lendor of our verse for love; but appointing, therefore, to find Mr. Keppel's at-
there is not half the high satisfaction in being in love tractively printed and profusely illustrated vol-
that there is in dining well after a hard gallop over
country roads. I know, for I have tried both.”
ume not what its title would imply; but instead
Too
that it is made up, for the most part, of articles
many
such of the “ Book of Paris"
pages
obscure for us, through their labored crudity lectures delivered before the Grolier Club in
originally contributed to popular magazines,
and incorrigible dilettanteism, the real excel-
lences of the book. Anatole France is, appar- and of what appear to be biographical sketches
New York, at Yale University and elsewhere,
ently, the writer's hero among men of letters ;
but, in spite of the “ · Imaginary Interview,” the
to accompany dealers' exhibition catalogues.
deeper culture and the native wit of M. France Engraving,” from which the book takes its
The article entitled “The Golden Age of
are not Mr. Washburn's.
This returned traveller generously spares
name, was first published in " Harper's Maga-
zine" in 1878, and has since been reprinted at
“ word-paintings” of familiar monuments.
least four times. All that Mr. Keppel has to
He leaves the matter of illustration to his col-
say about the line engravers and their works is
laborator, Mr. Lester G. Hornby. This skilful
contained in this and two shorter articles, the
young American suggests Mr. Pennell – fre-
three covering only thirty-five pages, while
quently in his choice of subjects, rather less nearly two hundred are devoted to etching and
frequently, but rather more unmistakably, in
etchers, and seventy to other topics.
his treatment of subjects. Some of the etchings
If the book had been called "A Veteran
and drawings which he includes in his part of the
Printseller's Notes about Famous Etchers and
“ Book of Paris” are no more than the promis- Engravers” it would have been more aptly
ing 6 studies” of an art-student en voyage.
They want sureness of touch, and they suggest Story about Fine Prints. By Frederick Keppel. Blus-
*THE GOLDEN AGE OF ENGRAVING. A Specialist's
an absence of definite intention. But neither trated. New York: The Baker & Taylor Co.
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named. The author's style is light and chatty, but his description of her apparel is necessary
and his pages abound in anecdotes and entertain to complete the picture of the first interview :
ing reminiscences. Some of these stories, hav Anyone seeing her in her street attire (which was
ing been used to enliven more than one of the the same at all seasons and for long years) was not
articles, reappear several times in the book be- likely to forget her. She generally wore a yellow gown;
her hat was of the most outlandish and flamboyant
fore us. Judicious editing might have elimin-
British style, but it was her outer garment that made
ated some of the repetitions, and certainly would her unforgettable. It was a satin shawl of scarlet and
not have permitted the printing of the following yellow, in broad alternate stripes, and it could be seen
comment upon Mr. Pennell's work, on page 241:
in the street as far as human eyesight could reach.”
“This impromptu spontaneity of Mr. Pennell's method
Mr. Keppel's comments upon the artists
carries with it one little drawback — if it be a draw about whom he writes, are, on the whole, sound
back at all. It is, that in his architectural scenes what and well-considered. He does not venture into
the French call the orientation is reversed : west is east, the field of criticism, but confines himself almost
and east is west. In this he follows the precedent of
both Rembrandt and Whistler. The sole preoccupa- wholly to biographical sketches, personal gossip,
pation of these masters was to produce a picture, and
and generous words of appreciation of the artists'
they cared not at all to provide a topographical plan of finest works. Only now and then does he at-
some stated locality.”
tempt comparisons, as in the case of Millet's
In the same article, the reader had already “ The Wood Sawyers,” which he rightly places
been told, on page 234, that:
far above the better-known“ Angelus" in artistic
“ This impromptu spontaneity of his method involves merit. Occasionally his enthusiasm leads him
one little drawback if it be a drawback at all: it is
to extravagant statement, as when he insists that
that in his architectural drawing what the French call
In
orientation is reversed; west takes the place of east and etching can suggest all that painting can.
south of north. But in this he follows the precedent of
the hands of a master, lines and light and dark
Rembrandt, Whistler, and Seymour Haden. The sole masses can be made to suggest a great deal, but
preoccupation of these masters was to make an artistic surely far less than all that it is possible for
picture, and they cared nothing at all for observing the painting to present to the mind. This, however,
points of the compass."
One of the most interesting of Mr. Keppel's etching is not so much in what it suggests as
is of little importance. The charm of a fine
reminiscences takes him back to his first trip to
Europe to buy prints.
in the harmonic arrangement of the lines and
“It did not take long for me to expend my little
masses. Even the magic quality of touch is sec-
store of money, so I packed up my stock and engaged ondary to the composition. Strange to say,artists
my passage to New York on a steamer which was to sail do not always keep this in mind. There are etch-
in a few days.' The day following I learned that the ings by Whistler that consist of petty details
greatest printseller in all Europe could be found at
only, and are lacking in the general effect.
number 109, The Strand. I went there and read on the
signboard the name of Noseda. I entered, inquired for
For Whistler as an artist Mr. Keppel has
Mr. Noseda and learned that the head of the house was only unstinted praise ; and he devotes to him an
Mrs. Noseda, an elderly widow. I was introduced to essay on “Whistler as an Etcher," and an article
her and found that in spite of her Italian name she was entitled “One Day with Whistler.” Both of
a good cockney who had been born to the prosy name of
these are very readable. The author, how-
Jane Smith, and I perceived that when she spoke, the
letter h was very uncertain in her vocabulary. I stated
ever, makes one rather invidious and unmerited
my business and said that I had spent all my money though perhaps unintentional distinction in
before I knew of her and her magnificent stock of rare mentioning Mr. Howard Mansfield's descriptive
prints. “It might be arranged,' said Mrs. Noseda, 'if catalogue of Whistler's etchings, published by
you ’ave good London references.' Well, I had, and
next day I took to her three letters of which I was quite
the Caxton Club of Chicago, and the catalogue
proud. • What are these ?' said she. I answered that compiled by Mr. E. G. Kennedy to accompany
they were three letters from prominent London mer the portfolios of reproductions of the etchings
chants, and that these letters spoke of me as being an issued by the Grolier Club of New York. In
honest and industrious young man.
Mrs. Noseda tore
saying that " Mr. Kennedy's book, in particular,
up the three letters unopened, dropped them into the
fire, and said to me: • Now you may take anything and
is a monument of patient and intelligent labor"
everything you like of my stock, and when you return it is probable that Mr. Keppel meant only to
from New York next year you shall pay me for them.'” praise the work of a rival printseller, but the
To this remarkable woman's confidence in him language used is most unfair to Mr. Mansfield,
Mr. Keppel attributes his “ first real start.” whose book is also the result of long and pains-
She was a pronounced“ character,” and he taking research, and is the more complete of
relates several amusing anecdotes in which she the two.
figures. These are too long to be quoted here, The illustrations of this volume are of especial


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I.
interest. They consist of two hundred and interest. Occasional passing mention of the ancient
sixty-two well-printed half-tone plates, chiefly superstitions of the people — as, for instance, their
reproductions of notable etchings and en-
steadfast abstention from blackberries because they
gravings, including most of the acknowledged | believe the crown of thorns was made of blackberry
vines — helps one to realize how far removed they
masterpieces. Together they form a collection
are from the twentieth-century world about them.
of very considerable utility.
The author's pictures are numerous, and their
FREDERICK W.GOOKIN. manner of execution is well adapted to the homely
quaintness of their themes. So interesting are they
that one could wish the accompanying reading mat-
ter were more given to expatiating on or explaining
their details. Miss Atkinson's "Château in Brit-
HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS.
tany” is also the record of personal experience,
and it takes its title from the comfortable villa, or
BOOKS OF TRAVEL AND DESCRIPTION.
farm-house, at Dinard which she and her companions
The undying appeal of Palestine has been heard made their headquarters. The ways of the people,
and heeded by Mr. Robert Hichens, who, in a sumpt and the antiquities and legends of the country, with
uous volume entitled “The Holy Land,” illustrated a sufficiency of historic reference, help to give
from paintings by Mr. Jules Guérin and from photo- variety to the author's account of places visited and
graphs, conveys to the reader something of his delight sights seen. Seventeen pictures from photographs
in the scenes and characters there to be encountered. are scattered through the book. If now the English-
The mere sensuous charm of the region seems almost speaking tourist does not find himself already fairly
to intoxicate Mr. Hichens. “ It is an Arcady of the familiar with the Bretons and their country before
East,” he exclaims, “and of a charm to me irresistible. visiting them, it will not be for lack of agreeable
Cares drop away, are lost among the innocent wild and informing literature on the subject.
flowers; fears, anxieties disperse on the gentle, cares To stand in the streets of Pompeii is to feel that
sing breezes. Far off, at evening, the little white tent “nothing in its life became it like the leaving it.”
will welcome you; and as you see it in the distance, Never more than a second or third rate provincial
and your horse, lifting his head and distending his town in its own day and generation, with no claim
sensitive nostrils, neighs joyously, you will bless on the notice of its contemporaries in respect of art,
from your heart the nomadic life.” After a chap- letters, or men, Pompeii through its death, burial,
ter devoted to Baalbec and one to Damascus, the and resurrection has won for itself a charm unique
author takes us from Damascus to Nazareth, from and unrivalled in the world. Not until the nineteenth
Nazareth to Jerusalem, and from Jericho to Bethle century was well on its way did we learn much of
hem. An important chapter on Jerusalem, and Pompeii as we see it to-day. Since then, not only
another descriptive of the Easter ceremonies at the picks and spades but pens have been busy, and
Church of the Holy Sepulchre, as viewed under Pompeii dead enjoys a fame never known by
rather trying conditions by the writer, close the book. Pompeii living. The traveller finds no lack of
Similar in character to Mr. Hichens's work on guide-books, the scholar no lack of archæological
“Egypt and its Monuments,” the book is of course data ; but the average stay-at-home reader will de-
a noteworthy product of the printer's and the illus- light rather in the new and satisfying volume on
trator's art, as well as a glowing piece of writing.
glowing piece of writing. "Pompeii” by Mr. W. M. Mackenzie, published
Vivid effects are present in abundance, both in the by Messrs. Macmillan. The author's aim is to
text and in the brilliantly colored pictures by Mr. reconstruct, often necessarily by suggestion or
Guérin, who accompanied the author on his journey analysis only, the life of the old town, with suffi-
through Palestine. (Century Co.)
cient explanation and account of the material to
Unfading is the charm of Brittany, and every furnish a basis of actuality, or at least a general
fresh visit reveals some new phase or detail of that view, from different sides, of what Pompeii means.
charm. Last year Miss Frances M. Gostling told From what is now disclosed, much insight is gained
us much that was delightful about “The Bretons at into such features of Roman civilization as muni-
Home," and this year Mr. George Wharton Edwards cipal and domestic life, streets, trades, houses, deco-
has produced an elaborate volume on “ Brittany
Brittany ration and art, public buildings and public amuse-
and the Bretons” (Moffat, Yard & Co.) illustrated ments, religion, temples, tombs, and monuments.
both in color and in black-and-white by himself; It is somewhat unusual to find the name of the
while Miss Mary J. Atkinson, in a book entitled | illustrator precede that of the author on the title-
“A Château in Brittany” (James Pott & Co.), gives page of a book. That it does so in the present
her impressions of the country and its people. Mr. instance is only just to the artist, Alberto Pisa, who
Edwards, rambling extensively with Mrs. Edwards painted the twenty charming landscapes and archi-
in the byways of that unmodernized corner of France, tectural groups that illustrate Mr. Mackenzie's text.
has chronicled their wanderings in a style and with These are in full-page and fairly aglow with color.
a variety of illustrative anecdote that cannot fail to But, brilliant and striking as they are, only a person


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who has never seen Pompeii in the Spring-time will nature, including human nature in divers types, are
consider them exaggerated.
faithfully reproduced. The fifteen chatty chapters
Mr. Ernest Peixotto's qualifications for describ of the book take the reader on a pleasant ramble
ing and illustrating the attractions of his native through North and South Dakota, New Mexico,
State are a sufficient guarantee of the excellence of Oklahoma, Colorado, Nebraska, Montana, Wyom-
his “Romantic California” (Scribner). Seventy ing, Kansas, Texas, Utah, and the Yellowstone
illustrations from his hand are ably reinforced with National Park. The cyclone cellar on the plains
descriptive matter giving the artist's experiences where the wind will blow the buttons off a man's
and impressions in various parts of his vast and coat, besides doing more serious mischief, the
even yet not very well known State, and in the
pioneer farmer holding the plough while his faithful
Farallones. What
may
be called the old-world helpmate leads the horse, and the fast-disappearing
charm of California especially appeals to him, as do Indian tepee, with types of redskin humanity, are
also the natural beauties of its less frequented objects of interest to the author and to his readers.
spots. A chapter devoted to the “Midsummer With tact and skill Mr. Johnson secures from the
Jinks" of the San Francisco Bohemian Club in the natives much racy and informing talk on local mat-
redwood forest eighty miles north of the city, with ters and on the history of the region, so that a large
some account of the recent Grove Plays, is of un part of his narrative is printed in quotation marks
usual interest; as are also the chapters “Through and has the agreeably broken-up appearance of
Bret Harte's Country” and “The Farallones.” The conversation.
Spanish blood in Mr. Peixotto's veins may at least Professor Oscar Kuhns, a lover of Switzerland
partly account for the fondness in which he holds by virtue of his descent from Swiss ancestors and
the history and the picturesque antiquities of this of summer vacations and several longer sojourns
romantic land, and in expressing which his pen
and amid the Swiss mountains, is the author of an his-
pencil have vied with each other. The book has a torical and descriptive volume entitled “Switzer-
pleasing cover-design in color and gilt; elsewhere land : Its Scenery, History, and Literary Associa-
the artist confines himself to black-and-white. tions” (Crowell). Its strongest appeal is to the
When, in wandering about London, you come mountain-climber and the mountain-lover, abound-
upon a particularly quaint street, a square whose ing as it does in the adventures of famous Alpine
old houses have an unmistakable air of being historic, explorers, in stories of landslides and other stirring
and whose little park speaks, somehow, of interest incidents among the mountains, and in pictorial and
ing associations with by-gone days,—then you long verbal presentation of the glories and the sublimities
for a guide who is versed in all the rich tradition of encountered on every hand in this “playground
the place, and who can tell you in detail its whole of Europe.” Edward Whymper's conquest of
story. It is exactly this sort of thing that Mr. James the Matterhorn in 1865, with the fearful acci-
S. Ogilvy does for the reader in his volume entitled dent attending that achievement, is well, though
“Relics and Memorials of London Town” (Dutton). | briefly, related. As the author has several times
Mr. Ogilvy is a painter, with a taste for quaint pic- made Geneva his home, attending courses at the
turesqueness and the lore of the past. In a former University and making excursions into the surround-
volume he painted and described bits of London ing country, he has had ample opportunity to possess
“ City”; now he wanders over a wider
area, search himself of the spirit and traditions of the country.
ing not so much for beauty or architectural import- Illustrations, print, and binding are in keeping with
ance as for storied interest. But he finds beauty too, the excellence of the reading matter.
of a kind the London kind,- as the fifty colored In these days when so many tourists consider a
plates in this book testify. Lincoln's Inn Fields
camera a necessary part of their equipment, there
and Portsmouth Street, Gray's Inn, the neighbor- will be plenty of interested readers for such a book
hoods of St. Clement Danes and St. Mary-le-Strand, as Mr. W. I. Lincoln Adams's “
Photographing in
Drury Lane, Covent Garden, Charing Cross, Soho Old England, with Some Snap Shots in Scotland
Square, Bethnal Green, - these are a few of the and Wales" (Baker & Taylor Co.). Mr. Adams is
many localities whose history Mr. Ogilvy relates editor of "The Photographic Times," and manifestly
and whose traditions he has carefully sifted, finding is skilled in the taking of sun-pictures, as well as
his greatest difficulty to be the curious confusion of experienced in the art of sight-seeing. The des-
characters from novels or ballads with real people. criptive matter that divides his large pages with
The book is naturally too large to be used as a guide the beautiful views to which it relates, originally
on the spots described ; but as preface or appendix appeared in the paper which he edits, as did also
to a London visit it would be difficult to find a more the illustrations. Sixteen full-page plates are inter-
delightful volume.
spersed among the more numerous smaller pictures ;
To Mr. Clifton Johnson's “American Highways all are fine specimens of photography and of half-
and Byways” series is now added a volume on tone reproduction, though a few are credited to other
“ The Rocky Mountains” (Macmillan). The au cameras than the author's. The scenes photographed
thor's camera has here, as usual with him, aided lie chiefly along the Thames from Windsor to
and abetted his pen with excellent effect. More Oxford; in Warwickshire; in Devonshire; in the
than sixty scenes from animate and inanimate Lake Country; in London; in Wales and Scotland;


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and in various cathedral towns. A chapter of per- Thirty-one views from photographs supplement the
tinent advice to itinerant amateur photographers text and please the eye.
concludes the book.
A striking memento of the San Francisco earth-
“The Father of Waters," and the vast valley it quake and fire comes from the publishing house of
drains, has proved a fruitful theme to Mr. Julius Messrs. Paul Elder & Co. It is in the form of a
Chambers in his large and profusely illustrated volume, quarto size, of heavy brown paper, the right-
octavo, “The Mississippi and its Wonderful Valley” hand pages serving as card-board mounts to beauti-
(Putnam). Since his first passage over the twenty- fully tinted photographs of the ruined and of the
seven hundred and seventy-five miles of the mighty resurgent city, and the left-hand pages bearing
stream, from its source to the sea, the river has verses inspired by the accompanying views. “The
become to Mr. Chambers a veritable enthusiasm, as Vanished Ruin Era: San Francisco's Classic Artis-
he informs his readers ; "dwellers along its banks try of Ruin Depicted in Picture and Song, by Louis
have become his friends and associates ; mere towns J. Stellmann so runs the title-page. The brown
when first known to him have
grown
into
prosper.
tint of the illustrations matches the brown paper
ous cities.” Beginning with “the era of fable,” he upon which the book is printed, and the objects
sets forth in not too great detail about all that is photographed are chosen with an artist's eye.
The
known or knowable concerning the Mississippi in metrical accompaniment, pitched in a minor key of
early times. In addition to the historic and the pic. tender regret, is pleasing and appropriate. The
turesque aspects of the river, its industrial or com volume is stoutly bound in buckram and boards.
mercial importance is duly considered, one of the A series of handsome volumes dealing with
most interesting chapters treating of the proposed Beautiful England ” has been undertaken by
deep waterway for large steamers from Chicago to Messrs. Dana Estes & Co. Mr. Ernest W. Hasle-
the Gulf. Views and portraits and maps in good hust furnishes the colored illustrations, and Messrs.
number are scattered through the book, which in Edward Thomas, Walter Jerrold, A. G. Bradley,
workmanship is worthy of its theme.
Canon Danks, and others write short and chatty
“Oxford and Cambridge, delineated by Hanslip descriptions of the places and buildings represented.
Fletcher" (Wessels & Bissell Co.) presents in The six volumes now ready are entitled “Oxford,”
sixty-one large plates, and in an historical introduc “The English Lakes,” “Canterbury,” “Shakespeare-
tion and other descriptive and historical articles by Land,” “The Thames,” and “Windsor Castle.”
various competent writers, the beauties and the Not as formal guide-books, but rather as dainty
antiquities of the two venerable seats of learning in souvenirs of scenes visited or read about, will these
England. An agreeable change from the prevalent agreeable volumes prove their worth.
half-tone photographic picture is the hand-executed The freshness of first impressions and the inti-
illustration of Mr. Fletcher. Some of his work is in
macy of family letters are combined in Mrs. Agness
pen and ink, while other examples appear to be Greene Foster's “By the Way” (Paul Elder),
wash-drawings of some sort; but all are executed which is made up of “travel letters written during
with wonderful minuteness of detail and also with several journeys abroad, describing sojourns in En-
excellent general effect. The various colleges are gland, Scotland, Ireland, France, Germany, Austria-
adequately represented, and the descriptive matter Hungary, Italy, Greece, and European and Asiatic
is in each instance contributed by a fellow or other Turkey,” with many illustrations from photographs.
member of the college in question; while the The book is really a new edition, with added letters
Registrary of Cambridge writes the general intro on Germany, Austria-Hungary, Greece, and Turkey,
duction, in which most readers will find much that of a little volume published seven years ago. An
is new to them and interesting. The book is dur- | “Index of Places, with name of hotel or pension
ably, flexibly, and neatly bound.
“Index of Authors and Books Mentioned"
The leisurely and book-loving traveller in War have also been added.
wickshire and London could find few better com Six deservedly popular books of travel, which
panions for his wanderings than Mr. William Winter have appeared within the last two or three years, are
in his long since famous work, “Shakespeare's now offered by the publishers, Messrs. Little, Brown,
England.” The gradual outgrowth of a number of & Co., in new editions of attractive appearance
and
visits to the old country, the book took its present moderate price. Two are by Mrs. Anna Bowman
name and something of its present form in 1888, and Dodd: “Falaise, the Town of the Conqueror," and
under that name " it has passed through more than “Three Normandy Inns.” Mr. Henry C. Shelley is
twenty-five printings," as the author, with pardonable also the author of two volumes: “Untrodden English
pride, announces in his preface to a new and still Ways,” and “Literary By-Paths in Old England”;
further enlarged edition, handsomely published by and the remaining two are Mr. Samuel Adams
Messrs. Moffat, Yard & Co. Incidentally, this new Drake's “ New England Legends and Folklore in
issue has a personal or biographical interest from Prose and Poetry,” and Miss Lilian Whiting's
the author's endeavor, “while eliminating repeti- “ Italy, the Magic Land.” All the volumes are
tions, to express, wherever essential, the different attractively illustrated, and boxed; and all deserve,
moods and emotions awakened, in the same ob in their new and popular-priced form, a large ac-
server's mind, by different visits to the same place." | cession of readers.
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HOLIDAY EDITIONS OF STANDARD LITERATURE.
English translation is admirably smooth and just
enough tinctured with archaism.
Highly elaborate and wholly in harmony with It one hundred and forty years since Gold-
the spirit of the poem is the artistic accompaniment smith’s “ Deserted Village” first appeared, in a
prepared by Mr. Willy Pogány for “The Rime of quarto of thirty-two pages, with a steel engraving
the Ancient Mariner ” (Crowell). The text itself,
on the title-page. Subsequent editions, three of
in a rather profusely ornamented black-letter, with which appeared within little over a month of the
initial letters of more or less intricate design, and
first issue, are of course too numerous to mention;
with a generous use of colored scroll-work, presents but the quarto reprint, copiously illustrated both in
the appearance of an illuminated manuscript. It color and in black-and-white by Mr. W. Lee Hankey,
is, we infer, from the same hand that executed the
published in this country by Messrs. Dodd, Mead &
many illustrations, mostly in color, that fill about Co., has merits, artistic and typographical, belonging
half the volume. Weird, fantastic, and gruesome to few if any of its predecessors. In forty colored
are some of the artist's conceptions, while others plates and about as many uncolored drawings the
have a lightness and grace difficult to describe. artist has well caught the spirit of the poem and
Like delicate water-color paintings, with here and reproduced its homely rural scenes and characters.
there a suggestion of Turner in the treatment of
With few exceptions the coloring of the plates is
shimmering ocean or haze-enveloped ship, these subdued enough to be natural and pleasing, and
more airy productions are of the very stuff that
the drawing is excellent. A short introduction by
dreams are made of, even as the others are trans-
"T.S." gives the circumstances attending the writing
lated nightmares. Each page has both marginal and publishing of the poem, with a few contemporary
decorations of elaborate pattern, and also, running estimates of its merits. To lovers of Goldsmith, no
over the page, a faintly-tinted design wherein
more acceptable gift of its kind could be presented.
crawling things and snake-like vines have much to
Mr. Edmund Dulac has once more been fortunate
do. The albatross is skilfully worked in as an in securing exactly the right material on which to
occasional ornamental feature. The front cover,
exercise the magic of his art. “ The Sleeping
the half-title, and the title-page are splendid with Beauty and Other Fairy Tales ” have been freely
gilt and scroll-work and rich colors. A page of translated from the Cabinet des Fées by that sym-
Latin from Thomas Burnet's “ Archæologiæ Phil pathetic raconteur of old stories, Sir Arthur Quiller-
osophicæ " effectively precedes the poem, and a Couch, who also contributes a charming preface about
part of the Lord's Prayer, likewise in Latin, follows
the Cabinet des Fées and Perrault and Madame de
it. Without question, this is the most elaborate Villeneuve, authors of the four tales here chosen
and the most beautiful edition of the “ Ancient from its mine of riches. Mr. Dulac's new pictures
Mariner ever published.
have a touch of drollery like those he made for the
In sumptuous form, beautifully printed on heavy “ Arabian Nights,” more than a touch of the romance
paper, and lavishly illustrated in color, with other
and mysticism of his Rubaiyat” illustrations, and
decorative features, M. Joseph Bedier's version of a fairy-like daintiness and delicacy of design and
the Tristram and Iseult legend makes its appear coloring that is all their own. They are, of course,
ance in an English translation from the pen
of Miss beautifully reproduced. The text is handsomely
Florence Simmonds. “ The Romance of Tristram printed on wide-margined pages of fine proportion,
and Iseult” (Lippincott) in its present version forms and the binding is tasteful and of appropriate
a very readable love story, told in modern phrase but design. (Hodder & Stoughton.)
with much of the naïve manner of the original frag Miss Mitford's and Anna Maria Hall's rural
ment from the hand of Béroul. To the translation sketches are drawn upon for two holiday books -
of this fragment (about 3000 lines) M. Bédier added “Sketches of English Life and Character” and “Tales
from various sources, or supplied outright, what of Irish Life and Character,” both with the McClurg
was necessary to make a complete and connected imprint. The first is ascribed to “ Mary E. Mit-
narrative. In a brief introduction to the work M. ford, author of 'Our Village.' Of course Mary
Gaston Paris
says:
“ The element which attracted Russell Mitford's “Our Village” is a well-known
the French romancers in the story and tempted them work, and the natural inference that these revamped
to clothe it in the consecrated form of octosyllabic | “Sketches” are taken therefrom is found to be
verses, in spite of all its difficulties and obscurities, correct; but there has been such jumping about
was the element which secured the success of their among the five original series of the work, with not
undertaking and gave an unprecedented popularity too scrupulous retention of the original titles, as to
to the legend as soon as it became familiar to the make identification rather difficult. Why the book
Romano-Germanic world: the idea of the fatality could not have been published as a selection from
of love, which raises it above all laws.
This idea, “Our Village,” rather than as by the (misnamed)
incarnated in these two exceptional beings, is the author of "Our Village,” will puzzle the plain
more sympathetic to the hearts of men and women reader, who will also be perplexed by the lack of
here, because it is purified by suffering and sancti connection between the reading matter and the "six-
fied by death.” The colored pictures by M. Maurice teen reproductions from the paintings of Stanhope
Lalau are in harmony with the romance, and the A. Forbes, A. R. A.” The pictures are pleasing,


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ing off
however, and rural in theme. They are all brightly insane in the desert, Tomlinson gripped by a spirit
colored. The “Tales of Irish Life and Character, hand, the “ Ford o' Kabul River” with its floating
by Mrs. S. C. Hall,” are chiefly selected from Mrs. dead. All the pictures are interesting, but many
Hall's “ Sketches of Irish Character,” a work now give most strongly the impression of being attempts
about eighty years old and probably not unworthy of at the impossible.
a revival. In this instance again, the colored "re “ Tom Sawyer”
" needs no comi
mmendatory word
productions from the paintings of Erskine Nicol, from the reviewer's pen. Nevertheless the new
R.S.A.,” have no close reference to the text which edition issued by the Harpers, with sixteen excellent
they adorn. But the two volumes make pretty | illustrations by Mr. Worth Brehm, is so attractive
picture-books, and the reprinted sketches have not that it cannot be passed over in silence. Tom him-
spoiled with age.
self is admirably conceived by the artist, who shows
It was a happy thought that sent Mr. Clifton him to us in some very convincing attitudes,
Johnson with his camera to Walden Pond to pro- whitewashing his Aunt Polly's fence, shov
cure illustrations for a new edition of Thoreau's before the blue-eyed, yellow-haired girl in Jeff
best-known book. “ Walden” appears in the same Thatcher's garden, relating his adventures to a
handsome form as “Cape Cod” and “The Maine spellbound circle of admirers, and so on. But there
Woods," from the hands of the same illustrator and is one detail in the first-named picture that is
the same publishers (Crowell & Co.). Thirty-three wrong: the fresh whitewash from Tom's brush is
full page views, not only of Walden in different represented as beautifully and brilliantly white,
aspects and the site of Thoreau's hut, but also of whereas
every
whitewash artist knows that the
memorable spots in the village of Concord, are white shows only after the wash is dry. But Mr.
scattered through the volume. A short introduction Brehm may plead artistic license; and his good work
by Mr. Johnson gives, among other information, the in other respects has earned him our indulgence.
ultimate fate of the hermitage, of which no good Browning's “Pippa Passes” and the group of
picture seems to have been available for the present lyrics called “Men and Women” are brought to-
edition of “Walden.” Both for those that have and gether in a small clearly-printed volume in flexible
for those that lack “a pretty good supply of inter leather binding, with ten colored illustrations by
nal sunshine,” this record of a two-years' cheerful Miss E. Fortescue Brickdale. The
poems
included
solitude, spent in simple labors of the body and under the title “Men and Women" are not limited
healthful exercises of the mind, will always be in to the final grouping of the author, but include the
vigorating reading. “To read well,” says Thoreau much larger selection issued under that title in
in the book under discussion, “that is, to read true 1855. “In a Balcony," however, has been omitted,
books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one because it was republished in a separate form by the
that will task the reader more than any exercise author. The pictures, if we mistake not, appeared
which the customs of the day esteem.”
originally in an octavo edition of these poems, à
If the humor of the “ Pickwick Papers” needs
few years ago:
The volume contains a wealth of
any bait to tempt present-day readers, it is provided poetry, and is issued in an artistic and durable form,
in Messrs. Hodder & Stoughton's reprint, wherein suited to the book-shelf or the pocket. (Houghton
are to be found some of the Club's adventures, under Mifflin Co.).
the title “Mr. Pickwick : Pages from the Pickwick The continued popularity of Eugène Sue's
Papers." The book is rather bulky to read from, “ Mysteries of Paris” is attested by the handsome
but this disadvantage is offset by the large clear two-volume edition issued this Fall by Messrs.
type. And whoever takes it up merely to look at Crowell & Co. It is a reprint from the original
the pictures will shortly find himself too much English version published by Chapman and Hall,
amused by them not to dip into the story. Mr. and seems to have the original illustrations - nine
Frank Reynolds is the artist. His humor is more spirited drawings in each volume. Together with
genial than that of the early illustrators, and a “ The Wandering Jew” and Victor Hugo's “ Les
large page and the use of color give him an excel Misérables,” this story will long be read by lovers
lent opportunity to depict his conception of the of old-fashioned French romance in its elaborate and
Pickwickians, their friends, and their experiences somewhat sensational form. That the author was
in a fashion at once telling and decorative.
strongly convinced of the high moral
purpose actu-
Mr. Rudyard Kipling's “Collected Verse" ating his literary labors, appears in an interesting
the author's own selection of the work by which he foot-note to the eighteenth chapter.
wishes to be finally represented is the basis of a Bret Harte's characteristic story of “Salomy
handsomely-made holiday volume with illustrations Jane” is issued in a tastefully illustrated and decor-
by the English colorist, Mr. W. Heath Robinson. ated edition by the regular publishers of Bret Harte's
Mr. Kipling's imagination is peculiarly difficult to works, Houghton Mifflin Co. Mr. Harrison Fisher
match pictorially. It demands boldness both in and Mr. Arthur I. Keller have illustrated the tale
coloring and conception; and the fall from the most attractively, especially captivating being the
interestingly grotesque to the mere absurd is easy. former's conception of the heroine. Among the
Mr. Robinson attempts everything — the singing season's moderate-priced gift-books this has both in
souls of the “jolly, jolly mariners,” the Explorer matter and embellishment rather unusual distinction.
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(G. P.
MISCELLANEOUS HOLIDAY BOOKS.
gallants for variety. The visits paid to storied spots
are casual tourist's wanderings, but inspired by a
That enthusiastic Bostonian, Miss Mary Caroline definite purpose and backed by thorough prepara-
Crawford, follows up her “Old Boston Days and tion. One of the most entertaining sketches is that
Ways” with another glowing tribute to the undying about the Ladies of Llangollen, the eccentric pair of
charm of the American Athens. In her “Roman eighteenth-century friends who forsook the gay
tic Days in Old Boston ” (Little, Brown, & Co.) it is
world to live together in the wilds of North Wales.
the nineteenth century that she chiefly confines her The mansion that they made out of a cottage is now
self to in recalling the interests and activities of a stored with interesting relics of their tenantry, in-
Boston that, though irrevocably past, will endur cluding journals, correspondence, and expense-books,
ingly survive in literature and tradition and in the
whose items, quoted at length in the narrative, are
permanent influence for good that she exerted on
both entertaining and enlightening. Two portraits,
the country at large. Merely to name some of the
a photograph of their faithful maid, views of their
topics selected for treatment by this well-informed
house and of their tombs in the parish church-yard
writer such topics as the Brook Farm experi serve as illustrations to this chapter. The little
ment, the real Zenobia, the slave as a hero, the
Duke of Gloucester at Twickenham, Sir Philip
words and deeds of Wendell Phillips and Theodore Sidney at Penshurst, George Herbert at Bemerton,
Parker, the old Boston theatres and their stars, old Joan of Arc at Chinon, and Marie Stuart at Am-
time hostelries, the great fire, some famous visitors
boise are among the other subjects, in the treatment
and how they were entertained, and Boston as a of which historical anecdote is pleasantly mingled
literary centre will give a notion of the book's
with lively personal recollections of the scenes in
strong appeal to readers “of the right sort.” which the dramas of great lives were set.
Though of the present generation, Miss Crawford Putnam's Sons.)
has friendships and memories (her own or trans It would be difficult to write a dull book about
mitted to her) that enable her to write with more Rosa Bonheur. Virile, energetic, original to the
than a scholar's command of her theme. The un-
verge of eccentricity, generous to a fault, absorbed
usually numerous and interesting illustrations in the
in her art and holding a unique position among
book constitute one of its chief attractions. It is
artists, - withal a delightful and copious letter-
indexed, and runs to four hundred pages of most writter, — she provides an almost ideal subject
inviting reading matter.
for biographical study. Mr. Theodore Stanton's
Steering a middle course between the seriousness “ Reminiscences of Rosa Bonheur” (Appleton) is,
of history and the frivolity of fiction, Mrs. Jean as far as possible, a first-hand record of the artist's
Lang's substantial volume entitled “A Land of personality as shown in her letters, and of her
Romance: The Border, its History and Legend” friends' and contemporaries' impressions, in many
(Dodge Pub'g Co.) brings together a large amount cases offered expressly for Mr. Stanton's use. Mr.
of matter interesting to readers of Sir Walter, as Stanton furnishes the missing links in the chain of
also to students of Scotland's antiquities and the continuous narrative, besides exercising much skill
vicissitudes of her eventful history. Beginning with in sifting and arranging his documentary material.
the building of the Roman Wall, the author passes Many portraits and a number of reproductions of
on to the coming of Arthur, then to the spread of Rosa Bonheur's paintings enhance both the human
Christianity northward to that wild borderland, and and the artistic interest of the volume, which runs,
after that treats of the border wizards. Monks and always entertainingly, to the proportions of a stout
monsteries, the struggle for independence in the octavo. Mr. Stanton's picture is that of a very
days of Wallace and Bruce, raiders and robbers, the genial, very independent woman, with a keen zest
ill-fated Mary Queen of Scots, border feuds, the for life, an intense interest in only one thing, and a
Covenanters, bonnie Prince Charlie, and finally a serene carelessness of public opinion except where
chapter on “Sir Walter's Day," referring to the good it touched her paintings.
old time when the Laird of 'Abbotsford was alive, "The Friendly Library” (Macmillan) is enriched
such are, in brief, the remaining contents of the this season by two inviting little books, beautifully
book, which is adorned with six photogravure illus- printed and bound, and neatly boxed. One of them,
trations from paintings by Mr. Tom Scott. An ap "The Book of Friendship," is tastefully illustrated
propriate poem in six stanzas, by Mr. Andrew Lang by Mr. Wladyslaw T. Benda and provided with an
precedes the first chapter and prompts the inference appropriate introduction by Dr. Samuel McChord
that “ Jean Lang” is none other than Mrs. Andrew Crothers. The selections, in both prose
and
verse,
Lang. Not to be dismissed without commendation are wide-ranging, culled from novels, plays, poems,
is the handsome typography of the book.
the Bible, juvenile fiction, and published correspond-
A new series (the third) of “Where Ghosts ence, all conveniently divided into sections headed
Walk," by Mrs. Terhune (“Marion Harland”) con “Childhood Friendships," “ Inarticulate Friend-
tinues those pleasant sketches of bygone folk of ships,” “ In School and College Days,” “Neigh-
bygone days, as recalled by visits to their familiar bors,” and so on. The other volume, entitled “The
haunts. The “ Ghosts" of the new volume are Second Post," is a companion or supplement to “The
English, with a sprinkling of French dames and Gentlest Art,” and compiled by the same skilful


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hand — that of Mr. E. V. Lucas. Bits of informal de
decorations, alter partitions, let in windows, take
letter-writing are selected from the immortal letter out superfluous doors and stairs, snatch charming
writers, and a number from less famous sources are banisters, mantels, and cupboard doors from the
added. A few unpublished fragments, mostly anony wreck of half-demolished houses, and transform the
mous, are also included. The whole, besides being doors into wall-paneling, how to be everlastingly on
good reading, forms an excellent guide and model the watch for the right things, to picture in imagin-
to the would-be graceful and witty and friendly ation just what you want and then get it, even to a
letter-writer.
secret stairway, this is what the Shackletons did;
An agreeable book for all lovers of George Eliot and they describe the process in all its practical
has been written by Mr. Charles S. Olcott. “George details, even to the sordid one of dollars and cents.
Eliot: Scenes and People in her Novels” (Crowell) The “Adventures” extended to porches, barn,
treats of the circumstances attending the writing gardens, useful and ornamental, and lawns; so that
of her successive stories and novels, with appro a variety of interest is assured. There are pictures
priate illustrations from photographs. The original of all stages of the game of home-making, the
scenes and characters utilized by her are once fascinations of which, in spite of multitudinous
more brought to our notice, and occasional critical detail, are never lost sight of.
remarks are introduced, both original and quoted. A vivacious, even a tempestuous great lady was
The chapter on “Romola,” that scholarly effort of “ Bess of Hardwick,” whose life is entertainingly
painstaking historical and antiquarian research, runs chronicled by Mrs. Maud Stepney Rawson. Thrice
to a length and to a warmth of commendation rather married to a great title, lady-in-waiting to Queen
out of proportion to its merits as a work of fiction. Elizabeth, friend of Mary of Scotland, — to whom
In a chapter devoted to the quasi-matrimonial rela her last husband, the Earl of Shrewsbury, long acted
tions between Marian Evans and Mr. Lewes, the as jailor,—vain, romantic, passionately fond of power
writer says that the two “decided to live together as and exercising a great deal of it, Elizabeth Countess
husband and wife, and to make the mere announce of Shrewsbury is an extremely picturesque figure.
ment of their determination suffice in lieu of the Among “her children, her friends, her buildings,
usual ceremony.” What about that nuptial cere her household gods, her intrigues, and her dazzling
mony on the continent, which, as we have been glad dreams," she moves, always dominating, often in-
to learn on apparently good authority, was resorted scrutable, generally thorny, but never uninteresting.
to as the best available substitute for a regular Her copious correspondence is largely drawn upon
English marriage? The book closes with a readable to add personality and local color to the pages of
chapter on “The Womanliness of George Eliot” Mrs. Rawson's volume. Numerous family portraits
Miss Helen Keller's unrhymed poem in irreg at once illustrate and embellish the text. (John
ular metre, which first appeared in “ The Century Lane Co.)
Magazine " under the title “The Song of the Stone Of such value to photographers and to artists in
Wall,” is now issued in book form with eight general did Mr. Sadakichi Hartmann's chapters on
pictures from photographs representing the author “ Landscape and Figure Composition” show them-
amid rural surroundings, the wall also appearing in selves to be on their appearance in “The Photo-
most of the views. The rough irregularity and graphic Times” that they are now collected and
enduring strength of the old wall, rudely built of issued, with some revision and enlargement, in book
field stones, are to some extent typified by the un form, together with the numerous illustrations origin-
conventional pattern of the poem, while the fresh-ally accompanying them. Occasional diagrams are
ness and vocal sweetness of the woods and meadows used to make clearer the author's remarks on com-
through which the wall runs breathe again in the position, and the tone of his instruction and exposi-
thought and feeling of the verses. The dedication tion is throughout so little technical or otherwise
is to Edward Everett Hale; “for he loved the old difficult that a mere beginner or even a general
walls and the traditions that cling about them,” reader without artistic pretensions can follow him
and he was himself “the living embodiment of with ease and pleasure, as also with profit. Both
whatever was heroic in the founders of New En- celebrated paintings and views from nature are used
gland.” Decorative borders add a finishing touch in illustration, and though often the scale is too
to this handsome volume. (Century Co.)
small for the best effect, the author's purpose is
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Shackleton's “ Adventures fairly well served. One, two, and even three illus-
in Home-Making ” (Lane) will delight and inspire trations appear on a page, usually with some read-
all enterprising persons who either don't own homes ing matter ; but the page is of generous propor-
or find those they do own hopelessly ugly. There tions. (Baker & Taylor Co.)
is no use in living in a house you don't like, aver Beginning with "Beowulf” and ending with
the Shackletons cheerfully, and then proceed to “ Hereward the Wake,” Mr. M. I. Ebbutt has re-
produce their evidence : photographs of the very told many of the more important legends of ancient
ugly one they bought, and of the charming abode British heroism and adventure. “Hero-Myths and
into which, with comparatively small expenditure Legends of the British Race" (Crowell) is a sub-
of money but with plenty of time and thought, they stantial volume, fully illustrated by Mr. J. H. F.
transformed it. How to remove “ginger bread” Bacon, Mr. Byam Shaw, and others, and is likely


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to appeal strongly to the lovers of folk-lore and of marble-hearted man. Interesting results follow.
stirring tales of heroes and adventurers. Younger Four dainty colored illustrations, with softly-tinted
readers of fairy-tales will be a little daunted by the marginal decorations, and cherry blossoms on the
book's apparatus of introductory and explanatory cover, give the book a very inviting aspect.
matter, by the glossary and index, and by the metri A fresh collection of Mr. Harrison Fisher's
cal passages, sometimes not inconsiderable, from studies in feminine beauty is issued by Messrs.
both earlier and later sources. Yet older readers Dodd, Mead & Co. in a volume entitled “A Garden
will profit by these helps to the understanding of of Girls.” Its spacious pages are marginally deco-
the myths and legends, and younger readers will rated by Mr. Theodore B. Hapgood, and further
grow to their appreciation. The book covers well filled with appropriate verses of an amorous nature,
a certain age of fable with which every English. mostly from early and later English poets. A crit-
speaking person should be familiar.
ical
eye
cannot fail to note the mutilation and altera-
Local color, a dash of dialect here and there, tion of Donne's little poem, “ The Message,” which
swinging metres, and spirited illustrations, many of is blunderingly ascribed to “ John Bonne.” Certain
them in the hues of nature, or an approximation of the girls have their charms not exactly heightened
thereto —all this and more is to be set to the credit by the hideous headgear of the day, but otherwise
of the volume containing Mr. Joseph Mills Hanson's the costumes are only less fetching than the bright
“ Frontier Ballads” (McClarg). The twenty-five eyes and rosy cheeks of their wearers.
poems in the book are about evenly divided into A good old-fashioned love-story in verse is pre-
“Soldier Songs," “ Prairie Songs,” and “River sented in “ A Hoosier Romance” (Century Co.), by
Songs,” of which the last two sections please us Mr. James Whitcomb Riley, with colored and other
more than do the tales of violence and bloodshed. illustrations from the skilful hand of Mr. John
In “The Engineer of the Golden Hind'" we make Wolcott Adams, and with a tinted decorative design
the acquaintance of a second Jim Bludsoe who embellishing each page of print. The troubled but
heroically runs his blazing craft ashore, and then finally triumphant course of a true love, against
has done with engines for good and evermore; and which a harsh and miserly father makes unsuccess-
in “ Jesus Garcia,” a similar character in the person ful opposition, is related in Mr. Riley's well-known
of a Mexican railway engineer thrills the spell manner, the climax of the tale being an ingenious
bound reader. Mr. Maynard Dixon has furnished variation of the elopement episode and the speedy
the drawings, which begin on the front cover of the tying of the nuptial knot. The book is tastefully
book and run through the volume in a manner both bound and boxed.
realistic and decorative.
Three hundred and thirty-seven thousand copies
The holiday season would scarcely be complete of Mrs. Kate Douglas Wiggin's “ Rebecca of Sunny-
without Mr. Ralph Henry Barbour's annual tale of brook Farm ” (Houghton) have been sold since its
young love and happiness. 6. The Golden Heart” first publication seven years ago.
This we learn
(Lippincott) is the title of his latest offering. The from the “ Publisher's Note” to the new illustrated
heroine's eyes are of a sparkling blue, the hero's of holiday edition of the charming story. A colored
a soulful brown; she keeps a tea-room and gift-shop, frontispiece by Mr. F. C. Yohn shows Rebecca
he rows a skiff and paints pictures ; and as the tea seated by Mr. Cobb's side on the old stage.coach,
gift establishment stands at the water's edge, what and there are eight other illustrations from photo-
more natural than a meeting and love at first sight? graphs of scenes in the play so successfully made
After that nature is allowed to take her course. But, out of the story. The stage Rebecca contrasts
incidentally, the author, in personifying Nature, strongly with the stage-coach Rebecca, and in other
makes her masculine, against which one must pro respects the theatre pictures are not quite what
test. The colored illustrations by Mr. Clarence F. might best have interpreted the simple tale ; but the
Underwood are very pretty, and they catch the book is sure to please as a handsome holiday issue
spirit of the little romance, while the marginal of a deservedly popular work.
sketches and other decorations by Mr. Edward Folk-lore as it is found among the vanishing
Stratton Holloway lend an attractive touch to this aborigines of the far Northwest is presented in
attractive book.
Miss Katharine Berry Judson's “ Myths and Leg-
Fire and passion, tears and pathos, the hunger ends of the Pacific Northwest, especially of Wash-
for affection and the sweetness of reciprocated love ington and Oregon” (McClurg). Effort is made to
are mingled in due proportion in the fascinating relate the simple legends as the Indians themselves
Japanese tale entitled "Tama” (Harper) by Onoto told them, though of course not in their tongue; and
Watanna, author of “The Wooing of Wistaria,” of course this means the reproduction of much that
“The Heart of Hyacinth," and other successful is childish and primitive in thought and expression
stories. Tama the Fox-woman is the offspring of – but all anthropologically significant even though
a surreptitious love affair between a foreign sailor devoid of literary charm. Of unusual beauty are
and a “ Noble Nun of second rank,” and she be the full-page views of natural scenery, and also
comes enamoured of O-Tojin-san (Honorable Mr. interesting are the photographs of Indians and of
Foreigner) who is a professor in the college at their wares. The large form of the book contributes
Fukui, and who shows himself to be by no means a to the effectiveness of these numerous illustrations.


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A handsome volume of “Stories of the Spanish
Artists until Goya" (that is, including Goya), by
THE SEASON'S BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG.
Sir William Stirling-Maxwell,"selected and ar The following is a list of all children's books published
ranged by Luis Carreño, with introduction by during the present season and received at the office of
Edward Hutton," is published in this country by THE DIAL up to the time of going to press with this
Messrs. Duffield & Co. Fifteen great artists of
issue. The titles are classified in a general way, and
Spain, beginning with Morales in the sixteenth brief descriptions of most of the books are given. It
century and ending, not with Goya, but with Cean
is believed that this list will commend itself to Holiday
Bermudez, who survived Goya by a year, are chosen
purchasers as a convenient and trustworthy guide to
for biographical and anecdotal and more or less
the juvenile books for the season of 1910.
critical treatment, from contemporary records, with
STORIES FOR BOYS ESPECIALLY.
a sufficient reproduction, sometimes in color, of
examples of their work. The book is of handsome
Kingsford, Quarter. By Ralph Henry Barbour.
Football practice and football games at a boys'
appearance and sure to please the art-lover and the
school form the background of the plot. Illus-
student of art-history. It is published in the “ Art
trated. Century Co. $1.50.
and Letters Library,” forming a companion volume Winning His “Y'': A Story of School Athletics.
to those already devoted to Italian, Flemish, Dutch, By Ralph Henry Barbour. Illustrated in color.
English, and French artists, respectively.
D. Appleton & Co. $1.50.
Selections in prose and verse (chiefly the latter)
The New Boy at Hilltop, and Other Stories. By
Ralph Henry Barbour. Tales of boys' experi-
on the subject of friendship have been brought to-
ences in school, college, and business. Illustrated
gether by Miss Ina Russelle Warren to form “A in color. D. A. Appleton & Co. $1.50.
Book of Friendship” (Jacobs), which is published The Fugitive Freshman. By Ralph D. Paine. The
in a style befitting the theme. A frontispiece and
strange adventures of a freshman who leaves col-
marginal decorations give an artistic finish to the
lege in order to evade a difficult situation. Illus.
trated. Charles Scribner's Sons. $1.50.
book, whose broad pages are graced with the praises
Billy Topsail and Company. By Norman Dunean.
of that “golden thread that ties the hearts of all A new series of Billy Topsail's adventures on the
the world ”
from the pens of various writers, from coast of Newfoundland. Illustrated. F. H. Revell
Marcus Tullius Cicero to Mr. George Sylvester
Co. $1.50.
Viereck. An author-index and a title-index facili-
Don MacGrath: A Tale of the River. By Randall
Parrish. Narrates a boy's adventures on the
tate the finding of any given selection.
Mississippi. Illustrated. A. C. McClurg & Co.
An especially appropriate souvenir of the holiday $1.50.
season has been prepared by Mr. Walter Tittle. The Bob's Hill Braves. By Charles Pierce Burton.
“Colonial Holidays: being a Collection of Contem A crowd of boys “play Indian,” and hear thrill-
ing tales of real Indians and explorers. Illus-
porary Accounts of Holiday Celebrations in Colonial
trated. Henry Holt & Co. $1.50.
Times” (Doubleday) is so elaborately illustrated
The Lakerim Cruise. By Rupert Hughes. Tells
and illuminated by the compiler that the reading what the Lakerim Athletic Club boys did on their
matter, except such part of it as is ornamentally en vacation. Illustrated. Century Co. $1.50.
grossed on a gilded background, is quite cast in the The Horsemen of the Plains. By Joseph A. Alt-
shade. Divers passages from old chronicles and
sheler. A tale of the days when hostile Indians
roamed the Rockies. Illustrated in color. Mac-
letters and diaries have been studiously hunted up millan Co. $1.50.
and brought together so as to furnish, together with Range and Trail; or, The Bar B's Great Drive. By
the pictures, some adequate conception of how our Edwin L. Sabin, Continues the story of Phil
ancestors, whether Puritans or Cavaliers, celebrated
Macowan, and his life on “Bar B” ranch. Il-
the festive season. Nor is it Christmas and New
lustrated. T. Y. Crowell & Co. $1.50.
Year's alone that are treated by the compiler;
Light Horse Harry's Legion. By Everett T. Tom-
linson. The hero sees service under Generals
Thanksgiving Day, May Day, royal birthdays, and Washington and Green. Illustrated. Houghton
other glad occasions receive due attention.
Mifflin Co. $1.50.
Mr. E. S. Rait has felt moved by the studies he The Boy with the U. $. Foresters. By Francis Rolt-
Wheeler.
undertook for the “ Victorian History of the Coun-
As one of Uncle Sam's foresters, the
young hero gains both information and experi-
ties of England” to edit a much smaller work on
Illustrated. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.
“English Episcopal Palaces (Province of Canter $1.50.
bury),” which is issued in this country by Messrs. The Crashaw Brothers. By Arthur Stanwood Pier.
James Pott & Co. A staff of six contributing
Two athletic brothers attending rival schools are
writers has prepared short historical and descriptive
the principal characters. Illustrated. Houghton
Mifflin Co. $1.50.
sketches of the archiepiscopal and episcopal palaces In Line of Duty. By Richmond Pearson Hobson.
within the province of Canterbury, embellished with The hero sees active service on the “Oregon”
fourteen portraits, and with a frontispiece portrait during the Spanish-American War. Illustrated in
of Sir Thomas More; but not a single one of the
color. D. Appleton & Co. $1.50.
palaces is pictorially represented, except in the
With Sully into the Sioux Land. By Joseph Mills
Hanson. The story of Sully's campaign against
cover-design. The book, however, will please those
the Dakota Indians. Illustrated. A. C. McClurg
interested in English church history.
& Co. $1.50.
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Williams on Service. By Hugh S. Johnson. The
hero goes into active service with the U. S. Cav-
alry in the Philippines. Illustrated in color. D.
Appleton & Co. $1.50.
The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound. By Harold
Bindloss. The boys' ranching experiences and in
a pitched battle with smugglers. Illustrated. F.
A. Stokes Co. $1.50.
The Crimson Ramblers. By Warren L. Eldred. The
principal characters in this school story are known
as “The Fearless Four." Illustrated. Lothrop,
Lee & Shepard Co. $1.50.
The Riflemen of the Ohio: A Story of Early Days
along “The Beautiful River." By Joseph A. Alt-
sheler. Illustrated in color. D. Appleton & Co.
$1.50.
The Young Blockaders: A Story of the Civil War.
By E. T. Tomlinson. Illustrated. Lothrop, Lee
& Shepard Co. $1.50.
Harding's Luck. By E. Nesbit. A lame orphan boy
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The Glad Lady. By Amy E. Blanchard. Describes
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A Prairie Rose. By Bertha E. Bush. Rose and
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Days before History. By H. R. Hall. The hero is a
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The Boys' Cuchulain: Heroic Legends of Ireland.
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Old Greek Nature Stories. By F. A. Farrar. Greek
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Stories from Shakespeare. Retold by Thomas Car-
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Knighthood in Germ and Flower: The Anglo-Saxon
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The Flint Heart. By Eden Phillpotts. A fairy
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Wolf, the Storm Leader. By Frank Caldwell. The
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Old Mother West Wind. By Thornton W. Burgess.
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Finella in Fairyland. By Demetra Kenneth Brown.
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Hawthorne's Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales.
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Nelly's Silver Mine. By Helen Hunt Jackson. With
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The Swiss Family Robinson. New edition of this
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Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans. A large-type,
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Mopsa, the Fairy, By Jean Ingelow. A reprint of
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Uncle Remus and the Little Boy. By Joel Chandler
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The Brownies' Latest Adventures. By Palmer Cox.
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Over the Nonsense Road. By Lucile Gulliver. Fan-
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The Animal Trainer. By P. Guigou. A companion
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Sugar and Spice, and All That's Nice: A Book of
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The Nursery Fire. By Rosalind Richards. Popular
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Little Girl Blue Lives in the Woods till She Learns
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A Child's Book of Old Verses. Compiled by Jessie
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Walter Camp's Book of Foot-Ball. The first of a
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Magician's Tricks. By Henry Hatton and Adrian
Plate. Practical information for the performance
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Star People: The Fairy Book of Astronomy. By
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The Child's Harvest of Verse. Edited by Mary
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Brown & Co. $1.50.
The Children's Book of Ballads. Edited by Mary
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The Boys' Book of Model Aëroplanes: How to
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The Rainy Day Scrap Book. By E. L. and E. T.
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Caldwell's Boys and Girls at Home. Stories and
verses by Evelyn Sharp, Theodore Wilson, Alice
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Chatterbox for 1910. Improved and enlarged edi.
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The Story of Great Inventions. By Elmer Ellsworth
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Holiday Plays: Five One-Act Pieces for Washing-
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Tales Come True, and Tales Made New. By Mar-
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The Red Magic Book. By Emilie Benson and Alden
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Rainy Day Pastimes for Children. By Baroness von for the first time; the other four have previously seen
Palm. Directions for paper cutting and folding, the light in different quarters. One of the titles is
stenciling, and straw work. Illustrated. Dana
“ Johnson withou Boswell,” a thing difficult to imagine,
Estes & Co. $1.
but justified by the essay itself.
Harper's Book of Little Plays, for Home and School
Entertainments. By Margaret Sutton Briscoe,
Volume X. of the “ Proceedings of the Aristotelian
John Kendrick Bangs, Margaret E. Sangster, and
Society" comes to us from Messrs. Williams & Norgate.
others. Illustrated. Harper & Brothers. $1. There are ten papers in all, dealing for the most part
The Fairy Changeling: A Flower and Fairy Play. with general and highly abstract themes, although two
By Harriet Prescott Spofford. Illustrated. Gor philosophers Kant and M. Bergson come in for
ham Press. $1 net.
specific attention.
Daily Bread. By Mrs. Margaret Gatty. Illustrated.
A new anthology, “ The Englishman in Greece,” is
London: George Bell & Sons.
announced by the Oxford University Press. It has been
The Christmas Angel. By Abbie Farwell Brown.
compiled by Mr. H. S. Milford, and among the poets
Illustrated. Houghton Mifflin Co. 60 cts. net.
The Pies and the Pirates: A Shadow Show. By
whose work is given are several living authors. Sir
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Co. 75 cts, net.
duction. The book is a companion volume to “ The
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Englishman in Italy."
mas in Spain, by Sarah Gertrude Pomeroy; Christ Mr. Arthur Spurgeon's now familiar utterance on
mas in Austria, by Francis Bartlett. Each illus “ The Premature Cheapening of Copyright Books”.
trated. Dana Estes & Co. Per volume, 50 cts. being one of the most important papers read at the
Every Child Should Know Series. New volumes:
International Publishers’ Congress which met at Am-
Folk Tales Every Child Should Know, edited by
sterdam last Summer-is reprinted in handy pamphlet
H. W. Mabie, with frontispiece, 90cts. net;
Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know, by
form, together with the English “ Publisher's Circu-
Julia Ellen Rogers, illustrated, $1.20 net. Dou lar's " comment thereon, by Messrs. Cassell & Co.
bleday, Page & Co.
"English Tragicomedy: Its Origin and History," by
Dr. Frank Humphrey Ristine, is a publication of the
Columbia University Press, done in the regulation aca-
demic fashion, with notes and bibliographies. A Har-
NOTES.
vard production of the same well-defined type is Dr.
William Alfred Morris's monograph on “ The Frank-
“ The World of Dreams," a new book by Mr. Have-
pledge System," published by Messrs. Longmans, Green,
lock Ellis, which the Houghton Mifflin Co. had hoped
& Co.
to publish this Autumn, will not be ready until next
Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse, the veteran poet and
Spring
novelist who has just been awarded the Nobel Prize in
Mr. Austin Dobson's new volume of essays, entitled
Literature, is probably best known to the American
“Old Kensington Palace, and Other Studies,” will be
public through his play “Mary of Magdala,” which Mr.
issued at once in an American edition by the Frederick William Winter translated and Mrs. Fiske produced
A. Stokes Co.
some years ago, and his novel “Children of the World"
A posthumous volume of essays by William Sharp, which in its English translation has gone through several
to be entitled “The Garden of Letters: Papers on Men editions.
and Movements,” is being arranged for publication by Six volumes have recently been added to Messrs.
Mrs. Sharp, and will appear shortly.
Scribners' “ Memorial Edition” of George Meredith's
“ Julius Cæsar” and “Twelfth Night," both edited works: “ The Tragic Comedians,” “Diana of the Cross-
by N. Brainard Kellogg, and Carlyle's essay on Burns, ways,” “One of our Conquerors," “ Lord Ormont and
edited by Dr. Julian W. Abernethy, are recent addi his Aminta,” “ The Amazing Marriage,” and “Celt
tions to the “ English Texts” of Messrs. Charles G. and Saxon.” This instalment completes the tale of the
Merrill & Co.
novels, leaving only the short stories, essays, and
poems
« Literary Lapses" is the title of a volume of essays to complete the edition, besides a volume of bibliogra-
by Mr. Stephen Leacock, which the John Lane Co. will phical material.
publish immediately. The same firm will also issue an
“ The Vineyard " is the title of a little monthly
extended biography of William Harrison Ainsworth, magazine recently started in London which sets for
prepared by Mr. S. M. Ellis.
itself the ambitious task of cultivating “everything that
The Wessels & Bissell Co. publish a new edition of has proved essential in the real progress of man.”
Its
Mr. Rossiter Johnson's “ History of the War of Seces more specific purpose is to “fortify the ancient love of
sion, 1861–1865.” No changes of consequence seem to the earth, alike for its spiritual and economic value.”
have been made from previous issues of this very read In this wholly commendable aim we wish “ The Vine-
able and workmanlike history.
yard ” all success. Its contents are pleasingly varied
Those who have never known the delight of reading and interesting, and its physical make-up inviting. Mr.
Lord Dufferin's “ Letters from High Latitudes” are A. C. Fifield is the publisher.
earnestly counselled by us to procure the pretty new An authorized biography of the late Julia Ward
edition of the work now edited by Dr. R. W. Macan, Howe is in preparation by her daughters, Mrs. Laura
and published by Mr. Henry Frowde as an especially E. Richards and Mrs. Maud Howe Elliott, and will be
acceptable volume of the “World's Classics.”
published next year by the Houghton Mifflin Co. In
Mr. Walter Raleigh is a writer whose books are order that nothing may be lost from the record of Mrs.
always welcome. His latest volume is a dignified tome Howe's activities of many years, the authors request the
published by Mr. Henry Frowde, and entitled “Six loan of letters and characteristic notes that may be use-
Essays on Johnson.” Two of the six are now printed ful for the purposes of the biography. Communications


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December, 1910.
may be addressed to Mrs. Laura E. Richards, Gardiner,
Maine. All material sent will be promptly copied and
returned to the owners. The authors will also be grate-
ful for any personal anecdotes or reminiscences of Mrs.
Howe. Early this month the Houghton Mifflin Co.
are planning to publish a collection of Mrs. Howe's
later poems entitled “ At Sunset,” upon which she was
engaged at the time of her death. They were written
mostly during the last eleven years, many of them for
notable public occasions.
6 The Cost of Our National Government,” very appro-
priately sub-entitled “ A Study in Political Pathology,"
is a volume by Professor Henry Jones Ford, now pub-
lished by the Columbia University Press. It contains
the George Blumenthal lectures for 1909, revised and
amplified for presentation to the reading public. The
recognition and diagnosis of a pathological condition
must necessarily precede curative measures, and the case
now under discussion is sorely desperate, but we have
no great hopes that the heroic remedies needed will ever
be applied.
A volume of seven “ Essays and Studies by Members
of the English Association," collected by Mr. A. C.
Bradley, is published by Mr. Henry Frowde. Mr.
Henry Bradley leads off with a study of “ English
Place-Names," and Mr. Robert Bridges follows with a
paper “ On the Present State of English Pronunciation,"
which (the state) we violate no confidence in saying that
the writer finds discouraging. The five remaining
essays are upon subjects as varied as Blond Harry,
Shakespeare, Browning, and Carlyle, with a pleasant
essay by Mrs. Edith Sichel entitled “Some Suggestions
about Bad Poetry.” Altogether, the collection makes
very good reading.
Mr. Cobden-Sanderson announces the early publica-
tion of three new volumes from The Doves Press, com-
prising: Browning's “ Dramatis Personæ,” printed
from the first (1864) edition; “ Pervigilium Veneris,"
edited, rearranged, and supplemented by Professor J. W.
Mackail; and “Laudes Creaturarum,” by St. Francis
of Assisi, in the Latin text with Matthew Arnold's trans-
lation. During the coming year Mr. Cobden-Sanderson
hopes to issue the following: Goethe's “ Die Leiden des
Jungen Werther," from the Weimar text; “ In Prin-
cipio,” the first chapter of Genesis in the Authorised
Version; “ A Decade of Years,” poems by Wordsworth,
1798-1808; and Shakespeare's “ Anthonie and Cleo-
patra," in the First Folio text.
A posthumous work of Lafcadio Hearn’s, being a
translation of Flaubert's “The Temptation of St.
Anthony,” is published by the Alice Harriman Com-
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by Hearn's biographer, Mrs. Elizabeth Bisland Wetmore,
gives interesting personal reminiscences of the making
of the translation, which belongs to the early period of
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and San Francisco. Mrs. Wetmore dilates also upon
the spiritual fitness of Hearn for interpreting what is
considered by many to be Flaubert's masterpiece; and
she adds something about Flaubert and the tremendous,
passionate effort that went into everything he wrote.
Hearn preceded the translation by a brief " Argument";
in both is to be found the subtle, sensitive, exquisite
quality of style which marks all his work. The trans-
lation is complete save for a few unessential paragraphs,
which Hearn intended to treat as addenda, and which
the publishers have thought better to omit entirely.
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No. 588.
DECEMBER 16, 1910. Vol. XLIX.
CONTENTS.
PAGE
HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS- continued.
Valkyrie, illustrated by Arthur Rackham. - Gold-
smith's The Deserted Village, illustrated by Fred-
erick S. Coburn. - Aucassin and Nicolette, illus-
trated by Maxwell Armfield.- Gray's Elegy, de-
corated by F.J. Trezise.-Allen's The Golden Road.
-Short stories in gift form. – Miss Clarke's Haw-
thorne's Country.-Mrs. Putnam's The Lady.-Miss
James's The Green Willow, and Other Japanese
Fairy Tales.-Fletcher's Steam-Ships.-Hudson's A
Shepherd's Life. – Mrs. Champney's Romance of
Imperial Rome. – Howe's Boston Common. Cal-
mour's Rumbo Rhymes. – Martin's The Luxury of
Children, illustrated by Sarah S. Stilwell. - The
Robinson Crusoe Library.- Miss Broadus's Book of
the Christ Child. - Holiday anthologies. - Small
miscellaneous gift books.
NOTES.
534
THE SEASON'S BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG . 534
LIST OF NEW BOOKS
535
.
THE AMERICAN ACADEMY
505
ANATOLE FRANCE. Henry Seidel Canby .
507
CASUAL COMMENT
510
The reproach of academicism. — The public library
a public panacea. - A suggestion to buyers of gift-
books. — The poem that the people like best. — The
late president of the University of Vermont. - To
relieve the pressure of demand for the latest library
books. — The death of Librarian Burr of Williams
College. - The periodical poetry of the year. — The
tercentenary celebration of an English classic.
Genius and madness. — The profits of pastime.- A
mountain of books. — The first aviator.- A twice-
told tale of the steamboat. - The end of the Chaucer
Society.
COMMUNICATION
513
President Polk's Diary. James Schouler.
A PUBLICIST OF TWO NATIONS. John Bascom 514
VENICE IN HER DECADENCE. H. C. Chatfield-
Taylor
515
CHINA'S “OLD BUDDHA.” Payson J. Treat 518
NATURE'S WALKING DELEGATES. May Estelle
Cook
520
Burroughs's In the Catskills. — Packard's Wood
Wanderings.-Packard's Florida Trails.-Schmuck-
er's Under the Open Sky.- Le Gallienne's October
Vagabonds.
VARIETY IN CURRENT DRAMA. Richard Burton 522
Maeterlinck's Mary Magdelene. — Sudermann's
Morituri.-Sheldon's The Nigger.— Masefield's The
Tragedy of Nan, and Other Plays. — Andreyev's
Anathema. - Galsworthy's Justice.
HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS-II.
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Miss Rose's Cathedrals and Cloisters of the Isle de
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Mrs. Elliott's Sicily in Shadow and in Sun. - Cook's
The Mediterranean and its Borderlands. - Hutton's
Siena and Southern Tuscany.-Neihardt's The River
and I.-McCutcheon's In Africa. - Miss Wright's
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Thomas's French Portrait Engraving of the XVIIth
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Caricature. – Miss McClellan's Historic Dress in
America, 1800–1870. — Caffin's The Story of Spanish
Painting. – Lady Russell's The Rose Goddess. -
Trowbridge's Cagliostro. – Gribble's The Love
Affairs of Lord Byron.— Miss Hay's The Winter
Queen.- Lady Nevill's Under Five Reigns.-Hamel's
The Dauphines of France. — Miss Jerrold's The
Beaux and the Dandies. - Miss Mitford's Our Vil-
lage, illustrated by Alfred Rawlings.-Shakespeare's
Hamlet, illustrated by W. G. Simonds.-Erckmann-
Chatrain's The History of a Conscript of 1813, holi-
day edition. - Wagner's The Rhinegold and the
THE AMERICAN ACADEMY.
It was a year ago that the American Acad-
emy of Arts and Letters made its formal
appearance before the public. The place was
Washington, and, besides the regular sessions
of the organization, there was a reception by
the President of the United States, which in a
way symbolized the newly-assumed public char-
acter of the organization. Application was made
to Congress for a national charter, and the
bill for that purpose is still pending. It passed
the Senate, but did not obtain from the House
the “ unanimous consent” necessary for prompt
action. Some members objected because their
own pet measures could not gain this concession,
and one or two others because they could not
discover in the membership of the Academy any
representatives of, say, Arkansas or Oklahoma.
We trust that this was only a temporary post-
ponement of action upon a subject that cannot
possibly be affected by any political interest,
and is of some concern to the higher life of the
nation.
Last week, the second public meeting of the
Academy was held, this time in New York, and
in connection with the larger National Institute
of Arts and Letters, from whose membership
academicians must be elected. The sessions
were dignified and impressive, fully justifying,
if that were necessary, the existence of the two
organizations which jointly represent the best
that America can offer in literature and scholar-
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than they usually are in dealing with anything The first paper of all must have a word to
that even remotely suggests Matthew Arnold's itself. It was entitled “ A Retrospection,” and
saving“ remnant,
6 remnant," did not make as many was read by the venerable John Bigelow. The
jocose remarks about “immortals” as might paper itself was a page of
racy
reminiscence
have been expected, and in general treated the from the author's life in Paris in the early
meeting quite seriously. Those who were pres- sixties, but the interest it aroused on its own
ent felt that they were witnessing the begin- account was greatly exceeded by interest in the
nings of a movement having much potentiality personality of the reader. That wonderful old
for good, and likely in the future to play a man, now in his ninety-fourth year, brought the
considerable part in our national life.
whole audience to its feet when he stepped for-
A year ago, we published a list of the members ward upon the platform, and the prolonged
of the Academy as it then was constituted applause which his appearance evoked was
There have been a few deaths and a few elections heart-felt and sincere. His voice was low but
since that time, but the list remains substanti- distinct, and he spoke with a degree of anima-
ally the same. One of the sessions of last week tion suggestive of anything but senility. In
was devoted to the reading of commemorative him, the Academy boasts of a member who
papers upon the members who have died during comes close to being an “immortal” in the
the last five years or so, and the roll is one of literal sense, and he gave a new turn to an
which any body and any country might well be ancient jest when he began his remarks by
proud. In literature, the names included were saying: “You'd scarce expect one of my age
those of Stedman, Clemens, Hay, Norton, to stand in public on a stage.”
Aldrich, Jefferson, Gilder, Schurz, Harris, and Second in interest only to Mr. Bigelow's
Hale. In music and the fine arts there were the contribution to the programme was the Shake-
names of MacDowell, Saint-Gaudens, McKim, spearian reading given by Dr. Horace Howard
Ward, and Homer. Since the plans for this Furness, that veteran scholar who bears his
session were made, three other academicians, / years so lightly, and wears his honors with such
Moody, La Farge, and Mrs. Howe (the only unaffected simplicity. “King Henry the Fifth”
woman member) have gone over to the majority. was the play chosen for the reading, and those
It must be a lasting inspiration to the organi-
the organi- who knew the play best felt that they were
zation to know that these men once adorned its viewing it in a new light through the medium
ranks, as well as a spur to those living to make of the reader's skilfully modulated voice and
themselves as worthy as possible to occupy
the occasional suggestive commentary. Not the
vacated places.
least noteworthy incident of the meeting was
The sessions of last week were held in the the bestowal of the gold medal of the Institute
New Theatre (generously given for the occasion) upon Mr. James Ford Rhodes, declared by a
and were gracefully presided over by Mr. plurality of votes to be the most worthy among
William Dean Howells, as President of the living American historians to be awarded this
Academy, and Mr. Henry Van Dyke, as Pres distinction. The closing act of the public exer-
ident of the Institute. The papers which were
cises was provided by a formal reception given
read were upon a high level of thought, and by the Mayor of New York in the Lenox Li-
struck with proper discretion, but without undue brary. When the end of the entire programme
forcing, the American note. The last-mentioned was reached, the members regretfully dispersed,
characteristic was noticeable in the afternoon most of them feeling, we think, that it was good
session of December 8, when music, poetry, to have been participants in the affair. It was
fiction, and sculpture were respectively repre all very skilfully managed, and its temper was
sented by Messrs. Walter Damrosch, Percy happily voiced by the President of the Academy
Mackaye, Hamlin Garland, and Lorado Taft. when he said :
The morning session had been occupied with
“ The academies of France, Spain, St. Petersburg,
more abstract and philosophical themes,
and other European countries have an authoritative
position which we don't pretend to. We don't hope to
“ Criticism,” by Mr. William Crary Brownell,
shape American art and letters, but our aggregation
“ The Revolt of the Unfit,” by President will make for a higher standard in American art and
Nicholas Murray Butler, and “ The Living letters. Each of us feels the molecular stir of universal
Past in the Living Present," by Mr. Henry
activity. The purpose of our organization is to relate
Mills Alden. All these papers will appear in
itself to the æsthetic life of the nation. We have a right
to remain in this organization because we hope that we
due time in the Proceedings of the organiza-
can help others to do something more important than
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The accusers on the grounds of dilettanteism
ANATOLE FRANCE.
were nourished, one may suppose, upon “Le Crime
de Sylvestre Bonnard,” and have cherished opinions,
Did some prevision of worthiness stir within
thus conceived, to apply them where they do not be-
Jacques Anatole Thibault when he chose for pseu- long. “Sylvestre Bonnard” is an old book. It was
donym the name of his country and became Anatole
crowned by the French Academy in 1881, and has
France ? If so, time has justified his temerity; for
been popular ever since, as witness my own copy,
now, at sixty-six years of age, the author of some
bought in August, 1909, in France and of the one
twenty-seven works, and member of the Academy,
hundredth and ninth edition. When
you
read it, a
he is certainly the most interesting and perhaps the
strange sense of familiarity comes over you, mingled
most remarkable figure in the literary life of con-
with a stranger sense of novelty. The familiarity is
temporary France. Furthermore, his fame and his
easily explained. The book is an idyll, a prose
books have begun the crossing of boundary lines,
idyll of the kind the French have always done so
translations are growing abundant, and one sees
well. Sylvestre Bonnard, the scholar, sits in his
“Anatole France” in the literary journals almost
City of Books far above the Paris quays and looks
as often as the names of the popular novelists.
down upon the world below. After awhile he ven-
When a foreigner comes to America, we have an tures out into that world. First, it is when a young
unfortunate habit of saddling him with a compari wife has the temerity to become a mother in the
son: he is the Hearst of Italy, or the Roosevelt of
neighborhood of his scholarly retreat; again, it is
Illyria, or the boss of Madrid. A foreign author in a wild pursuit of a manuscript, to Sicily and back;
must be labelled forthwith; hence many an un most decisively, however, when he joins battle with
offending Belgian or Russian has Shakespeare or
custom and law in an attempt to save from misery
Mark Twain stamped upon him for the American the daughter of a woman he had once loved. With,
market. No one denies the usefulness of the prac as hero, the most charming and gracious scholar who
tice, but in certain cases it may be unfortunate. We ever lost the world for a book, this is sufficiently
have greeted Anatole France as the Sterne of his idyllic.
native country. The comparison is particularly un But Sylvestre is somewhat different from the
happy. Sterne was a sentimentalist: France is as “professor” who usually represents the faculty in
unsentimental as Bernard Shaw. Sterne played upon literature. True, he is unworldly, as that figure
the foibles of human nature: France attacks human
always is. True, he distrusts his imagination, and
nature itself. There seems to be no possible resem is aware of the cramping of his heart. But Bon-
blance between the two writers unless in their like nard remains a hard-headed intellectual from cover
mastery of wit and of style, a resemblance which
to cover. He exhausts the thirteenth century, yet
scarcely justifies an exchange of names. If France in the droop of his age one finds him, no truant to
must be compared to an Englishman, let it be to knowledge, at work upon the society of the flowers
Swift. Swift turned his generation into pigmies, and the bees. In brief, this book is an idyll of the
and so made fun of them; he made his ideas of intellectual life, the most intractable of materials for
better men into giants, and so cudgelled his contem idyllics ; and hence its curious novelty. It is made
poraries with Brobdingnagian strokes; he embodied
up of the reflections of the world upon the mirror of
his ideals in the form of a horse, and so cast scorn the intellect. If it has a moral, it teaches how to
upon the unideal. Just so Anatole France trans-
get pleasure from one's mental life, and thus is
forms his Frenchmen into penguins that he may ex indubitably a study in intellectual dilettanteism.
pose their frailties, saints into fools that he may But I believe no one called France a dilettante
reflect upon saintly wisdom, and beloved stories into
when he published “Bonnard.” With so gentle a
analyses of human folly. By all means call him the book, there was no need for name-calling. And
Swift of France, if you must compare; but the truth yet satire was latent there. Hamilcar, who purred
is more interesting than any approximation.
upon his cushions in the City of Books, could some-
After the comparison-mongers, two other recep times show his claws; and so could the author of
tion committees have waited upon the reputation of “Sylvestre Bonnard.” Old Bonnard got his wished-
Anatole France. They are the slightly contemptu- for manuscript through the woman with the baby;
ous and the entirely objective schools of criticism, for she was a collector of rarities too
The first make no bones of the matter. France
France match-boxes with photographs of notabilities on the
lashes the church, lashes the state, lashes morality, covers, and so of course could sympathize with
lashes human nature. Believing in nothing himself, his scholarly pursuit. There was a claw shown!
he is as destructive as a steam-shovel. Therefore he Indeed, though Bonnard passes with a Nunc Dim-
is a satirist without a standard, an intellectual dilet ittis upon his lips, he does not utterly die. He is
tante, -and thus very dangerous. _The objective reincarnated in the spirit of the later Anatole, more
school is more gentle. For them, France is a wit, vigorous, more knowing in the world and less fond
a stylist, and a consummate master of irony. His of it, quite willing now to test Paris and the world
fundamental beliefs or disbeliefs can go hang. What with his intellect, sure that if they be found wanting
do they care about his dilettanteism so long as he his intellect will still remain to console him. It is
amuses them! Both schools, I believe, are wrong. this later Bonnard, disillusioned and done with his
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idyll, who wrote “L'Ile des Pingouins," and has A young man, who felt that this society had
been called an intellectual dilettante for doing so. passed its usefulness, harnessed radium, and in a
“The Isle of Penguins " was probably not the greatest series of mighty explosions wrecked the giant city.
book of its year (1908), but it was perhaps the Anarchy followed, and gave rise to decadence. The
most interesting, and certainly the most remarkable. city died, and was buried beneath pastures. A
It begins with a faithful if somewhat satiric repre pastoral people wandered over the site. They
sentation of an early saint of the kind which those founded villages. The villages became great towns.
who read the saints' legends know. The blissful These united into a vast capital. It grew rich and
Maël had been accustomed, like all the early mis- vast, until“ houses could never be built high enough;
sionaries, to navigate in a trough of stone; but, they raised them ceaselessly, constructing thirty or
tempted by the devil, he foregoes the miracle and forty stories upon which they placed offices, stores,
takes to a boat. The evil boat, taking the wind in and banks; while, beneath, the earth was dug more
its teeth, flies far down into the Antarctic, and there and more deeply for cellars and tunnels. Fifteen
lands the blissful Maël, weary, half blind with spray, millions of men worked in the giant city.” And
upon a little island, where sit a colony of penguins. thus, with the recurrence of a melancholy cycle,
The holy man mistakes them for savages, blesses the book ends.
them, and, believing that the chorus of quackings The school of the contemptuous and the school of
with which they respond to his voice indicates a the objectivists view this story in different fashions;
desire to be saved, instructs them in the faith, and and to them is added a third school with still a
baptizes each one with a drop of pure water upon third point of view. This last group is the most
his head. Then the pontiffs, the doctors, and the positive of all.
positive of all. The book is bad, they say, morally
saints in Heaven are thrown into a horrid confusion. bad, and so wash their hands of further criticism.
What has been the effect of this unfortunate bap One must admit, in fact, that the English lady who
tism? Is it the form or the spirit of the sacrament found Antony and Cleopatra “ so unlike the
which counts ? If it is the form, here is a pretty home-life of our dear queen” would be shocked by
pickle! The debate goes to the formalists; and “The Isle of Penguins,"—seriously shocked. But it
God, to save an embarrassment — for what if the is doubtful whether she would not be more shocked
Penguins, having no souls, should sin and be damned? still by Voltaire's “ Candide.” The two books be-
transforms the birds to men. Then the isle of long upon the same shelf. Who should read them
the Penguins is towed by miracle to the Breton and who should not, is a nice question, the answer
shores ; Penguiny becomes France, the rise of the to which I leave to divines. “I wol not han to do
Penguins the rise of our modern civilization. But with such matere."
the Penguins, though men in shape, at first are but The contemptuous say that “The Isle of Pen-
animals in intelligence. It is an opportunity for guins" is dangerous politically, because it advocates
their facile historian who, with searching irony and the destruction of a society which has failed in the
infinite wit, leads them through the courses of pursuit of happiness and therefore advocates
sophistication. One views in their bare nakedness anarchy; that it is dangerous for religion, since its
the origin of sacred institutions. “Do you not see," attitude is completely negative as regards religion
cries the ancient Maël, “this furious Penguin who itself, but most positive in its abuse of the accom-
bites the nose of his fallen adversary, and that other paniments of the Christian religion; that it is
who pounds the head of a woman with a great dangerous morally, since it adopts the anthropologi-
stone?” “I see them,” answers Bulloch, his fellow cal explanation of our morals, and traces results
monk. “They create law; they found property; which, if sometimes ludicrous, are terrible to con-
they establish the principles of civilization, the basis template ; and that, though pessimistic, it is com-
of society, and the foundation of the State.” The pletely flippant in tone. They charge the author
age of myth appears, with its dragon, who is ex with attacking everything while believing in no-
posed as a most vicious fraud, but remembered by thing; and maintain, finally, that the book as a
the Penguins as a most awful reality. And so one whole is dangerous because it is irresponsible.
passes through the notable twists and turns of The particular charges I admit; the general, I
French history wherein man is shown to be always deny. Anatole France does believe in something :
ridiculous, incapable, vain, and lewd; where woman he believes in intellectuality. The force of his
is sensual, and the cause of wickedness and wars ; attack upon humanity betrays some interest in the
where great events happen from little causes, and body attacked, even as Swift's brutal onslaught
the Penguins as men are often more ignoble than proved that he felt his enemies to be worth chastis-
as birds. Finally, the story looks to the future. ing. One does not analyze the weaknesses of the
“ Houses could never be built high enough ; they French character for four hundred pages, with con-
raised them ceaselessly, constructing thirty or forty tempt of the species as the only motive. The writer
stories upon which were placed offices, stores, and must at least assume an intellect sufficiently intelli-
banks; while, beneath, the earth was dug more and gent to appreciate attacks upon itself, and worthy
more deeply for cellars and tunnels. Fifteen mil to be written for! An ingenuous youth at a dinner
lions of men worked in the giant city.” But life given to France in the Argentine Republic de-
had become too monotonous, too hard for happi- | clared that the writer had bestowed upon
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men of the republic a new conception of life. Surely holds with the modern historian that the chronicles
the books this youth had read were positive as well preserve only the symbols of the past; then deduces
as negative. And they are so, all of France's satiric from an old story the true happening. Every ap-
books. They apply the test of intellectuality, or of pearance of scholarship bolsters his work. Sylvestre
the intellectual life, to the world, and then discourse Bonnard himself might be proud of the erudition, of
of the reactions. The author has a standard of the method; and yet the results are pure satire. One
criticism and a basis for his satire. He is like his feels the ultra-modern intellect at work upon the
Colomban, who seems to stand for Zola in the foundations of tradition, and this satire cuts home.
Penguin's version of the Dreyfus case. Colomban, “Les Sept Femmes de Barbe-Bleue,” which
a short-sighted, hairy little man, alone of all the
everyone in France seemed to be reading in the
Penguins can apply reason to the affair of the summer of 1909, is a charming example of this un-
alleged traitor. When he sees the truth, he acts comfortably effective process. “ The Seven Wives
upon it; and in spite of abuse, bruises, slander, of Bluebeard,” though it gives the book its title, is
threats, advances the banner of reason against the not the best story. There is, for example, the miracle
hosts of unreason and prejudice. When he is over of the great St. Nicholas. Scientific scholarship
whelmed with the execrations of the multitude, he proves that there were two saints of this name.
is content to remark, The affair is more difficult Scientific scholarship, after the best models, identi-
than I had supposed.” Tumbled into the Seine, fies one of them as the holy man of the nursery-
sheltering his dripping body beneath a bridge in com rhyme who miraculously synthesized the bodies of
pany with an old, lame horse, he merely persists, three children salted in a pork barrel. Back to the
“ This affair is more difficult than I had supposed.” | city of Trinqueballe the bishop - for this St.
France is far more tactful than Colomban, but he Nicholas was a bishop — led the fruits of his ex-
displays the same consistency in advocating reason periment, and there brought them up according to
and the intellect. In this book he is in no sense a policy of perpetual kindness, hoping thus to
a dilettante, and though often wrong — or at least counteract the harshness of their years in the pork-
one devoutly hopes so—is in no sense irresponsible. - barrel. But note the results of the miracle: one
But no more tenable is the position of those who became a murderer and ravisher, one a swindler,
are content merely to enjoy the exquisite wit, the and one a heretic. Thanks to the efforts of the
charming style of “The Isle of Penguins," while three, Nicholas was despoiled of his wealth, bereft of
they let the sincerity of the author take care of his beloved niece, his bishopric torn by wars and
itself. Bernard Shaw and Anatole France are fellow- dissensions, its faith made prey to indecent heresies,
sufferers in this respect. Their wit, their style, and he himself driven out to seek some hermitage
cannot be wholly appreciated when divorced from where he might spend the little remainder of his
its guiding principle. France's principles, or his life in puzzling over the mystery of the will of God.
application of them, must often be erroneous ; other Yet the purpose of the miracle was not left unex-
wise it is a pretty world we live in. To ignore or plained. There was a hermit upon the lonely
deny them is to miss the full flavor of his work. mountain-top where he sought for peace. It was
Nevertheless, there is much that is racial in prin- the wicked inn-keeper who had salted the three
ciples, and in the satire which flows from them. It unfortunates! The miracle had converted him; he
may be that the purely literary and artistic virtues was the soul saved by the universal wreck.
of the books of Anatole France are more instructive Then there is “La Chemise," a perfect work of
for English readers than his philosophy, be that its kind, almost as perfect in form — and this is rare
never so cogent.
His satire is sometimes like with France as it is pungent in substance. A
French tobacco, designed for home consumption; king, as in the old tale, must have a shirt from a
whereas his literary art has earned its English perfectly happy man if he is to be cured of his ills;
rights since it has made singularly impressive a but king and ills are modern. This ruler
- who
foreign mental attitude which is neither
very
novel bears a strange resemblance to Leopold, the late
nor particularly sympathetic.
lamented of Belgium-is a commercial success; he
Some of the literary virtues of this Frenchman has learned to despise his ministers, and yet run a
are perhaps the virtues of the French in general. constitutional government without friction; he has
His style is clarity and grace itself ; he has, what is learned to steer his course between popularity and
so rare in English, a light pen for heavy matters; unpopularity; but in spite of all the conveniences
he never fails to make precise the half-thought or of a modern kingship, he is bored — bored until
the subtle perception. But there is one virtue, one ennui becomes a disease. His physician belongs to
power, which is all his own : the satirical illumina the modern school which believes in natural reme-
tion of legend or history. He is not a good story dies. Sea-air, mineral waters, for example, are
teller. He stops at too many pleasant cafés where excellent; and for this case, no less a tonic than the
one may rest awhile and discuss the situation; his exudations from the skin of a perfectly happy man.
characterization is too arbitrary. Yet he chooses Saint-Sylvan and Quatrefeuilles go forth to find the
story-telling for the discharge of his ideas, and so happy man and his shirt. They approach a noble
falls-unfortunately sometimes, successfully often peer; alas, he loves the public, and the public revile
into a kind of narrative essay. In his best vein, he him for his solicitude. They seek a heroic duke ;
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believes, “is the frequency of questions beginning
with what' and who,' and the infrequency of
those beginning with 'why' and how.' Of course
such questions are harder to make out, harder to
answer, and harder to mark than those designed to
see whether the student can give back what he has
heard the instructor say, or has read in the text-
book. But my own experience has been that the
results are correspondingly far more satisfactory."
This substitution of the “why" and "how" for
the “what ” and “who" would certainly discourage
the cowardly though comforting habit of clinging to
the text-book as to a life-preserver.
he is senile, the prey of his servants. They dis-
cover, with rejoicings, a country curé who lives an
idyllic life among his peasants ; his existence is a
torture, for he no longer believes. The lover, the
rich
man,
the wise, and a dozen of those intermediate
types which modern society provides, are but new
figures for the comedy. Women they do not seek.
It will not do to feminize the king's ideas of happi-
ness, and besides, says Saint-Sylvan, “I observe
that, in our class, they do not bring up their chil-
dren, do not direct their households, know nothing,
do nothing, and kill themselves with fatigue; they
consume themselves in shining,—their life is a kind
of candle; I ignore if it is enviable.” And, last of
all, Mousque, a poor half-witted creature who plays
about in the king's park and makes toys for the
children. “ As happy as Mousque,” the people say.
He is happy,—he admits it when they explain to
him the nature of happiness; but when they offer
him gold, a palace, a new pair of shoes, for his shirt,
his face expresses only surprise. He had no shirt !
And it is thus that this good Anatole France
teases his penguins. Is he a notable figure in con-
temporary literature? Certainly he is an artist
with novel means at his disposal ; certainly a power-
ful satirist with a consistent standard of criticism.
Yet, if notable, it is not because his point of view
is new
- it was Voltaire's before him—but because
of the skill and the modernity of its application.
One is tempted to call him the Swift of France; in
spite of the dangers of comparison, one is still more
tempted to call him the Voltaire of the twentieth
century, though a very limited and specialized
Voltaire, who advances, as the only guide, a very
up-to-date intellect: indeed, a Voltaire so individual
that it would be well to exhaust the resemblance,
and drop it, before we begin to compare some
writer of our own to Anatole France.
HENRY SEIDEL CANBY.
THE PUBLIC LIBRARY A PUBLIC PANACEA—such,
in brief, is the burden of the song, or hymn of
praise, that greets the delighted ears of librarian
and assistants at a certain great city library with
many branches. Patrons of this institution have
given uttterance to so many expressions of appre-
ciation and gratitude for benefits received, that the
library has issued an anthology of these eloquent
tributes. This florilegium (to be sure, it is not in
verse, or if it is the scansion is defective) is entitled,
6 Results not Shown by Statistics in the Work of
the Public Libraries of Greater New York.” We
give a few choice extracts. An Irishman is reported
as saying: “My children are getting so d—n smart
at school that I am obliged to use the library to keep
ahead of them.” “My!” exclaimed another reader,
in praise of the library's collection of music scores,
“I could hear two or three operas on the money
I
saved by coming to the library for music scores.”
A French woman, a semi-weekly frequenter of the
library, said: “I don't know what we should have
done without the library this winter. My husband
and I could in former years go to the theatres once
in a while; but this has been such a hard winter
that we could not afford any such luxuries. The
library has furnished us with all our pleasures this
winter." And another woman: “I have had a
great deal of trouble. Everything in life has failed
me, and if it were not for my books I should go
crazy.” This from a man of enterprise: “I was a
barber, and have been able to become an electrician
with the aid of the books in the library.” And so
on, through fourteen pages of fine print, in far
greater variety and detail than can here be even
hinted at. It is a little book to warm the librarian's
heart.
A SUGGESTION TO BUYERS OF GIFT-BOOKS for
Christmas may not be out of order. Many places
too small to support a good book-store do maintain
an excellent public library, and at the library may
be seen and examined, with the aid and consent of
the librarian, a collection of recent and desirable
holiday publications, from which certain titles, with
publishers' names and perhaps also with prices,
may be noted for subsequent orders on the nearest
book-dealer. The public library of Jackson, Michi-
gan, makes a practice of exhibiting at this season
CASUAL COMMENT.
THE REPROACH OF ACADEMICISM, which that vig-
orous and independent thinker, Thomas Davidson,
the “wandering scholar” (as his biographer, Dr.
William Knight, aptly called him), used to throw
up against the college-trained man, is still one that
waits to be entirely removed. Undoubtedly the
modern varied curriculum, despite its faults, pro-
duces fewer prigs and pedants than did the old-time
college course that demanded of the student little
beyond an ability to read and remember, and that
placed a premium on drudgery rather than on intel-
lect. A correspondent of the New York “Evening
Post," Professor Hiram Bingham of Yale, offers a
suggestion which, if universally followed, might go
far toward removing the reproach of academicism,
and toward making the mere drudge much less suc-
cessful in his pursuit of academic honors.
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books suitable for gifts to children. It might well vation.”
an occasional contributor to
make its exhibition more comprehensive, as the educational magazines, but his lifework is more
grown-ups, too, like to receive presents in the shape substantially commemorated in the later buildings
of books. The Jackson method may be indicated by and professorships of the Vermont University than
an extract from the current Report of the librarian. in the domain of literature.
“ The Christmas exhibition of Children's books
suitable for gifts was again held, and attracted TO RELIEVE THE PRESSURE OF DEMAND FOR THE
much attention. Upon request to the publishers LATEST LIBRARY BOOKS the obvious thing to do is to
seventy-two books were donated, and forty-two were buy additional copies —if the requisite funds are
lent us by the State Library; the total number of available. The generous policy of the Springfield
books shown was 235. . . . The present collection (Mass.) City Library is thus stated in the current
of gift books for children has been of great use to Report of that well-managed institution: “When-
teachers and parents, and inquiries about it have ever four names are on the waiting list for a book,
come from all over the State.”
unless the demand appears purely spasmodic, an
additional copy is bought. This applies chiefly to
THE POEM THAT THE PEOPLE LIKE BEST, according new and popular works of non-fiction. Standard
to the editor of the “ Notes and Queries " department works for which the demand is fairly constant
of the Boston “Transcript,” seems to be that favorite should usually be obtainable with less delay, and
of our tender years,“ The Blackberry Girl,” by Mrs. especial attention has been paid to procuring suffi-
Nancy Dennis Sproat. No other piece of verse is cient copies of such books. Libraries do not hesi-
asked for and inquired about so often as this touch tate to buy many copies of the new, more-or-less
ing tale of piety and poverty, beginning, as many will ephemeral fiction, and it would seem to be no less
remember:
a duty to multiply copies of the standard histories,
" Why, Phæbe, are yon come so soon ?
biographies, and other works of literature. Readers
Where are your berries, child ?
unable to obtain books readily may have their wants
You cannot, sure, have sold them all:
You had a basket piled.”
attended to by filling out a slip entitled · Books
The whole story of blackberries spilled and the
never in.'” This liberality of supply may, and
anguish of dark despair and the final emergence of
indeed must, lead to congestion, sooner or later, in
the sun of happiness from behind the thunder-clouds
certain instances of books over-rated at the time of
of gloom takes twenty-one of these four-line stanzas
their appearance. But there are always springing
in the telling. They were published as early as
up new public libraries to which the less desired
1829, in Boston, in a collection of Mrs. Sproat's duplicates are likely to prove an acceptable offer-
writings entitled “Stories for Children in Familiar ing; and so the greatest benefit to the greatest
Verse.'
number will be effected.
But it is probable that “The Blackberry
Girl” had already been separately given to the
THE DEATH OF LIBRARIAN BURR OF WILLIAMS
world in some newspaper or other periodical. In
COLLEGE deprives that institution of one of its most
1833 it re-appeared in a reading-book called “The
useful and most highly esteemed faculty members.
Child's Guide," published by the old and famous
house of George Merriam, at Springfield. Probably
A graduate of the college (class of '68), Charles H.
Burr was called in 1888 from the pastorate of the
few, even of those who best remember the poem, are
aware that it had a sequel, “ What the Blackberry take charge of the library of his alma mater, where
Bethany Congregational Church in New York to
Girl Learned at Church, or The Blackberry Girl
Continued.”
he devoted twenty-two years of skilled service to the
formidable task of transforming an old-fashioned,
THE LATE PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF rudely classified, imperfectly catalogued, and laxly
VERMONT, who died Nov. 29, at Burlington, was administered college library into a modern, scien-
one of our comparatively few scholars of the good tifically classified, adequately catalogued, and wisely
old sort, well-versed in the Greek and Latin classics, managed college library. Like many another de-
and master of a literary style at once ornate and voted to the somewhat dry technicalities of this
clear. It is now thirty-nine years since Matthew learned profession, Mr. Burr had a dry humor of his
H. Buckham succeeded Dr. James B. Angell (upon own that cropped out in speech and in writing;
the latter's acceptance of the presidency of Michigan and he will be missed not only for his scholarly and
University) as head of the University of Vermont; administrative ability, but also for his genialty and
and in that time he has added to the laurels of companionableness as a man.
scholarship the well-earned fame of an able admin-
istrator, and the institution under his direction has THE PERIODICAL POETRY OF THE YEAR has been
flourished notably. The mere titles of some of his sifted by Mr. William Stanley Braithwaite, himself
printed discourses indicate the breadth and sanity a poet of repute, in accordance with his custom of
of his mind, — as, for example, “The Love of Diffi the last six years, and his results are published in
culty,” “The Culture of the Imagination,” “Dead the Boston "Transcript,” as in previous years. He
Languages Forsooth,” “The Real Bible,” “ Reserve selects for his purpose six magazines that, as he
in Matters of Religion,” and “The Economic Sit affirms, "publish the best, and not only the best, but
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A Semi-Monthly Journal of Literary Criticism, Discussion, and Information.
Entered as Second-Class Matter October 8, 1892, at the Post Office at
Chicago, Illinois, under Act of March 3, 1879.
No. 588.
DECEMBER 16, 1910. Vol. XLIX.
PAGE
505
HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS- continued.
Valkyrie, illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Gold-
smith's The Deserted Village, illustrated by Fred-
erick S. Coburn. - Aucassin and Nicolette, illus-
trated by Maxwell Armfield. - Gray's Elegy, de-
corated by F.J. Trezise.-Allen's The Golden Road.
-Short stories in gift form. - Miss Clarke's Haw-
thorne's Country.-Mrs. Putnam's The Lady.-Miss
James's The Green Willow, and Other Japanese
Fairy Tales.-Fletcher's Steam-Ships.-Hudson's A
Shepherd's Life. - Mrs. Champney's Romance of
Imperial Rome. - Howe's Boston Common. Cal-
mour's Rumbo Rhymes. - Martin's The Luxury of
Children, illustrated by Sarah S. Stilwell. - The
Robinson Crusoe Library.- Miss Broadas's Book of
the Christ Child. - Holiday anthologies. - Small
miscellaneous gift books.
NOTES.
534
THE SEASON'S BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG . 534
LIST OF NEW BOOKS
535
.
.
CONTENTS.
THE AMERICAN ACADEMY
ANATOLE FRANCE. Henry Seidel Canby . 507
CASUAL COMMENT
510
The reproach of academicism. — The public library
a public panacea. - A suggestion to buyers of gift-
books. — The poem that the people like best. — The
late president of the University of Vermont. - To
relieve the pressure of demand for the latest library
books. – The death of Librarian Burt of Williams
College. — The periodical poetry of the year. - The
tercentenary celebration of an English classic,
Genius and madness. The profits of pastime.- A
mountain of books. – The first aviator. - A twice-
told tale of the steamboat. — The end of the Chaucer
Society.
COMMUNICATION
513
President Polk's Diary. James Schouler.
A PUBLICIST OF TWO NATIONS. John Bascom 514
VENICE IN HER DECADENCE. H. C. Chatfield-
Taylor .
515
CHINA'S “OLD BUDDHA.” Payson J. Treat 518
NATURE'S WALKING DELEGATES. May Estelle
Cook
520
Burroughs's In the Catskills. -Packard's Wood
Wanderings.-Packard's Florida Trails.-Schmuck-
er's Under the Open Sky.- Le Gallienne's October
Vagabonds.
VARIETY IN CURRENT DRAMA. Richard Burton 522
Maeterlinck's Mary Magdelene. — Sudermann's
Morituri.-Sheldon's The Nigger.—Masefield's The
Tragedy of Nan, and Other Plays. — Andreyev's
Anathema. - Galsworthy's Justice.
HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS - II.
524
Miss Rose's Cathedrals and Cloisters of the Isle de
France. - Furness's The Island of Stone Money.-
Mrs. Elliott's Sicily in Shadow and in Sun.- Cook's
The Mediterranean and its Borderlands.- Hutton's
Siena and Southern Tuscany.-Neihardt's The River
and I. - McCutcheon's In Africa. - Miss Wright's
Cuba. – Miss De Milt's Ways and Days out of Lon-
don. - Mrs. Wood's An Oberland Châlet. - Miss
Caico's Sicilian Ways and Days. — Townsend's A
Labrador Spring.-Miss Wood's A Trip to the Land
of the Midnight Sun. - Chamberlain's George Rom-
ney.- Finberg's Turner's Sketches and Drawings.-
Thomas's French Portrait Engraving of the XVIIth
and XVIIIth Centuries. — Broadley's Napoleon in
Caricature.- Miss McClellan's Historic Dress in
America, 1800-1870. - Caffin's The Story of Spanish
Painting. – Lady Russell's The Rose Goddess. —
Trowbridge's Cagliostro. – Gribble's The Love
Affairs of Lord Byron. – Miss Hay's The Winter
Queen.- Lady Nevill's Under Five Reigns.-Hamel's
The Dauphines of France. - Miss Jerrold's The
Beaux and the Dandies. - Miss Mitford's Our Vil-
lage, illustrated by Alfred Rawlings.-Shakespeare's
Hamlet, illustrated by W. G. Simonds.-Erckmann-
Chatrain's The History of a Conscript of 1813, holi-
day edition. — Wagner's The Rhinegold and the
THE AMERICAN ACADEMY.
It was a year ago that the American Acad-
emy of Arts and Letters made its formal
appearance before the public. The place was
Washington, and, besides the regular sessions
of the organization, there was a reception by
the President of the United States, which in a
way symbolized the newly-assumed public char-
acter of the organization. Application was made
to Congress for a national charter, and the
bill for that purpose is still pending. It passed
the Senate, but did not obtain from the House
the “ unanimous consent" necessary
for prompt
action. Some members objected because their
own pet measures could not gain this concession,
and one or two others because they could not
discover in the membership of the Academy any
representatives of, say, Arkansas or Oklahoma.
We trust that this was only a temporary post-
ponement of action upon a subject that cannot
possibly be affected by any political interest,
and is of some concern to the higher life of the
nation.
Last week, the second public meeting of the
Academy was held, this time in New York, and
in connection with the larger National Institute
of Arts and Letters, from whose membership
academicians must be elected. The sessions
were dignified and impressive, fully justifying,
if that were necessary, the existence of the two
organizations which jointly represent the best
that America can offer in literature and scholar-
ship, in music and the arts of design. Even
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and yet
the greatest number of poems." These six encour finement? Still another public institution (a peni-
agers of contemporary poets are “ The Atlantic,” tentiary this time) of the same State shelters a
“ The Century,” “Scribner's,” “Harper's,” “ MC writer of verse that has met with acceptance in
Clure's,” and “ Lippincott's,” which in the year now high quarters in the magazine world; and the
closing have published, respectively, 34 poems (12 alleged reason for his seclusion too may be defined
of distinction), 69 (19 of distinction), 42 (13 of as a sort of insanity, if one takes the view that all
distinction), 62 (16 of distinction), 36 (9 of dis sin is but unsoundness, or insanitas, of the moral
tinction), and 48 (8 of distinction). It is note nature. But, after all is said, there remains a large
worthy, but not surprising, that the “ Atlantic" has proportion of the mentally or morally mad who
the highest proportion of distinguished poems, ac possess neither poetic nor any other kind of genius;
cording to Mr. Braithwaite's rating. He chooses and also there are many poets and poetasters who
six for reprinting at the end of his article, and of have never incurred the faintest suspicion of any
these three are from the “ Atlantic,” two from the sort of phrensy, either divine or diabolical.
Century,” and one from “Scribner's,” the names
of the six poets thus crowned being Grace Fallow THE PROFITS OF PASTIME are not always con-
Norton, George Edward Woodberry, Louise Imogen fined to those returns of enjoyment and reinvigora-
Guiney, Ellen Angus French, Cale Young Rice, and tion that make pastime so emphatically worth while.
Timothy Cole.
Sometimes a person's play is more remunerative,
THE TERCENTENARY CELEBRATION OF AN ENG-
pecuniarily, than his serious labor. Lewis Carroll
(or Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, as he was known to
LISH CLASSIC known by name at least to every one,
and by far the “best seller” in the book-trade of
his friends and acquaintances) varied the monotony
to-day, is to be held next April. It ought to be
of preaching sermons and writing textbooks on
higher mathematics by giving the rein to his playful-
superfluous to give the name of this book, one or
ness of humor in those immortal adventures of Alice
more copies of which are to be found in nearly
every English-speaking household in the land, and
that so delighted the circle of little girls who formed
the phraseology of which has made a permanent
his audience, and that have since been the joy of
place for itself in our spoken and written language;
other children of all ages up to ninety or over. One
it
is glad to learn, from the life of Lewis Carroll now
not instantly occur to every one that
may
in the year 1611, on a day now no longer accurately
added to the season's stock of good books, that these
determinable, there was published in England that
merry whimsicalities of his leisure hours yielded
him such returns that he could devote himself to
masterpiece of clear, forcible, idiomatic, and pic-
turesque English, the King James version of the
the sublimities of higher mathematics without feel-
Bible. It is proposed by the American Bible So-
ing that he was frittering away time that should
ciety to devote the first Sunday after Easter to a
have been devoted to bread-winning pursuits.
general commemoration of this publishing event.
A MOUNTAIN OF BOOKS, or something approach-
Among the topics suggested for addresses and lec-
ing it, confronts the sight-seer in Berlin who visits
tures are these: “The story of the growth of the
the new Royal Library. The rambling old palace
English Bible from the first translations to the
that formerly held this precious collection of books
King James version,” " “ Later revisions and trans-
lations,” “The influence of the Bible on English
has been superseded by the nearest approach to a
literature,” “The influence of the Bible on customs,
sky-scraper known to the library world. The new
building towers aloft to the height of thirteen stories,
laws, government, and social life,” and “The English
and its bookstack contains more than fifty miles of
Bible and civil liberty.”
shelving, or capacity therefor, its 1,300,000 books
GENIUS AND MADNESS have ever been regarded
filling already nearly thirty-two miles of this shelv-
as closely akin. The gift of poetry is especially
ing. In fifty years, or in less time if the world's
likely to be confused with unsoundness of mind by
production of books continues at its present rate of
the severely practical. “ Aut insanit homo, aut
annual increase, this many-storied stack will be filled.
versus facit,” Horace makes his slave Davus say
But there is always plenty of room at the top, and,
of him. Sophocles in his old age was charged with
within the limits imposed by building laws and laws
insanity by his unfilial son Iophon, and was sum-
not made by man, bookstacks can always grow in
moned by him before the Phratores, to whom he
an upward direction. However, before another half-
read, in proof of his mental soundness, a splendid century has passed perhaps our librarians will in-
passage from his lately-written but not yet produced
vent some satisfactory sifting process to relieve the
“Edipus at Colonus," and so made his poetry clear pressure on their shelves, or possibly a second Omar
him of that suspicion of imbecility which, had he
will solve the problem by burning our enormous
been a stock-broker or a hardware-dealer instead of
collections of books and giving us a chance to begin
a poet, would probably never have rested upon him.
over again.
And now, si parva licet componere magnis, a poet THE FIRST AVIATOR was undoubtedly Dædalus,
of no mean ability is said to have been recently with his son Icarus as a close second. The success-
discovered in a Minnesota asylum for the insane. ful flight of Dædalus from Crete to Italy, and his
Was it her addiction to poetry that caused her con unfortunate son's altitude record, do not here con-


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cern us. What does concern all interested in curio of whom I may claim to be the earliest, as well as the
sities of literature is the finding of an early treatise
first to call public attention to the work and make state-
on aërial navigation from the pen of no less a cele-
ment of its contents. In 1894 I made a diligent study
brity than Jean Jacques Rousseau. “Men walk on
of all the Polk papers in that collection, and published
the earth,” says Rousseau, “they sail on the water,
two articles in the “Atlantic Monthly” in 1895
and swim in it. Is not the air an element, like the
“ President Polk's Diary” (August), and “President
Polk's Administration” (September). Both of these
others. What business have the birds to shut us
articles were reprinted in my volume of “Historical
out of their domain while we are made welcome in
Briefs,” published in 1896.
that of the fishes?” To Rousseau's restless and That President Polk's papers were well preserved by
inquiring mind the problem of man-flight resolved his widow in Tennessee and included his own “Diary
itself into the two subsidiary problems of finding a of his administration, I learned from Mr. Bancroft
body lighter than air and so capable of rising, and,
himself in 1887; and the circumstances under which he,
secondly, of discovering some means to make it stop
that same year, procured the copies from Mrs. Polk for
rising and hardest of all) to compel it to desc
his own use in Washington, are detailed in the former
6. Le Nouveau Dédale" for thus the little book was
of these articles. While preparing the narrative of
President Polk's Administration for
my History of
happily named — is said to have first found its way the United States” (Vols. 4 and 5) I tried in vain to
into print in the year 1801; but it was ahead of its
get access to to these copies; and as soon as the Ban-
day, and so lapsed into speedy oblivion, to be revived croft manuscripts were purchased and made available-
a century later.
the venerable author having died in 1891 – I hastened
A TWICE-TOLD TALE OF THE STEAMBOAT that is
to examine them, by way of revising my own volume,
curious enough to merit a passing note is to be
published shortly before. The two “Atlantic Monthly
read in the two like-named and simultaneously pub- narrative; and when in 1904 new plates were made for
articles were intended as a sequel commentary to my
lished books of the season, “ Steamships and their
my History I revised the text so as to incorporate the
Story” by Mr. E. Keble Chatterton, and “Steam-
new material.
Ships and their Story" by Mr. R. A. Fletcher, - Mrs. Polk survived George Bancroft several years;
both large octavos, illustrated with almost equal and as the ex-President's papers did not come into the
profusion and partly in color, and pursuing much market until long after the Bancroft Collection had
the same plan of tracing the development of the been purchased by the Lenox Library, these copies of
latest turbine monster of the deep from the earliest
the Polk papers were readily accessible to scholars long
beginnings of steamboat construction. This is
before the originals. I presume that the Lenox Library
another instance of the mysterious impulse that so
copy of “ Polk's Diary” is full and accurate in all
respects.
JAMES SCHOULER.
often prompts two persons (or it may be three or
Boston, Mass., Dec. 3, 1910.
more) to say or write the same thing at the same
time.
[I am extremely sorry that in writing the review
THE END OF THE CHAUCER SOCIETY is announced
of “ Polk's Diary,” I was in ignorance of the fact
in a public letter from Professor Skeat. It is a delib.
that Mr. Schouler had used it and printed material
erate and voluntary termination of its activities that
based upon it, previous to its publication. In at-
is now in prospect. Established in 1868, the society's tempting to check the statements in the preface
original intention was to continue in existence for
and introduction, to the effect that the Diary had
about twenty or thirty years, whereas it has now
“occasionally been used” by historians, I naturally
turned first of all to Mr. Schouler's well-known
been beneficently active for forty-two years, doing work. Unfortunately, that happened to be the first
excellent work in the elucidation and publication of
edition of the “
Chaucer texts. It has earned a rest from its labors.
History of the United States,” in
preparing which the Diary was not accessible to the
author. I failed to examine either the later edition
or the “Historical Briefs.” These omissions I
COMMUNICATION.
greatly regret. That Mr. Schouler has made use
PRESIDENT POLK'S DIARY.
of the Polk MSS. is not surprising ; it is only sur-
(To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
prising that the reviewer should not know of such
In your issue of November 16 appears a long review
use by a scholar of reputation. This, however, is
of “ President Polk's Diary," lately published in your
While the Lenox Library copy of the
city from the original manuscript now owned by the Diary undoubtedly offered opportunities to those
Chicago Historical Society. The reviewer observes of who could get to it, the appearance of the Diary in
the Bancroft copy of that Diary, in the Lenox Library print is surely a genuine " incentive to research.”
at New York, that the only writers who have yet drawn Neither Mr. Reeves nor Mr. Garrison, whom I men-
upon it are two recent ones specified by him, and he
tioned, used the Lenox Library copy exclusively;
calls repeated attention to the rich opportunity for new
historical research afforded by the present publication.
the former had resource both to the Chicago MSS.
I should like to point out that the Lenox Library
and to the copy; and the latter had the Chicago
copy of “ Polk's Diary," clearly typewritten, and hand-
MSS. copied expressly for his own use. What I
somely bound, and purchased long ago with the MSS. have meant to say is that the Diary in print is now
Collection left by George Bancroft, has been known and widely available, and that no writer has exhausted
appreciated for many years by historical investigators, its content or bearing.– THE REVIEWER.)
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the opinions and methods he encountered were
The New Books.
often distasteful to him. He was conversant
with men of literary eminence, and gives us an
A PUBLICIST OF TWO NATIONS.* occasional criticism. What he says of Emerson
The late Goldwin Smith’s book of “ Reminis is
is so concurrent with my own feeling that I
cences
expresses the conclusions of one who give it in full:
was deeply occupied with the general welfare ; “I cannot honestly say that I ever got much from his
who came into large and varied contact with the writings. I can find no system; I find only aphorisms;
leading persons and events of his time, and
an avalanche, as it were, of unconnected pebbles of
thought, some of them transparent; some translucent,
brought to their consideration an independent,
some to me opaque. Carlyle introduced Emerson to
penetrative, and judicial mind. The author the British public as one who brought new fire from
says of himself that he was not ambitious, and
the empyrean.
But the two men in genius were
the events of his life seem to confirm this opin-
leagues apart, and Carlyle at last found the new fire
ion. He was more than once solicited to run
a bore."
for office; yet, with liberal means and delicate
Goldwin Smith was thoroughly democratic
health, he never allowed himself to come under
in his tendencies, and judged men and things
the exactions of hard labor. In boyhood he
In boyhood he chiefly in their bearing on the general wel-
was a scholar at Eton, where he came in contact
fare. It was political events more than other
with boys who were to play a prominent part in
events that occupied his mind. He regarded
life. Later he was a student at Oxford, where
as the deepest issue in our Civil War the
he became a tutor and then a professor — the
cardinal difference between slavery and free-
last and the most permanent position that he
dom. He did not allow this issue to be pushed
held in England. The period of the profes- aside or covered up by any secondary issues
sorship is given as 1858-1866, and was later which might have arisen in connection with
than his residence in London. He was a member it. While he seems to us to do full justice
of several public commissions fitted to add to
to Lincoln, he does not fall into the indiscrim-
his influence. He was interested in current
inate laudation that has become the fashion.
events in Ireland, in our Civil War, and in the As one who, in a living experience, was familiar
insurrection in Jamaica. In all these move-
not only with the war but with the events that
ments and events the spirit of philanthropy preceded it and prepared the way for it, I have
prevailed with him.
felt that Lincoln's chief merit lay in his un-
Prior to his Oxford professorship, he began
failing honesty. He entertained all forms of
the study of law in London, but found its human welfare according to the measures of
demands too severe for his health. He spent
his own character, and never allowed himself to
several years in London, and for three years
forget them or to be turned from them by im-
was on the staff of “ The Saturday Review.”
mediate interests. He did not, however, enter
In 1868 he made a second journey to America, into the depths of the ethical struggle involved
and became for two years professor in Cornell
in the war. He entertained the apologetic and
University. He removed thence to Toronto,
partial reasons which occupied public attention
where he remained some forty years, until his
and concealed in part the true force of events.
recent death.
The working classes in England had a more
These diverse experiences were interspersed thoroughly correct view of the war than most
with travels, – visits to Europe and to Amer-
Americans. The question was not whether we
ica. While not under the pressure of cur-
should allow another nation to spring up on the
rent events, he was profoundly interested in
soil of the United States, but whether a slave-
them, and bore by personal intercourse and by
holding nation should establish itself at our
writing a part in them. His interest was con-
side with exacting and hostile claims. A war
fined to no one class or country, and was never
was inevitable, — should we meet it in its ear-
locked up in a particular philanthropy. As a
liest and weakest form, or allow the forces of
student in Oxford he was brought in contact
evil full opportunity of accumulation ? Lincoln
with the leaders in the Tractarian Movement.
felt the crisis, but rather as a national crisis
His religious feelings are not prominent in the
than one in the history of the world. His
“ Reminiscences,” and yet we are led to feel that
methods had sufficient patience and insight to
succeed, but hardly enough to turn victory into
* REMINISCENCES. By Goldwin Smith, D.C.L. Edited
by Arnold Haultain, M.A. Illustrated. New York: The
moral enthusiasm. The things most striking
Macmillan Co.
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it was
perfectly simple and straightforward way in grew out of a single interest of trade. It was
which he contemplated the facts.
possible to attack protection simply as an ob-
We have stood as a nation for democratic stacle to one's own occupation. Goldwin Smith
principles,—the universal recognition of human was an advocate of trade unions as a necessary
rights; but it has been largely because our defense of the workman against the drift of
interests have been identified with these princi- social causes and the encroachments of capital.
ples rather than because we have accepted them No class more needs a careful consideration of
as of universal application. When prosperity in its own welfare and the assertion of its rights
vited a departure from fundamental opinions, we as a leading constituent in society.
have readily strayed into the forbidden paths Goldwin Smith belonged to the class of con-
of tyranny
We have been fortunate in our stant, consistent, and reasonable critics, a
European admirers; they have been truer class to which much of our progress will always
than we have been to our best convictions. be due. No temper requires more balance, more
Carl Schurz and Goldwin Smith felt at once self-restraint, than the reformatory temper. It
the derelictions into which we were falling is one thing to figure a perfect social state,
Goldwin Smith could see but little in the pres- often in oversight of many new evils ready to
ent Republican Party of the promise contained be set in motion, — and quite another thing to
in its early history. While he regarded our see and urge the correction that lies next in
present pension system as a negation of merit order. Goldwin Smith preserved his hold on
and a complete subserviency of politicians to active influential men while striving to enlarge
an unscrupulous vote, the only good he saw in and redirect their efforts.
John BASCOM.
an enormous expense frightening us
from war.
His repugnance to war rested on a
sense of the immense evil it brings to society.
Among those in English politics on whose
VENICE IN HER DECADENCE.*
character and services the writer dwells were
Disraeli, Gladstone, and Cardwell. The latter Perfection being inhuman, every book must
was for a time Irish Secretary, and thus in- perforce have some fault; yet just what is the
volved in that tangle of evils, impossible of fault of M. Philippe Monnier's “ Venice in the
correction, which has so long perplexed both Eighteenth Century" it is difficult to say —
peoples. To have brought any firm and suffi unless it be an embarrassment of charm.
cient policy to Ireland is the highest of records. Reading it now in the English translation after
Acknowledging the wonderful power and facil-having read it in the original French a year or
ity of execution which belonged to Gladstone, more ago, one's belief that it is an enchanting,
Goldwin Smith saw also clearly the restricted as well as accurate, word-picture of a delightful,
action of his mind in some directions, and the albeit decadent, age is thoroughly confirmed.
rapidity with which he was liable to fall into | Yet the reader must know Venice to enjoy to
extreme measures.
the full the charm of this book, so permeated
Goldwin Smith's dislike of Disraeli was so is it with the spirit of the city of the lagoons.
strong as somewhat to overstrain his candor. If you know Venice, M. Monnier will transport
The success of Disraeli in English politics is you there; seat
you
in a frail gondola ; guide
proof both of his own power and the perversion you through an enchanting maze of dark
of thought still possible in England. The cur-
canaletti to the Lunetta; and there debark
rent of censure directed against Disraeli, though you so deftly that, when you follow him into the
well deserved, has doubtless carried away at glorious piazza beyond, forgetful of the grime
times the banks of the stream, and tumbled and soot of the material place in which you
some shapely trees into the river.
dwell, you will actually believe yourself to be
Goldwin Smith belonged to the Manchester in Venice at carnival a time when “ there is
school, the school of free trade so long and so no more day nor night, no more appointed hour
beneficently led by Cobden and Bright. Per- for sleep or dinner, no more restraint, stability,
baps po man in English politics preserved so or rule”; a time when “ folly shakes her bells,
uniformly a broad and generous view in his fiddles are tuned, and all feet are agog to dance.'
speeches as did Bright. Sound sentiment in Until the last page is turned, you will not
trade seemed to temper all his thinking and im realize that you have been reading a treatise as
part to him a universal philanthropy. Goldwin
* VENICE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. From the
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a very
scholarly as it is delightful; for, although M. “Out of a veil of tenderest blue, soft as mist, cradled
Monnier colors with the charm of a Watteau,
in a translucent vapour, rises the city of the sea like a
dream of rose and marble. Air and water seem to
his outlines are as true as the most rigid
merge themselves with the vision of her past, and to
naturalist could demand. Indeed, he is what
weave for her a robe of fantasy, where opal and mother-
might be termed an artistic scholar, if that be of-pearl, coral, old ivory, and old silver are wedded in
not a paradox - or, to put it more clearly, an a riot of pink, palest violet, and lucent grey. Over
artist who feels and a scholar who knows.
everything there is a wonderful brightness. It bathes
the domes, the cupolas, the towers of the city in an
Although he is erudite as well as artistic, exquisite luminosity, displaying their spires and pinnac-
M. Monnier has no sociological theories to les in a trellised daintiness more like lace than stone."
propound, no historical lessons to preach. He The words “exquisite luminosity” have a
realizes that the age he is portraying is a petty euphuistic sound, but they are the translator's
age, yet he knows that even in her decadence own, not a suggestion of them appearing in M.
Venice remained great; for, as he wisely puts Monnier's original.
Monnier's original. Indeed it is to be hoped
it, “her greatness had been built upon the that the distinguished author of this book does
rock of her past, and this past was potent still." not understand English, else bad
quarter
It is no mere word-artist who, studying that of an hour will be his when he reads his charm-
eighteenth century, so petty in Italy, so perti- ing work in our guttural tongue. Take, for
nent in France, has the historical acumen to see instance, the very passage we have just quoted.
that in that age“ Venice stands out conspicuously in the original French it reads in this exquisite
from the rest of Italy, not only because of her way :
unique independence, but because she is the « Sur une soie d'azur tendre, dans une gaze
de
vapeur
city where life was most vivid, most intense,” molle, au sein d'une poussière lumineuse, surgit la cité
and that never in the whole of her history had
anadyomène comme une fantaisie de marbre rose. L'eau,
she been freer of the influence of Rome than at
le nuage et le passé s'accordent à lui tisser un vêtement
de nuance, où la nacre et l'opale, le corail et la perle,
this moment of supreme civilization; never had le vieil ivoire et le vieil argent s'appellent, se répondent,
she seemed more worthy of her cleverness and se marient, se pâment, s'épanchent en roses veinés, en
of her beautiful dialect, never more signally,
violets pâles, en gris transparents et mobiles. Une
more triumphantly Venetian.”. Furthermore, coupoles, les campaniles, qui y baignent leurs bulbes,
clarté charmante enveloppe et pénètre les dômes, les
it takes a man of greater insight than the mere
qui y trempent leurs épis, qui y déploient les grâces
delightful chronicler of follies that M. Monnier
ajourées d'une pierre en dentelle."
appears to be in many instances, to analyze the The inapt translator has apparently been utterly
very folly he is chronicling and make it clear baffled by M. Monnier's delightful imagery,
to the reader that:
not a vestige remaining in his garbled version
“ Never in the history of the world had there been a of the thought that beautiful Venice rises out
time when the element of tragedy was so conspicuously of the misty sea like Aphrodite Anadyomene
absent from the scheme of things. Never had human
at her birth. Yet M. Monnier's imagery is not
life been so void of all heroism. And never had there
been such joyous, childish laughter in the world, as at
really so baffling as it seems, and needs but to
this moment of termination to a period that reeked of be translated to convey the very impressions he
passion and blood.”
intended to convey, the following being but a
Though history tempers M. Monnier's
pages,
literal rendering of the passage in question:
his book is no history, but rather a series of « On a silk of tender blue, in a gauze of soft mist, on
dissolving views in which a people and an age
the breast of radiant spray, the Anadyomene city rises
are pictured with an artist's touch. Yet with
like a caprice of roseate marble. The water, the
clouds, and the past conspire in weaving for her a
all the bold dashes of color that illuminate these
various garment wherein nacre and opal, coral and
pages, the man who knows his Venice will feel pearl, old ivory and old silver call and respond one to
that the color is characteristically true; while another, wed, faint, and are disclosed in veined roses,
he who bas studied the particular age whereof
pale violets, and transparent, changeable greys. An
enchanting light envelopes and penetrates the domes, the
M. Monnier writes will recognize that here that
cupolas, and the church towers, which bathe their bulbs
age is painted more charmingly, truthfully, and therein, steep their crests, and unfold the fretted
concisely than in any other book about it. charms of a stone in the form of lace."
Painted is the very word : no other will describe Here the original text has been followed far
what the author has done ; even a bungling too conscientiously, it being apparent that
translator cannot wholly destroy the charm of 6 tissue and " veil” are nicer words than
such a colorful picture of Venice on a summer's “ silk” and “gauze,” and that a translator
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as their
the Latin roots and construction of the original. Understanding Goldoni as thoroughly as he
Only in the word “fretted” has any great lib- understands his petty age, M. Monnier thus
erty been taken, the heraldic term “ajouré," portrays both the charm and the limitations of
although Englished, being too un-English to this commanding figure of eighteenth century
serve in even so literal a translation as is here | Venice:
attempted. The passage has been rendered thus
“ No one ever invented more situations, imagined
faithfully in order to demonstrate the gross more events, wove more intrigues, arranged more in-
liberties the anonymous translator of this book cidents, seized more opportunities for fun, marshalled
has taken with M. Monnier's deft imagery; for,
more characters, produced more persons, imparted more
gaiety, and scattered or poured out a greater profusion
although translucent vapour,” “lucent
of his riches with more recklessness of heart. The
and “ exquisite luminosity” stand forth in vul- laughter, which arose from this jumble, was frank and
gar crudity, it is chiefly when imagery appears fresh, pure and unrestrained, thoughtless and untinged
to confound him that he or, more likely, she
by bitterness. It rose in the air like the gay outburst
demonstrates that just so long as Anglo-
of a joyful heart.
6 With the directness of a natural force and the
Saxon publishers, to pare shillings or dollars,
elemental simplicity of a creature from a golden age,
confide the translating of foreign masterpieces he calmed and simplified existence. Always eager and
to literary hacks instead of to literary artists, obliging, charitable and good-humoured, he was as un-
will foreign masters be butchered mercilessly.
defiled as water from a spring, as transparent as ą
To return to M. Monnier's book and the
crystal. Conscious of his limitations, he was content
with the talents which he had, and employed them as
petty age it pictures, it may be said that the
he could. In spite of scorn and derision and mis-
men of Venice were quite as little age understanding, he triumphed over all obstacles with
it being a truism that men make an age. Even his smile, avenged all offences by forgiving them, and
Metastasio, great though his aspirations un-
continued to vouchsafe to all, bad and sad and wicked
doubtedly were, is great only in comparison
alike, a salutary example of good-humor. Gran
Goldoni’ the crowd shouted with enthusiasm on Car-
with the dwarfs who surround him. Though nival evenings dead and gone. For all these reasons
an artist of the grand style, Tiepolo, to quote he was great.”
M. Monnier (who seems ever to be aptly quot- Here Goldoni is not patriotically exalted, as
able) “ loved to delight his fancy with wonder-
many Italians have exalted him, nor chauvinis-
ful lights and strange architecture, beautiful tically belittled, as many Frenchmen have be-
draperies, beautiful forms, animals, and im- littled him, but justly given his true place as a
plements."
naturalist, who “calmed and simplified exist-
Indeed, the only man of that period who ence" and whose humor was the “gay outburst
refused to delight his fancy with lights and of a joyful heart.”
of a joyful heart.” Nor is he deified as the
draperies and beautiful forms was Goldoni.
“Molière of Italy,” be it remarked, - a mis-
Being a lover of his kind, with a keen obser-
nomer beneath the crushing weight of which
vance, this master of naturalistic comedy painted Goldoni has all but perished. On the contrary,
bits of life exactly as he saw them ; yet too short he is Italy's Gran Goldoni - the most “ salu-
of sight to penetrate the broad atmosphere en-
tary example of good humor" in the entire
veloping the life he painted, he failed to see the realm of the drama.
relation of that life to the past or the future or
This judicial quality makes M. Monnier's
even the times in which he lived; therefore, book valuable; its charm has already been set
though a great naturalist, he was not that forth, therefore little need be added except to
higher thing, a great realist, such as Molière
say that it tells of gaiety and love in Venice as
proved himself to be in Le Misanthrope, Tar-well as of that Sybaritic city's literature, music,
tuffe, and Le Festin de Pierre. As a true
and drama in the century of her decay; tells,
picture of a bit of humorous life, Le Baruffe too, of how her people lived and of how her
Chiozzotte is a masterpiece ; yet, though we may freedom perished when the span
of its pleasure-
laugh at it till tears fill our eyes, while exclaim- loving life had been run. It is a book for
ing how true it is, it will never make us ponder. Platonists, however, not for matter-of-fact
Though the greatest man of his age in Italy, Aristotelians; and, furthermore, it is a book
Goldoni must therefore be given a place on the
for those who love Italy and particularly Venice.
second rung of the ladder, his limitations being By these it should be read; but in the original
due to the fact that, though he saw clearly and
French if possible, much of its charm being
sanely everything about him, he never pondered lost in the translation.
upon the origin of the things he saw, upon their
relation to each other, or upon their outcome.
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CHINA'S “OLD BUDDHA."*
Regent. This period saw the collapse of the
Taiping Rebellion, to which result the Empress
“ Though only a woman, Her Majesty Tzu Dowager contributed through her whole-hearted
Hsi has all the courage of
a man,
and more than
support of the great Viceroy, Tseng Kuo-fan.
the ordinary man's intelligence.” Thus wrote With the coming to age of her son, the
His Excellency Ching Shan, while the Boxers Emperor T’ung-Chih, the joint Regency ex-
raged through the imperial capital of China ; pired, and the supreme authority was nominally
and with this statement will everyone agree vested in the weak and dissipated youth. But
who reads the intensely interesting pages of the Dowager had tasted the sweets of power,
“China under the Empress Dowager." Only and she could brook no interference. It was to
two years dead, it is impossible to pass a final her interest that in the event of her son's early
verdict upon her wonderful career ; but one death no heir remain to cause the widowed con-
thing seems certain beyond peradventure of sort to become the Empress Dowager. So it
doubt, the "Old Buddha” will stand out as
has been widely believed that Tzu Hsi encour-
one of the great women of all time, and as the aged the youthful Emperor in his dissipations,
greatest of Chinese queens.
and did nothing to protect him from their evil
The story of her life seems like a page out effects. At any rate, in January, 1875, the
of some mediæval romance rather than one writ Emperor succumbed to small-pox, and “as-
in the full light of the nineteenth century. And cended the Dragon to become a guest on high."
what a life it was ! Born of good parentage, in Then came the question of the succession. The
1835, selected as an Imperial concubine when
young Empress was enceinte, and should a son
not yet seventeen, she soon became the favorite
be born he would become Emperor, which was
of her dissolute master, and later, as mother of not to the taste of Tzu Hsi. Supported by
his heir, her position was unassailable. These faithful officials and troops, she called a council
were stirring times within the Empire. In the of the Clansmen and high officials, and in spite
southern provinces the Taipings were apparently of all opposition secured the succession of her
in full control, with Nanking as their capital; sister's son, a grandson of the Emperor Tao-
and to this great rebellion, unequalled in modern Kuang. In this way Tzu Hsi retained her
history, was added a war with England and authority, for the former co-Regents were
France which only ended with the capture of continued, and the widowed Empress completely
Peking and the flight of the Imperial house- ignored. A few months later her death was
hold to Jehol, beyond the Great Wall. For the recorded, - by suicide it was reported officially,
first time Tzu Hsi knew the sorrows of hurried
but there were many who read a more sinister
flight before the "outer barbarians," who on meaning into the pathetic story.
this occasion destroyed the Summer Palace. The enforced selection of Kuang-Hsu as
It was at Jehol that the Empress faced the Emperor caused a storm of protests from both
first great conspiracy against her. The emperor, Chinese and Manchus, for it meant a violation
Hsien-Feng, had been failing rapidly. His of the dynastic law and of the fundamental
death would necessitate a regency, and three of principle of ancestor worship. The heir should
the Manchu nobles laid their plans to secure have been of a younger generation in order
this power for themselves. Their success seemed
that he might perform the proper rites before
assured, but they had reckoned without Tzu
his adopted parent's shrine. In this case the
Hsi; their authority was short-lived, for on late Emperor was left without an heir, while the
the return to Peking she asserted her rights,
new Emperor was proclaimed as the adopted
and the conspirators were condemned to suicide son of his uncle, the Emperor Hsien-Feng, and
or a felon's death.
it was promised that as soon as a son was born
Then began the first Regency (1861-1873), he would act as the adopted son of the late
in which she formally shared authority with Emperor. But this explanation was not satis-
Tzu An, the late Empress Consort; but as a factory to many of the loyal supporters of the
matter of fact the latter generally deferred to throne.
her more vigorous colleague, and rarely did The second Regency was marked by increas-
Tzu Hsi have to force her will
upon
her CO ing bitterness between the co-Regents, to such
* CHINA UNDER THE EMPRESS DOWAGER. The History an extent that the sudden death of the Empress
of the Life and Times of Tzu Hsi, compiled from State Tzu An, in 1881, occasioned many misgivings.
Papers and the Private Diary of the Comptroller of her
Household. By J. 0. P. Bland and E. Backhouse. Illus-
“ Tzu An was dead. The playmate of her
trated. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co.
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more.
solemn mysteries of the Forbidden City, the my
affection for you.' Jung Lu, apparently unaffected
woman who later, because of her failure to pro-
by the message, merely expressed surprise that the Old
vide an heir to the Throne, had effaced herself things, and added that he would go at once to the capital
Buddha could have been kept in ignorance of all these
in favour of the Empress Mother, her poor and see the Empress Dowager that same evening. Yuan
spirited rival of many years - Tzu An would handed him the Emperor's decree, and Jung Lu, travel-
trouble her no
Henceforth, without ling by special train, reached Peking soon after 5 p.m.”
usurpation of authority, Tzu Hsi was free to From that moment events moved with startling
direct the ship of State alone, sole Regent of rapidity. The Empress Dowager grasped the
the Empire."
situation with the courage and masculine
In February, 1889, the “Old Buddha,” as intelligence that enabled her to overcome all
she was now familiarly called, handed over obstacles,” and a secret conference of the Con-
her powers to the Emperor, and for almost ten servative leaders was arranged.
In less than
years she enjoyed a respite from her arduous two hours the whole of the Grand Council,
labors; but even among the pleasures of the several of the Manchu princes and nobles, and
restored Summer Palace she did not lose track many of the high officials were gathered together,
of the developments in Peking. In this period and “on their knees, the assembled officials
came the disastrous war with Japan, for which besought her to resume the reins of government
the Empress Dowager was not a little blamed, and to save their ancient Empire from the evils of
especially because of the diversion of funds a barbarian civilization.” Early the next morn-
designed for the navy to the rebuilding of the ing the Emperor was seized, and a decree issued
Summer Palace, and for the protection afforded in his name which stated that he had begged
Li Hung Chang, who by the southern Chinese the Empress Dowager “to condescend once
especially was looked upon as an arch-traitor. more to administer the Government” and that
With the death of Prince Kung, the respected
she had graciously consented. Then came the
head of the Grand Council, the Emperor fell punishment of the reformers, although K'ang
under the influence of the Cantonese reformer,
Yu-wei escaped in a British war-ship to Hong
Kang Yu-wei. Then began the “ Hundred Kong, and later many of the reform decrees
Days of Reform.” Decrees were issued in rapid
were reversed. The Emperor still lived, and
succession reforming the system of education
there were many
who believed that his “sudden
and examination; the army and navy were to
death” was to be expected and, when the blow
be reorganized, and reforms in other depart-
did not fall, believed that only fear of the south-
ments of government were announced. But ern Chinese and of foreign opinion caused the
all the time the Emperor and the reformers Empress to spare her traitorous nephew.
realized that their most dangerous obstacle was Following closely upon the revolution of 1898
the “ Old Buddha.” If she approved, all would
came the Boxer Rising of 1900. The material
go well; if she opposed, the result would be for this period is of supreme interest, for it is
disaster. This led to the cleverly-planned
the diary of His Excellency Ching Shan, a
coup d'etat which should have resulted in the Manchu kinsman of the Empress Dowager's
arrest and confinement of the Empress Dow- family who had held many high offices until
ager and the execution of her loyal supporters.
his retirement in 1894. With the entry of the
Yuan Shi-k'ai was selected as the leading actor
allied forces, three of the women of his house-
in this palace revolution. He was to seize hold committed suicide, and he was murdered
Jung Lu, Viceroy of Chihli and Commander- by his own son. The diary was found in his
in-Chief of the foreign-drilled army, and also
study, and saved from destruction at the hands
the most loyal servant of the Empress Dowager. of a party of Sikhs.
of a party of Sikhs. It is a most remarkable
Then, after having him beheaded, he was to
human document. The Boxer madness is de-
lead the disciplined troops to Peking and there
scribed from the inside. The hopes of the
arrest the Empress. The plan was excellent,
Empress that at last an instrument had been
but the agent was human.
provided for the complete destruction of the
“ Yuan reached Tientsin before noon, and proceeded
hated barbarians, her rage at the fraudulent
at once to Jung Lu's Yamen. He asked Jung Lu
despatch from the Ministers demanding her
whether he regarded him as a faithful blood brother. abdication, the murder of von Ketteler, the Ger-
(The two men had taken the oath of brotherhood man Minister, the “unfathomable ignorance
several years before.) “Of course I do,' replied the
Viceroy. You well may, for the Emperor has sent me
of many of the Manchu nobles, the endeavors
to kill you, and instead, I now betray his scheme,
of far-sighted officials to stem the flood of un-
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see her wavering between hopes and fears, cry-
their hearts the vision of that which they expect
ing out for the destruction of all foreigners and to see realized on the earth, and calling upon
again sending fruit and melons to the beseiged the rest of the world to see with their eyes ?
legations; and we read a new explanation for And as for walking, there is no other way.
the failure of the beseigers in the dogged refusal They have all learned long since that those who
of Jung Lu to turn his cannon over to the touch even the hem of their divinity's garment
Boxers.
come not in automobiles or express trains, but
Then came the march of the allies upon in the humility and labor of their own footing.
Peking, and once again the Empress Dowager He who knows most among them tramps most,
knew the privations of a hurried flight before and the first sacrifice demanded of the neo-
the masterful barbarians. This experience phyte is a generous out-wearing of buskin and
taught a needed lesson. Out of it emerged a cothurnus.
changed woman, penitent for the evils brought This season four princes among these ideal
upon the Empire and genuinely eager for the trampers are on the road, offering their com-
reforms which she now realized were sorely panionship to all who will go with them— four
needed. From 1901 until her death in 1908 princes of varied tastes and temperaments, dif-
she moved in the front rank of the reformers, fering both in the objects of their search and in
and her edicts even went beyond those that had their manner of talking by the way. Among
caused the Emperor's retirement in 1898. The them we best know Mr. Burroughs, whose breezy
difference was this, that the Empress Dowager swinging stride or saunter — as the case may
now urged reforms, and there was no one strong demand - over fields and through woodlands
enough to oppose them.
has put much good blood into our own veins.
Such are the events portrayed in “China We are only too glad to renew our youth with
under the Empress Dowager.” Full of interest him now by being taken a second time over
they certainly are, and the treatment is in full some of the walks among the Catskills where
accord with the theme. Even the memorials Mr. Burroughs was born and where he learned
and edicts so frequently quoted contain a liter- to tramp. Good strenuous outings most of these
ary charm seldom found in western state papers,
are; and some of them, such as are described
and the extracts from the various diaries add a in “ The Snow-Walkers and “A White Day
rare personal note. The book lends itself to and a Red Fox,” furnish the seasonable inspira-
quotation,-especially the excellent final chapter, tion which we need to keep us in the open in
in which an attempt is made to analyze the spite of cold and storms. The essay on the
secret of Tzu Hsi's power over men.
To both Southern Catskills, which tells of Mr. Bur-
the general reader and the special student, this roughs's first ascent of Slide Mountain, is
par-
well-told story of a great queen and a remark- ticularly exhilarating. Others will be remem-
able woman cannot fail to be of interest and bered as among the author's best descriptions
value.
of bird life. Mr. Clifton Johnson's photographs
PAYSON J. TREAT.
are genuinely illustrative, and furnish some
good portraits of Mr. Burroughs.
Mr. Packard's “Wood Wanderings
NATURE'S WALKING DELEGATES.*
quiet strolls in less famous and less dramatic
Mr. Le Gallienne's phrase, “walking dele- surroundings; but one does not expect to take
gates of the ideal,” happily names all wooers of fairy walks in bold regions — and we already
the Great Goddess of the Out-of-Doors ; for do
know that when we walk with Mr. Packard we
they not all go from point to point carrying in may expect to meet fairies. Starting out
* IN THE CATSKILLS. Selections from the Writings of
with the belief that “woodland glades and sun-
John Burroughs. With illustrations from photographs by dappled depths" may easily be peopled with
Clifton Johnson. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.
fairies, sprites, and goblins, he sees that the
WOOD WANDERINGS. By Winthrop Packard. Illus-
trated by Charles Copeland. Boston: Small, Maynard & Co.
fairies have stitched the poke-berries across the
FLORIDA TRAILS. As Seen from Jacksonville to Key top to keep them from bursting, as is proved
West and from November to April inclusive. By Winthrop by the fact that “the marks of the needle show,
Packard. Illustrated from photographs by the author and
others. Boston: Small, Maynard & Co.
and the tiny puckering made by drawing the
UNDER THE OPEN SKY. Being a Year with Nature. By thread very tight.” He suspects the fairy
Samuel Christian Schmucker. Illustrated by Katherine
urchins of taking bites from the partridge ber-
Elizabeth Schmucker. Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott Co.
OCTOBER VAGABONDS. By Richard Le Gallienne. Illus-
ries when their mothers are not looking, and is
trated by Thomas Fogarty. New York: Mitchell Kennerley. sure that the faint glow which you see in your
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he
path when you walk the wood at night is cast his back to any living thing in the neighbor-
by the candles in the jack-o'-lanterns which hood whose movements he mistrusts”? Of the
these same urchins make from trillium fruit.
cricket he says :
“ His joy, so a scientist tells
The same delicate wit serves him in all his us, rises and falls so absolutely with the ther-
hobnobbing with the woodland, and glints back mometer, that it is possible to calculate the
at people in the world outside, making the temperature with a reasonable degree of pre-
quaintest associations. He can but feel, he
He can but feel, he cision by the pitch of the cricket's sbrilling." In
says,
that the
pure
lives of the birches “ radiate like manner we may learn from these carefully-
an influence among the swamp maples,” and written pages wherein consists the poison of the
explains :
poison ivy, how the seventeen-year locust
“ Most of the lady birches stand aloof on the upland spends his cabalistic existence, what method the
slopes; I notice not far enough away to forbid the
bee follows in fertilizing the violet, how tragic
handsome young maples from climbing out of their
mire of dissipation to nibble the dry husks of gravel-
and loveless is the old age of the grasshopper,
bank breakfast food and drink dew among them if
how Jack-in-the-Pulpit seasons his religion with
they have the courage. But not all thus withdraw in pepper, and many other secrets. Numerous
whispering groups. Down into the swamp others have
illustrations, both marginal and full-page, give
stepped, and stand among the rubicund roisterers.
a further lift to the imagination.
Social workers these without doubt, missionaries of the
birch C. T. U., who thus give their lives nobly to teach-
We feel that all of these 66 delegates of the
ing by example."
ideal ” are poets at heart; but it is nevertheless
Under further special favor of the Brother a pleasure to find among them a poet so prac-
hood of Walkers, Mr. Packard received last year tised in verse-making that he finds it “ easier to
a roving commission which sent him south for tell the strict truth in poetry rather than in
the winter- but on a good ship and not on foot, prose.” “October Vagabonds” is the enviable
- and gave his genius unlimited opportunity to
title of Mr. Le Gallienne's book, which in the
exercise itself on “Florida Trails.” The greater reviewer's plain prose — tells the story of a
extent of this other spit of sand, which he says tramp from a summer paradise somewhere in
reminds him always of Cape Cod, has not western New York to some other place much
blunted the fine point of his delightfully whim nearer the city
sical but nevertheless accurate observation.
“ Enchanted journey! That begins
“ The Florida heron," he says, “wading leg
Nowhere and nowhere ends."
deep in the St. Johns River, has the same self. But there is little plain prose in the story; for
conscious dignity, the same absurd rhythmic though not overweighted with verse, it is full
hesitancy of motion as a wedding procession of imagination and — is there a better term
going up the aisle. I have seen a great many than literary ? — fancy. If the word seems
grooms wade in and I never saw anything a bit inappropriate at first, it proves gratefully
different.” Blue birds and butterflies, cherokee true on perusal of the book; for Mr. Le
roses and crocodiles, jasmine and pelicans, pigs Gallienne, lacking the trained observation of
and palmettos, and all the other varied exuber the naturalist, sees in trees and fields and hills
ances of Florida, become in turn the shrines of the outward embodiment of the dreams of poets
his reverent but fanciful devotion. A number and prophets with which his mind is stored.
of photographs bring sunny remembrances of “Can anyone deny," he asks, “that the
Palm Beach, Indian River, the Everglades, and meadows of the world are greener for the
numerous Keys to those who perforce must take Twenty-third Psalm, or the starry sky the
their Florida second-hand.
gainer in our imagination by the solemn caden-
A less well-known writer, Mr. Samuel C. ces of the book of Job ?” The orchards along
Schmucker, in his group of essays entitled the way grow more beautiful because they look
“ Under the Open Sky,” shows himself a com like those in the country of King Alcinous, and
petent instructor in this peripatetic school. It the heavily-laden wains on the farms waken us
is quite wonderful to note how much informa to our identity with the past when they become
tion he imparts, with no malice prepense, and “the slow-moving wagons of our Lady of
over how wide a range his wisdom extends. Eleusis.” Learners in this school of out-of-
Has anyone told us before that in the spring door idealism will be glad to know what books
the meadow-lark “because his yellow breast, so keen a critic of the appropriate carried in
now growing more brilliant in readiness for his his knapsack and found not irrelevant. They
nearing courtship, would betray him among the were these : J. W. Mackail's “Georgics,” Hans
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prayer is :
Locke's “The Beloved Vagabond," " Selections ception. “ The Blue Bird," charming as spec-
from R.L.S.,” Pater's “Marius the Epicurean,' tacle and literature, is not a play in the strict
and Alfred de Musset's “ Premières Poésies.” sense.
“ Mary Magdelene," his new drama,
“ Colin,” Mr. Le Gallienne's fellow vagabond, seems somewhat disappointing, because it lacks
is an artist with pencil and brush, and his objective dramatic power, while the historical
drawings match the occasional poems in delicacy demands seem to clip the author's genius and
and truth. And for the poems themselves, it forbid a success of “ The Intruder" type. The
is to be said that they are not literary” but main situation, to be sure, with the Roman
real,- voicing the sentiment, the romance, and soldier promising Mary to spare the Christ if
the fervor of all votaries of the ideal, whose she will give herself to the soldier, is of obvious
dramatic value ; but there is a lack in the
“ Bathe me in lustral dawns, and the morning star and handling : it fails to thrill. There is a certain
the dew,
pictorial quality, too, in the scenes,
the scenes, — notably
Make pure my heart as a bird and innocent as a
that in the house of Joseph of Arimathæa, and
flower,
in the effect of the mob in the garden of Silanus,
Make sweet my thoughts as the meadow-mint
O make me all anew
with the Saviour invisible yet dominating the
And in the strength of beech and oak gird up my
scene. It
may
well be that these skilful group-
will with power.”
ings and plastic manipulations would lend the
MAY ESTELLE COOK. play fascination when witnessed. But on the
whole, the material appears to be handled rather
tamely, and it is doubtful if this drama can ever
stand with the author's best; although its good
VARIETY IN CURRENT DRAMA.*
taste in the presence of a delicate theme, and its
Not within the memory of living man have spiritual elevation, can be heartily recognized.
acting dramas which yet make the literary ap After reading the three one-act pieces of Herr
peal been published so freely as at the present Sudermann grouped under the sombre title
time. The group here considered-only a part “Morituri," one instinctively asks what would
of the season's promise, — is proof of the state be their fate if the author were not famous.
ment, and significant of the fast-growing im- They possess little or no dramatic quality, and
portance of the literary drama in all the lands whatever of literary charm is theirs is success-
where letters are cultivated. If the movement fully eliminated by the translator, whose En-
increases proportionately in the next few years, glish is indifferent or worse than indifferent.
fiction, that modern tyrant among literary To allow Herr Sudermann to be Englished by
forms, will have to look to its laurels.
one with so little feeling for idiom, to whom the
M. Maeterlinck has done remarkable things distinction even between “shall ” and “will,”
with the play form. He has shown the value for example, does not exist, is a pity. The first
of indirection through an imaginative appeal play, the historical sketch called “Teja,” is the
which has subtilized psychology, and he has far best of the trilogy, but in no way remarkable;
surpassed Ibsen in the use of the subjective “ Fritzchen” is slight and ineffective; and as
method. Only once, in “ Monna Vanna,” has for the final piece, “ The Eternal Masculine"
he produced an acting drama in the traditional (a clever title that promises well), after two
sense ; although “Sister Beatrice," more ob- readings I am inclined to give it up, - either
jective in motive, has considerable dramatic the translation has ruined it, or it is far below
power, beautiful as it is pictorially and in con the author's standard and dangerously near
nonsense.
*MARY MAGDELENE. A Play in Three Acts. By Maurice
Herr Sudermann's earlier play-
Maeterlinck. Translated by Alexander Tiexeira de Mattos. group, “ Rosen," while no more than minor
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co.
work, and seamier in themes than the present
MORITURI. Three One-Act Plays. By Hermann Suder-
mann. Translated by Archibald Alexander. New York:
set, was very much superior as drama. “Magda
Charles Scribner's Sons.
and “ The Joy of Living” truly seem far away
THE NIGGER. An American Play in Three Acts. By in reading these later specimens of the same
Edward Sheldon. New York: The Macmillan Co.
author's play-making.
THE TRAGEDY OF NAN, and Other Plays. By John
Masefield. New York: Mitchell Kennerley.
Whatever the faults of Mr. Edward Sheldon's
ANATHEMA. A Tragedy in Seven Scenes. By Leonid “ The Nigger," nobody can read or see it with-
Andreyev. Translated by Herman Bernstein, New York:
out recognizing that it is genuine drama, in
The Macmillan Co.
JUSTICE. A Tragedy in Four Acts. By John Galsworthy.
contradistinction from the drama that is liter-
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
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est of aspirants, after the languid efforts of playing piece. That tremendous prologue where
mature experts. When I saw the play at the the damned creature of earth jeers at the silent
New Theatre last winter, it was for me a guardian of the heavens could not be visual-
vigorous and skilful piece, certainly with melo ized; it is an effect for the imagination. Nor,-
dramatic touches, but handling a perilous theme one would guess,
could much that follows be
in a way to make it inoffensive, while evoking properly shown : the old Jew, David Leizer, is
from it a very strong central situation : the given a large fortune by Anathema, the Meph-
love of a Southern man supposedly white for a isto of the story ; he dispenses it all in charity,
Southern girl, and the question of what she will the world turns and rends him, and Anathema,
do on discovering that he has negro blood in whose desire is to prove man bad and God
his veins. And
And now, reading the play, I feel cruel, triumphs over David's mangled corpse.
that it has good workmanship, the artist's able It is a scene of frightful force and significance.
control of his material; it is a piece of liter But when, in the epilogue, this evil spirit re-
ature, which perhaps gets a bit didactic in the
the vi
visits the Maker of things, he finds that Good
last act, but in general the story is allowed to is still conqueror, and in rage returns to do more
speak for itself, and the situations are there and
impotent evil
upon
the earth. The careless and
made much of. Moreover, it has the great light-minded will pass this creation by as baffling
merit of being about something, and that some or even as absurd; but it is a monumental alle-
thing worth while; the drama has a big idea.
gory
of good and evil, richly humanitarian, and
In view of the author's youth, this play and of large and noble implications in its philosophy.
his preceding “Salvation Nell” are immensely One reads it in somewhat the same mood as that
promising for Mr. Sheldon's future, and he will begotten by the Book of Job. And certainly
hereafter be looked to as one of the torch it seems intensely Slavonic in character.
bearers. He is very much sur le mouvement.
at. Standing head and shoulders above every-
The advanced realism of the day - the
thing else in the present group as drama is Mr.
realism that has produced a Wedekind in Ger- Galsworthy's superb “ Justice,” at once a vital
many - is well exemplified in Mr. John Mase piece of life and literature, and a play of un-
field's “ The Tragedy of Nan, and Other Plays.” questionable fine technique and evident acting
There is something terrible in finding the value. In skill, verity, and life values, it stands
British rustic types, here studied, so revolting by itself, so far, among this author's plays. No
in their characteristics. This remark applies wonder we hear that the English government
less aptly, perhaps, to the title-piece than to the has already been moved, through the influence
two connected one-act pieces that follow, which, of such a drama, to improve the existing prison
for straight, sullen horror have rarely been regulations. They seem intolerable, thus pre-
equalled in English. “Nan," a study of a
sented.
“ Justice illustrates the power of the
girl whose lover leaves her, whereupon she kills stage when used aright, albeit the dramatist be
him, is a skilful and forcible bit of dramatic the sternest and most uncompromising of real-
work, which ought to act well. But judging ists. Indeed, those who are looking merely for
Mr. Masefield by these examples, I should say the vacuously pleasant in play form are warned
that at present he has a chip on his shoulder away
from this drama; it is the most consistent
for his dramatic theory : an attitude, whether and logical of tragedies. But it makes you
for life or literature, not without danger to one think, it broadens your sympathy, it gives you
assuming it.
the pleasure proper to a work of art. And
The Russian genius, large, sombre, impres- therefore, for some of us at least, it is greatly
sive, is not dramatic at all in the sense that the worth while. The story concerns the fate of a
French genius is: I mean, in the feeling for young London clerk who, desiring money to
form, development, and climax. There never help the woman he loves (the wife of a drunken
was a more undramatic play than Gorki's ter brute who makes her life wretched) forges, is
rible "Nachtasyl,” and you have the same ex caught, and is committed to prison. On coming
perience with the dramas of Ostrovsky and out, after serving his sentence, he feebly tries to
Tolstoy. In fact, the Slav's desire to come to be honest; he secures a position, but his record
a grapple with life is, in a sense, a menace to hounds him; the woman he loves is still his care,
his art. One realizes all this afresh when in and his employers, kind men but taking the con-
contact with Leonid Andreyev's strange, slow- ventional view, tell him he must get rid of her.
moving, awful, yet unquestionably gripping In a final scene, as poignantly true and pathetic
drama “ Anathema.” It is unthinkable as a as modern drama can show, we see the poor,


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weak fellow caught again, and taking his own the diameter of the stone, wherein a pole may be
life; while Ruth, out of love for whom his sin inserted sufficiently large and strong to bear the
has been committed, stands dazed with grief weight and facilitate transportation.'
The origin
beside him. It is impossible to read this mov-
and use of this cumbrous currency form the subject
ing social document, dramatically so masterly of one of the most entertaining chapters in this
that one tingles with its cumulative power, with delightfully written book. Religion, burial rites,
out realizing, perhaps as never before, the spirit friendships, tattooing, dance and posture songs,
native houses, costumes and adornments, Uap
of good in things deemed evil; and without
and other things curious and novel, together with a
registering a vow to be more charitable in the
treatise on Uap grammar and a seventy-four-page
future. Although the drama arraigns the vocabulary of the language, fill up the rest of the
present reformatory procedure, it has a larger volume. Thirty-one pictures, from photographs
meaning too, I think; it suggests the awful taken by the author, serve to make more real the
complexity of human society, the mystery of strange scenes described. To the reader craving
failure, the apparent injustice inherent in a something new in the department of travel, “ The
world so often at sixes and sevens. Yet is the
Island of Stone Money” can be cordially recom-
mended.
tone not bitter; Mr. Galsworthy is above all
The terrible story of the great earthquake in
an artist : he presents the facts as he sees them,
Sicily and Calabria is told by an eye-witness of its
he lets the facts be special pleaders for him. It disastrous effects and an active worker for the relief
is devoutly to be hoped that a play so sterling, of its victims, in an attractive volume entitled
so representative of the best in the modern
“Sicily in Shadow and in Sun” (Little, Brown, &
realistic school, may soon be seen in this country. Co.) by that always delightful chronicler of things
RICHARD BURTON. Italian, Mrs. Maud Howe Elliott. As Secretary of
the Ladies' Auxiliary of the American Relief Com-
mittee, Mrs. Elliott had the best of opportunities to
study the relief work from first to last; and Mr.
HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS.
Elliott, who was with her, made drawings and took
II.
photographs of the memorable scenes, whereby the
That discriminating student of French cathedrals, book is very greatly enriched. As usual with her,
Miss Elise Whitlock Rose, gives in her two-volume the author has made her book invitingly conversa-
“Cathedrals and Cloisters of the Isle de tional and first-personal in its tone. Even the hor.
France" (Putnam) a fitting sequel or companion to rors of the earthquake receive a welcome softening
her earlier books on the cathedrals and cloisters of from the charm of the manner in which they are
southern and midland France. As in those works, related. But there are other things to claim one's
too, she has been ably seconded by Miss Vida Hunt attention besides the sufferings of the stricken dis-
Francis in the illustration of her chapters with nu trict. Chapters on Palermo, Taormina, Syracuse,
merous and excellent photographs. The grouping and on the building of the new Messina, with pas-
of the matter is not geographical, but by archi- sing glimpses of famous visitors to the relief camp,
tectural periods, — early Gothic, mature Gothic, diversify and enliven the narrative. The book, like
flamboyant, and pseudo-classic. The selection of its companion volumes from the same pen, is printed
material from so rich a field has been a perplexing in the clearest of type and attractively bound, while
question, but the two ample volumes contain enough in wealth and variety of illustrations it probably
to do fair justice to the subject. Naturally the
surpasses them.
authors were tempted to overstep the limits indi Conspicuously excellent by reason of its half-
cated by the book's title, and no one will quarrel hundred photogravure plates, printed in soft and
with them for occasionally yielding to the tempta- pleasing tints, is Mr. Joel Cook's handsome two-
tion. In general, the present work seems to do for volume work on “The Mediterranean and its
northern France what its predecessors accomplished Borderlands” (Winston). The method of treatment
for central and southern France. The plates are is descriptive and historical, the western shores and
both full-page and of smaller size, giving well both islands of the Mediterranean being taken up first,
general effects and minute details.
and the older lands of the Levant reserved for the
Following up his studies of the Borneo Head latter part of the work. The recent large increase
Hanters with similar researches among the natives of travel, especially in the winter, to the sunny
of another tropical island in the same quarter of shores of the greatest of inland seas makes timely
the globe, Dr. William Henry Furness, 3rd, has and useful this attractive guide-book, which is of
written a substantial volume on “ The Island of course indexed and otherwise arranged to facilitate
Stone Money : Uap of the Carolines” (Lippincott). reference. Among subjects of modern interest in
The medium of exchange which gives its name to these pages so largely devoted to old-world topics,
the book consists of “large, solid, thick, stone occurs a description of the great Assouan Dam,
wheels, ranging in diameter from a foot to twelve which began its beneficent work of irrigation only
eet, having in the centre a hole varying in size with a few years ago. A good map of the regions de-
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scribed would not have come amiss, but none is to describes events that took place at about the same
be found in the book. Ornate gilt binding, out time as those that form the subject of “African
side cloth wrappers, and a box of the same material, Game Trails.” In fact, the two American hunters
contribute to the beauty and durability of the vol met, and not the least interesting portion of Mr.
umes.
McCutcheon's book is that relating the interchange
A volume compactly printed and full of informa of courtesies and stories between them. It was an
tion acceptable to the tourist, as also to the stay-at- expedition organized by Mr. Akeley, the famous
home reader, comes from the Macmillan Co. in African hunter, that Mr. McCutcheon joined, and its
Mr. Edward Hutton's 6. Siena and Southern experience was an eventful one. Numerous draw-
Tuscany.” Having already written a book on “ The ings, frequently humorous, are sprinkled through
Cities of Umbria,” the author is sufficiently familiar the book, which is further illustrated from many
with and sufficiently in love with this section of photographs.
Italy to write enthusiastically and with much first No hasty impressions are recorded in Miss Irene
hand information. Rather whimsically, however, A. Wright's “Cuba ”. (Macmillan), but rather the
he insists on the superiority of the old mediæval matured opinions and convictions of a ten years'
highway, the Via Francigena, as the one proper residence (somewhat interrupted) on the island,
route to follow in journeying through Southern s« the last four of which have been spent largely in
Tuscany, partly because it was the way of the travelling hither and yon through its provinces, on
Franks into Italy and the road our ancestors followed work entailed first by connections with local news-
in visiting Rome. The exact route signifies little, papers, next by an appointment as special agent of
so one gets a view of all that is worth seeing ; and the Cuban department of agriculture, and, finally,
much of this is embraced in Mr. Hutton's book, by the business of editing a monthly magazine
which is made additionally attractive by the twenty which describes the island principally from agricul-
eight illustrations it contains, sixteen of them being tural and industrial points of view.” These words
beautiful colored views executed by Mr. O. F. M. indicate fairly well the author's point of view in the
Ward. After Siena, the reader is conducted to present work, although her book is rich in miscel-
Asciano, Rapoland, Serre, Lucignano, Sinalunga, laneous information and incidents of personal ex-
Montepulciano, Arezzo, and many other places of perience. In a chapter entitled “ Cuba Libre'.
interest.
Farce," as occasionally elsewhere in the volume, she
Poetry and charm would not be looked for by does not hesitate to draw aside the veil covering the
many
in the mud of the Missouri River. Neverthe sordidness and selfishness of many of the motives
less Mr. John G. Neihardt, the Nebraska poet, has actuating our late intercession and our inglorious
found inspiration in that turbid flood of waters for war with Spain. Half-tone plates are lavishly used
his volume of romance from real life, “ The River in illustrating the book, which runs to the length of
and I” (Putnam). From Benton, in Montana, at
five hundred pages.
the head of Missouri River navigation, to Sioux City In a series of nineteen day-excursions about Lon-
in Iowa he and two companions made their leisurely don, Miss Aida Rodman de Milt (or De Milt,
way by row-boat, meeting with divers adventures whichever she prefers) saw so much that is worth
and enjoying every mile of the journey, so far as seeing, and that the visitor to London often omits,
head winds and other unavoidable adverse condi that she has prepared an inviting volume, “Ways
tions would allow. On reaching his destination the and Days out of London” (Baker & Taylor Co.),
author confesses that he has never felt at home in fully illustrated with the aid of a camera, describing
a town. “Towns, after all, are machines to facil and depicting the views, the buildings, the incidents,
itate getting psychically lost,” he declares. Asked and the people that made those nineteen days so
at the outset what he expected to find on his journey, memorable to her and to her tourist companions,
the poet-philosopher replied briefly: “Some more Sonia and Diana. Among the places thus easily
of myself.” Fifty illustrations from photographs and quickly accessible from London are Hampton
that appear to have been taken on the way appro Court, Ascot, Rochester, Richmond, Ely, Maiden-
priately accompany the reading matter. The book head, Epping Forest, Dulwich, St. Albans, Canter-
is one to give the conventionalized city-dweller a bury, and Cambridge. But Oxford we do not find
wholesome jolt.
on her list, rather strangely. The light and breezy
Others beside the doughty Colonel have hunted style in which the author has endeavored to present
big game in Africa, and have written about it, too. these holiday-makings is indicated by the remark
Among these author-huntsmen Mr. John T. Mc of an aged guide at Harbledown : “I like to show
Cutcheon deserves commendatory notice, the more the church to American ladies. They always say
so that he is not only a lion-killer and an agreeable something to make you laugh; and we might as
writer, but also able to illustrate with his pencil the well laugh whenever we can, you know.” The
thrilling adventures chronicled by his pen, being sixty-six pictures in the book greatly stimulate the
indeed well known as cartoonist of the Chicago interest.
“Tribune.” “In Africa : Hunting Adventures in In an unfrequented spot in the Bernese Alps, in
the Big Game Country” (Bobbs-Merrill) is a book a mountain châlet which she christens “ Châlet
about as large as Mr. Roosevelt's similar volume, and Edelweiss,” about a mile and a half from the


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Grindelwald station on the road to the Upper physiographic, climatic, and social conditions of this
Glacier, Mrs. Edith Elmer Wood and her family the most truly democratic nation of Europe. The
minus its head, who is a naval officer and had been intense and serious intellectual activity of this sturdy
ordered to the Philippines — passed a recent sum people is revealed in the author's converse with one
mer of Arcadian peace and happiness and simplicity; and another. Their well-founded pride in their
and she now chronicles the blissful experience in authors, musicians, and artists, and the large share
engaging fashion, with plentiful illustrations of which women take not only in the political but in
Swiss scenery, in a book entitled “ An Oberland the intellectual life of the people, is often revealed
Châlet," published by Wessels & Bissell Co. Walking by the passing comment.
excursions and other innocent and healthful recrea-
tions helped to occupy the time, and as the scenes
HOLIDAY ART BOOKS.
and characters described are not those familiar Two large, handsomely printed, and fully illus-
to the tourist, the narrative successfully avoids trated volumes are added to the “ Classics of Art”
“the Nth repetition of the Utterly Familiar.” Mrs. series (Scribner). The pathetic story of that artistic
Wood's style has the sparkle of wit and merriment genius who worked his way up from obscurity and
and high spirits, and her book has a wholesome poverty to the high level of Reynolds and Gains-
and tonic effect. Artistically bound and boxed, it borough in the patronage of fashionable London and
is also a pleasure to the eye.
in the judgment of connoisseurs is again told, and
The comparatively unknown interior of Sicily, well told, in Mr. Arthur B. Chamberlain's “George
with its survivals of ancient customs and supersti- Romney." His life is related in Part I.; “The
tions, is entertainingly treated in Miss Louise Man and his Methods” is the heading to Part II.;
Caico's “Sicilian Ways and Days” (Appleton). In and “His Art” is considered in Part III. More
the province of Caltanissetta, the only Sicilian prov than seventy plates, including one of Romney as
ince with no sea-coast, the author was long a so painted by himself, and including also, of course,
journer, mingling familiarly with the natives and a number of Lady Hamilton's portraits in various
snap-shotting them and the scenes amid which they characters, are given as examples of the artist's
live. From these numerous photographs, taken style. Bibliography, appended details, and copious
with a small camera, and in no expectation of ever index are duly provided, and the whole work, for
publishing any of them, a large number have been which the public appetite has been whetted by Mrs.
selected for the illustration of the photographer's Ward's “ Fenwick's Career,” should meet with a
book, being arranged two on a page and showing an cordial reception.-In Mr. A. J. Finberg's “Turner's
unexpected clearness of detail. Even the surfeited Sketches and Drawings” is presented a well-
reader of travels will find novelty and piquancy in systematized and, in general, a chronological study
Miss Caico's pages. In gaining the confidence and of Turner's art as illustrated by those twenty thous-
friendship of the inland Sicilians, who are by nature and and more preliminary sketches with which his
secretive and disposed to suspect the visiting stranger, death enriched the National Gallery. The collection
she has been fortunate, and her readers will profit Mr. Finberg has found to be “ of very great psy-
by her ability to draw the curtain from before much chological interest. It shows clearly upon what
that usually remains hidden to the conventional basis of immediately presentative elements the airy
traveller.
splendour of Turner's richly imaginative art was
Dr. Charles W. Townsend's“A Labrador Spring” built: and amongst the twenty odd thousand sheets
(Estes) is a tale of ornithological travel and adven of drawings in all stages of elaboration, the embry-
ture along northern shores. The author is evidently onic forms of most of the painter's masterpieces can
a naturalist, but not of the closest type. He is a be easily traced.” One hundred plates, including
lover of the out-of-doors, and writes a pleasing narra a colored frontispiece, show these ipitial conceptions
tive of the cruise of “La Belle Marguerite” from of the artist in various stages of completion. Of
the Acadian village to the summer homes of the psychologic and also of more general human inter-
Montagnais Indians. The book is replete with ob est to the average reader, the book is sure to appeal
servations on the peculiar flora, the birds and other strongly to the artist and the art-lover.
denizens of these bleak shores. The author is also “French Portrait Engraving of the XVIIth and
a student of human nature, and his accounts of his XVIIIth Centuries” (Bell-Macmillan) is a detailed
northern friends, both Indian and white, are enter and more or less technical account of that branch of
taining. The book is beautifully and abundantly art, from Claude Mellan of the early seventeenth to
illustrated, and gives on the whole a very satisfactory Janinet and others of the late eighteenth century,
glimpse into this little-known and inhospitable land. with some notice of Mellan's predecessors and a
A narrative of personal experience among the preliminary chapter on the general characteristics
leaders of thought and action in Norway is to be of the French school. The author, Mr. T. H.
found in Martha Buckingham Wood's “ A Trip to Thomas, says of this school that it had no inde
the Land of the Midnight Sun" (Brandu's), a series pendent existence before 1625, and it was brought
of brief chapters devoted to a wide range of Nor- to an end by the Revolution; since then the por-
wegian topics. The writer's discourse is mainly of traits engraved in France have either been academic
persons, interspersed with casual references to the imitations of the old work, or else in a wholly differ-


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ent manner.” Thirty-nine excellent reproductions scriptive matter shows careful study of a large
of noteworthy engravings illustrate and explain the number of authorities, a list of which and an index
writer's criticisms and comments, which are grouped and a glossary close the book.
under three main divisions, “ The Seventeenth Mr. Charles H. Caffin, who writes on art in a
Century,” “The Louis XV. Period,” and “The way so intelligible and so interesting even to those
Louis XVI. Period.” The book closes with a com who are neither artists oor very highly educated in
mendably full list of French portrait engravers of art history and criticism, has issued another of his
the two centuries under discussion, the list includ- popular manuals on painting. This time it is “The
ing the chief foreign engravers who adopted the Story of Spanish Painting” (Century Co.) that he
French method and style. Mr. Thomas has sought has chosen to tell, in much the same manner as his
to fill a gap in art history, and it is safe to say “Story of Dutch Painting.” A preliminary chapter
that no such careful and critical and reasonably on “The Story of the Nation " presents the physical
exhaustive treatment of the subject has before environment of Spanish art, and is followed by use-
appeared.
ful chapters on the characteristics of that art and a
Napoleonic literature, vast though it is, has hith- panoramic view of its development to the opening
erto contained no work treating fully that blithesome of the nineteenth century. The succeeding chapters
branch of art called caricature as applied to the are devoted to a few of Spain's greatest painters,
world-familiar form and features of the Little Cor. from “El Greco" in the sixteenth century to Goya,
poral. This lack is now abundantly supplied by who died in 1828. A " Postscript” pays brief
the two ample volumes of Mr. A. M. Broadley's attention to Fortuny, Pradilla, Zuloaga, and a few
“Napoleon in Caricature” (Lane), to which Mr. J. others of our own time. Thirty-three full-page
Holland Rose contributes an adequate “Introductory plates convey such hints of the merits of the masters
Essay on Pictorial Satire as a Factor in Napoleonic discussed can be given in the black-and-white of
History.” Both men have already written learnedly half-tone reproductions.
and at length about Napoleon, and they enter upon
their present task well equipped. The first volume
HOLIDAY BIOGRAPHIES AND MEMOIRS.
is devoted to English caricature of Britain's hated A considerable number of entertaining episodes
foe, while the second takes up French, German, from real life are brought together in a large and
Italian, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Swiss, and Scandi handsome volume entitled “The Rose Goddess, and
navian caricature. American caricature of Napoleon Other Sketches of Mystery and Romance” (Long-
seems not to have claimed the author's attention. mans), enriched with a profusion of portraits and
Nearly two hundred and fifty illustrations, of which other illustrations. Lady Constance Russell, ex-
twenty-four are colored, present the more interesting perienced narrator of such tales of romance (see
specimens of Napoleonic caricature and the portraits her “Three Generations of Fascinating Women
of some of the more eminent caricaturists. Mr. and her “Swallowfield and its Owners "), is
Broadley has done his work well, and, we should the author of the book. Each of its component
say, has done it for all time.
sketches, she says, introduces one or more charac-
Miss Elisabeth McClellan, whose long superin ters nearly or remotely connected with her family,
tendence, at the Philadelphia Library, of that de so that, although several of them are old stories re-
partment of literature which treats of the history of told, she has been able to add, from private sources,
costume has made her a trustworthy authority on some new and intimate details. These sources she
the subject, supplements her “Historic Dress in seldom distracts the reader by naming. Never
America, 1607-1800 ” with a companion volume, allowing a good story to be spoiled in the telling,
“ Historic Dress in America, 1800–1870,” both she carries her willing listeners swiftly and agree-
handsomely produced by Messrs. George W. Jacobs ably along, from the romance of the “Rose
& Co. As is said in the prefatory note to the latter Goddess ” (Kitty Kirkpatrick, Carlyle's supposed
work, “many books have been written on the first love, concerning whose history in more detail
houses, the furniture, and the decorations of the the student should consult Mr. Raymond C. Archi-
century we have so lately seen pass into history, but bald's book of a year ago) through the fortunes of
of the costumes chosen and worn by our immediate Louise de Kéroualle and some of her descendants,
ancestors very little has been recorded in print.” the marriage of Lady Elizabeth Keppel to Lord
Naturally it is the dress of women that occupies by Tavistock, and what came of it, the strange dis-
far the larger portion of Miss McClellan's book. appearance of Benjamin Bathurst, of the British
The quarto size of its pages affords space for group- diplomatic service, the history of Sarah, Marchioness
ing the costumes of a period in a striking and of Exeter, and other diverting narratives. Appended
extremely interesting manner. From old-time wear matter, including notes and a genealogical chart
ing apparel, from nineteenth-century photographs giving Louise de Kéroualle's pedigree, and an index
and prints, from paintings, and from other trust close the book. Of the numerous pictures, twenty-
worthy sources the large number of illustrations eight are collotype plates, and the remaining twenty-
have been drawn. There are some in pen-and-ink two half-tone prints.
and some in half-tone, Miss Sophie B. Steel and From a new and rather surprising point of view
Mr. Cecil W. Trout being the artists. The de Mr. W. R. H. Trowbridge contemplates the char-


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the way
acter and deeds of that mighty magician, Count reader is exposed to the risk of falling a victim to
Cagliostro, in his book entitled “Cagliostro: The the same fascination. The moderate length of the
Splendour and Misery of a Master of Magic" chapters, the sufficiency of brisk conversation, the
(Dutton). Entering upon his work with never a rapid succession of events, and the interspersed
doubt that this famous wonder-worker was the arch portraits of the chief characters, certainly give the
impostor he is generally supposed to have been, book an inviting appearance.
Mr. Trowbridge was "astonished to find how little Lady Dorothy Nevill has followed up her chatty
foundation there was in point of fact for the popular “ Reminiscences,” of four years ago, with another
conception." Accordingly his conscientious study of volume of like anecdotal and retrospective character.
the man is no parrot-like repetition of the familiar “Under Five Reigns” (Lane), completed last sum-
tale of his alleged impostures; but whether he suc mer and edited by her son, was prompted by the
ceeds in his attempt to correct and revise
fact that, as the writer says, she has come across
false judment of history," we will not, off-hand, further notes and letters connected with the social
undertake to say. The reader will enjoy deter life of the Victorian and Edwardian eras, a number
mining for himself what degree of success has been of which it seemed to her might not prove unaccept-
gained in this rather formidable, if not hopeless, able to her friendly readers. Born in the reign of
enterprise. At any rate, the book is unique among “the first gentleman of Europe," Lady Dorothy has
the many accounts that have been written of the witnessed the accession of four succeeding monarchs
famous charlatan, as he will still continue to be to the throne of England. Given a good memory
called. Illustrations, chiefly portraits, are abund and a ready pen, a life of that length, lived in
antly supplied to heighten the attraction of this society, affords material for much enlivening reminis-
undeniably attractive book.
cence; and the author has not been blind to her
Women's looks were Byron's books, and folly opportunity. The pictures in the book include, be
was all they taught him. That, in brief, is the side numerous portraits, three pages of amusing
lesson of Mr. Francis Gribble's extended work of sketches from the pen of Richard Doyle, one of
nearly four hundred pages on “The Love Affairs whose letters in fascimile is also given. The book
of Lord Byron" (Scribner). The poet's whole is a treasury of memories of auld lang syne.
life, observes the author, “ was deflected from its Mr. Frank Hamel, whose studies and previous
course and thrown out of gear: first, by his un writings qualify him to speak understandingly on
happy passion for Mary Chaworth ; secondly, by the subject, has prepared a volume on The
in which women of all ranks, flattering his Dauphines of France
Dauphines of France” (Pott). "In gathering into
vanity for the gratification of their own, importuned one volume,” he says in his preface, “the biogra-
him with the offer of their hearts.” But in regard-phies of fifteen princesses, some familiar, others
ing Byron's love affairs as “the principal incidents as yet very little known to English readers, it has
of his life, and almost the only ones," Mr. Gribble been obviously impossible to give an exhaustive
goes a little too far. Byron had his friendships, as history of each, but I have aimed at producing in
well as his loves, he had his literary projects and every case a finished study of life and character.”
ambitions, and also his literary squabbles, and he From Jeanne de Bourbon in the fourteenth century
had a most real and active interest in Greek inde- to Marie-Thérèse in the nineteenth, this portrait-
pendence. Still, a life of Byron with chief refer- gallery of women who had fame thrust upon
them
ence to his affairs of the heart is the kind of biog- exhibits a succession of characters that compel one's
raphy to appeal successfully to the public, and it is interest if only by reason of the scenes and events
the sort of work Mr. Gribble has before now engaged amidst which they lived. Nor are fascinating per-
in to the satisfaction of his readers.
The present sonalities lacking among them, as, for instance,
volume is provided with portraits, and is printed in Mary Stuart, Marie-Adélaïde de Savoie, and Marie-
large, clear type, with division into short and invit Antoinette. Of course the book is not deficient in
ing chapters.
portraits of these dauphines, nor is it without its
Biography somewhat after the fashion of Miss full and useful index. It also contains, in its open-
Mühlbach is presented in Miss Marie Hay's generous ing pages, what the author believes to be “the first
volume entitled “The Winter Queen: Being the account in English of the position of the dauphine at
Unhappy History of Elizabeth Stuart, Electress the French court and of the ceremonial which sur-
Palatine, Queen of Bohemia” (Houghton). Both rounded those in the direct line of succession to the
title-page and preface frankly proclaim the book to throne of France.”
be a romance; but as the author prepared herself A history of fops and foppery has been zealously
by special study and a special journey to Prague undertaken and elaborately executed by Miss Clare
before putting pen to paper, and as her hand is by Jerrold in a good-sized octavo volume entitled “The
no means new to this sort of writing, her work Beaux and the Dandies" (Lane). James Hay,
merits respectful attention. Her heroine, the con Earl of Carlisle, is the first of a long succession of
sort of Frederick V. who reigned in Bohemia just magnificent leaders of fashion whom the author
one winter (1619-20), is truly a romantic character makes to strut and smile and ogle for our benefit,
as portrayed in Miss Hay's pages. The Stuart and Count d'Orsay, more than two centuries later,
charm has taken possession of the author, and the is the last of this brave company to be met with in


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her amusing pages. Beau Nash of course figures note that it “is based on that issued by Mr. John
prominently in those pages. Chesterfield, George Camden Hotten, about 1871,” but that it has been
Selwyn, Charles James Fox, King George the compared with “an early French edition, and thus
Fourth, and the Duke of Wellington appear also numerous verbal errors and inaccuracies have been
among those more or less addicted to foppery. corrected.” The same note gives a brief sketch of
Seventeen well-chosen pictures help the reader to a the joint authors of the story, Emile Erckmann and
better acquaintance with all these delectible dandies. Alexandre Chatrian. As a handy, clearly printed,
An index concludes the book, but there is neither and inexpensive edition of this famous historical
annotation nor bibliography to temper with too great romance, the book merits hearty commendation.
seriousness the gaiety of its sprightly chapters. Mr. Arthur Rackham finds inspiration for his
annual holiday volume in Wagner's “Nibelung's
HOLIDAY EDITIONS OF STANDARD LITERATURE. Ring.” The cycle is to be completed in two
In no more inviting and beautiful form has Miss volumes, the one
volumes, the one now ready containing “The
Mitford's “ Our Village” ever appeared than in the Rhinegold and the Valkyrie,” the text newly trans-
large octavo, clearly-printed, wide-margined, appro lated into English by Miss Margaret Armour. The
priately and profusely illustrated edition now issued new book is similar in size and make-up to Mr.
by the Macmillan Company, with an extended Rackham's other notable volumes ; the illustrations
Introduction by Mrs. Anne Thackeray Ritchie. are as usual printed in colors and separately mounted
“For people who are beginning to remember, rather on tinted sheets. Mr. Rackham touches nothing
than looking forward any more,” she says, “there that he does not adorn, and his “Ring” pictures
certainly exists no more delightful reading than the are full of imagination, quaintly humorous, mysti-
memoirs and stories of heroes and heroines, many cal, suggesting in sweep of line the colossal grandeur
of whom we ourselves may have seen, and to whom of the theme. In comparison with his earlier work,
we may have spoken.” If not Miss Mitford's actual however, they lack a certain spontaneity and a
characters, we have all seen persons answering well delicacy of fancy that has been one of the artist's
some of her graphic descriptions. No sketches in chief charms; the freshness of genuine inspiration is
all English literature are more wholesomely engag not upon many of them. (Doubleday, Page & Co.)
ing, in their quiet way, than Miss Mitford's. The A serviceable, well-illustrated, sufficiently-anno-
sixteen colored plates provided by Mr. Alfred | tated, and inexpensive edition of Goldsmith's poems,
Rawlings for this edition breathe the very air of with a biographical and critical introduction by Mr.
“Our Village"; but not less pleasing, and even Horatio Sheafe Krans, is published by the Messrs.
more gracefully delicate and beautiful, are the one Putnam. Nine pictures in photogravure, from
hundred line drawings executed by Mr. Hugh original designs by Mr. Frederick Simpson Coburn,
Thomson.
help to interpret the poet, several of them being
No play of Shakespeare's bears repeated re views executed at Lissoy, the “sweet Auburn ” of
reading better than “Hamlet,” and even though one “ The Deserted Village." The biographical intro-
may know it almost by heart it will be most agree duction, filling seventy-six pages, gives in agreeable
able to read the familiar drama once more in the and handy form the main facts concerning Gold.
sumptuous new edition illustrated by Mr. W. G. smith's life and writings, with eulogistic comment
Simonds and provided with a detailed synopsis or on the poems. Dr. Krans is in love with his theme,
paraphrase of the play and an account of its origin and it will not be his fault if the reader fails to
by Sir Arthur T. Quiller-Couch. The latter writer conceive a new affection for this most amiable of
takes occasion to express his disbelief in Hamlet's
British poets.
madness. The text of the Oxford edition has The immortal love-story of “ Aucassin and Nicol-
been followed, and notes are conspicuously absent. ette," that perpetual challenge to the dexterous
Nothing but the frequent highly-colored pictures translator, has tempted Mr. Eugene Mason to essay
will distract the reader's attention, and these well another version. A comparison with the original
conceived and not too realistic illustrations will shows his rendering to be free, but in admirable
hardly be complained of as an unwelcome distrac-harmony with the spirit of the romance, and his
tion. They are thirty in number, loosely mounted paraphrases of the metrical portions to be in the
on heavy inserts. The volume in its style and size metre of the French, and, in every case, nearly or
is suited to the table, not to the unsupported hand. exactly of the same length as the original. The
(Hodder & Stoughton.)
typography and decoration of the book, including
“The History of a Conscript of 1813,” which six fanciful colored illustrations by Mr. Maxwell
many readers will remember, with affection or the Armfield, are tasteful. A more agreeable English
reverse, as having been imposed upon them at school dress to this old French classic could not reasonably
as compulsory French reading, appears in an ex be desired. (E. P. Dutton & Co.)
cellently printed and generously illustrated edition A limited edition of Gray's "Elegy," hand
(Macmillan). Text illustrations are interspersed lettered, printed on Italian hand-made paper, sewed
with colored drawings, not so artistically excellent by hand with silk, and with a hand-colored frontis-
as to distract the reader's attention from the story; piece and initial letter, is issued by Mr. F. J. Trezise
and of the translation we are told in a prefatory of Chicago. A decorative border encloses each page


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season.
" is of per-
of text, and the printing is on one side only of the and an introduction by Mrs. Hall, telling why she
paper, which is folded, however, so as to give the wrote the story. (Little, Brown & Co.). - An
book no unusual appearance on opening it. The absurd bit of fooling by the late “0. Henry” is
total effect is distinctly artistic and pleasing. Two published in an illustrated booklet by Messrs.
hundred copies have been printed.
Doubleday, Page & Co. Its title, “Let Me Feel
Your Pulse: Adventures in Neurasthenia,” suffici-
HOLIDAY FICTION.
ently suggests its theme.
Rural scenes and strongly marked rural char-
acters form the staple of Mr. Frank Waller Allen's
MISCELLANEOUS HOLIDAY BOOKS.
“ The Golden Road” (Wessels & Bissell Co.) which We can hardly have too many books about
is rendered especially attractive to the eye by Mr. Hawthorne. To the large number already existing
George Hood's tinted decorations and excellent Miss Helen Archibald Clarke adds one on
“ Haw-
illustrations. “ Oldmeadow," a Kentucky village thorne’s Country” (Baker & Taylor Co.), similar
on the Ohio, is the scene of the story, and Jean in character to her “ Longfellow's Country,"
François, " the Happy Pedler," and poet as well as Browning's England,” and “ Browning's Italy,"
pedler and umbrella-mender, is one of the chief of previous seasons. Her purpose in the present
dramatis
persona. Others are old Dr. Felix Long- volume is “ to show more explicitly than has hereto-
street, “ always smelling delightfully of a mixture fore been shown the relation between his [Haw-
of strong tobacco smoke and carbolic acid,” Monsieur thorne's] life experiences and his work, and to
l'Abbé Jacques Picot, Nance Gwyn, and Charles illustrate as completely as possible in the space of
Reubelt King, the narrator. As a quiet bit of one volume the general trend of his genius and the
character-study and deft character-drawing the book culmination of its various phases.” Accordingly the
is very pleasing, and does credit to Mr. Allen. different sections of New England that he became
As usual, a number of short stories have this familiar with, and also something of the England
year been published in form suitable to the gift and the Italy of his European days, are successively
Mrs. Margaret Deland's “The Way to treated, with a natural emphasis on the relation
Peace” (Harper) is a sweet but over-tragic tale of between his environment and the products of his
a Shaker settlement. Illustrations by Mrs. Alice genius. Whether or not that environment was of
Barber Stephens and decorative page borders lend so great moment to one of Hawthorne's introverted
it a holiday air.—"A Christmas Mystery: The nature, may remain an open question ; but the story
Story of Three Wise Men ” (Lane), by Mr. William of his successive “life experiences
J. Locke, is a powerfully related episode in the life ennial interest, and the publishers have given of
of three eminent Londoners. As a magazine story their best, in clear type, handsome binding, and
it attracted much attention; in a prettily decorated numerous illustrations, (the latter including many
booklet it is sure to prove a popular gift. — Poetic, views of old buildings from early prints), to make
delicate, little sketches, often allegorical in form, Miss Clarke's well-written book appeal successfully
are Mr. Emerson Hough's “ The Singing Mouse to a discriminating taste.
Stories" (Bobbs-Merrill Co.). They suggest the Originality in conception and treatment is to be
subtle joys that lie behind the commonplaces of life, found in Mrs. Emily James Putnam's thoughtful,
particularly the charm of childhood memories and well-written, and sufficiently learned work on “The
of nature. The decorations are vague and shadowy, Lady : Studies of Certain Significant Phases of her
in keeping with the elusive character of the Singing History” (Sturgis & Walton Company). The book's
Mouse.—"The Unlived Life of Little Mary Ellen” purpose is “to suggest in outline the theories that
is the title of Mrs. Ruth McEnery Stuart's new various typical societies have entertained of the lady;
Simkinsville story, which is prettily decorated in to note the changing ideals that she has from time
tint by Miss Ruth Clements. (Bobbs-Merrill Co).
(Bobbs-Merrill Co). to time proposed to herself; to show in some meas-
- In “Everybody's Lonesome” (Revell) Miss ure what her daily life has been like, what sort of
Clara Laughlin tells a “true fairy story” with a education she has had, what sort of man she has
moral for all discontented people. There are illus preferred to marry; in short, what manner of terms
trations by Mr. A. I. Keller. “ On Christmas she has contrived to make with the very special con-
Day in the Evening," by Miss Grace Richmond, is ditions of her existence.” The eight chapters into
a companion volume to the same author's “On which it is divided take up, successively, the Greek
Christmas Day in the Morning.” There are lady, the Roman lady, the lady Abbess, the lady of
illustrations in color, and borders of holly leaves. the castle, the lady of the Renaissance, the lady of
(Doubleday Page & Co).—"A Chariot of Fire," the salon, the blue-stocking lady, and the lady of
by Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, is a tale of true the slave states. Available sources for illustrating
neighborliness between rich and
poor
and the such a book as Mrs. Putnam's are not lacking, and
rich are left debtors to the poor. (Harper & Bros.). they have been freely drawn upon. With its richly
-One of the most popular chapters in that popular decorated cover and fair, large print, the volume is
volume, “Aunt Jane of Kentucky,” was “Sally
very inviting.
Ann's Experience,” which is now published by itself, Mr. Warwick Goble, whose colored illustrations
with a gay cover, frontispiece, and borders in color, for Kingsley's “ Water Babies" will be remembered
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sources.
as a pleasant feature of last year's holiday season, crave music of some sort, and get it in the tinkling
now reappears as the illustrator of a large octavo of many bells, twenty-five or thirty to a flock. Mr.
volume entitled “The Green Willow, and Other Gotch's many admirable line drawings, and his
Japanese Fairy Tales” (Macmillan). The stories, colored frontispiece view of Old Sarum, display
thirty-eight in number, which make up the text have much skill and taste.
been gathered by Miss Grace James from various To those readers who find Gibbon's “ Decline
“ Some have been selected from the Ko and Fall” too formidable to undertake, and even
ji-ki, or Record of Ancient Matters, which contains Signor Ferrero's far less ponderous works not suffi-
the mythology of Japan. Many are told from ciently light, Mrs. Elisabeth W. Champney's “Ro-
memory, being relics of childish days, originally mance of Imperial Rome” (Putnam) is well calcu-
heard from the lips of a school-fellow or a nurse. lated to prove an acceptable presentation of some of
Certain of them, again, form favorite subjects for the most interesting episodes in the history of the
representation upon the Japanese stage.” Mr. Eternal City. From the times of Augustus to the
Goble's forty delicately-colored illustrations are sur reign of Marcus Aurelius she conducts the reader
prisingly successful in reproducing the native atmo- through a succession of stirring scenes, making free
sphere of the tales, and altogether the volume is one use of anecdote and dialogue to enliven her
pages,
of the most charming and unusual of the season's which are further diversified with numerous and
offerings.
excellent illustrations, partly in photogravure and
The steam-ship, no less than the sailing vessel, partly in half-tone, reproducing both famous places
is a thing of beauty and of power. The history of and buildings of interest and also celebrated paint-
this marvellous product of many inventive brains is ings having to do with Roman characters and events.
fully related in Mr. R. A. Fletcher's “Steam-Ships: The colored frontispiece, the ornamental binding,
The Story of their Development to the present the large type and its open setting, the spacious
Day” (Lippincott), uniform in style with Mr. E. margins, and, last but not least, the absence of index
Keble Chatterton's “ Sailing Ships and their Story." and notes, proclaim the book a source of enjoyment
Not only is the evolution of the modern ocean grey and diversion rather than a giver of historical in-
hound traced from the first rude constructions of formation and useful instruction.
Rumsey and Fitch and Stevens and Fulton, but the Mr. M. A. De Wolfe Howe's dignified and inter-
author even goes back to such vague mention of ox esting volume on “ Boston Common (Riverside
driven or man-driven paddle-wheel craft as is to be Press) will find a welcome far beyond the boundaries
found in early literature. One hundred and fifty of that city. In four chapters he presents the
illustrations are provided, including views of mach memorable features and associations of the Common
inery and of vessels in process of building, and the in the seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, and
descriptive matter will interest both the naval archi- twentieth centuries. The last, however, as being
tect and the general reader. We look in vain among not yet in its 'teens, is dismissed with little ceremony
the pictures for the famous old stern-wheeler of and but a few remarks. Thirty-five excellent plates
the Mississippi River, and for the “Great Eastern.” from sources more or less ancient adorn the book
A model of the latter, however, is represented, and greatly enhance its interest. Like the careful
and also an interesting contemporary caricature. scholar that he is, Mr. Howe closes with a list of
Floating docks, the evolution of the battle steam-
sources of information” and an index. The
ship, the development of steam auxiliary, the turbine book, beside being well bound, is also boxed. The
engine, and other related matters are adequately edition is limited to five hundred and fifty numbered
treated.
copies.
The life of the lowly, sympathetically depicted, “Rumbo Rhymes, or The Great Combine” (Har-
has far more of wholesome human interest than per), by Mr. Alfred C. Calmour, and “rendered
many a biography of the high and mighty. “A into pictures” by Mr. Walter Crane, teaches, in a
Shepherd's Life: Impressions of the South Wilt set of rollicking jingles, the wrongfulness of eating,
shire Downs” (Dutton) has to do with the poor beating, over-working, and otherwise oppressing
and obscure but on the whole contented and cheer our brothers and sisters of the brute creation. The
ful folk of pastoral England. Mr. W. H. Hudson book may fall considerably short of making all its
is the author, and he has been ably seconded in his readers vegetarians, but it is sure to amuse them
work by Mr. Bernard C. Gotch, the illustrator. if they be young in years, or in heart, or in both.
One Caleb Bawcombe, South Wiltshire shepherd, is The numerous animal pictures, all in a profusion of
a prominent character in the rambling narrative, color, are in Mr. Crane's well-known style, and
but there are others to divide the interest. Curious most happily match the rhymes in whimsical and
bits of natural-history lore from various sources good-natured absurdity.
enrich the chapters and prove the author to be Marginal pictures in considerable variety, tinted
intellectually acquisitive and also keenly observant. and decorative in effect, as well as full-page colored
Among matters relating to sheep-culture we read illustrations, all from the practiced hand of Miss
with some surprise that sheep-bells in England are Sarah S. Stilwell, profusely adorn the new edition
used chiefly if not solely because the shepherds, of Mr. Edward Sandford Martin's popular book,
unprovided ith the pastoral pipe of classic times, “ The Luxury of Children, and Some Other Luxu-
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ries” (Harper). These talks on domestic matters— especially designed initial decorations comprise
a subject on which we all feel qualified to express the decorative features. Mr. Arthur Guiterman
ourselves in agreement or disagreement with the contributes a preface and notes. — “The Book of
author, especially if we chance to have no domestic Hospitalities" is an attractive guest book, with
life of our own as a disconcerting check to our guest greetings in verse by Mr. Arthur Guiterman,
abstract theories—are of universal appeal, and they who also contributes a “foreword” on “Old House
are now presented in a form that leaves nothing to Mottoes." Decorations in green on brown-toned
be desired.
Brittany paper and binding of brown boards with
Three successful books for the dweller in the leather back are in the publishers' characteristic
open are reissued by the Outing Publishing Co. in style.—“The Complete Cynic,” being “ Bunches of
uniform bindings of green limp leather and offered Wisdom Culled from the Calendars of Oliver Her-
together in a neat cloth case as “The Robinson ford, Ethel Watts Mumford, and Addison Mizner,”
Crusoe Library.” Mr. Horace Kephart's “Book is a mirth-provoking collection of distorted proverbs
of Camping and Woodcraft " and "Camp Cookery” with appropriate illustrations and decorations.-
and Dr. Charles Stuart Moody's “Backwoods Surg “The College Freshman's Don't Book," by “G. F.
ery and Medicine " are the three volumes comprising E. (A. B.),” covers a multitude of college subjects
the set. Each is a practical and accredited manual, from dress and dining to “ things in general.” Most
upon which the camper or woodsman may safely of the advice is humorous and all of it is good.
put reliance.
A more acceptable gift for one who “Patience and Her Garden," by Miss Ida Smith
sojourns, either casually or habitually, out-of-doors Decker, is “a whimsical parable for club-women,
will not be found among the season's publications. house-keepers,” and other busy people. It is bound
An appropriate and beautiful gift book for Christ in paper, as is “Love and Friendship," a collection
mas has been prepared by Miss Eleanor Hammond of epigrams by Miss Lillyan Shaffner.—The “Im-
Broadus in her “ Book of the Christ Child” | pressions Calendar” for 1911 is composed of fifty-
(Appleton), which presents a number of the more four sheets, each containing a motto beautifully
important legends concerning the infant Jesus, decorated and illuminated.
simply and interestingly told, alternating with First place among the small anthologies of the sea-
poetical selections from various sources, and abund son belongs to Mr. Temple Scott's “The Christmas
antly furnished with reproductions of famous paint Treasury” (Baker & Taylor Co.). In outward
ings by the old masters. Both poems and pictures form the volume is exactly uniform with the same
are in harmony with the book's purpose, which, the compiler's collection entitled “In Praise of Gardens,”
author explains, is “to present picturesque material published a few months ago ; and is edited with equal
which is comparatively unfamiliar in a Protestant good judgment in the choice of material. The dec-
country,” and not "to give religious instruction.” orative cover, tinted end-leaves, and inviting typog-
Old and young alike can find something to please raphy are all in the best of taste. — One of the most
them in the handsome volume.
popular among year-books has been Mrs. Florence
From a new publishing concern, The Abbey Com- Hobart Perin's “The Optimist's Good-morning."
pany of Chicago, comes a little group of choicely- To it she has now added a companion volume, “The
printed booklets. Whittier's “Snowbound” is an Optimist's Good-night” (Little, Brown, & Co.), full
addition to the “ Abbey Classics," a series of English of tonic thoughts for the days of the year. Each
poems artistically printed on Japan vellum, with page contains a helpful quotation and a prayer.-
rubricated initials and photogravure portrait. -- A “A Manual of Spiritual Fortification " (Harper) is
beautiful Christmas story is to be found in the late a compilation by Mrs. Louise Collier Willcox, of
Dr. Frederic Dewhurst's “The Magi in the West “ meditative and mystic poems" expressing “the
and their Search for the Christ.” It relates how abiding sense in man of the indwelling God.”
the Wise Men met again, this time to search for the Besides the intrinsic charm of the poems, the col-
kingdom of Christ on earth, and how at last they lection is interesting historically, as tracing the prog-
found it in the power of love. — The third of the ress of religious, as distinguished from doctrinal,
group is “A German Christmas Eve,” translated feeling through the course of English poetry. —
from the German of that popular humorist, Heinrich Inspiring quotations from American and foreign
Seidel. The story, which is taken from his master authors have been gathered into an anthology by
piece, “ Leberecht Hühnchen," is a delightful picture Mr. H. Wellington Wood, under the title, “Golden
of home life in Germany. The little book is printed Words Fitly Spoken ” (Lippincott). The extracts
in two colors, and daintily bound.
are printed in large type, in two colors, and portraits
The San Francisco publishing house of Messrs. of a dozen or more of the authors represented serve
Paul Elder & Co. maintains its enviable reputation as illustrations. — “Songs of Sentiment” (Moffat,
as publishers of artistic and original holiday volumes. Yard & Co.) is an anthology of love lyrics of all ages,
Their most attractive publication for this season is printed with decorated page borders and illustrated
a limited edition of Mrs. Browning's “Sonnets from in color by Mr. Howard Chandler Christy. It is
the Portuguese," printed in italic type on hand something of a shock to find Byron's “When We
made paper, and tastefully bound in boards, with Two Parted” or Moore's “The Time I've Lost in
decorated title label. A photogravure portrait and
A photogravure portrait and / Wooing” accompanied by pictures of typically up-


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to-date Christy figures; but this will not disturb Musical Moments," written and illustrated by Mr.
the artist's admirers, who are legion. — “Through John Brady, appears in a new edition, in board
the Year with Sousa" (Crowell) consists of excerpts covers, from the press of the Alice Harriman Co.
from the operas, marches, novels, letters, magazine In spite of her excess of musical temperament,
articles, songs, sayings, and rhymes of the versatile Mrs. Featherweight's monologues are full of human
and entertaining Mr. John Philip Sousa, selected and humorous interest. — “Siegfried," the third of
by himself from the note-books kept through thirty the Ring cycle, has been translated into English
busy years.
Mrs. Grace Browne Strand has com verse by Dr. Oliver Huckel, as a companion volume
piled two companion anthologies, "Love, Friend to “The Rheingold” and “The Valkyrie.” There
ship, and Good Cheer” and “Faith, Hope, Love." are four illustrations. (T. Y. Crowell & Co.) — In
They are published in gay bindings, with novel “ The Great Moments in a Woman's Life," Miss
decorations, by Messrs. A. C. McClurg & Co. Emily Calvin Blake sketches half a dozen episodes
“ The Little Book of Friendship” (Reilly & Britton), in the experience of a typical woman. They may be
compiled and edited by Wallace and Frances considered as a sort of sequel to her “Engaged Girl
Rice, is a thin volume of treasure-trove, taste Sketches." (Forbes & Co.) — Now that “ Darius
fully bound in boards, with frontispiece in color. — Green and his Flying Machine ” has come true,"
The little “Good-Luck Book," in an appropriate red it is only fitting that Mr. Trowbridge's poem
leather cover, is a compilation of good wishes and should appear in a new edition. Mr. Wallace
cheerful verses compiled by Mr. Ole Bang and pub- Goldsmith furnishes a generous number of illus-
lished by Brandu's. Miss Leolyn Louise Everett trations. (Houghton Mifflin Co.) - Mr. Thomas G.
has collected, and the Watkins Co. of New York has Thrum has selected a few tales from his book of
published, the "Sleep Book," being selections from Hawaiian legends, and Messrs. A. C. McClurg &
“ The Poetry of Slumber.” The volume is well Co. reprint them in a quaintly bound and decorated
printed on hand-made
paper,
in a limited edition. booklet entitled “Stories of the Menehunes." From
We can do little more than mention a number of the same publishers comes “Quercus Alba ” by the
small gift-books, whose range of interest is wide late Will Lillibridge, a tale of a veteran oak of the
enough to include all imaginable minor holiday Ozark Mountains. — “The Master's Friendships
needs. “Cupid's Cyclopedia, compiled for Daniel is a sermon by Dr. J. R. Miller, published with half
Cupid” by Messrs. Oliver Herford and John Cecil a dozen illustrations in color and a pretty cover
Clay (Scribner), is a worthy successor to “Cupid's by Messrs. T. Y. Crowell & Co. - An addition to
Almanac.” It defines for the earnest student of Messrs. Duffield's “Rubric Series” reprints Oscar
Love-making all the terms of the game, and depicts Wilde's “Ballad of Reading Gaol.”—“Brass Tacks:
many intereresting varieties of the genus Lovely Capsule Optimism,” by Colonel William C. Hunter,
Woman, besides furnishing a map and a full de contains much epigrammatic wisdom making for
scription of the “ Ancient and Marvellous Countrie
courage, hope, and success. The cover is plenti-
of Amoria.” – Mrs. Janet Ayer Fairbank is the fully besprinkled with “tacks." (Reilly & Britton
author and Miss Rebecca Kruttschnitt is the illus-Co.) – “My Advice Book ” and “
Making Faces"
trator of “In Town, and Other Conversations” (McClurg) are pocket-sized opportunities for one's
(McClurg), wherein are discussed, with more or less friends to develop latent humor. The small volumes,
wit and wisdom, such matters as Debutantes, Bores, which are designed by Mr. Herschel Williams, are
Playwriting, Woman and Superwoman, Success, intended to be lent about among one's acquaintances,
and Civilization. - "The Zodiac Birthday Book” who are expected to fill them with good advice or
(Baker & Taylor), by Miss Beatrice Baxter Ruyl, good likenesses, as the case may be. — Three pretty
enables its reader to discover the whole truth about booklets in paper covers are Dr. William A. Quayle's
his own and his friends' characters. It is attractively interpretation of “The Song of Songs ” (Jennings
printed in two colors, with blank pages under & Graham); Mr. Walter Taylor Field's discussion
each sign for the insertion of names.—In “The of “What is Success" (Pilgrim Press); and
Teddysee” (Huebsch), Mr. Wallace Irwin recounts “Merry Xmas!” a two-scene farce on the overdoing
in classic metres plentifully besprinkled with up of Christmas giving, by Miss Elizabeth Kellogg
to-date slang the recent wanderings of the intrepid (Cincinnati: U. P. James).
Colonel through Africa, Europe, and America.
Appropriate illustrations by Mr. Blumenthal ac-
company the text.
Mr. H. C. Bunner's delightful
operetta, “ The Seven Old Ladies of Lavendar A TRANSLATION by Frances Douglas (Mrs. Charles
Town," » with Mr. Oscar Weil's music, appears in a
F. Lummis), of Señor Vinente Blasco Ibanez's story
new illustrated edition bearing the imprint of
of bull-fighting, “Sangre y Arena,” is announced by
Messrs. Harper & Brothers.-Full of tender pathos
Messrs. A. C. McClurg & Co. for publication next Fall.
is the plaint of “Caesar,” the late King Edward's
Mrs. Lummis is an accomplished Spanish scholar, and
her English rendering will have the approval of Señor
dog, entitled “ Where's Master ?»; Who held
Ibanez himself. The book will be illustrated in full
Caesar's paw as he wrote the book has not been
color by Troy and Margaret West Kinney, who are
divulged, but it is evidently somebody who under spending the Winter in Spain partly to execute this im-
stands both dogs and men.—“Mrs. Featherweight's portant commission.


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ones.
NOTES.
The sixteenth annual meeting of the central division
of the Modern Language Association of America will
be held at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri,
on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, December 28,
29, and 30.
Dr. Sven Hedin's “Overland to India ” will be issued
by the Macmillan Co. within the next few weeks. It
is supplementary to his “ Trans-Himalaya,” and de-
scribes the overland journey to India by way of Teheran,
made by the author before he started on his expedition
to Tibet.
We are informed that an official biography of Thomas
Love Peacock is being prepared. Any persons who
have unpublished letters of Peacock in their possession
are asked to communicate with his grand-daughter,
Mrs. Charles Clarke, at 63, Kensington Mansions, Earl's
Court, London, W.
« The Oxford Book of Ballads,” chosen and edited
by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, is to be issued imme-
diately by the Oxford University Press. This volume,
consisting of nearly 900 pages, includes 176 ballads, a
form of art, which, as the editor points out, has been
dead, or as good as dead, for two hundred years.
We learn from the London “Nation" that Matilde
Serao is engaged upon a novel, of which she is said to
have greater hopes than of any she has yet written. Its
theme resembles that of Flaubert's “Madame Bovary,"
and her original intention was to call the book “Sin.”
The author has, bowever, changed her mind, and the
book will appear under the title of “Intoxication,
Slavery, and Death."
A Memoir of the late John La Farge, with a study
of his work, by Mr. Royal Cortissoz, is announced for
publication next Spring by the Houghton Mifflin Co.
Mr. Cortissoz, who is critic of art and literature of the
“ New York Tribune,” and the author of important
books upon art matters, has an intimate knowledge of
Mr. La Farge and his work, based on a friendship of
some twenty years. The book, which was sanctioned
by Mr. La Farge, will embody recollections communi-
cated by him to the author in manuscript, together with
numerous notes of conversations, anecdotes, etc., making
it a personal portrait of unusual vividness and authen-
ticity. It will be fully illustrated with reproductions
of La Farge's work reproduced in photogravure.
The Titmarsh Club of London is engaged in arrang-
ing the celebration of the Centenary of the birth of
Thackeray, falling on July 18, 1911. In connection
with the celebration, a Thackeray Exhibition will be
held as nearly as possible on that date at the Charter-
house, by the courteous permission of the Master of the
Charterhouse. The Club has already received many
assurances of valuable support from collectors abroad
and at home, and will gladly welcome further offers of
interesting contributions to the exhibition. These con-
tributions
may include personal relics as well as items
of literary and artistic interest connected with the great
novelist. The utmost care will be taken of every object
entrusted to the Club during the whole course of the
exhibition, which, it is proposed, shall not last longer
than about a fortnight. Those who intend coöperating
with the Club in its interesting plan should communi-
cate with the secretary, Mr. Lewis Melville, Salcombe,
Harpenden, Herts, England.
THE SEASON'S BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG.
The following titles were received too late for in-
clusion in the full descriptive list of Children's Books
of the present season, published in our first Holiday
issue of December 1.
Stories for Boys Especially.
A SENIOR QUARTER-BACK. By T. Truxton Hare. A
lively tale of college life and football, in which the cap-
tain of the 'Varsity team disciplines his players with
good results. Ilustrated. Penn Pubʼg Co. $1.25.
A UNITED STATES MIDSHIPMAN IN THE PHILIPPINES.
By Lieut.-Com. Yates Stirling, Jr. Narrates the ad-
ventures of an Annapolis graduate who commands a gun-
boat in the Philippines. Illustrated. Penn Pub'g Co. $1.25.
CAPTAIN OF THE SCHOOL TEAM. By John Prescott Earl.
The chief interest lies in a football game between two
rival schools. Illustrated. Penn Pub'g Co. $1.25.
AN ANNAPOLIS FIRST CLASSMAN. By Lieut.-Com. E. L.
Beach. In this new volume of a well-known series the
hero wins many honors in his last year at Annapolis.
Illustrated. Penn Pub'g Co. $1.25.
Stories for Girls Especially.
BETTY WALES ON THE CAMPUS. By Margaret Warde.
The popular heroine is now secretary of the Students'
Aid Committee at Harding College, where she has some
lively times with her old college chums and some new
Illustrated. Penn Pub'g Co. $1.25.
A FRESHMAN Co-Ed. By Alice Louise Lee. The story of
a girl who cares more for her college and her sorority
than for her own career. Illustrated. Penn Pub'g Co. $1.25.
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[Dec. 16,
THE DIAL
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TISSOT'S LIFE OF CHRIST
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