own's ticular maxim one may chance to want is easily
“ Rab and his Friends," with an Introduction by found, and that a measure of continuity is imparted
Mr. Andrew Lang; “ Motifs," by Mr. E. Scott to the text. The book is ornately bound with a view
O'Connor, a volume of passing reflections, subtly to its suitableness as a gift, and contains several
conceived and daintily worded, with an Introduc- full-page illustratione.
tion by Miss Agnes Repplier. For a pretty and Mr. Thomas Nelson Page's story of “ The Old
inexpensive gift to a friend of refined taste, one of Gentleman in the Black Stock” is a good one for
these diminutive beautifully printed and chastely pictorial exploitation, as Mr. Howard Chandler
decorated volumes would answer nicely.
Christy's baker's dozen of tinted drawings in
A rich and racy flavor of Dixie Land pervades Scribner's new edition of the book attest. The
the flat folio volume entitled “ Down South” (R. H. story has been somewhat enlarged by Mr. Page
Russell). The book is virtually an album of photo- for this edition, and we should be quite willing to
graphic pictures illustrative of negro life and char- see it enlarged once more in the future, for it is
acter in the rural districts of the remoter South; one of the author's best.
and the illustrator, Mr. Rudolph Eickmeyer, Jr., Miss Sarah Williams's “ Through the Year with
must be credited with unusual good taste in his Birds and Poets" (Lee & Shepard) is an anthology
selection of subjects, as well as with much skill in of American bird-poems, the selections being classi-
the use of the camera. A quiet humor pervades fied according to the seasons of the year, and sub-
the pictures generally; but there is a commendable divided by months. The conception of the book is
absence of the burlesque element which caricatur- a happy one, and it has been well carried out.
ists of negro life have accentuated ad nauseam. In Ninety-nine American authors are represented, and
fact, the book is a delightful one in its way — a there are 242 poems and extracts from poems, the
quiet, truthful reflection of a phase of American whole making a volume of 350 pages. The full-
life now fading fast into history. A thoughtful page drawings of Mr. Walter M. Hardy, though a
preface is provided by Mr. Joel Chandler Harris. little stiff and formal, are clear and accurate, and
« Omarians” will find their account this season serve to illustrate rather than merely adorn.
in the artistic production entitled “The Book of For a friend of a pious turn, the rather ornate
Omar and Rubaiyát” (M. F. Mansfield), a pictor-but substantial volume entitled “The Four Evan-
ial and literary miscellany comprising among other gelists in Classic Art” (Whittaker) should form a
unique features reprints of selected addresses made welcome and an edifying gift. The editor of the
at the dinners of the Omar Khayyam Club of work, Miss Rachel A. La Fontaine, has exercised due
London, facsimiles of menu and guest cards, etc.
care and circumspection in selecting and arranging
The volume, a royal octavo of about a hundred
tbe somewhat multifarious writings, in prose and
pages, is beautifully printed from type, and the poetry, that form its content. The evangelical
edition is limited to a thousand copies. Mention chronicles are rich in subject matter for the religious
is deservedly made, by one of the contributors who painter, and the editor has had the advantage of a
writes of Omar's translators, of the too-little-known wide field of selection in choosing her illustrations.
version of Mr. J. L. Garner, an American. Mr. These comprise many well executed plates in half-
Garner's fine quatrain,
tone, after representative artists, ancient and mod-
“The violets that by this river grow
ern. The volume is both seasonable in content and
Sprang from some lip here buried long ago;
pleasing in form.
And tread thou lightly on this tender green,
Professor H. Knackfuss's learned monograph
Who sleepeth here so still thou ne'er wilt know,"
on Albrecht Dürer (Lemcke & Buechner), trang-
is pronounced a “much better” rendering than
”
lated by Mr. Campbell Dodgson, and illustrated by
the corresponding stanza by Fitz-Gerald, a judgment 134 reproductions of Dürer's works, is an art
which comparison easily bears out. Mr. Garner's work of genuine worth that will be much prized by
little book should be reprinted. The volume under serious students of the Nuremburg master and his
review is of considerable artistic pretensions out- powerful productions. This thoroughly good
wardly, and contains several illustrations, among though inexpensive book is the latest number in
on ,
vision of Prof. Knackfuss designed to form
the skill in decoration of Miss Blanche McManus when complete a history of the great periods of
is again in evidence.
art, though each volume is complete in itself. Mr.
“A fine quotation,” says Roux, “is a diamond Dodgson's good work as translator calls for special
on the finger of a man of wit.” A shining collection commendation.
of these gems may be found in the well-appointed That old Greek fairy-tale, ever fresh and fair, of
volume entitled “The World's Best Proverbs” “ Eros and Psyche,” gracefully re-told, after Apa-
(Laird & Lee). The compiler, Mr. George Howard leius, by Dr. Paul Carus, forms the basis and motif
Òpdyke, has taken unusual pains to marshal his of the artistic embelliehment of one of the prettiest
selections in a convenient and even logical way. of the smaller publications of the season. Mr. Paul
The proverbs are grouped by subjects alphabetic- Thumann's exquisite series of drawings illustrative
ally arranged, with the happy results that the par- of the tale are reproduced in the volume, and form
them
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its distinctive pictorial feature. Good taste, and a Redolent of the quaint humor and simple pathos
sense of the classic spirit, are everywhere shown in of the old-fashioned plantation “darky" are the
the make-up of the little book, which will surely twenty-four songs, each with its accompanying
find numerous friends. (The Open Court Publish- drawing, in Howard Weeden's “Songs of the Old
ing Co.)
South” (Doubleday, Page & Co.). The pictures,
Messrs. Harper & Brothers reissue their fine eight of which are printed in colors, show with a
edition of Charles Reade's masterpiece, “ The Clois- truth which there is no mistaking the Southern
ter and the Hearth," with the profuse and admir- negro of the old time, and the book generally is
able illustrations by Mr. William Martin Johnson, made up with a view to the demands of the Holi-
which must be seen, and even closely inspected, to day season.
be appreciated. The work is easily one of the best “Loving Imprints : The Mother's Album " (Lee
publications of the kind ever produced, and its & Shepard), compiled by Mrs. Therese Goulston,
reappearance is welcome.
is essentially a book of carefully prepared and ar-
Two prime old favorites in new and pleasing but ranged blank forms for registering important family
comparatively inexpensive dress — “Ivanhoe " and events - births, betrothals, marriages, anniver-
“ John Halifax, Gentleman ". come to us from saries, deaths, and so forth — for six generations.
the J. B. Lippincott Co. In each, the more note- Provision for a pictorial element is made in the
worthy added feature is the series of twelve colored spaces reserved for unmounted photographs. The
illustrations, those in “ Ivanhoe” being the work volume is the result of the editor's personal need
of Mr. Charles E. Brock, those in “ John Halifax” of such a book, and it appears to be as practical and
of Messrs. Cooke, Fisher, and Tilney. All the convenient as it is tastily got up.
plates have the effect of water-color drawings, and Abundant good taste is displayed in the get-up
most of them are cleverly and intelligently done. of Messrs. Dana Estes & Co.'s delicately bound
In the “John Halifax” there is also a medallion volume entitled “In the Sweetness of Childhood.”
portrait of Mrs. Craik, and a photographic view in The compiler of the book, Miss Grace Hartshorne,
Old Tewksbury. The volumes are printed and
has aimed to include in it the best available poems
bound alike, and are evidently meant to be shelf on the theme of childhood, omitting however some
companions.
of the most hackneyed pieces in order to make
Dr. Johnson's “ Rasselas,” gotten out in neat and room for selections which seem to her as meritori-
convenient form by Messrs. James Pott & Co., is ous, if less widely known, than the ones omitted.
the promising initial volume in the “Gem Classics' There are sixteen full-page illustrations, mostly
series wbich will include such works as the “ Religio after modern painters, which reflect the spirit, at
Medici," Beckford's “Vathek," Mrs. Gatty's “Par. least, of the text.
ables from Nature," etc. We understand that about Among recent successes in fiction, prominent
seven volumes of the series are now ready. The place must be accorded those stirring and original
volume is a duodecimo, bound in limp Venetian tales by “Ralph Connor" entitled “Black Rock”
morocco, and contains a good frontispiece portrait and “The Sky Pilot.” The sales of both books
reproduced in photogravure. Its moderate price have passed the 50,000 mark, and their popularity
considered, the set is unusually well made and shows no present signs of abatement. A welcome
attractive.
is therefore assured in advance to the handsome
Mrs. Maud Wilder Goodwin's graceful colonial illustrated editions issued for the Holidays by the
romance, “ The Head of a Hundred” (Little, Brown publishers, Fleming H. Revell Co. The eight
“
& Co.), which we have already had occasion drawings contained in each volume are the work
commend, makes its appearance in tempting Holi- of Mr. Louis Rhead, who has been fairly successful
day dress, and with a half-dozen illustrations (the in depicting the vivid scenes of the narrative. The
frontispiece in colore) from various hands. The cover designs are uncommonly striking and effec-
volume forms a desirable gift-book of the more in- tive.
expensive class.
That The Scottish Chiefs"
Those popular companion books “
garbthe
main feature of which is Mr. T. H. Robinson's
reappear boxed together as a set and with added copious illustrations, including a colored frontis-
material attractions, notably twenty-eight beautiful piece. The character of “Wight Wallace” has
photogravures, fourteen to the volume, which dis- not gained through the researches of later histori-
close at least the home surroundings of the author, ans; and it is pleasant to turn the page
back and
but leave us still guessing at her identity. The view Scotia's hero in the glamor of Miss Porter's
author's children appear in a few of the pictures, time-honored pages. The attractive cover design
but even this possible clue proves deceptive, for in colors deserves a word of praise.
the faces of the little ones are in each case either Messrs. Harper & Brothers reprint their ornate
hidden or partly bidden through one pretty device Holiday edition of “ Daisy Miller" with the famil-
or another. The remaining plates give some charm- iar drawings by Mr. Harry W. McVickar. A tasty
ing glimpses of the garden and of the interior of lilac binding freshens up this favorite of a past
the castle. (Macmillan Co.)
season, which should find
many admirers this
year.
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of Cromwell's invasion of Ireland with the Parliament-
BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG.
ary army, the hero, Dick Granville, being on the other
side. – With “In the Irish Brigade, a Tale of the
Books for the coming generation reflect the luxury War in Flanders and Spain " (Scribner), our esteemed
of the age to an extent which takes from them some- friend, Mr. George Alfred Henty, makes his fifth or
thing of their American flavor. This is especially true sixth score bow to the younger reading population,
of the tales of school and contemporaneous life pro- with a stirring story of the early eighteenth century,
vided for the reading of the year. Not so long ago when England was warring through the Low Coun-
the boys we read about were in comfortable pecuniary tries and Uncle Toby left it of record that the army
circumstances, nothing more. When they wished swore terribly. Mr. Charles M. Sheldon, curiously
something by way of toy or implement for sport, they duplicating the American clergyman's name, provides
made it themselves whenever possible, or earned and the striking illustrations. — Of a milder and purely
saved money for purchasing it, being self-dependent in feminine sort, yet with its interest largely in the his-
either case. Now, the boys seem to have many more torical atmosphere which envelops the characters, Miss
things done for them. Their apparatus for enjoyment Sarah Tytler (Henrietta Keddie) writes “ Queen Char-
has been increased, though it is very doubtful if any lotte's Maidens ” (Scribner), a picturesque romance for
higher degree of pleasure has come with it. The older girls, but one to be commended on many ac-
schools have boys with longer purses among their stu- counts. - Mr. Henty, never to be easily disposed of in
dents, and the hero who begins as a poor, unnoticed lad such a reckoning as this, appears again with “Out with
with funny clothing made by the village tailor, devel- Garibaldi, a Story of the Liberation of Italy” (Scrib-
ops into the very young man of the world under the
ner), a book which brings the wish that wars for free-
influence of the youths of wealth and fashion who asso- dom were more frequent in the real and the literary
ciate with him.
world alike.
The subject of war is holding its prominent place of
American history
On the hither side of the Atlantic, his-
the last year or two, so far as the books for children are
before the torical subjects multiply. Issued under
concerned. Many of the
deal with events now pass-
Revolution.
the auspices of the Society of Colonial
ing, such as the wars in South Africa and the Philip- Wars, “The Century Book of the American Colonies "
pines. Many others go back to the small beginnings (Century Co.) is a most interesting account of a jour-
of the nation, as if seeking an antidote to the greater ney as personally conducted by Mr. Elbridge S. Brooks,
extravagance in expenditure of modern life even while
extending from Maine to Louisiana by way of Florida,
they provide the nation with an historical perspective in which the young tourists have their cup of inquisi-
and its inhabitants with almost unsuspected ancestors. tiveness regarding the early life of the country filled
The highest praise, that of imitation, continues to be almost to overflowing. Plentiful illustrations from
paid the creations of the late “ Lewis Carroll,” as seen photographs, and a decorative cover by Mr. T. Guern-
in the multiplicity of books of the “ Alice in Wonder-
sey Moore, enhance the value of the book, which is a
land” kind. Nature, too, occupies a growing part in companion to a similar work treating of Revolutionary
the instruction of the young, — the less we live in scenes published two years ago. - “ The House-Boat
nature the more there being to tell about it for purposes on the St. Lawrence ; or, Following Frontenac" (Lee
of information. Of books which serve a useful end in
& Shepard) is a story of similar design, and, also, the
history, and similar works, there is a plenty ; but a companion volume to a previous work, from the pleas-
lack of real literary work is to be complained of, and ant pen of Dr. Everett T. Tomlinson. The same boys,
the heroes of peace play a rather insignificant part in now a year older, who followed the trail of Cartier a
comparison with the heroes of war. The strenuous
twelvemonth ago, are now engaged with Frontenac's
life's the thing, apparently, though the very books which eventful history in the Canadian wilderness. It is
tell of the past prove that we Americans have never worthily done. — As the last of the four books of the
required any encouragement to that end. The more
“ Young Puritans” series (Little, Brown, & Co.), “ The
frequent appearance of the Indian in boys' books this
Young and Old Puritans of Hatfield,” written by Mrs.
year tells the same story.
Mary P. Wells Smith and illustrated by Miss Bertha
Stories of
Beginning with books that have a value C. Day, proves the wealth of material which lies in the
European chiefly historical, the palm is to be annals of every New England town of early founda-
history.
awarded this year to “The Princess's tion, here containing a most exciting account of the
Story Book" (Longmans), compiled and edited by capture and rescue of some of the inhabitants of Hat-
Mr. G. Laurence Gomme, with an abundance of
field at the end of King Philip's war. - For still
pictures from the clever pen of Miss Helen Stratton. smaller children, Miss Edith Robinson has written “A
İt is the fourth of a series dealing with English roy- Little Puritan's First Christmas” (Page), the little
alty and its scions, starting from the Norman Conquest Puritan being the quaintly old-fashioned Betty Sewall,
and coming down to the reign of Victoria the Good. as she appears in her learned father's pious and juri-
The thousandth anniversary of the death of the Queen's dical pages. The drawings, by Mrs. Amy M. Sacker,
most illustrious ancestor brings forth Dr. Eva March include a portrait of the small heroine.
Tappan's “ In the Days of Alfred the Great” (Lee &
Revolutionary times are abundantly com-
Tales of
Shepard), with pictures by Mr. Kennedy. The author
memorated in this season's books for the
the Revolution.
is a careful student of history in the fullest sense of
young. “Boston Boys of 1775; or, When
the word, and has been enabled to add some excellent We Beseiged Boston” (Estes) is the first of a number
new anecdotes of a most interesting life to those already of volumes which lay Mr. James Otis under the impu-
familiar. - Another anniversary, and the consequent tation of being a syndicate, so assiduous and so prolific
attention paid to the career of Cromwell, brings before are his literary labors. A good account of the fighting
the pablic Captain F. S. Brereton's "In the King's at Bunker Hill is the most striking incident of a book
Service" (imported by Scribner), a rattling good tale which serves very well to reproduce the feeling of those
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days. The foundation for the story, however, rests in story has all the sincerity of history and the accuracy
the unproved reason of Dr. Benjamin Church. Those of an account by an eye-witness. — So, too, the war for
who look in vain for the tale of the Boston boys who the liberation of Cuba seems to have lost its popularity.
told General Gage what they thought of his soldiers « In Defense of the Flag" (Lothrop) is concerned with
will be relieved in knowing that this happened the year the adventures of a boy in Spain at the outbreak of
before Mr. Otis opens his narrative. — “In the Hands the war with the United States, written by Mr. Elbridge
of the Red Coats” (Houghton) is another of Dr. S. Brooks in his well-known manner. The
young
hero
Everett T. Tomlinson's accounts of life in New Jersey is on Admiral Cervera's ship when he crosses the
during the war, founded on the veracious chronicle of Atlantic, and views the sea fight of July 3, 1898, off
Ebenezer Fox and fully described in its sub-title as Santiago, from the other side. The story is most
“ A Tale of the Jersey Ship and the Jersey Shore in interesting. — “The Adventures of a Boy Reporter”
the Days of the Revolution.” The enormities of the (Page) is the work of Mr. Harry Steele Morrison, be-
British prison ships deserve setting forth at this time, ginning with a journey to Europe and ending with the
and Dr. Tomlinson is to be commended for his work, reporter in the Philippines, where he has a series of
though he has ameliorated the British excesses. The experiences, including several with General Aguinaldo.
spirited pictures in the book are by Mr. Frank E. Excellent pictures have been made for the book by Mr.
Schoonover. - "Scouting for Washington ” (Little,
“
L. J. Bridgman. - Mr. W. Irving Hancock, for some
Brown, & Co.) is another of Mr. John Preston True's time the correspondent of “ Frank Leslie's Weekly”
books for boys, the scenes being laid in the South, and in the Philippines, has embodied some of his informa-
Sumter and Tarleton being prominent in the action of tion gained there in a book for boys called “ Aguinaldo's
the time. Mr. Clyde 0. De Land provides the illus- Hostage ; or, Dick Carson's Captivity among the
trations, and the work is particularly valuable as ac- Filipinos ” (Lee & Shepard). The life of the hero
counting for the fighting in a part of the country which is saved by the patriot leader in person, and there is
has been neglected by most writers.--Mr. T. W. Hall's much that is lifelike in the story. -“ The Young
“ Heroes of Our Revolution" (Stokes) is really a con- Bandmaster" (Mershon Co.) is the fourth of the
nected history of the entire period of armed resistance Flag of Freedom” series, and Captain Ralph
to Great Britain, plentifully filled with drawings by Bonehill its author. The story is concerned with the
Mr. W. B. Gilbert and others. Fighting on the sea fortunes of a non-combatant at the capture of San
here obtains a part of the prominence it deserves. Juan and El Caney.
Prom the
Mr. James Otis rescues a most brilliant
Mr. Henty comes into the living present
The war in
period of our naval history from ill-
in his “ With Buller in Natal ; or, A
the Civil War.
South Africa.
deserved desuetude by his stirring tale,
Born Leader ” (Scribner), illustrated by
“With Preble at Tripoli, a Story of old Ironsides and the skillful pencil of Mr. W. Rainey. It is written
the Tripolitan War' (Wilde). The account of the from the strongest possible British point of view, and
loss of the “ Philadelphia," and her subsequent so glosses over the accounts given in America of Gen-
destruction by the most distinguished “ cutting out” eral Buller's movements that it hardly seems possible
party in our history of war afloat, abundantly justify Mr. Henty can be serious. — Captain F. S. Brereton is
the book's existence. — Mr. Otis also prepares, from more fortunate in his choice of material when he writes
private papers in his possession, another volume of the “ With Rifle and Bayonet, a Tale of the Boer War"
" Privateers of 1812” series, “The Armed Ship (Scribner), since he gives his hero, Jack Somerton, a
America ” (Estes), an account of an almost forgotten chance to be at the relief of Mafeking after that fine
private venture of our old naval militia, and one which display of heroism and endurance. - Mr. Edward
explains why England grew so anxious to have the Stratemeyer writes and Mr. A. Burnham Shute illus-
second war of independence_come to an end. The trates “ Between Boer and Briton” (Lee & Shepard),
pictures are by Mr. J. W. Kennedy, strict attention the story of two cousins, one an English boy and the
being paid to historical exactitude. — Another little- other an American, who get into the middle of things
remembered incident in our national growth is revived in South Africa and go through the war as far as the
by Mr. Elbridge S. Brooks in “The Godson of Lafayette, fall of Pretoria. – Mr. James Otis's “ Fighting for
a Story of the Days of Webster and Jackson " (Wilde). the Empire ” (Estes) is rather a veracious history of
It deals with the curious delusion of the Rev. Eleazar the death of the two Dutch Republics. The nature of
Williams, who thought himself the lost Dauphin of the work forces the author to rely upon the daily press
France, and is bere made to persuade the hero of the for most of his more recent occurrences, but the effect
tale into discipleship. The drawings for the book are is vivid nevertheless.
by Mr. Frank T. Merrill, and it forms the second vol.
Our friends the Red Indians are occupy-
ume of the “Sons of the Republic" series. — In his
Stories of
ing less of our national thought than
“ Brethren of the Coast” (Scribner), Mr. Kirk Munroe
usual, it would seem, yet they are given
has preserved the memory of Latrobe, the famous more than their usual space in the books for boys and
pirate of the Gulf, in a vivid narrative enhanced by the girls this fall. “A Child of the Sun” (Stone), by Mr.
drawings of Mr. Rufus F. Zogbaum. The opportunity Charles Eugene Banks, is an excellent account of the
to use the battle of New Orleans, in which Latrobe's doings of a little Indian lad, filled with knowledge of
band bore so gallant a part, is reserved, we hope, for the manners of the aborigines and touched with not a
a sequel.
little poetry. The pictures in color, by Mr. Louis
Among the books of war and history, Betts, make the book one of the handsomest among
only one has to do with the civil strife this year's publications. — “Red Jacket, the Last of
the Philippines. between the States. Mr. Byron A. Dunn the Senecas” (Dutton) is from the well-known pen of
carries on the fortunes of Captain Shackelford and his Colonel H. R. Gordon, with pictures by Mr. W. M.
friends for almost four years ' more, with his pleasant Cary.
Cary. It is suggestive of Cooper throughout, and
account of the Battling for Atlanta " (McClurg). The more than a little exciting. -- "The Sun Maid, a Story
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of Fort Dearborn” (Dutton) is a tale of the Potta- of the author.. “ The Lobster Catchers, a Story of
watomies and whites on the site of what is now Chicago, the Coast of Maine ” (Dutton) is another of the inde-
written by Miss Evelyn Raymond and illustrated also fatigable Mr. James Otis's books, dealing with a little-
by Mr. Cary. It seems centuries away in point of known industry in a manner both amusing and in-
time. — “ The Prairie Schooner, a Story of the Black structive.
Hawk War" (Wilde) is by the Rev. William E.
Among the thoroughly useful books for
Practical and
Barton, D.D., with pictures from the hand of Mr.
boys which deserve parental inspection
imaginative.
H. Burgess. Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, and
and purchase are two by Mr. D. C. Beard,
other historical celebrities appear in the mildly thrilling « The Outdoor Handy Book for Playground, Field,
pages. — Mr. George Bird Grinnell resumes his inter-
and Forest” and “The Jack of All Trades, New Ideas
esting Indian tales in “ Jack among the Indians' for American Boys” (Scribner). These conclude a
(Stokes), the drawings for which have been done by Mr. series of four volumes which are replete with good
Edwin Willard Deming, carrying his young people ideas for keeping youngsters out of mischief at the
up to the Assiniboine country, and finding time to shoot most mischievous age, and there is a fifth volume for
grizzlies and other interesting things on the way. the boys' sisters written by Mr. Beard's sisters. — First
“ An Alphabet of Indians ” (Russell) is an entertaining of a new series to be named after “ The United States
and original account of a number of aboriginal peoples, Government” is a book called “The Treasury Club”
beginning with Apaches and ending with Zuñis, taking (Wilde) by Mr. William Drysdale. It is an intelli-
in the Dakotas, Jacarillas, and Penobscots on the way, gently-written narrative in story form, the boy hero
the work of Mr. Emery Leverett Williams.
entering the federal treasury department and passing
“ The World's Discoverers, the Story of through its routine, meeting its responsible heads and
Travel and
Bold Voyages by Brave Navigators dur- gaining a comprehension of its workings, which he im-
exploration.
ing a Thousand Years ” (Little, Brown, parts to his readers. The idea is both good in itself
& Co.) is the most inclusive of the new books of travel and commendably worked out. — Mr. Charles Battell
by sea, and Mr. William Henry Johnson, the author,
Loomis has never written a book for the young in years
has been to great pains to make his book both instruct- before, limiting his efforts in authorship to those who
ive and entertaining. — A similar service for those were young in mind. But his success in “ Yankee En-
explorers who have travelled by land has been per- chantments” (McClure, Phillips & Co.) is such that
formed by Mr. Tudor Jenks in the “ Boy's Book of we hope the experiment will be repeated. All of his
Exploration (Doubleday), a companion volume to the humor is preserved in this story of the modern Amer-
interesting “ Boy's Book of Invention” of a year ago. ican sort of fairy, the wonderful genie who has made
Africa occupies most of the book, but Australia is liquid air, trolley cars, and automobiles possible, and it
given a place and Asia has five chapters, one of them may be read by children of all ages. Nearly two-score
containing an account of Sven Hedin's wonderful jour- pictures by Miss Fanny Y. Cory heighten the pleasure
ney. Africa, too, is the scene of the curious incidents to be gained from the book.—Another fanciful book is
set forth in Mr. Paul du Chaillu's "The World of the “ The Bicycle Highwaymen” (Estes), wherein Mr.
Great Forest (Scribner), illustrated by Messrs. C. R.
Frank M. Bicknell writes of the Mayor of Cycleton and
Knight and J. M. Gleeson. As the sub-title discloses, the trouble he and his fellow-functionaries are put to
it is an account of “How Animals, Birds, Reptiles, In- by the wheeled bandits in the neighborhood. - "Jones
sects, Talk, Think, Work, and Live," told in the the Mysterious” (Scribner) is the alluring title which
sprightly and delectable manner of the well-known au-
Mr. Charles Edwardes invents for his account of the
thor. — “Under the Great Bear” (Doubleday) by Mr. doings of Jimmy Jones, upon whom has been conferred
Kirk Munroe, is of the more conventional type of boys' the magic power of making himself invisible. The story
stories, with a youthful hero who does wonders along
is full of mild fun, its ideas being carried out ably in
the northern Atlantic coast of America, a fight between the pictures by Mr. Harold Copping.–Mr. William 0.
British and French sailors in Newfoundland being one
Stoddard achieves another success with “ Ned, Son of
of the interesting episodes. — The rush for gold to the Webb: What he Did ” (Estes), an historically imagina-
northern Pacific coast finds a historian in Mr. Arthur tive work in which the youngster who acts as hero, a
R. Thompson, with “Gold Seeking on the Dalton typical American boy, is transported back to Harold
Trail, being the Adventures of Two New England Hardrada's invasion of England, remaining in those
Boys in Alaska and the Northwest Territory” (Little, bygone ages long enough to bear a band at the battle
Brown, & Co.). The story is evidently based on per-
of Hastings.
sonal experience, and contains much information con-
Of books for boys, books of the more
cerning the natural history of the region. « A Tar of
Various sorts
conventional type, - Mr. Andrew Home
of heroes.
the Old School ” (Estes) is one of Mr. F. H. Costello's
prepares a somewhat ordinary tale of
well written combinations of fact and fiction, his bero English boyhood life with "The Story of a School Con-
doing many things but finding time to attend the burn- spiracy” (Lippincott), Mr. A. Monro furnishing the
ing of the “ Philadelphia and the defeat of the illustrations. -“True to Himself; or, Roger Strong's
“ Macedonian” by the good frigate “ United States.”. Struggle for Place" (Lee & Shepard) is by Mr. Edward
Mr. W. Clark Russell prepares a sea story more par- Stratemeyer, being the third volume of the “Ship and
ticularly for boys in “ The Pretty Polly, a Voyage of Shore" series. It has a preternaturally acute boy who
Incident” (Lippincott). There is some well deserved does more than twenty men could do in the way of un-
commendation of Dana's “ Two Years before the Mast" earthing crime.- Not more wonderful but still deserv-
in the book, with the somewhat inexplicable statement ing comment is “ Rival Boy Sportsmen " (Lee & Shep-
that it contains a great deal of British humor. An ard), for which Mr. W. Gordon Parker provides both
interesting bit of information in one of the foot notes text and drawings. It is the last of the “ Deer Lodge"
runs to the effect that Sidney Dickens, son of the nov- series, and like its predecessors is filled with the doings
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solid gold vases and little things like that.—Mr. James amusement. « Almost as Good as a Boy” (Lee &
Otis can hardly have time to make a specialty of any Shepard) is one of Miss Amanda M. Douglas's books
one branch of books for the young, but he contrives to for girls, wholesome and sane and full of interest, as
give us a sketch of a newsboy in “ Aunt Hannah and all her books are. Miss Amy Blanchard tells a tale
Seth” (Crowell) which deserves commendation for be- with mingled pathos and fun in “Her Very Best”
ing about a real boy. Seth is in trouble nearly all of (Lippincott), Miss Margaret F. Winner furnishing the
the time, but gets out of it boy-fashion, and then learns illustrations. — The closer contact of Europe and
he need never have been in it - much like the rest of America is told in a manner almost whimsical by Miss
us. —A real “study” among foreign types in America A. G. Plympton in “ A Child of Glee" (Little, Brown,
is presented by Miss Anna Chapin Ray in “ Playground & Co.). It tells of a little Yankee girl who gets en-
Toni” (Crowell) the tale of an American ghetto with tangled in the politics and diplomacy of a European
Toni Valovick for its protagonist. The book is filled court, and comes out with credit to herself, her father,
with delicate pathos and humor, and is illuminating in and her fellow countrymen. — “A Georgian Bungalow"
more senses than one.
(Houghton) is to be welcomed, like others of Mrs.
The link usually missing between books Frances Courtenay Baylor's books, for the understand-
About girls
and for them.
specially written and designed for boys ing it gives of southern life and fancies. Negro fidel-
and those intended exclusively for girls ity and a picturesque German governess add to the
is supplied this year by Miss Jeannette L. Gilder's interest of the story, which is well illustrated. — Mrs.
delightful “ Autobiography of a Tomboy” (Double- Molesworth's “The House that Grew” (Macmillan)
day), with its charming pen and ink sketches by Miss turns out to be a wagonette, and the pictures by Miss
Florence Scovel Sbinn. The book is a literary pleas-
Alice Woodward make the story one to be laughed
ure, and one that both sexes and all ages can be with and over in every respect. It has all the author's
cheered by. — A stronger and more mature work than established knowledge of girl life.
most is Miss Alice Stronach's “ A Newnbam Friend-
Before passing to the books designed
ship” (Scribner), a book which begins with a little
Fairy tales
and fables.
for very small girls and boys, we must
Highland girl in the woman's college at Cambridge
take note of the number of interesting
and ends in one of the London social settlements. A fairy tales which can read with delight by all who
romance enters into the story, greatly to its advantage. have not let work and the daily grind of life interfere
A sensible plea for something better than a life be- too much with their imaginations. Mr. Andrew Lang
hind a shop counter is made in Miss Evelyn Ray- bas edited this year “ The Grey Fairy Book”
mond's " Reels and Spindles” (Wilde), with illustra- (Longmans), carrying on his chromatic scheme another
tions by Mr. Frank T. Merrill. A young girl brought step. The stories are from translations made by many
up to the best things in life is compelled to face reali- hands and are illustrated by Mr. A. J. Ford. - Mr.
ties and does it in a way that must win respect, going William Canton, whose original work for children has
to work in a mill at last, and finding herself able to be won so many golden opinions, acts as editor for a series
of real service there to her fellows. — Mingling city and of “The True Annals of Fairy Land” (Macmillan), the
country life and city and country folk, Miss Gabrielle initial volume being entitled specifically “ The Reign
E. Jackson's “ Pretty Polly Perkins” (Century Co.), of King Herla." The occurrences of that momentous
with its pictures by Mr. C. M. Relyea, shows how stretch of years requires a skilled anachronist for
much broader the double experience makes the two chronicler, since the Argonauts and King Lear both
interesting heroines. The lame little city girl who find a place between its opening and close. The de-
gains health and strength in the New England village lightful drawings of Mr. Charles Robinson make the
takes the artistically inclined Polly into the metropolis book an ideal one either for keeping or giving away.-
during the winter, greatly to her advantage intellectu- Between Mrs. Mabel Osgood Wright's delicate sense of
ally. -Randy's Summer" (Lee & Shepard) is writ- humor in prose and Mr. Oliver Herford's delicious no-
ten and illustrated by Miss Amy Brooks, and her four- tion of fun in drawings, “ The Dream Fox Story Book"
teen-year-old heroine and her pretty sister Prue do (Macmillan) fares sumptuously according to its kind.
good during their holidays as well as find recreation of There is fun enough in every page to make the reader
the more usual sort. Those who recall Miss Anna wish he had the dream fox habit himself. – Mr.
Chapin Ray's “ Teddy" will be glad to meet that pleas- Seumas MacManus and Mr. Frank Verbeck combine to
ant personality once more in a sequel called “ Phebe : make “Donegal Fairy Stories ” (McClure, Phillips &
Her Profession," a quaint and bappy story of girls who | Co.) a rollicking bit of Irish exaggeration, carrying it
realize that life is not all cakes and ale. Mr. Frank almost to the point of burlesque. More discrimina-
T. Merrill makes the pictures for the volume, which is ting by far is Mr. William Henry Frost's “Fairies and
published by Little, Brown, & Co. - Mrs. L. T. Meade Folk of Ireland ” (Scribner), which has the real Celtic
justifies anew the criticism that she can get more flavor. We are somewhat at a loss to account for the
healthy excitement out of a girl's rather monotonous use here of some of Mr. William Butler Yeats's tender
life than any one else by her “Miss Nonentity" ( Lip- imagivings, much as they endance the feeling to which
pincott), illustrated by Mr. W. Rainey. It is a kindly the book is committed. Another of the great families
book, like all of Mrs. Meade's, and one which shows of the Celtic race is drawn upon for the material in
an interest in some life not usually regarded as inter- Fairy Stories from the Little Mountain” (Wessels),
esting. — “Brenda, her School and her Club” (Little, which Mr. John Finnemore has bronght together and
Brown, & Co.) is written by Miss Helen Leah Reed Mr. James R. Sinclair made pictures for. The tales
and illustrated by Miss Jessie Willcox Smith. It is are Welsh and quaintly enjoyable, both in text and
occupied with school life in and around Boston, a col- picture.—Miss Katharine Elise Chapman uses the ma-
lege football game and the interest it excites going to chinery of “A Midsummer-Night's Dream” with much
show that a generation of women is growing up skill in her " A Fairy Night's Dream; or, The Horn of
which will feel more kindly toward that masculine Oberon ” (Laird & Lee). The book is an exquisite one
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with a colored frontispiece and many other pictures by “Wild Animal Play” (Doubleday) utilizes the charac-
Mr. Gwynne Price. -"The Pixie and Elaine Stories " ters from the author's successful book, “Wild Animals
(Estes), by Miss Carrie E. Morrison, are imaginative I Have Known,” with pictures and rhymes by his own
descriptions of the doings of the “ Pixies” who live in hand. But it is very thin, and can be satisfactory to
country streams, and the “ Elaines” who inbabit a none but small children.- .—“Mooswa and Others of the
lovely little lake. Pretty drawings by Mr. Reginald Boundaries ” (Scribner) is a book of the genre of Mr.
· Birch and other artists of skill reinforce the pleasant | Kipling's “ Jungle Stories," written by Mr. W. A.
impression the book leaves upon the reader's mind. Fraser, and illustrated by Mr. Arthur Heming. The
That dreamlike confusion of the actual scenes are laid in the far North of the Athabasca and
Impossible
and the impossible which was so peculi- Saskatchewan, and are of more than ordinary merit.
arly the invention of the late « Lewis Lovers of dogs — and who is not? — will profit and
Carroll” has its counterpart in many a volume put out smile at once in perusing the “ Observations of Jay (A
this year. Mr. L. Frank Baum frankly acknowledges Dog), and Other Stories ” (Elder & Shepard) by Mr.
bis obligations to his more original predecesssor in “A Morgan Shepard, with its most interesting introductory
New Wonderland" (Russell), with its quaint pictures essay on the “ Five Great Wags ” — of a dog's tail.
by Mr. Frank Verbeck. But Mr. Dodgson had a real
Of old books made new the season brings
distinction of style which is wholly lacking here, though
at least three of a high order of merit.
to be found in a chapter or two of Mr. Baum's other
“ The Adventures of Odysseus (Dut-
book, “ The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” (Hill), which ton) is an alluring volume with a colored frontispiece
is remarkably illustrated by Mr. William W. Denslow, and illustrations by Mr. Charles Robinson, the free
who possesses all the originality of method wbich has translations of episodes from the Odyssey being done
been denied his collaborator. This last book is really by Messrs. F. S. Marvin, R. J. C. Mayor and F. M.
notable among the innumerable publications of the Stawell. The spirit of the original has been fairly
year, making an appeal which is fairly irresistible to a caught and held in so far as a translation can hold it,
certain standard of taste.-Fastidious tastes will place and the book is a worthy one in all respects.—Messrs.
Miss Katharine Pyle's “ The Christmas Angel ” (Little, G. W. Boden and W. Barrington d'Almeida have done
Brown, & Co.) at the other end of the æsthetic scale, a similar good service for another Greek in “Wonder
the unity of conception of the artist-author being in its Stories from Herodotus" (Harper). A tribute to the
favor. Though intended for little children, it can be veracity of the Father of History is deserved, after all
read with real comprehension by their elders for all the the generations to which he was only the Father of
odd little turns of thought through which it wanders to Lies. The illustrations, reproduced in colors from de.
a happy close.
“ Josey and the Chipmunk” (Century signs by Mr. H. Granville Fell, possess a rare artistic
Co.) is the result of Mr. Sydney Reid's pen and Miss beauty. - The Rev. A. J. Church, M.A., in “ Helmet
Fanny Cory's pencil, and includes a large menagerie and Spear” (Macmillan) gathers into a single volume
among its dramatis persone. It is both clever and droll. accounts of ancient wars, beginning with Greece and
Animals from life, qualified by a vivid pictorial Persia and ending with the taking of Rome by the bar-
imagination, fill up the pages of « The Jumping Kanga- barians and the fall of the empire. The book is vividly
roo and the Apple Butter Cat” (McClure, Phillips & written and fully illustrated.
Co.) for which Mr. James M. Condé has made the
Of the old favorites reprinted in new
illustrations and Mr. John W. Harrington written the
New editions of and beautiful form none is so eminently
old favorites.
text. The book is unusually well done. — Mr. Living-
satisfactory to the lover of good books as
ston B. Morse makes up a story of fantasy in his “The the large quarto of “ Fairy Tales and Stories” (Cen-
Road to Nowhere” (Harper), Mrs. Edna Morse sap- tury Co.), translated from the Danish of Hans Christian
plying the illustrations. A candy farm and a parlia- Andersen by Mr. H. L. Brækstad and beautifully illus-
ment of peacocks are among the strange things to be trated by Mr. Hans Tegner. It commemorates nothing
read of in the book.
except the perennial affection in which this prince of
Our little brothers the beasts and our story tellers is regarded, giving bis jewels a setting
little sisters the birds have a small worthy their merits.
-Robinson Crusoe" appears in
library devoted to them this Christmas. two editions, one published by Mr. R. H. Russell with
Of real value is Miss Abbie Farwell's “ The Book of pictures by the brothers Louis and Frederick Rhead,
Saints and Friendly Beasts” (Houghton), a most inter- but without the European ending to the adventures of
esting collection from the Acta Sanctorum of the stories Defoe's hero; and one with a colored frontispiece and
of friendliness which exists between men of peace and rubricated pages throughout, published by Dodd, Mead
holiness and the rest of the animate world. Miss & Co., the story reprinted in full. Both are joys for
Fanny Y. Cory carries out the mediæval feeling of the older hands than boys to delight in. — A more than
tales in her cleverly conventionalized drawings, and ordinary edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's “ Treasure
the whole effect is one to rejoice in. — A wide world Island” (Scribner), that modern Robinson Crusoe tale,
away is Mr. Joaquin Miller's “ True Bear Stories” is finely set off by Mr. Wal Paget's pictures. The map
(Rand, McNally & Co.), a volume which the author's whose loss gave its author such trouble is carefully re-
active imagination relieves from any charge of being produced. — Stevenson's “ A Child's Garden of Verse"
merely true. The book is fully illustrated, and fortu- (Russell) is nothing less than gorgeous in its new dress,
nate in having an introduction written for it by Dr. with pictures in colors by Messrs. E. Marr and M. H.
David Starr Jordan.—“The Animal Alphabet ” (Hill) Squire. - Charles Kingsley's “Water Babies” (Wes-
contains prose and verse written by Mr. Henry Morrow sels) has many full-page color pictures by Mr. G.
Hyde and a full series of pictures from photographs Wright, the wonderful folk under the sea and in the
taken from life by Mr. Charles C. Cook. The book is
rivers becoming grotesquely decorative under his skill-
entertaining, but the photographs lose effect owing ful treatment. The separate editions, published last
to the process adopted.-Mr. Ernest Seton-Thompson's year, of “ Alice in Wonderland” and “Through the
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Looking Glass," with the clever illustrations in colors a year or two ago, prepares “ The Booboo Book ”
by Miss Blanche McManus, are this year bound together (Estes), for which Messrs. C. F. Relyea and Frank T.
in one pair of covers (Wessels), making a singularly Merrill furnish the drawings.- Mr. William H. Pott
attractive volume.
writes some fanciful little sketches of white and col-
Richness for both young and old lies in a ored folks in “Stories from Dreamland” (James Pott
Books for the
numerous class of books which many a
whole family.
& Co.), Mr. George W. Bardwell contributing the pic-
fond parent will buy in order to have it tures. The stories abound in humor and pathos, though
himself upon occasion. Such a book will be found in evidently the work of no practised hand. - The fifth
“Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes” (Revell), translated volume of the “ Little Prudy's Children" series, by
and illustrated by Mr. Isaac Taylor Headland of the Miss Sophie May, is called “Jimmy, Lucy, and All”
University of Pekin. Quaint and curious as it is, it can- (Lee & Shepard). It is astonishing how this series
not be read by the least observant without the assurance holds its popularity year after year, proving with
that the Chinese are strangely human, all reports to the every new volume a profound knowledge of the childish
contrary notwithstanding. The accuracy of the trans- heart. – Miss Penn Shirley, “Sophie May's sister,"
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lation being vouched for, it is impossible to conceive of writes and Miss C. Louise Williams illustrates “ Boy
any vast or any essential difference between pations Donald”. (Lee & Shepard), a continuation of “The
whose children delight in exactly the same turos of Happy Six.” It has a monkey and a parrot in it, without
thought and fancy. – Mrs. Alice Archer Sewall writes prejudice to either. – Miss Margaret Sidney continues
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the verses and makes the drawings for “ The Ballad of her former successes with “ The Adventures of Joel
the Prince" (Russell), a delightfully humorous bit of Pepper” (Lothrop), with pictures by Mr. Sears
work which requires some age to appreciate its mani- Gallagher. The harum-scarum lad who lends his name
fold merits, quickly as a child will grasp the surface to the story is already an old favorite. - What a
meaning. This is no less true of Mr. Gellett Burgess's youthful college graduate can do in the way of bring-
enjoyable "Goops and How to be Them, a Manual of ing some untamed youngsters under training is told
Manners for Polite Infants Inculcating Many Juvenile with much spirit and good nature by Miss Mary
Virtues both by Precept and Example” (Stokes). The Leonard in “ Half a Dozen Thinking Caps" (Crowell).
author has made ninety drawings for his book, and the The book is suggestive. — The author of “Miss
cheerful Goop may be seen in all
his undoubted strength Toosey's Mission ” has written a book for little children
and vigor. - The words and pictures which Mr. T. E. called “Tom's Boy” (Little, Brown, & Co.), Small
Butler has invented for “ Nanny" (Russell), a goat though it is, it will make a deep impression on the
which makes successive functionaries “perfectly (and minds of its readers. — Little Rita and Jimmy, the
excusably) furious," will bring a smile of innocence to “ Two Little Street Singers ” (Lee & Shepard) of Mrs.
the wrinkled cheek of age. — Twenty-four colored pic- Nora A. M. Roe's new book, have a hard time before
tares by Miss Grace A. May illustrate the “Proverbs they come into their own, and will carry the sympathies
Improved ” (Jobo Lane) for which Mr. Frederic Chap- of many a small reader with them. -- In Miss Evelyn
man has made some plaintive verses. They will while Raymond's “ Divided Skates” (Crowell) a little boy
away a few minutes with some profit. A story of a and girl open the heart of a nice old lady who has been
family that will interest more than one generation is permitting a poodle to monopolize her affections.—Mrs.
Miss Annie C. Brown's “ Fireside Battles” (Laird & Frances Bent Dillingham writes a series of tales for
Lee), a book for which Mr. Joseph C. Leyendecker has little children around the great feasts of the American
provided some brilliantly designed illustrations. А year, beginning with the greatest of them all, and calls it
carefully selected anthology of "Lullabys and Baby “ The Christmas-Tree Scholar, a Book of Days"(Crow-
Songs ” (Dutton) has been compiled by Mrs. Adelaide ell) A little moral running through each story does it
L. J. Gossett, with some charming pictures by Miss Eva no harm. — “Ednah and her Brothers ” (Houghton)
Roos. The younger poets have been drawn upon to an is a series of short household stories, simple and inter-
extent unusual such books, but there is nothing from esting and creditable to their author, Miss Eliza Orne
Stevenson - an omission which should have been ex- White. - Something in the nature of a genuinely spon-
plained.
taneous American child's garden is evolved by the wit
Books of the epicene sort which do for of the heroine of Mrs. Ella Farman Pratt's “The Play
For younger small girls and boys as well are a-many. Lady" (Crowell), who is left motherless and with a
“ Mother Nature's Children” (Ginn) is house quite her own but without money. The book
written by Mr. Allen Walton Gould with a view to has more value than the customary story for children. -
showing how things grow, whether vegetable or animal, Mr. Frank Samuel Child carries on the curious ma-
the processes of nature being portrayed by abundant chinery of his last year's “ House with Sixty Closets"
illustrations. .“ The Story of a Little Beech Tree" with « The Little Dreamer's Adventure" (Lee &
(Dutton), by Miss Esther Harlan, is rather the story of Shepard), and makes the book fully justify its sub-
little Harold and his surroundings. He is fortunate in title of “ A Story of Droll Days and Droll Doings."
making the acquaintance of a Mr. Man, who does not Many pen-and-ink drawings by Mr. C. H. L. Gebfert
paint his house or wooden fences because he prefers carry on the story's intention. Real feeling lies behind
beauty to everything else. — “Farmer Brown and the the narrative of “Snow White ; or, The House in the
Birds" (Page) is by Miss Frances Margaret Fox, with Wood” (Estes). Miss Laura E. Richards's pen and Mr.
illustrations by Miss Etheldred B. Barry. shows how Frank T. Merrill's pencil here combine to convey a
much a farmer may learn to his own advantage con- lesson in humanity of some moment. — Miss Myra
cerning birds. — Miss Barry illustrates Miss Harriet A. Sawyer Hamlin's "Nan's Chicopee Children " (Little,
Cheever's “ Ted's Little Dear” (Estes), the “ little Brown, & Co.) is a continuation of two former books,
dear" being a King Charles spaniel which is lost-as dogs and opens with the return of the sick and wounded
always are in children's books. — Miss Gertrude Smith, from the Spanish war.
It is intended for somewhat
author of the Arabella and Araminta" stories of older boys and girls, and is bright and filled with con-
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versation. — It is eight years since " John Howard Moon Babies" (Russell) a book to be treasured. It
Jewett” (who is really Miss Hannah Warper) wrote has positive merits both in conception and execution.
and Mr. Culmer Barnes illustrated the book to which
For the babies, Miss Maud Humphrey
“ More Bunny Stories (Stokes) is the sequel. So
For youngest has made some beautiful designs in color,
original and innocent a story could not fail to find
using the dresses of an earlier day and
hundreds of admirers then, and as many may be pre- calling the book “Children of the Revolution" (Stokes).
dicted for its successor pow. - - Mrs. Lily F. Wessel- The stories and verses written around the pictures are
hoeft has done the greatest possible good with her by Miss Mabel Humphrey. The famous scenes of
pretty stories of animals, birds, and children, giving 1776 are reproduced with great humor and good will.
the little human people some comprehension of their " Droll Doings ” (Scribner) abounds in pictures by
fellow beings and their feelings and sympathies. – Mr. Harry B. Neilson, with verses by the Cockiolly
—
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“ Doris and her Dog Rodney” (Little, Brown, & Co.) Bird," of which the book tells in some detail. It is
is a continuation of former successors, with a fine An- cleverly done. • Fiddlesticks (Young) does not
gora cat named “Christopher Columbus " added for take its name from anything in particular, being a
good measure. “ A Little American Girl in India' series of colored drawings done by Miss Hilda Cowham
(Little, Brown, & Co.) is a travel story for quite small for such well-known jingles as “ This Little Pig Went
children, written by Miss Harriet A. Cheever and illus- to Market.” Tbe work is excellent of its kind. - A
trated by Mr. H. Č. Ireland. It will give a good idea very small book for very small children is Miss Sophie
of the Orient to the child, and the long sea voyage to Swett's “ The Littlest One of the Browns” (Estes), a
England and thence to Bombay is pleasantly described. story about a little girl who was pretty good, but not too
Books having their chief interest in the good. — “Sunday Reading for the Young, 1901 "
Picture books
in plenty.
pictures, addressed to an intelligence (Young) is the pleasant miscellany it has been for
which is growing rather than grown, are many years, piously intentioned and religiously ex-
this season among the most beautiful of all.« In and ecuted. — Of the new volume of “Chatterbox” (Estes)
Out of the Nursery” (Russell) is filled with reproduced it is not necessary to do more than mention the name.
photographs of children and their parents taken by The generation that was not brought up on it is rapidly
Mr. Rudolph Eickemeyer, Jr., the text, both in prose slipping away. “ Soap Bubble Stories for Children"
and verse, being written by Mrs. Eva Eickemeyer (James Pott & Co.) is a treasury of stories, historical
Rowland. It is the sort of book which was quite and other, written by Miss Fanny Barry, with pictures
impossible a few years ago, and is still of more than by Mr. Irving Montagu.
passing interest. Some of the songs in the book
With a book or two of verses or music
have been supplied with music. - Geese of one sort
Mainly
or both the long list ends. From the
musical.
and another are commanding an almost Roman re-
pages of “ St. Nicholas " have been gath-
gard. “ Mother Goose Cooked” (John Lane) is by ered the “St. Nicholas Book of Plays and Operettas”
Messrs. Jobn H. Myrtle and Reginald Rigby, and the (Century Co.), wbich contains a number of things
verses and pictures are calculated to add to the gayety worth doing, Mr. Henry Baldwin's “ Ballad of Mary
of nations. “ Baby Goose: His Adventures" (Laird Jane," a shadow play illustrated by silhouettes, not the
& Lee) is by Miss Fannie E. Ostrander, with full- - page least among them. -"A Visit to Santa Claus"
illustrations in color. It is jingly and humorous, — all (Jennings & Pye) is a musical cantata, the libretto by
that it set out to be. — “Mother Wild Goose and her Mr. J. W. Carpenter and the music by Mr. Charles H.
Wild Beast Show" (H. M. Caldwell Co.) is the work Gabriel. Pretty Picture Songs for Little Folks "
of Mr. L. J. Bridgman, both text and pictures in color. (H. F. Chandler) takes its words from various sources,
It deserves popularity.—“Mr. Bunny: His Book' all of them classical among children, appropriate music
(Saalfield Publishing Co.) would be highly original if being supplied by Mr. G. A. Grant-Schaefer. The pic-
it had not drawn nearly all its suggestions from “Father tures scattered through the score by Mr. Walt M.
Goose: His Book,” published last year. The rhymes De Kalb are original and clever.-Of more than ordinary
are by Miss Adah L. Sutton and the colored pictures interest are some small stanzas for little fellows, done
by Mr. W. H. Fry.—The “ Urchins of the Sea" (Long- by Miss Helen Hay with Mr. Frank Verbeck's clever
mans) described by Miss Marie Overton Corbin and animal pictures, and named “The Little Boy Book"
Mr. Charles Buxton Going, with pictures in plenty by (Russell). Miss Hay is evidently preparing to take
Mr. F. I. Bennett, are not urchins in the sea sense at her place among the better-known writers of the day,
all, but shark's eggs and hippocampuses in fine profu- her work bere, slight as it is, showing both skill and
sion. They are quaint and funny for all that. — Miss painstaking, in addition to considerable talent.
Bertha Upton's verses and Miss Florence K. Upton's
colored pictures make “The Golliwogg's Polar Adven-
tures” (Longmans) much more pleasant reading than MR. Lewis E. Gates is one of the most promising
such chilly experiences usually are at this time of the of our younger critics, and the quality already revealed
year. “ The Bandit Mouse, and Other Tales" (Rand, in his studies of Arnold and Newman will have predis-
McNally & Co.) is the combination of Mr. W. A. posed the public to welcome the volume of “Studies
Frisbie's verses and the pictures of “Bart,” telling and Appreciations" (Macmillan) which he has now
some funny tales of an impossible but desirable animal put forth. The essays in this volume are ten in num-
world. “Uncle Pelican " will rank with Lear's famous ber, discussing such writers as Tennyson, Hawthorne,
King. — Miss S. Rosamond Praeger gives a wonderful Poe, and Charlotte Brontë, such subjects as “ The
history in “ The Tale of the Little Twin Dragons” | Romantic Movement” and “ Impressionism and Ap-
(Macmillan) of a brother and sister who seek and find preciation.” They are well worthy of attention. We
adventure while looking for the lost prince. — Old- must thank him for the word which he gives us of Sir
fashioned and picturesque, the verses of Mr. G. Orr Lewis Morris when he calls that industrious rhymer
Clark and the pictures of Miss Helen Hyde make “ The the “God-gifted hand-organ voice of England."
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NOTES.
includes among many names those of Bacon, Eliot,
Strafford, Cromwell, Walpole, Burke, the Pitts, Fox,
“King Henry V.” is the latest volume in the “Swan" and Sheridan. The numerous portrait illustrations
edition of Shakespeare, published by Messrs. Longmans, constitute a particularly attractive feature of these
Green, & Co.
handsome volumes.
The American Book Co. send us a volume of the Messrs. Henry Holt & Co. send us three French
“Selected Letters of Voltaire," as edited for school texts that are sure of a welcome. Professor E. E.
use by Mr. L. C. Syms.
Brandon is the editor of an abridgment of “ Le Comte
Mr. W. R. Jenkins has just published a “ Praktischer
de Monte-Cristo," and Professor E. S. Lewis has
Lehrgang für den Unterricht der Deutschen Sprache,”
edited (but without abridgment).“ La Tulipe Noire."
the work of Mr. Hermann Schulze.
Our third text is a “ Histoire de France," extracted
Messrs. Dana Estes & Co. publish a volume of
from the courses of M. Ducoudray by Professor O. B.
“ Nature Studies,” consisting of selections from the
Super.
writings of John Ruskin, made by Miss Rose Porter. The American Book Co. publish the “ Elements of
• Episodes from Alexandre Dumas's Monte-Cristo,"
Physics," as prepared for high schools by Professors
edited by Mr. I. H. B. Spiers, is a recently published
Henry A. Rowland and Joseph S. Ames. It is a for-
French text with the imprint of Messrs. D. C. Heath
tunate thing that writers of such eminence are willing
& Co.
to devote their attention to elementary manuals of this
sort, and the book again reminds us how much better
“Greek History,” by Professor Heinrich Swoboda,
off is the science teacher of to-day than was his prede-
translated by Mr. Lionel D. Barnett, is the latest of
cessor of not many years ago.
the “ Temple Primers” with the Dent-Macmillan
imprint.
Messrs. Silver, Burdett, & Co. publish a volume en-
titled “ Ballads of American Bravery,” and edited by
A volume of the “Literary Essays of Thomas Bab-
Mr. Clinton Scollard. How strictly up-to-date is the
ington Macaulay," containing six numbers, edited by
selection is shown by the fact that it includes such
Mr. George A. Watrous, is published by Messrs. T. Y.
recent poets as Mr. Wallace Rice and Mr. Barrett East-
Crowell & Co.
man, such recent themes as Santiago and Manila. But
Volume XII. of the larger “ Temple " Shakespeare the older poets and the older heroisms are by no means
(Dent-Macmillan) contains the poems and sonnets, neglected. The editor had the uses of schools in mind
together with a life of the poet, and completes this when he made this collection, but others than teachers
highly satisfactory edition.
will be glad to have it.
Messrs. Crane & Co., Topeka, are the publishers Professor J. B. Bury's “ History of Greece to the
of “ Economics," a school and college text-book by Death of Alexander the Great,” published by the
Dr. Frank W. Blackmar. The volume contains over
Macmillan Co., achieves the difficult aim of being
five hundred pages of matter, and, being rather con- equally valuable for the college student and for the
densed in statement, covers an unusual extent of
general reader. The author is an accomplished scholar
ground.
as well as the master of a dignified style, and the nine
Nos. 104 to 111 of the “ Old South Leaflets" come hundred
pages of his work leave little to be desired as
to us bound together into a pamphlet. They have for to either content or form. The illustrations, although
their general subject “ The United States in the Nine- not numerous, are judiciously chosen, and add much to
teenth Century," and include papers by Jefferson, the value of the work.
Calhoun, Lincoln, Horace Mann, Rufus Choate, and Still another “Source Book of English History" has
Kossuth.
just been published. It is the work of Miss Elizabeth
“The Chord,” which is an English quarterly peri. Kimball Kendall, and bears the imprint of the
odical devoted to the art of music, begins its second Macmillan Co. Designed for students and general
year with the number dated September, and just re- readers alike, it is evident that an important aim of the
ceived by us.
It is imported by the A. Wessels Co., work is to provide a suitable collection of source ma-
and differs from most periodicals in the fact that each terial for use in connection with the manual of English
number, a small quarto in size, is neatly bound in history which Miss Kendall prepared a year or two
boards.
ago in collaboration with Miss Coman, her fellow
“The Immortal," "Thirty Years in Paris," and
” instructor in Wellesley College. It should be promptly
“ Little What's His Name," together with a number of introduced into all the schools that make use of that
minor pieces, form the contents of three new volumes admirable text-book.
in the library edition of Daudet published by Messrs. We have received from the Oxford University Press
Little, Brown, & Co. Mr. George Burnham Ives is a copy of their “ two-version " edition of the Bible, a
the translator of the first two of these volumes, and
publication which gives the text of the Authorized
Miss Jane Minot Sedgwick of the third.
Version, and, in the margin of each page, all of the
Volumes III., V., and VI. of “ The World's Orators," alterations, down to the minutest detail of punctuation,
edited by Dr. Guy Carleton Lee, have just been pub- made by the scholars to whom we owe the Revised
lished by Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons. Volume III. Version. This arrangement obviates the vexatioas
includes orators of the early and medieval church, with necessity of consulting two volumes at the same time,
examples of such men as St. Paul, Origen, Athanasius, and will be welcomed by Bible workers of every sort.
the Gregories, Augustine, Anselm, and St. Bernard. The volume is otherwise a wonder of book-making,
Volume V. includes orators of modern Europe, with being printed on Oxford India paper, the 1384 pages,
examples from Mirabeau, Napoleon, Lamartine, Kos- together with the indexed atlas, making a volume of
suth, Mazzini, Castelar, Bismarck, and others. Volume about one inch in thickness. It is bound in flexible
VI. is devoted to English orators before 1800, and seal, with gold edges.
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THREE CENTURIES OF AMERICAN
LITERATURE.
A few weeks ago we discussed, in the light
of Mr. Stedman's “ American Anthology,” the
single century of literary activity that has pro-
duced practically all of the poetry that we
cherish as our American national possession.
It is to the larger subject of our entire liter-
ature, now that three full centuries of its
course have been rounded, that attention is
directed by the present discussion, for which
occasion has been furnished by the appearance
of Professor Barrett Wendell's “Literary
History of America." The plan of the series
of literary histories for which this work has
been written, and of which it is much the
most important volume thus far published,
calls for far more than a collection of biog-
raphies, bibliographical annals, and critical
commentaries. It calls, indeed, for a history
no less faithful to the service of Clio than the
histories whose titles are modified by no qual-
ifying adjective; but it calls at the same time
for a shifting of the point of view that will
bring literature, rather than politics or stra-
tegics, into the foreground. Such a treatment
of English history has been attempted by the
distinguished French scholar, M. Jusserand ;
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such a treatment of American history is now England and America. Each country has its
given us by Professor Wendell. It is only own landscapes, its own trees and flowers and
when discussed from this standpoint that birds, its own historical traditions, and a civ-
American literature is given its full signifi-ilization moulded by its own form and pressure.
cance, for its absolute æsthetic value is not But it is a mistake to exalt these minor diver-
great, relatively speaking, while no value
no value gences into generic distinctions, for they are
could well be greater than that which it has much less than that, and serve chiefly to bring
for the interpretation of the national develop. | into clearer view the ideal community of the
ment, or for the appeal which it makes to the two bodies of literature, doing this by the very
national consciousness.
contrast between their unimportance and the
“ The literary history of America," says the importance of the deep spiritual traits upon
author, “is the story, under new conditions, of
which all these differences are the merest sur-
those ideals which a common language has face variations. We may possibly allow the ad-
compelled America, almost unawares, to share ditional drop of nervous fluid which Colonel
with England. Elusive though they be, ideals Higginson claims for the American, but be-
are the souls of the nations which cherish yond this we may hardly go and remain philo-
them, - the living spirits which waken nation-sophical of mind.
ality into being, and which often preserve its We have never seen a better statement than
memory long after its life has ebbed away. is now given us by Professor Wendell of the
Denied by the impatience which will not seek indissoluble unity of English and American
them where they smoulder beneath the cinders literary expression. “The ideals which for
of cant, derided by the near-sighted wisdom three hundred years America and England
which is content with the world-old common. have cherished, alike yet apart, are ideals of
place of how practice must always swerve morality and of government, — of right and of
from precept, they mysteriously, resurgently rights. Whoever has lived his conscious life
persist.” The possession of certain ideals in in the terms of our language, so saturated with
common with the island race from which we the temper and the phrases both of the English
have sprung may be taken as the guiding Bible and of English Law, has perforce learned
principle of the writer's treatment of American that, however he may stray, he cannot escape
literature. In assuming this basic proposition the duty which bids us do right and maintain
he plants himself upon solid ground, upon our rights. General as these phrases must
ground far more solid than that of the critic seem, common at first glance to the serious
who is ever on the lookout for differentia in- moments of all men everywhere, - they have,
stead of devoting his efforts to making clear for us of English-speaking race, a meaning
the underlying unity of all the literature writ peculiarly our own. Though Englishmen have
ten in the English language. Nationality is prated enough and to spare, and though Amer-
far more a matter of language than of race or icans have declaimed about human rights more
descent, and these languages which we speak nebulously still, the rights for which English-
“
grow more deeply than anything else to be a men and Americans alike have been eager to
part of our mental habit who use them.” To fight and to die, are no prismatic fancies
take a single illustration of this principle, gleaming through clouds of conflicting logic
there was never uttered a philosophical truth and metaphor; they are that living body of
more profound than that embodied in Words- customs and duties and privileges, which a
worth's familiar lines,
process very like physical growth has made
"We must be free or die, who speak the tongue
the vital condition of our national existence.
That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Through immemorial experience, the rights
Which Milton held."
which we most jealously cherish have proved
That is the real secret of English democracy, themselves safely favourable at once to pros-
and it also offers for the explanation of Ameri- perity and to righteousness." It is this two-
can democracy a cause far more adequate than fold idealism, of right and of rights, that has
any superficial attempt to account for it as
made English literature everywhere essentially
resulting from foreign influence.
the same, and a realization of this truth should
It is a part of the critic's business, no doubt, rebuke the sectional pride which seeks to make
to detect differentia between the varieties of barriers out of trifles, and find radical diverg-
English expression in various lands, and they ences in the surface-play of expression. It is
are not lacking between the literatures of in this spirit that Professor Wendell has dealt


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under consideration
to place due emphasiswa
with the three completed centuries of American brought to the surface of American life the
literature, not minimizing the individual pecu- sort of natures whom the Great Awakening
liarities of writers or the special characteristics shows so fully to have preserved the spontane-
of groups, nor failing to recognize American. ity and the enthusiasm of earlier days.” The
ism as a trait where it really exists, but keep conclusion of all this argument is expressed
a
ing ever in mind the correlations of English by saying that “the Americans of the revolu-
and American history, and the fundamental tionary period retained to an incalculable
unity of the two peoples as expressed in their degree qualities which had faded from ances-
institutions, their laws, their social and ethical tral England with the days of Queen Eliza-
,
outlook.
beth."
The chief distinction to be drawn between This line of thought may be pursued down
English and American literature is concerned, into the history of our literature during a con-
not with any fundamental difference of tem- siderable part of the century just ending, and
per, but a difference in the rate of develop- it was not until we had a great national
ment. No one can even glance over the selec. experience of our own that we produced a
tions made for the seventeenth and eighteenth body of literature not closely associated with
centuries in such a work as Duyckinck, or in the earlier types of literature in our ancestral
the later “ Library” of Mr. Stedman, without home. Up to the mid-century period when
being impressed by the fact that the American our literature first allied itself with a burning
literary manner was at all times a generation, national issue, and became more distinctly
if not a century, behind the English. This American than it ever could have been before,
fact has many times been noted, but it has there continued to be reversions to manners
remained for the author of the work now and forms of expression that were long out-
worn in England. Space forbids us to continue
upon it, and to give it the prominence it de- the subject any farther, but enough has been
mands in a survey of early American liter- said to show how fruitful a formula has been
ature. To begin with, he notes the fact that applied by Professor Wendell to the analysis
all of the famous first settlers of Plymouth of our literary past. It remains to add that he
and Massachusetts Bay - Bradford, Win- has produced incomparably the best history of
- ,
throp, Cotton, Hooker, Richard Mather, Roger American literature thus far written by any.
Williams, and the rest, were born Elizabeth body, a history that is searching in its method
.
ans, although not " quite the kind of Eliza- and profound in its judgments, on the one
bethans who expressed themselves in poetry.” band, and, on the other, singularly attractive
,
Now the characteristics of the Elizabetban in the manner of its presentation.
spirit were these — "spontaneity, enthusiasm,
,
and versatility,” and if we look aright we
shall discover that such were also the charac-
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teristics of our own writers of the seventeenth
and even the eighteenth century. Taking
RECENT CHRISTMAS POETRY.
Cotton Mather as the typical man of letters
( To the Editor of The DIAL. )
of the two centuries in question, the writer
In looking over our Christmas magazines of the past
– no easy task when taken systematically,
boldly testifies to the vitality of his entbusi-
but very good browsing for the frivolous
one may
asm, the spontaneity of his utterance, and his notice our Christmas poetry as having a distinct share
possession of “just that kind of restless in the modern Romantic Revival. We are using, far
versatility which characterized Elizabethan more than formerly, the mysterious quality of the story,
the mingling of the plain and the wonderful, the effective
England and which even to our own day
tone - re-produced after a Pre-Rapbaelite fashion -
has remained characteristic of New England of “archaic simplicity and Catholic fervor.” We have
Yankees." The New England colonies re- ancient Christmas ballads and legends, made over for
mained practically uninfluenced by the social us and refined to exquisiteness, yet still suggesting their
primitive and dramatic intentions; we have new carols
and political movements of the mother coun-
in the old style; and, old or new, in their apprehension
try, and in history and literature alike, the
of The Mother and The Child, we have a reminder of
story of seventeenth-century America is a the mediæval painters.
story of unique national inexperience.” In For example - if one must choose – take this:
the century following, came the preaching of
"The holly-berry's red as blood,
And the holly bears a thorn,
Whitefield and the Great Awakening, and
And the manger-bed is a Holy Rood
when the Revolution was ripe it “ once more
Where Jesus Christ was born."
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It is the beginning of a modern carol, in which the with all this, we must turn often to the other type, the
symbolism of the red blossom, the thorn, and the cross- soberer type, which breathes interpretation, and which
shaped manger, suggest the decoration of some old gives encouragement for the burden of the long year's
missal. The mother, with prophetic vision, sees the living
MARGARET STEELE ANDERSON.
form of the bed and shudders at it:
Louisville, Ky., Dec. 5, 1900.
"It minds me of a cross of wood!'
Cried Mary, all forlorn."
She covers the wood with hay, to hide the piercing
SHAKESPEARE AS A DUTY.
symbol, but the cattle eat it away, and the cross is
( To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
again bare to her sight. Here, as in Hunt's “ Light For something like a century, more or less, the
of the World,” or as in Rossetti’s “Girlhood of Mary sneer of the blunt Steevens at the Sonnets of Sbake-
- I take these at random from a host of such pictures — speare has been regarded with amazement, pitying or
is that touch of deliberate intent which goes to make indignant, according to the temper of the reader. It has
simplicity not simple; yet the general effect is one of been reserved for a contributor in your issue of Nov.
mediæval naïveté and sincerity.
16 to outdo Steevens by the stark assertion that,
We might choose again, and quote from a little poem while “we” read a modern novelist with delight,
of Miss Guiney's – an imitation, perbaps, but so frauk
Shakespeare “we” read “out of a sense of duty."
and sweet that we can put up with the antique This incentive is undoubtedly more powerful, in some
spelling:
respects and with some people, than “tbe strongest
“The Ox, he openeth wide the Doore,
act of Parliament ever framed," those, I think, were
And from the Snowe he calls her inne,
about the words of Steevens. We are taught that
And he hath seen her Smile therefore,
Our Ladye without sione."
Morality is three-fourths of life," and that Duty has
a freshening influence upon “the most ancient heavens."
Another — too lovely to be resisted — is an adaptation
Yet even the critic who made that arithmetical state-
from the Provençal, telling of a widowed mother, very
ment about Morality, in a more inspired moment
poor, and with no gift for the Holy Cbild save her own
admits “ that severe, that earnest air” to be something
child's cradle and pillow. She would carry Him these,
but feels that it may be wrong to rob her own. Then -
more than natural. This contrast between Morality
and Nature bad encouraged some of us to feel that the
“Oh miracle! The nursing babe,
robin still sang, and the brook still ran down the lea,
The babe, e'en as he fed,
Smiled in his tender mother's face,
as they did when we were boys; and that boys and
And, 'Go, go quick!'be said,
men still read Shakespeare without asking why. We
To Jesns, to my Saviour, take
vividly recall the time when to read him brought us
My kisses and my bed.'"
in danger of the birch. The suggestion that in Mars
The child so the legend goes — became, in manhood,
or Hesper boys and men were birched for not reading
one of the Twelve, and the poem relates it with a sim-
Shakespeare would bave made us
plicity which amounts to quaintness, expressing per-
"Yearn, and clasp the hands, and murmur, “Would to God
fectly the mediæval and romantic spirit of acceptance
that we were there.""
and unquestioning wonder.
With the passage of the “ years that bring the philo-
Among others, of a more moderate note, I remember sophic mind,” we bad come to recognize the existence
Miss Sill's “ Ere Christ, the Flower of Virtue, Bloomed,"
in this world of many strange things that one does not
a poem at once narrative and extremely pictorial;
like to think of, among the rest, that there may be
little « Revelation," wbich shows the child of the Inn people who read Shakespeare only “on terms of base
as dreaming of the cbild Christ out in the cold
compulsion.” By the way, who are these other slaves
“With never a rest for his little white feet,
of duty whom Mr. Stanley classes with himself as
Nor a place for his weary head,".
“we”? If Steevens were still alive, but no, the
and, again, a beautiful “ Annunciation,” a poem by
suggestion would be unworthy: of the dead we must
Mrs. Spofford, in which a Hebrew chant is repeated,
speak only good. It is better to consider the plaintive
like a thread of rich and solemn colors in some mys-
“we” as used to veil the writer's personal infirmity.
tical, heaven-white garment.
“ To be a well-favored man is the gift of Fortune, but
One contrasts such poems with those that preceded
to read and write comes by Nature." As no motive
them — things not picturesque, not especially emotional,
short of the most exalted is sufficient to induce him to
not any with any recalling of medieval art, but of a read good literature, it is idle to enquire upon what
thoughtful character and dwelling upon the inmost
tremendous incentive he charges into the field of lit-
spirit of the time. An older poem, which I think is
Whittier's, tells of a certain monk who cared but little
A friend of mine who knew English literature, and
for the Cbristmas festivities of his convent. It closes:
had read both Shakespeare and Scott through, twenty
“ With mask and mime
times and more, wrote at an advanced age: “I am
And wake-song speed the holy time,
re-reading the whole of Sbakespeare this summer for
But jadge not him who, every morn,
variety and novelty.” It was of her, – now gone where
Feels in his heart the Lord Christ born."
Sbakespeare is,—that I was thinking, as well as of others
For many years our Christmas poetry was apt to be of still in the flesh, when I permitted myself to borrow
this type, and there is much of it which still concerns
Mr. Stanley's plural pronoun. Some of us read Balzac
itself with the last and loveliest meaning of the season;
too, - or did before it became a cult, and, therefore,
but just now—in the respect of art, if not in the respect of course, a duty. In fact, with Taine, we like pretty
of quantity — the other type prevails. That it is beau-
much "everything that is literature," and we wish that
tiful, that it appeals to the tenderest of imagination,
people would not contrive to make it a bore.
that it shows, most exquisitely, the poetic qualities of
MELVILLE B. ANDERSON.
the Christmas story, is too plain for statement; but Stanford University, Cal., Dec. 4, 1900.
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race.
A CRITIC CRITICIZED.
talk.” To be sure we find in every one of these books
(To the Editor of The DIAL.)
a noble and unselfish character, but he invariably gets
In “Scribner's Magazine," some months ago, there
the worst of it, so that the three novels, though not
appeared a criticism of Balzac by Professor George degrading, are certainly depressing, and a successful
McLean Harper. According to this critic only the
novel, as we understand Mr. Harper to put it, should
following of Balzac's novels and stories are “indubita-
not be depressing. Again, it can hardly be said that in
ble, illustrious successes":
“ Père Goriot," for example, “the mob of fashionable
Novels.
Short Stories.
libertines, police spies, etc.," play a subordinate part.
'Engénie Grandet."
“Jésus-Christ en Flandre."
If these people,“ mere caricatures of reality, as improb-
“César Birotteau."
"Un Episode sous la Ter-
able as they are depressing, not to say degrading,”
“Le Cnré de Tours."
were taken out of “ Père Goriot,” what would be left ?
" Le Père Goriot."
" Le Chef d'Euvre Inconnu." Nothing is more common than to criticise Balzac for
"La Femme de Trente Ans." “El Verdugo.'
the improbability of his characters, but to an experi-
“Un Début dans la Vie." “La Messe de l' Athée."
enced professional man practicing in a large city,
“La Rabonilleuse."
L'Auberge Rouge."
almost nothing in his fiction seems improbable. The
"Le Colonel Chabert." · Le Réquisitionnaire."
mob of fashionable libertines, etc.," while perhaps de-
“L'Envers de l'Histoire “Un Drame au Bord de la
Contemporaine."
Mer."
pressing, are, in the writer's opinion, not so improbable
“No other French writer,” says Mr. Harper, “per-
as many well-accredited and accepted saints in other
fiction. The triumph of virtue with the concomitant
haps no two or three of them together, can offer so
downfall of vice sells well when pleasingly narrated,
long a list of splendid novels. It contains more vigor-
and is no doubt vastly consoling and elevating to the
ous intellectual substance than all the rest of French
fiction put together. In these pages live two or three
mind of the "average reader," but is it the truth and
the whole truth about life ? And do books manufac-
score men and women endowed with distinct individu-
tured by this same old machinery really preach the
ality and at the same time standing as types of the
A sense of awe overcomes us, as in the presence
sermon against injustice, tyranny, oppression, worldli-
ness, and selfisbness which masters like Thackeray and
of an irresistible power, for through all these books
quivers the mighty will of their creator, in painful mind, one principal reason why Balzac is great is be-
Balzac ring out from their pulpits? To the writer's
effort, in exalted earnestness, compelling where it can-
cause he is not blind. He pays absolutely no attention
not charm.”
to what the selfishly-contented like to think prevails,
On the other hand, about one-balf of Balzac's nov-
els are, according to this critic, spoiled by “the mob of
but gives us instead a candid and accurately related
fashionable libertines, police spies, sentimentally de-
story dressed in the garb of entertaining fiction, of
bauched duchesses and countesses, rich and marvellously
what some of us know to be the truth. Possibly it is
beautiful actresses and courtesans, of sbady bankers,
not the most conspicuous truth in Thrums or in
Cranford, but it is that wbich is all too evident to any
picturesque usurers, bohemian actors, idle and diaboli-
observant professional man in Paris, in London, or in
cally clever journalists—Rastignac, Maxime de Trailles,
New York.
Loustean, la Pallerine, Lncien de Rubempre, Rouque-
rolles, Marsay, du Tillet, Félix de Vandenesse, Léon de
Objection to some of Balzac's books is made by Mr.
Lora, des Lupeaulx, Nucingen, Magus, Gobseck, Nathan,
Harper on the ground that they are "profoundly im-
Vautrin, Corentin, Peyrade, Florine, Florentine,
moral.” Such an objection deserves serious considera-
tion at a time when immoral plays and books are a
Coralie, la Duchesse de Maufrigneuse, la Vicomtesse de
Beauséant, — these, and a score of others like them,
source of rich profit to those who are debauching litera-
are as improbable as they are depressing, not to say
ture and the stage. But according to Mr. Harper
“ Balzac is never easy reading," and if this is the case
degrading ... they seem mere caricatures of reality.
do his books attract the sensual ? And if they do not
. . Some of his novels must be accounted entire fail.
attract the sensual can they really be called immoral ?
ures because in them these figures whom he dotes on
Lastly, Mr. Harper thinks the addiction to money, so
predominate.”
In criticising Balzac it has seemed to the writer that
evident throughout Balzac's books,“ a grave defect.”
certain difficulties are to be encountered, some of
• Money,” he says, “ with ignoble ways of earning,
which Mr. Harper does not appear to have entirely
hoarding, and spending money, is the very substance of
Balzac's books." But it must be admitted that money,
What is to be understood by the broad
with ignoble ways of earning, hoarding, and spending,
terms “success” and “failure” as applied to a novel ?
Conformity to every essential rule of realism, with at
is the very substance of life to an immense majority of
the same time opportunity given the reader to choose
the people of the world, and the care of money to all
the rest. The social historian who would fail to make
more refined, or more remarkable, or more lively com-
pany tban lıfe generally offers to any one of us, is evi-
money the foundation on which his story of life is built
resembles the anatomist who would exclude the skeleton
dently Mr. Harper's idea of what a novel must possess
from his treatise.
in order to be an “indubitable, illustrious success.
“ We look to literature,” he says " for something more
Balzac was the priest to whom all humanity confessed.
In spite of Mr. Harper's refined, cultivated, and appre-
interesting, nay, for something more elevated, than
ciative criticism, I incline to the opinion that the critic
common events and common talk." Keeping this
definition in mind, and applying it to the list of “splen-
of the great French novelist is not yet born.
did novels” mentioned at the beginning of this com-
of course, at liberty to express our opinion of his books,
munication, it is difficult to see what “more refined,
but always from a hopelessly individual point of view,
and with the inevitable result that each one of us
more remarkable, or more lively company "there is for
betrays to someone else his own comparative inexpe-
the reader in “ Eugénie Grandet,” “César Birotteau,
rience.
or “ Père Goriot," for example, or what there is in
CLIFFORD MITCHELL, M.D.
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here parenthetically that the picture facing
The New Books.
the account of the Taylor episode seems rather
at variance with it, since it shows Mr. How-
ells, not as a meek and reverent votary, but as
MR. HOWELLS'S MEMORIES. *
a particularly alert and resolute looking re-
Enjoyable is the inevitable word for Mr. porter, who, with pencil and note-book, is
Howells's new book, and we have no fault what- clearly applying the screws to Mr. Taylor in
ever to find with it save that it lacks an Index, a way that causes him to mop his brow in
and that it leaves the reader, like Oliver Twist, agony.
asking for more. Candor is its key.note. Mr. Mr. Howells had already printed poems in
Howells is charmingly frank about himself, the “Atlantic Monthly” and in the “Saturday
and is frank, to a degree that would be disas- Press,” of New York, when he started for
trous in a less sweet-tempered memoirist, about Boston, then in its Augustan age, to see the
others. Therefore, as we read his book we real Olympians—Lowell, Hawthorne, Holmes,
are warmed with a sense of being taken to a Emerson, and the rest, — and for New York
flattering extent into his confidence. Most to see, as he fondly fancied, the real bohemians
readers, we fancy, figure Mr. Howells mainly now no matter whom. Bubemia (or Beotia,
as a writer in fiction (if that be the word) of as the Olympians thought) was then poking
the “Silas Lapham ” genre, and as the some- its beer-cellar fun at the Athens to the north
what impatient critic of writers in that other of it, and Mr. Howells expected profit and
genre, who regard fiction as the natural and pleasure from studying the contrasts. One of
legitimate field for drawing the long bow; and
v the first of the New England literati upon
for such readers there are some little surprises whom he called was Lowell, and to him many
in the present volume. For example, Mr. cordial and delightful pages are devoted. Of
Howells opens his retrospect with the admis- all Mr. Howells's long and shining list of “ lit-
sion that he began life as poet (by aspiration, erary friends” it is Lowell, we fancy, who is
at least), and that he tried to be, in those to be rated his real dulce decus. He was then
sanguine days, as much as possible like Heine forty-one, or Mr. Howells’s senior by nineteen
- that Romantique défroqué. “Inwardly,”
“ Inwardly,” years.
he
says,
6. I
was a poet, with no wish to be " At the first encounter with people he always was
anything else, unless in a moment of care- apt to have a certain frosty shyness, a smiling cold, as
less affluence I might so far forget myself as
from the long, high-sunned winters of his Puritan race;
to be a novelist." Mr. Howells, moreover,
he was not quite himself till be had made you aware of
his quality: then no one could be sweeter, tenderer,
began life a pronounced hero-worshipper— the
warmer than be; then he made you free of his whole
hero as man-of-letters being, of course, the heart; but you must be his captive before he could do
divinity he most affected. Bayard Taylor, that.”
then lecturing in the West, was the first hero Turning the page to a later reference to
in that order that Mr. Howells met in the Lowell, near the end of the volume, we find
flesh, and the contact almost paralyzed him. some veiled or indirect allusion to tbe notion
“ Heaven knows,” he says, “ how I got through rife after his last return from England that
the evening.” At all events he sat through it his long stay abroad had made him “un-Amer.
rapt and speechless, watching the bard drink ican.” Most of us remember the absurd way
his beer and smoke his pipe, and hearing him in which the press, or a certain section of it,
discourse of quite sublunary things. “I
"I assailed Lowell on this grave charge; how his
longed,” says Mr. Howells, “ to tell him how London clothes and London ways were made a
much I liked his poems, which we used to get reproach to him ; how it was said that he went
by heart in those days, and I longed (how about the country lecturing on Shakespeare
much more I longed !) to have him know when it was his patriotic duty to make political
that
speeches ; how he was accused of trimming his
;
* Auch ich war in Arkadien geboren!" -
opinions (and his whiskers) to the mode of
But he didn't dare to, and so Mr. Taylor left what Mr. Guppy used to call “ the swan-like
Columbus all unconscious of the homage of aristocracy” – and what not. Mr. Howells
which he had been the object. We must add says that Lowell could never have been any.
thing but American, if he had tried; but, he
* LITERARY FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCE. A Personal
Retrospect of American Authorship. By W. D. Howells.
adds, he certainly did not return to the out-
Illustrated. New York: Harper & Brothers.
ward simplicities of his life as I first knew it.”
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“ There was no more round-hat-and-sack-coat busi- a distraught eye, and a fine acquilinity of profile, which
ness for bim; he wore a frock and a high bat, and made me think at once of Don Quixote and Cervantes;
whatever else was rather like London than Cambridge; but bis nose failed to add that foot to his stature which
I do not know but drab gaiters sometimes added to the Lamb says a nose of that shape will always give a man.
effect of a gentleman of the old school which he now He tried to place me geographically, after be had given
produced upon the witness. Some fastidiousnesses me a chair not quite so far off as Ohio, though still
showed themselves in him, which were not so surpris- across the whole room, for he sat against one wall, and
ing. He complained of the American lower-class man- I against the other; but apparently he failed to pull
ner; the conductor and cabman would be kind to you, himself out of his revery by the effort, for he remained
but they would not be respectful, and he could not see in a dreamy muse, which all my attempts to say some-
the fun of this in the old way.”
thing fit about John Brown and Walden Pond seemed
Reverting to Mr. Howells's account of his only to deepen upon him."
first visit to New England, the eye is arrested Mr. Howells admits that his encounter with
by the following impressive portrait of Thoreau was a rout; and that with Emerson,
Hawthorne, upon whom the author called with it seems, was not much better. The talk with
a generously worded letter of introduction the latter appears to have been somewhat forced
from Lowell.
and indefinite; but in the course of it, at any
“... He advanced carrying his head with a heavy rate, the seraphic man found occasion to kindly
forward droop, and with a pace for which I decided that dismiss Hawthorne's last book (the “ Marble
the word would be pondering. It was the pace of a
bulky man of fifty, and his head was that beautiful
Faun") as “mere musb,” and to dispose of
head we all know from the many pictures of it. But
Poe as the jingle man”! Mr. Howells's con-
Hawthorne's look was different from that of any picture tributions to the “ Atlantic Monthly” Emerson
of him that I have seen. It was sombre and brooding, had evidently not read, for, when they were
as the look of such a poet should have been; it was
mentioned, he got down a bound volume of the
the look of a man who bad dealt faithfully and there-
fore sorrowfully with that problem of evil which for- magazine, inspected the pieces with an air of
ever attracted, forever evaded, Hawthorne. It was by seeing something very new indeed, and then
no means troubled; it was full of a dark repose." gravely affixed the author's initials to each,
Mr. Howells’s reception, though a thought with as much apparent emotion, we judge, as
"shy and tentative,” was nevertheless warm
he might have shown in docketing a wash-bill
.
enough to be encouraging, and in the conver- This ceremony ended, Emerson followed his
sation that ensued he got on charmingly with leave-taking visitor to the door, still talking
his usually distant and elusive host. The talk of poetry, to which (he added, as a parting
turned on many men and things — on Lowell, crusher) “one might very well give a pleasant
on Holmes, on German poetry, on the West hour now and then.” This finished Mr. How-
(about which Hawthorne was curious, saying ells for the day. “I went home to my hotel,”
he wanted to see some part of the country on
he says, “and passed the afternoon in pure
which the damned shadow” of Europe bad misery.”
He was at first at a loss to account
not fallen), on Emerson, on Thoreau, of whom for his seeming failure with Emerson, but at
be observed that he, Thoreau, “prided himself last hit upon the fact that, as he says, in his
on coming nearer to the heart of a pine-tree confused retreat from the philosopher's pres-
than any other human being "; and Hawthorne ence, he had neglected some slight point of
was visibly pleased when his young visitor ceremony. On his return to Boston he related
rejoined, " I would rather come near the heart the story to Mr. Fields.
of a man. Not ill pleased was he, Mr. By this time I could see it in a humorous light, and
Howells adds, " when he asked whether I was
I did not much mind his lying back in his chair and
laughing and laughing, till I thought he would roll out
not going to see his next neighbor, Mr. Alcott,
of it. He perfectly conceived the situation, and got an
and I confessed that I had never heard of amusement from it that I could get only through sym-
him.” On parting, Mr. Howells received from pathy with him.”
his now friendly entertainer a note of intro-
From Boston Mr. Howells proceeded to New
duction to Emerson, in the form of a card with
York to see Bohemia. He found it, we gather,
the quaint endorsement: “I find this young
to his disappointment, a great many shades
man worthy." That was glory enough for
less black, that is less naughty, than his eager
one day. Next morning Mr. Howells hunted fancy had painted it — found it, in fact, a
up — or hunted down - Thoreau.
rather cheap and plainly sham Bohemia, as
“... He came into the room a quaint, stump figure
like the real Paris article as Tupper is like
of a man, whose effect of long trunk and short limbs
was heightened by his fashionless trousers being let
Verlaine, and peopled largely by youvg press-
down too low. He had a noble face, with tossed hair, writers still in the Flegeljahre, who pretended
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to live in sin and contempt of the Decalogue,
Two AMERICAN STUDENTS OF
and were, in their souls, as innocent as Mr.
SIIAKESPEARE.*
Toots. The whole thing, in short, was a pose When one recollects some of the fatuities
- like the sporting bent of Nathaniel Winkle.
that have been foisted upon the world in the
It was the custom of the “ bohemians” to hold
name of Shakespearean criticism, one derives
their (not very alarming) revels at Pfaff's,
certain solace from the lesson in practical
a beer-cellar up Broadway; and there they philosophy taught by Scapin to his old master,
paid mild, though ostentatious, court to Gam- | Argante.' Whenever, counsels Scapin, the
brinus, railed at respectability and Boston, father of a family is returning home, let him
and were very fierce about all literary shams
run over in his mind all the dreadful things
but their own. Let us turn to Mr. Howells
that might have happened in his absence, " let
for an account of an “
orgy
at Pfaff's :
him imagine his house in ashes, his money
“I felt that as a contributor (to the Saturday stolen, his wife dead, his son maimed, his
Press ') and at least a brevet bohemian, I ought not to
daughter betrayed." Then he will be able to
go home without visiting the famous place, and wit-
nessing, if I could not sbare, the revels of
regard the non-occurrence of any one of these
comrades.
my
As I neither drank beer nor smoked, my part in the calamities as so much clear gain. Things have
carousal was liinited to a German pancake, which I come to such a pass that there is but too good
found they had very good at Pfaff's, and to listening to
reason to look forward to a new book about
the whirling words of my commensals, at the long
board spread for the bohemians in a cavernous space
Shakespeare with
with “horrible imaginings
under the pavement. . . . At one moment of the orgy,
almost equal to those with which the pbilo-
which went but slowly for an orgy, we were joined by sophical valet affects to comfort the perturbed
some belated bohemians whom the others made a great old gentleman. So it is with a tremor of
clamor over; I was given to understand they were
relief that the critical Argante potes first in
just recovered from a fearful debauch ; their locks
Mr. Mabie's new book on William Shakespeare
were still damp from the wet towels used to restore
them, and their eyes were very frenzied. I was pre- the things that are not done. To begin with,
sented to these types, who neither said nor did any- Mr. Mabie actually seems to think that “ Mr.
thing worthy of their awful appearance, but dropped William Himself” is the divine Williams. To
into seats at the table, and ate of the supper with an
appetite that seemed poor. I stayed hoping vainly for
think otherwise would have been much more
worse things till eleven o'clock, and then I rose and "original," and might have promoted the sale
took my leave of a literary condition that had dis- of his book. Mr. Mabie's chief originality as
tinctly disappointed me."
a biographer of Shakespeare lies in the fact
We have, in the foregoing extracts, barely
that he does not try to invent or imagine any-
scratched the surface of Mr. Howells's racy thing new. The best compliment I can pay
and pleasantly written book, which, be it said, him is to apply to him the fine quotation he
will be prized not only as a rich repository of
makes from Goethe: “ To say a thing that
literary anecdote and portraiture, but for its every body has said before as quietly as if
autobiographical value, and, last but not least, nobody had ever said it, that is originality.”
for its vein of criticism. Mr. Howells's frank His book has something of this quiet style,
though loving appreciations of the work of his “the harvest of a quiet eye." It has the dignity
of
friends, Lowell, Longfellow, Holmes, Haw- repose.
Nor is this all : two positive quali-
thorne, Bayard Taylor, Mrs. Howe, Celia ties appear, - sanity and catholicity. Sanity
Thaxter, etc., form an element of much inter-
is shown in the author's choice of things to
est. Very pleasant reading indeed is the say, and quite as much in what he refrains
closing chapter on “ Cambridge Neighbors," from saying or suggesting. Catholicity is
and right welcome to all true and thoughtful shown in his wide taste and in the largeness of
Americans should be its final tribute to one his moral judgments. It would have been so
they delight to honor :
easy for a writer having in view the audience
to which, I believe, these chapters were first
“I am sure that after the easy heroes of the day are
long forgot, and the noisy fames of the strenuous life addressed, to “deplore " certain features of
shall dwindle to their essential insignificance before
*WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, POET, DRAMATIST, AND MAN.
these of the gentle life, we shall all see in Charles
By Hamilton Wright Mabie. With one hundred illustrations,
Eliot Norton the eminent scholar who left the quiet of including nine full pages in photogravure. New York: The
his books to become our chief citizen at the moment Macmillan Co.
when he warned his countrymen of the ignominy and A New VARIORUM EDITION OF SHAKESPEARE. Edited
disaster of doing wrong."
by Horace Howard Furness. Vol. XII.: "Much Adoe About
E. G. J. Nothing." Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co.
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the work of this world's poet. - It might have others which too frequently do duty rather as
been acceptable to many bad Mr. Mabie counters than as the coin of thought. A
apologized for Shakespeare because he wrote favorite word with this writer is the word
no hymns like those of Dr. Watts. But Mr. spiritual.” Thus he remarks that “the
Mabie neither deplores nor apologizes.
spiritual motive" of what he calls the sonnet-
In sanity, and in what may be termed liter- sequence” is suggested in Sonnet 144. This
ary integrity, Mr. Mabie presents a welcome statement, by the way, as Mr. Sidney Lee has
contrast to Dr. Brandes, who is prone to put decisively shown, is susceptible neither of
theory in the place of fact and to offer conjec- proof nor of rational justification. But quite
ture for proof. The American writer bas, to apart from that, one is puzzled to detect any.
be sure, a much smaller amount of material to thing especially “spiritual ” either in the “mo-
deal with, the scope of his book being nar- tive” or the implications of this sonnet. Here
rower. One can only say that, within the and often the word in question is a manner-
limits which he sets himself, he shows on the ism. Now Shakespeare uses the word only
whole a surer command of his subject than did six times, and then rather as opposed to lay or
the Danish critic.
temporal than in the sense which this writer
All this is bigh praise : so high that some- commonly gives it. Perhaps this may be
one may enquire whether we have here at last partly accounted for by Mr. Mabie's rather
a book about the world's greatest author which sweeping statement that “Into the region of
is worthy of the subject. Well, not quite! pure spiritual impulse and ultimate spiritual
It is not, for instance, such a book as Dr. relationship Shakespeare did not penetrate.'
Brandes might bave written had his great lit- To which it may be respectfully submitted
erary energy and charm been supported by that the region thus described, although laid
adequate scholarship and by sanity of judg- down on no map, is one concerning which
ment. For the task of writing anything like Shakespeare may possibly have reflected as
a decisive book, Mr. Mabie has given no sign much as some of those who talk more.
He
of possessing the requisite force. A remark certainly is not of those who “prophesied in
of Dr. Johnson about Addison may be applied, Thy Name!” At all events, his example in
with more justice, to the author of the book saying little of subjects whereof he knew
before us :
“ He thinks justly, but he thinks nothing is not a bad one for those writers
faintly." Mr. Mabie pays the penalty of the who are so rich in sonorous phrases ingen- ,
habit of religious journalism. He writes too iously devised, like big bottles with small
easily; he slides with fatal facility into abstrac- bellies, to dissimulate the paucity of their
of contents.
generalization
where he should be especially the weakest chapter is perhaps the one de
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definite and cogent, he becomes diffuse and voted to the sonnets. Plainly Mr. Mabie has
vaporous. “Glittering generalities" are bad never been possessed with a passion for these
enough, but Mr. Mabie's do not even glitter. wondrous lyrics. He finds “ a note of reality”
He exhibits at times a tendency to the pro- distinctly sounded in what he assumes to be
cessional style: grandiose generalizations at- “the series.” His argument based upon this
tended by a pompous verbal retinue. He “note of reality” is self-contradictory (p. 219).
wrote, one fancies, having in view an audience He forgets that the artist who endows his im-
that is food of phrases “divinely relishing,” aginary creatures, Hamlet and Prospero, with
- an audience that would warmly applaud the such convincing reality, would have been quite
obiter dictum of Mr. Justice Shallow : “Good equal to the creation, if creation it be, of such
“
phrases are surely, and ever were, very com- figures as the friend and “the woman colored
mendable.” It is amusing to contrast this ill.” — But I forbear further strictures.
writer's long-tailed words with the simpler Shakespeare's literary executors, as one may
vocabulary of the author he treats of. Of venture to term Masters Heminge and Condell,
course a writer of the present time cannot prefaced the Folio edition of the plays with an
be expected to restrict himself to the vocabu- address “ To the great Variety of Readers.”
lary of any former period. Still, it is instruc- To this they added, with a prescience that to
tive to note how freely and pregnantly our us seems wonderful, the words : “ from the
ancestors managed to discourse without the most able to him that can but spell.” It is of
use of modernisms, such, for example, as “de- course not for “ the most able” that the book
velopment," "environment," and a thousand before us is written. For the other, larger
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class, — including possibly even some whose the person of Helen Faucet; nor is the lady's
ability to spell is questionable, — Mr. Mabie endowment of wit the less liberal, any more
has provided a comprehensive, sober, and than in the case of Beatrice herself. All the
enlightening account of the life-work of the guests are at their best, and nove speaks more
master-spirit of the English-speaking race. delightfully than does the urbane master of the
Such defects of manner and matter as I have
feast.
referred to by no means vitiate the book. Without going into details that would be
When the writer is content to tell a plain tale out of place here, there is, in a general way,
plainly he is attractive, sometimes charming. not much to be said of this monumental edition
Had he succeeded in interpreting the magic of of “Much Ado ” that has not been said of the
Shakespeare's art as he does that of the War- preceding volumes of this priceless series. The
wickshire countryside, he would have produced set now comprises eleven plays (in twelve vol-
not only a good but perhaps a great book. umes), and constitutes, with respect to these
That descriptive chapter is as fine in its way plays, a Sbakespeare library of the selectest
as the exemplary treatment of the same subject quality. The present volume bears marks
by the late Mr. Spencer Baynes. On the everywhere of the same amazing industry, un-
whole, the book was worth writing, and may assuming erudition, sure taste, and racy humor,
be said to merit the popularity which it is that have distinguished the others. The editor's
likely to enjoy. Some of the portraits are of interpretation is both subtle and sympathetic;
contemporaries who stood in po known relation his humor is always good humor. It would be
to Shakespeare, but many of the illustrations a liberal education to be snowed in with these
are extremely well chosen and are not easily volumes throughout “a Poland winter," nor
accessible elsewhere. Particularly interesting would the time hang heavy. The best is that
are the reproductions of old pictures of Lon- the editor so far overcomes his modest scruples
don, of old London Bridge, of the Bankside, as to give us more and more of himself. The
and the like.
charm of his personality seems to pervade the
“I am not only witty myself," said Fallstaff, notes much as the magic of the master per-
“ but the cause that wit is in other men." vades the text. Where no living scholar could
Were Shakespeare condemned to read in Par- equal Dr. Furness, he manages to improve
gatory all the commentaries upon his works, it upon himself. Whatever others may do, the
is to be doubted whether he would have the publication of one of his volumes has come
heart to repeat the boast of Fallstaff.
Were to be, whenever it occurs, the event of the
he, however, sentenced to read only those com- year in this field. May the great editor be
ments that have been admitted into Dr. Fur- spared to double and treble the dozen he has
ness's Variorum edition of “ Much Ado About completed!
Nothing," he might well regard the sentence Every student of the poet should treat him.
as light. A recent correspondent of The DIAL self to the luxury of the book at this Christmas-
remarks, with gravity worthy of Dogberry, tide, and should begin his pleasure by reading
that “we
read Shakespeare “out of a sense that page
of the Preface devoted to an enume-
of duty.” The “glad hearts” who, as the poet ration of the deeds imputed to the poet during
of Duty concedes, may deem “joy its own the seven silent years concerning which there
security,” cannot fail to be gratified, though is no recorded syllable. I will forestall no
perhaps a little surprised, to find that the one's delight (or duty !) by quoting anything
sweetest of their stolen pleasures has so lofty but the conclàding sally: “ My own private
•
a sanction. Some of us have from early youth, conviction is that he mastered cuneiform;
it appears, been doing our Duty unawares, as visited America ; and remained quite a while
M. Jourdain talked prose. And it is in the
And it is in the here, — greatly to his intellectual advantage.”
same spirit that we others (if the gallicism Here are two suggestions for doctoral theses.
may be pardoned) perform the duty of reading Nothing, I may add, is more creditable to Mr.
the notes culled and presented by Dr. Furness. Mabie than the judgment with which he has
Next to the text, nothing can be more amusing kept clear of these bogs, “where armies
than the comment. Dr. Furness invites a whole have sunk," upon the obscure shores of
goodly company to a wedding breakfast in which Dr. Furness now places this bright
honor of Benedick and Beatrice. Wit is there danger-signal.
in the person of Christopher North ; Beauty in
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or Bas-
a
THE PAGEANTRY OF LIFE.*
show of riches, are the worst foes of elegance: without
the true temperament the resources of Golconda will
With the advent of democracy the things of avail nothing. Wben Byron said he would rather be
which Mr. Charles Whibley writes in The
Brummel than Napoleon, he did not merely pay a de-
Pageantry of Life” have become in a degree ledged that the Dandy was distinguished by rarer qual-
served tribute to the genius of dandyism; he acknow-
matters of commonplace. Splendor, courtesy, ities than those which achieve the conquest of the
the artistic graces and refinements of life, have world. Yet Brummel could dazzle his rivals neither
come nearer to man in the mass and bave so by exalted birth nor by lavish display. He was gifted
lost some of their glamor — but those to whom
with nothing save the sublime talent of his craft, and
be triumphed.”
circumstance makes them increasingly access-
This is from the Introduction, and in a pre-
ible are yet largely open to the charge of Phil.
istinism; they are still in a measure “insen. ceding paragraph be has said of the artist in life:
sible to the finer flavors of life." But this
”
“ It is no part of his design to be a good citizen.
He neither controls governments nor wins bat-
cannot be said of “ Young Weston
tles. He despises the glory which follows a popular
sompierre or Sir Kenelm Dig by or Pepys or triumph, and he professes no greater interest in the
Saint Simon or Barbey d'Aurevilly, as Mr. secrets of philosophy than is becoming to a person of
Whibley insists in his brilliant portraits of
wit. Nor is he a shining example of the homely vir-
tues ; with him a sense of the picturesque is more
them. They, and a number of others who are
vivid than the sense of morality.”
made familiar to us in these pages, are here
But the perfect artist is neglectful of no
given such vitality of life, with its glow and
least detail in the setting of his picture. Back-
color, because of the author's enthusiasm for ground and atmosphere are matters of first
them as artists in life.
moment, and the central creation of the can.
But in such matters the point of view is of
fundamental importance. Towards the suc-
vas cannot be given form and color without
regard to the harmony of the whole. In art
cessful consummation of what purposes should
there is no greater sin than that of putting
effort be directed that a life may be said at its
together things that are discordant.
close to have been artistically ordered ? To
the full enjoyinent of all the finer flavors of from a Philistine, is one in whom artistic sen-
Quite clearly an artist in life, as distinguished
life, our author would say, and we might accept sitiveness is alive to all that can give pleasure
this but that, in his interpretation, these finer
of the higher sort, and alive no less to all
flavors smack so much of the material as to
that can offend a refined taste. Mr. Whibley
verge upon grossness. Perhaps Lowell's charge does not see this quite clearly, and as a conse-
that Pepys was a Philistine betrays some nar-
quence throughout the volume the emphasis is
rowness of sympathies. The Puritan strain
often wrongly placed. Otherwise the book
kept Lowell, as it kept Emerson and Haw-
revives with delightful vividness some very
thorne and their fellows, from appreciation of interesting personalities. They are sketched
on the other hand Lowell quite as certainly detail that make the portraits clearly outlined
with a grace and a sympathetic sureness of
realities. And if, as in the case of the author
any that came to Pepys, and may not one be a
of “Vathek," our interest in them is due to
Philistine through being insensible to the vul.
something unnatural and fantastic, it is, at
garities of life, also ?
least, not due to commonplace. Individuality,
“Wbat then makes the artist, whose portrait is here
attempted ? It is not profession, nor birth, nor man-
bravery, gaiety, and devotion to ideals are
ners, nor knowledge, nor snccess, though all these are
warm and vital on every page.
We hear the
invaluable accessories. It is temperament, it is life. clank of sword, the witty sally and the laugh
The priest need not lag behind the courtier. Whoever that follows, the whisper of intrigue; we see
had a finer sevse of grandeur than Wolsey? and was the life and movement and ceremony of courts,
not Pascal famous for his six horses ? Nor need pov-
erty disturb a skilful exercise of the art. Burps had
the smile and the obeisance of elegance and
a glimpse into its possibilities when he sported the only fashion ; and always in camp or court or con-
tie wig in the parish, and the simple propriety of a vivial meeting we are shown a figure moving
graceful dinner is beyond the pocket of no man who with graceful stateliness through the pageantry
can afford clean linen and a cheese. Again, the coat
of life, and finding in it occasion for amuse-
depends for its effect less upon the reckless use of vel.
vet or satin than upon the bravery wherewith it is
ment, for unfailing gaiety, for studious obser-
worn. But an inapposite assumption of birth, a clumsy vation, and at times for the artist's unfeigned
and undisguised contempt.
* THE PAGEANTRY OF LIFE. By Charles Whibley. New
York: Harper & Brothers.
LEWIS WORTHINGTON SMITH.
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Mrs. Ward has in a very rare degree the power of
RECENT FICTION.*
appealing to the religious sentiment without imply-
The novels of Mrs. Humphry Ward are always ing the necessity for the acceptance of any form of
characterized by an element of interest that lies far religious dogma; she makes us understand better
apart from the actual needs of fiction. With all than most writers how entirely religion, in its true
her power of telling an interesting story, she is sense, is an affair of the emotions rather than of the
never content unless she interests us as well in some intellect. Beside these great issues, which are every-
great theme of the intellectual life or of the historical wbere at the front in her pages, the private interest
social movement. In “ Rubert Elsmere” this theme attaching to her characters seems slight. They are all
was the solution of traditional religious beliefs by skilfully studied, delineated with delicate touches,
the medium of the higher criticism ; in “Marcella" and brought into relations with one another that
it was the English socialist propaganda, in “ Hel- reveal the inmost springs of their life; yet all this
beck of Bannisdale" it was the contrast between the personal human interest, genuine as it is, seems
ideals of Catholic and Protestant, and in “ Eleanor' overshadowed by the vaster interests of society
it is the struggle between conservative and radical which are kept before the mind. We take almost
forces in the life of modern Italy. An interest in as much interest in the book about modern Italy
Italy is in itself a passport to the favor of readers upon which the hero is engaged as we take in the
of refinement, and Mrs. Ward knows her Italy both gradual awakening of his love for the heroine, or
without and within, knows it in its physical charm rather in the gradual transfer of his affections from
and its historical significance, knows it also in its one heroine to the other, since it would be difficult
political struggles and its clash of irreconcilable to say which of the two women concerned should
spiritual forces contending for the mastery. Her be taken as the more important character in the
method, moreover, is one of such absolute fairness development of the novel. Certainly, the book
that it would be difficult from the book alone for a must be given a high place among our latest works
reader of “ Eleanor” to be sure of the direction of of fiction, although in some respects it falls short of
the writer's personal sympathies. One could hardly displaying the artistic power of “ David Grieve"
get from the most partisan defender of the old and “Robert Elsmere.” We are inclined to say
régime a more vivid impression of Catholic Italy, that it is with Mrs. Ward as it was with the only
of its pomp and pageantry, of its seductive appeal woman writer of fiction with whom she may be
to the deeper emotions, of the great historical tra- compared, to say, in short, that there is a dechine of
dition which it embodies, than one can get from creative power in her works not unlike that exhib-
this book written by a woman who resolutely rejects
ited in the transition from “ Adam Bede” to
the supernatural, and stands abreast of the most “ Daniel Deronda,” and that this decline is not
enlightened modern scholarship and philosophy. altogether compensated for by the richer display of
intellectual force that is made in the later, and in
* ELEANOR. A Novel. By Mrs. Humphry Ward. New
York: Harper & Brothers.
many ways riper, productions.
THE HOSTS OF THE LORD. By Flora Annie Steel. New
Mrs. Steel bas once again shown her capacity to
York: The Macmillan Co.
outdo Mr. Kipling as a delineator of modern India,
ROBERT ORANGE. By John Oliver Hobbes. New York: for even Mr. Kipling's brilliant sketches of the
Frederick A. Stokes Co.
great Empire of the East display no deeper insight,
THE LADY OF DREAMS. By Una L. Silberrad. New and have much less of solid workmanship, than
York : Doubleday, Page & Co.
such books as “ On the Face of the Waters and
LORD LINLITHGOW. A Novel. By Morley Roberts.
New York: Harper & Brothers.
its worthy companion volume, “ The Hosts of the
THE FUGITIVES. By Morley Roberts. New York: Mc- Lord,” just now published. Mrs. Steel's novels of
Clure, Phillips & Co.
India have one great fault, they are elliptical in
THE SON OF CARLEYCROFT, By Theodore Burt Sayre.
construction, and it takes a considerable mental
New York: Harper & Brothers.
effort to understand how her characters are adjusted
The King's DEPUTY. A Romance of the Last Century.
By H. A. Hinkson. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co.
to their environment. Her own vision is clear
CALORIS OF THE ISLAND. A Novel. By H, B. Marriott
enough, but she does not know how to impart it to
Watson. New York: Harper & Brothers.
others. But this fault is more than outweigbed by
THE FOOTSTEPS OF A THRONE. By Max Pemberton. the remarkable positive merits of her work. “The
New York : D. Appleton & Co.
Hosts of the Lord" has a theme only less dramatic
THE GOLDEN BOOK OF VENICE. A Historical Romance
than that of the Great Mutiny, although it deals
of the Sixteenth Century. By Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull.
New York: The Century Co. ·
with a native uprising of restricted scope and of no
THE COBBLER OF Nîmes. By M. Imlay Taylor. Chicago: far-reaching historical significance. But it has the
A. C. McClurg & Co.
same essential elements of interest, and its success
STRINGTOWN ON THE PIKE. A Tale of Northernmost in the portrayal of native types and modes of think-
Kentucky. By John Uri Lloyd. New York: Dodd, Mead
ing is complete. Of almost equal interest are the
& Co.
His WISDOM THE DEFENDER. A Story. By Simon New-
English men and women who figure in the narra-
comb. New York: Harper & Brothers.
tive, and, with the one exception already noted,
RAFNALAND. By William Huntington Wilson. New we have only praise for this remarkable piece of
York: Harper & Brothers.
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08.
war.
was
“Robert Orange" shares the fate of most sequels tician of the Linlithgow following, and the plot
in being less interesting than “The School for turns upon a general election which is expected to
Saints.” It has no Spanish war for dramatic effect; bring the liberal imperialists into office. This elec-
it has no romantic dawn of love for sympathetic tion, again, turns upon certain documents of a
appeal. It offers, in the main, the working out of nature compromising to the opposition, which it is
motives that wore off their freshness in the earlier essential should be brought to light. They are in
volume, and it ends in a spiritual tragedy of renun the hands of an unscrupulous radical politician,
ciation. A few new people appear in its pages, and who has no earthly right to retain them, but who
quicken the flagging interest to a certain extent; refuses to give them up. The hero obtains a hold
but we do not greatly care for the series of readjust- upon him by coming into possession of a secret
ments in the loves of these characters with which which concerns his private character, and, with
the story is largely concerned, and the romance much reluctance, uses this knowledge to extort a
that has shaped itself between Orange and Madame restitution of the documents. This raises a pretty
Parflète is from the outset too evidently doomed to question of casuistry, and the novelist makes the
disruption. Yet the book has much charm — the most of it. When the decisive step has been
charm, at least, of distinction in its manner, and of taken, the hero is filled with remorse, determines
the high-bred companionship with which it gratifies to abandon public life, and succumbs to an attack
These interminable analyses of character are of brain fever. The agony is piled up rather more
saved from becoming utterly wearisome by the deli- thickly than seems strictly necessary, but the hero
cate delineation and the subtle appreciation of mo- at last rallies from his illness, accepts the seat in
tive which they never fail to exhibit. The writer Parliament which the election has brought him,
has lost none of her gift for phrase-making, and and discovers that he has not forfeited the love of
yet the penetration of her work by real ideas is as the remarkably ingenuous young woman who plays
unquestionable as the amazing cleverness with the part of the heroine.
which she shapes her points. Reactionary as her The other novel by Mr. Roberts is called “ The
fundamental ideal may seem to us, it is both self-Fugitives," and is a romance of the South African
consistent and thoroughly sincere.
A young Englishman seeks to win the
Miss Silberrad's first novel, “The Enchanter," maiden whom he loves by starting out, at her be-
a work of considerable promise, although hest, on a mission to the Transvaal, for the pur-
marred by a vein of mysticism that gave the story pose of rescuing an officer who is held prisoner at
an air of unreality. Her second novel, " The Lady Pretoria.
Pretoria. He equips himself with letters from
of Dreams,” errs, if anything, from an excess of the Mischief Maker at Brussels (who might as
realism, being in large measure a study of life in well have been named without ceremony), gets to
the slums of London. The central figure is a young
Pretoria with some difficulty, arranges the escape,
girl of rare and elusive spiritual beauty, whose and gets off with his rescued friend. There is a
loveliness of character remains uninfluenced by her good deal of adventure in this part of the narra-
repulsive surroundings, and who suggests a water- tive, and the effect is distinctly thrilling. As one
lily blooming amid the foulness of a stagnant pool. of the first of what will doubtless prove a long
She is wooed and won by a middle-aged physician series of South African war novels, “ The Fugi-
whose character is, in its way, almost as lovable as tives” sets a pace that may be regarded as satis-
hers, and the fate which finally overtakes the pair, factory.
killing the one and forever wrecking the happiness “The Son of Carleycroft," by Mr. Theodore
of the other, seems unnecessarily tragic. The work Burt Sayre, is a dashing and spirited romance of
displays undeniable talent, but fails to make a last- the time of Charles II. The historical interest is
ing impression on the imagination.
slight, but we become absorbed in the fortunes of
Mr. Morley Roberts is an entertaining writer, the dare-devil hero and the coquettish heroine. It
with a talent for journalism rather than for liter- is a story of varied incident, exciting adventure,
ature. His style has no graces, but has a good and wordy encounters of wit. If the wit is not
deal of animation, and makes its points in a rather exactly sparkling, it will serve, and the animation
telling fashion. His books always show the man of the narrative is well sustained.
of the world, who has knocked about a good deal, Much the same comment may be made upon
and who keeps close track of what is going on in “The King's Deputy," by Mr. M. A. Hinkson,
the society and the politics of the present day. He although here the historical interest is
has of late developed an aptitude for the roman à marked. The scene is Dublin at the close of the
clef, and this description must be given to both of eighteenth century, and the plot centres about the
his new books. The characteristic is most marked Irish conspiracies against the royal authority.
in “Lord Linlithgow," whose titular hero might Grattan figures among the characters, as well as
as well have been named Lord Rosebery outright, our old friend Napper Tandy of the popular bal-
while the figure of Eustace Loder is Mr. Cecil lad. The story is a thin one, but not uninteresting.
Rhodes presented in as undisguised a shape as wa “Chloris of the Island,” the latest romance by
the same figure in “ The Colossus ” of a year or so Mr. H. B. Marriott Watson, is a wild tale of love
ago. The hero of the story is a rising young poli- | and villainy, of “free trading” and secret plot-
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tings with the enemy, told of the southwest coast put to most effective use. . Combined with it we
and of the time when a French invasion was an have a tale of private love and suffering, of love
ever-living danger to England. The hero is almost between a young patrician and a daughter of the
as much of a swashbuckler as the desperate scoun- people, of suffering that grows out of the wife's
drel whose devices he sets himself to thwart, and divided allegiance to her husband and the interests
the heroine is a hot-blooded and passionate crea- of the state, on the one hand, and to her religious
ture who proves his fit counterpart. The story has ideals, on the other. For in all this terrible matter
a strange fascination, and is pitched throughout at of the interdict, the heroine remains steadfast in
a high key of excitement. Heroics of all kinds her faith that the Church must be right, and when
are bestowed with a lavish hand upon the narra- the Church is defied by those whom she holds
tive, which has also a certain distinction of style, dearest, her life is slowly sapped away in a sort of
although its affectations of language are somewhat spiritual agony. This woman, who displays the
:
too pronounced to be altogether productive of a soul of a St. Catherine amid the evils that beset
satisfactory effect.
her, is studied with rare insight and sympathy;
“ The Footsteps of a Throne,” by Mr. Max she almost persuades us to espouse her cause,
Pemberton, repeats the success of the author's although reason asserts it to be the cause of igno-
“ Kronstadt,” being a second romance of Russian rance against knowledge, of tyranny against free-
life. The heroine is a beautiful woman of noble dom. This book is much the most important that
family, and her reckless escapades, combined with Mrs. Turnbull has yet written ; for in it she for the
a passion for gambling, have brought her into dis- first time comes down from the clouds, and plants
favor with the court. Confined by imperial order berself
upon
solid eartb, yet relinquishes no essen-
to her palace at Moscow, she is eating out her tial part of the insuperable idealism which is her
heart when a rescuer appears upon the scene in most marked characteristic.
the person of an English nobleman, who falls in “ The Cobbler of Nimes,” by Miss Mary Imlay
love with her, and, after many perils, including an Taylor, is a story of the Huguenot persecutions
expedition to the wilds of the Caucasus, carries her under Louis XIV. The scene is in the Cévennes
off to England as his wife. Mr. Pemberton's region, and the time the beginning of the eight-
crisp and animated style, together with his ac- eenth century. The story is a graceful idyl in
quaintance with the scenes and social conditions the main, but it has a background of horrors, and
which he describes, gives to the book an interest the writer exercises an admirable restraint in keep-
that does not flag, and makes it an admirable | ing them in the background. The framework is
example of artificial romance.
slight, and constructed upon conventional lines, but
“ Venice, with her life and glory but a memory, Miss Taylor has the instinct of the story-teller, and
is still the citta nobilissima a city of moods, the book is as pleasing as its four or five pre-
all beautiful to the beauty-lover, all mystic to the
decessors.
dreamer; between the wonderful blue of the water Some years ago, a formless and fantastic piece
and the sky she floats like a mirage — visionary - of fiction entitled “ Etidorbpa” was published, and
unreal — and under the spell of her fascination we found its way to a limited circle of readers. It
are not critics, but lovers." These introductory was the work of Mr. John Uri Lloyd, of Cincin-
words strike the keynote of Mrs. Lawrence Turn- nati, a chemist by profession, and the conceit of
bull's historical novel called “ The Golden Book the title (wbich was merely “ Aphrodite " reversed)
of Venice,” and, as we turn its pages in sympa- seemed typical of the unregulated sort of imagina-
thetic mood, we become “not critics, but lovers," tion which the book displayed. It certainly gave
80 great is the charm of the work, so compelling no promise of further work on conventional lines,
its power to bring back to us half-forgotten mem- and it is something of a surprise to find in “String-
ories of the city of the lagoons, and revivify count- town on the Pike,” Mr. Lloyd's second production,
less past associations that had half-faded from the a novel sufficiently like the run of current fiction
consciousness. Une does not often come upon a to admit of classification. This book is a picture
book so interpenetrated with a passion for its sub- of life in a Kentucky country town during the
ject, a book at once so firmly based upon historical period of the Civil War. Its method is that of
fact, and so intensely spiritualized in the alembic realism, and its plot is one of considerable interest.
of the imagination. The central figure of Mrs. Amateurish and ill-balanced though it be, it some-
Turnbull's romance is that great scholar and theo- how has got the trick of holding our attention, and
logian, Fra Paola Sarpi, and the story passes at even of persuading us to make our way through
the time when the proverbial saying, “We are many tangled pages of a peculiarly difficult species
Venetians first, Christians afterwards,” had its of negro dialect. The principal character, in fact,
origin. In other words, it is the time when Venice, is that of old Cupe, whose strange mental processes
proudly resisting the pretensions of an arrogant and superstitious beliefs enable the author to make
papacy, and placed under an interdict, was cham- a rich exhibit of negro folk-lore. These super-
pioned by Sarpi, and emerged triumphant from stitions are used too seriously as a motive in the
the struggle. This situation offers splendid mater- plot, but they are woven into the fabric of the
ial for the historical novelist, and it has here been narrative with great ingenuity, and the impression
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made by them is distinctly uncanny.
The various the heroine take flight in the old balloon—reinflated
types of white character are delineated with no with volcanic hydrogen - and are fated to die of
little skill, and it must be said that the author has cold and exposure. But their story has been written
the instinct of the novelist, although lacking in the out, and is brought back to civilization by the ship
technical training. There is a fresh vigor about that discovers their remains.
bis book that atones for many faults, and, as one
WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE.
dramatic or melodramatic situation succeeds an-
other, one cannot fail to be impressed by the fer-
tility of resource displayed, as well as by the fund
of keen observation from which the author has
HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS.
been able to draw.
Being an eminent mathematician and astronomer At the head of the season's list of art works
does not prevent Mr. Simon Newcomb from being proper must be placed Lady Dilke's scholarly and
several other things with almost equal success. Some superbly illustrated treatise on the chief “ French
years ago, be published a treatise on political econ- Architects and Sculptors of the XVIIIth Century"
omy which must have been something of a surprise (Macmillan). The volume is designed to carry
even to those who knew him best, for it was the forward and supplement the work begun last year
work of a man who had mastered the subject, and in the same author's “ French Painters of the
compared favorably with the productions of the XVIIIth Century," and the system followed is the
best professional economists. Now Mr. Newcomb
The artists chosen for treatment are those
has turned novelist for a change, and has written a who left most plainly their impress on the art of
romance of the scientific imagination which is also their time, and whose spirit and treatment reflected
a distinctly successful production. It is called “ His most clearly the ideals distinctive of their century.
Wisdom the Defender,” and tells the story of a The architects are seen to be engaged largely in
new kind of air-ship. Strictly speaking, the inven- solving the problems peculiar to a day of transition
tion is more than an air-ship, for it enables its in- - in remodelling and adapting the old, and bring-
ventor so to defy the law of gravitation that he ing it into closer correspondence with modern ideals
soars above the atmosphere and circumnavigates of comfort and convenience. The sculptors give
the globe in the medium of the luminiferous ether. a new direction to the fanciful “sculpture d'ap-
The invention is put to a philanthropic purpose, for partement,” and assert their independence — giving
it is made the means of doing away with warfare, to the statue, and then to the statuette, a new sig-
and establishing an era of universal peace. How nificance. Many of the finest achievements of
the great powers are forced to accept the situation, masters like Guillaume Coustou fils, Pigalle, Hou-
how their forces are disarmed and their navies don, Clodion, Falconnet, Lemoyne, Caffieri, are
sunk, are matters that go to make up a tale as little known even in their own country; and one is
startling as any told by M. Jules Verne, and a glad to see justice done them in this beautiful and
tale, moreover, that even to the searching criticism solidly wrought work. “My object,” says Lady
of exact science has no slight degree of verisimili- Dilke, “is to trace the traditions by which the chief
tude. There is also a mere hint of a love story, amongst these men were guided ; to give such an
but this might as well have been suppressed, for it account of their lives as may render them some-
affords the least realistic feature of the book, and thing more than mere names to u8 ; to bring order
is the product of a too visible effort.
into our conception of their works; and to support
Rafnaland," by Mr. W. H. Wilson, is also a the conclusions of the text by typical illustrations
story of an air-ship, but in this case we have to do of their performance.” We shall not attempt here
with a simple balloon, not with a new form of en- to particularize as to the character and attractions of
ergy A
young man
- become an aëronaut malgré these beautiful and, in many cases, unfamiliar de-
lui — drifts northward to the very pole, and there signs. They are finely reproduced ; and we counsel
discovers a habitable country, populated by a Norse the reader of artistic tastes not to rob himself of a
colony that had sought refuge for themselves and genuine pleasure through failing to inspect them.
their gods some thousand years before, at the time The volume is superbly printed, and in every phy-
when Christianity was being forced upon their re- sical regard worthy of its content.
luctant kinsfolk by the method of fire and sword. Eloquent with the echoes of an enchanting by-
Here in their new home these Norsemen had pre- gone world is the noble volume containing a trans-
served their faith, their language, and their an- lation, by Florence Simmonds and M. Jourdain,
cient customs, and here our hero was made welcome of Pierre Gusman's “Pompeii: The City, its Life
and adopted into the race. The fair Astrid consoles and Art" (Dodd). M. Gusman's encyclopædic
him for the loss of home and kindred, and the love book is first of all a work of laboriously won arcbx-
interest is made conspicuous, although agreeably ological knowledge; it is also a work of consci-
a .
varied by fighting and other forms of diversion.entiously restrained and disciplined historical
We find ourselves fairly plunged into the life of imagination, through every page of which the
the sagas, and their spirit is skilfully reproduced writer's enthusiasm shines. M. Gusman bas not
by the writer's invention. In the end, the hero and attempted a complete imaginary reconstruction of
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Pompeii, — that is to say, his work is not vitiated excellent Introduction is provided by Mr. Oliphant
by the element of mere conjecture. But he has Smeaton, and several useful Appendices are in-
honestly tried to so marshal and interpret the many cluded. The text followed is that of 1625, Bacon's
and graphic evidences we have of the life and final and complete edition. The spelling and punc-
architectural aspect of the buried city as to make tuation have been “modernized," and we are glad
it live again for us as nearly as possible. In his to note that the errors usually incident to this pro-
own words, his book is “a history of the Pompei- cess seem here to have been avoided. Both volumes
ans, illustrated by themselves.” The volume opens are light to the hand, and the strong and handsome
with a short historical review; then follow chapters typography is most inviting. The numerous plates
severally headed : The Tombs, the Temples and in photogravure, rubricated head and tail pieces,
the Various Cults ; Public Buildings and Recrea- initials, and chapter-headings, and the exquisite
tions of Pompei; The Streets — Inscriptions — cover-designs, complete an exterior ensemble at once
Industries ; The Giæco-Roman House ; The Arts. elegant and dainty. For a friend of cultivated
The illustrations are on a lavish scale, and would tastes we can suggest no better gift-books than
seem to leave no phase of Pompeian life untouched. these.
They consist of 500 text illustrations and twelve Bound in white, the two volumes decorated with
colored plates, from drawings by the author. The the lymphad which forms the distinctive heraldic
volume is one of the bandsomest of the season's emblem of the city, the late Grant Allen's “ Paris
gift-books, and it forms a rich mine of entertain. (Page) forms a beautiful addition to the half guide-
ment and instruction.
book, half history, series which is so much in vogue
Mr. Joel Cook’s “America: Picturesque and at the present time. The illustrations are numerous
Descriptive ” is issued in three well-manufactured and pertinent, the facade of Notre Dame being
and beautifully-illustrated volumes by Messrs. represented in the frontispiece of the first volume
Henry T. Coates & Co. Mr. Cook's object is to and the Venus de Milo in that of the second. The
give the busy reader who has no time or opportunity narrative is planned as an artistic itinerary for the
for travel such comprehensive general knowledge sojourner in the French capital, and the pains he
as every intelligent American ought to bave of the may take to follow its directions will bear fruit in
geography, bistory, picturesque attractions, local the thoroughness with which the real beauties of
peculiarities, and so on, of his own country. Mr. the French capital will disclose themselves to his
Cook's descriptions are concise and literal, and are searching eyes. Especially valuable is a chapter or
the result largely of notes taken by him during two on “ How to Study Paintings in the Louvre.'
years of extended travel in the United States and Though Grant Allen was rather a man of science
Canada. The work is arranged in twenty-one than an art student or critic, he was also a man
tours, each volume beginning at the older settle- of judgment and taste, and his instructions can
ments upon the Atlantic sea-board, and each be made to bear fruit in even the most ordinary
describing a route such as the traveller bands.
would ordinarily take from the given starting-point. A tastefully embellished, pleasantly and tactfully
Mr. Cook bas skimmed in his sight-seeing flights written, book is Virginia Tatnall Peacock's Famous
the main points of interest in this country pretty American Belles of the Nineteenth Century
comprehensively, and be gives us glimpses of Can. (Lippincott). The author has selected her subjects
ada and Alaska as well. The information conveyed not alone for the distinction of personal charm, but
is necessarily superficial, but it is certainly such as also for the qualities which contribute to social and,
none of us should be without. The book is of no in a sense, political eminence, as is evinced by
literary pretension, which is doubtless a point in its the inclusion of such names as Elizabeth Patterson,
favor. The photogravure plates, of which there are Margaret O'Neill, Harriet Lane, Kate Chase,
a great many, are well chosen as to subject, and Emilie Schaumburg, Jennie Jerome, and so on.
are, in point of execution, notably meritorious There are nineteen names in the list, which begins
specimens of their kind.
with Marcia Burns, and closes with Mary Victoria
Those wisest of classics, the "Meditations of Leiter. The portraits are both charming and
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus" and the " Essayes or interesting (the initial one is printed in colors),
Counsels" of Francis Bacon, reappear
this season and the delicate binding of light blue and gilt
in particularly alluring companion editions, under rounds out a harmonious whole.
the joint imprint of J. M. Dent & Co. of London We should not care to be the owner of mind
and E. P. Dutton & Co. of New York. The insensible to the manifold attractions of the new
“ Meditations are given in Casaubon’s translation, Holiday edition of Mr. James Lane Allen's “ A Ken-
under the editorship of Mr. W. H. D. Rouse, who tucky Cardinal” (Macmillan). To illustrate the
supplies an Introduction, with Glossary and Apcharming story seems like painting the lily ; but
pendix. Casaubon's version is printed without we admit, now we have inspected them, inhaled
emendation, though the cumbersome and confusing their dainty, subtly suggestive fragrance, as it
brackets of the original editions are omitted, as are were, that the one hundred drawings by Hugh
the discursive and not strictly elucidatory notes. Mr. Thomson which form the main new feature of the
Walter Worrall is the editor of the “ Essayes,” an edition strikes us as having been all along the one
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element needed to make Mr. Allen's story perfect The death last April of that gentle pictorial
in its kind. There is also a delightful Introduc- satirist of our national errors, political and other,
tion by Mr. Allen, and the volume contains the Francis Gilbert Attwood, left a void in the pages
sequel, “ Aftermath,” as well. The cover of light of New York's bright little periodical, “ Life,” not
green shows a design in gilt of Chaucerian sug- easily supplied. Mr. Attwood's drawings were
gestiveness — birds and boughs and leafy sprays, always clear, significant, wholesome. It was sel-
etc. All in all, the volume is one of the tastefullest dom that they failed of a palpable hit. They were
in its class this season.
delightfully humorous, and their humor was gener-
There is no end to books about Paris, nor, we ally of the subtler sort that appeals to the intelli-
suppose, to the demand for them. All sanguine gence. Most of them were contributed to “ Life,”
people hope to get to Paris some day; and the and the publishers of that periodical now issue the
prudent ones like to “ read up” beforehand, to be best of them collected in chronological sequence in
ready for the blessed contingency when it hap- a neat volume entitled “Attwood's Pictures."
pens.
The latest book of the kind, and one, we Thus arranged they form a pleasant pictorial his-
should think, distinctly meant for the behoof of the tory, in the satirist's vein, mainly, of the closing
sanguine souls aforesaid, is Mr. E. A. Reynolds-decade of the past century. There is never any
Ball's two-volume work called " Paris in its Splen- mistaking Mr. Attwood's meaning, and bis
dor” (Dana Estes & Co.). The book is mainly portraits, for all their humor, are recognizable
descriptive, though there is a vein of history run. at once.
ning through it. The author says that he has tried The Fleming H. Revell Company issue, in a
to give a general impression of Paris past and well-made quarto volume, “ The Psalms of David,"
present, and of the more striking features of the with sixteen full-page drawings and numerous dec-
social life of Paris of today. On its guide book orations by Louis Rhead, and an introductory
side (and it is really a superior sort of guide to study of the psalmist by the Rev. Newell Dwight
Paris and its worthier sights) the book furnishes Hillis. Mr. Rhead's pictures are much in the
much information as to museums and picture style of his contributions to the pictorial “ Pil-
galleries, historic churches, monuments, historic grim's Progress" of a season or so ago, and his
spots and buildings, parks, drives, and gardens, decorations are simple and do not over balance the
and so on.
The volumes are handsomely made- clear and open print, which shows to advantage
fine paper, excellent print, and exquisite covers of against a white-margined ground of delicate vel-
white-and-gold, protected by red slip-covers. There lum-tint. In his introductory study Dr. Hillis tells
are 65 photographic plates.
in an agreeable way the story of David's life, and
Of panoramic quality is the flat oblong volume, points out its bearings upon the general scheme of
entitled “The War in South Africa " (P. F. Collier human conduct. The volume is richly bound in
& Son), containing Captain A. T. Mahan’s valuable claret-color and gold, and forms an obviously suit-
account of the Anglo-Boer conflict from the opening able Christmas gift.
of hostilities to the fall of Pretoria. An Introduc- Mr. Sadakichi Hartmann announces in his preface
tion is supplied by Sir John G. Bourinot, and the to “Shakespeare in Art” (Page) that he is excep.
book, on the whole, seems to be the coolest and tionally well qualified for the task he has underta-
most impersonal (and therefore the most instructive ken, having given himself such a preparation
as to facts) narrative of the military side of the through a series of years as few men can pretend
deplorable South African business that has yet ap- to.
The intention of his work is to present in a
peared. The copious and striking photographic form necessarily brief because of the magnitude of
pictures, a number of which are reproduced in the undertaking some account of the various forms
colors, have the effect of transporting one in fancy of art and the notable examples in each form
to the scene of hostilities, and are of undeniable which have busied themselves in picturing Shake-
interest.
speare or his characters. The first chapter deals
Good to look at and pleasant to read are the with the portraits a threshing out of old straw
two comely little volumes entitled “ Rambles in which neither enlarges nor diminishes our custom-
Colonial By ways" (Lippincott). In them the ary knowledge of the subject. Other sections of
author sets forth in pleasing style the result of his the book have to do with the illustrators and with
observations during a series of leisurely juunts to the painters, etchers, engravers, and sculptors who
various nooks and by ways in New England and have enhanced their own and the great dramatist's
New York, and along the Hudson, in Pennsylvania fame by their works. The Droeshout etching is
and through Washington's country, the spots vis- used as a frontispiece for the volume, and there are
ited being such as are memorable for their associa- numerous half-tone reproductions of famous paint.
tions and souvenirs of Colonial and Revolutionary ings and portraits scattered throughout the pages.
days. A set of charming photographic plates Mr. Louis C. Elson has performed a valuable
serves to adorn the work and vivify the text. service for the student in his new book with the
Particularly pretty are the bindings in grass-green explanatory title, "Shakespeare in Music: A Col-
“
buckram stamped with a view of a colonial house lation of the Chief Musical Allusions in the Plays
and garden.
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Original Music" (Page). Nothing so extensive effective ground for the drawings. The cover is
of the kind has been attempted heretofore, nor decidedly one of the prettiest of the year, and the
has any result quite so thorough been achieved, publication, all in all, is well conceived and well
the combination of musical and dramatic know wrought out.
ledge which does not burn itself out in attention to The richly colored and gilded cover-design, pro-
opera being unusual. Profusely illustrated, both fuse illustrations, and illuminated title-page lend
with pictures and musical scores, with a learned distinction to the outer ensemble of the seasonable
dissertation on the dances of the time by way of gift-book entitled “Women of the Bible” (Harper).
good measure, Mr. Elson has produced a work of The text consists of twelve sketches of Biblical
considerable authority and great interest. Among heroines — Eve, Sarah, Miriam, Ruth, Esther,
the few omissions of the book is to be noted a fail- Mary the Mother of Jesus, etc. — from the pens
of
ure to grasp the significance of the Irish tongue as as many eminent divines, Dr. Lyman Abbott, Dr.
affording a key to certain obscurely un-English Henry Van Dyke, Cardinal Gibbons, Bishop Hurst,
expressions in the text of the dramas. Nor should Bishop Potter, and others. The learned and rep.
the sub-title bave limited itself to “plays " alone, erend writers have treated their respective themes
the poems being frequently expounded in respect gracefully and entertainingly, as well as instruct-
of their musical references.
ively ; so that the book, with its liberal embellish-
Messrs. T. Y. Crowell & Co.'s commendable ments, is one to charm as well as edify.
“ Coxboe " edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's A temper as sweet and as contemplative as Wal-
Complete Works comprises six volumes (18mo, ton’s, a sense for the subtler facts of nature as fine
4 x 6 inches), enclosed in a strong case with hinged as Jefferies's, lend distinction among works of its
cover. Each volume contains a frontispiece in pho- class to Dr. Charles C. Abbott's “ In Nature's
togravure. The editing, by Charlotte Porter and Realm" (Albert Brandt, Trenton), a charming
Helen A. Clarke, has been carefully and helpfully volume which we have already had occasion to
done, and the initial volume is supplied with a praise. For the comparatively uninitiated votary
Biographical Introduction and Bibliography. The of Nature, who would study her in all her moods
edition is convenient and desirable; and its general and divine her best-kept secrets, we know of no
get-up is suggestive of presentation uses.
better or pleasanter guide, philosopher, and friend,
More Omar! The volume this time contains than Dr. Abbott. The volume is suitably illus-
Fitzgerald's versions of the Rubaiyát, a Life of trated by Oliver Kemp, and we are glad especially
Fitzgerald, some verses to Omar by Justin H. to call attention to the typographical beauty of the
McCarthy, a poem by Porter Garnett, a batch of book and to the exceptional quality of the material
Notes, a Life of Omar — quite enough for one's used in its manufacture -
- a feature characteristic
money. But to make the volume thicker yet its of all of this publisher's productions that we have
leaves of rather heavy calendered paper are
doubled, so that, despite the quantitative thinness The exquisite setting bestowed by its publishers
of its pièce de résistance, we get a fairly thick upon Eugene Field's newspaper skit entitled “The
octavo after all. Omar is difficult to illustrate, Temptation of Friar Gonsol” (Woodward &
but Miss Florence Lundborg has tried hard to do Lothrop) will be a matter of some wonderment to
him some sort of justice in this publication. Candor readers outside the circle of Mr. Field's old
compels us to say that where Vedder succeeded familiars, and therefore unable to appreciate the
indifferently well, Miss Lundborg has scarcely local and personal hits which are the life of the
succeeded at all. Her drawings smack a little piece, such as it bas. The fun of “Friar Gonsol”
of Vedder's wild and whirling symbolizations. is not of a side-splitting order, in any case. Out-
They smack perhaps more of Aubrey Beardsley - wardly the volume is very pretty and artistic. It
-
of whose fantasticalities we have surely had enough. contains several portraits of the author, a facsimile
We sincerely wish Mies Lundborg better luck next of the “proof” of “ Friar Gonsol,” and so on. The
time in point of subject, for she deserves it. The cover is of semi-flexible white vellum tied with
volume is heavy to the hand, and its cover shows cherry ribbons, and the edition is limited to three
an uninviting combination in dull chocolate and hundred copies.
black. (Doxey's.)
“Contemporary American Composers,” by Rupert
Miss Margaret Armstrong is well and deserv- Hughes, and“ Famous Pianists of To-Day and Yes-
edly to the fore this season as a decorative artist, terday,” by Henry C. Lahee, form a brace of ac-
and in Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co.'s ornate edition ceptable additions to Messrs. L. C. Page & Co.'s
of Browning's “ Pippa Passes” she acquits herself pretty and convenient “ Music Lovers' Series.” Mr.
”
creditably as an illustrator proper as well. The Hughes has written a well considered and rather
decorations of tbe volume are very profuse, the comprebensive critical study of contemporary na-
main feature being the marginal borders and semi- tive music, and his researches have led him to the
borders showing a medley of designs in figures, cheerful conclusion that some of the very best mod-
symbols, slightly conventionalized foliage, flowers, ern music is being written here at home, and only
fruit, etc. A border of very light vellum-tint needs the light to secure its due meed of praise.
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Mr. Haghes's industry is patent throughout the Clay Barnabee and Mr. Francis Wilson, Mr. Digby
book, and we admit the force of his contention that Bell and the Rogers Brothers, Mr. Frank E. Dan-
the fact that he has gone through “ at least a ton iels and Mr. Peter F. Dailey, Mr. Henry E. Dixey
of American compositions” with undiminished en. and Mr. Otis Harlan meeting in the pages.
The
thusiasm is evidence of some virtue in native music two books speak more for American good nature
-examples of which, by the way, he reproduces. than American art, either musical or histrionic.
Among the composers treated in the volume are Ed- Numerous half-tone reproductions of photographs
ward MacDowell, John P. Sousa, Henry Schoene- decorate the volumes.
feld, G. W. Chadwick, Harry Rowe Shelley, F. F. A rather happy conception is embodied in the
Bullard, A. J. Goodrich, Margaret Ruthven, Lang, desirable volume entitled “ Wonders of Nature"
etc. - More biographical in treatment are Mr. (Dodd), the contents of which have been edited,
Lahee's sketches of “Famous Pianists," issued by and in some instances translated, by Miss Esther
the same firm, in the same series. The names are Singleton. The book is a compilation of descrip-
arranged as nearly as possible in chronological or- tions by writers of more or less celebrity, of striking
der, and the list includes, besides artists of world. natural views and scenic phenomena, the principle
wide reputation, the best known local pianists, both or ground of selection being subjectiveness of treat-
of Europe and America. Mr. Lahee writes agree- ment and literary merit, rather than topographical
ably, and with ample knowledge of his theme. Each or scientific
accuracy
and interest. The selections
volume is liberally equipped with portraits, and have been made with taste, and where translation
each forms a pretty and suitable gift for a music has been called for it bas been gracefully and intel-
loving friend.
ligently done. There are forty-six papers in all, and
Mrs. Elizabeth F. Ellet's comprehensive series nearly as many full-page plates in half-tone, which
of sketches of “ Women of the American Revolu. are of acceptable quality. Those seeking models of
tion" is deservedly republished in attractive form style in this order of descriptive writing will find
and with a generous array of portraits, by Messrs. the book a treasure-house of examples.
George W. Jacobs & Co. Mrs. Anne Hollingsworth Mrs. Sarah P. McL. Greene's racy New England
Wharton supplies & needed Introduction. The novel “Vesty of the Basins " (Harper) has already
table of contents shows a long list of names, many won its way to public favor, and we are glad to see
of which will doubtless be unfamiliar to most read. it reissued in tempting Holiday dress, of which the
ers, but none of which seem to be unworthy of main feature is the many illustrations from draw-
inclusion. Mrs. Ellet's sketches were written long ings by Otto H. Bacher and from photographs by
before the current fad for things Colonial showed Clifton Johnson. Mr. Johnson's photographs serve
itself, and this may be considered by some a point to accentuate the local flavor of the book, while its
in their favor. Her material, too, was gathered “daown East” drollery and quiet sentiment are
at a time when it was still possible to question wit faithfully reflected in Mr. Bacher's designs. A
nesses who could speak from memory directly to welcome addition is the frontispiece portrait of the
the facts, and hence, as Mrs. Wharton notes, there author.
are many passages in the book in which the fruit “The Friendly Year" (Scribner) is a little year-
of such gleaning is manifest in the vividness and book of selections in prose and verse, an extract
circumstantiality with which scenes and characters for each day, from the works of Dr. Henry van
are depicted.
Dyke, chosen and arranged by the Rev. George
Dividing the sexes with a Shaker-like strictness, Sidney Webster. An extract from these cheery
Mr. Lewis C. Strang prepares two volumes of con-
and wholesome writings is a good thing certainly
temporaneous dramatic history, calling one “Prima to begin the day with, and Dr. Webster's little an-
Donnas and Soubrettes” and the other, “Cel-thology should find friends. In indicating his prin-
ebrated Comedians," using the same sub-title for ciple of selection the editor says: “I have not
both — " of Light Opera and Musical Comedy in sought to illustrate literary qualities, so much as to
America" (Page). The two volumes, bound in bring out the dominant note of human friendliness
white for Christmas gifts, have the same general and comradeship, which runs through the writings
,
plan and treatment throughout. Mr. Strang's of an author who knows books well, but who cares
concern is with singers and comedians whose at- more for people.” A portrait of Dr. van Dyke
tractions still pass current among us, and in this forms the frontispiece.
regard he is catholic in his tastes. In one volume The very presentable yet moderate-priced new
Misses Alice Nielson, Lillian Russell, Virginia edition of Fenimore Cooper published by the
Earle, Fay Templeton, Della Fox, Josephine Hall, Macmillan Co. opens promisingly with “ The Last
Mesdames Edna Wallace Hopper, Jessie Bartlett of the Mohicans." The volume - a handy, full
Davis, and others of their sisters find place beside gilt, rather closely but legibly-printed 12mo in
such professional “entertainers” as Miss Marie light-green binding - is prefaced by a general
–
Dressler and Miss Maud Raymond, and are dis- Introduction on Cooper by Mr. Mowbray Morris,
cussed in a breezy, newspaperish manner. In the and contains twenty-five drawings of good quality
other volume inclusiveness also is sought rather by Mr. H. M. Brock. We are glad to say that
than particularity, such extremes as Mr. Henry | Mr. Brock has not unduly “ Remingtonized” his
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author, but bas impliedly recognized in his romance- quarto volume wherein are set forth pictorially the
tinged designs the fact that we go to Cooper for ways and humors of the votaries of the fashionable
the solace that comes from shaking off for the game. The pictures are cleverly drawn, and the
nonce the real and the literal, and that we would book seems a capital one to while away spare
therefore be likely to prove the reverse of grateful moments at the country club.
to the artist who might persist in thrusting it back Lovers of choice book-making will be strongly
upon us every few pages in his provokingly matter tempted by Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co.'s artistic yet.
.
of-fact pictures.
venturesome edition of Sterne's “ Sentimental Jour-
In “The Pilgrim Shore” (Little, Brown, & Co.) ney.” The volume is rather freely rubricated, and
Mr. E. H. Garrett has done for the South Shore its color element is accentuated by the boldly ex-
of Massachusetts Bay what he did for the North ecuted frontispiece in black, dark-green, and red,
Shore of New England in his “ Romance and showing the immortal traveller about to hand the
Reality of the Puritan Coast.” The whole South lady into the Désobligeant.
Shore and its towns, Dorchester, Neponset, Quincy, Two trim little volumes entitled “American Wit
Weymouth, Hingbam, Hull, Duxbury, Plymouth, and Humor” (Jacobs) are devoted, as the reader
etc., is treated in this volume. There are many may surmise, to funny sayings culled from the
full-page drawings and vignettes, the treatment columns of the comic papers, and from the “comic
mingling description and fancy in due proportions. columns ” of papers not wholly comic. The con-
The book is pleasantly written, and makes a brave tents of the volumes are conveniently arranged,
showing in its tasteful binding of white and gold. and those who relish newspaper fon may find the
Considerable amusement may be found in Mr. cream of it skimmed deftly into these two little
Gay Wetmore Carryl's “ Mother Goose for Grown- books, each of which contains a frontispiece por-
Upe” (Harper), and we should be sorry to possess
trait — Dr. Holmes and Mark Twain, respectively,
the soul that could see nothing funny in Mr. Peter - though how Dr. Holmes got into such company
Newell's illustrations in the same. Mr. Carryl has we are at a loss to conjecture.
adapted the old nursery jingles in much the same We have not heretofore, so far as we remember,
manner as he dealt with the fables of La Fontaine been called upon to notice a set of illustrative draw..
some time since. Mr. Newell has a humor all his ings by Florence Goldsmith Chandler, whose name
own; but his debt as an artist to Boutet de Monvel as an illustrator is new to us; but we take pleasure
is plain. Other drawings in the book are by Mr. now in commending the fine poetic feeling and
Gustave Verbeck.
graceful sentiment apparent in her fifteen full-page-
Charles Lever's rollicking song of " Tipperary designs which embellish the chastely ornate volume
Joe," which readers of "Jack Hinton, the Guards- of devotional poems, entitled “ Pealms of Soul," by
man” will remember, makes its appearance, re- William Bradford Dickson, published by the Tri-
christened “The Song of a Vagabond Huntsman ”. bane Co., of South Bend, Indiana. Mr. Dickson's
(Russell), in a flat oblong volume, with a gayly verses are warmed throughout with real religious
colored frontispiece and a number of other pictures fervor, and their formal quality is respectable. The
in monotint, all the work of Wm. Anderson Sher- publishers have shown good taste in the make-up
wood. Mr. Sherwood's drawings, of which there of the volume.
are one to each verse, faithfully reflect the humor Very dainty and fraught with mementos of sun-
of the song, and the book should certainly find nier days are the twin anthologies of poems about
favor in the Hibernian eye.
flowers and poems about birds, respectively entitled
Mr. Oliver Herford's skill in versification lends “ Among the Flowers” and “ Among the Birds”
a certain distinction to most of the whimsically (Estos), each volume brightened with its series of
humorous verse in his little book of collected poems gayly-colored plates. The selections in each book
entitled “Overheard in a Garden” (Scribner). are made with taste, and mostly from the standard
The book is full of pretty conceits and neatly, poets. The volumes are portable and pocketable ;
turned rhymes, and the drawings, also by Mr. Her- and either would form a pleasant companion for a
ford, duly reflect the spirit of the text. The cover- ramble in places where, it is good to know, birds
design, in colors, is quaintly fancied, and tempts and flowers will again abound.
one to peep within.
Goldsmith's “She Stoops to Conquer," impec-
The quaint fun of that funniest of our illustra- cably printed, and liberally strewn with drawings
tors, F. Opper, is pleasantly exemplified in the by E. A. Abbey, is wine of the sort that needs no
thirty odd drawings, each with its accompanying busb. The book was a favorite several seasons ago,
scrap of verse, contained in the flat folio volume and now makes its reappearance in a new binding
entitled “The Folks in Fannyville ” (Russell). of unique design. (Harper.)
Mr. Opper's pictures are always irresistible, and Mr. Edwin Markham's harrowing production
while his humor is broad, it is never vulgar — a (no pun intended), " The Man with the Hoe," is
decided merit in a day when there is no little tempt- now included in the dainty “Lark Editions"
ation from press and public to eschew it.
(Doxey's) of popular modern verse, so that the
The publishers of “Life” have issued, under the American farmer who likes a portrayal of himself
title, “Fore! Life's Book for Golfers," a flat as a “monstrous thing distorted and soul-quenched”
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may have it in a pretty and pocketable volume at a series of three books concerning the Mexican War,
a moderate price. The artistic decorations in car.
from the busy pen of Captain Ralph Bonehill, is not to
mine and black, by Mr. Porter Garnett, help to
be wondered at, though Americans generally have left
that unfortunate conflict to deserved silence. But the
make an attractive page, and there is a well-
first of the three books, “ For the Liberty of Texas "
executed frontispiece after Millet.
(Estes), dealing as it does with San Antonio and the
“ Beautiful Thoughts from Robert and Eliza-
Alamo and ending with the battle of San Jacinto, does
beth Browning” (Pott) is a pretty volume of selec-
not bring forward the facts which led Abraham Lincoln
tions from the writings of these poets, a pageful to his cordial detestation of President Polk. — “Trav-
for each day in the year. The book is ornately ellers’ Tales of South Africa ” (Estes) is also by Mr.
bound in sage-green and gold, with vignette of Mr. Hezekiah Butterworth, with illustrations drawn from
Browning; and the editor, Miss Margaret Shipp, numerous sources, a book which hardly does itself jus-
has done her work with taste and discernment.
tice with such a title. It contains some account of events
Dr. Maltbie D. Babcock, whose calendar last
in South Africa leading up to the present war, but its
concern is even more with hunters and missionaries.
year attracted attention through its pious and sen-
Nor is the field limited to South Africa alone, the cend
tentious aspirations for each day of the year, bas
tral portion of the continent coming in for a word of
issued “ Dr. Babcock's Calendar for 1901" (John
comment. — Mr. Edward Stratemeyer has a method
S. Bridges & Co.), making not only the necessary the reverse of literary, but it enables him to bring out
changes for another year, but adding numerous the sort of books that boys appear to like, or there
significant thoughts aptly expressed, at the same could not be so many of them. “On to Pekin; or, Old
time rewriting many of the older ones.
Glory in China ” (Lee & Shepard) is the latest of these,
Mr. Curtin's good version of Sienkiewicz's fine and those who are quite sure that American civilization
prose poem “ The Judgment of Peter and Paul on
has suffered nothing from its contact with the inbabe
itants of China in recent months will find much to enjoy
Olympus ” is brought out by Messrs. Little, Brown,
in the book. The hero has been met in others of the
& Co. in an attractive booklet delicately bound in
author's stories of battle, and there is much second-
white, with illustrations. A pleasing page has been hand information about the scene of the war which is
made by printing the text in violet, with a marginal not a war. Historical frankness characterizes the
frame in light-green.
Very Reverend Cyrus Townsend Brady's “Reuben
James, a Hero of the Forecastle” (Appleton) to a
remarkable extent. James is one of the most pictur-
esque figures in American naval history, and his utter
BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG.
self-devotion in saving the life of the younger Decatur
has been a favorite topic with American poets and
Fighting
The Vulgate would have us read that the prose writers alike. When Mr. James Jeffrey Roche
salutation of the heavenly choir is not for composed his thrilling lines, he killed the sailor out of
and sea. all mankind, but is to be translated, “ Peace hand : a full-fledged hero who insists upon living
on earth to men of good will !” What, then, of the many years, most of them in liquor, is more or less
books of war and rumors of war which continue to hold discouraging to poetry. But Mr. Brady tells the story
the first place (if numbers are a proof) in the reading of the brave man's life, and adds in an appendix nearly
provided for the young at this time ? History, it is
all that is said of him by others, concealing nothing.
true, is as bloody as a butcher's shambles; but need it
Last year Mr. Ralph Barbour wrote one
remain so ? The first book of the group before us, in
Tales of sport of the best books of the season, and he has
point of time, is by Mr. Edward Robins, á plentifully
repeated his performance this season with
illustrated account of a most disastrous rout, entitled “For the Honor of the School, a Story of School Life
“With Washington in Braddock's Campaign” (Jacobs). and Interscholastic Sport” (Appleton). Hillton, the
It gives an excellent impression of Washington in the institution of learning which was the scene of “The
first flush of his manhood, and introduces that General Half-Back," appears again in this second volume, and
Gage whom he was to shut up in Boston not very many brings forth the regret that some real school had not
years later. Yet Washington was greatest because of been selected and named, after the fashion of “Tom
his hold on the hearts of his countrymen, and he was Brown's School Days.” Mr. Barbour's books are whole-
first in peace as well as first in war. This latter phase some from cover to cover, interesting enough to hold
of his character is obscured in such a work, interesting the attention of any man who has not let his wits get
as it is in other respects. — Mr. Hezekiah Butterworth “ square-toed” also, in Thackeray's phrase, and withont
rescues the incident of the Knight of the Golden Horse- a bit of that forced romance which too many writers
shoe from ill-deserved oblivion by preparing “In the inject into boys' stories. Mr. C. M. Relyea's pictures
Days of Jefferson; or, The Six Golden Horseshoes, a add to the reality of the incidents they represent. - It
Tale of Republican Simplicity" (Appleton), a story of is not necessary to have a mean boy in a book, and Mr.
continental expansion and of Jefferson's youth and Eustace Williams is right in making his protagonist sin
manhood, the more striking because it is a book with in haste and repent at leisure in “The Substitute
little or no bloodshed. Mr. Frank T. Merrill provides Quarter-Back ” (Estes). The boy with whom the nar-
the drawings for the volume, which is one to be read rative is chiefly concerned, though he is not the hero in
and pondered over, even though the Jeffersonian enthu- the usual sense of the word, betrays the signals of the
siast may fancy he detects a note of something less than school football team to its rival in revenge for having
complete approbation for the hero in the hero's present been taken off the first eleven and made a substitute
biographer. - Aggression to-day must certainly revive just before the match. It is a delicate situation, but is
tales of aggression yesterday, so the announcement of well bandled. Mr. L. J. Bridgman makes the pictures.
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time, and deals with a young American and a young
time. They deserve the uniformly high reputation
Mexican in his latest volume, “In the Hands of the given them, being simple, unaffected, and interesting.–
Cave-Dwellers ” (Harper). The title gives it a certain “Chums” (Estes) comes as a surprise, being from the
prehistoric sound, but the date goes back no further than hand of the late Maria Louise Pool. It is a school story
1832, and the cave-dwellers are kindred to the Apaches to begin with, and a story of country life to end with,
of our southwestern frontier. The story is full of blood being unconventional and sprightly throughout. Mr.
and adventure, with a bit of romance thrown in for good L. J. Bridgman furnishes the wash drawings which
measure. – Teaching the youthful idea how to shoot emphasize the text. — Mrs. Josephine Dodge Daskam
with a fowling-piece is the animating motive of “The writes a helpful and pleasant book of tales, calling it
Boy Duck - Hunters” (Estes), and the author, Mr. “ Sister's Vocation, and Other Girls' Stories" (Scrib-
Frank E. Kellogg, has given his book real value by ner). The interests in its pages are varied, as such
filling its pages full of useful information about the ap-
titles as
“A College Girl" and " A Taste of Bohemia "
pearance and habits of American game birds. Mr. indicate. - “ The Girls of Bonnie Castle (Jacobs) is
J. W. Kennedy designs some of the pictures, but most a summer and winter book by Miss Izola L. Forrester,
of them are reproduced from Audubon's famous plates, with pictures by Miss Anna Weatherbey Parry. Chi-
making the work a treasure to the boy who inclines to- cago and the West make their appearance here, as well
ward being a naturalist, as healthy boys generally do.- as the East of America. -“Esther in Maine” (Jen-
“The Fortune Hunters of the Philippines" (Mershonnings & Pye) tells of some half-grown children who
Co.) sounds as if Senator Beveridge had invented the have a good time under certain slight disadvantages
title, but it is really much simpler than that. The au- and contrive to keep their elders employed at the same
thor, Mr. Louis Charles, wished a scene for the discovery time. The book is simple and wholesome. Miss
of some buried Spanish treasure, and our new islands Amy E. Blanchard contributes to the more sedate joys
promised rather better than any others, so be sent his of the holiday season with “ Dimple Dallas ” (Jacobs),
three American boys to Manila and its neighborhood. an account of a mild-mannered little girl with a passion
There is action enough in the book for twenty, and the for being good. Miss Ida Waugh has made the draw-
reader draws a long breath when the wealth is safe in ings for the book, which resembles its numerous pre-
American hands. -« Bully, Fag and Hero" (Page), is decessors from the same hand. - Kentucky, that land
the tale of an English public school. It abounds with of lovely women and consequential men, is the special
scenes strange to American understandings, one of the discovery of Mrs. Annie Fellows-Johnson, who uses it
principal personages of the story being the “ Black to good advantage in “The Little Colonel's House
Cadger,” head game-keeper to a nobleman in the neigh- Party" (Page), illustrated by Mr. Louis Meynell. The
borhood of the school. The illustrations, by Mr. S. H. “ little colonel” is both a colonelet and a coloneless,
Vedder, are quite as realistic as the narrative, which and a bright little American girl in the bargain. Bears,
is from the pen of Mr. Charles J. Mansford. - Second soft Southern accents, darkies, and local color make
of the “Woodranger Tales” (Page), by Mr. G. Waldo the book both unusual and attractive. - From the same
Browne, is “The Young Gunbearer." It deals with hand, but with pictures by Miss Etheldred B. Barry,
the condition of the Acadians whom Longfellow cel- comes “ The Story of Dago " (Page), “ Dago” being a
ebrated in “ Evangeline,” as they were flourishing at little monkey, fascinating to read about, as these small
the time of King George's War. The pictures, as in cousins of ours always are. Mrs. Fellows-Johnson
the earlier number of the series, are by Mr. Louis carries him through some most laughable adventures,
Meynell.
in one of which he stops an express train by swinging
Foremost among stories for girls we wel. on the bell rope.-With well-worn plots, the two stories
New books
come Miss Laura E. Richards's new vol.
which make up “Old Lady and Young Laddie" (James
for girls.
ume “Rita” (Estes), because it tells the H. West Co.) have undoubted pertinence at this time,
story of a small Cuban patriot, daughter of a Spanish
and inculcate the best of morals. They are by Mrs.
mother and American father, who is first and last for Kate Whiting Patch, with pictures by Miss Bertha G.
“ Cuba libre!” “Dear is my country,” said Francis
Davidson. Those who recall « The Prince of the Pin
Lieber, “ but liberty is dearer.” The sentiment is not Elves," by Mr. Charles Lee Sleight, will be glad to read
a usual one in books intended for those who are to rock
a continuation of the story from the same band, with
the cradle and rule the world in a few brief years.
numerous illustrations by Miss Alice S. Butler. The
“ For Tommy, and Other Stories ” (Estes) is also by same Harry who was so honored in the Pin Country
Miss Laura E. Richards, and is for somewhat smaller now goes visiting among " The Water People" (Page),
girls. It has nothing to do with Christmas particularly,
this time with his little sister Helen, and wonderful
but it has “ Moses” and “ Billy” and various other things happen in consequence. — “For his Country"
alluring young gentlemen scattered through the narra- (Page) is the pathetic little story of a small boy in
tives in a convincing way. – Mrs. L. T. Meade's excel- France who is more than ordinarily homesick for the
United States. Mr. Marshall Saunders includes an-
lently contrived stories are augmented by “ A Plucky
Girl” (Jacobs), an interesting account of the life of a other short story, “Grandmother and the Crow,” in
young English gentlewoman who induces her mother to the same volume, pictures for both being provided by
take “paying guests after their fortune has given
Mr. Louis Meynell.
itself wings, to the advantage of all concerned in point Pictures and The connecting of the spheres of little girl-
of character-building, if not of comfort and ease. There stories for hood with babyhood is accomplished in a
is a hero, too, who makes his proper bow at the fall of
little readers.
delightful work by the author of “ Eliza-
the curtain, in the approved manner. – Mrs. Moles- beth and her German Garden,' - whomsoever, noble
worth’s “ Three Witches ” (Lippincott) are three young or royal, the author may chance to be. It is en-
girls, who abundantly deserve the appellation. Mr. titled “The April Baby's Book of Tunes, with the
Lewis Baumer provides the excellent illustrations. Mrs. Story of How They Came to be Written” (Macmillan),
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and the colored pictures by Miss Kate Greenaway show the color printing and engraving by Mr. Edmund
three girls of assorted sizes, two with light hair and one Evans. “The Frog Prince," “ The Hind in the Wood,"
with dark hair. Mother Goose, perennial well-spring and « Beauty and the Beast” are at band, with all
of wholesome mirth, is the foundation for the book, their wealth of color and detail. Apart from the bis-
which is worth anyone's while to read. Tunes are pro- toric value of the text the pictures are sufficiently dec-
vided, music and all, and if our children cannot all be orative to be used on the nursery walls by lovers of
Miss Greenaway's kind of children, they can all read life and beauty.
what they said and did and sang. An ingenious and
Favorite
There remain for mention a few good old
profitable work is labelled, somewhat extensively, “The
books made new by the ingenuity of wri-
Home of Santa Claus, a Story of Leslie Gordon's new form.
ters, artists, or publishers, giving a new
Visit to Father Christmas, and of the Strange Sights lease of life to favorites which have long proved
he Bebeld in the Town of Toys” (Cassell). It is an themselves superior to the sharpest tooth of time. Not
original book, especially in respect of its illustrations,
the least ingenious of these is a clever adaptation of
which are reproduced from Mr. Arthur Ulyett's photo Æsop by Mr. James J. Mora, which he calls “The
grapbs. Mr. George A. Best tells the story of the dolls
Animals of Æsop” (Estes). Mr. Mora is best known
and other toys which make up the subordinate charac-
as an artist, and his innumerable sketches, scattered
ters of the narrative, and their likenesses are used in a
through the text and margins, do nothing to belie his
novel manner for the pictures. — As a welcome sequel excellent reputation in that regard. But in addition to
to the favorite “ Arabella and Araminta" stories, Miss
all this, he has modified and modernized the ancient
Gertrude Smith has provided “The Roggie and Reggie
fables in quite the spirit of the original, leaving a book
Stories ” (Harper), and the successful pictures of the which will amuse at the same time that it impresses
previous work are made new for this by Mr. E. Mars
the good old lessons of the lapsing ages. — Judge
and Miss M. H. Squire, all in color. Arabella and
Edward Abbott Parry has returned to an earlier man-
Araminta appear in the narrative, but not in the illus-
ner in his rendering of “ Don Quixote of the Mancba "
trations, and the ensemble is admirable.-" The Jungle (John Lane), leaving the broader humor of his “ Butter-
School ; or, Dr. Jibber-jabber Burcball's Academy” scotia" for an adaptation of John Shelton's famous
(Cassell) is by Mr. S. H. Hamer, the drawings by Mr.
translation. Mr. Walter Crane makes the drawings
Harry B. Neilson, two ingenious and witty gentlemen for the sumptuous work, which, though it contains
who will be recalled as the inventors of “ Micky Magee's hardly a tithe of Cervantes's history, is excellently
Menagerie” a year or two ago. The eminent pedagogue done, once the audacity of it has been condoned. — of
at the head of this institute of learning looks mightily less daring, perbaps because the text is in a more
like a dog, and his pupils for all the world like monkeys, archaic English, is Miss Mary Macleod's “ Book of
tigers, and their cousins and aunts, though the life is King Arthur and His Noble Knights" (E. & J. B.
that of the conventional English boarding-school, con- Young & Co.), with a careful introduction by Mr.
siderably jollified.—Miss Margaret Jobnson both writes John W. Hales, and numerous illustrations by the
and illustrates “ What Did the Black Cat Do? Guess!"
sculptor, Mr. A. G. Walker. The stories are taken
(Estes), the band lettering being in her well-known
bodily from Sir Thomas Malory, and the introduction
manner, with pictures of things introduced instead of rejoices in a biographical account of that gentle knight,
the names of them. It may be added that the Black
made possible by Professor Kittredge's recent investi-
Cat does almost everything, from losing a pair of spec- gations and discoveries. The book is a joy to those
tacles to putting his feet in the ink.-Mr. S. H. Hamer
who bave the love of the Round Table in their hearts,
writes the text of “ Animal Land for Little People' and will answer for large children as well as small.
(Cassell), the numerous pictures being half-tone repro- “ Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights" (Macmillan)
ductions of beasts in the London Zoological Gardens, contains most of the prime favorites of that glowing
which give the work an air of undoubted authenticity. work, including accounts of such important function-
A miscellany of pictures, rhymes, and prose is to be aries as Ali Baba, Aladdin, Prince Camaralzaman, the
found in “Bo-Peep, a Treasury for the Little Ones" King of Persia, and the Princess of the Sea. Twelve
(Cassell). Some of the drawings are as funny as they pictures by Mr. T. H. Robinson, the frontispiece in
can be, one concerning a boy, a cow, and a camera be- color, make the little book a delight. — With Mr.
ing especially noteworthy. - But the greatest of all the
George Ludington Weed's “Life of St. John for the
collections for small boys and girls will be found again Young" (Jacobs), a companion to last year's life of
in “The Little Folks' Illustrated Annual” (Estes), for St. Paul, both of them pious and carefully-executed
which the cleverest productions of many pens and pen- works, the reviewer of children's books wishes his
cils have been selected, with great good taste and entire readers a very merry new century.
good nature. - E. Nesbit bas written a most delight-
ful addition to unnatural history, a sumptuous book
illustrated by Mr. H. R. Millar, with a number of
MR. A. B. HINDs has undertaken a new translation
decorated pages by Mr. H. Granville Fell. The re- of Vasari's “Lives of the Painters, Sculptors, and
sult is given the name of “The Book of Dragons” Architects” for the “ Temple Classics ” (Macmillan).
(Harper), and contains eight chapters, each dealing The edition will comprise eight volumes, three of
with certain interesting episodes in the life-bistory of which are now ready. Other recent issues in tbe same
one particular dragon. Some of these beasts are wild series include the second and third volumes of Macau-
and some quite domestic in their personal babits, de- lay's Essays; the second volume of Mr. F. S. Ellis's
pending to a marked degree on the sort of example set interesting adaptation of “The Romance of the Rose";
them by the numerous small girls of the stories, who the sixth volume in Caxton's version of « The Golden
aré, or ought to be, their betters. — It is an undiluted Legend "; and a one-volume edition of Mrs. Gaskell's
pleasure to announce a re-issue of Mr. Walter Crane's “Cranford,” with a frontispiece portrait of the author
large series of picture books issued by Mr. John Lane, which is as charming as the story itself.
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NOTES.
others still are Ruskin's “ King of the Golden River,”
The Macmillan Co. have published Irving's “Sketch
edited by Professor M. V. O'Shea, and Lamb's “ Ad-
Book " in their school series of “Pocket English
ventures of Ulysses,” edited by Professor W. P. Trent.
Classics."
The Messrs. Putnam are the publishers of a “Knick-
Mr. H. W. Mabie's “ Norse Stories Retold from the
erbocker Literature Series," intended for school use as
Eddas,” now nearly twenty years old, is published in a supplementary reading matter, and the initial volume
second edition by Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co.
is an abridgement of Mr. Theodore Roosevelt's “Win-
“ Inductive Lessons in Rhetoric,” by Miss Frances ning of the West,” the editing done by Mr. Frank
W. Lewis, accompanied by a “ teacher's manual ” in
Lincoln Olmsted.
pamphlet form, is a recent publication of Messrs. D. C. Having undertaken to prepare the papers of Chief
Heath & Co.
Justice Salmon P. Chase for publication by the Histor-
A new and cheaper edition of Mr. Howard Crosby
ical Manuscripts Commission of the American His-
Butler's interesting work on “Scotland's Ruined Ab-
torical Association, Mr. Herbert Friedenwald would
beys," first issued last year, has been publisbed by the
be glad to hear from all persons having original Chase
Macmillan Co.
papers in their possession. He may be addressed at
1300 Locust St., Philadelphia.
Messrs. Gion & Co. publish “ One Thousand Prob.
lems in Physics,” by Messrs. William H. Snyder and
An interesting reprint of an unique book originally
Irving 0. Palmer. As a labor-saving manual for
issued in the early part of the century will shortly be
teachers, this little book is of distinct value.
published by Messrs. Truslove, Hanson & Comba. The
The exclusive rights for the publication of the
work is from the pen of James Puckle, N.P., and bears
French text of M. Rostand's “L'Aiglon” in the
the lengthy title, “ The Club; or, A Grey Cap for a
United States have been secured by Messrs. Bren-
Green Head: Moral Maxims, Advice, and Cautions, in
tano's, who will issue the work immediately.
a Dialogue between a Father and Son." The reprint
will contain an Introduction by Mr. Austin Dobson,
Messrs. T. Y. Crowell & Co. announce for immedi-
and will be illustrated with fifty wood-cuts from de-
áte publication a book by the Rev. Stopford A. Brooke,
entitled "Religion in Literature and Religion in Life.”
signs by Thurston.
The same firm will also issue at once a new book of
“ The Day's Work Series" is a collection of small
verses by Sir Lewis Morris.
volumes published by Messrs. L. C. Page & Co. Thir-
“Studies of Plant Life," published by Messrs. D. C.
teen volumes bave just been sent us, of which the fol.
Heath & Co., is a manual of elementary exercises for
lowing may be named as typical of the whole: “The
Strength of Being Clean," by President D. S. Jordan;
classes in botany, the joint work of three experienced
Why Go to Church ? " by Dr. Lyman Abbott; “Our
teachers, Messrs. Herman S. Pepoon, Walter R.
Common Christianity,” by Dean Stanley; and “The
Mitchell, and Fred B. Maxwell.
Wisdom of Washington," selected by James Parton.
Macaulay's essays on Addison and Milton, and
The other volumes range all the way from Emerson to
Milton's " Minor Poems," all edited by Mr. Arthur P.
Bok in their authorship and their weightiness.
Walker, constitute three volumes of the series of
Christmas week will witness the usual gatherings of
« English Classics” published by Messrs. D. C. Heath
the scientific societies, and the chief places of interest
& Co., and now issued in a new dress.
this year will be Detroit and Philadelphia. The Amer.
A new translation of Flaubert's “Salamm bô,” made
ican Economic Association is to meet in the former
by Madame Zepäide A. Ragozin, has been published
city, while the latter will be the meeting-place of the
by Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons, in their series entitled
Archæological Institute, the Philological Association,
“Tales of the Heroic Ages.” The volume is illustrated,
historically rather than imaginatively,
the Modern Language Association, the Oriental Soci-
ety, and the Folk Lore Society. The programmes
“ International Law," by Mr. F. E. Smith, is a
prepared for these meetings are of great interest, and
« Temple Primer” (Macmillan) that ought to be found
should attract a large attendance in both cities.
useful by a great many readers in these days of wars
In the death of Professor Burke Aaron Hinsdale, of
and rumors of wars, of diplomatic tension and the
the University of Michigan, THE DIAL has lost one of
benevolent assimilation of inferior peoples.
its most valued contributors, and American historical
“ Botany: An Elementary Text for Schools,” by Mr.
scholarship one of its leading representatives. Pro-
L. H. Bailey, is the latest work of that prolific and fessor Hinsdale was born in Ohio, March 31, 1837,
authoritative author, and is published by the Macmillan and his career was a striking illustration of the way in
Co. It is a school book of the modern methods, and which intellectual force can make itself felt when de-
is noticeable for the beauty of its many illustrations.
prived of the ordinary technical training. Although
The latest additions to the attractive pictorial sou- he did not have the advantages of a college education,
venirs of popular actors and actresses of the day pub- he became president of a college at the age of thirty-
lished by Mr. R. H. Russell are devoted to Mr. John three, and occupied this post from 1870 to 1882. He
Drew as “ Richard Carvel," Miss Annie Russell in “A left Hiram College to become superintendent of the
Royal Family,” and Miss Maude Adams in “ L'Aiglon.” Cleveland schools from 1882 to 1886. In 1888 he
We have received several new numbers in the series began his connection with the University of Michigan,
of “ Home and School Classics” published by Messrs. his chair being that of pedagogy. He was the author
D. C. Heath & Co. Notable among these pamphlet of “The Old Northwest," “ The American Govern-
texts are the abridged Shakespearian plays edited by ment," “ How to Study and Teach History," “ Teach-
Mrs. Sarah Willard Hiestand.' Large type and simple ing the Language Arts," and many other books in his
illustrations make these texts very attractive. “Gul- chosen fields of history and pedagogy. He died on the
liver's Travels,” edited by Mr. Thomas M. Balliet, 29th of November, at Atlanta, Georgia.
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AN INDEX OF ADVERTISERS
Appearing in THE DIAL'S Holiday Issues,
DECEMBER 1 AND 16, 1900.
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408
406
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468
456
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NEW YORK CITY.
Charles Scribner's Sons
378, 379, 380, 381, 382, 383, 384, 385, 462, 469
D. Appleton & Company
400, 401, 402, 403
Harper & Brothers .
377, 470, 471
Macmillan Company
407, 484
Thomas Y. Crowell & Company 386, 387, 474
G. P. Putnam's Sons
391, 460, 483
Dodd, Mead & Company
450, 458
Longmans, Green, & Company
390
Thomas Nelson & Sons
454, 475
A. Wessels Company
404, 405, 479
Frederick A. Stokes Company
452, 453
Baker & Taylor Company 394, 463, 476, 516
Doubleday, Page & Company
457, 480, 515
John Lane
446, 477
McClure, Phillips & Company
451, 478
Oxford University Press
393
E. P. Dutton & Company
395
Cassell & Company, Ltd.
Brentano's
458, 482
Silver, Burdett & Company
446, 481
New Amsterdam Book Company
445, 483
E. & J. B. Young & Company
445
R. H. Russell
464, 516
A. S. Barnes & Company
F. M. Lupton Publishing Company
459
G. W. Dillingham Company
444
The Book Buyer
462
Review of Reviews Company
461
World's Work .
The Critic Company
460
Lemcke & Buechner
443
M. F. Mansfield
464, 514
William R. Jenkins
464, 516
Cooke & Fry
463, 516
Abbey Press
464, 516
Bonnell, Silver & Company
Dodge Publishing Company
464, 515
Home Publishing Company
464
New Talmud Publishing Company
464, 516
F. E. Grant
463, 516
E. W. Johnson
516
New York Bureau of Revision
464, 515
United Literary Press .
464
John Russell Davidson
464, 515
Fitzroy D'Arcy & John M. Leahy
464, 515
Henry Arden
465, 514
Liebig Company
442
459, 482
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BOSTON.
Houghton, Miffin & Company
449, 459, 481
Dana Estes & Company
388, 389
Little, Brown, & Company
447
Small, Maynard & Company
520
Charles E. Lauriat Company
462, 517
Forbes & Company
463
A. W. Elson & Company
Bradlee Whidden
444
Directors of Old South Work
464
Cambridgeport Diary Company
.465
Living Age Company
460, 517
Good Cheer
463
Authors' Agency (Wm. A. Dresser)
442
Benj. H. Sanborn & Company
464, 516
F. H. Williams
464, 515
CHICAGO.
A. C. McClurg & Company
455
Fleming H. Revell Company
Rand, McNally & Company
• 392
American Book Company
Laird & Lee.
George M. Hill Company
459
Brentano's
463, 515, 517
Western Methodist Book Concern
444
The Pilgrim Press
462
Brush & Pencil Publishing Company
443, 514
Williams, Barker & Severn Company
442
F. M. Morris
463, 516
Anna Morgan Studio
465
Herbert A. Coffeen
465
A. A. Devore & Son
465
Nicoll the Tailor
465, 515
Studebaker Brothers Company
467, 519
Chicago Electrotype Company
465
Chicago Telephone Company
465, 518
The Fine Arts Building
466, 518
The Studebaker
466, 518
Chicago Orchestra
466, 518
Big Four Route
466, 518
Chicago & North-Western Railway
MISCELLANEOUS.
Albert Brandt, Trenton, N. J. . . . 443, 483, 514
American Press Company, Baltimore, Md. 463, 516
John S. Bridges & Co., Baltimore, Md.
· 516
Robert Clarke Company, Cincinnati, O.
Queen & Crescent Route, Cincinnati, O. 466, 518
H. H. Timby, Conneaut, 0.
463, 516
Dudley Phelps, Evanston, Ill.
John W. Cadby, Albany, N. Y.
463, 516
Colonial Literary Association, E. Orange, N.J. 464, 515
Travelers Insurance Company, Hartford, Conn. 465
Union Fence Company, DeKalb, Ill. 465, 516
Walter T. Spencer, London, England
464
Baker's Great Book Shop, Birmingham, Eng. 464, 515
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J. B. Lippincott Company
396, 397, 398, 399
Henry T. Coates & Company
472, 473
L. C. Boname
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William J. Campbell
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