If gipsy, then why not Egiptian, since
of Skibo the Secretary of the Library Assistants' Associa the two are etymologically the same ? But perhaps
tion regards as almost equivalent to insult added to injury. the omission is due to the latter's being a proper noun.
“From Mr. Carnegie,” he says in the Association's official Whisky is perhaps a logical concession to the now general
journal, “such remarks are simply amusing, seeing that practice of writing whiskies in the plural. Rime for
by building bookless, incomeless libraries, he has done rhyme makes one shudder. Doubtless there are in the
more than any man to bring ill-equipped men into the list many spellings that, even without Columbia's sanc-
profession. A Carnegie provincial library that cannot tion, the world would in time have learned to endure,
afford books cannot afford to pay a professional libra to pity, and finally to embrace; but the world dislikes
rian, and the man appointed is simply another unfit to be asked to hasten in such matters.
recruit. The satire of Mr. Carnegie's is even more
biting when he compares the superior technical training THE BOOKS OF LESLIE STEPHEN must have formed
of the American librarian with ours, seeing that he has an interesting collection after their owner had finished
never lifted a finger in this country for the education of using them.
Critical comments, pithy and pungent,
the librarian.” Without heartily applauding the cen adorned their margins, and he never hesitated, when
sorious tone of this utterance, one may appropriately occasion required, to tear the heart out of a volume in
enough urge that the admitted zeal and unselfishness more senses than one. Some of the best reading in
of library workers deserve more handsome recognition, Maitland's life of Stephen has to do with the treatment
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And now the London Library (enviable corporation, self overdid it, for example iu “ The Return of the
soulless though it be) has become the happy possessor Druses,” act ii, scene i, in which Djabal leads off with
of six hundred volumes that were once Sir Leslie's, and a long soliloquy and follows it up with five "asides ”
that bear copious marginal notes and sketches — for before he and Khalil begin to converse together — to
Stephen was facile with his pen in a double sepse. To say nothing of the asides in which Djabal and Anael
preserve these annotations, many of which are charac indulge later in the scene. But with Browning's master-
teristically audacious and amusing, from the ravages of piece the case is different. If Mr. Moore will take
the reader's thumb, they have received a coat of varnish, down “ The Ring and the Book” once more, he will
or sizing. Fortunate henceforth the London Library find, I think, that it contains just three soliloquies -- the
reader, to hold in his hands the favorite books of him remarks of the two lawyers and of the Pope. In the
who spent his own “hours in a library” with such first and the last poem Browning speaks in his capacity
happy results to posterity, and to read on their fly of editor and interpreter; all the other speakers address
leaves and margins the ipsissima verba, in autograph, of one or more persons and cannot therefore be said to
this honestest of critics !
soliloquize. With regard to the artistic merits of mon-
ologues of this kind, I do not see how speaking that is
SIR ORACLE INCARNATED AS G. B. S. has spoken,
intended to be heard is less artistic than writing that is
and we know the worst. He has called us a nation of
villagers," face to face with the fruits of our “ political speak beyond a certain length of time is a good deal
intended to be read. And to say that one must not
imbecility” at last patent to all eyes. The trusts are our
masters, and the President would do well to abdicate,
like saying that a sunset may be crimson to a certain
degree, but not more so; it is to utter the most baneful
passing the succession on to Mr. Anthony Comstock,
kind of criticism that literature has to encounter.
who is “ America's epitome.” Probably we shall not be
But how about the soliloquies of the lawyers, the
left to manage our political affairs much longer anyway,
Pope, and, for that matter, of any and all of Browning's
for it is “now clearly necessary to the world's welfare
poems? Here again Mr. Moore is right if one accepts
that all Americans must be entirely disfranchised and
declared incapable of public employment or office, and
his premises. A soliloquy with no compelling cause is
doubtless unnatural; though it were rash, perhaps, to
their country taken over, regulated, and governed by us”
say the most foolish of all the many follies of literature.
Europeans. We are disgraced as the land of lynch law
But does Browning lack the compelling cause? De
and free love, and our Constitution is “simply a charter
Archangelis is writing his speech in defense of Guido.
of anarchism in its worst form.” Thus in “ desperate
Surely there can be no artistic sin in projecting his
levity” are our sins set forth, and Rhadamanthine
thoughts upon paper even to the extent of all the
judgment pronounced upon us. Let no dog among us
bark, but rather let all dogs flee with tails ignominiously
thoughts that come to him until the speech is pigeon-
curled about their legs. These pronouncements have
holed and he goes off to play with Cinoncello. Similarly,
Bottinius reads his finished speech, with brief com-
the finality of fate. Bos locutus est.
ments; what can be more natural or lifelike? The
HARD TIMES AND THE BOOK TRADE afford material Pope speaks 2128 lines, it is true, a little more than
for some interesting speculations. The belief is held
the number in “Macbeth "; but surely there is a com-
by competent observers that the sale of books is but pelling cause for his prolonged deliberation, — it is not
little affected by a period of financial stringency. Some
merely Guido's life, worthless as that appears, not merely
even contend that at Christmas time the sale of books his own eternal welfare, it is the triumph of justice over
is stimulated at the expense of more costly gifts. The injustice, of righteousness over the subtle forces of hell.
purchaser who would need ten or twenty or fifty dollars
As the arbiter of this strife, the Pope may well pause.
for a suitable gift at a jewelry store, finds that for two
That his utterance should be a soliloquy, is in the nature
or three or five dollars wisely expended at a book store
of things inevitable; a powerful situation could hardly
he can procure a gift always acceptable and in good
be devised that would provide him with an interlocutor.
taste. The “ Publisher's Weekly” says on this point:
I am not pleading with Mr. Moore for the inclusion of
“ The strength of the book trade is in the fact that it any part of “ The Ring and the Book” in his proposed
is midway between the necessaries and the luxuries. anthology – which may we have soon; but he might do
The richer classes will not buy expensive jewelry, and
worse than print therein “Caponsacchi” and “Pompilia,"
their Christmas purchases are the more likely to be of
the stories of two of the most impressive characters of
books. This will be true also of the great middle class,
the world's fiction.
CLARK S. NORTHUP.
people who find in books a convenient and inexpensive Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., November 22, 1907.
present. Publishers and booksellers,” the “Weekly”
wisely concludes, “will continue to do well with really
TENNYSON'S “ THE PASSING OF ARTHUR."
good books."
(To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
If we are to have an anthology of English narrative
verse, might it not be better to include in it « Ten-
COMMUNICATIONS.
nyson's “ The Passing of Arthur” in preference to the
poet's cruder earlier form “ Morte D'Arthur,” as recom-
BROWNING'S NARRATIVE VERSE.
mended by Mr. Charles L. Moore in your curreut issue?
(To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
The rules that govern the making of an anthology
In his survey of English narrative poetry, published must of necessity be based on personal preferences.
in your issue of November 16, Mr. Charles Leonard But the selection of an experiment in preference to a
Moore repeats a criticism of Browning that has been completed form seems to me so peculiar that for a mo-
heard frequently before — that the monologue, his most ment one is tempted to think it possible that the writer
characteristic form of art, is thoroughly unnatural. One confused the “Morte D'Arthur” with “ The Passing of
may heartily agree with what Mr. Moore goes on to say,
Arthur.”
0. R. HOWARD THOMSON.
that a soliloquy may easily be overdone; Browning him Williamsport, Pa., Nov. 21, 1907.
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and others have rendered service of different
The New Books.
kinds. A word, now, from the editors as to the
general plan of the whole work.
QUEEN VICTORIA AS LETTER-WRITER.* “ His Majesty, the King, having decided that no
attempt should be made to publish these papers in extenso,
The long-awaited Letters of Queen Victoria, it was necessary to determine upon some definite prin-
edited by Mr. A. C. Benson and Viscount Esher, ciple of selection. It became clear that the only satis-
have at last appeared in three generous octavos, factory plan was to publish specimens of such docu-
not far from two thousand pages; and yet the
ments as would serve to bring out the development of
the Queen's character and disposition, and to give typical
correspondence extends only to the beginning of
instances of her methods in dealing with political and
the year 1862, and is, so the editors intimate, social matters - to produce, in fact, a book for British
a mere sifting of the whole mass of available citizens and British subjects, rather than a book for
material. If a sieve with even finer meshes had
students of political history. That the inner workings
of the unwritten constitution of the country, that some
been used, and a good third or half of the actu-
of the unrealized checks and balances, that the delicate
ally published letters kept back, we should still
equipoise of the component parts of our executive
have been served with no scant measure. In- machinery, should stand revealed, was inevitable.”
deed, for purposes of honest reading (not skim-
It was thought the less desirable to make the
ming) and hearty enjoyment, it is not impossi- work a detailed history of the years 1837–61
ble that if these letters had been, like the " as Sir Theodore Martin, under the auspices of
Sibylline Books, diminished by two-thirds, the the Queen herself, has dealt so minutely and
remaining third would, like them, have been
exhaustively with the relations of the Queen's
worth as much as the whole. Communications innermost circle to the political and social life
of a merely formal nature, and those that, like of the time.” A few extracts, to exhibit if
many to the writer's “ dearly beloved Uncle”
dearly beloved Uncle” possible in so brief a space the Queen's character
(King Leopold of Belgium), contain nothing in process of development, and to give an idea
but pretty out-gushings of affection, are so little of 5 her methods in dealing with political and
varied or original in conception and expression, social matters," may now be fitly introduced.
that a very few might fairly answer as repre The letters really begin nine years before the
sentative of all. There are enough that are assigned date, the earliest one having been
important, as illustrative either of current his-
written in 1828. It is the first of a long series
tory or of personal character, without including to Prince, and afterward King, Leopold, brother
those of lesser interest. For the letters, merely to the Duchess of Kent. As girlishly human as
as examples of epistolary literature, are in no
that of any little nine-year-old Miss to a fond
way
remarkable; their writer was far from being uncle, it offers the strongest possible contrast to
a Madame de Sévigné.
the great mass of later letters, so many of which
The monotony is pleasantly relieved by the are formal and official and written by a secre-
insertion of many letters to the Queen, by extracts tary's hand.
from other contemporary documents, and by an “ MY DEAREST UNCLE, — I wish you many happy
occasional passage from her majesty's diary. returns of your birthday; I very often think of you,
Moreover, the care and skill shown in editing and I hope to see you soon again, for am very fond
and annotating this great quantity of miscel-
of you. I see my Aunt Sophia often, who looks very
well, and is very well. I use every day your pretty
laneous matter are all that could be desired.
soup-basin. Is it very warm in Italy? It is so mild
Besides the editors, several other men of letters, here, that I go out every day. Mama is tolerable well
expert in various departments of learning and and [I] am quite well. Your affectionate niece,
VICTORIA.
literature, have taken part in the preparation
of these volumes. Mr. John Morley “ has read
“P. S. – I am very angry with you, Uncle, for you
and criticised the book in its final form"; Lord
have never written to me once since you went, and that
is a long while."
Knollys has aided in the selection of material ;
Mr. J. W. Headlam has helped in preparing beloved uncle, shows the writer deep in history,
Another letter, six years later, to the same
the brief and excellent historical summaries that
introduce the several chapters; Dr. Eugene ancient and modern. It was certainly no ordin-
Oswald has done good work in translating; enjoy the works in which she declares herself so
mind that could, at her age, understand and
THE LETTERS OF QUEEN VICTORIA. A selection from Her deeply interested. Shorn of introductory and
Majesty's Correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861. Pub-
lished by Authority of His Majesty the King. Edited by Arthur concluding amenities, the letter reads as follows:
Christopher Benson, M.A., and Viscount Esher. G.C.V.O., K.C.B.
In three volumes. Illustrated. New York: Longmans, Green,
“ As I have not got Sully's Memoirs, I shall be
& Co.
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I am very
Reading history is one of my greatest delights, and per serve as an illustration of her clear-headedness
haps, dear Uncle, you might like to know which books in
and sagacity. We quote a few sentences, but
that line I am now reading. In my lessons with the
cannot feel sure how far they are the unprompted
Dean of Chester, I am reading Russell's Modern Europe,
which is very interesting, and Clarendon's History of the expression of her own mind.
Rebellion. It is drily written, but is full of instruction. “ As matters have now been arranged, it
appears to
I like reading different authors, of different opinions, by the Queen, moreover, that we have taken on ourselves
which means I learn not to lean on one particular side. in conjunction with France all the risks of a European
Besides my lessons, I read Jones' account of the wars in war without having bound Turkey to any conditions with
Spain, Portugal, and the South of France, from the year respect to provoking it. The hundred and twenty
1808 till 1814. It is well done, I think, and amuses fanatical Turks constituting the Divan at Constantinople
me very much. In French I am now in La Rivalité de are left sole judges of the line of policy to be pursued,
la France et de l'Espagne, par Gaillard, which is very and made cognisant at the same time of the fact that
interesting. I have also begun Rollin.
fond England and France have bound themselves to defend
of making tables of the Kings and Queens, as I go on, the Turkish Territory! This is entrusting them with
and I have lately finished one of the English Sovereigns a power which Parliament has been jealous to confide
and their consorts, as, of course, the history of my own even to the hands of the British Crown. It may be a
country is one of my first duties.”
question whether England ought to go to war for the
The courting and the espousal of the young
defense of so-called Turkish Independence; but there
Queen receive due mention in the correspondence judge of what constitutes a breach of that independence,
can be none that if she does so, she ought to be the sole
of early 1840, but the editors have permitted and have the fullest power to prevent by negotiation the
no desecration of the innermost sanctuary of the breaking out of the war.”
heart. In a letter written on the day following A visit of the Emperor Napoleon III. to
her marriage, the happy bride exclaims, with England, in 1856, moved his royal hostess to
lavish use of italics and capitals, and splendid certain reflections on the strangely contradictory
disregard of grammar and syntax: “I write to qualities of his character. From a five-page
you from here [Windsor Castle), the happiest,
“memorandum” in which the Queen attempts
happiest Being that ever existed. Really, I do to analyze that character, a few words may
be
not think it possible for anyone in the world to quoted. The paper begins with comments on
be happier, or As happy as I am.
He is an
the remarkable combination of circumstances
Angel, and his kindness and affection for me is that had brought England and her ancient foe
really touching. To look in those dear
eyes,
and and rival, France, into close alliance, and had
that dear sunny face, is enough to make me adore made it possible for the nephew of the hated
him. What I can do to make him happy will
Corsican to set foot on British soil as a friendly
be my greatest delight.”
visiting monarch. The writer's sex would not
Passing now to the revolutionary disturbances be hard to guess, did we not already know it.
of 1848, we quote from a birthday letter writ-
“ That he is a very extraordinary man, with great
ten to Lord Melbourne on the 15th of March. qualities, there can be no doubt - I might almost say a
mysterious man. He is evidently possessed of indomit-
“Lord Melbourne will agree with the Queen that the able courage, unflinching firmness of purpose, self-reliance,
last three weeks have brought back the times of the last
perseverance, and great secrecy; to this should be added,
century, and we are in the midst of troubles abroad.
a great reliance on what he calls his Star, and a belief
The Revolution in France is a sad and alarming thing. in omens and incidents as connected with his future
... The poor King and his Government made many destiny, which is almost romantic — and at the same
mistakes within the last two years, and were obstinate time he is endowed with wonderful self-control, great
and totally blind at the last till flight was inevitable.
calmness, even gentleness, and with a power of fascination,
But for sixteen years he did a great deal to maintain the effect of which upon all those who become more
peace, and made France prosperous, which should not be
intimately acquainted with him is most sensibly felt."
forgotten. .. Lord Melbourne's kind heart will grieve
to think of the real want the poor King and Queen
And so on, with a use of italics that seems almost
are in, their dinner-table containing barely enough to
frantic. She thinks him more German than
eat. Surely the poor old King is sufficiently French in disposition, astonishingly tactful and
punished for his faults.”
versed in public affairs for one reared in com-
Reference is also made to the discontent in Ger- parative obscurity, and in one sense irresponsible
many, but the writer feels assured that “ the
the for his acts of cruelty and wrong, because he be-
good Germans are at bottom very loyal.” She lieves himself the passive instrument of a heaven-
also gives thanks that Belgium is not involved appointed destiny. The whole document forms
in the prevailing disturbances.
one of the most curious items in the whole book.
Among the many statesmanlike letters and
The two qualities most typical of English
messages of the Queen, a communication to Lord middle-class character, as the editors point out,
Clarendon, Foreign Secretary, written on the are common-sense and family affection; and
eve of the outbreak of the Crimean War, will these qualities the Queen possessed in generous
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measure. Hence her popularity, and herein the original though something is perforce left out.
appeal which her letters make to the general A comparison of Mr. Cole's engraving of “ The
reader. Of the handsome appearance of these Spinners” by Velasquez with a good photo-
three ample volumes, and of their many
excel engraving of the picture will show clearly
lent and appropriate illustrations, and also of what is meant by the foregoing. In almost any
the full index and the carefully prepared genea of the surfaces, -as, for instance, that of the
logical tables, there is no room to speak. It is gown of the woman lifting the curtain, or that
little wonder the work was long in making its of the wall at the right of the alcove, — it will
appearance.
PERCY F. BICKNELL.
be found that the engraver has not fully brought
out all of the subtle modulations and broken color
of the painting. The wood-cut does, however,
give a sense of the way in which brilliant
rays
NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS IN
of light and pulsing shadows play through the
WOOD-ENGRAVING.*
room, and there is a mellowness and softness of
tone that the mechanical engraving cannot ap-
The distinguished achievement of Mr. Tim-
proach.
othy Cole as a wood-engraver has been more
than once noticed in these columns. Continuing of his art, Mr. Cole has wrought wonders; but
Within the limitations imposed by the nature
the monumental series of reproductions of paint-
ings by the old masters, begun many years ago
to appreciate his engravings at their full value
they should be considered not as reproductions,
with “ Old Italian Masters,” and followed at
considerable intervals by * Old Dutch and Flem-
but as interpretations in another medium.
ish Masters" and “Old English Masters," he
Viewed in this way, we may best enjoy their
now presents us with a volume on “Old Span- from them something we must almost certainly
very great beauty in and for itself, and may get
ish Masters.” The thirty-one examples of his
work contained in it add fresh lustre to his fame.
miss if we endeavor to translate them back into
the medium from which they were copied. Take,
Though not all of equal excellence, they are as
beautiful artistically as anything he has previ- Menippus" by Velasquez. Wherever the eye
for example, the superb engraving of “The
ously done, and some of them are quite unsur-
passed. Mr. Cole's skill with the
may play over it, its texture is entrancing.
shows
graver
Whether or not it is faithful to the smallest de-
no sign of diminution. His line is still as mar-
vellously varied, as virile and sympathetically sense ; but apart from that, it is a work of art in
tail is unimportant. Faithful it is, in a large
expressive, as ever. There is, too, the same cer-
itself, and the fact that it is based upon another
tainty of handling and feeling for tactile values
work of art is, or should be, a minor considera-
– to quote Mr. Berenson's phrase, — the same
tion.
combination of strength and refinement, that
have marked his finest performance in the past. gravings in this volume, though not always in
Similar delight is afforded by each of the en-
Wood-cuts have been so almost entirely su-
perseded by photo-mechanical engravings that it
the same degree. Those from the portrait of
El Greco by himself, and the Head of a Young
seems worth while to set forth here the points Man”
by Velasquez, are veritable triumphs;
wherein each is superior to the other. The
and a number of others as Murillo's “ Im-
greater fidelity of the mechanical process is in-
maculate Conception ” and his “ St. John the
contestable, and in spite of more or less inevitable
distortion of tone values and the general deaden- Baptist,” Morales's “ Madonna and Child,” and
El Greco's “ Coronation of the Virgin”—are
ing of the whole effect, the result yields a far
better basis for forming an opinion of the orig- Mr. Cole has not been quite so happy in his
only a little less noteworthy. In instances
inal than
any hand-wrought engraving can give.
If, however, a wood-engraving leaves something IV. as a Sportsman ” by Velasquez, where the
rendering, as in the “ Portrait of King Philip
out of the reproduction, it affords a much richer
quality of tone and preserves more of the atmo-
t