dear to all readers of “ The For-
esters.” The beautiful lines upon the death of
the Duke of Clarence are almost prophetic of
the still more beautiful lines—the last the
poet penned — in which “ the silent voices ” of
the departed are invoked to call the passing
spirit, not toward “ the sunlight that is gone,”
but “ forward to the starry track.”
Among the varied notes struck by this vol-
ume from the poet’s resonant lyre, there is one
that seems to soar above all the others, the note
-of faith in what the process of the suns may
bring forth. That every winter will change to

spring has been the burden of many a hopeful
Tennysonian song, expressed with a conﬁdence
that the years have only strengthened. Four
poems in the present collection give utterance
to this high and serene optimism, which seorns
“ the barren sophistries of comfortable moles,”
and which looks existent evils calmly and
steadfastly in the face.
“ Doubt no longer that the highest is the wisest and the best,
Let not all that saddens Nature blight thy hope or break thy
TQM},
Quail not at the ﬁery mountain, at the shipwreck, or the
rolling
Thunder, or the rendiug earthquake, or the famine, or the
pest ! "
In the song of Night to the Earth, this faith
becomes rapturous rnusic-:
“ The Reign of the Meek upon earth,
O weary one, has it begun?
But all’s well that ends well,
\Vhirl, and follow the Sun!
“ For moans will have grown sphere-music
Or ever your race be run I
And all’s well that ends well,
\Vhirl, and follow the sun ! ”
VVe are living in the dawn of time, after all,
and the ages of which we are heirs may be but
as a moment to the ages to come.
“ Dawn not Day!
Is it Shame, so few should have climb‘d from the dens in the
levels below,
Men, with a heart and a soul, no slaves of a four~footed will ?
But if twenty million of summers are stored in the sun-
light still,
Ive are far from the noon of man, there is time for the race
to grow.
“ Red of the Dawn!
Is it tuming a fainter red ? So be it, but when shall we lay
The Ghost of the Brute that is walking and haunting us
yet, and be free ?
In a hundred, a thousand winters? Ah, what will our
children be,
The men of a hundred thousand. a million summers away '.’ "
But the height of the poet’s prophetic strain is
reached in “The Making of Man,” which
should be read in connection with the lines
“ By an Evolutionist,” published in the vol-
ume of 1889.
“ Where is one that, born of woman, altogether can escape
From the lower world within him, moods of tiger, or of ape ?
Man as yet is being made, and ere the crowning Age of
“K93-
Shall not {BOD after E50“ pass and touch him into shape ?
“ All about him shadow still, but, while the races ﬂower and
fade,
Prophet—eyes may catch a glory slowly gaining on the shade.
Till the peoples all are one, and all their voices blend in
choric
Hallelujah to the Maker, ‘It is ﬁnish’d. Man is made.’ ”
These lines touch the loftiest peak of sublim-
ity, and strike the hearer mute with awe.
The swan song of the poet was sung with
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the seer speaks to us, making his vision ours,
and leaving a message at which all coming
generations may take heart, while waiting till
the shade indeed disappear and the glory alone
remain.
The last songs of our own New England poet
come to us at the same time with the last poems
of the old English Laureate. Whittier does
not, of course, make anything like the uni-
versal appeal made by Tennyson, and no com-
parison between the two is called for; but af-
fection for the singer, and reverence for his
unstained life, do much to hide the defects that
would meet the eye of a criticism unwarmed
by feeling. Most of these poems were circu-
lated two years ago among the author’s friends,
in a private edition, but they are nearly all
new to the public. Much of this verse is oc-
casional or commemorative, including tributes
to Lowell and Holmes, and a Haverhill anni-
versary poem. The quatrain on “ Milton,”
written to accompany the gift, by Mr. George
W. Childs, of a memorial window to an English
church, well illustrates the poet’s felicity in
occasional verse:
“ The New World honors him whose lofty plea
For England’s freedom made her own more sure,
Whose song, immortal as its theme, shall be
Their common freehold while both worlds endure.”
The tribute to a departed friend, “R. S.
S[pofford], at Deer Island on the Merrimac,”
seems very beautiful, but perhaps it is partly
because river and island and “ ancient pine-
trees ” are associated with the present writer’s
own happiest recollections of childhood.
" Make, for he loved thee well, our Men-imac,
From wave and shore a low and long lament
For him, whose last look sought thee, as he went
The unknown way from which no step comes back.
And ye, O ancient pine-trees, at whose feet
He watched in life the sunset’s reddening glow,
Let the soft south wind through your needles blow
A ﬁtting requiem tenderly and sweet!
No fonder lover of all lovely things
Shall walk where once he walked, no smile more glad
Greet friends than his who friends in all men had,
VVhose pleasant memory to that Island clings,
Where a dear mourner in the home he left
Of ]ove’s sweet solace cannot be bereft.”
But the verses that will be best remembered,
because they echo those other verses,
“ I know not where His islands lift
Their fronded palms in air,”
and because they ﬁtly express the calm out-
look of a beautiful spirit at the end of life, are
these from “ Burning Drift-Wood ”:
“ I know the solemn monotones
Of waters calling unto me ;
I know from whence the airs have blown
That whisper of the Eternal Sea.

“As low my ﬁres of drift-wood burn,
I hear that serfs deep sounds increase,
And, fair in sunset light, discern
Its mirage-lifted Isles of Peace.”
A greater poet than Whittier might not suc-
ceed in giving utterance to a purer swan-song
than this.
The pieces that Mrs. Bates collects in her
volume are simple in manner, and take their
chief inspiration from birds and ﬂowers and
aspects of natural beauty. Most of them seem
to have been written with a childish audience
in view. They have a marked lyrical quality,
and are unpretentiously successful as a rule.
The Writer’s best work may be found in a
group of poems relating to the fall of the year.
“Indian Summer” will serve us as an ex-
ample:
“ Autumn — an Indian red and old,
Whose heart was throbbing faint and slow,
Wished ere it grew forever cold
To be at peace with all below.
" Round the frost-kindled council-ﬁre
Gathered the tribes from far and near;
Last words this dying chief and sire
\Vould speak that day, and all must hear.
“ His weak hand grasped a calumet —
A reed for stem, a red clay bowl,
The whole with bits of feather set —
He ﬁlled it —— lit it with a coal,
“ Then spake to them : ‘ My race is run :
My feet — no longer swift —- are bound
Far past the setting of the sun
Into the happy hunting-ground.
“ ‘ So warriors, brothers, braves, today
Our hands will meet, our strifes will cease.
Smoke with me in last friendly way
This pipe — this calumet of peace.
“ ‘ Now I have done.’ His grey head bent
As bends a corn-ear fully ripe,
And round the dusky circle went,
From lip to lip, the lighted pipe.
“ Up from the forest council-ﬁre
A cloud of azure vapor broke,
Veiled with soft haze the sky entire.
And mantled all the earth with smoke."
The volume is prettil y printed, and issued witlr
parchment paper covers in Holiday style. It
would make an appropriate gift for a child.
Vve reviewed Miss Monroc’s “ Valeria and
Other Poems” when they ﬁrst appeared,
nearly a year ago, in a privately printed edi-
tion. But the edition in which they are now
published calls for particular mention, because
to the original contents of the volume the au-
thor’s Columbian Ode has been added. Miss
Monroe, it will be remembered, was selected
by the Committee on Ceremonies of the
\Vorld’s Columbian Exposition to write the
dedicatory poem for the exercises to be held
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dredth anniversary of the discovery of Amer-
ica. Upon the occasion of those exercises, last
October, portions of the poem were read to the
vast audience assembled; and other portions,
set to music by Mr. George W. Chadwick,
were sung, with orchestral accompaniment, by
a chorus of ﬁve thousand voices. Under the
circumstances, it was, of course, impossible to
make any estimate of the literary value of the
poem, and its publication in the present vol-
ume ﬁrst gives us an opportunity to pronounce
updn its merits. The fact that Miss Monroe’s
poetical work, st the time when she was hon-
ored with the invitation of the Exposition
authorities, had received circulation only among
a limited number of her friends, naturally
caused the public to feel misgivings as to the
wisdom of the selection, and to ask why some
poet of national reputation, such as Mr. VVhit-
tier or Mr. Stedman, had not been chosen to
do so important a work. But the poem, as
now published, justiﬁes both itself and those
by whom it was commissioned; it is a digni-
ﬁed and noble production, equal to the occa-
sion, and probably equal to anything that
could have been obtained had the authorities
looked for their poet beyond the horizon of
Chicago. This fact, which is not surprising to -
the few who have known for some time the
quality of Miss Monroe’s work, must be both
a surprise and a satisfaction to the wider pub-
lic. If the great exhibition, on its artistic side,
shall offer nothing less creditable than this ode,
it will deserve the warmest congratulations that
its friends know how to frame.
The structure of the poem haw evidently been
the object of much care, and it is a little cu-
rious that the one marked fault of the work
should be a defect in its architectonics, a neg-
lect of the careful perspective that has been
elsewhere faithfully observed. The poem be-
gins with an invocation to Columbia describ-
ing the procession of nations come to do her
homage. Then comes a song of the unknown
world and the quest of the Genoese, and a
further personiﬁcation of Columbia as the ideal
of the new civilization.
" Ah ! what would she
\Vith all the out-worn pageantry
Of purple robes and heavy mace and crown ?"
The subduing of the New VVorld is the sub-
ject of the next division of the ode, and trib-
utes follow to the two great ﬁgures of Amer-
ican histor —-Washington and Lincoln. Fi-
nally, we have the prophetic section of the work,
ushered in by the following impassioned lines :

" Columbia, my country, dost thou hear ?
Ah ! dost thou hear the songs unheard of time ?
Hark ! for their passion trembles in thine ear.
Hush l for thy soul must heed their cs.ll sublime.
Across wide seas, unswept by earthly sails,
Those strange sounds draw thee on, for thou shalt be
Leader of nations through the autumnal gales
That wait to mock the strong and wreck the free.
Dearer, more radiant than of yore,
Against the dark I see thee rise ;
Thy young smile spurns the guarded shore,
And braves the shadowed ominous skies.
And still that conquering smile who see
Pledge love, life, service, all to thee.”
The lyrical movement of the poem reaches its
climax in the closing chorus, with its simple
and stately rhythm :
“ Columbia! Men beheld thee rise
A goddess from the misty sea.
Lady of joy, sent from the skies,
The nations worshipped thee.
Thy brows were ﬂushed with dawn's ﬁrst light;
By foamy waves with stars bedight
Thy blue robe ﬂoated free.
“ Now let the sun ride high o’erhead,
Driving the day from shore to shore.
His burning tread we do not dread,
For thou art evermore
Lady of love whose smile shall bless
Whom brave deeds win to tendemess,
Whose tears the lost restore.
“ Lady of hope thou art. We wait
With courage thy serene command.
Through unknown seas, toward undreamed fate,
We ask thy guiding hand.
On ! though sails quiver in the gals l
Thou at the helm, we cannot fail.
On to God's time-veiled strand l
“ Lady of beauty! thou shalt win
Glory and power and length of days.
The sun and moon shall be thy kin,
The stars shall sing thy praise.
All hail! we bring thee vows most sweet
To strew before thy winged feet.
Now onward be thy ways ! "
In speaking of “ Eleusis and Lesser Poems,”
the title-page of the volume permits us to men-
tion the name of the writer, which we were
obliged to withhold in reviewing “Eleusis,”
published without the “ lesser poems,” and
anonymously, over two years ago. Professor
William Rufus Perkins, of the University of
lowa, now acknowledges the authorship of this
remarkable verse, Which, without being too ob-
trusively imitative, has so many Tenuysonian
qualities. We do not know of anyone else
who has handled the dangerous form of “In
Memoriam ” verse quite as successfully as Mr.
Perkins has handled it in this lyric sequence.
One cannot easily forget such lines as these,
descriptive of Paastum and its temples:
" O ruined columns by the sea,
C-aressed to‘-night by deathful mist.
Your perfect contours once were kissed
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Or as these, which picture the rapture of lovers
at last united :
“ They walk to meet the golden west;
Across they pass the purple hills;
And where eternal Summer spills
Her nrna of sunshine, dwell at rest.”
Or as these, which image the triumph of Au-
tulnn:
“Stately across the world she trod,
Her anns with gold and purple hung ;
And wide the colors rich she ﬂung
O'er heath and distant tree and sod.
“ The ﬂame of setting sun grew pale
Beneath the halo Autumn wore.
And ’neath her feet the forest ﬂoor
Glowed like the wine in Holy Grail.”
The new “ Eleusis " contains several numbers
not before published, and is supplemented by a
sheaf of songs of uneven but often exquisite
beauty. Perhaps the best of these are the
“Bellerophon,” a ﬁne piece of workmanship
in Spenserian stanza, and “A Vision of Love,”
which has in it, however, so much of Tennyson
that it cannot strictly be judged as an original
production. The latter poem is a sort of
“ Dream of Fair Vi-'omen,” having Helen,
Ariadne, Zenobia, Juliet, and Marguerite for
heroines. VVe extract a few stanzas and the
lyric at their close:
" Then to my eyes a qneenly presence fair
Came issuing out the curving shore’s embrace,
All orient~clad. rich jewels in her hair, —
The pearl of Syria's race.
“ ‘I sate high-throned in stately pillared halls.
And drank of empire; at my mighty side
My King, my lord,— but woe to most befalls,
Yes, Odenathus died!
“ ‘I won and wore Palmyra’s royal crown;
Imperial Rome lay breathless at my name:
August Zenobia, peerless in renown,
I gild the book of fame.
"‘ ‘ But glory lost its most seductive zest
\Vhen love fell down beneath the poisoned dart;
Empire is sweet, but of all empires best
Is that of one fond heart 1 ’
“ She passed, and swift as tempest-driven sail
Burst to my eyes Verona’s famous maid ;
Near her, his cheeks with love’s high passion pale,
Her Romeo, death-betrayed.
" Love, O my love ! dark was the tomb �e kne� ;
Dark, yea, but light, for love came passing through ;
Light is the grave if love lie buried too.
“ ‘ Fromfdeath is life, and love outlives it all ;
Love is life’s source, and death his entrance-hall ;
In life, in death, my heart obeys his call.’ ”
We cannot quarrel overmuch with these beau-
tiful verses because a far greater poet alone
made them possible.
IVILLIAM MORTON PAYNE.

HOLIDAY PUBLICATIOXS.

The following notices cover the earlier Holiday
publications received by THE DIAL, the later arriv-
als. among which are some noteworthy titles. being
reserved for our next number. with our present
semi-monthly issue we are in a position to give a
more complete account of this now important class
of books than heretofore. when Tun DmL's Holi-
iday notices were necessarily conﬁned to the single
December issue appearing at the beginning of the
month. In their Christmas output this year. the
publishers have shown their usual good taste and
invention, and an increased regard to the durability,
from a mercantile point of view, of their publica-
tions. \Ve are glad to note a falling off in the
more ephemeral Holiday wares, whose salableness
scarcely outlasts, or is expected to outlast, the sea-
son for which they are designed.
\Ve take pleasure in noting that the Century
Company now offer in book form the series of six-
ty-seven engravings after “ Old Italian Masters"
by Mr. Timothy Cole. which, with Mr. Cole's
“Comments” and Mr. \V. J. Stillman’s ‘~ Historical
Notes," have formed during the past ﬁve years or
so a leading feature of ‘- The Century Magazine.”
The fastidious book-buyer will probably ﬁnd noth-
ing in this year's Holiday list more outwardly al-
luring and intrinsically valuable than this superb
work. The engravings are real artistic achievements,
to which cultured Americans, sensitive to the dispar-
ity between our material and our intellectual and
aesthetic progress. may point with satisfaction. ‘Ye
think this not saying too much. Mr. Cole’s work.
tending to familiarize the public with the noblest
ideals of art, to make manifest the aim and spirit
which distinguishes art proper from the pictorial
fashions of a da.y. has had a distinct educative in-
ﬂuence; and it should hasten the inevitable return
to the appreciation and right understanding of
the paintings of the Italian Renaissance. works
which, in their even interpenetration of technical
and intellectual excellence, are easily hors con-
cours. Mr. Cole's translation of these master-
pieces often stirs something of the sort of admira-
tion excited by a tour (ls force. One cannot but
wonder at the skill and patience which, by the sim-
ple variation of line, renders with such ﬁdelity the
delicate modelling of Raphael, Del Sarto’s melting
contour, Correggio's waxy ﬁnish, and Tintorettds
noble chiaroscuro. As M. Hebert of the Academy
of France observed, on looking at these plates,
" line can go no farther." Like all human per-
formance, Mr. Cole's work has its inequalities:
but it is never mediocre, and often excellent; and
several of the plates, notably “ The Concert " by
Giorgione. a “ Madonna and Child " by G. Bellini,
Lotto's “ Three Ages." Raphael's “ Cardellino Ma-
donna." and a detail from Fra Angelico’s "The
Last Judgment," seem to us to touch the fullest
capabilities of line engraving. This enterprise of


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the Century Company is of a sort that should meet
the substantial support of intelligent cultivated
people.
Another handsome reprint from the Century
Company is Mrs. S. Van Rensselaer's “ English
Cathedrals," illustrated with 154 drawings by Jos-
eph Pennell. The text has been largely rewritten
since its appearance seriatim in “ The Century
Magazine” some years ago, a sojourn in France,
and a consequent closer acquaintance with French
Gothic styles, having enlarged the author's view and
modiﬁed her estimates of English mediaaval archi-
tecture. Mrs. Van Rensselaer does not, of course,
profess to speak ea: catkedra (we really beg the
reader's pardon I ), her book being, as she says, “ for
amateurs, not for architects,” for “those who love,
rather than for those who want to study, architec-
ture.” But the book is certainly more than this
modest summary of it would seem to imply. The
author has evidently made a careful study of her
theme in its topographical, historical, and broader
arcliitectural aspects; and her descriptions of the
twelve great English cathedrals are readable and
informing, and quite as exhaustive as the most ex-
acting unscientiﬁc reader is likely to ask. The illus-
trations show each cathedral as a whole and in its
details, from varying points of view, exterior and
interior, while the text is interspersed with plans,
diagrams, cuts of capitals, pillars, etc. Mr. Pen-
nell is at his best in this volume, his work being un-
usually thorough and painstaking throughout.
"Famous Pets of Famous People” (Lothrop),
by Eleanor Lewis, is a delightful and, in a way, an
original book, brimming over with fun, pathos, and
anecdote, and profusely illustrated with portraits of
the " pets ” and their more or less illustrious mas-
ters and mistresses. The list of favorites is suffi-
ciently comprehensive, the tastes of the various pet-
owners running the gamut of the animal world
from Rosa Bonheui-'s lions and tigers down to
Spinoza’s spiders and Sir Joseph Bank's snakes. It
was Sir Joseph's humor to keep aboa-constrictor in
his 1ibrary,— where the brute, in addition to his
pleasant social qualities, must have proved a useful
bar to the rapacity of the book-borrower. Goethe
had similar tastes: “He kept a snake for some
months, feeding it himself. and caring for it. until
his interest, scientiﬁc at ﬁrst, became personal and
affectionate. The creature became quite friendly,
and would uprear its head in recognition, when-
ever the master approached." Foremost among
the pets is “ man’s friend, the dog," and he is shown
in all his inﬁnite variety —“ mongrel, puppy, whelp,
and hound, and cur of low degree.” Pussy is well
represented, and there is a most comical cut of
Victor Hugo's great black-and-white *‘ Mouche,”
a truculent “Tom," whose malevolent character,
“silenceuse, déﬁa-rite, ténébreuse, sinistz-e.” is evi-
dent in his portrait. Lord Chancellor Eldon was
fond of cats, and kept “a room full” of them.
“Once when, owing to some bone of contention,

they grew extremely noisy, he went into the room
and solemnly read the Riot Act — with what effect
we are not told.” The volume is handsomely got-
ten up throughout, and should prove a �elcome gift
to old or young.
The usual good taste and good workmanship
of Messrs. Houghton, Miﬁlin & Co.’s publica-
tions are shown in a pretty volume -— generally sug-
gestive of the “ One Hoss Shay ” of last year—
containing Dr. Holmes's familiar poems, “Dorothy
Q.," ~‘ The Boston Tea-Party,” and “ Grandmother's
Story of Bunker Hill Battle.” Howard Pyle is the
artist, and his sketches are. in general, so sympa-
thetically done as to fairly form part and parcel of
the text. Mr. Pyle’s single ﬁgures are felicitously
typical,-— enough so to make an occasional indeﬁn-
iteness and lack of perspective in his drawings, when
viewed as a whole, the more regrettable. Dr.
Holmes's crisp verses are instinct with the spirit of
a generation and period whose memory is rapidly
passing away from us, now that American patriot-
ism, diluted by a hundred and one exotic patriot-
isms, seems in some danger of momentarily losing
its distinctive character and rightful hegemony.
We should like to see the Bunker Hill lines, or
some kindred pieces, committed to memory by every
American school-boy. Itis not, perhaps, too much to
ask of our foreign-born brethren that they — despite
their inborn and measurably justifiable dislike of
the ascetic side of “ Puritanism "—-bear in respect-
ful remembrance their debt to the heroism of a day
“ When a thousand men lay bleeding on the slopes of Bunker
Hill."
Dr. Holmes's spirited verses may serve as a re-
minder that the men who were timorous enough
to dread a visitation of Divine vengeance if they
kissed their wives on a Sunday, could look into the
gun-barrels of George's grenadiers without wink-
ing, when it came to a. question of human right and
principle.
To all but \Vordswortl|ians of the sterner sort
who read straight through “ The Excursion " without
ﬂinching, Matthew Arnold's volume of selections
from that uneven bard is likely to prove all-suﬁicient.
To most readers \Vordsworth’s baggage-train is
larger than his army ; and a collection of his poems
from which the chaﬁ' and the lighter grains have
been winnowed by so deft a hand as Mr. Arnold's,
is sure of a welcome. Messrs. T. Y. Crowell & Co.
publish a comely Holiday edition of Mr. Arnold’s
excellent anthology of Wordsworth, with seven illus-
trations in photogravure by Edmund H. Garrett.
The volume is a handy duodecimo, gilt top, with
small but clear print, rather thick paper. and a mod-
estly ornamental cloth cover. Mr. Ga.rrett’s de-
signs, though slight, are pretty, and add to the at-
tractiveness of the ensemble.
Messrs. Little, Brown, & Co. publish a richly ap-
pointed illustrated edition of Mr. Francis Park-
man’s ever-popular “ The Oregon Trail.” There is
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life as it was before the picket-lines of civilization
swept away its essential features than these sketches
of Mr. Parkman. The present edition is the ﬁfth,
the ﬁrst having appeared in 1847, the fourth in
1872; and its interest and descriptive value are
greatly enhanced by Mr. Frederick Remington's
spirited drawings. Mr. Remington's realistic pencil
-shows the Indian as he really is,—or, in this case,
as he was, for “ poor Lo ” has sadly degenerated
in point of picturesqueness, now that his paint and
war-plumes, his ﬂuttering trophies and barbaric
ﬁnery, are exchanged for the grotesquely-blended
cast-off habiliments of his conqueror. Cooper’s
alembic would scarcely distil romance from the red
man of to-day ; and the nimblest fancy halts before
an “Unc-as” in “overalls” and a “stove-pipe”
hat, with an old army blanket by way of toga.
“The Oregon Trail” in its new dress makes a de-
lightful gifbbook for young readers as well» as
“ grown-ups.”
Considering the time over which his inﬂuence
has extended, no poet, perhaps, has given the spe-
cial pleasure which poetry is capable of giving, to
a larger number of persons than James Thompson.
He has been preeminently the popular poet, not be-
cause he is vulgar, for he is anything but that, but
chieﬂy because he has truthfully and often exquis-
itely expressed what everyone feels that he or she
has seen or heard.
“ What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.”
Everybody remembers Coleridg-e‘s remark on ﬁnd-
ing a thumbed copy of "The Seasons” in an inn
window. This ﬁne poem has been reprinted by
Messrs. Estes & Lauriat in a set of four dainty vol-
umes, illustrated in half-tone. and beautifully bound
in silk, each binding of a diﬁerent tint from the
rest. Thompson is purely objective. and his verse
lends itself well to illustrations, as shown in the
generally pleasing cuts in this edition.
A tasty, inexpensive gift-book is ‘~ The Poets’
Corner; or, Homes and Haunts of the Poets ”
(Dutton the text by Alice Corkran, and the illus-
trations by Allen Barraud. The work is made up of
ﬁfteen short biographical and descriptive sketches of
great poets.— Shakespeare. Chaucer, Byron, Gray.
\Vordsworth, Longfellow. etc..— with an Introduc-
tion in verse by Mr. FL K. Weatherly. the whole
liberally interspersed with Mr. Barraud's extremely
pretty sketches in monotint.
Messrs. Estes & Laui-iat’s popular gift-book of
last year, “ The Lily of the Arno.” by Virginia W.
Johnson, has a worthy and timely successor in
“Genoa the Superb," written by the same author
and mounted in similar style. The twenty full-
page plates, reproduced from photographs. showing
leading points of interest in Genoa, are well selected
and satisfactory, and the cover of white, blue, and
gold, stamped with the Genoese arms, is notably
chaste and attractive. The author has evidently
looked up the authorities with care, and she has
given a readable and comprehensive historical and

descriptive sketch, much in Mrs. Oliphant's style, of
the city of Columbus.
The D. Lothrop Company issue, in a tasteful ob-
long octavo, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s “A Lost
\Vinter.” The poem is descriptive of a winter
spent in Florida—the asperities of the northern
season being thus “ lost," or rather exchanged for
the June-scented, ﬂower-laden December of the
land of the orange and alligator. The attractive-
ness of the volume is largely__due to the monotint
sketches of Florida scenery, by Mary Cecilia
Spaulding.
The familiar name of Irene E. Jerome appears
on a neat full-gilt octavo of unmistakable Holiday
aspect, entitled “ Sun Prints in Sky Tints " (Lee &
Shepard). The title is rather misleading, as the
sketches of ﬂowers, birds, grasses, and bits of la.nd-
scape, are done directly from nature, without the
aid of the camera. Miss Jerome's work is dainty
and graceful as of old, and the sky-blue tint in
which text and drawings are printed has a rather
pleasing effect. There are appropriate selections
in prose and verse, reprinted, mostly, from standard
periodicals.
A neatly-bound oblong octavo from the F. A.
Stokes Company contains six “ Selected Photogra-
vures,” severally entitled “ In the Harvest Field,"
“Return from the Fete," "' By the Lake.” “An
Eastern Dance,” “ An Eastern Toilet," and “ The
Honeymoon.” The subjects chosen are pleasing,
and the process-work well done. There is no text.
Messrs. Harper & Brothers publish in Holiday
dress two old favorites, Mr. G. W. Curtis's “Prue and
I," illustrated in pen-and-ink and wash by Mr. Albert
E. Sterner, and Mr. Henry James’s “ Daisy Miller."
with drawings and a tinted frontispiece by Mr.
Harry McVickar. Mr. Sterner's pen drawings are
capital,— rather better than the ones in wash, which
seem a little indistinct; while Mr. Mcvickar, though
his work is in itself spirited and taking, does not
seem to have quite caught the humor of Mr. J ames's
types. Both volumes are prettily bound, one in
light green and the other in green and white diag-
onal stripes; and they should easily rank with the
most salable gift-books of the season.
Longfellow-"s charming romance “ Hyperion "
well deserves the ﬁne setting given it this year by
Messrs. Porter 8.: Coates. The binding is a rich de-
sign of deep~red and gold, with back and part sides
of white cloth with blue and gold tracery. There
are twenty-nine well-chosen photogravure plates
from scenes touched upon in the text.
Miss Agnes Strickland's “Lives of the Queens
of England from the Norman Conquest” has been
for nearly half a century one of those works “ which
no gentleman's library could be without." Begun
in 1840 and completed in 1851. the eight volumes
of this series cover the entire line of English queens
down to Anne, who, except for the general index,
has the last volume all to herself. The Lippincott
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handsomely printed, digniﬁed in appearance, and
published at a moderate price. The latter fact
brings Miss Strickland's interesting biographies
within reach of a larger public than before, for the
earlier American edition is out of print, and imported
copies are very expensive. An extensive series of
half-tone illustrations adds greatly to the attractive-
ness of this new edition.
“The Great Streets of the \Vorld ” (Scribner),
a rich-looking tall octavo, handsomely printed on
glazed paper, and profusely illustrated by well-
known artists, should ﬁnd favor. Broadway is de-
scribed by Richard Harding Davis, Piccadilly by
Andrew Lang, the Boulevards by F rancisque Sar-
cey, the Corso by \V. \V. Story, the Grand Canal
by Henry James, Unter den Linden by Paul Lin-
dau, and the Nevsky Prospekt by Isabel F. Hap-
good. The articles are all crisply and entertainingly
written, and make no bad substitute for a prome-
nade in these thoroughfares. Mr. Lang's “ Picca-
-dilly ” is especially good. Nothing characteristic is
omitted, not even that startling rural apparition,
“ the Piccadilly goat,” whose presence in those syl-
van glades is a mystery “ probabably not connected
with the worship of Dionysius.” Mr. Lang is not
so devoted a cit as Lamb was, and admits a charm
in nature outside the range of Bow Bells. Like
the good Lord James of Douglas, he “ would liefer
hear the lark sing than the mouse cheep,” and is
rather inclined to wonder at the spell with which
London bewitches most women and many men:
“What it is that allures them, beyond a kind of
instinct of gregariousness, an attractive force in
proportion to the mass of human beings, one can-
not conceive. Even born Londoners have
no civic patriotism. You cannot expect a man to
be proud of Bloomsbury, or haughtily to announce
that he was born in Bayswater. N o poet now
would write, like Spenser,
‘ At length they all to merry London came,
To merry London, my most kindly nume,
That to me gave this life's ﬁrst native source.’
Rather would he think of London in De Quincey’s
mood, and speak of Piccadilly as a ‘ stony-hearted
stepmother.’ ”
Mr. A. O. Kaplan’s poem, “ The Magic Laugh ”
(Robert Clarke & Co. ), is the story of a dream, the
result, we suspect, of a nocturnal “'elsh rarebit, or
some other equally unhallowed dainty. Vve earn-
estly advise Mr. Kaplan not to try it again. The
plot of the poem is suﬁicieutly whimsical. The re-
lator (having ﬁrst, we assume, disposed of his \Velsh
rarebit) goes to sleep in an easy chair, visits the
sun in a dream, and is entertained there by the con-
trolling spirit with a discourse on physics, somewhat
in the vein of “ Mr. Barlow.” The controlling
spirit, ﬂattered by Mr. Kaplan's attention, then
offers, in the good old fairy-tale way, to grant him
a request. Hearing at this juncture “ a cheery,
rippling, silvery laugh,” Mr. Kaplan is so charmed
by it that he at once asks for its recipe, which is

granted. The prescription calls for subtle ingre-
dients, which, being duly stirred up and “boiled,”
emit the laugh required. After some further dream-
ing, the narrator wakes (much to the reader’s relief)
and ﬁnds that the laugh he has heard in the sun is,
after all, the laugh of his own child. Mr. Kaplan
presents “testimonials " to the worth of his per-
formance in the shape of notes from Lord Tenny-
son, Dr. Holmes, and Mr. James \Vhitcomb Riley—
to each of whom he had evidently sent a copy.
Lord Tennyson says as little as he can, Dr. Holmes
no more than he must, while Mr. Riley’s encomium
might be thought rather strained if applied to
“ Faust.” The poem is prettily mounted, and the
illustrations by Mr. Frank M. Gregory are accept-
able.
For an inexpensive yet unexceptionable gift to a
friend of literary tastes, we note nothing ﬁtter on
our list than Mr. Austin Dobs0n’s “ Eighteenth
Century Vignettes ” (Dodd), a collection of some
twenty crisp, chatty essays, ﬁfteen of which have
already appeared in various periodicals. Mr. Dob-
son treats such themes as “ Steele’s Letters,” “ Pri-
or's ‘ Kitty’,” “ Gray's Library,” “ A Day at
Strawberry Hill,” “ In Cowper-‘s Arbor,” “ Ho-
garth's Sigismunda,” etc., in his usual felicitous
way. and promises that “ if these ﬁrst essays ﬁnd a
public, it is not impossible that they may be fol-
lowed by a further collection.” The little volume
is a model of mechanical neatness, and the fourteen
illustrations (mostly portraits) in photogravure bear
comparison with anything in their class. The
“ Vignettes ” should repeat the success of Mr. Dob-
son’s “ Four French Women ” of last year.
Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons follow up their
sumptuous “ Darro Edition ” of Irving’s “Alham-
bra ”— one of the most popular gift-books of last
season — with a generally similar edition (the “ Ag-
apida ”) of Irving's “ Conquest of Granada.” The
work is in two volumes, octavo, gilt top, and with
slip covers; and like its predecessor is richly orna-
mented throughout with Moorish designs—each
page being surrounded with a border of bright-red
with arabesque scroll-work. The general effect is
extremely rich. There are thirty illustrations in
photogravure. Of the merits of the text we need
not speak, except to note that Coleridge pronounced
“ The Conquest” a masterpiece of romantic narra-
tive, while its historical worth is attested by Pres-
cott, who speaks of it as “ superseding all further
necessity for a history of the Conquest,” and by Al-
cantara, who made use of it repeatedly in his his-
tory of Granada.
For the following Holiday publications, space
will admit of only very brief mention, although
some of them well deserve extended consideration.
Four volumes of the “ Golden Rod ” series (Mor-
rill, Higgins & Co.) are “ From Heart's Content,”
by Mrs. Clara Doty Bates (which we notice else-
where); “ VVhat Makes a Friend? ” and “ In Friend-
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and verse made by Mr. Volney Streamer; and “A
Handful of Letters," compiled from well-known
writers by Mrs. Alice L. W'illiams. A collection
of nine thin volumes (Charles E. Brown & Co.)
is devoted to such popular songs as “The Watch
on the Rhine,” “ Darling Nellie Gray,” “ Shandon
Bells,” and “ Sally in Our Alley.” Each volume
contains the music and text of one song, and is
prettily illustrated. “ Roland's Squires ” (Jen-
kins) is a legend of the days of Charlemagne, taken
from the German of Musmus by Miss Harriet Pinck-
ney Huse. It is a. thin square octavo in boards.
Mr. Thomas Nelson Page’s charming “ Marse
Chan " (Scribner) is richly deserving of its taste-
ful Holiday form, adorned with Mr. Smedley’s
illustrations. M. Souvestre’s “ An Attic Philos-
opher in Paris” (Appleton) is almost a classic, and
needs no praise; the Holiday edition is beautifully
printed, and has many illustrations. Miss Maud
Humphrey's “ Kalendar of Beautie ” and “ The
Fairy Calendar ” (Stokes) exhibit graceful draw-
ing and dainty color, while the “ Aquarelle Calen-
dar ” of the same publishers, with drawings by Mr.
H. VV. Mcvickar, Mr. Percy Moran, and others, is
as pretty a thing of its kindas is often seen. “ The
Autobiography of a Slander ” (Longmans), by Edna.
Lyall, is a short story with some illustrative draw-
ings that display a certain originality. An illus-
trated volume of the “ Poems” of Mrs. Browning
(Stokes) comes to us with cyclamen-decorated cov-
ers, and drawings by Mr. Frederick C. Gordon.
The little book of “ Selections from Isaac Pening-
ton ” (Roberts) is a tasteful memorial of a famous
Friend of the seventeenth century. “A Gift of
Love and Loving Greetings for 365 Days ” (Rev-
ell), compiled by Miss Rose Porter, is a sort of birth-
day book of religious quotations, with a pretty
pansy-stamped cover. “ Mon Oncle ct Mon Curé ”
(Dodd) is one of the most charming French nov-
els of recent years, and a story which is peculiarly
adapted for younger readers. It is the work of M.
Jean de La Br‘ete, and, in the translation by Mr.
Ernest Redwood. with illustrations by M. Georges
Janet, it makes one of the most attractive gift-books
of the season.
BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG.

Elfs and hobgoblins have deserted their familiar
haunts this year, if one may judge by the small num-
ber of books devoted to their adventures. Or perhaps
they are grieving because realism has thrown its
deadly spell even over the childreu’s camp, and where
formerly all was revelry and high carnival and keen ex-
citement, we see now commonplace boys and girls play-
ing quietly at stupid sensible games. lVe hear stories
of good little boys well rewarded, and of bad little
boys who were properly punished; we listen to long
descriptions of painstaking papas and devoted mnmmas
and the woes of their offspring, but of those delightful
creatures who never could exist,-— those sprites and
gnomes, and dancing fairies, who could express so much
in saying little, who could point a moral without mak-

ing one rebellions, and adorn a tale with fantastic
traceries of delicate beauty,-of these airy children of
the imagination there is hardly a word. Fortunately,
though, we are not dependent upon the season’s litera-
ture; the immortal old tales still exist, and the boys
and girls of to-day have the same affection for them
which their parents were guilty of many years ago.
What a prosaic people we would be if we had not this
memory of childish dz-eams,_visions which gave us a
truer insight into motives and actions, and :1 warmer
admiration for noble deeds, than did any of the human
creatures round about us, who were far more vague
and puzzling. Even in this prosaic season, however,
one volume is offered us, whose stories have the old
true spirit. The “ Indian Fairy Tales" issued by
Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons have been selected and
edited in scholarly fashion by Mr. Joseph Jacobs, who
has already published collections of English and of Cel-
tic Fairy Tales, and a “ History of the ./Esopic Fable. ”
In the notes in the present volume he traces the resem-
blances between the East Indian stories and those fa-
miliar to European countries, arguing that most of the
tales which are common to both originated in India and
travelled west with the Crusaders. These points of
contact make the stories worthy of serious study; and
even where the similarity is obvious, there are always
interesting variations. Looking at the tales apart from
their descendents, there is something large and primi-
tive about them. Elemental forces are at work in
them, and their strength is in the resulting directness
and simplicity. They show, however, some understand-
ing of the motives of human action, though the emo-
tion expresscd is always simple; and they contain many
touches of satire and a rich fund of humor. “ The
Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal” is particularly
keen; and in several tales and allegories, “ The Magic
Fiddle ” and“ Sun, Moon, and \Vind go out to Dinner,”
there is an exquisite gleam of poetry. John D. Batten
has caught the spirit of the book in his illustrations,
which are ﬁnely decorative.
In the preface to his last collection of fairy tales,
Mr. Andrew Lang offers an explanation for the dearth
of modern stories which is probably the right one. "There
are not many people now," he says, “ perhaps there are
none, who can write really good fairy tales, because
they do not believe enough in their own stories, and be-
cause they want to be wittier than it has pleased Heaven
to make them.” But in his " Green Fairy Book ”
(Longinans) there is no effort to make the stories other
than the people have made them. Mr. Lang has col-
lected them from different French, German, and Italian
sources, and tells them simply and sincerely as he re-
ceived them. And a series of fascinating tales it is,
with plenty of princes and magicians, fairies and giants,
dragons and enchanted birds. Any child with a spark
of imagination would revel in these charmed pages,
where right makes might and courage is invariably re-
warded. The many illustrations by Mr. H. J. Ford
are an additional attraction.
One of the most delightful of the few volumes of
fairy stories is “ The Pot of Gold" (Lothrop), through
which Mary Wilkins places herself at once in the front
rank of writers for children. None of these fascinating
tales could possibly be true, and yct they have far more
truth in them than many a realistic story. The en-
chanted realm is a new one for Miss lvilkins, but she
proves herself powerful in it,——- the master of many
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curious mixture of the fantastic and the prosaic, queer
little imaginative conceits side by side with droll com-
monplaces of New England life. The conception of
the farmer who was an unappreciated poet and ar-
ranged his furniture by rhymes, to the great incon-
venience of his family, is very amusing; and the trials
of the King, who adopted pop-corn as the national food,
appeal to one’s sympathy. The Pumpkin Giant, too, is
interesting, and Drusilla, who " painted aeharming um-
brella stand for the King, and actually worked the
gold-horned cow in Kensiugton stitch, on a blue satin
tidy, for the Queen. It was so natural that she wept
over it, herself, when it was ﬁnished; but the Queen
was delighted, and put it on her best stuﬁed rocking-
chair in her parlor, and would run and throw it
back every time the King sat down there, for fear he
would lean his head against it and soil it.” The book
is full of diverting plots cleverly served and garnished,
and it is charmingly illustrated by Messrs. Garrett,
Bridgman, W. P. B., and others.
One of the daintiest of recent books is “Prince Tip-
Top” (McClurg), gracefully written by Marguerite
Bouvet, author of “ Sweet William,” and prettily illus-
trated by Helen Maitland Armstrong. A ﬂowing, read-
able fairy tale, it delicately enters the realms of the
impossible and carries one over ﬂowery paths where
every creature is both pretty and gracious. Though the
story is not particularly elevating, it is simple and
charming. The press-work‘ is admirable, and the dec-
orated title-page adds much to the beauty of the book.
In “ Fairy Tales in Other Lands " (Cassell), Julia God-
dard places her stories in China, Egypt, Arabia, and
Scandinavia. But they have no individual and distinc-
tive ﬂavor. The characters are only varied by their
costumes, and one has little belief in their existence.
The illustrations are inferior, the drawings of the Chi-
nese being particularly ignorant.
There is much that is new and beautiful in the nine
pretty little volumes called “ The Children’s Library”
(Cassell). These lovely, mystic, often heroic, tales are
gathered by different hands from widely separated
sources. One book, “ A China Cup,” comes from Rus-
sia, full of simple fanciful stories; another, “ The Story
of a Puppet,” an account of the amusing adventures of
Pinocchio, is translated from the Italian of C. Collodi;
still another, Hoﬁ'mann’s “ Nutcracker and Mouse King,”
is German in its origin; from France comes Daudet’s
delightful story, “La Belle N ivernaise,” cleverly illus-
trated; and from England “ The Feather,” by Mr. Ford
Madox Hueffer, and "The Little Princess,” by Lilia
Eckenstein. But the most interesting are the two Irish
books, and the “ Stories from Fairyland,” gathered in
modern Greece by Mrs. Edmonds, who carries into En-
glish their rare fragrance and spirituality. The heroic
tales of “ F inn and his Companions” have been rescued
from the mists of Irish tradition by Standish O’Grady.
They are supposed to have been told to St. Patrick by
Czelta, a cousin of Ossian, and they show us the simple
life, the virtues, and the daring of these primitive he-
roes. In the "Irish Fairy Tales ” edited by Mr. ‘V. B.
Yeats, there is something more than this,~a kind of
grandeur, an epic quality, typiﬁed in “ The Man who
never knew Fear,” and culminating in the chapter from
()'Grady’s llistory of Ireland, the magniﬁcent descrip-
tion of the knighting of Cuculain, as resonant as a bell,
as direct and forceful as a Greek chorus.
Far and aivay the most beautiful of this year’s Holi-
day books for children is the new edition of lIawthorne’s
“ Wonder Book " (Houghton), illustrated with sixty de-
signs in colors by \Valter Crane. It is always a pleas-
ure to return to these stirring stories, told with a deli-
cate simplicity which is as artistic as it is graphic.
Hawthorne understood children and believed in them;
he gives free rein in these tales to his fancy, appealing
constantly to the child's imagination, stimulating it and
giving it poetic thoughts to feed upon. His aim was
high, and a few sentences from the little preface to this
book are respectfully commended to the consideration
of many of the writers whose works are reviewed be-
low, “ In performing this pleasant task," he wrote,
“the author has not always thought it necessary to
write downward, in order to meet the comprehension of
children. He has generally suffered the theme to soar,
whenever such was its tendency, and when he himself
was buoyant enough to follow without an effort. Chil-
dren possess an unestimated sensibility to whatever is
deep or high, in imagination or feeling, so long as it is
simple likewise. It is only the artiﬁcial and the com-
plex that bewilder them." It was a happy idea which
led Mr. Walter Crane to illustrate these stories, for
here is his special ﬁeld; in work like this his genius
need ask no favors. He has never shown more vividly
his mastery of decorative illustration than here; in grace
of line, in brilliant and harmonious variety of color, and
in vivid grasp of the picturesque possibilities of his sub-
jects, these designs are admirable. The head and tail
pieces are exquisite in themselves, and the larger de-
signs are a liberal education. If the book could only
be spread broadcast over the land it would work in-
calculable good, for the importance of educating the
child's eye, as well as his mind, cannot be overestimated.
And what creature, young or old, can resist the fasci-
nation of these wonderful tales with their enticing decor-
ations? The book is well printed, bound in stamped
cloth, and every design is skilfully reproduced.
It is no small circle of readers that welcomes a new
child's book by Mrs. Burnett, and perhaps in its compass
there may be many who will not be disappointed in her
latest venture. To us, however, it seems an unworthy
successor of the book which made her famous among
children. A dozen stories about little people of other
countries than ours are included in “ Giovanni and the
Other” (Scribner), and several of them have the old
charming daintiness. But the titular story, which is
much longer than any other, is far too melancholy to be
healthful for the young. The grief in it_that of a
mother for the death of her soul-is so far from being
restrained that it is sentimental and morbid in the ex-
treme. It loses in dignity through the detailed realism
with which it is described ; and whereas a few sugges-
tions of this sorrow, which children are as quick to re-
ceive as their elders, would bring out our sympathy,
these details merely make one impatient. The story
is written avowedly for children, but it is the senti-
mental, self-conscious side of a child’s nature that is cul-
tivated by it,_ not his higher, imaginative comprehen-
sion. Fortunately, however, there are much better things
in the book than this. The charming sketch of “ Illus-
trissimo Signor Bebe,” with his digniﬁed assumption of
age and honors; the delicate, fanciful picture of the
young girl who died in Pompeii eighteen hundred
years ago; the exquisite personality of “Birdie,” to
whom the world of fancy was the real world,— these
are the best of them, and the last especially has the
true ring. The book is well printed, and is prettily
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Under the caption of “ The Clocks of Rondaine and
Other Stories” (Scribner , Mr. Frank R. Stockton has
collected, chieﬂy from " t. Nicholas,” seven of his pop-
ular tales. The central idea of the ﬁrst of them is very
pretty, and the picture of the quaint old town with its
innumerable clocks is not without charm ; but the style
is diﬁuse, and the story would be improved if it were
condensed to half its present length. Boys and girls
will have much more fun, though, with “ The Christmas
Truants,” whose whimsical adventures with the robbers
are told with dash and spirit. They will enjoy, too, the
novelty of “ The Tricycle of the Future,” and the de-
lightful jumble of nonsense in “ The Great Show in
Kobol-land.” The last tale is cleverly illustrated by
Mr. D. C. Beard, and Messrs. Blashﬁeld and Rogers
have made good drawings for the others.
Curiously enough, one of the most interesting of the
season's books for the young bears the name of Louisa
de la Ramé (Ouida) upon its titlepage. It is called
“ Bimbi ” (Lippincott), and is a collection of short stories
which are gracefully illustrated by Mr. Edmund H.
Garrett. " The Niirnberg Store” is both instructive
and stimulating to the imagination; it takes the child
far away from the life most familiar to him and gives
him a glimpse into past centuries and into countries
other than his own. Different manners and ideals are
made present to him, and he is shown some of the
beauty of devotion and courage. The dream in the old
shop, where the beautiful porcelains and carved tables
ﬁnd voices and speak, is given rare picturesque charm,
and contains some talks that any one of us might read
with proﬁt;—as when the ﬁne old porcelain stove says:
“ We, the begotten of ancient days, derive all the value
in us from the fact that our makers wrought at us with
zeal, with piety, with integrity, with faith,_ not to win
fortunes or to glut a market, but to do nobly an honest
thing and create for the honor of the arts and God.”
The fascinating story is told in the main simply, but it
has vigor and life and color. It is followed by several
others, notably by a charming little allegory called “ The
Ambitious Rose-Tree," and by “ The Child of Urbino,”
an episode in Raphael's youth, touched here with poetry.
Of different calibre is the volume for boys by Mr.
Brander Matthews, entitled “ Tom Paulding ” (Cen-
tury Company). It is a vigorous story of American
boy life, and the types presented are healthy, energetic, t
and natural. There is no over-strained sentiment about
it, although an affectionate home life is the core of the
book. A novel plot, centring in a search for buried
treasure in the streets of upper New York, gives the
story plenty of dash and excitement, which is rather in-
tensiﬁed than diminished when the treasure is shown to
be counterfeit coin. The illustrations by Mr. W. A.
Rogers are capital.
Another American story is written by Mr. Rossiter
Johnson, and it is pleasant to ﬁnd this, like the last,
ﬁlled with the dash of our own life. Dreams of the
gold that is supposed to lie at “The End of a Rain-
bow ” (Scribner) trouble these active children, and their
gallant efforts to ﬁnd it are told with humor and sym-
pathy. Other amusing adventures are given place, and
the boys‘ attempts to write stories, with the ridiculous
idea of eating certain kinds of ﬁsh to produce certain
results in the brain, are particularly delightful. Their
discoveries in regard to unhaunting houses are inter-
esting, also; and while a stirring breeze blows through
the entire book, it is not without a serious, invigorating
inﬂuence.

Two books by Mrs. Molesworth will be welcomed
by the many girls who admire that facile writer, though
her code of morals is painfully severe, and one longs
for a dash of wickedness to give her heroes and hero-
ines the ﬂavor of humanity. Even the best little boy
could not be as constantly good as “"illie in "The
Next-Door House” (Cassell), and one wonders what
will develop from a child whose enthusiasm is so eon-
tinually repressed. There would seem to be no future
for a boy who dares not go into the kitchen unbid-
den, and whose father is good enough not to reprove him
for showing an interest in his profession. By way of
foil, two disagreeable old maids and a detestable child
are too bad to be even attractive.
In " Robin Redbreast" (wliittaker), Mrs. Molesworth
has written a story for older girls, in which the mo-
tives are not quite so simple and the characters have
more variety than in the volume just noticed. It is dif-
fuse and rather dry, however, and the long conversa-
tions have no sparkle. Right is properly triumphant,
but in spite of Colonel Mildmay’s almost quixotic sense
of honor, the atmosphere of the book is rather earthy
after all, and riches cut too large a ﬁgure. Neverthe-
less, the book is wholesome and will be interesting to a
large class of girls. It is illustrated with wash draw-
ings by Mr. Richard Barnes.
In “ An Affair of Honour” (Lippincott), Alice Weber
shows a keen sympathy with the better part of child
life. She understands the childish hopes and fears, and
gives their due importance to the small trials which are
so easily overlooked. The little girl, who is the chief
ﬁgure in the story, is left in charge of her grand-
mother, and her ﬁght in the beginning with homesick-
ness is very sweet and natural, and not in the least
overdrawn. Her character is carefully developed, and
one cannot help admiring the thoughtful, tender, brave
little creature. Her talks with Fanshawe the butler,
and her painstaking sympathy for the outcast, are
charming; and they are drawn with warmth and kind-
liness. The book is rather well illustrated by Emily
J . Harding.
The merit of " Uncle Bill's Children” (Lippincott)
lies in the presentation of the children themselves and
their capture of the heart of the indiﬁerent bachelor
uncle. But the author, Helen Milman, defeats her own
purpose, which is presumably the entertainment of chil-
dren, by using sentimental quotations as chapter head-
ings, and by emphasizing unduly the love episode, which
is in questionable taste, to say the least.
“ The Boys of the Mirthﬁcld Academy ” (Estes), ed-
ited by Mr. Lawrence H. Francis, is an example of the
stories of English school life which were commoner a
few years ago than now. The old-time schoolmaster
who ﬂogs his pupils for the smallest offenses, the many
adventures and hair-breadth escapes, the jealonsies and
bitter enmities among the boys, make the hook too
thrilling in a rather degraded fashion to be entirely
wholesome. But the frightful cover and the intolerable
drawing in the illustrations should be enough to keep the
book out of every sensible household. Fortunately, the
day is past when children had to content themselves
with such pictures.
Captain C. A. J . Farrar describes in “Through the
\Vilds" (Estes) the adventures of a party of boys in
the woods of New Hampshire and Maine. The style
is stilted, and the writer has a disagreeable way of
throwing in long quotations relative to the appearance
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vigorating, and there are many useful suggestions in
regard to camping, cooking, ﬁshing, and moose-hunting.
The book is illustrated with photographs and amateur-
ish drawings.
Every healthy, sturdy boy who likes to skate and ride
and play tennis will find something that appeals to him
in “ The Boys’ Own Book of Out-door Games and Rec-
reations” (Lippincott). It is carefully edited by G.
Andrew Hutchison, and contains a large amount of use-
ful matter concerning physical training and numerous
healthful out-door sports. The directions for riding‘, to
instance only one of these pastimes, contain hints not
only in regard to the correct seat and grasp of the reins,
but also in regard to the proper kindly care of the horse.
It is not a dry chronicle, the text being interspersed
with many amusing anecdotes, and illustrated profusely
with practical diagrams and drawings.
“ Jack Brereton’s Three Mouths’ Service ” (Lothrop)
is a vigorous piece of work by Maria Mclntosh Cox.
A story of the war, it tells of a brave lad who is mus-
tered in as a. home-guard by his father as he leaves to
join the army. The account of J ack’s plucky acceptance
of the responsibility, and of his heroic efforts to protect
and assist his mother, makes healthful reading for the
boys of these quieter days.
The scene of the new story by Rebecca Harding
Davis is laid in Virginia before the war, in the days
when Henry Clay was the idol of the Whigs. “Kent
Hampden” (Scribner), its hero, has vigorous stuff in
him, plenty of life and daring and ambition; and a boy
who is not thrilled by his exciting adventures in the
efforts to vindicate his father must be hardened indeed.
Mrs. Davis has found an interesting plot, which she has
de-vegloped with unusual earnestness and ﬁre.
Mr. Homer Greene’s new volume, “ The River-Park
Rebellion” (Crowell), is less wholesome in feeling,
though its action is interesting. The jealousies and
bitter enmities of a military school are his motives,
upon which he has built an exciting story. The same
volume includes “ A Tale of the Tow-Path,” which is
much simpler, finer, and truer than the other.
“The Cadets of Flemming Hall” (Crowell) is an-
other tribute to the popularity of boarding-school life as
a subject. The atmosphere of Miss Ray's book is
clear, and the life she depicts is pleasant and whole-
some. She is more successful in this than in her de-
scription of camp life in the Rocky Mountains, “ In Blue
Creek Canon” (Crowell), for the latter is rather too
old and has too much sentiment for the public to which
she appeals. What we have just said is also true of
“Five Little Peppers Grown Up” (Lothi-op),by Mar-
garet Sidney, although it is gay and prettily written.
There is no touch of sentimentality in “Canoe-
Mates” (Harper), by Mr. Kirk Munroe. Hunting,
sailing, and paddling are the diversions in this story
of the Florida reef and everglades, and they are de-
scribed by a writer familiar with their subtleties and de-
votcd to the excitement attending them. Mr. Munroe
handles character well, too, and has selected alert and
interesting types.
Ten good lively stories are included in Mr. H. H.
Boycsen’s “Boyhood in Norway” (Scribner), stories
of struggle and privation and self-sacriﬁce, as well as
of sport and gayety. Though one concludes, after read-
ing them, that boys are much the same the world over,
there is a pleasant foreign ﬂavor to the tales, and the
reader has many glimpses of strange customs and fas-
cinating, unfamiliar sports.

Mr. J. T. Trowhridge is so popular with boys that
his last book will undoubtedly receive a cordial wel-
come. “ The Fortunes of Toby Trafford ” (Lee &
Shepard) is a vigorous, well-written story of life in a
small town. The sturdy boyish hero has plenty of ad-
venture in his efforts to ﬁnd his proper work, and passes
through happiness and misery with honor untarnished.
Mary P. Wells Smith follows New England back to
the time of our grandmothers for the scene of her last
story, “ More Good Times at Hackmatack ” (Roberts).
The healthful active life of Parson Strong’s children is
described without prudishness, simply and pleasantly.
The politics of the time add another interest, and the
speech of Daniel Webster near the end is an inspiring
climax.
Olivia L. Wilson has studied the same period of ‘our
history in " At the Sign of the White Swan” (Estes),
but the scene of the story is laid in Pennsylvania
instead of Massachusetts. It is full of adventure and
intrigue, but in spite of conspiracies and wrongful
imprisonment, right is triumphant in the end, and the
villains are punished. The exciting story is well told,
and its interest is increased by the fact that it has a
historical basis.
Mr. Willis Boyd Allen completes his “ Pine Cone
Series ” with “Gulf and Glacier ” (Lothrop), descriptive
of a journey to Alaska and the interesting sights that
may be seen there. The “Wild-Woods Series” is con-
tinued with “ On the Trail of the Moose” (Porter &
Coates), by Mr. Edward S. Ellis, in which the battles
fought by two youths with snow, wolves, and Indians
are narrated with spirit. But one incident is certainly
nnique,_Nick’s capture of the horns of the moose
while the animal is tossing him into the air. Oliver
Optic, whose popularity never wanes, has added another
spirited story to the “Blue and the Gray Series,”
“Fighting for the Right” (Lee & Shepard), a tale to
stir the blood and ﬁre the patriotism of every Ameri-
can boy. Mr. Harry Castlemon’s war series is also
continued by an exciting book called “Marcy the Re-
fugee” (Porter & Coates).
“ The Rovings of a Restless Boy" (Cassell) is de-
scribed by its title, but Mrs. Foot shows the trials and
misery that await a runaway, and teaches the lesson
that happiness is not gained through independence alone.
“ From the Throttle to the President’s Chair "(Cas-
sell) is a story of American railway life,— the hero rul-
ing the road at the end and not the nation.
In “Digging for Gold” (Porter & Coates), an at-
tempt is made by Mr. Horatio Alger, J r., to mine the
wealth that lies hidden in the early history of Califor-
nia, but he brings back little to enrich us.
Among the other stories for boys are “ Axel Eber-
sen” (Lippincott), a Norse narrative, by Mr. Andre
Laurie; “ Catmur's Cave " (National Book Co.), by
Mr. Richard Dowling; “ Mixed Pickles” (Crowell), by
Evelyn Raymond; “ Under the Water-Oaks ” (Roberts),
a southern story by Marian Brewster; and “ The Cap-
tain of the Kittiewink" (Roberts), by Herbert D. \Vard,
a. ﬁne book for any boy who is fond of sailing.
The books for girls are almost as numerous this sea-
son as those for boys, but unfortunately they seem to
be made of less virile material. It is not easy to un-
derstand why girls should be fed on the social relations
and differences, while their hardy brothers, who re-
quire such nourishment less, are given wholesome food.
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Girls” (Little, Brown & Co.), is artiﬁcial and complex,
and has no rightful place in a girl’s library. The end,
strained in itself, does not make amends for the snob-
bishness and vulgarity of the beginning. The picture
of reﬁnement is not an alluring one, and the whole tone
of the story is degrading. Several others are bound in
the same volume, with Nora Perry's name on the title-
page, several of them much better than the ﬁrst; but
they all contain too much talk about reﬁnement and
ﬁne people. “ The Cross Roads " (Whittaker), b_v Char-
lotte M. Yonge, is an English story of the lower classes.
It is written for older girls, and though it is prosaic in
the extreme, the simple love story is treated decor-
ously. Laura E. Richards has written two new books,
one'of which, “ Hildegarde’s Home ” (Estes), is a pretty,
quiet story, in which the talk is bright and natural.
The author of “ Miss Toosey's Mission” publishes
two books this year. The more important, “Dear”
(Roberts), is a pretty, bright little love story with a
charming heroine who is persuaded to marry the wrong
man, with disastrous results. Order is ﬁnally brought
out of this sad state of affairs, however, and everyone
is happy ever after. The account of it all is not the
best possible reading for girls, but the sentiment is not
strained nor morbid. “ Baby John" (Roberts) is as
natural and fresh and sweet as a ﬂower of the ﬁelds,-
a delicate little sketch, full of love, warmth, and gen-
uine feeling. The baby is alive, as the mother is, and
this writer’s touch in drawing the child is exquisite in
its daintiness. Several lessons that it would be well to
learn are taught in the little book, though it contains
not a word of preaching. Mrs. Evelyn Raymond has
written a story of Southern California in “ Monica, the
Mesa Maiden" (Crowell), so her Spanish heroine is
given a picturesque background. Mrs. L. T. Meade
issues two books, “ Four on an Island ” (Cassell), for
very little folks, and “A Ring of Rubies" (Cassell),
which is much too artiﬁcial for girls of any age.
Beatrice Washington's “Story of Juliette" (Roberts)
is much simpler and better, and it has an attractive
touch of romance. “ At the End of the Rainbow”
(Whittaker) and " Elsie at Viamede " (Dodd) are also
for older girls. And very little women are favored
with the rough and fascinating -‘ Captain January”
(Estes), by Laura E. Richards; “ The Little Sister of
Wilifred” (Roberts), by A. G. Plympton; “A Modern
Red Riding Hood” (warlie), by C. A. Jones; “ Ruby
and Ruthy” (Estes), by Minnie E. Paull; and a book
by Mrs. C. F. \Vilder which contains too much talk
about theology for the childish intellect,--“ Polly But-
ton’s New Year” (Crowell).
BRIEFS ox NEW Booxs.

THE crying need for moral instruc-
tion in our schools is attested by the
alarming and increasing proportion
of pupils who ﬁnd their way within a few years
after leaving school into the reform schools, prisons,
and penitentiaries, where out of every six prisoners
but one is illiterate. Evidently these pupils who
become criminals are not reached, or if reached are
not sufficiently influenced, by the moral instruction
of religious preachers and teachers. It remains to
be seen whether our public schools can be made
equal to the task of dyking and stopping this rising
Character build-
ing in our
public schools.

tide of immorality and criminality. That many
are deeply interested in the solution of this problem
is proved by the number of books upon this subject
that have this year issued from the press. The
latest and in many respects the best of these is Mr.
Felix Adler's “Moral Instruction of Children," in
the “ International Educational Series ” (Appleton
The author points out that, owing to the separation
of Church and State in America, this instruction
must be unsectarian. It is the duty of the public
schools to give systematic instruction in that com-
mon fund of moral truth upon which all good men
of whatever sect or opinion are agreed. There is
a wholesome sanity about Mr. Adler's recognition
of the claims of the senses, the intellect, and the
feelings, as well as of the moral sense. Ethics, ac-
cording to him, is the science of the limits within
which any action or end may be pursued. Moral-
ity crystallizes into habits. Habits are acquired by
imitation and repetition. The example of parents
and teachers is not suﬂicient, because the tempta-
tions of adults are not the same as those of children,
and adults lack occasion to display the peculiar vir-
tues of children. But we may ﬁnd a large stock of
ideal examples of the special virtues of children
in the literature of fables, fairy tales, stories from
the Bible and Homer, etc. These stories should be
presented during the primary course, and the pupil
should be led by means of them to perceive moral
distinctions. Later on in the grammar school he
may begin to reason about moral distinctions. The
instruction should be given without a texvbook, by
direct discussions between pupils and teacher, be-
ginning with a concrete illustration, adapting a prin-
ciple to this case, then bringing up other cases, and
modifying it as nmch as may be necessary to make
it ﬁt every case. An appendix treats of the effect
of manual training upon character. Mr. Adler
promises another volume containing an advanced
course treating of the ethics of the professions, of
friendship, of the conjugal relation, etc., and laying
down the lines for a systematic study of biographies.
LEE 1tI1~:a1w11:'rnEa’s “ Aﬂoat and
Ashore on the Mediterranean "
(Scribner) is a very amusing book,
vivacious, anecdotal, ﬂuent, and not without a.
sprinkling of information withal. Mr. Meriwether,
like all discreet travellers, escaped as often as fea-
sible from the beaten track, the light draught of his
little craft, the “ Principe Farnese,” enabling him to
thread his way securely among the tiny islets of the
]Egean, and to put into sequestered halcyon ports
where the Cookean red-guidebook and linen “dus-
ter" are as yet unknown. The route embraced Lis-
bon, Seville, Gibraltar, Genoa, Rome, Syracuse, Ath-
ens, Scio, Smyrna, Rhodes, Jerusalem, and lesser in-
termediate points; and in many of these places the
author and his two companions met with some little
adventure or other, such as may befall itinerant
young men with a healthy appetite for risk and frolic.
One of the tourists, it may be noted, met his fate
Aﬂoat and
Ashore on the
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en route in the shape of a ﬁaxen Fraulein of whole-
some and rosy exterior, with a turn for archaeology,
the Greek tragedy, and sentiment; and like a pru-
dent man married her instanier. Such little inci-
dents tend to vary the monotony of a journey. At
Syracuse the pilgrims saw the famous rock-hewn
grotto, “ Dionysius’s ear.” “This vast expanse
of ear is two hundred and ten feet long, seventy-
four feet high, and thirty-ﬁve wide. It is said to
have been constructed by Dionysius, whose tyran-
nous nature led him to devise means whereby a
prisoner's faintest whispers could be heard by the
guards, and reported to him. The acoustic prop-
erties of the ear grotto are certainly remarkable:
the softest sound can be heard from one end to the
other, two hundred and ten feet distant. The cus-
todian clapped his hands, and the sound, magniﬁed
a hundred-fold, reverberated through the tortuous
grotto like a. peal of thunder. A hundred yards
from this place are the Roman and Greek theatres,
—both better preserved than most ruins, from the
fact that their amphitheatres are not built by put-
ting one layer of stone on another, but are hewn out
of the solid rock. In the cliﬁ, at the top of the
Greek theatre, the rooms cut into the rock in the
shape of pavilions, and perhaps once used as ‘ green
rooms ’ by the Greek actors, are now converted into
]2igst_1/s.” This is surely a deplorable instance of
that “ decay of the drama ” of which one hears so
much. The volume is well illustrated with half-
tone prints from photographs.
Tm: “ Memorials of Sarah Childress
Polk" (Randolph) is a neatly ap-
pointed volume, the joint work of
Anson and Fanny Nelson. The book is written
with much kindly intention, little literary skill, and
less sense of ﬁtness and proportion. \Ve gather
from the preface that its raison. d'étre is chieﬂy the
fact that Mrs. Polk was an estimable lady, and that
her “example of womanly purity and dignity is a
valuable legacy to the country.” Estimable ladies
are not, we opine, rarw aves in this land; nor does
it seem just or wise to thus make their estimability
a pretext for subjecting their lives to the imperti-
nence of public scrutiny. The book is largely made
up of those “ trivial fond records” that inevitably
take on the ludicrous outside the family circle. We
learn, for instance, that, while at school, “ Sarah did
a little piece of needle work . the picture of
a tomb gleaming white through the foliage of sur-
rounding trees, and is worked in chenille on a white
satin ground,” etc. But why inﬂict this sepulchral
performance upon the general public? \Vhy arm
death with a new sting for *‘ estimable ladies”?
The memorials
of an “ estima-
ble lady."
OF the little book by Miss Sarah E.
\Viltse, entitled “The Place of the
Story in Early Education " (Ginn),
only fourteen pages are devoted to the title essay.
Over a hundred pages are given to “ other essays "
on various topics, all having more or less connection
T he early
training of
children.

with the early training of children. Among these
so-called essays, we note a course of lectures deliv-
ered at Detroit on “ The Study of Children,” and
several papers originally contributed to the “Chris-
tian Register,” the “ Christian Union,” and the
“American Journal of Psychology.” Though these
little papers make no pretensions to depth or thor-
oughness of treatment, parents and primary teach-
ers may ﬁnd in the book many useful suggestions
presented in an attractive way, and with a genuine
loving enthusiasm for children and kindergartens.
CANON Knowles’s “ To England and
Back " (McClurg) is a neat little
volume of letters that have already
appeared in the columns of “ The Living Church."
While the letters were well suited to their original
setting, their general tone and matter is perhaps
rather too “ churchly ” to hit the palate of the gen-
eral public in our not very “ churchly ” days. The
publishers have issued the book attractively, and the
author's friends will no doubt appreciate the well-
printed frontispiece portrait.
To England
and back.
LITERARY NOTES AND NE\'S.

Announcement is made that there will be no Wagner
festival at Bayreuth during the coming year.
Lord Lyttou’s posthumous poem, “ King Poppy," :1
work of six thousand lines, has just appeared in London.
Mr. Lowell’s lectures on the English dramatists will
be published early this month by Houghton, Miﬂiin &
Company.
Mrs. A. V. S. Anthony is preparing a memorial vol-
ume from the papers and correspondence of the late
James R. Osgood.
Mr. F. Marion Crawford is making a visit to Amer-
ica this winter, and will give readings from his works
in a. number of cities.
Professor C. G. D. Roberts of King's College, Wind-
sor, Nova Scotia, has written a poem on the centenary
of Shelley’s birth, and will soon publish it in book form.
The most important literary article of the month is
about Lowell, containing a number of his letters, and
contributed by Mr. W. J. Stillman to “The Atlantic
Monthly " for December.
The copyright on the writings of the Russian writer
Lermontotf expired last year, and in consequence there-
of no less than ninety-two new editions appeared, of
which upwards of a million volumes were sold.
“ The Californian Magazine ” for December has the
account of a visit, by Miss Grace Ellery Channing, to
Shelley’s Italian haunts. The article is entitled “A
Passionate Pilgrimage,” and is of charming interest.
The publication of Heine’s letters to various members
of his family is an event of much interest. These let-
ters, to the number of more than a hundred, have been
given to the world by the poet's sister, F ran Embden.
Mr. J . M. Bowles, of Indianapolis, proposes to pub-
lish a quarterly art magazine to be entitled “Modern
Art,” limited to 300 copies, at two dollars a year. Sub-
scriptions are invited, and only the copies ordered in
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Macmillan & Company announce “A Review of the
Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theories of Evolu-
tion,” by Mr. C. M. Williams, in a volume of 500
pages.
The front page of “ The Independent ” for Novem-
ber 17 is ﬁlled with a memorial poem, by Mr. Richard
Hovey, on the late Thomas VV. Parsons. The work is
excellent in feeling, but a little mechanical in execu-
tion.
D. Appleton & Company announce "General Tay-
lor,” by Major-General O. O. Howard; “Three Cen-
turies of English Love Songs,” edited by Mr. Ralph
Caine; and “ In Gold and Silver,” an outdoor book by
Mr. George H. Ellwangcr.
The Committee on Philology of the \Vorld’s Congress
Auxiliary is about to issue to the philologists of Europe
and America. a preliminary address, setting forth the
aims of the Committee, and inviting the coiiperation of
scholars in all parts of the world.
“ The Nineteenth Century" for November contains
a series of tributes in verse to the memory of Tenny-
son by Mr. F. W. H. Myers, Mr. Theodore Watts, and
others. Professor Huxley also appears in these friendly
lists, and his verses are among the best of all.
l\Ir. David Douglas, who lately gave Sir \Valter
Scott’s journal to the world, is about to publish the
"Familiar Letters” of the great novelist, written be-
tween 1797 and 1825. Mr. Douglas has over two
thousand such letters from which to select, and will
make two annotated volumes.
In the December “ Forum," President Eliot discusses
the failures of popular education, and Dr. J. M. Rice
tells us what he saw in the public schools of St. Louis
and Indianapolis. To the schools of the latter city he
gives almost unqualiﬁed praise, and praise from so care-
ful an observer is worth something.
Brentano’s announce the following books: “Chi-
cago," with photogravure illustrations; “ The \Vorld of
Music," by the Comtesse de Brémont; a limited edi-
tion of Motteux's “Don Quixote”; and the new edi-
tion of Fairbairn’s “ Book of Crests,” which will con-
tain over a thousand engravings not before included.
There will be an “authors’ reading” at Chickeriug
Hall, New York, on the evening of January 16, in
which Messrs. F. Hoplriuson Smith, Charles Dudley
\Varner, Edward Eggleston, and others will take part.
It will be given under the auspices of the Booksellers’
and Stationers’ Provident Association of the United
States.
Houghton, Mifﬂin & Co. have just issued Professor
Woodberry’s edition of Shelley, in four volumes; Sig-
nor Lanciani’s “Pagan and Christia.n Rome”; “The
Story of Mary Washington,” by Marian Harland; “ Un-
cle Remus and His Friends,” by Mr. Joel Chandler
Harris; and " Aladdin in London,” a novel by Mr.
Fergus Hume.
There are now three vacancies in the French Acad-
emy, and many times that number of aspirants for the
riiioccupicdfauleuils. MM. Zola, Bourget, and Anatole
France, among the novelists, and M. Brunetiere, among
the critics, ought to stand a very fair chance of election.
Among the living members there are no less than five
octogenarians.
The deaths last month of Ur. Theodore Child and
Mr. T. Adolphus Trollope removed two highly respect-
able writers from the ﬁeld of English letters. Mr.

i Child wrote much upon travel and art; Mr. Trollope
was the author of many novels and historical books,
while his two volumes of reminiscences entitled “ What
I Remember” are among the most entertaining works
of the sort that recent years have produced.
T. Y. Crowell & Co. announce a “Library of Eco-
nomics and Politics,” to be edited by Professor R. T.
Ely. The following volumes are promised: " The In-
dependent Treasury System of the United States," by
Mr. David Kinley; “ American Charities,” by Mr.
Amos G. Warner; and “ Repndiation of State Debts in
the United States,” by Mr. William A. Scott. Profes-
sor Ely will contribute two volumes on socialism to the
series.
L1sT or New Booxs.
[Tllefollowing list, ernbrabirfg I35 lilies, includes all books
received by Tun DIAL since last issuefl
ILL USTRA TEDXGIFT BOOKS.
The Conquest of Granada. By Washington Irving. “ KE-
apida edition," in 2 vols., Svo, illus. with 30 photograv-
ures ; each tvpe—page surrounded by a Moorish border, in
red. G. P. Putnam's Sons. In box. 56.00.
The Makers of Venice: Doges, Conquerors, Painters. and
Men of Letters. By Mrs. Oliphant, author of “ The
Makers of Florence." Extra-illustrated edition, large Svo,
pp. 410, gilt top, uncut edges. Macmillan & Co. $6.00.
A Short History of the English People. By J. R. Green,
M.A. Illustrated edition, edited by Mrs. J. R. Green
and Miss Kate Norggte. Vol. I., large Svo, pp. 4038, gilt
top, uncut edges. arper & Brothers. S-"$.00.
The Armies of To-day : A Descri tion of the Armies of the
Leading Nations at the Present ime. Illus., large live,
p. 438, gilt top, uncut edges. Harper K: Brothers.
3.50.
Peg Woiﬂngton, with Pictures of the Period in \'hich She
Lived. By J. Fitzgerald Molloy. New edition. illus.
with rtraits. in 2 vols., 1‘.hno, gi t top. Dodd, Mead &
Co. n box, S-‘L00.
The Fallow Field. By Julia C. R. Dorr. Illus. in charcoal,
by Zulma DeLac Steele. Oblong -ito, gilt edges.
Lee & Shepard. n box, 33,00.
Hyperion: A Romance. By Henry lvadsworth Longfellow-
Illus. in photogravure, Bvo, pp. 382, gilt edges. Porter &
Coates. In box. $3.50.
Daisy Miller, and An International Episode. By Henry
James, Jr. Illus. by H. IV. McVickar. Pivo, pp. -'~‘1I\,
gilt top, uncut edges. Harper & Brothers. In box, $3.50.
Prue and I. By George \Villiam Curtis. Illus. by Albert
Edward Sterner. Hvo. pp. 272, gilt top, uncut edges. liar-
per & Brothers. In box, SJi..'>0.
Tales from Shakespeare. By Charles and Mg? Lamb.
Edited, with an introduction, by the Rev. Alf Ainger.
M.A. Illus. with 20 photogravures, limo, pp. -12>.-5, gilt
edges. Por-ter&Coates. $‘.!..'>0.
The New England Country. Text and illustration by
Clifton Johnson. Size 7% 211% inches, gilt edges. Lee
& Shepard. In box, $2.-" .
Eigliteenth hCentury Vignettes. By Austin Dobson_
llus. wit rtraits, 1‘.!mo pp. Eli] gilttop ancutedges.
Dodd, Me &Co. $2.00.‘ ' '
Gleams and Echoes. By A. R. G.. author of “Night
Etchings." Illus., sm. Mo, gilt top. J. B. Lippincott
Co. In a box,
My Uncle and My Curé. Translated from the French of
Jean de la Brete, by Ernest Redwood. Illus., large
iivo, pp. 253, uncut edges. Dodd, Mead & Co. Pa-
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No. 156. DECEMBER 16, 1892. Vol. XIII.

CONTENT&
PAOI
THE WORLD‘S CONGRISS AUXILIARY . . :i77
CHRONICLE AND COMMENT . 379
Mr. Stead’s Recent Character Sketch of Tennyson.—-
Tennyson and his Publisher~s.— Enrollment of Stu-
dents at the University of Chicago.— The Close of
Luther’s Famous Address at Worms: A New Version.
COMMUNICATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . 380
Man and the Glacial Period : A Reply. George Fred-
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“ Like Cerberus, Three Gentlemen at Once.” Samuel
Willard.
The Shelley Memorial Subscription: An Acknowl-
edgement.
A CIRCLE OF FAMOUS ARTISTS AND POETS.
E'.G.J..... . ..382
THE FUTURE OF CANADA. Charles G. D. Roberts 385
MANNERS AND MONUMENTS OF PREHISTORIC
PEOPLES. Frederick Starr . . . . . . . . 387
A NEW HISTORY OF AMERICA. Frederick J.
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MORE HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS . . . . 391
Flagg’s The Life and Letters of Wlashington Allston.
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Poets.— Lanciani‘s Pagan and Christian Rome.-
Johnson’s The New England Conntry.—— Mrs. Dor-r's
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Life and Adventures of Peg WoiIington.— Songs
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CONTENTS— Continued.
MORE BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG . . . 394
Henty's Condemned as a. Nihilist.—Hsnty’s In Greek
Water's.— Lsighton’s The Thirsty Sword.~— Stod-
dard’s The Battle of New York.— Coﬁin’s The Life
of Abraham Lincoln.——Louise Putnam’s The Chil-
dren’s Life of Abraham Lincoln.—Butterworth’s In
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Elizabeth Seelye’s The Story of Colun1bus.— But-
terworth’s Little Arthur‘s History of Rome.—
Church’s Pictures from Roman Life and Story.—
Montgomery’s Tales of Ancient Troy and the Ad-
ventures of Ulysses.—GriiIis’s Japan in History,
Folk-lore, and Art.-— Lummis's Some Strange Cor-
nens of Our Country.—Holder's Along the Florida
Reef.-—Glnve’s In Savage Afr-ica.—Tho Story of
Mackay of Uganda.— The Story of John G. Paton.
—Knox’s The Boy Travellers in Central Europe.-
Mrs. Champnsy’s Three Vassar Girls in the Holy
Land.-— Butterw0rth’s Zigzag Journeys on the Mis-
sissippi.— Ober’s Knockabout Club in Search of
Treasure.— French’s Through Arctics and Tropics.
-— Frank Fairwea.ther's Fortunes.—- The Roundabout
Books.—Mrs. Deland’s Story of a Child.——Marie
Marsh's Vic.—-Mme. Colomb’s IIer'minie’s Tri-
umphs.— Jewett's The Bunny Stor-ies.— Miscellan-
eous Children's B0oka.— Lockwood's Baron Trump’s
Marvellous Underground Journey. —- Atkinson's
Scenes in Fsiryland.—- Cassell's The Children’s Li-
brary.— Christmas in Foreign Lands.-— Susan Cool-
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Mrs. Wilcox's The Beautiful Land of Nod.— Fran-
cis’s A Book of Cheerful Cats.—Wister's The Drag-
on of \Vantley.— Carryl's The Admiral’s Caravan.—
Frances Austen’s Eliie’s Visit to Cloudlaud.—- Treas-
ury of Pleasure Books for the Young.— New illus-
trated edition of Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare.—
Good’s Magical Experiments.— Miscellaneous Books
for Younger Children.~ Bound Juvenile Periodicals.
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Scientiﬁc Criticism as Applied to Modern Music.-
The Historical Truth of “Barbara Fribchie."—A
Good Work for the Amateur Book-Colleotor.—The
“ Youth’s Dear Book ” of Dante.—Novel Sport and
Adventure in Arctic Canada.
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LITERARY NOTES AND NEWS . . . . . . . 400
LIST OF NEW BOOKS . . . . . . . . . 401
THE WORLD'S C()_.VG1_£ ESS A UXILIARY.
Next year's cclebi-ation of the four completed
centuries of American history is planned upon so
colossal a scale that few people besides those direct-
ly concerned in the Work have anything like an
adequate notion of its magnitude or the diversity
of its aims. The most industrious dissemination of
information. verbal and pictorial, has been going on
for two years or more. but it does not seem to have
really helped the world outside Chicago to under-
stand very clearly or completely what may be ex-
pected of the coming summer. Those who came to
inspect the Exposition buildings and grounds in Oc-


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tober, during the week of the dedicatory exercises,
were unanimous in declaring that all their precon-
ceived notions had fallen far short of the reality.
Facts of this sort go to show that even the material
features of the coming Exposition, open as they are
to the gaze of the observer, fail, from their very
magnitude, in securing proper appreciation, except
from the few who deliberately settle down to their
prolonged study and the careful estimation of their
import. If those aspects of the Exposition which
are thus clearly en évidence are but imperfectly ap-
prehended, it goes without saying that the many
other aspects, in process of elaboration by the in-
tellectual forces enlisted in the enterprise, and
having thus far no other expression than is given
them by the proceedings of committees and their
occasional reports and announcements, do not make
to the public as yet any appeal at all commensurate
with their real signiﬁcance. Few people have any
realizing sense of what the Exposition is to provide
in the way of music, or painting, or educational
methods and appliances, or object lessons in cosmo-
politanism.
The most important work of the Exposition upon
its intellectual side, as we have had occasion to state
in an earlier article, is that which is being organ-
ized by the oﬁicers of the “"orld’s Congress Auxil-
iary. Carried on, as this work is, with little public-
ity, and overshadowed as it is by the preparations
for the material Exposition, it receives compar-
atively slight public attention, although its impor-
tance is such that, were it standing by itself, it
could not fail to elicit the eager interest of the en-
tire thinking world, and secure the widest recogni-
tion as one of the most notable enterprises ever
planned in the interest of civilization and the com-
ity of mankind. A well-qualiﬁed writer, speaking
recently of the prospects of the material Exposi-
tion, expressed the belief that the \Vorld‘s Fair
grounds next summer will simply be the most inter-
esting spot in all the world. This opinion requires,
however, to be supplemented by saying that, for all
persons having interests of the strictly intellectual
sort, the Art Building in the heart of Chicago, now
being erected for the purposes of the Auxiliary,
will, as a centre of attraction, at least rival the
\Vhite City and its palaces. In this Art Building,
during the six months of the Exposition, ‘there will
be held a succession of the most important gather-
ings ever held anywhere, gatherings of the repre-
sentative workers in every department of thought,
coming from all parts of the world to participate
in the Congresses of the Auxiliary. Every morn-
ing, every afternoon, and every evening. there will
be a score or more of sessions, in which both the
broadest and the most special results of investiga-
tion will be presented to the public by men eminent
in science, art, and literature; in which the scholars
of Europe and America will meet for the compar-
ison of their views, to sum up the past achievements
of thought, and chart the courses for the future.

The work of the Auxiliary is now so far advanced
in most of its lines that this forecast may be made
with confidence. The credit for the work is to be
shared by the United States Government, the local
authorities of the Columbian Exposition. the officers
of the Auxiliary, and the committees in charge of
the various departments. The support of the Gov-
ernment takes the shape of its oﬂicial recognition
of the Auxiliary, of instructions to its diplomatic
and consular representatives in other countries, and
is expected to take the further shape of a pro-
vision for the publication and distribution of the
proceedings of the Congresses. The support of the
local authorities has been given in the form of lib-
eral appropriations for the work, including the pro-
vision of the building in which the Auxiliary will
have its home. Among the officers of th_e Auxil-
iary, the real burden of its work is borne by the
shoulders of the President, Mr. Charles C. Bonney,
to whom has fallen an executive task comparable
only with that of organizing a great university, and
who is performing the labor with a clear recognition
of its comprehensive nature, with discrimination in
dealing with its problems. and with the tact so in-
dispensable for bringing into harmonious adjust-
ment the activities of so many men in so many de-
partments. All the detailed work of the organiza-
tion is in the hands of the Department Committees,
composed of public-spirited residents of Chicago and
vicinity, freely giving their services in a cause to
the importance of which they are fully alive, and
carrying on the multifarious correspondence which
is necessary for the arrangement of their pro-
grammes. Each of these Committees has consti-
tuted an Advisory Council of non-residents, who co-
operate, as far as they may from a distance, in plan-
ning the programme of the Department in question.
The \Voman's Branch of the Auxiliary is also en-
titled to a distinct share of the general credit at-
taching to the work. The organization of women
is parallel, as to committees both resident and non-
resident, with that of the Auxiliary proper, and the
work of women is thus sure of receiving the fullest
recognition.
The work of the Auxiliary as now planned is
classiﬁed under nineteen Departments, which, with
the dates assigned for their respective Congresses.
are as follows: May.-—Woman’s Progress, The Pub-
lic Press, Medicine and Surgery. June.— Temper-
ance, Moral and Social Reform, Commerce and
Finance. J uly.-—Music, Literature, Education. Au-
gust.— Engineering, Art, Government, General De-
partment, Science and Philosophy. September-.—
Labor, Religion. ()ctober.—- Sunday Rest, Public
Health, Agriculture. It will be noticed in this ar-
rangement that subjects of allied interest are brought
near together. as in the cases of the July and Au-
gust Congresses. Each of the nineteen Departments
above named has several Divisions, in charge of spe-
cial Committees. The Department of Literature in-
cludes these ﬁve Divisions: Libraries, History, Phi-


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lology. Authors, and Folk-Lore. To the work of
this Department THE DIAL will devote a special
article in the near future.
\Vhile the general success of the Auxiliary plans
is now assured beyond any reasonable doubt, there
are certain possible elements of weakness against
which the Committees should vigilantly guard.
Chief of all dangers is that offered by the inveterate
hobbyist or the misguided enthusiast. Fanatics of
many sorts are sure to lie in wait for the Auxiliary,
and more than ordinary ﬁrmness will be necessary
to keep them from breaking loose in its midst. The
medical Congresses would be seriously compromised
by the intrusion of the “Christian scientist,” and
the religious gatherings, catholic as they should be
in their recognition of legitimate beliefs. must at
least draw a very distinct line at theosophy. The
Congress of Philologists must beware of amateur
spelling-reformers, and the Congress of Authors
must not be swamped by the poets of Iowa and
Kansas. The fanatic will doubtless have a free
hand in the Temperance Congress, which has its
raison (l’ét1'e in fanaticism, and he will probably
intrude upon the Congress which considers the sub-
ject of Sunday Rest, but he should not succeed in
ﬁnding a foothold in the other Departments. In
this matter the Department Committees have a re-
sponsibility of the gravest sort, one which they can-
not safely venture to ignore.
The participation of women in the organization
of the Auxiliary brings with it a possible element
of weakness. We have not the least intention to
disparage woman’s claim to a share in the intellec-
tual life of mankind. or to estimate with grudging
measure the value of what she has already accom-
plished against almost hopeless odds. But we fear
that the \Voman’s Branch of the Auxiliary will al-
low zeal to outrun discretion, and, in the endeavor
to secure a large numerical representation in the
Congresses, will not closely enough scan the qual-
ity of the work presented. In such Departments
as those of Education and Social Reform. the claim
of women to be largely represented is incontestable,
but there are many other Departments in which it
would be foolish to contend that her achievements
entitle her to more than a very small share in the
deliberations. The lists of women composing the
various Committees and Advisory Councils do not
seem to have been made up, in all cases. with dis-
crimination and a sense of ﬁtness. A merely dilet-
tante interest in a subject should not entitle any
one. man or woman, to be named in a list of its
authoritative representatives, but many names are
included in the published lists for no better reason
than this. and the instances are more frequent in
the lists of women than in those of men.
Still another source of weakness calls for a few
words of comment. with which we close this article.
The Auxiliary, in most of its Departments, is de-
pendent upon the good will and the active coopera-
tion of existing organizations of specialists. The
various learned societies of the country will furnish
the nuclei about which many of the Congresses must
be gathered. As far as possible, these societies
should be free to manage things in their own way,
and the local Committees should be content with
performing the necessary functions of co-ordination.
The general scheme of the Auxiliary should be
rigid at the fewest possible points, and extremely
elastic at all the others. Any tendency to impose
minute restrictions upon the organizations taking
part in the Congresses will have a distinctly un-
favorable effect, even if it does not absolutely
alienate those bodies of scholars whose cooperation
is essential to the dignity and success of the work.
CHRONICLE AND COMMENT.
The peculiar sort of Philistinism of which Mr.
Vi’. T. Stead is the unrivalled exponent is well illus-
trated by his character sketch of Tennyson, published in
the December “ Review of Reviews.” Mr. Stead tells
us that, being born of poor but honest parents, the poems
of the late laureate were too expenive a luxury for his
youth, and that, in consequence, “ Tennyson has never
been to me what he might have been.” This is evident
from what follows, but not very interesting in itself. Ten-
nyson was not “a safe guide to the politician," it seems,
nor was he sound on the question of Home Rule. He
did cast a vote in favor of that much-abused person, the
Deceased Wife’s Sister_or W3! it in favor of the not
all-disconsolate widowers who wanted to marry hcr?_-
and this gives him at least one good mark. Mr. Stead
also points with pride to the fact that he, as editor of
“ The Pall Mall Gazette,” suggested to Lord Tennyson
the subject of a poem, “ The Fleet.” “ The poetry is
not up to Tennyson’s level,” Mr. Stead elegantly ob-
serves, “ but that can be forgiven," he graciously adds,
“ on account of the admirable vigor and soundness of its
politics.” Perhaps the forgiveness is partly due as well
to Mr. Stead’s consciousness of having participated in
the production of the poem,—which does not seem to be
unlike the feeling of the bellows-boy at the organ con-
cerning the music which he and the organist are en-
gaged in making.
The poems of Tennyson were successively pub-
lished (after their author had become famous) by Messrs.
Moxon & Son, Strahail & C0., and Henry S. King.
The Macmillans took charge of their publication about
eight years ago. The poet was an excellent man of
business, and his contracts with Messrs. Strahan & Co.
were based upon the payment of £5000 annually for use
of the existing copyrights, and the receipt of ten per
cent commission (not royalty) upon the sales of new
books. Terms not unlike these were made with subse-
quent publishers. Fortunate is the writer who can hire
his publisher instead of being himself the hireling!
The University of Chicago has now 589 students
in all, classiﬁed as follows: Divinity School, 180; Gradu-
ate School, 162; Academic College (F reslnnen and
Sophomores), 141; University College (Juniors and
Seniors), 35; special students, 71.
Recent investigation has shown that Luther's fa-
mous address at Worms came to the following close:
“ Es miigen die Concilien irren, und haven geirrt, daz


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lygt am tag mid wils beweysen, Gott Kumm mir zn
Hiilff. Amen. Da bin ich.” This is quite different
from the familiar words mven by D’Aubigné and others.
Since the traditional saying of Ethan Allen at Ticon-
deroga was discredited, we have been prepared for any-
thing in this line of iconoclasm.
COMMUr\’ICA TIONS.
MAN AND THE GLACIAL PERIOD.
(To the Editor oi Tun DIAL.)
In Professor Chamberlin’s criticism of my recent
volume upon " Mali and the Glacial Period," in your
number for November 16, there are some imperfect
statements of facts, to which, in justice to myself, it is
proper for me to call attention.
First, in regard to my relation to the Survey, justice
is scarcely done as to the extent of my work in connec-
tion with it. For eight years previous to 1884 I had
been engaged in ﬁeld-work in tracing the boundary of
the glaciated area, beginning at the Atlantic Ocean and
working westward. In Pennsylvania I worked under
the auspices of the State Survey, in company with the
late H. Carvill Lewis. VV hen that work was completed
I continued for two years under private patronage, un-
til I had traced the boundary across Ohio, Kentucky, In-
diana, and a part of Illinois. Reports upon this work
were made from time to time in the “ Proceedings of
the Boston Society of Natural History,” the “ Ameri-
can Journal of Science,” the “ American Naturalist,"
and at the sessions of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science. In 1884 more formal re-
ports upon the work were made in Volume Z of the
Pennsylvania Survey, Volume V. of the Ohio Survey,
and a small volume published by the Western Reserve
Historical Society of Cleveland. I was then asked by
the United States Survey to complete the work to the
Mississippi River, and incorporate in my report all of
my results touching the territory between the Allegheny
Mountains and the Mississippi River; the Government
thus taking advantage of all my previous work. In
pursuance of this proposition two further seasons were
devoted to ﬁeld-work, and a third season to the review
and digestion of the facts collected and to the prepara-
tion of the report, which was handed in in 1886, but,
with the usual delay in Government affairs, was not
published until 1890. Meanwhile, however, it was re-
peatedly recalled, to incorporate additional facts brought
to light by subsequent ﬁeld-work. During this interval
my volume upon “ The Ice Age in North_ America”
was published, but not without the express and written
permission of the Director of the United States Survey.
Then, as stated by Professor Chamberlin, my formal
connection with the Survey did not terminate until a
month after the pages of my last volume were printed.
In view of these facts, I fail to see that any unfair ad-
vantage has been taken of my position; and I have
never understood that the other members of the Survey
were responsible for all of my deductions.
Secondly, as to the genuiueness of the paheolithic
implements, Professor Chamherlin seems hardly aware
of the amount of attention that was given to this sub-
tect by Professor Putnam and his associates in Boston
some ten or twelve years ago. In the great exhibit at
the Vorld’s Fair which Professor Putnam is to make,
those interested will have the opportmiity to see the ev-

idence for themselves, or, better still, they can do so at
the present time by visiting the Peabody Museum at
Cambridge, where some four hundred of these imple-
ments are on exhibition. In my volume upon “ The Ice
Age” Prof. Henry \V. Haynes, one of the highest au-
thorities in the world, gave an extended statement of
the facts sustaining the artiﬁcial character of the impla
ments. Nor is it true that " no geological expert of un-
questioned competence has ever yet found a single im-
plement or stone ﬂaked by man in a glacial formation
in America which was clearly deposited contempora-
neously with it," unless Professor Shaler, of Harvard
College, is ruled out from this class of experts; for in
his report to the Peabody Museum (Vol. II., p. 45) he
says that two implements were found by him, twelve
feet below the top of the bank, which it was difficult for
him to believe could have been out of place, and after
minute examination of the conditions under which
other implements of Dr. Abbott were found he regarded
it as " quite unquestionable that they were at the depth
of many feet below the soil, and were really mingled
with the drift matter that formed the section.”
Finally, in reference to the relation of the Trenton
gravels to the glacial period, it is important to keep con-
stantly in mind the broad distinction between ascer-
tained facts and strongly cherished opinions. I have
not concealed the fact that Professor Chamberlin, Pro-
fessor Salisbury, and Mr. McGee differ from me in the
interpretation of the deposits in the Delaware Valley.
They believe in two distinct glacial periods separated
by an enormous interval of time. I am not convinced
of the sufﬁciency of the proof upon which they depend,
and in this I am with a very respectable number of em-
inent geologists. The conﬁdence with which Professor
Chamberlin appeals to the last results of the New Jer-
sey Survey as formulated by Professor Salisbury is
misplaced. If he had been present at the meeting of
the Geological Society of America at Rochester last Au-
gust, he would have had abundant evidence before him
that Professor Salisbury in his recent report has fallen
into very serious error, not only as to interpretation,
but as to facts. Recent articles in the " American Geol-
ogist” and the “ American Journal of Science " bring
these mistaken interpretations of Professor Salisbury
clearly into light.
I have no complaint to make of sharp and searching
criticism, because I know that it is by such processes
that our individual errors of judgment are corrected,
and that the real facts clearly emerge. I only hope
that courtesy and candor may prevail, and that the men
of science may not fall into the habits of controversy
which are supposed to prevail to too great an extent in
. . 1 . '
ecclesiastica circles G_ FREDERICK “,RmH_l__
Oberlin. 0., Nov. 26, 18.92.
"LIKE CERBERUS, THREE GENTLEMEN
AT ONCE.”
(To the Editor of Tan Dian.)
In Alliboue's “Dictionary of Authors” we ﬁnd as
two successive titles —
Pinchini, William, of New England. The Meritorious Price
of'our Redemption, &c.. Lon., 1650-'12, 4to.
Pinchion, William. The Jews’ Synagogue. Lon., 1652, -Ito.
\'heu the ﬁrst of these two caught my eye, the sin-
gularity of the Italian-looking name for an English
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Hawthorne’s use of it in the “ House of Seven Gables,”
I turned forward one hundred and seventeen pages, and
there found —
Pynchon, William.—1. The Meritorious Price of Christ’s
Redemption, Lon., U50; 2d ed., 16-1'), 4t0. Burnt on the
Common by order of the authorities of Massachusetts.— 2.
The Jewes Synagogue. 1652, ~1to.— 3. The Time and Manner
how the First Sabbath was ordained, &c., 1654, 4to.
Evidently these three are one, and that one is the
last named \"illiam Pynchon. The spelling, as is usual
with names of that time, varies: Hawthorne makes it
Pyncheon; documents copied from the records of the
time give it Pinchon; the descendants of that name, of
whom many are to be found, some in Chicago, keep Al-
libone’s spelling. But where did Dr. Allibone get that
Italian form‘? Was it a typographical error for Pin-
chion? I cannot otherwise account for it.
There is a bit of tragedy in that brief line about the
burning of the book. I suppose it could not have been
a unique performance; and yet I do not remember to
have read of any other instance.
\'illia1n Pynchon was no common or vulgar victim.
One of his t-grandfathers was one of the ministers
of Henry VII.; and his relatives in England were of
the gentry. He was one of the patentees of the Muss-
achusetts colony, and was appointed magistrate, or
assistant to the governor, as magistrates were then
called, before he left England. He came with Win-
throp in 1630, and was the same year the founder of
Roxbury. In" 1636 he moved to Ag-awam, that is,
Springﬁeld, Mass., and was the founder of that city.
When the settlements in Connecticut were young and
the Bay Colony claimed jurisdiction over them, Pyn-
chon had a commission to hold court at Weathersﬁeld.
He was again and again made magistrate, and was held
in the highest esteem for his learning, his vigor and en-
terprise, and his excellence of character.
In 1650 there appeared in England his ﬁrst book,
" The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption.” Copies
of it arrived in Boston during the October session of
the General Court, or legislature. It declared that
Christ did not suffer the torments of hell for mankind,
and that he did not bear our sins by imputation. Some
say that its grand error consisted in regarding the suf-
ferings of Christ as merely trials of his obedience. in
various ways it set aside current views of the Atonement.
Some discovered in the book an odor of the doctrine of
the Fifth Monarchy. Forthwith it was condemned by
the General Court, which ordered that it be publicly and
solemnly burned at the market-place in Boston after the
Thursday lecture, the next day, because of its “ many
errors and hercsies.” The noted Rev. John Norton of
Ipswich was appointed to answer it, which he did in " A
Discussion of that Great Point in Divinity, the Suffer-
ings of Christ." For this they paid him twenty pounds,
and sent it to England to be printed and dispersed there.
They also issued a “Declaration and Protestation,”ad-
dressed to the faithful in England, asseverating their
innocence and ignorance of the book: "On the con-
trary, we detest and abhor many of the opinions and
assertions therein as false, eronyous, and hereticall.”
Pynchon was summoned to attend the session of the
Court in May 1651. , As he was ninety miles away, and ‘
news travelled slowly, the excellent Pynchon probably
knew nothing of this Bostonian tempest of wrath, this
chilling east wind of doctrine, u|Ril several days had i
edge ofa similar name, one made famous in ﬁction by he would be treated according to his demerits. A
I

century earlier he might have been sent into the ﬁre
with his book.
In conference with three elders Pynchon admitted
that he had overstated some of his points, and made a
little concession. The General Court, “ on account of
troubles in his family,” allowed him to return to his
home, directing him to take .\'orton’s book and “run-
sider thereof.” In October of 1651, he was still ob-
stinate: they still suspended sentence, and put him
under bonds of a lIlll\(lI'Hl pounds to appear again. I’-nt
he had had enough of " my lords, the brethren": in 1632,
he returned to Eu;lawl, taking with him his son-in-lnw,
Henry Smith, and his pastor, Rev. G00. Moxon, who
probably agreed with lnm. Ile answered Norton in a
new edition of his book, and more fully in a work pub-
lished after his dvatli (1661). which has escaped l)r.
Allibonc‘s notice, “ The Covenant of Xatllrc."
\Vas this New England's first auto do fa? It did but
burn a book, and tortured the heart of one of her great
and good men. Forty years latcr there wvns a s:ul.lcr
one at Salem; and there I have l‘t ad that l’_\"m-lion's son
sat beside lluwtlioi-nu-"s ancestor in those dork trials
which forever ended the wit<.hcr.1ft delusion. rending
the veil from the eyes of men by their heart-slialung
horrors.
Chicago. Der. 5, 18.’I..’.
[NOT]-2.-— If any reader desires to see :1 picture of \'illiam
Pynchon, he will ﬁnd the sad. thoughtful face in a book on
the history of Springﬁeld, hIaas., in the Chicago Public Li-
bra:-y.]
SAMl'F.L \'|u.A no.
THE SHELLEY Ml‘l.\l()IlI XI. SI.'B$CRIl"l‘l(lf\'.
(To the Edimr of Tux I)IAL.l
The committee liavin,-3; in charp_'\- the Shells} Memo-
rial Sul)sc1'iption will be very much obliged for your
kiiulness if you can ln:\l((- room for the folloning ac-
l(no�le\lgnicnt.
passed, and he received the summons, with word that
The Ann.-rn-an I!l8!lllk'l“~ of the committee to provide
the funds for the Sin-lh-_v Liln-nry and ltinst-u1n._ to be
e-stabli.~"ln~(l as a memorial of the poet, at llorslnun, En-
gland,-_an-knowledge with thanks the following aub-
scriptions:
S. P. Avery _. . . . . New York, $23.‘) O0
Some ineinbexs of the Grolier Club, “ 51! 00
lvillizml Lcnunon . . . . . “ 5 00
Prof. Thomas R. Price . . . " 5 00
T. \V. Higginson . . . ('ambri:l,ge, .\In.~rs., 5 O0
"C. H. G.” . . . . . . . hiwrietm. (L, ‘J5 00
R. U. Johnson . . . . . New York, 5 00
Frank H. 5cott . . . . . . " 5 00
C. F. Chiclu-star . . . . . " 5 00
Mrs. hlnry Mnpcs l)o<l&.'i. - . . " 5 O0
Prof. George E. \'oodbcrry . “ 5 00
T. B. Aldrich . . . . - Boston, 15 00
R. “I. Gilder . . . . . . New York, X5 O0
Helene deliay Gilder . . . . “ -"1 00
E. C. Stedman . . . . . . “ 15 (X)
Laura II. btednmn . . . . . “ 5 00
Further contributions .'.r-> snlivitc(l, and may be sent
to any one of the umlezsigned American mcmhcrs of
i the committee.
T. B. Arnnxcu,
51' Mt. Vernon St., Boston. Mass.
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- A'_-'u'+a¢,\ - <»>.-J» .-.---_.
THE New B0o|<s.

A Cmcnn or FAMOUS An'r1s'rs AND POE'1‘S.*
The name of William Bell Scott is perhaps
unknown to most American readers; but a
cursory survey of the pages of two recently is-
sued volumes of his autobiography, alluringly
studded with such names as Walter Scott, Pro-
fessor John \Vilson, Leigh Hunt, G. H. Lewes,
D. G. Rossetti, Holman Hunt, Carlyle, Tenny-
son, Swinburne, Maclise, and, in play-bill
phrase, “ a host of others,” gives at the outset
the comfortable assurance that he was at least
one whose memories were worth the telling.
Wiﬂiani Bell Scott (1811-1890) was a good
painter, though his friends called him Pictor
Ignotus, a poet of fair gift and accomplish-
ment, and, as his autobiography abundantly
shows, a man of marked individuality, with a
turn for doing his own thinking and making
his own estimates. Hence we may say at once
that his memoir is considerably more than a
mere cluster of hoarded anecdotes and verbal
portraits. Proposing in his “ prologue ” to de-
scribe with some degree of accuracy the scenery
of his life and the lives of his intimate friends,
the writer adds, with the measure of cynicism
which years bring to most thoughtful men, “We
live surrounded by so many social conventions,
we go about with so many deceptive coverings,
that a sincere attempt at self-portraiture in
writing is like walking into the street naked,
and is only likely to frighten our neighbors."
Despite this view of the limitations of auto-
biography, Mr. Scott has been unusually frank
about himself throughout—- at times, we feel
bound to say, to the verge of garrulity; and,
without, of course, the indecent exposures of a
Yorick, has given us curious glimpses of an
inner life that was certainly fashioned after no
ordinary pattern. The opening chapters, de-
scriptive of early scenes and associates, and
containing bits of family portraiture‘ of almost
Shandean force and humor, are charming read-
ing, and give rise to a regret that the relator
did not adhere even more closely to the tale of
his own material and spiritual fortunes.
The author was born at Edinburgh on the
12th of September, 1811, in a small nibble-
stone mansion standing on its own bit of ground
at St. Leonard’s, shadowed not remotely by


*Wu.uAn Bxm. Scorr: Autobiographical Notes. and
Notices of his Artistic and Poetic Circle of Friends, 18150 to
1882. Edited by \V. Minto. In two volumes, illustrated.
New York : Harper & Brothers.

the clouds of “ auld Reekie,” yet in the imme-
diate neighborhood of the scenery of the “Heart
of Midlothian.” Dumbicdykes and the cot-
tage of douce David Deans, Saint Anthony’s
well and Nicol Muschat’s bloody cairn, were
familiar and prosaic realities to the boy before
he had heard of the novel or its author. Look-
ing from his little bedroom window, but one
house intervened till the eye rested upon the
ranges of Salisbury Crags, over which again
towered Arthur’s Seat. He says:
“ This outlook was a source of endless delight to us,
especially in winter, when the ﬁrst snow was hailed in
the early morning, and when we used to see the skaters
winding their waypast this solitary house, over the stile
at Davie Deans’s cottage, and along King's Park towards
Duddingtou Loch."
The elder Scott was an engraver, the pro-
prietor of an establishment in Parliament
Square, and had himself acquired some celeb-
rity in landscape through his ability to faith-
fully elaborate the weeds in a foreground or the
foliage of a tree in a miniature print. This
virtuoso was a singular, and not too lovable,
character. A proclivity to business rather
than to art set him upon continually trying
ne� inventions, such as the manufacture from
seaweed of a black powder to supersede the
expensive Frankfort material for plate print-
ing-ink. This project failing, he set men to
pounding cork for a similar purpose—a pro-
cess dimly recalling the famous attempt in
“ Roderick Random ” to extract the “essence
of tinder.” Says our author:
“Qur father was over six feet in height, thin in face
and ﬁgure, still older than our mother to me, as I never
remember him without spectacles and a brown wig.
He was very straight, and spoke with some reﬁnement
of pronunciation and selection of words. Long after
the rest of the male creation had adopted trousers, he
continued knee-breeches and leggings buttoned up the
outside of the lcg, and never to the end of his life did
he abandon the voluminous white neckerchief and pro-
jecting frilled shirt requiring the mother’s hand to ad-
just before he left the house.”
A more amiable relative was an uncle, a
fine Shandcan character, a lover of dogs, guns,
and horses, of whom it is honorably recorded
that “ he still possessed t/ac Bible his gameoock
had won on the ﬂoor of the school at the break-
ing-up time.” It is further noted in evidence
of the generalpopularity of this worthy that
when he was attacked by the disease in the
knee which left him lame, the breaking-up
cock-ﬁght (an established part of the curricu-
lum) was thoughtfully adjourned to the sick-
chamber. These kindly devices tended to fur-
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the memory of this uncle, our author relates
that he had always—
“Stories to tell about ancestors more or less apochry-
phal. He could make pop-guns from the stems of the
elder-tree, reed whistles, pan-pipes, and many other
toys. He took some pains, too, to keep us right in pro-
nouncing the alphabet, although he only excited our
mirth when he went over the letters, giving them the
broad old Scotch prommciation: A was awe, B was bay,
C was say, and so on, ending with U sounded like 00 in
good, W as duploo, Z as izzid. . Games played
with the ﬁngers too he had, a pleasure to him as well
as to us, such as ‘Fly away Jack and ﬂy away Jill,’
which the little sister never mastered; and another
which began by his holding the child’s thumb and say-
ing, ‘ This is the man that broke the barn,'—thcn taking
the foreﬁnger, ‘ This is the man that stole the corn,'-—-
then the second ﬁnger, ‘This is the man that ran awa’,'
—then the third, ‘This is the man that told a’,’-then
violently seizing and twisting about the little ﬁnger,
4 And poor little pirley-winkie paid for a’! ’—a consum-
mation which, however expected, always delighted her.”
Most of us, looking back through the vista
of years, can discern some such early hero, de-
lightful if unproﬁtable, ﬁlling the easy ideal of
boyhood, yet eyed askance by discerning elders.
The author himself was a quaint, introspect-
ive child, “ old-fashioned ” like little Dombey,
with the right Caledonian turn for metaphys-
ics; a young Kantian puzzling himself (in
pinafores) as to the nature of Time and Space.
These and more serious mental difficulties
were submitted for solution to the nurse-maid,
a prudent, orthodox young person, who, dimly
discerning danger and a shaking of the pillars
of religious faith, reported promptly to the
mother.
“ I had asked her (the nurse) if she saw me as I saw
her, was I living, and how was it I came to live, and if
I did not wish to live what should I do ? My only feel-
ing was shame at having exposed myself, but what my
mother thought of me I could not tell. She only sent
the girl away, and in her affectionate way told me not
to say things to anybody but her, that I must live to
grow a big boy, when I would know better, and so on.”
The Scotts were dissenters, having joined
the Baptist body, whose austerely unsensual
ritual, carried on within the naked hideousness
of the four whitewashed walls of their con-
venticle, was most unattractive to the children :
“The service itself was democratic in the highest de-
gree, every member having the privilege of ‘exhort-
ing’ the congregation by short addresses conveying the
results of study or reading, of experiences or observa-
tions. Among the speakers were two able and intelli-
gent, but unaffected and perhaps unlearned, men, whose
harangues my brothers thought they had weighed and
found wanting. Indeed, the eldest of the three boys,
who early became critical, conﬁded to us younger ones
that on week-days they were to be seen behind counters
or following ordinary trades, the one being a baker and
the other a carpenter. The second boy, the humorist,

and afterwards the erratic and unmanageable Robert,
used to make game of these two, no doubt, more than
usually able men, by hiding himself lmder the book-
board and imitating their trades, calling to me in an
audible whisper when any difficulty occurred in the con-
tinuity of their discourses, ‘Ha, the dough won't rise! ’
or ‘ Oh, the saw has got so blunt!’ "
As already said, Mr. Scott was both poet
and painter. His earliest literary friend and
counsellor was that vigorous character Profes-
sor John Wilson (in many points not unlike
the cock-ﬁghting uncle), and his ﬁrst adven-
ture in that way was asking his opinion of
some sufficiently high-ﬂown and didactic blank
verse. Wilson endorsed the opinion, which
was not very ecomiastic, on the back of the
MS., and the young author, being dissatisﬁed,
determined to carry his poetic wares to the
highest authority of the day—- Sir Walter
Scott. He found Sir lVa.lter— an unwieldy,
strong man, a gigantic Jack Horner at his
small desk in the corner -— busily correcting a
parcel of proofs, his staff beside him, and his
hat on the carpet. The oracle turned in his
chair, shook his caller kindly by the hand, and
invited him to enter on the business of the
visit at once: “ I have not much time to-day,
but perhaps I can spare enough. I am a busy
man, you know.” The beginning was encour-
aging, but after opening and scanning the
poem, Scott went on: “ You have chosen blank
verse, better write in rhyme; twenty people read
rhyme for one that enjoys blank verse.” “ The
subject seemed better suited to blank verse,”
modestly insinuated the neophyte, and cited
the practice of Milton. “ True, true, you're
ambitious, you like Milton, but few can really
write in blank verse well. For myself, I would
say Thomson is a better model; we must not
expect, besides, to work up to Milton. Thom-
son is the most read of the two, and he is a
Scotchman, originally from the Borders; but
perhaps you know him as well as Milton.”
This, and some further rather gossipping talk,
though friendly and sensible enough, was
rather disappointing to the expectant young
poet; it seemed to him “ like the gabble of a
Philistine ; the invention, the imaginative
power, these were the qualities he expected to
have noticed l ”— and he left the august pres-
ence not only disappointed but mystiﬁed.
Some general comments of Mr. Seott’s at this
point contain food for reﬂection, amusement
perhaps, for the democratic-minded American
reader. Premising that Sir Walter “ was not
the literary man by profession, but a gentle-
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“ It was the same with all the Scotch literati; they
were Lords of Session, professors, men of fortune; the
ball had been at their feet from boyhood! How dif-
ferent it was in Londonl None of the literary men
and few of the poets were in a similar position. They
were all living hand to mouth, working in a groove, or
in a comparatively obscure public ofﬁce, like dear Charles
Lamb, whose writing, like himself, was essentially mid-
dle-class. Hazlitt was a noble fellow in his way, but
altogether uncertain in habits and position; and with
Peacock, Reynolds, Leigh Hunt, Keats, we ascend to the
pure air of genius, but get no higher in the social scale.
This ought to be kept in mind when we sit in judg-
ment on the brutality of Lockhart’s Edinburgh articles
on the ‘Cockney ' school."
Just noting that the drawer of these Hudi-
brastic distinctions is occasionally hard on
“Philistinism,” we may remark that it is a
little odd that genius — after all, a rare qual-
ity — should have generally proved a less pow-
erful social disinfectant than money, which
we all agree to call “ ﬁlthy lucre.” Mr.
Thrale, we remember, who brewed beer and
“ put money in his purse,” was, by Mr. Scott’s
standard, “higher in the social scale” than
Goldsmith, who wrote “ The Deserted Vil-
lage ” and other pieces of some merit. Genius
and respectability are not, however, often found
hand in hand; and solid Thrale would cer-
tainly prove a safer inmate than a genius who
put out his candle at night by throwing his
slippers at it, even though he did “ write like
an angel.”
Among Mr. Scott’s early artistic acquaint-
ances of note was Turner, at that time in
Scotland sketching for the “ Provincial Anti-
quities,” and he relates an amusing instance of
the great paimter’s inveterate “Cockneyism.”
At a dinner given to Turner the talk turned
upon one of his drawings of South Coast scen-
ery, a view of a distant river, with a grayhound
at full speed after a hare in the foreground.
A guest was examining this plate with admira-
tion, when Turner called out:
“ Ah! I see you want to know why I have intro-
duced that ’are. It is a bit of sentiment, sirl for that's
the spot where ’Arold ’Arefoot fell, and you see I ’ave
made an ’o1md a-chasing an ’are !”
It is pretty hard to reconcile this slaughter of
the innocent h’s with the genius that created
“ The Fighting Téméraire ” and the “ Childe
Harold's Pilgrimage ”; but, after all, it is not
]i;l1l1‘El1glltllZSt I4lfl1(l.l6£"li1:Iyl1I'I‘ayS that humanity
o spaenso no 1 .
Mr. Scott went up early to London, the
Mecca of British talent, and soon fell in with
the rising artists, Dadd, O’Neill, Frith, Egg,
Joy, etc., and later with that devoted though
short-lived coterie, the Pre-Raphaelite Breth-
ren,whose immediate notoriety, he says, was due
to Millais, and to the singularity of their cog-
nomen. Of this little band, a school within a
school, dreaming, with the ardor of youthful
enthusiasm, of working a revolution in current
art, the author’s account is probably unique.
In 1853 Holman Hunt was painting “ The
Light of the World,” the most faithful em-
bodiment, perhaps, of Pre-Raphaelite princi-
ples and doctrines. Says our author:
“I found him so employed, in a small drawin-1-x~w»m
in the corner house near the old church of Chelsea. with
an elaborate arrangement of screens and curtains so as
to get the dark effect he wanted. The lay ﬁgure held
a lighted lantern, and Hunt, painting by good daylight
in the farther part of the room, peepcd into the myste-
rious gloom by a hole. The arrangement had a l)ngc_V
effect, and the amount of exercise made it the pursuit of
painting under diﬁiculties, certainly. . . . The pains
he took to get every point of color and light and shade
as true to nature, and as perfect as possible, struck me
more and more the nearer I saw his ways and contriv-
ances. He was determined to carry out his il('(‘ll!‘ﬂi8
method of representation even when the subject was so
removed from the realities of life that an abstract treat-
ment, a rendering of ‘ the idea in the mind,’ as Raphael
is reported to have preferred, would have emancipated
him from the slavery of painting lamplight in daytime,
and of rendering moonlight by artiﬁcial means. The
omnibus groom, taking his horses home at one o’clock
in the morning, used to see him working at an open
window from nature when real moonlight was to be had.”
Touching this characteristic elaboration of dc-
tail the author relates that on visiting a draw-
ing-school started by the P. R. B.’s, he found
Christina Rossetti among the pupils, who were
all drawing, not from casts or beautiful objects
of any kind, either from sculpture or orna-
ment, nor even from symmetrical forms, or
solids to illustrate perspective, but from wood-
shavings picked up in a joiner's yard. Pre-
Raphaelitism, with its ﬁne enthusiasms and no-
ble illusions," was ephemeral enough, at least as
to its principle executive tenet. A year or two
after his ﬁrst visit to Hunt and Rossetti, in
1848, Mr. Scott noticed in Millais’ studio an
Italian print, inscribed “ From Nature,” and
representing a girl seated among shrubs and
ﬂowers. Every leaf of every plant, indeed the
two halves of every leaf, radiating from the
centre ﬁbre even of those in shade, were elab-
orated, and the pattern on the dress of the girl
was in every part exactly made out. Observ-
ing his visitor's interest in the engraving, Mil-
lais quitted his easel and said:
‘“Ha ! you've observed that, have you ? that's P. R.
B. enough, is it not? We havn't come up to that yet.
But,’ he went on, ‘I for one won’t try: it’s all non-
sense; of course nature's nature, and art‘s art, isn’t it ?
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So soon had the ablest exponent of the new
doctrine fallen away from the common prin-
ciple of technique. There is a great deal of
interesting fact, comment, and anecdote given
of the P. R. B.’s— Hunt, Rossetti, F. M.
Brown, Collins, Deverell, and the rest—for
which we must refer the reader to the original.
Mr. Ruskin is treated very eavalierly, and his
pretensions as a drawing-master are thrust aside
with the professional artist’s contempt for pre-
sumptuous dilettantism. Even as a critic, “the
master,” as Mr. Wilde was wont to style him,
is not spared :
“ His hero-worship of Turner was not an aﬁectation
at all; but his overpowering passion in talk as in writ-
ing was a determination to ﬁnd out qualities no one else
Could see, and to contradict or ignore those evident to
everyone else."
The author has a great deal to say of his
literary friends, whom he confesses to prefer-
ring to the artistic ones. His ﬁrst encounter
— that is the proper word-—with Carlyle was
at the Sage’s tea-table at Chelsea. Carlyle's
conversation was exactly like his Latterday
Pamphlets, only more damnatory, and his de-
scriptions were admirably terse, vivid, and vig-
orous, but all from the “ anatomical” point of
view; his rasping, emphatic voice was “like
the rattling of pebbles and boulders driven
against each other in a spate.”
“‘Ah! ’ said he, ‘you’re an artist,’ pronouncing the
ﬁrst syllable of the word like air, which I had not heard
even in Edinburgh for a long time back. ‘ But you’re
something more. Ah, well, I can make nothing of art-
ists, nor of their work either. Empty as other folk’s
kettles are, artists’ kettles are emptier, and good for
nothing but tying to the tails of mad dogs So little do
I care to venture on these speculations, I have never
been at an exhibition all the many years I have been in
London.’ This was disappointing to one who held to
the self-culture doctrine of the hero of VVeimar, Car-
lyle’s hero too!”
In 1852 the author met Tennyson, with his
brother Frederick, at Patmore’s. The brothers
resembled each other strongly, he says, both
slow, grave, rather strong, tall, and heavy in
the shoulders, looking older and speaking more
soberly than their years warranted. Tennyson
was strictly the unconventional man, indiffer-
ent to most topics, never trying to say “ a good
thing.”
“ Both the brothers seemed to be alike in this: they
had settled everything in their own minds, and therefore
did not care to hear other people’s opinions."
In 1857 Mr. Scott met Swinburne, at VVall-
ington, near Capheaton, where the future bard
was passing his school-recess with his grand-
father Sir John Swinburne:
“ He was always riding a little, long-tailed pony at a
good pace towards the village. He had the appearance
of a boy, but for a certain mature expression on his
handsome high-bred face, which had bright, coarse
yellow hair ﬂowing on his shoulders, and ﬂashing out
round his head. On his saddle was strapped a bundle
of books like those of a schoolboy."
Swinburne was then about eighteen, but his
small ﬁgure and boyish manners made him
seem much younger. He was treated accord-
ingly, and this, again, made him affect to be
younger than he was. He had won a prize
for French, of which he was childishly proud,
and a few days after the author’s ﬁrst meeting
him he appeared at Lady Trevelyan’s with his
prize-book,—
“ Entering the saloon where we were all at work, hop-
ping on one foot, his favorite expression of extreme
delight. It was a large edition of Notre Dame dz Paris
gorgeously bound, with illustrations by Tony Johannot;
but the exuberance of his delight was so comical that
even Lady Trevelyau could not resist a smile, and Miss
Capel Lofft, avery nervous person, begged him to sit
down quietly and show her the prints. . . . The whole
forenoon that book was never out of his sight. If it
lay on the table his eyes were always wandering to it.
The fascination of ﬁrst love was nothing to this fascina-
tion; and when we all adjourned for an interval to the
garden, there it was tightly held under his arm, while
he ran on before backwards, and ran back to us again.”
We have tried to give the reader an idea of
the richness in the way of anecdote and per-
sonal chat of Mr. Scott’s memoir, and it only
remains to say that the volumes are made up
_in the best style of substantial, quietly elegant
book-making. There are a number of excel-
lent illustrations, many of them etchings by
the author, comprising portraits of himself,
of Rossetti, Swinburne, Miss Rossetti, Leigh
Hunt, Lewes, etc. Some of these plates are
unusually strong work. The editor, Mr. IV.
Minto, has done his part well, and he has
added a chapter relating to Mr. Scott’s last
illness and death. E_ G_ J_
THE FUTURE or‘ CANADA.*

The sudden importance to which Canada has
raised herself in the eyes of the English-speak-
ing world is one of the signiﬁcant facts of to-day.
That Canada has become interesting to the
nations in a degree quite out of proportion to
her status as a colony, will be admitted readily
enough. The signiﬁcance of the fact, however,
seems nowhere to be fully realized. \Ve are apt
to seek an explanation of it in the great 1nate-

'*CAaAnA AND THE CANADIAN Qoas-non. By Goldwin
Smith, D.C.L. New York: Macmillan & Co. Toronto:
Hunter, Rose & Co.


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rial achievements which have been wrought by
our scanty people in the face of tremendous
odds; but this explanation seems to me inad-
equate. May it not be found rather in a gen-
eral though unformulated suspicion that in the
settlement of certain vast questions which are
likely to press for solution before long, Canada
may appear to hold the casting vote? It is
possible that no such suspicion exists, outside
of our own imaginations ; but that there exists
solid and suﬂicient grounds for it, may, I think,
easily be demonstrated.
There is a project in view just now which,
if brought to completion, would exert a prac-
tically incaleulable inﬂuence on the affairs of
the world. This project is coming to be known
as Imperial Federation. Its aim is a federal
union between Great Britain and her Colonies.
Its advocates bid fair to make it, ere long, a
question of practical politics. To the Mother
Country, always slow to perceive the drift and
bearing of new problems, it is bound to become
a vital question. It is Great Britain herself,
as many of her best minds are beginning very
clearly to perceive, that has most at stake upon
the issue. For Canada, for Australia, for
South Africa, it is possible to imagine more
than one satisfactory and creditable solution
of the problem of their national future. But
for England I believe there stands but the
startling alternative propounded by one of her
leading journals —“ Federate, or Perish.” In
view of the colonial growth of the United
States, the resistless expansion of Russia, the
colonizing ambitions of awakened Germany,
—all of which are matters of the new order,
and not to be understood by petty parallels
from the Middle Ages,—-it is diﬂicult to believe
that an England shorn of her great Colonies
could long retain her hold on India, or her
prestige in the councils of the nations. It
seems hardly a rash conclusion that she would
sink soon to the level of a third or fourth rate
power.
The most extravagant language would hardy
overstate the signiﬁcance of a problem involv-
ing the question as to whether Great Britain
should attain a supremacy whence to dictate
peace to Europe, or should shrink to the polit-
ical stature of Spain or Holland. Now it is
not too much to claim that the solution of the
problem rests ultimately with Canada. Sooner
or later England is sure to take the initiative;
and then, if Canada refuse to federate, the
scheme becomes impracticable. She is the es-
sential lin-k in the chain of federated Anglo-

Saxon nationalities with which it is proposed
to girdle the world. Imperial Federation with-
out Australia is eonceivably practicable ; with-
out Canada it is hardly possible.
All this may seem to most readers inﬂated
and visionary, but it is not very rash to proph-
esy that before the century goes out the sig-
nifieance of Canada’s position will be fully
realized, and the interest she now excites will
have been explained. There is every reason to
conclude that Canada will not much longer rest
content in her present attitude of tutelage, no
matter how kindly or how wise the guardian.
\Vhen comes the change, she has no lack of
alternatives before her. If she feel herself com-
pelled to refrain from Imperial Federation, she
may prefer to develop her great resources
along the lines of national independence; or
she may, conceivably, desire to unite with the
kindred nation on her borders. This latter
alternative, however, it is wcll within the mark
to characterize as altogether repugnant to the
ardent national sentiment so rapidly engaging
the hearts of the great majority of our people.
With a most cordial admiration and a spirit of
friendliness all too little reeiprocated, we are
accustomed to regard the United States as our
brilliant exemplar, and to extend her the sin-
cerest ﬂattery that imitation can express,—
even to the extent, it may prove, of working
out our destiny fearlessly in our own way.
This question of Canada’s future is a per-
ilous one, on which even so secure a fame as
that of Professor Goldwin Smith might in a
measure suffer shipwreck. The oﬂice of proph-
et is one of no less danger than distinction.
Once assumed it must be lived up to, at what-
ever hazard. Years ago Professor Goldwin
Smith committed himself to the prediction that
Canada was bound, rather sooner than later,
to be absorbed into the United States; and
he employed no small portion of his preemi-
nent abilities to prove that the Dominion was,
on the one hand, a useless and dangerous pos-
session to Great Britain, and on the other,
hopelessly ill-adapted for independent nation-
hood. He has continued to heap the abun-
dance and eloquence of his scorn upon every
outburst of national aspiration, and to proph-
esy ignominious failure for every enterprise
of anything like a national complexion. And
now when, in spite of his strenuous and unre-
mitting discouragement, we seem to be mak-
ing a solid advance toward stability and prac-
tical uniﬁcation, the near prospect of seeing
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him to an utterance unworthy of his reputa-
tion.
It is hard for one reverencing uustintedly,
as I do, the genius and scholarship of Gold-
win Smith, to speak with equanimity of a
book so brilliantly misleading and unfair as
“ Canada and the Canadian Question.” We
do not complain because the book is a strong
and persuasive plea for a measure which, if
accomplished, would mean the shattering of the
structure we have wrought passionately to up-
build, the extinction of a name we love, the un-
doing of what our fathers suffered and bled to
consummate. But we do complain when we
ﬁnd one who is master of all the arts of de-
bate and whose antagonism we are bound in
any case to lament, condescending to beg the
question and suppress the truth. The book
before us advocates a cause which should surely
be discussed on its own merits and owe noth-
ing to half statements or fallacious reasoning,
however brilliantly disguised. Neither should
it require to be supported by authorities to
whom statistics and experience have already
given the lie.
To impute such serious defects as these to a
work by Goldwin Smith almost savors of im-
pertinence; but they have been imputed, and
the imputation made good, by critics of such so-
briety and unimpeachable honesty as‘Priucipal
George M. Grant. Even at the risk of seeming
to fail in reverence to one of the greatest living
masters of English prose, it is essential to
speak one’s thought fearlessly in regard to a
book like this, which, by virtue of its match-
lessly pointed and fascinating style and the re-
nown of its author, is calculated to give wide
currency to its subtle distortions of fact.
It is impossible within the limits of this no-
tice to detail the instances of fallacy and un-
fairness to which I have referred. To do so
would require a whole controversial volume. A
single and compactly presentable instance must
suffice. Mr. Smith speaks of the Intercolonial
Railway of Canada as “ spanning the vast and
irreclaimable wilderness which separates Hali-
fax from Quebec.” This sort of thing cannot
be said from ignorance; or if it be, the ignor-
ance is certainly unpardonable in one who ad-
vances himself as an authority on Canadian
subjects. The distance between Halifax and
Quebec by the Intercolonial Railway is about
690 miles. From Quebec to St. Flavie, about
200 miles. The line runs through the popu-
lous valley of the St. Lawrence, and is beaded
thickly with ﬂourishing little towns. Then

comes a space of 98 miles of what may justly
be called wilderness, the far-famed ﬁshing re-
gions of the Metapedia, occupied only by a
few small lumbering stations and here and
there the lodge of a club of salmon-ﬁshers.
Along this tract, or at least the portion of it
adjacent to the railway, the soil is thin and
poor, the climate harsh; and the district is
not likely to attract any considerable popula-
tion while there is so much better land wait-
ing to be occupied. From the New Brunswick
boundary to Moncton, 200 miles further, the
main line runs back of the settlements, to es-
cape the many deep bays indenting the coast.
It traverses here a country for the most part
given up to the lumbering industry, but it
sends many short branch lines off to the pros-
perous coast towns and villages, which furnish
it a good local traffic. These coast settlements
are wealthy and long-established, and to call
this region a wilderness of any sort is simply
farcical. The remaining 208 miles, from
Moncton to Halifax, is run through the splen-
did farming districts of W'estmorcland. Cum-
berland, and Colchester counties, and through
the richest iron and coal areas of Nova Scotia.
It is a region of growth and aﬁluence.
If the foregoing specimen of Professor
Smith’s accuracy be supplemented by an in-
stance of his ingeniousness in this argument, it
may perhaps suffice to justify my criticisms.
He declares the Intercolonial “ fatally liable to
snow-blocks,” on the authority of two British
artillery oﬁicers who, when the line was pro-
jected, expressed the judgment that it would
be so. But he refrains from acknowledging
that the experience of twenty years has dis-
proved the prediction; and the impression so
ingeniously conveyed to English and Ameri-
can readers is ﬂatly at variance with the fact.
CHARLES G. D. Rosnars.
Kings College, Windsor, N. S.
.\L\.\zxEns AND .\lo\'u.�N'rs or Pus-
ins-'rom(: Pi-2()PLE5.*

The Marquis de Nadaillac is already known
to readers in Archaeology by his work on ~~ Pre-
historic America.” His new book. the full
title of which is “Prehistoric Peoples, their
Manners and Monuments,” is a book of wider
scope. Although the idea of the work is ex-
cellent, it is marred by many and serious faults.
*Pa1m1s1-oarc Psornzs. By the Marquis de Nadaillac.
Illustrated. New York: G. P. Putnam‘: Sons.


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The author aims to give a resmné of our
present knowledge in prehistoric archaeology.
In a series of eight chapters he takes us over
a vast range of subjects, such as the Stone Age,
Food-getting, War, the Progress of Invention,
Ancient Dwellings, Monuments, Fortiﬁcations,
and Tombs. Of books already existing, J oly's
“ Man before Metals ” is the nearest like de
Nadaillac’s in its general plan. J oly’s book is
rather better than this, but it is of course not
up to date. The faults in de Nadaillac’s work
are in part due to the author, in part to the
translator. Qur own Professor Morse will
hardly recognize himself in Moore, quoted on
page 179. On page 288 there is a picture of a
human skull brought from Peru, from which
a square piece has been cut, whose diameter is
about one-sixth that of the skull. In the text
we are informed that this hole measures 7x6
inches, which would make the skull itself a full
yard across. These are, perhaps, errors in
proof-reading, but there are many such in the
book. Just as bad are many translator’s blun-
ders; the language at many points is either
quite incomprehensible or actually misleading.
But it is a thankless task to emphasize too
much such blunders. The author himself is
open to serious criticism. There are but few
archaeologists in Europe who know much of
American Archaeology; there are many who
try to speak and write upon it. De Nadaillac
has written a book on the subject, and he loses
no opportunity to introduce American topics
into his discussion, although he is seldom happy
in doing so. Almost any quotation will serve
to show this. On p. 296 we read: “ The an-
cient Americans knew how to protect every
height and every delta formed by the. junction
of two rivers with redoubts,” etc. This state-
ment concerning “ deltas ” is a peculiar one;
it may be that the translator is to blame here
and not the author. But continue the passage :
“ Not without astonishment we make out a reg-
ular system of fortresses connected with each
other by deep trenches and secret passages,
some of them hewn out beneath the beds of
rivers.” “ It would take us too long merely
to enumerate all the ancient fortiﬁcations still
existing in North America. Moreover, they all
resemble each other so much that a description
of a few of them is really all that is necessary
to prove their importance.” If these state-
ments mean anything, they mean that fortress
systems, with secret passages, some of them
hewn out beneath the beds of rivers, are not
rare ; but in his description de Nadaillac gives

no such cases. In another paragraph (and
these are taken at random, not selected), on
p. 234 the author states: “ In America Dr.
Abbott has sent to the Peabody Museum more
than 20,000 stones which were collected by
him at Trenton on the banks of the Delaware :
and quite recently I was told that in sinking a
well in Illinois the workmen came upon a de-
posit of more than 1,000 worked ﬂints, all of
oval form.” The author is speaking in this
connection of ancient quarries, and the only
opinion one could gain from the text, if unac-
quainted with the facts, would be that Dr. Ab-
bott’s ﬁnd was an old quarry site where 20.000
rejected fragments of stone had been found —
or else that he happened upon a “ pocket” of
that number of partly ﬁnished implements in
the river-bluﬁ. As a matter of fact the “ 20,-
000 stones,” were 20,000 stone implements of
all kinds, collected through a period of years, in
all parts of New Jersey;
One great fault in archaeology is the con-
founding of things that are distinct and inde-
pendent. If the study is ever to become sci-.n-
tiﬁc we must work carefully and systematica.lly
at the problems of each locality. Nothing is
gained by rash comparison of unlike objects.
This is a. favorite pastime with de Nadaillac.
The megalithic monuments of Europe, Asia,
and Northern Africa are of great interest, and
the study of their types, distribution, and mean-
ing is important. But it is doubtful whether
it is proﬁtable to class the stone sepulchre at
Acora (Peru) with them, and it is certain that
there is nothing common between the mound
of Cahokia and the dolmens of Europe.
In the statement about to be quoted it may
be that the translator and not the author is to
blame. De Nadaillac has been describing
canoes dug out of single logs, which have been
found in many places in Europe, and has given
a really valuable sketch of the rise of naviga-
tion among prehistoric and primitive men-
which he ends in these words: “ Vve may add
that ancient ﬁshermen probably ventured but
a short distance from the land, and would not
need anchors, as they could easily carry their
light boats on shore.” The translator may in-
tend to convey the idea that it is easy to beach
a “ dug-out ” canoe. If, however, he oorrectly
translates the author, we are impressed with
the idea that dc Nadaillac is theoretically,
rather than actually, acquainted with the life
of rude tribes. A “ dug-out ” is not light,
and the carriage of it on shore is a very differ-
ent thing from carrying a birch-bark eanoe or


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a eoracle. This suspicion that de Nadaillac
knows more of primitive life from study of
museum specimens and reading of books than
from contact with barbarians, has considerable
foundation furnished by other passages of his
work.
\Ve may appear to have criticised the book
harshly. We have no intention of so doing, and
we earnestly desire to give credit for its good
points, which are neither few nor unimportant.
Three of these we wish particularly to com-
mend: F i.--t, the volume is profusely and well
illustrated and some at least of the cuts are new.
Second, the book abounds in excellent sum-
maries of our present knowledge upon special
topics, and is thus very convenient for refer-
ence. Among such summaries are those deal-
ing with European prehistoric fortiﬁcations,
vitriﬁed forts, wounds by stone-age implements,
megalithic monuments, the Lake-dwellings not
of Switzerland alone but of all Europe, etc.;
while it is true that in these occasional illus-
trative matters are dragged in which are quite
out of place, the idea and much of the carry-
ing out of it is excellent. Lastly, to many
readers of writings upon Prehistoric Archaeol-
ogy, Santorin and “ the towns upon the Hill of
Hissarlik” are quite unknown. To such, de
Nadaillac’s recapitulatiou of the results of the
recent excavations made in those regions by
bchliemann and others will be be very welcome
and helpful‘ FREDERICK STARR.
A NEW IIISTORY or‘ AMl£Rl(‘A.*

“ History has become primarily an inquiry
into causes. It is better to have a living
history at the expense of some mistaken con-
clusions than a dead narrative containing noth-
ing that can be challenged or disproved.”
From these words of Mr. Payne, in the open-
ing pages of the first volume of his “ History
of America,” it will be scen that the design of
the work is distinctly philosophical. He aims
at a new treatment of his subject, which shall
set in its right relations the development of
this “ huge social and political creation,” “ the
last and greatest act in the great historical
drama of the world.” This is indeed an am-
bitious design It must be admitted that Amer-
ica has as yet failed to receive this large treat-
‘ Hisromr or THE New Wonnn Canaan Amemca. By
‘I€d�ard John Payne. Volume I. New York: Macmillan
Co.


ment, this adjustment of her history to world-
history. But at the same time it must be
seen that such a work demands not only pro-
found historical insight and a genius for gen-
eralizations, but also an exhaustive acquain-
tance with the monographic literature bearing
on America, and the temperament of an inves-
tigator as well as that of a philosopher. If
such a history is in truth to be “living his-
tory," and not ephemeral, it must be based on
much deep delving after facts, lacking which,
all lofty philosophical ﬂights will be Daadalian.
The reader will therefore inquire how the
author has qualiﬁed himself for his task. Mr.
Payne is a fellow of the University College,
Oxford. He has written valuable works on colo-
nization. In his preface he expresses indebt-
edness to Bishop Stubbs, and to other English
scholars of less note, and to Colonel Church,
“ the distinguished American engineer.” His
footnotes are sparing of American author-
ities. On the side of aboriginal America he
appears to have relied on older writers, and to
have made little or no use of the rich material
to be found in the pages of the American in-
vestigators cited by Mr. F iske, for example,
in his recent work on the discovery of America.
Three fundamental conceptions appear in
the book : First, American discovery and early
colonization are carefully traced back to Euro-
pean movements working for centuries toward
this result; it is aimed to exhibit the incidents
of American history by the light of contem-
porary incidents in Europe. Second, the phys-
ical conditions of the New \Vorld which af-
fected aboriginal life and discovery are em-
phasized ; his inquiries lead to conclusions
“ which verify in a remarkable manner the
doctrine that the general course of history is
ultimately controlled by physical events."
Third, the Indian populations receive extended
consideration, it being the author’s view that
American history cannot be treated as a “ sim-
ple expansion of European enterprise on the
virgin soil of the transatlantic continent.”
Four periods are noted as marking the his-
tory of the New ‘World. First, the discover_v
and Spanish conquest — the period of romance.
Second, the period after the decline of Spanish
ascendancy, when the balance of power in Amer-
ica begins to pass from the Latin to the Teu-
tonic nations. Third, the period of the rivalry
of France and England, and the victory of the
latter. Fourth, the era of independence, after
which “ the new world enters on its destined
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especially to its English member, an effective
predominance in the balance of power over the
globe.” These processes indicate the scope of
the author’s work.
The present volume is divided into two books,
the ﬁrst dealing with the discovery, and the
second with aboriginal America. Mr. Payne
ﬁnds three ways by which America could be
most easily approached from Europe: the
Arctic current, ﬂowing past Greenland, and
down the American shore; the route of the
trade-winds ; and the equatorial current.
"These three great physical forces are in fact three
roads which the terrestrial system has evolved to lead
Europe to America. Anyone acquainted with these
three physical facts might safely have predicted such a
result, and almost ﬁxed the time of its accomplishment.
The ﬁrst of these highways would be reached as soon
as northern adventure reached the coasts of Greenland.
. . The second of these highways, the grand highway
of the trade-winds, would be reached as soon as the
adventurers of the Spanish peninsula, ever exploring
farther and farther seawards in the Atlantic, as well as
constwards around the continent of Africa, had passed
the tropic of cancer, and reached the islands of Cape
Verde. . . . The third of these highways would be
reached soon afterwards. As the adventurers of the
Peninsula advanced farther and farther south and west
in the southern hemisphere, the great equatorial cur-
rent, aided by one of those hurricanes that so often fol-
low it, could hardly fail to seize upon some one of them
and-cast him on the shore of Brazil."
.\Ir. Payne proceeds to examine each of these
processes in detail. The inquiries of the class-
ical geographers into the relations of western
Europe to eastern Asia are given a remark-
ably clear exposition. The reader is made to
see how “the greatest fruit of the Renaissance
was America.”
The northward explorations of the Norse-
men are less satisfactorily dealt with. Here
Mr. Payne exhibits his weakness in regard to
recent investigation. He relies upon Rafn’s
Antiquities,— in its day a noble work, but
now only to be used by the aid of writers like
Storm, Reeves, etc. The excellence of John
Fiske's treatment of this ﬁeld comes out strong-
ly by comparison. Mr. Payne is laughably pre-
cise in ﬁxing the landfall of Leif Ericson in the
mouth of Pocassct river, with the assurance
that the coasts are so accurately described in
the saga " as to leave no doubt of their iden-
tity.” It would be interesting to know how
the author has determined that New England
was then occupied by a dwarf species of the
Esquimaux race, dwelling in caves. lve are
also puzzled to hear that Adam of Bremen
(who died in the year 1076) wrote in the
twelfth century. In the opinion of the author,

Cabot’s ﬁliation with the Norse discoveries“may
be clearly proved.” The proofs he ﬁnds in the
facts that Cabot went by way of Iceland, and
that he applied the name “ Newe Isle " or
“Newe-founde lande” to his discovery, cor-
responding to the Nyjaland, applied by Ice-
landers to America. The belief in a large
island lying in the North Atlantic, to the west
of Ireland, he thinks clearly arose from the
Norse discoveries. He makes the extraordinary
assertion, without citing any authority, that “ to
the Icelander in the time of Cabot the exploits
of Biarne and Leif were as well known as those
of Anson and Cook are to the modern En-
glishman.” Now, some connection may here-
after be shown between Cabot’s voyage and
the Norse discoveries; but in view of the nat-
uralness of calling any newly-found land by
that name, and in view of the many legends of
outer Atlantic islands from the days of Atlan-
tis, and of the theories of the plurality of hab-
itable lands, it is rash even to conjecture that
the “ Newc Isle ” must be related to Norse dis-
coveries. The records of the voyages to ﬁnd
the Island of Brazil indicate that they were un-
dertaken at the instigation of Cabot, rather
than by reason of Norse reports; and we have
some evidence that it was the fame of the
achievements of Columbus which animated
Cabot. Whatever be the truth about Cabot's
relation to Norse voyages, it is plain that Mr.
Payne, in his search for causes and aﬂiliations,
is prone to be too absolute in his assertions,
and to see connections without proving them.
Relying upon Buckle’s philosophy of physical
causes for historical movements, he might
with as much reason explain Cabot’s voyage by
instancing the same causes that lead to Leif’s
discovery: the island stepping-stones across the
North Atlantic, the ocean currents, and the
pathway of the ﬁsheries from the Faroes to Ice-
land and Newfoundland. If physical causes
serve in the one case, why not in the other?
It is also odd that while he mentions Colum-
bus’s visit to Iceland, he passes it with the state-
ment that it appears to have had no connection
with his famous undertaking. This is doubt-
less correct ; but if so much knowledge of Vin-
land remained in Iceland, and if the sailors to
Iceland knew so much of these reports, the ques-
tion why Columbus did not learn of V inland
is at least worthy of some thought.
The author-’s survey of the character of Co-
lumbus is independent and interesting. He says
that the great discoverer, by the tone of his
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Ages than in the Scientiﬁc era, where Hum-
boldt appears to put him.
" His ill-directed ambition, his sentimental ﬁdelity to
the monarchs who hired him and cheated him of his hire,
his love of the show of power and dignity, his intoler-
:
cc of any theory of his discoveries except his own,
indicate a temperament far indeed from that of the
philosopher; and the literary work which employed his
latter years, treating of the prophecies which he con-
ceived himself to have been instrumental in bringing to
pass, evinces a mind wholly under the sway of a gross
and narrow theology. . . . A stubbornness which did
no credit to his judgment and self-control was the very
secret of his successes and failures. Only in his earlier
years did that characteristic serve him.”
Mr. Payne holds that although the crusading
inﬂuence affected Columbus, the quest for gold
�as the main object of his expeditions, and the
slave trade went with it. He adopted the ideas
of Toscanelli (the Italian student of classical
geography), respecting the possibility of reach-
ing India from Spain. His greatness “con-
sisted mainly in his practical capacity as a
great sea-captain.” He saw that previous at-
tempts to cross the margin of ocean had failed
because of a lack of ships and equipment;
these he secured, and, seeking India, unwit-
tingly found America. His landfall Payne
places on Mariguana; following Varnhagen,
and apparently in ignorance of the work of
Cronau, which puts it, with more reason, on
Watling Island. The succeeding explorations
are traced with a luminous consideration of
casual relations, and an admirable arrangement.
Perhaps, however, the most original part of
the work is the second book, in which the
author works out the effect of the physiog-
raphy and natrral products of America upon _
the aborigines of Mexico and Peru, and shows
the causes of the various stages of culture in
America, the relation of the Indians to Span-
ish settlement, and to the character of Spanish
colonial life. Two changes, says the author,
transformed the society of aboriginal America,
as they transform all society; the substitution
of an artiﬁcial for a natural basis of subsist-
ence, and the establishment of the gods as the
principal members of the community. Space
forbids any detailed consideration of the in-
teresting way in which this theory is worked
out. The student of aboriginal America can-
not afford to be ignorant of this work.
In spite of an unfortunate tendency to strain
the facts in order to show ﬁliations, a depend-
ence on older writers, and an apparent ignor-
ance of many valuable investigators of re-
cent date, it must nevertheless be said that
Mr. Payne’s work is one of the most suggest-

ive and useful works on America that has
ever appeared. If it is not altogether to be
accepted, it will, as the author himself hopes,
at least facilitate the task of writing the his-
tory of America on broader lines than any
other writer has as yet followed.
Fannnmcx J. TURNER.
Molm IIOLIDAY I’UBLlCATIONS.

Messrs. Charles Scribnei-‘s Sons issue in sump-
tuous form “ The Life and Letters of Washingtoii
Allston.” by Mr. Jared B. Flagg. Mr. Flagg has
done his work thoroughly and sympathetically, and
has combined biography, anecdote, art talk, and
epistolary extract, in due proportion. Allston’s life
was unusually rich in the incidents and 3.SSOCi8.i'.inllS
which go to the making of readable biography. llis
career in England as painter and quasi man of let-
ters threw him into the society of the class of peo-
ple that the world likes to read about — Sir Thomas
Laurence, Leslie, Haydon, Mulready, Sir George
Beaumont, Hazlitt, Lamb, Coleridge, Irving, eLc.;
and of these associations Mr. Flagg has liberally
availed himself. Allston was a great admirer of
Sir Joshua Reynolds. One day while at Petworth
he was looking at a portrait by Van Dyke, when
Lord Egremont, coming up, asked his opinion of it.
“Very ﬁne," said he, “ and had I not known it to be
Van Dyke's I should have supposed it to be one of
Sir Joshua's.” " Do you mean to compliment Van
Dyke or Sir Joshua?” said his Lordship. “ Van
Dyke,” answered Allston. ‘~ Then you think him
inferior to Sir Joshua?” said Lord Egremont.
“Yes. I do,” said Allston. “S0 do I." said his
Lordship, "though I hardly dare to say so.” Per-
haps neither critic took into account Reynolds’s all
too ﬂeeting colors. Mr. Flagg quotes a shrewd,
and we may say prophetic, judgment of All-
ston's on Ca.rlyle’s -~ French Revolution”: “I do
not see any original ideas in it, but I see a great
deal of original English. He takes a. common
thought and belabors it with his Babylonish jargon
until it appears like something original. The man
has made a god of his own intellect, and worships
it with perpetual somersaults.” Allston was inti-
mate with Coleridge, and on one occasion received
some curious advice from him: “ Coleridge told me
that he could introduce me to the acquaintance of
nearly all the authors in London, but he would
not do it, for he would be sorry to have me know
them. He told me seriously that he did not know
so entirely worthless and despicable a set of men as
the authors by profession in London, and warned
me solemnly to avoid any intercourse with them."
The volume is throughout a ﬁne specimen of book-
making, and it is enriched with eighteen admirably
executed full-page plates from Allston’s paintings.
both portraits and historical subjects. There is a
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Comment on the text of Green’s “Short History
of the English People" is superﬂuous. The work
is a classic and unique in its way; and we are
pleased to note that it has at last been supplied
with the one element needed to make it relatively
perfer-t—suitable illustrations. Messrs. Harper &
Brothers have issued the ﬁrst volume.— a ﬁne royal
octavo. gilt top, and untrimmed leaves,—of the
“New Illustrated Edition”; and we ﬁnd little to
cavil at either as to the quality of the plates or the
principle of their selection —- which has been deter-
mined, says Mrs. Green in her excellent Preface,
“ by a desire to get at the contemporary view of
men and things rather than by canons of art." The
plates throughout are strictly interpretative of the
life and manners of the English people, tending to
inform the student, rather than to appeal to the
aesthetic sense. The list of illustrations, with notes,
occupies twenty-six pages, and many of the cuts,
embracing coins, seals, buildings, ornaments, tools,
characteristic incidents of daily life, facsimiles of
MSS. and tapestries beautifully printed in the orig-
inal colors, etc., are here published for the ﬁrst
time. There is an abundance of maps, colored
and plain, and mention should be made of the ﬁne
frontispiece portrait of the author. Apart from
mere attractiveness, the educative value of the
work is, we should say, almost doubled by these
plates. and their mnemonic value is a most impor-
tant element.
Messrs. Harper & Brothers’ handsome reprint,
“ The Armies of To-day," a series of authoritative
articles on the standing armies, their personnel,
equipment, etc., contains matter both of instruction
and entertainment. Lord Wolseley’s article on the
British soldier is especially bright and readable.
Cromwell's army of about 80.000 men he thinks
was " by far the ﬁnest in every respect that we
know of in modern history," and he offers some
pertinent criticism as to the English “system of
cold seniority” followed in the promotioirof com- _
missioned officers. The ludicrous wardrobe of
“ Tommy Atkins ” comes in for some tart comment,
and that of his superiors fares little butter: “ \Ve
must,” however. allows the writer, " make the sol-
diei-‘s clothing acceptable to the men who have to
wear it, and, strange to say, they like very tightly
ﬁtting coats and trousers, to swagger about in with
their sweethearts. They like those ridiculous for-
age-caps stuck on the side of their heads. and
which are no protection either from sun or rain. I
suppose_the house-maid ‘Jill’ prefers her soldier
‘Jack ’ in this outlandish costume, for in no other
way can I understand why the wearers should like
such tawdry and uncomfortable ﬁnery. . . . Is
there any one outside a lunatic asylum who would
go on a walking tour, or shoot in the backwoods or
the prairies, trussed and dressed as the British sol-
dier is? This applies to all ranks, for I confess to
a. feeling that the dressed-up monkey on a barrel-
organ bears a strong resemblance to the British
general in his meaningless cocked hat and feathers


of the last century, and in his very expensive coat,
besmeared both before and behind with gold lace.”
Lord Wolseley' seems to be one of those rare En-
glishmen who would remove an anomaly simply be-
cause it is an anomaly. The volume is handsomely
illustrated.
In Mr. Theodore Child’s “The Praise of Paris "
(Harper), a series of articles gathered from "' Har-
pcr’s Magazine,” honors are pretty equally shared
between author and illustrators. Mr. Child knew
Paris thoroughly. and loved it ; and he has given an
extremely spirited account of Parisian society in its
several phases, besides some historical and much
locally descriptive matter. All in all, the book is
the best general description of Paris that we have
seen. Mr. Child devotes an exhaustive chapter to
the duel. “ Duels,” he says, “between journalists
and politicians are so entirely special in their na-
ture and meaning that we may as well speak of
them separately. First of all, let us thoroughly
comprehend that these duels are simply the result
of professional necessities or prejudices, and in nine
cases out of ten the adversaries ﬁght merely for the
gallery—-pour la. galer1'e—and for the sake of pub-
lic opinion. The journa.lists'and politicians are in
a measure the gladiators of Paris, and if they do
not prove themselves good gladiators they are
liable to be hissed, howled at, worried, and harried,
until life becomes unendurable.” This curious con-
vention which compels two respectable Christian
gentlemen to go out into the ﬁelds and shoot at each
other like painted savages is thus explained by
Henri Rochefort in a note to the author: " Duel-
ling. the absurdity of which is evident, is a product
of Catholicism. The believers of former times
imagined naively that the victor was in the right.
and that the vanquished was in the wrong, because
both had undergone the judgment of God. . . .
However, this kind of exercise has now entered so
profoundly into our habits that, in order to put
an end to it. there would be needed nothing less
than a new Richelieu to have the two adversaries
decapitated.” As already intimated, the illustra-
tions in Mr. Child's volume are above the average.
M. Lepere's street and architectural views being
really artistic in spirit and handling.
The history of Venice, Byron's “ sea Cybele"
that has so long. and not unjustly, borne in the
world's imagination a unique position, and the story
of her Doges, captains, painters, and men of letters,
can be nowhere so attractively studied as in BI:-s.
Oliphant’s “ The Makers of Venice.” The work
has passed through three editions, besides re-issues.
in ﬁve years. Messrs. Macmillan & Co. have is-
sued for the Holidays an extra.-illustrated edition
(generally similar to “ The Makers of Florence " of
last season ) of the book, containing thirty “ extra "
photographic plates of Venetian churches, palaces,
etc., besides a. ﬁne frontispiece portrait, by O. La-
cour. of Leonardo Loredano. and forty-eight wood-
cuts by Mr. H. R. Holmes. The volume is beauti-
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with a cut of the winged lion, and backed with
white extra-heavy linen. Unfortunately, there is
no index.
From the press of J. B. Lippincott Company
come two beautiful sets of books: ~‘ Tales from the
Dramatists,” four volumes, and "Tales from Ten
Poets,” three volumes. In uniform bindings of
pale green cloth, with gilt lettering and decoration
on back. and each set boxed neatly, they present a
highly attractive external appearance, which is,
moreover, fully conﬁrmed on interior acquaintance.
The aim of both series is similar, being an attempt
on the part of their respective authors to do for cer-
tain of the poets and dramatists what Charles and
Mary Lamb did for Shakespeare,— namely, to tell
in prose the stories of their masterpieces. Less
juvenile in tone than that ever-popular work, read-
ers of all ages will ﬁnd here an agreeable introduc-
tion or reminiscence, as the case may be, of En-
gland’s world-famed works. The “ Tales from the
Dramatists” are told by Charles Morris, and in-
clude twenty-eight stories. chosen mainly from the
more popular plays of the leading dramatists of the
eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, each pref-
aced by a short biographical sketch of its author,
and in most cases by a good portrait also. As a
rule, each autho.r is represented by but one play,
but two are given from Sheridan, two from George
Colman, Jr., and two from Edward Bulwer Lytton.
Houghton, Mifilin & Co. issue Sig. Rodolphe
Lanciani's “ Pagan and Christian Rome," a com-
panion volume and chronological supplement to the
Pr0fessor’s able work, “ Ancient Rome in the Light
of Modern Discoveries.” The work is characterized
by the same constructive ingenuity and minute pa-
tient research as its predecessor. and possesses, per-
haps, for most readers a closer human interest. In
Professor Lanciani, the antiquarian zeal of a. Monk-
barns is proﬁtably tempered by scientiﬁc sobriety ;
and we rarely note in his pages the kind of over-
ready surmise which, in “ The Antiquary," trans-
formed “ Aiken Drum's Lang Ladle” into a Ro-
man sacriﬁcing vessel. The present volume covers
the ﬁrst ﬁve centuries of the Christian era. and de-
picts the gradual metamorphosis of the Rome of
the Caesars into the capital city of Christendom.
Temples, churches. Pagan cemeteries, the Cata-
combs, the tombs of Emperors and Popes, are de-
scribed in detail. " \Ve must not believe," says the
author, “ that the transformation of Rome from a
Pagan into a Christian city was a sudden and un-
expected event, which took the world by surprise.
It was the natural result of the work of three cen-
turies, brought to maturity under Constantine by an
inevitable reaction against the violence of Diocle-
tian’s rule.” This period of slow interpenetration of
creeds and observances, Christian and pagan, when,
as Byron ﬁguratively phrased it,——
“The apostolic statues climb
To crush the Imperial Urn, whose ashes slept sublime,”-
is readably and clearly set forth by Professor Lan-

ciani. The volume, like its companion, is a rich
one externally. beautifully bound and printed, and
thoroughly illustrated.
The “Tales from Ten Poets” (Lippincott) are
written by Harrison S. Morris, and deal with nine-
teenth century authors exclusively. Tennyson is
represented by two selections--“ Enoch Arden”
and “ The Princess,”—— Browning by two — “ The
Ring and the Book ” and “The Blot on the ’Scutch-
eon.” The other poets have one each, and are Ros-
setti, William Morris, Mrs. Browning, Matthew
Arnold, Buchanan, Swinburne, Owen Meredith, and
George Eliot. In each case the central idea and
even the detail of the poem have been preserved as
strictly as is consistent with the production of a.
well-rounded and complete tale in prose. To the
genuine poetry-lovers there may seem something
of desecration in any process of this nature, but
there are others who will feel themselves helped
greatly, and their enjoyment of the originals heigh-
tened, by seeing what durable foundations lie be-
neath these great achievements of the poetic art,
and by reading the story for its own sake alone.
" The New England Country” (Lee & Shepard),
a very prettily bound book, with text and illustra-
tions by Mr. Clifton Johnson, contains over one
hundred pictures, mostly photographic prints, of
New England life and scenery. The views are well
chosen and well reproduced; and the volume should
prove a. welcome gift to those whose early memo-
ries are rooted in the “ section ” described.
“ The Fallow Field ” (Lee & Shepard), a poem
by Julia C. R. Dorr, with charcoal sketches repro-
duced in half-tones, by Zulma D. Steele, merits the
pleasing setting given it by the publishers. Mrs.
Dorr’s verses are feeling and musical, and the char-
coal plates are nicely done. The volume is an ob-
long quarto, full gilt, in light-green binding, and
should ﬁnd favor with those whose tastes run to
this style of publication.
A tasty volume of the marked Holiday type is
“Gleams and Echoes” (Lippincott), a series of
six short poems by A. R. G., author of " Night Etch-
ings,” with six full-page engravings after drawings
by more or less familiar artists. Of these plates,
one by Mr. H. Bolton Jones and one by Mr. F. B.
Schell are noticeably good. \Vhile the verses are
rather too subjective in tone to lend themselves
well to illustration, the book is a rather pleasing
one of its class.
Our old friend “Sir Roger De Coverley ” (Mac-
millan), makes his appearance this Christmas suit-
ably resplendent in a coat of green and gold. The
little volume is ﬁnely printed in unusally open type,
and the artist, Mr. Hugh Thompson, has caught the
humor of the characters perfectly, VVill. Wimble,
the Chaplain, John Matiliews, Tom. Touchy, and
the rest of the good Knight's familiars, being ren-
dered with a spirit and felicity that would have
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\Ve note nothing this year more thoroughly taste-
ful and dainty throughout than the “Kirriemuir
Edition” of Mr. James M. Barrie's novel, “ The
Little Minister ” (Lovell, Coryell & Co.), and the
text, we need scarcely say, deserves its setting.
The two little octavos with their lilac slip-covers,
chaste lilac-and-gold bindings, red initial letters,
and pliant hand-made paper, are gems of book-mak-
ing. There are eight capital full-page etchings
illustrative of the story. and an etched portrait of
the author. The publishers also announce an é¢li-
t-ion de lure, limited to 260 copies, signed and
numbered.
The current volume of “ The Magazine of Art ”
(Cassell) presents its usual attractive and varied
array of wood-cut, process, and etched illustration,
together with articles bearing more or less directly
on art topics, paragraphs of current art news. au-
thoritative reviews of art books, etc. The list of
contributors is, as heretofore, an excellent one, em-
bracing such names as Professor Baldwin Brown,
Linda Villari. Mr. A. C. Swinburne, Mr. Theodore
Child, Mr. Cosmo Monkhouse, Helen Zimmern.
Mr. T. Woolnei-, etc., and these writers have treated
their subjects concisely and not too technically.
The volume makes an attractive gift-book of per-
manent value.
A chastely ornate and artistic volume is Lippin-
cott’s “ Atlina,” a poem by M. B. M. Toland. with
full-page drawings. printed in photogravure on vel-
lum, by Messrs. H. R. Bloomer, J. Alden VVeir, F.
S. Church, F. Dielman, and others, and various
decorative designs in tints, by Mr. A. F. Jaccaci.
Mrs. Toland has found a fruitful theme in Plato’s
“Atlantis,” and her verses are graceful and not de-
void of fancy. Some of the full-page plates, not-
ably those by Messrs. Dielman. Church, and F. C.
Jones, may be fairly pronounced exquisite, and the
volume. in its delicate cover of white, pink. and
gold, will not fail to catch the discriminating eye.
“ Under Summer Skies " (C. L. \Vebster & Co.),
by Clinton Scollard, is a collection of brief travel-
sketches from Egypt. Palestine, Italy, Bermuda,
etc., acceptably illustrated with drawings by Mar-
garet Landers Randolph. Mr. Scollard is known
to the public as a writer of graceful verse. and
his present excursion into prose will not disap-
point his friends. The publishers have given the
volume a pretty setting. the light-blue cover stamped
in silver and gold having a pleasing effect.
We must dismiss the following Holiday publica-
tions with a few words,—- in many cases far fewer
than they deserve. The new edition (Lippincott)
of “ The Letters of Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of
Chesterﬁeld ” gives us Lord Mahon’s text, and ﬁlls
ﬁve beautifully-printed volumes. It meets all the
requirements of a standard library edition, and, as
such, will ﬁnd a place in every large collection of
books. as well, we trust, as in many collections of
moderate size. Being only a reprint of the Mahon
text. it does not, of course, include the Earl of

Chesterﬁeld's recently published letters to his god-
son. The modern processes of photo-engraving
have made it so easy a matter to illustrate a book
now-a-days. that the stream of old favorites in new
dresses ﬂows steadily on, and shows no signs of ex-
haustion. So popular a work as Mr. Charles Dud-
ley Warner‘s travels “ In the Levant” (Houghton)
was sure to be seized upon for illustration, and we
now have it in two handsome volumes, with more
than a score of full-page photogravures. There is
also a new portrait of Mr. \Varner. Another old-
time favorite is Mr. William \'are's “Zenobia"
( Estes). to which the photogravures of the new edi-
tion. showing the ruins of Palmyra, add a very sub-
stantial interest. " The Life and Adventures of
Peg W'ofiington" (Dodd), by Mr. J. Fitzgerald
Molloy, is an attractive work in two volumes, with
a great number of illustrations, most of them from
old portraits. "Songs from the Operas" (Bren-
tano) include three numbers, “Lohengrin.” “Faust."
and *- Carmen." Each volume contains the words
and music of one or two songs, with illustrations by
Mr. Frank M. Gregory. " Onward, Christian Sol-
diers " and a " Magniﬁcat " are two volumes pub-
lished in the above series, and illustrated by the
same artist. “ Scenes from the Life of Christ"
(Putnam). edited by Miss Jessica Cone, has for
text passages of Scripture, and for illustrations a
great number of famous pictures by old and modern
masters. In the series of “ Literary Gems " (Put-
nam), published in vest-pocket volumes with ﬂex-
ible leather covers, we have such classics as Mil-
ton's “ L'Allegro,” Bryant’s “ Thanatopsis," Sher-
idan’s ~‘ The Rivals,” Gray's “ Elegy," Irving’s
“ Rip Van Winkle,” and Thackeray's “Charity
and Humor."
Mom-1 BOOKS FOR THE YOU.\"(a.
A good story of adventure is sure of a hearty wel-
come from the boys, and perhaps no variety of book
deserves it more fully. In this country especially, the
acquisition of wealth is too often regarded as a suf-
ﬁcient ambition, and few boys are encouraged to risk
poverty and privation. So it is through the imagina-
tion alone that they gain an outlook into a larger life,
_a world where courage is the chief virtuc, and dan-
ger is rather to be welcomed than feared. The love of
excitement, which is a part of every boy’s nature, i_s a
saving grace. and should be guided and encouraged as a
necessary part of his development. The ability to get
away from himself, to accept a point of view distant
from his own, to feel the emotions of another race and
think their thoughts, is essential to a broad and healthy
mind. Tales of other nations and stories founded on
history and mythology, provided that they are well
written, perform a distinct service for boys and girls,
and inevitably, though unconsciously, widen their outlook
upon life and nature, and intensify their sympathies.
Several books of this kind have been issued for the
Holidays this year, books that are natural and whole-
some, and yet exciting enough to interest any youth.
Two of them are written by Mr. G. A. Henty, who is
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“Condemned as a Nihilist” (Scribner) relates the ad-
ventures of a boy of sixteen who is sent to Russia on
business for his father, becomes intimate with Nihilist
conspirators, though ignorant of their character, and is
arrested with them and convicted of their crimes. His
experiences as a prisoner in Russia and in Siberia are
vividly described, and the picture of convict life is far
less terrible than Kennan would lead one to expect,
softened doubtless from the rigid truth. Hut the larger
half of the book is concerned with Godfrey's escape
from custody, his thrilling adventures through the
northern summer and winter, his triumphant conquest
of all difficulties, and ﬁnal return to civilization. His
loyalty, his high spirits, and his bravery in the midst
of danger, make the book wholesome reading, and its
style is straightforward and simple. “In Greek Wa-
ters " (Scribner) is even more instructive and elevating.
VVith its pluck and dash and generous sacriﬁces, this
story of the Grecian war for independence has action
enough in it to inspire any boy with ambition. “ The
Thirsty Sword ” (Scribner), by Mr. Robert Leighton, is
a story of the Norse invasion of Scotland in the thir-
tcenth century, ﬁlled with stirring incidents, with bat-
tle, mur(ler, and perilous rescues. The conversations
in stately archaic language are handled without affec-
tation, and give a certain old-world charm to the book.
“ The Battle of New York ” (Appleton) brings one
nearer home, as Mr. \Villiani O. Stoddard has developed
some of the dramatic possibilities latent in the time of
the great war. An exciting talc is the result, one in
which the sympathies are divided, as one brave boy
works for the Union and another for the Confederacy.
Dave’s career as a spy seems too simple to be possible,
but it is well-described. The style throughout is fresh
and vigorous, and the book is well printed and bound,
but badly illustrated.
Several other volumes are inspired by the events of
the War, and no less than three of them relate to the
greatest of its heroes. The most ambitious of these is
the “ Life of Abraham Lincoln ” (Harper) by Mr.
Charles Carleton Coﬂin, who has written many valuable
books for boys. The present volume contains the in-
spiring story of Lincoln's life, told in a varied and rather
jerky style, but living and picturesque. Lincoln's ﬁg-
ure alone is rlrawn, and the presentment is not unbiased,
nor is it as stirring and many-sided as the man. But
the story will serve to enlighten and entertain many pa-
triotic boys. It is well and profusely illustrated. “ The
Children's Life of Abraham Lincoln” (McClurg), by M.
Louise Putnam, is written in a simpler and more straight-
forward style and appeals more directly to a child's
sympathies. It is clear and, except in regard to Lin-
coln’s infancy, concise. The writer wisely includes
many extracts from the President’s speeches and State
papers, in the belief that the young also can understand
and appreciate them. “ In the Boyhood of Lincoln "
(Appleton), by Hezekiah Butterworth, combines his-
tory, tradition, and ﬁction in an inextricable mass.
Black Hawk and some brave relentless Indians are in-
troduced to give zest to a recital of possible events in
Lincoln's school-life, and much is made of the character
of the boy’s father. The book is conversational and
written chieﬂy in dialect. “Tom Clifton” (Crowell),
by Mr. Warren Lee Goss, also relates to the War, and
especially to the VVestern boys in Grant and Sherman's
army. Tom's experience in moving from the East to a
Western wilderness is well described, and followed by
his more dangerous adventures in the army. It is in-

terestiug reading, and boys cannot be told too often the
heroic story of those exciting years.
ln the present scramble to enlighten the world in re-
gard to Columbus and his discoveries, the children are
fortunately not forgotten. Elizabeth Eggleston Seelye
has written “The Story of Columbus " (Appleton) with
admirable clearuess and discretion. It is a fascinating
narrative, rich in the picturesque situations that appeal
to children old and young. The picture of the dis-
coverer himself is attractive without being unfairly ﬂat-
tering; and one gains from the book a fair idea of the
diﬁiculties that he was obliged to meet and conquer.
The book is well printed, and charmingly illustrated by
Allegra Egglestou with drawings that are full of char-
acter and artistic feeling. The- compilers are daughters
of Edward Eggleston, who provides the book with a
good introduction.
Several other historical and semi-historical volumes
are published this year. “Little Arthur’s History of
Rome ” (Crowell) is one of these; and it is written by
Hezekiah Butterworth, who hardly makes the most of
the great old tales. He commits the fault of writing
down to the comprehension of children, an unnecessary
condescension, as they would be quick to appreciate a
more ﬂuent and vivid style than this. It aims to cover
the field from the Golden Age to Constantine, and is
well illustrated with reproductions of photographs.
“ Pictures from Roman Life and Story ” (Appleton) is
less ambitious in its purpose, but it reaches a higher
plane than the other. Written: by the Rev. A. J. Church,
who is the author of “ Stories from Homer,” it contains
detached sketches of some of the great ﬁgures of Roman
history and of certain dramatic episodes. The descrip-
tions are well written, and there is so little ambiguity
in the characterizations that any child could gain some
deﬁnite impression from them. The " Tales of Ancient
Troy and the Adventures of Ulysses” (Estes), edited
by “'alter Montgomery, are intended for younger
readers. The stories are made graphic and interesting;
and though the book is disﬁgured with badly-drawn
illustrations, it is a good introduction for very young
children to the study of Homer.
It is a far cry from Troy to Japan, but the next
book on our list deals with the land of the cherry-tree
and the chrysanthemum. This little volume on “Japan
in History, Folk-Lore, and Art " (Houghtou), by Vl'illiam
Elliot Grifﬁs, gives one an insight into av strange and
fascinating civilization. Many of the myths and tradi-
tions of the Japanese are made interesting here, and
Mr. Grifﬁs describes some of the more entertaining epi-
sodes in their history. His style is lucid, and older
children can gain pleasantly through this book much
valuable information. Charles F. Lnmmis, on the con-
trary, has carefully explored parts of our own country,
and brings back from his travels stories stranger than
the strangest, and more foreign than the Japanese them-
selves. His book, “ Some Strange Corners of ()ur
Country ” (The Century Co.), deals with nature as well
as man, and contains descriptions of the American Sahara
and the great canon of the Colorado, besides its vivid
characterizations of the Indians. The houses of the
cliff-dwellers are accurately pictured, and the remains
of the caves in New Mexico. Much space is given, too,
to Indian customs,— to their dances, their magicians,
their names, and the weaving of their blankets; and
there are few boys who would not delight in these chap-
ters. Still another corner of our country is explored in
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Frederick Holder. The life of a party of boys on one
of the islands to the south of Florida, is the thread upon
which much valuable information in natural history is
strung. The character and habits of innumerable crea-
tures of land and sea are described as the boys discover
and investigate them; and they are made interesting to
the dwellers in other climates who have not the same
opportunities. The book is profusely and helpfully
illustrated.
The greater number of the books of travel, however,
relate to other lands, and one of the best of them, be-
cause one of the strangest and truest, is E. J. Glave’s
“ In Savage Africa " (R. H. Russell & Son). Mr.
Glave was one of Stanley's oﬁicers in 1883, and was for
six years chief of a station on the Congo. In his intro-
duction to the book, Stanley says that he is "a man who
relishes a task for its bigness, and takes to it with a
ﬁerce joy.” Some of this spirit, which must animate
every discoverer, is reﬂected in the present book, and
makes it inspiring to an energetic and ambitious boy.
The illustrations are numerous and \'ery good. “The
Story of the Life of Mackay of Uganda ” (Armstrong),
told for boys by his sister, deals with the same kind of
subject. Mackay was the pioneer missionary in Uganda,
and though his letters are not free from bigotry, his
bravery and his continual sacriﬁce of self make him s.
notable ﬁgure. His experiences among the savages are
described in detail, chiefly through his own journals and
letters. But one cannot help wondering at the end
whether this devotion really beneﬁtted the natives,
after all. The same doubt enters one's mind after
reading “ The Story of John G. Paton” (Armstrong),
who was for thirty years a missionary among the South
Sea cannibals. The perils of such a life, however, are
enormous, and the courage required to face them calls
forth one’s admiration.
Many other travellers have been active in the search
for amusement for the young. Col. Thomas W. Knox
continues his instructive series with a large and pro-
fusely illustrated volume called “ The Boy Travellers
in Central Europe” (Harper); Elizabeth W. Champ-
ney’s trio journeys to the far East and entertains us
gallantly on the way through the pages of “Three Vas-
sar Girls in the Holy Land” (Estes); Mr. Hezekiah
Butterworth turns this year to America and includes
a chapter on the \Vorld’s Fair in his "Zigzag Journeys
on the Mississippi” (Estes); under the guidance of Mr.
Fred A. Ober, we follow the “K1tockabout_Clnb in
Search of Treasure ” (Estes) through the Mexicali
mines and ruins; Harry W. French takes us “ Through
Arctics and Tropics ” (Lothrop) in an exciting endeavor
to right a wrong; and in "Frank Fairweather’s For-
tunes” (Morrill, Higgins & Co.) True Williams shows
us buffaloes and Indians, tigers and bandits, monkeys
and rebels,_all in the course of wanderings through
South America.
The series of ten volumes called “ The Roundabout
Books" (Boston: C. E. Brown & C0.) is very well selected,
interesting both to boys and girls, and in the main well
illustrated. Three of them, “The Young Colonists,”
"Fighting the Saracens,” and “ The Fall of Sebasto-
pol,”are written by Mr.G. A. Henty, who understands the
art of fascinating boys. There is excitement enough in
all three books to satisfy the most exacting, and the
ﬁrst especially, describing life in South Africa, contains
many battles with the Boers and Zulus. Mr. Harry
W. French describes the adventures of “ Our Boys in
India" and “ In China"; and Capt. C. W. Hall writes

“ Drifting Round the “'orld,” relating with gusto a.
boy's experiences in a journey to Greenland, Labrador,
Russia, and Alaska. Three books were also contributed
to the series by Mr. Edward Greey, who knows whereof
he speaks in writing of Japan. These “ Young Amer-
icans in Japan,” “ In Tokio,” and in “In Yezo" see
something of the life and study the habits of the Jap-
t\llllt?S8 indwoi-ti?‘ and pleasure. 1Theyx;et_i|istrqctii\-ely
1 ustrate W1 many views am rep uc ions 0 raw-
ings by Japanese artists.
Margaret Dc-land’s “Story of a Child " (Houghton)
is a book for the old rather than the young,—a book
ﬁlled with the ﬁner emotions, the more subtle reveries,
of youth. It is the inner history of an imaginative child
who is governed by a practical grandmother and comes
under the influence of a selfish and worldly friend. The
vicissitudes of the sensitive girl, whom no one under-
stands or sympathizes with, have much in them of
pathos; and the writer gives eloquent expression to the
capacity for sorrow and for joy that resides in the mind
of a visionary child. The moral of the book is chiefly for
mothers, who may learn from it that many a child errs
through the want of the right kind of encouragement
and sympathy, and that his crimes are often the result
of misdirected enthusiasm. If one could reach the child's
point of view, as Mrs. Delaud has done with exquisite
tenderness in this book, what a revolution there would be
in our judgments, and what a loss of that comfortable self-
righteousncss that we feel in dealing with them! Mrs. De-
land’s comprehension of-the‘ childish dreams and fancies
is in itself imaginative and poetic. So nnerring is her in-
stinct and so intense her sympathy that we cannot for-
bear from quoting a part of Ellen's experience after
running away, when the reaction has come with the
yearning for home: " She became vaguely conscious of
the companionship of the kind, silent earth, with its in-
timate sky clasping it like a dark hand jewelled by the
moon and stars. A sense of comfort and security came
over her,—- an ebbing of identity; fear and penitence
fell away from her like heavy weights. It was as
though the little human creature vibrated with the
sonorous rythmic march of the whole, and could not
know so small a thing as self. Once she lay down, and
looked up into the clear moon-flooded depths, and into
the broad kind face of the moon itself. She thought
that children who could lie on their .mother’s knees
must feel as she did now, lying here in the warm
still ﬁelds, lying on the earth’s friendly lap, safe, and
warm, and cared for, swinging among the stars ! She
was sure she should be taken care of; she wondered,
with not too keen an interest, what the moon was say-
ing to the listening earth. She sighed with comfort.
It seemed to her that she would never get up, but lie
here like a little mound, that would melt somehow
into the field and grass. Perhaps it was the pagan in
the child, this instinct for the Great Mother; very sim-
ply, without knowing why, there in the silence and
peace, she knelt down and laid her cheek against the
earth, and kissed it softly. Then she rose and trudged
on in the moonlight.”
A charming little book is the autobiography of a fox-
terrier, called “ Vic ” (F. J. Schulte & Co.), by Marie
More Marsh. It is daintily bound and printed, and
written clearly and simply, and with a sympathetic
warmth and vivacity that will appeal to any child who
loves dogs. "Herminie’s Triumphs” (Appleton) by
Madame C. Colomb, is a much longer narrative, writ-
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teresting, and the style has a rare touch of freshness and
delicacy. There is something French in its sparkle, and
something French, too, in its pathos, and in the delight-
ful little drawings inserted here and there in the text.
“ The Bunny Stories" (Stokes), by Mr. John Howard
Jewett, have been collected from “St. Nicholas" and
form an attractive volume. The little tales are chann-
ing, and the many drawings by Mr. Culmer Barnes of
the bunnies in costume are exceedingly clever. Among
the other stories for girls and boys are “ A Young
Knight En-ant” (Lee & Shepard), by Oliver Optic; “ Cab
and Caboose " (Putnam), a railroad story by Mr. Kirk
Munroe; “ The Lord of Dynevor" (Nelson), a pictur-
esque tale of the time of Edward I. by Evelyn Everett-
Green; “The Hot Swamp” (Nelson), a romance by R. M.
Ballantyne, which travels twenty centuries back into the
mists for its subject; “ The Girls and I " (Macmillan), by
Mrs. Molesworth; “Maggie Bradford's Fair " (Stokes),
by Joanna H. Matthews, the story of a girl who is
handicapped by the name of Gladys; “ Dr. Dodd's
School” (Doddg, by Mr. James L. Ford; “ Lost in the
Wilderness” ( rice-McGill Co.)£ an exciting story of
Southern California, by Lieut. . H. Jayne; “ In the
Queen's N avee ” (Brentano), the adventures of a cadet,
by Commander C. N. Robinson, R.N., and John Ley-
land; and “ Sherbume House ” (Dodd), a vigorous story
in which Amanda M. Douglas has shown much skill in
character drawing.
Several volumes of fairy tales must also be added to
those mentioned in our last issue. One of the best is
“Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey"
(Lee & Shepard), in which the author, Mr. Ingersoll
Lockwood, displays an ingenious fancy through a quaint
and charming style. The land of the transparent peo-
ple is particularly interesting, and the “little man with
the frozen smile " is certainly novel. The drawings by
Mr. Charles Howard Johnson add much to the attrac-
tiveness of the volume. Some interesting “Scenes in
Fairyland” (Macmillan) are also recorded by Canon
Atkinson for the entertainment -of the little people.
Three volumes are added to “ The Children's Library ”
(Cassell), “ The Brown Owl,” by Mr. Ford Madox
Hneffer, “An Enchanted Garden," by Mrs. Molesworth,
and a collection of beautiful Welsh stories, edited by
Meta E. Wiuiams, and called “ Tales from the Ma-
binogian.” Four dainty little books by Florence and
Edith Scannell are issued by Messrs. Estes & Lauriat to
illustrate Christmas in England, France, Italy, and Ger-
many. “ The Little Musician,” “Jean Noel,” “ Dulce's
Promise,” and “ Lischen and the Fairy ” are the titles of
these prettily written and attractively decorated little
books.
Susan Coolidge's “ Rhymes and Ballads for Girls and
Boys ” (Roberts) is almost the only volume of poetry
that is issued for the young The verses are charming,
however, inspired by a delicate fancy, a sweet reverence
for the beauty of nature, and a sympathetic knowledge
of childish likes and dislikes. The drawings by Mr.
Edmund H. Garrett are very decorative. Prose and
verse are united in Ella Wheeler Wilcox’s “ Beautiful
Land of Nod ” (Morrill, Higgins 86 Co.) It is a com-
pilation for very little folks, and one which is fanciful
enough to give them a great deal of pleasure. “A Book
of Cheerful Cats and Other Animated Animals " (Cen-
tury Co.) will delight children of all ages. It is written
and illustrated by Mr. J . G. Francis with great original-
ity and spirit. Nothing could bemore cheerful, to use
the author’s well-chosen word, than these mirth provok-
ing kittens. The character in them is inimitable, and
the ideas delightfully ludicrous. A fascinating book is
“ The Dragon of Wautley ” (Lippincott), by Mr. Owen
Wister, for it holds the witchery of the olden time, with
its chivalry, its gallant knights, and its ladies of high
degree. Even were the story less good than it is, the
decorative illustrations would be enough to attract one,
so clever are they and so full of character, originality,
and beauty of line. “ The Admiral's Caravan" (Cen-
tury Co.) is a. charming story for younger children by
Mr. Charles E. Carry]. It is modelled upon “Alice in
Vvonderland,” but it is clever and contains some amus-
ing verses. The illustrations by Birch are capital. Fran-
ces V. Austen has written a book called “ Elﬁe’s Visit
to Cloudland and the Moon ” (Estes , which is also good
fun; and there is a “Treasury of leasure Books for
the Young” (Lippincott), whichcontains the old favor-
ites like “ Puss in4Boots." A new illustrated edition of
the “Tales from Shakespeare," by Charles and Mary
Lamb, is also published by Porter & Coates.
An excellent book for those young people who de-
light in amateur science and parlor pastimes is M. Ar-
thur Good’s “Magical Experiments; or, Science in
Play ”(Worthington), translated from the French by
Messrs. Camden Curwen and Robert Waters. Most of
the familiar tricks, as well as not a few that we have
never met with before, are to be found in this attract-
ive volume. Illustrations admirably supplement the
printed directions given for performance of the tricks.
Several books for very little people remain to be
mentioned. These are “Dorothy Darling” (Pott), by
Mrs. George Paull; “Short Stories About Animals"
(Cassell), by Gertrude Sellon; “ Little Ways and Great
Plays” (Worthington), by Elizabeth S. Tucker; “A
Cup of Tea " (Worthington), by the same author, whose
drawings are much better in this than in the other;
“ Bits of Prominent People” (Worthington), a sot of
divided pictures which are not as funny as they try to
be; and “Our Little Men and Women” (Lothrop), a
collection of verses and stories. The usual periodi-
cals also appear in bound volumes,-“Wor1'.hington’s
Annual for 1893 ”; “ Harper's Young People for 1892;”
“W'ide Awake” (Lothrop); “ The Pansy” (Lothrop);
and “ Babyland ” (Lothrop).
BRIEFS or: NEW Booxs.

A vnnv noble and valuable book of
higher criticism, as applied to music,
is that entitled “ Studies in Modern
Music," written by W’. H. Hadow, M.A., Fellow
of Worcester College, Oxford, and published by
Messrs. Macmillan & Co. The main body of the
work is devoted to expositions of three modern
musicians and their places in the evolution of
musical history.— namely, Hector Berlioz and the
French Romantic Movement. Robert Schumann and
the Romantic Movement in Germany. Richard Wag-
ner and the Reform of the Opera. These are by
far the best accounts of these 'matters of which we
have any knowledge, yet interesting as they are,
they are still less notable than the four chapters
which precede them, and which deal with the gen-
eral principles of musical judgment. Musical crit-
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icism has seldom made any effort to advance be-
yond the bounds of a hazardous dogmatism. The
laws of the plastic arts have been expounded by
Lessing and Winckelmann; literature has had its
prophets in Sainte-Beuve and Matthew Arnold;
but musical ideals have been upheld or scouted, as
the case might be, without the least reference to any
general code of artistic laws. Mr. Hadow makes a
bold, but scientiﬁc and highly suggestive, attempt
to lay down some canons of musical judgment, to
introduce some method in the reign of uncertainty
and chaos. He grants at the outset that musical
criticism is preeminently difficult to express with
clearness and certainty, that no law of musical
science is to be taken as ﬁnal, and that there will
always be a difference of taste in musical matters.
But, these facts notwithstanding, it is still possible
to establish certain principles of criticism which
may enable us to discriminate good from bad;
while at the same time making but slight appeal to
the technicalities of the art. These main principles
are four in number: (1 ) Vitality.—The composer
must be the parent of his ideas, not their fabrica-
tor; if these ideas are spontaneous and genuine,
they fulﬁl all we have a right to demand of
them. (2) Lab0ur.— The composer who stands in
any true relation to his idea will spare no pains to
present it in its most attractive aspect, and to deck
it with the utmost ornament that it can legitimately
bear. (3) Prop0rtion.— The factors of a compo-
sition must be held together, not as isolated units,
but as members of a single organism. There
must be one central idea, to which the others must
be subservient; the successive ideas must lead up
to some deﬁnite and intelligible climax; if repeti-
tion be employed, the expression must be studiously
simple; the spiritual element must predominate
over the sensuous. (4) Fitness.-- The style must
be determined to some extent by the nature of the
form employed. The neglect of this principle is
one of the surest marks of a bad musician ; while
the truly reat dramatic composer will recognize
that even tie legitimate splendors of the best oper-
atic art should be subdued in psalm and oratorio.
Following these general rules. is a plea for a larger
spirit on the part of musical critics. Music is a
young art. and as such is essentially progressive.
By the laws of its being. by the laws of human na-
ture on which it rests, it is irrevocably committed
to the discovery of new paths. In a more manly
and straightforward attitude towards artistic ques-
tions, in less reliance on outworn tradition or .
prescriptive usage, is to be found the hope of the
future for music in England. The record of En-
gland's national music has been in abeyance for the
past two centuries. Once there was no musical
form to which she did not contribute her share of
development. To the growth of the symphony, the
quartette, and the sonata, she contributed virtually
nothing. The period of decadence is now at last
ended. The day of England’s music is near at
hand; even now the ﬁrst blow has been struck;
‘book-collcclor.
let us indeed form our judgment by a study of the
great masters, but also let us apply it to a gener-
ous appreciation of the art of our own day.
. “BARBARA Frtrrcnu-:” Roberts ,
lTI1,ZhhLi_?‘l?:TB€:£‘b¢fG a study by Caroline H. Ilall, is th)e
F'“°'“" literary outcome of the author's ef-
forts to come at the historical truth of the central
incident of Whittie1"s popular poem. It is well
known that the story itself has been denied; Mrs.
Jackson has declared it unfounded, Whittier him-
self openly regretted his ballad, and some doubt-
ing Thomases have even asserted of Barbara-—as
Mrs. Prig profanely did of Mrs. ’Arris — that there
was “ no sich a person.” Skepticism can go no
farther. In quest of truth, and perhaps of literary
material, Mrs. Dall went to Frederick, looked the
debatable ground over, searched the records, " in-
terviewed" the oldest inhabitant, and has reached
the verdict that there was, at any rate. suiﬁcient
truth in the Fritchie tradition to measurably justify
the poem. That Barbara was not a mere ﬁgment
like Mrs. Gamp’s friend, that she was quite capa-
ble of acting as reported and of roundly abusing
the “ rebel horde” into the bargain (for she was a.
bit of a shrew, it seems), and that there was some
irregular ﬁring on the ﬂag in the Frederick streets,
is put beyond the shadow of a doubt. 'I' 0 clinch
the matter, Mrs. Dall has seen the identical banner
that was rent “with seam and gash.” The most
dramatic event of the ballad, its pith and marrow,
is, however, apochryphal, as General Jackson was
not in the line of march when the incident is said
to have occurred. Mrs. Dall has made a good book,
giving ample data of her heroine, her ancestry,
married life, personality, etc., and the publishers
have put it in attractive form. A copy of the poem,
riddled (almost as thoroughly as the famous " pane
and sash”) with italics denoting false statements,
is appended. By the way, is there not an innate
absurdity in supposing a general oﬂicer (presuming
him to have been mmpos mantis) to halt a division
for the purpose of wasting a round of ammunition
upon a small ﬂag at the window of a private house ?
Such a volley must, at least, have blown Barbara,
ﬂag, house, and all into limbo. VVe leave it to the
military reader.
ORIGINALLY published (in 1881)
as one of the “ Art at Home Series,”
Mr. Andrew Lang's entertaining lit-
tle volume entitled “ The Library" (Macmillan)
now makes its appearance in a second edition —
enlarged by an additional preface, and a postscript
to the chapter on “ Illustrated Books” by Ttlr. Aus-
tin Dobson. The original prefatory note is re-
tained, but new full-page illustrations of bindings
have been substituted for those used in the ﬁrst edi-
tion. There have been many changes in tastes
since 1881. Experience, always a dear teacher,
must enlighten the collector. but he will do well to
take the advice of the sage, who says: -‘ It is far
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run round the stalls collecting two-penny treasures.”
Mr. Lang deplores the present fad for large-paper
copies of books the small copies of which are come-
lier and more convenient, though he confesses that
his own modcst gains have been increased by this
fashion. He also condemns the present practice of
exaggerating the value of ﬁrst editions of contem-
poraries, which in some instances are held at four
times the price of ﬁrst editions of Sir Walter Scott;
and “ an author is vexed when his ﬁrst edition is
‘ quoted ’ at twenty times its original value, while his
second edition languishes in obscurity." No one
has gossipped more learnedly and entertainingly
on subjects of interest to the bookhunter than Mr.
Andrew Lang, and among all the books on biblio-
graphy to be recommended to the amateur, next
after Dr. Burton’s " Book Hunter ” may be placed
“The Library.”
IT was during the period of his own
“ new life," nearly forty years ago,
that Professor Charles Eliot Norton
published the translation of the “ Vita Nuova ” of
Dante that is now reprinted (Houghton) uniform
with his recently-made prose translation of the
Sacred Poem of Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. The
reprint includes the rather extensive apparatus of es-
says and notes that made a part of the original edi-
tion, and in this respect it is in contrast with the
translator's “ Divine Comedy,” which includes notes
upon but a few important points. This is the ﬁrst
edition, as far as we know, of the “New Life” in
an English volume of moderate proportions. Mr.
N orton’s work has heretofore existed only in a
bulky octavo, while Rossetti’s translation was pub-
lished as a part of the large volume entitled “ Dante
and His Circle.” Of these two translations, al-
though Mr. Norton’s may claim greater literalness,
Rossetti’s must be regarded as the better. Rossetti’s
birth and genius ﬁtted him, as probably no other
man was ever ﬁtted, to become the interpreter of
Dante to the English world, and his work is one
of the few supreme masterpieces of English trans-
lation. This statement, of course, does not deny
to Mr. Norton the possession of knowledge and del-
icate sympathy; it simply asserts the evident fact
that he is not a writer of genius. But lovers of
Dante, and of his “youth’s dear book "— the most
beautiful book in the world, we sometimes think—
will want to have both translations.
The “youlh’s
dear boo -”
of Dante.
Mn. ‘VARBURTON Pnufs volume on
“ The Barren Ground of Northern
Canada" (Macmillan) describes,with
admirable plainness and force, the author’s expe-
riences during nearly two years spent in hunting
the musk ox over the Arctic barrens which stretch
north of the Great Slave lake and east of the Macken-
zie river. The perseverance, endurance, and courage
so unobtrusively displayed in this straightforward
narrative fairly exemplify that spirit which has en-
abled our race to so far outstrip all others in pioneer
Novel spar!
and adrenlure
in Arctic Canada.

achievement. Mr. Pike has given us a thoroughly
fascinating account of exploration in fresh ﬁelds,
novel sport, and perilous adventure; and the work
gains a distinct literary value from the simplicity
and adequacy of its style. It is accompanied by
two maps; and Doctor G. M. Dawson, of the Can-
adian Geological Survey, in an appendix well cal-
culated to stir adventurous spirits, discusses “ Some
of the Larger Unexplored Regions of Canada.”
BRIEFER MENTION.
AN edition of Hugo’s “ Quatrevingt-treize" has been
added to the “ International Modern Language Series”
(Ginn). It is an adaptation, not an exact reprint, and
as such we cannot give it our approval, although M.
Boielle, the editor, claims that Hugo himself sanctioned
the work. It reduces the romance to rather less than
half its full size, making cuts now of full chapters,
now of single passages or sentences. There are English
notes on what is left of the text. M. Alphonse N. Van
Daell edits for the same series "La Cigale Chez les
F ourmis,” the amusing comedy by Labiche and Le-
gouvé.
VOLUME 32 of the “Dictionary of National Biog-
raphy ” (Macmillan), now edited by Mr. Sidney Lee,
extends from Lambe to Leigh. The most notable lit-
erary article in this volume is the "Landor," by Mr.
Leslie Stephen. The same publishers send us Volume
8 of the “ Cambridge Shakespeare," edited by Mr.
William Aldis Wright. It includes " King Lear,”
“ Othello,” “Antony and Cleopatra,” and “ Cymbeline."
Dn. Annxm HERBERT Lswrs has collected, under
the title of " Paganism Surviving in Christianity " (Put-
nam), an interesting array of facts relating to the anti-
Christiau elements that have mingled with the stream
of historic Christianity. He says: “ At the point where
the average student takes up the history of Western:
Christianity, it was already fundamentally corrupted by
pagan theories and practices. Its unfolding, from that
time to the present, must be studied in the light of this
fact." The inﬂuence of pagan thought upon the Bible
itself, and of pagan forms of worship upon the Church,
as well as the later incorporation of Church with State,
“ according to the pagan model," are the subjects which
the author has chieﬂy aimed to illustrate. His mate-
rial is roughly classiﬁed, but hardly digested, and con-
sists largely of extracts from a wide range of authorities.
“ DOMBEY and Son ” (Macmillan), has been added to
the attractive dollar edition of the best novels of Charles
Dickens, and Mr. W'illiam Black's “Green Pastures
and Picadilly " (Harper) may now be had in the pop-
ular edition of that novelist’s works. A new edition of
a more recent novel is the “ Fate of Fenella ” (Cassell),
that curious piece of composite ﬁction, which now ap-
pears in cloth covers and provided with illustrations.
A LITTLE book called “Children's Rights” (Hough-
ton), by Mrs. Kate Douglas Wiggin, is named after its
opening and best chapter. The remaining nine chapters
deal almost entirely with kindergarten ideas and meth-
ods, and mothers and kindergarten workers are the per-
sons who will most enjoy reading them. Some of these
papers have been previously published in magazines,
but most of them are new; three of them are contrib-
uted by Mrs. \Viggin’s sister, Miss Nora Smith.


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OF the following recent novels, space admits only of
mention: “ Half Brothers” (Cassell), by Miss Hesba
Stretton; “Virginia Dare " (Whittaker), by E. A. B.
S.; “ By Subtle Fragrance Held " (Lippincott), by Miss
Mary Fletcher Stevens; " Reuben Foreman, the Village
Blacksmith” (Bonner), by Mr. Darley Dale; " Posei-
don’s Paradise ” (Clemens Publishing Co.), a tale of the
fabled Atlantis, by Miss Elizabeth G. Birkinaier; " The
Berkeleys and Their Neighbors” (Appleton , by Miss
Molly Elliot Seawell; “ Mrs. Harry St. John ' (Morrill,
Higgins 8: Cog], “a realistic novel of Boston fashion-
able life,” by r. Robert Appleton; and “ An Exquis-
ite F ool " (Harper), published anonymously.
Tin-: “ Oxford Shakespeare ” (Nelson), published in
two forms, is a marvel of compactness. By the use of
the “ Oxford India paper," thin, strong, and opaque, a
single volume of ordinary duodecimo dimensions is made
to include the whole of Shakespeare’s works, and the
typography, although agate, is clear and legible. The
volume is one inch in thickness, and contains 1,264 pages.
The “miniature” edition is in six volumes, with the
same paper and typography, and is easily the most at-
tractive of the several "handy-volume” Shakespeares
in existence. Mr. W. J. Craig, of Trinity College,
Dublin, is the editor of the text published in these ex-
quisite editions.
WOULD-BE poets are as numerous this year as ever.
The “ Night Etchings” (Lippincott) of A. R. G. have
all the gloom characteristic of verse by youthful writers,
and no discernible signiﬁcance else. “ The End of
Time " (Putnam), by Dr. L. G. Barbour, is called “a
poem of the future.” We leave it for the future to
read, if the future cares to amuse itself in so doleful a
way. Mrs. Sara Louise Oberholzer’s collection is called
" Souvenirs of Occasions ” (Lippincott), and sings of the
\Voman's Christian Temperance Union and other themes.
Mr. Samuel Jefferson's “ Columbus ” (Griggs) is an
epic poem in twelve cautos of rhymed couplets. Mr.
Jefferson may be remembered as author also of “ The
Epic of the Invincible Armada,” which we trust was
sung at less length. Professor Bnshrod \V. James’s
" Alaskans. " (Porter & Coates) deals with Alaskan
scenery and ethnology in “ Hiawatha" metre. It em-
bodies much useful information.
" WHAT is the matter with the prayer-meeting ?” is
the question discussed at length by Mr. E. J . Morris in
his “ Prayer-Meeting Theology ” (Putnam). The work
takes the form of a “ dialogue "between three brethren
“ who have not missed a prayer-meeting in twenty
years.” The general conclusion is that there is too
much theology in the services. In Dr. Theodore F.
Wright’s “ The Human and its Relation to the Divine ”
(Lippincott), theology and philosophy are represented
in about equal parts, the latter being brought to the aid
of the former. " My Septuagint” (Cassell), by Mr.
Charles Force Deeiiis, is a volume of brief sketches,
varied with an occasional poem, mostly upon religious
subjects. It has the outlook of a man of seventy, and
is dedicated to LXX. of the writer’s deceased friends.
Bi-:i.\'G twenty-one years since Marion Ha.rlaiid’s
“ Common-Sense in the Household” (Scribner) was ﬁrst
published, the reprint of it is called the “majority edi-
tion.” It speaks well for a cook-book that in an age of
such marked progress in the world of housewifery, very
few changes have been needful to keep its rank as one
of the most trustworthy and valuable of the house-
keeper's reference books; “ The Little Dinner ” (Scrib-
ner), by Mrs. Christine erhnne Herrick, is a cook-book

with a special ﬁeld, which it covers both instructively
and entertainingly. “ The Universal Common-Sense
Cookery Boo " (C. E. Brown & Co.), to which Marian
Harland and many others contribute, is distinguished
from its fellows by a series of quotations interspersed
among the recipes. When reading how to boil eggs,
one is startled by a passage from Emerson, and the di-
rections about asparagus are given point by a quotation
from Charles Lamb. lVe also note a new edition of
“ The Original Appledore Cook-Book" (C. E. Brown
& Co.), by Miss Maria Parloa, well known as a high-
priestess of the art culinary. Still another of these
household manuals is Mrs. Bayard Taylor's “ Letters to
a Young Housekeeper” (Scribner), which gives direc-
tions and recipes in bewildering variety.
IQITERARY NOTES AND NE‘ 'S.

Mr. Edward Arnold, the London publisher, is a.
nephew of the late Matthew Arnold.
A new edition of Mr. J . H. Crooker’s “Jesus Brought
Back ” has just been published by George H- Ellis,
Boston. _
Macmillan & Company are now exclusive American
agents for the publications of Adam and Charles Black,
Edinburgh and London.
At the time of his death in Persia, Mr. Theodore
Child was at work upon a series of articles upon “ Liv-
ing India " for “ Harper’s Magazine.”
Henry Holt & Company are about to publish two
volumes of verse and one of prose by Mr. Charles ard Moore. The latter volume is a comedy entitled
“ The Banquet of Palacios."
The autograph of “ Poems by Two Brothers ” will be
sold at auction at Sotheby’s this month. The receipt
of £20 for the copyright, signed by _All'I‘9(l mill Cllafleﬁ
Tennyson, will go with the manuscript.
The “ Crestoiiiazia Proveiizale,” by Professor V. Cres-
ciui of Padua, conmimi about 7,000 lines of Provencal
text from nearly ﬁfty authors, and is to be followed by
a graininar and glossary in a separate volume-
The Cupples Company announce “ Johann \Volfg1\118
von Goethe: His Wit, Wisdom, Poetry," edited by Mr.
Newell Dunbar, and a volunie of paragraphs selected
from the writings of Bishop Brooks of Massachusetts.
Mr. Cliﬁord Lanier, a brother of the late Sidney
Laiiier, has written a story of adventure ill Fl0I'i<lﬂ ll!
the seventeenth century. It is entitled “ Love and
Loyalty at lvar,” and will he printed in “ Goodforin”
as a serial.
Mr. Thomas B. Mosher, of Portland, will publish a
limited edition of “The City of Dreadful Night " and
certain other poems by the late James T_hoinson. Mi-s.
Elizabeth Cavazza will supply this edition with an in-
troductioii.
The Brooklyn Institute will coniineniornto, on the
evening of December 17, the eighty-ﬁfth anniversary of
\Vhittier’s birthday. There will be an address by Mr.
VV. L. Garrison, and a poem by the R-9% Jﬂllll ‘V-
Chadwick.
The “Independent” calls attention to the fact that
a poem on the subject of St. Telemachus was written in
1886 by Dr. Charlton C. Lewis, and published in the
" Yale Literary Magazine.” Both Dr. Lewis and Lox-(1


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Tennyson based their poems upon the same passage
from Theodoret.
The most notable thing in the book world this month,
according to “ The Boolunan,” has been the immense
demand for Lord Temiyson’s poems. It was so great
at one time that the printers had twenty-six machines
working upon them.
The series of Chicago articles in “ The New England
Magazine” is resumed with the December number, Mr.
George P. Upton, than whom no one is better qualiﬁed
to discuss the subject, writing of “Music in Chicago.”
“Literary Chicago," by Mr. William Morton Payne, is
announced for early publication in this series.
Francis P. Harper will publish early next year a new
and limited edition of the “ Travels ” of Lewis and
Clarke, edited by Dr. Elliott Cones. The work will
ﬁll four volumes, with notes, based upon the ﬁeld note
books of the expedition and other unpublished sources
of information.
The Overseers of Harvard University have promoted
Prof. Josiah Royce to a full professorship in philosophy,
which may perhaps be taken as their response to the pas-
sionate appeal for redress made to them a year ago by the
author of a certain philosophical work which Professor
Royce had reviewed and severely criticised.
We are told that the Samoan newspaper, which is a
German organ and inspired, is clamorous for the arrest
of Mr. Robert Louis Stevenson as “a person who med-
dles with everything.” Mr. Stevenson, besides his re-
cent bool-: on Samoa, has been raking over the German
administration in the columns of the London “ Times."
Hence these tears !
“Liber Scriptorum," the ﬁrst book of the New York
Authors’ Club, is now in press. It is made up of con-
tributions by members of the club, and each paper or
poem in each of the 251 copies to be printed will have
the autograph of its author. Subscriptions at one hun-
dred dollars a copy will be received by Mr. Rossiter
Johnson, the secretary of the Club.
Ginn & Company, of Boston, announce a “ Depart-
ment of Special Publication,” for the production of
“ valuable works of a special character and n high grade.”
The authors are to insure the publishers against loss,
which means, of course, in substance if not in form, that
authors are to pay the expenses of publication, and get
back what they can from the sale of their books. So1ne-
thing more like a novelty is the intimation that, by se-
curing from a number of professors their guarantee of
use for a term of years, the author of a text-book may
provide for its publication with some assurance of a sale
sufﬁcient to meet expenses. Small colleges having mou-
ographs to publish may ﬁnd this department of some
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gliustgations. Lovell, Coryell & Co. S ip covers, in
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The Refounding oi’ the German Empire, 1848-1871.
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Columbus and His Discovery of America. By Herbert
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The Poetry oi’ Tennyson. By Henry Van Dyke. Third
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The Essays of Elia: Including the Last Essays of Elia.
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The Table Talk of John Selden. Edited. with an intro-
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Stories from the Greek Comedians : Aristophanes, Phile-
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The Inspector-General : A Russian_Come(ly. By Nikolai
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