n and enjoyment of this graceful Puritan pasto-
author, and discusses the secret of the longevityral. Bright, open type, pliant, lightly glazed paper,
and perennial charm of his work —“one of the few and a modestly decorative cover of maroon and gilt,
books,” he avers, “which I can return to and re-read make up a tempting ensemble.
every six or seven years." Let us add that the A new and revised edition of Mr. Joel Chandler
qualities which have kept White's - Selborne ” fresh Harris's inimitable “ Uncle Remus," with an added
and sweet while so many learned treatises on its feature in the shape of a hundred and twelve vig-
theme have sunk to their kindred dust, are the nettes from the whimsical pencil of Mr. A. B. Frost,
dominant ones in Mr. Burroughs's own fragrant together with a frontispiece showing the aged fab-
pages.
ulist pouring his marvels into the ear of the little
A new two-volume edition of Mrs. Jane G. Aus- boy, is attractively issued by Messrs. D. Appleton
tin's popular historical novel, “Standish of Stan- & Co. Mr. Frost's conceptions of “ Brer Rabbit,”
dish,” that fastidious book-buyers will find hard to “ Brer B’ar,” etc., are indescribably funny,—plainly
resist is issued by Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. the one element needed to round out « Uncle Re-
Timeliness of theme and quiet elegance of make-up mus” and make it" a joy forever.” In addition to
combine to make the work one of the most desir- the fables, the book contains Songs and Sayings of
able gift-books of the season. The pictorial feature “Uncle Remus,” together with “Plantation Revels'
is twenty full-page illustrations by Mr. Frank T. and “ A Story of the War.” Mr. Harris furnishes
Merrill, whom we heartily congratulate on the an Introduction which will interest those inclined
really high artistic quality of his work. There are to view the stories from the folk-lorist's standpoint.
few plates in this series that are not gems in their Mr. Thomas Nelson Page's familiar tale of Old
class – graceful and spirited in conception, and Virginia, “Unc’Edinburg,” is now issued by Messrs.
sound in execution. It is a pleasure to welcome Charles Scribner's Sons in a neatly appointed small-
such refined and finished productions from the pen- folio volume, similar to their editions of the same
cil of a native illustrator. Of Mrs. Austin's popu- author's “ Marse Chan” and “Meh Lady.” The
lar romance we need only say that it is at once pic- illustrator is Mr. B. West Clinedinst, who shows a
turesque and scholarly, presenting in the form most good appreciation of his author, and the due famil-
generally attractive a phase of our national life iarity with “ Old Dominion" types. Everyone who
story that is just now the subject of widespread and reads Mr. Page at all should read “Unc' Edin-
deserved, if somewhat belated, interest.
burg," for it is decidedly one of the best things he
Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.'s new edition has done - and Mr. Page is easily chief in his
of Longfellow's “ Hiawatha” is a model one for chosen literary province. Somehow these romantic
practical use, and luxurious enough withal to make little stories of his, which we take to be at bottom
it a suitable Holiday gift. The art feature is twenty- reminiscent of a past social phase more than half
two full - page photographic plates from designs regretted by the author, leave an impression that
originally made by Mr. Frederic Remington for if the war wiped out a great moral wrong
the elaborate edition of the poem issued by the tional stain, it also did away with a good deal that
same firm five seasons ago, the plates being now was beautiful and picturesque in our somewhat pro-
considerably reduced. For practical purposes, the saic and uniform civilization.
present handier and more modest form is much the Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co.'s tastefully ornate edi-
better. Mr. Remington's designs are, as usual, re- tion of Goldsmith's “She Stoops to Conquer," uni-
morselessly realistic — too much so, we think, for form with the firm's “ The Rivals,” “ The School for
their illustrative aim and poetical setting. Here, Scandal,” etc., of former seasons, will doubtless find
Mr. Remington ould probably furnish cogent ar- friends among seekers of pretty yet inexpensive
guments contra ; but we wish, nevertheless, he had gift-books. The illustrator this time is Mr. F. C.
thought fit to idealize, or “Cooperize," his more Gordon, and he has done fairly well, though his
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drawings generally are hardly up to the require- “Notes of a Professional Exile,” by E. S. Nadal. Mr.
ments of the text in the qualities of verve and hu- Edwards once more finds his theme and types among
mor. Two or three of the plates are not unworthy the hardy fisher-folk of the islands off the Maine
of Mr. Abbey, while some of them are rather me- coast, a region pleasantly exploited in his “ P'tit
diocre. The book is showily bound in dark-green Matinic.”—Dr. Mitchell's book offers two heretofore
cloth with gold stamping, and the text is clearly unpublished sketches: the one from which the volume
printed on rather thick glazed paper, full gilt. takes the title, and a bizarre story of the French
A very inviting edition of Charles Reade's fine Revolution entitled “A Little More Burgundy.”
novel, “ Christie Johnstone” (Dodd, Mead & Co.), The plot of the latter tale is ingenious enough. A
is likely to prove one of the season’s favorites. The family of suspects hide themselves from the fury of
story, it is needless to say, is one of Reade's best- the Jacobins in a wine-celler, the entrance to which
capital as a story, and vivid and life-like as a pic- is finally closed against them. The cellar commu-
ture of a piquant phase of Scotch life and manners. nicates with the catacombs; and here the fugitives
Walter Scott himself has scarcely done anything lose their way and wander about for days, emerging
better in their way than one or two of the episodes opportunely just as the arch-terrorist, or arch-scape-
-Christie's famous tongue-duel, for instance, with goat, Robespierre, is overthrown and sent to “sneeze
ill-starred Beeny Liston. The plates in the volume in the sack” (according to the odious slang of the
are so good, for the most part, as to make the omis- day) by the Thermidorians. Dr. Mitchell makes
sion of the artist's name rather surprising; and, the most of his striking situation.—Mr. Nadal, who
altogether, print, paper, binding, and press-work, was for some time a secretary of legation at London,
combine to make up a material ensemble worthy of presents in his little book a sheaf of sketches of life
and character as seen at an imaginary continental
Eugène Sue's ever-fascinating romance, “The watering-place, together with some other interesting
Wandering Jew,” once more emerges in a new garb, notes and memories. The papers are pleasantly
this time in two generous 12mo volumes from the written, crisp, chatty, and shrewd, brightened with
press of Messrs. T. Y. Crowell & Co., whose neat a vein of unforced humor, and sprinkled with
and inexpensive editions of standard books we have sketches of or comments on many people famous or
often commended. The volumes contain eighteen notorious, from Gladstone and Matthew Arnold,
full-page illustrations, including two frontispieces down to that eminent Bostonian, Mr. John Sullivan.
in photogravure. The original Chapman & Hall Each of the dainty trio of volumes is full gilt, bound
version, probably the best, has been reprinted from in stamped leather, and furnished with a frontis-
new plates; and, altogether, the edition, like other piece drawing and tinted title-page.
similar ventures of this firm's, is all, and rather The students of the Art School at Birmingham,
more, than might be expected for the price. England, have exercised their talents to good pur-
Mr. F. Marion Crawford's graphic papers on pose in the drawings and decorations of an art edi-
“Constantinople," with twenty-eight illustrations by tion of Mr. S. Baring-Gould's “ Book of Nursery
Mr. E. L. Weeks, are reprinted in tempting style Songs and Rhymes” (Lippincott). The text, which
by Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons. The theme is contains most of the old nursery favorites, is framed
a congenial one to Mr. Crawford's rather florid pen, in freely decorated pages, each having a heavy bor-
and he makes the shifting panorama of the city of der of conventional flowers and leaves in black-and-
the Golden Horn pass vividly before us in its pris- white. The plates are quaint pre-Raphaelite rep-
matic contrasts and cosmopolitan variety. Mr. resentations of the familiar nursery characters,
Weeks's drawings, notably a fine study of an Ar- “ Jack Horner,” for example, being drawn by the
menian and a view of Galata bridge, are satisfac- artist as a severe young man of the “ Bunthorne "
tory, and bear out the glowing descriptions of the type, who looks heartily ashamed of his frivolous
text. Mr. Crawford inclines to take a very favor- Christmas-pie propensities. The editor's introduc-
able view of the Turk, that is, the real Turk, whom tion is a humorously-written but forcible defense of
he styles “a fine fellow, belonging to the superior the “nonsense theory” of nursery rhymes, as op-
and dominant races of the world. . . . He is sober; he posed to the archæological theory so profoundly
is clean; and he is honest, even to his own disadvan- urged by certain laborious writers. The book will
tage, being by no means a match for the wily Greeks amuse and entertain all persons who have not out-
and Armenians, who are perpetually fattening on grown the traditions and pleasures of their child-
his heart.” The conception of the Turk as an injured hood.
innocent preyed on by Armenians is a novel, and, Mr. E. A. Vizetelly’s English version of M. Zola's
just now, a rather startling one. Perhaps Mr. "A Love Episode" ("Une Page d'Amour”) is
Crawford would regard this “fine fellow's " recent issued in a thick and rather cumbrous octavo volume
performances as justifiable, if somewhat stern, re- by the Lippincott Co. The work is soberly mounted,
prisals.
and contains ninety-four passable wood-cuts after
Three new volumes in The Century Co.'s tiny M. E. Thevenot's designs. The romance shows,
“ Thumb-Nail Series”
are: “The Rivalries of Long perhaps, M. Zola at his best, or at any rate at his
and Short Codiac," by George Wharton Edwards; highest and cleanliest; and it proves pretty conclu-
“A Madeira Party,” by Dr. S. Weir Mitchell ; and sively that his realism can cut below the surface,


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and is not, as commonly charged, confined to out-
BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG.
ward and visible things. The account of Helene
Grandchamp's struggle with passion, her fall and
The number of new Christmas books for children is
retribution, is profoundly pathetic,—the story, as so large this year that it seems as though the old ones
Mr. Lang observed, of “a good and pure woman must be crowded out by them. The imagination that
upon whom the fate of her family falls, with the goes to the making of such a collection might almost
result that she loves a kind of Dr. Brand Firmin, supply a modern school of fiction; yet here it is scat-
like the father of Philip in Thackeray's novel.” tered through some half a hundred volumes, frittering
In his preface, Mr. Vizetelly prudently observes
away its usefulness in impractical and impossible ex-
that “whatever charges may be levelled against travagances. Brought to bear thus upon childhood, it
some of M. Zola's works, nobody can say that this
may stimulate the heroes and geniuses who shall in the
future do the world's great work; but it seems more
tale tends to corrupt and debase; for it teaches the
probable that it may crush them. Nevertheless, there
wholesome lesson that dereliction of duty, whatever
are a few books that compensate for the general medi-
its attendant extenuating circumstances,' brings ocrity, which was perhaps necessary to produce the
with it its own harrowing punishment.” One won- others; and no year can be called barren which brings
ders what M. Zola himself might say of this emi- to light a masterpiece like Mr. Kipling's “Second Jungle
nently British appreciation of an art work. Mr. Book” (Century Co.). Nothing could be of more ab-
Vizetelly's is the only authorized English version. sorbing interest to children; and yet so artistic a book
A dainty, moderate-priced gift-book may be
should not be confined to them alone. When one en-
found in Messrs. T. Y. Crowell & Co.'s “ La Belle
counters work as original, as imaginative, as masterly
Nivernaise, and Other Stories,” by Alphonse Dau-
as this, no words can convey an idea of the thing itself.
det,---- a comely 16mo, with a cover of pale green
Mr. Kipling takes all nature for his province; he seems
as familiar with the flowers of the field as with the
with gilt side-stamp. Besides the opening story,
beasts of the jungle. And the truth of his statements
there are five others : “ Jarjaille's Visit to the Good is never doubted for an instant. His creatures are alive
God," “ The Fig and the Sluggard,” “My First in every muscle, and they are not human beings mas-
Dress-Coat,” « Father Balaguère's Christmas Feast,"querading in hair and claws. They are beasts, with the
and “The New Teacher.” The text is liberally
instincts and desires of beasts, but with emotions enough
sprinkled with slight, though piquant and clever,
like our own to make us shudder now and then. An
pen-sketches — which are decidedly better than the
imagination which can make such creatures live for us,
rather insipid full-page plates. In "My First Dress-
which can give us a breathless interest in their suffer-
Coat,” the author treats us to a pleasant bit of superb description of the drought in the jungle, with
ings and triumphs, seems beyond the human. From the
youthful autobiography. Of all M. Daudet's short
which the book opens, to the last tale, in which the
stories, “ La Belle Nivernaise "is, to our notion, the irreconcilable, eternal difference between man and beast
most charming; and, if one is to read it in En- is borne in upon us, the book is a series of magnificent
glish, the present edition is preferable to any that pictures. It is never still, though, but the rush of its
we now recall. Mr. Huntington Smith's rendering movement has a certain stately dignity which makes
is satisfactory, barring an occasional tendency to one respect the Law of the Jungle. Each story is in-
put American slang into the mouth of Père Lou-
troduced and ended with a little poem, and these rhyth-
veau—which is, after all
, excusable enough, in view
mical songs are the work of a true poet, one of the
truest poets who is writing in English to-day. Cer-
of the difficulty of getting a foreign equivalent for
tainly no other could have conceived “Mowgli's Song
the good skipper's queer argot.
against People,” “Child's Song,” and “The Song of tho
Lovers of droll pictures may find their account Little Hunter.” They cling in the mind, like the great
in the two large-quarto volumes entitled severally fight with Red Dog in the Place of Death where lived
“ Chip’s Dogs” and “Chip’s Old Woodcuts” (R. the “ busy, furious Little People of the Rocks." There
H. Russell & Son), by the late Mr. F. P. Bellew is a vivid directness about all these descriptions which
(“Chip”), who will be pleasantly remembered by brings them straight home.
readers of “ Life.” The first-named volume is es-
Aside from this, the most interesting work this year is
pecially funny — rather in Mr. A. B. Frost's quaint
done by Mr. Joel Chandler Harris, Mr. Theodore Roose-
velt, Mr. Edmondo de Amicis, Mr. Howard Pyle, Mr.
vein; and ought to suffice to expel the “ blues ” from
James Baldwin, Mr. A. J. Church, and Mrs. Catharine
anyone whose bump of humor is not, as the Irish-
Yale. Mr. Harris's book is a sequel to “Little Mr. Thim-
man expressed it, "a dent.” The books are neatly blefinger and his Queer Country," and it is called “Mr.
bound in strong boards, and printed on smooth Rabbit at Home" (Houghton). The illustrations, by Mr.
plate paper.
Oliver Herford, are almost as charming as the stories
Dr. William Dodd's “Beauties of Shakespeare” themselves, and that is saying much. The talk between
is an excellent anthology, and Messrs. T. Y. Crow- Buster John, Sweetest Susan, Drusilla, and Mr. Rabbit
ell & Co. have made a pretty handy-edition of it,
is delightful, never heavy, and always stimulating one's
interest in the tale that follows.
in two trim 16mo volumes. Certain judicious ad-
There is a sparkling
ditions have been made to the original illustrations,
gaiety about the book which few writers know how to
attain, and it is worth any number of moral lectures.
and the text has been carefully revised. The vol-
The imagination that evolved “Uncle Remus” is turned
umes are printed from new plates, and there are
to good account in these brief stories, and they are as
two frontispieces in photogravure - a portrait of delightful as a keen wit, a light heart, and a whimsical
Shakespeare, and a Stratford view.
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what more self-conscious, but it is good and honest J. Selwin Tait has written in a bright and graceful way
nevertheless. “The Garden Behind the Moon” (Scrib- of the extraordinary adventures of “Wayne and his
ner) is as fascinating as its title, and the drawings by Friends" (J. Selwin Tait & Sons). The beginning of
the author are a potent factor in this result. There is a mythical story makes the boy dream of the most un-
a wise simplicity about the style which appeals to chil- usual deeds of prowess and daring. Ferocious beasts
dren of all ages.
“ You may smile at this story if you quail before this valiant knight, who passes among
them
choose,” he says at the end, " and call it all moonshine, unharmed because he is without fear.-It is delightful
but if you do not believe by this time that there is to find a real fairy-story like “The Elf-Errant” (Dodd,
more in moonshine than the glimmer and the wbiteness, Mead & Co.), one that has the atmosphere of fairy-land,
why, I could not make you believe it if I were to write its daintiness, its flower - like grace. Miss O'Neill's
a hundred and twenty-seven great books instead of this style is as light as thistle-down, as exquisite as a hare-
short story." But Mr. Pyle's readers do not doubt it bell; and she has the poetic instinct which alone can
for a moment.—“More Fairy Tales from the Arabian make fairy-land the place of all others for children to
Nights” (Putnam ) is a sumptuous volume, well roam in. The little book is printed on excellent paper
printed and bound, and illustrated with J. D. Bat- and is admirably illustrated by W. E. F. Britten.- It
ten's beautiful decorative drawings. The text is that is a decided contrast to “The Brownies Through the
of Galland, 1821, somewhat abridged and edited for Union " (Century Co.), in which Mr. Palmer Cox shows
the young by E. Dixon; and it forms an excellent in- once again a certain facility in the making of amusing
troduction to those immortal tales which have helped little figures and sadly prosaic verses. The
first Brownie
80 long to keep the weary world young.—It was a haz- book was clever, but the fifth is merely wearisome.
ardous experiment that Anna M. Richards tried in “A Mr. Cox's imagination was long ago exbausted, and he
New Alice in the Old Wonderland” (Lippincott), and is trying to repeat a former success. It is a pity that
it is not at all strange that it is a failure. Those who these books have become so popular, for the verses con-
love the original Alice will be glad to meet the familiar tain few ideas and no rhythm.— The set of Banbury
figures again, but they will be sorry, too, to find that Cross books (Macmillan), which comes in a green cloth
they have somehow lost their old elusive charm. There case, will do children far more good, for they are written
is a good deal of cleverness in the book, but alas ! so in excellent English and illustrated by artists. They are
much less than went into the making of its prototype. the familiar old stories, like “Jack the Giant-Killer,"
And the nonsense verses have no music in them.-Mrs. “ Bluebeard,” and the “Sleeping Beauty"; and the
Yale's fairy-tales are of a different kind from any of series is edited by Grace Rhys, and illustrated by R.
these. “Nim and Cum, and the Wonder-Head Stories" Anning Bell and others.— Mr. S. Baring-Gould's “Old
(Way & Williams) is as light and delicate and fanciful English Fairy Tales” (Way & Williams) represents,
as a bit of Dresden china. The simple pretty allegory we believe, the first attempt to gather and adapt to the
of the cloud story at the beginning is of a kind to de- reading of children a representative collection of the
light imaginative children ; and the tales which follow older English folk tales and traditionary stories. Of
it seem to be borne out of the common practical world, renderings and adaptations from foreign authors, such
and yet to be of it. They have the realities of life in as the brothers Grimm, Andersen, Perault, the Countess
them, but they are so deftly touched as to appear to D'Aulnoy, etc., there has been no lack; but the native
belong to the realm of fancy. It is an artistic hand springs have been strangely neglected. The volume
that has builded them.
differs from the recent kindred collections of Mr. Joseph
The stories in “The Silver Fairy Book" (Putnam) Jacobs, in that the author has gone mainly to the ancient
are gathered from many sources. Sarah Bernhardt sources, while Mr. Jacobs's stories are largely of modern
writes one, and a sadly theatrical one it is; Voltaire an- origin. We may add that Mr. Baring-Gould has suc-
other, Higésippe Moreau a third, and others are drawn ceeded much better than his co-worker in talking down
from the Spanish, German, and Servian. Naturally
to tbe mental level of the little ones for whom his book
they are of different degrees of merit, but some of them is primarily written. Unless our memory deceives us
are charming, delicately suggestive of large issues. The on this point, it would take a very wise child indeed to
drawings by H. R. Millar are perhaps the best thing wrestle successfully with Mr. Jacobs's diction. The
about the book, though, so genuinely original and artis- volume is a tasteful and durable piece of book-making;
tic are they. In Mr. Millar's handling of black-and- and the fanciful full-page drawings of Mr. F. D. Bed-
white the influence of Vierge is agreeably evident.-In
ford make it the more attractive.
“Chris and the Wonderful Lamp” (Century Co.) Al- Study some government reports of Indian life, through
bert Stearns has written an amusing story of a young " the courtesy of the Librarian of the Smithsonian In-
American who comes into possession of Aladdin's lamp. stitute” (an organization, by the way, that never ex-
The genie who appears unexpectedly proves himself isted), then thumb the already badly worn “standard
thoroughly modern, and the services he performs for works of Schoolcraft, Copway, and Catlin.” When you
Chris include taking his place in school and on the ball- have done so you will know the Indian, and his psychol-
field. He is clever enough, however, to outwit the boy ogy will be an open book before you. Then sit down,
at many points, and the manifold difficulties of the sit- and, with “S., C. and C." as your mine of crude mate-
uation are described with much humor. The book is rial, make up some Indian stories for children. Secure
well illustrated by Reginald Birch and E. B. Bensell.- an artist, badly infected with some recent fad ideas, to
There is some humor too in “ The Keeper of the Sala- draw a series of astonishingly draped Indian fairies.
mander's Order” (Roberts), by William Shattuck, but All this done, combine the stories and pictures into a
hardly enough to pay for making the acquaintance of book for infliction on helpless childhood. In doing this
the strange beasts and fishes and ogres that abound in its you will repeat Miss Compton's labors in “Snow Bird
pages. It is a long and complicated story, and though and the Water Tiger, and Other American Indian
it required some imagination to write it, it requires lit- Tales” (Dodd). She has produced a pretty book, but,
tle to read it. The cuts are hopelessly inartistic.-Mr. one which can have no reason for existence. “Indian”l,


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What Indian? Are Algonkin and Moki tales the same entertaining. It contains, moreover, the book of the
thing? Why introduce birch-bark canoes and tarantulas year, aside from Mr. Kipling's, which is an exception to
into the same bit of country? Does nature show us any every rule, the one volume which should be in the hands
such curious combinations? If Indian tales are good of every young American. The “Hero Tales from
food for children, let us show the little readers that American History” (The Century Co.) are written by
there are Indians and Indians. Any child who would Henry Cabot Lodge and Theodore Roosevelt, and they
enjoy Miss Compton's stories would still more enjoy are as exciting as one could desire. The preface de-
Charles Godfrey Leland's “ Algonquin Legends of New clares that the object of the book is “ to tell in simple
England” and George Bird Grinnell's “ Pawnee Hero fashion the story of some Americans who showed that
Tales” and “ Blackfoot Lodge Tales "- so beautifully they knew how to live and bow to die; who proved their
and naturally told. The Indian legend does not need truth by their endeavor, and who joined to the stern
“ writing down ” to a child, as Miss Compton seems to and manly qualities which are essential to the well-
think ; told just as it stands, it pleases him. The abil. being of a masterful race the virtues of gentleness, of
ity to express the Indian story aright comes not through patriotism, and of lofty adherence to an ideal.” This
the reading of government reports ; it is absorbed by the authors have done with a direct simplicity which
him or her who lives day after day with the red man. brings the heroic deeds home to the reader with thrill-
Leland's and Grinnell's stories live and breathe : Miss ing effect. The style is admirable, a thing that unfor.
Compton's scarcely gasp. It is a pity that the lady, tunately cannot be often said of books for the young;
who has really a dainty and pretty style, should have and any boy who can read these tales without a quicken-
undertaken this task.
ing of the pulses and an enrichment of character must
It is impossible to classify “Cuore, an Italian School- be made of stone.
boy's Journal” (Crowell), by Edmondo de Amicis. It In “Turning Points in Successful Careers ” (Crowell)
stands alone, with no competition in the same field. And the Rev. William M. Thayer attempts to select the sin-
it has about it a wonderful serenity : this in spite of gle moment in a man's life which has decided its direc-
the adventurous episodes, which are by no means tame. tion. This is often an impossible task, so many ele-
Its influence makes for gentleness and courage, sympa- ments usually enter into a man's choice of occupation.
thy and unselfishness, loyalty and patriotism. The true In some cases, therefore, Mr. Thayer has exaggerated
democracy breathes through these pages; boys of all the importance of certain decisions; and in others he
classes are placed upon a stern equality, and the spirit has even perverted mistakes. This is true of the story
of friendly helpfulness awakened. Their teacher is a of Claflin the merchant, whose abandonment of Greek
fine type and vividly rendered. The style of the book and Latin for business is certainly open to question from
would hardly be possible to a child, yet it is written the point of view of wisdom. Neither was it a deci-
with the simplicity of childhood, and an honest boyish- sion which changed the current of his life, set inevita-
ness hangs about it. This new edition of Isabel F. Hap- bly in one direction. Still, in spite of a certain density
good's translation is illustrated by Italian artists but of insight, the book gives useful accounts of the lives
indifferently well.—"The Child's Garden of Song" of eminent men.“
1.-Much the same service is performed
(McClurg) is also unclassifiable. It contains the words for women in Mrs. Sarah Knowles Bolton's 6 Famous
and music of thirty songs, which were selected and ar- Leaders among Women" (Crowell). The selections
ranged by William L. Tomlins, whose wide experience are rather eccentric, but the biographies are written
in the training of children's voices makes him an excel- with vivacity and interlarded with stories. Mrs. Bol-
lent judge. His reputation alone should sell the book, ton always tries to implant a moral, but her style is a
but it has another attraction in the pretty decorations little old for young readers and a little young for older
by Ella Ricketts.
Two books by the Rev. A. J. Church will be
If the world were always beautiful, and children welcomed by all boys and girls who are familiar with
always good, and life always smooth for the virtuous his work. One of them, “Roman Life in the Days of
and rough for the wicked, then “Two Little Pilgrims' Cicero” (Macmillan), contains a series of sketches the
Progress” (Scribner) would be a true story. But as material for which is drawn largely from Cicero's let-
things are arranged in this ungrateful old world, it ters and speeches. They describe many things about
would be hard to find the counterpart of Mrs. Burnett's the life of that time which the school histories always
tale. Although her two pilgrims are but twelve years omit, things that lend reality and novelty and color to
old and travel alone to the World's Fair, they meet no dry facts. Read in connection with the study of Ro-
difficulties whatever. They have no fear, they never man history, it will not only be useful but eminently
get lost or confused, and find only courtesy and kind- entertaining. Even more interesting perhaps are the
ness. Indeed, they encounter a man who is so fascinated “Stories from Virgil” (Macmillan), by the same au-
that he takes them about and adopts them without fur- thor. The style in which they are told is capital, with
ther parley. But that is not surprising, as two such enough quaintness to suggest the charm of the original
proper
children are not found twice in a lifetime. They and not too much to make it easy to read. Books of
are mentally proper, too, and they have exactly the this kind are invaluable in familiarizing children with
right emotions at the right times. Their ideas assuredly the old stories and giving them the desire in later life
are rather old for their years, and they express them in to read the great poets who narrate them.-Mr. James
a manner that would be stilted at forty; but neverthe- Baldwin has worked in a similar direction in his stories
less sentimental mammas will probably gloat over these of “ Siegfried” and of the “Golden Age,” and the
ancient children, and their offspring will feel guilty be- familiar acquaintance with mythology and legend which
cause they find them dull. The fact that the “City is thus given to a child will be delightful to him all his
Beautiful” appears in the book is its only charm.
If he misses this knowledge in childhood, then
The group of instructive books is small this year, but 80 easily imparted, he can never quite make up for the
it is worth all the great pile of stories of adventure put loss of it afterwards. In this year's volume Mr. Bald-
together, and there are many boys who will find it more win has developed an original idea, and novelty is a
life.
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quality unknown to most of the current books for the
young “The Horse Fair" (Century Co.) is held in
the land of Morgan the fay, to which an American boy
who loves horses is conducted by Cheiron. It was a
horse show such as no other mortal has been permitted
to look upon. The famous chargers of all ages of the
world were gathered there, and the programme of events
is enough to set the slowest blood to racing. The entries
were numerous and included steeds as far separated in
time and quality as Pegasus, Aurora's high-jumpers,
Bucephalus, Bayard, Rozinante, Ichabod Crane's Gun-
powder, and the horses upon which the famous generals
of the world rode to victory. The description of the
fair is written with much skill, and awakens the inter-
est of old and
young.
The boys have much the best of it this year in the
matter of books. The stories of adventure by sea and
land are far more numerous than any others, and no
boy with longings to become a pirate or a highwayman
need go unencouraged. In these romances the devices
of such heroes in many ages and widely different coun-
tries are described for his benefit, and he may choose
whatever method of procedure pleases him best. Of
course there are always nice little boys in these tales,
who are captured, through no indiscretion of their own,
by naughty marauders. But they suffer many hard-
ships in their valiant efforts to avenge the wronged and
punish the wicked ; and though they are always trium-
pbant in the end, their lot is not nearly so attractive as
that of the pirate bold, who is ruler of men and master
of the seas. After all, though, it is no unworthy object
to cultivate the spirit of daring in the American youth.
He is often too easily content with the commonplace
realities of daily life, and it is well to stimulate his
imagination and give him a glimpse of active life out-
side of schools and offices. The best book of this kind
among those just issued is “Jack Ballister's Fortunes,"
written and illustrated by Howard Pyle (Century Co.).
This narrates the history of an English youth of good
family who was kidnapped in 1719, and taken to the
colony of Virginia, where he was sold as a servant.
Dissatisfied with his position, he makes his escape, only
to fall into the hands of the famous “ Blackbeard,"
whose piratical raids along the coast were a terror to
ship-owners. The story of his life with these seamen,
his rescue of a beautiful damsel, and his final return to
home and fortune, is told so well as to be full of intense
interest. The fight especially is capital, and the entire
book is helped much by Mr. Pyle's drawings, which are
delightful.-Mr. G. A. Henty publishes bis customary
three books, and each one has the semi-historical foun-
dation which he affects. “ Through Russian Snows"
(Scribner) is a story of Napoleon's retreat from Mos-
cow ; “A Knight of the White Cross” (Scribner) has
the siege of Rhodes for its centre; and “The Tiger of
Mysore" (Scribner) deals with the war with Tippoo
Saib. To any right-minded boy these subjects are cer-
tainly alluring, and Mr. Henty's skill in dealing with
them is remarkable when one considers the rate of pro-
duction. He has a fertile invention, a good direct
style, and a knowledge of the kind of exciting incident
that appeals to boys. With them these things can
carry him far, even without genius. There is a pic-
turesqueness, too, in the subjects he selects which gives
the books an impetus. The fires and snows lend inter-
ast to the retreat from Moscow, the battle for his faith
egainst the terrible but fascinating barbarian to the
white Knights of St. John, and the terrors of Indian
beasts and jungles and revolts to the war with Tippoo
Saib. Through each of these Mr. Henty interests his
readers in the fortunes of some particular hero, often a
private in the ranks.—Not so skilful are the authors of
“Through Forest and Plain” (Roberts), Ashmore Rus-
san and Frederick Boyle. But they have woven an un-
usual tale about the journey of a collector and two boys
in search of a rare orchid. Costa Rica is the scene of
their adventures, and much information about tropical
plants and flowers is intertwined with the exciting epi-
sodes.— It is more concise than “The Wizard King"
(Lippincott), in which Mr. David Ker has told a story
of the last Moslem invasion of Europe. The title is the
name applied to Sobieski by the Khan of Crim-Tartary ;
and it would be impossible to chronicle here the hair-
breadth escapes, the blood-curdling dangers, the inex-
haustible gore which fill these closely-printed pages.
They rather obscure the nobility of the great Pole's
character.-In “Chilhowee Boys in War Time" (Crow-
ell) Sarah E. Morrison brings us back to our own coun-
try and gives us some account of the War of 1812. The
book is stilted, though, and contains much indifferent
dialect. Its English, even when it is meant to be pure,
is of inferior quality, and entirely unworthy the perusal
of impressionable children.—Messrs. G. P. Putnam's
Sons have brought out a new edition of Captain Mar-
ryat's “Mr. Midshipman Easy.” It is well printed in
one large volume and contains many illustrations by R.
F. Zogbaum. These are so well drawn as to be a de-
cided help to the text, and boys will find them an effec-
tive invitation to a closer acquaintance with this fam-
ous hero.—There are two books this year by Mr. Kirk
Munroe, whose name is familiar to the young. One,
“Snow-Shoes and Sledges ” (Harper), is a sequel to
“ The Fur-Seal's Tooth," and it carries the same char-
acters through a series of dangers in Alaska. The
boys, in whom one becomes interested, pass through
them safely and succeed in outwitting their enemies. -
“ At War with Pontiac, or the Totem of the Bear"
(Scribner), by the same author, deals with the red-
skins and has a plot that is even more thrilling than the
last. It contains, too, a fascinating Indian maiden, who
makes herself very attractive to the stalwart American
hero. The story is well written, Mr. Munroe being one
of the successful makers of such books. Oliver Optic
publishes another volume in his “ All-over-the-world”
series, this one being entitled “Half Round the World,
or Among the Uncivilized” (Lee & Shepard). Ran-
goon, Singapore, and Java are a few of the places vis-
ited by the floating colony in this volume, and the op-
portunities for novel situations are therefore rich. To
those of us who read Oliver Optic as children he will
always have a warm place in the memory.
Napoleon has always been a heroic figure to the
young, and they will welcome with enthusiasm a book
which deals as happily with him as the one which
Elbridge S. Brooks has just written. “A Boy of the
First Empire” (Century Co.) has for its hero a little
fellow who discloses to Napoleon a plot against his
life. The boy's hearty sincerity commends him to the
Emperor, who makes him a page in his household. His
intimate personal service to the great man tests his
strength of character repeatedly, but his courage and
loyalty prove equal to the test. The story shows one
the brilliancy of life at court, and later the excitement
of the battlefield, and its hero is sent on many a deli-
cate and dangerous mission. The style is good and the
interest never flags. The characters too are something
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better than lay figures, and Mr. H. A. Ogden's illustra- Boyd Allen returns to the present time, he describes a
tions are moderately good.—A different war is the sub- curious hunt for the bones of prehistoric animals in far.
ject of “ Jack Alden” (Crowell), by Mr. Warren Lee away Alaska.—The Indian race plays an important part
Goss. He takes one through the Virginia compaigns in “The Young Ranchers, or Fighting the Sioux "
of thirty years ago; and in his preface he says that (Henry T. Coates & Co.), by Edward S. Ellis; and also
there is not a description of a battle or scene of the in “Roger the Ranger" (Dodd, Mead & Co.), a story
war in this story that is not true to history or to real of border life in which Eliza F. Pollard touches upon
army life.” This is a valuable recommendation, espe- the conquest of French Canada by the British. The
cially as the real life of a soldier was too exciting to figures of Montcalm and Wolfe are conspicuous in this
need any imaginative embellishment. The bardships tale, a fact that will recommend it to all lovers of that
the men had to endure are not neglected, and we are picturesque period.-Canada is also the subject of My
even taken with the hero to Libby Prison and escape Strange Rescue, and Other Stories" (Thomas Nelson
with him. The materials are well handled and make & Sons), by Mr. F. Macdonald Oxley; but it is the Can-
a story which should awaken
the dormant patriotism of ada of the present time and of Mr. Oxley's lively im-
everyone who reads it. — War is the subject, too, of agination.
Mr. Edward King's “ Under the Red Flag" (Henry T. One of the most useful of this year's books is the
Coates & Co.); but in this case it is the most terrible “Popular History of Animals, for Young People" (Lip-
kind of war, that of anarchy and destruction. The hor. pincott), by Henry Scherren. Its object is “to make or
rors of the Paris Commune in 1871 form the field for
quicken interest in the observation of the habits of the
the development of this plot, and three American boys lower animals" and in the “study of their relations to
who are caught in the whirlpool have their fill of adven- us and to each other.” The volume contains many illus-
ture. The few illustrations are much worse than none. trations, some of them colored, which assist in making
-The remaining books of adventure deal with other it a valuable book of reference for the young, and one
battles than those of war. Mr. Herbert D. Ward has which older readers should by no means disdain.--Like
selected the Arctic regions for the scene of his conflict, the last-named book, “ Country Pastimes for Boys”
which is but little more imaginative than many of these (Longmans), by P. Anderson Graham, will give the mod-
other tales. It is an o'ertrue tale of " A Dash to the
ern youth some new resources. It is a vowedly written
Pole” (Lovell, Coryell & Co.), and the journey is made rather for the solitary boy than for those who are sur-
in an air-ship recently invented, but destined unfortu- rounded by companions, and it contains many hints
nately for destruction. It served its purpose, how- which he will find it pleasant to follow up. There is
ever, in carrying an adventurous party of men and boys much about birds’-nesting, an occupation which one does
to the North Pole and back again, and then through a not like to see encouraged, and more about the train-
sad mistake it escaped and sailed off into space. The ing of pets, feathered and otherwise.- Another clever
narrative is told with much cleverness, even to the re- book is “ The Three Apprentices of Moon Street”
turn and the enforced concealment of the momentous (Crowell), translated from the French of Georges Mon-
discovery. – Mr. George Manville Fenn takes smug- torguiel. The cuts, by Louis Le Reverend and Paul
gling for his material, and in “Cormorant Crag" (Dodd, Steck, are capital, and the tale is sprightly, happy-go-
Mead & Co.) relates the history of two boys who be- lucky, gaily written. One of the boys falls in with a
came involved in its meshes. The book is rather pro- travelling show, and acts the part of a wild untutored
lix, but as the story is told mainly in dialogue, a child's savage in it. It is amusing and of very light weight.
interest will not easily flag, especially as the boys are Mr. J.T. Trowbridge always winds up his books with
engaged in probing fascinating mysteries and making wholesome morals, and in "The Lottery Ticket” (Lee
exciting discoveries. Even more startling are the ad- & Shepard) he relates the story of a boy who goes to
ventures recorded in “The Desert Ship,” by Mr. John the city to earn his fortune, falls into bad company, and
Bloundelle-Burton (Warne). This narrates the search becomes involved, unwittingly, in a dishonest transac-
for an old Spanish galleon, wrecked long years ago in tion. His troubles, severe as they are, are finally over-
the great American desert, when it was still a sea. The come, but the warning is emphatic. Mr. Maurice
success of the expedition has something weird and un- Thompson does not overburden his romance with ethics,
canny about it that is not quite extinguished by the too but “The Ocala Boy” (Lothrop) is wholesome enough,
practical description of the ship's treasure. The story nevertheless. Two Northern boys who are spending the
has all the elements of romance, and were it only more winter in Florida are the centre of interest, and the au-
compact would be very successful. « The Chain of thor contrives to give the narrative a certain charm of
Gold, or In Crannied Rocks" (Dodd, Mead & Co.) is mystery. It is simple, though, and well-written.-A new
another variation, by Mr. Standish O'Grady, in the pos- edition of “ Half a Dozen Boys,” by Anna Chapin Ray,
sibilities of adventure. The “wild west coast of Ire- is published by Messrs. Crowell & Co. It is a pleasant
land” is his selection, and it surprises us to find that a story of harmless mischief, and the boys are very much
new series of incidents can be concocted out of old ma- alive, which accounts for the republication after five
terial. The style, however, is decidedly dry. – Mr. years.—A little book called “The Nimble Dollar, with
Louis Pendleton carries one south to the great Georgia Other Stories ” (Houghton) is the work of an artist.
swamp in his story. “ In the Okefenokee” (Roberts) The little tale called - The Reward of Heroes” would
brings in the Rebellion again, but does not make it both alone prove the author, Mr. Charles Miner Thompson,
centre and circumference. The illustrations, fortu- worthy of that title. There is a good deal of realism
nately, are not numerous. Boris, the Bear-Hunter" in the stories, which does not mean that they have no
(T. Nelson & Sons), by Mr. Fred. Whishaw, takes one touches of romance. They are lively tales, which will
to Russia in the time of Peter the Great.--"Hugh Mel- do much more good than the sentimentalities that are
ville's Quest” (Lippincott), by Mr. F. M. Holmes, goes too often offered. “ The Impostor," by Mr. Charles
even further back, to the days of the Armada.—Though Remington Talbot (Lothrop), is a college story, in which
in “The Mammoth Hunters” (Lothrop) Mr. Willis athletics form the most conspicuous feature.
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revised by him before his death, is soon to appear from
LITERARY NOTES.
the press of Messrs. Ward, Lock & Bowden. The same
An important art work, “ Annals of Westminster firm has just issued the twelfth volume of their neat
Abbey," with nearly two hundred illustrations, will be
edition of the novels of Henry Kingsley, completing that
issued at once by Messrs. D. Appleton & Co.
very desirable series.
Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. publish an exquisite
A new work on “ Plant Breeding," by Professor Bai-
little volume of Mr. T. B. Aldrich's “ Later Lyrics,” | ley, which will undertake to discuss the underlying rea-
selected from his books of the last few years.
sons, philosophy, and practice of the production of the
The first prize in the Hall House competition for
new varieties of the gardener and the farmer, will soon
“people's songs
" has been awarded to Miss Mary A.
be issued by Messrs. Macmillan & Co. It is expected
Lathbury, and the second to Mr. M. S. Paden.
that the book will be a contribution to the knowledge
of organic evolution, as well as to the betterment of
John Ormsby, the translator of “Don Quixote,” a
garden-craft.
trustworthy scholar and an enthusiastic student of Span-
ish literature, died October 30, at the age of sixty-six.
“ Othello" is the latest addition to the “ Temple"
The first volume of “The Reader's Shakespeare," an
Shakespeare. If imitation be the sincerest form of flat-
abridged edition edited by Mr. D. C. Bell of London,
tery, Messrs. Macmillan & Co. must think well of the
is about ready for issue by Messrs. Funk & Wagnalls.
form of this work, for they have taken it as a model in
The new “ Johnson's Universal Cyclopædia,” the suc-
their twenty-three-volume reissue of Tennyson, now in
course of publication, and in “The Modern Reader's
cessor to the old “ Appleton," published by the same
Bible," of which “ The Proverbs,” edited by Mr. R. G.
firm, and edited by President C. K. Adams, is just com-
Moulton, is the first volume to appear.
pleted by the issue of the eighth volume.
Mr. Percival Lowell's “ Atlantic” papers on the
The new “Cyclopædia of Architecture in Italy,
planet Mars, based upon his interesting observations at
Greece, and the Levant,” to be issued by Messrs.
Flagstaff, Arizona, will be published in an illustrated
Charles Scribner's Sons in a style uniform with their
volume by Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., this month.
“ Cyclopædia of Painters and Painting” and “Cyclo-
pædia of Music and Musicians," will appeal to the lover
The excellent edition of Dumas' Romances in En-
of beautiful books not less than to the special student
glish, published by Messrs. Little, Brown, & Co., will be
of art. The volume will be a quarto, with twelve full-
continued by six new volumes, to appear immediately,
page plates and over 250 text illustrations.
— some of the contents being now translated for the
first time.
Baron John Byrne Leicester Warren de Tabley, who
Mr. Theodore Roosevelt's “New York” (Longmans),
died on the 24th of November, had reached the age of
in the series of “ Historic Towns,” published some years
sixty years. It is only of late that he has become gen-
ago, is now reissued, and is made to include a postscript
erally known among the English poets, but the two
volumes of his verse recently published have given him
on the events of the past five years, of which the author
is so well qualified to write.
a wide reputation. Among the English poets who have
survived Tennyson, he must be reckoned as one of the
Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons are to be the American
ten or twelve who have stood next to Mr. Swinburne
publishers of the new edition of Haydn's “ Dictionary and Mr. Morris.
of Dates,” edited by Mr. Benjamin Vincent. The work
An afternoon of authors' readings was given at one
will contain 1,250 pages, 1,200 articles, and 140,000
of the Chicago theatres on the 26th of November, for
“ separate entries of dates and facts."
the purpose of doing honor to the memory of Eugene
Octavius Brooks Frothingham died in Boston on the Field, and of raising a sum of money for the support
twenty-seventh of November, at the age of seventy- of the poet's family. Among those who participated
three. For nearly half a century he has occupied a were Mr. Henry B. Fuller, Mr. John V. Cheney, Miss
prominent position in the Unitarian church, and was Harriet Monroe, Mrs. Lindon Bates, and Mrs. M. H.
well known as a writer upon religious and literary sub- Catherwood. A considerable sum was realized from
jects.
the sale of tickets.
Really good editions of “Robinson Crusoe ” and The death of the Rev. Samuel F. Smith, on the six-
“Uncle Tom's Cabin” for fifty cents each seem an teenth of November, removed from our living writers
almost incredible achievement in bookmaking, yet this one whose name, as the author of “ America,” was a
is what is promised by Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & household word. He was born in 1808, educated at
Co, in the December issues of the excellent « Riverside Harvard, and became successively a clergyman, a pro-
Literature Series."
fessor, and an editor. He was remarkable as a linguist,
Mr. George Saintsbury's new volume of essays on while as a writer he was prolific, both in
prose
and verse.
“Nineteenth Century Literature” will be published His collected poems have recently been published, and
immediately by Messrs. Macmillan & Co. Mr. Saints- will be reviewed in an early issue of THE DIAL.
bury has just been nominated as Professor Masson's Alexandre Dumas, the son of Alexander the Great,
successor in the chair of English Literature at the Uni- died on the twenty - seventh of November. He was
versity of Edinburgh.
almost the sole survivor of the great mid-century period
The plates of General Grant's “Memoirs ” have come of French letters, and his “ Dame aux Camellias," at
into possession of the Century Co., and the work is re- least, had gone many times round the world in its three-
issued in a handsome two-volume edition, with new por- fold form of novel, play, and opera. He was one of the
traits, maps, notes, and index. The edition is nearly pioneer problem-dramatists, and his rank is somewhere
uniform with the Century “Life of Lincoln,” and is near that of Augier and M. Sardou. Many of his plays
well worthy to stand beside it.
are familiar to English and American theatre-goers.
A new edition of the “ Lyra Elegantiarum” of Mr. Barthélemy Saint-Hilaire died on the 24th of Novem-
Frederick Locker-Lampson, which had been carefully ber, at the advanced age of ninety. He was Minister
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of Finance under Charles X., and assistant to Cousin in
the Ministry of Public Instruction. Later, he occupied
the Chair of Latin and Greek in the Ecole Polytech-
nique. He declined to sanction the coup d'état, and
kept out of politics until his election to the Legislature
just before the war of 1870. During the Presidency of
Thiers, he acted as his secretary, and retired with his
chief in 1873. In 1880, he was Minister of Foreign
Affairs in the Freycinet Cabinet. His work as a scholar
has given him a high place in the history of French
thought, and he is best known by his translation of Aris-
totle, more than anything else the work of his lifetime.
He wrote treatises on many Oriental subjects, and only
two years ago began a three-volume biography of Cousin.
He was one of the few men living in recent years who
had seen and known the first Napoleon.
Crowns. Illustrated by Blanche McManus, 8vo, pp. 95. A.
S. Barnes & Co. $1.50.
The Century Cook Book. By Mary Ronald. Illus., 8vo,
pp. 587. The Century Co. $2.
BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG.
The Second Jungle Book. By Rudyard Kipling. Illus.
12mo, gilt top, pp. 324. The Century Co. $1.50.
My Own Fairy Book. By Andrew Lang. Illus., 12mo,
gilt edges, pp. 312. Longmans, Green, & Co. $2.
The Red True Story Book. Edited by Andrew Lang.
Illus., 12mo, gilt edges, pp. 419. Longmans, Green, &
Co. $2.
The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a "Golliwogg."
Pictures by Florence K. Upton ; words by Bertha Upton.
Large 8vo, pp. 64. Longmans, Green, & Co. $2.
Two Years on the Alabama. By Arthur Sinclair, Lieu-
tenant, C.S.N. Illus., large 8vo, pp. 344. Lee & Shep-
ard. $3.
Chumley's Post: A Story of the Pawnee Trail. By Will-
iam O. Stoddard. Illus., 12mo, pp. 368. J. B. Lippin-
cott Co. $1.50.
Nim and Cum and the Wonder Head Stories. By Catha-
rine Brooks Yale. 16mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 126. Way
& Williams. $1.25.
Oakleigh. By Ellen Douglas Deland. Illus., 12mo, pp. 233.
Harper & Bros. $1.25.
A Lieutenant at Eighteen. By Oliver Optic. Illus., 12mo,
pp. 483. Lee & Shepard. $1.50.
The Boy Officers of 1812. By Everett T. Tomlinson, au-
thor of " Three Colonial Boys." Illus., 12mo, pp. 335.
Lee & Shepard. $1.50.
The Knight of Liberty: A Tale of the Fortunes of La Fay-
ette. By Hezekiah Butterworth. Illus., 12mo, pp. 225.
D. Appleton & Co. $1.50.
The Young Castellan: A Tale of the English Civil War.
By George Manville Fenn, author of " Devon Boys."
Illus., 12mo, pp. 344. J. B. Lippincott Co. $1.50.
Stories and Poems for Children. By Celia Thaxter.
With frontispiece, 12mo, gilt edges, pp. 257. Houghton,
Mifflin & Co. $1.50.
The Minute Man on the Frontier. By the Rev. W. G.
Puddefoot, A.M. Illus., 12mo, pp. 326. T. Y. Crowell
& Co. $1.25.
First Things First: Addresses to Young Men. By the Rev.
George Jackson, B.A. 12mo, pp. 251. T. Y. Crowell &
Co. $1.
Nautilus. By Laura E. Richards, author of “Captain Jan-
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Good-fur-Nothing: The Tale of a Christmas Promise. By
William R. A. Wilson. Illus., 8vo, uncut, pp. 52. Buf-
falo: Peter Paul Book Co. 75 cts.
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LIST OF NEW BOOKS.
(The following list, containing 164 titles, includes books re-
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ILLUSTRATED GIFT-BOOKS.
The Comedies of Shakespeare. With 131 full-page photo-
gravure reproductions of drawings by Edwin A. Abbey.
In 4 vols., large 8vo, gilt tops, uncut. Harper & Bros.
Boxed, $30, net.
Victorian Songs: Lyrics of the Affections and Nature. Col-
lected, and illus. in photogravure, by Edmund H. Garrett;
with Introduction by Edmund Gosse. 8vo, gilt top, pp.
228. Little, Brown & Co. $6.
Tales of a Traveller. By Washington Irving. “Buck-
thorne" edition ; in 2 vols., illus. in photogravure, 8vo,
gilt tops, uncut. 'G. P. Putnam's Sons. Boxed, $6.
Choice Works of George Sand. In 4 vols., comprising :
François the Waif, The Devil's Pool, Fadette, and The
Master Mosaic Workers. 16mo, gilt tops, uncut. Little,
Brown & Co. $6.
The Three Musketeers. By Alexandre Dumas; trans. by
William Robson ; with a letter from Alexandre Dumas,
fils. In 2 vols., with 250 illustrations by Maurice Leloir,
8vo, gilt tops, uncut. D. Appleton & Co. $4.
Keats' Poetical Works. Edited, with Notes and Appen-
dices, by H. Buxton Forman. In 2 vols., with photo-
gravure portraits and other illustrations, 12mo, gilt tops.
T. Y. Crowell & Co. $3.
Natural History of Selborne, and Observations on Nature.
By Gilbert White ; with Introduction by John Burroughs.
In 2 vols., illus., 12mo, gilt tops, uncut. D. Appleton &
Co. $4.
Some Ancient English Homes and their
Associations, Per-
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Illus., 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 280. G. P. Putnam's
Sons. $4.
Poems of the Farm. Selected and Illustrated by Alfred C.
Eastman. Large 8vo, gilt edges, pp. 67. Lee & Shepard.
Boxed, $2.50.
Sesame and Lilies. By John Ruskin. 16mo, gilt top, pp.
265. Putnam's “Elia Series." Boxed, $2.25.
Country Stories. By Mary Russell Mitford; illus. by
George Morrow. 12mo, giſt edges, pp. 307. Macmillan &
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A Midsummer Night's Dream. By William Shakespeare ;
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Robert Anning Bell ; 8vo, pp. 128. Macmillan & Co. $2.
On Winds of Fancy Blown: Original Verse and Illustra-
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Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great. By
Elbert Hubbard. With portraits, 16mo, gilt top, pp. 366.
G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1.75.
L'Avril. By Paul Margueritte ; trans. by Helen B. Dole.
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PAGB
THE AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL .
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COMMUNICATIONS
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The Bull of Divorce between Henry' viii. and
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English at the University of Pennsylvania. Felix
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BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG, II.
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the division of our schools into five groups than half the number are taking classical in-
North Atlantic, South Atlantic, North Central, stead of scientific courses. But the full sig-
South Central, and Western — employed by nificance of the figures does not appear until
the National Commissioner of Education in his we compare the West with the East, and the
statistical summaries of educational work. North with the South. In the two Southern
The facts relating to distribution are easily divisions classics are to science in the ratio of
disposed of. Taking the country as a whole, eighteen to eight, while in the two Northern
there are 58 high-school students for every divisions they are represented by nearly equal
thousand of population. The numbers for the percentages. It takes the West to redress
five grand divisions are 69, 39, 67, 38, and 59, in this respect the balance of the South, and
taking the divisions in the order above named. in the West science is farther ahead of the
If we include the preparatory departments of classics than in the South the classics have the
the colleges, our numbers become 71, 43, 76, advantage over science. These facts are easily
47, and 71, respectively, while for the whole explicable.
explicable. The South keeps to the fine old
country the number 58 is raised to 65. In traditions of what the education of a gentleman
other words, the two Northern divisions make should be; the West has never had any such
nearly twice as good a showing as the two traditions to defend ; while the North has had
Southern ones, while the West nearly repre- to carry on a losing fight for the humanities
sents the general average of the whole. The against the forces that have become more and
figures upon coeducation and enrolment reveal more aggressive and predominant in that com-
the interesting fact that our public high schools mercial and manufacturing section.
in all sections of the country are attended by The diagram devoted to “ Sex in Study” is
about fifty per cent. more girls than boys, while the most complicated of them all, and offers
in the private schools of similar rank, the bal- some of the most startling contrasts. Greek,
ance of the sexes is nearly equal, inclining for example, we find to be studied by three
,
slightly to the male side of the scale. In the times as many boys as girls, while more girls
two Atlantic divisions, particularly, many more than boys study Latin. Twice as many girls
boys than girls are enrolled in the private acad- as boys study French, while rather more boys
emies. Roughly speaking, we may also say than girls study German. More girls than boys
that the public schools outnumber in their study algebra and geometry, while physics and
attendance the private schools by more than chemistry appeal about equally to both sexes.
two to one, while four-fifths of all the high- The statistics concerning graduation are not es-
school students in the country are found in the pecially significant, although it is an interesting
two Northern divisions. It is interesting to fact that the North Central division turns out
note, moreover, that two-thirds of the high- more graduates than all four of the remaining
school work of the South is carried on by pri- divisions. This statistical showing, taken as
vate enterprise.
a whole, is extremely interesting, and some of
The statistics of studies pursued "offer par- the more salient matters, as we have pointed
ticularly interesting results. The eight repre- them out, offer much food for reflection.
sentative subjects selected for comparison stand That the American secondary school is a
in the following order: Algebra, Latin, phys- distinctive and valuable part of our public edu-
ics, geometry, German, French, chemistry, and cational system hardly needs to be urged at
Greek. Of course, the subjects that head this present, although in every large community
list occupy their respective places mainly by there is a small but aggressive minority of per-
a
virtue of the fact that they are the subjects
that such schools are an unjust
with which high-school courses usually begin. burden to the tax-payer. The answer to this
About three times as large a proportion of stu- argument of course is that the existence of the
dents pursue Greek and French in private public high school involves no question of prin-
schools as take these subjects in public institu- ciple. The only principle seriously brought
ions, while with the other subjects there is no into question by reputable thinkers is that of
marked disproportion, the balance inclining in the justice of any system whatever of state-
favor of the public schools in most cases. The supported education. Mr. Herbert Spencer, as
most instructive figures in this department are we all know, and a small group of his fellow-
those relating to college preparatory work. extremists, claim that all education should be
About twelve per cent. of all our high-school provided for by private enterprise. But the
students are fitting for college, and rather more admission once made that state education is
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justifiable—and the recalcitrants upon this sub- issue the bull of divorce, but on condition that it
—
ject are really too few to be taken into account never be made public. Campeggio, the papal legate,
- the question of how far the educational sys-
read it in the presence of Henry and Wolsey, but
tem should go is clearly one not of principle, would not suffer it to pass out of his hand. Henry
but of expediency. Whether it cover a term
was furious, and Wolsey's fate was sealed. Accord-
ing to Ebses, the bull was burned some time between
of four years, or of sixteen, or of some inter-
the 22d and 26th of May, 1529. Later, when
mediate number, is obviously a matter to be set- Campeggio was about to leave England, at Dover,
tled by compromise, to be determined by the Henry had the box containing his correspondence
resources of a given community, and the con- forced
open and all his luggage searched; but the
sensus of intelligent opinion. It may possibly document was never found. Undoubtedly the Pope,
be “ tyranny of the majority” to make tax- in his embarrassment, was simply serving the hour,
payers provide for any system at all of public and never intended the bull to be of legal force;
education, but there is no new “ tyranny” in when he at last concluded a treaty with the em-
the determination to make the period one of
peror, in Lord Herbert's words, he “could no
ten or twelve years, rather than of six or eight.
, rather than of six or eight. longer, either with the safety of his person or dig-
And no one, we think, who intelligently looks
nity, favor our king ; so that what excuses soever
into the workings of the American high schools, time) were given to our king, yet were they little
(in the frequent dispatches he made about this
can reasonably claim that a dollar of public more than complement and evasion, till finally, de-
funds expended upon them is less advantage- claring himself more openly for the emperor, he
ously employed than a dollar expended upon sign’d an advocation of the cause to himself.” An
the schools of lower grade. So far, indeed, is absolute rendering of the bull is, of course, in this
such expenditure from being subject to any day, impossible; Ehses has recovered so much as
law of diminishing returns as we go upward in
there is to be recovered, from a comparative study
the scale, that we are rather justified in claim-
of the correspondence and the diplomatic history of
the times. It is no serious omission in that Mr. Ran-
ing that the law which prevails is one of increas-
some has not said that the bull was actually granted,
ing returns, and that the higher the education
but such a statement would have intensified the
we provide at public expense the better is the high interest that has always been attached to this
state rewarded for its outlay.
great episode in English history.- REVIEWER.]
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COMMUNICATIONS.
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6
THE BULL OF DIVORCE BETWEEN HENRY VIII.
AND KATHERINE.
(To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
The reviewer of Ransome's “ Advanced History of
England ” in The Dial for November 1 (p. 251) says:
“ Late research has shown that Clement VII. actually
granted a bull of divorce between Henry VIII. and
Katherine."
May I ask you what authority your reviewer has for
this statement ?
CHARLES McK. LEOSER.
Larchmont Manor, New York, Nov. 20, 1895.
[The observation was based upon Ehses, Die
päpstlichen Decretale im Scheidungsprozesse Hein-
richs VIII., an abstract of which may be found in
the Historische Jahrbücher (Vol. XI. — 1888
part 3, pp. 126-7). There has always been a tra-
dition that the bull was granted. In Lord Herbert
of Cherbury's “ History of England under Henry
VIII.” the tenor of the decree, as it was supposed
to be, is given, but any exact knowledge of the docu-
ment has hitherto been impossible. The whole cor-
respondence between England and Rome was car-
ried on in cipher, and so apprehensive was Clement
VII. of its purport creeping out that he kept even
the translation of the dispatches in his own hands.
Under pressure from Wolsey, who was in turn
forced by the king, Clement was prevailed upon to
ENGLISH AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PENN-
SYLVANIA.
(To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
I have just received the interesting little volume
which results from the collection of the articles on En-
glish in American Universities published in THE DIAL.
In the valuable Introduction, however, I find an infer-
ence — due I confess, to a want of categorical com-
pleteness in my own contribution- for the correction
of which, as my article originally appeared in your col-
umns, I must ask for a little of your valuable space.
The passage runs : “ From Pennsylvania comes the
vague report that · English literature' is required for
entrance." I trust that it is not a fault, in which we
are too peculiar at the University of Pennsylvania, to
suppose that the world is well acquainted with things
which have always been perfectly well-known to us.
Certain it is that it never occurred to me for a moment
that it could be necessary to mention in my article the
fact that the University of Pennsylvania has demanded
the New England requirement for admission to college
in English for many, many years, almost, indeed, from
the year in which the New England agreement was
reached. Although we are, I acknowledge, still quite
as far as Harvard confesses herself to be from the
«elimination” of “ the Freshman course in theme writ-
ing,” which happy immunity one of our most Western
sisters enjoys, we demand a higher grade of standing
for entrance in English than for entrance in any other
subject, and accept no student, whatever his other
equipment, who cannot reasonably fulfil that demand.
FELIX E. SCHELLING.
University of Pennsylvania, Dec. 3, 1895.
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reasons
The New Books.
we venture to say is a pretty common one), this
current impression of his coldness and aloof-
ness, that the letters tend to dispel, as the sun
THE ARNOLD LETTERS.*
dispels a mist-wreath. They portray for us
It is pleasant to be able to premise of the unmistakably, in a hundred frank, unconscious
long-awaited “ Letters of Matthew Arnold,” touches, the kindliest and gentlest of men, the
now before us, that they are altogether more
tender father, the unfailing friend, the Good
likely to exceed than to fall short of the Samaritan who revelled in beneficence, and
agree-
able anticipations the reader will probably have
never more than when the object of it was a
formed of them. There are antecedent
little child, a worn schoolmistress, or a strug-
enough, both of style and personality, why Mr. gling author. So far from overlooking the
"
Arnold should have excelled as a letter-writer; pilgrim at his roadside-door,” Matthew Arnold,
and certainly no collection of recent years has
it is pleasant to learn, often “taxed his ingen-
surpassed the one he has left us in real biograph- uity to find words of encouragement and praise
ical value, or approached it in the distinctive
for the most immature and unpromising efforts.”
merits and graces of epistolary writing. Per-
We shall point out here what seems a flaw
haps the best summary of the letters that can
in the temper of these usually gracious letters
be made is that they are (as their excellent
— the “ rift in the lute” that will possibly im-
editor, Mr. G. W. E. Russell, testifies) the pair their harmony for many readers. There
writer himself, as the members of his family
is no evading the unwelcome fact that they
and his closer friends were permitted to know
contain some harsh judgments of the people of
him; and there can be no higher praise of them
this country, put in a way that savors more of
than this, especially in view of the fact that it prejudice than of reasoned opinion, and pro-
,
was Mr. Arnold's express wish that he might nounced at a time when Mr. Arnold's experi-
not be made the subject of a biography. No
ence of us was, for any purposes of serious in-
formal life of him by a hand other than his duction, absolutely nil. We find, for instance,
own can approach these charming volumes as the apostle and presumed exemplar of “urban-
an intimate disclosure of the personal qualities
ity,” “ sweetness, “open-mindedness," and
which the reserve, or, as Mr. Russell chooses other cardinal virtues of temper and criticism,
to call it, the “magnificent serenity,” of Mr. long before his visit to this country, assuming
Arnold's demeanor veiled from the general that the really well-bred and well-trained
“
world. Essentially familiar and domestic, and
American” is “a rara avis”; holding that the
written without a thought of their ever passing bulk of our people are “not of fine enough
beyond the limits of the family circle, the let-
clay to serve the higher purposes of civiliza-
ters discover a vein of sunny geniality and play. tion "; cordially agreeing with the “French
fulness, a sense of fun, a capacity for little
and Italians” that the Americans are a “na-
pleasures, in fine, a large, free, simple, and
tion mal elevée" ("such awful specimens as
kindly view of life and men, that will prove a
I was in the Coliseum with !” he feelingly
pleasant revelation to the many who have adds); fearfully presaging a "wave of more
)
learned to vaguely figure the writer as the some-
than American vulgarity, moral, intellectual,
what supercilious apostle of the cultus of “cul- and social, preparing to break over us,” — and
ture," the fastidious critic, the faultily faultless
It is to such conclusions as the fore-
poet whose formal and studied excellences are going that we may ascribe the principle pro-
for the few. In his « Victorian Poets ” Mr. pounded in a letter to his mother in 1865, that
Stedman speaks of Matthew Arnold as impart-
“ to be too much with Americans is like living
ing to his readers" a vague impression that he
with somebody who has all one's own bad habits
cares less for man in the concrete than for man
and tendencies”— without having, we are led
in the abstract ”; adding that “while admiring to infer, any considerable amount of “one's
his delineations of Heine, the De Guérins, Jou-
own” virtues and graces. It might have oc-
bert, and other far-away saints or heroes, we
curred to Mr. Arnold here that time and liberal
feel that he possibly may overlook some pil institutions may well have developed in the
grim at his roadside-door.” Now it is pre-
American people certain good “habits and
cisely this general notion of Mr. Arnold (which
tendencies ” which go to make their contact
harmless and even salutary to a society com-
*THE LETTERS OF MATTHEW ARNOLD (1848-1888). Col-
lected and arranged by George W. E. Russell. In two volumes.
posed of “an upper class materialized, a mid-
New York: Macmillan & Co.
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ized.” Too much stress need not, of course, American city ; while Philadelphia he con-
be laid on these little “ Briticisms” of Mr. cludes to be “the most attractive city I have
Arnold's; although the fact that they are found seen over here. I prefer it to Boston.” In a
in his private correspondence forces us to regard New York letter Mr. Arnold expresses much
them as accurately indicating his opinion of us gratification at “the way in which the people,
at that time. Let us rather endure them in far lower down than with us, live with some-
the mild and forbearing spirit which enabled thing of the life and enjoyments of the culti-
Mr. Arnold himself to lay a wreath of im- vated classes." He adds :
perishable laurel on the grave of that Heinrich “ The young master of the hotel asked to present his
Heine who so bitterly satirized the English, steward to me, as a recompense to him for his beautiful
and who died “firmly persuaded that a blas-
arrangement of palms, fruit, and flowers in the great
pheming Frenchman is a more agreeable spec-
hall. The German boys who wait in the hair-cutting
room and the clerks at the photographer's express their
tacle in the sight of God, than a praying En- delight at seeing a great English poet,' and ask me to
glishman.”
write in their autograph books, which they always have
Mr. Arnold's visit to America in 1883 plainly ready.”
gave him a more favorable opinion of us than
The great thorn in Mr. Arnold's side, dur-
the one he had formed a priori. The tone of ing his American tour, was, of course, the
his sprightly series of letters of that date is
newspapers-" the worst and most disquieting
“
friendly enough toward this country, although things here,” he feelingly says. One ambitious
the familiar note of “a certain condescension scribe, with a turn for metaphor, pleasantly
in foreigners ” which so tried Mr. Lowell is likened him (as he stooped over now and then,
pretty clearly distinguishable. Once or twice,
on the rostrum, to refer to his notes) to “an
indeed, touched by the warmth of his reception, elderly bird pecking at grapes on a trellis ";
he seems almost on the point of thawing out
while the Chicago paper's portrait of him
- as when, for instance, shortly after reaching He has harsh features, supercilious manners,
-
New York, he tempers his complaints of the parts his hair down the middle, wears a single
"blaring publicity of the place,” and of the re-
eye-glass and ill-fitting clothes” — is historical.
viewers who "render life terrible,” etc., by Some interesting views as to educational mat-
graciously adding: “But the kindness and
ters in America are outlined in a letter (1886)
goodwill of everybody is wonderful, and I can- to Professor Charles Eliot Norton :
not but be grateful for it.” A few random “... I read the account of your meeting; the
extracts from the American letters will serve
speeches were good, but I am doubtful about your petty
to show their general tenor. Not a little amus- academies, just as I am more than doubtful about your
ing, and we may add surprising, are Mr. Ar-
pullulating colleges and universities. Das Gemeine is
the American danger, and a few and good secondary
nold's curt references to people who entertained
schools and universities, setting a high standard, are
him at their houses during his trip through the
what you seem to me to want, rather than a multitude
States; and the reader will possibly compare of institutions which their promoters delude themselves
these references with what a Frenchman, an by taking seriously, but which no serious person can so
take.”
American, or even a German, in Mr. Arnold's
position, might have felt it gracious to say Mr. Arnold's occasional rather peevish out-
under the circumstances. Mr. Arnold's en spokenness is not wholly confined to Ameri-
tertainers at one city, for example, are kindly cans, there being sundry sharp little references
described as “a nice old couple called Clark”; in the Letters, of a quite Carlylean flavor, to
"a
at another they are merely “ some rich people his English literary brethren, which are much
called Shepard” (one cannot help thinking of out of harmony with his usual gentleness and
his famous “a native author called Roe"). serenity. Of “Modern Painters” and its au-
His impressions of Chicago seem rather fa- thor, he says, for instance : “ Full of excellent
vorable on the whole, although we find him aperçus, as usual, but the man and character
later, in a letter from Quebec, declaring that too febrile, irritable, and weak to possess the
he would sooner be a poor priest in that ram. ordo concatenioque veri.” Mrs. Browning be
shackle, picturesque town, than “a rich hog. inexplicably regards (1858) as “hopelessly
(
merchant in Chicago"! De gustibus non est confirmed in her aberration from health, na-
disputandum. As to St. Louis, he holds that, ture, beauty, and truth"; the luckless Profes-
by virtue of its being “an old place and a sor Blackie is put down as “ an esprit as con-
mixed place,” it escapes the profound Gemein- fused and hoity toity as possible, and as capable
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Belvedere”; while the author of “ Laus Ven- pected. Newman was in costume - not full Cardinal's
eris” figures as “ a sort of pseudo-Shelley called
costume, but a sort of vest with gold about it and the
Swinburne ” a characterization that will be
red cap; he was in state at one end of the room, with
the Duke of Norfolk on one side of him and a chap-
relished by not a few victims of Mr. Swin-
lain on the other, and people filed before him as before
burne's own caustic pen. More temperate in the Queen, dropping on their knees when they were
statement, though scarcely less surprising in
presented and kissing his hand. It was the faithful
judgment, is this reference to Tennyson (1864):
who knelt in general, but then was in general only
"I do not think Tennyson a great and powerful spirit Lord
the faithful who were presented. That old mountebank
* dropped on his knees, however, and mum-
in any line as Goethe was in the line of modern
bled the Cardinal's hand like a piece of cake. I only
thought, Byron even in that of passion, Wordsworth in
made a deferential bow, and Newman took my hand in
that of contemplation; and unless a poet, especially a
both of his and was charming."
poet at this time of day, is that, my interest in him is
only slight, and my conviction that he will not stand As we have already said, the bulk of the let-
high is firm.”
ters are family letters, forming together a fairly
In a letter of 1869, Mr. Arnold makes a continuous record of the writer's life from day
frank critical estimate of his own poetical work to day. Cheery and buoyant as they generally
as compared with that of his two great English are, one reads nevertheless between the lines
contemporaries, which is doubly interesting in no faint inkling of the writer's consciousness
view of the prediction already made by influ- of the hardship of a lot which condemned him
ential critics in England, that of the three poets to sacrifice the best that was in him to a long
Mr. Arnold is destined to rank the highest in round of ill-paid drudgery in an office which
the not remote future.
many a man of middling capacity might have
My poems represent, on the whole, the main move- filled as well, perhaps better. The relative
ment of mind of the last quarter of a century, and thus scantiness of his poetic production is as easy
they will probably have their day as people become con-
scious to themselves of what that movement of mind is
: ing to Mrs. Forster):
as Gray's is difficult to divine. He says (writ-
and interested in the literary productions that reflect
it. It might be fairly urged that I have less poetical
« To produce my best is no light matter with an existe
sentiment than Tennyson, and less intellectual vigor
ence so bampered as mine is. People do not under-
and abundance than Browning; yet, because I have per-
stand what a temptation there is, if you cannot bear
haps more of a fusion of the two than either of them,
anything not very good, to transfer your operations to a
and have more regularly applied that fusion to the main
region where form is everything. Perfection of a cer-
line of modern development, I am likely enough to have
tain kind may there be attained, or at least approached,
my turn, as they have had theirs."
without knocking yourself to pieces, but to attain or
approach perfection in the region of thought and feel.
Writing to his sister, Mrs. W. E. Forster, in
ing, and to unite this with perfection of form, demands
1859, Mr. Arnold draws another interesting not merely an effort and a labor, but an actual tearing
personal comparison — this time with M. Re-
-
of one's self to pieces, which one does not readily con-
nan, whose line of endeavor bore a certain
sent to unless one can devote one's whole life to poetry.
Wordsworth could give his whole life to it, Shelley and
resemblance to his own :
Byron both could, and were besides driven by their
« The difference is, perhaps, that he tends to incul- demon to do so. Tennyson, a far inferior natural power
cate morality, in a high sense of the word, upon the to either of the three, can; but of the moderns Goethe
French nation as what they most want, while I tend to is the only one, I think, of those who have had an exist-
inculcate intelligence, also in a high sense of the word, ence assujettie, who has thrown himself with a great re-
upon the English nation as what they most want; but sult into poetry.”
with respect both to morality and intelligence, I think
It remains to say that Mr. Russell's editing
we are singularly at one in our ideas, and also with re-
:spect both to the progress and the established religion of these letters is satisfactory in the main –
of the present day. ... Renan pushes the glorification helpful, careful, and commendably unobtrusive.
of the Celts too far; but there is a great deal of truth
The foot-notes are excellent, as is the brief in-
in what he says, and being on the same ground in my
next lecture, in which I have to examine the origin of troductory. The German words, of which Mr.
what is called the • Romantic' sentiment about women,
Arnold used a good many, are sometimes in-
which the Germans are quite fond of giving themselves correctly printed, as, for example, “ Militar,”
the credit of originating, I read him with the more “hubsch," “ Konig," and so on; and it is to
”
interest."
be sincerely hoped that subsequent editions of
The following lively account of his meeting this charming and monumental work will be
(1880) with Cardinal Newman, at the Duchess provided with what are very essential to its
of Norfolk's, shows Mr. Arnold in an unfamiliar
convenience and usefulness, a table of contents
vein :
and an index.
E. G. J.
"I went to the dinner because I wanted to have
spoken once in my life to Newman, and because I wanted * We may note here that the editor has, in a previous letter,
to see the house. The house was not so fine as I ex- allowed the expression “that old montebank Dizzy" to stand.


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never gave the fish an inch of slack line; and at last he
A MEDLEY OF TRAVELS.*
lay glittering on the rocks, with the black St. Andrew's
Mr. Henry Van Dyke, who is well known as
crosses clearly marked on his plump sides, and the iri-
descent spots gleaming on his small, shapely head."
book a series of outdoor vacation studies, which
The
he has entitled “Little Rivers." Some of this
material has appeared in “Scribner's Maga- with a number of passable drawings.
zine." The first essay contains general obser- Mr. C. A. Stoddard, editor of the “New
vations and reflections somewhat after the man. York Observer,” in “Cruising among the
ner of Thoreau, the chief of river-lovers. With Caribbees,” gives an account of a midwinter
Thoreau, Mr. Van Dyke thinks a river the excursion in the steamer “Madiana" to the
most companionable object in nature, though Lesser Antilles. Short stops were made at a
he fails to note what was with Thoreau the large number of islands, from St. Thomas to
greatest attraction, namely, its “liberating in Trinidad. Mr. Stoddard met with no very
fluence." “A river," says Thoreau, " is su- striking adventures ; however, as a specimen
perior to a lake in its liberating influence. It
It of his style we quote a description of the Trini-
has motion and indefinite length.” The “lit- dad pitch lake:
tle rivers ” of which our author tells us are " A vast black lake with multitudes of circles such
various fishing-streams of the Adirondacks, as are made when a stone is thrown into water, gives a
Canada, Scotland, Italy, and Switzerland ; and fair idea of the appearance from a little distance.
the story is mainly of angling and connected
When one comes to walk over the pitch, for it is solid
enough to walk over, he finds deep pools and channels
experiences and various converse with simple of water, and places where the pitch bubbles up with a
humanity and simple Nature. Mr. Van Dyke's yellowish scum and a sulphurous smell. If he stands
style is graceful; as a sample of it we quote long in one place after the sun is high, his feet sink
the description of a lady (Mrs. Van Dyke?) gradually; and horses and carts which load the material
angling for that gamiest of all fish, “ the fight- pieces of pitch are taken out, nature at once begins to
only remain a few moments in the same spot. When
ing ouaniche, the little salmon of the St. John: repair the damage, and in twenty-four hours the hole is
“ The grasshopper was attached to the hook, and cast- filled up again. We saw the process beginning in a
ing the line well out across the pool, Ferdinand put the dozen different places. Besides the curious sight of lit-
rod into Greygown's hands. She stood poised upon a tle islands of rich vegetation rising out of this black
pinnacle of rock, like Patience on a monument, waiting plain, there were here and there great pieces of wood
for a bite. It came. There was a slow, gentle pull at sticking up endwise, having apparently come up through
the line, answered by a quick jerk of the rod, and a the pitch, for they had crowns of pitch on the end which
noble fish flashed into the air. Four pounds and a half rose two or three feet above the surface."
at least! He leaped again and again, shaking the drops The outlook for the Caribbean Islands Mr.
from his silvery sides. He rushed up the rapids as if
he had determined to return to the lake, and down
Stoddard represents as very discouraging, ow-
again as if he had changed his plans and determined to ing to the depression in the sugar trade. Some
go to the Saguenay. He sulked in the deep water and useful but mostly second-hand information is
rubbed his nose against the rocks. He did his best to
conveyed in a sober and straightforward style.
treat that treacherous grasshopper as the whale served
But our excursionist necessarily records only
Jonah. But Greygown, through all her little screams
and shouts of excitement, was steady and sage. She hasty and rather superficial impressions and
reflections, which, though perhaps serviceable
* LITTLE RIVERS. A Book of Essays in Profitable Idle-
ness. By Henry Van Dyke. New York: Charles Scribner's
for newspaper letters, seem scarcely worthy of
Sons.
book form. This volume is illustrated by cuts
CRUISING AMONG THE CARIBBEES. Summer Days in Win- from photographs, but it lacks a map.
ter Months. By Charles Augustus Stoddard. New York:
Charles Scribner's Sons.
Mr. Francis Tiffany's book, “ This Goodly
THIS GOODLY FRAME THE EARTH. Stray Impressions of Frame the Earth,” consists of brief notes of a
Scenes, Incidents, and Persons, in a Journey Touching Japan,
round-the-world trip in the customary route.
China, Palestine, and Greece. By Francis Tiffany. Boston:
Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
The author is, as we judge from internal evi-
THE ISLANDS OF THE PACIFIC. From the Old to the New. dence, a clergyman of truly catholic spirit and
By the Rev. James M. Alexander. New York: American
Tract Society.
thoughtful mind. The book is too full of re-
MENTONE, CAIRO, AND CORFU. By Constance Fenimore
flection of a rather commonplace sort,—though
Woolson. New York: Harper & Brothers.
occasionally there is a suggestive remark, as
NOTES IN JAPAN. By Alfred Parsons. With illustrations this on the much-praised Japanese courtesy and
by the author. New York: Harper & Brothers.
FROM THE BLACK SEA, THROUGH PERSIA AND INDIA. By superior civilization :
Edwin Lord Weeks. Illustrated by the author. New York: “ After awhile, every man of frank, unconventional
Harper & Brothers.
nature begins to hate this manner for its false, its shal-


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low, its monotonous excess, and in his wrath to say, tone takes the form of a story of a party of
• Till the Japanese have worse manners, they will never
travellers — in which a professor, a Miss Tres-
learn genuine courtesy! Till they get rid of their masks,
they will never understand the social charm of the free
cott, and others figure who have varied ex-
play of joy, love, sorrow!'... There is nothing behind periences, and chat agreeably and brightly
the Japanese face - politically, morally, intellectually, thereabout. Miss Woolson shows her literary
reverentially - that can hold a moment's comparison deftness in this slight narrative, in which bol-
with that which is behind the faces of those who are
uses of sound information are often popped
free-born heirs of our complex, magnificent, historical
past. Strange ignorance of this is it which has led so down our unsuspecting throats. But her re-
many travellers to attribute to the Japanese a depth of markable feeling for style signally fails her
quality that in the nature of things, the order of evolu- when she makes the Professor say of the Corni
tion, can in no way belong to them; and until one sees
ice-road : “ The genius of Napoleon, Miss Tres-
into the simplicity and even the monotony — albeit a
monotony of endless variety,'— that is characteristic
cott, caused this wonderful road to spring from
alike of their literature, their poetry, their architecture,
the bosom of the mighty rock.” The accounts
their music, their politics, and even of their art, he will of Cairo and Corfu are straightforward descrip-
never read them with discrimination."
tions, without the guise of a conversation among
This seems to us a truer statement than the
a party of travellers. That of Corfu and the
panegyrics of Sir Edwin Arnold or of Messrs. Ionian Sea, being the least hackneyed subject,
Hearn and Finck. The author's account of is perhaps the most interesting in the book.
his stay in Japan is, in fact, much the best part Corfu is for Miss Woolson the isle of magical
of the book. As an explorer of temples, he light and beauty :
saw some odd scenes. Thus, " in many of the
• Although the voyage from Brindisi hardly occupies
Shinto temples,” he says, “ the awful-looking twelve hours, the atmosphere is utterly unlike that of
war-gods . . . are seen literally covered with Italy; there is no haze (which is not in the least a mist),
that soft veil which makes the mountains look as if they
innumerable spit-balls, thrown by devotees. . .
were covered with velvet. But a love of this softness
Thus have the worshippers signified that they need not, I hope, make us hate everything that is dif-
mean business.” Mr. Tiffany's style is chatty, ferent. Greece (and Corfu is a Greek island) seemed
too profuse in allusion, and too staccato. While to me all light—the lightest country in the world. ...
his book is of no high quality or importance, it The mountains, the hills, the fields, are sometimes
bathed in lilac. Then comes violet for the plains, while
may yet serve with some, especially those of
the mountains are rose that deepens into crimson. At
the writer's own profession, for an hour or two other times, salmon, pink, and purple tinges are seen,
of pleasant desultory reading.
and ochre, saffron, and cinnamon brown. This descrip-
Another American clergyman, the Rev. J.
tion applies to the whole of Greece, but among the
Ionian Islands the effect of the color is doubled by the
M. Alexander, in " The Islands of the Pacific,"
wonderful tint of the surrounding sea. I promise not
gives an account of Christian foreign mis-
to mention this hue again; hereafter it can be taken for
sions, with the avowed aim of promoting inter- granted, for it is always present; but for this once I
est therein. The several chapters give a short must say that you may imagine the bluest blue you
description and history of the various groups
know—the sky, lapis lazuli, sapphires, the eyes of some
children, the Bay of Naples — and the Ionian Sea is
The
and an account of missionary labors.
bluer than any of these.'
book seems to be a fairly reliable compilation, While this volume cannot add much to our
and of special interest to Sunday-schools and
knowledge or to Miss Woolson's reputation, it
missionary societies. Mr. Alexander takes an
is on the whole a readable and pleasant record.
optimistic view of missions in the South Seas,
The book is illustrated with a large number of
and there they have undoubtedly been highly
soft and pretty wood engravings.
successful. Yet as the islands become less and
less isolated from the general struggle of life,
In Mr. Alfred Parsons's book on Japan, we
and more and more infected by the vicious ele- have an artist's notes during a sketching and
ments of our civilization, it is a grave question painting tour in the Land of the Chrysanthe-
whether or not the native races of the Pacific mum. Japan is a paradise for two classes of
have sufficient stamina to long survive. It persons - children and artists ; and Mr. Par-
seems one sad duty of Christianity to minister sons, like all his predecessors, luxuriates in the
at the death-beds of races. This book is pro- quiet and simple beauty of Japanese art and
vided with crude maps and an abundance of life. He makes some interesting remarks on
process cuts, some of them very interesting.
the nature of Japanese art:
Miss Woolson's papers on Mentone, Cairo,
“ The Japanese treatment of landscape is not more
and Corfu are reprinted, with some changes,
conventional than that of Claude or David Cox, or than
the shorthand of our pencil-sketches, but it records its
from “ Harper's Magazine.” The one on Men- facts in a different way. The everlasting question in


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art is the imitation of nature; it has never been carried dapper little Thakor or princeling of some sort entered
further in certain directions than by Millais and his pre- the other compartment of our carriage at one of the
Raphaelite brethren, or in others than by Manet, Monet, way stations, and his crowd of retainers got into third-
and other modern French, but no one can put in every- class carriages some distance off. As he stepped out at
thing; look at a simple bunch of leaves in sunlight every station to issue orders to his people, we had sev-
against a wall, and think how long it would take to eral opportunities of observing him. He was a fair
really imitate all their complexities of form, color, and type of the Jodhpore swell, young, with a budding mus-
light and shade; some facts can only be given by ignor- tache and hair brought down in a large glistening curl
ing others, and the question what is the important thing over each cheek. His small pink turban, dainty as a
which must be insisted on is the personal affair of each lady's breakfast-cap, was cocked jauntily on one side,
individual artist in every country where art is unfet- and he wore a caftan of striped and rainbow-tinted
tered and alive. But in Japanese, as in Byzantine and silk; he kindled a fresh cigarette at each station, and
other Eastern arts, this question is still decided by the his little air of insolent swagger was quite in harmony
practice of past generations, and it will take all the vi- with the rakish set of his turban and his aggressive side-
tality of a strong man to infuse new life into it without locks. . . At one of these stations, where he sent a
destroying its many exquisite qualities. Perhaps when servant to look for a clean handkerchief among his lug-
Japanese artists absorb its spirit instead of merely try- gage, the train had to wait until it was forthcoming."
ing to imitate its methods, Western art may help in
the direction of freedom; at present I fear its influence
The accounts of Jodhpore and Bikanir, quite
bas done more harm than good.”
remote and little-visited points, are especially
In their appreciation of nature, and in their interesting. While Mr. Weeks is a pilgrim
art, the Japanese are traditionalists, and so have
in search of the beautiful, he does not neglect
little real life and force of individuality ; this,
other aspects, but discourses very intelligently
at least, is Mr. Parsons's impression. But the
of things military, economic, and social. The
bulk of his book has little substance, though book lacks what every well-regulated book of
it is written in an easy and, in general, accu-
travels should have, a map. On the whole,
. rate style. The many drawings by the author
Mr. Weeks has given us a pleasant and instruc-
are the feature of the volume. The portrait tive volume both in letter-press and illustration.
of 0 Kazu San is a most delightful bit of
HIRAM M. STANLEY.
genre, though slightly marred in the press-
work. The cuts on pages 73 and 91 also seem
damaged by imperfect press-work.
Mr. E. L. Weeks is another painter-trav-
THE MIDDLE-AGE CONCEPTION OF
VIRGIL.*
eller who gives us by pen and pencil his im-
pressions of Asiatic life, but in a region far The intelligent reader of the present day, as
to the west. Mr. Weeks's route was from he becomes more thoroughly acquainted with
Trebizond on the Black Sea by caravan to Bu- the poems of Virgil, and the facts of the poet's
shire on the Persian Gulf, thence by steamer life which have come down to us, is more and
to Kurrachee on the confines of India, and more impressed that he is dealing with a man
thence by rail through a large part of Hindos- who, were he permitted to recross the irremea-
tan. As far as Julfa in Persia he was accom- bilis unda, would fall naturally into his place as
panied by Mr. Theodore Child, who succumbed, the congenial companion of the choicest spirits
near there, to an attack of typhoid fever. The of the nineteenth century civilization. Even
first part of the journey is described under the the fact that his development took place amid
form of a journal, the rest under topical heads, pre-Christian and pagan influences would make
“ Lahore and the Punjaub,” “ A Painter's Im-
much less difference than we might at first sup-
pressions of Rajpootana,” etc. Mr. Weeks pose, since he was singularly free from the
often writes in an entertaining way, as we may
characteristic vices of paganism, and singularly
illustrate by a selection from his description of near to the fundamental virtues of Christian
a ride to Jodhpore on a little branch railway civilization. We are safe, therefore, in assum-
belonging to the Rajah :
ing for modern times a saner appreciation of
“When we reached a village, or even a flag-house, the personality of the poet than has been pos-
with a collection of mud huts in the background, we
made a lengthy halt, and when the engineer met an ac-
* VERGIL IN THE MIDDLE AGES. By Domenico Com-
paretti. Translated by E. F. M. Benecke, with Introduction
quaintance we came to a standstill; and on all occa-
by Robinson Ellis. New York: Macmillan & Co.
sions the gaunt, jackal-faced village dogs trotted along-
MASTER VIRGIL: THE AUTHOR OF THE ÆNEID AS HE
side for miles, looking up wistfully for the chance bone
SEEMED IN THE MIDDLE AGES. By J. S. Tunison. Cincin-
or crust of bread, or they ran on ahead and barked at nati: Robert Clarke Co.
the engine. These capricious halts did not, as might VIRGIL AND THE TWELFTH CENTURY POETS. By J. S.
be supposed, subject us to the risk of collision, since our Tunison ; articles in the “ Denison Quarterly," Vol. I., pp.
train composed the company's entire rolling stock. A 87-96, 170-178.


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fore us.
sible at any former period subsequent to the is a point which the author is careful to main-
Augustan age itself.
tain. It would be interesting to enter at length
That the long-continued gloom between these into the substance of these legends, but space
two outbursts of intellectual light should give will not permit. It is enough to say that the
rise to distorted visions of his life and charac sensible, scholarly, and unassuming Virgil of
ter was inevitable. An occasional trace of these actual fact grew now into an inspired prophet
distortions appears in modern literature, as in of the advent of Christianity, and even an ac-
Scott's note to the Lay of the Last Minstrel, tual preacher of its doctrines, in full detail ;
II., 17, where the unquenchable lamp that now into the guardian of his country, building
burned in the tomb of Michael Scott, the magi- a temple with images which would indicate
cian, leads to the quotation of a story from the automatically the outbreak of war in any por-
Virgilius of John Doesborcke, according to tion of the Empire ; now into the beneficent
which the poet has himself cut to pieces and wonder-worker, able to construct a bronze horse
pickled down in a barrel, in order to be re which had the effect of preventing other horses
venated by the dripping from a magic lamp from becoming sway-backed, a bronze fly which
under which the barrel was placed. But no prevented other flies from entering the city of
systematic collection of these stories existed Naples, shambles upon which meat would re-
until the publication, in 1872, of the first Ital- tain its freshness, etc., etc.; now into a devotee
ian edition of Comparetti's Virgilio nel Medio of the Black Art, consorting with devils, learn-
Evo, an English translation of which, from the ing the secrets of their power and surpassing
proof-sheets of the second edition, is now be- them in their own cunning; and now into an
amorous gallant, as far from the author of the
In point of exhaustive research, Professor Æneid, in his relations with women, as one can
Comparetti seems to have left almost nothing easily imagine. .
whatever for any subsequent investigator to do. The genesis of the ascription of magical
The work is divided into two parts, the first power to Virgil, Comparetti traces to the folk-
dealing with “ The Vergil of Literary Tradi- lore of the city of Naples, where the poet long
tion," and covering the period from the poet's maintained his residence, and near which he
own time down to the
age
of Dante. This goes, was buried. This view had been generally ac-
of course, beyond the apparent limits of the cepted until the appearance of Mr. J. S. Tuni-
title ; but the reader will at once see the neces- son's “Master Virgil,” the first editions of which
sity for this in a work which aims to explain, are dated 1888 and 1890, respectively. Mr.
as well as relate, the facts under consideration. Tunison, whose proneness to penetrate such
It must be said, however, that in numerous byways of literature is a matter of tradition at
portions of the book one finds page after page his old college home, began the study of these
of matter so indirectly connected with Virgil legends before he was aware of Comparetti's
as fairly to raise the question whether the prom- work, but availed himself thoroughly of what
inence of the poet's name in the title is strictly the latter had done before his own book was
justified. The most important thread running prepared for publication. He maintains that
through this portion of the work is the inex- Comparetti has “overdrawn the indebtedness
pugnable position of the Virgilian poems in of the literature of the twelfth century to Nea-
the schools of Rhetoric and Grammar, which politan folk-lore"; that the absence of these
made.it impossible that their author should be legends from the lore of Naples to-day" is the
forgotten, however unable it might be to pre-complement of the fact that they never had
vent misconceptions of his character. The stu- any vital relation to the people of that city”;
dent of Dante, even more than the student of that a literary rather than a popular origin is
Virgil, will find matter of interest and profit in indicated by the fact that “the various phases
the fourteenth and fifteenth chapters, wherein of the legends correspond respectively to the
the connection between the two poets is so dis- diverse phases of Virgil's personality and learn- .
cussed as clearly to display the wide range of ing, as reflected in classical and post-classical
Comparetti's attainments in both the classical criticism"; that there is no necessity for the
and the medieval fields.
presumptions that the populace were ever any-
The second part treats of “The Vergil of thing but followers in the adaptation of magical
Popular Legend”; and the distinction between fables to the fame of Virgil "; and finally
a popular and a literary tradition, running down the central point in his theory — that the con-
-
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world-wide circulation) with the name of Vir. at least two cases he has dragged it unneces-
gil was due to a disposition in writers and sarily into this work; once when he sees in
readers favorable to a specific mode of romance the birth of Christ the advent of one who was
writing. A certain kind of incident was credi- to drive mankind so far back and down from
ble, when related of a sorcerer.
The romances
the height of civilization which they had then
which included this species of incident were attained,” and again when he asserts that
popular. Therefore the romances were writ. - those who maintain that woman owes a deep
ten, regardless of facts, and even in defiance of debt of gratitude to Christianity main-
facts that were generally known.” Connec- tain what is contrary to the facts.”
tion with famous names of antiquity naturally Mr. Tunison takes a more favorable view of
increased the popularity of such stories, and the amount of knowledge which the Middle
what name more obvious than that of the author Ages possessed than does Comparetti. « It is
of the Æneid ? In harmony with the theory presumed,” says he, “that the reader knows
is the fact, not adequately accounted for by the Middle Ages not to have been the time of
Comparetti, that this attribution of magical ignorance described by the common run of
power first appears not in Italian writers but in writers since the so-called revival of learning.
the Norman Latinists of England and France, If he does not know this he will need to be told
spreading into Italy last of all. In order to that, considered as literature, and not as a mere
account for this latter fact Comparetti is driven philological stalking-horse, the poems of Vir-
to attribute to the Italian writers of the time gil were as widely read and as well understood
a less degree of the intellectual darkness of the in the twelfth century as they are to-day.” For
Middle Ages than is perhaps their just due. this assertion he was taken to task by the late
Mr. Tunison supports his position with ability, Professor Sellar, in the “Classical Review"
and the various legends fall naturally, under his (III., 265), and this led him to the preparation
treatment, into a classification based upon their
their of a paper published in two parts in the “ Deni-
relation to the salient points in the poet's life son Quarterly" under the caption of “ Virgil
and work. That Comparetti, in his new edi- and the Twelfth Century Poets.” In this pa-
tion, should take no further notice of this work per the traces of a thorough literary acquaint-
than to stamp it in a footnote as “crude and ance with Virgil in the works of two represen-
illogical reasoning ” speaks more loudly for his tative twelfth century poets, Joseph of Exeter
determination to stand by his own thesis than and Gunther, a German monk, are carefully
for his scientific spirit or his courtesy, and is followed out.
the more inexcusable when we consider the But I have far transcended my limits, and
repeated and emphatic praise which Mr. Tuni- must close with the wish that the “ almost mar-
son has bestowed upon him. As to crudity, vellous celerity” with which Professor Robin-
Professor Crane (« The Nation,” No. 1228) was son Ellis tells us that Mr. Benecke translated
putting it very mildly when he said that Mr. Comparetti's book had been held sufficiently in
Tunison's work was more attractive for the check to obviate such absurdities of expression
general reader in form and style” than that “ This was merely a tribute
of Comparetti. It may be added that the same no indication, slike Prudentius
authority credited Mr. Tunison with doing his many other Christian poets did,” the repeated
work “so thoroughly as to leave little room misplacing of the adverb only, etc., etc. The
for criticism or suggestion.” In the matter of absence of any index is utterly inexcusable.
logic, too, Comparetti is open to attack at We have seen no book in five years the full
other points than those assailed by Mr. Tuni- value of which was so absolutely dependent
son. He repeatedly fails to distinguish between upon an exhaustive index as is the case with
“ Christianity” and various vagaries into which this. Has not the time arrived when reputable
the organized Church of the Middle Ages was publishers should refuse to put their imprint
led by perversities of human nature having no upon such a book without an adequate index ?
fundamental connection with Christianity, and
W. H. JOHNSON.
as wide-spread, both in geographical distribu-
tion and in recorded history, as the human
race: a fallacy from which Tunison keeps him- Victor Hugo's statue for the Place Victor Hugo
self free, when dealing with the same subject. be published two volumes containing some unpublished
will not be ready before 1900. At that time also will
matter. Comparetti has a private right, of
papers written at Guernsey, and the letters which he
course, to his bias against Christianity, but in wrote to intimate friends during his exile.
66
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.
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In the pres-
97
of weakness in a story which may, nevertheless, in-
RECENT AMERICAN FICTION.*
fect with some measure of its own contagious en-
“Casa Braccio” fills two volumes, but might thusiasm the musically-minded reader. Perhaps it
easily have been compressed into one. Mr. Craw- is well not to bear too hard upon defects that spring
ford's fatal habit of indulging in commonplace philo- from exaggeration of reverence, seeing how greatly
sophical reflections, of insisting upon the obvious,
we need that quality in our literature as in our life.
has doubtless now become so confirmed that he is
The title of the new novel by Mr. Brander Mat-
not likely to succeed in breaking loose from it. It is
thews_“ His Father's Son”—almost tells its own
all done very neatly, to be sure, but with the neat- story, so frequently does the moralist find occasion
ness that somehow suggests the exasperating per-
to note the degeneracy of our wealthy families in
fection of a copy-book model. In this book, for the
the second generation. We should say that if ever
rest, Mr. Crawford appears at his best.
The one
the great American novel gets to be written it is
subject that he knows better than any other is that
bound to give conspicuous embodiment to this dis-
of the Roman life of a generation ago, and to this
heartening fact. It matters little whether the for-
subject he returns in “Casa Braccio,” handling it
tune of the parent has been honestly or dishonestly
with the ease born of long practice and close famil-
won, it proves a curse to the son in so many cases
iarity. A more than usually pronounced tinge of that the rule comes near to being established. The
melodrama marks the book at several critical junc heedlessness of parents, coupled with the enervation
tures, and certainly adds nothing to its strength.
of luxurious surroundings and the contagion of the
The author employs the trick of using some of his
associations that cluster about the possession of
stock characters over again, performing it so deftly
wealth in all but rare instances, make up a combina-
that the impression is pleasant, and helps noticeably
tion of circumstances that comparatively few young
to sustain the illusion that we are living with him
men have the stamina to resist and to conquer. No
in a world of real men and women.
ideal is more in need of inculcation in our Amer-
ent instance, our old friend Paul Griggs plays an
iean society than the Goethean
important role, and our newer acquaintance Crowdie
“Was du ererbt von deinen Vätern hast,
is partly accounted for. When he makes one of
Erwirb es, um es zu besitzen,"
his characters poison herself with “ hydrocyanide and no worthy ideal of conduct, it must be added,
of potassium,” Mr. Crawford's usually accurate in-
is less frequently sought after and attained. We
formation fails him for once. «Casa Braccio” is cannot help regretting that Mr. Matthews should
the author's twenty-fifth novel, which is doing
not have made more than he has of so great a
fairly well for a career of fifteen years.
theme. His typical case of moral disintegration is
The personality of Liszt is the central fact in rapidly sketched from surface indications ; not from
Mr. Bagby's “Weimar Idyl.” To this the love affair within, as it must be to become effective. In this
of “ Miss Träumerei” and her American tenor, the
treatment the dramatic bent of the author is
appar-
petty gossip of the natives, and the intrigues and ent; he may say that the psychology of the matter
jealousies of the music-students are subordinated,
is to be understood, but in a novel we may rightly
although they all play their part in the development ask for a certain amount of explicit psychology.
of the story. The book, like nearly all musical
The addition of this element to the others so skil.
novels, is over-emotional, and lacking in a nice fully compounded would certainly have added much
sense of proportion. The oppressive sentimentality
to the force of the novel, and without more of it
of its atmosphere, the effusive hero-worship of the than is given us the awakening of vicious instincts
little group clustered about the Meister and made in his hero is not adequately accounted for.
As &
more or less daft by the association, are elements
study of the sinister side of Wall Street financier-
ing, the book is a marked success ; its thrusts are
* Casa BRACCIO. By F. Marion Crawford. Two volumes. keen, and its logic is convincing.
New York: Macmillan & Co.
“ The American in Paris"
Miss TRAEUMEREI. A Weimar Idyl. By Albert Morris
best be described
may
Bagby. Boston: Lamson, Wolffe & Co.
as an anecdote history of the Franco-Prussian War,
His FATHER'S Son. By Brander Matthews. New York:
the siege of Paris, and the Commune, interspersed
Harper & Brothers.
with numerous quotations from state papers and
THE AMERICAN IN PARIS. By Eugene Coleman Savidge.
personal memoirs
the whole treated in a style of
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co.
sophomorical flamboyancy. The story, aside from
BUNCH-GRASS STORIES. By Mrs. Lindon Bates. Phila-
this, is hardly worth mentioning, and any attempt
delphia: J. B. Lippincott Co.
THE WEDDING, and Other Stories. By Julien Gordon.
to account rationally for the extraordinary conduct
Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott Co.
of the American hero is quite beyond our powers.
KITWYK STORIES. By Anna Eichberg King. New York: The author, we suspect, is a jingo, and it is well-
The Century Co.
known that the jingo scorns the commonplace in-
COLLEGE GIRLS. By Abbe Carter Goodloe. New York:
tellectual processes of ordinary mortals. So pre-
Charles Scribner's Sons.
THE FRONT YARD, and Other Italian Stories. By Con-
tentious and badly-written a book has not often
stance Fenimore Woolson. New York: Harper & Brothers.
come into our clutches.
DOROTHY, and Other Italian Stories. By Constance Feni-
“ Bunch-Grass Stories " is as pretty a name as
more Woolson. New York: Harper & Brothers.
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can
it serves as pretext for an exceptionally graceful might have written of the good burghers of Kitwyk
cover design. We presume that bunch-grass is a in a similar strain. The cover of the book, in blue
characteristically Western product, for all but two Delft, and the drawings by Messrs. Edwards and
of the eight stories are told of the West—the West Sterner, harmonize with the text, and add not a lit-
of the later settlements—and “seek to embody the tle to the charm of this delightful book.
spirit of the transition time.” Mrs. Bates, we may Miss Goodloe's “ College Girls ” are healthy and
say at the outset, has been surprisingly successful well-bred specimens of feminine humanity, and she
in her task. She has known at first-hand the fron- | contrives to interest us in their doings. They are
tier life whereof she writes, and her tales bear out denizens of Wellesley College, and their thoughts
the statement that it was “ full of zest.” More than are not all of books. Each one of the fourteen
once they suggest the similar work of Mr. Bret stories in this collection is based upon a distinct
Harte, and their direct, picturesque, vivid quality idea, worked out with skilful economy, and produces
stirs the blood with a keen sense of the robust life a singular impression of completeness. This fact,
which they depict. Perhaps the most striking thing together with the touches of comedy and sentiment
about them is that they should have been written that alternately enliven the pages, gives artistic value
by a woman, for their point of view is distinctly to what is otherwise a slight performance. If such
masculine, and we listen in vain to catch the fem- a book has any lesson, it is that the higher educa-
inine note. If we catch it at all, it is in the two tion of woman does not make her any less feminine
stories “ of other days and other wheres,” which we than she would be without it.
cannot but feel to be misplaced in this group. They Two volumes of stories by the late Constance
are fantastic and unreal; their fellows are throbbing Fenimore Woolson have been added to the consid-
with vigorous life. The contrast is as great as pos- erable list of books bearing her name. The six
sible between “ The Great Concern” and the story stories of the one volume and the five of the other
of Iphigenia at Aulis, and it is almost wholly in all relate to Italy, where the writer spent the clos-
favor of the former.
ing part of her life. But, although the scenes are
Three or four longish stories and a couple of very Italian, the characters are for the most part ex-
short ones are the contents of Mrs. Cruger's new patriated Americans, who speak and act very much,
volume. We should infer that they were the sweep- as they would have done at home, except that they
ings of the writer's desk, so inferior are they to the have more interesting things to do and talk about.
greater part of her work. They are mostly about Most of these stories are swift character-studies,
people of intense emotions, and their atmosphere is filled with much animated chatter of the sort that
that of the hot-house. Their artificiality and crude- passes for conversation in our feverish modern so-
ness of coloring produce an unpleasant effect, and ciety, and only now and then are the springs of life
the occasional clever touches do little to counteract for a moment touched. They are finished work,
it. They are, moreover, for the most part sadly and consequently satisfactory in a way, despite their
lacking in the constructive art that the writer has, limitations. Two or three of them display consid-
in some of her longer works, shown herself to pos- erable inventive skill, while others have fine-spun
analysis as their chief element. Perhaps the most
Holland has provided inspiration for artists of striking of all is the story of “The Front Yard,”
many sorts, but rarely for more genuine and sym- with its simple pathos and its wholly original con-
pathetic work than Mrs. King's “ Kitwyk Stories.” ception.
ception. All of the stories have had previous pub-
There are just a dozen of them, linked by a com- lication in the magazines.
mon scene and common characters, vividly depict-
WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE.
ing the quaint life of a sleepy Dutch town, and
brimming with alternate humor and pathos. They
range from grave to gay, from burlesque to tragedy,
and every episode is a delight. Who could forget,
HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS.
for example, the story of the dominie expounding
scripture from his pulpit, and all the time guiltily First in order and importance among the volumes
conscious of the fact that his coat-tail pockets con- before us for treatment in our second article must
ceal a fragmentary sausage, and that the sacristan's be ranked the two stately volumes, entitled “Con
dog, keen upon the scent, is lurking somewhere be- stantinople" (Roberts) by Edwin A. Grosvenor,
hind. As for “The Wild Huntsmen of Kitwyk,” | Professor of European History at Amherst College,
whose exploits are wrought in a vast cabbage-patch, and formerly Professor of History at Robert Col-
and whose only embarrassment is that the rabbits lege, Constantinople. Professor Grosvenor's book
are so tame that they will not get far enough away is a serious and scholarly work, the result of years
to be properly aimed at, the humor of the situation of arduous labor and research ; and we include it in
is entirely irresistible. The thing is as good, in its the present category only by reason of its sumptu-
way, as Tartarin's lion-hunt in the Algerian cab- ous make-up and unusual pictorial attractions. That
bage-patch. In fact, there are many scenes in Mrs. it is not, like so many books of the kind, a mere
King's book that suggest the doings of the Taras- learned compilation, a mosaic of laborious glean-
connais, and M. Daudet, had he been a Dutchman, ings from the authorities, the warmly commenda-
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tory Introduction supplied by Gen. Lew. Wallace pointed to a “ sample lot” outside: “I'll take
well serves to show. A necessarily hurried exam- these books; and, say, have you any more of this
ination of the work inclines us to endorse without kind with this shield onto them?' pointing to the
qualification General Wallace's characterization of bookplate attached, which bore the arms and name
it as a History of Constantinople which will not of a good old country family. . . . What's yer fig-
merely serve every want of the tourist, student, and ger for them, anyway? See here, I start back to
general reader, but be indispensable to every library | Chicago to-morrow, and I mean to take these books
for purposes of reference. Let us add that it is right back along. I'm goin' to start a libery thar,
precisely the store
house of historical, archæological, and these books will just fit me, name and all. Just
and topographical facts long needed by tourists to en- you sort out all that have that shield and name and
able them to "do" Constantinople intelligently and send them round to the Langham at seven sharp.
profitably, and to dispense with the greedy and pes- I'll be round to settle up; but see, now, don't you
tilent horde of “guides” thrust upon the helpless send any without that name-plate, for that 's my
pilgrim by the Pera landlords.
The volumes are name, too, and I reckon this old hoss with the dag-
copiously and informingly illustrated with photo-gers and roosters might have been related to me
graphic plates which, in point of subject, fairly beg- some way.'” Just where this Chicago bibliophile
gar description --- portraits, views, cuts of tombs, acquired his amazing dialect will be a mystery to
buildings, bas-reliefs, antiquities, street-scenes, etc., his puzzled fellow-townsmen who read the story.
following each other in bewildering variety. Sev- We have included Mr. Roberts's book in the pres-
eral good maps and charts are added, and there is ent category largely by reason of its attractive
a chronological list of Emperors and Sultans, and make-up and its profuse illustrations, which em-
a good Index.
brace a great number of portraits of noted collectors
A graceful gift to a friend of bookish tastes and dealers, cuts of famous shops and stalls, rare
would be a copy of Mr. W. Roberts's “ The Book- texts and title-pages, bookplates, etc. The tasteful
Hunter in London," a well-made, handsome volume, cover design calls for its word of praise.
of which Messrs. A. C. McClurg & Co. are the Not a few readers will feel misgivings at the
American publishers. The author is an authority publication of Mr. W. Hamilton Gibson's “Our
on book-collecting, and his work is the first serious Edible Toad-Stools and Mushrooms, and How to
attempt, we think, to give a fairly comprehensive Distinguish Them” (Harper), but examination of
history of that fascinating pursuit, as carried on in the book will show no real cause for alarm, for the
the British metropolis. The work is, he says, “the writer has been more than necessarily timid in his
outcome, not only of material which has been accu- suggestions, and sounds the danger-note so persist-
mulating for many years past, from published and ently and obtrusively that the wayfaring man in
unpublished sources, but also of a long and pleasant search of mushrooms for his dinner-table, though a
intercourse with the leading collectors and booksel- fool, is not likely to err in consequence of Mr. Gib-
lers in London, not to mention a vigorous and con- son's advice. The simple fact of the matter is that
stant prosecution of one of the most pleasant and our woods are full of delicious mushrooms of the
instructive of hobbies.” Mr. Roberts's scholarly edible sort; that, although there are also noxious
and matterful work deserves much fuller treatment species to be found in their company, it is not a dif-
than can be accorded it here; and we must content ficult matter to make a safe selection, and that the
ourselves with describing it in a general way as a knowledge by which the edible fungi may be distin-
storehouse teeming with facts and anecdotes of the guished from the poisonous ones is worth the pains
greatest interest to collectors and amateurs, and to required to master the directions given in Mr. Gib-
bookish people generally; the whole being set forth son's book. Indeed, it is not fair to speak of read-
in a very genial and agreeable style. The matter ing such a book as a painful experience at all, for
is conveniently arranged under such captions as : the author is not only an accurate scholar (as far
“Early Book-Hunting," "Book-Auctions and Sales," as he goes ), but two kinds of an artist as well
“Bookstalls and Bookstalling," "Some Book-Hunt-
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with the pen and with the pencil or brush. His
ing Localities,” “Some Modern Collectors," etc. book is a very beautiful one, with thirty colored
The humors of the subject are not neglected,— and plates remarkable for truth of design and delicacy
we need scarcely say that the Chicago collector (by of tint, a still greater number of illustrations in
no means such a rara avis as the author seems to black-and-white, many passages of fine descriptive
fancy) comes in for a share of notice. Somehow, writing, and, last but not least, an appendix of re-
everyone seems to feel himself entitled to gird at ceipts for the practical uses of the kitchen. Armed
Chicago the moment any topic germane to culture with the facts to be got from this book, and keeping
comes up for discussion; and yet Mr. Warner years it at hand for the process of verification, one may
ago was far-sighted enough to predict that when safely sally forth in quest of edible mushrooms, and
Chicago did take hold of culture she “would make as safely indulge in the epicurean delights that they
it hum.” Mr. Roberts, however, on the authority afford. Here, at least, is a holiday book that is not
of a London dealer, tells a story (largely apochry- only charming to read and look at, but is also of
phal, we dare say) of a “stylishly-dressed man” solid practical use, and hardly to be spared from
who walked briskly into his shop saying, as he the library of the country house.
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Among gift-books combining high literary qual- Walter Map, Wolfram of Eschenbach, and Chres-
ities with fastidious workmanship and moderate tien of Troyes. The five plates given the original
price, the season's publications of Mr. Thomas B. series is not yet completed) represent as many
Mosher, Portland, Me., are deservedly conspicuous. phases in the life of Galahad and in his quest of
Mr. Mosher's charming “ Bibelot” edition of Fitz- the Grail. In the first picture he is shown as an
Gerald's “Omar,” published a year ago, will be fresh | infant in the arms of a nun, visited in the convent
in the recollection of many book-lovers. The edi. by an angel who bears the mystic cup. The second
tion was a small one, and quickly exhausted. An represents the knighting of Galahad. The third is
édition définitive of this classic has now been pro- an elaborate and highly dramatic composition, show-
duced, with several new features, among them an ing the Knights of the Round Table seated in Ar-
intelligent sketch and appreciation of FitzGerald by thur's Hall, the motif being the fable of the seat
Mr. W. Irving Way, two poems by Mr. Theodore Perilous fashioned by the enchanter Merlin. The
Watts, and a bibliography. The text of the first fourth plate shows the beginning of the Quest, the
and fourth (original) editions is given, with the design representing the Knights about to set out on
variant readings of the other two. It will be dif- their mission; and in the fifth we see Galahad's
ficult to plan a better or more attractive presentation “ First Coming to the Castle of the Grail.” The
of the work than that now devised by the taste and text gives a brief outline of the history of the Grail
judgment of Mr. Mosher. The qualities that make Legend, together with the artist's comments on the
this little book so attractive are shared by Mr. plates.
Mosher's two additional volumes in the “ Bibelot” An enticing little volume, which to see is to wish
series — a selection from the lyrics of Rossetti, and to handle, is Messrs. Macmillan & Co.'s collection
Symonds's translation of the sonnets of Michel An- of “Moral Tales " from Marmontel, in a revised
gelo. The former volume includes “The Blessed translation and with an Introduction by Mr. George
Damozel,” “ Jenny" (with some variant readings), Saintsbury. Mr. Chris. Hammond is the illustrator,
the translations from Villon, the shorter ballads, and the form of the volume is generally similar to
and a score of the best-known lyrics. Mme. Dar- that of the same firm's familiar green-and-gold edi-
mesteter's tributary “Canzone" serves as an appro- tions of “Cranford,” “The Vicar of Wakefield,”
priate foreword. The Michel Angelo volume has etc. If the reader have a literate taste and his duo
a frontispiece head of Vittoria Colonna, and the share of fancy, let him turn to this still fresh and
notes of the translator. Mr. Mosher opens what he fragrant garland of (in the qualitative sense espe-
happily calls the “Old World Series ” — volumescially) eighteenth-century tales. Marmontel was a
a trifle smaller than the “ Bibelots
- with a re-
gifted, versatile man, whose mind was tinged with
print of Mr. Lang's ever-delightful translation of the peculiar doctrines and enthusiasms of his day,
“ Aucàssin and Nicolete." The original etched as his style was with its neo-classicalism. He was
title-page is reproduced, together with Mr. Lang's a true conteur, a weaver of quaint conceits and
introduction and “ Ballads of Aucassin.”
romantic fancies in the manner of Crébillon the
also given Mrs. Marriott-Watson's “ Ballads of Nic- younger and of Marivaux; and in these “exquisitely
olete” and Mr. Stedman's “Provençal Lovers," finished tales” of his, as Mr. Ruskin styles them,
without which latter poem, as the editor remarks, one may find a refreshing contrast to the dusty real-
“the edition would be incomplete.” Last of all, ism of our modern Gradgrinds, who, by some
Mr. Mosher has issued the daintiest imaginable edi- strange inversion of the normal order of things,
tion, printed on Japan vellum, of Pater's “The have gotten out of their native thistle-field of re-
Child in the House,” with the obituary sonnet byporting and statistics, into the rose-garden of fiction.
“ Michael Field.”
Essentially a man of his time, Marmontel's writings
In a thin oblong octavo entitled “The Quest of - the Contes Moraux scarcely less than the me-
the Holy Grail,” Messrs. R. H. Russell & Co. re- moirs and treatises—are saturated with its peculiar
produce the series of paintings done by Mr. Edwin spirit. He was a philosophe too — of the salons,
A. Abbey for the decoration of the Delivery Room | indeed, and well below those leaders of the Eight-
of the Boston Public Library, The plates enable eenth Century Renaissance who sapped the citadel
one at least to enjoy Mr. Abbey's fine and romantic of the old intellectual and political order, and headed
conceptions, and even to form a notion of the gen- the assault upon the crowned and the cowled foes
eral technique and rich effects of color and chiaros- of light and liberty. The Contes Moraux, then,
curo of the original works. The artist has pre- may be read either as tales pure and simple, or as
served throughout the mystic romanticism and documents of the period, as the reader please ; and
chivalric-religious symbolism of his difficult theme; from either standpoint he will be well repaid. Mr.
and the details of costume, ritual, and accesssories Saintsbury's rather lengthy Introduction is inform-
appear to be historically accurate. He has taken ing and vivaciously written, and Mr. Hammond's
as his hero the British Sir Galahad, the Parzeval illustrations are pleasing.–Another new volume in
of the continental versions of the legend, arranging the charming “Cranford series” presents a collec-
the sequence of adventure to suit the exigencies of tion of Mary Russell Mitford's “Country Stories,"
pictorial treatment, and drawing from various poet- illustrated by George Morrow. The tales, of course,
ical sources, but mainly from Robert de Borron, are charming in style and theme, and Mr. Morrow's
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pictures have quite a Hugh Thomsonish flavor - ous dictum that “ Art is on the town," and to the
which is commendation enough. The titles include theory that the coming art-patron is the enterprising
“The London Visitor," " Jesse Cliffe,” “The Beauty vendor of soaps and patent pills. The volume con-
of the Village, ,” “Town versus Country,” “Honor tains much curious matter, pictorial and otherwise,
O'Callaghan," etc.
and should have a passing vogue.
Mr. W. D. Howells's garland of brief poems, We spoke not long ago of the first two volumes
“Stops of Various Quills,” is issued in Holiday ap- in Messrs. Houghton, Miffin & Co.'s attractive re-
parel by Messrs. Harper & Brothers, and cleverly issue of the art-histories of Mrs. Jameson. Three
illustrated by Mr. Howard Pyle. Touching the more volumes, now published, complete the series.
essentially poetic quality of the work, it cannot be They are as follows: “Legends of the Monastic
said that the flight of Mr. Howells's muse is either Orders," "Legends of the Madonna,” and “Me-
lofty or well sustained. His numbers lack music, moirs of Italian Painters.” All are abundantly
and his style lacks distinction; but the verses are illustrated, and supplied with notes embodying the
always thoughtful and virile, and lack of form is work of recent critical scholarship. The series of
partly atoned for by pith and manifest sincerity illustrations in the “ Memoirs of Italian Painters"
of matter. There is a sombre tone throughout, is entirely new. Miss Hurll, who has done the
which will be a little surprising to those who know editorial work upon all these volumes, is to be con-
only Mr. Howells's crisp and buoyant prose; and gratulated upon the knowledge and taste brought
it is this, perhaps, which has inspired Mr. Pyle’s by her to this delicate task.
particularly dismal frontispiece. Illustration and Last year Messrs. D. Appleton & Co. issued a
decoration are finely done, for the most part, and handsome édition de luxe, limited, of Damas's
not overdone — which is a desideratum in books of “ Three Musketeers,” translated by Mr. William
the kind.
Robson, and enriched with 250 illustrations by
Very pretty and dainty is Messrs. Little, Brown, Maurice Leloir, engraved on wood by J. Huyot.
& Co.'s quartet of brief romances of George Sand: The same house now offers a far less expensive edi.
“ François the Waif,” translated by Jane Minot tion of this work, which for all practical purposes
Sedgwick; “ The Devil's Pool,” translated by Jane is as good as its more luxurious predecessor, or even
Minot Sedgwick and Ellery Sedgwick; "Fadette," better. Leloir's work is exceedingly spirited, the
translated by Jane Minot Sedgwick ; and “The plates are bright and clear, and altogether the vol.
Master Mosaic Workers,” translated by Charlotte umes present a most inviting and readable appear-
C. Johnston. The edition is limited to 750 copies, ance.
and each little volume, simplex munditiis, is a Messrs. George Bell & Sons of London publish,
jewel of quiet, artistic book-making. Etched front- and Messrs. Macmillan & Co. import, an interesting
ispieces, Windsor hand-made paper, and the clear if rather desultory work on “Modern Illustration,”
print of the De Vinne Press, complete a material put together by that undefatigable bookmaker, Mr.
ensemble that offers little room for cavil. The vol- Joseph Pennell. The author observes in his pre-
umes, with one exception, deal with a phase of face, in his usual pleasant way, that the book is
French life that George Sand is perhaps unexcelled "but a sketch of what I think is the most import-
in portraying; and the publishers may be congrat- ant work of this century; from which I know I
ulated on their selections.
shall be told I have omitted almost all that I should
A unique volume of quasi-artistic interest is Mr. have included, and inserted much that should have
Charles Hiatt's “ Picture Posters (Macmillan), been omitted.” Now we do not think that the
being a short history of the illustrated placard, with “unknown or anonymous nobodies," as Mr. Pennell
many reproductions of choice and curious examples styles his critics, will be quite so hard on him as
in all countries. While we cannot fully agree with that comes to. His examples are undeniably well
the author as to the palæolithic antiquity of the chosen, and, space limitations considered, repre-
poster (the cave-dweller, he thinks, “must surely sentative ; and the only fault we have to find with
have possessed the essential idea of it"), the device his book on its pictorial side is that the author has
is certainly obvious enough to have presented itself over-modestly refrained from inserting in it speci-
to the mind of a very primitive advertiser. There mens of his own often admirable drawings. Mr.
is in the Louvre collections a papyrus, which may Pennell at his best ranks with the first half-dozen
be fairly called a poster, dating back to 146 B.C., illustrators of to-day; and the fact should have
and offering a reward for the apprehension of two been recognized, even in a book of his own compil-
slaves escaped from the city of Alexandria. Mr. ing. The volume being a small one, and inclusive
Hiatt's illustrations embrace many photographic cuts of many names, the text is necessarily little more
of French, English, German, and American posters, than a good catalogue raisonné. It is marked, how-
most of them ingeniously grotesque, many in the ever, with the author's usual peculiarities of style,
unmeaningly-hideous style of Mr. Aubrey Beards- including a certain snappishness and cocksureness
ley, and a few really graceful and artistic. The qualities which have done even more than Mr.
list of considerable artists who have condescended Pennell's inaccuracies as a chronicler and heresies
to this sufficiently rank form of the “pot-boiler" is critic to bring the swarm of "anonymous no-
such as to give color to Mr. Whistler's contemptu- bodies" about his ears. Like too many artists (lit-
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erary ones not excepted), Mr. Pennell ill brooks ceives in them certain obscure analogies with the
the rivalry of the dead; and he has his usual quota moods of man.” This thesis Mr. Hamerton devel-
of sharp things to say of past celebrities. Mr. ops, with his usual delicate analysis and wealth of
Pennell's narrative, however, is lively and enter- illustration, through twenty readable chapters. The
taining; and it contains a good deal of information book should make a pretty and valuable gift for
as to modern French, German, English, and Amer- those who can appreciate it.— While speaking of
ican illustrators and their methods that the reading this work by Mr. Hamerton, we should mention
public will be glad to get, and which cannot be got that another attractive edition of it, at moderate
in
any other single book that we know of. The price and with well-executed illustrations, is issued
plates, of course, form the main attraction and real by Messrs. Macmillan & Co.
raison d'être of the volume ; and of these there are Messrs. Henry T. Coates & Co. issue, in two taste-
some 140, full-page and vignette, forming a decid- fully ornate volumes bound in white and gold and
edly interesting collection.
encased in crimson slip-covers, the “Spain and the
Mr. Philip Gilbert Hamerton's graceful and Spaniards” of that sprightly and romantic Italian
thoughtful study of “ Painting in France after the traveller, Edmondo de Amicis. The work is newly
Decline of Classicism” (Roberts), illustrated with and admirably translated by Mr. Stanley Rhoads
fourteen full-page photogravures after characteris- Yarnall from the tenth Italian edition, and is en-
tic paintings of Aubert, Courbet, Tissot, Corot, Brun, riched with forty-seven excellent full-page photo-
Lobrichon, Landelle, and others, should find favor gravure plates of Spanish scenery, buildings, street
,
with those in quest of a sound, pictorially attrac- scenes, paintings, etc. De Amicis is a delightful
tive, and moderate-priced art-book. The plates are writer, and his "Spain" is one of his most delight-
exquisite examples of process-work, and the sub- ful books — still perhaps the best, and certainly the
jects are chosen with the author's usual correct taste. most brilliant and picturesque, Spanish travel-book
Mr. Hamerton's essay is an altogether charming extant, though very good ones have been written by
piece of work — all in all, the best summary appre- Gautier, and by our countryman, Mr. Henry T.
preciation of the spirit and method of modern Finck. The work is one of the choicest and best
French art and of its representative exponents that conceived gift-books on our list.—The same firm
we remember to have seen. The peculiarities of offers this year a revised and enlarged edition of
such men as Tissot, Manet, Courbet, Flandrin, and that standard anthology Coates's “ Fireside Encyclo
the rest, are brought out with a few swift and felici- pædia of Poetry.” The popularity of this work is
tous touches, the justice and delicate discrimination attested by the fact that the present is the thirty-
of which must at once strike anyone with the slight. first edition, and the freshness of the present revi-
est critical knowledge of those painters. Especially sion by its inclusion of some of the recent pieces of
acute are the brief remarks on Edouard Manet, the Eugene Field and Mr. Riley.
end and aim of whose art, Mr. H. thinks,“ est sim- A sightly and suitable Christmas gift for a friend
plement la tache”- la tache being perhaps the best engaged in wrestling with the knotty problem of
rendered here as “the patch.” As David used to building a new house, or the perhaps knottier one
teach that, in painting, the outline is everything, of altering an old one, would be a copy of Mr.
while others hold that modelling is everything, so Louis D. Gibson's “ Beautiful Houses” (Crowell),
our ultra-impressionist Manet may well say that la a sort of sequel, we take it, to his useful and prac-
tache is everything. With purely technical aims,
With purely technical aims, tical work on “Convenient Houses ” of some months
any subject whatever suits Edouard Manet, if only back. Since the publication of the latter work, Mr.
it presents a suitable arrangement of variously col. Gibson, who is a professional architect, has been
ored patches. Let the reader recall, for instance, abroad for the purpose of studying European arch-
one of his marvellous stubble-fields, with the long itecture at first hand and in detail ; and the present
rows of pyramidal ricks, the whole glorified and volume is largely the outcome of his trip. It is
empurpled by the slant rays of the westering sun, partly historical and descriptive, yet essentially sug-
and the truth of Mr. Hamerton's characterization gestive and practical ; and the intelligent reader
will appear. We regret that no example of Manet's cannot fail to gather from it many valuable hints
work is given; though it is perhaps ill-suited to as to the possibility of adapting the beauties and
reproduction. — The same house issues, in simpler merits of foreign houses to the exigencies of Ameri-
style, another of Mr. Hamerton's works, “Imagin- can life and construction. Mr. Gibson, whose es-
ation in Landscape Painting,” with twenty-seven thetic sense is evidently offended by the costly yet
illustrations after Claude, Ruysdael, Cuyp, Turner, hideous “residences” that shock the trained eye at
Constable, and other masters to whom Nature was every turn in the fashionable quarters of our cities,
an inspiration rather than a model to be literally has a good deal to say on the sound text that all
copied by the art ( as some one sagaciously called buildings, however modest, may be artistic; that
it) " of representing objects deceptively in relief on the cottage occupied by a clerk or bookkeeper who
a flat surface.” The imaginative landscape painter earns a hundred dollars a month is often a gem of
is distinguished from the mere copyist in that he is good taste, while the “ palatial abode” of the pork-
interested in natural objects not, as the author well packer or brewer who employs him is an architect-
puts it, “ for themselves alone, but because he per- ural horror; that there is no good reason, pecuniary
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or other, for ugliness; and that, in fine, the cost or of the pieces are sentimental, some are humorous ;
elaborateness of a house is no measure at all of its and Mr. Eastman's drawings range from bits of
beauty, save in the eye of the vulgar. The text is rural landscape and genre, to decorations and em-
divided under the main headings: “House-Building blems indented in the text or strewn on the mar-
an Art," “ The World's Homes,” “ Some House gins. The effect of the whole is pleasing enough;
Plans,” “Materials and Details." There are a great and the verses in the book appeal strongly to that
many illustrations, full-page and vignette, embracing very large class of town-dwelling Americans whose
choice examples of foreign and American houses, earliest and fondest memories are associated with
plans, details, etc.; and these are handsomely repro-
the farm with a phase of life which, we venture
duced. The book forms the supplement needed by to
say, is most pleasing at a distance, like a mosaic.
its extremely practical predecessor.
As a matter of fact, your typical American gets
Lovers of the writings of Mr. John Burroughs away from the farm as soon as he can, and only
will at last have their eyes gladdened by the sight returns to it when he must. But he likes to senti-
of a really ideal edition of his works - the “ New mentalize about it; and Mr. Eastman's pretty book
Riverside” (limited to 1,000 copies), in nine duo is a capital one to assist the process.
decimo volumes, from the press of Messrs. Hough- All true New Englanders will appreciate the
ton, Mifflin & Co. In design, material, and finish, tasteful small - quarto volume entitled “Old Bos-
these little volumes seem to us well-nigh flawless. ton” (Lee & Shepard), in which are reproduced,
They are clearly printed from new plates, on spe- generally in satisfactory form, the fine collection of
cial paper, and bound in the style of simple elegance etchings made by Mr. Henry R. Blaney, represent-
characteristic of this firm's choice publications. Illus- | ing historic buildings and street scenes in the fam-
tration and ornamentation are precisely what they ous capital of Yankee-land. Many of these build-
should be - thoroughly artistic and not overdone. ings are well-known landmarks, some of which still
They consist of etched frontispieces and engraved remain, though others have long since disappeared.
half-titles suggested by passages in Mr. Burroughs's The collection includes many fine specimens of Col-
works, and were designed by Messrs. Charles H. onial architecture, and public and private buildings
Woodbury, Sidney L. Smith, and W. H. W. Bick- of more recent date. Among the views are the Old
nell; and there are several etched portraits of Mr. State House, Faneuil Hall, Lamb Tavern, Birth-
Burroughs. Author, publishers, and artists are to place of Paul Revere, Sheafe House, Liberty Tree,
be heartily congratulated on these beautiful volo Green Dragon Tavern, Birthplace of Cotton Mather,
umes, which challenge, from cover to cover, com- Old Boston Theatre, Old South Church, Old Prov-
parison with examples of the best English and Con- ince House, Boston in 1768, etc. Each illustration
tinental book-making.
is accompanied by explanatory text, giving an his-
An extremely choice and elegant three-volume torical account of the building represented.
edition, printed at the De Vinne Press and limited An inviting, artistic looking book, embellished
to 750 copies, of Marie-Henri Beyle's (“De Stend- with eleven etchings and twenty pen-and-ink sketches
hal's ") fine romance, “ La Chartreuse de Parme," by Mr. H. Hovell Crickmore, is “Old Chester".
translated by E. P. Robins, comes to us from Messrs. one of Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons' importa-
G. H. Richmond & Co., of New York.
The con-
tions. Mr. Crickmore, a native Cestrian and a cap-
noisseur of fine book-making may well linger over ital cicerone, is the author as well as illustrator;
the charms of these refined and captivating little and it is an open question in which capacity he is
books. The binding, a delicate neutral tint with the happier. Most of the etchings are admirably
gilt stamp, is in the best taste; the print is clear done, and the reproduction bears comparison with
a model page ; and there are thirty first-class American work. Quaint old sixteenth-
etched plates, gems of Gallic esprit and daintiness, century Chester is fast vanishing before the tooth
by G. Mercier, after the designs of V. Foulquier. of time and the vandal hand of the restorer; and
“Chartreuse de Parme” is easily Beyle's master- the past twenty years especially have wrought havoc
piece in the department of fiction --"in any case," with many a picturesque nook dear to artist and
said Balzac, “a wonderful production, le livre des antiquary. While many an antique gem of stone
esprits distingués." Written in 1830, at Padua, and timber still remains, these are largely tottering
and inspired by a chance narration of the striking to decay; and, says Mr. Crickmore, " we must be
(if not altogether laudable) adventures of the Duch- up and doing if we would secure the semblance of
ess Sanseverina, it presents a vivid picture of Italian their scarred and wrinkled features before they van-
manners in Napoleonic times, as well as of scenes ish forever.” It is in pursuance of this pious aim
and events incidental to the French invasion of Italy. that he has prepared the present volume - a beau-
The translation of the work is easy, flowing, and tiful memorial of the storied remains of “Old
idiomatic.
Chester.”
Mr. Alfred C. Eastman has collected and illus- Few persons know much about the beautiful in-
trated with considerable taste twenty-six “Poems dustrial art of fan-painting, or of its masterpieces.
of the Farm” (Lee & Shepard), from various au- The loan exhibitions at South Kensington in 1870,
thors-Holmes, Whittier, Higginson, Madison Caw- at New York in 1882 by the Society of Decorative
ein, Mary E. Wilkins, S. W. Foss, and others. Most Art, and in 1891 by the Grolier Club, gave a great
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impulse to the collection and decoration of fans ; * Literary Shrines” and “A Literary Pilgrim-
but the opportunities of seeing these are very rare, age” (Lippincott) are the titles of two tasteful vol.
the private collections in which they are treasured umes in red buckram, the work of Dr. Theodore F.
not being accessible to the public. The subject, 80 Wolfe. The former is devoted to the homes and
far from being a frivolous one, has a history which haunts of American authors, the Concord group in
cannot be treated thoroughly without entering some- particular; while the latter treats in similar fashion
what into the social and artistic history of many na- of a number of English authors. The books are
tions. To supply such a history, and to reproduce pleasantly written, interspersed with bits of de-
some of the most interesting examples of the art, is scription and anecdote, and are inspired by a gen-
the object of “A Book about Fans” (Macmillan). uine, if somewhat undiscriminating, literary feeling.
The text is highly interesting, and the illustrations in Each volume has a number of pretty illustrations.
photogravure, twenty-nine in number, cover a great “One of the greatest pleasures I have known"
variety, from the old Etruscan and Chinese speci- is the phrase with which Mr. H. S. H. Waylen de-
mens down to the work of the moderns, Vibert, scribes the task of selecting a hundred or more
Leloir, Wattier, and others. From the concluding pages of “Thoughts from the Writings of Richard
chapter, "Fan-Collecting," may be learned some- Jefferies." Few men have known nature so inti-
what of the encouragements and difficulties for the mately as Jefferies, or written of her so tenderly and
enthusiast in this field. In one way, fans are more
80 well. His work abounds in quotable passages
puzzling than silver or china ; for they have no hall of the deepest beauty, and it was a happy inspira-
mark or factory stamp, and the old ones are almost tion that impelled Mr. Waylen to prepare this little
never signed. Yet a little study of these exquisite book. The volume is very prettily printed in red
butterflies of art will give an interesting idea of and black, and bound in covers decorated with a
what may be called the philosophy of style in dec- strikingly imaginative design. (Longmans.)
oration, and for such a purpose the handsome vol- Messrs. Little, Brown, & Co. issue, in continua-
ume just issued will serve as a valuable aid.
tion of their excellent shelf edition of the romances
Messrs. T. Y. Crowell & Co.'s new two-volume of Alexandre Dumas, a new series of six volumes
edition of “ The Poetical Works” of John Keats embracing “ Ascanio,” “The War of Women,"
is a very desirable exact reprint of Mr. J. Buxton “ Black, the Story of a Dog,” and “Tales of the
Forman's latest edition, with its complete editorial Caucasus," — each a shapely, neatly bound, and well
apparatus of notes, appendices, etc. The Forman printed duodecimo, with an etched frontispiece by
edition contains everything in the way of verse that E. Van Muyden or Eugène Grivaz. We have had
Keats is known to have written ; and the present frequent occasion to praise these series of standard
publishers have added an acceptable feature - a well-translated works, the form of which is now too
good biographical sketch of the poet, by Mr. Nathan familiar to call for special description.
Haskell Dole. The volumes are prettily bound in A book large enough, certainly, not to be lost sight
maroon and gilt, and the text is clearly printed on of by Christmas buyers, and furnishing in its end
fair paper. The edition is an inexpensive one, de- less profusion of illustrations and general mechan
spite its liberal pictorial attractions, the latter em- ical excellence, combined with substantial contents,
bracing some excellent portraits, together with
sufficient claim to be regarded as a gift-book par
drawings of views suggested by Keats's poems, or excellence, is the new edition of “ Webster's Inter-
of scenes associated with his name.—Uniform with national Dictionary” (G. & C. Merriam Co.) The
the above are two-volume editions, from new plates fortunate young man or woman who receives this
and with new illustrations, of Moore's “Complete noble work will possess a copy of what is perhaps
Poetical Works” and Jane Porter's “The Scottish the most remarkable single volume in the world,
Chiefs.” Price considered, these are very desirable and one that in itself may be made the foundation
editions of these standard works.
of an education; while scholars and literary workers
A comely Christmas edition of “Ian Maclaren's” find that, whatever other dictionaries they may
popular novel, “A Doctor of the Old School,” with possess, the “International” has special merits of
copious illustrations by Mr. F. G. Gordon, is issued its own that make its presence a ne
necessity in every
by Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co. Mr. Gordon's draw- well-ordered library.
ings are capitally done, albeit he seems to us to A generous royal octavo compiled by Mr. Will-
have invested the face of the good Doctor MacLure iam Ellis Scull and published by Messrs. John C.
with an even more than Caledonian harshness of Winston & Co., Philadelphia, presents a copiously
feature. A special preface to this edition is fur- illustrated sheaf of descriptions of “ Westminster
nished by the author, in which he answers the often Abbey and the Cathedrals of England,” from the
repeated question, “Was there ever any doctor so writings of Deans Farrar, Milman, Stanley, and
self-forgetful and so utterly Christian as William other authorities. The pictures comprise a great
MacLure?” emphatically in the affirmative: “Not variety of photographic views, exterior and interior,
one man, but many in Scotland and in the South of the great English cathedrals and their more note-
country; I will dare prophecy also across the sea.” worthy architectural and artistic details, together
The rich and tasteful binding of the volume de- with many interesting portraits of such leading cler-
serves special mention.
ical lights as Deans Stanley, Farrar, Milman, and


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Church, Canon Liddon, Archbishops Tait, Benson, handy edition of this sweet and suggestive book.
Magee, and Maclagan, Bishops Lightfoot, Westcott, The benighted souls who have not read M. Dau-
Woodworth, Wilberforce, etc. The plates are fine det’s “ Tartarin of Tarascon ” will do well to pro
examples of the capabilities of the half-tone process; cure without delay a copy of Messrs. T. Y. Crowell
and altogether the equipment of the work is remark- & Co.'s pretty and convenient edition of that rollick.
ably good, in view of the modest price asked for it. ing work. The translation is an excellent one, and
A thin quarto volume of a somewhat “ churchly” the artist has succeeded very well in delineating the
flavor, bearing the non-committal title « Crowns” whims and humors of the good Provençal Quixote
(A. S. Barnes & Co.), is a work that almost defies Lor Sancho Panza, one scarcely knows which. The
definite description. Each left-hand page presents volume is nicely bound in green and gold, and looks
a text containing some allusion to a crown; while as if it were worth double the money asked for it.
on the opposite page is a picture presumably sug- A tempting little book in a showy binding of
gested by and illustrative of the text. For instance, crimson and gold is “Old-World Japan" (Macmil-
a portrait of Mr. Gladstone (at least we take it to be lan), a collection of twenty Japanese folk-tales re-
such from the collar) faces the verse, “ The hoary told by Mr. Frank Rinder and tastefully illustrated
head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way by Mr. F. H. Robinson. The author has made his
of righteousness”; while the text: “Now they do it selections with a view rather to their inherent charm
to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorrupt- and beauty as stories, than to their interest from
ible,” is mysteriously coupled with a cut of an “up the folk-lorist's standpoint; and he has re-worded
to date” young woman playing the violin. Several them nicely. The volume makes an exceedingly
of the pictures, taken by themselves, are rather pretty gift-book for young readers.
nicely done; and it is only fair to say of the artist, “ Broken Notes from a Gray Nunnery” (Lee &
Miss Blanche McManus, that she was almost hope- Shepard), by Julia Sherman Hallock, is the not
lessly handicapped at the start by the nature of the very luminous title of a vague little booklet con-
work cut out for her.
taining, apparently, the year's journal — little day-
An admirable little volume containing Shake- to-day jottings from January to January, as to the
speare's " A Midsummer Night's Dream,” specially changing seasons, the birds, plants, etc., and the
prepared for the use of young readers, comes from writer's moods and fancies — of a lady (dare we
the Dent press of London (Macmillan). It is pro- guess, a maiden lady?) who lives in the country.
fusely and artistically illustrated by Robert Anning Some of the entries display a vein of pleasing senti-
Bell; and Israel Gollancz has supplied a rather ment; and the little sprays of flowers, leaves, etc.,
lengthy but pleasantly written Introduction in the strewn through the text, are nicely executed.
form of a letter) discussing the play and its author, The remaining holiday books, which the limita-
and dipping lightly into the complex subject of En- tions of space force us to dismiss in a more sum-
glish fairy-lore. There is a helpful glossary. mary fashion than many of them deserve, include
Two pretty and inexpensive books from Messrs. the following works : “ The Oxford Miniature
T. Y. Crowell & Co. are “L'Avril,” M. Paul Mar- Scott" (Nelson), being the poems of the great nov-
gueritte's charming tale of Southern France, and elist, printed on Oxford India paper, and filling five
Champfleury's classic "The Faience Violin,” both volumes, neatly boxed; “In Friendship's Name”
translated by Helen B. Dole. The illustrations of
The illustrations of and "What Makes a Friend?” (Lamson), being
the former volume are from the author's own de- new editions of Mr. Volney Streamer's pretty an-
signs; while the latter contains reproductions of the thologies; “ The Helen Jackson Year-Book” (Rob
still-life etchings made by M. Jules Adeline for erts), selected by Miss Harriet T. Perry;
« The
Conquet's fine limited edition. The books are made Whittier Year-Book” (Houghton), with a good por-
up in the tasteful style of the “Faïence Library." trait “æt 73”; “Dr. Miller's Year-Book” (Crow-
“On Winds of Fancy Blown" (Lee & Shepard), ell), made by Dr. J. R. Miller, the author; “The
a thin octavo volume of the once conventional Spectator in London” (Macmillan), a charming
“ Christmas book” order, contains some pretty, if selection from Addison and Steele, with illustrations
amateurish, verses and decorative drawings by Mary by Mr. Ralph Cleaver ; “ About Men: What Wo-
Yale Shapleigh. Text and pictures are printed in men Have Said” (Putnam), chosen by Miss Rose
a delicate neutral tint on rather thick glazed paper; Porter ; a second edition of Mrs. Hellman's “ Lyr-
and the whole is encased in a chaste cover of light | ics and Ballads of Heine and Other German Poets ”
green, with gold lettering and a tasteful thistle de (Putnam); Mr. Elbert Hubbard's “ Little Journeys
sign stamped in green of a darker tint.
to the Homes of Good Men and Great" (Putnam),
Mr. Ruskin's protean “ Sesame and Lilies ” ap- first published serially, and now collected into a
pears in still another form, this time in that of volume with portrait illustrations; a new edition of
Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons' thoroughly artistic “ Echoes from the Sabine Farm” (Scribner), an
“Elia Series.” The volume contains the preface audacious paraphrase of Horace by Eugene Field
to the original edition, and also the one written by and his brother, Mr. R. M. Field ; “ Rhymes and
Mr. Ruskin in 1871. It is clearly printed on deckel- Chimes,” a pretty calendar published by the Chan-
edge paper, and bound in full, umber-colored ooze ning Auxiliary, San Francisco; a “ Trilby Calen-
calf; and altogether we do not recall a prettier | dar” from Brentano's; and an absolutely inde-


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scribable book, hailing from Cincinnati, and bear- fairies maliciously declared that he should be “too
ing upon its title-page this legend: “Etidorhpa ; clever.” The story of the loneliness which this gift
or, The End of Earth, the strange history of a
brings upon him is told with so much humor and such
mysterious being, and the account of a remark- delightful paradoxes that little people can easily per-
suade their elders to read it aloud to them.
In spite
able journey, as communicated in manuscript to
Llewellyn Drury, who promised to print the same,
of the bad fairy, however, everything turns out happily,
for the Prince marries a wife who is wise enough to say
but finally evaded the responsibility, which was as-
to him, “ Now, could n't you take the wishing cap, and
sumed by John Uri Lloyd, with many illustrations wish to be no cleverer than other people? Then every-
by J. Augustus Knapp."
body would like you!” The Prince obediently consents;
but when it comes to the point, he cannot quite make
up his mind to the sacrifice. So, thinking that every
man has one secret from his wife, he puts on the cap
BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG.
and says, “I wish to seem no cleverer than other peo-
ple." And he lived happily ever after.
It is hard to tell what the children would do without A new book by the author of “Captain January"
Mr. Andrew Lang's contributions to their entertainment. and “Melody" is welcome, and though this one lacks a
Much as he writes for their elders, he never forgets the little of their fine simplicity, it has still the power to
little people, and as regularly as Christmas comes round charm. Mrs. Laura E. Richards's style is easy and
he sends them a literary gift. This year he sends two, graceful, and her character-drawing, though on broad
so that all tastes may be satisfied. « The Red True lines, is good. “ Nautilus” (Estes & Lauriat), with its
Story Book" (Longwans) seems the more interesting gay decorative cover, is the story of a Spanish ship,
to one of the untutored elders, whose travels no longer laden with treasure of shells and sea-products, which
take him into fairyland; although there will doubtless sails up a New England river to the amazement of a
be plenty of boys and girls to disagree with such a judg- quiet little town. The contrasts are effective, and the
ment. To these the realm of Prince Prigio will be far plot developed by them is interesting. The cuts by
more real than the South Africa of to-day or the France Mr. W. L. Taylor are capital. — “My Honey” (Rob-
of the fifteenth century; truth is so much stranger than erts), by the author of " Miss Toosey's Mission,” is a
fiction, and these tales of heroism and self-sacrifice are charming novel without sentimentality. It is designed
80 much more romantic than any manufactured stories. for older girls, and the writer's knowledge of character
What could be more splendid, more thrilling, than this and delicacy of perception make it a good thing for
story of “Wilson's Last Fight,” as told here by Mr. them to read. There is nothing goody-goody about the
Rider Haggard ? The magnificent mettle of these heroine. She is made of clay with a heart of gold; and
men, and their brave acceptance of their fate, called the refining and ennobling influence of the fine old man
forth from the Zulu chieftain who slaughtered them who develops her conquers at last her obstinacy, and
the tribute that “they were men who died like men, brings out the lovely qualities of her nature. She is
men whose fathers were men." This human document vividly alive, and the writer succeeds in making us
is followed by Mr. Lang's narrative of the “Life and believe in the essential beauty of her character. One
Death of Joan the Maid," and the nobility of her dis- could hardly judge of the nature of “Subject to Van-
interested devotion to her country is vividly brought ity” (Dodd, Mead & Co.) by its title, for it contains a
out. Aside from these, the stories for the most part series of sketches of domestic animals. Written by
are unfamiliar but eminently worthy of enduring fame. Miss Margaret Benson, a sister of the author of “ Dodo,'
A few tell of heroes whose deeds are mentioned in the it will make an attractive present to a child who is
histories that children study, but without the detail that fond of pets. The writer understands her subjects
makes them picturesque and vivid. For the purpose of thoroughly, and, what is of more importance, can make
bringing these stories to life, Mr. Lang's compilation is them entertaining to her readers. There is nothing
valuable. Mr. Henry J. Ford illustrates the book with dull in the little book, and the style is delightful.- A
many spirited drawings. - In “ My Own Fairy Book" book that belongs especially to our own country is
(Longmans), Mr. Lang for the first time invents his “Children's Stories in American Literature,” by Hen-
own fairy stories and tells them in his own way. The rietta Christian Wright (Scribner). It contains brief
ancient kingdom of Pantouflia is his scene of action, and interesting studies of the lives and works of sixteen
and about it, he says, very little is known.
“ The na-
of the more prominent writers. In one way or another,
tives speak German; but the Royal Family, as usual, the writer strives for picturesqueness even at the expense
was of foreign origin. Just as England has had Nor- of truth. She neglects her opportunities in this respect,
man, Scottish, and at present a line of German mon- however, when she utterly ignores Poe's faults of char-
archs, so the Kings of Pantouflia are descended from acter, and makes bim good and conventional. One
an old Greek family, the Hypnotidæ, who came to Pan- could wish for a finer sense of truth than this indicates,
touflia during the Crusades. They wanted, they ex- and a greater confidence in the childish intellect. It is
plained, not to be troubled with the Crusades, which worse than useless to conceal the fact of evil from chil-
they thought very injudicious and tiresome. The crest dren, and to make gods for them of very human heroes.
of the royal house is a Dormouse, dormant, proper, on The truth is much more helpful in the end, and much
a field vert; and the motto, when translated out of the more interesting. — The “Arabian Nights” are unus-
original Greek, means "Anything for Quiet Life.' ually popular this year, if one may judge from the fact
But all this is only in the preface, which all well-regu-
that two volumes derive their stories from that source.
lated children will skip in order to plunge at once into One of these has already been noticed by us, and the
the romantic adventures of Prince Prigio and his son second contains “Sinbad the Sailor, and Ali Baba and
Ricardo. The first of these gifted princes was endowed the Forty Thieves " (Scribner). The translation of Mr.
at his birth with many fine qualities, but the last of the Edward William Lane has been followed in the first,


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and of the Rev. Jonathan Scott, in the second. The capital, and the type and paper are excellent.-—“ Oak-
decorative drawings, by Mr. William Strang and Mr. J. leigh" (Harper), by Ellen Douglas Deland, is an at-
B. Clark, are exceedingly clever, and the stories them- tractive story of family life, for older girls. The plot
selves are always young.-The nature of “Stories from hinges upon the rebellion of five children against their
English History” (Macmillan) is sufficiently explained father's second marriage, and their unfair struggle with
by its title. It forms the second part of the series by the new mamma. The latter's gradual conquest of their
the Rev. A. J. Church, and carries the reader from the hearts is prettily told, with a knowledge of human na-
time of Richard II. to that of Charles I. The period ture. It is a pleasure to add that the pictures by Alice
is full of romance, which the writer does not make the Barbar Stephens are charming.--Miss Julia Magruder,
most of; the tales are prosaically told. But the mate- the author of “The Princess Sonia,” has done a kindly
rial is carefully handled, and the book will give boys a service for the young in selecting the “Child Sketches
much clearer idea of Hotspur and Jack Cade, the King- from George Eliot" (Lothrop). She has taken the
maker and Essex and Sir Walter Raleigh, than he can children bodily from the great novels, adding a para-
gain from the ordinary school history.
graph here and there to explain the situation, but leav-
The books for girls this year are not quite so numer- ing the extracts untouched. To Tom and Maggie Tul-
ous as those for boys, but in these modern days when liver the greatest space is of course given; but the Poy-
women appropriate men's prerogatives, we cannot ex- ser children, the Garths, the little Cohens, Effie, and
pect the girls to leave tales of adventure unread. Job Tudge, are not neglected. The book will furnish
Rightly speaking, all books for the young are for both an excellent method of interesting children in George
sexes and it is only for convenience in grouping that Eliot and giving them a desire to read more of her work.
they are divided. It would be a pity if girls only were Although some of the drawings are by R. B. Birch,
to read the “Stories and Poems for Children" (Hough- they cannot be much commended; and the others, by
ton), by Celia Thaxter, yet the book seems to belong Amy Brooks, are far from artistic. — Mrs. Cheney's
primarily to them. There is a poetic delicacy about the “ Number 49 Tinkham Street” (McClurg) is a story of
tales which is charming, but makes some of them a friendship. A boy who belongs to a well-to-do family
trifle complicated for young readers. The first story becomes interested in an Italian organ-grinder, and takes
is an exquisite little idyl about a “spray sprite who him into his heart and home. The introduction of the
loved the “shifting, musical, many-colored sea." The Italian boy to the Sunday-school and to the happiness of
other tales are less fanciful, and contain much informa- a quiet home is followed by a gradual softening of his
tion about birds and insects, cleverly disguised and nature and a change from boisterous and evil ways. He
touched with color by Mrs. Thaxter's imagination. The is not convincing, though, this boy of the slums; he is
verses are less poetic than the stories, and show an im- too easily turned into unfamiliar paths. The house which
perfect sense of rhythm; but they are close to nature, gives its name to the book is a social settlement, which
and permeated with the love of birds and flowers. this boyish friendship is instrumental in founding. The
Children, however, are quickly responsive to the really influence of the story is sweet and gentle, but the char-
great poetry of the world, and are given too little of it. acters are too uniformly good.
-One of the prettiest stories of the year is “ A Child Mrs. Elizabeth W. Champney has two books this year.
of Tuscany” (McClurg) by Miss Marguerite Bouvet. One of them, “Witch Winnie at Versailles (Dodd,
It tells of a little Italian boy, stolen in babyhood by a Mead & Co.), follows that popular heroine through her
woman of the people who brought him up and loved studies and pleasures in the historic city named. Yet
him. It begins when he is six years old and tries to the book is not so much a story of Winnie as of the men
sell flowers in the city. Miss Bouvet weaves a graceful and women who have made Versailles famous. Their
tale about his adventures and his strange restoration to romantic histories, interwoven with Winnie's life, make
his own family, one that keeps the interest throughout. the book pleasantly instructive. It is illustrated with
The book is well printed and bound, but the decorative reproductions of famous portraits.-“ Paddy O'Leary
drawings are better than the pictures.— Even prettier and his Learned Pig" (Dodd, Mead & Co.) is a real
in its binding and illustrations and general make-up is story artistically told. Mrs. Champney shows herself
“ A Last Century Maid, and Other Stories for Children” appreciative of the agreeable side of the Irish charac-
(Lippincott), by Miss Anne Hollingsworth Wharton. ter, its generosity, its adroitness, its wit. Paddy is a
The stories, too, are capital, quaintly told with a touch genuine boy, and a very clever one. His brogue is de-
of archaism that helps to carry one into the past. There lightful, and his story is told with a rollicking humor
is a glimpse of colonial life, and, by way of novelty, an which will recommend it to boys and girls alike. In
introduction to some good and generous Indians. The “ A Flock of Girls and Boys” (Little, Brown, & Co.),
story that one of them tells is delightfully romantic Miss Nora Perry has published ten stories for the
without being terrible, and the entire book has a cer- young; but there is a flavor of snobbishness about them
tain gentleness and peace about it.— A new edition of that makes them harmful reading. It is not that she
Gypsy's Cousin Joy" (Dodd, Mead & Co.), by Mrs. makes the snobs triumphant, rather the reverse; but
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, should be welcome to all girls she emphasizes class distinctions in a way that should
who like a fresh, wholesome, vigorous story. It is thirty never be brought to a child's attention. Social position
years since the book was written, and thirty years are and wealth are given too great importance; and though
a severe test of popularity. But the girls of to-day will the moral of the first tale is intended to be wholesome,
find “Gypsy” quite as attractive as their mothers did it is not in the least so, as it makes the heroine succeed
before them, and the work is worthy of being brought because of her possession of these advantages. The
to their attention. The illustrations would be good if story leaves one with a bad taste in the mouth, and a
Miss Clark's drawing were not defective.— The new desire to keep it away from the American girl. In her
uniform edition of Mrs. Molesworth's stories is contin- other tales, Miss Perry is somewhat more democratic.
ued by the publication of “ The Carved Lions" (Mac- - It would be a mistake to confine “ Aunt Billy, and
millan). The illustrations, by L. Leslie Brooke, are Other Sketches " (Lee & Shepard), by Miss Alyn Yates


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Keith, to children, such insight do they show into hu-
man nature. They are slight things, episodes, charcoal
drawings; but they have character and are drawn with
style. The few pages given to Aunt Billy make her
stand out vividly before us, and the writer has a nice
discrimination in selecting her material. The cover of
the book is pretty.-In"A Sherburne Romance" (Dodd,
Mead & Co.), Miss Amanda M. Douglas has yielded to
the requests of the admirers of her “Sherburne Series”
to give its heroine a love story. It is pleasantly writ-
ten, but whether such sentimentalities are good for
young girls is hardly an open question. If they are to
read such things at all, Thackeray and Dickens and
George Eliot would be infinitely better. From these
they can at least acquire some knowledge of life and
of literature.—Mr. W. O. Stoddard gives his attention
this year to girls, and they will be grateful to him.
“ The Partners ” (Lothrop) is a hearty, healthful, whole-
souled story, which the boys will certainly not leave to
their sisters if they once catch sight of it. Nelly is a
breezy girl with no lack of pluck and generosity, and
she does more than ber share of work in the world with
energy and enthusiasm.-" The Mushroom Cave" (Rob-
erts), by Miss Evelyn Raymond, combines a good deal
of scientific information with a pleasant home story of
a Quaker family. The characters are human and nat-
ural, and the slight quaintness of their speech lends a
charm to the book. It has incident enough, too, is writ-
ten in good style, and the decorations by Victor A.
Searles are very clever.—“Girls Together” (Lippin-
cott), by Miss Amy E. Blanchard, is what one might
call a “ talky” book. It is written almost entirely in
dialogue, which makes it lively but does not prevent it
from being diffuse. The English is not of the best, and
when books for the young are sophisticated enough to
marry off their heroes and heroines, one cannot apply
juvenile standards to them. That kind of thing re-
quires genius to make it acceptable to youth.—And one
does not find genius in “Cousin Mona” (Lippincott),
by Miss Rosa Nouchette Carey. It is about a prig of
a girl, who tells her own story and shows in detail how
kind and self-sacrificing she is, and how narrow and
uninteresting. Her noble scorn of the ordinary weak-
nesses of humanity is not exactly worthy of emulation.
But she takes care to make the moral good, and to
show that virtue in her own disagreeable person is ade-
quately rewarded.- Miss Grace Le Baron's story of
“ Little Daughter” (Lee & Shepard) is a blithe little
narrative of a kind-hearted girl.—“Dorothy and Anton”
(Roberts) is likewise written for small children, and
Miss A. Ĝ. Plympton has made it a sequel to “ Dear
Daughter Dorothy.” It is a charming little tale of an
American girl in Berlin, a child who is generous with-
out being self-conscious, and frank and natural without
being sophisticated. She is a fresh and childish little
creature, who awakens our interest in her friendships
and kindnesses, and our sympathy for her ambitions.
The illustrations are rather good.—Katharine's Yes-
terday, and Other Christian Endeavor Stories ” (Loth-
rop), by Mrs. Grace Livingston Hill, is written for older
girls. But there is very little human nature in these
girls who reform suddenly and completely and change
their ill-humor into gentleness and tolerance. They
may be enjoyed possibly by the girls who are already
perfect, but no other could be led by them into right-
eousness. A book that has no touch of life in it is fruit-
less.- The “ Elsie Books” (Dodd, Mead & Co.) are
continued by “ Elsie's Journey on Inland Waters," in
which Miss Martha Finley describes further excursions
of her little party through the World's Fair and over
the great lakes. The talk is stilted, but there are as
usual many historical narratives about places the chil-
dren see and characters suggested by them.—“A Jolly
Good Summer” (Roberts) is a continuation of a series
by Mrs. Mary P. Wells Smith. It is a pleasant home
story of American children, who, though not unnaturally
perfect, have good instincts and happy lives.-- Sophie
May's books are familiar to many little people who have
grown into big people since they read them; but some
of them retain even now an affection for the names of
Dotty Dimple and Little Prudy. The present volume
is in the series called “Little Prudy's Children," and
bears the title of “ Kyzie Dunlee, a Golden Girl” (Lee
& Shepard). It is a fresh, wholesome, breezy little
story, which can be heartily recommended to all small
girls who love to know what other small girls are do-
ing.-" The Kanter Girls” (Scribner), by Miss Mary
L. B. Branch, is one of the prettiest of the current
books, so attractive are Miss Helen Maitland Arm-
strong's decorations and pictures. It is a fanciful story
of two little girls who come into possession, through the
intervention of a generous bluebird, of some rings
which have the power of making them invisible. With
these at hand they have strange adventures and go off
on curious journeys, and the writer who tells us of them
has skill and imagination enough to keep our interest
awake and active.
The books for the little folk are not numerous this
year, but the most conspicuous of them is a picture-book
containing “ The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls
(Longmans). The colored cartoons were made by Flor-
ence K. Upton and the words by Bertha Upton. The
verses are not as rhythmical as they might be, but they
are unimportant in comparison with the pictures. These
are clever, relating in comical fashion the adventures
of two Dutch dolls on Christmas Eve, the one night in
the
year when such creatures taste the joys of life. -
But the pleasure the little people will take in “Little
Miss Phæbe Gay” (Houghton), by Miss Helen Dawes
Brown, will last much longer. It is a charmingly fresh
little tale of a charmingly fresh little girl, and is han-
dled by the author with a kind of sparkling gayety.
The cleverest thing in it is perhaps the chapter where
little Miss Phæbe Gay pretends to be ill in order to
escape learning the names of the rivers in China, with
the result that they are forever fixed in her memory.
“ There is something queer about thoughts," she re-
flects; "you cannot have a good time with them if you
have done anything naughty. I do not say that I had
been naughty, but I do say that my thoughts that
morning behaved as if I had been." The cover and
pictures by Mr. S. J. F. Johnston are capital. — A
pretty book is “Dear Little Marchioness” (Crowell).
It is a story of the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis,
written by one who ministered to the sick during that
terrible time. The horror, however, is only suggested,
and the effect in spite of it is of gentleness and peace.
The old darkey is a good bit of character-drawing on
broad lines. There is character, too, in “The Young
Pretenders” (Longmans), by Miss Edith Henrietta
Fowler. These children are not puppets, set up to be
shifted about and made to gesticulate at the whimsical
will of the author. They have an independent life of
their own, and their emotions are not always cut and
dried to order. They are delightfully mischievous, and
“ Babs” is a veritable fascinator. — “Young Master
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Kirke" (Lee & Shepard) is by Miss Penn Shirley, the bawks, are the materials with which one's blood is cur-
author of “ Little Miss Weezy," and that popular dled in looking at the frontispiece of “Chumley's Post,
maiden appears again in these pages. The little family a Story of the Pawnee Trail” (Lippincott), by Mr.
is taken down to Mexico, and the writer gives one too William 0. Stoddard. And it will give as good an
slight a glimpse of that picturesque country.
:-“ Frow-
idea as any words of the nature of this thrilling tale.
zle the Runaway” (Roberts), by Miss Lily F. Wessel- It is necessary to add, though, that if anyone likes
hoeft, is described on the title-page as a fable for chil- that kind of work, Mr. Stoddard does it well. - • The
dren; but it is merely a pleasant, wholesome story, which Young Cascarillero" (Lothrop), by Mr. Marlton Down-
takes a dog for a hero, — wisely enough, too, for dogs ing, takes one into Ecuador; while the second story in
are so often more heroic than boys.- Messrs. Roberts the same book, by Mr. Harry W. French, tells of the
publish three little books by Miss M. Carrie Hyde, startling adventures of a globe-trotter.—“The Hobble-
which are cleverly illustrated by Mr. Victor A. Searles. dehoy” (Lothrop), by Mrs. Belle C. Green, and “The
“ Under the Stable Floor” is a romance of the rat king- | Missing Pocket-Book” (Coates), by Mr. Harry Castle-
dom; “Goostie” of a pathetic little waif of humanity; mon, are not quite so wildly thrilling. The former is
and “Yan and Nochie of Tappan Sea" tells the story of a good piece of work, and its hero is at the most awk.
some Dutch children who were transplanted to this ward age, just between boy and man. “ The Brown
country early in the century. Miss Hyde's style is Ambassador" (Macmillan), by Mrs. Hugh Fraser, is a
good, and she knows so well how to evolve an enter- strangely contrived story most effectively told. The
taining story that children will welcome her into their vacation of an English boy with some strange relatives
kingdom.
is the basis of the action; and Donald is met at the
In spite of the many books for boys mentioned in our station by a brown ambassador in the shape of a dacbs-
previous number, a few must still be added to the list. hund. This intelligent animal is so well trained that
A profitless undertaking was that of Mr. Elbridge S. he speaks the English language and gives the boy a
Brooks in searching out “Great Men's Sons” (Putnam) surprising welcome. Donald's embarrassed introduc-
and writing their lives. It is almost always a disap- tion to the family is cleverly conceived, and his later
pointment to learn of the sons of distinguished men, so experiences with
man and beast have an agreeably ro-
rarely have they done anything worth recording. Mr. mantic flavor. The scene of the perilous sleep-walking
Brooks's style is light and even gay, but one feels all is even poetic. But the book has rather too much of
the time that he is making an effort to be bright and ghosts and intrigue to be entirely healthful for children.
picturesque. With these subjects he has some difficulty A thrilling tale of revolution in Nicaragua, by Mr.
in compassing it. The book is well and abundantly Herbert Hayens, is called “ Under the Lone Star” (T.
illustrated, and carries one from Socrates to Napoleon. Nelson & Sons). We open the book at random upon
The children are indulged with a share of the cur- the sentence, "One glance told me that escape was im-
rent fads, and therefore they are presented with “ The possible. And yet he did escape to write chapters
Boy Life of Napoleon” (Lothrop), adapted and enlarged with such hair-raising titles as Unearthing a Con-
from the French of Madame Eugènie Foa. The sub- spiracy,”
;"" A Struggle for Life," “ A Death-Trap," and
ject could not well be more interesting, for there is • Hemmed In." These will give a sufficiently vivid
much in the story of the Conqueror's youth that sug- idea of the nature of the book.- « The Sheik's White
gests his later triumphs. And if Mme. Foa has enlarged Slave" (Lovell, Coryell & Co.), by Mr. Raymond Raife,
a little upon the truth, she has not perverted it, and she is of much the same calibre. But the heroes of this
has made a readable narrative.-Captain Charles King, tale try to unravel the mysteries of a temple in a city
U.S.A., knows how to make an entertaining story, and of the desert. The extraordinary adventures which
the boys will be glad that he has turned his attention are the result of this effort are too impossible to be ex-
to them. “Trooper Ross and Signal Butte" (Lippin- citing. - Some decidedly blood-curdling pictures in-
cott) gives them two stories containing plenty of sol- troduce us to “How Jack Mackenzie Won His Epau-
diers, Indians, and cowboys. The first story is the lettes ” (T. Nelson & Sons), by Mr. Gordon Stables,
quieter of the two, but Captain King knows his material Surgeon of the Royal Navy. It is a story of the Crim-
and his audience, and he furnishes spirited tales. - A ean War, and the author declares it to be “all true,
second book by Mr. George Manville Fenn relates to sadly, terribly true.” There are many stories of brav-
the English civil war. “The Young Castellan” (Lip- ery on the field; but there are also others of the courage
pincott) is written chiefly in dialogue and relates en- necessary to patient endurance and rigorous training.
tirely to adventure. A boy who likes the clash of arms A boy will learn from the book that other qualities are
will be absorbed in this book.-" The Boy Officers of required for a soldier besides fearlessness in the excite-
1812” (Lee & Shepard) is written by Mr. Everett T. ment of battle.— " A Lost Army” (T. Nelson & Sons),
Tomlinson, who wishes to give his readers a conception by Mr. Frederick Whishaw, tells of the Russians in
of that struggle, in the belief that it will “lead to an Central Asia; and “ Leaves from a Middy's Log” (T.
increased patriotism.". But the English of the book is Nelson & Sons), by Mr. Arthur Lee Knight, is quite as
so bad that even such a result does not seem worth adventurous.
while at the expense of reading it." A Lieutenant at There are still quieter books for boys, however, some
Eighteen” (Lee & Shepard) is the third of the series that are less exciting and less feverish. But whether
of “The Blue and the Gray, on Land,” by Oliver Optic, “ Joel, a Boy of Galilee” (Roberts) is one of these or
and the Rebellion is an absorbing subject to boys.- not, is hard to determine. It is certainly simpler and
“ The Knight of Liberty” (Appleton) is a tale of the calmer, but in a different way it is quite as thrilling.
fortunes of Lafayette, always a fascinating figure. Mr. Written by Annie Fellows Johnston, and illustrated tol-
Hezekiah Butterworth writes the narrative of Lafay- erably well by Victor A. Searles, it describes the expe-
ette's young life, and his work in America, in a spirited rience of a lame boy who lived in the time of Christ.
He leans somewhat too much, however, to- He is himself cured by the Lord; he is in the boat when
wards eulogy.--Emigrants and axes, Indians and toma- He stills the storm, and he witnesses others of the
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miracles. He knows nothing of the Crucifixion until it
is over, but the description of the earthquake and of his
discovery of the crime is impressive. The story is told
without undue emotion, but its attitude towards Christ
is too familiar.— A book dealing with the same sub-
ject is Mary Hastings Foote's “Life of Christ for
Young People” (Harper). But it will never be read
by the young, so didactic and uninteresting is it, and
so impossible for continuous reading is the form of ques-
tion and answer which it adopts. To parents and to
Sunday-school teachers, however, it will doubtless be
useful, as it is accurate and carefully compiled.— The
title of “Sunday Reading for the Young" (E. & J. B.
Young & Co.) sufficiently explains its character. It is
a large book, containing many illustrations and stories
and descriptions of all kinds. But a book of this kind
may do more harm to a boy's literary taste than good
to his heart.
The bound volume of “ Harper's Round Table" for
1895 (Harper) is full of delightful things for boys and
girls. It is an excellent periodical, well-written, and
well illustrated; and it contains wholesome food enough
to satisfy the most exacting young appetite. Peter
Newell's drawings alone should make it popular, so rich
are they in originality and humor.
the
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LITERARY NOTES.
“ The Fly Leaf” is the newest of the opuscule period-
icals, and hails from Boston. It is conducted by Mr.
Walter Blackburn Harte.
« Pride and Prejudice,” with an introduction by Mr.
Austin Dobson, and illustrations by Mr. Charles E.
Brock, has been added to the Macmillan series of stand-
ard fiction.
Mr. A. S. Murray's “ Manual of Mythology” has long
been a favorite with students and teachers. It is now
republished by Mr. David McKay, of Philadelphia, in
a carefully-revised edition.
“ The Man Who Became a Savage” is the attractive
title of a book by the well-known traveller and writer
Mr. W. T. Hornaday, to be issued in January by the
Peter Paul Book Co. of Buffalo.
The autobiography of that veteran educator the late
Dr. E. G. Robinson, formerly President of Brown Uni-
versity and afterwards a Professor in the Ur
Chicago, is to be published early in the new year by
Messrs. Silver, Burdett & Co.
“The Educational Review," beginning with the Janu-
ary number its sixth year and eleventh volume, offers a
very attractive programme for the coming issues. The
“ Review” is now well established as the chief organ of
serious educational thought in America, and no teacher
of any grade can possibly afford to go without read-
every conceivable sort from war correspondence to cook-
books. He was also the founder of “ Temple Bar," and,
later, of the short-lived weekly,“ Sala's Journal.” He
did nothing to entitle him to a place in literature, vol-
uminous as was the output of his pen.
The December number of the “ Midland Monthly
has for its chief feature an illustrated article upon some
of the literary folk now living in Chicago, the work of
Mrs. Mary J. Reid. The writer has been at consider-
able pains to collect material for this article, and,
although she has omitted some names that ought to have
been included, and does not in her discussion show a
due sense of proportion, her account is amiable, and, for
the most part, just.
The centenary of the birth of Thomas Carlyle was
celebrated at his birthplace, Ecclefechan, near Dum-
fries, Scotland, the other day. A large number of
wreaths were sent from all parts of Great Britain and
the Continent, one of them being presented by Emperor
William of Germany, with the inscription: “In memory
of the writer of the Life of Frederick the Great.” A
meeting was held at Chelsea, England, where the Car-
lyle house in Cheyne Row, which was bought with money
subscribed in England and America, was formally
handed over to the trustees. Mr. John Morley pre-
sided and made an address.
The following note is from a recent number of the
“ Japan Mail,” published at Tokio: “Mr. Miyake Yu-
jiro, joint editor of the • Nippon-jin,' has an interesting
article on the late Oliver W. Holmes, a writer hitherto
little studied in this country. Mr. Miyake tells his
countrymen that in the great American poet they will
certainly find much to enjoy and admire. He draws
attention to a remarkable coincidence in conception and
tone between • The Last Leafʼand a celebrated poem
by the Chinese scholar Liu Ting-che. The two pieces
are published side by side. . The resemblance is really
striking, all the more so in that the American author
could never by any possibility have possessed a knowl-
edge of the Chinese writer's verses."
The Modern Language Association of America, which
is to meet at New Haven from the 26th to the 28th of
this month, offers an attractive programme of papers,
among which we note: “The Conventions of the Drama,”
by Professor Brander Matthews (a paper prepared for
the Twentieth Century Club of Chicago a year or more
ago); “ English as a Living Language,” by Professor
James Morgan Hart; “ John Wesley's Translations of
German Hymns,” by Professor J. T. Hatfield; “ The
Comparative Study of Literature,” by Professor Arthur
R. Marsh; “ Richardson and Rousseau," by Professor
B. W. Wells; “ Chaucer's Development in Rime-tech-
nique,” by Professor G. Hempl; “ The Italian Novella,”
by Dr. Mary A. Scott; “ Troilus and Criseyde,” by Pro-
fessor Thomas R. Price; and “ Fiction as a College
Study,” by Professor Bliss Perry. The large number
of papers on the culture side of modern language study
makes this programme noteworthy, and emphasizes a
healthful tendency.
We have had all sorts of wild suggestions concerning
the appointment of a new Poet Laureate. One of the
later and more sensible expressions of opinion on the
subject is that made by the “Saturday Review” in
the following terms: “The Laureateship is still unfilled,
and there is a great deal more to be said for than
against the abolition of an office which is really an
awkward survival in this modern world of ours; but if
rsity of
ing it.
The distinguished artist, Mr. G. F. Watts, has given
to the National Portrait Gallery portraits of Matthew
Arnold, Robert Browning, Thomas Carlyle, Sir Andrew
Clark, Sir Charles Halle, Lord Lawrence, Sir Henry
Layard, Lord Lytton, Cardinal Manning, John Stuart
Mill, Sir Anthony Panizzi, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Lord
Shaftesbury, Lord Sherbrooke, Sir Henry Taylor, Lord
Tennyson, and Thomas Wright.
George Augustus Sala, who was born in 1828, died
on the seventh of this month. He was essentially a
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we must have a Laureate, there is no one better fitted
for the post than Mr. Patmore. There are good reasons
why Mr. Swinburne and Mr. William Morris would not
care to accept the Laureateship, and so among the
greater poets there is no one left except Mr. Patmore.
It would be a graceful and a wise thing if Lord Salis-
bury, should he decide against the abolition of the office,
were to offer to this great religious poet and noble
moralist an office which Mr. Patmore, a staunch Con-
servative and lover of the old order, could accept with-
out any loss of dignity. This would save the appoint-
ment from the jostling and conceited crowd of minor
poets and poetasters who are struggling for it; while it
would mark the growth of faith and the decline of un-
faith in our time that the author of The Unknown
Eros' should be the Laureate of a nation at heart so
deeply religious as our own."
The Brown Ambassador: A Story of the Three Days'
Moon. By Mrs. Hugh Fraser. 12mo, pp. 197. Mac-
millan & Co. $1.25.
Child Sketches from George Eliot. By Julia Magruder,
author of " The Child Amy." Illus., 8vo, pp. 214. Loth-
rop Pub'g Co. $1.25.
How Jack Mackenzie Won his Epaulettes: A Story of
the Crimean War. By Gordon Stables, M.D. lllus.,
12mo, pp. 373. Thos. Nelson & Sons. $1.25.
The Hobbledehoy: The Story of One Betwixt Boy and
Man. By Belle C. Greene. Illus., 12mo, pp. 262. Loth-
rop Pub'g Co. $1.25.
A Lost Army: A Tale of the Russians in Central Asia. By
Fred Whishaw. Illus., 12mo, pp. 363. Thos. Nelson &
Sons. $1.25.
The Young Cascarillero, and Colonel Thorndike's Adven-
tures. By Marlton Downing and Harry W. French. Illus.,
12mo, pp. 183. Lothrop Pub'g Co. $1.
The Missing Pocket-Book; or, Tom Mason's Luck.
Box
LIST OF NEW BOOKS.
¡The following list, containing 120 titles, includes books re-
ceived by THE DIAL since its last issue.]
HOLIDAY GIFT-BOOKS.
Constantinople. By Edwin A. Grosvenor ; with Introduc-
tion by Gen. Lew. Wallace. In 2 vols., illus., large 8vo,
gilt tops, uncut. Roberts Bros. Boxed, $10.
La Chartreuse de Parme. By Marie-Henri Beyle (“De
Stendhal"); trans. by E. P. Robins. In 3 vols., illus.
with 30 etchings, 16mo, gilt tops, uncut. Geo. H. Rich-
mond & Co. $7.50.
Spain and the Spaniards. By Edmondo de Amicis, author
of “Holland"; trans. from 10th Italian edition by Stan-
ley Rhoads Yarnall, M.A. In 2 vols., illus. in photogravure,
12mo, gilt tops. Henry T. Coates & Co. Boxed, $5.
The Fireside Encyclopædia of Poetry. Compiled and ed-
ited by Henry T. Coates. Thirty-first edition, revised
and enlarged ; large 8vo, gilt edges, pp. 1021. Porter &
Coates. Boxed, $3.50.
A Doctor of the Old School. By Ian Maclaren ; illus. by
F. C. Gordon. 12mo, gilt edges, pp. 208. Dodd, Mead
& Co. $2.
The Spectator in London: Essays by Addison and Steele.
Illus. by Ralph Cleaver; 12mo, gilt edges, pp. 323. Mac-
millan & Co. $2.
Old Chester. Etched and described by H. Hovell Crick-
more. Illus., 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 133. Chas. Scrib-
ner's Sons. $2.50.
George Washington Day by Day. By Elizabeth Bryant
Johnston, author of "Original Portraits of Washington."
Illus., large 8vo, pp. 207. Baker & Taylor Co. $2.50.
Lyrics and Ballads of Heine, and Other German Poets.
Trans. by Frances Hellman. Second edition,
revised and
enlarged; 16mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 256. G. P. Putnam's
Sons. Boxed, $1.50.
About Men: What Women Have Said. Chosen and ar-
ranged by Rose Porter. 18mo, gilt top, pp. 189. G. P.
Putnam's Sons. $1.
Coates & Co. $1.25.
Leaves from a Middy's Log. By Arthur Lee Knight.
Illus., 12mo, pp. 294. Thos. Nelson & Sons. $1.
Chatterbox for 1895. Edited by J. Erskine Clark, M.A.
Illus., large 8vo, pp. 412. Estes & Lauriat. $1.25.
BIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIRS.
The Private Life of Napoleon: Memoirs of Constant, First
Valet de Chambre of the Emperor. Trans. by Elizabeth
Gilbert Martin ; with preface by Imbert de Saint-Amand,
In 4 vols., 12mo, gilt tops. Chas. Scribner's Sons. Boxed,
$5.
Froissart. By Mary Darmesteter; trans. by E. Frances
Poynter. Illus., 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 150. Chas.
Scribner's Sons. $3.
The German Emperor, William II. By Charles Lowe,
M.A., author of Prince Bismarck.” With portraits;
12mo, uncut, pp. 274. Warne's “Public Men of To-Day.'
$1.25.
ART.
Antonio Allegri da Correggio: His Life, his Friends, and
his Times. By Corrado Ricci ; from the Italian by Flor
ence Simmonds. With 37 full-page plates and 190 text
illustrations, 4to, uncut, pp. 408. Chas. Scribner's Sons.
$12, net.
Mrs. Jameson's Writings on Art. New vols.: Legends
of the Monastic Orders, 2 vols.; Memoirs of Italian Paint-
ers, 1 vol. Illus, 8vo, gilt tops. Houghton, Mifflin &
Co. Per vol., $3.
Imagination in Landscape Painting. By Philip Gilbert
Hamerton, author of "The Graphic Arts," Illus., 12mo,
pp. 237. Roberts Bros. $2.
Imagination in Landscape Painting. By Philip Gilbert
Hamerton, author of "Etching and Etchers." New edi-
tion ; illus., 8vo, uncut, pp. 246. Macmillan & Co. $1.75.
HISTORY.
The Two First Centuries of Florentine History: The
Republic and Parties at the Time of Dante. By Profes-
sor Pasquale Villari ; trans, by Linda Villari. Vol. II.;
illus., 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 399. Chas. Scribner's Sons.
$3.75.
The Story of the Indian. By George Bird Grinnell, author
of “ Blackfoot Lodge Tales." Illus., 12mo, pp. 270. D.
Appleton & Co. $1.50.
Historical Essays. By the late J. B. Lightfoot, D.D. 12mo,
uncut, pp. 245. Macmillan & Co. $1.50.
Stories from English History from Richard II, to Charles
1. By the Rev. A. J. Church, M.A. Illus., 16mo, un-
cut, pp. 210. Macmillan & Co.' $1.
GENERAL LITERATURE.
Essays in English Literature, 1780–1860. By George
Saintsbury. Second series ; 12mo, uncut, pp. 423. Chas.
Scribner's Sons. $2.
English Essays from a French Pen. By J. J. Jusserand,
Illus., 12mo, pp. 215. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $2.25.
Essays. By Arthur Christopher Benson, of Eton College.
12mo, uncut, pp. 312. Macmillan & Co. $2.
That Dome in Air: Thoughts on Poetry and the Poets. By
John Vance Cheney. 16mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 236.
A. C. McClurg & Co. $1.25.
Bibliographica: A Magazine of Bibliography. Part VII.;
illus., 4to, uncut. Chas. Scribner's Sons.
BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG.
Harper's Round Table for 1895. Illus., 4to, pp. 1096.
Harper & Bros. $3.50.
Sinbad the Sailor, and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.
Illus. by William Strang and J. B. Clark. 8vo, pp. 279.
Chas. Scribner's Sons. $2.
Trooper Ross, and Signal Butte. By Capt. Charles King,
U.S.A. Ilus., 12mo, pp. 297. J. B. Lippincott Co. $1.50.
Under the Lone Star: A Story of Revolution in Nicaragua.
By Herbert Hayens. Illus., 12mo, gilt top, pp. 390.
Thos. Nelson & Sons. $2.
Great Men's Sons: Who They Were, What They Did, and
How They Turned Out. By Elbridge S. Brooks, author
of “ Historic Boys." Illus., 12mo, pp. 303. G. P. Put-
nam's Song. $1.50.
The Boy Life of Napoleon. Adapted and extended for
American readers from the French of Madame Eugénie
Foa. Illus., 8vo, pp. 251. Lothrop Pub'g Co. $1.25.


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The Best Plays of George Chapman. Edited, with intro-
duction and notes, by William Lyon Phelps, M.A. With
portrait, 12mo, uncut, pp. 479. Scribner's Mermaid
Series." $1.25.
Poetry of
Pathos and Delight. From the Works of Cov-
entry Patmore ; selected by Alice Meynell. With por-
trait, 16mo, uncut, pp. 136. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1.75.
English Pastorals. Selected, with an introduction, by Ed-
mund K. Chambers. 12mo, uncut, pp. 280. Chas. Scrib-
ner's Sons. $1.50.
Horace Walpole and His World: Select Passages from
His Letters. Edited by L. B. Seeley, M.A. With fron-
tispiece, 12mo, uncut, pp. 296. Chas. Scribner's Sons.
$1.25.
Fanny Burney and Her Friends: Select Passages from
her Diary and Other Writings. Edited by L. B. Seeley,
M.A. With frontispiece, 12mo, uncut, pp. 331. Chas.
Scribner's Sons. $1.25.
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NEW EDITIONS OF STANDARD LITERATURE.
“Thistle" Edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's Works.
New vols.: David Balfour; The Merry Men, and Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; The Black Arrow, and Other
Tales; The Master of Ballantrae. Each with frontis-
piece, 12mo, gilt tops, uncut. Chas. Scribner's Sons.
(Sold only by subscription.) Per vol., $2.
New Series of Romances by Alexandre Dumas. Com-
prising : Ascanio, 2 vols.; The War of Women, 2 vols.;
Black, the Story of a Dog, 1 vol.; Tales of the Caucasus,
1 vol. Each vol. with etched frontispiece, 12mo, gilt top.
Little, Brown, & Co. $9.
The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell
Holmes. Cambridge edition ; with portrait and vignette,
8vo, gilt top, pp. 352. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $2.
Pride and Prejudice. By Jane Austen ; with Introduction
by Austin Dobson. Illus., 12mo, pp. 352. Macmillan &
Co. $1.25.
Our Mutual Friend. By Charles Dickens; with Introduc-
tion by Charles Dickens, the Younger. Illus., 12mo, pp.
788. Macmillan & Co. $1.
A New Voyage Round the World. By Daniel Defoe;
edited by George A. Aitken. Illus., 16mo, gilt top, un-
cut, pp. 343. Macmillan & Co. $1.
POETRY.
Apples of Istakhar. By William Lindsey. 8vo, uncut,
pp. 100. Copeland & Day. $1.50.
Mimosa Leaves. By Grace Denio Litchfield. Illus., 16mo,
gilt top, uncut, pp. 112. G. P. Putnam's Son. Boxed,
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