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THE
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A Semi-Monthly Fournal of
Literary Criticism, Discussion, and Information
VOLUME XXVII.
JULY 1 TO DECEMBER 16, 1899
CHICAGO:
THE DIAL COMPANY, PUBLISHERS
1899
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INDEX TO VOLUME XXVII.
ACCAWMACKE TO APPOXATTOX
Francis Wayland Shepardson. 418
ALASKA, LATC BOOKS ON
Hiram M. Stanley
72
AMERICAN Crruzky, MEMOIRS OF AN
269
“ AMERICAN TALKS” BY A LITERARY VETERAN
168
ARNOLD, MATTHEW, “PASSING.”. QF
W. H. Johnson
351
AKT, VALUE OF History of
Edward E. Hale, Jr.
421
AUSTRALIAN WILDs, IN
Ira M. Price
126
BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG, 1899
432, 500
BOOKS OF THE FALL SEASON OF 1899 .
163
· BRITAIN AND THE BOERS
Wallace Rice
237
BYRON, THE NEW
Melville B. Anderson
420
CHERBULIEZ, VICTOR .
39
CHICAGO SCHOOLS .
9
CIVIL WAR, HEART OF THE
Francis Wayland Shepardson. 312
COLONIAL ARCHITECTURE, STUDIES IN
Dwight H. Perkins
97
COMMERCE, CONGRESSIONAL REGULATION OF
James Oscar Pierce
98
CONFEDERACY, A FIGHTER FOR THE
231
CONSTITUTION, NATIONAL, THEORIES OF THE
James Oscar Pierce
233
CONTINENTAL LITERATURE, A YEAR OF
65, 87
- CUBA, AGAIN THE CASE OF
Selim H. Peabody
128
DANTON AS MAN AND LEADER
Henry E. Bourne.
70
EDUCATIONAL LITERATURE, LATE CONTRIBUTIONS TO
B. A. Hinsdale
275
EGYPT OF TO-DAY
Shailer Mathews
488
ENGLISH DRAMA, HISTORY OF THE
Richard Burton
120
ENGLISH GRAMMAR, AN ORIGINAL
Edward A. Allen .
272
ENGLISH IN GERMANY, STUDY OF
E. I. Antrim
268
EPIC QUESTION, THE ENDLESS
Albert H. Tolman
94
ETHICS, A QUESTION OF
479
FICTION, RECENT
Wm. Morton Payne 17,73, 174, 490
FISKE's Dutch AND QUAKER COLONIES
B. A. Hinsdale
357
FRENCH POETRY AND ENGLISH
227
GAMES, ORIGIN OF
Frederick Starr
123
GARDENING, GENTLE ART OF .
Wallace Rice
16
GOETHE IN STRASSBURG .
James Taft Hatfield
113
GREEK LITERATURE, RELIGION IN
Paul Shorey
170
HALE, EDWARD EVERETT, COLLECTED WRITINGS OF
Richard Burton
46
HAWAII, VARIOUS ASPECTS OF
Charles A. Kofoid
489
HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS, 1899
424, 494
Hugo MEMOIRS, THE
355
IBSEN AND BJÖRNSON
William Morton Payne . 314
IDIOM AND IDEAL .
305
JAPANESE EYES, SEEN WITH
Wallace Rice
172
LIDDELL, DEAN, MEMOIR OF
310
LIFE, MAKING THE MOST OF
D. L. Maulsby
486
LITERATURE, MUSIC, AND MORALS
Charles Leonard Moore ,
165
McCARTHY'S RECOLLECTIONS
42
MEMORY FOREVER, A.
349
MILLAIS AND THE PRE-RAPHAELITES
482
MISSOURI COMPROMISE AND ITS REPEAL
F. H. Hodder
124
NATIONAL POLICY, OUR
John J. Halsey
NATURE-BOOKS FOR SUMMER OUTINGS .
Charles A. Kofoid
13
NINETEENTH CENTURY, THREE-QUARTERS OF THE
Minna Angier
359
OPERA IN CHICAGO
413
PATRIOTIC IMPULSE, THE NEW
265
PEACE, WAR, AND HISTORY
Wallace Rice
99
PLAYS AND PLAYERS OF A SEASON
W. E. Simonds
11
PoE COMING TO HIS KINGDOM
Henry Austin
307
POET, ARTIST-MANUFACTURER, AND SOCIALIST
90
POETRY, RECENT BOOKS OF
William Morton Payne . 239
SPAIN, WAR WITH, AND AFTER
Wallace Rice
363
STANTON, EDWIN M., LIFE OF
George W. Julian
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STEVENS, THADDEUS
George W. Julian
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416
Shailer Mathews
362
“ THRONE-MAKERS” AND OTHERS
Percy Favor Bicknell
122
TRAVEL, RECENT Books OF
Hiram M. Stanley
14, 316
ANNOUNCEMENTS OF FALL Books, 1899
181, 249
BookS FOR SUMMER READING, A CLASSIFIED LIST OF
25
BRIEFS on New Books.
22, 52, 77, 101, 131, 177, 244, 279, 319, 366
BRIEFER MENTION
. 24, 54, 80, 134, 180, 247, 282, 323, 370
LITERARY NOTES
25, 55, 80, 103, 135, 193, 248, 283, 324, 371, 437, 503
TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS
27, 135, 250, 325, 438
LISTS OF New Books
27, 55, 81, 104, 135, 251, 283, 325, 372, 438, 504
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Abbot, W.J. Blue Jackets of 1898
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Abercromby, John. Pre- and Proto-Historic Finns 97
Adams, Elinor D. Little Miss Conceit.
435
Adams, J. C. Nature Studies in Berkshire 22
Adams, W. T. An Undivided Union
433
Ade, George. Fables in Slang
370
Æsop's Fables, illus. by P. J. Billinghurst . 437
Alger, Horatio, Jr. Rupert's Ambition
434
Allen, Grant. Miss Cayley's Adventures
176
Allen, Grant. The European Tour
134
Allen, Katharine. Treatment of Nature in Poetry
of the Roman Republic .
247
Allen, Willis Boyd. Cleared for Action
433
American Art Annual Supplement for 1899 437
Amicis, E. de. Cuore, trans. by G. Mantellini 135
Andersen's Fairy Tales, illus. by Helen Stratton . 437
Annesley, Charles. Standard Operaglass, 15th ed. 437
Arnold, Sir Edwin. The Gulistan
135
Aston, W. G. Japanese Literature
23
Avery, Harold. Mobsley's Mohicans
502
Bailey, Alice W. Outside of Things
436
Baker, Louise R. Sunbeams and Moonbeams 435
Baker, R. S. Boy's Book of Inventions
434
Baker-Baker, M. Animal Jokes .
501
Baldry, A. L. Sir John E. Millais
485
Ballard, Susan Fairy Tales from Far Japan 437
Barbour, R. H. The Half Back .
432
Barnes, Annie M. Ferry Maid of the Chattahoochee 436
Barnes, James. Drake and his Yeomen
502
Barnett, E. A. Common Sense in Education . 277
Barr, Amelia E. Trinity Bells
499
Barr, Robert. The Unchanging East
496
Barrett, John. Admiral George Dewey
370
Barron, Elwyn. Manders
248
Barry, Etheldred B. Little Tong's Mission 436
Barry, William. The Two Standards
17
Baum, L. Frank. Father Goose
436
Baylor, Frances C. The Ladder of Fortune 175
Beesly, A. H. Life of Danton
70
Bell, Mrs. Hugh. Conversational Openings, rev. ed. 503
Bellamy, C. J. Return of the Fairies
436
Belloc, Hilaire. Danton
70
Bennett, W. H. Book of Joshua
281
Benson, E. F. The Capsina
19
Benton, Joel. In the Poe Circle .
. 367
Beresford, Lord Charles. The Break-Up of China 131
Bergengren, Ralph. In Case of Need
. 501
Besant, Walter, and Palmer, Prof. Jerusalern 324
Bigelow, Capt. John. The Santiago Campaign. 364
Bingham, Jennie M. Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury 248
Birt, Archibald. Castle Czvargas
176
Black, Alexander. Captain Kodak
434
Black, Alexander. Modern Daughters .
427
Blackman, W. F. Making of Hawaii
490
Blake, Paul.' Phil and I
502
Blake, William. Designs to Thornton's Virgil 54
Blanchard, Amy E. A Revolutionary Maid 433
Blanchard, Amy E. A Sweet Little Maid
502
Blanchard, Amy E. Miss Vanity
436
Bloch, I. S. The Future of War .
244
Blow, Susan E. Letters to a Mother
277
Boissier, Gaston. Roman Africa .
282
Booth, Maud B. Sleepy Time Stories .
435
Boothby, Guy. Pharos, the Egyptian
19
Bourdillon, F. W., Poems of, new edition . 371
Bouvet, Margaret. Tales of an Old Chateau 437
Boyer, C. C. Principles and Methods of Teaching 276
Bradley, L. D. Our Indians
436
Brady, J. E. Tales of the Telegraph.
323
Brain, Belle M. Transformation of Hawaii 489
Braine, Sheila E. Princess of Hearts
501
Brandes, Georg. Ibsen and Björnson
314
Brandes, Georg. Shakespeare, one-volume edition 371
Brenan, Gerald. Rambles in Dickens-Land 500
Bridge, Norman. The Penalties of Taste . 321
Britton, Wiley. Civil War on the Border. 23
Brocade Series, new volumes in
498
Brocklebank, W. E. Poems and Songs
240
Brontë Sisters, Novels of, “ Haworth" edition
Brontë Sisters, Novels of, “ Thornton " edition 80, 503
Brooks, Edward. Story of the Æneid
437
Brooks, E. S. Historic Americans
433
Brooks, E. S. In Blue and White
433
Brooks, E. S. On Wood Cove Island
435
Brooks, E. S. Under the Tamaracks
435
Browne, G. Waldo. The Woodranger
433
Browne, G. Waldo. Two American Boys in Hawaii 433
Browne, Irving. Ballads of a Book-Worm 103
Bruce, Miner. Alaska
73
Brun, S. J. Tales of Languedoc
. 437
Buckley, J. M. Christian Science
. 371
Buckley, J. M. Extemporaneous Oratory . 369
Budge, E. A. W. Oriental Wit and Wisdom .247
Bullen, F. T. Idylls of the Sea
77
Bullen, F. T. Log of a Sea-Waif
366
Burberry, H. A. Orchid Cultivator's Guide . 371
Burgess, Gelett. Lively City o' Ligg. . 500
Burt, Mary E., and Cable, Lucy L. Cable Story Book 25
Busch, W. Plish and Plum, and Max and Maurice 436
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432
Butterworth, Hezekiah. The Treasure Ship 433
Cable, G. W. Strong Hearts .
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Cable, G. W. Grandissimes, illus. by A. Herter 495
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Caghill, Mrs. Harry. Autobiography of Mrs.
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Caine, 0. V. In the Year of Waterloo.
433
Campbell, Lewis. Religion in Greek Literature . 170
Canavan, M. J. Ben Comee
502
Capes, Bernard. At a Winter's Fire
76
Carey, Rosa N. My Lady Frivol
435
Carlyle's French Revolution, Holiday edition. 427
Carlyle's Works, “ Centenary" edition . 25, 283, 503
Carnegie, David W. Spinifex and Sand
126
Carpenter, G. R. Elements of Rhetoric
437
Carrington, Fitzroy. The Kings' Lyrics
498
“ Carroll, Lewis." The Alice Books, illus. by
Blanche McManus
437
Carruth, W. H. Luthers Deutschen Schriften 370
Carter, C. F. Katooticut
. 501
Cary, Elisabeth L. Browning
496
Castle, Egerton. Young April
493
Castlemon, Harry. The White Beaver.
434
Catherwood, Mary H. Spanish Peggy.
500
Cawein, Madison. Myth and Romance
243
Century Magazine, Vol. LVII.
Channing, Grace E. Sea Drift
241
Child, F. S. An Unknown Patriot
502
Child, F. S. House with Sixty Closets .
435
Cholmondeley, Mary. Red Pottage.
492
Chopin, Kate. The Awakening
75
Churchill, Lady. Anglo-Saxon Review, Vol. I. 102
Churchill, Winston. Richard Carvel
74
Clark, F. H. Outlines of Civics .
369
Clark, William T. Commercial Cuba
129
Clement, Clara E. Saints in Art. .
135
Clough, A. H., Poems of, Crowell's editions 248
Clow, F. R. Economics as a School Study
Colby, C. W. English History Sources .
24
Colby, F. M., and Peck, H. T. International Year
Book, 1898.
54
Coleridge, Ernest Hartley. Poems
240
Colloquies of Edward Osborne
499
Colorado in Color and Song
495
Colvin, Sidney. Letters of R. L. Stevenson 416
Coman, Katharine, and Kendall, Elizabeth. History
of England
362
Comparetti, D. Traditional Poetry of the Finns. 94
Cook, Jane E. Sculptor Caught Napping 501
Cook, Joel. England
427
Copley Series
248, 431
Costello, F. H. On Fighting Decks in 1812 433
Cottin, Paul. Memoirs of Sergeant Burgoyne 134
Coulter, John M. Plant Relations
80
Craft, Mabel. Hawaii Nei .
489
Cragin, Belle S. Our Insect Friends and Foes 79
Crane, Stephen. Active Service .
491
Crane, Walter. The Sirens Three
430
Crawford, F. Marion. Saracinesca, illus. by Orson
Lowell
494
Cripps, W. J. Old English Plate, sixth edition 437
Crockett, S. R. Kit Kennedy.
434
Crockett, S. R. The Black Douglas .
19
Crowninshield, Mrs. Schuyler. Latitude 19° 20
Culin, Stewart. Chess and Playing Cards . 123
Culin, Stewart Hawaiian Games
124
Cumulative Book Index for 1899 .
180
Darling, Mary G. We Four Girls
435
Darrow, Clarence S. A Persian Pearl
54
Davidson, John. Godfrida .
23
Davis, 0. K. Our Conquests in the Pacific 364
Davis, R. H., Works of, “Olive Leather" edition 498
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Dawe, Carlton. Voyage of the Pulo Way 434
Decle, Lionel. Trooper 3809.
Deming, E. W. Indian Child Life
436
Denio, Elizabeth. Nicholas Poussin .
421
Dewey, Byrd S. Bruno..
. 436
Dexter, T. F. G., and Garlick, A. H. Psychology
in the Schoolroom .
277
Dickens's Pickwick Papers, India paper edition 371
Dickinson, Martha G. Within the Hedge . . . 241
Dill, Samuel. Roman Society, revised edition 437
Dinwiddie, William. Puerto Rico
364
Dix, Beulah M. Soldier Rigdale.
502
Dixon, Mrs. Archibald. The Missouri Compromise 124
Dobell, Bertram. Poems of James Thomson .
· 193
Doubleday, Russell. Cattle Ranch to College 432
Douglas, Amanda M. A Little Girl in Old Phil-
adelphia .::
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Douglas, Amanda M. The Heir of Sherburne • 435
Dowson, Ernest, and Moore, Arthur. Adrian Rome 175
Doyle, A. Conan. A Duet ..
18
Drake, S. A. Historic Mansions and Highways . 429
Draper, Andrew S. The Rescue of Cuba . 365
Dreyfus' Letters to his Wife ..
. 179
Dromgoole, Will Allen. Harum-Scarum Joe . . 435
Drysdale, William. Helps for Ambitious Boys . 434
Du Chaillu, Paul. Land of the Long Night . 434
Dudeney, Mrs. H. Maternity of Harriott Wicken 74
Dunn, B. A. On General Thomas's Staff . . . 433
Dunne, F. P. Mr. Dooley in the Hearts of his
Countrymen.
370
Dutton, s. T. Social Phases of Education .277
Earle, Alice M. Child Life in Colonial Days . 496
Eaton, Seymour. Home Study Circle . 324, 371
Eggert, C. A. Goethe, and Molière's Misanthrope 55
Eliot, George. Middlemarch, illus. by Alice
Barber Stephens
248, 428
Eliot, George. Silas Marner, illus. by R. B. Birch 428
Ellis, E. S. Dorsey, the Young Inventor 434
Ellis, E. S. Iron Heart
434
Ellis, E. S. The Young Goldseekers
434
Ellis, E. S. Unerowning a King.
433
Elson, H. W. Side Lights on American History, 55
Emerson, R. W. Letters to a Friend
322
Engelhardt, A. P. Russian Province of the North 316
Everett-Green, Evelyn. A Pair of Pickles 436
Faïence editions, new volumes .
248
Farrar, F. W. Westminster Abbey
248, 322
Farrer, J. A. The New Leviathan
. 100
Field, Caroline L. Nannie's Happy Childhood 436
Field, Lilian F. Introduction to Study of the Re-
naissance.
78
Finley, Martha. Elsie in the South .
435
Fish, Williston. Short Rations
76
Fiske, A. K. History of the West Indies . 24
Fiske, John. Dutch and Quaker Colonies . 357
FitzGerald's Rubaiyát, Vest Pocket edition
55
Fling, F. M. Outline of Historical Method 180
Fling, F. M. Studies in European History 283
Foote, Mary H. Little Fig Tree Stories
435
Force, M. F., and Cox, J. D. Gen. W. T. Sherman 178
Ford, J. L. Cupid and the Footlights
430
Ford, Mrs. Gerard. King Pippin
436
Ford, P. L. Janice Meredith .
490
Ford, P. L. Janice Meredith, holiday edition 494
Ford, P. L. Writings of Jefferson, Vol. X. 323
Foss, C. D. Himalayas to the Equator
318
Fox, Jobn, Jr. A Mountain Europa, new edition 248
Fraser, Mrs. C. F. Strawberry Hill
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Frederic, Harold. The Market Place .
Herrick, Robert, and Damon, L. T. Composition
Froebel's Education by Development, trans. by
and Rhetoric
80
Josephine Jarvis
277 Hewlett, Maurice. Pan and the Young Shepherd 102
Ganong, W. F. The Teaching Botanist
283 Higginson, T. W. In Old Cambridge
282
Garland, Hamlin. Boy Life on the Prairie
Hill, J. A. Stories of the Railroad .
323
Garland, Hamlin. Trail of the Goldseekers 72 Hill, Robert T. Cuba and Porto Rico
Gayley, C. M., and Scott, F. N. Methods and Hillegas, H. C. Oom Paul's People
368
Materials of Literary Criticism
319 Hind, Lewis. The Enchanted Stone
19
Georgian Period, The
97 Hitchcock, Mrs. R. D. Two Women in the Klondike 72
Gibbs, George. Pike and Cutlass
501 Hole, S. Reynolds. Our Gardens
17
Gibson, C. D. Education of Mr. Pipp
425 Holmes, Edmond. The Silence of Love
240
Gibson, C. D. Sketches in Egypt
317 Home, James. Lady Louisa Stuart .
133
Gilbert, Frances F. Annals of My College Life . 432 Hope, Anthony. The King's Mirror
493
Glenn, T. A. Some Colonial Mansions 134, 500 Horton, George. A Fair Brigand
174
Going, Maud. Field, Forest, and Wayside Flowers 13 Howard, Blanche W. Dionysius the Weaver's
Gollancz, I. Temple Classics .
25, 370
Heart's Dearest
492
Golschmann, Léon. A Siberian Cub.
136 Howard, Gen. 0. 0. Henry in the War
433
Gomme, G. L. Prince's Story Book
437 Howard, W. S. Old Father Gander
502
Gore-Booth, Eva. Poems
240 Howe, M. A. De Wolfe. Beacon Biographies . 239
Gorham, George C. Edwin M. Stanton
48 Howe, R. H., Jr. On the Birds' Highway 14
Grahame, Kenneth. The Golden Age, illus. by Howells, W. D. Ragged Lady
20
Maxfield Parrish
503 Howells, W. D. Their Silver Wedding Journey 495
Greenough, D'Ooge, and Daniell. 2d Year Latin 282 Hoyt, Deristhe L. Barbara's Heritage... 435
Grego, J. Reminiscences of Captain Gronow 321 Hubbard, Elbert. Little Journeys to the Homes
Griffis, W. E. America in the East.
of Celebrated Painters
499
Griffith, William. The House of Dreams . 243 Hughes, Rupert. The Dozen from Lakerim 432
Grinnell, G. B. Jack the Young Ranchman 434 Hughes, Sarah F. John Murray Forbes
269
Gudeman, Alfred. Latin Literature, Vol. II. 503
Hugo, Victor, Memoirs of
355
Guerber, H. A. Legends of Switzerland
499 Humphrey, Maud. Gallant Little Patriots 436
“Gugu.” Mother Duck's Children
502 Humphrey, Maud. The Golf Girl
499
Guinness, Lucy E. Across India .
15 Hunt, Theodore W. English Meditative Lyrics . 180
Gwynn, Stephen. Donegal and Antrim
15 | Hunt, Violet. The Human Interest
493
Haggard, H. Rider. A Farmer's Year.
497 Huret, Jules. Sarah Bernhardt
280
Hale, Edward Everett, Works of, Library edition 46 Hurll, Estelle M. Raphael
. 500
Hale, Richard W. The Dreyfus Story
25 Hyde, Douglas. Literary History of Ireland 101
Hall, Ruth. Boys of Scrooby .
433 Irving's Rip Van Winkle and Legend of Sleepy
Hall, Tom. Fun and Fighting of Rough Riders. 364 Hollow, Holiday editions
427
Hamblen, H. E. Yarn of a Bucko Mate
245 Jacks, W. T. Life of Prince Bismarck
180
Hamp, S. F. Treasure of Musbroom Rock 434 Jackson, F. G. Thousand Days in the Arctic 14
Hanus, P. H. Educational Aims and Values . . 278 Jacobs, Joseph. Tales from Boccaccio .
496
Hapgood, Norman. Abraham Lincoln . . 369 James, Henry. The Awkward Age .
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Harland, Marion Literary Hearthstones . 429 James, Wm. Talks to Teachers on Psychology . 276
Harland, Marion. More Colonial Homesteads · 430 Jekyll, Gertrude. Wood and Garden
16
Harpers' Scientific Memoirs
323 Jennings, N. A. A Texas Ranger
. 101
Harraden, Beatrice. The Fowler
74 Jewett, Sarah 0. Betty Leicester's Christmas 435
Harris, Joel Chandler. Plantation Pageants . 435 Johnson, Annie F. Two Little Knights of Kentucky 436
Harrison, Mrs. Burton. The Carcellini Emerald. 76 Johnson, Clifton._Among English Hedgerows 427
Hart, A. B. Source-Book of American History . 80 Johnson, Jesse. Testimony of the Sonnets 366
Harte, Bret. Stories in Light and Shadow 76 Johnson, Rossiter. The Hero of Manila
433
Hartshorne, Grace. For Thee Alone
431 Johnson, William. Tom Graham, V.C.
434
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol. IX. 54 Johnson, W. H. King or Knave .
174
Hastings, James. Dictionary of the Bible, Vol. II. 53 Johnston, Sir H. H. Colonization of Africa . 279
Hawthorne's Marble Faun, “ Roman" edition. 428 Johnston, William A. History up to Date 100
Hayward, Abraham. Art of Dining, new edition 324 Jones, Augustine. Life of Thomas Dudley 245
H. B. and B. T. B. A Moral Alphabet. 501 Jordan, D. S. Book of Knight and Barbara
501
Hearn, Lafcadio. Exotics and Retrospectives 52 Jordan, D. S. Imperial Democracy.
45
Heilprin, Angelo Alaska and the Klondike 72 Karageorgevitch, Prince. Enchanted India 318
Hemstreet, Charles. Nooks and Corners of Old Keats and Shelley, Poems by
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New York
430 Keats, Works and Letters of, “Cambridge” ed. . 481
Henty, G. A. A Roving Commission
432 Keeler, Charles and Louise. A Season's Sowing . 500
Henty, G. A. No Surrender
432 Keightley, S. R. The Silver Cross
Henty, G. A. The Brahmin's Treasure
432 Kemble's Sketch Book
498
Henty, G. A. Won by the Sword
432 Kennedy, Wardlaw. Beasts
Henty, G. A. Yule Tide Yarns
432
Kingsley, Rose G. History of French Art 133
Herford, C. H. Eversley" Shakespeare 180, 248 Kipling, Rudyard. From Sea to Sea
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Herford, Oliver. Alpbabet of Celebrities 497 Kipling, Rudyard. Single Story Series
283
Herford, Oliver. Child's Natural History . 436 Kipling, Rudyard. Stalky & Co.
432
Herrick, Robert. Love's Dilemmas .
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319 Marshall, Carrie L. Two Wyoming Girls .
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Knackfuss, H. Rembrandt
135 Marshall, Emma. Master Martin
502
Knaufft, Ernest. Drawing for Printers
80 Martin, B. E. and Charlotte M. Stones of Paris 496
Ladd, G. T. Essays on the Higher Education • 276 Mason, A. E. W. Miranda of the Balcony . 493
La Fontaine's Fables, illus. by P. J. Billinghurst . 503 Mason, A. E. W., and Lang, Andrew. Parson Kelly 493
Lagerlöf, Selma. Invisible Links
371 Mathews, Franklin. The New Born Cuba 364
Lahee, H. C. Famous Violinists
498 Matthews, Brander. A Confident To-Morrow . 491
Lamb, Charles and Mary. Mrs. Leicester's School, Matthews, Brander. Ballads of Books, new edition 283
illus. by Winifred Green
437 Maupassant's Boule de Suif, trans. by A. Symons 134
Lamb's Essays of Elia, illus. by C. E. Brock 496 Maury, Max. Lee's Guide to Gay " Paree" 80
Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare, illus. by R. A. Bell 437 May, Sophie. Wee Lucy's Secret
. 435
Land of Sunshine, Vols. IX. and X.
25 Meldrum, D. S. Holland and the Hollanders 317
Lang, Andrew. Red Book of Animal Stories 436 Mendes, H. Periera. Looking Ahead
247
Lanier, Sidney. Bob
498 Menefee, Maud. Child Stories from the Masters 502
Le Baron, Grace. Told under the Cherry Trees . 436 Merriman, H. S. Dross .
18
Lecky, W. E. H. The Map of Life.
486 Mgrwin-Webster. The Short Line War
52
Lee, Guy C. Principles of Public Speaking. 503 Michel, Emile. Rubens .
424
Le Feuvre, Amy. Roses
435 Millais, J. G. Life of Sir John E. Millais 482
Le Gallienne, Richard. Young Lives
18 Miller, Olive Thorne. First Book of Birds 14
Legge, Arthur E. J. Mutineers .
73 Mitchell, D. G. Leather-Stocking to Poe's Raven 168
Leonard, J. W. Who's Who in America . 101 Mitchell, S. Weir. Hugh Wynne, “Continental" ed. 426
Lewes, G. H. Robespierre, new edition
25 Molesworth, Mrs. This and That
Lewis, E. H. First Manual of Composition 437 Money-Coutts, F. B. The Alhambra
239
Lillie, Lucy C. Margaret Thorp's Trial
435 Monkhouse, Cosmo. British Contemporary Artists 495
Little Folks' Illustrated Annual, 1899
502 Moore's Lalla Rookh, Holiday edition
498
Little, Mrs. Archibald. Intimate China
. 318 Morgan, Harriet. The Island Impossible.
Little, W. J. Knox. Sketches in South Africa 237 Morrow, W. C. Bohemian Paris of To-day . . 426
Locke, W.J. Idols .
18 Moscheles, Felix. Fragments of Autobiography · 368
Lodge, H. C. The War with Spain
Moulton, R. G. Literary Study of the Bible . . 369
Long, William J. Ways of Wood Folk
502 Müller, Max. Auld Lang Syne, second series . 281
Loomis, Chester. Zodiac Calendar
. 500 Munger, Theodore L. Horace Bushnell
Lord, W. S. Best Short Poems of 19th Century . 504 Munroe, Kirk. Forward March.
. 433
Lounsberry, Alice. Guide to the Wild Flowers 13 Munroe, Kirk. Midshipman Stuart .
433
Lucas, Winifred. Fugitives
241 Neish, Mrs. R. A World in a Garden .
499
Lust, Adelina C. A Tent of Grace
175 Nesbit, E. The Treasure Seekers
. 502
Lützow, Count. Bohemian Literature
80 Neufeld, Charles. Prisoner of the Khaleefa 317
Lynch, Hannah. Toledo
282 Newbolt, Henry. Stories from Froissart . 432
Lyte, E. Oram. Advanced Grammar
272 Newell, Peter. Pictures and Rhymes.
501
Lyttelton, Katharine. Selections from Joubert 78 Nicholl, Edith M. A Ranchwoman in New Mexico 54
Mabie, H. W. My Study Fire, illus. by the Misses Nicholson, H. H., and Avery, Samuel. Laboratory
Cowles
496 Exercises
283
McCabe, Joseph, and Darien, Georges. Can We Nicholson, Wm. Square Book of Animals . 501
Disarm ?.
100 Nirdlinger, C. F. Masques and Mummers . 367
McCall, Samuel W. Thaddeus Stevens
117 Noble-Ives, Sarah. Songs of the Shining Way 501
McCarthy, Justin. Reminiscences
Norton, Charles L. The Queen's Rangers
McCrady, Edward. South Carolina under Royal Ogden, Ruth. 'Loyal Hearts and True . . 501
Government
179 Old-Fashioned Fairy Tales, and Old French Fairy
MacDonagh, Michael. Irish Life and Character 54 Tales.
436
MacDonald, A. Experimental Study of Children 25 Old South Leaflets, bound volume (Nos. 76-100) 371
Macdonald, Miss M. P. Trefoil
435 Old World Series, new volumes in
498
Macdonald, William. Select Charters
503 Oman, C. W. England in the 19th Century · 503
MacDougall, Donald. Conversion of the Maoris . 370 Opper, F. Mother Goose
437
Mackail, J. W. Georgics of Virgil, Mosher's ed. 498 Osgood, Mabel 0. Wabeno the Magician . 501
Mackail, J. W. Life of William Morris ... 90 Otis, James. Captain Tom
433
Mackennal, Alexander. Homes and Haunts of the Otis, James. Christmas at Deacon Hackett's 436
Pilgrim Fathers
425 Otis, James. Off Santiago with Sampson 433
Mackern, Louie, and Boys, M. Our Lady of the Otis, James. Telegraph Tom's Ventures
502
Green.
102
Otis, James. When Dewey Came to Manila 433
MacManus, Seumas. In Chimney Corners 430 Otis, James. With Perry on Lake Frie
502
Macpherson, Hector C. Adam Smith.
77 Oxenham, John. A Princess of Vascovy
176
Madge, H. D. Leaves from the Golden Legend 323 Oxford English Dictionary, re-issue in monthlyparts 248
Madison, Lucy F. Maid of the First Century 436 Oxley, J. Macdonald. Fife and Drum at Louisbourg 433
Mahaffy, J. P. Rambles in Greece, Holiday ed. 428 Page, Thomas N. Santa Claus's Partner . 435
Malan, A. H. Famous Homes of Great Britain . 425 Paine, A. B. In the Deep Woods
Mallock, W. H. Tristram Lacy.
73 Paine, A. B. The Beacon Prize Medals
434
Marchmont, A. W. A Dash for a Throne 176 Palgrave, Gwenllian F. Francis Turner Palgrave 246
Marholm, Laura. Psychology of Woman
24 Palmer, Frederick. In the Klondyke
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Pancoast, H. S. Standard English Poems . 503 St. Nicholas Christmas Book
Parker, W. Gordon. Grant Burton .
434 Saintsbury, George. Matthew Arnold
. 279
Parkman, Francis. Montcalm and Wolfe, Hol. ed. 426 Salmon, David. The Art of Teaching
276
Parsons, Frances T. How to Know the Ferns 13 Samuels, E. Shadows
240
Paterson, Arthur. Cromwell's Own .
74 Sartain, John, Recollections of
359
Patterson, Virginia S. Dickey Downey
502 Schreiner, Olive. The South African Question . 238
Payne, E. J. History of America, Vol. II. 24 Scott, Mary A. Elizabethan Translations from the
Peixotto, Ernest C. Revolutionary Calendar . 500 Italian
282
Pemberton, Max. The Garden of Swords . 176 Scott's Works, “ Temple" edition . 25, 283, 503
Penfield, F. C. Present-Day Egypt.
488 Scudder, S. H. Every-Day Butterflies .
14
Pennell, Joseph and Elizabeth. Two Pilgrims' Seawell, Molly Elliot. Gavin Hamilton
433
Progress, new edition.
371 Semon, Richard. In the Australian Bush
127
Penrose, Margaret. The Burglar's Daughter . 502 Sewall, Alice Archer. An Ode to Girlbood 241
Perry, Bliss. Little Masterpieces
248
Shakespeare's Sonnets, illus. by Henry Ospovat 431
Phillips, J. Campbell. Plantation Sketches 497 Shakespeare's Sonnets, Roycroft” edition . 497
Phillips, W. S. Just about a Boy
500 Shakespeare's Works, “Chiswick” edition .
371
Pier, Arthur S. The Pedagogues
75 Shaw, Albert. Historic Towns of the Middle States 431
Plummer, Mary W. Contemporary Spain
78 Sherwood, Margaret. Henry Worthington, Idealist 492
Plympton, A. G. A Flower of the Wilderness 435 Shoemaker, M. M. Corners of Ancient Empires . 318
Pollard, Eliza F. A Daughter of France. 435 Sienkiewicz, Henryk. In Vain
176
Pollock, Sir Frederick, and Maitland, Mrs. Fuller. Sigerson, Dora. My Lady's Slipper.
240
The Etchingbam Letters
281 Sill, Edward R. Hermione
244
Polycbrome Bible, new volumes in
281 Singleton, Esther. Great Pictures Described by
Porter, Pobert P. Industrial Cuba
129 Great Writers.
496
Powers, George W. Important Events
324 Skinner, Henrietta D. Espiritu Santo
20
Prentice, E. Parmalee, and Egan, J. G. The Skram, Amalie. Professor Hieronymus
177
Commerce Clause.
98 | Smedley, W. T. Life and Character
426
« Pritchard, Martin J.” Passion of Rosamund Smith, Gertrude. Boys of Marmiton Prairie . 434
Keith .
20 Smith, Gertrude. Stories of Jane and John 501
Prothero, R. E., and Coleridge, E. H. Byron's Smith, Mary P. W. Young Puritans in Captivity 433
Works
420 Smith, Nora A. Under the Cactus Flag
435
Pyle, Howard. The Price of Blood
429 Smith, Pamela C. Annancy Stories .
500
Rand, W. B. Lilliput Lyrics, illus. by Charles Snedden, Genevra S. Docas
436
Robinson.
437 Snell, F. J. The Fourteenth Century
179
Ransome, Stafford. Japan in Transition
172 Soul, An Epic of the .
243
Raymond, Evelyn. Boys and Girls of Brantham 432 Spears, John R. The Fugitive
435
Raymond, Evelyn. My Lady Barefoot
436 Spingarn, J. E. Literary Criticism in Renaissance 282
Reade, Charles. Peg Woffington, illus. by Hugh Stables, Gordon. Remember the Maine
502
Thomson.
494
Stacpoole, Henry De Vere. Pierrette.
501
Récéjac, M. Bases of the Mystic Knowledge 79 Stacpoole, Henry De Vere. The Rapin
18
Rector, L. E. Montaigne's Education of Children 277 Stallard, J. H. True Basis of Economics
323
Reid, Sir Wemyss. Life of Gladstone .
103 Stanley, H. M. Psychology for Beginners
80
Rhodes, J. F. History of the U.S., Vol. IV. 312 Stead, William T. United States of Europe 99
Richards, Laura E. Peggy
435 Stephen, H. L. State Trials
247
Richards, Laura E. Quicksilver Sue
435 Stephens, H. Morse. Syllabus of Modern Euro-
Riddle, George. Modern Reader and Speaker . 502
pean History
503
Ripley, W. Z. Bibliography of the Anthropology Stephens, R. N. A Gentleman Player
175
and Ethnology of Europe
54
Stern, S. M. Jupg's Lebensgeschichte
80
Risley, R. V. Men's Tragedies
76 Stevenson, R. A. M. Velasquez
423
Rob and Kit
436 Stevenson, R. L. Morality of the Profession of
Robertson, J. M. History of Free Thought 322 Letters
135
Robinson, Edith. A Little Daughter of Liberty. 436
Stevenson, Sara Y. Maximilian in Mexico
. 370
Rogers, Fairman. A Manual of Coaching . 428 Stockton, F. R. Young Master of Hyson Hall 435
Rogers, Robert C. For the King
242 Stoddard, W. O. Running the Cuban Blockade . 501
Roosevelt, Theodore. The Rough Riders . 363 Stoddard, W.0. Ulric the Jarl .
434
Rosebery, Lord. Appreciations and Addresses . 178 Stone, R. H. In Afric's Forest
16
Rostand, Edmond. La Princesse Lointaine 320 Storr, F. Life of R. H. Quick
278
Rostand, Edmond. The Romancers .
320 Strang, L. C. Famous Actors of the Day . 499
· Rouge et Noir.” The Gambling World . 79 Strang, L. C. Famous Actresses of the Day 430
Rouse, W. H. D. The Talking Thrush
437 Stratemeyer, Edward. Minute Boys of Bunker Hill 433
Rowan, Mrs. Ellis. · Wild Flowers
428 Stratemeyer, Edward. To Alaska for Gold . . 434
Rowe, S. H. Physical Nature of the Child 278 Stratemeyer, Edward. Under Otis in Philippines 433
Russell, T. Baron. The Mandate
175 Strauss, Malcolm. Cupid and Coronet .
499
Sabatier, Paul. Mirror of Perfection
. 503 Streamer, D. Ruthless Rhymes .
501
Sage, Agnes C. A Little Daughter of the Revolution 501 Streamer, Volney. In Friendship’s Name, and
Saint-Amand, Imbert de France and Italy 319 What Makes a Friend
430
St. Barbe, Reginald. In Modern Spain
15 Swift's Gulliver's Travels, illus. by Herbert Cole 503
St. John, Henry. Voyage of the Avenger
432 Symonds, J. H. Introduction to Dante, new ed. 180
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501
Taylor, C. J. England
495
Taylor, C.M., Jr. British Isles through an Opera
Glass
497
Temple Classics for Children
371
Ten Brink, Jan. Robespierre and the Red Terror 246
Tennyson's Poems, “ Household ” edition
283
Texte, Joseph. Jean-Jacques Rosseau .
131
Thacher, Lucy W. The Listening Child
437
Thackeray's Vanity Fair, “Becky Sharp" edition 494
Thompson, Adele E. Beck's Fortune
432
Thompson, E. Seton. The Sandhill Stag 429
Thompson, E. W. The Young Boss
434
Thompson, H. L. Henry George Liddell 310
Three Times Three
434
Thumb-Nail Series, new vols. for 1899.
429
Thurston, I. T. The Bishop's Shadow .
434
Timrod, Henry, Poems of, « Memorial” edition 244
Todd, David P. Stars and Telescopes .
103
Tomlinson, E.T. A Jersey Boy in the Revolution 433
Tomlinson, E. T. Camping on the St. Lawrence 434
Tomlinson, E. T. Ward Hill at College. 432
Torrey, Joseph, Jr. Elementary Chemistry. 282
Tourguénieff's Works, trans. by Mrs. Garnett 248
Toy, C. H. Book of Ezekiel
281
Trent, W. P. John Milton
77
Trent, W. P. The Authority of Criticism . 280
Waterman, Lucius. The Post-Apostolic Age. 79
Watson, H. B. Marriott. Heart of Miranda .
Watt, Francis. Law's Lumber Room, 2d series . 134
Webster's Collegiate Dictionary :
323
Weed, G. L. Life of St. Paul for the Young
Weeden, Howard. Bandanna Ballads
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Welch, Lewis S., and Camp, Walter. Yale . 178
Wells, Carolyn. Jingle Book .
. 501
Wells, Carolyn. Story of Betty .
. 435
Wells, H. G. When the Sleeper Wakes . 176
Wesselhoeft, Lily F. Madam Mary of the Zoo . 436
Westley, G. Hembert. For Love's Sweet Sake . 431
Wharton, Edith. The Greater Inclination
76
What Is Worth While Series, new volumes in . 248
What Women Can Earn.
103
Wherry, Albinia. Greek Sculpture .
80
Whishaw, Fred. Brothers of the People
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Whistler, J. McNeil. Baronet and the Butterfly . 132
White, W. A. The Court of Boy ville ·
434
Whitman, Sidney. Reminiscences of the King of
Roumania
177
Whitmarsh, H. Phelps. The Golden Talisman 434
Whitney, Caspar. Hawaiian-America
318
Whitney, Mrs. A. D. T. Square Pegs . . 435
Wiener, L. Yiddish Literature in 19th Century . 132
Wightman, F. P. Little Leather Breeches 502
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Tucker, J. R. Constitution of the United States 233 Willard, C. D. The Free-Harbor Contest . 177
University of Pennsylvania Publications
323 Williams, Jesse L. Adventures of a Freshman , 432
Upton, Bertha and Florence. Golliwogg in War 436 Williamson, G. C. Luini ..
423
Vachell, H. A. A Drama in Sunshine
491 Wilson, Epiphanius. Dante Interpreted
180
Vachell, H. A. The Procession of Life
21 Wilson, Sarah. Romance of our Ancient Churches 431
Vaile, Charlotte M. Wheat and Huckleberries 43 Wise, B. H. Life of Henry A. Wise
419
Van Dyke, Henry. Fisherman's Luck .
321 Wise, John S. The End of an Era .
418
Verbeck, Frank. Three Bears
501 Wood berry, George E. Heart of Man .
320
Vivekananda, S. Vedanta Philosophy, new edition 180 Woolf, M. A. Sketches of Lowly Life.
498
Vivian, Herbert. Tunisia .
317 Wotton, Mabel E. The Little Browns . . 502
Waliszewski, K. Marysienka .
79 Wyeth, J. A. Life of General Forrest . . 231
Ward, A. W. English Dramatic Literature, rev. ed. 120 Wyndham, Charles. The Queen's Service 280
Ward, Mrs. Wilfrid. One Poor Scraple
20 Yeats, S. Levett. Heart of Denise .
75
Warner, Charles Dudley. That Fortune
75 Yonge, Charlotte M. Herd Boy and his Hermit. 502
Warner Classics, The
247 Yorke, Curtis. The Wild Ruthvens
436
Warren, Kate M. Piers Plowman
248 Young, E. R. Winter Adventures of Three Boys 434
Waterloo, Stanley. Launching of a Man 174 | Young, Lucien. The Real Hawaii
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Allen, Grant, Death of .
324 Greek with Tears. William Cranston Lawton 354
American History, A Projected Annotated Bibliog Griswold, W. M., Death of...
168
raphy of
372 Harper & Brothers, Reorganization of
438
Arnold as an Abiding Force. Vida D. Scudder 481 Hast Thou Seen Your Father? W. H. Carruth . 309
“ Baldoon” and “ David Harum." Rand, McNally “ International Monthly," The .
504
& Co.. .
167 Julian, George W., Death of
41
Bibliographical Society of Chicago, Organization of 503 Lippincott Co., J. B., Loss by Fire of
504
Book Review, Uses of the. W. R. K.,
229 “ Man with the Hoe,” Meaning of. Granville
Brinton, Daniel Garrison, Death of
103 Davisson Hall
308
Children, Right Books for. Charles Welsh 116 Markham's Interpretation of his Hoe Poem. Edwin
Children's Books, Problem of. Walter Taylor Field 68 Markham
354
Civil War and National Sovereignty. E. Parmalee Nursery Rhymes and Jingles, An Appeal for.
Prentice
167 Charles Welsh.
230
Civil War and National Sovereignty. James Oscar Poe, Music and Color of. John B. Tabb
354
Pierce.
230 Reviewer out of Perspective. Frederick W. Gookin 41
Clarke, Robert, Death of
193 Ropes, John Codman, Death of
372
College Man, The Uneducated. W. R. K. 353 Sartain and Poe. A. G. Newcomer
482
Godkin, E. L., Retirement of
324 West Wind, The Poem. C. K. Binkley. 12
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THE CHICAGO SCHOOLS.
PLAYS AND PLAYERS OF A SEASON. W. E.
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Miller's The First Book of Birds.- Scudder's Every-
day Butterflies.- Howe's On the Birds' Highway.
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SOME RECENT BOOKS OF TRAVEL. Hiram M.
Stanley
Jackson's A Thousand Days in the Arctic.- Palmer's
In the Klondyke.- Gwynn's Highways and Byways
in Donegal and Antrim. - St. Barbe's In Modern
Spain. - Miss Guinness's Aoross India at the Dawn
of the 20th Century. - Stone's In Afrio's Forest and
Jungle. - Kipling's From Sea to Sea.
THE GENTLE ART OF GARDENING. Wallace
Rice
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THE CHICAGO SCHOOLS.
There has been much discussion during the
past month, voiced chiefly in the newspapers
and in the meetings of various bodies interested
in public education, of what has been somewhat
sensationally termed a “crisis” in the school
affairs of Chicago. An agitation of sentiment
against the present management of the city
educational system has been so sedulously stim-
ulated by the busy bodies that the resulting
state of things may indeed be called serious,
although not exactly in the sense intended by
those who have brought it to pass. For a con-
dition is certainly serious which makes it pos-
sible that the unworthy influences which suc-
ceeded, a few months ago, in defeating for the
time being the important reforms proposed by
the Chicago Educational Commission, should
command any considerable following in such
an attack as has just been made upon the policy
of Superintendent Andrews. This attack has
proceeded from motives so obviously preju-
diced, and has been so utterly lacking in the
elements of fairness and generosity, that we
feel half-ashamed to dignify it by serious con-
sideration. Perhaps it would be better to dis-
miss it with some such phrase as that used by
Schopenhauer, speaking of the metamorphosis
of serious thought when transferred to the
narrow lodging and low roofing of the confined,
contracted, thick-walled skull from which dull
glances steal directed to personal ends.”
On the whole, however, it seems desirable to
say something more than this, because preju-
dices are active forces in the social organi-
zation, and because interested activities are
sometimes successful in disguising themselves
under the garb of the fairest philanthropy. It
is not easy to disengage from the tangled skein
of rumor and recrimination the thread of any
coherent argument, and the more one examines
the charges brought against the present policy
of school administration, the more bewildered
one becomes at the infusion of personal feeling
and the confusion of thought. As far, however,
as any argument is discernible, it seems to be
directed against two of, the aims of Superin-
tendent Andrews -- that of establishing a sys-
tem of true executive control and responsibility,
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RECENT FICTION. William Morton Payne
Barry's The Two Standards. — Stacpoole's The
Rapin.-Merriman's Dross.-Locke's Idols.-Doyle's
A Duet with an Occasional Chorus.- Le Gallienne's
Young Lives. — Crockett's The Black Douglas. -
Keightley's The Silver Cross. — Boothby's Pharos,
the Egyptian. - Hind's The Enchanted Stone. -
Benson's The Capsina. — Whishaw's The Brothers
of the People. - Mrs. Moore's The Passion of Rosa-
mund Keith. - Mrs. Ward's One Poor Scruple. -
Mrs. Crowninshield's Latitude 19º. – Miss Skinner's
Espiritu Santo.-Howells's Ragged Lady.-Vachell's
The Procession of Life. — James's The Awkward
Age. — Frederic's The Market Place.
22
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS
Letters and autobiography of Mrs. Oliphant.-- Berk-
shire hills and meadows. — The story of Japanese
letters.— Border fighting in the Civil War.- A play-
wright and his prologue.- Feminine psychology.
The New World of America.
BRIEFER MENTION .
24
LITERARY NOTES
25
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.
ONE HUNDRED BOOKS FOR SUMMER READ-
ING. A classified list of some of the best recent
publications ..
25
TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS
27
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LIST OF NEW BOOKS.
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and that of raising the standard of efficiency be much to blame if a decision turns out unfor-
and intellectual ability among the body of tunately. No more vicious absurdity than this
instructors and administrative officers. It was ever put forward in the name of democ-
would seem that a Superintendent who kept racy, or sought to be engrafted upon a system
these aims in view should deserve and receive of schools. Its practical workings have recently
the heartiest support from all sections of the appeared in the antics of certain of the teach-
community. For the past score of years these ers' organizations of Chicago. The methods
aims have been set, by all the organs of serious of these bodies have resembled those of the
educational opinion, foremost among those that trade union or the political caucus rather than
should be worked for in the betterment of those of the professional organization, and the
public school education. They have become situation they have been striving to create is
the merest commonplaces of educational dis- one that would be simply intolerable were it to
cussion, and it is rather late in the day to be prevail.
called upon to defend them anew. But such The second of the major aims put forward
is the distorting power of prejudice over the by the Educational Commission and the Super-
simplest and clearest ideas, that the guarded an intendent is that of securing a higher average
nunciation of these aims by the present school of educational qualification than heretofore for
administration has evoked an attack of the the teachers and other officers of the schools.
most violent nature, in which the plain promises Now, the obvious way of doing this is to set a
of the Superintendent have been ignored, his standard of some sort, and, since the large ma-
motives impugned, and even (as in the case of jority of educated people get the beginnings of
the shameless resolutions of the Chicago Feder their culture in some institution of the higher
ation of Labor) his personal character aspersed. learning, it is quite proper to require of candi-
An attack of this sort is sure in the end to dates for positions such an education or its
defeat itself, but it is a sorry exhibition for the equivalent. What goes by the name of a “col-
time being, and it calls for an indignant re lege education " means very little in very many
monstrance from all the friends of fair play. cases, but it at least affords a starting-point for
To take the first of the aims above men a test. We think, however, that the willing-
tioned, the consensus of opinion to the effect ness to accept an “equivalent" has not been
that both power and responsibility should be sufficiently emphasized in the present case, and
centralized in the executive head of a city school much irritation might have been avoided had
system is such that the official who stands for the declaration been made without reserve that
this principle is backed by wellnigh all the unquestionable intellectual equipment, however
educational authority worth taking into ac obtained, should be enough to qualify for any
count. This principle was properly made the post whatsoever in the system. Hard-and-fast
foundation of the recommendations of the Chi rules are to be avoided in such matters. We
cago Educational Commission, and has been have only to reflect that a John Stuart Mill
energetically maintained by Superintendent would be excluded from teaching by the “col-
Andrews during the year of his incumbency. | lege education ” requirement, to realize the
Those who have opposed it have brought no unwisdom of a too specific statement of quali-
arguments to bear against it, but have sup- fications.
ported their contention by a plentiful use of This, however, is an aside, and does not
invective, and of the catchwords that the dem touch the point mainly at issue, which is that of
agogic spirit has ever at hand for these emer- enlisting the highest obtainable scholarship in
gencies. Such words as “autocracy,” “tyr the work of teaching. The attempt to cripple
anny,” and “ despotism ” have been freely used, Superintendent Andrews in this endeavor has
and the magic word “ democracy” bas once been characterized by the use of the memor-
more been worked into the service of the reac able phrase "educational trust,” and by a line
tionary party. In the sense in which the of reasoning which is not parodied in the fol-
phrase “democratic management” has been lowing statement: President Harper of the
employed in this controversy, it seems to con. University of Chicago was a member of the
note a government of the schools by the meth Commission which urged the need of higher
ods of the town-meeting, if not of the mob. qualifications for teachers. Superintendent
Questions of educational policy should be de Andrews was one of his old-time friends, and
cided by councils and committees instead of by was brought to Chicago through his influence.
a responsible officer, so that no individual shall | These two then conspired to convert the public


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school system of Chicago into an appendix to
the University, and at the same time devised a
sinister scheme whereby all the desirable posts
in the city system were to be manned by grad-
uates of the University. The conspirators were,
moreover, being used as tools in a far-reaching
plan of the “plutocracy” to get possession of
the machinery of public education in the United
States, in order that free discussion might be
suppressed and the clutch of organized capital
strengthened about the throats of the toiling
he has his work earnestly at heart, and that he
deserves from the whole community that cor-
dial support with wbich the best elements of
the community (including those that viewed his
original appointment with some apprehension)
have already expressed their recognition of the
strength and the sincerity of his purpose.
PLAYS AND PLAYERS OF A SEASON.
masses. This, we repeat, is not parody, but the Continuing our annual midsummer survey of
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clearest exposition we know how to make of the the drama in Chicago,* we find that the season of
theory of the “educational trust” as it has been 1898-99 has not passed without leaving for our
set forth of late in connection with educational theatre-goers the memory of several noteworthy
affairs in Chicago. False and even grotesque
events. Those autocrats of the stage who live in
New York and dominate theatrical affairs the
as they are, these charges, with others of like
sort, and all that they imply, have been made
country over, have seen fit to deny Chicago audi-
ences the enjoyment of some of the novelties under
seriously in the public press, and have influ-
their control, while at the same time two or three
enced the opinions of thousands of unthinking of the sensations with which they have afflicted us
people. We are inclined to believe that this could much better have been spared ; and yet there
monstrous explanation of what is, after all, the has been no lack in standard attractions, excellent in
simple matter of an effort to elevate the stand. quality and generally worthy of the patronage ac-
ard of the teaching profession in Chicago is corded them.
nothing more than an inflated defence of what Early in the season Mr. Gillette's ever-popular
“ The Educational Review " describes as “ the
melodrama, "Secret Service," began a run of five
detestable theory that one purpose of the pub-
weeks at Powers's Theatre, closing with the end of
lic schools is to provide young women with
October. During this same month Mrs. Julia Mar-
lowe-Taber was seen at the Columbia for two weeks
‘places' in which to earn a livelihood.” To
in “ The Countess Valeska," while Mdme. Modjeska
such a complexion is reduced, when we look
appeared for three weeks at the Grand Opera House
the facts squarely in the face, all this pother in “Camille,” “Magda,” Mary Stuart,” and
about " discrimination” and the substitution Shakespearian rôles. Mr. Goodwin and Miss Elliott
of “ monarchical” for “democratic" ideals. were at Powere's throughout November, presenting
To the intelligent mind, of course, these wild
“ Nathan Hale," though not continuously, during
and whirling words are simply amusing, and
the month's engagement. Mrs. Fiske came to the
the tissue of actual fact about which they cling
Grand for two weeks in November, where she was
the merest cobweb obstruction of vision. The
seen in “ Tess of the D'Urbervilles” and “ Love
Will Find a Way." The great novelty of the year
last thing in the world that capital is trying to
was Mr. Mansfield's elaborate and finely artistic
do is to control the machinery of education. It
production of Rostand's “ Cyrano de Bergerac,”
is too busily occupied in its own work of self-
which won phenomenal success, holding the stage
protection to be concerned with so extraneous at the Grand Opera House for five weeks, Decem-
a matter. The University of Chicago has no ber 4 to January 7. For three weeks in December
other interest in the city school system than and January, Mr. Sothern was at Powers’s Theatre
that of stimulating it to a more healthful activ-
in « The King's Musketeer," and in the latter part
ity. And there is nothing in the course of
of January Mr. Hackett played a week's engage-
Superintendent Andrews to indicate that he has
ment at the Columbia in the dramatization of
other object at heart than that of strength-
Anthony Hope's “ Rupert of Hentzau.”
any
The last two weeks of February brought Miss
ening the system under his charge by the
Nethersole to Powers’s where she appeared in “The
application to its work of the most enlightened Second Mrs. Tanqueray, .” « The Termagant,” “Car-
ideas and the recruiting of the most efficient
men,” and “ Camille." She was followed by Miss
co-laborers in this great service. He has been Maude Adams in the dramatized version of Barrie's
less than a year at his difficult task, and it is “ The Little Minister" next to Mr. Mansfield's
not yet time to demand results. But in the “Cyrano "the most popular attraction of the year.
course of that
year
he has at least shown to all Miss Adams's engagement continued six weeks ;
who have eyes to see, and who are in a position then followed the presentation of " Catherine,” with
to take a disinterested view of his position, that *See THE DIAL, June 16, 1896 ; July 16, 1897; July 1, 1898.


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Dates.
Nov. 1, 4.
ures.
6
1
Nov, 5.
13
Miss Annie Russell in the rôle, and afterwards the In the presentation of Shakespearian plays, the
appearance of Mr. Drew in “ The Liars.” The falling off from the record of previous years is
month of April was also distinguished by Miss Julia startling, although some of the causes are not far
Arthur's interpretation of “ Juliet.” In May, Mr. to seek. Mr. Thomas Keene and Miss Margaret
Frohman's Lyceum Theatre Company began at Mather are no longer living. Mr. Mansfield has
Powers's an important engagement of four weeks, been sufficiently employed upon his splendid pro-
their most important production being last season's duction of "Cyrano"; Mrs. Marlowe-Taber has
Eastern success (new this year in Chicago), Mr. been busy with experiments in modern drama; Miss
Pinero's pleasing comedy, “Trelawny of the Wells.” Rehan and Mr. Walker Whiteside we have not seen.
During this month also Mr. Otis Skinner came to Mr. Warde and Mr. James, and Mr. Otis Skinner
the Grand for a week in the old favorite, “ Rose as well, have found it safer not to attempt “revivals”
mary.” During the first week of June occurred the which prove too costly for many successive seasons.
much advertised production of “ Romeo and Juliet,” | Who is left? In reality, there is but one, so far as
at Powere's Theatre, with its expensive cast includ we at present are aware ; and but for the somewhat
ing Miss Adams, Mr. Faversham, and Mr. Hackett. erratic course of two stellar bodies of lesser magni-
A new play by Augustus Thomas, “ Arizona," began tude, Mdme. Modjeska has ruled, solitary, queen of
on June 12, at the Grand, a run of indefinite the tragic stage.
length.
During the season of 1895–96, thirteen of the
This constitutes a rather notable list of attractions Shakespearian plays were presented in Chicago ;
for the year just closing,— more comfortably dis the number of performances was eighty-eight. In
tributed too than always happens. It should be 1896–97 also, thirteen plays were given, sixty-eight
mentioned also that during the season engagements performances in all. In 1897-98, ten were staged
have been played by a number of steady standbys, and the performances numbered fifty. During the
including Mr. Roland Reed, Mr. Sol Smith Russell, season just ended, only four were produced, and
Mr. William Crane, Mr. Stuart Robson, Mr. Digby the number of performances is twenty-eight.
Bell, and Miss May Irwin, although the plays Following is the tabulated record for the season.
presented by these people were none of them sat-
Plays.
No. Players.
isfactory, while some proved most unfortunate fail 1 Antony and Cleopatra. 8
Modjeska. Oct. 17, 18, 19, 22, 27, 29,
2 Macbeth.
Modjeska. Oct. 22,26,28,29,31, Nov.5.
One of the features of the season has been the
3 As You Like It.
Modjeska.
Julia Arthur. Apr. 12, 13, 14, 15 (twice).
series of popular successes at McVicker's Theatre,
4 Romeo and Juliet. Maude Adams. June 5, 6, ? (twice), 8, 9,
10 (twice).
now under the management of Mr. Jacob Litt. The
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most important of these productions were “ Shen-
andoah,” which ran for three weeks in November ; During the month of April there were three or four
“The Prisoner of Zenda," which followed for two Sunday evening performances by German artists at
weeks; “ At Piney Ridge,” one week; “ In Old
Powers’s Theatre, which should not be left unre-
Kentucky,” two weeks ; and an elaborate staging lin, appeared in “Othello," and April 23 the great
corded. April 16, Herr Emanuel Reicher, of Ber-
of a new melodrama, “Sporting Life,” which was
played to crowded houses for twelve weeks, Febru-
Herr von Sonnenthal, of the Imperial Hofburg Thea-
ary 19 to May 13.
tre in Vienna, was seen in “ Nathan der Weise.”
At the minor theatres, nothing noteworthy has
W. E. SIMONDS.
occurred. Conventional melodrama has held the
boards, with occasional allowances of farce-comedy,
The Academy, Adelphi, Alhambra, and Lincoln
opened in August with plays appropriately reflecting
THE WEST WIND.
the national situation. “The Commodore " showed
the gun-deck of a cruiser in action, special attention The pale-green poplars shimmer in the sun,
being called to the four-inch guns, very properly
And wave and rustle ; the dry grasses sway;
introduced thus to the realm of realistic drama. The oaks and eucalyptus far away
“ For Liberty and Love ” made good use of flash Take up a moaning music one by one.
light signals sent from a tower under fire of Spanish Here from the shadows mark the tremor run
sharpshooters. Mr. Lincoln J. Carter's "Remem Over the hillside to the mountains gray --
ber the Maine” was one of the new productions. Dim gray and purple, moveless, only they
· Cuba's Vow” and “Heroes of '98” celebrated Are silent in the West Wind's carillon.
generally the recent war. As matter of fact, ex This is the bearer of all mysteries,
cepting these, very few war-plays have been put Whose fleet-winged cohorts are the messengers
upon the local stage, and only occasionally has a Bringing o'er unseen mountains the dim roar
play like “Chattanooga," “ Held by the Enemy,”
And surge and glitter of what magic seas,
or « The Girl I Left Behind Me” made its appeal The dream-spray dashing where upon the shore
to the military spirit of the multitude. One popu Are harps and timbrels and bright islanders.
lar melodrama, Devil's Island,” has utilized the
C. K. BINKLEY.
very natural material of the Dreyfus affair.
Palo Alto, California.
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maximum of fern lore and facts of biological
The New Books.
interest. The illustrations are abundant and
well executed. The work cannot fail to prove
NATURE-BOOKS FOR SUMMER OUTINGS.* a most enticing introduction to these shy in bab-
itants of our woods and glens, though the au-
Popular interest in the subject of natural
thor evidently intends - an intention deserving
history must be on the increase, if the number
commendation that the ferns shall not suffer
and variety of recent books devoted to this
as a result of her efforts, for there is no chap-
subject can be taken as an index. Indeed, the
ter devoted to methods of collecting and pre-
introduction of nature-study in the grades of
the public schools, and the growing attention serving fern specimens.
Two books upon flowers have appeared which
paid to technical instruction in biology in our
differ widely in method, purpose, and execution.
best high schools, must in time create and con-
Miss Going's “ Field, Forest, and Wayside
tinue a legitimate popular demand for trust-
Flowers” is a series of popular essays -- re-
worthy and well-presented information on nat-
ural history subjects by those who pursue these printed in large part from the New York“ Even-
ing Post” and the “ Popular Science Monthly ”
lines of study not as a vocation but as an avo-
on botanical subjects suggested by the wax-
cation. Whatever the hobby be - birds or
butterflies, flowers or ferns -
ing and waning of plant life through the chang-
the enthusiastic
amateur may be sure of finding some helpful United States. The work contains, in very
ing seasons of the year in the northeastern
and reliable manual to stimulate his interest
attractive form, much information concerning
and guide his efforts.
the adaptations, the structural peculiarities, the
One of the most successful and attractive of
these recent handbooks for nature study is Mrs. physiological activities and the ecological rela-
Frances Theodora Parsons's “ How to Know
tions of many of our common flowering plants.
It is intended for general readers with little
the Ferns.” From cover to index the book
is tastefully and skilfully gotten up, and will knowledge of technical terms, rather than for
students afield, though the latter will find in
prove to be a useful and satisfactory guide for
those who go a-ferning. An introductory chap- among our flowers in their native haunts. It
its pages much that will lend zest to an outing
ter on ferns as a hobby is followed by a discuss abounds in suggestions for observation lessons.
sion of the seasons and situations in which ferns
The illustrations are abundant, those from pho-
may be found, a brief illustrated explanation of
the technical terms employed, and an account tographs being especially commendable ; but
of the interesting life-cycle of the fern. The
the original pen-and-ink sketches are faulty in
execution, and suffer by contrast with the re-
greater part of the book is taken up with the
printed figures.
descriptions of the fifty-seven species found in
the eastern United States. This is accom-
Miss Lounsberry's “ Guide to the Wild
Flowers," on the other hand, is a field manual,
plished with a minimum of technicalities and a
a sort of a “royal road ”to a quick and ready
* How to KNOW THE FERNS. A Guide to the Names, identification of our common and most striking
Haunts, and Habits of our Common Ferns. By Frances Theo-
dora Parsons. Illustrated by Marion Satterlee and Alice
flowering plants. In this book all principles
Josephine Smith. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. of systematic classification usually found in
A GUIDE TO THE WILD FLOWERS. By Alice Lounsberry. botanical manuals are set aside, and the plants
With 64 colored and 100 black-and-white plates and 54 dia-
grams by Mrs. Ellis Rowan. With an Introduction by Dr.
are listed according to their haunts and asso-
N. L. Britton. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co. ciates. Thus, we find grouped together the
FIELD, FOREST, AND WAYSIDE FLOWERS. With chapters plants which grow in water, in dry soil, and so
on Grasses, Sedges, and Ferns. Untechnical Studies for Un-
learned Lovers of Nature. By Maud Going (E. M. Hardinge).
on. In place of keys for identification we find
Illustrated in part with Drawings from Life by S. G. Porter abundant and most excellent illustrations, many
and Photographs by Edwin M. Lincoln. New York: The
of them from paintings by Mrs. Rowan repro-
Baker & Taylor Co.
THE FIRST BOOK OF BIRDS. By Olive Thorne Miller.
duced here by the color-printing process. The
With eight colored and twelve plain plates, and twenty figures descriptions are brief and simple, and are skil-
in the text. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
fully arranged according to a simple system.
EVERY-DAY BUTTERFLIES. A Group of Biographies. By
Samuel Hubbard Scudder. With 71 Illustrations, plain and
The author has also given for each of the spe-
colored. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
cies a summary of the plant lore and the
ON THE BIRDS' Highway. By Reginald Heber Howe, Jr. literary allusions appropriate to the flower.
With photographic illustrations by the author and a frontis-
Teachers of nature work will find in this book
piece in colors from a painting by Louis Agassiz Fuertes.
Boston : Small, Maynard & Co.
much that is suggestive and helpful, and the


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unscientific student of plants will find it a con thor has caught the spirit of the forest and
venient handbook.
shore, and his chapters breathe the monotony
The “ First Book of Birds," by Mrs. Olive as well as the variety of nature. The book is
Thorne Miller, is the outgrowth of her experi. handsomely gotten up and the illustrations are
ence in talking to school children on birds and a fitting complement to the artistic text.
their ways. It is not so much a primer in
CHARLES A. KOFOID.
ornithology as it is an appeal to the sympathy
of children and an effort to interest them in
the living bird “neither as a target nor as a
producer of eggs, but as a fellow-creature whose SOME RECENT BOOKS OF TRAVEL,*
acquaintance it would be pleasant to make."
“ A Thousand Days in the Arctic,” by Mr.
This is an excellent motive, and it is well sus.
Frederick G. Jackson, describing three years'
tained throughout the book. Perhaps for this
residence and exploration in Franz-Josef Land,
reason we can ignore the feeling that at times
is a disappointing book. In fact, it is not a
the facts are put to a slight tension.
book at all, but a mere aggregate of material
The gentler sex has no monopoly on the for a book,
for a book,— as diary, letters, reports, etc. We
authorship of science works of popular interest.
have a great many such entries as : “ At 2 A. M.
Every-day Butterflies,” by Dr. Scudder, is
moderate north wind. At 4 A. M. strong north-
model work of its kind. From the pen of a
east wind, increasing to fresh gale at noon and
specialist, the book is authoritative and will gradually decreasing and veering at 8 P. M. to
command the interest alike of the biologist and moderate north wind.” Or, “ The mate came
of the general reader. It is gratuitous to sug- up to ask if I can let them have a little paraffin,
gest that it is dignified in statement and free
as they have run out at the ship. I gave him
from the extravagances and ofttimes unwar-
ten gallons to go on with.” If the nine hundred
ranted inferences that occasionally appear in
pages had been reduced to three hundred, and
the work of those who do not speak from ful the material well written up in chapters on
ness of knowledge, but compile at random. It Polar Bears, Walrus, Sledging Journeys, etc.,
is a plain and simple story of the life-histories
we should have had a travel book of the first
of sixty-two of our common butterflies, all of class instead of a bare record without literary
which are illustrated, either in color or by ex-
quality. Nor can we speak well for the man-
cellent cuts. The species are discussed in the ufacture of the book, it being a heavy, clumsy
order of their appearance during the year, and volume, with highly glazed paper.
the story of their fleeting lives is told with
The most interesting episode in the work is
wonderful minuteness of detail and withal with
the author's dramatic meeting with Nansen.
charming simplicity and directness. Students
« On our approaching each other, about three miles
of nature and teachers of nature work will find distant from the land, I saw a tall man on ski, with
this book a mine of suggestive information, and roughly-made clothes, and an old felt hat on his head.
one well fitted to impart the spirit of patient
He was covered with oil and grease, and black from
head to foot. I at once concluded from his wearing ski
investigation and to inculcate the habit of keen
that he was no English sailor, but that he must be a
observation.
man from some Norwegian walrus sloop who had come
Mr. Howe in his “On the Birds' Highway to grief, and wintered somewhere on Franz-Josef Land
takes his readers afield on a series of ornitho. in very rough circumstances. His hair was very long
logical outings at various seasons of the year. *A THOUSAND DAYS IN THE ARCTIC. By Frederick G.
One spends a charming winter's day among the
Jackson. With Preface by Admiral Sir F. Leopold McClin-
tock, R. N. Illustrated. New York: Harper & Brothers.
birds on the sands of Ipswich, and another in
IN THE KLONDYKE. By Frederick Palmer. Illustrated.
the shadow of the Presidential Range. The New York : Charles Scribner's Sons.
shores of Rhode Island, the shadow of Wachu HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS IN DONEGAL AND ANTRIM. By
sett, and the Land of Norumbega
Stephen Gwynn. Illustrated by Hugh Thompson. New York:
The Macmillan Co.
visited. We are introduced to summer birds, IN MODERN SPAIN. By Reginald St. Barbe. London:
to the resorters along Atlantic beaches, and Elliot Stock.
to the frequenters of the Adirondack in the
ACROSS INDIA AT THE DAWN OF THE 20TH CENTURY.
By Lucy E. Guinness. Illustrated. Chicago: Fleming H.
early autumn. Indeed, the author seems to
Revell Co.
have made the rounds of most of the popular IN AFRIC'S FOREST AND JUNGLE; or, Six Years Among
Eastern resorts. The essays are pervaded by
the Yorubans. By Rev. R. H. Stone. Illustrated. Chicago:
Fleming H. Revell Co.
a decided literary flavor, and finished with
FROM SEA TO SEA. Letters of Travel. By Rudyard Kip-
an artistic, and at times poetic, touch. The au ling. New York: Doubleday & MoClure Co.
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and dirty, his complexion appeared to be fair, but dirt curbstone speculator bought it for fifteen dollars, stuffed
prevented me from being sure on the point, and his it instantly into his inside coat pocket, and a few min-
beard was straggly and dirty also. We shook hands utes later was posting signs to the effect that all might
heartily, and I expressed the greatest pleasure at seeing hear the news of Admiral Dewey's victory read by pay-
him. I inquired if he had a ship. No,' he replied, ing a dollar apiece that evening. His entertainment
my ship is not here,' — rather sadly I thought, and would have netted him twice as much as it did if more
then he remarked, in reply to my question, that he had than three hundred and fifty people could have been
only one companion, who was at the floe edge. It then packed in the hall in which it was held. Some of the
struck me that his features, in spite of the black grease wealthy men considered this proceeding an outrage on
and long hair and beard, resembled Nansen, whom I personal liberty, and made it a point to buy between
had met once in London before he started in 1893, and them any single copy of a paper later than any others
I exclaimed, Are n't you Nansen ?' to which he re that had arrived and have it read at once in the streets."
plied, Yes, I am Nansen.' With much heartiness I
We find in this book a very readable and ap-
shook him warmly by the hand and said, · By Jove, I'm
d. -d glad to see you,' and congratulated him on his parently accurate account of the trails, of Daw-
safe arrival. Then I inquired, Where have you come
son and its life, of miners and mining, and of
from ?' He gave me a brief sketch of what had oc government and its policy, as they were in the
curred, and replied, ' I left the “ Fram” in 84° north lat-
spring and summer of 1898.
itude and 102° east longitude after drifting for two years,
and I reached the 86° 15' parallel, and I have now Highways and Byways in Donegal and
come here.”
Antrim,” by Mr. Stephen Gwynn, is a pleas-
Mr. Jackson had much experience with bears antly written guide-book, from a cyclist point
and walrus, and mentions some observations of of view, to the northwestern Irish coast, “ from
interest, — for instance, of a walrus lying on the wildest corners of the West, where Irish
his back, digging through the ice with his tusks. is still the language even of trade, business,
Ponies were found useful in the sledge jour. and schools, into the very neighborhood of
neys, and one pony even learned to eat bear prosperous, commercial, up-to-date Belfast.”
meat with relish. The scientific results of the As seeking to lure the visitor to this part of
expedition were considerable, and to some ex-
Ireland, it must be pronounced successful. It
tent are embodied in the appendices. The contains much on the history and customs of
maps are good, the photographic illustrations the people, and throws light on the peasantry
only fair.
past and present. One important recommend
Mr. Frederick Palmer's “ In the Klondyke'
ation is worth quoting for the benefit of tour-
is a lively, sketchy, well illustrated book, de-
ists everywhere.
“ There is one point which every Irishman writing a
scribing a trip made in the spring of 1898,
book for Englishmen in his country would wish to im-
during the great rush, when thirty-five thousand
press, and that is to beg that tourists will not spoil the
pilgrims poured into the Klondyke. The ex countryside by indiscriminate generosity. Killarney
citing pioneer life, with its vast variety of char. with its swarming beggars is an awful example. Even
acters, is very cleverly drawn. The first boat
on the Antrim Coast small boys pursue the car or bicy-
into Dawson had a cargo of two hundred dozen
cle clamoring for pennies, and expect, on the beaten
line of travel, to be paid for telling you the way. In
eggs, for which the dealer, “ a proud Seattle- Donegal happily none of these things exist."
ite,” received $3,600 in less than an hour after
The numerous drawings by Mr. Hugh Thom-
he had landed.
son are good, and a refreshing change from
« Those of the crowd who could afford it hurried off
the inartistic photographic illustrations now so
to the restaurant for a “squar'' composed entirely of
common.
• ham and.' The others, having to bide their time until
luxuries were cheaper, found compensation in the items Mr. Reginald St. Barbe's little book “In
of news which were passed from tongue to tongue, Modern Spain ” is a series of slight impression-
for it had not occurred to the Seattleite to bring a
ist sketches on such topics as the Prado,
newspaper with him. Thought there was more money
in eggs,' was his aggravating explanation. 'Sposed you
“Mañana,” Bull-fights, Village Fiesta, Spanish
fellers wanted to eat, not to read.' As he had heard it, Newspapers in the War, etc. They well con-
within a week after the declaration of war with Spain, vey the spirit of the country, and are pleas-
the cruiser “ New York,” Captain Evans in command, antly written.
had reduced the fortifications of Havana in three hours.
The secopd Cheechawko to arrive assured us that this
“ Across India at the Dawn of the Twentieth
was quite untrue, and that two of Admiral Sampson's Century,” by Miss Lucy E. Guinness, is a very
squadron had been sunk and the Spaniards were win ardent missionary book by one of the most
ning on every hand. The crowd refused to believe any-
thing of the kind, and the second Cheechawko received
noted of English evangelists. We have glimpses
only $14. a dozen for his eggs. With the next boat
of mission work as seen in a three months' tour
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men.
there is a summary, gleaned from various
THE GENTLE ART OF GARDENING.*
sources, for the empire as a whole, making a
From Abel to Virgil, and from Virgil to the
very popular and vigorous sketch. It is illus-
trated with many diagrams and photographic present time, that branch of human endeavor which
the encyclopædias style “Gardening ; see Horticul-
pictures.
ture” has been held in high favor among gods and
Another missionary book is “ In Afric's If it is to the sturdier elder brother, Agri-
Forest and Jungle,” by Mr. R. H. Stone. It is culture, that we owe the staff of life and the few-
largely concerned with the appearance of the score plants which afford us most of our sustenance,
country and people, and with native wars in such joys as the strawberry and the prettily deli-
the section of Africa between the Bight of
cious family of small fruits, the herbs that lend
Benin and the Niger River. Here is a lively favor to life, and the trees, shrubs, and flowers that
Here is a lively blossom within our days, are all within the province
description of a party of Kroos :
of the gardener as Miss Gertrude Jekyll practices
“ The Kroos live almost entirely on rice, and the quan-
the gentle art. Though her admirable book, “ Wood
tity they can eat at a single sitting is quite incredible.
and Garden,” lacks the literary charm that apper-
I once saw a party take breakfast and I never shall
forget the incident. Several Kroos formed a circle
tains to “Our Gardens " as seen by her distin-
around a vessel full of steaming hot rice. The leader guished co-laborer, the Very Reverend S. Reynolds
put in his band, took a quantity, tossed it over and over
Hole, dean of Rochester, it is none the less a book
until it assumed the form of a ball about the size of a with a distinction and fascination of its own.
baseball and then pitched it into his widely distended One of the things — assuredly the chief thing –
mouth. As he was swallowing the mass he gave his which distinguishes the work of Miss Jekyll from
body a snake-like squirm so as to leave as much space all of its kind is the attention she has paid to that
as possible for more to follow. All the others of the
lost sister among the seven, the sense of smell.
party followed the example of their leader, going round
Physiologists like Mr. Havelock Ellis would have
and round with clock-like regularity until the rice was
all gone. By this time their stomachs were distended
us believe that woman is lacking in the useful and
like those of cattle in early summer.”
neglected faculty of discerning and discriminating
odors. But if this be true, Miss Jekyll it is whose
This book is a simple, direct account, and
touches on some points not often mentioned by the contrary.“
exceptional gifts in this direction proved a rule to
the contrary. “Passing upward through the copse,"
other writers.
she writes of April," the warm air draws a fra-
“ From Sea to Sea,” by Rudyard Kipling, is grance almost as sweet, but infinitely more subtle
a resuscitation of letters of travel on India, [than that of sweetbriar), from the fresh green of
Burmah, China, Japan, and America. Mr.
the young birches ; it is like a distant whiff of lilies
Kipling prefaces this book with the remark
of the valley.” There is not one man in a hundred
that he has been forced to collect these news-
who knows of the delicate scents from bourgeoning
leafage in April, such odoriferous joys as inhere in
paper letters of 1887 to 1889 “ by the enter-
the bursting shoots of the hackmatack or the great
prise of various publishers, who, not content
cottonwoods. But Miss Jekyll has so far progressed
with disinterring old newspaper work from the in the art that she is able to devote a chapter, almost
decent seclusion of the office files, have in sev unique, to " The Scents of the Garden," beginning
eral instances seen fit to embellish it with addi it with a sentence which has in it the root of the
tions and interpolations.” This purely com whole matter : “ The sweet scents of a garden are
mercial remark rather prejudices the critic at by no means the least of its many delights." From
the start; and we regret that the impression is
this grows a most exquisite essay on smells that
confirmed by perusal. These letters are quite
are not merely "sweet," but spicy, and suggestive,
and balmy, and so near to stenches that no hard
too journalistic, crude, smart, and diffuse to
and fast line can be drawn; for the connoisseurs
warrant taking any place in the acknowledged in such matters know that distance - and almost
works of Rudyard Kipling. We quote this homeopathic dilution — can lend enchantment to
paragraph (a fạir sample) on Chicago: carrion itself. This is true of some tropical plants :
“I have struck a city, — a real city, — and they call the tuberose in warmer countries, the jasmines and
it Chicago. The other places do not count. San Francisco some of the lilies; even, as is recorded here, the
is a pleasure resort as well as a city, and Salt Lake was Balm of Gilead (Cedronella triphylla) in England,
a phenomenon. This place is the first American city I all hover over the dividing line between delight and
have encountered. It holds rather more than a million
disgust. It suffices, this interesting chapter, to call
people with bodies, and stands on the same sort of soil
to mind the slender tributes brought by the poets
as Calcutta. Having seen it, I urgently desire never to
see it again. It is inhabited by savages. Its water is * WOOD AND GARDEN: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and
the water of the Hugli, and its air is dirt. Also it says
Critical, of a Working Amateur, By Gertrude Jekyll. New
that it is the boss' town of America."
York: Longmans, Green, & Co.
OUR GARDENS. By S. Reynolds Hole. New York: The
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to a charming and sadly neglected source of pleas-
RECENT FICTION.*
ure and instruction. But it would be doing Miss
Jekyll’s volume an injustice to leave the impression It is now something like twelve years since a
that its excellence is all bound up in this nicety of novel called “The New Antigone," published anony-
olfactory discernment. The ancient question of art mously, attracted widespread attention on account
and nature crops out in dissertations scattered of its somewhat audacious treatment of the problem
through the book on the possibilities of cultivation of love without legal sanction. When it transpired
and domestication in detracting from as well as that the novel had been written by Dr. William
adding to the delights brought by flowers. The Barry, a Catholic priest, it seemed still more remark-
author shows more than one case of real degenera- able, because clerical novelists, when they handle
tion, of colors made ugly and forms made uncouth such subjects at all, are apt to do it gingerly, and
by gardeners lacking in taste. There is, too, a most with much parade of didacticism. But here was a
useful following of the plants from January through clerical writer who frankly accepted the artistic
December, making one wish for such a climate as rule of leaving the moral implicit, instead of forc-
the south of England, where flowers out of doors ing it upon the reader's attention. The moral was
are possible in each of the twelve months.
unquestionably there, but the book gave offense to
If one looks to Dean Hole for a higher literary too many people who would like to exclude certain
perfection in his amiable discourse upon “Our subjects altogether from literary treatment. Now,
Gardens,” one hardly expects at the same time to after this long silence, we have a second novel, this
find a greater exhibition of technical knowledge time acknowledged, from the same hand. It is
than that displayed by his gentle fellow-author and called “ The Two Standards,” a title suggested
fellow-enthusiast. But the versatile cleric proves by the “Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius," – and
himself no less adept in dealing with matters of
this is to be taken in the obvious sense. That is,
somewhat recondite botany. Such a book for the the two ideals that struggle for the mastery over
gardener as Izaak Walton wrote for the fisherman the two human souls in whom our interest chiefly
or Gilbert White for the naturalist has yet to be centres are, on the one hand, the ideal of worldly
written ; but something of the reward which will fall prosperity and sensual gratification ; on the other,
to the successful performer of this graceful task falls
The Two STANDARDS. By William Barry. New York:
to Dean Hole here, as it has already fallen to Jef The Century Co.
frey in the matter of the field Aowers. For his work THE RAPIN. By Henry De Vere Stacpoole. New York:
teems with delicate scholarship, now Greek, now
Henry Holt & Co.
Latin, now a harking back to reproach Lord Bacon
DROss. By Henry Seton Merriman. Chicago : Herbert S.
Stone & Co.
for what he did not know about gardening or to
IDOLS. By Willi J. Locke New York: John Lane.
praise Addison for being in advance of his time,
A DUET, with an Occasional Chorus. By A. Conan Doyle.
horticulturally speaking, and now citing the modern New York: D. Appleton & Co.
est of instances in a manner he has made almost Young Lives. By Richard Le Gallienne. New York :
peculiar to himself, until the reader wonders if all Jobn Lane.
cultivation, after all, does not come to the same
THE BLACK DOUGLAS. By S. R. Crockett. New York :
Doubleday & McClure Co.
thing, and culture and horticulture differ only as a
THE SILVER CRoss. By S. R. Keightley. New York:
part from the whole. “ What is the garden for?”
Dodd, Mead & Co.
he asks a "middle-aged nymph," and she tells him :
PHAROS, THE EGYPTIAN: A Romance. By Guy Boothby.
“For the soul, sir, for the soul of the poet! For New York: D. Appleton & Co.
visions of the invisible, for grasping the intangible,
THE ENCHANTED STONE. By Lewis Hind. New York:
for hearing the inaudible, for exaltations," and a
Dodd, Mead & Co.
THE CAPSINA. By E. F. Benson. New York: Harper &
page or two later there is a sigh for what might
Brothers.
have befallen the dinner were the garden unknown:
THE BROTHERS OF THE PEOPLE. By Fred. Whishaw.
“No tomatoes for the soup, no cucumbers for the New York: M. F. Mansfield & Co.
salmon, no new potatoes, no crisp salad, no mint THE PASSION OF ROSAMUND KEITH. By Martin J. Pritch-
sauce for the lamb, no peas for the duck, no apples
ard. Chicago: Herbert S. Stone & Co.
proving the art to be not less
ONE POOR SCRUPLE. A Seven Weeks' Story. By Mrs.
Wilfrid Ward. New York: Longmans, Green, & Co.
worthy of the inner than the outer poet.
LATITUDE 19º. A Romance of the West Indies in the Year
It is summer now, when nature herself is supple of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty. By Mrs. Schuy-
menting the plentiful illustrations of these two books ler Crowninshield. New York : D. Appleton & Co.
in her own inimitable manner; yet the volumes will ESPIRITU SANTO. A Novel. By Henrietta Dana Skinner.
furnish the letter-press for a better understanding
New York: Harper & Brothers.
of the part man plays when he leads with sympathy
RAGGED LADY. A Novel. By W. D. Howells. New
York: Harper & Brothers.
and reverence the footsteps of the Great Mother.
THE PROCESSION OF LIFE. A Novel. By Horace Annesley
And when the winter frosts have left us sighing anew Vachell. New York : D. Appleton & Co.
for the climate of southern England, these pages will THE AWKWARD AGE. A Novel. By Henry James. New
refresh the weariest with the thought of coming York: Harper & Brothers.
greenery and bloom.
THE MARKET-PLACE. By Harold Frederic. New York:
WALLACE RICE. Frederic A. Stokes Co.
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the ideal of renunciation and spiritual triumph. in the background, and serve but as the framework
The story reminds us not a little of “ Evelyn for a tale of private life, suitably romantic, and
Innes," although not brought to 80 conclusive a ter-waxing into melodrama for one brief hour. The
mination. In both there is a woman tempted, and author's characters are not all clearly realized, and
in both music is made the means of temptation. his whole story is based upon a vast structural im-
But in the case of Dr. Barry's novel, we are left probability, but the management of it all is so
in no doubt whatever of the reality of the spiritual ingenious, and the minor technique so admirable,
recoil of the heroine. “ The Two Standards” is an that it amply fulfils its promise — made manifest in
improvement upon “ The New Antigone" in its the opening pages, of an hour of exceptionally
strictly literary aspects, although it is still too rhe- pleasant entertainment.
torical, too overloaded with discursive reflection. One or two of his previous povels, “ Derelicts”
We lose sight of the story for long periods, but it in particular, have accustomed us to expect good lit-
must be admitted that during these periods we have erary workmanship from Mr. William J. Locke,
for recompense the constant contact with an acute and his new novel, called “Idols,” brings with it
and brilliant intellect. For it is evident that the no disappointment. Yet it does not seem to be of
author's life has not been cloistered in any deaden- his very best, and its failare to reach his previous
ing sense ; he has not lost sight of the intellectual high standard is probably attributable to a resort
and artistic currents of the age ; he has realized
to something suspiciously like melodrama, and his
that the problems of life are to be faced and not evident determination to create a startling situation,
ignored. In brief, the book has so many fine qual- at whatever cost of probability. The woman who
ities that its technical shortcomings considered in commits perjury to save a friend, and who at the
the light of mere fiction do not impel us to deal same time deliberately assumes -- as far as the eye
with it harshly, or to make our final word anything of the public is concerned — the rôle of a dishon-
but one of praise.
ored wife, acts in a way that only casuistry can
It is a “Bobême” something like that of Henri justify, and the purity of her motive cannot con-
Murger — or as nearly like it as possible under mod. done the offense. Such is the substance of the
ern conditions — into which we are taken by “The tragic story that Mr. Locke has woven for us, and,
Rapin," a story by Mr. Henry De Vere Stacpoole. interesting as it is, there is an ethically unwhole-
The chief variant from Murger's theme is that the some flavor that remains, while the interest fades
hero is not naturalized in the Pays Latin, being in the memory.
rather an aristocratic youth of the Rive Droite who
Dr. Conan Doyle must have great confidence in
takes up his abode in Bohemia to escape from the
his public, judging from the experiments that he
emptiness of his former fashionable surroundings. tries upon it from time to time. Since his deserved
How he lives there with Célestin, but wearies of that early successes in bistorical romance, he has pro-
life no less than of the other, how he is bled by yari- duced a series of books in various manners that
ous sorts of parasites, how he discovers that he is an
were either confessed pot-boilers, and consequently
artist only in the flattering words of his interested calling for no serious consideration, or attempts to
followers, how Célestin dies of pneumonia, and her
do things for which he had obviously no aptitude
lover goes back to conventionality, - all these
whatever. His latest book touches what we must
things, and many more, are told with much anima- believe to be the very bottom of the pit into which
tion and some humor in this book of “The Rapin,” he has fallen. For absolute imbecility it would be
Some of the minor characters, too, are engagingly hard to match a book of which the following extract
interesting — Gaillard the poet, and the people is fairly illustrative:
whom he invents upon the spur of the moment,
“ For the underground railway is blessed as regards
Pelisson the journalist, and Nani the vicious old privacy above all other lines, and where could a loving
roué who plays his patrons such tricks. As for the couple be more happy who have been torn apart by
hero, who is called Toto, we will simply say that cruel fate for seven long hours or so? It was with a
the name fits him like a glove.
groan that Frank remarked that they had reached
Mr. Merriman's novels have always reminded us Mark Lane.
of something vaguely familiar, but it was not until “* Bother !' said Maude, and wondered if there was
reading “ Dross” the other day that the reminis.
any shop near where she could buy hairpins. As every
cence took concrete shape. In the crisp precision lady knows or will know there is a very intimate con-
nection between hairpins and a loving husbed."
of bis manner, in his exhibition of the dry sort of
intellectuality that never allows emotion to get the
There are whole chapters of this maudlar drivel;
upper hand, in his display of wide interests and in fact, there is little else. The story is concerned
information, and, we must add, in his inability to
with nothing under the sun but the courtship and
sound more than half-way the depths of the soul
early married life of two commonplace young peo-
he writes as does M. Cherbuliez, and makes to his ple, described in the minutest detail. It envold
readers much the same sort of appeal. “ Dross,"
have appeared and remained buried) in "The
which is certainly as good as the best of his pre Ladies' Home Journal.”
vious work, is a novel of the année terrible, although After this book, even Mr. Le Gallienne's ung
the sinister happenings of that period are kept well | Lives,” which is also concerned with the sa
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low period in the development of its characters, Weyman as an artificer of what has come to be of
seems fresh and delightful reading, although a nor late years the popular sort of historical romance.
mal critical judgment would doubtless feel bound This opinion is fortified by “The Silver Cross,'
to bear down rather heavily upon its sentimental which, if it be not quite equal to “ The Cavaliers,"
ism and lack of any sort of virility. But there is is all that one could reasonably expect of such a
a curious mixture of strength with weakness in this, book. The story is concerned with the intrigues
as in the author's other books, and, unsatisfactory of Madame de Chevreuse against Cardinal Maz-
as it may be in some aspects, in others it compels arin, and is packed with excitement of the most
our admiration for its delicacy and its insight. For romantic sort. Books of this pattern are usually as
example, it gives us such a glimpse as no writer much alike as so many peas, and the conventional
could have imagined of the inner life of middle- pattern is followed by Mr, Keightley, but this is no
class nonconformist society in Liverpool. The au reproach to a narrative that is so successful in pro-
thor has clearly lived that life in his youth, and viding entertainment for its readers.
knows it from the inside. However, this is no new Mr. Guy Boothby seems to have taken the hint
thing for readers of Mr. Le Gallienne's books, but that his public is a little tired of Dr. Nikola, and
merely the restatement of a familiar and redeeming has ostensibly shelved that fiendish individual. Yet
quality. "Young Lives” is a pleasant little book, we cannot help feeling that it is the same malignant
marred by but one very conspicuous fault of taste, personality that lurks beneath the mask of Pharos
which
may be found in the chapter entitled “ The the Egyptian in Mr. Boothby's new novel. Pharos,
Wits." Here the hero, a youth with aspirations we learn, was master of the magicians at the court
toward literature, is introduced to a London gath of the Pharoah of the Exodus, and found his arts
ering, among whom it is very easy to pick out cer pitted against those of Moses, much to his discom-
tain actual individuals. The “ learned homunculus fiture. In due time, he became a mummy, but be
is not difficult to identify, nor is the “short, firmly really did n't die at all, getting in some unexplained
built clerkly fellow, with a head like a billiard-ball way a new frame in which to prowl about the world.
in need of a shave, a big brown moustache, and enor Thus we are introduced to him in the nineteenth
mous spectacles.” These things by themselves century, concerned with getting possession of his
would not be so bad, but the author goes rather be own mummy (which has been brought to England
yond the limit when he brings himself into the com by an Egyptologist), and also with a diabolical
pany with the following sentence : “ There entered scheme for getting even with mankind by infecting
a tall young man with a long, thin face, curtained Europe with the plague. How he accomplishes
on either side with enormous masses of black hair, these ends, making an English artist his unwitting
like a slip of the young moon glimmering through accomplice, and how he finally dies (for good, let
a pine-wood.” Presently this “moon-in-the-pine us hope), is told us in Mr. Boothby's romance,
wood " apparition is contrasted with the billiard which finds no trick of sensationalism too cheap to
headed and bespectacled individual in the following be used, and which has not the slightest claim (any
terms: “ That is our young apostle of sentiment, more than its predecessors) to be considered a lit-
our new man of feeling, the best-hated man we erary production.
have; and the other is our young apostle of blood. “ The Enchanted Stone," by Mr. Lewis Hind,
He is all for muscle and brutality and he makes all is another fantastic romance which brings the ancient
. . But my impression is that our Orient and the modern Occident into juxtaposition,
young man of feeling will have his day,—though just as Mr. Boothby does, only with greater inge-
he will have to wait for it." The naïveté of this nuity and a finer sense of what is demanded by lit-
observation is so refreshing that one almost forgets erary art. The stone in question is a miraculous
that it should have been left to someone else to jewel that finds its way from India to England, and
make.
is tracked by an uncanny "yellow man
” who sticks
In “The Black Douglas," Mr. Crockett takes at nothing in his efforts to regain possession of the
for his subject the fall of the great house that dom talisman. Having done so, he takes advantage of
inates the picturesque tradition of fifteenth century the credulity of an eccentric and wealthy English-
Scotland. He varies his theme, however, by intro woman, and they proceed together to start a new
ducing the sinister figure of Gilles de Retz, and the religion, erecting for its service a temple of unex.
latter half of the romance takes us to France and ampled splendor upon the coast of Cornwall. The
tells the grewsome story that Dumas has embodied unsophisticated Cornishmen, looking upon the tem-
in “ Les Louves de Machecoul.” There is no new ple with disfavor, organize a raid, and proceed to
thing in this romance, and no new manner; the demolish it. The credulous English woman dies,
book is a typical example of Mr. Crockett's work and the yellow man (with his jewel) escapes, pre-
manship, exhibiting its virtues and its defects. sumably to his own India. The story is one of the
Among the latter, garrulity has always been prom wildest of extravaganzas, yet it has a certain fas-
inent, and in the present instance it seems to have cination, and even, in its earlier chapters, reminds
grown upon the writer.
us slightly of the “New Arabian Nights."
We have previously expressed the opinion that Mr. E. F. Benson achieved so pronounced a suc-
Mr. S. R. Keightley was quite as ingenious as Mr. cess in “ The Vintage” that he has done well to
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write a second romance of the Greek Revolution. place before its readers a picture of everyday life in
This new story is entitled “The Capsina,” and is a the Catholic households of English society, and to
sequel to the earlier one in that it continues the sketch society itself from the Catholic point of view.
chronicle of the heroic cause for which Byron fought Were it not that Mrs. Ward speaks of her book as
and Shelley sang. It also has for its hero the " lit- having been in course of preparation for the past
tle Mitsos ” of “The Vintage," who in this book seven years, we should be tempted to speak of it as
takes to the sea, and proves himself no less a fighter a studied attempt to counteract the effect of the
there than on the land. But the interest in Mitsos latest novel of another and more famous Mrs. Ward
is overshadowed by that which we take in the hero – that is, the effect of " Helbeck of Bannisdale.”
ine — the Capsina for whom the book is named. In a word, it presents what may be called the nor-
This fine and inspired figure is a true creation, who mal type of English Catholicism, and thus stands in
in her glowing life and heroic death so compels our marked contrast to the striking, but surely abnormal,
admiration that we are ready to overlook the defects type in which Mrs. Humphry Ward so deeply en-
of the work — its occasional trivialities, longueurs, gages our interest. Viewed in relation to its central
and confusions.
problem, “One Poor Scruple " is a story of sharp
“ The Brothers of the People" is a romance of temptation and eventual spiritual triumph. Con-
revolutionary Balkania, garnished with villainies, sidered as an unpretentious delineation of social
conspiracies, and bombs. A young English girl goes conditions, it is faithfully studied and deserving of
to the country to act as companion to the daughter every praise. Taken as a portrait gallery of many
of an influential statesman, and becomes mixed up sorts and conditions of men and women, it achieves
in many affairs of which she had no anticipation an unusual degree of success in its delineations. We
when she accepted the position. The story is a com- get to know these people from the inside, although
bination of sentimentalism, improbability, and puer- the external trick of manner is by no means ignored,
ilily, entirely out of the reach of serious criticism. and as we close the book, we feel that of its many
Mrs. Augustus Moore, who writes under the name admirable qualities this penetrative insight into
of “Martin J. Pritchard,” is bent upon being start character is the one that chiefly calls for praise.
ling, whatever the cost in probability and good taste. The romantic materials of Mrs. Crowninshield's
Her first novel, “ Without Sin,” told the story of a “ Latitude 19° ” are promising enough. The Island
woman laboring under the singular delusion that of Haiti in the twenties, the reign of terror estab-
she was in very truth the reincarnation of the mother lished by Christophe -- the Caligula or Tiberius of
of God. Her second venture, “The Passion of the island - the horrid mysteries of voudou fetich-
Rosamund Keith,” now before us, has for its climax ism, the cannibalism of the natives, the buccaneers
the physical crucifixion of a woman by a mob of that infested the coast and made their lairs in its
superstitious Albanian mountaineers. This scene caves, all these things are exciting indeed, and when
cannot be described as other than revoltingly sensa we bring a party of shipwrecked Yankees into such
tional, yet it must be admitted that the book as a surroundings, we seem to have an embarrassment
whole has literary quality beyond what is common of riches. Unfortunately, the writer is without the
in sensational and sentimental fiction. The writer constructive skill needful for the shaping of a con-
has no mean powers of vivid delineation, applied to nected story out of these matters, and her book re-
both scenes and situations, and the advance in crafts- mains a congeries of imperfectly connected episodes,
manship over her earlier book is unquestionable. a jumble of excitements and terrors, a kaleidoscope
The plot hinges upon the love of Paul Carr for of fantastic unrealities.
Rosamund Keith. This is at first crossed by a bit The “Espiritu Santo" of Miss Skinner, a daugh-
of scandal that any sensible lovers would have ter of the author of " Two Years before the Mast,"
igpored, then Paul goes into a monastic retreat and is a book about French, Spanish, and Italian people,
joins the Catholic cburch, then he remembers the mostly connected with the operatic stage, and about
fact (strangely forgotten up to this moment) that he as unreal as attempts at characterization could
has a divorced wife still living, and finally (for by easily be. They constantly express "such noble senti-
such tortuous logic does the story proceed), his ments” that the Marquis of Posa would have taken
newly-made vows 80 weigh upon him that he deter them to his heart, but they never impress us as being
mines to renoupce Rosamund. Thus far, the book living people of flesh and blood. The religious
is a story of English society. It is only toward the feeling of the story is so tender and beautiful that
close that the scene shifts to Eastern Europe, and we cannot speak of its spirit in terms of too cordial
we come to the startling episode already mentioned. commendation, but the application of these terms
It must be added that Paul's divorced wife dies must cease with the spirit; when we come to the
most conveniently, and that the literal" passion” of execution of the book, considered simply as a novel,
Rosamund does not terminate fatally.
and not as didacticism or fine writing, it is impos-
Curiously enough, the same problem of marriage sible to call it anything but a failure.
with a man whose divorced wife is still living occu The peculiar charm of Mr. Howells when he is at
pies the central place in Mrs. Wilfred Ward's “One his best reappears, after several recent eclipses, in
Poor Scruple." The object of this book, aside from the novel which he has fantastically styled "Ragged
the discussion of this central problem, is clearly to Lady.” It is a charm compounded of several ele-


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ments, and not easy of analysis. It is not merely could have no reasonable ground for dissatisfaction
the quality of minute observation, tinged with lam with the novels of Mr. Henry James. We certainly
bent humor, because we find that in some of his do get from his books about everything, in the way
least satisfactory performances. It is something of both conversation and action, that a decorous
beyond this, and in the present instance it is found, drawing-room can shelter, and we get it in such
at least in part, in his recurrence to those Italian delicate forms of artistic presentation that no pre-
scenes which have before proved his best inspiration, text is left us for adverse criticism. In “ The Awk.
and in still greater part to his gentle heroine, whose ward Age,” for example, than which even Mr.
imperturbable spirit no splendors can dazzle and no James has produced no better book, there are nearly
vicissitudes can embitter. The placidity and sweet five hundred pages of drawing-room talk and inci-
ness of Clementina, the “ragged lady" of this tale, dent, all delightfully finished and subtle, all dis-
offers so refreshing a contrast to the high-strung and playing workmanship of the highest cherry-stone
emotional heroines of so much of our fiction that we order, and yet we are inexpressibly wearied by it,
can be only grateful for the acquaintance, even if because it has so little to do with anything that
Clementina is a trifle anæmic, besides being afflicted
makes life really worth having, and we worry
at moments by an aggravated and distressing form through it from a sense of duty rather than for sat-
of the celebrated New England conscience. Mr. isfaction with its message. The outcome is naught,
Howells still likes to puzzle his readers by the play as får as we are able to discern, and not one ac-
of elusive motives, and Clementina's several senti quaintance has been made with whom we would
mental entanglements come upon us as a series of
desire further commerce.
imperfect surprises, causing us to observe her career It will be remembered that the death of Harold
with a certain zest, but not quite in accordance with Frederic left among his manuscripts two unpub-
the canons of clear-cut art. The minor figures in lished novels, both dealing with English society.
this gallery are also interesting, every one, from the The first of them, which appeared promptly, was
Russian socialist to the Michigan parson, and their called “Gloria Mundi,” and the best efforts of his
characters are drawn for us with touches that are friends to deal kindly with it could not conceal the
as delicate as those of a Meissonier, and far more fact that it was relatively a failure, and a failure pre-
revealing withal.
cisely because its author had gained only a superficial
If California sends us many more such novels as knowledge of the society which he sought to depict.
“ The Procession of Life," it will have to be reck His other posthumous novel, “ The Market-Place,'
oned with in our literary geography more seriously has now been published, and proves to be a far
than hitherto. The California once revealed to us more satisfactory piece of work. The author is
by Mr. Bret Harte has passed so completely away still clearly not at home in his new environment,
from the actual world that the stories still written but he has at least chosen a theme fairly within the
by him, in the seclusion of the Athenæum Club, reach of his intelligence. The business of company-
delightful as they are, must be described as the promotion is comprehensible enough to an alert
productions of a literary Rip Van Winkle, whose and clear-headed American writer, whether it be
present is the remote past of everybody else. Since carried on in Wall Street or Capel Court, and
the Harte period of Californian society, 80 great an
this novel deals with the flotation of a Mexican
evolution has taken place that Mr. Vachell's novel rubber company by the devices made so familiar
seems to come from an entirely different world. It during the Hooley investigation of last year. The
is a world that has not remained absolutely unre hero of this speculation is an Americanized English-
vealed to us, for it has already lived a sort of lit man who plans his coup with Napoleonic strategy,
erary life in the brilliant crudity of Mrs. Atherton's and wins for himself a colossal fortune at the ex-
novels, in the slighter and far more delicate work pense of the “shorts,” who have been tricked into
of Mrs. Graham, and, of course, in “ Ramona.” selling shares of which he alone has absolute con-
We have also been brought close to it by Mr. Van trol. When the settlement comes, they are bled
Dyke's “ Millionaires of a Day," a book which, white, and the buccaneer retires with his spoils.
although not a novel, has a far greater interest than This is a very unconventional sort of morality, for
most fiction, and which is suggested by the new the ethics of such a story are supposed to demand
book now under consideration. The connecting that the speculator shall be exposed and come to
link in this case is provided by the story of the grief. Instead of this, our speculator covers up all
“boom" that struck Southern California in the early the traces of his swindle, wins an aristocratic wife,
eighties. The leading characters in Mr. Vachell's and realizes his ambition of settling down as an
novel are made to pass through the storm and stress English country gentleman. The moral that the
of that speculative period, to suffer in the swift reac author points is something quite different from what
tion, and at last to share in the temperate prosperity is expected, and we are by no means sure that it is
of still more recent years. The book is rich in not equally satisfactory. Certainly it is more subtle
human interest, and is distinctly the best novel that than the conventional moral, for it emphasizes the
bas thus far been written of latter-day California. lesson that riches, however acquired, are a doubtful
If drawing-rooms were the world, and those who good to the man who is without inner resources to
have their being in them the whole of mankind, one make possible their enjoyment. We leave him in


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possession of all the externals of happiness, yet a time “cannot believe to be a woman ") does not
profoundly unhappy and discontented mortal. And quite escape. Macaulay is styled “ the historian of
at least there is the negative satisfaction of know. sophistication, who writes only and always for so-
ing that his wealth has been gained at the expense ciety," whom "every body admires," and in whom
of men who deserve no sympathy, and the positive “nobody believes.” As to Miss Martineau, Mrs.
satisfaction of witnessing his achievement, under Oliphant is struck by “the curious limited folly of
highly exciting and dramatic circumstances, of his her apparent common-sense," and can only wonder
purpose. The book is not exactly fine, but it is how such a commonplace mind could have attained
unquestionably both strong and interesting. the literary position she did.” In one letter to
WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE.
Mr. W. Blackwood, Mrs. Oliphant grimly expresses
a wish to review Mr. Howells and certain other
American writers, promising to do her best" to put
these Jacobs of literature on their true level.” A
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS.
note to Mr. Blackwood, from Oxford, comments
Letters and The comely volume containing “ The amusingly on the tone of the town and its notabili-
ties. The writer goes on to say: "Almost every-
autobiography Autobiography and Letters” (one-
of Mrs. Oliphant.
body who is anybody has called, I think ; but intel-
fourth autobiography and three-lectualism, like every other ism, is monotonous, and
fourths letters) of that worthy woman and gifted the timidity and mutual alarm of the younger po
writer, Mrs. M. O. W. Oliphant, will appeal to a
tentates strikes me a good deal. They are so much
large circle of readers. Mrs. Harry Caghill is the
afraid of committing themselves or risking any.
editor, and she has done her work with due care and
thing that may be found wanting in any minutiæ of
tact. Mrs. Oliphant once described herself as “a
correctness. Scholarship is a sort of poison tree
writer very little given to explanations or to any
that kills everything." While the present volume
personal appearance.” Her work was for the pub- is not, actually or ostensibly, a full and sufficient
lic, her life for her family and chosen friends; and
when, toward the close of June, 1897, she lay dying well leavened with personal comment and anecdote,
life of Mrs. Oliphant, it is fresh and entertaining,
in her sunny little home at Wimbledon, she laid
upon those about her the injunction that no biogra- with a light heart in the dog-days. There are two
and just the sort of biography one may venture upon
phy of her was to be written. Those familiar with
Mrs. Oliphant's writings as a whole will have noted portraits, and there ought to have been an index.
(Dodd, Mead & Co.)
in some of the latest of them a certain tendency to
depart from her habitual attitude of reserve. And
It is with a sigh for hills and moun-
that she realized that the biography she dreaded
tains that the dweller on the western
was in one form or another inevitable, and that no
meadow r.
prairie lays down Mr. John Cole-
injunction she could lay on her friends would avail man Adams's “ Nature Studies in Berkshire" (Put-
to baffle the public's desire to know something of nam), with its beautiful pictures of hill and dale,
the story of her life, is shown by the fact that long climbing road and falling meadow. The inevita-
before her death she began to jot down at odd times bility of the association of “flat” with“ stale and
scraps more or less autobiographical, to which were unprofitable " is more apparent with the progress of
added, later, some account of her earliest years. every chapter, till the sigh that brought forth the
Later still, at the request of her last surviving child, hanging gardens of Babylon is repeated after many
she continued this fragmentary memoir, bringing it ages. So many American artists and poets have
down to the date at which her sons entered Oxford. gone to these self-same scenes for inspiration, it is
These writings form the narrative portion of the only wonderful that the pleasant duty of celebration
volume now before us, and they have been supple which Mr. Adams has imposed upon himself should
mented with the letters, which Mrs. Caghill has have been reserved for him by a kindly fate. And
arranged in their chronological order, and connected that the fate was kindly, for the reader no less than
with a thread of story where needed. It should be the writer, these pleasant pages tell. Western
added that Mrs. Oliphant's wisbes were not disre Massachusetts, the scene of Dr. Underwood's New
garded in publishing this material. “She bade us," England town, has long awaited the coming of some
says Mrs. Caghill,“ deal with it as we thought best.” American Jeffrey, someone who should add to the
While Mrs. Oliphant's narrative is thoroughly read love of wild nature and sympathy with all its phases
able, and, in its light way, informing, it is the let the flavor of the children of the soil. Than Dr.
ters that form the more important and interesting Adams no one could be better fitted for the task,
portion of the volume. The largest part of these either by birth or nurture, and his book is informed
are to members of the Blackwood family, and they with the spirit of the place and the spirit of the
give an almost connected history of Mrs. Oliphant's people of the place. A higher morality, the moral-
work. Their general readableness, it must be owned, ity of fitness, takes the place of too obvious preach-
is not impaired by a certain note of asperity in the ing; the contrasts of the external world find inter-
writer's tone when she is speaking of literary people.pretation in the contrasts of words which bespeak
Even George Eliot (whom Mrs. Oliphant for a long wit; the erudition of nature is interpreted by the
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erudition of broad cultivation; and the result is us is suggestive principally of cats, takes the place
wholly pleasing. The very chapter titles prove it : of the rosebud as the recognized metaphor for the
“ The Dome of the Taconics,” “ The Circumvention early bloom of womanhood.” A still more curi-
of Greylock," "The Social Flowers," “At the ous illustration of the vagaries of association is
Sign of the Beautiful Star,” “The Great Cloud offered by “ The Ladies of New Style," an advanced
Drive," all these and many more speak the thought novel of to-day, in which the new woman heroine
of the lover and friend, who sets down a moment is a dairymaid, -not, forsooth, to indicate pastoral
in literature, less enduring than the everlasting hills simplicity, but rather the most advanced radicalism.
he writes of, but one which will make a lasting “Formerly," we are told, “cow's milk was not
appeal nevertheless. “The hot and steaming city used as food in Japan, and when this novel ap-
is leagues away,” he tells us in one place. “Ail peared (1887) none but a truly enlightened person
that is vanished ; and instead of it, a scene meets would dare to affront the old-fashioned prejudices
the
eye
in which one loses sense and thought in a against it.” We congratulate Mr. Aston upon the
sweet oblivion of content. ... The air quivers and acceptable manner in which he has told us the long
throbs over a rye-field. The far hills retreat still story of Japanese letters, and we certainly have no
farther behind a blue haze. . . . Under the maples reason to doubt that he is as trustworthy an author-
here in Berkshire is an incomparable vantage- ity as he is an interesting historian.
ground from which to behold the glories of mid-
summer as they pass by.” This vantage-ground
There were stirring times in Mis-
Border fighting
we do not begrudge the good Doctor, nor, since we
souri in the opening months of the
in the Civil War.
may not share it, do we cease to be thankful for
great civil conflict of a generation
this reminiscence of it; but we wish it were with
ago. The history of the struggle to keep the Bor-
us a personal memory, even as it is with him. For der States in the Union is an interesting one, and
this new longing and aspiration in a life too short one which is always told with intense emotions, be-
for the fulfilment of half the old ones, his graphic
cause brother rose against brother, and the feud-like
pages must be held responsible.
character of the fighting was marked. But the
great movements of later years obscured the fron.
Mr. W. G. Aston's “ History of Jap tier contests, and the historians have been accus.
The story of
anese Literature” (Appleton) is the
Japanese letters.
tomed to dismiss with a few paragraphs what Mr.
sixth volume thus far published in the Britton in his “Civil War on the Border” (Put-
series called “Literatures of the World.” The au nam) describes with the detail of an eye-witness.
thor
opens this preface with the following remarks : The second volume of this work continues the tale
“ The Japanese have a voluminous literature, ex of the activities of local militia in Missouri, Arkansas,
tending over twelve centuries, which to this day has Indian Territory, and Kansas, against the bands of
been very imperfectly explored by European stu guerrillas under such leaders as the infamous Quan-
dents. Forty years ago no Englishman had read trill or the desperate bandit, Bill Anderson. General
a page of a Japanese book, and although some Sherman's oft-quoted words descriptive of war cer-
Continental scholars had a useful acquaintance with tainly have apt illustration in the stories told in
the language, their contributions to our knowledge these volumes, and perhaps there can be no better
are unimportant. . . . Beyond a few brief detached
preventive of internal commotions than the re-
notices, there is no body of critical opinion on Jap-hearsal of the experiences of the frontier folk dur-
anese books in any European language.” Mr.
ing the years when the armies of the two sections
Aston's position in putting forth such a “body of were fighting, now in the West and later in Vir-
critical opinion” is in one respect enviable. No ginia, for the settlement of the great struggle.
reviewer is likely to assume the superior airs of his What the raids of the Tories were in days of the Rev.
kind, and play the pedagogue with the author. The olution, the swift and awful descents of the bandits
latter has things all his own way, and the former, of the Western frontier were to the loyal people in
however omniscient he may upon other occasions days of the Rebellion. Possibly war cannot be
seem, is for once humbled. We can say nothing of refined, and yet it seems likely that the changes in
this book beyond testifying to its thoroughly read American life during the last quarter of a century
able character, which is largely due to the free use have made it impossible that our land should ever
of translated passages, biographical notices, and again witness such scenes as those described by
historical data. In other words, the things that a writers about the border fights of the Civil War.
reader would be expected to know beforehand in
the case of a European literature could not possibly
Readers of Mr. John Davidson who
be expected of him in this case, and Mr. Aston has
A playwright
remember with pleasure his “Plays”
and his prologue.
done well to keep this fact constantly in mind. As
of five years ago have probably by
for the difficulties encountered in the translations, this time read his “Godfrida” (John Lane). Those
the following observations are much to the point: who remember the “ Plays” with only a confused
“The cherry is, in Japan, the queen of flowers, feeling akin to anger, may have neglected the book.
and is not valued for its fruit, while the rose is re To these latter, however, we must recommend at
garded as a mere thorny bush. Valerian, which to least the Prologue, which will not trouble them long


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>
It presents us with a conversation between the Poet the Spaniards. The ethnographic and linguistic
himself and an Interviewer, and thus gives Mr. characteristics of the aborigines are set forth with
Davidson a chance to speak of his ideas and inten- painstaking care, and many interesting matters are
tions. This we rather like. Probably every author presented with minuteness of detail. Considering
has sometime had a vague feeling that he would the eleven hundred pages thus far given to the New
like to write reviews explaining the point of his world, with hardly a beginning of the study of the
work, even if he has also had a counter feeling that effects produced upon the Old World by the discov-
his work ought to explain itself. Mr. Davidson's ery of this Western land, the question naturally
views are good. We like particularly his disclaimer arises : For what special constituency is the author
of any attempt to revive the Jacobean drama or the writing? It is doubtful whether the average Amer-
Elizabethan eclogue, or to follow in the path of ican reader will care to go much further than the
Ibsen, which last few would have supposed a temp- extremely interesting volumes of Jobn Fiske on
tation to him. We like, too, his view of Romance “ The Discovery of America,” and it likewise seems
as the essence of Reality. Certainly the Prologue questionable whether there is a demand for a re-
should find readers. And as to the play,— well, it writing of the history of the New World in such an
is impossible to say anything about Mr. Davidson’s elaborate way as to require over a thousand pages
plays without explaining and arguing a good deal, and of detail about the pre-historic days, or rather the
for that we have not now the time. Those who would pre-Columbian era, before the story of the Western
like a dramatist to come to them with an amusing hemisphere is interwoven with the movements in
or even instructive tale will be disappointed. Those the Eastern which are of vastly more importance in
who are intoxicated at a snuff or two of the fresh a well-balanced account of American history. If,
air of poetry, or with the lifting now and then of however, there is a constituency which seeks such
the cloud that generally dulls our horizon, will be
amply satisfied. Between these two groups is the satisfying. (Oxford University Press.)
great majority of readers of plays (like ourselves)
who will find a good deal to like, and will yet wish
that Mr. Davidson had a little more skill in getting
his real conceptions to stand out clear of all inferior
BRIEFER MENTION.
material.
“Studies in the Psychology of Wo-
Teachers of the history of England will be grateful
Feminine
to Dr. Charles W. Colby, of McGill University, for his
man (H. S. Stone & Co.) is a
psychology.
volume of "Selections from the Sources of English
translation by Georgia A. Etchison, History” (Longmans). The selections average less
from the German of Laura Marholm. The author's than three pages each and number upwards of one hun-
object is to ascertain the causes of the present dis dred. They throw interesting side-lights upon the whole
satisfaction among women, and she announces her course of English history, from Julius Cæsar to the
self as one who has “gought to grasp the points of Reform Bill, and are made with judicious care. The
view and facts which are most affected by the social
work is designed for a younger class of students than are
position of woman in the present and most recent
aimed at by such publications as the “Select Charters ”
past." The effort is sincere, but the result is a ram.
of Bishop Stubbs and the “Old South Leaflets," but no
student can be too young to be taught the distinction
bling and flighty little book, with no coherence or
between historical sources and historical compilations.
sustained argument. Like most books of its kind,
Recent German text-books include the following:
it shows an empirical astuteness, and offers some
Freytag's “ Aus dem Jahrhundert des Grossen Kriegis,"
interesting criticism ; but its touch is, as a rule, both
edited by Dr. L. A. Rhodes; “Stille Wasser,” stories
clumsy and uncertain. In denunciation, it is at from several writers, edited by Dr. Wilhelm Bern-
once vague and glaring ; its “practical” sugges hardt; and “ Eingeschneit,” by Emil Frommel, also
tions are indefinite; and its main conclusion as to edited by Dr. Bernhardt, — these three are issued by
the destiny of woman is not at all different from Messrs. D. C. Heath & Co. Messrs. Henry Holt & Co.
that of the world in general. Altogether, there send us a volume called “ Aus Deutschen Meisterwer-
would seem no very good reason for not leaving it ken,” being stories from the mediæ val epics, retold in
in its original German.
simple modern German by Mr. Sigmon M. Stern. From
the Macmillan Co. comes a tasteful edition of “Hermann
During the World's Fair year, the und Dorothea," edited by Professor James Taft Hat-
The New World
first volume of a “History of the
field, and embodying a corrected text. Lastly, the
of America.
New World called America" same publishers send us a “ Pitt Press edition of
ap-
peared from the pen of Mr. E. J. Payne.
“ Iphigenie auf Tauris,” prepared by Dr. Karl Breul.
in two “ books,” the one relating the story of the
Among the many books recently issued upon the West
Indian islands, the “ History" of Mr. Amos Kidder
discovery, and the second beginning a study of the
Fiske (Putnam) deserves notice for the excellence of its
aboriginal conditions. The style of the work was
maps and its index. These render the work valuable
pleasing, and many kind words were written regard-
for handy reference. The material of the book itself is
ing it. After an interval of six years the second interesting, though the subjects included in the forty
volume is at hand, bringing the history down to chapters are so numerous as to prevent scholarly treat-
the period of the conquest of Mexico and Peru byl ment of any one of them.
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LITERARY NOTES.
A revised edition of G. A. Wentworth's « Plane
Geometry” has just been published by Messrs. Ginn
& Co.
A new and revised edition of Captain A. T. Maban's
“ Life of Nelson ” is published by Messrs. Little,
Brown, & Co.
Dr. W.C. Hollopeter's “ Hay-Fever and Its Success-
ful Treatment” (Blakiston) has passed into a second
edition, revised and enlarged.
“The Life of Friedrich Schiller” has just been added
to the “Centenary” edition of Carlyle, published by
Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons.
« First Lessons in Civics" is a text-book of the most
elementary sort, the work of Dr. S. E. Forman, pub-
lished by the American Book Co.
A translation of Maupassant's “ Pierre et Jean," the
work of Mr. Hugh Craig, has been published by Bren-
tano's in a handsome illustrated edition.
A third edition, almost entirely rewritten, of Dr.
Arthur Newsholme's “ Elements of Vital Statistics"
has just been published by the Macmillan Co.
A second edition of “ The Messages of the Earlier
Prophets,” by Messrs. Frank Knight Sanders and
Charles Foster Kent, has just been published by the
Messrs. Scribner.
“ The Talisman," « The Betrothed,” and “Wood-
stock” (the latter in two volumes), are the latest addi-
tions to the “Temple” Scott, which the Messrs. Scrib-
ner publish in the United States.
At last we have an authorized American edition,
published by the Doubleday & McClure Co., of Mr. Kip-
ling's “ Departmental Ditties and Ballads and Barrack-
Room Ballads," all in a single volume, with the swastika
for a trade-mark.
A two-volume translation of Epictetus, made by Mrs.
Elizabeth Carter, has been recently issued in the “ Tem-
ple Classics " series (Macmillan). Three new volumes
have been added also to the ten-volume edition of North's
Plutarch, in the same series.
The United States Bureau of Education issues a val-
uable monograph by Mr. Arthur MacDonald upon the
“Experimental Study of Children." It is really an
advance section of the forthcoming report for 1897-98
of the Commissioner of Education.
The recently reawakened interest in Robespierre has
led to a new edition of the biography of that worthy by
George Henry Lewes. Published fifty years ago, it is
still a most readable book, and this edition, imported
by the Messrs. Scribner, sbould find many readers.
The “ Handbook of British, Continental, and Cana-
dian Universities, with Special Mention of the Courses
Open to Women," compiled by Dr. Isabel Maddison
for the graduate club of Bryn Mawr College, has just
been published in its second edition by the Macmillan Co.
a biographical sketch, several illustrations, and five
stories — the latter slightly simplified, with the author's
approval, for their present special purpose. It is a good
book of a good sort, and deserves to be widely used.
It is reported that Mr. Maurice Hewlett has under.
taken to prepare for the Macmillan Co. a volume on
Florence, to serve as a companion to Mr. Crawford's
« Ave Roma Immortalis." This is as welcome an an-
nouncement as there could well be, for Mr. Hewlett
knows both the body and the soul of Florence as do
few if any other men.
Messrs. D. C. Heath & Co. publish Racine's “ An-
dromaque,” edited by Dr. B. W. Wells, and a thin book
of “Geschichten und Märchen für Anfänger," edited by
Miss Lillian Foster. Messrs. Ginn & Co. publish La-
biche's “ La Grammaire," edited by Dr. Herman S.
Piatt. Messrs. Henry Holt & Co. publish Lessing's
“ Minna von Barnhelm," edited, with a rather extensive
apparatus, by Dr. Starr Willard Cutting.
Volumes IX. and X. of “ The Land of Sunshine,"
forming the numbers for the year just ended, and
bound within a single set of covers, has just been sent
us by the publishers. We have often had occasion to
speak a good word for this brave little magazine, and
to wish it success. The contents include much matter
of permanent value, besides those sections in which the
editor keeps up a running fire of comment upon the
literary and political happenings of the day. In the
matter of our Spanish and Philippine wars, particularly,
Mr. Lummis has spoken many sober and fearless words,
for which patriotic Americans cannot thank him too
warmly.
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Richard Carvel. By Winston Churchill. Macmillan Co. $1.50.
A Duet with an Occasional Chorus. By A. Conan Doyle.
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Young Lives. By Richard Le Gallienne. John Lane. $1.50.
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The Hooligan Nights. By Clarence Rook. Henry Holt &
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The Launching of a Man. By Stanley Waterloo. Rand,
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A West Point Wooing. By Clara Louise Burnham. Hough-
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At the Court of Catherine the Great. By Fred Whishaw.
Tiverton Tales. By Alice Brown. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. F. A, Stokes Co. $1.25.
$1.50.
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Windy Creek. By Helen Stuart Thompson. Charles Scrib-
A Dash for a Throne. By Arthur W. Marchmont. New ner's Sons. $1.25.
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On the Edge of the Empire. By Edgar Jepson and Captain
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TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS.
July, 1899,
"Americanism,” True and False. Wm. Barry. No. American.
Anglo-American Entente. Lord Charles Beresford. Pali Mall.
Art Sales of 1898. W. Roberts. Magazine of Art.
Australian Horseman, The. H. C. Macllwaine. Harper.
Bird Rock. Frank M. Chapman. Century.
Bonheur, Rosa. E. Knaufft. Review of Reviews.
Channel Passage, A, 1855. A.C. Swinburne. No, American.
Chicago, Modern Architecture in. P. B. Wight. Pall Mall.
Chinese Sketches. Elizabeth Washburn. Atlantic.
Colonial Diary, A. Agnes Repplier. Atlantic.
Colonies, Trade Policy with the. W. C. Ford. Harper.
Columbus, Was he Morally Irresponsible? Forum.
Cuba, Our Position in, The Logic of. North American.
Drama, A Theory of the. Ferris Greenslet. Forum.
Eliot, George. Annie Fields. Century,
England and Transvaal. Sydney Brooks. North American.
England, English Writer's Notes on. Vernon Lee. Atlantic.
English Literature, Right Approach to. M. H. Liddell. Atlan.
Foreign Mail Service at New York. Scribner.
France, Modern History and Historians in. Rev. of Reviews.
Furniss, Harry. M. H. Spielmann. Magazine of Art.
Greater New York, Government of. B. S. Coler. No. Amer.
Harte, Bret, in California. Noah Brooks. Century.
Havana since the Occupation. J. F. J. Archibald. Scribner.
Hugo, Victor, Draftsman and Decorator. Century.
Imperialism, English. William Cunningbam. Ailantic.
International Law in Late War. H. W. Rogers. Forum.
Kipling and Racial Instinct, H, R. Marshall. Century.
La Farge, John, Work of. Russell Sturgis. Scribner.
Literature, True American Spirit in. Chas. Johnston. Atlantic,
"Much Ado about Nothing," Plot of. H. H. Furness. Atlan.
Negro, Future of the. W. H. Councill. Forum.
Novels, The Hundred Best.' W. E. Henley. Pall Mall.
Peace, Universal. Baroness Bertha von Süttner. No. Amer.
Philadelphia, Old, Salon in. Anne H. Wharton. Lippincott.
Philippine Situation, Phases of. John Barrett. Rev. of Rev.
Philippines, Gold in the. R. R. Lala. Review of Reviews.
Pig Iron and Prosperity. G. H. Hull. North American.
Porto Rico, Currency of. James D. Whelpley. Forum.
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Rosebery and the Premiership. H. W. Lucy. Forum.
Royal Academy and the New Gallery. Magazine of Art.
Russo-American Understanding, A Plea for. No. American.
Scott's First Love. F. M. F. Skene. Century.
Small Deer. Ernest Ingersoll. Lippincott.
Spanish Occupancy in our Southwest, Scenes of. Rev. of Rev.
Stevenson in Samoa. Isobel O. Strong. Century.
Street Vehicles, Self-Propelled. G. J. Varney. Lippincott.
Telegraphy, Wireless. H. G. Marillier. Pall Mall.
Tenement, The, Curing its Blight. J. A. Riis. Atlantic.
Treaty-Making Power, The. Charles B. Elliott. Forum.
Tropica, White Race and the. Truxton Beale. Forum.
Trust, Building of a. H. W. Thomas. Lippincott.
Trust Problem, The. W. A. Peffer. Forum.
Vedder, Elihu, and his Exhibition. E. Radford. Mag. of Art.
Velasquez, Tercentenary of. Chas. Whibley. No. American.
Webster, Daniel. George F. Hoar. Scribner.
Women, What Are They Striving for? Lippincott.
Life and Remains of the Rev. R. H. Quick. Edited by
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The Life of Nelson: The Embodiment of the Sea Power of
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HISTORY
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The Making of Hawaii: A Study in Social Evolution. By
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The Real Hawaii: Its History and Present Condition,
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A History of the Jewish People during the Babylonian,
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The Labadist Colony in Maryland. By Bartlett B. James,
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Richard Carvel. By Winston Churchill. Illus., 12mo, gilt
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The Life of Prince Bismarck. By William Jacks. Illus.,
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JULY 16, 1899.
Vol. XXVII.
CONTENTS.
PAOB
VICTOR CHERBULIEZ .
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GEORGE W. JULIAN
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COMMUNICATION .
A Reviewer Out of Perspective.
Gookin.
Frederick W.
VICTOR CHERBULIEZ.
There are readers not a few to whom the
death of Victor Cherbuliez will prove a loss
altogether out of proportion to his importance
as a figure in French literature. “I could have
better spared a better man
" will be the feeling,
if not the utterance, of the many thousands to
whom the long series of his novels have been an
unfailing source of entertainment and delight.
The appearance of a new book by this talented
writer never brought with it the thrill of a
prospective sensation, and never led, as far as
we are aware, to any excited public discussion,
ranging its friends and its enemies in two op-
posing camps. But the promise of each new
novel (after the first few had given evidence
of the writer's quality) aroused in the novelist's
ever-widening audience a sense of quiet antici-
patory satisfaction that was, perhaps, as fine a
tribute to his merit as the loud outcries which
heralded the books of the more conspicuous
among his contemporaries.
No less than twenty-two novels have come
from the pen of this industrious writer during
the past thirty-five years. Most of them made
their first appearance in “ La Revue des Deux
Mondes," for which periodical Cherbuliez be-
came as much of a stand-by as George Sand
had been during the preceding quarter-century
The list of the novels is as follows:
· Le Comte Kostia," “ Prosper Randoce,"
“ Paule Méré," “ Le Roman d'une Honnête
Femme," « Le Grand-Oeuvre," “ L'Aventure
de Ladislas Bolski,” “ La Revanche de Joseph
Noirel," “ Méta Holdenis," “Miss Rovel,”
“Le Fiancé de Mlle. Saint-Maur," “ Samuel
Brohl et Cie.," “ L'Idee de Jean Têterol,”
“ Amours Fragiles,” “ Noirs et Rouges,” “La
Ferme du Choquard," “ Olivier Maugant,'
“ La Bête," “ La Vocation du Comte Ghis-
lain,” “Une Gageure," " Le Secret du Pré-
cepteur,” “ Après Fortune Faite,” and “Jac-
quine Vanesse.” A number of these novels
have been translated into English, but the ma-
jority, we should say, have not thus been made
accessible to those who do not read the original.
And, in our opinion, an enterprising publisher
in England or the United States would find his
MR. JUSTIN MCCARTHY'S REMINISCENCES.
E. G. J. .
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OUR NATIONAL POLICY. John J. Halsey
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or more.
DR. HALE'S COLLECTED WRITINGS. Richard
Burion.
46
THE LIFE OF EDWIN M. STANTON. George W.
Julian.
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account in a complete uniform edition of this minute and accurate knowledge of a great range
series of books.
of subjects, displayed by him without ostenta-
In attempting to characterize the work of tion as the particular occasion demands, and in
Cherbuliez, it will be best to begin with a few the aggregate too extensive and solid to be
negative statements. We have already said accounted for by any theory of cramming or
that his novels are not sensational; this state reading up” for the special purpose at hand.
ment may be amplified by noting that they offer When we add to all that has been said the fact
no devotion to the goddess of lubricity, that that a gentle irony pervades his work, temper-
they are neither erotic nor neurotic, and that ing its good sense and general sanity just enough
they are concerned with problems only as the to keep it from being dull and prosaic, we have,
novelist finds problems useful for the illus in a measure, at least, accounted for the feel-
tration of character. Their delineative power ing with which, having read every one of the
is, moreover, not remarkable; it betrays the
betrays the twenty-two novels, and expecting to read all
hand of the master-craftsman rather than that of them again in default of fresh ones, we
of the creative artist, and the entire gallery heard the other day of the death of Victor
of figures includes few that remain living in Cherbuliez.
the memory
When we compare the most There is little to be learned from a chrono-
studied of the types offered us by Cherbuliez logical study of this man's books. He was one
with even the minor types of the “Comédie of those writers who early make their mark,
Humaine," this distinction becomes so obvious and never alter it very much after it is once
that it needs no argument.
It
may
also be said made. His first books and his last display about
that the novels of Cherbuliez have little or no the same characteristics, and his qualities,
atmosphere; they have instead a great deal together with their attendant defects, appear
of careful local coloring, and over them all is about as distinctly in the “Comte Kostia ” of
shed the dry light of the philosophical intelli 1863 as in the “ Jacquine Vanesse " of 1898.
gence.
His best books are scattered among the others,
Essaying now a more positive sort of criti and bear dates widely separated. We might
cism, we must emphasize once more the unfail name among them “Le Roman d'une Honnête
ing interest of these books. The characters Femme," «Méta Holdenis,” and “Le Secret
are galvanized into just enough of vitality to du Précepteur,” but it seems invidious to sin-
produce a fairly complete illusion when they gle out even two or three, because the others
are before us. They are, furthermore, arranged are nearly as good. Still, those just named
in extremely interesting relations with one an may be recommended to readers desirous of
other, and the ingenuity of the author in devis making the acquaintance of Cherbuliez; the
ing new situations is really extraordinary. An taste once acquired may be trusted not to con-
additional element of freshness is provided by tent itself with so little.
the great variety of scenes to which we are It should be remembered, also, that Cher-
introduced, and by the extent to which char buliez did a great deal of writing that was not
acters of other nationalities than the author's in the form of fiction. Indeed, his debut as a
own are made to figure. The descriptive powers man of letters marked him out for a critic of
of the novelist are admirable, and we "skip art and a student of antiquity rather than for
in reading him at the peril of missing some a novelist. This book was entitled “Un Cheval
thing delightful or important. In fact, his de Phidias," further described as a series of
readers soon learn that they cannot afford to “Causeries Athéniennes.” A later volume of
skip” him, for his books have almost no pad what was essentially art criticism was called
ding, and are finished in the minutest details. “L'Art et la Nature." Cherbuliez was also a
Economy of material, united with crispness in publicist and critic of contemporary society and
expression and deftness in the lesser touches of politics, in this capacity writing regularly for
his brush, form a combination of qualities that “La Revue des Deux Mondes,” under the
go far toward explaining his charm. That he pseudonym of “G. Valbert,” for a long term of
is both a man of the world and a scholar trained years. His miscellaneous papers upon these
in the processes of exact thought are two fur- subjects were collected into a series of volumes
ther facts that are frequently borne in upon the bearing such titles as “ Profils Etrangers,”
reader's mind; the former by the ease of the “L'Espagne Politique," « L'Allemagne Poli-
author's manner when dealing with many tique,” “Hommes et Choses d'Allemagne," and
diverse conditions of society, the latter by the “ Hommes et Choses du Temps Présent.”


1899.]
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Finally, we mention the fact that two of his
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novels, "Samuel Brohl" and "Ladislas Bolski,"
were dramatized by him, and won a certain A REVIEWER OUT OF PERSPECTIVE.
success upon the boards.
(To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
Charles Victor Cherbuliez (to give him for
In reading the review entitled “Aubrey Beardsley in
once his unfamiliar full name) was born in
Perspective,” in THE DIAL of June 16, one is forcibly
reminded of the saying that the domain of art is “a very
Geneva, July 19, 1829. His death on the first
paradise for the philosopher,” so easy is it to make a
of the present month thus found him within a show of wisdom, and by the use of high-sounding phrase
few days of the completion of his seventieth and the exercise of skill in gliding over difficulties to
year.
He was descended from a Protestant
lend to fallacious reasoning an air of plausibility.
Nevertheless, he who has the temerity to pass upon the
family that had found refuge in Switzerland
merit of a work of art ought to be very certain that his
after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, premises are sound and based upon a clearly-visioned
and in 1880 reclaimed his French citizenship “ fundamental metaphysic," and that his logic is irref-
under the provisions of the law provided for ragable. How often, one is tempted to ask, must the
that purpose. His education was cosmopolitan, plain to every understanding, that, æsthetically consid-
begun in Geneva, and continued in Paris, Bonn, ered, it is not so much what is done as how it is done
and Berlin. In 1881 he became one of the that makes the difference in works of art. Granted
Forty, and in 1892, an officer of the Legion of equal merit in treatment and handling, that work will
Honor. Long after his resumption of French
be the nobler which has the more exalted subject: but
citizenship he continued to live in Geneva,
the subject, although there may be art in choosing it, is
not in itself art; nor can the value of any man's work as
where he occupied a chair in the University. art be estimated properly by discussing its ethical ten-
These are the chief facts of his externally un dencies. Still less can we hope to arrive at a sound
eventful career; his real life is revealed to us conclusion by the not uncommon practice of reading into
in the volumes of his published writings. It is true that art, in so far as it is a medium of expres-
the work meanings of which the artist never dreamt.
many
sion, may be pressed into the service of any cause, eth-
ical or other. Yet is it equally true that art, as such, is
not ethical, neither moral nor non-moral, but æsthetic.
Wbatever relative rank as an artist we may assign to
GEORGE W. JULIAN.
Aubrey Beardsley, it must be admitted that he was an
artist in the full sense of the word, and that, too, an
George W. Julian, a public man and writer of artist who at the early age of twenty-two had already
distinction, died on the seventh inst. at his home near marked out a path and made a name for himself, who
Indianapolis, Indiana, the State where he was born, had so impressed his personality upon others that he had
in 1817. Mr. Julian was a lawyer by profession,
become the leader of a school and had a numerous band
but early in life entered politics, and became one of
of followers, most of whom, be it said, only succeeded
the most influential public men in the Middle West.
in copying the weaknesses rather than the strong points
He was one of the earliest and most determined of
of the master. That many of his drawings are fantas-
tically grotesque, and some of them even repulsive, no
the abolitionists, and one of the founders of the
candid critic can deny. That this grotesquery was de-
Free Soil party, whose candidate for Vice President
liberately meant by Beardsley to be an expression of
he was in the campaign of 1852. One of the or.
“evil” is in my opinion a reading into his work of some-
ganizers of the Republican party, he was allied with thing foreign to his intention. To me it appears
rather
Lincoln and Trumbull and the great men who led as the expression of amused delight in shocking the
that party to victory in 1860; and in Congress as a supersensitiveness of prudes and in confounding the
member of the Committee on the Conduct of the ignorance of those who confuse sentiment with art, wbilst
War, he had an important part in the events of that
entertaining those who, with him, could see the drollery
heroic time. Leaving the Republican party in 1872,
of it all, and feel the charm of the refinement of line,
the carefully studied composition, and the beauty of de-
to support Greeley for the Presidency, he did not
tail, that are after all the chief qualities in his work. As
again take a prominent part in politics, although he
Mr. Arthur Symons puts it: “The secret of Beardsley
held the office of Surveyor-General of New Mexico is there; in the line itself rather than in anything, intel-
under President Cleveland. Since that time he has
lectually realised, which the line is intended to express."
devoted himself chiefly to books and writing. He Every young artist in the formative stages of his
published a volume of Political Recollections some career is influenced to a greater or less extent by the
ten years ago, and was a frequent contributor to works of other artists whom he admires. Even though
periodicals. Many of THE DIAL’s reviews of books we were not told by those who were close to him, it is
in American history of the last half-century were by apparent in his drawings that Beardsley was profoundly
him, and his last literary work, a review of Mr.
impressed by the subtle harmony, the exquisite bal-
ancing of the masses and flow of line, in the compositions
Gorham's Life of Secretary Stanton, appears in the
of Botticelli; that he also found the same qualities in quite
present issue. In temperament and moral fibre, a different, yet related, manifestation in Japanese color-
Mr. Julian represented the old school of public men prints by the masters of the last century; that having
now so nearly passed from American life.
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based, he tried to carry them into his own productions.
His delight and the aim which is plainly shown in every-
The New Books.
thing he did, from the least to the greatest, is in beauty
- beauty of composition, of line, of mass, of light and
MR. MCCARTHY'S RECOLLECTIONS.*
dark as related to each other, of all the elements that
combine to make up what for want of a better term we An English reviewer of Mr. Justin McCar-
call decorative effect. Being a man of strong imagina- thy's “Reminiscences," who evidently felt bound
tion, he let his pencil play over the paper, and, being by his office to say something or other in dis-
quick to seize upon any accidental form thus produced,
he gradually developed a style having originality as well
praise of his author, scores him for being so per-
as individuality. As might be expected, only a small tinaciously and unconscionably good-humored.
part of the public appreciated the finer qualities in his He admits that the book is fresh and entertain-
work, although they appealed readily enough to his
ing — really a much better book than a man of
brother artists. For the public generally he became
merely the producer of amusing pictorial extravaganzas;
Mr. McCarthy's unfortunate political views and
and for the public, so far as its views about art are con party affiliations might be expected to write ;
cerned, he became imbued with a lofty contempt. As and he, the reviewer, therefore regrets the more
Mr. Symons tells us, many of his drawings were merely that Mr. McCarthy should prove so disappoint-
“outrageous practical jokes,” done simply from the de
ingly unable to rise above his uniform dead
sire “to kick the public into admiration, and then to
kick it for admiring the wrong thing or not knowing level of amiability and sweet reasonableness,
why it was admiring." Yet in this way he gained the and say something unpleasant about somebody.
public eye, so to speak, and not only made himself famous We have not, of course, quoted this fastidious
but secured a ready market for his wares. Naturally critic verbatim ; but the above is about the
his publishers influenced him in this course by giving substance of his finding. There is no disputing
produce. Thus, we may be assured, was he led on. about tastes ; and we own that our English
While Beardsley's work has thus a two-fold phase, friend's verdict struck us as being tantamount
the only side upon which it can be seriously considered to asserting that Mr. McCarthy's book is im-
is the decorative. The grotesque features are interest-
ing because of the eleverness of the drawing and the paired by one of its conspicuous merits. In
unexpected touches that made each new production a
fact, when taking a preliminary and pleasantly
thing unlike its predecessors. And there is always the anticipatory glance through Mr. McCarthy's
subtle quality which we call style: the stamp of a strong pages we had been charmed to note how fairly
individuality. This often redeems what would other-
and considerately, with what unfailing urban-
wise be hopelessly vulgar. Then, too, his work is dar-
ing, aggressive; it forces itself upon one's attention, and,
ity, this active politician and journalist (prac-
whatever else it may be or may not be, it is never weak. tical politician and daily journalist, mark you)
From the point of view of decorative effect, Beards speaks even of people who must, in the usual
ley's drawings have very considerable importance. Curi- course of things, have spoken quite otherwise of
ously enough, this is not so much because his achieve-
ment was great, for he never really advanced beyond the
himself and his party. Not that Mr. McCarthy
stage of interesting performance and brilliant promise. is all honey, or, better, all “ blarney," throughout
But he had decorative feeling of a high order; and when bis eight hundred pages of retrospect. There
the force of his idiosyncrasies shall have been spent, it are passages here and there that may possibly
will, I am sure, be apparent that he rendered a great
service to the cause of art in opening the eyes of the
have escaped the of his Saxon censor: for
eye
western world to the æsthetic value of dark and light example, his anything but flattering account of
masses as elements in pictorial composition. Had he
Charles Kingsley. This reverend champion of
lived, it is more than likely that he would have contin the unestablished order of things is roundly
ued to point the way to a better knowledge of others of characterized as “ about the most perverse and
the fundamental principles that have been lost sight of,
or so covered up as to be scarcely discernible, in the mad
wrong-headed supporter of every political
rush after ultra realism which until quite recently bas
abuse, the most dogmatic champion of every
dominated the art movement of the present generation. wrong cause in domestic and foreign politics
In spite of its immaturity, I confidently predict that that his time had produced "; and his appear.
it is the early work of Beardsley which will earn for
him the most enduring fame. What may be called his
ance upon the platform is thus described :
second manner is less vigorous, more labored, less spon-
“Rather tall, very angular, surprisingly awkward,
taneous. Failing health undoubtedly accounts for some-
with staggering legs, a hatchet face adorned with
thing. Be that as it may, the second manner would
scraggy gray whiskers, a faculty for falling into the
probably have given way shortly to a third, and very
most ungainly attitudes, and making the most hideous
likely a saner manner than either. If, on the other hand,
contortions of visage and frame; with a rough provincial
he would have continued to produce only the trivial
accent, and an uncouth way of speaking which would be
and bizarre, deliberately turning aside from subjects
set down for caricature on the boards of a theatre. ...
affording scope for the higher beauty which his friends
Since Brougham's time nothing so ungainly and eccen-
assert that he had the power to create, then the world is
tric had been displayed upon an English platform."
little poorer because his career came to an early end. * REMINISCENCES. By Justin McCarthy, M.P. In two
Chicago, July 6, 1899. FREDERICK W. GOOKIN. volumes. With portrait. New York: Harper & Brothers.


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Mr. McCarthy's “ Reminiscences are not lyle, of whom he tells a characteristic story, in
autobiographical. They are simply the author's connection with the poet Allingham. Alling-
recorded impressions and recollections of dis- ham, the gentlest of men, disliked nothing more
tinguished people he has known during his than a dispute. " A duel in the form of a de-
career, and they certainly go to show that from bate” was positively painful to him; and while
his youth up Mr. McCarthy has practised with he had convictions, and the courage of them as
skill the gentle art of making desirable ac well, the gentleness of his nature rendered him
quaintances. From such prescriptive celebri. shy of asserting them. One evening, at Car-
ties as Robert Owen and Lord Brougham down lyle's, there was a discussion of the policy of a
(chronologically, we mean) to Mr. Kipling, statesman then in office, and the sage denounced
few of the larger literary, political, and social this politician and all his works at great length
fish of Victorian times seem to have escaped and with unusual energy. When his fury had
the sweep of his net. The first great personage spent itself, Allingham, who had been listening
who figures in his pages is the Duke of Well throughout in silence, mildly suggested that
ington. Mr. McCarthy did not exactly know after all something might be said on the other
the Duke, but he once heard him make a speech side. Carlyle broke out with :
in the House of Lords. The speech was neither “ Eh! William Allingham, ye're just about the most
long nor eloquent; but it was Wellingtonian, disputatious man I ever met. Eh! man, when ye're in
and Mr. McCarthy was greatly impressed by it.
one of your humors you'd just dispute about anything."
A rash peer, it seems, had in the course of debate
Mr. McCarthy knew John Bright well, and
mildly ventured to say that be feared the illus- he once had an argument with him as to the
trious Duke ” had not quite understood the propriety of introducing or portraying bad
measure before the House.
The Duke rose,
characters in imaginative literature. Every
morally and physically, like Mrs. Gamp: novel, Mr. Bright held, would be better were
“My lords,' he said, striking the table with an indig-
there no bad people in it. When asked if he
nant gesture, the noble and learned lord has said that thought the public would take an interest in
I don't understand this Bill. Well, my lords, all I can romances that were written on this plan, he
say is that I read the Bill once, that I read it twice, that contended that the public would be very glad
I read it three times, and if after that I do n't under-
in the end to be educated up to such a point of
stand the Bill, wby then, my lords, all I have to say is
that I must be a damned stupid fellow.'
artistic morality. Confronted with the exam-
A propos of Thackeray's alleged weakness ples of Scott, Dickens, Thackeray, and Gold-
smith, Mr. Bright stood by his colors, and
for aristocratic rank, Mr. McCarthy tells a
maintained that “Ivanhoe " would be better
good story of a rather dense and notoriously without Bois-Guilbert, “ Nicholas Nickleby
tuft-hunting young acquaintance of his own,
without Squeers," Vanity Fair" without Becky
who also knew the great novelist, and had evi-
dently bored him, as he had everyone else, with Sharp, the “ Vicar of Wakefield” without
Hard pushed
the list of his titled friends and connections. Squire Thornhill, and so on.
with the example of Shakespeare, he nailed his
Says Mr. McCarthy:
colors to the mast, and held that “ Othello"
“One day I met him at the Garrick Club, and he
would be better without Iago. Had Mr. Mc-
suddenly began to talk to me about Thackeray. Now,
look here,” he said, “you always refuse to believe that Carthy cited Falstaff, we fancy Mr. Bright
Thackeray worships the aristocracy. I'll give you a
must have struck ; but as it was, he went on
convincing proof that he does, a proof that I got only with the feeble old argument (we have seen it
this very day. Do you see this cigar?' He held one
applied, mutatis mutandis, much more effec-
out between his fingers, and I admitted that I did see it.
• Well,' he said, 'that cigar was given me by Thackeray; tively to the “bores” of Messrs. Howells and
and do you know what he said when he was giving it to James) that:
me?' I had to own that I could not form any guess “ The very fact that there are bad persons in real life
as to what Thackeray might have said. So he went on and that we are sometimes compelled to meet them is
with an air of triumph. Well,' he said, “Thackeray's the strongest reason why we should not be compelled to
words to me were these: “Now, my dear fellow, here meet them in the pages of fiction, to which we turn for
is a cigar which I know you will be delighted to have, relief and refreshment after our dreary experience of
because it is one of a box that was given to me by a unwelcome realities."
marquis." Now what have
?'"
At this point Mr. McCarthy did not make
Mr. McCarthy admits that he had nothing to bold to say, with Dr. Johnson, “Sir, this is
say, not even in praise of his
young
friend's
sorry
do n't let me hear you say it any
nice sense of satire.
more," but went on to stagger, as he hoped,
Mr. McCarthy devotes a few pages to Car- | Mr. Bright with the instance of his favorite
you
to
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Milton. Here, says Mr. McCarthy, “I thought Walt Whitman. . . . There was a simple dignity in his
I had got him at last.” For how on earth could
manner which marked him out as one of nature's gentle-
anybody, even the most scrupulous of “ parlia- the friends who had gone too far, he thought, in sound-
men. . . . He found good-natured fault with some of
mentary hands,” argue seriously that “Para-
ing his praises throughout England; and he altogether
dise Lost” would be a better poem were Satan disclaimed the idea that he considered himself as a man
cast out of it! But Mr. Bright was ready with with a grand mission to open a new era for the poetry of
his defense :
his country. . . . Nothing could be less like the man-
ner of a man who desires to attitudinize than was the
“ He argued that the demoralizing effect of introduc- whole bearing of Walt Whitman. . . . I felt sure that
ing bad men and women into novels, or into poems, was
I now knew what Walt Whitman was himself, and that
because weak-minded readers might be led into admira-
the charm of real manhood was in him and in all that
tion for them, and might be filled with a desire to imitate
he wrote.”
them; whereas it was absolutely out of the power of any
mortal man or woman to imitate Satan or Beëlzebub." It may be remembered that Matthew Arnold,
Thinking the thing over calmly, we have our
when lecturing in this country, usually reso-
doubts as to the exact truth of Mr. Bright's lutely declined to conform to the custom which
closing statement.
often compels the distinguished foreign lecturer,
Mr. McCarthy has a capital chapter on
after he has finished his address, to remain in the
“ Boston's Literary Men.” He met Emerson hall and undergo the felicitations and the scru-
in 1871, and spoke with him of Walt Whitman: tiny of his audience. Not a few worthy people
incline to regard this informal social function
“Emerson told me that he had had and still retained
a strong faith in Whitman as possibly the first poet to
or levee at the close of the lecture as the re-
spring straight from the American soil without foreign deeming feature of an evening of unwonted
graft or culture of any kind. But he explained that intellectual strain, and as a gratification to
Whitman had an artistic creed of his own, which it was
which the purchase of a ticket of admission
difficult for anyone else to accept -- a creed which de-
nied the right of artistic exclusiveness, and even of fairly entitles the bearer. They therefore felt
artistic selection — a creed which held that everything themselves slighted, and even deprived of some-
that was found in nature was entitled to a place in art. thing they had paid for, by Mr. Arnold's insu-
. . . Emerson spoke with gentle amused deprecation of lar habit of eluding them by leaving the hall
Whitman's theory, but frankly owned that it made by the back-door or the fire-escape, as soon as
Whitman almost an impossibility for ordinary social
life.”
he had finished what he conceived to be his part
Some months later, the author met Whitman
of the contract. This conduct on Mr. Arnold's
himself, in Washington. The poet was shab- part was due, Mr. McCarthy assures us, mainly
bily lodged in a garret, in a crowded building ;
to his native unpretentiousness and dislike of
and at first glance Mr. McCarthy was rather being lionized, and not at all to supercilious-
in doubt which of the two current conceptions ness or to the unsociable promptings of that
of him to accept — the one which figured him refrigerator-like temperament ascribed to him
opinion, to comforts and conventions, or the one *There was nothing ungracious in the mood which
which represented him as a poseur who delib-
prompted this resolve; indeed, nobody who knew Mat-
thew Arnold could easily conceive the idea of anything
erately “went in for ” being a penniless poet, ungracious on his part; only he was not endowed with
who got himself up picturesquely for the part, that terrible gift of familiarity' which an envious op-
and who thrust his poverty on the public as
ponent ascribed to Mirabeau, and he knew that he never
could be in his element in trying to exchange compli-
vainly and ostentatiously as Jim Fisk flaunted
his wealth. The mise en scène was perfect.
ments with a crowd of perfectly unknown admirers.
. . Travelling in the States, three years after Matthew
There was the truckle-bed, the shaky wash Arnold had returned to Europe, I can say that he had
stand, the pair or so of rickety chairs, the shelf not shown himself in any sense an ungenial or unsocia-
with the cut loaf of bread, the shabby desk and ble visitor; and that I came across many a household
which he had gladdened by his ready and kindly accept-
table strewn with the scribbled sheets of ill-paid
ance of a hospitable invitation, and by his pleasant and
genius. A theatre-goer “would only have to
companionable ways as a guest."
see the curtain rise on such a scene to know
Mr. McCarthy's book is the fruit of a so-
that the poverty-stricken poet was about to be
• discovered.'
journ at a quiet seaside resort, where the mak-
Mr. McCarthy was not long
kept halting between the two current opinions: ing at odd times of uncompulsory “copy” was
a recreation. Had Mr. McCarthy written amid
“I read the story of Walt Whitman's room the mo-
the stress and fever of London life his pages
ment I had looked into the eyes of the good old poet
himself. If ever sincerity and candor shone from the might not have been so thoroughly imbued with
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;
>
manence.
English reviewer. The book reflects the con- publicly on questions of public policy unless
ditions of its composition. It is easy, rambling, they agree with the powers that be. In the
informal; and it has the charm and the defects face of such an attempt at terrorism as savors
of those qualities. The author has plainly of Russia rather than of America, it is refresh-
given the rein to memory, and the stream of ing to read such calm and deliberate discussion
reminiscence wanders at will. One name, one of this vexed subject of American “imperial
story, has suggested another; and the pen has policy” as President Jordan gives us in these
followed the pleasantly devious current of the addresses. Under date of May 25, 1898, he
thought. The book might have been bettered says to the graduating class of his university :
in some ways by careful revision. The reader “ The war has stirred the fires of patriotism, we say.
familiar with Mr. McCarthy's “ History of Our Certainly, but they were already there, else they could
Own Times” will note here and there in the
not be stirred. I doubt if there is more love of country
with us to-day than there was a year ago. Real love of
“ Reminiscences an old story re-told, an old
country is not easily moved. Its guarantee is its per-
thought re-worded. The style is, as usual, rich,
Love of adventure, love of fight, these are
picturesque, and allusive - rather founded on soon kindled. It is these to which the battle spirit
Macaulay, we should say, but not imitative. appeals. Love of adventure we may not despise. It is
We have long regarded Mr. McCarthy as the
the precious heritage of new races; it is the basis of
personal courage; but it is not patriotism; it is push.
prince of literary journalists and journalistic Patriotism is the will to serve one's country; to
historians; and it is pleasant to find that years make one's country better worth serving. It is a course
have not staled his attractiveness or dulled his
of action rather than a sentiment. It is serious rather
These beautifully-made volumes
than stirring
“Our heroes were with us already. In times of peace
stand very near the top of the list of the season's
they were ready for heroism. The real hero is the man
reminiscential books.
E. G. J. who does his duty. It does not matter whether his
name be on the headlines of the newspapers or not. His
greatness is not enhanced when a street or a trotting
horse is named for him. It is the business of the Re-
OUR NATIONAL POLICY,*
public to make a nation of heroes. The making of brave
Dr. Jordan's volume entitled “ Imperial De-
Imperial De- soldiers is only a part of the work of making men. The
mocracy” contains eight essays and addresses, glare of battle shows men in false perspective. To one
who stands in its light we give the glory of a thousand."
published or delivered, with one exception, since
the war with Spain began. One notes with
In the address before the Graduate Club of
gratification that President Jordan's literary
Leland Stanford University, delivered Feb-
style has gained, in finish as well as in preci- ruary 14, 1899, he says:
sion, since he went to Leland Stanford Univer-
“I hear many saying, “If only Dewey had sailed out
of Manila harbor, all would have been well. This
sity. One notes also, with a deeper satisfaction,
ssems to me the acme of weakness. Dewey did his duty
that throughout these pages one is speaking who at Manila; he has done his duty ever since. Let us do
has abiding convictions as to the “manifest If his duty makes it harder for us, so much the
destiny" of the American people, and who is
more we must strive. It is pure cowardice to throw
fearless to utter them in the face of one of the
the responsibility on him. . . . If Dewey captured land
we do not want to hold, then let go of it. It is for us
fiercest jehads that has ever threatened free
to say, not for him. It is foolish to say that our victory
speech. Not since the days of the assault in last May settled once for all our future as a world power.
the United States' Congress on John Quincy
It is not thus that I read our history. Chance decides
Adams and Joshua Giddings for their grand nothing: The Declaration of Independence, the Consti-
tution, the Emancipation Proclamation, were not mat-
defence of the sacred right of petition, has
ters of chance. They belong to the category of states-
public opinion in this country been so swayed manship. A statesman knows no chance. It is his
by ignorant and servile intolerance as during business to foresee the future and to control it. Chance
the past six months. The press of the country,
is the terror of despotism.”
with a few honorable exceptions, has worked In a letter to the editor of “The Outlook,”
itself into such a state of mind as would be dated April 26, 1899, after asking some search-
gratefully appreciated by a Cæsar or a Napo- ing questions of that jingoistic representative of
leon, and a state of popular opinion has been the religious press, Dr. Jordan thus concludes :
produced which it requires considerable cour “Do what you will with the Philippines, if you can
age to question. Men are already debating do it in peace, — but stop this war.
the proposition that instructors in our univer-
“ It is our fault, and ours alone, that this war began.
It is our crime that it continues.
sities are to be required to express no opinions • We make no criticism of the kindly and popular
* IMPERIAL DEMOCRACY. By David Starr Jordan. New President of the United States, save this one: He does
York: D. Appleton & Co.
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and unwittingly brought into action. These must be justice and prudence in our internal affairs.
kept instantly and constantly in hand. The authority
Its validity is between state and state and be-
to do rests with him alone, and if ever strenuous life'
tween man and man.” It does not govern our
was needed in the nation, it is in the guiding hand of
to-day. The ship is on fire. The Captain sleeps. The
international relations. Those are governed by
sailors storm in vain at his door. When he shall rise, a higher than man-made law - the law of God
we doff our hats in respectful obeisance. If we have as evolved in human conscience and human
brought a false alarm, on our heads rests the penalty." recognition of eternal justice. To this law the
The whole attitude of the jingo press since thoughtful opponent of jingoism points the
February toward the opponents of the adminis. American people to-day. He holds, moreover,
tration policy in the Philippines has been one that an administration which has pursued a firm
of misconception and misrepresentation. A and wise course in Cuba has adopted, without
large number of thoughtful American citizens due reason, a dissimilar one in the Philippines.
were of the opinion, after the “Maine” disaster, Admiral Dewey, and more than one prominent
that war with Spain was not necessary to the officer of our army, have borne testimony to
liberation of Cuba from Spanish tyranny. They the political intelligence and general fitness for
believed that the steady pressure which Presi- good government of the Filipinos ; and yet
dent McKinley had for more than a year been these are the people who have been forced into
exerting in Cuban affairs would in good time those occasional acts of savagery which may
bring its reward in autonomous government for always be expected among those who resent
that unhappy island. But when Congress, injustice by a policy the very reverse of that
driven by popular excitement and newspaper conceded to the Cubans. It would seem that
frenzy, rushed the administration into war, they nearly every presumption that existed a year
gave it their loyal and hearty support. In due ago in the Malay mind in favor of the sons of
process of time the conquest was completed and free and fair and tolerant America has been
military governments were set up in Porto Rico destroyed, and that it has been gone about de-
and Cuba, where in the best spirit of American liberately to make these inferior races feel that
institutions a class of administrators who can the autocracy of the Yankee differs from that
not be bought or intimidated have done much of the Don only in the superior military ability
to make American rule acceptable and popular. with which it can enforce injustice. If we can-
All that was done in those islands was done in
not by persuasion and moral superiority induce
close touch and sympathy with their representa- other races to accept the better government
tive men. The contention of the so-called anti- which we are undoubtedly capable of giving
imperialists is that this has not been done in them, it were better that they go ungoverned
the island of Luzon. They maintain that the all their days. For the thoughtful student of
same masterful and wise policy that was pur- | American institutions must ever continue to
sued in the Antilles should have been pursued maintain that our highest mission among the
in the Philippines that there should have
that there should have nations of the world is to set a high and imi-
been a policy, instead of the hand-to-mouth table example of good and fair government,
methods initiated as far back as the Protocol. based always upon the intellectual acceptance
They see no reason to believe that if adroit of, and enshrined in the hearts of, the governed.
conciliation had been used with Aguinaldo, as
JOHN J. HALSEY.
with Gomez, the superiority of the Saxon, mor-
ally and intellectually, would have triumphed
peaceably in the one case as it did in the other. DR. HALE'S COLLECTED WRITINGS.*
Moreover, those among them who have a
When the works of a contemporaneous writer
knowledge of international and political as well
receive embodiment in a definitive edition, a
as of constitutional law have never questioned
certain stamp of classicality seems to be set
the full and sovereign power of the United
upon him,- so far, at least, as the word "clas-
States to perform any sovereign act open to any
sical” can be applied to literature that is cur-
other nation, and consequently to annex
rent. This distinction has befallen Dr. Edward
territory wherever its power was physically Everett Hale in his ripe old age ; and not
adequate, if thought expedient. Their propo.
improperly. With Colonel Higginson, Dr.
sition has been, not that this attempt to force a
Hale stands as the last of the Old Guard whose
government on the Filipinos is unconstitutional,
* THE COLLECTED WORKS OF EDWARD EVERETT HALE.
but that it is wrong. As Dr. Jordan well says,
Library edition, in ten volumes, with Photogravure Frontis-
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services to our native literature have been so It is in fiction that Dr. Hale made his ten-
important for its formative period. Dr. Hale's strike: once at least be produced in this kind
intimate knowledge of the older Boston, Cam a representative piece of creative literature -
bridge, and Concord, his familiar association something that must always rank high amongst
with the elder group of New England literati, our short story writing. With a sense of this,
are in themselves enough to make him an inter no doubt, the publishers have introduced the
esting figure in American letters. But he has series with a volume entitled “ The Man With-
been not only in it, but of it; contributing his out a Country, and Other Stories.” The famous
share to a culture-centre whose influence has title tale, to which the author furnishes some
shaped all subsequent development. Some valuable prefatory comment, remains a brilliant
sense of this is got as one dips into his recent allegory, an inspiration to patriotism in the
book of memories of Lowell and his friends, noblest sense, and an example of flawlessly
which, like Mr. Higginson's "Cheerful Yes wrought imaginative fiction. Dr. Hale could
terdays,” recalls so much of a time already afford to rest on his laurels, after doing it.
touched with the glamour of the historic, and very interesting is his explanation of the curi-
hence fascinating to read about.
ous muddle arising from his use of the name
But Dr. Hale's own contributions to our lit of Pbilip Nolan for the hero of the story
erature have been voluminous and in some cases mistake he tried to rectify afterwards by writ-
conspicuous. He has been, as everybody knows, ing" Philip Nolan's Friends," included in one
a man of great and varied activity, within and of the later volumes of the present edition.
without literature. He has written with his When the Doctor chose the name, he was quite
eye on the object, — in the foreign phrase, — unaware that it was borne by any real person ;
and that object the amelioration of humanity. and not till later did he discover that the his-
Life has, to him, meant more than literature, torical Philip Nolan, well remembered in the
as it has come to mean more to Mr. Howells ; Southwest, was shot by the Spaniards in Texas
and literature has had its chief value as it has in 1801,- so that the story-teller had (appar-
expressed the highest life. This aim, and this ently) been taking unwarrantable liberties.
manifold display of energy, unite to explain his The whole episode is an amusing illustration of
merits and his shortcomings as a writer. The the dangers of fictional nomenclature.
fact that he has produced rapidly, and has not Of the other nine short tales making up this
always judged his own work with the extreme initial volume, the best known is “ My Double
rigor of the conscientious stickler for technique, and How He Undid Me," an ingenious idea not
is understood when we realize that he has writ worked off with quite the lightness of touch
ten as a moral teacher rather than as an artist necessary to complete success. It is just the
primarily. It is with a consciousness of the motive for a Stockton. The second volume is
practical pressure and purpose behind his labor headed by Dr. Hale's most acceptable piece of
that he uses these words in the very charming longer fiction, “In His Name,” the sterling
preface to the opening volume of this beautiful historical sketch which deals with the pathetic
ten-volume edition ; words intended to apply to story of the Waldenses of Lyon in the twelfth
another, but also, as he implies, well fitting his century; the balance of the book being taken
own case :
up with holiday stories like “ Christmas Waits
“If it were his duty to write verses, he wrote verses;
in Boston,” “ They Saw a Great Light," and
to fight slavers, he fought slavers; to write sermons, he “Daily Bread.” The frank didacticism does not
wrote sermons; and he did one of these things with just seriously interfere with the author's freshness
as much alacrity as another.”
of invention and vigor of narrative, though it
We all know that absolute accomplishment in does lend his work, confessedly, an old-fashioned
one particular genre is not thus attained; but
is not thus attained; but flavor. The brief “ Hands Off” is a striking
we also know that the life and the life influence handling of the text“ From what I call evil, He
may
be broader and better for that very reason. educes good.” The plan of the edition embraces
In this tendency to disperse himself generously half a dozen works of fiction and social sketches,
according to the needs of the moment, Dr. Hale a volume of sermons (which shows a sternly
is like such other of the elder writing men as selective instinct in so steady a sermonizer as
Whittier and Lowell. Indeed, one might go Dr. Hale has been, ex officio); a volume of
further, and say that this is a characteristic of essays on social subjects ; a volume devoted to
American literature, as a whole, especially in the autobiographic sketch “ A New England
its earlier manifestations.
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that of the books in the same vein by Mr. man who says “no” is bound to be disliked by
Warner and Mr. Howells); and a volume on narrow partisans and place-hunters, who com-
“ The History and Antiquities of Boston.” Asmunicate their petty prejudices to others. Of
an essayist, Dr. Hale's qualities are familiar. all public men, Stanton seems to have cared
He has a sense of humor which gratefully re- the least about what was said of him. He never
lieves the strenuousness of his tone and seri- replied to attacks upon himself. But when
ousness of his purpose. It may be said of his
be said of his Horace Greeley, after the victories of Fort
writings in general that the reader is perforce Henry and Fort Donelson, wrote of Stanton as
bidden into personal relations with the author: “the minister who organized” those victories,
the manner is heartily confidential. This is he was quick to disclaim such credit in a letter
always a head-mark of your true essayist. The to the “Tribune” in which he said :
new prefaces, written expressly for this edition, “Who can organize victory? Who combine the ele-
are one of its main attractions : unlike most ments of success on the battlefield ? We owe our recent
prefaces, they justify themselves, for Dr. Hale victories to the spirit of the Lord, that moved our sol-
diers to rush into battle, and filled the hearts of our
is peculiarly happy when talking about these
enemies with terror and dismay. . . . What, under the
children of his brain and heart. He hits just blessing of Providence, I conceive to be the true organ-
the right note of genial reminiscence. It must ization of victory and military combination to end this
be a comfort to him to feel that his collected war was declared in a few words by General Grant's
writings have thus received a permanent and
message to General Buckner, — "I propose to move
handsome embodiment, for on the mechanical
immediately upon your works.'”
side these volumes, in æsthetic gray-green with Men might tell all manner of lies to his dis-
gold lettering, and bold agreeable type, are a
credit: this troubled him only because it grieved
credit to all concerned. The beloved author's and dismayed his friends; but such was his
many admirers, new and old, will welcome the sense of honor that undue praise he could not
opportunity to add to their libraries what we bear. In a private letter to the Rev. Heman
trust may not be called, in the horrid idiom, Dyer, a friend of his youth, in May, 1862,
for years to come, his literary remains. giving the real facts of the difficulty between
RICHARD BURTON.
himself and McClellan, it plainly and beauti-
fully appears that the motives governing all
his conduct of public affairs were such as “over-
leap time and look forward to eternity.” The
THE LIFE OF EDWIN M. STANTON.*
deep religious strain in Stanton's make-up con-
The chief interest and importance of Mr. stantly appears, and it was his implicit trust in
Gorham's two octavo volumes must lie in the the success of righteousness and justice that
history of Stanton's work in the War Depart gave him so little patience with halters and
ment. It was there that his great qualities —
trimmers. He was one of the rare crucible
intellectual power, masterful will, integrity, men, in contact with whom individuals were at
patriotism, tireless activity, and intense enthus once reduced to their component parts. His
iasm - enabled him to perform a service sec instinctive insight into men and things was
ond to none during the most stormy and critical what gave him his marvellous grasp of the whole
period of our national life. The public has situation throughout the war. The man who
waited long for this biography. Why so many thus sees through other men, and shows that he
years have passed without any attempt to tell sees through them, may be a very great power ;
the story it is bard to say. Perhaps the chief he is not likely to be popular, or“ by flatterers
reason may be found in the fact of Stanton's besieged.” Perhaps it is well that his biography
absolute independence, and the further fact has been delayed so long. There has been time
that in the vast and many-sided work he had to for many passions and prejudices to die out,
do he had not time for the little courtesies and and it is more possible to view the scene and
amenities which attract people. He offended its actors in their true light.
many by the abruptness and unceremoniousness Edwin McMasters Stanton was born at
of his manner. “ He was the man who said Steubenville, Ohio, in 1814. His father, a
'no' for the government when it had to be said, physician with a good practice, died thirteen
no matter how distasteful or offensive it might years later, leaving a family of four children
be to those to whom it was addressed.” The with very limited means, so that Edwin, the
* Edwin M. STANTON. Life and Public Services. By oldest, had to leave school and take employ-
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years. He kept up his studies all the while, Being much engaged in Supreme Court prac-
and being ambitious for further educational tice, he removed to Washington in 1856, after
advantages he entered Kenyon College at the residing successively at Cadiz, Steuben ville,
age of seventeen; but he was not able for and Pittsburg. Although his legal business
financial reasons to finish the course, and left occupied him to the exclusion of all political
during his junior year, to enter upon the study interests, such a man could not but have very
of law. In 1836 he was admitted to the bar, pronounced views on the questions then before
married, and entered with energy upon what the public. The supporter of Jackson and Van
seemed his life work in the profession in which Buren, he had been opposed to nullification,
his whole ambition was centred and in which secession, a national, bank, state bank monop-
he had a singularly successful and brilliant oly, and a high tariff. With the defeat of Van
career for twenty-five years, until he took his Buren, in 1844, his political enthusiasm some-
seat in the cabinet of President Buchanan. what cooled; but in 48 he was for the Free
The chapter detailing how the boy Stanton Soil ticket, his sympathies being openly with
“ went over to Jackson ” is exceedingly read the Northern Democrats in their resistance to
able, and illustrates one or two characteristics Southern domination within the party. In 1852
that manifested themselves very early in his Stanton's interest in politics was so slight that
life. Dr. Stanton had been a firm adherent of he did not even attend the National convention
Clay and Adams, and if his son had been like which met in Baltimore, although he was in
most sons he would doubtless have inherited Washington at the time. Although he took no
his father's political and other views. But part in the canvass of 1856, and had no vote,
even as a small boy he had been considered being a resident of Washington, he stood un-
self-reliant, positive, and somewhat imperious, mistakably on the side of President Buchanan
though not combative or abusive. When the in his Kansas policy of 1857–8, and two years
promulgation of Calhoun's nulification doctrine later regarded the salvation of the country as
called forth President Jackson's immortal proc- hanging on the election of Breckenridge. In
lamation of December, 1832, in which he as a word, Stanton was a Democrat prior to and
serted the supreme authority of the national including 1861, opposed to slavery, but a firm
government on all subjects intrusted by the upholder of the laws constitutionally enacted
Constitution to federal control, young Stanton for its protection.
at once turned his back
upon
old political asso-
" That he believed the success of the Republican
ciations and enlisted with all the enthusiasm party would endanger the Union, and that he adhered
and zeal of his nature in the cause of the Union.
to the extreme wing of the Democratic party after it
had subordinated all other questions to the protection of
This was significant, as showing his disposition slavery in the rights guaranteed it by the Constitution,
to think for himself and to stand on his own as interpreted by the United States Supreme Court in
feet, and his sympathy with Democracy; for
the Dred Scott case, must be admitted. That when the
Jackson, whatever his faults, was a real be-apprehended danger to the Union followed Republican
liever in the people - the rank and file of
success, he rose superior to all party trammels, and in
the cabinet of Mr. Buchanan acted with high courage
humanity.
and the most unselfish patriotism, none can deny."
Stanton's career as a lawyer is admirably On the 20th of December, 1860, Stanton
given. He steadily rose in his profession, and was appointed Attorney-General by President
was engaged in many important cases, some of Buchanan. The review of the political situa-
them of national fame. As a speaker he was tion at that time is graphically given in Chap-
earnest and eloquent, having, it is said, two ter XII., in which it appears that the election
different styles, one a vehement style adapted of Lincoln was expressly desired and planned
for a jury, while before the Supreme Court at for by the extreme Southern leaders as a pre-
Washington he was calm, deliberate, and text for the long-threatened dissolution of
impressive, carefully avoiding all exuberance the Union, for which steps had been taken in
of feeling. Perhaps no lawyer ever better pre-advance by South Carolina. The disunion
pared himself in advance. He carefully mas conspiracy, involving Secretary of the Treasury
tered both sides of every case, and few men Howell Cobb, Secretary of War Floyd, Assist-
have been capable of such prodigious and inces ant Secretary of State Trescott, Quartermaster-
sant mental labor. Activity was his delight, General Joseph E. Johnston, and others, is
and when one piece of work was finished he well stated ; and one is simply amazed that
turned to fresh tasks with the appetite and treason should ever have gained such a foot-
inspiration of youth.
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bloody treason flourished all around him. On at his post during those ten dark weeks of that
it, that it should ever have been circumvented. | than see the Union perish or even encounter
It was well known during the closing months the perils of a war for its preservation. Stan-
of Buchanan's term that a revolution was brew- ton's presence in Buchanan's cabinet was felt at
ing; but what was its extent, and whether it once. Mr. Gorham says he instantly changed
would be precipitated immediately after the the tone of its deliberations, and in a
election, thus taxing all the patriotism and “ Discussion as to the binding force of a shuffling unoffi-
energies of the outgoing administration, or cial agreement to leave Sumter unprotected thundered
whether the crisis might be delayed until the
out the blunt truth to Floyd and Thompson, that they
advent of Lincoln to power, were questions committed, they ought to be hanged, and were urging
were advocating the commission of a crime for which, if
earnestly considered by Buchanan and his ad the President to an act of treason for which, if per-
visers, as is shown in the next few chapters. formed, he could be impeached, removed from office,
The attitude of Judge Jeremiah S. Black, then and punished under the penal code. Floyd, who had
Attorney-General, in November, 1860, as to the
up to that very time posed as a unionist, now appeared
in his true character, and gave up the contest by resign-
authority of the Federal Government over a
ing. Thompson soon followed, on a false pretense, and
State that asserts its independence, and the Thomas, Cobb's successor, followed him. The President
way in which President Buchanan bettered bis surrounded himself with a patriotic cabinet, and thus
instructions in his message of December 3, are
escaped the fate false friends had been preparing for
well sketched. It is sickening to consider the
him."
miserable weakness and cowardice and blind. Well did Attorney-General Hoar, after Stan-
ness of Buchanan during those days while ton's death, picture bim as standing manfully
the 20th of December, South Carolina declared winter of national agony and shame, giving
the Union dissolved; and on the same day what nerve he could to timid and trembling
Edwin M. Stanton was appointed Attorney imbecility, and meeting the secret plotters of
General in place of J. S. Black, who had suc- their country's ruin with an undaunted front,
ceeded Lewis Cass as Secretary of State and until before that resolute presence the demons
refused to accept this latter position when of treason and civil discord appeared in their
Stanton was made Attorney-General. They own shape as at the touch of Ithuriel's spear,
had long been close friends, and Black was cer-
and fled baffled and howling away.
tainly not calculating without his host in this Stanton's distrust and dislike of Lincoln
matter, for if anyone could guide him and his during the first months of his administration
chief out of the perils that surrounded them, it are clearly set forth, and the story of how these
was Stanton.
two men found each other out and gradually
Space forbids us to go into the details of came to see through the same glasses is one of
Stanton's work for the Northern cause, which those pleasing features which give to history
he clearly saw was the cause of his country, the charm of romance. During all the time
during the closing months of Buchanan's ad- from March 4, 1861, to January 15, 1862,
ministration. It is all summed up in the state- although a member of Lincoln's cabinet, Stan-
ment that his loyalty to the Union was a pas ton never once met the President. He was not
sion, dominating his every thought and act. alone in his harsh and bitter feeling toward
“ He set on foot inquiries as to the purposes of Lincoln's administration for its early halting
the secessionists in Washington and vicinity, movements; and the Union Democrats were no
and prosecuted them with untiring zeal. He more outspoken in their denunciations than
made proselytes and denounced heretics. To were many Republicans at that time. The dis-
Democrats and Republicans he set the example graceful scramble for office which turned the
of sinking partisanship in the service of the government into a vast patron'age distributor
Union.” He took the lead, and was most assid. when the nation seemed literally “ lying su-
uous in creating the pressure under which pinely on its back, while its enemies bound it
President Buchanan finally gave orders for the hand and foot,” aroused the indignation of
presence of troops to guard the capital against earnest patriots in all parts of the country.
the secessionists. If with Stanton at that time Men of Stanton's temperament could have no
patriotism went before humanity, the same patience with the policy which spent the sum-
must be admitted of Abraham Lincoln, who mer in explaining to weak Unionists that it
was willing to place the nation under perpetual was quite constitutional to return rebel blows
bonds to keep the peace toward slavery, and and that the Constitution did not forbid the
even to see it extended into New Mexico rather exercise by the nation of the law of self-preser-


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vation. To such men, these were not open nent, when necessary for investigation or con-
questions.
sultation. He was one of those rare men who
Perhaps that part of the biography devoted seem made of iron, and are uttery tireless and
to the pitiful failures of McClellan is one of sleepless in the service of whatever cause they
the most interesting in the work. Some may have at heart.
think too much emphasis is laid on McClellan's There is not time to rehearse the thrilling
shortcomings. But an author must be in sym scenes of the war, nor is it necessary here.
pathy with his subject. This is a Life of The story never grows old, and it is set forth
Stanton. Stanton and McClellan were as un in this Life with spirit and fairness. Lincoln's
like in temperaments, characters, and methods patience, which to men of Stanton's type ceased
as it is possible to imagine. Stanton is cer to be a virtue, when, although he believed Mc-
tainly just the background against which Mc Clellan had played false to the army and had
Clellan's weaknesses are most sharply defined, contributed to Pope's defeat, he still kept him
and the latter's crookedness seems particularly in command, is well portrayed. Stanton's fight
perverse as seen against the absolute straight for the country against Johnson, and his death
forwardness of the Secretary of War.
just after his appointment by Grant as a Jus-
When, on January 13, 1862, Stanton was tice of the Supreme Court in December, 1869,
transferred by Lincoln from the office of Attor with many kindred matters, are given in detail,
ney-General to that of Secretary of the War and constitute one of the most thrilling portions
Department, he did not accept the latter place of the biography.
till he bad called upon McClellan for advice, The second volume is largely devoted to the
so says McClellan in his “ Own Story.' question of Reconstruction. Stanton was the
Both were Union Democrats, whose relations only member of the cabinet who totally repudi-
were known to be friendly, and Stanton's resist-ated Johnson's scheme of reconstruction. He
less energy and strong will seemed to promise stated his opinions with great clearness, and
an aggressive course against the enemies of the never lost sight of the mischievous tactics of
government from that time forth. Northern Seward and Johnson. When the Attorney-
newspapers and men of all parties hailed the General gave an opinion which would have
appointment with joy and fresh hope. He was made the Reconstruction Act a nullity and re-
a lawyer, with a knowledge of just what powers stored the rebel element to power, the supple-
the Constitution gave to the government; and mentary Reconstruction Act was promptly
his contention was that Congress possessed the 'passed, at the suggestion of Stanton, which
war-making power without limit, and that the made it unequivocally certain that Congress,
President was vested by Congress with full as the war power of the government, must be
authority to do all that may be done in civilized obeyed. Federal officials in the South con-
warfare. It was through his influence that tinued their efforts to get rid of the military
Lincoln at length asserted himself as de facto orders of commanding generals by invoking the
Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of civil power, but they were promptly advised
the United States. In the words of Mr. Gor- that the military authorities were absolutely
ham, Stanton was gifted with the rarest execu supreme. The President was commander-in.
tive faculty, which, while keeping the main chief of the armies, but his champions forgot
object in view, masters the knowledge of all that in this case Congress had relieved him from
details, divides the labor between wisely se that duty. It was in dealing with this question
lected subordinates, and energizes their action that Stanton overhauled the action of the
gov-
by his own vigilant supervision and by holding ernment from the beginning respecting the
them to a strict accountability for their work. authority of the Secretary of War. This he
He seems to have had his eye constantly on did at the request of the Committee on the Con-
every part of the field of national affairs in any duct of the War. He found that under the
way connected with his department. He knew law the several chiefs of the bureaus in the War
all about the vessels and forts in our command, Department, including the Adjutant-General,
the size of every gun, and how it was mounted; were subordinates of the Secretary of War, and
he knew the condition of health of
every
that all orders to them should go through him.
he had “ feelers" in all directions. He was all This rule considerably extended the authority
day at his post, and late into the night; not of the Secretary of War, and General Grant
infrequently morning found him still on duty. hesitated at first to follow it, as did Generals
He went to the front, or half across the conti- | Scott, Schofield, and Sherman. But the care-
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ful statement of the case, as presented by Stan of Darwin. Mr. Hearn by the thought of the East
ton, brought them to his way of thinking, and comes to some of the same conclusions. There is
the rule which had prevailed for more than a
probably some mutual influence; but this is only an
hundred years was abrogated.
example of what is otherwise well known - namely,
From a literary standpoint, the second vol.
that the tendencies of Eastern, Mystic, and Evola-
ume is not equal to the first. It lacks smooth- tionary philosophies are in more than minor points
ness, and evidently did not receive the pruning in mind that in Mr. Hearn's latest book we have
It is not proper, however, to leave the idea
that was given to Volume I. This is not the merely the popular development of a philosophic
final Life of Edwin M. Stanton ; but the work is theory. The last half of the book, the “ Retro-
conscientiously and sympathetically done, and spectives,” does consist of a series of studies of this
it contains the material from which in time a sort, suggested by various little things which natur-
more concise and popular biography will be ally occur in an Eastern life and have their analo-
compiled. It is a healthy and inspiring story, gies in our own. And as Mr. Hearn holds very
and one that young men especially should pon- strongly to the opinion that we are largely the re-
der. As the friends who have sat with you
sult of the known causes which in ages past have
about the family hearthstone have helped to
gone to our making, the first part of the book is
naturally not without color of the same idea. Other-
create the atmosphere of your home, and as
wise the “Exotics” are not connected, but are dif-
the visits of certain rarely-gifted souls seem to ferent Japanese sketches, one of an ascent of Fuji,
leave a sort of blessed influence behind which one of singing insects, one on the Literature of
you feel long after they have passed beyond the Dead, and on other matters, all very distinctive
your porch, so the knowledge of such lives as and very distinctly of Mr. Hearn's quality, though
this, so full of consecration and zeal and high some of them are more categorical than is usual
endeavor, adds to our sense of the preciousness with him. Still, all are good, for Mr. Hearn always
of our government and of the worth of human
writes with that intimate sentiment of comprehen-
nature.
sion that comes from his real knowledge and appre-
The stamp of the Riverside Press denotes
ciation of Japan, which is probably surer than that
that from a mechanical point of view the book selves, we rather prefer the “ Exotics”; with the
of any other Englishman or American. For our-
is without a flaw; and the illustrations and
“Retrospectives" we are constantly oppressed by
facsimiles add much to its interest and value. the existence of a pervasive, half-apparent philoso-
GEORGE W. JULIAN. phical theory, which we cannot define and put into
form, at least not without more material than is here
offered us. But the other sketches — or fantasias,
as Mr. Hearn calls them — are by no means with-
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS.
out their interest, even to those who care nothing
for their philosophy.
One may take Mr. Lafcadio Hearn's
Lafcadio Hearn.
Messrs. Merwin-Webster's narrative
“Exotics and Retrospectives" (Lit-
tle, Brown, & Co.), or at least the last
Railroading of “The Short Line War” (Mac-
up-to-date.
half of it, as a contribution to science, if one likes.
millan) is a good thing to read as far
Some people, when they read these derivations from as the story is concerned, but we fear its moral effect
ancestral feeling of our pleasure at red sunsets, at cannot be of the best. The chief figure is not pre-
the blue of the sky (as in other things), will like to sented to us as a noble-minded ideal of our own
compare them with those evolutionary speculations time, but as a sort of Homeric hero, more like
on the color-sense of which Mr. Grant Allen's books, Ulysses than Ajax as suits the march of modern
now twenty years old, are interesting examples. intellect. He wishes to defend the Short Line, and
But perhaps that is taking it too seriously — not for that end covers all means. He fights the unscrupu-
Mr. Hearn, but for the reader ; one may prefer to lous bribes of his opponents with more bribes ; when
be reminded of M. Maeterlinck’s “ in the very tem- they buy one judge to issue injunctions, he gets an-
ple of love we do but obey the unvarying orders of other; when they hire rowdies to capture trains and
an invisible throne.” We do not mention these two stations, he hires other rowdies to recapture them.
names with
any
idea that Mr. Hearn's treatment of What a lesson for the youth of America! Success
Heredity, if we may so call it, was suggested either comes of meeting political fraud, judicial corruption,
by Mr. Allen or M. Maeterlinck. We suppose it and open violence, with more fraud, more corrup-
most probable that Mr. Hearn was led to form his tion, more violence. Trilling aside, however, this is
opinions by the general tendencies of the thought of the weak part of the book : Jim Weeks, the paladin
Japan; and, indeed, we hope that this is the case, of the Western railroad world, is no different from
for, if so, we have rather an interesting coincidence. anybody else; he is only a little more so than most.
M. Maeterlinck is a descendant of the Christian In other words he is not a person but an abstrac-
mystics of the middle ages: Mr. Allen is a follower tion. The creation of characters is not so easy as
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the telling of stories, so that it is not remarkable
The second volume of Prof. Hast-
that the authors of “ The Short Line War" have
More of the
inge's great" Dictionary of the Bible”
Bible Dictionary.
been more successful in giving us a rattling account
(Scribner) continues the impression
of plot and counter-plot than in really conveying to made by the first. To it falls a number of matters
us an idea of the railroad champion, his devoted among the most important in Biblical study, and
young secretary, and the beautiful maiden who the mere enumeration of subjects of some of the
wanders charming and unsustained, somewhat per papers — Flood, Galatia, Genealogy, God, Gospels,
plexed though never shocked, through a jarring Epistle to the Hebrews, Hell, Hexateuch, Incarna-
labyrinth of atter unmorality. In spite of all this, tion, Isaiah, Jesus Christ, the Johannine writings —
we are not much afraid of recommending the work will show the influence it is certain to have upon
to our readers as a summer diversion. It is to be future religious teachings. As in the preceding
regarded as one of the realistic extravaganzas which volume, the point of view is thoroughly modern, but
the present romanticism has called to light. We the treatment is reverent — perhaps all the more so
must not think of it as a transcript of life, but must in that no attempt is made to brush away or blink
look at it in the spirit in which Charles Lamb viewed difficulties. Sometimes the conservative will feel
the Restoration drama. So regarding it, we may this frankness is perhaps a little over-frank, as in
easily enjoy the verve and cleverness of the authors, the article upon Genealogy; but the radical will
without being shocked at their lack of high principle find little to his liking, so sober is the work in all
and moral impulse.
the important papers. Occasionally, as is natural,
one feels a trifle disappointed, as in the article upon
An entertaining
Miss Clara Tschudi's popular sketch
the Gospels; and at other times it is hard to feel
truthful book on of “Eugénie, Empress of the French'
Empress Eugénie. (Macmillan), is characterized by the
the wisdom of taking space for discussions of some
of the more obsolete words (like “glisten ") of the
same good qualities that we noted in our comments
Authorized Version. But there can be nothing but
on her life of Marie Antoinette. Mr. E. M. Cope admiration for an article like that upon Jesus Christ,
is again the translator, and English readers may
in which there is maintained an almost impossible
well thank him for making the books of this talented
balance between caution and absolute liberty in
Norwegian writer thus accessible. Miss Tschudi is
investigation. It marks a long step forward in the
one of the easiest and pleasantest of narrators; and
evangelical-critical study of this most important sub-
we remember what a relief it was to read her clear, ject. The difference in spirit between English Old
just, and unpretentious little monograph on Marie
and New Testament criticism is well shown by a
Antoinette shortly after having waded through. (or comparison of the papers on the Hexateuch and the
well into) a two-volume Serbonian bog of verbiage Gospel of John ; while those upon Jerusalem and
and labored special-pleading, in which a lachrymose
the Herods are good examples of unbiased archæo-
and tireless Frenchman tried to make a heroine of
logical and historical studies. Taken altogether,
that bad sovereign and trumpery character. Miss
there is little but praise for the volume, and for the
Tschudi is not profound or exhaustive, and does not
work as a whole.
pretend to be. She writes mainly to entertain, and
she tries honestly to write the truth. Her book is
The series of « Economic Studies,”
Study of
sympathetic, yet she is aware of Eugénie's faults ;
published as a bi-monthly periodical
and she does not try to gloss them. We do not, how-
by the American Economic Associa-
ever, think she has sufficiently emphasized the fact tion (Macmillan), is now in its fifth year, and num-
that the Empress was largely to blame for the heart bers a score or more of valuable monographs. The
less, spectacular way in which the ill-starred Prince latest of them is the work of Mr. Frederick R. Clow,
Imperial was thrust into danger whenever a scrap and has for its subject “ Economics as a School
of political capital or cheap popularity was to be Study.” It will be remembered that the Committee
gained by it. The farcical “ baptism of fire ” busi of Ten reported adversely to the inclusion of eco-
ness at Saarbrück was prompted and approved by nomics in secondary school work, and that Dr. F. H.
Eugénie. Think of setting this mere child on the Dixon has made a notable plea for economic his-
firing line to be “potted at” by the Germans, in tory as a substitute for economic science in secondary
order that a sensational petit-Napoleonic bulletin education. Mr. Clow, on the other hand, presents
might be sent to Paris ! Miss Tschudi may be right a brief for economic science; and his argument is,
in stating that the Empress opposed the titular we believe, incontrovertible. Both for knowledge
Prince Imperial's fatal expedition to Africa in 1879; and for disciplinary power, economics is of the
but such is not our conception of the matter. At highest value for young persons about to be gradu-
all events, the adventure was at bottom a contemp ated from secondary schools, and Mr. Clow has
tible “grandstand play,” in popular phraseology ; made the most convincing statement in behalf of
and the Zulus were least of all to blame for its issue. this proposition that we have ever seen. There is
Miss Tschudi's book seems to us the most readable a world of truth, moreover, in his statement that
and the least misleading of the popular ones on the recent « discussions have left the fundamentals of
subject. There is a pretty frontispiece portrait in the science unchanged," and that the traditional
colors.
arrangement of the subject is still the proper frame-
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work within which the teacher may work. This the special attractions of the country engage her
monograph should fall into the hands of every attention through many pages. As long as the au-
teacher of the subject in our high schools and col.thor confines her attention to the peculiarities and
leges.
conditions about her, she can carry along the intel-
To turn from law to literature has ligent reader ; but when she attempts to dilate on
Recreations
been the recreation and delight of wages, education, our belp, and such themes, weari-
of a lawyer.
many a man at the bar, from the ness and monotony take the place of interest. The
time of Bacon and Fletcher of Saltoun to the pres-
earlier half of the book is a contribution of some
ent, so far as English is concerned. To follow the value on affairs in that section of the frontier.
thought of Mr. Clarence S. Darrow through the five
essays which make up the book named from the
first of them “A Persian Pearl” (The Roycroft
Shop), is to find the critical faculty of the lawyer at
BRIEFER MENTION.
its best. To Omar Khayyam, to Walt Whitman,
and to Robert Burns, Mr. Darrow brings a fine
A reproduction of the designs made by William
sense of analysis coupled with a vivifying sympathy by Mr. Thomas B. Mosher, in the form of one of the
Blake to illustrate Thornton's Virgil (1821) is sent us
which proves his own enjoyment of those three
most beautiful volumes that bear his imprint. The mea-
writers, different as are their several appeals. From
gre material afforded by these designs alone is pieced
them to a strong plea for “ Realism in Art” is not
out by means of an introduction, some notes, Samuel
a long step, and the brief for realism is argued out Palmer's translation of the first eclogue, and the imita-
with good humor and a perfect understanding of the tive eclogue of “Thenot and Colinet,” by Ambrose
necessity for idealism as well. Of another and more Philips, the whole, aided by thick paper with generous
personal sort is “ The Skeleton in the Closet.” The margins, forming a sizable octavo volume. The work is,
skeleton is an uncomfortable combination of dese we need hardly say, a delight to the book-lover's sense.
crated ideals and a bad conscience, with an insistent Volume IX. of the “ Harvard Studies in Classical
plea for the betterment of character almost as
Philology" (Ginn) is in a certain sense a memorial
insistently disregarded by its possessor. The book
volume to Professors Lane and Allen, who left among
as a whole leaves a pleasant impression of broad completion." Portraits of both men are given, as well
their manuscripts “several papers in different stages of
and catholic interests in life.
as memoirs, Professor Morgan writing of Lane and
Pleasurable emotions not a few await
Professor Geenough of Allen. This matter fills about
A capital
one-third of the volume; the remaining contents are by
Hibernian the reader of Mr. Michael Mac-
jest-book.
several hands, and relate mainly to various aspects of
Donagh's stories of “ Irish Life and
the work of Plautus.
Character” (Whittaker), among them the occa The Boston Public Library has just made an import-
sional joy of meeting an old friend. We do not ant contribution to scientific literature in the publication
mean to carp at Mr. MacDonagh for introducing of “ A Selected Bibliography of the Anthropology and
now and then a good old favorite ; but he really Ethnology of Europe, compiled by Dr. William Z.
might have spared us Sir Boyle Roche's bird – Ripley. Dr. Ripley has had much learned collaboration
which seems to have the gift of being in as many
in his task, and the result is a volume of 160 pages,
places in literature at once as has, say, Mr. Andrew comprising about 2000 titles. The interesting state-
Lang. Mr. MacDonagh attempts in his book to do ment is made that all of the works mentioned (excepting
for Ireland what Dean Ramsay has done in his possibly five per cent) are on the shelves of the library
“ Reminiscences” for Scotland. He has given us,
wbence this bibliography issues. In a sense, the present
work is a companion volume to Dr. Ripley's forthcoming
at all events, a capital Hibernian jest-book, which
treatise on “The Races of Europe.”
shows “ Pat” as he really is, with all his delightful “ The International Year Book " for 1898, published
native wit and simplicity, and not as the caricatur- by Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co., is “a compendium of
ists of the comic“ Weeklies" paint him. The book the world's progress in every department of human
is a faithful mirror of the lighter traits of Irish knowledge for the year.” It has been edited by Pro-
character, and its popularity is attested by the fact fessors Frank Moore Colby and Harry Thurston Peck,
that it has now reached a second edition.
and is an octavo volume of nearly a thousand pages.
The arrangement is alphabetical. There are numerous
The great West is the paradise of maps and illustrations. The Spanish-American War,
the health-seeker. Mrs. Edith M. the African complications, the affairs of Crete and
Nicholl's “ Observations of a Ranch-
Greece, are a few of the subjects dealt with at much
woman in New Mexico” (Macmillan) is what an
length. The work will be found very useful for refer-
acute observer, on a search for physical strength,
ence, and to supplement the encyclopædias. We trust
that it will be continued annually.
jotted down as of general interest. She gives us a
The American Book Co. send us a “ Latin Prose Com-
sketch of the Mexican on his native heath, of his
position," based on Cæsar, Nepos, and Cicero, by Messrs.
methods of work, and the results he achieves. The
C. C. Dodge and H. A. Tuttle; “ The Beginner's Latin
politics and sectionalism of the territory are sub-
Book," by Mr. James B. Smiley and Miss Helen L.
mitted to the caustic criticism of her ready pen. Storke; and a text of Eutropius, edited for school use
The enchanting scenery, the equable climate, and by Dr. J. C. Hazzard.
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LITERARY NOTES.
Mr. Eggert, although for the special purpose of his
essay he assumed a hypercritical standpoint. Mr.
Eggert's two papers are interesting to us not alone for
their intrinsic value, but still more so as illustrating the
tendency of our secondary teachers to do good scbolarly
work. The number of men in our secondary schools
who can do such work is growing yearly, and would
grow much more rapidly were our school authorities
wise enough to attract scholars to these posts by giving
them the same freedom in their work as is accorded to
instructors in the colleges.
LIST OF NEW BOOKS.
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BIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIRS.
The Life of William Morris. By J. W. Mackail. In 2 vols.,
illus. in photogravure, etc., 8vo, uncut. Longmans, Green,
& Co. $7.50 net.
Reminiscences of the King of Roumania. Edited from
the original, with an Introduction, by Sidney Whitman.
Authorized edition ; with portrait, 8vo, gilt top, uncut,
pp. 367. Harper & Brothers. $3.
Eugénie, Empress of the French : A Popular Sketch. By
Clara Tschudi; anthorized translation from the Norwegian
by E. M. Cope. With portrait in colors, 8vo, uncut, pp. 283.
Macmillan Co. $3.
The Life of Maximilien Robespierre, with Extracts from
his Unpublished Correspondence. By George Henry
Lewes. New edition ; illus., 12mo, uncut, pp. 399. Charles
Scribner's Song. $1.50.
Cosimo de' Medici. By K. Dorothea Ewart. 12mo, pp. 240.
“Foreign Statesmen." Macmillan Co. 75 cts.
Chamisso's “ Peter Schlemihl,” in Dr. Hedge's trans-
lation, has just been published by Messrs. Ginn & Co.
in a small volume intended for school use.
The second series of Dr. Edward Moore's “Studies in
Dante ” will be published at once by the Clarendon
Press. These papers relate chiefly to the poet consid-
ered as a religious teacher.
“ The Story of the Thirteen Colonies " and " The
Story of the Great Republic,” both by Miss H. A.
Guerber, are two history readers for schools, published
by the American Book Co.
Milton's “ Comus, Lycidas, and Other Poems," and
Byron's “ Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,” both edited for
school use by Mr. A. J. George, are the latest volumes
in the “ Pocket English Classics,” published by the
Macmillan Co.
Volume LVII. of “The Century Magazine," for the
half-year ending last April, has just been sent us by the
publishers. The recent war naturally occupies the chief
place of interest among the contents, and makes the vol-
ume particularly valuable as a work of reference.
A sheaf of recent reports from the Field Columbian
Museum include four numbers in the geological series,
and five in the zoological series. They relate, for the
most part, to investigations of the fossils and the living
fauna of the Western States, the chief exception being
an account of « The Ores of Colombia.”
Mr. Henry W. Elson's “Side Lights on American
History" (Macmillan) is a good book to be put in the
hands of young students for collateral reading. It
deals, simply and interestingly, with nearly a score of
subjects, among them being the alien and sedition laws,
the conspiracy of Burr, Lafayette's visit to the United
States, the Underground Railroad, and the Lincoln-
Douglas debates.
Still another edition of Fitz Gerald's « Omar" has
been issued by Mr. T. B. Mosher, whose imprint has
come to mean so much to lovers of beautiful books. It
is an oblong tome of vest pocket dimensions, with a
preface by Mr. Nathan Haskell Dole, a pronouncing
vocabulary, the text of the so-called fifth edition, and
the notes of the translator. All of this may be had for
the modest sum of twenty-five cents.
Messrs. Small, Maynard, & Co. announce that they
have acquired the greater part of the publications of
Messrs. Copeland & Day, who are retiring from busi-
The list is a good one, comprising books by
Father Tabb, Messrs. Bliss Carman, Richard Burton,
Miss Rayner, and Miss Guiney, besides Mr. Rosenfeld's
“Songs from the Ghetto," and the exquisitely printed
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Mr. Charles A. Eggert, of the Chicago High Schools,
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Molière's “ Misanthrope " from “Modern Language
Notes," and one on Goethe from “ Americana Ger-
manica.” The latter is a reply to “The Case against
Goethe,” by Professor Dowden, and protests vigorously
against the plea of that essay, although it seems to us
that Professor Dowden's position as an advocatus diaboli
in that case is not clearly enough recognized. In other
words, the English scholar holds practically the view of
HISTORY
Reminiscences of the Santiago Campaign. By John
Bigelow, Jr. With map, 12mo, pp. 188. Harper &
Brothers. $1.25.
Side Lights on American History. By Henry W. Elson,
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Outline of Historical Method. By Fred Morrow Fling,
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Lady Louisa Stuart: Selections from her Manuscripts.
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The Baronet and the Butterfly: A Valentine with a Ver-
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ness.
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FitzGerald's Rubaiyát of Omar Khayyam. Vest Pocket
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uncut, pp. 50. Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher.
Paper, 25 cts. net.
The Life of Friedrich Schiller. By Thomas Carlyle. “Cen-
tenary” edition ; illus., 8vo, uncut, pp. 357. Charles
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An Ode to Girlhood, and Other Poems. By Alice Archer
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A Lost Lady of Old Years: A Romance. By John Buchan.
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A Man from the North. By E. A. Bennett. 12mo, gilt top,
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A Princess of Vascovy. By John Oxenham. 12mo, gilt
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A Cosmopolitan Comedy. By Anna Robeson Brown.
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Mary Cameron: A Romance of Fisherman's Island. By
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- Kate
verse, among them two by M. Emile Verhaeren.
Chopin's The Awakening. – Florence Wilkinson's
The Lady of the Flag-Flowers. -Yeats's The Heart
In criticism, there is M. Fierens-Gevaert, who
of Denise. — Risley's Men's Tragedies. - Capes's At has “set bimself to study the great moral and
a Winter's Fire. — Watson's The Heart of Miranda.
intellectual currents which influence literature
-Bret Harte's Stories in Light and Shadow.-- Fish's
Short Rations.- Cable's Strong Hearts.- Herrick's at the end of our century," and has published
Love's Dilemmas. – Mrs. Harrison's The Carcellini his conclusions under the title of La Tristesse
Emerald.-Edith Wharton's The Greater Inclination.
Contemporaine." There have been many books
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of political and social science, one of them by
The best sea-writer since Dana. - A new study of
Milton.— A modern view of Adam Smith.-Spanish
M. W.J. Kerby, on the subject of " Le Social-
society as portrayed in Spanish fiction. A helpful isme aux Etats-Unis." The most important
study of the Renaissance. — Selections from the
historical work of the year is a history of Bel-
Thoughts of Joubert. — The wife of John Sobieska
of Poland. — A modern interpretation of Mysticism.
gium by M. Henri Pirenne, printed in German
- An amateur's handbook of insects.- Gambling as in advance of its appearance in French. Congo
a folly and an art. A belated Epoch of Church
literature and the editing of many original
History.
documents are two departments of historical
BRIEFER MENTION .
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writing both of which are well represented. It
LITERARY NOTES
80
is interesting to note that “the German move-
LIST OF NEW BOOKS .
81 ment along the frontier of the Rhine provinces
of Prussia and the Grand Duchy of Luxem-
bourg still continues.' There is a periodical
A YEAR OF CONTINENTAL called “ Deutsch Belgien," a review in both
LITERATURE.
Flemish and German, called “Germania," and
a five-act play, “Papst und Fürst,” by M. P.
Following our midsummer custom of several | Bourg. On the Flemish side, there are chron-
years past, we have prepared a summary of the icled several collections of verse, such fiction as
reports, published in the London “ Athenæum,” the “Lenteleven" of M. Stijn Streuvels and the
upon the literary output of the past year in the posthumous stories of Mme. Cogen, and such
most important European countries. These miscellaneous volumes as M. Buysse's “Uit
reports are so valuable that we offer no apology Vlaanderen ” and M. Pol de Mont's “ Inleiding
for making this condensation for the benefit of tot de Poëzie.”
tot de Poëzie.” The theatre is not neglected,
American readers, and we take pleasure in once as is attested by the Flemish stages of Brussels
more acknowledging our indebtedness to our and Antwerp, soon to be followed by one in
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Ghent, but good Flemish plays to produce in ing his calmness in the thick of a battle ? A glance at
these theatres are still to seek.
some recent publications, such as M. France's · L'An-
neau d'Améthyste,' for instance, will prove that the
Denmark, we are told, “ is by preference a
idealists most famous for the dilettante character of their
lyrical nation.”
convictions have not escaped the influence of their en-
Among our natural gifts are humor, a strong sense
vironment. Writers who, if their past record means
of irony, and a feeling for beauty and the contrast be anything, seemed destined to seek nothing in life but
tween joy and melancholy. Our national character has new expressions of beauty, have shown their talents on
often by our writers and poets been compared to the a most unexpected side; they have revealed themselves
sea, the ever-wandering, ever-changing, and it is re to be brilliant and aggressive controversialists."
flected, as in a mirror, in our literary perfections and
The playwrights are the first to be noticed
shortcomings, the glory of our literature being good,
melodious verse, now heavy with melancholy, now care-
among the literary workers of the year. The
less and unconcerned.”
most noteworthy dramas have been the Nou-
velle Idole” of M. Curel, the “ Berceau " of
The past year has produced “a rich crop of
M. Brieux, the “ Vieux Marcheur" of M. La-
poetry," of which the most conspicuous exam-
vedan, the “Plus que Reine” of M. Bergerat,
ples are Herr Rördam's retelling of the Béo-
the Judith Renaudin ” of “ Pierre Loti," the
wulf story, the “Sirener" of Herr Michaelis,
the “ Portraits in Verse ” of Herr Schandorph,
“Struensée ” of M. Paul Meurice, and the
“ Truands” of M. Jean Richepin. Of these,
and the “Digte" of Herr Jörgensen, “ most
wonderful in his particular style of august
perhaps the most significant are the pieces of
MM. Brieux and Meurice. The latter, which
serenity.” As for fiction, the writer feels that
in the best Danish work, if not so striking as
is in verse, “ represents a return to the romantic
manner of which Victor Hugo was the chief
the Norwegian, “there is something untrans-
master. The best praise one can accord to
latable, something that will scarcely be felt and
• Struensée’ is to say that the writer has dis-
understood outside the borders of our small
played in it some of Victor Hugo's lyric ardor.”
kingdom.” The fiction particularly mentioned
Of the play by M. Brieux, we are given the
in this survey includes “ A Recruit of ’64,” by
following interesting comment:
Herr P. F. Rist; “ Donna Ysabel," a tale of
“ He demands praise by his obstinate departure from
the Peninsular War, by Fru Malling; and
beaten paths, bis disdain of methods and recipes for
“ Danske Mænd," a study of low life in Copen winning the favor of the general public. All his pieces
hagen, by Herr K. Larsen. The tendency, in reveal an intention, an idea, a thesis. And in this con-
spite of such works as the one last named,
nection the evolution our theatre is undergoing may
well be stated. For a long while love was the sole
seems to be away from the bare realism of a
thing our theatre lived on. No good pieces some years
few years ago, a fact which our writer rather
ago could do without an adulterer. Times have changed.
regrets. The chief Danish writer of to-day is Authors seem to be abandoning increasingly the formula
the critic, Dr. Georg Brandes, a complete uni of art for art's sake.' They wish to speak to the public,
form edition of whose works is now in course of
attack the follies of the age, lash the vices of certain
social classes. It seems as if there was a tendency
publication. Dr. Brandes has written a biog-
clearly defined towards the drama of ideas. This evo-
raphy of Dr. Julius Lange, the late critic of lution of drama is very palpable in the pieces of M.
art, and a pamphlet on “The Danishness of Brieux. In · Le Berceau' his aim is to display the
Sleswick.” The latter work is
inconveniences of divorce. It is more like a disserta-
tion than a play.”
“ An address to Germany, in which the author reproaches
the Germans for their system of oppression and acts of The novel, also, has undergone an evolution
violence against the Danish in the conquered province, not unlike that of the play. " The novelists
and compares German culture with Danish, not exactly have given up studying love only. They have
to the credit of the former, showing how much the Ger-
mans lack in different fields of spiritual culture, and
set themselves free from the obsession of the
how little, with their knowledge of history, they under- Seventh Commandment.” In this connection
stand their opponents."
we will call attention to Mme. Darmesteter's
Finally, Herr Vilhelm Andersen has finished discussion of the subject in the June “Con-
the first volume of a great critical and bio-temporary Review." The most important
graphical study of Ehlenschläger.
novels of the year are “La Duchesse Bleue," by
6 A certain case” has so monopolized the
M. Bourget ; " La Force," by M. Paul Adam;
attention of the French poeple during the past "L'Anneau d'Améthyste,” by M. France; “ Les
year that literature " has had to give place to
Morts Qui Parlent," by M. de Vogüé; “La
the excited manifestations of daily polemic.”
Terre Qui Meurt," by M. Réné Bazin; “Le
“ Artists and thinkers have been living in an atmos-
Ferment," by M. Estaunié; “L'Ame d'un
phere of contention. Who, then, could boast of retain Enfant,” by M. Jean Aicard ; and “ Devant le
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scenes.
Bonheur,” by M. Jean Thorel. Of M. de mentioned, is M. Coppée's " La Bonne Souf-
Vogüé's book we read that the author
france,” in which the author, “in a familiar
“ Is not afraid to approach serious social problems which and often eloquent style, tells the occasion and
agitate minds of to-day. He introduces us to the Palais influences which resulted in his return to the
Bourbon, which he frequented as a deputy during one
Faith.” Concluding his review, the writer says:
legislature.' He has brought away melancholy reflec-
tions. Still, it appears that he does not regret his excur-
“In France there are no longer literary schools, though
sion into the world of politics, since he returns to it with it is easy to recognize 'tendencies.' It would be a para-
a book like · Les Morts Qui Parlent.' In this new novel, doxical and most unjust thing to say that all the literary
which contains a delicate love interest closely welded schools which have come forth and had their day of
with political intrigue, M. de Vogüé shows once more
glory in our times have gone bankrupt. They have
his mastery, his unsurpassable talent for writing. Here undergone the law of evolution; they have disappeared
is to be found the richness of style in which splendid | in obedience to the manifestations of a new code of lit-
images enchant you, enlivened by a breath of strong erary æsthetics, or, in plain terms, because the public
eloquence which bears up the ideas bravely. It is the have gone after new gods. Certainly M. Zola, the head
book of a poet, an artist, an original and deep thinker.
of the realistic school, and M. Bourget, the undisputed
Politics, too, are touched on in • L'Anneau d'Améthyste,' master of the psychological novel, have not stopped
the third volume of the series which M. France has writing (and of that we are very glad); but who of the
called Histoire Contemporaine,' which is a mordant young novelists makes their methods his model ? There
satire on our faults and vices. The best thing in the
are no more schools because no more masters are wanted
book, the quite first-rate part, is contained in the comic
in literature. The first act of a writer born into the
M. France is an admirable writer of comedy. | literary world is to declare his independence, and assert,
In his latest novel he shows himself a little more bitter as best he can, his autonomy. In the novel, in poetry,
and pessimistic than usual; but to set against this he history, philosophy, criticism, isolation is the thing, and
presents readers with a sympathetic being, and that is a everyone is at least an individualist.”
bappy novelty!"
The past year in Germany witnessed the
M. Estaunié's “ Le Ferment'
death of Bismarck, and gave us his memoirs,
“ Might be called a social novel. By ferment' he “ Bismarck, the Man and Statesman."
means the restless, ardent intelligence of sons of work-
men and peasants who have been taught too much, and
“ His monument is composed of no perishable mate-
rial, and its construction reveals his individuality, even
had longings and desires unknown to their fathers de-
in the smallest details. Everything in this book is per-
veloped in them. M. Estaunié studies the social crisis.
He uses his realistic talent with moderation in order to
sonal. The five-and-twenty years and more of German
and other than German history became a mirror of his
display the debasement of those who are mixed up in
the desperate struggle of ambitions and appetites.
personality. Actions and men appear as he saw them,
and he allows them to be rated at no other value. ..
The French poets have not been idle, although He disliked fine phrases, and the result was a feeling of
His
distrust for mere phrase-making in literature.
nothing very noteworthy has been done by them.
Mention is made of “ La Chanson de la Bre-
politics were concerned with actualities; literature, too,
was reared on a basis of fact. Fidelity to nature be-
tagne," by M. A. Le Braz; of “Les Poèmes
came the catchword. Active, unsentimental characters
de l'Amour et la Mort,” by M. Lebey ; of “La rose in general esteem; the sentimental went out of
Chanson des Hommes,” by M. Maurice Magre; favor. And as so often bappens, in the attempt to root
of “ Artiste et Poète,” by M. Jean Bach-Sisley ;
out the weeds the flowers too suffered. Not only senti-
of “L'Idéale Jeunesse,” by M. Montier : and of mentality, but also noble and right feeling, or at any
rate its expression, was tabooed. The young literature
“Paysages et Paysans," by M. Maurice Rol-
of the eighties made no mention of feeling. It expresses
linat, who has been styled the pupil of George a skepticism which, however, yielded humbly before the
Sand and Edgar Poe.” There has also been advent of reality, one in which the peculiarity of Bis-
published “Les Années Funestes," a posthu-
marck's personality had its full share."
mous volume by Hugo. In literary history and
The death of Theodor Fontane also serves to
criticism there are such books as the new series
mark the past year.
of “Impressions de Théâtre,” by M. Jules “ He lived just long enough to write a charming little
Lemaître; the “Racine," by M. Larroumet;
ode on the statesman's death, then he too passed away.
the “Essai sur Goethe," by M. Edouard Rod;
Only a few weeks before his death his autobiographical
and the “ De Dumas à Rostand," by M. Au-
sketches • Von Zwanzig bis Dreissig'appeared. Before
his last novel · Der Stechlin' left the press we had stood
guste Filon. In the domain of a stricter scholar- beside his grave. It is impossible to make those of
ship, there are M. Masson's “ Joséphine de another nation understand what Fontane was and still is
Beauharnais,” M. Houssaye's “ Waterloo,” M.
to us. He was distinctly a North German, Prussian, even
Demolins's “ Les Français d'Aujourd'hui,"
Brandenburg writer, and even in Vienna he attracted
little notice. But we loved him, and named him the
and “L'Education Nouvelle," M. Fouillée's
best among us.
He depicted the men whom we know
“Les Etudes Classiques et la Démocratie,” as we see or should wish to see them. He was a distinct
and M. Laffite's - Le Faust de Goethe.” A realist, but his realism had a subjective character.”
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have been two plays — Herr Hauptmann's shrank from entering the lists for her ideas. But this
"Fuhrmann Henschel" and Herr Sudermann's · Lebensabend,' the sequel to the Memoiren einer Ideal-
“ Die Drei Reiherfedern." The former is thus istin,” is a book of peace. She presents charming pic-
tures of her intercourse with Wagner and Nietzsche,
described :
Mazzini and Liszt; but what is specially charming about
“ Henschel's wife when dying forces bim to promise this book, in spite of its somewhat highflown manner, is
that after her death he will not marry the girl who is at the evidence that she has attained contentment and
this time in their service. He promises, and his wife inward freedom in herself.”
dies. But his household cannot get on without a woman,
the child needs a mother, and he marries the servant
In the report upon Dutch literature, the first
after all. Then she deceives him, makes his life a bur- place is given to Heer Paap's anti-Semitic
den, and stirs up strife between her husband and his novel, “ Vincent Haman,” which is “ a violent
friends and neighbors. One day at the inn he has a attack on the leaders of modern literature."
quarrel with his brother-in-law, who tells him the truth
There is not much good original work to men-
about his wife. He demands proofs and sends for his
wife, and she can find no defence. Then the truth
tion. Volumes of verse are Dr. van Eeden's
flashes on him-either he or his wife must die. So he “ Enkele Verzen," Helene Lapidoth-Swarth's
goes away and hangs himself.”
“Stille Dalen," Heer Albert Verwey's “De
As Herr Sudermann's first novel was called | Nieuwe Tuin,” Mr. G. C. van 't Hoog's “Ge-
“ Frau Sorge,” his latest play might well be luk,” and Miss Reyneke van Stuwe's "Impres-
styled “ Frau Sehnsucht.”
sies." The stage has witnessed two important
" It leads Sudermann back to the moods of his youth, productions—Breero's “Spaansche Brabanter”
and restores the elements of lyric feeling and person and Mr. H. Heyermans's “Ghetto."
ality which were so regrettably wanting in his recent
“ From poetry to prose Dr. van den Bergh van Eys-
successful plays. All the same, the new play is
inga has built a golden bridge with his · Boek van
failure; it lacks clearness, and with it scenic effective-
ness and human interest. But the element of longing
Toevertrouwen,' an elaborate specimen of lyric prose,
has been fathomed to its depths. It is this unending
the work of a clergyman under strong Biblical influence.
It breathes soothing confidence and hope, real faith and
desire that drives the young Northern hero Prince
firm conviction.”
Witte ceaselessly about the world; it is the eternal
tragedy of the delusion of desire that prevents him, The most erudite and entertaining book of the
when once he has attained the idol of his longings, from year is Professor van Hamel's “ Letterkundig
recognizing his dream, and he casts it from him to pur Leven van Frankrijk.” Professor P. L. Mul-
sue the phantom once more.
ler's “great popular history, Onze Gouden
Other plays are “ Die Gefährtin” and “ Das Eeuw, describing the rise, growth, and the
Gemächtniss,” both by Herr Arthur Schnitz- beginning of decay of Holland at her best, is
ler; “Die Hochzeit der Sobeïde,” by Herr
now completed. The last volume, which deals
Hugo von Hofmannsthal; “ Herostrat,” by with the government, life, religion, and morals
Herr Ludwig Fulda; “ Die Heimathslosen,'
of our ancestors, is perhaps the most interest-
by Herr Max Halbe; and “Gewitternacht," ing of the three.” Last of all, we mention
a patriotic tragedy of the Silesian wars, by two essays in ecclesiastical history, “ Rome en
Herr Ernst von Wildenbruch. In poetry, de Geschiedenis ” and “ Petrus en Rome,” both
there are three small volumes by Herr Stefan by Professor Bolland of Leyden, which have
fiction, a new volume of stories by Herr Paul given rise to a violent controversy between the
conservative and advanced schools of religious
Heyse is called “ Der Sohn Seines Vaters.”
thought.
Other fiction includes two volumes of stories
by Frau Lou Andreas-Salomé, Herr Raabe's
“ Hastenbeck," a story of the Seven Years'
COMMUNICATION.
War, Herr Wilbrandt's “Vater Robinson,"
THE PROBLEM OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS.
Fräulien Bohlau's " Halbtier,” Fräulein Fra-
(To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
pan's “ Wir Haben Kein Vaterland,” Herr Your recent suggestive article upon Boys and Girls
Lindau’s “ Agent,” and Herr Spielhagen's and Books, referring to the differences in the literary
“ Herrin.” Finally, a book of the deepest
tastes of high-school pupils, leads one to inquire whether
interest is Frau von Meysenbug's
bug's “ Lebensa-
these differences are not due in a greater measure to the
pupil's earlier training than to his native bias.
bend einer Idealistin."
The mind of a child is formed as his muscles are
“Malvida von Meysenbug, the friend of Richard formed — by food and exercise; and his earliest mental
Wagner, Nietzsche, and Mazzini, was also an advanced pabulum is supplied by the jingles of the nursery, and
This noble lady, who freed herself from the by the classic tales which are selected, it is to be hoped,
narrow conditions of her home, and lived in London by a judicious mother. At this age he becomes acquainted
among the political exiles, helping on their schemes, with Mother Goose, and there is nothing better for him,
also turned her thoughts to female education, and never provided always it is the real simon-pure Mother Goose,
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and not the miscellaneous stuff which masquerades in story is inserted to make the magazine popular; and it
cheap editions under that name. The parent must not answers its purpose. In the family of my friend A,
think that any story which will amuse a child is useful. three well-known children's periodicals are taken and
The individual taste bas not at this period of develop read. Several days before the time for the appearance
ment become pronounced; the child will accept any of each issue, the children are in a fever of excitement;
thing eagerly; a story is a story. But the influence of and when the paper at last appears, everything is dropped
the stories which are told him is deep and lasting. If until the fate of the hero of the continued story is ascer-
he is fed upon tales of ogres and giants who eat up little tained. In this family there is no library worthy of the
boys, a taste is formed which will continue to demand name. The periodicals already referred to supply all the
extravagant and blood-curdling fiction. Jack the Giant reading matter for which the children care, or for which
Killer is the logical antecedent of Jack the Indian Killer they have time after their school duties are fulfilled.
and Jack the Ripper, which our children see a little But while this sugar-coated sensationalism is bad,
later upon the news-stands,— more 's the pity. We there is another class of children's literature which is
sometimes ask why these outrageous yellow-covered quite as objectionable. I refer to the sentimental stuff
tales are written; but the explanation is quite easy. which is written in the name of religion and morality,
There is a demand for them; and we should see to it but which is effective only in vitiating the taste, weak-
that the demand is not fostered by the tales which our ening the intellect, and giving false views of life. It
children hear from their nurses in the days before the appears notably in the “ children's column" of certain
little ones can read for themselves.
religious papers, and in books intended for Sunday-
The next important step in the formation of the child's school consumption,- which, happily, the best Sunday-
taste is taken when he finds out the meaning of the schools have long ago repudiated and cast out.
printed word and wanders away from his school reader It is one of the most significant facts of modern life,
to test for himself his newly acquired powers. This is that a surfeit of periodical literature, both juvenile and
the point at which the child particularly needs help. adult, is operating against the reading of books and
Doubtless some latitude should be allowed to him in the the formation of libraries. The magazine has its place,
selection of his reading matter. If he himself chooses but it also has its limitations; and we should lead our
one from a half-dozen books, all of which are equally children to understand that, after all, the vital and per-
good, the chances are that he will better enjoy the read manent literature is that preserved for them in good
ing of it and will get more real good from it than if it books. Let every child have his little book-case in the
were presented to him alone as something to be read nursery,-- or, better yet, a shelf in the library which he
because of the good it would do him. Do not make his may call his own. Let him be encouraged to read good
reading a duty, but let it be a privilege and a pleasure. books and to care for them. He will then come to feel
He may prefer Robinson Crusoe to Pilgrim's Progress, the friendship with them which is the greatest joy of the
and if he does he should be allowed to read it. But literary life. A good book presented to a child on each
beware how widely his choice is allowed to extend. succeeding birthday a book chosen wisely with respect
Fruits are good for children, — but there are unripe to the child's tastes and abilities, but of sterling worth
fruits and there are partly decayed fruits which are not – will soon put him in possession of a library which will
good. The average parent will be quite careful as to be a lasting source of strength and satisfaction. It is
what his children are putting into their stomachs, but is a mistake to think that the child must be continually
apt to be equally careless as to their mental fare. supplied with fresh reading matter, that a book once
The boy-bandit, wild-west, sensational stories of the read is finished. Indeed, the strong intellects of the
news-stands, to which reference has already been made, last century are those which have been nourished in
are not, after all, the most dangerous species of chil childhood upon a few good books, read and re-read
dren's literature. They are so glaringly bad that par until the thought and style became a part of the read-
ents instinctively scent their presence and banish them er's permanent possession. Nor does a child lose interest
from the household. Their influence is happily becom in a good book after a single reading. What boy ever
ing limited to those homes in which the parents them tired of Gulliver's Travels ?
selves are not above the moral standard of the tales, Such books as those of Kingsley, Church, and Jane
and in such homes there is little chance for the growth Andrews, Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare and Adven-
of a pure literary taste or a high moral character. It tures of Ulysses, the fairy tales of Andersen and
will be observed that the influence of all literature is Grimm, Æsop's Fables, Robinson Crusoe and the Swiss
felt along these two lines, the æsthetic and the moral: Family Robinson, Pilgrim's Progress, Franklin's Auto-
that which affects the taste and that which affects the biography, Tom Brown at Rugby, and the stories of
character. Wbile these remarks apply chiefly to the Scott and Dickens,— all these are genuine classics, and
æsthetic influence, the two are so blended that it be they never grow old. Then there is a multitude of new
comes quite impossible to avoid reference to the moral books written for children by men and women who love
influence as well. That which we love, we are.
and understand the needs of child-life. Never was
The most dangerous class of children's literature is there a wider range of selection, and never a time when
that in which sensationalism is respectably clothed. the possession of children's libraries was so inexcusable.
There are stories quite as bad in their influence as the While nothing can quite take the place of the library
border-ruffian type, but more refined in their setting. in the home, the best substitute for it is the library in
The boys and girls move in good society, but they are the school. Educational sentiment is alert upon this
always getting into the most impossible situations and subject, and the growth of school libraries during the
having the most startling adventures, - bair-breadth past decade is a hopeful sign, not only of a healthier
escapes, encounters with burglars, and all that sort of literary taste, but of a sounder morality in the men and
thing. These stories appear in reputable children's women of the next generation.
magazines, and are interspersed with items of useful
WALTER TAYLOR FIELD.
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The New Books.
It was first as a dramatic poet, in his “Danton
and Other Verse," that Mr. Beesly seems to
have approached his hero. In this new vol.
DANTON AS MAN AND LEADER.**
ume he shows a wide familiarity with French
A writer of biography is fortunate if his hero researches, but he has apparently paid little
lived in a period of tragic events, when the attention to the documentary sources of inform-
problem of public conduct was complex and ation, aside from the “ Moniteur,” which he
baffling ; for it is singularly interesting to study has used for Danton's speeches. And his use
the behavior of character subjected to extraor-
of the Moniteur" is not critical, else, for ex-
dinary strain. The men of the French Revolu ample, he would not have fallen into the com-
tion certainly fell upon such times. It was not mon error of attributing the phrase "Plaçons
theirs simply to fight for recognized liberties la terreur à l'ordre du jour" to Berrère, who
against an encroaching government, as the merely quoted it from an orator of the Com-
English, and more recently the Americans, mune in September, 1793.
had fought before. When these Frenchmen Consciously or unconsciously, Mr. Beesly has
attempted the task, the very foundations of sought to palliate the darker deeds of the Revo-
society crumbled beneath their feet, and while lution by setting everything of the Old Régime
they looked about for a footing they saw all in a dismal light. He begins with a miscel-
Europe advancing in arms toward their fron laneous assortment of evils and an incredible
tiers. Beset by fears, jealousies, and hatreds, story or two. He says Louis XIV. left France
they were driven to form opinions while stand “ two and one-half milliards of debt," and that
ards of judgment were changing ; they must the Regency added to this 750 millions. With-
act, though the objects which France sought out another word of explanation he remarks,
to-day might be abandoned tomorrow. “ But the Queen went on gambling," as if the
To change the direction of the thought — if years from 1723 to 1774 were dropped out
one would penetrate the secret of the Revolu- entirely. When he reaches the overthrow of
tion the surest path is along the line of just the monarchy, August 10, instead of a word of
such individual experience, following ade- pity for the poor old king, he gathers from the
quately tested men into the "welter,” and inter- gossip of the memoir writers four pages, giving
preting its nature and tendencies by its effects the impression that Louis was a boorish, greedy,
upon them. It is strange, therefore, that so cruel nobody.
few biographies of the Revolutionists have been Mr. Belloc's “Study" of Danton is a more
written, even in France. Without prejudging important contribution to the subject, for by
the two volumes under review, it may be said his own independent investigations he has been
that no satisfactory life of Danton has yet ap- able to control and occasionally to supplement
peared. The works of Aulard, Robinet, and his French predecessors. His treatment reveals
Bougeart are rather studies of aspects of his vigorous thinking and clear conceptions of
life than complete descriptions of it. They are, many of the characteristic features of the great
moreover, chiefly attempts to meet the charges struggle. There are passages of remarkable de-
which have always been brought against him. scriptive power, sometimes rising to eloquence.
Mr. Beesly and Mr. Belloc, who seek to bring This is particularly true of the chapter on the
to English readers the results of the later inves- death of Danton. Here and there a phrase
tigations in France, are both enthusiastic ad gathers the significance of all the varied inci.
mirers of the great Cordelier. Mr. Beesly's dents of a whole situation.
book is distinctly apologetic from beginning to good qualities there are certain surprising de-
end, - although a biographical study with fects. And, first, inaccuracies. Such things
apology as its dominant note is itself a damag as “ jerrymander,” “Golier” for Gohier, and
ing criticism of its hero. This is not altogether “suppliants" for suppléants, are probably mere
Mr. Beesly's fault, because any bold strong misprints. But on page 218 he says Danton
man who rose to leadership during such days opposed, April 10, the prosecution of those
could hardly come through without leaving who sent a petition from the Halle aux Blés
some memories to trouble zealous eulogists. for the resignation of Roland.” Now Roland
* DANTON. A Study. By Hilaire Belloc, B.A., late Brack had resigned January 22. Moreover, this pe-
enbury Scholar of Balliol College, Oxford. New York: Charles tition was not sent in ; it was discovered by
Scribner's Sons.
Pétion while it was being circulated, who asked
LIFE OF DANTON. By A. H. Beesly. New York : Long-
mans, Green, & Co.
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vention was accidental and had no significance, compared with the following, apropos of the
for he had not heard the first part of the peti. Flight to Varennes :
tion, in which the offensive words occurred, and “ France was also afraid. . . . She feared the divine
misunderstood the intent of the discussion. A
sunstroke that threatens the road to Damascus. In that
cursory reading of the Moniteur would have passage which was bounded on either side by an abyss,
her feet went slowly, one before the other, and she
set the author right.
looked backward continually. In the twisting tides at
A similar blunder occurs on page 179, in night her one anchor to the old time was the monarchy:
speaking of Gohier's report on the “civil list.” Thus when Louis fled the feeling was of a prop broken.”
Here Mr. Belloc was misled by a statement in Here is a delightful going and coming of the
one of Aulard's articles in the “ Révolution fancy from sacred to profane, from land to sea,
française." The formal report did not come and back again. In another case the author is
out August 18, as Mr. Belloc says, but on obliged to escape from his metaphor argumenta-
September 16. However, Gohier had outlined tively, and by main strength, as it were. A
the discoveries in August, though not for the quarrel between Paris and the departments he
first time on the date Mr. Belloc suggests, but says "would have been a fight between the
several days earlier. M. Aulard quoted only members and the brain, and the brain would
from “ Moniteur XIII., 445," though he might have died fighting, leaving a body dead because
have found practically the same statements in the brain had died." The anatomical impos-
an earlier reference, “ Moniteur XIII., 430.” sibilities of such an affair quite make one forget
In Mr. Belloc's footnote the reference is Paris and the departments and Danton himself,
“ Moniteur XII., 445."
80 that one must finally go back to find what
Errors of this sort are of minor importance. it is all about.
But when Mr. Belloc attempts to answer the
Both writers under consideration would have
question concerning the consequences of Valmy, made Danton's earlier career more comprehen-
“Why then did the King of Prussia retreat?” sible had they explained at somewhat greater
he becomes puerile. He gives the credit to length the municipal history of Paris in 1789
Danton which belongs to Dumouriez, confuses and 1790. This is not so difficult to do, now
dates and incidents, and sacrifices clearness to that many of the records have been edited.
mere phrasing. What can any body make out And without such an explanation one starts out
of a sentence like this, in reference to D'Eglan with the impression that Danton was merely a
tine's mission to compose the jealous ambitions noisy demagogue, though with greater legal acu-
of Kellerman and Dumouriez: “That foolish men and more ability than some of the others.
man, D'Eglantine, followed him, but his folly The word “ September” is after all the ugli-
was swallowed up in the wisdom of Danton, est obstacle for a Danton biographer to sur-
who sent him," etc.
mount. Few writers now accuse him of direct
It is impossible here to more than allude to complicity in the massacres.
But some years
Mr. Belloc's inadequate treatment of the First ago, when it was proposed to name a new street
Committee of Public Safety, of which Danton near Danton's house after the great Revolu-
was the most influential member. He seems to tionist, there was a lively debate in the Senate,
have laid little emphasis in his studies on the and the distinguished historian, M. Wallon,
records and correspondence of the Committee refused to be convinced that Danton was not
itself, edited by M. Aulard. Otherwise he their real author. He suggested six panels for
would hardly have so greatly over-estimated the pedestal of a Danton statue: “Massacre
the importance of Berrère's report in behalf of de l'Abbaye, Massacre des Carmes, Massacre
the Committee, presented May 29. He has de la Force," etc. Both Mr. Belloc and Mr.
printed long extracts from this in an Appendix, Beesly advocate the theory that, in the perilous
under the erroneous impression that it had never situation of Paris, Danton did not dare antago-
been printed elsewhere.
nize the bloodthirsty radicals who hounded on
Vigorous and clear as Mr. Belloc's style is in the mob to these murders.
the mob to these murders. This is according
many passages, it occasionally becomes meta to the evidence or rather the absence of evi.
phorical, oracular, and bombastic. He remarks dence, - but there is a suggestion in a part of
that Danton was chary of metaphor,— a virtue the record of the Commune on the first day of
he might have himself better appreciated. A A the massacres which is significant. The Com-
few rhetorical curiosities are worth mentioning. mune sent to rescue innocent prisoners for
“When spring had melted their enthusiasm debt: it seemed at first indifferent to the fate
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criminal conspirators. Danton probably shared part of the book is taken up with the descrip-
this first impulse, realizing only later, to use tion of the trail by the inland route through
the words of Belloc, “that a thing had hap- British Colombia to Glenora on the Stikine.
pened which was to hurt the future of the Rev. This story of the trail through savage wilder-
olution more than all the armies." This reaction ness and pleasant land is well told, and inter-
must have been for him, as for the rest, “ like spersed with bits of impromptu verse, which
the breaking of day after that moral night." are not without charm. The migration of hu-
When a brief history of the First Committee man beings often became a craze.
of Public Safety was published some time ago, “I had been among the miners and hunters for four
M. Aulard remarked how hazardous it was to months. I had been one of them. I had lived the
attempt such a task without spending years in
essentials of their lives, and had been able to catch from
the archives. This reveals also the difficulty of
them some hint of their outlook on life. They were a
disappointment to me in some ways. They seemed like
doing more than scratch the surface of Danton's
mechanisms. They moved as if drawn by some great
work in the First Committee. Here these two magnet whose centre was Dawson City. They appeared
books show their least satisfactory pages.
to drift on and in toward that human maelstrom, going
In spite of the defects and inadequacies irresolutely to their ruin. They did not seem to me
strong men, — on the contrary, they seemed weak men,
already noted, the large and generous outlines
or men strong with one insane purpose. They set
of Danton's figure as a man and as a political their faces toward the Golden North, and went on
leader are fairly clear in these volumes, and through every obstacle like men dreaming, like som-
the reader confined to English descriptions of
nambulists,— bending their backs to the most crushing
the great Cordelier will find in them the first
burdens, their faces distorted with effort. On to
Dawson!' To the Klondike!' that was all they knew."
opportunity to gain a modern view of him based
on the results of the critical scholarship of From Glenora Mr. Garland went by water to
France. The writers will have done a service Skagway, and thence to the Atlin Lakes, where
to the popular understanding of Revolutionary the scenery greatly impressed him. The story
history if they have succeeded in dissolving that
of his horse Ladrone makes a very pretty tale.
The book has no map.
figment of uninstructed imagination, the Tri-
umvirate, Danton, Robespierre, Marat.
“ Alaska and the Klondike,” by Professor
HENRY E. BOURNE.
Angelo Heilprin, the distinguished geologist, is
written from the scientific point of view, de-
scribing the journey to Dawson as made in
1898 by way of the White Pass and out by the
LATE BOOKS ON ALASKA.*
Chilkoot. The author made a stay of some
The historian, in his survey of the history of scribes, and he found the summer weather and
weeks in Dawson, which he quite fully de-
the United States for this century, will remark
scenery superb.
two epoch-making years, — namely, 1861, the
“ For hours at a time could I sit watching the exqui-
outbreak of the Civil War as resistance to con-
site beauty of the landscape; and to one endowed with
traction, and 1898 as a positive movement a proper appreciation for the works of quiet nature it
toward expansion in the Spanish War and the
would be difficult to recommend a more enjoyable exer-
cise than to take in a bit of this wonderful land of the
great influx into the Alaskan Gold Fields. The
literature of this latter phase has been lately found elsewhere. The jays and cross-bills are gambolling
North, and with it a mellow sunshine that is not to be
increased by four books of note, which treat in the thickets back of you, the merry hum of the saw-
the subject from different points of view. Mr. mill breaks the stillness of the day below; but far off a
Hamlin Garland, in “The Trail of the Gold peace and quiet reigns impressive by their silence. With
a claim to having seen many distant lands, I can truth-
seekers," deals with the great Alaskan rush
fully say that never before has it been my fortune to
from the point of view of the literary man, and experience such a succession of wonderful summer days
gives us a work of real and vivid power, at as during my stay in the region about Dawson.”
once poetic, romantic, realistic. The larger | Professor Heilprin examined the Klondike
* THE TRAIL OF THE GOLDSEEKERS. By Hamlin Garland.
Gold Fields and reports on their geology and
New York: The Macmillan Co.
on the methods of working. The style of the
ALASKA AND THE KLONDIKE. By Angelo Heilprin. New book is at times diffuse, strained, and affected.
York: D. Appleton & Co.
Two WOMEN IN THE KLONDIKE. By Mrs. Roswell D. Maps and illustrations are good.
Hitchcock. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.
In “Two Women in the Klondike," by Mrs.
ALASKA: Its History and Resources, Gold Fields, Routes,
Roswell D. Hitchcock, we have the Alaskan
and Scenery. By Miner Brace. New York: G. P. Putnam's
Sons.
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This diary of a tour to Dawson by way of the not afford to miss. The leaden effect becomes less .
Yukon and out by the White Pass is full of noticeable upon closer acquaintance, and attracts
petty details and small adventures. Yet, though less attention than the remarkable finish of the style.
lacking in artistic selection and compression, it
The defects of Mr. Mallock's qualities are clearly
is still attractive as a vivid picture of interest-
exbibited, and there runs through the book a faint
streak of what must be called nastiness — which
ing scenes and personalities. So, also, the con-
will be no discovery to readers of the author's pre-
stantly effervescing jollity, humor, enthusiasm,
vious books. But, on the other hand, the peculiar
and optimism of these two travelled ladies
satirical gift of the writer is exhibited almost as
who are
doing " the Klondike as “a lark”
brilliantly as in the pages of " The New Republic,”
- make pleasant and amusing reading. We and constitutes the real strength of “ Tristram
cannot say that we gain much information, but Lacy,” although the interest of the story is itself
we certainly derive considerable entertainment considerable. In this case, the social reformer is
from this work. The many illustrations are
the target at which Mr. Mallock aims his shafts, and
for the most part indifferent.
their penetrative force is not to be denied. Various
Mr. Miner Bruce's book on Alaska is a hand-
types of reformers are satirized, and particularly the
advanced woman who delights in vague abstractions
book to the Territory from the point of view of
about the new gospel of altruism and the uplifting
the practical man. It contains instructive chap- of the masses through the blessed instrumentality of
ters on the history, animals, inhabitants, and culture. The character of Mrs. Norbam is one of
minerals of Alaska, with special directions to the most effective pieces of satirical delineation with
prospectors. Illustrations and maps are satis which we are acquainted. But if the doings of these
factory.
H. M. STANLEY.
people were all, the book would prove monotonous
reading; fortunately, Mr. Mallock bas enough of
artistic tact to diversify his scenes, and bring
together a great variety of other social types, includ-
ing a Prime Minister of England, into interesting
RECENT FICTION.*
relations with each other. Still, the book is essen-
“ The Fortnightly Review” has been publishing, tially one of discussion rather than of action, and,
for some months past, a serial novel called “The Indi aside from its effective scene-setting, appeals almost
vidualist,” and attributed to “ Wentworth Moore.” | wholly to the intellectual sense. It is a book which,
The novel was printed in small type, and the pages with its obvious defects, will be found enjoyable by
had a leaden look, which circumstances have, we
cultivated readers in proportion to their degree of
imagine, prevented many readers from making its cultivation and the closeness of the attention they
acquaintance. Those who were not deterred by its give to the perusal. It is certainly one of the nota-
forbidding accidents, however, probably recognized
ble novels of the year.
a familiar voice speaking under an unfamiliar mask, Mr. Legge's "Mutineers" is, like the book just
and had little difficulty in reading Mr. W. H. Malo mentioned, preoccupied with the social problem, but
lock for “ Wentworth Moore.” The mask is now the treatment is conventional and dull. The hero,
removed, and the novel, acknowledged by its author, who is the chief mutineer, is a rather sullen and
appears in book form, with a few added pages, and unattractive person, and the heroine, who begins by
the new title of “ Tristram Lacy; or, The Individ exciting our sympathies, soon forfeits them by a
ualist.” It is certainly a novel that the reader can marriage into which no girl of fine feelings could
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Arthur Paterson. New York: Harper & Brothers.
SHORT RATIONS. By Williston Fish. New York: Harper
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possibly enter. There is a great deal of assorted field is losing its force. Such recent books as Dr.
agony in the book, and a rather lame working-out Mitchell's “Hugh Wynne ” and Miss Johnston's
of the plot. The story is one of English society in “ Prisoners of Hope" gave us a new sense of the
our own time.
possibilities of our colonial past as material for ro-
“ The Fowler" offers a pathetic illustration of mance, and now Mr. Winston Churchill's “ Richard
what follows when a slender talent is stretched be- Carvel” has achieved a still higher triumph, and at
yond its limits. When Miss Harraden’s “Ships That once takes its place in the very front rank of our
Pass in the Night " caught the capricious favor of historical fiction. That the author of that amusing
the public, and, pretty as the story was, received sketch, “The Celebrity,” had it in him to produce
ten times the praise that was rationally its due, the this full-bodied romance was, we must admit, a great
writer could do no less than attempt to justify all surprise to us, for the gift of the light social satirist
this laudation by planning a new book upon a more is one thing, and the gift of the successful delineator
liberal scale. The result of this misdirected ambi- of a bygone period in all its political, social, and
tion is a novel in which the characters have no human aspects — with the presentation of its acci-
vitality and slight individuality, all speaking the dents as well as of its essentials — is quite another
same language, and all the merest puppets in the thing. Yet this latter thing Mr. Churchill has accom-
hands of the show-woman. We hesitate to describe plished, and in a way that betokens the “ infinite
in these terms what is no doubt a conscientious piece capacity for taking pains" which, although much of
of workmanship, but Miss Harraden's failure is so our slapdash criticism of modern slapdash work is apt
obvious that it seems best to mince no words about to forget the fact, is still as characteristic of genius
it. The heroine is a young woman whose weakness as it ever was. We should hesitate to designate as
in allowing herself to become ensnared flatly con outright genius the power that shaped the present
tradicts everything that we are told about her char- work, but it is, at all events, a power of character.
acter; the villain-hero, who is crafty enough to en. | ization and of description, a power of sympathetic
snare the heroine, is yet such a fool as to write a insight and vivid dramatic presentation, such as only
detailed description of his methods in a private the best writers of fiction have at their command.
journal and send it to the young woman by mistake. When we say that this novel of Maryland in the
In her conception of this character, we cannot help days just before the Revolution is constantly remind-
thinking that Miss Harraden has been unconsciously ing us of “ The Virginians,” it is for deeper reasons
influenced by “The Tormenter” of Mr. Benjamin than the mere similarity of theme and situation. It
Swift, for the two figures are fundamentally akin, is the equipment of the mind that has produced the
although the latter has some reality about him, while book, it is the fulness of the life that is depicted.
the former has almost none.
These things, even more than the convincing
It is difficult to speak kindly of such a book as character-studies of John Paul Jones and Charles
“ The Maternity of Harriott Wicken,” in spite of James Fox, and the forcible manner in which
the writer's obvious talent for vivid portraiture and Richard Carvel is made the spokesman of patriotic
striking dramatic effect. The objection to this novel American sentiment in a great historical moment,
is not that it deals with people who have their being these are what distinguish the present novel, and
in an uninteresting section of middle-class society, set it upon a plane that hardly any other of our
or even that its method of treatment is that of re novelists has succeeded in occupying.
morseless realism. The objection is rather that the There is probably no other period of English
author takes a wanton delight in the introduction of history that has occasioned so many romances as
sordid and offensive bits of detail, not necessary the period of the Civil War, and a writer must have
for the development of her conception, and, it would considerable confidence in his powers to enter the
seem, deliberately calculated to make her work re lists with still another. In “ Cromwell's Own,” Mr.
pulsive. The life which she depicts is a sort of Arthur Paterson deals with the period that begins
dismal swamp of dank sliminess and miasmatic exha with the Long Parliament and ends with Marston
lations. There is no more art about it than there Moor. He has been greatly daring in his treatment
is about the crudest of M. Zola's productions ; there of Cromwell, for the great general appears, not as
is only a certain crude and brutal power which fas an imposing figure whose shadow is from time to
cinates but does not impress. Dealing with a prob- time cast over the scene, but rather as the central
lem which above all others calls for delicate treat character of the romance, and overshadows the pri-
ment, the writer knows nothing of reticence, and vate figures with which the story is nominally con-
defeats her own ethical purpose. Her pages are cerned. This attempt at historical portraiture is
thronged with horrors which the sunlight of life measurably successful; it gives us at once the grim-
never softens. If the world were such a charnel ness and the tenderness of Cromwell, it shows us
house as this depressing book would have us think, the man who could be great enough to be inconsistent
the process of putrefaction would long since have at critical moments, and allow the logic of the heart
exterminated our race.
to oppose the dictates of the more formal logic of
American fiction is setting a higher mark every the intellect. Cromwell's household and family life,
year for the historical novel, and the charge that too, are portrayed with sympathetic insight. All
our writers are neglecting their opportunities in this this, however, does not prevent the story from being


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a charming one considered merely as the romance ality. The new volume in this series is not quite on
of a young soldier and a Puritan maiden, and it is the level of its two predecessors, and all three suffer,
a satisfaction to know that the generous heroism of from the artistic standpoint, in being the product of
the one and the tender steadfastness of the other do the critical rather than of the creative intellect. In
not go in the end unrewarded, although many perils other words, the gift of the essayist rather than that
have to be surmounted before that consummation is of the novelist is what they exhibit most conspicu-
reached. Mr. Paterson has told a thoroughly good ously. But of their charm and of their wholesome-
story, which it is a pleasure to praise.
ness there cannot be the least doubt, and we are
“ The Pedagogues ” is a mere sketch, but it dis inclined to consider them the most important con-
plays unmistakable talent, besides having the ad tribution which their writer has made to American
vantage of dealing with a subject almost unexplored literature.
by the novelist. The summer school is a compara “The Awakening,” by Mrs. Chopin, is a story in
tively recent development of collegiate work, and, which, with no other accessories than the trivial
however it may try to make itself like the rest of details of everyday life in and about New Orleans,
the year, there remain certain features peculiar to there is worked out a poignant spiritual tragedy.
the conditions of the summer season. This is the The story is familiar enough. A woman is married
fact upon which Mr. Arthur Stanwood Pier has without knowing what it is to love. Her husband
seized, and with which he has successfully dealt. is kind but commonplace. He cares overmuch for
His characters are a young instructor of the languid the conventions of life; she, finding them a bar to
and supercilious type, and a group of the students the free development of her wayward personality,
who take his summer course in composition and lit-casts them off when the awakening" comes to her,
erature. Among these students are two teachers and discovers, too late, that she has cast off the
from a country town in the West an ambitious anchor which alone could have saved her from ship-
girl who knows nothing of the finer graces of thought wreck. It is needless to say that the agency by
or of life, and an equally graceless young man who is which she becomes awakened is provided by another
besides a misunderstood genius. The girl bas great man. But he proves strong enough to resist temp-
self-confidence, but understands that there is much tation, while she is too weak to think of atoning for
she may learn, and has considerable powers of adap her fault. To her distraught thinking, self-destruction
tation. The man is simply a bumptious clodhopper is the only way out, and the tragedy is accomplished
even if he does contribute turgid verses to his in picturesque fashion. The story is a simple one,
county newspaper. The two are engaged to be not without charm, but not altogether wholesome in
married, although we may hardly call them lovers. its tendency.
This is the situation set forth by Mr. Pier, with a fine Miss Florence Wilkinson is a new writer, and her
sense of the humorous contrast between instructor first book has many amateurish characteristics. It
and instructed. And the outcome is helpful on both is called “The Lady of the Flag-Flowers,” and is
sides. The roughness of the students becomes soft the story of a Canadian girl of mixed French and
ened, and the stiff superiority of the teacher melts Indian blood. Her soul is awakened to the pos-
into a more human sort of feeling through his con sibilities of life in the great world by companion-
tact with these students of a sort so different from ship with a young American student who comes to
any he has hitherto known. For there is a pathetic pass a summer among the habitants of the Lower
side to even the most ungainly of the seekers after Province. Later, she finds her way into this world
culture wbo throng to the summer schools of the that she has longed to know, and realizes some of
great universities ; and this is the thing that chiefly the joys of life and more of its bitterness. But her
claims the attention upon continued acquaintance. wild spirit is not to be tamed, and so in the end it
“ That Fortune," by Mr. Charles Dudley Warner, is broken, for that is the only alternative possible.
is in some sense a continuation of " A Little Jour The story is pathetically told, with much evidence
ney in the World” and “The Golden House,” the of close observation of things French-Canadian, and
three novels taken together forming a sort of trilogy with a sympathetic affection for the heroine -- that
of American society as it is focalized in New York. frail flower uprooted from the native soil in which
Carmen Henderson of “ The Golden House," and alone it could hope to flourish. The chief fault of
Mavick, whom she married after the death of her the book is that it has too many loose ends. Fresh
first husband, reappear in the present novel, and the starts are taken so frequently that the interest of
ill.gotten wealth acquired by Henderson, and to the reader becomes unhinged, and he longs for a
which the interest of all three books attaches, is in more straightforward manner of narration.
the end lost, to the chastening of all concerned. Among recent volumes of short stories, that
Fresh interest is supplied in the characters of two bearing the name of Mr. S. Levett Yeats is sure to
young people, who seem to embody the hope of our arrest the attention of readers who remember « The
society in their reversion to simpler and saner ideals Chevalier d'Auriac.” It is called “ The Heart of
of life than those illustrated by the generation be- Denise,” from the first of the nine pieces which it
fore them a hope which Mr. Warner has sufficient contains. This titular story is practically a novel-
optimism to entertain, in spite of what seems to us the ette in dimensions, and has for its theme the period
steady and alarming disintegration of our social mor of latter sixteenth century history, and the struggle


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between the Queen-Mother and the Béarnais. It is of literary manner, relieved by dry and effective
a good story, with a valiant hero and a pert heroine, humor, which is a still more cogent claim. He has
coming to a happy conclusion. Of the other stories, given us a highly readable little volume, which we
it remains to say that they are slight in comparison, can recommend with a clear conscience.
and that several of them seem to poach upon Mr. From Mr. Cable we hear too rarely of late, but
Kipling's preserves, a fact to be explained by the when he does put forth a book, we are at least as-
statement that Mr. Yeats has seen much service in sured that his powers suffer no decline for lack of
India, and thus writes from fulness of knowledge. the old-time exercise. His “Strong Hearts,” just
The nine stories which Mr. R. V. Risley has called now published, is a collection of three short stories
“Men's Tragedies – with such specific titles as illustrating once more the types of Southern char-
“ The Man Who Loved,” “ The Man Who Fell,” acter that he knows so sympathetically and well.
and “ The Man Who Cared' are all studies of an Stories of “ heroic natures and poetic fates ” he calls
intense sort of character, and, in a sense, are all them, and insists that the three tales are but one in
concerned with “men who cared” most earnestly essence, meaning that the humblest and narrowest
for their ideals. These are mostly men of middle life may be turned into song by high purpose and
age, whose outward lives have been touched by strenuous endeavor, and that this is the all-important
failure, but who have held fast to some of the inner thing about his several heroes and heroines. In
realities, and achieved a sort of spiritual triumph this book, the author seems to take us into a finer
over adverse circumstances. There is distinct power spiritual atmosphere than is his wont, and the eth-
in this book, although not here applied upon a scale ical subtleties of the situations devised for us will
sufficiently large to show what the writer has it in hardly be penetrated by him who runs as he reads.
him to accomplish. We shall look forward with The six stories called “ Love's Dilemmas," by
peculiar interest to the literary future which it Mr. Robert Herrick, are in a sense prentice work,
seems safe to say is in store for him.
having been written from two to four years ago.
“At a Winter's Fire” is not a thick volume, but | They exhibit the promise of which “ The Gospel of
it contains eleven stories, the work of Mr. Bernard Freedom" has been the subsequent fulfilment, and
Capes. The author seeks to be weird after the fan are marked by much fastidiousness of manner and
tastic fashion of Poe, but his horrors are of a rather subtlety of delineation. But Mr. Herrick has ad-
cheap sort, and he does not succeed in giving his vanced far beyond the stage represented by these
imagined impossibilities the garb of verisimilitude. slight performances, and it seems almost a pity to
His method of narration, moreover, is frequently so call attention to his early work.
tortuous as to make the stories difficult reading. Mrs. Burton Harrison's volume of seven stories is
Mr. Marriott Watson's six stories are described characterized by lively invention, animated action,
by the author as “mostly winter tales," which would and an infusion of tender sentiment. The stories
seem to imply that they, too, were best read “at a are mostly told of people who move in the most
winter's fire.” But, with one exception, they are conventional and least humanly interesting section
not like the ghostly productions of Mr. Capes, being of American society, and it does no small credit to
rather romantic fancies with a core of tragedy. The Mrs. Harrison's gift for entertainment to say that
titular story alone, " The Heart of Miranda,” has no she keeps her readers interested. One reason is
tragical suggestion about it, but is simply a delicate that she does not take her people too seriously, and
and elusive study of the several approaches to a knows how to treat “social aspirations " with deli-
maiden's love, and not strictly a story at all. cate satire. “An Author's Reading " is a good
There is really nothing new to say about the new illustration of this aspect of her work, and is as
volume of short stories by Mr. Bret Harte. They different as possible from the straightforward nar-
are partly European and partly Californian in theme, rative of “The Carcellini Emerald,” which gives a
and they are better stories than almost anybody else title to the collection.
can write nowadays. But it must be confessed that The note of distinction (as the French would
Mr. Harte's characters and situations are growing a understand it) is rarely met with in the English or
little hackneyed, and these “Stories in Light and American short story, but it may certainly be found
Shadow are rather less interesting than most of upon almost every page of the book by Mrs. Edith
their predecessors.
Wharton, with which this hurried review must close.
The volume of “Short Rations” issued to the Under the collective title “ The Greater Inclina-
public by Mr. Williston Fish contains a series of tion,” which belongs to no one of the stories in par-
sketches of life in the American army, all the way ticular, Mrs. Wharton has brought together eight
from West Point to the frontier post. Each sketch pieces of delicate texture and artistic conception.
is a story, or the next thing to a story, and nearly Every one of them has the external shape and col-
all are concerned with the fortunes of one McVay, oring of the world in which we mingle day by day,
whose career is traced from his entrance into the and every one of them is at heart a poignant spirit-
Academy to the successful termination, many years ual tragedy. The veils that are spread over most
later, of the romantic courtship which was there lives by wont and custom conceal the inner work-
begun. Mr. Fish writes from knowledge, which is ings from the eyes of all but a few; it is the privi-
a strong claim to our attention, and with a crispness | lege of the artist to penetrate their enveloping folds


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and scan the bare soul within. The present writer acquirement. But what makes Mr. Bullen a rather
does not neglect the outward aspect of the lives | unique literary figure is the blending in him of the
which she depicts, but, as the conception becomes born writer and the common sailor. Pen or mar-
developed by touches so deft that we never think of linespike, it's clearly all one to Mr. Bullen. In the
the conscious artistic endeavor, the subjective reality “ Idylls" he has given us a gallery of sea-pictures
is in each case brought by insensible degrees into hard to beat in English literature. In fine, Mr.
the field of vision, until the gaze is at last focussed Bullen is facile princeps among sea-writers to-day;
upon that alone, and the full triumph of the work. and we trust he will eschew in the future “fine
manship bursts upon us. This may sound like ex. writing,” red-fire effects, Yankee dialect, and catch-
travagant praise, but no conventional commendation
penny puffery.
would be adequate for such a book. Between these
It takes courage to write a book
stories and those of the ordinary entertaining sort A new study about Milton, in view of the critical
there is a great gulf fixed — there is all the differ of Milton.
and biographical literature already
ence between the pure gold of art and its pinchbeck existing, from Masson's ponderous “Life” to the
imitations.
WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE. admirable small books by Mark Pattison and Dr.
Garnett. But the little book by Professor W. P.
Trent, entitled “ Jobn Milton: A Short Study of
His Life and Works” (Macmillan) finds its produc-
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS.
tion amply justified by the generous enthusiasm and
The best
In his Introduction to Mr. Frank T.
the fine critical sense which it displays. It is a
sea-writer Bullen’s “ Idylls of the Sea ” (Apple- panegyric, but a reasoned one ; and its obvious sin-
since Dana.
ton) Mr. J. St. Loe Strachey rightly cerity compels us to accept a judgment which can,
observes that “Mr. Bullen's work in literature re-
when most severe, say nothing harsher than that
quires no introduction.” Mr. Strachey then pro-
some of Milton's controversial writing is “less edi-
ceeds at some length to perform the ceremony he
fying” than the rest of his work, and which de-
thinks superfluous. Mr. Kipling, it will be remem-
clares of Milton at the outset that “ he is the greatest
bered, stood sponsor for Mr. Bullen's first book ;
artist, man of letters, and ideal patriot, that the
world has ever known.”
and as it was a first book, perhaps some little ad-
The book is particularly
vance trumpeting of this sort was admissible. But justified by its solid treatment of the Latin poems,
once was enough. 66 The Cruise of the Cacbalot”
its comparative criticism of the elegiac verse, and
established the reputation of Mr. Ballen's literary
its well-weighed comparisons of Milton with Dante
wares, and it was quite unnecessary to call in Mr.
and Shakespeare. Professor Trent is of those
St. Loe Strachey or anybody else to vouch for their
to whom the “ Paradise Lost means even more
quality. We dislike these transparent devices ex-
than does “The Divine Comedy,” and who find it
tremely, and Mr. Bullen's books are precisely of
difficult to admit outright that even Shakespeare
the sort to make their way perfectly well without
was the greater poet. We cannot go with him quite
them. Besides, Mr. Bullen's good wine is well
as far as this, but we are at one with him in pro-
known now, and needs no bush. He is the best sea-
nouncing Milton “the great idealist of our Anglo-
writer since Dana, and we earnestly hope that he
Saxon race," and in accepting the doctrine of the
will take to heart the lesson that Dana's book is
following fine passage : “ It is this pure idealism of
masterpiece mainly because it is simple, straight-
his that makes him by far the most important fig.
forward, and true. Mr. Bullen is somewhat given
ure, from a moral point of view, among all Anglo-
to fine language and lurid melodramatic effects ;
Saxons; for the genius of the race is practical, not
and wherever these tendencies discover themselves
ideal, — compromise is everywhere regarded with
he becomes comparatively tame and rings a little
favor as a working principle, and the main lesson
false. What one wants from a writer of Mr. Bul-
we all have to learn is how to stand out unflinchingly
len's stamp is plain truth, and not flowers of speech. for the true, the beautiful, and the good, regardless
The “Cruise of the Cachalot" just missed being a
of merely present and practical considerations. ...
masterpiece because Mr. Bullen would occasionally
A due admiration for Milton's unflinching idealism,
s spread himself” in a rhetorical way, and turn on
both of thought and action, will at least make it
the lime-lights. The forced episode of the death of impossible for us to tolerate the charlatanism of
Captain Slocum and “Goliah,” for instance, is dis- compromise."
tinctly bad and incredible nearly as bad and
The prefix "neo-" has still something
incredible as Mr. Bullen's Yankee dialect, which is
of a vogue : neo-Christians and neo-
easily hors concours in this way. Of Mr. Bullen's
Celts have not yet lost all their
Yankee dialect there are, we regret to say, certain original brightness. We esteem it, then, rather a
weird specimens in the little volume now before us. compliment to call Mr. Hector C. Macpherson a
“Idylls of the Sea" is a budget of thirty brief sea neo-Smithian: he would return to the purity of the
sketches, all replete with the lore of ocean, for, be ideas of Adam Smith, unadulterated by the perver-
it said, the author joins to the actual experiences of sities of Malthus and Ricardo. The volume on Smith
the “foremast-hand a fair measure of scientific in the “ Famous Scots " series (imported by Scrib-
a
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ner) is rather more on Smith's thoughts than on lished during the past quarter-century, so that the
his actions ; but this is as it should be. An emi- | picture they present is strictly modern. The Rev.
nent critic once remarked that people were silly Edward Everett Hale contributes a brief introduc-
always to ask, What are you doing? when the really tion to this book, which we commend most heartily,
important question is, What are you thinking? It both because of its interest as a study of contem-
does not appear that Adam Smith's life was more porary society, and because it may pave the way to a
interesting than that of many another man of his wider acquaintance with the remarkable literature
day: save for his ideas, he was really what Mr. upon which it is based.
Macpherson says he seemed, “ simply a sedate,
absent-minded Scotsman, who lived a humdrum life A helpful
If Miss Lilian F. Field, in her “Intro-
in the region of dry and forbidding speculation.”
study of the duction to the Study of the Renais-
Renaissance.
But “ The Wealth of Nations " is a matter of inter-
sance ” (Scribner), had done nothing
est, of how much interest, few lay readers will sus-
more than make it clear when and where the series
pect until they read Mr. Macpherson's book. It is of movements gathered into the meaning of that
an admirable study, a thoroughly modern criticism. single word took place, she would deserve well of
The author speaks of it as “the outcome of a desire the student. But she does a great deal more. It
to show the vitality of the principles of Smith's great is plain from the most cursory glance at her pages
work, and to trace their relations to the fruitful gen-
that not only was the Renaissance a series of phe-
eralizations associated with the Evolution theory.”
nomena of varied origin and scene, but that there
We should ourselves think the book quite as much
were as many renaissances as there were arts, some-
the outcome of a desire to show the unsound founda- times several within the limits of a single nation;
tion of certain political and commercial conditions while it is likely that the English-speaking peoples
of to-day, a pamphlet against ultra-imperialism and have not had their awakening in painting and sculp-
jingoism abroad and trades-unionism and socialism
ture to this day. This will serve to strike down a
at home, - a pamphlet meant for England, to be popular fancy, obtained from "study clubs " and
sure ; but we who have also some experience of the the like, that the movement was a definite one,
conditions against which the aid of Adam Smith is involving all the beaux arts and capable of precise
invoked will find our own ideas stimulated. Inci- and cogent treatment within narrow compass. Once
dentally, we may note the author would rescue it is made clear, as Miss Field makes it clear, that
Political Economy from the verbal vice of Carlyle, the word describes the entire transition from the
by demonstrating that it is not the dismal science." middle ages to the modern fulness of spirit, and is
a continuing and most highly diversified movement
Spanish society
At a time when Spain has come to extending over the whole field of civilization, it will
as portrayed in fill a larger place than usual in our become capable of a popular treatment that is also
Spanish fiction.
thoughts, and when the evil passions scientific. The author is careful to accent the fact
excited by war have provided a hospitable harbor for that her volume, compendious and well written as it
every prejudice against that unhappy country, there is, must be taken as nothing more than a guide past
is a peculiar value in such a book as “ Contemporary the threshold of a very large topic ; and her readers
Spain as shown by her Novelists" (Truslove, Hanson, are to be congratulated accordingly.
& Comba). Thanks to the numerous existing trans-
lations, most readers know that, whatever her polit-
Selections from
Miss Katharine Lyttelton's volume
ical shortcomings, Spain has produced a group of the Thoughts
of Selections from the Thoughts of
contemporary writers of fiction of which any coun-
of Joubert.
Joubert (Dodd) has a charming pre-
try might be proud. Those who have read the books face by Mrs. Humphry Ward, which deals mainly
of these novelists are aware, moreover, that they with the facts and relations of Joubert's personal
have documentary value of a very high sort, and life — because, as Mrs. Ward says, “the reader who
that from all the hysterical journalism of the past takes with him the memory of these personal inci-
year there could not be constructed so truthful a dents and affections will find, as he turns to the
panorama of the Spanish society of to-day as may Pensées, that it interests them with a new charm,
be viewed in the pages of the Spanish novelists. It that it neutralizes that slight air of pedantry which
was, then, distinctly a happy thought on the part of perhaps such a book must always wear in the eyes
Miss Mary W. Plummer to prepare the little book of after-generations, and makes him docile and
of selections now under consideration. Miss Plum- friendly toward the writer even when he is most fine-
mer has examined seventeen books by five writers - spun or most dogmatic.” The determining points
Señora Bazan and Señores Alarcón, Galdós, Valdés, in the man's personal history were his marriage, and
and Valera — and has extracted from them such his two great friendships, the one with Pauline de
passages as seem most illuminative of the present Beaumont, the other with Madame de Timtimille ;
day aspects of Spanish life. These passages are and these Mrs. Ward treats with the acuteness, the
classified under the heads of local description, reli- delicacy, and the sympathetic imagination which we
gion, politics, manners and customs, and society, have learned to expect of her. Turning to Miss
and make up a highly interesting and instructive Lyttelton's work, we find an admirable selection,
volume. The books drawn upon have all been pub- 1 and translation in which the Gallic qualities of the


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John Sobieski
and an art.
of the Polish crown had Marysienka been less of a fo
original are well preserved. The book is valuable, mounting, and preserving insects of various kinds,
and will be distinctly welcome ; for there are many and plans for cases and cabinets. Instructions are
people — perhaps a greater number than we think, also given for field-work and the haunts and habits
even when we think most sensibly — who, while of insects are discussed. The book contains a brief
unable to read the Pensées in the language in which account of the anatomy of insects, both in the adult
they were written, are yet keenly alive to all such and larval stages, and a discussion of their trans-
fastidiousness of expression and all such delicate formations. The greater part of the work is taken
wisdom as they contain.
up with an extended treatment of the various orders,
representatives being chosen from the more com-
The wife of
More interesting than most histories
mon insects of the United States. Over 250 figures
and far more true than most ro-
illustrate the text and obviate the necessity of the
of Poland.
mances, the translation made by
introduction of technical descriptions, thus permit-
Lady Mary Loyd of K. Waliszewski’s “
Mary-
ting more attention to the life histories and habits.
sienka” (Dodd) affords excellent reading, whether
for diversion or instruction. Marie de la Grange commendation. The system of classification used is
In this feature especially the work deserves high
d'Arquien, daughter of a French house, noble and
up to date, and the information which the book con-
decadent, was taken in the train of that Marie de
tains is trustworthy and is told in simple language.
Gonzague who became the wife of Ladislaw IV. of
Poland. A mere child at the time of her expatria-
The work is well done and admirably suited to its
purpose, and the book will be a boon to school and
tion, and a dependent child as well through her
public libraries as well as to students of the insect
parents' poverty, she nevertheless rose to be the
world.
queen of Poland, having been married to the great
Sobieski. Her elevation in that elective monarchy
The author of the book called “ The
Gambling
was due primarily to her husband's great military
as a folly Gambling World” (Dodd), a well-
talents, but these -as has happened so often in his.
known writer on sporting topics
tory — might very well have gone without the honor
under the pen-name of “Rouge et Noir," has put
forth a work which may be taken as encyclopædic
courtier and politician. The author has been wise
in its scope, classing the various sorts of specula-
in weaving the facts into a rapid, easy narrative,
tion, in stock-markets and the like, along with the
the charm of which has been caught and retained by showing that the risks which are well defined and
other games of chance, differentiating them only by
the translator.
ascertainable in ordinary gambling defy computa-
In “The Bases of the Mystic Knowl-
tion “on 'Change.” There is an explanation of that
interpretation edge” (Scribner), M. Récéjac has
of Mysticism.
mysterious something.nothing commonly called
given a notable modern interpreta “luck” which is exceedingly ingenious. Showing
tion and vindication of mysticism. The author is
that the whole limit of chance as mathematically
well acquainted both with the latest tendencies in
demonstrated is equal to a circle of wide circum-
science and philosophy and with mediæval and an-
ference, he figures the impossibility of covering more
cient mysticism; he can quote Ribot and Tylor with
than a minute arc of this within the limits of a sin-
the same intelligence as St. Augustine and St. gle lifetime. Did one live long enough, he argues,
Francis. What is the psychic essence and the real
matters would have equalized themselves and the
significance of mysticism, with its intuition of God,
mathematical law been justified; as it is, the unfor-
its symbolism and its ecstacy? The author's answer
tunate segment of the circle may fall to one man's
is that mysticism as a true factor in humanity is
share, while his neighbor has the compensating por-
purely subjective, a moral aspiration which lifts man tion. The entire book is filled with interesting expe-
to the heights of real freedom and love, and giving rience, and is quite free from that pseudo-classical
him peace in the sense of his being thus in the Ab, knowledge which disfigures so many works of a
solute and the Absolute in him.
“ The mystical similar nature.
faculty is in reality the moral consciousness confided
to its own sole initiative.” But symbolism is only
When the tenth volume of the ad-
a language of the imagination, and denotes no more Epoch of mirable series of “Epochs of Church
Church history.
than the vision of the artist as to external realities.
History” was noticed in these col-
We commend this essay on the higher Pantheism as
umns, some months since, the fact was overlooked
being eminently sane, suggestive, and penetrating.
that the second volume had not yet made its appear-
ance. That volume is now before us. It is The
A popular handbook for young col Post-Apostolic Age,” is by the Rev. Lucius Water-
handbook
lectors and students of insects has man, D.D., and has an introduction by Bishop
of insecls.
been a desideratum for many years. Potter of New York. It is the largest of the vol-
Miss Belle S. Cragin's “Our Insect Friends and umes by twenty or thirty pages, and is published,
Foes ” (Putnam) bids fair to meet this need. It is not by the Christian Literature Company, as were
a compact and yet very comprehensive guide for all the others, but by Messrs. Charles Scribner's
the amateur student of insects and their allies, con Sons. We have no hesitancy in regarding this be-
taining as it does simple directions for collecting, I lated volume as the best of the series. The Post-
A modern
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Apostolic Age is not a promising subject for a
book of popular interest; but Dr. Waterman has
LITERARY NOTES.
succeeded in presenting the fruits of his wide re Mr. Edward L. Gulick is the editor of “Silas Mar-
searches among works embodying the most recent ner," as published for school use by the Macmillan Co.
scholarship, in such form as to command a fair “ The Cathedral Church of Durham," by Mr. J. E.
degree of attention and interest at the end of this | Bygate, is published by the Macmillan Co. in « Bell's
nineteenth century.
Cathedral Series" of handbooks.
Messrs. Ginn & Co. are the publishers of a “ New
Plane and Solid Geometry,” by Messrs. Wooster Wood-
ruff Beman and David Eugene Smith.
A school edition of “Kenilworth," abridged and
BRIEFER MENTION.
edited by Miss Mary Harriott Norris, is published by
One of the clearest and best-arranged text books of
the American Book Co. The same firm issue ten selected
rhetoric that have come to our notice is the “Composi-
orations of Lysias, edited by Dr. William H. Watt, as a
school text.
tion and Rhetoric for Schools" just published by Messrs.
Scott, Foresman & Co. It is the joint work of Messrs.
Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons are the importers of
Robert Herrick and Lindsay Todd Damon, of the Uni-
a handsome volume entitled “Greek Sculpture with
versity of Chicago. It provides preliminary chapters
Story and Song," by Miss Albinia Wherry. It is a book
upon constructive work, and then proceeds to discuss
for young people and for the general reading public not
usage, diction, and the rhetorical laws of sentences and
desirous of a too technical and archeological treatment
paragraphs. Finally, the whole composition is dealt
of the subject.
A handsome library edition, styled the “ Thornton,"
Rhetoric and composition go hand in hand throughout
of the novels of the Brontë sisters, edited by Mr. Temple
the work, and the exercises are chosen and grouped Scott, is now in course of publication by Messrs. Downey
with a skill evidently born of experience in dealing with
& Co. of London. « Agnes Grey” is the first volume
the difficulties of young students.
to appear. The Messrs. Scribner are the American
A compact and attractive little book that should importers of this edition.
appeal to all intending visitors to the approaching Paris “ Drawing for Printers," by Mr. Ernest Knaufft, is
Exposition is “ Lee's Guide to Gay. Paree' and Every “a practical treatise on the art of designing and illus-
day French Conversation ” (Laird & Lee). The author, trating in connection with typography.' It is designed
Prof. Max Maury, has departed from the usual prosaic
for both beginners and advanced students, is amply
manner of the stereotyped guide-book, and writes in a
illustrated, and is a manual of the most practically help-
vivacious and entertaining way that makes his little
ful sort. It is published by the Inland Printer Co.
volume something more than a dry catalogue of facts.
“ Plant Relations: A First Book of Botany,” by Pro-
Much odd and out of the way information is given, and fessor John M. Coulter, is published by the Messrs.
the text is supplemented by a number of useful maps
Appleton in their series of “ Twentieth Century Text-
and illustrations. The volume is of vest-pocket dimen-
Books." This volume is devoted to the outlines of
sions, and is serviceably and artistically bound in ecology, and will be followed by a companion work hav-
leather.
ing morphology for its predominant subject. The text
The “Source-Book of American History (Mac-
is planned for secondary schools, and is beautifully
millan) which Dr. Albert Bushnell Hart has “edited
illustrated.
for schools and readers” is a volume that we bave ex “The Study of History in Schools,” being the report
amined with close attention and can commend with con made to the American Historical Association upon that
fidence. In about four hundred pages of text, it finds subject by the Committee of Seven appointed in 1896,
room for something like one hundred and fifty examples has just been published in a volume by the Macmillan
of the