JUVENILES
LITTLE WOMEN. By Louisa M. Alcott. With 15 full- FOXY THE FAITHFUL. By LILY F. WESSELHOEFT. 12mo,
page pictures by ALICE BARBER STEPHENS. Crown 8vo, $2.00.
$1.20 net.
AN OLD FASHIONED GIRL. By LOUISA M. ALCOTT.
IN THE GREEN FOREST. By KATHARINE PYLE. Illus-
With 12 full-page pictures by JESSIE WILLCOX SMITH. Crown 8vo,
trated by the author. Crown 8vo, $1.50 net.
$2.00.
PRINCESS KALLISTO, AND OTHER TALES OF THE
NATHALIE'S CHUM. By Anna CAAPIN RAY, author of FAIRIES, By WILLIAN DANA ORCUTT. Illustrations in color.
"Teddy: Her Book." $1.20 net.
4to, $2.00 net.
BRENDA'S COUSIN AT RADCLIFFE. By HELEN LEAH
POLLY'S SECRET. By HARRIET A. Nash. 12mo, $1.20 net.
REED. 12mo, $1.20 net.
JACK AND HIS ISLAND. By Lucy M. TARUSTON. 12mo,
ON QUARD: Against Tory and Tarleton. By JOHN
$1.20 net.
PRESTON TRUE. 12mo, $1.20 net.
GRANDMA'S GIRLS. By HELEN MORRIS. 12mo, $1.20 net.
CATHARINE'S PROXY. By MYRA SAWYER HAMLIN. A DORNFIELD SUMMER. By MARY MURKLAND HALEY.
12mo, $1.20 net.
12mo, $1.20 net.
Send for new illustrated descriptive catalogue, and " Books for Schools" booklet.
LITTLE, BROWN, & CO., Publishers, 254 Washington St., BOSTON


1903.)
68
THE DIAL
Important Library Books from the New List of
FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY
Essays.
For Young Folks.
Fiction.
By Author of " Black Rock," " Sky Pilot," etc.
Glengarry School Days.
By RALPH CONNOR. Illus. 12mo. Cloth, $1.25.
The new story fittingly supplements "The
Man from Glengarry" (now 140th 1000) in
that it deals with some of the same characters.
"His material is magnificent in its con-
trasts and opportunities. Ralph Connor is a
man to keep in mind as one of the most virile,
faithful and wholesome writers of to-day."
- Public Ledger, Philadelphia.
A True Story of Indian Life.
Two Wilderness Voyagers.
By FRANKLIN WELLES CALKINS. Cloth, $1.50.
The author of "The Mississippi Bubble"
says: “Mr. Calkins has done something new.
He gives us Indians, but they are not merely
buckskinned manikins. He gives us the West,
but he does it without pose. Moreover, he
gives us a story, a white story done in red."
The Coal-Miner's Story.
Those Black Diamond Men.
A Tale of the Anthrax Valley. By WILLIAM
F. GIBBONS. 12mo, Cloth, Illustrated, $1.50.
"It is a series of dramatic human scenes,
sometimes with thrilling incidents, sometimes
of tragic intensity, sometimes touched with
humor. The brisk action of the story holds
the attention firmly." - The Outlook.
A Vivid Mormon Story of the Occupation of
the Great Salt Lake Basin.
By Order of the Prophet.
By A. H. Henry. 12mo, Cloth, Illus., $1.50.
"He writes with conviction and with a
commendable reserve power. There is noth-
ing lurid or sensational or overdrawn about
his picture - it is simply tragic. pitiful, heart-
rendiog-a page torn from the story of a
ruined life." - Commercial Advertiser.
A College Girl's Story.
Janet Ward
A Daughter of the Manse.
By MARGARET E. SANGSTER. Cloth, $1.50.
***Janet Ward' is the story of a girl's life,
of the sort Mrs. Sangster understands so well.
Simple, natural, full of sweet experiences."
- Commercial Advertiser.
By Author of “How They Kept the Faith."
Fool's Gold A Study of Values.
A novel by ANNIE RAYMOND STILLMAN. $1.50.
A romance of exceptional power in which
plot and action yield a large tribute to the
strong purpose of the book.
By Author of " Fishin' Jimmy."
Aunt Abby's Neighbors.
By ANNIE TRUMBULL SLOsson. Fully illus-
trated. 12mo, Cloth, $1.00.
" Aunt Abby is a sweet, nobly generous
New England woman, without narrowness and
without cant; moreover, she has a little
twinkle of dry humor even when she feels
deeply." - The Outlook.
By Author of " A Luty of France."
The Little Green God.
A Satire on American Hinduism. By CARO-
LINZ ATWATER Mason. 16mo, Cloth, 75 cta.
"There is a world of tragedy in The Little
Green God.' It is cleverly done and
there is a great big reason just wby such a
book as this should be written."
- Los Angeles Express.
Studies in Modern Problems by the Author of
“ The Spiritual Life."
Religion of a Mature Mind.
By Prof. GEORGE ALBERT Coe, Ph.D. 12mo,
gilt top, $1.35 net.
Å brilliant, readable, thought-provoking
discussion of some practical religious prob-
lems in the modern spirit. The essential
truths of evangelical religion in the concep-
tions of to-day. Prof. Coe meets all ques-
tions fairly, searchingly, and with practical
purport.
“The most important contribution to re-
ligious thought for the current year.”
- Chicago Chronicle.
Third Edition.
Faith and Character.
Studies in character building. By NEWELL
DWIGHT HILLI8. 12mo, cloth, 75 cents net.
“What it is to be a Christian, the hindrances
in the way, the correspondences of human
need and divine love, and, lastly, the develop-
ment of the spiritual nature, are here shown
with simplicity and persuasiveness."-Oullook.
Fourth Edition.
Musings by Camp-Fire
and Wayside.
By Dr. W. C. GRAY, late editor of The Inte-
rior. Deckle-edge paper. Illustrated by
duo-prints from photographs taken by Dr.
Gray. 8vo, 350 pages, cloth, $1.50 net.
"I have been reading Dr. Gray's book with
a great delight. It breathes the spirit of the
woods, and it is full of true religion. This, it
seems to me, is a happy combination. I like
Christianity best with an outdoor flavor."
- Henry van Dyke.
By James M. Ludlow, D.D., Lill.D.
Incentives for Life:
Personal and Public.
By Author of “ Deborah," "The Captain of
the Janizaries," etc. 12mo, $1.25 net.
Discusses the determining factors in a life
of purpose. Progressive, comprehensive and
versatile. Practical because of its concrete-
ness; pbilosophical because it deals with
basal truths. The abundance of metaphor
and illustration gives it vivacity, and renders
it stimulating and suggestive.
>
Of Special Interest.
By the Author of “Baby Goose."
The Gift of the Magic Staff,
The Story of Paul's Journey in Two Wonder.
lands. By FANNIE E. OSTRANDER. Illus.
trated, $1.00 net.
An ideal blending of the healthfully fan-
ciful fairy element with the healthful teach
ing elementary morals. In a most entertain.
ing way Miss Ostrander takes the child
through many delightful experiences.
By Author of "Araminta and Arabella."
The Queen of Little Barry-
more Street.
By GERTRUDE SMITH. 75 cents net.
“Leaves an inexplicably pleasant impres-
sion. There is a note of joyousness, rare in
modern books, that is kept up consistently
throughout, and a pretty picture of a per.
fectly happy little girl that gives the book
distinction." - The Sun.
Rollicking Rhymes for
Youngsters.
By Anos R. WELLS. Illustrated in colors by
L. J. Bridgman. 4to, cloth, illustrated,
$1.00 net.
L. J. Bridgman, whose unique illustrations
in “Guess," last year made him famous, has
united with Amos R. Wells to produce this
ideal child's book. Mr. Wells is already well
known as a writer for children.
An Idealized Study of the Human Body.
The Story of a Living Temple.
By F. M. and M. H. ROSBITER. $1.00 net.
“One of the few works that can be put
into the hands of young people with propriety
and positive benefit.” – Detroit Pree Press.
" It is a success both as a piece of liter
ture and as a scientific work."
Christian Advocate.
The Story of the Life of Frances E, Willard.
An Uncrowned Queen.
Told for young people by Mrs. BERNIE BAB
COOK. 12mo, cloth, with portrait, 750. net.
Filled with great deeds, of great purposes
accomplished, the history of Miss Willard's
life needed but the sympathetic, delicate
touch of Mrs. Babcock to produce a book of
fascinating interest and inspiration.
A Real Good Story with a Great Purpose for
the Young and Young-Minded of
from Seven to Seventy.
The Red Box Clew.
By J. BRECKENRIDGE ELLis, author of “The
Dread and Fear of Kings," etc. 12mo,
cloth, 75 cents net.
Wholesome, powerful, interesting and help-
ful. It is healthy reading for boy or girl, and
even the older folks would be compelled to
follow the intricacies of its plot and the study
of its admirably drawn characters.
For all who lore Sinbad the Sailor and his
strange country.
Topsy-Turvy Land.
Arabia pictured for children. By SAMUEL M.
and Amy E. ZWEMER. 8vo, illustrated, 75
cents Det.
This strange country is Arabia, where,
judged by our way of looking at things, man.
ners, customs and everything else looks topsy.
turvy: Written in a vivacious and simple
way, full of fun-in-earnest.
“Since 'Bob, Son of Battle, no better study
of dog nature." Outlook.
My Dogs in the North Land.
By EGERTON R. YOUNG. Ilustrated and deco-
rated. 12mo, cloth, $1.25 net.
“We are strongly tempted to characterize
it as the best book about dogs that we have
ever read.
There are reasons in plenty for
this judgment. We most enthusiastically com-
mend the book to all dog lovers. It will delight
them beyond measure. - Syracuse Herald
Reminiscences of Early
Chicago.
By EDWIN O. GALE. Illustrated by twenty
reproductions of scenes of early Chicago by
W. E. S. Trowbridge. 8vo, cloth, $2.00 not.
To the older residents of Chicago these
reminiscences will have a special interest. To
the younger Chicagoans and the later comers
this record of achievement will be scarcely
less interesting and rather more inspiring.
CHICAGO:
A Descriptive List of One Hundred New Titles added to our list in 1902 TORONTO:
63 Washington St.
will be sent postfree to any address.
27 Richmond St.
NEW YORK:
at
168 Fifth Avenue. FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY Also aun London
and Edinburgh,


-64
[Feb. 1,
THE DIAL
" The novels he has left behind him are sufficient for his fame."
-W. D. Howells, in North American Review.
THE PIT
Τ
The Epic of the Wheat
A Story of a Woman's Love and Its Entangle-
ment with a Colossal Speculation in Chicago.
By the late FRANK NORRIS
EDITOR'S EASY CHAIR in Harper's Monthly: “Mr. Norris made the epic poetical
again, and imbued it with the strong, fiery spirit of the California air."
The Publishers Believe this Novel to be One of the Most Dramatic and
Vital Pictures of Active American Life Ever Published. ($1.50.)
“In our generation he had no peer.”_Owen Wister, in The Saturday Evening Post.
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS
34 UNION SQUARE, EAST, NEW YORK
PUTNAM'S NEW PUBLICATIONS
ST. AUGUSTINE AND HIS AGE
By JOSEPH MCCABE, author of "Peter Abélard," etc. With portrait, 8vo, net, $2.00. (By mail, $2.20)
In his latest work, Mr. McCabe brings to bear the same thoroughness of research, the same vigor and reasoning, and the same
attractive style that characterizes the "Abélard " volume. His point of view is not that of eulogist or of the religious disputant. Rather
his aim is that expressed by the title to present a picture of the man, Augustine, and the time in which he lived.
The Egregious English The American Republic and Its Government
By ANGUS MONEILL. 12mo, uniform with Crosland's By JAMES ALBERT WOODBURN, Professor of American History and Pol-
"Unspeakable Scot,"' nel, $1.25. (By mail, $1.35). itics, Indiana University. 8vo.
Mr. MONEILL'S book is a vigorous and amusing na- An analysis of the government of the United States with a consideration of
tional counter thrust to “The Unspeakable Scot." its fundamental principles and of its relations to the states and territories.
ANTHOLOGY OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE
From the Earliest Times to the Present Day. BY LEO WIENER, Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages, Harvard University, author
of “History of Yiddish Literature," " Songs from the Ghetto," etc. In two parts. Each complete in itself and indexed. Part I.
From Earliest Times to the Close of the Eighteenth Century. (Ready.). Part II. The Nineteenth century. (Ready in March.)
Each 8vo, nel, $3.00. (By mail, $3.25.)
Referring to Part I, The London Speaker said: "We wish to give a hearty welcome to this meritorious and carefully prepared
work of Prof. Wiener. It will enable an ordinary reader to get a considerable idea of what the Russians have done in literature.
We shall look forward with pleasant anticipations to the coming volume."
Mediæval India Under Mohammedan Rule 10,000 Words Often Mispronounced.
By STANLEY LANE-POOLE. No. 65 in “The Story of the
A Revised and Enlarged Edition of "7,000 Words Often Mispro-
Nations." 12mo. Fully illustrated. Nel, $1.35. Half leather,
nounced," with a supplement of 3,000 Additional Words. A
complete handbook of difficulties in English pronunciation, in-
net, $1.60. (Postage 15c.)
cluding an unusually large number of proper names, and words
The history of Mohammedan conquest always reads like from foreign languages. By W. H. P. PHYrk. 16mo, 59th
romance. After the Muslim tide was checked in the West, it
thousand, net, $1.00.
turned upon India; and for six centuries the Hindus submitted to Among those who have cordially commended this work may be
Mohammedan kings. How the conquest was accomplished, and named: Geo. William Curtis, Donald G. Mitchell (Ik Marvel),
how the will of a small, fanatical minority was imposed upon the Edwin Booth, Henry Irving, Lawrence Barrett, William D.Whitney,
Hindu millions, form the subject of this book.
John L. Stoddard, etc., etc.
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS, New York and London


1903.)
66
THE DIAL
SOME RECENT BOOKS FOR LIBRARIES
Published by HENRY HOLT & CO.
29 West 23d St., NEW YORK,
378 Wabash Ave, CHICAGO.
Gordy's POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, Vol. I., Federal Period, 1783-1809. Vol. II., 1809-1828.
581 pp. 12mo. $1.75 net (postage, 14 cents). Vol. III. will cover the years 1829-1860, and Vol. IV. from 1860 to the inauguration of Hayes.
"This admirable work. ... Our political history has never been recounted in a more fair-minded way." – New York Sun.
Edgren's ITALIAN AND ENGLISH DICTIONARY. With Pronunciation and Brief Etymologies. By Prof.
HJALMAR EDGREN, recently of the University of Nebraska, assisted by GIUSEPPE Broo, D.C.L., of the University of Rome, and John L. GERIG,
A.M., of the University of Nebraska. 576+452 pp. 8vo. $3.00 nel.
"It marks an advance over all other Italian-English dictionaries." - Prof. J. D. M. Ford of Harvard.
Thomas's THE LIFE AND WORKS OF SCHILLER. By Prof. CALVIN THOMAS. Student's Edition. 12mo. $1.50 net.
“The first comprehensive account in English of Schiller's life and works which will stand the test of time. . . . It can be enjoyed from
beginning to end." --- Nation.
THE POEMS OF SCHILLER. Translated by E. P. ARNOLD-FORSTER. 361 pp. 12mo. $1.60 net; by mail, $1.72.
A New and Comprehensive Edition of Schiller's Poems, exclusive of his Dramas.
“The book looks well, and the versions are the best there are - the best, I should think, that any one will ever make." - Prof. Calvin
Thomas of Columbia.
Bemont & Monod's MEDIEVAL EUROPE. 395-1270. Translated by MARY SLOAN. Edited by Prof.
GEORGE B. ADAMS. 2d. Impression. 556 pp. 12mo. $1.60 net.
The original work is well-nigh universally regarded as the best general account of the period it covers to be found in any language.
Beers's ENGLISH ROMANTICISM. XVIII. Century, $2.00. XIX. Century, $1.75 net (postage, 15 cents).
Hertwig's MANUAL OF ZOOLOGY. Translated from the Fifth German Edition. By Prof. J. S. KINGSLEY, 704 pp.
880. $3.00 net. Perhaps the best one volume authoritative review of its subject. Part First of this work was translated by Prof. G. M. Field,
under the title General Principles of Zoology. $1.60 net.
Cheaper Editions of Three Standard Works.
Kerner & Oliver's NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. With over 2,000 Original Illustrations. 777+983 pp.
2 Volumes. 4to. $11.00 net.
Taine's ENGLISH LITERATURE. With 28 Portraits. 4 Volumes. $6.00.
Lavignac's MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. Illustrated. $1.75 net; by mail, $1.95.
THE CLARENDON PRESS
The Arab Conquest of Egypt and the
Last Thirty Years of the
Roman Dominion
By ALFRED J. BUTLER, D.Litt., F.S.A. With maps and
plans. 8vo, cloth, $5.35.
The Harmonics of Aristoxenus
Edited, with Translation, Notes, Introduction, and Index
of words, by HENRY S. MACRAN, M.A, Cloth, $3.50.
Dante La Divina Commedia
Text by F. MOORE. Commentary by H. F. TOZER.
In response to several suggestions, it has been decided to
divide Dr. Moore's text of La Divina Commedia, and
Mr. Tozer's notes thereon, into three parts each. They
can now, therefore, be purchased as follows:
Inferno Text
Purgatorio Text 75 cents each.
Paradiso Text
COMMENTARY to each of the above, $1.00 each.
A History of Agriculture and Prices
in England
From the year after the Oxford Parliament (1259) to the
commencement of the Continental War (1793). Com-
piled entirely from original and contemporaneous rec-
ords by JAMES E. THOROLD ROGERS. Edited with
sundry additions by one of his sons. Vol. VII. (com-
pleting the work) in 2 parts. 8vo, cloth. $12.50.
Also published by Henry Frowde:
Select Passages from the Introductions
to Plato
By BENJAMIN JOWETT, late Master of Balliol College and
Professor of Greek in the University of Oxford. Edited
by Lewis Campbell, M.A., LL.D. 16mo, cloth, 85 cents.
“A wish has often been expressed that the late Master of
Balliol's Introductions to his translations of the Platonic Dialogues
might be published in a separate form. This step has hitherto
been prevented by considerations which it is unnecessary to men-
tion here. But it was thought that a select number of significant
passages in which Professor Jowett had made Platonic interpreta-
tion the vehicle of his own thoughts might be of interest and use to
many persons, for whom the examination of five octavo volumes
might seem too formidable a task." - From the Preface.
Select Passages from the Theological
Writings of Benjamin Jowett
Edited by LEWIS CAMPBELL, M.A., LL.D. 16mo, cloth,
85 cents.
}
Appian Civil Wars: Book I.
Edited, with notes and map, by J. L. STRACHAN-
DAVIDSON. 8vo, cloth, 90 cents.
FOR SALE BY ALL BOOKSELLERS-SEND FOR CATALOGUE
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS-AMERICAN BRANCH
91 & 93 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK


66
[Feb. 1,
THE DIAL
LONGMANS, GREEN & Co.'s NEW BOOKS
Charlotte Brontë George Eliot
Jane Austen
Studies in Their Works. By Henry H. BONNELL. 8vo.
486 pages. Net $2.00; by mail, $2.17.
I. Charlotte Brontë, (a) Her Realism, (b) Her Attitude towards
Nature, (c) Her Passion.
II. George Eliot, (a) Her Religion and Philosophy, (b) Her Art,
(c) Her Sympathy: Further Considered.
III. Jane Austen, (a) Her Place, (b) Her Wonderful Charm.
The Life and Letters
of the Right Honorable
Friedrich Max Müller
Edited by His Wife. With 6 full-page Photogravure
Illustrations (3 Portraits). In two volumes, large crown
8vo. Vol. I., 548 pages. Vol. II., 501 pages. Net $6.00;
by express, $6.50.
EXTRACT FROM PREFACE
“It may be thought that the publication of these two volumes is
superfluous after the two works, 'Auld Lang Syne,' and the Auto-
biography,' written by Max Müller himself. But it seemed that
something more was wanted to show the innermost character of the
real man; for Auld Lang Syne' gave recollections of his friends
only, 'a small portion of the panorama of life that passed before'
his eyes; and the Autobiography' is but a fragment, bringing us
little beyond the threshold of his career. The plan pursued through-
out these volumes has been to let Max Müller's letters and the
testimony of friends to his mind and character speak for themselves,
whilst the whole is connected by a slight thread of necessary
narrative."
The River War
An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan.
By WINSTON SPENCER CHURCHILL, M.P. Edited by
Colonel F. Rhodes, D.S.O. NEW AND REVISED EDI-
TION. In one volume. With Photogravure Portrait of
Viscount Kitchener of Khartoum, and 22 Maps and
Plans. 8vo. $4.00.
Edward Bowen: a Memoir
With Appendices. By the Rev. the Hon. W. E. BOWEN.
With three Photogravure Portraits and other Illustra-
tions. 8vo. $5.00.
The subject of this memoir was the well-known Assistant-Master
at Harrow, and the author of "Harrow Songs."
The Characters of Theophrastus
A New Translation, with Introduction, etc.
By CHARLES E. BENNETT and WILLIAM A. HAMMOND,
Professors in Cornell University. 16mo. 129 pages.
90 cents net; by mail, 95 cents.
This new translation of “The Characters of Theophrastus" is
intended not for the narrow circle of classical philologists, but for
the larger body of cultivated persons who have an interest in the
past. The fact that the three prior translations of this book are now
out of print seems to justify the preparation of the present work.
An Essay on Laughter:
Its Forms, its Cause, its Development, and
its Value.
By JAMES SULLY, M.A., LL.D., author of "The Human
Mind : Text-book in Psychology," "Outlines of Psy.
chology," "Studies of Childhood," " Children's Ways,"
etc. 8vo. $4.50 net; by mail, $4.64.
“Is it possible to get at a working hypothesis as to the cause of
laughter, -
- to be able to explain, that is, in terms however vague
and general, the nature of the mainspring which excites a manifes.
tation of human emotion, sometimes pleasant, sometimes con-
temptuous, sometimes triumphant, sometimes fiendish? No more
thorough answer — though perhaps no complete answer will ever
be given to that question has yet been published than that of
Professor James Bully
not the first writer, of course, to
propound a 'theory of laughter,' but he is perhaps the first, so far
as we are concerned, to give us something near a satisfying proposi-
tion." - The Spectator (London).
1
The Athenian Drama
A Series of Verse Translations of the Greek Dramatic
Poets, with full Commentaries and Explanatory Essays
for English Readers.
NEW VOLUMES
VOLUME II. -SOPHOCLES: OEDIPUS TYRYNNUS and
COLONEUS and ANTIGONE. By Prof. J. S. PHILLIMORE.
With an introduction on "Sophocles and his Treatment of
Tragedy,” and 18 Illustrations from Ancient Sculpture and
Vase Painting. Crown 8vo. Gilt top. $2.00.
VOLUME III. – EURIPIDES: HIPPOLYTUS, BACCHE,
Aristophanes's FROGS. By Prof. GILBERT MURRAY,
With an Introduction on "The Significance of the Bacchæ
in Athenian History," and 12 Illustrations from Ancient
Sculpture and Vase Painting. Crown 8vo. Gilt top. $2.00.
ALREADY PUBLISHED
VOLUME I. - ÆSCHYLUS: THE ORESTEAN TRILOGY.
By Professor WARR. With an Introduction on “The
Rise of Greek Tragedy." Crown 8vo. 274 pages. Cloth,
gilt top. $2.00.
Station Studies
Being the Jottings of an African Official.
By LIONEL PORTMAN. Crown 8vo. $1.50 net.
Traces of the Elder Faiths of
Ireland
A Folklore Sketch.
A Handbook of Irish Pre-Christian Traditions. By W. G.
Wood-MARTIN, M.R.I.A., author of “The Lake Dwell-
ings of Ireland," etc. Two volumes. 8vo. $12.00.
"Judged as an uncritical collection of material upon Irish folk-
lore, it is both of value and interest. It represents a long labor of
compilation, and the bibliography alone (comprising over nine hun-
dred entries) would merit grateful recognition.
His work
thus furnishes a valuable supplement to the older Irish writings."
- New York Evening Post.
Historical Introductions to the
“Rolls Series"
By WILLIAM STUBBS, D.D., formerly Bishop of Oxford,
Regius Professor of Modern History in the University.
Collected and Edited by Arthur Hassall, M.A., Student,
Tutor and sometime Censor of Christ Church, 8vo. $5.00.
.
LONGMANS, GREEN & CO., 93 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK


1903.)
67
THE DIAL
1902 BOOKS FOR THE LIBRARY 1902
Send for Complete
Send for Illustrated Announce-
New Catalogue-free.
BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY.
ment of New Books-free.
Alexandre Dumas (père)
The Ancestor.
King Arthur.
By ARTHUR F. DAVIDSON. Illus. Vols. I., II., and III. Illus. Large By CHARLES MORRIS. Historical
8vo. $3.76 not (postage 17 cents). superroyal. $1.50 net per part. Tales Edition. Illustrated, 3 vols.
The Book of Beauty.
The English Cathedrals.
8vo. $1.80.
Edited by F. H. WILLIAMSON. By Rev.P.A. 'DITCHFIELD. Illus- New York: Old and New.
Illus. Folio. $35.00 pet.
trated. Small 12mo. Cloth, $2.00 By Rufus ROCKWELL WILSON.
Pintoricchio. His Life, Work, net; limp loather, $2.50 net.
2 vols. Illustrated, 12mo. Buck-
and Time.
Historic Houses of New Jersey.
ram, $3.50 net; half morocco,
By CORRADO Ricci. Illustrated.
By W. J. MILLS. Illustrated. 8vo.
$7.00 net (postage, 30 cents).
Large imperial quarto. $20.00 net.
$5.00 net (postage, 20 cents). True History of the American
Social Life in the Early Republic. The Sectional Struggle.
Revolution.
By ANNE H. WHARTON. Illustra-
By SYDNEY GEORGE FISHER.
ted. 8vo. Buckram, $3. net; half
By CICERO W. HARRIS. Part 1.
Illustrated. 8vo. $2.00 net; half
levant, $6. net (postage, 18 cents).
8vo. $2.50 net (postage, 16 cents).
levant, $5.00 net (postage, 12c.).
LITERATURE AND MUSIC.
Confessions of a Violinist. Poe's Works.
The Essays of Elia.
By DR. T. L. PHIPSON. 12mo. New Style. 8 vols. Illus. 12mo. By CHARLES LAMB. Illus. by Garth
$1.50 net (postage, 10 cents).
Cloth, $8.00; half morocco, $20.00. Jones, Crown 8vo, Cloth, $3.50 net;
Delight: the Soul of Art. Poetical Works of John Keats.
half levant, $6. net (postage, 17c.).
By ARTHUR JEROME EDDY. Illug. New style. 3 vols. Illus. 12mo. The Opera.
12mo. $1.50 net (postage, 10c). Cloth, $4.50; half morocco, $10.00. By R. A. STREATFEILD. Enlarged
Infelicia.
Stories of Authors' Loves.
Edition. Cloth, $2.00; half levant,
By ADA I8AACS MENKEN. Red
By CLARA E. LAUGHLIN. Illus.
$4.50.
Line Edition. Frontispiece. 12mo. Two vols. 12mo. Buckram, $3.00 The Thousand and One Nights.
$1.50.
net; three-quarters morocco, $6.00 Special Edition. Illus. 16mo. 6
Symphonies and their Meaning net (postage, 22 cents).
vols. $10.00.
By PHILIP H. GOEPP. First Series. The Compleat Angler.
The Old Court Suburb.
12mo. $2.00 net (postage, 12 cents).
By WALTON and COTTON. Edited By LEIGH Hunt. Edited by Aus-
Symphonies and their Meaning by G. A. B. DEWAR. Illustrated. TIN DOBson. Illus. Square 12mo.
By P. H. GOEPP. Second Series. 8vo. 2 vols. $12.50 net; 2 vols. 2 vols. $12.50 net. 2 vols. Large
12mo. $2.00 net (postage, 12 cents). Large paper, $35.00 net.
paper, $35.00 net.
SCIENCE AND RELIGION.
Four Princes; or, The Growth Prayers and Thoughts for the In the High Heavens,
of a Kingdom.
Use of the Sick.
By SIR ROBERT S. BALL. Cheaper
By JAMES A. B. SHERER, Ph. D. By Lucy FORNEY BITTINGER. Edition. Illus. 8vo. $1.50 net.
12mo. $1.25 net (postage, 9 cts.). 12mo. $1.00 net (postage, 6 cts.). Bartholomew's Atlas (Meteor-
Our Risen King's Forty Days. Mother and Child.
ology).
By GEORGE DANA BOARDMAN. By EDWARD P. Davis. Illustrated. Illustrated. Demi Folio. $17.50 net.
12mo. $1.25 net (postage, 10 cts.). 12mo. $1.50 net.
Central and South America.
Romance of Modern Invention. Great Astronomers.
Stanford's Compendium.
By ARCHIBALD WILLIAMS. Illus. By Sir ROBERTS, BALL. Cheaper EUROPE. Vol. II. Illustrated.
12mo. $1.50 net (postage, 12 cts.). Edition. Illus. 8vo. $1.50 net. Large crown 8vo. $4.50.
Send for New Ethaustive Catalogue of Scientific Books free.
SPORT AND TRAVEL.
The Night Side of London. Table Tennis and How to Play Two Thousand Miles on an
By ROBERT MACHRAY. Illas, it (Ping Pong).
Automobile,
8vo. $2.50 net (postage, 21 cents). By M. J. G. RITCHIE and WALTER By "CHAUFFEUR" (A.J. EDDY).
Home Life of the Borneo Head- HARRISON. Illus. Sq. 16mo. 50c. Illus. 8vo. $2. net (postage, 13c.).
Hunters.
The Giant Fish of Florida. Yachting
By WILLIAM H. FURNESS, 3d. By J. TURNER TURNER. Illus. By JULIUS GABE. Illustrated. 8vo.
Illus. 8vo. $7.50 net (postage, 32c.). 8vo. $3.50 net (postage, 18 cents). $2.50 net (postage, 13 cents).
BOOKS OF REFERENCE.
Allibone's Dictionary of Au- Dictionary of Foreign Phrases. Lippincott's Pronouncing Ga-
thors.
By Hugh PERCY JONES. New zetteer of the World.
5 vols. Imperial 8vo. Cloth, $17.50;
Edition, 12mo. $3.00.
2 vols. Buckram, $15.00; half Rus-
half morocco, $37.50.
General History Way Marks. sia, $17.50; half morocco, $20.00.
Chambers's Biographical Dic- By CHARLES C. BOYER. 12mo. 650. Soule's Synonymes.
tionary.
Handy Book of Synonymes.
Crown 8vo. Half leather, $2.50.
8vo. Half leather, $2.00.
Cloth, 50 cents.
Worcester's New Primary Dic-
Chambers's Concise Gazetteer. History of the Central High tionary.
8vo. Half leather, $2.00.
School.
Rewritten and Enlarged. Illus-
Chambers's Cyclopædia of
By F. S. EDMONDS. Illustrated. trated. 16mo. 50 cents.
English Literature.
Yearsin's Phono-Rhythmic.
Vol. 2. New Edition. Illustrated. Jenkins's Vest Pocket Lexicon.
8vo. $2.00 net.
French Method, Revised, Ilus-
8vo. $5.00 net (carriage extra). Limp leather, 60 cts.; tuck, 75 cts. trated. 12mo. $1.25.
Send for Complete J. B. LIPPINCOTT CO., Philadelphia
Send for Illustrated
Catalogue-free.
Announcement-free.


68
(Feb. 1,
THE DIAL
HARPER'S FEBRUARY BOOKS
In the
Garden of Charity
The
Pride of Tellfair
By
>
By
Basil KING
Author of « Let Not Man Put
Asunder."
Entirely different from this author's
former success. It deals with the
people of the rugged Nova Scotian
coast. That very ruggedness has de-
veloped the character traits of the
people portrayed in the novel.
Charity Pennland, her soldier-hus-
band, his mock-marriage wife, a
charming half-Greek, are the lead-
ing figures in the story.
$1.50
ELMORE ELLIOTT PEAKE
Author of “ The Darlingtons."
A story of northern Illinois. Love,
law, politics, and gossip of a coun-
try town form the framework of a
strong love story of a clever young
Western lawyer, who manages his
love affairs with the same astuteness
and ability which he has carried
into his profession.
$1.50
SIX TREES
By MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN
Author of " The Portion of Labor," etc.
In these sketches Mrs. Wilkins Freeman blends the associations of the New England trees
with the life of the people depicted, showing how intimately one is bound up with the other.
Reverting, as they do, to the scenes of the author's earlier work, these stories are certain of
the popularity which was accorded “ A New England Nun," and “ A Humble Romance
Illustrated by Broughton. $1.25
The
Mystery of Sleep
The
New Boy at Dale
a
By
John BIGELOW
Author of “ Life of Tilden," etc.
Mr. Bigelow's argument in this in-
teresting volume is that sleep is not
merely a restoration of wasted physi-
cal energies, but a period in which,
and the agency through which, man's
nobler self is made receptive for the
flow of divine life into the spirit.
New Enlarged Edition.
$1.50
By
CHARLES EDWARD Rich
A book of rare interest for boys and
girls. The story is of a boy stolen
from his home when very young, his
escape
from his captor, life in a circus,
rescue of a little girl, and his coming
to Dale School. His school life is
filled with exciting adventures. The
book is one which should rank with
the stories of Kirk Munroe and
James Otis.
Illustrated by Florence Scovel Shinn.
$1.25 net
HARPER & BROTHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE, NEW YORK


1903.)
69
THE DIAL
E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY'S
NEW BOOKS FOR LIBRARIES
Round the Horn Before the Mast
By A, BABIL LUBBOCK. Illustrated. 8vo, $2.00 net.
"A very realistic book, with a note of genuineness.
... He
offers a faithful picture of life on shipboard day by day that has the
freshness and breeziness of the sea in it. It is a book that true lovers
of the sea, old and young, should read and enjoy." - N. Y. Sun.
The First Volume in
The Temple Biographies
Now Ready
MAZZINI. By BOLTON KING. Illustrated, 8vo, $1.50 net.
To be followed by
G. F. WATTS. By Hugh MACMILLAN.
The Despatches of Field-Marshal
the Duke of Wellington
During His Campaigns in India, Denmark,
Portugal, Spain, the Low Countries,
and France, and Relating to
America from 1799 to 1815
Selected and arranged by WALTER WOOD.
8vo, cloth, $3.50 net.
Parliament, Past and Present
The Story of a Thousand Years in the Palace of West-
minster. With 600 Illustrations, including 18 Colored
Plates. 2 volumes. 4to, cloth, $8.00 net.
The authors of this work are experts on parliamentary
subjects. It shows the rise and growth and the life, work,
and social aspects of the Palace of Westminster, its thrilling
events, memorable scenes, pageantries, and ceremonies, and
its gallery of celebrated men.
The History of Siena
By Prof. LANGTON DOUGLAS. With Maps, Photogravures,
and other Illustrations. Large 8vo, $6.00 pet.
“ His study of Sienese art is the most scholarly and sympathetic
that we have had in English." - N. Y. Evening Post.
A Naturalist in Indian Seas;
Or, Four Years with the Royal Indian Marine
Survey Ship Investigator.
By A. ALCOCK, M.B., LL.D., F.R.S., Superintendent of
the Indian Museum, and Professor of Zoology in the
Medical College of Bengal. With Illustrations. Large
8vo, $6.00 pet.
"An exceptionally interesting and important book."- - Daily
News.
“It is altogether a delightful volume
a bright, pictur-
esque, informing book." – Glasgow Herald.
The King's Garden;
Or, The Life of the World to Come,
Compiled by W. M. L. Jay. 12mo, 386 pages, cloth,
$1.25 net.
“To bring together for our enlightenment, comfort, and inspira-
tion, as many as possible of these pictures of the imagination,
combined with more authoritative statements, comments, and con-
clusions, solidly founded on Holy Scripture, is the object of this
book." — Preface.
The Shroud of Christ
By Paul VIGNON. 4to, illustrated, $4.00 net.
The American Edition of this remarkable book, which
has provoked wide discussion in France and England.
Life and Letters of H. Taine
1828_1852
Translated from the French by Mrs. R. L. DEVONSHIRE.
12mo, 326 pages, $2.00 net
“This is a strong, manly, and healthful book - the picture of a
noble mind, reflective, and full of philosophy, particularly instructive
and suggestive in a rushing, struggling, sciolistic age like the
present." — Daily Telegraph.
Constable and His Influence on
Landscape Painting
By C. J. HOLMES. With more than 70 Photogravure
Plates. Edition de Luxe, 10 copies for America, printed
on Japanese Vellum, with Extra Plates, $125.00 net.
Edition, 100 copies for America, $35.00 net.
"The stately folio is beautifully printed, and the large and small
photogravures, with which it is illustrated, show this reproductive
process in perfection. In short it is a volume worthy of its theme."
N. Y. Tribune.
Luca and Andrea Della Robbia
And Their Successors.
By Maud CROTTWELL. Illustrated with 150 Reproductions.
Imperial 8vo, $8.00 net.
A conscientious and thorough study of a remarkable phase of
Florentine Art. The volume is a beautiful example of typography,
the illustrations are lavish and help out well the author's text.
All that is ascertainable has been brought together in a
thoroughly interesting manner." - N. Y. Sun.
The Eldorado of the Ancients
By Dr. CARL PETERS. Fully Illustrated. 8vo, $5.00 net.
"It is like reading a romance." — Boston Journal.
" He has written a narrative of travel, adventure, and incident
which is thoroughly well worth while." - Outlook.
E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY, 31 West 23d St., New York


70
(Feb. 1,
THE DIAL
1
VALUABLE LIBRARY BOOKS
!
1
1
Illustrated Travel, Exploration,
Etc.
Unknown Mexico.
By CARL LUMHOLTZ. Illustrated. 2 vols.
Large 8vo. $12.00 net (expressage additional).
Across Coveted Lands.
By A. HENRY SAVAGE LANDOR. Illustrated.
2 vols. 8vo. $7.50 net.
Through Hidden Shensi.
By FRANCIS H. NICHOLS. Illustrated. 8vo.
$3.50 net (postage 18 cents).
All the Russias.
By HENRY NORMAN. With over 100 illustra-
tions. 8vo. $4.00 net (postage 26 cents).
1
History and Biography
Three Years' War.
By Gen. CHRISTIAAN RUDOLPH DE WET. With
frontispiece portrait, and maps. 12mo. $2.50 net
(postage 26 cents).
Life and Letters of Lady Sarah Lennox,
1745-1826. By SARAH LENNOX. With por-
traits. $4.00 net.
The American Merchant Marine.
By WINTHROP L. MARVIN. 8vo. $2.00 net
(postage 22 cents).
The Private Soldier Under Washington.
By CHARLES Knowles BOLTON. Illustrated.
8vo. $1.25 net (postage 14 cents).
The Fighting Frigate, and other Essays
and Addresses.
By HENRY CABOT LODGE. 12mo. $1.50 net
(postage 12 cents).
New Amsterdam and Its People.
By J. H. INNEs. With illustrations, portraits,
and maps. Large 8vo. $2.50 net (postage 16c.).
Reconstruction and the Constitution.
By Prof. John W. BURGESS. American History
Series 12mo. $1.00 net.
Music in the History of the Western
Church.
By Prof. EDWARD DICKINSON. 8vo. $2.50 net
(postage 16 cents).
Robespierre.
By HILAIRE BELLOC.
With frontispiece por-
trait. 8vo. $2.00 net.
The Great Persian War.
By G. B. GRUNDY. With illustrations and
maps. 8vo. $5.00 net.
The History of English Literature.
By WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY and ROBERT
Morss Lovett. $1.25 net.
1
Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada.
By CLARENCE King. With maps. 12mo. $1.50.
1
Cross Country with Horse and Hound.
By FRANK SHERMAN PEER. Illustrated. 8vo.
$3.00 net (postage 25 cents).
Poetry, Essays, Sociology
A Nonsense Anthology.
By CAROLYN WELLS. 12mo. $1.25 net (post-
age 11 cents).
American Citizenship.
By David J. BREWER. Yale Lectures on the
Responsibilities of Citizenship. 75 cents net
(postage 7 cents).
Shakespeare's Portrayal of the Moral Life.
By FRANK CHAPMAN SHARP, 12mo. $1.25 net
(postage 12 cents).
Shakespeare and Voltaire.
By Prof. T. R. LOUNSBURY. 8vo. $2.00 net
(postage 15 cents).
Philosophy and Religion
Philosophy of Conduct.
By Prof. GEORGE T. LADD, D.D. 8vo. $3 50 net
(postage 20 cents).
The Grounds of Theistic and Christian
Belief.
By Rev. GEORGE P. FISHER, D.D. A New Edi-
tion Printed from New Plates. 8vo. $2.50.
Fragments in Science and Philosophy.
By Prof. J. MARK BALDWIN. 8vo. $2.50 net
(postage 18 cents).
The Citizen in his Relation to the Indus-
trial Situation.
By Rt. Rev. HENRY C. POTTER, D.D. Yale
Lectures on the Responsibilities of Citizenship.
12mo. $1.00 net (postage 10 cents).
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, NEW YORK


1903.)
71
THE DIAL
TSEVATESF THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
ISSUES OF
JUST READY:
THE SOCIAL UNREST
Studies in Labor and Socialist Movements. By JOHN GRAHAM BROOKS
A readable study of "live questions " such as Strikes, Trade Unions, Arbitration, Child Labor, Time Work, the Influence of Machinery,
subjects on many of which no literature is accessible or is but partially applicable to American conditions of the present moment. The
personal observations on which the book is based range over eighteen years, including direct investigation of every important strike in the
anthracite coal regions during that time. Cloth, no, 394 pp., $1.50 net (postage 13 cts. ).
“A more thoughtful discussion of the relations of capital and labor and the future of industry we have not seen. The
author's sympathies are plainly with the workingman, but if he is a radical he is a very conservative radical -- never carried
away by his sympathies, and always clear headed, dispassionate, independent and candid.” – New York Evening Sun.
OUR BENEVOLENT FEUDALISM
By W. J. GHENT
Cloth, 16mo, $1.25 net (postage 8 cts.).
“The author has seized the present moment in American social unrest and set it before us with unexampled clearness and
daring." - Boston Herald.
CONSTRUCTIVE AND PREVENTIVE PHILANTHROPY
By JOSEPH LEE, Vice-President of the Mass. Civic League. With an introduction by JACOB A. RIIS.
Cloth, 16mo, $1.00 (postage 7 cts.).
" A work of real value as a record and of real interest as a study. Its worth is enhanced by the list of special works given
in connection with each chapter, showing where the subject is more elaborately treated. To a useful extent this serves as a
bibliography of some phases of modern philanthropy." — Boston Herald (Editorial).
"
QUEEN VICTORIA A Biography
By SIDNEY LEE, editor of “The Dictionary of National Bi.
ography," etc. With portraits, map, etc., Cloth, 12mo. $3.00 net.
"A volume which may be described deliberately as the most truth-
ful life of a great Queen and the most impartial history of the
Victorian age that has yet been issued from the press." - The Lon-
don Spectator.
LONDON IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
By SIR WALTER BESANT, author of “ All sorts and Con-
ditions of Men," etc. In one volume, demy 4to, cloth, gilt top,
680 pages. Containing 104 Illustrations from Contemporary
Prints and a Map.
Cloth, 4to, $7.50 nei,
MATTHEW ARNOLD'S NOTE BOOKS
With a Preface by the Hon. Mrs. WODEHOUSE and a portrait.
8+187 pp. Cloth, 12mo. $1.00 net (postage 7 cts.).
AROUND THE WORLD THROUGH JAPAN
By WALTER DEL MAR. With over Afty illustrations, chiefly
full-page, from new photographs, etc.
Cloth, 8vo, gilt top, 435 pp., $3.00 net (postage 20 cts.).
BETHLEHEM: A Nativity Play
By LAURENCE HOUSMAN. Performed with Music by
JOSEPH MOORAT under the Stage Direction of EDWARD GORDON
CRAIG, Dec. 1902. Cloth, 12mo, $1.25 net (postage 6 cts.).
LADY DILKE'S WORKS ON FRENCH ART
FRENCH ENGRAVERS AND DRAUGHTS-
MEN OF THE XVIIIth CENTURY
Imperial 8vo, cloth, $10.
Illustrated with ten photogravures and forty half-tone pictures.
Uniform with the following:
THE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN KEATS
Edited with Introduction and Memoir by WALTER S, SCOTT.
Revised by GEORGE SAMPSON.
632 pp. Cloth, 12mo (Globe Poets) $1.75.
FRENCH FURNITURE AND DECORATION
OF THE XVIIIth CENTURY
Cloth, 8vo, gilt top, $10.
Columbia University Studies in Romance Literature
and Philology
THE INDEBTEDNESS OF CHAUCER'S
TROILUS AND CRISEYDE TO GUIDO
COLONNE'S HISTORIA TROJANA
By GEORGE L. HAMILTON, Professor of Romance Lan-
guages in Trinity College, N. C. Nearly ready.
FRENCH ARCHITECTS AND SCULPTORS
OF THE XVIIIth CENTURY
Cloth, 8vo, gilt top, $10.
FRENCH PAINTERS OF THE XVIIIth
CENTURY
Cloth, 8vo, gilt top, $10.
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY, 66 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK


72
(Feb. 1, 1903.
THE DIAL
BOOKS FOR ALL LIBRARIES
Historic Lives Series.
Father Marquette
By Reuben Gold Thwaites.
Daniel Boone
By REUBEN Gold Thwaites. Each illustrated.
12mo, cloth. $1.00 net; postage, roc. additional.
“No more picturesque figures are to be found in
American history." — Brooklyn Eagle.
Expansion of the Republic Series.
The Louisiana Purchase
By Dr. James K. HOSMER.
Ohio and Her Western Reserve
By Alfred Mathews. Each fully illustrated. 12mo.
$1.25 net; postage, 12 cts. additional.
“Very notable publications." - St. Louis Republic.
Through the Heart of Patagonia
By HESKETH PRICHARD, author of “Where Black
Rules White-Hayti. With twenty illustrations
(some in color) from drawings by J. G. Millais,
author of “ A Breath from the Veldt"; and a large
number of illustrations from photographs. Small
imperial 8vo. $5.50 net; postage, 40c. additional.
Animals Before Man in North
America
THEIR LIVES AND TIMES
By Dr. F. A. Lucas, Curator of the Division of
Comparative Anatomy, United States National
Museum, Washington. Illustrated. 12mo, cloth.
$1.25 net; postage, 12 cts. additional.
1
Third Edition.
My Life in Many States and in
Foreign Lands
By George Francis Train. « Written in the Mills
Hotel in My Seventy-fourth Year." Illustrated.
12mo, cloth. $1.25 net; postage, 120. additional.
“ His book is intensely interesting. .. It is a
remarkable achievement for a septuagenarian legally (?)
classified as insane."—Washington Star.
Autobiography.
The Romance of My Childhood
and Youth
By Mme. Adam (Juliette Lamber). Photogravure
portrait and ornamental title. 12mo, cloth, gilt top.
$1.40 net; postage, 14 cts. additional.
“ A very graceful and engaging book.” - New
York Herald.
a
Appletons Business Series.
Funds and Their Uses
A Treatise on Instruments, Methods, and Institutions
in Modern Finance. By Dr. F. A. CLEVELAND,
of the University of Pennsylvania. Illustrated.
12mo, cloth. $1.25 net; postage, 12c. additional.
“ Dr. Cleveland has undertaken with success to
bring the facts of financial life within the reach of
the reading public."—Wall Street Journal.
Appletons' Business Series.
The Work of Wall Street
By Sereno S. Pratt.
I 2mo, cloth.
$1.25 net;
postage, 12 cts. additional.
Describing thoroughly and conscientiously the vast
and intricate machinery involved in the world's second
financial center. The only book on the subject ever
published giving an impartial view of Wall Street and
its ramifications, wholly free from sensationalism and
axe grinding
Social New York Under the Georges
1714-1776
By Esther SINGLETON, author of " The Furniture
of Our Forefathers," etc. An Account of Houses,
Streets, and Country Homes, with Chapters on
Fashions, Furniture, China, Plate, and Manners.
Profusely illustrated. Royal octavo, gilt top,
boxed. $5.00 net; postage, 30 cts. additional.
The Living Races of Mankind
By H. N. Hutchinson, B. A., F.R.G.S., F.G.S.;
J.W. Gregory, D.Sc., F.G.S.;and R. LYDEKKER,
F.R.S., F.G.S., F.Z.S., etc., assisted by Eminent
Specialists. A popular illustrated account of the
Customs, Habits, Pursuits, Feasts and Ceremonies
of the Races of Mankind throughout the world.
Six hundred illustrations from life. One volume,
royal 8vo. $5.00 net; postage, 65 cts. additional.
D. APPLETON & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK
BOSTON
CHICAGO


THE
DIAL
Semi-Monthly Journal of Literary Criticism, Discussion, and Information.
PAGE
THE DIAL (founded in 1880) is published on the 1st and 16th of
each month. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, $2.00 a year in advance, postage
LIBRARIES AND SCHOOLS.
prepaid in the United States, Canada, and Mexico; in other countries
comprised in the Postal Union, 50 cents a year for extra postage must
It was twenty years ago that the first at-
be added. Unless otherwise ordered, subscriptions will begin with the tempts were made in this country to bring
current number. REMITTANCES should be by draft, or by express or
about a more intimate relation than had before
postal order, payable to THE DIAL. SPECIAL RATES TO CLUBS and
for subscriptions with other publications will be sent on application;
existed between the work of the public library
and SAMPLE COPY on receipt of 10 cents. ADVERTISING RATES furnished and the public school. Dr. Poole of Chicago
on application. All communications should be addressed to
and Dr. Green of Worcester were the pioneer
THE DIAL, Fine Arts Building, Chicago.
experimenters in this field, and they made a
No. 399. FEBRUARY 1, 1903. Vol. XXXIV. special effort to attract to the library classes
of students from the higher grades of the
CONTENTS.
schools, providing for them special collections
of books, temporarily set apart for their inspec-
LIBRARIES AND SCHOOLS
73
tion, and entertaining them with informal
talks about the proper use of libraries. From
MODERN LIBRARY ENTERPRISES. William
Howard Brett .
75
this modest beginning has sprung, as all who
have followed the history of the library move-
COMMUNICATIONS
77
ment are aware, a development of complicated
The Rhythmic Pause in Verse. Condé Benoist
Pallen.
and helpful activities on the part of librarians,
Ricketson's Sketch of Thoreau. Annie Russell having for their general purpose the correla-
Marble.
tion of school and library work, and now
A TIME-SERVING STATESMAN. Percy F. occupying an important place in the modern
Bicknell. ..
78 conception of the librarian's function. The
MODERN SPIRITUALISM. Joseph Jastrow . 79 public library of to-day has a children's de-
A HANDBOOK OF WESTERN BIRDS. Sara A.
partment as a matter of course, and makes it
Hubbard
82
a pleasant place for children to resort to, pro-
viding for them both books and pictures, with
A JOURNALIST OF THE FRENCH REVOLU-
the accompaniment of sympathetic and kindly
TION. Henry E. Bourne .
83
counsel. The same library is alert to follow
RECENT FICTION. William Morton Payne
85
the school course of study, to set apart the
Van Eeden's The Deeps of Deliverance. Dahn's
A Captive of the Roman Eagles. — Besant's No
books most useful in its pursuit, to prepare
Other Way. --- Anthony Hope's The Intrusions of special bulletins and annotated lists for teach-
Peggy. - Marriott's Love with Honour. - Lang's
The Disentanglers.
ers and pupils, to offer opportunities for the
Clouston's The Adventures
of M. d'Haricot. --- A Doffed Coronet. — Carling's
assembling of classes, to encourage groups of
The Shadow of the Czar. - Forman's The Garden teachers bent upon professional culture, and
of Lies.-Crawford's Cecilia.--Turner's The Task-
masters. - Luther's The Henchman. -- Powles's
to facilitate in many other ways the extension
Oliver Langton.-Lynde's The Master of Appleby.
of library privileges to those who are engaged
- Hughes's The Whirlwind.
in the work of the schools.
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS
89 During the earlier phase of this development
New books on American ships and shipping. the essential purpose seems to have been the
Three English women of letters. — The reign of
Queen Anne. The Philosophy of Government.
attraction of teachers and students to the
Town and country life in Italy. - A German short library. During recent years the work has
history of Music. — A bibliography of American
taken on a new phase, having for its controll-
history for 1901–2.- A plea for the lost art of
reading. — A woman's political gossip in letters.-
ing idea the bringing of the library to the
Odds and ends of Stevensoniana.
school. This is a logical outcome of what has
BRIEFER MENTION
92 been learned in most large cities from the
establishment of branch libraries and the de-
NOTES
93
velopment of a special delivery service. The
TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS
most successful public library system is the
LIST OF NEW BOOKS
95 one which is not content with the mere opening
95


74
[Feb. 1,
THE DIAL
-
-
of its doors and the welcoming of those who with the expenditure of a generation ago, will
enter, but undertakes the more active work of in the not far distant future be seen to have
bringing its books into every neighborhood, been niggardly in comparison with what will
and almost into every home. The special then be regarded as both legitimate and
lesson of this experience for educational work
necessary.
is being taken to heart in many progressive It is of course true that the sort of educa-
communities, where the library is now being tional stimulus that we are now considering -
brought into the school instead of standing the stimulus that comes from the large use of
apart and waiting for the school to seek it out. books by both teachers and students — may be
The way of accomplishing this purpose is to gained by having the books permanently in the
grant exceptional privileges to students and schools, and belonging to them, instead of tem-
school officers, to permit books to be taken in porarily, and belonging to the general public col-
larger numbers and kept for longer periods lection. While the time is never likely to come
.
than are allowed the general public. Under when the public library will not be a useful
this system, for example, a teacher of some adjunct to the work of the schools, the time is
subject may be permitted to draw a collection already at hand when the school will be in large
of fifty books at a time, and keep them for a measure independent of outside sources of
whole term, thus incalculably enriching the supply. The school library — not viewed as a a
work done by his class, and giving to every miscellaneous collection of books for reading,
student of the subject an opportunity to sup- but as a carefully selected outfit of tools for
plement his own single text-book with a suc- teaching purposes — already exists in many
cession of others. A second plan, which is places, and will soon be found in many more.
particularly commendable for large cities hav. This library does not seek to include as many
ing many large schools, is that of setting apart titles as possible ; it seeks rather to include an
one room in each school as a special delivery adequate supply of the books that are most .
station, or even as a branch library, with its needed, the number of which need not be very
own well-selected supply of reference books great. It is a library in which all the mem.
and its own special attendant. We anticipate bers of a class may be using the same work at.
important results from the development of this the same time, because a sufficient number of
idea, which would doubtless be put widely into copies are at hand. It is a library plentifully
practice if it were not for the expense involved supplied with such reprints as the “Old South
and the question of service.
Leaflets" and such inexpensive reproductions.
This difficulty appears to be twofold: there of standard literature as may be found in more.
is the question of expense, absolutely con- than one popular paper-covered series. It is.
sidered, and there is the question as to who a library which has for its counterpart in the
should bear it. In our large cities, the library same school the scientific laboratory, with its
board and the school board are usually distinct multiplication of microscopes, and balances,
bodies of coördinate powers. There is thus a
tendency for each of them to desire to shift This last suggestion is the one that most.
needs to be used, because it provides the clear-
any work done for their helpful correlation.
est argument for what is going to be the next.
The school trustees will object to providing great step in school equipment. It is all very
space and heat and light for library purposes, well to talk about the teacher as being the sum,
and the library trustees will as naturally object total of the school, but the most zealous and
to paying the wages of an attendant who would inspired of teachers cannot do the work of
be to all intents and purposes a member of the modern education without the aid of a great.
school staff. This is a real difficulty, but it many material accessories. In the matter of
should not prove insuperable. As far as the this material equipment, our schools do very
question of absolute expense goes, the only well upon what may be called the showy side;
thing to say is that it must be met by the they are apt to have elaborate buildings, and
public in some way if the thing is really worth amply-equipped gymnasiums, assembly-balls,
doing educationally. As President Eliot re- and playgrounds. But the internal equipment
minds us now and then, the public is only just often lags far behind, although it is the most
beginning to realize its responsibilities in the important of all. The department of science
matter of education, and our present expendi- has, indeed, for the most part made its fight
ture, although it seems liberal in comparison and won its victory. A generation ago, it cost


1903.)
75
THE DIAL
a
a
something of a struggle to get a few hundred consideration of practical questions of housing,
dollars expended for scientific apparatus and arranging, shelving, and caring for books; to de-
material, even for a school that might bave cost veloping methods of classification, cataloguing, and
a hundred thousand dollars or more. Now our
accounting; and to regulations and conveniences
for readers. The first steps towards cooperation
good high schools have their scientific labora-
tories as a matter of course, and the appropria- ings of the library associations and elsewhere, of a
consisted of an interchange of views at the meet-
tion for their maintenance has become a matter
comparison of experiments and experiences, and
of unquestioned routine. But today it costs the
of placing freely at the service of all any improve-
same effort to get a few hundred dollars' worth ments or advances in methods and appliances.
of books that it formerly cost to get a meagre This interchange of views was of great value both
supply of apparatus and chemicals. The depart- in promoting a more efficient organization of libra-
ments of history and literature still have to beg ries, and in securing a degree of uniformity of
for their laboratories as the scientific depart methods and materials without which further coop-
ments had to beg for theirs thirty years ago.
eration would have been difficult.
It is not yet recognized that the library of a
The first organized cooperative work was in the
direction of supplying the indexes, catalogues, and
school is the laboratory for all those studies
manuals which are the necessary pathfinders for
which we call the humanities, and is entitled
the investigator and student, and the tools of the
to the same liberal provision. It should be
library worker. Most important among the earlier
made a matter of principle that in every school publications of this sort were Poole’s “ Index to
of the higher grade as much money should be Periodical Literature ” and the Report of the
spent annually upon library material as upon Commissioner of Education on American libraries,
material for the scientific laboratories, and 1876; the first embodying the work of a large
until this principle is universally recognized number of leading libraries, and the second con-
and acted upon, the teaching of the most im-
taining contributions from leading librarians.
The American Library Association, organized
portant group of subjects in any school will be
in 1876, has been of great service to library work.
at a disadvantage. In the development of
It includes in its membership representatives of
school equipment this is the next important libraries in all parts of the United States. There
step to be taken, and there is no good reason have also been organized, mostly within a few
to doubt that the coming generation will find
years past, twenty-two state associations affiliated
the parity practically accomplished. As long with the national organization. The Association
as the present disparity of equipment exists, the has accomplished much through its committee on
historical and literary interests of our public cooperation and its Publishing Board. The latter
school system will have a right to complain of
has issued a valuable series of special bibliographies,
unfair treatment. Meanwhile, to recur to the
the latest and most important being the annotated
list of books on American history, the expense of
subject with which the present discussion start-
which has been borne by Mr. George Iles. A
ed out, much may be done during this period valuable feature of the bibliographies of the A880-
of internal school development by an intelli-
ciation is the annotation, giving critical estimates
gent coöperation between the existing resources of the books included. A cooperative list of chil-
of the two coördinate systems of the public dren's books is now in preparation under the
school and the public library.
auspices of the Association, which will represent
in its selection a consensus of the opinion of chil.
dren's librarians throughout the country. Valuable
series of catalogue cards of important serials are
MODERN LIBRARY ENTERPRISES.
being published by the Association, the copy being
The most important characteristics of the library furnished by some of the larger libraries. The
work of the past two years are the inauguration gift of $100,000 from Mr. Carnegie, wbich was
and enlargement of plans which will tend to more announced at the last meeting, renders possible
effective cooperation in actual work and to make the much additional work of great value, including,
treasures stored up in our larger libraries available probably, the publication of a list of portraits and
to students throughout the country. The coopera- of various reference books which have long been
tion between libraries during the quarter of a cen- projected.
tury previous bas been largely that of laying the By far the most important coöperative library
foundation which has made larger plans possible, work, and one which will, to a large extent, make
and it is interesting to note how step by step the all similar work unnecessary, is the printing and
way has been prepared for the more extensive en- distribution of the catalogue cards of the Library
terprises of the present.
of Congress. The reasons for undertaking this
In the early days, the days of small things, the great enterprise, and the methods adopted for
attention of the librarian was largely directed to carrying it out, are clearly stated by the Librarian


76
(Feb. 1
THE DIAL
With a very
new one.
a
of Congress in a "Handbook of Card Distribution,” catalogue cards are deposited with certain libraries
bearing date of August, 1901. Briefly they are situated in various convenient parts of the country.
as follows:
These deposits are for the purpose of enabling
The catalogues of most American libraries, in- students to ascertain whether works desired for
deed of all of any importance, are in card form. reference are in the Library of Congress; to pro-
These cards, so familiar to most library users, are of mote bibliographical work and uniformity in cata-
bristol board and approximately the size of the loguing; and to enable the depository and other
smaller postal cards formerly in use.
libraries in the vicinity readily to order the cards
few exceptions all the libraries in America use cat- for their own catalogues. The deposits are required
alogue cards of the same size, this uniformity being to be arranged alphabetically in suitable cases, and
one of the invaluable results of the earnest labors of made easily accessible to the public.
the library pioneers, some of whom are still
among
The distribution and use of this great catalogue
our active librarians and are building upon the will, in addition to its other advantages, do much
foundations so wisely laid. Catalogue cards are to promote another important work of mutual help-
either written or typewritten, or, in the case of a fulness among librarians, - that of inter-library
very few of the largest libraries, are printed. Each loans. The idea of loaning books to other libraries,
book has a separate card for the author, the subject, even to those at a considerable distance, is not a
and for the title if noteworthy. Some books may
The most important work of this kind
have fifty separate subject cards, some only one; has been that done in connection with the Library
the average is perhaps five. The preparation of of the Surgeon General at Washington. This valu.
such a catalogue requires the services of an educated able collection of books, consisting of 135,000 vol-
expert, of extensive knowledge and good judgment, umes, has been practically at the service of the
to determine and state accurately the subjects treat- medical profession throughout the country for many
ed, and of a copyist to do the work of writing. This years. In the course of an address at the meet-
work each American library has heretofore been ing of the American Library Association in 1901
doing for itself, at great expense. As already noted, the Librarian of Congress described this work as
something had been done in the way of cooperation
follows:
in this direction, but no comprehensive plan could “The library of the Surgeon General's office - the most
be adopted or carried out from the lack of a central
comprehensive in the world within its special field - sends
bureau adequately equipped for the special purpose
its books to members of the medical profession throughout
the United States, relieving just so much the burden upon
in hand. This central bureau the Library of Con- local libraries ; and it has issued a catalogue which is not
gress proposes to establish.
While the immediate merely in form and method efficient, but is so nearly an ex-
hibit of the entire literature of the medical sciences that it
purpose of printing the cards is for its own use, it
renders unnecessary duplication of cataloguing and analytical
offers to furnish the cards as printed to all Ameri-
work within the field which it covers. This catalogue has
can libraries at the cost of production, which, it is conferred a general benefit not equalled by any bibliographic
needless to say, is an insignificant fraction of the work within any other department of literature. It is per-
cost of producing them separately in each library.
haps the most eminent bibliographic work yet accomplished
The advantages offered by the Library of Con-
by any government. The cost of its mere publication,
which is the cost chargeable to the general benefit, has al-
gress for this work are very great. It has the ready exceeded $250,000."
largest collection of books in the Western Hem- The Librarian of Congress cited this as a valuable
isphere, and is growing more rapidly than any precedent for the same extension of the field of
other library. Of every copyrighted book issued in
usefulness of the Congressional Library and of the
this country it receives free two copies, — usually other Government libraries. The Library of Con-
before the date of publication and in advance of gress has since adopted the plan of loaning books
other libraries, thus permitting the prompt printing to other libraries, and is practically placing its val-
of the cards. It receives a large amount of ma- uable collection at the service of the student and
terial in exchange for its own publications, and is investigator in any part of the country. The con-
at all times buying largely both current and non- ditions of these loans are stated by the Librarian
current works, thus acquiring a large portion of of Congress in an address before the American His-
the material acquired by other libraries. It has a torical Association in December, 1901.
modern printing plant, and an expert cataloguing "If the book is in the NationalLibrary, if it is a' book which
force, and is equipped to produce a catalogue which it is not the duty of the local library to supply ; if it is not at
shall embody the best cataloguing methods, and
the moment needed in Washington, and if it is transportable :
it may, very probably, upon application, be lent to the local
shall be so comprehensive as to meet most of the
library for its use. . . To justify the issue beyond the limits
needs of other libraries throughout the country. of Washington of a rare book, or a book important for refer-
An ingenious and elaborate scheme of distribution ence use and not a duplicate, there must be a somewhat ex-
has been devised which insures the prompt delivery
traordinary need. It must be on the part, not of ordinary
to all subscribing libraries. Libraries are permitted
readers, not of a student whose purpose is merely self-
improvement, but of an investigator whose use of the book
to subscribe for all cards issued, for cards covering will tend to advance the general knowledge."
any particular classes or subjects, or for cards for A similar plan of mutual accommodation by loans
individual books. In addition to those sold to sub- has prevailed among large libraries to a moderate
scribers, a limited number of sets of the printed l but gradually increasing extent for years, and the
)
W


1903.)
77
THE DIAL
the time will come when the student in any part of
the country may have from any collection, how-
ever remote, the free use at his own fireside of any
book which he may need for an important and
worthy purpose. WILLIAM HOWARD BRETT.
:
COMMUNICATIONS.
or
"
courtesy has frequently been extended by some of
the larger libraries to smaller ones whose collections
were not sufficient to enable them to reciprocate in
any way. In his report for 1899-1900 the libra.
rian of Harvard University speaks as follows:
"The usual number of applications from other libraries,
especially college libraries, and from scholars in different
parts of the country, have been received, and the library has
been able to send away 475 volumes in response to these re-
quests. This number is somewhat larger than in any previous
year, but no instance of loss or injury has occurred, and it is
thought that the convenience of college officers and of other
scholars in Cambridge has not been interfered with by the
temporary withdrawal of these volumes."
The last annual report of the Boston Public Li-
brary notes the loan of 461 volumes to libraries
outside the city, and similar work is reported by
other large libraries.
While the number of inter-library loans has
greatly increased during the past year, and is likely
to increase as it becomes more widely known that
such privileges may be had, still they will probably
always form an inconsiderable item of the work of
our libraries. The plan, however, affords a further
possibility of great saving to our libraries. If, as
was pointed out several years ago by the librarian
of Princeton University, a systematic plan could be
adopted, preferably under the direction and leader.
ship of the Library of Congress, by which the con-
tents of our great libraries, particularly the valu-
able sets of periodicals and collections of books on
special subjects, might be made more generally
available, a great saving of expenditure in unnec-
essary duplication might be effected. Most of our
larger libraries have collections of great value upon
special subjects, such for instance as the Avery
architectural collection at Columbia, or the Riant
collection at Harvard. These are unique and can
not be duplicated. By the distribution of catalogues
and a generous system of inter-library loans these
collections may
be put largely at the service of stu.
dents in all parts of the country.
The prospects for developing the sporadic and
somewhat informal work already being done in
inter-library loans into a comprehensive and effect-
ive system, also under the leadership of the Library
of Congress, seems very bright. I state one of
the plans of the Librarian of Congress in his own
words, quoting again from his address before the
American Historical Association :
“The Library is endeavoring to acquire, not merely the
most complete collection in the United States of books about
books, but also the fullest information as to what books
exist in particular collections other than its own. It is
accumulating this in the catalogues of other libraries in book
form and also in card form. It is receiving a copy of every
catalogue card printed by the Harvard, the Boston, the New
York, the John Crerar Library; and it hopes to receive
in print or in manuscript cards covering significant material
in other collections important to research. It will form these
into a great card catalogue of American collections outside
of Washington. It may thus add to its efficiency as a bureau
of information by advising the inquirer, not merely what
literature exists on a given subject, but where the particular
book he needs may most conveniently be found.”
It is not an altogether improbable dream that
THE RHYTHMIC PAUSE IN VERSE.
(To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
May I have a bit of space to enter a brief apologia
for some of my own verse recently criticised in your col-
umns. I am duly appreciative of the kind things your
critic said of my verses, but there is one little point I
would like to clear up, as much for the cause of verse-
making in general as on my own account.
I am indicted for an “incurably defective ear
an "inexcusable carelessness." To either imputation I
plead “not guilty,” so please the Court. The charge is
gathered from the last line in these:
Till chastened love,
Freed from the clogging dross of earthly passion,
Leap a shooting flame upward to Heaven."
My critic kindly avers that “it would have been so easy
to write :
* Leap like a shooting flame upward to Heaven.'"
It would have been easy, but I didn't; and I am not
now convinced of the value of the proposed amendment.
The rhythm of a verse is not marred by the lack of a
syllable, provided the interval of its absence is a nat-
ural pause or rest. I need not refer my critic to
Sidney Lanier's “Science of English Verse," wherein
the rhythmic pause or rest in verse is carefully and sat-
isfactorily expounded. After the word “ Leap" in the
line sub lite, there is a natural rest or pause of the
voice, which fills the rhythmical necessity of the first
measure or foot. I assume of course that verse is
addressed primarily to the ear. I even presume to
think that my line without the "easy" amendment of
the syllable “like,” is stronger and more organic.
Perhaps the many “similarly defective lines,” which
my critic imputes to me, may be found to come
under the same rhythmic law. My interest in seeking
to justify my verse in this regard is not merely per-
sonal, but looks towards the vindication of the art of
verse-making in general. Verse is too often subjected
to the limitations of the older criticism, which rigor-
ously demanded its full quota of expressed syllables
line.
CONDÉ BENOIST PALLEN.
New Rochelle, N. Y., Jan. 22, 1903.
from every
RICKETSON'S SKETCH OF THOREAU.
( To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
In a review of “ Daniel Ricketson and his Friends,"
in your last issue, reference was made by me to Mr.
Ricketson's pencil-sketch of Thoreau as containing
“sufficient hint of the cartoonist to intensify but not
degrade the humor.” At the request of the editors of
the volume, I would say that there was no idea of car-
icature or cartoon in the mind of Mr. Ricketson, but
that the sketch was regarded as a serious likeness of
Thoreau and the only full-length study of his physique.
The lack of skill in drawing, however, has given an as-
pect of unconscious drollery to the portrait.
ANNIE RUSSELL MARBLE.
Worcester, Mass., Jan. 24, 1903.


78
[Feb. 1,
THE DIAL
only nine years before, and the fear lest some
The New Books.
less remote descendant of the family should
appear to claim the lapsed title would seem to
have caused the bestowal of an additional earl.
A TIME-SERVING STATESMAN.*
dom upon the new peer.
No life of Harley having ever been pub- The War of the Spanish Succession was
lished, though Swift intended to write one, dragging out its weary length, and Harley
Mr. Roscoe has rendered history a service by sided actively with the peace party and against
giving a concise and impartial account of the Marlborough and his faction. Meeting with
man and his political career. A consider- opposition in the Lords, he persuaded the
able portion of the Harley Papers, consisting queen to dismiss Marlborough from her service
mainly of letters to and from Lord Harley, and to create twelve new peers in favor of
has lately been published by the Historical
peace; and thus the desired cessation of hos-
Manuscripts Commission; and it is mainly tilities was attained, the treaty of Utrecht,
from these papers, and from other manuscript two years later, crowning this stroke of state-
sources, that the biographer has taken the ma. craft. Forfeiting, we know not how, the good
terial for his book.
will of Lady Masham, the queen's favorite,
Born in 1661, the son of Sir Edward Harley Harley was dismissed from office in 1714.
of Herefordshire, Robert Harley early devel- Some of the reasons alleged strike one as
oped a talent for politics, and was elected to amusingly feminine. It was charged against
.
the first parliament of William and Mary. He him that he neglected all business; that he
showed his interest, but not his skill, in finance was seldom to be understood ; that when he
by starting the ill-fated National Land Bank
did explain himself he could not be depended
in 1696, and later was one of the incorpo- upon ; that he never came to the queen at the
rators of the still more disastrously unlucky time appointed, and when he did come he often
South Sea Company. His knowledge of par- came drunk; and finally, to crown all, that he
liamentary law, a study but little pursued at bebaved toward her with bad manners, inde-
that time, procured him the speakership of the cency, and disrespect. The queen died a few
House of Commons in three successive parlia-days later, and though Harley spoke several
ments. In 1704 he was appointed secretary of times after this in parliament he soon retired
state for the northern department, still retain- to pursue his favorite avocation as a collector
ing his speakership -- a practice now unheard of books and manuscripts, and to enjoy the
-
of — until the dissolution of parliament in society of men of letters. But ere a year had
the following year. Entering public life as a passed his retirement was rudely broken in
Whig and a dissenter, self-interest had gradu- upon by his arrest on the charge of high
ally transformed him into a Tory and a sup- treason, and he exchanged his voluntary seclu-
porter of the established church, though he sion for a forced one of twelve months in the
attempted the impossible in posing as cham- Tower. Here he seems to have called litera-
.
pion of both parties at the same time. Friction ture to his aid and to have passed the time in
with his Whig chief, Godolphin, led to his re- comparative cheerfulness. He was suspected
tiring from the cabinet in 1708. Two years of having secretly negotiated for the restora.
later a turn in the tide of popular favor en- tion of the Stuarts, and was also charged with
abled Queen Anne to restore him to her coun- having exerted an improper influence over the
cils in the capacity of lord chamberlain, then late queen. But his impeachment came to
chancellor of the exchequer, and, soon after, nothing, as the two houses disagreed upon
lord high treasurer. As her most trusted methods of procedure, and he was acquitted
adviser he became virtually prime minister, by the Lords, his prosecutors failing to appear.
though the term was then a new one. A fur- He died in 1724.
ther proof of royal favor was bis accession to As to Harley's character, he has been
the peerage as Baron Harley, Earl of Oxford, branded by some of his contemporaries as the
and Earl Mortimer. The double earldom our blackest of knaves, and extolled by others as
author passes without comment, but a prob- a paragon of virtue. Probably his worst fail.
able explanation is not far to seek. Aubrey ings were irresolution and insincerity. In an
de Vere, twentieth earl of Oxford, had died
age of corruption among public servants he
*ROBERT HARLEY, Earl of Oxford. By E. S. Roscoe.
was comparatively blameless ; but he was an
Illustrated. New York: G, P. Putnam's Sons.
opportunist in politics, and, striving to win


1903.)
79
THE DIAL
and retain the favor of two opposite factions, Harley from Swift's “Inquiry into the Be-
he met the fate to be expected by one who haviour of the Queen's Last Ministry.” The
tries to ride two horses going in contrary di- writer's language is in general laudatory,
rections. He is entitled to our gratitude for although not entirely free from self-contradic-
the fine collection of manuscripts which, gath. tion.
ered at great expense, and added to by his “He was utterly a stranger to fear; and conse-
son, finally came into the possession of the quently had a presence of mind upon all emergencies.
British Museum and so became accessible to
His liberality and contempt of money were such that
he almost ruined his estate while he was in employ-
the public. As to his own contributions to
ment; yet his avarice for the public was so great that
literature, Macaulay calls his verse“ more it neither consisted with the present corruptions of the
execrable than the bellman's "; but Swift says age nor the circumstances of the time. . . . He was
of his state papers that “no man had more
affable and courteous, extremely easy and agreeable in
conversation, and altogether disengaged ; regular in
proper thoughts, or put them in so strong and
his life, with great appearance of piety; nor ever guilty
clear a light.” His intercourse with and pat-
of any expressions that could possibly tend to what was
ronage of Swift and De Foe greatly increase indecent or profane. His imperfections were at least
one's interest in him. He was the first to as obvious, although not so numerous, as his virtues.
press the journalist into the service of politics,
He had an air of secrecy in his manner and counte-
nance, by no means proper for a great Minister, be-
and to make the press a powerful factor in the
cause it warns all men to prepare against it. He often
attainment of political ends. De Foe's fertile
gave no answer at all, and very seldom a direct one.
brain was to Harley an inexhaustible mine of I remember he was likewise heavily charged with
ingenious expedients, and the facile pen of the
the common court vice, of promising very liberally and
author of "Robinson Crusoe"
seldom performing; of which, although I cannot alto-
was at his
gether acquit him, yet I am confident his intentions
patron's service as long as such service prom- were generally better than his disappointed solicitors
ised an adequate remuneration. The always would believe."
impecunious hack was not bashful in his calls Portraits, appendices, footnotes, and index
for money. His eulogy of his benefactor seems add to the value of this scholarly study, whose
to have been dictated by that species of grati- moderate compass is not the least of its merits.
tude which consists in a lively sense of benefits
PERCY F. BICKNELL.
to come; and when the fountain of such favors
ran dry he took to himself no shame for turn.
ing, until its waters again began to play, to a
patron of the opposite party. It was in con-
MODERN SPIRITUALISM.*
nection with the union of Scotland and En-
The story of modern Spiritualism is not only
gland that he rendered Harley the greatest one of the most interesting, but also a deeply
service, travelling from place to place with significant portion of the intellectual history of
tireless energy, and writing meantime for the the nineteenth century. It is a source of grati-
press a series of articles to promote the union. fication that this movement has at length found
In a letter to his chief he summarizes, with
so able and so appreciative an historian as Mr.
characteristic clearness and brevity, the objects Podmore. The qualities required for survey-
of his northern mission.
ing a movement of this kind are many and
“I beg leave, though it be beginning at the wrong to find in one individual. There is needed a
end, to set down how I understand my present business, patience that will take endless trouble to ascer-
as follows:
“1. To inform myself of the measures taking, or
tain the facts, to draw distinctions between the
parties forming, agaiust the Union, and apply myself various men and the various movements that
to prevent them.
together form so composite an aggregate ; there
“«2. In conversation and by all reasonable methods
is needed a critical grasp to distinguish that
to dispose people's minds to the Union.
“-3. By writing or discourse, to answer any objec-
which is important from that which is merely
tions, libels, or reflections on the Union, the English, or subsidiary; and perhaps more fundamental
the Court, relating to the Union.
than either, the capacity to interpret from a
"64. To remove the jealousies and uneasiness of modern scientific standpoint the true inward-
people about secret designs here against the Kirk.””
ness of the phenomena that are recorded.
The letter closes with the customary petition
Although modern Spiritualism is commonly
for pecuniary aid.
supposed to have begun about 1848, one is pre-
As it is far pleasanter, as well as more
MODERN SPIRITUALISM. A History and a Criticism. By
charitable, to think well of a man than other-
Frank Podmore. In two volumes. New York: Imported
wise, let us close with a few sentences upon by Charles Scribner's Sons.
a
rare
a


80
[Feb. 1,
THE DIAL
pared to find that the forms of manifestations trines comes from the religious side, and finds
which then brought the movement into promi- analogy in the beliefs of Sweden borg and his
nence have many and complex historical ante- followers; and finally, scattered elements which
cedents. Mr. Podmore has no difficulty in were absorbed by the spiritualists are to be
tracing the close relation between modern found in the somewhat extravagant doctrines
Spiritualism and certain peculiar phenomena regarding the constitution of the world, its
which at all times have found a place in human properties and destiny, which unorthodox in-
culture. The mediæval tales of possession and dividuals have at all times been ready to set
witchcraft suggest the existence at that time of forth.
unusual individuals who in peculiar and some- It thus appears that modern Spiritualism is
what morbid mental states were apt to exhibit by no means an isolated phenomenon. There
manifestations suggesting a spirit origin. Still were spiritualists before the Rochester knock-
more pertinent is the fact that at all periods the ings, and one of these in particular, Andrew
occurrence of mysterious knocks and rappings Jackson Davis, was directly influential in
is recorded, likewise in the presence of such bringing about a spiritualistic interpretation
nervously constituted persons; these form a of the mysterious rappings. “The raps and
.
common factor in the transcendental procedures movements of tables did not, in the ultimate
recounted in the history of the occult, are, in- analysis, originate anything; they served merely
deed, a direct legacy from the witchcraft of the to confirm a pre-existing belief.”
But it was
middle ages. The German name for them- unquestionably through the displacement of
Poltergeist - has come to be accepted as the the knees and toes of some naughty children,
best generic term to describe the fact with that modern Spiritualism, which is in essence
out implying a theory. Such poltergeist rap- American Spiritualism, finds its starting point.
pings have frequently been heard, and often by There is no need of detailing the checkered
persons of deeply religious belief; the readiness career of those who thus originated a charac-
to receive communication from the spirit land teristic contribution to American life. From
has transformed such rappings into messages the very outset, the mediums' methods were
and then into miracles. The family of John frequently exposed, and the exposure as fre-
Wesley (in 1717) furnishes an illustration quently had little effect upon popular belief ;
closely similar to that which appeared in the while the very tardy confession of the Fox
Fox family in 1848.
sisters was made under circumstances that de-
Another and very significant root of modern prived it of some of its evidential value. Many
Spiritualism finds its way back into ancient others were ready at once to add to the simple
times, but culminates particularly in the ap- phenomena exhibited at Rochester; and the
;
pearance of Mesmer and the Mesmerists who growth of the spiritualistic equipment in the
followed in the train of his - teaching and his way of manifestations was decided and inter-
success. They contributed a theoretical factor esting. The physical manifestations developed
by suggesting the possibility of peculiar forces from the rappings to the movement of heavy
with which some individuals might be sur- objects without contact, and the mysterious
rounded, and by means of which they could introduction of all sorts of trifles, apparently
transcend the normal sense-powers of mankind, as the gift of the gods; then later and espe-
see things at a distance, foretell the future, cially in England, to the moving of tables
prescribe for ills, and in other ways be re- apparently by their own will, and by such
leased from the limitations of sense. Almost movements to the spelling out of messages ;
all of the feats which in later days the spiritu- to spirit writing and speaking through an
alistic mediums performed — excepting the entranced medium; to the various forms of
physical manifestations — can be traced back slate writing, spirit photography, materializa-
to the complex series of movements that fol. tion of the actual forms of the departed, the
lowed the appearance of Mesmer.
transcendence of the physical laws, as by levi.
“For generations the two streams of superstition tation or elongation of the medium himself;
have pursued a parallel course without meeting. The to the mysterious release of the medium from
learned had believed in their fluids, the vulgar in their
knots and cords, and an array of similar
Poltergeists; but whilst the magnetic somnambule had
for the most part eschewed physical phenomena, the
“ cabinet” performances.
naughty children had found the seeing of visions and
This American movement found its way to
trance-speaking too tame to satisfy their ambitions.” England and added to the particular forms of
"
Still another source of the spiritualistic doc- Spiritualism which were there already current.
.


1903.)
81
THE DIAL
a
>
England reacted to the epidemic in a different of their obvious suspiciousness. Mr. Podmore
and very characteristic way; it was a “pale is also willing to concede that almost any form
reflection ” of the American propagandum. of manifestation which distinctly suggests
One of the peculiar English contributions was something outside of the known world of law
that of the combination of phrenology with is worthy of such investigation. This attitude
Mesmerism, which was in turn incorporated is the result of his association with investiga-
with spiritualistic manifestations. Then, again, tions in telepathy made by the English Society
while in America the public performances by for Psychical Research. Mr. Podmore may
paid mediums were the rule, it was rather the be said to be a moderate believer in telepathy;
private mediums by whose influence the move- and this fact becomes apparent at various
ment grew in England. It also expanded points. Many persons will regret that a his-
very much more slowly, and probably would | tory of Spiritualism so entirely adequate in all
never have attained any great notoriety with respects should be marred by an attitude
out the direct stimulus of the American me- towards this problem which most persons would
diums. From this period of widest popularity, consider distinctly unscientific and in this
Spiritualism bas in recent decades declined, connection almost irrelevant. It should not
and indeed changed its form. It became easy be understood that Mr. Podmore at all intrudes
to perceive, as the years went by, a change of the telepathic hypothesis ; on the contrary, his
emphasis from the physical manifestation to self-restraint in this respect is most commend-
the spiritual messages, so that, during the able. But be presents the possibility of tele-
decline, less and less attention was paid to pathy in such a way as to leave at least for a
these trick-like performances of mediums, and portion of the phenomena that mode of expla-
more and more was the evidence for the spir- nation as a final resource.
itualistic belief based upon utterances spoken In speaking of certain manifestations Mr.
in trance, or written down automatically by Podmore says: “The presumption in favor of
the “ control” of the medium. That at va- fraud as an explanation of the physical phe-
rious times, including the most recent, eminent nomena is so overwhelming that it is not
persons have given their adherence, not only appreciably increased by a demonstration of
to the genuineness of some of the physical fraud in any particular case.
With that
phenomena, but likewise to the theoretical logical sentiment one may cordially agree.
explanations offered, is a matter of common Had he abided by it literally, Mr. Podmore
knowledge. The interest in Spiritualism, while would have found therein a justification for
now decidly a small part, when measured by refusing to examine and refute a large num-
numerical representatives, of what it was a few ber of alleged phenomena, which none the less
decades ago, cannot be said to have really dis- he does examine, as though the proofs offered
appeared. There have always been many who were really worthy of investigation. True,
have felt the possibility of some residual phe- this is an error which in the present instance
pomena not explicable by ordinary laws, which may have happy results, for it forestalls any
in a way give some ground for a belief in the criticism of inadequate investigation. On the
supernatural and which possibly demand other hand it fails to appeal to those of accur-
spiritual explanation. Mr. Podmore himself ate habits of thought as a worthy method for
records the experiences with Mrs. Piper as so able a critic as Mr. Podmore to pursue.
among those suggesting such an unaccounted Apart from these defects, if such they be, the
residuum.
most careful critic will find little to object to
Such, in brief, is the story which Mr. Pod- in either of the volumes. Together they form
more tells with great accuracy of detail, with not only an authoritative record of modern
great clearness of exposition, in his two notable Spiritualism, but an unusually able and im-
volumes. But the work is not merely a his- portant contribution to the history of culture
tory; it is a criticism. And the critic's func- in the nineteenth century.
tion is quite as important as the historian's. What then is the verdict of scientific in-
The criticism is logical and patient; Mr. Pod quiry in regard to the true inwardness of the
more's attitude is distinctly a judicial one. phenomena which are associated with modern
He is more than usually open to conviction on Spiritualism ? The physical manifestations
almost any point of the evidence. He is must be put down to fraud, predominantly to
willing to examine, and examine closely, forms intentional fraud. So far as anything was
of evidence which others would dismiss because I done by the mediums that was noteworthy, it


82
(Feb. 1,
THE DIAL
a
66
-
error.
-
-
was nothing more than a performance in which direction of the spiral of some snail shells
the stage conjuror would excel. At times would be reversed.
this explanation appears a little strained and To fraud and credulity we must add self-
seems to outrage one's faith in humanity. It deception, which in its most pronounced form
seems harsh to assign fraud without apparent is to be found in connection with trance states
motive; but in reality the investigation reveals and other types of automatic action. In this
motives for such deception that are a distinct connection psychology has found a means of
contribution to the psychology of the subject. rationalising the associations to be formed
Take the most favorable case discussed in Mr. with the term “ medium so far as the term
Podmore's book, — the phenomena occuring is freed from the taint of the above sources of
in the presence of William Stainton Moses, a
This is a small result, and one much
man of apparently unimpeachable character, more sanely to be arrived at in other ways,
who for many was a pillar of the faith and for so much tedious investigation. To these
whose mediumship is voluminously recorded as the main sources of explanation — and
in the pages of the Proceedings of the Society neglecting the superstition and extravagance
for Psychical Research. Mr. Podmore finds of belief which acts both as cause and as effect
it his duty, and fortunately has the courage, in the spiritualistic propagandum — may be
to record that the only conclusion is that it added some minor and yet suggestive corolla-
was he who tilted the table and produced the ries. In the end, the movement must be
raps : that the scents, the seed pearls, and the classified among the records of human error
Parian statuettes were brought into the room and vagary, with enough psychological worth
in his pockets ; and that the spirit-lights were, mingled with it to rescue it from complete
in fact, nothing more than bottles of phos- vacuity.
phorised oil.” The mitigating sentence in the Possibly this view is the outcome of one's
epitaph is the query whether these and other personal temperament; for Mr. Podmore's
symptoms do not suggest the more charitable final words, after all this painstaking and pro-
hypothesis that Mr. Moses was at least abnor- longed recounting of nauseous fraud, pitiable
mal if not of unsound mind.
deception, and vulgar pretense, are a caution
Apart from fraud, which in this connection that after all there may be still some jewel in
certainly covers a multitude of ills, we must the rubbish-heap; and that we should take a
add the proven powers of creating miracles to lesson from the persistent neglect of the valu-
be ascribed to faulty observation, still faultierable phenomena of hypnotism—which neglect,
memory, prejudice, and credulity. When we however, presents no true analogy to the
are told of a medium sitting with one Mrs. | present case - and not " for the second time,
Guppy “near the fire making up her accounts, throw away the baby with the water from the
when suddenly looking up she found that her bath."
JOSEPH JASTROW.
companion had disappeared, leaving a slight
haze near the ceiling"; that the husband of
Mrs. Guppy on being informed of this mishap
“ remarked that no doubts the spirits had taken A HANDBOOK OF WESTERN BIRDS.*
her, and shortly afterwards went down to
The “ Handbook of Birds of the Western
supper”; and that it was later discovered that
United States," by Mrs. Florence Merriam
the last word written on her accounts before
Bailey, merits words of pure praise. It is a
the spiritual flight was “onions," — we enter
an atmosphere of credulity that has no relation worthy complement to the “ Handbook of the
Birds of the Eastern States," by Mr. Frank
to the world in which sanity moves. From
similar sources we read of a baby writing spirit-
M. Chapman; and in saying this the best has
been said. Mrs. Bailey has wisely followed
guided messages ; and in far more cultured
the plan laid down in the earlier book, which
circles we have records of the floating out of
is a model of clear and compact arrangement;
one window and the return through another of
and by so doing she has established a harmony
the medium's body ; while more pitiable than
between the two treatises which enhances the
either is the picture of a German professor
value of both. Together they fulfil the needs
whose only excuse would be the enfeeblement
of old age -- sitting down with a professional
* HANDBOOK OF BIRDS OF THE WESTERN UNITED
STATES. Including the Great Plains, Great Basin, Pacific
slate-writing expert and hoping that by spirit
Slope, and Lower Rio Grande Valley. By Florence Merriam
aid and the fourth dimension of space the Bailey. Illustrated. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
>


1903.)
83
THE DIAL
-
of the student of North American birds, ren- break of song, and scurrying in affright to the
dering the identification of species inbabiting thicket at the approach of a human footstep.
any quarter of the vast stretch of territory Mrs. Bailey leads her readers to the identi.
lying between the Atlantic and Pacific seas an fication of species by ample and well-defined
easy and agreeable matter.
keys. She aids them also by choice illustra-
Mrs. Bailey was admirably fitted for the tions, comprising thirty-three full-page plates
work she has now accomplished. A sister of by Mr. Louis Agassiz Fuertes, and over six
Dr. C. Hart Merriam, director of the United hundred cuts in the text.
hundred cuts in the text. The bits of biogra-
States Biological Survey, she has had the phy accompanying the summaries of technical
influence of scientific methods in all her inves-characters, distribution, food, and nesting
tigations in the realms of natural history. habits, compress with ingenious art the most
For considerable periods she has been a resi- desirable facts into the limited space allowed.
dent or a traveller in the Western States, not These are not more noteworthy for the intelli-
seldom making one of the party engaged under gence conveyed than for the felicitous language
Dr. Merriam in studying the fauna in dif-employed.
ferent sections, and sharing in the labors, the Mrs. Bailey is fortunate in having the
pleasures, the freedom and restrictions of coöperation of her husband in her scientific
camp life. For years past she has filled a place work. For twenty years Mr. Vernon Bailey
among the authorities in her favorite science, has been employed in the United States Sur.
her several text-books being approved as gen- vey, becoming an adept in field research as in
uine contributions to American ornithology. the use of the pen. A liberal part of the bio-
This latest of her publications crowns her graphical matter presented in the book under
achievements in this direction, and is a noble review bears his signature, and, like the work of
monument to her ability and tireless industry. the chief author, is in a distinctively original
It is an immense territory which her hand- vein. Neither writer is secondary to the other.
book covers, extending from the 100th to the They are co-partners in a common — or, rather,
125th meridian and from the Canadian to the uncommon — fund of knowledge and talent.
-
Mexican boundaries; and we may not be sur- Nearly a hundred introductory pages of the
prised at the richness of its avi fauna. It handbook are occupied with directions for the
includes nearly eight hundred bird forms, sur- preservation of bird skins and eggs; with
passing the number found in the Eastern notes on bird protection, migration, and life
States by more than three hundred. Five zones, with local bird lists, and other valuable
families are embraced in its catalogue which matter prepared by various competent ornith-
have no representative in the East. It excites ologists. Nothing is lacking to complete the
our envy to read the description of sixteen interest and service of the volume.
species of humming-birds dwelling within the
SARA A. HUBBARD.
area surveyed by Mrs. Bailey, while the East
has but one.
We have likewise a single king-
fisher; and three frequent the Western States. A JOURNALIST OF THE FRENCH
Again, of the great sparrow family, numbering
REVOLUTION.*
550 members altogether, 128 reside west of It is an advantage in trying to discern the
the hundredth meridian, and only 53 east of it. character of some decisive event of the French
Not by any means do all the Western birds Revolution to know how it impressed a man
differ materially from those in the Eastern of definite type and experience. What Thomas
States. Many are common to both regions, Jefferson or Gouverneur Morris thought about
while others are marked by such slight degrees the Paris insurrection, for example, may set it
of dissimilarity as to be ranked merely as in its true relations, may add an element of
varieties. Our robin, for example, ranges to interpretation which even a familiarity with
the Pacific coast, but loses meantime some all the details cannot supply. This gives a
characteristics of its Eastern form; wbile, as particular value to a biography of Mallet du
Mrs. Bailey relates, it experiences a decided Pan, one of the most prominent journalists of
change in its habits. With us it is the familiar the period.
“
bird of the door-yard,” rejoicing us with its Mallet du Pan came to Paris in 1783, as
friendly companionship. In the West it is a shy, one of the editors of Panckoucke's newspaper,
wild creature, choosing its home in retired
* MALLET DU PAN AND THE FRENCH RevoLUTION. By
places, rarely betraying its presence by an out- Bernard Mallet. New York : Longmans, Green, & Co.


84
[Feb. 1,
THE DIAL
>
>
the Mercure de France. A Protestant aristo-
A
the struggle. He says the Revolution ended
crat of the republic of Geneva, he brought a by throwing him “into a position of political
clear though unsympathetic intelligence to the antagonism to France, and its excesses betrayed
study of French political conditions. If we him into expressing his opinions of the national
may altogether trust a letter written when he character in harsh and unjust terms.' But he
had cause to doubt the capacity of the French explains this by remarking that “some exag-
for self-government, he could not from the geration and violence of tone . . . are certain
outset see the utility of the Revolution. He
He to be found in a series of secret memoranda
had been convinced, he affirmed, that begun presented to a Cabinet, and published, as his-
“among corrupt men, in a nation full of pre- torical criticism demands, in the exact form
sumption and frivolity, ardent but perverted, in which they were written.”
it would become the scourge of Europe after To what lengths Mallet du Pan's prejudices
being that of France.” In the summer of carried him, his biographer is hardly able fully
1789 he discovered that he had exchanged one to appreciate ; for his own conception of the
sort of censorship for another, and that the Thermidorian period and of the Directory
warnings of district committees and Palais reveals an antagonism not less uncompromising.
Royal groups might be even more ominous French politics were not at this time so uni-
than those of the king's officers. It is not formly ignoble as he pictures. Furthermore,
surprising that, although a republican, he it is not altogether clear why “exaggeration
should in the stress of conflict have been and violence of tone " are to be expected in
gradually driven into the position of a “ rude” letters to “Cabinets." The allies sought from
champion of strong government. As he criti-
As he criti- their agents facts rather than effective denun-
cised the Revolution in the spirit of the older ciations. Unhappily Mallet du Pan listened
royalists like Mounier and Malouet, his jour- too readily to rumors that fell in with his
nalistic career ended abruptly in 1792, and notions of the condition of France. His
he crossed the frontier to aid the king's cause at picture of Robespierre's daily life, (inserted in
the headquarters of the allies. He did not take a description of the members of the Committee
up journalism again until 1797, when he was of Public Safety,) must have stirred the readers
hunted out of Switzerland by the Directory. In of his letters more than it instructed them. .
London, during the short interval of life that re- Among other things, it says:
mained, he created the Mercure Britannique. “ Today he is haggard, with hollow eyes and livid
As a biography, the work of Mr. Bernard face, with restless and savage looks, and a countenance
Mallet is more successful in the description of
bearing the impress of crime and remorse. Tormented
the earlier periods of Mallet du Pan's life and sans-culottes, armed to the teeth, who accompany him
with terror, he is always escorted by three chosen
of bis last days than in its treatment of the in his carriage ; returning to his beggarly abode, he
years from 1793 to 1797. During these years shuts himself and barricades himself within it, and
he acted as “consulting physician” to the opens the door only with the most extreme precautions.
allies. It was a dreary business. His advice
If he dines out, it is never without laying his two
pistols on the table, one at each side of his plate ; no
was not palatable, although he spiced it with
servant may stand behind his chair ; he partakes of no
the strongest denunciations of the French dish without one of the guests having eaten it before
Revolutionists and all their works. A political him; he casts troubled and suspicious glances on all
correspondence of this sort is difficult to treat around him.”
in such a manner that its purposes may In reading this biography one cannot avoid
clearly defined and its weight in the politics the conclusion that Mallet du Pan was the
of the time truly estimated. One can hardly
One can hardly dupe of his august correspondents, just as he
escape the feeling that Mr. Mallet has occa- had been of the allies in July, 1792, when he
sionally approached his subject in the filial undertook to clarify their minds upon the
rather than in the historical spirit. There is proper policy to be pursued in an armed inter-
too much similarity of tone and color in the vention in France. Indeed, he pathetically
figure and in the background. Possibly this confessed in 1797 that he would prefer to
effect arises from his substantial agreement write for the public than for all the kings of
with his ancestor's point of view and conclu- the earth. When he takes up his broken
sions. It is certainly not due to any lack of career as a journalist be recaptures the sym-
fairmindedness, for he acknowledges in several pathy of the reader.
pathy of the reader. He is no longer under
cases that Mallet du Pan was mistaken, or ill- the illusion that by the sheer force of reasoning
advised, or unduly influenced by the spirit of he can unite all Europe in an unselfish defense
be


1903.)
85
THE DIAL
now ad-
hood up.
of the established order against the destructive was translated into our language some time ago.
Revolutionary propaganda, but he is resolved But the first example of his work to come to our
not to withdraw from the fight so long as he
attention is “ The Deeps of Deliverance,"
has the strength to wield the pen.
mirably done into English by Miss Margaret Rob-
inson.
Mallet du Pan was more successful in expos-
“ The Limpid Lakes of Death" would be
a closer equivalent, but a less happy one, for the
ing weakness, folly, and injustice, than in
original title of this work, which dates from about
marking out and advocating a policy which
two years back. It is a very strong piece of wri.
could lead to the mastery of the situation.
ting, successful in the achievement of a clearly-
Truth lost none of its sombre aspects through defined aim. That aim may not commend itself
.
his exposition. Men were readier to admire to all, because it is the portrayal of a somewhat
his perspicacity than to accept his leadership. morbid feminine type, and because in that portrayal
Even his friends the “Monarchiens" refused it becomes necessary to bring us into close contact
to make their opposition as persistent as did he.
with the seamy side of life and to exhibit the baser
Of necessity, there must be a difference of
possibilities of a woman's nature. The author is a
realist in that he shrinks from nothing that is really
opinion upon the value of his criticisms,
needful for his purpose, but he has also the artist's
although his newspaper and his letters will
instinct of reticence, and this saves him at more
remain indispensable for the study of one phase than one critical juncture. His plainness of speech
of French opinion. It is not surprising that may be found offensive, but it must be admitted
his picture of the Revolution was eulogized by even by those who object to it that the offense is
Taine, for, as M. Monod remarked some years not wanton, and is deliberate only in the sense that
ago, Taine found among these papers whole it is demanded by the exigencies of the author's
pages which might have been taken from “The theme. The heroine, who is also the sole figure of
Modern Régime.” After all, the chief value
interest in the entire work, is drawn from her child-
of his criticisms is the fact that the daily predisposition, who early learns to fear her own in-
She is a woman of delicately sensual
spectacle of the Revolution should have pro-
,
stincts and to struggle against them, yet who even-
duced such an impression upon a mind like his.
tually is weak enough to yield, and who in conse-
Among the subjects of particular interest
quence falls into the lowest depths of degradation.
touched in this biography are Mallet du Pan's
For her final rescue the author invokes the motive
relations with Voltaire at Ferney, the incidents of mysticism, and works for her a spiritual regen-
of his personal life at Paris, and the difficul- eration. “How she sought the cool deeps wherein
ties that met him in attempting to establish is deliverance, and how deliverance came to her”
himself in London. There is a bibliography
these are almost the first words of the book, and
of his published writings and of the books
their promise sustains us through all the wretched-
written upon him. It would have been well
ness that follows. We may not accept the outcome
to note for the sake of English readers, that
as probable from the premises, but it is a solution
that has occurred more than once in human life,
the work of M. Sayous appeared in translation
and it seems to embody a sincerely maintained
in 1852.
HENRY E. BOURNE. point of view on the part of Dr. van Eeden. When
we contrast the depth and seriousness of this novel
with the trivialities and superficialities upon which
RECENT FICTION. *
nearly every English and American novel in our
present list depends for interest, our racial pride
Certain echoes of the fame of Dr. Frederik van
is not exactly flattered. We had a closely parallel
Eeden, the Dutch novelist, have come to English sensation not long ago, upon witnessing a stage-
ears of late, and we believe that one of his books
performance of Herr Sudermann's “ Es Lebe das
*THE DEEPS OF DELIVERANCE. By Frederik van Eeden. Leben," after taking a course in the popular pro-
Translated from the Dutch by Margaret Robinson. New
York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.
THE SHADOW OF THE CZAR. By John R. Carling. Boston:
A CAPTIVE OF THE ROMAN EAGLES. By Felix Dahn. Little, Brown & Co.
Translated from the German by Mary J. Safford. Chicago: THE GARDEN OF LIES A Romance. By Justus Miles
A. C. McClurg & Co.
Forman, New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co.
No OTHER WAY. By Sir Walter Besant. New York: CECILIA. A Story of Modern Rome. By F. Marion
Dodd, Mead & Co.
Crawford. New York: The Macmillan Co.
THE INTRUSIONS OF Peggy. By Anthony Hope. New THE TASKMASTERS. By George K. Turner. New York:
York: Harper & Brothers.
McClure, Phillips & Co,
LOVE WITH HONOUR. By Charles Marriott. New York: THE HENCHMAN. By Mark Lee Luther, New York:
John Lane.
The Macmillan Co.
THE DISENTANGLERS. By Andrew Lang. New York: OLIVER LANGTON. By G. A. Powles. New York: R. F.
Longmans, Green & Co.
Fenno & Co.
THE ADVENTURES OF M. D'HARICOT. By J. Storer THE MASTER OF APPLEBY. By Francis Lynde. Indian-
Clouston. New York: Harper & Brothers.
apolis: The Bowen-Merill Co.
A DOFFED CORONET. A True Story. New York: Harper THE WHIRLWIND. By Rupert Hughes. Boston: The
& Brothers.
Lothrop Publishing Co.
-


86
[Feb. 1,
THE DIAL
7
be
ductions of the day in our own country. In both escape hanging, and return in a later chapter to
cases the lesson is clear enough ; while the novelists plague the heroine. The situation thus created is
and the dramatists of the Continental countries quite exciting, but it must be admitted that the con-
(even the smaller ones) are trying to give their ception upon which the novel is based is rather
work the stamp of vital truth, our own writers in repulsive, and would be intolerable were we not
these fields are chiefly concerned with entertain- certain that in Sir Walter's hands the plot would
ment, and are content to be merely graceful, or be managed in a way to spare our susceptibilities.
clever, or ingenious. The literature which permits Mr. "Anthony Hope" is hardly to be congratu-
such qualities to become more than adjuncts in its lated on “ The Intrusions of Peggy.” There is
task is the victim of a dry rot which threatens its abundant cleverness in the book, and the sort of brill.
very existence.
iant sophisticated dialogue at which Mr. Hawkins
Much of our most noteworthy recent work has has few equals, but there is not the sustained novel-
been done in historical fiction, and yet the best of it interest that we are justified in expecting from the
seems insignificant when contrasted with the work author of "The Prisoner of Zenda " and " Tristram
of the great Continental writers. There is Herr of Blent." Peggy is a very satisfactory person in-
Felix Dahn, for example, whose books are almost deed, but although she gives the book its title, her
unknown to us, although they are unsurpassed in place in the plot is subordinate. The two chief
the breadth of vital knowledge with which they characters are a young widow who gets into finan-
depict the period of the Völkerwanderung and the cial difficulties and a man of middle age whom she
early strife of the Roman Empire with the hordes eventually marries. Neither of these persons can be
of “the Goth and the shameless Hun.” We men- called sympathetic. The man is miserly, the most
tion this great writer of historical romance because unpardonable of all heroic attributes, and the
Miss Mary J. Safford has just translated “ Bissula,” woman is so absolutely devoid of serious purpose
one of his later works, which deals with the Roman that the reader does not greatly care when she be-
invasion of the country about Lake Constance, and comes stupidly involved in debt through a reckless
ends with the discomfiture and final repulse of the speculation. There is a feeling that she deserves
imperial legions. “A Captive of the Roman Eagles all that she gets, and perhaps more. Of course there
is the title given to this translation, which may is much delicate comedy in the treatment of the
commended as a piece of respectable workmanship, situation, and keen satire of English society and its
although hardly inspired. The poet Ausonius is one characteristic types. But of human interest in any
of the leading characters in this work, and his love deep sense there is very little, and there is not even
for a fair daughter of the Alemanni, contrasted the substitute of purely romantic interest that we
with the rival love of a young chieftain of her own are willing .
people, provides the main element of romantic in-
terest. But the book has other interests also, inter- have advanced upon that striking first book in the
ests that illuminate the life of the whole period, and composition of “Love with Honour.” Mr. Marriott
make us feel that we are borne along by the cen- has constructed a complicated and ingenious plot,
tral current of early European history. The eru- which holds us fairly in suspense until near the
dition of the author is of the most solid type, but close, and he has given us faithful studies of sev-
he knows how to subdue it to artistic service. eral rather unusual types of character, but he bas
The posthumous novel, “ No Other Way” is pre- missed the note of sentimental idealism which was
sumably the last work of fiction that we shall have the chief charm of the earlier novel. His charac-
from the late Walter Besant. It is a story of the ters make disagreeable company, on the whole, and
London which the author knew so well, and of the remind us a little of the sort of people who figure
eighteenth century, with the customs and institu- in the fictions of “Benjamin Swift,” from whose
tions of which he was so intimately acquainted. methods the author seems to have taken a lesson, to
The old theme of imprisonment for debt, a favorite the detriment of his own peculiar talent. This is
with so many of the earlier novelists, provides the the sort of book of which one forgets the very sub-
similarity between Besant and Dickens, in materials
, By way of a brief introductory characterization
motives, and methods. The plot of the story must of Mr. Lang's “ The Disentanglers," we may say
be called strained, if not improbable. A gentle- that it revives the sensations with which we first
woman in distress, and in danger of arrest by her read “ The New Arabian Nights,” but with the
creditors, resorts to Newgate for a husband, be- deeper interest that might have attached to that
cause the law will save her from the debtor's prison romantic masterpiece had it embodied suggestions
if she be married. The only person found available from the method of Grant Allen and of the creator
for her is a desperate negro criminal, who is to be of Sherlock Holmes. This is surely enough to
hanged in a day or two. Since there seems to be commend it to the judicious, were anything needed
“no other way out of her plight, she is married beyond the name of the author. The disentanglers
to this man, and then leaves him to his fate. Since are two young men, belonging to good society but
we are concerned with a novel and not with real life, impecunious, who cast about for some means of
it is a matter of course that the criminal should “raising the wind.” The result is a partnership,
in the author of "The Column” does not seem to


1903.)
87
THE DIAL
ence.
and the formation of a bureau for giving advice to stances. So these people, who have associated
people who have become entangled in sentimental with the great ones of earth, and who have had a
or matrimonial complications. Counsel in these part in the making of history, exile themselves to
delicate matters is discreetly and confidentially the new world, and adapt themselves, not without
provided by the bureau, and active measures are difficulty, to the changed conditions of their exist-
taken for the disentanglement of the social knots
A certain familiarity with American ways
offered for treatment. The main reliance is an and speech indicates that this part of the book also
ingenious system of counter-irritants whereby, for has some basis of actual observation, yet some of
example, the wealthy bachelor who is bent upon the characterizations are so grotesque that they
marrying his cook, to the disgust of the expectant cannot be based upon anything but imagination.
heirs, is gently diverted from his purpose by being The title-page informs us that this is a true
exposed to the charms of a young woman who acts story," and much of it bears the visible stamp of
as the agent of the bureau. These agents, it should truth. It certainly is not a novel in the ordinary
be added, are supposed to be sentimentally immune, sense, for no work of conscious invention would
80 that they can withdraw unscathed from the ever lead to such an anti-climax as is here pre-
scene of operations when their work is done. Mr. sented. It is a puzzling performance, but one well
Lang's application of this idea results in a series worth examination for its general cleverness, and
of the most surprising stories imaginable — stories for the brilliant picture of Egyptian life contained
which start out under prosaic conditions, and sud- in the opening chapters.
denly plange into the wildest and most romantic When “ The Prisoner of Zenda” was set loose
sensationalism. The stories are brilliant both as to about ten years ago, its author little imagined the
style and invention, besides abounding in sly allu- brood of imitations that would follow in its train.
sions and satirical touches that will be caviare to So familiar has the type since become that we may
the general, but a source of keen delight to those speak of a “ Zenda” romance with perfect confi-
who have an extensive acquaintance with the writ- dence in the intelligibility of the designation. Just
ings of the gentleman (or syndicate ?) known as now we have before us two new examples of this
Mr. Andrew Lang. We may remark, incidentally, sort of invention, notable, however, for the same
that the disentanglers of this story become entan- variant feature. In both cases, the hero gets the
gled themselves — happily and for good — before princess at last; in the one case because the princess
the end is reached.
is determined to have him at any cost, and in the
Mr. J. Storer Clouston is the author of a strange other because the prince is conveniently killed in an
medley of semi-romantic and humorous incident insurrection. Mr. John R. Carling's “ The Shadow
which he calls “ The Adventures of M. d'Haricot." of the Czar” opens mysteriously on the coast of
It tells of a Frenchman in London, living as an Dalmatia, where hero and heroine meet under
exile, although his banishment from home seems to singularly romantic circumstances. Then the scene
be self-imposed, for a person of his character and is transferred to the Polish principality which is
temperament could not well be a dangerous con- the real centre of the action. The territory is one
spirator against the French government. The which the Czar (Nicholas I.) seeks to annex. The
advertisements describe the book as a compound hand of the princess is sought by a wicked duke,
of “rollicking fun,” but we have read it from who, failing in his suit, plays into the hands of the
cover to cover without discovering anything of the Russian court, and nearly accomplishes the ex-
sort. Monsieur d' Haricot becomes mildly amus- tinction of the principality. But the hero, being an
ing at times, especially in his relations with the Englishman, is necessarily triumphant in the end,
gentler sex, but he never stirs the reader to genuine the wicked duke is slain, and even the Czar is out-
mirth. One gets the impression that the author witted. This is a particularly lively story, and
had an excellent chance for effective work, and ranks a trifle above the usual sensational level of
just missed it.
its class.
“The Garden of Lies,” by Mr. Justus Miles
autobiography. The writer pretends to be, and Forman, is about a Balkan principality also endan-
very likely is, the wife of an English diplomat gered by Russian designs. The prince is married
attached to the Egyptian court in the days just to an American wife, who shortly after becoming a.
after the Arabi rebellion. It is with the Cairo of princess has a severe illness from which she re-
twenty years ago, social, official, and political, that covers with a total lapse of memory for recent hap-
the first half of the book is concerned. It is penings. She is in Paris under a physician's care,
clearly written from the inside, and by a woman and her husband is in the Balkans combating Rus-
who had unusual opportunities to observe matters sian intrigue. She is informed that she has a
of a kind that do not come to the knowledge of the husband, and naturally wishes to make his acquaint-
general public. Midway in the book the scene
Her condition of mind is such that it be-
shifts to America, for the diplomat loses his fortune comes imperative to provide a husband of some
through an ill-advised speculation, and both he and sort, since the legal one is supposedly unable to
his wife are too proud to seek to hold their position come to Paris. In this emergency, a rollicking
in European society under these altered circum- Irish adventurer is persuaded to enact the role una
** A Doffed Coronet " is a story in the form of te
ance.


88
[Feb. 1,
THE DIAL
a
a
til such time as the prince may be able to appear à priori thinker, with his tinsel, ready-made universe,
in person. Unfortunately for the plot, the Irish- formed in a night from the discarded timber of a
man is a gentleman of parts, with a most persuasive hundred familiar systems of the working philosophers
gift for love-making. The natural result is that the of a century; the cry of the bearded apostle of the
two straightway became enamoured of one another. future, a strange new hybrid of a prophet and a
At this juncture the prince appears unexpectedly walking delegate; an inventor of another new Utopia,
and is far from pleased with the state of affairs. wailing in the market place because mankind refu.
Then there is an abduction of the princess by ses all at once to step aboard his new flying machine,
agents of the Russian party, a thrilling rescue by and be whisked away across the yawning precipi.
her Irish lover, and a mix-up all around. She ces of the unknown to regions of ineffable bliss.
learns the trick that has been played upon her, All these things have their places in the great econ-
tries to be indignant and forget her new-found omy of nature, no doubt, a bare-headed socialist
love, and miserably fails. The prince then goes calling beneath the electric light across the half
back to quell an insurrection, gets killed in the deserted street; a religious sentimentalist harangu-
scrimmage, while the Irishman (who has accom- ing his weekly parcel of old maids in the resounding
panied him) miraculously escapes, and returns to vestry of a church; a pismire shouting from his
his love, now widowed and free to follow the dic- blade of grass for a fixed star to change its course.
tates of her heart. It is a good deal of a story Meanwhile society moves on in its great orbit.
altogether, and may be recommended for enter- Compromise succeeds compromise, one little gain
tainment.
another new conditions, new privileges, new
Mr. Crawford's "Cecilia" is a story of modern generations, better, more intelligent than the old;
Rome, and in that aspect has points of interest. The new inventions, changing the whole face of contin-
author knows Rome and its society better than he ents ; society working out its vast experiments—in
knows anything else, and his Roman scenes and fig. the great cities, in these hundred towns and villages
ures are always carefully studied. But here commen- of ours the tremendous laboratories of the experi-
dation of the new novel must cease, for it tells no ence of mankind, forming slowly, painfully, but
story worth the telling, while for its romantic interest magnificently, the new order of things under our
reliance is had upon the sort of supernaturalism for very eyes." It is welcome to find a book, dealing
which Mr. Crawford has a weakness, and which he with the social problem in this spirit, that is perme-
would evidently have us take seriously. It is curi- ated by as sound a social philosophy. Considered
ous how the telepathic delusion takes possession of simply as a story, the book is well-planned and
some minds that are well equipped and rational up- deeply interesting. Its studies of the baser types
on most subjects. Even when the many unneces. that figure in local politics are convincingly realized;
sary pages are skipped, this novel seems incapable the figures of hero and heroine are truthfully drawn,
of arousing more than a languid interest.
and the grim climax of the plot, with the tragic
“ The Taskmasters,” by Mr. George Kibbe Tur- death of the magnate in the very hour of his politi-
ner, is the first volume of the First Novel Series cal triumph, is managed with a degree of skill that
that has been projected by a leading firm of pub- promises much for the future of this young writer.
lishers. We may say at once that the series will He tells his story directly, with nervous animation,
be in no danger of failure if it can be maintained up. and without resort to the weakly sentiment in which
on the level of this novel. The theme is found in
most young writers upon
these themes take refuge.
the political and business life of a New England fac- The book is a strong and wholesome performance,
tory town, and, although well worn in its main out- and deserves to be widely read.
lines, this theme is here set forth with a degree of Another novel that plunges us into the political
judgment and literary skill that has not often been life of recent years is Mr. Mark Lee Luther's
equalled. It is a book of honest and manly ideals “ The Henchman.” Here the scene is a New York
presented without exaggeration or the appeal of town and, as in the novel just reviewed, the ambi-
false sentiment. On the political side, it exhibits tion of a local leader to become Governor of the
the corrupting influence of a great employer of labor State is the central motive of the narrative. He
upon the community which he dominates by his is a politician of a coarse type, who pulls wires,
wealth, and exposes the hypocrisies of the protective makes demagogic speeches, and enters into corrupt
system. But at the same time it presents the case bargains for the achievement of his purpose, and
of the employer with fairness, and does not gloss by these methods he climbs the ladder round by
over the faults of the employed. In the unending round until his ambition is achieved. But during
struggle for the amelioration of social conditions, the this rake's progress of his political career a curious
author sees no profit in radical measures, and is too thing is going on. There are certain latent possi-
clear-sighted to denounce the selfishness of capital- bilities of the finer sort in his nature, and these
ism as the sole cause of the present unsatisfactory gradually come to the surface, while the responsi-
relations. His outlook is expressed in a fine passage bilities of power exert upon him a sobering and
which comes near the close of the book, and which even uplifting influence. He reacbes a point at
we wish to reproduce. “A new sound has come into which the step from the governorship to the presi-
the land these last few years.
the voice of the little dency seems to be within his reach, but it is a step
а


1903.)
89
THE DIAL
that may only be taken at the price of absolute sub- tions of abject poverty, and who has to struggle to
serviency to the leader of the party machine. And gain even the beginnings of an education. But he
the process of unconscious upward growth has so has purpose, and character, and will, and makes
stiffened the ral fibre of the governor that in the himself first a country lawyer, then a soldier and
critical hour he refuses submission, and deliberately officer in the Northern army, then a representative
throws
away his opportunity. We are thus left at the and a senator, and finally a popular presidential
end with a feeling of admiration for the man whose candidate, who would probably have won the elec-
course up to this time has seemed despicable and tion had he not been struck down by the hand of
without redeeming virtues. We would not say that the assassin. The author has had both Lincoln
the case of tbis man offers a typical example of the and Garfield in mind in drawing this composite
career of the successful American politician, but we portrait of soldier and statesman, although, of
believe that the sort of growth it describes does some- course, he departs widely from the actual history
times go on,
and that it represents a possible encour-
of either man. The war chapters take us from
aging aspect of the conditions that obtain in our Missouri to Georgia, and we are with Mulligan at
political cesspool. As a picture of recent New York Lexington and Sherman at Atlanta. The curious
politics, the book is closely studied from the life, brogue which is placed upon the lips of the former
and on more than one occasion we read the name of these officers must appear very surprising to
of some real person for that of the fictitious char- those who knew him for the highly.educated and
acter of the author's devising.
polished gentleman that he was ; this slip on the
The story of a boy whose childhood is beset by author's part evidently comes from the basty infer-
all sorts of difficulties, and who by sheer force of ence that because Mulligan was an Irishman his
intellect and character rises superior to his sur. speech must have been that which is traditional
roundings, and makes for himself both name and upon the comic stage. We cannot quite reconcile
position, is what Mr. George A. Powles gives us in ourselves to the moral weakness of the bero in his
“ Oliver Langton.” Stories of this type are mainly relations with women; this seems entirely out of
interesting in proportion to their sincerity and keeping with his character as otherwise set before
their sympathetic knowledge of the life depicted. us, and is not artistically justified. But the book
These qualities go far, in the present instance, to is a good one, on the whole, and illustrates anew
make
ор
for amateurishness and the lack of tech- the fact that the novelists of our younger genera-
nical equipment. The scene of the story is rural tion not only know the Civil War as history, but
Upper Canada, and the time is the period of the feel it in its " whirlwind” character, and also, we
creation and first years of the Dominion. We have might add, in its character as a refining fire.
here an intimate picture of provincial life, in which
WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE.
nothing is spared us of the pettiness and prejudice
in religious and social matters, or of the ignorant
materialism of the time and place. With all this
photographic detail the author has combined a vein
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS.
of worthy idealism, although his treatment suffers
somewhat from the prominence of the didactic
Two volumes of similar import ap-
New books on
element.
American ships pear very nearly together, - Mr.
Historical romance has rather neglected the
and shipping. Willis J. Abbot's “ American Ships
later stages of the American Revolution, with the and Sailors ” (Dodd, Mead & Co.), and Mr. Win-
exception of the surrender at Yorktown. The throp Lippitt Marvin’s “ The American Merchant
campaign in the Carolinas and through Virginia is, Marine” (Scribner). Both follow, at a short in-
no doubt, less interesting because less significant terval, a work closely akin to them, Mr. W. W.
than the operations about the three chief cities or Bates's scholarly volume on “American Navigation,”
in the valley of the Hudson. In writing “The the three attesting the revival of interest in our
Master of Appleby,” Mr. Francis Lynde has chosen national merchant shipping due to international
for his theme this less familiar phase of the Revo- expansion of commerce and heightened by the pur-
lution, the scene being laid in and around Meck- chase of foreign vessels by American capital and
lenburg (of the mythical Declaration) for the most the attempt to pass the Subsidy bill for which Sen-
part. Otherwise, the romance is constructed of ator Hanna is sponsor in the Federal legislature.
conventional material, and is not much differentiated Of the two books before us, the first is the work of
from others of its class, unless it be by the sur- one who has given years of attention to the general
prising number and variety of the hero's adventures subject of our ships and ship companies, and has
and escapes. It is a novel of more than the com- already produced several books dealing with the
mop length, and of fairly sustained interest. subject. This work is the more popular in treatment
Stories of the Civil War we have had a.plenty of of the two, written with a freer hand and with less
late years, and most of them could be easily spared, minuteness of detail, and illustrated with many ex-
but we should be sorry to spare as good a story as cellent drawings by Mr. Ray Brown. Mr. Marvin
“ The Whirlwind," by Mr. Rupert Hughes. The has been somewhat more technical and much more
hero is a country boy who grows up under condi. explicit, his work being the more copious, although


90
(Feb. 1,
THE DIAL
1
the books are of practically similar dimensions. Mr.
When some fifteen or twenty years
Marvin is more concerned, also, with the earlier his-
The reign of
ago, Mr. Justin McCarthy's “ His-
Queen Anne.
tory of our merchant shipping, following the tale
tory of Our Own Times" appeared,
through the colonial days, and coming to substantial the public welcomed it warmly as a distinct acquisi-
agreement with Mr. Edgar Stanton Maclay in regard tion in general popular history, while even from a
to the importance of the services rendered the Amer- technical point of view it was considered a really
ican cause by privateers during our two wars with valuable contribution to the knowledge of the day.
Great Britain. Both books are of so nearly the same Indeed from the first, the popularity of the book
subject matter, no single topic of importance escap- was assured. The wit of the author, his ability in
ing either, that a description of one will serve as characterization, his simple directness in statement,
a description of both, with the slight differences were elements in a style of writing which was at-
already noted. But neither, strangely enough, deals tractive and quite his own. The very partisanship
adequately with the hideous treatment accorded with which the book was written gave it an added
American common sailors to-day on sea-going interest as marking the personal attitude of Mr.
vessels under the American flag, a factor of no McCarthy and his political faction. At various
slight importance in the general decay attending times since the publication of this earlier work, ad.
.
all American shipping except on the great lakes, ditional volumes from Mr. McCarthy's workshop
where trades unionism has been successful in ame- have appeared, none of them up to the grade of
liorating many abuses still common on the salt seas. “ The History of Our Own Times.” The latest of
No chapter in either book is more interesting than these, “The Reign of Queen Anne" (Harper) is
that discussing the commerce of the great lakes, and as conspicuously deficient in marks of genuine merit
the inland rivers also provide interesting reading. as most of its predecessors. And yet, having ven-
Both books can be cheerfully recommended. tured upon a period rich in interest, and lacking
in modern comment, it is indeed a pity that Mr.
Serious students of fiction will find
Three English
McCarthy's discrimination in selection could not
Mr. Henry H. Bonnell's volume en-
women of letters.
titled “ Charlotte Brontë, George author underrates the qualifications of a writer of
be followed by real ability in execution. Either the
Eliot, Jane Austen” (Longmans) a careful and sym- history, or he labors under the delusion that striking
pathetic, though somewhat plodding and occasion-
characterizations and witty descriptions drop per se
ally rambling, piece of work. The abundance of
from his pen. The story of the period is told with a
quotation and allusion comes dangerously near
dull directness, clear enough in statement, but never
being over-abundance and thus obscuring, rather
entertaining, and utterly devoid of that power of
than illustrating, the author's points. The first-
characterization which Mr. McCarthy certainly pos-
damed of this immortal trio he regards as unri.
8e88es. As a study, the work is even more conspic-
valled for “purity of passion "; the second excels
uously a failure. No statement is possible of the
in “mastery of range” and “spiritual depth of
“
sources investigated, for none are cited, but in so
imagination," as distinguished from its playful
far as the text is evidence, these are limited to the
buoyancy; while the third he styles “the Meis-
observations and writings of Swift, Barnet, and
sonier of literary art and the fair mistress of its
Defoe. There is no indication that the author even
subtlest intricacies," and especially extols her "easy
“
knows of the existence of the new sources of infor.
flow and tempered finesse." His placing of Jane
mation upon the relations of Harley with Queen
Austen last, “as a dessert after the more solid
Anne, Marlborough, Defoe, and others, published at
courses which have preceded,” is not so surprising intervals within the last few years by the British
when one hears his reasons.
be
says,
Historical Manuscripts Commission. A history of
“content with picturing the life she saw; we search
the reign of Queen Anne which does not make large
for the philosophy which will explain it. ... We
have reserved Miss Austen, then, that in studying This fault might be forgiven in Mr. McCarthy,
use of this new material is in fact an absurdity.
her works, with the more modern notes' of her
who is after all no historian, if he bad furnished
successors still ringing in our ears, we may more
us with a readable narrative, or even with a bright
clearly understand the great differences between
bit of special pleading. Lacking these, the present
that time and this, and find therein their partial
work is much below his own standard, and in it Mr.
explanation.” A few minor matters in the book McCarthy is first of all unjust to himself. .
provoke critical comment. Reference is made to
Charlotte Brontë's loneliness and unworldliness as
“ That a state may be well consti-
The Philosophy
chiefly responsible for the lack of wit in her novels.
tuted, ethical principles should form
of Government.
Humor rather than wit would seem to be the right
the base and groundwork of its
word here. Why, one queries, does the author Constitution.” This quotation seems to express
speak, as he does more than once, of male and
of a somewhat extended thesis by Mr.
female gender when he means sex? Referring to Frederick Wood, entitled “Government and the
a certain degenerate class of fiction, he instances State" (Putnam).
The author devotes three hun.
" d'Abruzzio” as typical of the school, presumably dred pages to an a priori discussion of “elemen-
meaning d'Annunzio.
tary principles and their practical application,"
She was,
the purpose


1903.]
91
THE DIAL
A German short
including the reasons for the existence of the Satte, religious, military, and agricultural life of the Ital.
its objects, basis, and sphere of action, its forms ians, and of the government and the civil service ;
and functions, and, incidentally, the characters it he exhibits the social and home-life of the people
assumes under constitutions. This discussion of of various classes, - aristocrats, people of wealth,
the fundamentals of the State proceeds logically, artisans, and peasants, and introduces his readers
and the argumentation is clear and perspicuous. to the popular sports of the different localities,
The author agrees with the leading political econo- without any slighting of literature, music, or art.
mists that the sanction for the existence of the Altogether the book is a valuable addition to the
State is found in necessity; and he keeps before series of “Our European Neighbors ” to which it
his readers the principle that all its operations belongs.
should have an ethical basis, saying in one place
It is a pleasure to find a book like
that “the material principles of human rights, it
Mr. Untersteiner's “Short History
history of Music.
has been the purpose of this work to designate as
of Music" (Dodd, Mead & Co.)
the sole foundation on which political philosophy adding to the merits of conciseness and clearness
can rest.” The book will be welcomed by the the virtue of not being dull. The author has
general reader, who will enjoy connoting it with shaken the necessary dry leaves of fact from the
the observations of Bluntschli and Willoughby, tree of knowledge, but for the most part has seen
whose works it will supplement but not displace. to it that they fell apon a good green carpet of
It will entertain students, but it would be more interesting comment. The book gives a consecutive
serviceable to them if the propositions of the text, story of music, unblurred by trivialities of biog-
which are stated concisely and without citations of raphy. The name of each musician is made to
authority, were accompanied by references to some shine by the light of his contribution to music,
of the leading text-writers who have previously rather than by the number of his wives and chil.
supported the same views. It is in rare cases only dren. The critical comments show not only intelli-
that the thesis names other authorities. This may gence, but imaginative insight. For example: “If
be due to the fact that Mr. Wood, who was a law- in Palestrina we find represented the divine ele-
yer of New York City, died while the book was in mont which humbles itself to humanity, in Bach
press. One may regret that an editor was not there dominates a human element which, liberating
engaged, to annotate the author's manuscript and itself from terrestrial fetters and cares, rises to
supply the references which students would have heaven, confides there its sorrows, its griefs, and
found so useful.
its anguish, finding comfort and peace after the
struggle." And again : “Haydn's motives seem
It is extremely difficult to take a
Town and country comprehensive view of Italy and the
to come of necessity from the instruments, and we
life in Italy.
are interested in the manner of treatment by the
Italians, because of the great dif-
ferences of life, habits, character, and (to some
composer. Mozart, on the other hand, makes
themes speak his language; his motives are more
extent) language, in the various portions of the
Italian Peninsula. There are, in the first place, a
expressive, and foreshadow Beethoven.” Nor does
the author forget, in his regard for unity, how
Northern, a Southern, and a Central Italy, to be
broad and deep his theme is. He treats music not
taken into separate consideration. There are dif-
as an invention, but as a development. The influ-
ferent styles and manners in architecture, painting,
and sculpture, each centring upon a separate lo.
ence of race, religion, and history on music is
touched upon-lightly, to be sure, but with precision.
cality. These local differences more marked in
As a book of reference the little volume would
Italy than in any other European country — are
have been improved by an index, but the arrange-
undoubtedly United Italy's inheritance from Di.
ment is so clear as to mitigate this fault. More
vided Italy, and they will be gradually modified as
annoying to the general reader are occasional faults
time goes on and as the Italians become accus-
of style, which it would seem the translator might
tomed to their new political conditions.
But at
have done more than he has to correct.
the present time, to produce a picture of Italy and
Italians that would be alike comprehensive and
A bibliography of
The first “Supplement" to Larned's
intelligible would be no easy matter. We would American history “ Literature of American History"
have said that such a picture was impossible, were
for 1901-2.
(Houghton) covers the years 1901
it not that Signor Luigi Villari, in his “ Italian and 1902, and comments upon 186 books issued
Life in Town and Country” (Patnam), succeeds during that period. Mr. Larned has given up the
in presenting it. The author's observations have editorship of the work, and his place has been
been widely extended and are remarkably acute. filled by Mr. Philip P. Wells, Librarian of the
He knows his Italy well. He neglects nothing Yale Law School. In the selection of titles,
that may serve to illustrate any important phase “ American history" has been interpreted liberally,
of Italian character; 'nor does he regard any 80 as to include the Philippines and the advance of
phase of life animportant that might be of interest the allies upon Pekin. The classification of the
to those who want to know the country, and people original work has been abandoned, and all the
whereof he writes. He treats of the political, titles have been thrown into one alphabet. Bio-


92
(Feb. 1,
THE DIAL
9
sources.
upon what
Odds and ends
graphies have been listed by subjects and other stout octavo of 400 closely printed pages, will not
books by authors, with subject-entries referring to seem tiresome. The editor thinks that at no time
the authors. The critical notices are condensed have personal feelings and private interests played
from reviews in current periodicals. About 100 80 important a part in political history as during
are taken from “ The Nation” and nearly seventy- the period in question. Hence the considerable
five from “ The American Historical Review,” influence that the Princess Lieven, wife of the Rus.
leaving only a dozen that are drawn from other sian embassador, was able to exert upon English
The work of condensation is well done, politics, foreign and domestic. Her salon was as
but we doubt the wisdom of confining the source great a centre of political activity as was Holland
of the notices within such narrow limits. The House, or the salon of Lady Hertford, or that of
book should contain more than can be obtained by Lady Jersey. For the best effect her letters should
consulting
the indices of two easily accessible peri- probably be read in the original French. Their
odicals. The notice of each book listed should be alternations of exaltation and depression would
based
appears to be from all points of thus appear less akin to the hysterical, their adula-
view the best review of the particular book, regard- tion of her emperor less extravagantly fulsome.
less of the medium of publication; and then, as Next to poetry what can suffer more from transla-
we suggested in connection with the original work, tion than the airy trifles of intimate correspond-
reference should be given for purposes of com. ence? This is no reflection upon the present trans-
parison to all the other important reviews. Not- lator, who has done his difficult part admirably, so
withstanding the defect we have mentioned, the far as one can judge without comparing the two
“Supplement” will prove a useful adjunct to texts. The princess bad no taste for books, but
owners of the larger work.
was keenly alive to people and events, and she
wrote with much of that sprightliness and fluency
In “ The Lost Art of Reading"
that properly belong to the letter-writing sex.
A plea for the lost (Putnam) Mr. Gerald Stanley Lee
art of .
brings together a number of his
Robert Louis Stevenson's personal-
magazine essays, all bearing upon the general
ity is one of which we are eager to
know all that his friends and family
Proposition that the spirit of today is “ The Man ºf Stevensoniana.
for the Book; not the Book, nor indeed any Thing are willing to tell us. They have been very gener.
else, for the Man.” Wbether or not we are all so ous of their store; Sidney Colvin has written, and
oppressed by the weight of contemporary publica-Grabam Balfour, and now Stevenson's two step-
tion as Mr. Lee, or so confident of the ability of
children, Mrs. Isobel Strong and Mr. Lloyd Os-
our collegiate engines to grind out machine-made bourne, have collaborated in a volume of “ Memories
men to their order, there is still enough truth in his of Vailima” (Scribner). Mrs. Strong reproduces
contention, and far and away enough charm in his
the familiar talk of the little circle from jottings
method of address to win and hold attention. made in 1892 and 1893, and writes charmingly of
Mr. Lee does not make a programme for the re-
her Samoan protegé, and of the Samoan songs that
discovery of the art of reading, further than to
were made about “ Tusitala” and his family by
explain what obstacles are in the way, and to insist
the men who loved him. Mr. Osbourne's chapter
that reading will continue to be a lost art until upon Stevenson's home-life at Vailima describes the
living ceases to be a lost art and, losing our fear of building of the house and the patriarchal regulation
egotism, we resolve once more to be natural. He of its carious ménage.
Besides these four essays,
is, in short, a very Emersonian individualist, but he the volume contains a hitherto unpublished poem
has a way of saying the Emersonian thing over in written by Stevenson in 1872. Although the book
an entirely original way, — which is of course the tells us nothing that will be absolutely new to those
Emersonian way of saying it. Remembering Mr.
who have read the Vailima letters and the biog-
Lee's other book, “The Shadow Christ,” we would raphy, its odds and ends of reminiscence have the
suggest that “ The Lost Art of Reading" is too charm that belongs to all Stevensoniana. With its
long to be always Mr. Lee at his best. But that many illustrations made from photographs by the
is not to say that once begun it does not insist on authors,
this volume will be prized by all lovers of
being read through to the end, particularly if one
Robert Louis Stevenson's unique personality.
happens to belong to any of the three classes which
Mr. Lee finds particularly hostile to the spirit of
true reading — the college professor, the modern-
BRIEFER MENTION.
ized librarian, and the professional critic.
A volume of “ Masterpieces of Greek Literature"
A woman's
(Houghton) has been edited by Miss Clara Hitchcock
To anyone with a passion for the
political gossip
Seymour. It includes selections, in approved English
minutiæ of English diplomatic his-
translations, from a score of authors, all the way from
“ Letters of Princess
Homer to Lucian. There are also biograpbical and
Lieven” (Longmans) written from London to her
critical notes, but the volume is essentially a reading-
brother at St. Petersburg during the years 1812-34, book, and its use should go with the study of some one
and now collected by Mr. Lionel G. Robinson in a of the formal histories of Greek literature. An intro-
in letters.
tory, the


1908.)
93
THE DIAL
9
9)
9
duction is provided by Professor John Henry Wright,
Nores.
whose name appears on the title-page as that of
“supervising editor.” Miss Seymour, it should be
A new edition of Shakespeare, reproducing the First
added, is a daughter of the well-known teacher of
Folio text of 1623, is announced by Messrs. T. Y.
Greek in Yale University, and is herself a graduate of
Crowell & Co.
Bryn Mawr.
The Messrs. Appleton publish a school text of "The
A List of Bibliographies of Special Subjects" is a Merchant of Venice,” edited by Messrs. Richard Jones
recent publication of the John Crerar Library, Chicago. and Franklin T. Baker.
This voluminous catalogue extends to five hundred
“ A History of the United States," by Mr. William
pages, and fully exploits the resources of the Library
M. Davidson, is a recent school text-book published by
in its special field. Although mainly occupied with
Messrs. Scott, Foresman & Co.
the sciences physical, natural, social, and applied,—
The second volume of “The Morals of Suicide," by
it touches also upon art, literature, and history; and
the Rev. J. Gurnhill, has just been published by
will be of use to nearly all classes of students.
Messrs. Longmans, Green & Co.
“The Mishongnovi Ceremonies of the Snake and
“ The Book of Pears and Plums,” by the Rev. E.
Antelope Fraternities,” by Messrs. George A. Dorsey
Bartrum, is the eleventh volume in Mr. John Lane's
and H. R. Votb, is a publication of the Field Colum- “ Handbooks of Practical Gardening."
bian Museum, and represents a further instalment of
Book I. of the “Civil Wars” of Appian, edited by
the scholarly fruits that have grown out of the Stanley
McCormick Hopi Expedition. Another recent publi- Frowde at the Oxford Clarendon Press.
Mr.J. L. Strachan-Davidson, is published by Mr. Henry
cation of the Museum is a monograph on the “ Flora
of the Island of St. Croix,” by Dr. Charles Frederick
“ A History of the Middle Ages,” by Professor Dana
Millspaugh.
Carleton Munro, is a new “Twentieth Century Text-
Book” published by the Messrs. Appleton.
The New Amsterdam Book Co. are doing students
A selection from the essays of Richard Steele, edited
of American history a valuable service in preparing a
series of peat and inex
by Mr. L. E. Steele, M.A., is the latest volume in
nsive reprints of works that
Messrs. Macmillan's “Golden Treasury Series."
have long bad a standard value, but have not been
easily obtainable. The latest addition to the “Com-
Messrs. Longmans, Green & Co. send us “ The Char-
monwealth Library," as the series is designated, is
acters of Theophrastus,” in a translation by Professors
Charles E. Bennett and William A. Hammond.
Cadwallader Colden's “The History of the Five Indian
Nations of Canada," in two volumes. Mr. Robert
Scott's “The Lady of the Lake,” edited by Mr. L.
Waite contributes an introduction.
Du Pont Syle, is a recent addition to the “ English
The “Pocket Series of English Classics" (Macmillan)
Classics ” published by Messrs. D. C. Heath & Co.
is augmented by the following new volumes: “Early
“ Correggio,” by “Leader Scott,” and “Burne-
American Orations, 1760-1824," edited by Miss Louie
Jones," by Mr. Malcolm Bell, are two new volumes in
“ Bell's Miniature Series of Painters,” published by the
R. Heller; Macaulay's “ Essay on Lord Clive,” edited
Macmillan Co.
by Mr. J. W. Pearce; “ As You Like It," edited by
Mr. Charles Robert Gaston; Chaucer's “ Prologue and
A second and revised edition of Professor A. Seth
Knight's Tale," edited by Mr. Andrew Ingrabam; and
Pringle-Pattison's “Man's Place in the Cosmos, and
Stevenson's “Treasure Island," edited by Mr. Hiram
Other Essays," comes to us from Messrs. Charles
Albert Vance.
Scribner's Sons.
The 1902 volume of the proceedings of the National
“The Story of the Empire State" (Appleton), by
Educational Association fills over a thousand pages,
Miss Gertrude van Duyn Southworth, is a supplement-
and includes the papers read at the Minneapolis meet-
ary reading book in American history, interestingly
written and illustrated.
ing as well as those read at the earlier meeting in Chi-
cago of the Department of Superintendence. Among
“ The Constructive Development of Group-Theory,"
the more important papers we may mention that of the
with a bibliography, by Mr. Burton Scott Easton, is a
late President Beardshear on “ The Three H's in Edu-
recent publication of the mathematical department of
cation,” President N. M. Butler's discussion of “Some
the University of Pennyslvania.
Pressing Problems," with its plea for Bible-study in
“ The Mount of Olives" and “Primitive Holiness,"
the schools, Mr. M. E. Sadler's essay on “The English
two brief devotional treatises by Henry Vaughan (Sil-
Ideal of Education and Its Debt to America,” and urist), make up a small volume edited by Miss Louise
President Schurman's account of « Education in the Imogen Guiney for the Oxford University Press.
Philippines.”
Messrs. Longmans, Green & Co. are the American
“Shakespeare's · Love's Labor Won,'” by Mr. Albert publishers of “A Text-Book of Physics," with sections
H. Tolman, is a preprint from the Decennial Publica-
on the application of physics to physiology and medi-
tions of the University of Chicago. The author does
cine, by Professor R. A. Lehfeldt, of the East London
not claim to have made a positive identification, but,
Technical College.
after discussing the problem raised by the familiar entry
“General History Way Marks," by Mr. Charles C.
in Meres, seems to incline toward « The Taming of the Boyer, is a sort of syllabus of universal history, “de-
Shrew” as the most probable solution of the problem. signed to direct the lesson-memory and thought-con-
Other preprints in this series are as follows : "Absorp-
nections” of students. The J. B. Lippincott Co. pub-
tion of Liquids by Animal Tissues,” by Mr. Ralph W.
lisb the little book.
Webster ; "Significance of Partial Tones in the Local-
;
A much-needed reference manual, the usefulness of
ization of Sound,” by Mr. James Rowland Angell; and which every librarian will appreciate, will be the
« On the Genesis of the Æsthetic Categories,” by Mr. “Index to Poetry and Recitations to be publisbed
James Hayden Tofts.
shortly by Messrs. A. C. McClurg & Co. The work
:


94
(Feb. 1,
THE DIAL
"
a
9
9
will include nearly thirty thousand titles, making
readily available for reference the contents of over
three hundred standard collections.
“The Western Slope" is the title of a volume of
essays by Mrs. Celia Parker Woolley, to be issued
early next month by Mr. William S. Lord of Evanston.
Messrs. D. C. Heath & Co. publish a school volume
containing “Select Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge,”
chronologically arranged, annotated, and otherwise ed-
ited by Mr. Andrew J. George, who has done a highly
creditable piece of work.
A “Grammar School Algebra," by Mr. Emerson E.
Wbite, is published by the American Book Co., who
also send us, in their “ Eclectic School Readings," a vol-
ume of “ True Fairy Stories," written for kindergarten
use by Mrs. Mary E. Bakewell.
Mr. John Lane publishes a volume of the “ Selected
Poems" of Mr. William Watson. In thus giving us
the best of Mr. Watson's work, and that only, a real
service is done to bis reputation, for at bis best he is
a true poet, while at his weakest he is very far from
being anytbing of the sort.
The “ Hampstead” edition of “The Poetical Works
of John Keats,” published by the Macmillan Co., is a
single volume of handsome typography, edited, with an
introduction and memoir, by Mr. Walter S. Scott, and
revised by Mr. George Sampson. There is a portrait
and a reasonable supply of notes.
“ The Life of the Ancient Greeks,” by Dr. Charles
Burton Gulick, is a “Twentieth Century Text-Book”
published by the Messrs. Appleton. The period con-
cerned is that of the fifth and fourth centuries, and the
material is drawn from many sources in general, and
from the “ Anabasis” in particular.
« The Poems of John Keats" is a new volume in the
“thin paper" editions of the poets imported by the
Messrs. Scribner, and an addition to the “Caxton
Series” of the same publishers is a pretty edition of
Lodge's “ Rosalind,” which students of English litera-
ture will find particularly acceptable.
“ Sartor Resartus,” “On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and
the Heroic in History,” and “ Past and Present
usually reckoned as three volumes of Carlyle. The use
of Oxford India paper makes it possible to get all
three of them into a single volume, and a thin one at
that. The Messrs. Scribner are the publishers.
Mr. Jobs Lane announces for early publication
Emile Zola's last novel, “Truth,” translated by Mr.
E. A. Vizetelly. This is the third book in the series
called by the author “ The Four Evangelists,”— of
which the first two, “Labor” and “Fruitfulness,” are
already published, and the fourth (" Justice") remains
unwritten.
“ History for Graded and District Schools” (Ginn),
by Mr. Ellwood Wadsworth Kemp, is a text-book in-
tended to provide a framework for historical teaching
during the first eight years of school life. It is an in-
teresting experiment, and the chapters are carefully
graded to the intelligence of the successive years for
which they are designed.
Among other important books to be issued during
the early Spring season, Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin &
Co. announce Mr. J. T. Trowbridge's autobiography,
“ My Own Story"; Hon. John W. Foster's “ American
Diplomacy in the Orient”; a life of William Ellery
Channing, by Rev. John W. Chadwick ; an extensive
revision, in two volumes, of Prof. George E. Wood-
berry's book on Poe, in the “ American Men of Letters
Series "; and, in the same series, a life of Whittier, by
Prof. George R. Carpenter.
"Loyal Traitors : A Story of Friendship for the
Filipinos," by Mr. Raymond L. Bridgman, will be pub-
lished at once by the James H. West Co. of Boston.
The book is said to make an effective presentation, in
fiction form, of the Anti-Imperialist creed.
The English “ Who's Who" for 1903 comes to us
from the Macmillan Co. It has fewer tables and more
biographies than previous issues. But the selection of
the few American names included is as capricious as
ever, and does not seem amenable to any rational
principle of choice.
“A Manual of Zoology," published by Messrs. Henry
Holt & Co., is a translation, with some alterations, of
Professor Richard Hertwig's well-known “Lehrbuch
der Zoologie.” The translator is Professor J. S. Kings-
ley, and he has had the consent of the author for the
numerous modifications of the original text that have
been incorporated in this version.
A “Guide to the Study and Use of Reference Books,"
by Miss Alice Bertha Kroeger, is published by Messrs.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co. for the American Library
Association. It belongs to the series of annotated
bibliographies that the Association has of late under-
taken to prepare, and that already includes Mr. J. N.
Larned's work on “The Literature of American His-
tory,” besides a number of smaller works.
First in the field with apnouncements for the forth-
coming Spring publishing season is the Macmillan Co.,
whose sixty-four page list presents a bewildering array
of interesting titles. Of especial note are the follow-
ing: “A History of the Confederate War," by Mr.
George Cary Eggleston ; “ A History of the United
States since the Civil War," by Mr. William Garrott
Brown; a volume of “Historical Lectures" by the late
Lord Acton ; a collection of “ Biographical Sketches "
by Hon. James Bryce ; Sir Walter Besant's “ London
in the Eighteenth Century"; the first three volumes
in a series on “ The History of American Art," edited
by Prof. John C. Van Dyke ; Mr. Stephen Phillips's
new play, “David and Bathsheba"; the first instalment
of “An Illustrated History of English Literature,” by
Dr. Richard Garnett and Mr. Edmund Gosse; and new
books of fiction by Messrs. James Lane Allen, Winston
Churchill, and Charles Major.
Of especial interest to library workers will be the
reprint, soon to be issued by Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin
& Co., of Gabriel Naude's “Instructions concerning
Erecting of a Library.” This famous bit of biblioph-
ilism was first published in Paris in 1627. Its author,
distinguished no less for his knowledge of books than
for his devotion to them, served as librarian to the
Cardinals Richelieu and Mazarin and Queen Christina
of Sweden, among others, and was the founder of the
fourth public library to be established in Europe. The
translation to be given in the forthcoming reprint is
that of John Evelyn - the only known English version.
As one of the series of special editions produced at the
Riverside Press, the volume will be wholly admirable
in typography and general make-up. The text is
printed on antique hand-made paper, from the “Brim-
mer" type, set within rules throughout, with headings,
initials, and tailpieces in red. Of the limited edition
of four hundred and nineteen copies, four hundred are
for sale.
are


1903.)
95
THE DIAL
TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS.
February, 1903.
Absalom's Wreath. Elizabeth Taylor. Atlantic,
Abydos, Pre-Dynastic Kings at. H. D. Rawnsley. Atlantic.
Academic Freedom. Arthur T. Hadley. Atlantic.
Army Canteen, Why It Should not be Restored. No. Am.
Arnold's Battle with the Wilderness. J. H. Smith. Century.
Art, True Gods and False in. J. L. Gérôme. Harper.
Aurora Borealis, The. F. W. Stokes. Century.
Bible, Literary Loss of the. Rollo Ogden. Century.
Boston Commerce, Episodes of. M. A. De W. Howe. Atlantic
Boston, Literary Age of. George E. Woodberry. Harper.
Brooks, Phillips. Washington Gladden. North American.
Cables across the Pacific. T. C. Martin. Review of Reviews.
Citizen, Rights of the. W.J. Gaynor. North American
Coal Deposits of Northwest. F. A. Wilder. Rev. of Reviews.
Cuban Tobacco Growing in the U.S. World's Work.
Darwinism and Modern Criticism. T. H. Morgan. Harper.
"Decreed Town,” Study of a. R. T. Ely. Harper.
Dramatist's Art, The. Brander Matthews. No. American.
Empire, Edge of an. Edwin L. Arnold. Harper.
English Court and Society, 1883-1900. Scribner.
Hearn, Lafcadio. Paul Elmer More. Atlantic.
Hewitt, Abram S. E. M. Shepard. Review of Reviews.
Indian, American, Passing of the. T. F. Millard. Forum.
Ireland's Emancipation. Walter Wellman. Rev. of Reviews.
Isle of Pines, The. John Finley. Scribner.
Italy, King of. Sydney Brooks. North American.
Japanese Craftsman, Work of a. World's Work.
Journalism, Sensational, and the Law.G.W. Alger. Atlantic.
Khartum to Cairo in an Adirondack Canoe. Century.
Labor Unions and Law. A. Maurice Low. Rev. of Reviews.
Law as a Profession. H. D. Nims. World's Work.
"Les Misérables," An Unwritten Chapter of. Lippincott.
Libin, a New Interpreter of East Side Life. Atlantic.
Libraries, Public, Rapid Growth of. World's Work.
Literary Pilgrimage, The Rollin L. Hartt. Atlantic.
Macedonia's Struggle for Liberty. Chas. Jobnston. No. Am.
Marquand, H. G., as American Art Patron. Rev. of Reviews.
Milan, Picturesque. Edith Wharton, Scribner.
Monroe Doctrine, The. W. L. Scruggs. North American.
Navy at Work, The New. Albert Gleaves. World's Work.
New York, Dutch Founding of. T. A. Janvier. Harper.
Palmer, Alice Freeman. George P. Morris. Rev. of Reviews.
Philippine Industrial Crisis. Brewster Cameron. No. Amer.
Physical Breakdown, Prevention of. World's Work.
Poo-Chivers Papers, The Century.
Police Lawlessness. Howard S. Gans. North American.
Presidential Office, The James F. Rhodes. Scribner.
Sandolo, A Summer in a. Mary H. Peixotto. Harper.
Senate, The Overshadowing. Henry L. Nelson. Century.
Small Beer, Chronicling. Charles C. Abbott. Lippincott.
South's Political Opportunity. T. F. Ryan. No. American.
Spencer, Herbert. George Iles. World's Work.
Taxation Problems. J. R. Commons. Rev. of Reviews.
Telegraphy, Wireless. A. Frederick Collins. Rev. of Reviews.
Waterways: An Economic Necessity. L. M. Haupt. Forum.
Wave-Motors. John E. Bennett. Lippincott.
West African Trading Station, A. Lippincott.
West, Middle, Era of Thrift in the World's Work.
Memoirs of François René, Vicomte de Chateau-
briand, Sometime Ambassador to England: Being a
translation by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos of the Mém-
oires d'outre-Tombe. Vols. V. and VI., completing the
work, Illus., large 8vo, gilt tops, uncut. G. P. Putnam's
Song.
The Manner of Life of Nancy Hempstead. By Mary
L. B. Branch. 8vo, pp. 29. New London: C. J. Viets.
Paper, 35 cts.
HISTORY.
A History of Egypt, from the End of the Neolithic Period
to the Death of Cleopatra VII., B. C. 30. By E. A. Wallis
Budge, M.A. In 8 vols., illus., 12mo. Oxford University
Press. $10.
The House of Seleucus. By Edwyn Robert Bevan, M.A.
In 2 vols., illus. in photogravure, etc., large 8vo, uncut.
Longmans, Green & Co.
The Arab Conquest of Egypt, and the Last Thirty Years
of the Roman Dominion. By Alfred J. Butler, D.Litt.
With map, large 8vo, uncut, pp. 563. Oxford University
Press. $5.35.
Washington's Road (Nemacolin's Path): The First Chap-
ter of the Old French War. By Archer Butler Hulbert.
Illus., 12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 215. “Historic High-
ways of America.” Cleveland : Arthur H. Clark Co.
$2.50 net.
A Character of the Province of Maryland. By George
Alsop. Reprinted from the original edition of 1666. Ed.
ited by Newton D. Mereness, Ph.D. Illus., large 8vo, un-
cut, pp. 113. Cleveland : Burrows Brothers Co.
The German Revolution of 1849: Being an Account of
the Final Struggle, in Baden, for the Maintenance of
Germany's First National Representative Government.
By Charles W. Dablinger. 8vo, gilt top, pp. 287. G. P.
Putnam's Sons. $1.35 net.
a
GENERAL LITERATURE.
Nova Solyma, the Ideal City; or, Jerusalem Regained: An
Anonymous Romance Written in the Time of Charles I.,
now First Drawn from Obscurity, and Attributed to the
Illustrious John Milton. Edited by Rev. Walter Begley.
In 2 vols., with facsimiles, large 8vo, gilt tops, uncut.
Charles Scribner's Sons. $5. net.
Matthew Arnold's Notebooks. With Preface by Hon.
Mrs. Wodehouse. With photogravure portrait, 12mo, un-
cut, pp. 137. Maomillan Co. $1.
Horace Walpole and the Strawberry Hill Press, 1757–
1789. By Munson Aldrich Havens. Illus., 12mo, uncut,
pp. 86. Canton, Pa.: The Kirgate Press.
Mediæval Stories. By Prof. H. Shück; trans. from the
Swedish by W. F. Harvey, M.A.; illus. by W. Heath
Robinson. 8vo, uncut, pp. 321. Charles Scribner's Sons.
$1.75 net.
A Week in a French Country-House. By Adelaide Sar
toris ; with Preface by Mrs. Richmond Ritchie. Illus. in
photogravure, etc., 12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 221. Mac-
millan Co. $1.50 net.
The Writings of James Monroe, including a Collection of
his Public and Private Papers and Correspondence now for
the First Time Printed. Edited by Stanislaus Murray
Hamilton. Vol. VI., 1817–1823. Large 8vo, gilt top, un-
cut, pp. 444. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $5. (Sold only in sets.)
Select Passages from the Introductions to Plato by
Benjamin Jowett. Edited by Lewis Campbell, M.A.
With photogravure portrait, 18mo, gilt top, pp. 246. New
York: Henry Frowde. 85 cts.
A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections. By
Isabel F. Hapgood. With frontispiece, 16mo, pp. 279.
LIST OF NEW BOOKS.
(The following list, containing 69 titles, includes books
received by THE DIAL since its last issue.]
BIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIRS.
The Great Marquess: Life and Times of Archibald, 8th
Earl, and 1st (and only) Marquess of Argyll (1607-1661 ).
By John Willcock, B.D. Illus., large 8vo, gilt top, pp. 396.
Charles Scribner's Sons. $2.50 net.
St. Augustine and his Age. By Joseph MoCabe. With
Springfield, Ohio : Chautauqua Press. $1.
A Garland of Love: A Collection of Posy-Ring Mottoes.
16mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 74. Charles Scribner's Sons.
$1. net.
The Egregious English. By Angus McNeill. 12mo, un-
cut, pp. 210. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1.25 net.
.
frontispiece, 8vo, gilt top, pp. 516. G. P. Putnam's Sons.
$2. net.
NEW EDITIONS OF STANDARD LITERATURE.
The Poetry of George Wither. Edited by Frank Sidge
wick, In 2 vols., with frontispieces, 24mo, gilt tops, un-
cut. “The Muses' Library." Charles Scribner's Song.
$3.50.
Herrick's Hesperides and Noble Numbers. Illus. in pho-
togravure, etc., by Reginald Savage. In 2 vols., 18mo,
gilt tops.
"Caxton Series." Charles Scribner's Sons.
$2.50 net.


96
(Feb. 1,
THE DIAL
ART AND MUSIC.
Representative Art of Our Time. Edited by Charles
Holme. Part I., illus. in colors, eto., folio. John Lane,
$1. net. (To be complete in 8 parts.)
The Story of Oratorio. By Annie W. Patterson. Illus.
in photogravure, etc., 12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 242.
**Music-Story Series." Charles Scribner's Sons. $1.25 net.
REFERENCE.
Who's Who, 1903: An Annual Biographical Dictionary.
12mo, pp. 1532. Macmillan Co. $1.50 net.
The Derby Anniversary Calendar (Perpetual). Com-
piled and edited by George Derby. 24mo, pp. 366. New
York: James T. White & Co. ld. 50 cts.
Poetical Works of John Keats, " Globe " edition.
Edited, with Introduction and Memoir, by Walter S. Scott;
revised by George Sampson. With photogravure portrait,
12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 632. Macmillan Co. $1.75.
Sophocles. Translated and explained by John Swinnerton
Phillimore, M.A. Illus. ip photogravure, etc., 12mo, gilt
top. pp. 215. "
· The Athenian Drama." Longmaos, Green,
& Co. $2.
Jane Eyre. By Charlotte Brontë. “New Century” India
paper edition ; with frontispiece, 18mo, gilt top, pp. 517.
Thomas Nelson & Sons. Limp leather, $1.50 net.
Lives of Friedrich Schiller and John Sterling. By
Thomas Carlyle. Edinburgh " thin paper edition ; with
portrait, 16mo, gilt top, pp. 600. Charles Scribner's Sons.
$1.25 net.
POETRY.
Bethlebem : A Nativity Play. By Laurence Housman.
12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 76. Macmillan Co. $1.25 net.
Pontius Pilate, Saint Ronan of Brittany, Théophile :
Three Plays in Verse. By Henry Copley Greene. With
photogravure frontispiece, 12mo, uncut, pp. 90. New
York: Scott-Thaw Co. $1.50 net.
The Morning Road : A Book of Verses. By Thos. Wood
Stevens and Alden Charles Noble. 8vo, uncut, pp. 64.
Chicago: The Blue Sky Press. $1.50.
Croesus and Ione: A Drama in Four Acts. By Charlotte
Elizabeth Wells. Large 8vo, pp. 26. Riggs Publishing
Co. Paper.
West Virginia Lyrics. By John C. Gittings. 18mo, pp. 39.
Morgantown: Acme Publishing Co.
FICTION.
The Pit: A Story of Chicago. By Frank Norris. 12mo,
pp. 421. “The Epic of the Wheat." Doubleday, Page
& Co. $1.50.
Discords. By Anna Alice Chapin. 12mo, uncut, pp. 208.
New York: The Pelham Press. $1.50.
Pipe Dreams and Twilight Tales. By Birdsall Jackson.
16mo, pp. 257. F. M. Buckles & Co. $1.25.
The King of Unadilla : Stories of Court Secrets concern-
ing his Majesty. By Howard R. Garis. Illus., 12mo,
pp. 124. J. S. Ogilvie Pub'g Co. 50 ots.
BOOKS FOR SCHOOL AND COLLEGE.
A Manual of Zoology. By Richard Hertwig ; trang. and
edited from the fifth German edition by J. S. Kingsley.
Illus., 8vo, pp. 704. Henry Holt & Co.
The Life of the Ancient Greeks (with Special Reference
to Athens). By Charles Burton Gulick, Ph.D. Illus.,
12mo, pp. 373. D. Appleton & Co. $1.40 net.
A Student's History of English Literature. By William
Edward Simonds, Ph.D. Illus., 12mo, pp. 483. Houghton,
Mifflin & Co. $1.25.
Differential and Integral Calculus: An Elementary
Text-Book. By William H. Echols. .8vo, pp. 480. Henry
Holt & Co.
Appian: Civil Wars, Book I. Edited by J. L. Strachan-
Davidson. With map, 12mo, pp. 150. Oxford University
Press. 90 cts.
Sur les Bords du Rhin: Selections from Victor Hugo.
Edited by Thomas Bertrand Bronson. With portrait,
24mo, gilt top, pp. 148. Henry Holt & Co. 75 cts.
Lessing's Nathan der Weise. Edited by Tobias J. C.
Diekhoff, Ph.D. 12mo, pp. 368. American Book Co.
80 cts,
Schiller's Wilhelm Tell. Edited by C. A. Buchheim;
revised edition by Hermann Schoenfeld, Ph.D. Ius.,
12mo, pp. 256. Oxford University Press. 60 cts.
School Composition, for Use in Higher Grammar Classes.
By William H. Maxwell, M.A., and Emma L. Johnston,
A.B. 12mo, pp. 224. American Book Co. 50 cts.
Foncin's Le Pays de France. Edited by Antoine Muze
zarelli. 12mo, pp. 257. American Book Co. 60 cts.
Bruno's Le Tour de la France. Edited by L. C. Syms.
Illus., 12mo, pp. 241. American Book Co. 60 cts.
Grammar School Algebra: An Introduction to Algebra
for Beginners. By Emerson E. White, A.M. 12mo, pp. 96.
American Book Co. 35 cts.
Shakspere's The Merchant of Venice. Edited by
Richard Jones, Ph.D., and Franklin T. Baker, A.M.
16mo, pp. 174. D. Appleton & Co. 30 cts.
Stevenson's Treasure Island. Edited by Hiram Albert
Vance, Ph.D. With portrait, 24mo, pp. 229. Macmillan
Co. 25 cts. net.
True Fairy Stories. By Mary E. Bakewell. Illus., 12mo,
pp. 152. American Book Co. 35 cts.
THEOLOGY AND RELIGION.
The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia: The
Gifford Lectures on the Ancient Egyptian and Babylonian
Conception of the Divine, delivered in Aberdeen, By A. H.
Sayce, D.D. 8vo, uncut, pp. 509. Charles Scribner's Sons.
$3.50 net.
Select Passages from the Theological Writings of
Benjamin Jowett. Edited by Louis Campbell, M.A.
With photogravure portrait, 18mo, gilt top, pp. 242.
New York: Henry Frowde. 85 cts.
The King's Garden ; or, The Life of the World to Come.
Compiled by W.M. L. Jay. 12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 375.
E. P. Dutton & Co. $1.25 net.
The Education of Christ : Hill-side Reveries. By W.M.
Ramsay, D.C.L. 16mo, uncut, pp. 139. G. P. Putnam's
Song, $1.
TRAVEL AND DESCRIPTION.
Highways and Byways in London. By Mrs. E. T.
Cook; illus. by Hugh Thomson and F. L. Griggs. 8vo,
gilt top, uncut, pp. 480. Macmillan Co. $2.
1
ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY.
The Work of Wall Street. By Sereno S. Pratt. Illus.,
12mo, pp. 286. "Appletons' Business Series." D. Apple-
MISCELLANEOUS.
Racquets, Tennis, and Squash. By Eustace Miles, M.A.
Illus., 12mo, pp. 336. D. Appleton & Co. $1.60 net.
Man Visible and Invisible: Examples of Different Types
of Men as Seen by Means of Trained Clairvoyance. By
C. W. Lead beater, Illus. in colors, etc., large 8vo, gilt
top, pp. 144. John Lane. $2.50 net.
The Morals of Suicide. By Rev. J. Gurnbill, B.A. Vol. II.,
containing : Reviews and Further Statistics, and An
Essay on Personality. 12mo, uncut, pp. 220. Longmans,
Green, & Co. $1.75.
Biographic Clinics: The Origin of the Ill-Health of De
Quincey, Carlyle, Darwin, Huxley, and Browning. By
George M. Gould, M.D. With portrait, 12mo, gilt top,
uncut, pp. 223. Philadelphia: P. Blackiston's Son & Co.
$1. net.
The Art of Speaking. By Ernest Pertwee. 12mo, gilt top,
ton & Co. $1.25 net.
A Country without Strikes: A Visit to the Compulsory
Arbitration Court of New Zealand. By Henry Demarest
Lloyd ; with Introduction by William Pember Reeves.
12mo, pp. 183. Doubleday, Page & Co. Paper.
Continental Opinion regarding a Proposed Middle
European Tariff-Union. By George M. Fisk, Ph.D.
Large 8vo, uncut, pp. 64. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins
Press. Paper, 300, net.
Practical Sociology in the Service of Social Ethics.
By Charles Richmond Henderson. 4to, pp.
25.
* Decen-
nial Publications." University of Chicago Press. Paper,
25 cts. net.
pp. 122. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1.
On the “Beckmann Rearrangement." By Julius Stieg-
litz. 4to, pp. 15. “Decennial Publications." University
of Chicago Press. Paper, 25 cts, net.


1903.)
97
THE DIAL
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
JUST PUBLISHED
WOLFSON'S ESSENTIALS
IN ANCIENT HISTORY
$1.50
By ARTHUR MAYER WOLFSON, Ph.D., Assistant in
History, De Witt Clinton High School, New York City
THIS
a
HIS convenient manual is the first to appear of a four-
volume series prepared on the plan recommended by
the Committee of Seven, and under the general editorship
of Prof. Albert BUSHNELL HArt of Harvard University.
It is written in a manner both comprehensive and interest-
ing to boys and girls, and contains work for one school
year, each chapter being intended for a week's study.
It has been prepared to fit students in Greek and
Roman history for entrance to any college, and at the same
time to meet every requirement of the Regents of New
York State in ancient history. It furnishes a more consis-
tent, continuous, and realistic presentation than is ordinarily
given, and dwells only on the most important events. The
book is unusually attractive, and contains a great amount of
pedagogical apparatus for the needs of the teacher. The
illustrations have been chosen primarily to explain the text.
The maps are numerous and clear.
AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY, PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK
CINCINNATI
CHICAGO
BOSTON


98
(Feb. 1,
THE DIAL
BOOKS. ALL OUT-OF-PRINT BOOKS SUPPLIED,
no matter on what subject. Write us. We can get
you any book over published. Please state wants. When in England call.
BAKER'S GREAT BOOK-SHOP, 14-16 Bright Street, BIRMINGHAM.
Authors'
gency
ELEVENTH YEAR. Candid, suggestive
Criticism, literary and technical Re-
vision, Advice, Disposal.
REFERENCES:Noah Brooks, Mrs. Deland,
Mrs. Burton Harrison, W. D. Howelle,
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, Thomas Nelson
Page, Mary E. Wilkins, and others.
Send stamp for Booklet to
WM. A. DRESSER, 400 Broadway,
Cambridge, Mass.
Mention Tho Dial.
FIRST EDITIONS OF MODERN AUTHORS
Including Dickens, Thackeray, Lover, Ainsworth, Stevenson,
Jefferies, Hardy. Books illustrated by G, and R. Cruikshank,
Phiz, Rowlandson Leech, etc. The Largest and Choicest Col-
lection offered for Sale in the World. Catalogues issued and
sent post free on application. Books bought. — WALTER T.
SPENCER, 27 New Oxford St., London, W.C., England.
STORY-WRITERS, Blographers, Historians, Poets – Do
you desire the honest criticism of your
book, or its skilled revision and correction, or advice as to publication ?
Buch work, said George William Curtis, is “done as it should be by The
Easy Chair's friend and fellow laborer in letters, Dr. Titus M. Coan."
Terms by agreement. Send for circular D, or forward your book or M8.
to the New York Bureau of Revision, 70 Fifth Ave., New York.
OLD AND
RARE BOOKS
Dealers in Rare An-
cient and Modern
English literature -
History, Poetry,
Drama, and Fiction.
Fine Old English and
Foreign bookbindings.
Illuminated MSS.
:Catalogues issued.
Price 12 Cents.
AUTHORS Manuscripts suitable for issuing in volume
SEEKING A
form required by established house;
liberal terms ; prompt, straightforward
PUBLISHER treatment.
Address BOOKS, 141 Herald Twenty-Third Street, New York
Pickering & Cbatto,
66, Haymarket,
LONDON, ENGLAND.
Instruction by mail in literary composition,
Courses suited all .
“SHERLOCK HOLMES.” French, for home study, mailed at 25c.
E. ROTH, 1135 Pine Street, PHILADELPHIA.
Do You Rovinion, oriticism, and dalo of MSS.
Write ?
Send for circular.
EDITORIAL BUREAU
26 W.33d St. (opp. Waldorf-Astoria), N. Y.
OLD BOOKS AND MAGAZINES. Send for Cata-
logue. Address
A. J. CRAWFORD, Tenth and Pine Streets, St. Louis, Missouri.
AL!
LL should read “The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars,"
being the Posthumous Papers of Bradford Torrey Dodd.
For sale by John MURPHY, 201 East 42nd St., New York City.
Was Shakespeare a Roman Catholic?
By James Appleton Morgan, President N. Y. Shakespeare Society.
STAMMERING, Townsend Southwick, in December "Action and
Utterance," 10 cents. From your newsdealer or N. Y. School of
Expression, 318 West 57th St., New York.
Foreign Books
Full line of text books for the
study of Modern Languages.
Large stock of standard works
in French, German, Italian and Spanish, in handsome bindings.
C. A. KOEHLER & CO.
Catalogue free.
149a Tremont St., BOSTON, MASS.
YOUR CHARACTER
As well as your friends and your enemies like an open book to all who
have a copy of Dr. von Hagen's : "READING CHARACTER from HAND-
WRITING.” 200 Pages. 144 Illustrations. By mail postpaid for $1.00.
Not for sale at bookstores.
Graphology Pub. Co., 503-5th Ave., New York
Roycroft & Kelmscott Books
KENNETH B. ELLIMAN,
The Power of Truth
419 West 118th Street,
New York
BOOKS WHEN CALLING, PLEASE ASK FOR
AT
MR. ORANT.
WHENEVER YOU NEED A BOOK,
LIBERAL
Address MR. GRANT.
DISCOUNTS Before buying Books, write for quotations. An
assortment of catalogues, and special slips of
books at reduced prices, will bo sent for a ton-cont stamp.
INDIVIDUAL PROBLEMS
AND POSSIBILITIES
By WILLIAM GEORGE JORDAN sometimo editor
Saturday Evening Post.
A collection of charmingly written essays on topics of gen-
eral interest. 12mo, beautifully printed with red top-lines
and initials, ornamented cloth, net, 75 cts.; by mail, 83 cts.
F. E. GRANT, Books, 23 West 424 Street,
York.
Mention this advertisement and receive a discount.
BRENTANO'S Union Square New York
OHIO
CHARLES H. ROBERTS,
Attorney at Law.
Law and Patents,
614 Roanoke Building, 145 LaSalle Street, CHICAGO.
in the Old South Leaflets. As this State has just
Patents, Trade-Marks, Copyright; and Claims in Chicago
and Washington.
been celebrating the centennial of her admission to the
Union these leaflets are of interest to the student :
No. 13, The Ordinance of 1787; 14, The Constitution
CHICAGO ELECTROTYPE AND of Ohio; 40, Manasseh Cutler's Description of Ohio;
41, Washington's Journal of his Tour to Ohio in 1770;
STEREOTYPE CO.
42, Garfield's Address on the North West Territory;
43, George Rogers Clarke's Account of the Capture of
Vincennes; 127, The Ordinance of 1784.
Price 5 Cents Each. Send for Catalogues to
DESIGNERS AND ENGRAVERS
DIRECTORS OF THE OLD SOUTH WORK
Nos. 149-155 Plymouth Place, CHICAGO.
Old South Meeting House, Boston.
ELECTROTYPERS


1903.)
99
THE DIAL
Ready February 1.
“ The keenness, quickness, and acuteness of the New
England mind were perhaps never better illustrated than
in Annie Eliot Trumbull's stories.”—The Outlook, N. Y.
Loyal Traitors
ANNIE ELIOT TRUMBULL'S
Mistress Content
Cradock
Price 1.25
"A charming colonial romance of the Massachusetts
Bay Colony (chiefly Boston) in the days of Roger Will-
iams." The Congregationalist.
“The whiffs of New England air and the delicately
described bits of scenery are wholly delicious.”—Chicago
Tribune.
A Story of Friendship for the Filipinos.
By RAYMOND L. BRIDGMAN, author of “Ten Years
of Massachusetts,” “Biennial Elections,"
“ The Master Idea," etc.
THE story is one of quick and
absorbing action from the
first page to the last. If in its dramatic representations
of deeds in the Philippines the story is, in a sense, a terrible
story, it is terrible only as history is terrible; it is terrible
only as “ A Tale of Two Cities or “Uncle Tom's Cabin "
is terrible. With both of these stories it will, perhaps, not
fail to be classed.
Cloth, handsome cover design in gold, 310 pages,
$1.00 net; by mail, $1.12.
"2
&
A Cape Cod Week
Price 1.00
“A September week when the picking of the cran-
berry bogs was just beginning.” — Boston Transcript.
A Christmas Accident Price 1.00
And Six Other Stories.
“The reader will enjoy the wit, the delicate satire,
the happy bits of nature description, the accurate charac-
terization, and the touches of pathos.” —— The Nation, N.Y.
Rod's Salvation
Price 1.00
And Three Other Short Stories.
* Wit, delicacy with an indescribable touch of style
pervade them all, though dealing with
common phases
of New England life.”. - The Literary World, Boston.
An Hour's Promise
Price 1.00
A story of Southern life and surroundings.
HEALTH AND A DAY. By LEWIS G. JANES. Cloth,
$1.00 net.
NEW MODES OF THOUGHT. By C. T. STOCKWELL. Cloth,
$1.00 net.
THE WIT AND WISDOM OF JESUS. By GEORGE W.
BUCKLEY. Cloth, $1.00 net.
THE TRUTH IN CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. By HERBERT
ERNEST CUBAMAN, Ph.D. Cloth, 60 cents net.
OF MAKING ONE'S SELF BEAUTIFUL. By WILLIAM C.
GANNETT, Cloth, 60 cts. net; special gift edition, $1.00.
JAMES H. WEST CO., Publishers, Boston
For sale by all booksellers or sont postpaid on receipt of price
by the Publishers.
THE BAKER & TAYLOR CO.
Library Department.
A. S. BARNES & CO., 156 Fifth Ave., N.Y.
Going Abroad?
If so, take a copy of
THE COMPLETE POCKET GUIDE TO EUROPE
Edited by E. C. and T. L. STEDMAN.
Concise, handy, clear and legible maps, and altogether
the best of the kind.
Full flexible leather, postpaid, $1.25.
WILLIAM R. JENKINS
851 and 853 Sixth Avenue NEW YORK CITY
We bave sold books to librarians for fifty years.
We have the largest stock in the largest book
market in the country.
We fill orders promptly, completely, and intelli.
gently.
Send for our new Clearance Catalogue.
Wholesale Booksellers and Publishers,
33-37 East 17th Street, Union Square, North, NEW YORK.
:
NEW YORK:
27 & 29 West 230
LONDON:
24 Bedford St., Strand.
** S. G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
LIBRARY AGENTS
M
ESSRS. POTNAM have peculiar facilities for handling all library business intelligently and to the best
advantage of their customers.
Their Branch House in London (through which they receive English orders for American books)
enables them to supply, promptly, English books, without the commission usually paid by American dealers.
Their extensive miscellaneous and retail business makes it practicable to buy all books at the lowest
prices, to carry a large stock of standard books in every department of literature, and to keep in touch
with the current publications of the day. Their business experience covers more than half a century.


100
[Feb. 1,
THE DIAL
THE TRAVELERS
OF HARTFORD, CONN.
SYLVESTER C. DUNHAM, President.
MINNEAPOLIS
AND ST. PAUL
ISSUES ACCIDENT POLICIES,
Covering Accidents of Travel, Sport, or Business,
at home and abroad.
ISSUES LIFE & ENDOWMENT POLICIES,
All Forms, Low Rates, and Non-Forfeitable.
Illinois Central Railroad
ASSETS, $33,813,055.74. LIABILITIES, $28,807,741.43.
EXCESS SECURITY, $5,005,314.29.
Returned to Policy Holders since 1864, $46,083,706.03.
New line from Chicago via
Rockford, Freeport, Dubuque,
Waterloo and Albert Lea. Fine
service and fast “ Limited"
night train, with Stateroom
and Open-section Sleeping Car,
Buffet-Library Car, and Free
Reclining Chair Car through
without change. Dining Car
Service.
Big Four Route
CHICAGO
TO
Indianapolis, Cincinnati,
Louisville, Florida,
A. H. HANSON, G.P.A.,
CHICAGO
AND ALL POINTS
South and Southeast.
J. C. TUCKER, G. N. A.,
No. 234 South Clark Street,
CHICAGO
Florida and New Orleans
FREDERICK BRUEGGER
VIA
Singing
Queen & Crescent Route
Southern Railway
AND
Tone Placing. Voice Culture.
Style.
CONNECTING LINES
Through Pullman Service
FROM
CHICAGO, CLEVELAND, DETROIT,
TOLEDO, PITTSBURG, LOUISVILLE
720-721 Fine Arts Building,
203 Michigan Blvd.
Chicago.
TO
The STUDEBAKER
ST. AUGUSTINE
Three Trains a Day
CHICAGO & FLORIDA SPECIAL
FLORIDA LIMITED
QUEEN & CRESCENT SPECIAL
Fine Arts Building
Michigan Boulevard, between Congress and
Van Buren Streets.
TO
AN UNQUALIFIED SUCCESS!
CINCINNATI
At 9:15 P.M., 8:30 A.M., 8:05 P.M.
George Ade's
NEW MUSICAL
COMEDY.
Write for Rates and Printed Matter.
W. C. RINEARSON, G. P. A.,
Cincinnati, O.
PEGGY
FROM PARIS
Music by
WILLIAM LORAINE.


1903.)
101
THE DIAL
Unlimited Comfort
Half a million dollars is the expense of new equipment
this season on the California Limited. You pay nothing
extra for added comforts. They are yours just to make
the trip pleasanter.
Most experienced travelers prefer the California Limited because they find luxurious
ease in the cosy compartment and observation Pullmans — they enjoy the diversified
scenery, a thrilling panorama of valley and peak, forest and plain; no wearisome
monotony — they appreciate the superior dining-car meals, “Santa Fe all the way."
Such a train will please you, too. Why be satisfied with less than the very
best?
Our other through California trains carry standard Pullmans, tourist sleepers, and
chair cars.
Ask for our California books. Address,
General Passenger Office,
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry.,
Great Northern Bldg., Chicago.
a
IT IS CHEAPER TO
GO TO CALIFORNIA
THAN TO
BUY COAL
Southern Pacific Direct to
Winter Resort Cities where Orange Groves are Yellow with Fruit or White
with Blossoms from November to May.
Southern Pacific Choice of Routes
SUNSET LIMITED and Pacific Coast EXPRESS Daily from New Orleans.
Golden State Limited via Kansas City and El Paso.
OVERLAND LIMITED via Ogden and Sacramento.
Write at once to W. G. NEIMYER, Gen'l Agent SOUTHERN PACIFIC
193 Clark Street, CHICAGO


102
[Feb. 1,
THE DIAL
NEW PUBLICATIONS OF
THE ROBERT CLARKE CO.
CINCINNATI, OHIO
A BOOK FOR EVERY LIBRARY
AND EVERY READER
RIGHT READING
WORDS OF GOOD COUNSEL
ON
THE CHOICE AND USE OF BOORS
SELECTED
FROM THE WRITINGS OF
TEN FAMOUS AUTHORS
OF
THE NINETEENTH
CENTURY
CHICAGO
A. C. McCLURG & COMPANY
Colonel John Gunby of the Maryland Line.
Being Some Account of His Contributions to American Liberty.
By A. A. GUNBY. 12mo. Cloth. Illustrated. Price, net, $1.00;
delivered, $1.10.
The research devoted to this tactical subject is bound to attract all
impartial students of military history.
The tenor and spirit of the book will be found most wholesome,
broad and patriotic, and while depicting some of the most thrilling
scenes of American history, it finds its best excuse for being written
in the simple story of Freedom, which cannot be told too often nor
dwelt on too long in these expanding times of our country.
The Cause of the Glacial Period.
Being a Résumé and Discussion of the Current Theories to Account
for the Phenomena of the Drift ; with a New Theory by the Author.
By H. L. TRUE, M.D. 12mo. Cloth. Illustrated. Price, net,
$1.00; delivered, $1.12.
Tho Glacial Eprch remains the puzzle of the geologist; and so long
as our knowledge of the causes that produced it continuos 80 vague and
unsatisfactory, any theory throwing new light on the subject should
receive a candid investigation from scientists generally. Inasmuch as
no satisfactory solution of the problem has, as yet, been furnished, the
mystery surrounding the glacial period should insure a friendly attitude
toward any publication purporting to give a further elucidation of the
subject.
Shakspeare's Art; or, Studies on the Master
Builder of Ideal Characters.
By JAMES H. COTTER, A.M. 12mo. Cloth. Illustrated. Price,
net, $1.00; delivered, $1.10.
Shakspeare's Art; or, Studies on the Master Builder of Ideal
Characters, by James H. Cotter, A.M., is a valuable addition to Shakes-
pearean literature. Its style is florid and its periods poetical, yet rich
in depth of thought, as well as in wealth of imagery. The illustrations
are of prominent actors and actresses portraying Shakspearean char.
acters in costume, and are excellent specimens of half-tone reproduc-
tions. The author proves himself to be keen of observation as well as
a philosopher, and his deductions show him to be a deep student and
an ardent admirer of the Bard of Avon.
Modern Horsemanship.
An Original Method of Teaching the Art by Means of Pictures from
Life. By EDWARD L. ANDERSON. Fifth Edition, Revised and En-
larged.
8vo.
Cloth. Illustrated by 60 Fine Photogravures.
Price, net, $3.00.
“A master of his subject."- The Field, London.
"The best new work on riding, in the English language." - Sport
Zeitung, Vienna,
The Memoirs and Writings of the late Very
Reverend James F. Callaghan, D.D.
Compiled by His Sister, EMILY A. CALLAGHAN. 8vo. Cloth.
Price, net, $2.00; delivered, $2.20.
The first part of the book contains the memoirs and letters from
Beveral prelates. The second part all the sermons and lectures that
were found after his death. The third part contains the best articles
written by him as editorials for the Catholic Telegraph. Among these
are the articles on Papal Infallibility, Galileo, the answer to Ingersoll
on the Bible, and the letters written from various parts of Europe, in
1880, whose graphic and beautiful descriptions of places and churches
won the admiration of the readers of the Catholic Telegraph.
MDCCCCI
SOME of the most notable things which distin-
guished writers of the nineteenth century have
said in praise of books and by way of advice as to
what books to read are here reprinted. Every line
has something golden in it.-New York Times Sat-
urday Review.
ANY
NY one of the ten authors represented would be
a safe guide, to the extent of the ground that he
covers; but the whole ten must include very nearly
everything that can judiciously be said in regard to
the use of books.-Hartford Courant.
THE editor shows rare wisdom and good sense in
his selections, which are uniformly helpful.-
Boston Transcript.
THERE is so much wisdom, so much inspiration,
so much that is practical and profitable for every
reader in these pages, that if the literary impulse
were as strong in us as the religious impulse is in
some people we would scatter this little volume
broadcast as a tract. — New York Commercial Ad-
vertiser.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.
PALMER - Personal Recollections of John M. Palmer.
The Story of an Earnest Life. 8vo. Cloth, net, $3.00; delivered,
$3.25.
MONTGOMERY - Reminiscences of a Mississippian in Peace
and War.
By FRANK A. MONTGOMERY. 8vo. Cloth, with portrait, net, $5.00.
Ye Gods and Little Fishes.
A Travesty on the Argonautic Expedition in Quest of the Golden
Fleece. By JAMES A. HENSHALL, M.D. 8vo. Cloth, $2.00.
Prehistoric Implements.
By WARREN K. MOOREHEAD. Illustrated. 8vo. Cloth, net, $3.00.
Shaksper, not Shakespeare.
By WILLIAM H. EDWARDS. 12mo. Cloth, $2.00.
BEAUTIFULLY PRINTED AT
THE MERRYMOUNT Press
Red cloth, gilt top, uncut, 80 cts. net.
Half calf or half morocco, $2.00 net.
THE ROBERT CLARKE COMPANY
Publishers, Booksellers, and Importers
31, 33, 35 East Fourth Street, Cincinnati, Ohio


1903.)
103
THE DIAL
A History of Egypt
From the End of the Neolithic Period to the Death of Cleopatra VII., B.C. 30. By E. A.
WALLIS BUDGE, M.A., Litt.D., D.Lit., Keeper of the Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities in the
British Museum. Illustrated. In 8 volumes, cloth, $1.25 each.
Vol. I. Egypt in the Neolithic and Vol. V. Egypt under Rameses the
Archaic Period.
Great.
Vol. II. Egypt under the Great Pyra- Vol. VI. Egypt under the Priest-Kings
mia Builders.
and Tanites and Nubians.
Vol. III. Egypt under the Amenembats Vol. VII. Egypt under the Saites, Per-
and Hyksos.
sians, and Ptolemies.
Vol. IV. Egypt and Her Asiatic Em- Vol. VIII. Egypt under the Ptolemies
pire.
and Cleopatra VII.
“The publication of this work, certainly the most complete and exhaustivo English history of the
Egyptian Kingdom from the earliest times which we possess, may be said without undue eulogy to mark
an epoch in Egyptological studies in this country." — Glasgow Herald.
“In these volumes we have a graphic history of the period written from a careful study of their monu-
mental records that have survived the downfall of the nation. They are indispensable to the student of
those ancient times, and will make the history of the Old Testament seem more real.” — Syracuse Messenger.
FOR SALE BY ALL BOOKSELLERS. SEND FOR CATALOGUE.
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS-AMERICAN BRANCH
91 & 93 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK
Issued on
ESTABLISHED 1880.
the 1st
THE DIAL
Per year,
$2.00;
single copy,
10 cents.
and 16th of
each month,
A Semi-Monthly Fournal of
Literary Criticism, Discussion, and Information
“The Dial" has always stood for character. It has The good sense, the sound critical judgment, the liberal
the old Puritan conscience on which everything that is spirit, the high principles of “The Dial," all maintained
lasting in our country is built. It is sane, wise, truthful; with simplicity, steadiness, and without pretension, have
it is honest, hopeful, and kindly, and with all this it is the secured the respect as well as the cordial regard of its
best journal of literary criti-
readers.
cism which we have, and we
CHARLES ELIOT NORTON.
ask do better.
“ The Dial" seems at present the most unbiased,
HARVARD UNIVERSITY,
DAVID STARR JORDAN.
good humored, and sensible organ of American
April 21, 1900.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY,
criticism.
- BARRETT WENDELL
“The Dial" has uniformly
April 18, 1900.
in “Literary History of America."
directed its energies to the
"The Dial” is easily our
work of upholding the best
most valuable literary review. It has been faithful to the standards of literary criticism in this country. It has done
best literary traditions from the first, and will no doubt this with dignity, courage, and strength.
continue to be so.
JOHN BURROUGHS.
JAMES LANE ALLEN.
Weer PARK, N. Y., April 7, 1900.
NEW YORK, April 8, 1900.
VERY SPECIAL OFFER For the purpose of introducing The Dial to a large circle of
a
new readers the publishers will mail to any person, not now
a subscriber to the paper, who will send us 10 cents and mention this advertisement, four consecutive numbers,
together with a special offer for a yearly subscription. No obligation is implied by the acceptance of this
offer other than the intention to give the paper a full and fair examination.
THE DIAL, 203 MICHIGAN AVENUE, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS


104
(Feb. 1; 1903.
THE DIAL
Scholars
Librarians Students
VON HOLSTS CONSTITUTIONAL AND PO
ANDREWS' AMERICAN LAW.–A treatise on TAYLOR'S INTERNATIONAL LAW.— The Ori-
the Jurisprudence, Constitution, and Laws of the gin and Growth of International Public Law. By
United States. By James DEWITT ANDREWS. HANNIS TAYLOR. $6.50 net.
$6.50 net.
The most comprehensive and exhaustive treatise upon the
The plan of this work is analytical, being an application
subject of International Public Law which has appeared in
of the same principles of legal analysis applied by Gaius and
this country since Dana's Wheaton, embracing, as it does, in
Justinian in the Institutes, followed by Hale and Blackstone a compact and attractive form, the results of the expositions
and endorsed by Wilson, Sir William Jones, Austin, Pollock,
of all the notable European publicists, medieval and modern,
and Chalmers.
English and Continontal,
H°W
FOWARD'S HISTORY OF THE LOUISIANA THORPE’S CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY.-
PURCHASE. -- By JAMES Q. HOWARD. Author-
The Constitutional History of the United States
ized Edition. Endorsed by the Louisiana Purchase
for the period from 1765 to 1895, with Maps, Tables,
Exposition Company, World's Fair, St. Louis. 1 vol.
and Original Documents Reprinted. By FRANCIS
Buckram, $1.50 nel.
Newton THORPE. 3 vols. $7.50 net.
This is an interesting portrayal of the facts concerning the
This great work comprises a complete history of the system
acquisition of this vast domain.
of constitutional development exemplified by the organiza-
tion, administration, and reorganization after the Civil War
JAMI
AMESON'S CONSTITUTIONAL CONVEN.
of Federal government in the United States between the
TIONS. - Tbe History, Powers, and Modes of
years 1765 and 1893.
Proceedings of Constitutional Conventions. By JNO. TUCKER'S CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED
. .
A. JAMESON. Fourth Edition. $5.00 net.
STATES. - A Critical Discussion of its Genesis,
Some of the most urgent questions in American Constitu- Development, and Interpretation. By JOHN RANDOLPH
tional Law, at present, relate to the nature and powers of TUCKER. Edited by HENRY ST. GEORGE TUCKER.
the Constitutional Convention.
2 vols. Cloth, $7.00 net.
Treated consecutively, section by section, beginning at the
MARSHALL, JOHN.---Life, Character, and Judi-
preamble and concluding with the amendments.
cial Services as Portrayed in the Centenary and
Memorial Addresses and Proceedings throughout the
United States on Marshall Day, 1901, and in the Classic
Orations of Binney, Story, Phelps, Waite, and Rawle. STATES OF AMERICA. — The Political and Con-
Handsomely bound, and illustrated with Portraits and stitutional History of the United States of America.
Facsimiles. Compiled and Edited, with an Introduction, By Dr. H. von Holst. 8 vols. Cloth, $12.00 net.
by John F. DILLON. 3 vols. Cloth, $9.00 net.
VON HOLST'S CONSTITUTIONAL LAW OF
THE UNITED STATES.
PRENTICE AND EGAN'S THE COMMERCE
- By. DR. H. vox
CLAUSE OF THE FEDERAL CONSTITU.
Holst. Authorized Edition. Translated by A. B.
TION. – An Exposition of the Law on a Subject of
Mason. Cloth, $2.00 net.
Extensive and Increasing Importance. By E. PARMA-
The book begins with a masterly sketch of the United
LEE PRENTICE and John G. EGAN. $5.00 net.
States under the Articles of Confederation, and traces, con-
cisely and clearly, the steps which led to the adoption of the
RO
Constitution.
OSCHER'S POLITICAL ECONOMY. - The
Science of Political Economy Historically Treated.
WA
APLES' PARLIAMENTARY LAW.- A Hand-
By WILHELM ROSCHER. 2 vols. Cloth, $6.00; Book on Parliamentary Law and Practice. By
sheep, $7.00.
Rufus WAPLES. Second Edition. 12mo, cloth, $1.00.
This is the first English translation of this great work – This is the only work on Parliamentary Law.
the greatest, so competent critics assert, that has been written
in any language. This edition is enriched by the French WILGUS UNITED STATES STEEL CORPO
introduction of Mr. Wolowski, and three original chapters
RATION. – Being a Study of its Formation,
by Professor Roscher, contributed expressly for it, on the
Charter, By-Laws, and Management, together with a
all-important questions of Paper Money, International Trade, Thorough Inquiry Concerning its Stock, Legality, In-
and the Protective System.
dustrial Position, etc. Buckram, $2.50 net.
RUS
USSELL'S POLICE POWER OF THE STATE WILSON'S WORKS. ON JURISPRUDENCE
- And Decisions Tbereon, as Illustrating the De-
AND GOVERNMENT.-The Public Addresses
velopment and Value of Case Law. By Alfred Rus- and Lectures, on the Nature of Law and Governments,
1 vol. Buckram, $2.50 net.
of James Wilson. Edited by JAMES DE WITT AN-
This little treatise is upon a subject of such large and
2 vols. Cloth, $7.00 net.
growing importance that there is room for a new book upon The most scientific exposition of jurisprudence applied to
it. The author has enjoyed a wide reputation for many American law. The work presents a clear view of the nature
years, and the fruit of his full practice and long experience of law, government, and private right, as viewed by ancient
cannot but be valuable.
and modern jurists.
.
-
E
SELL.
DREWS.
CALLAGHAN & COMPANY, CHICAGO
THE DIAL PRES8, FINE ARTS BUILDING, CHICAGO


io
1933
i j
Swart
THE DIAL
A SEMI- MONTHLY JOURNAL OF
Literary Criticism, Discussion, and Information.
EDITED BY
FRANCIS F. BROWNE.
}
Volume XXXIV.
No. 400.
CHICAGO, FEB. 16, 1903.
10 cts. a copy. | FINE ARTS BUILDING.
203 Michigan Blvd.
82. a year.
IMPORTANT NEW SCRIBNER BOOKS
Just Published
BY THE AUTHOR OF “ART FOR ART'S SAKE"
THE MEANING OF PICTURES
By JOHN C. VAN DYKE
CONTENTS
the
art as his “ Art for Art's Sake " did to its techniqne. It is an explanation of,
Truth in Painting
and a plea for, the beholder's point of view, which he deems as legitimate as that
Individuality, or the Personal
Element
of the artist. He discusses the personal and the decorative elements in a work of
art with great fulness and penetration, and he brings out the true significance of
Imagination of the Artist
painting as he has heretofore explained its modes of expression. Taken together
Pictorial Poetry
The Decorative Quality
the two works form an original and concise exposition of the philosophy of painting.
Subject in Painting
$1.25 net (postage 10 cents).
AGNOSTICISM
By ROBERT FLINT, D.D., LL.D., F.R.S.E.
Corresponding Member of the Institute of France ; Professor of Divinity in the University of Edinburgh ; author of
“ Anti-Theistic Theories,” “ The Philosophy of History in Europe,” “ Theism,” etc.
CON
ONTENTS. I. The Nature of Agnosticism. - - II. Erroneous Views of Agnosticism. – III. History of Agnosti-
cism. -- IV. Agnosticism of Hume and Kant. - V. Complete or Absolute Agnosticism. - VI. On Mitigated and
Partial Agnosticism and Their Forms. -- VII. Partial or Limited Agnosticism as to Ultimate Objects of Knowledge.
VIII. Agnosticism as to God. - IX. Agnosticism as to Religious Belief. -- X. Agnosticism as to Knowledge of God.
8vo, $2.00 net (postage 20 cents).
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION THROUGH AMERICAN IDEAS
A NOVEL
CALVERT OF STRATHORE
By CARTER GOODLOE
A ,
embassy at Paris during the French Revolution. The great Americans, Jefferson and Morris, move through this dark
and adventurous period, illuminating it with their clear intelligences. With Caristy frontispiece in color, $1.50.
Coming Next Week
DEVELOPMENT OF MUSLIM THEOLOGY, JURISPRUDENCE,
AND CONSTITUTIONAL THEORY (The Semitic Series)
By DUNCAN B. MACDONALD, Professor in Hartford Theological Seminary.
a
one of the most valuable of this important series. To the general reader it will open a new world of interest and
information, and to the specialist it will give the latest data on its complicated and difficult theme. It is written in a
style of very unusual literary brilliancy that appeals to the reader's imagination in a vivid and effective way, and makes
real and living the phenomena that are cursorily familar to all as the substructure of the Arabian Nights,” but scarcely
more so to the general historical student. It is, in a word, the great Moslem world visualized for the first time for
modern readers.
$3.00 net (postage 18 cents).
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK


106
(Feb. 16,
THE DIAL
Important February Publications
THE LITERARY SENSATION OF THE SEASON
The Journal of Arthur Stirling (“The Valley of the Shadow”).
Revised and Condensed, with an Introductory Sketch. Describing the trials and tribulations of a
man of education and culture who had high literary aspirations, his wanderings among publishers and
magazine editors, the impressions he gained by the way, and his death by suicide. 12mo. Cloth,
$1.25 net; postage, 12 cents additional.
"Without a parallel in modern literature."— Chicago Record-Herald.
A large audience is eagerly awaiting it.”- Miss GILDER in The Chicago Tribune.
Personal Reminiscences of Prince Bismarck. By SIDNEY WHITMAN, author of
“Imperial Germany," etc. With Portraits.
” With Portraits. Large 12mo. Cloth, gilt top, uncut, $1.60 net ;
postage, 16 cents additional.
Mr. Whitman's distinction as a man of letters, a student of politics, and a man of affairs has enabled him to profit to
the full by the opportunities afforded through his long friendship with Bismarck. For many years he knew the Iron
Chancellor and visited him and enjoyed his confidences. The Bismarck literature which has been published in Germany
has necessarily been subjected to much revision and editorship for political reasons. Mr. Whitman understood the policy,
motives, and views of Bismarck as explained by himself, and his book affords a significant and intimate interpretation of
the great statesman of a wholly personal character. There is history that is held in respect, but neglected, and history that
is read. Whitman's “ Personal Reminiscences of Prince Bismarck ” represents the intimate history which holds the attention
and is eagerly read.
A Virginia Girl in the Civil War. Being the Authentic Experiences of a Confederate
Major's Wife who followed her Husband into Camp at the Outbreak of the War, Dined and Supped
with Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, ran the Blockade to Baltimore, and was in Richmond when it was
Evacuated. Collected and Edited by Myrta LOCKETT Avary. 12mo. $1.25 net; postage, 12
cents additional.
Silverwork and Jewelry. By H. Wilson. (Artistic Crafts Series.) Illustrated. 16 collotype
inserts. 12mo. Half-bound, $1.40 net; postage, 14 cents additional.
Readers already familiar with the previous volume in this series, “ Bookbinding and the Care of Books,” will recognize
the care that has been bestowed upon the series in securing treatises by writers who know their themes. These books are
technical handbooks intended for use in schools, workshops, and libraries.
The Story of the Trapper. By A. C. Laut, author of " Heralds of Empire.” Illustrated
by HEMING. (The Story of the West Series, Edited by Ripley Hitchcock.) Illustrated. 12mo.
Cloth, $1.25 net; postage, 12 cents additional.
“ The Story of the Trapper' as told by Miss A. C. Laut is more romantic than any tale of fiction. The author has
brought to her work a remarkable knowledge of forest lore and something more than a mere acquaintance with the early
history of this continent. In her hands the facts connected with the struggles of the pioneer traders are woven together
with a deftness that makes a splendid record of adventure. It is seldom that any author succeeds so admirably in awaken-
ing the enthusiasm of the reader who cons a record of the past.”-- Milwaukee Sentinel.
The Story of Alchemy. By M. M. PATTISON MUIR. (A New Volume in the Library of
Useful Stories.) 16mo. Cloth, 35 cents; postage, 4 cents additional.
Mr. Muir has put into an entertaining story the history of the occult science of alchemy, or the art of transmuting the
baser metals into gold, showing its relation to chemistry, and tracing its course down through the middle ages, when it was
used by the gold makers as a sort of “black art.”
For a Maiden Brave. By CHAUNCEY C. HOTCHKISS, author of "A Colonial Free Lance," "The
Strength of the Weak,” etc. With 4 Illustrations in Color by Frank T. Merrill. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
“The story is a good one and has all the elements of popularity. It is a tale of rapid action and will be read with
breathless interest." Chicago Record-Herald.
A Whaleman's Wife. By F. T. BULLEN, author of "The Cruise of the Cachalot,” “ Deep-Sea
Plunderings,” etc. Illustrated. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
Mr. Bullen has here written his first actual novel. The South Sea whaling fishery of New England is his theme.
New pictures of that industry are presented. A love story beginning in Vermont is the thread on which are hung many
stirring incidents. A rustic Yankee from the Green Mountain State is an interesting central figure.
"
» 66
D. APPLETON & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK
BOSTON
CHICAGO


1903.)
107
THE DIAL
JUST READY
“THE GREAT BOOK OF THE PRESENT TIME"
LOYAL TRAITORS
A Story of Friendship for the Filipinos
By RAYMOND L. BRIDGMAN, author of "Ten Years of Massachusetts," “ Biennial
Elections,” “ The Master Idea," etc.
Toe story is one of quick and absorbing action from the first page to the last. Whether one agrees or not with the
writer's viewpoint, no reader can begin the book without continuing interested to the end. If in its dramatic
representations of deeds in the Philippines the story is, in a sense, a terrible story, it is terrible only as "A Tale of
Two Cities” or “Uncle Tom's Cabin" is terrible. With both of those stories it will perhaps not fail to be classed.
Some of the points made in the book are enforced by words of President Roosevelt, ex-Secretary Long, Rev. Dr.
Lyman Abbott, Admiral Robley D. Evans, and others. The "quotations” are not indicated, but are left for
readers to discover.
The writer is no novice in literature. As bookmaker and newspaper correspondent he has already won reputa-
tion. This new work reveals the force and picturesqueness of long training. The soldier, the deacon, the minister,
the lawyer, the philosopher, the business man - all these characters in the story are faithful creations. The few
quiet scenes of home and love in the United States are no less vivid and truthful than the chapters having to do with
events in the Philippines, depicting battle, rescue, struggle, torture, escape, and defeat.
Thronghoat the story, the eternal rightfulness of the Filipino cause is affirmed, and every specious plea commonly
urged for the course of the American Administration is shown to be untenable in the presence of true American
principles, whose ultimate triumph is foreshadowed in the prophecy of freedom for the Philippines through the
return of reason to the American people.
Cloth, handsome cover design in gold, 310 pages, $1.00 net (by mail, $1.12).
&
VALUABLE, EASY-SELLING BOOKS
Health and a Day
The Truth in Christian
By LEWIS G. JANES. Cloth, gilt top, $1.00 net.
Science
“This little book is a tonic for both sick and well.
By HERBERT ERNEST CUSHMAN, Ph.D. Cloth,
One can scarcely pick out a single chapter the reading
gilt top, 60 cents net.
of which will not prove bracing and helpful."- Outlook.
“We commend this calm and thoughtful treatise to
the reader who wishes to think rightly on this complex
New Modes of Thought
subject."— Literary World.
By C. T. STOCKWELL. Cloth, gilt top, $1.00 net.
Common People
“ Here is a volume that one should possess. Read the
chapter, 'Begotten, not Created,' and you will thank the
By FRANK OLIVER Hall, D.D. Cloth, gilt top,
critic for calling your attention to the book.”— Unity.
$1.00 net.
"It is plain, practical, common sense throughout.
Let all read it who desire to make the world better."
Of Making One's Self - Woman's Journal.
Beautiful
The Wit and Wisdom
By WILLIAM C. GANNETT, author of “ Blessed bo
Drudgery.” Cloth, 50 cents net; special gift
of Jesus
edition, $1.00.
By GEORGE W. BUCKLEY. Cloth, gilt top,
“One of the little books of large value that ought to
$1.00 net.
find its way into the home and the hand. It is as help- “A book that will commend itself to readers of every
ful as it is bright. There is no page that one would belief. Admirable for its simplicity, its reverence, and
wish to skip.”—The Watchman.
its intelligent appreciation."— Chicago Evening Post.
JAMES H. WEST COMPANY, Publishers, Boston


108
(Feb. 16, 1903.
THE DIAL
New Books of Importance Recently Published by
By CARL HILTY, translated by
Professor Francis G. PEABODY
By JOHN GRAHAM BROOKS
The Social Unrest
STUDIES IN LABOR AND
SOCIALIST MOVEMENTS
Cloth, 12mo, $1.50 net (postage 13 cents).
"A mine of fresh and vital information - of matter that inter-
ests everybody.”—- Review of Reviews.
“The coal strike and its significance – is the keynote of the
book."- Mail and Erpress.
Happiness: Essays on the
Meaning of Life
Cloth, $1.25 (postage 10 cents).
Essays on The Art of Work; How to Fight the Battles of Life ;
Good Habits; The Art of Having Time, etc., etc.
By Sir WALTER BESANT
Just Ready
London
IN THE EIGHTEENTH
CENTURY
By CHARLES A.
MCMURRY, Ph.D.
State Normal School, DeKalb, II.
By M. OSTROGORSKI
Democracy
and the
Organization
of Political
Parties
Cloth, gilt, $7.50 net (carriage extra).
A picture of the social life of the
London of that time, profusely illus-
trated, quarto.
The Special
Method Ix READING
OF COMPLETE ENGLISH CLAS-
SICS IN THE COMMON SCHOOLS
New Edition revised and greatly en-
larged. Cloth, 12mo, 75 cents net.
Designed to help teachers in selecting
suitable books.
2 volumes, 8vo, $6.00 nel
(carriage extra).
By SIDNEY LEE
Victoria:
A BIOGRAPAY
By the same author
The Special Method
IN PRIMABY READING AND STORY
Cloth, 8vo, $3.00.
“This work will occupy a place like
that of de Tocqueville's Democracy in
America, or Bryce's American Com-
monwealth ... an invaluable contri-
bution to knowledge of democratic
institutions."-ALBION W. SMALL in the
American Journal of Sociology.
"The most truthful life of a great
Queen, and the most impartial history of
the Victorian age, that has yet been
issued."- The Spectator (London).
The Method at
the Recitation
Just Ready
By JOHN FISKE
Essays: Historical and Literary
In two volumes, cloth, 8vo, $4.00 nel (carriage 40 cents).
“The mind of John Fiske was so luminous, his knowledge so wide, his perception of literary nicety so keen, his judgment so fair
and honest, and his humor and enjoyment of a joke so irrepressible, that all the requisites of the essayist seem united in him, and the
present collection of his hitherto unpublished addresses must be esteemed a valuable addendum to the valuable work that has gone before."
-- The Chicago Posl.
The CAMBRIDGE MODERN HISTORY
Vol. I. The Renaissance
Cloth, 8vo, 927 pp., $3.75 net (postage 29 cents).
“Planned by the late Lord Acton, written by the most eminent English historical writers, this is 'The opening volume of what
promises to be one of the most important books of our time.'”—London Times.
“There can be no question about the great value of the work, in fact it is invaluable to every historical student."
– The Public Ledger (Philadelphia).
The Macmillan Company, New York


THE DIAL
a Semi. Monthly Journal of Literary Criticism, Discussion, and Information.
PAGE
.
.
.
.
THE DIAL (founded in 1880) is published on the 1st and 16th of of Chicago. Upon two past occasions we have
each month. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, $2.00 a year in advance, postage
chronicled the attempt to introduce system and
prepaid in the United States, Canada, and Mexico; in other countries
comprised in the Postal Union, 50 cents a year for extra postage must efficiency by legislative enactment into the
be added. Unless otherwise ordered, subscriptions will begin wilh the
schools of Chicago, and in both cases the final
current number. REMITTANCES should be by draft, or by express or
postal order, payable to THE DIAL. SPECIAL RATES TO Clubs and entry of the record has been one of failure.
for subscriptions with other publications will be sent on application; The comprehensive measures proposed by
and SAMPLE COPY on receipt of 10 cents. ADVERTISING RATES furnished
Mayor Harrison's Educational Commission
on application. All communications should be addressed to
THE DIAL, Fine Arts Building, Chicago.
and by the Civic Federation of Chicago were
both defeated by the customary appeals to pre-
No. 400. FEBRUARY 16, 1903. Vol. xxxiv. judice and selfish interest, and two successive
Legislatures have shown themselves incapable
CONTENTS.
of rising to a great occasion and responding
to an educational demand that expresses the
LEGISLATION FOR THE SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO 109
best modern thought upon this supremely
POE'S PLACE AS A CRITIC. Charles Leonard
important subject.
Moore .
111
At the present time, a third attempt is being
LITERARY ESSAYS OF A NATURALIST. Percy
F. Bicknell ..
made to secure for the State of Illinois, and
113
especially for the City of Chicago, a suitable
THE SCOTTISH GOWRIE MYSTERY. W. H.
statutory basis for the system of the public
Carruth
114
schools. The Civic Federation has presented
FIFTY YEARS OF THE AMERICAN STAGE.
to the Legislature a revised form of its meas-
Ingram A. Pyle
116
ure of two years ago, and the Chicago Board
CONSTABLE AND HIS INFLUENCE. Henry C.
of Education has offered a measure of its own,
Payne
117
less comprehensive, but not essentially different
SOCIOLOGY: PRACTICAL AND THEORETICAL.
as far as the two measures cover the same
T. D. A. Cockerell
119
ground. In one respect, the situation is ma-
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS.
122
An Essay on Laughter. — Autobiography of an
terially changed from what it was when the
adventuress. - The literature of Persia. -- New earlier attempts of this sort were made. During
material relating to the Peninsular War. - The the past two or three years, the school author-
diamond mines of South Africa. -- An enthusiastic
ities of Chicago have, of their own initiative,
Bostonian's book on Boston. - A Swiss hero and
reformer. — Pithy chapters on vital themes. put into operation many of the ideas for which
Reminiscences of a French girlhood. — Verona, its educational reformers have been working of
romance and history.
late, and the result has been a strengthening
BRIEFER MENTION
125
and quickening of the whole city system. This
NOTES
126 result, which would have been remarkable in
LIST OF NEW BOOKS
126 any case, seems still more remarkable when
we note that it has been accomplished in the
face of revenue conditions of the most depress-
LEGISLATION FOR THE SCHOOLS
ing sort. In spite of the utterly inadequate
OF CHICAGO.
income of the last two years, the schools of
Once in two years the Legislature of Chicago have been in a healthier condition ,
Illinois holds its stated session, and as often as than ever before in their recent history, which
this biennial event recurs, a resolute endeavor fact offers a gratifying tribute to the wisdom
is made by the friends of public education to of their management A high standard of
secure a new school law in place of the anti-requirement in teaching ability has been en-
quated legislation that has held a place in the forced, political and personal influence in
statute-book for many years. The existing law appointments has been minimized, many for-
is hopelessly inadequate because it reflects only tunate economies have been practiced together
the educational demands of a full generation with those which, though unfortunate, could
ago, and because it makes no special provision not be avoided, and the educational force has
for the needs of a great city system like that I been given permanency of tenure subject to
>
a


110
[Feb. 16,
THE DIAL
good behavior. This is only an outline of guards against unjust and arbitrary action are
what has been accomplished; the whole story provided. If not, these safeguards may easily
would require many pages for its setting forth, be strengthened without impairing the essen.
and will constitute, when it comes to be told in tial character of the proposed legislation.
detail, one of the most interesting chapters in With possibly a few slight modifications, we
the history of our city educational systems. believe that the passage of either of the meas-
The essential aim of the measures now pend- ures now so hotly debated would be for the best
ing in the Illinois Legislature is to give the interests of the Chicago schools. And yet the
force of law to the reforms that have already advance which the enactment of such legisla-
thus approved themselves in practice. One tion would mark would by no means justify the
might suppose that such a demand would only friends of educational progress in resting on
have to be made to be granted, but the forces their oars and considering their work accom-
of prejudice and selfish interest are, as usual, plished. A thoroughly satisfactory school law
,
arrayed against it, and the outcome is more must go beyond what is now being attempted,
likely than not to be failure once more. An ag- and make the profession of teaching one which
gressive prejudice always has an undue effect shall be comparable with the other professions
upon legislative opinion, and one active oppo- in attractiveness. The aims of the legislation
nent of a proposed law has more influence upon now under debate are essentially three in num-
its fortunes than a score of passive advocates. ber: expert control by responsible officers hav.
The present opposition seems to depend upon ing a definite legal status, the merit system in
two main lines of argument. One of these is appointment and promotion, and permanency
the utterly meaningless plea that the pro- of tenure after the necessary time of probation.
posed measures violate the principle of home So far, so good, but there are three other
rule by transferring control of the Chicago things that should also be secured. The
schools to the government of the State. This teacher's tenure of office must be safeguarded
is meaningless because, as every well-informed not merely by doing away with the form of
person knows, all authority in educational mat- annual reëlections, but by an emphatic statu-
ters rests with the State, and the only school tory declaration that nothing but professional
law that Chicago can have must be a law of inefficiency or personal immorality shall consti-
Illinois. The fact that so disingenuous an tute a valid cause for dismissal. Until this prin-
argument as this can be used at all shows to ciple is given the force of law, school authorities
what straits the partisans of the old order are in one place or another will be found making
reduced. The other ground of opposition is marriage, or non-residence, or some other mat-
found in the purpose of the proposed legislation ter utterly irrelevant to educational efficiency,
to invest the executive head of the school sys- a sufficient ground for dismissal, and just as
tem with enlarged powers and responsibilities. long as these petty interferences with personal
This objection may possibly amount to some- freedom are possible the best men and women
thing, although the measures now under dis- will shun the profession and its whole standard
,
cussion do no more than confirm a practice that will be lowered. The second thing to be se-
has been found to work admirably for some cured by an adequate school law is a minimum
time past. No doubt there can be such a thing scale of salaries, and a provision for guaran-
as too great a concentration of power in the teeing their payment irrespective of fluctuations
hands of a superintendent, and any plan hav- in the revenue. In this matter, the State of
ing this end in view must be judged, not in New York has done worthy pioneer work, and
the light of its workings at any given time, but its statute upon this subject might well be
,
in the light of its extreme possibilities under taken as a model for other commonwealths.
other conditions. A law which would produce The third requirement of an ideal school law
excellent results when administered by a wise must be a provision for pensions after a quarter-
and tactful officer might conceivably produce century or more of service. Such provision
very bad results when administered by an un- for the old age of the public teacher is to be
balanced and capricious executive. But the regarded not as a charity but as a right -- as a
methods and the language employed to voice part of his just compensation for a life of de-
this view in the present instance are not of a votion to the public good. We could wish,
nature to inspire confidence in the objectors, indeed, that the three purposes above specified
and a careful examination of the measures un- might have been made a part of the legislation
der debate seems to show that sufficient safe- now proposed, but the fact that they are not
a
-
à


1903.)
111
THE DIAL
a
included hardly affords a sufficient reason for but the truth is best. Poe's pseudo-poetic principles
rejecting the measures, in the main so admir- have bad a great influence, and one decidedly de-
able, that are now before the Legislature of trimental to the development of the best and great-
Illinois. We trust that this body will prove
est in literature. It is worth while, therefore, to
examine some of them.
wiser than its predecessors, and earn for itself
One of his most elaborate, and, in a way, bril-
the gratitude of all friends of educational pro-
gress, by giving us a law that in some degree It is logically argued, and if its premise were sound
liant, articles is that on “ The Rationale of Verse.”
shall reflect the opinion of to-day upon the
it would be a valuable little treatise on versification.
question of public education.
But it is vitiated by the assumption that English
verse is founded on quantity. Poe's master, Cole-
ridge, knew better, and when he was casting around
for a method of formalizing verse he bit upon the
POE'S PLACE AS A CRITIC.
metre of “Christabel.” This is simply accentuation
In the world's literature there are only two
systematized, — the four beats or points of em-
phasis in each line answering the purpose of a suc-
absolutely great critics — Aristotle and Lessing.
cession of quantitative feet. It would be a hard thing
The “ Poetics" of the one and the “ Laocoon” and
to say that there is no quantity in English poetry, -
“Dramaturgerie ” of the other are the fountains at
which all secondary critics must fill their pitchers. imagined it did. I doubt whether any great En-
but it certainly does not perform the office that Poe
Aristotle is limited in certain directions by a lack
of material to work upon; and, similarly, Lessing his lines, or, save in exceptional cases, scanned them
glish poet ever thought of quantity when writing
is circumscribed by dealing too exclusively with
Latin and French authors. But they have the
after they were written. It is only by the most forced
construction and conventional application of the rules
genius of divination, and their work is final.
Amongst the ancients, Longinus was an inspired
of prosody that the ordinary iambic line
the most
natural to our language can be made to scan
appreciator. He felt so fully the greatness and
charm of literature that he communicates a like
“Lādý | yoū arē | thē crū / ēlēst shē | ālīve."
thrill and fervor to his readers. He is exalting and There is a typical line of blank verse, and unless
stimulating to the last degree. But except a few I am greatly mistaken it is composed of four
oracular utterances about style, and some dry re- spondees, with an anapest, — truly a curious iambic
marks on grammatical forms, he gives us no infor-
But even when you have got an approxi-
mation as to the underlying principles of art. mation to your iambic line (it is trochaic really)
English literature can boast of a long succession of “Not in | lone splén | dör hủng | ālõft | thē night,"
critics only inferior to the great Greek and Ger-
you can alter every quantity and the line will run
man — giant planets to that double sun. Dryden, just as well, - e. g. (my amendment of course not
Johnson, Coleridge, Hazlitt, Arnold, Lowell, - being intended to make sense ),
these and others have left us a body of criticism
Sēē thēre | dîm beau / tý glēam | ing on | thē ský.
more varied and weighty than any other modern
nation, save Germany, possesses. Does Poe de-
Poe was a great lyric metrist, but the beauty of his
serve to rank with these men ?
verse is largely due to his marvellous caprices and
Poe unquestionably performed one of the most daring feats of accentuation. Scanned by a master
difficult feats of criticism. With almost unerring
of Latin prosody, his verse would look queer indeed.
instinct, he separated the wheat from the chaff of
In justice to Poe, I would say that if the quanti-
his contemporary literature. Hawthorne, Dickens, tative system is untenable the theory of accented
Tennyson, Mrs. Browning, and others, received from
and unaccented syllables disposed in feet after the
him some of their earliest and most valuable ap-
classic fashion is equally so. There are lines, mainly
preciation. If he erred, it was on the side of
monosyllabic, where every syllable is accented,
enthusiasm. His position was analogous to that of
which would give ten feet to a line of heroic verse.
an expert in precious stones, who can pick out by
And there are other lines where polysyllables are
instinct the real and perfect gems from a mass of
crowded so closely together that there are only four,
flawed stones or paste imitations. But such an
three, or may be two accents in the verse. This
expert is not necessarily a practised mineralogist
last statement may be doubted, so I will give an
or chemist, acquainted with the composition of example, and it is easier to make than to find one:
minerals and capable of reproducing them in the
Euripides, the Eleusinian.
laboratory. And the literature which Poe practised Here the is certainly not accepted and the other two
upon is certainly not of the first importance. His words have the normal accent on the antepenulti-
few casual utterances about really great books are mate and no others that I can detect. The ac-
wrong. His attempts to postulate principles of cents are fixed in the metre of “Christabel," but in
poetry are ludicrously wrong.
no other English metre known to me.
It is unpleasant to have to act as Devil's Advo- Poe's most famous critical dictum is the one
cate toward a writer whom one loves and reveres,— which asserts that in the nature of things there can
measure.
a


112
[Feb. 16,
THE DIAL
>
66
not carry
9
!
be no long poem,
that a work of poetic art, to “ The Haunted Palace,” some phrases from “Isra-
produce the proper effect, must be capable of being fel," and this, from “To One in Paradise,”
read at a single sitting. There is a delightful un-
“No more, no more, no more
certainty about this. What is a long poem? and
Shall bloom the thunder-blasted tree,
Or the stricken eagle soar,
how many minutes or hours may a sitting last?
There is nothing in the world to prevent one from
are almost all that occur to me of weight and
reading “ Paradise Lost" at a sitting, if one wants magnificence in his expression. He got his effects
to; and the “Iliad” is a baby among epics com-
by wholes rather than details, and by music rather
pared with the “Shah Namah.” But Poe evidently
than phrase. When it comes to the matter of Poe's
intended to set up as his standard of the short work, — his conception and design, whether in
poem, the ballad or lyric. There would be a slight prose or verse, — beauty is conspicuous by its total
measure of truth in his assertion, if the whole effect absence. What beauty, in any sane use of the
of a work of literary art were confined to the first word, can there be in the horrors and glooms, the
instantaneous, momentary shock, if we were then Rembrandt-like chiaro-oscuro, of the confined
to forget the piece and never read it again. But a cbarnel-houses, or vast illimitable spaces which
poem worth reading at all is worth reading many Poe's imagination created and peopled? But there
times, and our minds are not so feeble that we can- is immense sublimity. Poe is the most sublime
the impression on from time to time. In poet since Milton. Sublimity stirs even in his
reading a long poem, our pleasure is, in great part, most grotesque and fanciful sketch, — like Milton's
cumulative; we can look before and after, and de- lion “pawing to get free bis hinder parts.” It
tect those leit-motifs - to borrow a phrase from a rears full-fronted in the concluding pages of “The
sister art which consolidate the work together.
Narrative of A. Gordon Pym,” – in the sentences
No one questions the unity of impression produced
which describe the enormous bulk and battle-
by a long novel “ Don Quixote,” for instance,
lanterns of the ever-living ship in “ The MSS.
though nobody may read it at a single sitting: why, Found in a Bottle.” It is predominant in the
then, should we doubt that a poem or a play may
mighty sweep, the ordered disorder, of “The De-
be as much or more concentrate. But the mere
scent into the Maelstrom." It thrills us in the
statement of Poe's theory is an exhibition of its many-colored chambers of “The Masque of the
absurdity. It rules out of art all the great poetic
Red Death.” It overwhelms us with horror in
creators, — Homer, Æschylus, Dante, Shakespeare, “ The Murders of the Rue Morgue.” It is solemn
tand leaves the field to the lyrists and ballad-mon- and awe-inspiring in “ Berenice," " Legeia,” and
.
gers. The common-sense of mankind would reject
“ The Fall of the House of Usher,”-in. Ulalume'
such a preposterous conclusion, were it backed by and “The Raven.” Metaphysic, which Poe de-
an authority ten times as potent as Poe's. And the rided, — the great problems of life, death, and
greatest authority of all, Aristotle, specifically de-
the universe, wherein sublimity most resides, —
manded “a certain magnitude” as a condition of
haunted his mind continuously. He reaches his
greatness in a work of literature. The lilt of the climax of almost too profound thought in the
thrush and the blossoming of the rose have their
colloquy of “Monas and Una,” “ The Power of
place in nature, - but so have the mighty foldings | Words,” and “ Eureka.” No poet has 80 continu-
of the mountains, and the wheelings, cycle upon
ously tried to outreach the possibilities of human
cycle, of planets and suns. If Poe had merely as-
experience; none has 80 assiduously avoided the
serted that the ordinary average human intellect is ordinary facts of human life. His sublimity ac-
only capable of assimilating brief impressions of counts for his fate with the American public. A
greatness or beauty, he would have been right true democracy, it abhors greatness and ridicules
enough. But that is the fault of the ordinary sublimity. Yet Poe fascinates it with antipathic
average intellect; and it has nothing to do with attraction. It follows him very much as Sancho
the comparative greatness or value of works of art. Panza flounders after Don Quixote.
Again and again Poe asserted that beauty was
In spite of its sublimity, Poe's theatre of tragic
the sole province and object of poetry. It is true
abstractions is of course inferior to the flesh-and-
that he sometimes qualified his axiom by admitting blood theatre of the great creators. They include
that a certain strangeness was a necessary ingre- him, — they are as high as he, and they have
dient of beauty. But he could not or did not rec-
many times his breadth and weight. But he is
ognize that the deities who preside over poetry are very great even in his one-sidedness — his silhou-
twin, one female, Beauty, the other, male,
ettedness. One-sidedness may indeed make an
Power, Greatness, Sublimity. It is curious that
artist more intense and effective. But it is a
his own work is lacking in just the quality he crime in a critic. Despite bis fine instinct for
deemed all-important — beauty. Even in diction, what was good, Poe had not the breadth of view
his phrase has seldom the perfect grace and haunt-
or the knowledge necessary for a great critic. It
ing charm and massy weight which are almost is better that a critic should err in judgment in a
habitual with Keats and Coleridge and Tennyson, concrete case than that he should lay down princi-
and of which Wordsworth and Arnold and Emerson
ples which are provably wrong.
have such frequent use.
The lines “ To Helen,”
CHARLES LEONARD MOORE.
.
-
)


1903.)
113
THE DIAL
a
looks upon as the vital element in work of this
The New Books.
sort. Hence, he adds, “the secret of the
greater interest we take in signed criticism
LITERARY ESSAYS OF A NATURALIST.*
over unsigned.” In another chapter, however,
one notes with approval the warning given by
Mr. John Burroughs has given us no more the sharp-eyed, truth-loving nature-student
delightful revelation of himself than in the against “ that literary cast of mind that prefers
volume of eighteen essays which he names,
"
a picturesque statement to the exact fact.” We
from the opening chapter, “Literary Values.”
find the personal element in Dr. Johnson's con-
Many of the essays, perhaps all, have seen the
fident assertion that the swallow passes the
light in magazines ; but their appearance in
winter in the mud, “conglobulated into a ball”;
book form is none the less welcome. It has
but the untruth of such writing spoils it even
been said of a certain living author that he has
as literature.
the best style in literature to-day because one
In the chapter on “Style and the Man,”
can read page after page of his writing without
being conscious of reading at all; it is
Mr. Burroughs finds much of the secret of a
pure
expression, offering no resistance. These words good style in the elimination of friction ;
which recalls Mr. Spencer's “economy of at-
of praise, as quoted by Mr. Burroughs himself,
apply to his own literary style. It is the best tention,” both friction and attention having
possible style, because it is the man.
reference, of course, to the reading, not to the
In one of Lamb's letters, written in later writing. Let the author speak for himself:
life, he says he has ceased to care much for
“ How little friction the mind encounters in Addison,
in Lamb, or in the best of our own prose writers; and
books, except books about books. Mr. Bur.
how much in Meredith, and the later writings of Henry
roughs, as the years go by, finds in himself a
James! Is not friction to be got rid of as far as possible
contrary inclination. Books about real life in- in all departments of life? One does not want his shoes
terest him far more than works that are the
to pinch, nor his coat to bind, neither does he want to
result merely of the friction of the mind upon
waste any strength on involved sentences or on cryptic
language. Did you ever try to row a boat in water
other literature. And who will not agree with in which lay a sodden fleece of newly fallen snow? I
him? Nevertheless he writes as engagingly find the reading of certain books like that. Some of
about « Mere Literature as about the robin Browning's poems impede my mind in that way.”
and the squirrel and the honey-bee; and the On another page he says the obscurities and
more we read the more the wonder grows affectations of certain recent English poets
that a man who has accomplished so much in and novelists are sure to drag them down, and
nature-study has found time to read so widely that Browning, “ with his sudden leaps and
and to digest so thoroughly what he has read. stops, and all that Italian rubbish, is fearfully
The reviewer is tempted, in the enthusiasm of handicapped.” Yet it must be added that
the moment, to make his notice of this volume other passages in the book seem to mark Mr.
consist wholly of ample quotations ; but that Burroughs a lover of Browning. Quoting
would be an injury to those having the reading Mr. Spencer's advice to cultivate a variety of
of the book still in prospect. So he refrains styles in writing, the author protests that such
from skimming the cream, lest the process a course would produce a Jack-of-all-styles and
should empty the milk-pan. A few matters master of none, and maintains that one specific
only, out of so much that is suggestive, may style should be practiced. Now, however true
be touched upon, either for the sake of hearty that a conscious aiming at variety too often
commendation or of mild dissent.
produces an unpleasing patchwork, yet the
Literary criticism the author classes with master can and does vary his style with his
creative literature. Its value as a guide to the theme. The Dickens of “ The Pickwick Pa-
reader be regards as subordinate to the intel- pers ” is not exactly the Dickens of “ A Child's
lectual and emotional pleasure and stimulus it History of England," nor the latter the Dickens
affords. “ Reduce criticism to a science,” he of “ American Notes.” How many journalists,
says, or eliminate the element of impression too, write acceptably in different styles for
ism, and the result is no longer literature. different papers. Probably the author's real
The reason may be convinced, but the emotions objection is to the mixing of styles in the same
are untouched.” The “ personal equation " he article or book; for he himself well says in
* LITERARY VALUES, and Other Papers. By John Bur-
summing up the whole matter:
roughs. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
“In treating of nature or outdoor themes, let the
>
>


114
(Feb. 16,
THE DIAL
a
style have limpidness, sweetness, freshness; in criticism equation,” and it occurs repeatedly. An equa-
let it have dignity, lucidity, penetration; in history let
tion is the expression of equality between two
it have mass, sweep, comprehension; in all things let it
have vitality, sincerity, genuineness.”
terms, and why the bias of a man's mind should
be called an equation is a puzzle. The usage
Among the chapters on subjects not strictly is as common as it is indefensible, but Mr.
literary, those on Gilbert White and Thoreau Burroughs's employment of the term is the
deserve especial mention -- if one may make more striking because his genius is so far
distinctions where all is excellent. It is inter-
mathematical that we find him, in this very
esting to contrast with this breezy little sketch book, capable of the following: “We may com-
by a naturalist on “ Thoreau's Wildness” the plete a circle from a small segment of it
.
If
highly wrought essay on Thoreau by the book-
we have two sides of a triangle, we may add
man Lowell.
To the latter Thoreau was one
the third. To find the value of an unknown
of the “ pistillate plants kindled to fruitage by quantity, we must have a complete equation
the Emersonian pollen," and the whole paper
and as many equations as we have unknown
is full of pretty conceits and bookish allusions, quantities.” It is a small matter, but one re-
,
containing much more of Lowell and his library grets to see a writer whose language charms
than of Thoreau. But not thus are we teased by its vitality and apt significance, adopt a
and tantalized by Mr. Burroughs; he goes conventional term that is worse than mean-
straight to the mark. Again in the last two
ingless.
PERCY F. BICKNELL.
chapters, “ The Spell of the Past” and “The
Secret of Happiness,” he breaks away from
literature and leaves the reader undecided
whether the author is more delightful when
THE SCOTTISH GOWRIE MYSTERY.*
discoursing on life and the world of the senses, In attempting to unravel the Gowrie Mystery
or when treating of books and the world of
and the Treason of Logan of Restalrig, Mr.
the imagination.
Lang is clearly conscious that he is undertak-
Whatever his subject, the naturalist peeps ing tasks which would try the talents of Sher-
forth in word or metaphor here and there; lock Holmes and Mr. Allen Pinkerton, for he
and this self-betrayal is as pleasing in its pic makes appreciative allusions to these distin.
turesque results as it is inevitable. For in- guished detectives. It is a long and fascinat-
stance, writing of Whitman, he says that “he ing chase on which the reader is asked to
elaborates the least and gives us in profusion accompany the author; more than once our
the buds and germs of poetry.” Sainte-Beuve steed balks at critical stumps as well as at
is styled “not a profound or original mind, but shadowy conjectures. It is the student of myth
a wonderfully flexible, tolerant, sympathetic, and legend and the potential novelist, rather
engaging one; a climbing plant, one might than the historical philosopher, whom we are
say, that needed some support to display itself following. But who is not charmed by a mys-
to the best advantage.” Poetry is “ a breeze tery? And who will not gladly spend an even-
touched with a wild perfume from field and ing pursuing one to its source, especially if it
wood.” In regard to a man's literary likings, is a dark and desperate Scotch mystery ?
“something as subtle and vital and hard to On the 5th of August, 1600, John, Earl of
analyze as the flavor of a fruit, and analogous Gowrie, and his brother, Alexander Ruthven,
to it, makes him prefer this poet to that.” Of were slain in the house of the former, Gowrie
the styles of two different writers, " in the one House in Perth, by certain nobles in the suite
case the sentences are artificial; in the other of King James VI. of Scotland. The king
they bud and sprout out of the man himself and his party claimed that this was done to
as naturally as the plants and trees out of defend the king from a murder attempted by
the soil.” Shakespeare “ has been the host of Ruthven. The kinsmen of the Ruthvens, and
more literary parasites probably than any the Kirk in general, maintained that it was
other name in history.” The stylist, we read, murder by the king's command, either as the
"cultivates words as a florist cultivates flow- result of a brawl or of deliberate plan. Lack
ers.” So one might go on with instances of of adequate motive has been the chief obstacle
the botanical and horticultural flavor that per- hitherto to accepting either account. As to
vades the book, but nowhere to excess. One weigbing of evidence, - on the one hand is the
expression, however, this time drawn from
* JAMES VI. AND THE GOWRIE MYSTERY, By Andrew
mathematics, is less pleasing. It is personal
“
Lang. Illustrated. New York: Longmans, Green & Co.
a


1903.]
115
THE DIAL
6
the
>
the crown,
:
>
fact that the testimony at the official bearing attaches some value, he has not examined with
was almost all corroborative of the king's ac- the same critical eyes that have looked through
count; on the other hand is the fact that it the mazes of the contemporary testimony. This
was given under torture, and that “ his Maj. is the coat-of-arms devised by the Earl of
esty's word was not to be relied on.”
After
Gowrie while a student at Padua, which is
the introduction of much new and important honored by reproduction in colors as front-
evidence and very acute sifting of the old, ispiece to the volume under consideration.
Mr. Lang arrives at the conclusion that the The supposed significance of this coat-of-arms
king's account is in the main true, but that lies in the addition to the family design of a
Gowrie and Ruthven intended only to capture, mailed knight pointing at a crown and utter-
not to murder, their victim. He is not led to ing the motto “ Tibi Soli.” This is interpreted
this conclusion by “any sentiment for that un- as conclusive evidence of designs upon the
sentimental Prince, .gentle King Jamie,' for government on the part of Gowrie; the knight,
he was not the man to tell the truth if he representing Gowrie, being supposed to say
could think of anything better,'” but by the “For thee alone” to himself and with appli-
balancing of probabilities. It is interesting cation to the crown. But aside from the post
to note that this conclusion is essentially the facto rumors that Gowrie had such ambitions,
same as that of Sir Walter Scott in his - Tales is not the first and most natural interpretation
of a Grandfather."
of that motto, as the hand, or sword, points at
Mr. Lang's arguments are in brief as fol-
“I serve thee alone,” that is, the
lows: The king had no reason for wishing to King, whom the crown represents ? At least,
put the brothers out of the way, the only mo- this interpretation is not so improbable that
tive suggested, jealousy of Queen Anne and Mr. Lang is warranted in exclaiming, “ What
Gowrie, being without plausible evidence. And other sense can the emblem bear?” that is,
even if he had reasons, he would not have re- what other sense than, “ The crown is for thee
sorted to so uncertain and crude a method of alone." In fact, would not this sense be
accomplishing his end. Moreover, the king's better expressed by “Mihi Soli”?
story of the affair, though hard to believe, is In 1608 one Sprot, a notary, was arrested
consistent with the accounts of all the other on the charge of treasonable foreknowledge of
witnesses, and was maintained by him unaltered the Gowrie plot and confessed the same under
through much hostile cross-questioning on the torture, admitting that he had possessed letters
part of ministers of the Kirk. Finally, the the- from Logan of Restalrig to Gowrie and others
ory of a conspiracy against the king is supported confirming the theory of the plot against the
by the (recently discovered) letters of Logan king and involving Logan in the plot. These
of Restalrig. On the other hand, Gowrie may letters were found on Sprot's person when he
have laid the execution of his father to James, was arrested. Later in bis trial he declared
and he may have had other grievances; again, he that the letters were forgeries. Still later he
may have been influenced by Francis Bothwell declared that there had, however, been one
and others to wish to hold and control the king genuine letter from Logan, from which he
for political reasons,—an experiment that bad quoted. None of the letters were introduced
been made more than once before with James for examination in the trial, but on Sprot's
and his mother, Mary Stuart. The reasons that confession of guilt he was executed. Logan
are urged against the probability of Gowrie's had taken the precaution to die two years
undertaking to murder the king do not hold earlier ; but government, following a pretty
against an attempt of this latter sort. Finally, custom of the olden time, had his body ex-
the case for the Ruthvens is greatly weakened humed and condemned and his children for-
by the contemporary Vindication of the Ruth- feited of their estates. At this posthumous
vens, a document recently discovered by Mr. trial the letters were put in evidence, Sprot's
Lang. This Vindication, presumably the best declaration that they were forgeries being
that could be made while the sources of infor- suppressed. “Sprot, under examination, lied
mation were still fresh and open, is shown to often, lied variously, and, perhaps, lied to the
be conspicuously mendacious.” “ The value
“
last ”; hence without the letters Logan could
of the Apology is to show how very poor a case scarcely have been found guilty.
was the best that the vindicator of the Ruthvens With the assistance of various experts Mr.
was able to produce.”
Lang has examined these letters, still preserved
One piece of evidence, to which Mr. Lang in the General Register House at Edinburgh,


116
[Feb. 16,
THE DIAL
Slender as this . An autobiography of the oldest living me-
and concludes that they are all forgeries as to what less authoritative for us; but it certainly
the writing, but that one of them, the most increases our respect for his honesty and sin-
important and detailed of all, the one addressed cerity. Garrulity is to be expected under the
to Gowrie, bears internal evidence of being circumstances, and of much repetition we are
genuine. The others, Mr. Lang concludes forewarned by the author.
forewarned by the author. A few Gallicisms
very plausibly, were constructed upon this as may be charged off against the many debts we
a basis. But it must be conceded that the owe Mr. Lang. “To give upon " (of a door)
evidence aside from that of the perjurer is a favorite phrase of his; but“ to have nothing
Sprot against Logan as author of an original to make with,” (i. e. have nothing to do with),
letter, is very slender. In substance, it is,
,
is carrying us too far out upon the Channel.
that the character revealed in the letter fits in Photogravure portraits of King James and
with what we know of Logan, while it is quite Queen Anne, together with the colored plate
too real a revelation of character to have been of the Gowrie arms and several fine half-tones,
invented by the scribbler Sprot. Yet, aside add to the attractiveness of the book, and, on
from this letter, there is no direct evidence occasion, to the clearness of the reader's under-
whatever connecting Logan with the Gowrie standing.
W. H. CARRUTH.
plot. He does not seem to have been under
suspicion at the time. Only the fact of his
selling all his property soon after the Gowrie
affair, and later leaving the country, seems to
FIFTY YEARS OF THE AMERICAN STAGE.
show that he had a bad conscience and felt
himself to be in danger. Slender as this
evidence is, and frankly as Mr. Lang admits tropolitan actor, relating in modest and ex-
its inconclusiveness, we are inclined to agree pressive language numerous incidents and
with him that the probability is strongly for events that have had no small part in the for-
Logan's authorship of an original letter to mation of our American drama, is an invaluable
Gowrie, which Sprot may have copied.
acquisition to theatrical literature. Mr. James
It is curious that Mr. Lang should hold H. Stoddart has been identified with the
(p. 238) to the possibility of the letter being in
American stage for upwards of fifty years,
Logan's hand. " It may be a Sprot after appearing first in New York, September 7,
“
Logan.” The facsimiles of Logan's hand-1854, at Wallack’s Theatre. During the long
writing, of Sprot's, and of the forged letter, period there has been scarcely an actor or
show clearly enough that the forged letter is actress of note with whom he has not been
not in Logan's hand. It has peculiarities, no-
associated, and of whom he has not some an-
tably the abbreviation for "and,” which are
ecdote to relate with droll humor, in his care-
not found at all in the genuine Logan writing, fully written “ Recollections of the American
and, indeed, but scantly, and not quite identi- Stage.” It is interesting to note that, at a
cal in shape, in the genuine Sprot writing. time of life when the average man, in a simple
The forged letter may be in Sprot's hand; it spirit of submission, looks upon life's work as
is certainly not in Logan's.
ended, Mr. Stoddart's indomitable energy -
The case stands thus: If we accept the es- frequently a characteristic of Scotch ancestry-
sential authenticity of the Logan letter (“No. still keeps awake his interest in the “ tinselled
IV."), then the Gowrie plot against King life” of the stage, and his charming personal-
James (not to kill, but to capture him) is proved ity aids him in extracting a calm philosophical
beyond any doubt; but if we reject the Logan pleasure from the very shams and follies
letter as a baseless forgery, still the remaining against which in his early days he had so
evidence is strongly for the plot on the part of stoutly battled. To understand fully the ca-
the Gowries against the king.
reer of any person who has exerted a marked
Here, as in the author's "Mary Stuart and influence upon his times, it is necessary to
the Casket Letters," we have to do with by- understand the circumstances and conditions
products of his “History of Scotland." Yet which have made his career and influence pos-
there is a charm in being admitted to the art-
sible.
ist's workshop and taken into his confidence,- Mr. Stoddart was born in the town of Black
in discussing with him, as it were, the pros and
,
Barnsley, Yorkshire, England, October 13,
cons of his final decisions. Perhaps this famil-
* RECOLLECTIONS OF A PLAYER. By J. H. Stoddart.
iarity renders the historian's utterances some- Illustrated. New York: The Century Co.
>
>


1903.)
117
THE DIAL
-
1827. His parents were theatrical people, command, touching equally the springs of humor and
and at five years of age he made his first ap-
pathos, winning affection as well as admiration and
thus fulfilling the best purpose of all art, which is to
pearance on the stage as Martin Haywood in
bless human life with the gracious memory that makes
Douglas Jerrold's drama of “The Rent Day," it calm and the noble incentive that makes it beautiful."
and for years afterwards he wandered with his
INGRAM A. PYLE.
parents through the small English towns, en-
countering the ups and downs of life — “ being
far oftener down than up.'
He recalls many
CONSTABLE AND HIS INFLUENCE.*
peculiar incidents of those early days in En.
gland and Scotland, during which time it was It is manifestly impossible in a brief review
his good fortune to play with Macready, to give anything like a comprehensive résumé
Helen Faucit, Charlotte Cushman, Kean, of a work that comprises a hundred thousand
Charles Mathews, and other celebrities. In very carefully considered words, more espe-
August, 1854, he reached America, and the cially when the work is critical in its purpose,
following month joined the company of James and in almost every paragraph carries sugges-
W. Wallack at the munificent salary of fifteen tions that might without forcing be extended
dollars a week. Quite naturally, he in time to the prescribed limits of the review. In con-
became associated with all the favorites of sidering Mr. C. J. Holmes's elaborate critical
“the old school of actors. He looks upon study of “Constable and his Influence on
Edwin Booth as the most gentle, unassuming, Landscape Painting,” no more will be attempted
unostentatious man he ever met. Comparing than the giving of such impressions as stand
the early days with the new order of things, out most sharply distinct from among the
Mr. Stoddart says:
many received from the work.
“ The attention given to production is now so infi-
A book about an artist and his work must
nitely more careful and thorough than in the old days be addressed to those who read about art rather
as to admit of no comparison. The same old stock
than to those who produce it,—that is, to those
scenery, formerly used year after year, would be looked
whose interest in art is chiefly intellectual,
upon as a very poor apology for the manner in which
plays are now put upon the stage. The same advance- and who do not concern themselves primarily
ment applies to incidental music, and in fact to all the with how the thing is done. It seems neces-
details connected with the conduct of the theatre. To
sary, then, first to place the individual and the
those, however, entering the theatrical profession with
the idea of making it their life work, I say that I think
art in question so that they may be viewed in
Ι
the old system immeasurably better than that of the
their true perspective; for it is the first re-
present time. As in all occupations it is well to be quirement of the mind that what is offered for
grounded in the rudimental portions of the work, so no its consideration should be presented in the
less does this rule apply to the theatrical profession.
There was no royal road to position in the old days. part of a scheme or growth, rather than as
scale and proportion that belong to it as the
but most people had to commence at the bottom of the
ladder and ascend it gradually, the goal being its top. something detached and specific, and deriving
And if one never climbed very high, yet the very strife only from itself.
and endeavor of itself gave to him that repose, that Individual gift and environment have no
ease of deportment, which I think quite essential in
doubt a larger share in determining what a
the actor. Such discipline was formerly deemed neces-
sary, and if, after submitting to it, one was not found
landscape painter does, than is the case with
particularly brilliant, one was at least experienced, other painters; yet even here, and with a gen-
which means much."
ius so profoundly original as the one in ques-
Mr. Stoddart reviews at length the many parts tion, to consider the individual as though he
he has played in successful metropolitan pro-
were entirely responsible for himself would be
ductions, — parts that have gained for him a to give but a poor account of him. So, before
most enviable position in the theatrical world, showing what Juhn Constable’s art owes to
both as a man and as an artist.
John Constable, Mr. Holmes shows what it
The volume is happily illustrated with many
owes to those who, before him, had tried in
old portraits and reproductions of rare old this way to give out their consciousness of earth
play-bills. In a prefatory note by Mr. William
and sky. This portion of the book, in which
Winter, the venerable critic sums up the ac-
the author reviews landscape art from its be-
tor's career in the following words :
ginnings in the Italian soil to this particularly
“Greatness in dramatic art, meaning the summit of *CONSTABLE AND HIS INFLUENCE ON LANDSCAPE PAINT-
excellence in interpretative expression, is simplicity, ING. By C. J. Holmes. Illustrated. New York: E. P. Dutton
and of simplicity Mr. Stoddart possesses the absolute & Co.


118
[Feb. 16,
THE DIAL
vigorous flowering in the less genial English ent periods but in the same period, that the
air, must be regarded as a singularly valuable writer himself does not attempt to review Con-
contribution to the literature of art. He points stable's work as a direct chain of sequences,
,
out the essentially subsidiary and decorative though he makes perfectly clear its essential
purpose with which Raphael, Da Vinci, Titian, characteristics when considered as a whole.
and the rest of their great company, painted These may be briefly indicated.
trees and fields and skies. Considering the Constable was the first real Nature painter,
art organically, and as a development, while -the first, that is, who ever painted earth and
yet allowing for temperament, environment, sky with the single purpose of reproducing the
and all else in the individual that has varied actual sensation of their forms, their color, and
the type, he follows it through Rubens's fluent their light. Others, like Raphael and Da Vinci,
and masterly conventions, through the silvery had painted these things as though not seeing
distances of Claude, through Poussin, Cayp, them, making symbols and counters of them,
Holbein, and Ruysdael, down to the time when, mere servants to their artistic schemes. Titian,
no longer a tradition more or less well seasoned though he shows that he had looked at the
with some salt of personal sentiment, no more mystery of twilight with his soul in his eyes,
a servant to some artistic purpose other than did not try to report the appearance of it, but
its own, it at last found in Nature itself a com- used what he saw only as he could make it serve
plete reason.
his other purpose.
Even Rubens, with his
As the writer's purpose concerns the artist splendidly facile way of putting down what he
rather than the man, but little is told us re- saw, and Rembrandt, and the lesser Dutchmen
garding Constable's personal history. Enough with all their natural disposition to paint
is given, however, to impart a certain pleasant “things as they are," never seemed to think
warmth to our interest in his art, which is that Nature deserved to be considered purely
placed against a lightly-sketched background for herself, and with a mind and eye frankly
of common human affections, of hopes and open to her own color and light.
It seems
fears, joys and griefs, like unto our own. strange that an Englishman should be the first
Looking at these beautiful photogravure repro- to find in the less seductive environment of his
ductions of his paintings (there are seventy- bleaker clime the full inspiration for a great
seven of them), we should no doubt get very landscape art, — for great it was, with all its
,
near to the heart of this artist; for there is a narrowness of scope, its lack of subtlety in
peculiar fulness of self-revelation in a great color, its indirection of labored craftsmanship;
painter's work, which is one measure of his strange past divining, that Southern skies and
greatness. With no other record of him than tints had not persuaded to their single service
these pictures, we could read his story very some of the great ones who looked
upon
them.
well, in many of its essential phases. It would Yet so it was; and cold mist-swept skies, and
seem that this artist did not find himself very valleys and fields that smile not over-brightly,
early, not developing even a definiteness of won to themselves the full devotion that fairer
purpose until he was twenty-six years old, and more inviting prospects had bidden for
while it was at least fifteen years more before in vain. So England established for all time
he had acquired anything that could properly the first pure landscape tradition,—for Turner,
be called a style. He was never, in fact, an his great contemporary, was rather a painter of
accomplished brushman, and worked out all dreams, and clothed earthly things with such
of his larger and more seriously designed can- richness of unearthly fancy that his pictures
vases through laborious processes that included were “golden visions," as Constable called
many artistic devices besides that of the direct
them, rather than transcripts of Nature.
brush-stroke. He himself, in one of his letters, And here we come to one of the two great lim-
attributes his lack of popularity to the fact itations in Constable's art. Neither in purpose
that he had “no handling," meaning that his nor effect was it largely creative. His desire
brush-work was not fluent, and that he achieved seemed too much to paint the trees and the
his effects by the employment of other than fields and the skies that he looked at “as they
direct brush handiwork.
are.” He loved them surpassingly; and this
It is not possible here to follow the evolution very greatness of his love betrayed his art a
of Constable's art from its beginning to its little, causing his pictures, except in a very
splendid maturity. It varied so greatly, both few instances, to lack that fine concentration
in manner and in excellence, not only in differ- of effect that landscape art only achieves when
-


1903.]
119
THE DIAL
.
as if
-
the actual appearances of its subject are mod- pose thus : “My art flatters nobody by imi.
ified in the direction of an intellectual purpose. tation, it courts nobody by smoothness, it
This purpose must derive from something sug- tickles nobody by petiteness, it is without
gested by the scene itself, or the picture will either fol-de-rol or fiddle-de-dee.”
,
-
Again he
be too imaginative, too fancy free, and will writes: “Every thing seems full of blossom
not waken our own nature consciousness ; but of some kind, and every step I take ... that
the purpose must be there, and must be felt, sublime expression of the Scriptures, “I am
before a work can have that higher interest the resurrection and the life,' seems
that attaches to a “human document." We uttered near me." And again: “ The land- .
must find, also, that his work lacked that ex- scape painter must walk the fields with an
pertness in the "handling” of his medium humble mind; no arrogant man was ever per-
that is found in the work of all the great mitted to see Nature in all her beauty." In
masters of painting, and except in some of his these three extracts is a full confession of
sketches, makes them appear too indirectly done; faith, a whole artistic creed.
while his drawing is often open to exception. As Constable was slow in maturing bis own
It is greatly to belittle the discoverer, art, so has the world been slow in acknowl.
though, — whether it be a new world or some edging his claims. He had not, like Turner,
new field of painting that he has found,- to a great writer to recommend him to his time;
measure his accomplishment on the scale of its and it is only of late that his high merits have
immediate importance. Had this been done, been widely allowed, or that the words in which
we should have had neither a World's Colum. Mr. Holmes sums them up would find general
bian Exposition nor this beautiful book. It assent. This is his verdict: “ The most sin.
is not to be questioned — nor does Mr. Holmes cere, consistent, intelligent, and sympathetic
question it — that later painters have produced worshipper of natural beauty as revealed in
landscapes which, viewed either as the embodi- English pastoral scenery, who has ever lived."
ment of human thought and feeling, or as nat- It may be that Mr. Holmes presses the notion
ural effect, are much better works of art than of Constable's direct influence a little too far.
any done by John Constable. Yet we must He does it cautiously and tentatively, it is true;
remember that it was his mind that first enter- but to suggest, even as a possibility, that Corot,
tained this “new thought" of Nature as being for instance, could have assimilated to his
meet, just in herself, for art's whole service ; ideally different sentiment and practice any.
and his hand that first found good painter's thing from the three pictures of Constable that
terms for this new thought. In emphasizing were shown in Paris in 1824, is to make more
this fact, however, the author of the book does of the Englishman's influence than seems con-
not permit us to lose sight of such incomplete sistent with a full appreciation of the other
ness in the art as has been suggested. His
artist.
HENRY C. PAYNE.
treatment of the subject is never that of the
blind hero-worshipper, but keeps everywhere
that critical balance that makes art-writing com-
mend itself to sober minds. Yet if, in looking
SOCIOLOGY : PRACTICAL AND
THEORETICAL.*
at some of these beautiful reproductions, we are
borne momently from our own critical moorings, It seems almost superfluous to review Mr.
and hunger for some words that will fit our frame Riis's “ Battle with the Slum.” A reviewer
of mind, we find them here,— choice, discrim. likes to think that if he has not discovered the
inating, but having a flavor about them as merits or faults of the book he discusses, he
though the critic also had felt like letting him- has at least pointed them out to readers who
knew nothing about them. Reviewing Mr.
A very delightful feature of the book, and Riis, he feels a little like the individual who,
very illuminating of its subject too, is the con- having nothing more original to contribute,
siderable number of excerpts from Constable's observes that “ It is a fine day.” It is a fine
letters and lectures before the Royal Academy. book, --- but everybody knows that; and much
These show intellectual qualities of a high or- *THE BATTLE WITH THE SLUM. By Jacob A. Riis.
der, combining wit and humor with evidence Illustrated. New York: The Macmillan Co.
of the keenest appreciation of his art and of
HUMAN NATURE AND THE SOCIAL ORDER. By Charles
Horton Cooley. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
earnest well-considered purpose in it. In a
OUR BENEVOLENT FEUDALISM. By W. J. Ghent. New
letter to his friend Leslie, he states this pur. York: The Macmillan Co.
self go.


120
(Feb. 16,
THE DIAL
6
a
of it has already appeared elsewhere, and has of welding this miscellaneous and at first sight
become part of the make-up of the American unpromising material into the structure of a
mind. Mr. Riis does not propose to work alone. great nation. This is not to be done, however, ,
His cry is not, “See what a fine thing I am without strenuous effort, and the battle” has
doing !” but “See what is being done, and can been real enough. Mr. Riis thus speaks of the
be done, and come and take a hand!” It is the results, contrasting past with present :
democratic ideal, that everyone can help, from « Human life then counted for less tban the land-
President Roosevelt, whose portrait appears lord's profits; to-day it is weighed in the scale against
opposite the title-page, to the ignorant immi- them. Property still has a powerful pull. Vested
grant who arrived yesterday. And for that mat-
rights' rise up and confront you, and no matter how
loudly you may protest that no man has a right to kill
ter,“our poor human nature is at least as robust
his neighbor, they are still there. No one will contra-
on Avenue A as up on Fifth Avenue, if it has dict you, but they won't yield — till you make them.
half a chance, and often enough with no chance In a hundred ways you are made to feel that vested
at all” (p. 220). The human species is ex-
rights are sacred, if human life is not.
But the glory
tremely variable, and the most progressive peo-
is that you can make them yield. You couldn't then."
ples exhibit most variation. Hence it happens
It may be that Mr. Riis's style is rambling,
that all men are not born equal; do not come and his sentences are occasionally obscure ; it
into the world with the same endowments. Is may be that he is not always quite fair to
this fact to be a stumbling-block to democracy? | things he does not understand; but his book is
Not at all; it is the one thing which makes a
a live book, full of human interest, and is the
genuine democracy possible. Because each record of great things done. It will help to
one preserves his own individuality, stands for make things move, and that is what it was
something more or less unique, it is possible to
written for.
have a national architecture, as it were, in
which no part is useless, no part independent Mr. Cooley's “ Human Nature and the So-
of the rest. Each may attain a certain supe-
cial Order”is in many ways a remarkable book.
riority ; each may willingly acknowledge many The present writer, as he read it, found much
kinds of inferiority ; none may cease to strive to admire ; and yet the impression produced by
upward. Mr. Riis does not claim to be a the whole was unfavorable. Having said this,
sociologist, but the logical outcome of his work he feels that he owes some explanation, al-
is to enable every individual to take his proper most an apology. The argument throughout is
place in the world's work, - indeed, in the closely reasoned, and it is hard to say exactly
world's play also. This, at all events, is the why it does not appear satisfactory. At the
“inalienable right” of each member of a de- very beginning, the author boldly announces :
mocracy, and the no less inalienable need of
“ A separate individual is an abstraction unknown to
that democracy itself.
experience, and so likewise is society when regarded as
Two or three things are plain to every something apart from individuals. The real thing is
reader of - The Battle with the Slum.” One
Human Life, which may be considered either in an
individual aspect or a social, that is to say, general,
is, that the people of the slums do not have
aspect; but is always, as a matter of fact, both indi-
anything like a fair chance; another, that they vidual and general” (p. 1).
are capable of much improvement, given better Again :
conditions ; a third, that it does not do to wait
“ The main thing here is to bring out the vital unity
on philanthropy for justice. These things are of every phase of personal life, from the simplest in-
generally known, in a vague way ; but Mr. Riis terchange of a friendly word to the polity of nations
makes them living realities. It is a favorite
or of hierarchies. The common idea of the matter is
crudely mechanical that there are persons as there
opinion of some people that the unfortunate and
are bricks, and societies as there are walls. A person,
downtrodden are such because they are not ca- or some trait of personality or of intercourse, is held to
pable of anything else. There is necessarily a be the element of society, and the latter is formed by
certain element of truth in this ; but from the the aggregation of these elements. Now there
time that the Israelites came out of Egypt,
such thing as an element of society in the sense that a
brick is the element of a wall; this is a mechanical con-
history has afforded instances enough of the
ception quite inapplicable to vital phenomena. I should
regeneration or new birth of peoples who had say that living wholes have aspects but not elements”
been supposed incapable of anything noble. (p. 134).
This country is the promised land” of hordes As regards the self, it is by no means to be
of workers from over-sea, and we may believe identified with the material body; it is rather
with Mr. Riis that there are possibilities here a body of feeling, or ideas, which may be much
a
a
a
no
66


1903.)
121
THE DIAL
.
>>
>
)
more closely identified with so-called external many-pointed. So I affirm my totally distinct
objects than with the parts of the individual's being, because I feel absolutely certain that
anatomy. Says Mr. Cooley :
there are other such beings, other points in the
“ There is no view of the self, that will bear examin- spiritual universe.
spiritual universe. Thus out of the fact of
ation, which makes it altogether distinct, in our minds, “ other comes the fact of “self,” not as an
from other persons. If it includes the whole mind,
then of course, it includes all the persons we think of,
" but as a veritable “ element." To
aspect
all the society which lives in our thoughts. If we con-
fully discuss Mr. Cooley's book is impossible
fine it to a certain part of our thought with which we in a short review. It is full of interesting
connect a distinctive emotion or sentiment called self- ideas, but we could wish that it were less wordy
feeling, as I prefer to do, it still includes the persons
and more illuminated by concrete examples.
with whom we feel most identified. Self and other do
not exist as mutually exclusive social facts, and pbraseol-
ogy which implies that they do, like the antithesis Mr. W. J. Ghent, in “Our Benevolent
egoism versus altruism, is open to the objection of Feudalism,” presents us with a picture of
vagueness, if not of falsity" (pp. 91–92).
modern society which recalls the occasions
Each individual constructs a self-platform, when one has seen one's reflection in a door-
the planks of which must fit together more or
knob. The reflection was grotesque in the
less harmoniously; and the sense of wrong is extreme, but unmistakably represented one's
felt when anything is added which is inhar physiognomy. Mr. Ghent writes in a lucid
monious. Thus, if a man regards himself as and interesting manner, and arrives, in gen-
honest, he dislikes to do a dishonest thing, be-eral, at these conclusions :
cause it breaks into and injures the self-idea. “What, then, in this republic of the United States,
This self-platform, necessarily based largely on may Socialist, Individualist, and Conservative see alike,
impressions received from others, is always re-
if only they will look with unclouded vision ? In brief,
an irresistible movement - now almost at its culmi-
lated to the society in which we move, and no
nation — toward great combinations in specific trades;
one can think of himself except in relation to next toward coalescence of kindred industries, and thus
others. Even when the individual is isolated, toward the complete integration of capital. Consequent
physically and socially, he tends to create a upon these changes, the group of captains and lieu-
mental society of ideal beings with whom he
tenants of industry attains a daily increasing power,
social, industrial and political, and becomes the ranking
seems to hold intercourse.
order in a vast series of gradations. The state becomes
The present writer would be the last to deny stronger in its relation to the propertyless citizen,
the intimate connection between the individu. weaker in its relation to the man of capital. A growing
als of any society of living beings; indeed,
subordination of classes, and a tremendous increase in
the numbers of the lower orders, follow. . . . In a
when one regards the complex social organ-
word, they who desire to live — whether farmers, work-
ization of such animals as the Zoöphytes, it be- men, middlemen, teachers, or ministers — must make
comes difficult to say exactly what are the limits their peace with those who have the disposition of the
of personality in a physical sense. Or again, livings. . The result is a renascent Feudalism, which,
is a tree a single individual or a multitude of
though it differs in many forms from that of the time
of Edward I., is yet based upon the same status of
individuals? — the answer is not so simple as
lord, agent and underling. It is a Feudalism somewhat
it looks. Yet, nevertheless, he is quite pos. graced by a sense of ethics and somewhat restrained by
itive that he is a distinct entity, much more
a fear of democracy."
distinct than a brick in a wall. When Mr. I sometimes have said that I am a socialist,
Cooley says that such a proposition will not and yet believe in the divine right of kings.
bear examination, he means simply that no ob- I do not believe that a perfectly organized
jective proof can be found for it; which, of democratic society will be without leaders ; on
course, is in the nature of the case.
the contrary, it will assiduously search out those
fairly urge, however, that my subjective con- who excel in any particular, and make full use
sciousness recognizes only myself, and thus of their talents. As a matter of fact, the com-
includes therein the universe, so far as it is monwealth of science is to-day organized on a
known to me. If the universe is myself, there- perfectly international and democratic basis ;
fore I am the universe, and not a distinct and
everyone who cares may have his say, and
separate thing at all. —Q. E. D. To this it leadership exists at the same time, without com-
must be replied that a point exists in space, pulsion. Authority is recognized too much
and by virtue of space, and yet is a thing of rather than too little. I do not think, there-
itself. If only one point existed, it would be fore, that we have any reason for identifying
identical with all space; but we cannot con- mastership with tyranny; the one is natural
ceive of space that is not extended, that is, and desirable, the other an abomination.
-
He may
may the


122
(Feb. 16,
THE DIAL
6
this
At the same time, of course Mr. Ghent is simulation or approximations in the animal life, its
right in pointing out the vast amount of un- characterization among the less developed races of
natural mastership or tyranny which exists in
mankind, the differentiations of its object matter,
modern society. As a means of stirring peo-
and its various social, æsthetic, and intellectual
ramifications. “In looking for the germs of laugh-
ple up to appreciate the real dangers of the
ter we found ourselves in the wide and misty plains
situation, the book will do excellent service.
of biological speculation. In tracing its develop-
The situation, as it seems to me, is this : In-
ment we took a dip into the pleasant vales of child-
dustry is rapidly becoming organized on a
psychology and anthropology, and then tried to
coöperative basis, so far as production is con- climb the winding paths of social evolution. Hav.
cerned, and the time is at hand when the people ing reached in this way the heights of modern
must choose whether to be slaves or free. If civilization, we made a special investigation into
the people are not fit to participate in an in- the social organization of laughter, essentially indi-
dustrial democracy, they cannot, though all
vidual and independent of the social standard, to
the capitalists should be drowned in the sea.
which is given the name of humor. Throughout
Whenever and in such degree as they are fit
, question of the function of the laughing spirit in
voyage of discovery we have kept in view the
the country and the fulness thereof is theirs.
the life of the individual and of the community.”
It may justly be urged that as a matter of
The prospective reader may be assured that Mr.
fact the people have not the chance to become Sully’s guidance through this varied region is most
fit. It is conceivable, of course, that they might capable and suggestive. It brings home a profound
be hindered in this to such a degree that no sense of the unity and of the inter-relations of those
genuinely democratic government would ever expressions of the eternally human in which the
become possible; but this I cannot believe. At
true “humanities" have a common and mutually
the same time, it is impossible to exaggerate illuminating interest. It is no small tribute to the
the need for help in this matter, help which
attainments of a philosophical writer in these days
must largely take the form of education, of one
to have become the expounder of two such opposite
tendencies as Pessimism and the Philosophy of
sort or another. It is just for this reason that
Laughter, and to have imparted to both an unusual
such men as Mr. Riis are so invaluable. The
interest of exposition as well as philosophic grasp
problem is in a way a psychological one. The and literary expertness.
existing unfitness is mental rather than phy-
sical. As I see it, one of the greatest difficulties
The daughter of a Hungarian noble-
Autobiography of
in the way is the intense desire of the people
man who married a Dutch lady of
wealth and took her name, Elzelina
to get something for nothing: to receive the
van Aylde Jonghe was born in 1778, married at
unearned increment. It would seem as if they thirteen years of age, was unfaithful to her husband,
looked forward to the time, predicted by some and soon ran away from him to lead a life of ad.
facetious fellow, when all would live on the in- venture, chiefly in France, attaching herself now to
terest of accumulated capital !
this idol of her wandering affections, now to that,
T. D. A. COCKERELL. and seeing no little of camp life and of actual
fighting in the course of her variegated career.
Moreau, Ney, and even Napoleon, seem to have
been among the recipients of her favors. Besides
minor campaigns, she relates in vivid terms her
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS.
fearful experience with the French army in the dis-
The same blessing that has been as- astrous Russian expedition, and gives a brief account
An Essay
cribed to sleep may well be extended of the carnage at Waterloo as viewed by herself from
on Laughter.
to laughter. Each may be put down the rear of the French lines. Her acquaintance
among the choice saving graces of a possible with the makers of history of her time, and the
vale of tears. A comprehensive survey of the phe-confidence they reposed in her, are something ex-
nomena involved in all that leads up to laughter traordinary, according to her account. After sever-
and all that issues from it has not as yet been at- ing her connection with, and being repudiated by,
tempted in English ; Mr. Sully's volume on the sub- her relatives, she took the name of Ida de Saint-
ject (Longmans) is accordingly timely, and, like Elme, which appears on the title-page of her
all his writings, attractive. The scope of the topic “ Memoirs of a Contemporary,” as translated by
is indeed a broad one, beginning with the place of Mr. Lionel Strachey, and published, in an attractive
laughter in the physiological economy and ending form and with many portraits, by Messrs. Double-
with a disquisition upon its philosophic justification day, Page & Co. Although this painter of her own
and métier; while the intermediate considerations dishonor displays a certain vivacious unconcern, she
include a careful discussion of the genesis of laugh- seems still to have retained enough of the woman
ter, its appearance in the eras of childhood, its not to lose all sense of shame; for she pauses mid-
an adventuress.


1903.)
123
THE DIAL
a
The literature
This is not a complete the
way in her narrative to say: “ These memoirs are work. In the sixty years that have elapsed since
my confession. May you who read it be warned that work appeared, many valuable memoirs have
by my sad example. Always cling to the truth! been written, and many sources of information bave
Fly from falsehood and dissimulation ! The fruit been opened, or discovered, which were not within
of sin is very bitter.” And when we at last take Napier's reach. Mr. Oman has made himself the
leave of the adventuress, she is shedding tears of master of these sources, and has analyzed and used
contrition over the dead body of her hero of heroes, them with a scholar's care. His work, therefore, is
Marshal Ney. As giving some fresh glimpses of authoritative and modern, and as such must sup-
leading Frenchmen of the Napoleonic era, her plant Napier's where facts are in question. If this
narrative will be read with interest.
new and trustworthy material were attractively
arranged and presented, the “ History of the Pen-
“The Library of Literary History," insular War” would take higher rank than it can
published by Messrs. Charles Scrib-
of Persia.
possibly do under the circumstances, for Mr.
ner's Sons, has just been augmented
Oman's careless writing forbids it a place among
by “A Literary History of Persia," the work of
Mr. Edward G. Browne. This is not a complete
really great works of history. It would be unjust
to the author to decry his book by means of a com-
survey of the subject, but the first of two volumes, parison with the more readable qualities of Napier,
and contains only what the author calls the Pro-
for Mr. Oman has admitted his limitations as a
legomena of his work. In other words, it stops
narrator, and has distinctly acknowledged his in-
short of Firdawsi, and deals with practically none
ability to compete with the earlier writer. It may
of the writers whose names are generally familiar
to the Western world. In its scope and compre
also be offered as an excuse for dryness, that the
necessarily minute technical details of military
hensiveness, Mr. Browne's treatise thus departs history are incapable of illuminating treatment.
widely from the general plan of the series in which
Yet, though recognizing this, every reader must
it is included, and we are compelled to say that
feel a keen sense of disappointment that in nar-
this departure extends also to the manner of treat-
rating events not necessarily technical, or that in
ment. The author speaks of M. Jusserand's
characterizing important personages of his study,
“Literary History of the English People" as hav.
Mr. Oman has used a seemingly careless familiarity
ing served him for a model, but no comparison
of language, wholly unsuited either to his theme,
could well be more misleading. A characteristic
or, very evidently, to his own abilities as a writer.
quotation will make this statement clear.
Worst of all, it is apparently a forced carelessness,
“For the Persian-writing poets of Persia the chief primary
authorities now extant are the Chahar Maqala, or Four Dis-
one is almost tempted to call it a striving after
courses of the Ghurid court-poet Nidhami-i-Arudi of Sam- effect by intended crudity of statement, — and, as
arqand (written about A. D. 1155), and the Lubabu 'l Albab such, is the more impardonable. Still, this offense
of Mubammad 'Awfi (written in the first balf of the thir-
against good taste is much more marked in the
teenth century). Of the former I published in the J.R. A.S.
for 1899 a complete translation (obtainable also as a tirage-d-
opening chapters than in later ones, and the book
part), based on the Tihran lithographed edition (A. H. 1305
as a whole steadily improves in style throughout its
=A. D. 1887-8) and the two British Museum Manuscripts
six hundred pages.
It is at least a very welcome,
(Or. 2,956 and Or. 3,507); while the latter, based on the Elliot and a wholly trustworthy, piece of modern histor-
Codex described by N. Bland in the J. R. A.S., vol. ix., pp. 112
ical investigation.
et seqq., and the Berlin Codex (Sprenger 318=No. 637 of
Pertsch's Catalogue), will form the next volume of my
Soutb Africa is a land of extremes.
Persian Historical Text Series."
mines of
Ever since the Portuguese landings
We submit that a book written in this style does South Africa.
not remind us of the delightful history of M.
and explorations of the fifteenth
Jusserand. We have no doubt of Mr. Browne's
century, this country has bad a fascination for ad-
scholarship, but a more unreadable book was never
venturers. Portuguese, Dutch, and English have
written than this companion volume to Dr. Hyde's successively searched for its hidden riches. Deserts,
“ Ireland” and Professor Wendell's “ America."
famines, and native tribes could not turn
savage
them back. Over veldt, river, and mountain, they
New material
The first volume of Mr. Charles pushed their way into the interior. Mr. Gardner
relating to the Oman's “ History of the Peninsular F. Williams, in “ The Diamond Mines of South
Peninsular War.
War” (Oxford University Press) Africa”. (Macmillan), tells how the greatest dia-
represents the painstaking and careful work of an mond mine of the world was discovered, developed,
able historical scholar, fortunate in the possession and made the source of uncounted wealth. A child
of much new material on an interesting period of picked up a shining pebble for a plaything from the
history. When this is understood, there remains gravel on the edge of a river; and that pebble,
but little to say of the work itself; for it is wholly proving to be a diamond, led to the discovery of
impossible, in a brief notice, to cite the various the great diamond fields of South Africa. This
episodes and events upon which the author casts volume discusses the original voyages to that land,
new light or alters previous historical impressions. the hardships which the pioneers endured, the
No general authoritative history of the Peninsular progress made in its settlement, and the growth of
War has been produced since Napier's famous other settlements almost down to the present time.
a
The diamond
9


124
[Feb. 16,
THE DIAL
A Swiss hero
An enthusiastic
Bostonian's
book on Boston.
9)
The bulk of the work covers the years from 1871
That little pile of rugged mountains
down to the present the period of diamond
known as Switzerland has produced
and reformer.
mining. We get a vivid picture of the growth of
some of the great characters of his-
methods of mining, from the original shaking of tory. The beginning of the sixteenth century found
sieves on the surface to the underground shaft- this collection of Swiss cantons in the throes of re-
mining of to-day. Such a marvellous revolution in
ligious and political reform. The leader of both
thirty years certainly bespeaks the genius and the of these movements was Ulrich Zwingli. What
enterprise of the Englishmen and Americans en. Luther was to the religious upheaval in Germany,
gaged in the work. The reader's conception of the Zwingli was to religion and patriotism in Switzer-
author's narrative is clarified and defined by 493 land. Mr. Simpson's "Life of Ulrich Zwingli”
“
illustrations in the text, 28 photogravures, and 12 (Baker & Taylor) is a re-statement of the chief
maps. An appendix, on the siege of Kimberley, facts and events in that champion's career. The
gives one a good idea of that period of anxiety and story is based upon the abundant and very com-
distress. Many readers will be particularly inter-
.
plete literature of Zwingli's time and pen. The au-
ested in the author's estimate of Cecil Rhodes and thor is an ardent admirer of his hero, and sets forth
his plans for the development of South Africa. with full meed of praise his contribution to that
Other characters prominent in South African min-mighty movement which arose in Switzerland
ing operations also receive adequate recognition against Rome, and the attempts of foreign govern-
.
This volume properly belongs to that class of liter- ments to allure to their own ranks the choicest blood
ature which carefully and minutely sets forth the of the country. The author compares Luther and
great industrial enterprises of this vigorous age. It Zwingli, greatly to the disparagement of the former.
also shows that the author made use of the best Doubtless Zwingli's hard common sense and great
information, popular and scientific, to elucidate his wisdom in dealing with people made him such a
fascinating theme.
natural and wise leader. He was an open-minded,
One could hardly be more thor- cautious, yet rapid enough driver of his people, to do
oughly saturated with one's theme, Switzerland and religious reform inestimable good.
more ardently and enthusiastically Mr. Simpson has made this story attractive, instruc-
aglow, than is the author of " Boston Days” (Little, tive, and valuable to everyone interested in the
Brown & Co.). Miss Lilian Whiting here deals es- tragical past of those heroic mountaineers.
pecially with the Boston (and vicinity) of the mid-
nineteenth century, “a most remarkable period,”
Depth of thought, charm of style,
she
says, “and one which is almost without parallel
Pithy chapters
apt illustration, clearness of demon-
since the golden days of Pericles.” It would be
stration, with now and then an out-
surprising not to find some extravagant assertions cropping of his vein of quiet humor, combine to
in a writer so carried away with her enthusiasms. make the late Dr. C. C. Everett's “Immortality
Alcott she regards as “far and away the greatest and Other Essays" (American Unitarian Associa-
man of his time,” and Hawthorne as “unquestion- tion) a most readable and instructive volume. The
ably the greatest romancist in the English tongue.” power to treat the abstrusest themes of religion and
Of psychic research she unhesitatingly declares that philosophy in a manner at once so scholarly, so
it “may be said to have scientifically demonstrated clear and simple, and so convincing, is found in no
the actual nature of life after the change we call other writer. The central thought of the opening
death.” While there is much to be said in praise essay is that immortality is as incapable of demon- .
of the spirit of the book as a whole, one cannot stration to the mortal as is the full life of manhood
but note its tendency to diffuseness, frequent re- and womanhood to the infant in its cradle.
The
petition, and errors of fact. The Emerson gene- second chapter, on “ The Known and the Unknow-
alogy is bungled, both William and Joseph being able in Religion," and the third, on “Mysticism,"
made the husbands of Phæbe Bliss. Lowell's mar- discuss Mr. Herbert Spencer's assertion that the
riage to Maria White is placed in 1866 — thirteen essence of religion is mystery, and seek to show
years after her death. Some puzzling phrases oc- that, while the sense of mystery is central and su-
cur. Good health is called “a very rational factor preme in religious thought and life, nevertheless
in life.” “An occultation of correspondence" is God is in the known as well as in the unknown,
said to have existed among the literary lights of The fourth paper is a memorial address on Joseph
Emerson's time. “ This data,” “ nominus umbra," Priestley. The next is on “The Faith of Science
“ Echermann," “ Brahman (for Braham), and and the Science of Faith.” The ancient Hindu
other irregularities, give unpleasing variety to Miss theory made the earth rest on an elephant, and the
Whiting's pages.
“Inflorescence is worked to elephant on a tortoise ; just as the old lady thought
death. If the reader can overlook these and sim- it rested on a rock, that rock on another, and so
ilar defects, he will find much to enjoy in Miss on, - a succession of rocks all the way down.
Whiting's entertaining pages. Many letters from John Stuart Mill, with equal simplicity, affirms
Mrs. Whipple’s valuable collection are published that scientific induction rests upon induction ; in
1;
for the first time, and the volume is rich in por- other words, that there is induction all the way
traits and facsimiles.
down. Dr. Everett shows the futility of all such
on vital themes.
"
>
9)


1903.)
125
THE DIAL
9
à
grasping after demonstrable and tangible supports. Miss Helen M. James, and hence we have what
Fundamentally, faith is as necessary to science as we might call “Verona as Seen by Three English-
to religion. “The Philosophy of the Sublime " is women.” The book does not disappoint us, how.
much in the key of that delightful little book, ever much we may expect of it under either title.
“ Poetry, Comedy, and Duty,” from the same pen.
The volume closes 'with “Spencer’s Reconciliation
of Science and Religion” and “The Gain of His-
tory," for further knowledge of which the reader
BRIEFER MENTION.
must go to the book itself. Its contents are none
the worse for having already appeared in different
Lovers of “ John Inglesant” will be pleased to know
periodicals.
of the stately three-volume reprint of that famous novel
The methods of romantic fiction ap-
just put forth by the Macmillan Co. This edition has
Reminiscences of plied to autobiography have pro-
everything to commend it in the way of dignified
a French girlhood.
manufacture and handsome typography, but is without
duced a readable book in Madame
illustrations, save for the frontispiece portrait of Mr.
Adam's “ Romance of my Childhood and Youth
Shorthouse. The covers of light green silk give the
(Appleton), which is thoroughly French from book a charming setting, and make it delightful to both
cover to cover. Love, of the violently demonstra- touch and sight.
tive and hysterical sort, and ever-recurring political The work of two modern French masters, Corot and
discussions that wander out into the wide nowhere Millet, is given an admirable presentation in the special
and tumble over the edge, form the characteristic winter number of “ The Studio” (John Lane). The
staple of the book. That the heroine, petted and
text, edited by Mr. Charles Holme, consists of two ex-
quarreled over and fought for by grandparents,
cellent essays by French writers of authority, and some
brief notes by Mr. Frederick Keppel on the etchings of
parents, and aunts, was not utterly spoiled in the
Millet. In the way of illustration, there are nearly one
rearing, fills the reader with wonder. Mme. Adam
hundred and fifty plates, many in photogravure and
(otherwise known as Juliette Lamber her father
colors, forming a collection that would reflect credit
was Jean Louis Lambert) brings the interesting on a work costing several times as much as this.
records of her precocious and somewhat turbulent Among recent modern language texts we have from
early life up to the time of her first and unhappy the American Book Co. Lessing's “Natban der Weise,"
marriage with M. Lamessine, when she appears edited by Professor Tobias J. C. Diekhoff; M. Bruno's
to have been about fifteen years old. A half- “ Le Tour de la France,” edited by Mr. L. C. Syms; and
promise is held out of a second volume devoted to
M. Pierre Foncin's “ Le Pays de France,” edited by M.
her literary career. The translation, which is an-
Antoine Muzzarelli. From Messrs. Henry Holt & Co. we
have “Sur les Bords du Rhin,” being selections from
onymous, is marred by some infelicities, and even
Victor Hugo edited by Mr. Thomas B. Bronson ;
by an occasional grammatical error.
volume of selections from Herr Wiedemann's “Biblische
Verona, its
Geschichten,” edited by Professor Lewis A. Rhoades.
Although there is no historical foun-
The Texas State Historical Association is an organ-
dation for the tale of Romeo and
and history. Juliet, yet Shakespeare willed it that
ization dating from 1897, and its “Quarterly" affords
evidence that the work of the society is both interesting
the scene thereof should be laid in “fair Verona."
and fruitful. The fifth volume of this periodical is now
The Capulet and Montagu houses, and a feud ex- before us, and the table of contents sbows many tempt-
isting between them, are mentioned by Dante; and
ing entries, among which we note the following : “ The
the Veronese point out the house of Romeo, and Annexation of Texas and the Mexican War," by Mr.
have erected a tomb to be exhibited to visitors as Z. T. Fulmore ; “ The Connection of Peñalosa with the
that in which the "star cross'd lovers ” were buried. La Salle Expedition,” by Mr. E. T. Miller ; "The Early
In Verona, Dante Alighieri found a haven in his Settlers of San Fernando," by Mr. I. J. Cox; “The
day of adversity and exile, and the acknowledg. Beginnings of Texas,” by Mr. R. C. Clark ; and “The
Quarrel between Governor Smith and the Provisional
ment of the hospitality he received is world-
Government of the Republic,” an extensive monograph
renowned. It was in the streets of Verona that he
by Mr. W. Roy Smith.
was pointed out by women of the lower classes as
“ Academic Honors in Princeton University," an offic-
“ who went to Hell and returned when he
ial publication of the institution in question, is compiled
listed, and brought news up above of those who
by Mr. John Rogers Williams. It covers the entire his-
were there below.” It was the city of the Scaligers tory of the University, from the graduation of the first
who had a ladder for their coat-of-arms. It is a honorman in 1748 to the close of the year 1902. Al-
city with a history and with an art peculiarly its though little more than an annotated list of names, it
own, and with many architectural and archæologi-
is a work of marked interest, and makes a dignified
cal features, - notably the amphitheatre once ca-
volume of over two hundred and fifty pages. Un-
pable of seating 20,000 persons. Altogether it is
fortunately, the record is incomplete for certain pre-
a desirable city to visit, and desirable to read about.
Revolutionary years, as there is no official source-
material for the period before 1820, and the files of
Mrs. Althea Weil tells the interesting “Story of
current newspapers have been the sole reliance of the
Verona” in the “Mediæval Towns Series" of
editor. An introduction describes the various prizes and
exquisite handbooks (Dent-Macmillan), and her fellowships offered by the University, and there is a full
story is illustrated by Miss Nelly Erichsen and index of the names of honormen.
and a
romance
the one
-
а


126
(Feb. 16,
THE DIAL
NOTES.
LIST OF NEW BOOKS.
»
(The following list, containing 86 titles, includes books
received by THE DIAL since its last issue.]
>
“ A Synopsis of Animal Classification,” by Professor
Harris H. Wilder, is published by Messrs. Henry Holt
& Co.
The “ Marianela” of Señor B. Perez Galdos, edited
by Mr. Louis A. Loiseaux, is published in the series of
“Novelas Escogidas " by Mr. William K. Jenkins.
"An Elementary Text-Book on the Differential and
Integral Calculus," by Professor William H. Echols, is
a substantial volume just published by Messrs. Henry
Holt & Co.
“ The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of
Chemistry,” by Mr. M. M. Pattison-Muir, is published
by the Messrs. Appleton in their popular “Library of
Useful Stories."
« The Elements of General Method, Based on the
Principles of Herbart,” by Dr. Charles A. McMurry,
is now published by the Macmillan Co. in a new edition,
revised and enlarged.
Carlyle's “Lives of Friedrich Schiller and John
Sterling ” come together in a single volume of the
India paper edition in course of publication by Messrs.
Charles Scribner's Sons.
A volume of “ Mediæval Stories,” translated by Mr.
W. F. Harvey from the Swedish of Professor H. Shück,
is a handsome publication included among the recent
importations of the Messrs. Scribner.
Volume XVI. of “ Book-Prices Current,” published
by Mr. Elliot Stock, covers the English sales of the
year ending with last July, and includes upwards of
seven thousand entries, fully indexed and classified.
The essay by Mme. Blanc (Th. Bentzon) on Colonel
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, translated by Mr. E. M.
Waller, is published by Mr. H. W. Bell in a small vol-
ume entitled " A Typical American.” The essay is a
chatty and superficial performance, but an agreeable
one withal.
The novels of Jane Austen in five volumes, with in-
troductions by Mr. Austin Dobson and illustrations by
Mr. Hugh Thomson, all offered at a low price by the
Messrs. Macmillan, should prove tempting to book-
lovers, and justify a new edition of this many-editioned
novelist. The set is very neat and satisfactory.
“ The Poetry of George Wither,” edited by Mr.
Frank Sidgwick, who provides a lengthy introduction,
forms two volumes in the tasteful “ Muses' Library,”
which the Messrs. Scribner import. We have from the
same publishers the poems of Robert Herrick, also in
two volumes, added to the “Caxton Series" of illus-
trated reprints.
The Burrows Brothers Co. have just published two
reprints of interesting Americana : Thomas Budd's
“Good Order Established in Pennsylvania and New
Jersey” (1685), edited by Mr. Frederick J. Shepard,
and "A Character of the Province of Maryland” (1666),
by George Alsop, edited by Professor Newton Ú.
Mereness. These editions are limited to two hundred
and fifty copies each.
Messrs. Rand, McNally & Co. are the pubiishers of
an excellent text-book of “Composition and Rhetoric,”
the joint work of Miss Rose M. Kavana and Mr. Arthur
Beatty. It is described as “primarily a book of tech-
nique,” and covers two or three years of high school
work. A distinctive feature is the series of eighteen
plates reproducing famous paiutings chosen for their
usefulness in providing themes for composition writing.
BIOGRAPHY.
Queen Victoria: A Biography. By Sidney Lee. Illus. in
photogravure, etc., 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 611. Mac-
millan Co. $3.
Glimpses of Tennyson and of Some of his Relations and
Friends. By Agnes Grace Weld; with Appendix by the
late Bertram Tennyson. Illus. in photogravure, 12mo,
gilt top, uncut, pp. 154. Charles Scribner's Sons. $1.50 net.
The Life and Career of Major John André, Adjutant-
General of the British Army in America. By Winthrop
Sargent. New edition, with notes and illustrations ; edited
by William Abbatt. Large 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 545.
New York: William Abbatt.
HISTORY.
London in the Eighteenth century. By Sir Walter
Besant. Illus., 4to, gilt top, uncut, pp. 667. Macmillan
Co. $7.50 net.
The Despatches of Field-Marshal the Duke of Wel.
lington, during his Campaigns in India, Denmark, Por-
tugal, Spain, the Low Countries, and France, and Relating
to America, from 1799 tu 1815. Selected and arranged by
Walter Wood. Large 8vo, unout, pp. 475. E. P. Dutton
& Co. $3.50 net.
Parliament, Past and Present: A Popular and Picturesque
Account of a Thousand Years in the Palace of Westmin-
ster, the House of the Mother of Parliaments. By Arnold
Wright and Philip Smith. In_2 vols., illus. in photo-
gravure, color, etc., 4to. E. P. Dutton & Co. $8. net.
The Age of the Fathers: Being Chapters in the History
of the Church during the Fourth and Fifth Centuries.
By the late William Bright, D.D. In 2 vols., large 8vo,
uncut. Longmans, Green & Co, $10. net.
London before the Conquest. By W.R. Lethaby. Illas.,
8vo, uncut, pp. 217. Macmillan Co. $2,50 net.
Medieval Europe under Mohammedan Rule, 712–1764.
By Stanley Lane-Poole, M.A. Illus., 12mo, pp. 449.
"Story of the Nations." G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1.35 net.
The New Harmony Communities. By George Browning
Lockwood. Illus., large 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 282.
Marion, Ind.: The Chronicle Co. $2.50.
The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Associa-
tion. Vol. V., July, 1901, to April, 1902. Large 8vo,
pp. 375. Austin : Published by the Agenciation,
False Claims of Kansas Historians truthfully Corrected.
By Geo. W. Brown, M.D. With portrait, 12mo, pp. 160.
Rockford, Ill.: Published by the author. $1.
GENERAL LITERATURE.
Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature. By
George Brandes. Vol. VIII., The Reaction in France
(1874). Large 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 300. Macmillan
Co. $2.75 net.
The Poems of Anne, Countess of Winchilsea From
the original edition of 1713 and from unpublished manu-
scripts. Edited by Myra Reynolds. Large 8vo, pp. 436.
“Decennial Publications." University of Chicago Press.
$3. net.
The Dawn of Day. By Friedrich Nietzsche ; trans. by
Johnanna Volz. Large 8vo, uncut, pp. 387. Macmillan
Co. $2,50 net.
Mediæval French Literature. By Gaston Paris. 24mo,
pp. 161. “Temple Primers." Macmillan Co. 40 cts. net.
Pensées from the Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric
Amiel. Arranged by D. K. Petano. 12mo, uncut, pp.
193. London: Howard Wilford Bell.
Quatrains from Omar Khayyam. Rendered into English
by Frederick York Powell. 8vo, uncut, pp. 40. London:
Howard Wilford Bell. Paper.
A Typical American : Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
Traps, from the French of 'Th. Bentzon by E. M. Waller.
18mo, pp. 107. London: Howard Wilford Bell.
University Magazines and their Makers. By Harry
Currie Marillier. Illus., 24mo, uncut, pp. 96. London:
Howard Wilford Bell. $1.
All's Well: Being Optimistic Thoughts from the Writings
of Robert Browning: Selected by Graham Hope. 12mo,
uncut, pp. 74. London: Howard Wilford Bell.
>


1908.]
127
THE DIAL
By
NEW EDITIONS OF STANDARD LITERATURE.
The French Revolution. By Thomas Carlyle; edited by
John Holland Rose, M.A. In 3 vols., illus. in pho-
togravure, etc., 8vo, gilt tops, uncut. Macmillan Co.
$9. net.
Letters and Literary Remains of Edward FitzGer-
ald, Edited by W. Aldis Wright. Vols. I. and II., each
with photogravure portrait, large 8vo, uncut. Macmillan
Co. Per vol., $3. net. (Sold only in sets of 7 vols.)
John Inglesant: A Romance. By J. H. Shorthouse.
Limited edition de luxe; in 3 vols., with photogravure
portrait, large 8vo, uncut. Macmillan Co. $9. net.
Works of Jane Austen. With Introductions by Austin
Dobson ; illus. by Hugh Thomson and C. E. Brock. In
5 vols., 16mo, gilt tops. * Illustrated Pocket Classics."
Macmillan Co. Per vol., 80 cts.
The English Humorists, and The Four Georges.
W. M. Thackeray; edited by Walter Jerrold ; illus, in
photogravure, etc., by C. E. Brock. 12mo, gilt top,
uncat, pp. 423. Macmillan Co. $1.
Father Damien. By Robert Louis Stevenson. With por-
traits, 24mo, uncut, pp. 117. Oxford: Howard Wilford
Bell.
BOOKS OF VERSE.
Fulbeck: A Pastoral. By J. Walter West, A.R.W.S.;
illus. in photogravure, etc., by the author. 12mo, pp. 21.
London: H. Wilford Bell.
The Oceanides: Poems and Translations. By Percy W.
Shedd. 12mo, uncut, pp. 202. New York: Grafton Press.
Fate and I, and Other Poems. By Gerda Dalliba. With
photogravure portrait, 16mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 81. New
York: Grafton Press.
Pompeii of the West, and Other Poems. By John Hall
Ingham. 12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 173. J. B. Lippincott
Co. $1.25 net.
Poems. By George Cabot Lodge. 8vo, uncut, pp. 152.
New York: Cameron, Blake & Co. $1.
The Humpback, the Cripple, and the One-Eyed Man.
By Lionel Josaphare. 12mo, pp. 36. San Francisco: A.M.
Robertson. Paper, 25 cts. net.
TRAVEL AND DESCRIPTION.
Egypt. Painted and described by R. Talbot Kelly. Illas.
in color, large 8vo, gilt top, pp. 240. Macmillan Co. $6.
A Naturalist in Indian Seas; or, Four Years with the
Royal Indian Marine Survey Ship “ Investigator.' By
A. Alcock, M.B. Illus. in photogravure, etc., large 8vo,
gilt top, uncut, pp. 328. E. P. Dutton & Co. $6. net.
Around the World through Japan. By Walter Del Mar.
Illus., large 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 435. Macmillan Co.
$3. net.
Literary Pilgrimages in New England. By Edwin M.
Bacon. Illus., 12mo, uncut, pp. 532. Silver, Burdett &
Co. $2.
Farther North than Nansen: Being the Voyage of the
Polar Star. By H.R. H. the Duke of the Abruzzi. With
frontispiece, large 8vo, uncut, pp. 97. London: Howard
Wilford Bell
Some By-Ways of California. By Charles Franklin
Carter. 12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 189. New York: Graf-
ton Press.
San Francisco and Thereabout. By Charles Keeler.
Illus., large 8vo, uncut, pp. 97. San Francisco: California
Promotion Committee.
Some Impressions of Oxford. By Paul Bourget; trans.
by M. C. Warrilow; illus. by Edmund H. New. 16mo,
uncut, pp. 88. London: Howard Wilford Bell.
Modern Mexico's Standard Guide to the City of Mexico
and Vicinity. By Robert S. Barrett. Third edition ;
illus., 8vo, pp. 200. Published by Modern Mexico.'
Paper, 50 cts.
SOCIOLOGY.
The Social Unrest: Studies in Labor and Socialist Move-
ments. By John Graham Brooks. 12mo, pp. 394. Mac-
millan Co. $1.50 net.
The Social Evil. With special reference to conditions
existing in the City of New York. Pepared under the
direction of the Committee of Fifteen. 12mo, pp. 188,
Questions of the Day." G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1.25.
ART.
French Engravers and Draughtsmen of the XVIIIth
Century. By Lady Dilke. Illus. in photogravure, eto.,
4to, gilt top, uncut, pp. 227. Macmillan Co. $10.
Bell's Miniature Series of Painters. Now volumes :
Greuze, by Harold Armitage ; Lord Leighton, by George C.
Williamson, Litt.D.; Holman Hunt, by George C. Will-
iamson, Litt.D. Each illus., 24mo, gilt top. Macmillan
Co. Per vol., 50 cts.; limp leather, $1.
Albrecht Dürer. . By Lina Eckenstein. Illus., 24mo, gilt
top, pp. 261. Popular Library of Art.” E. P. Dutton
& Co. 75 cts, net.
BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG.
The Boy's Iliad. By Walter Copland Perry. Illas., 12mo,
gilt edges, pp. 411. Macmillan Co. $1.25.
Real Things in Nature: A Reading Book of Science for
American Boys and Girls. By Edward S. Holden, So.D.
Illus., 16mo, pp. 443. Macmillan Co. 65 cts. net.
* FICTION.
The Master of Warlock: A Virginia War Story. By
George Cary Eggleston. Illus., 12mo, uncut, pp. 433.
Lothrop Publishing Co. $1.50.
The Captain. By Churchill Williams. Illus., 12mo, pp. 439.
Lothrop Publishing Co. $1.50.
Loyal Traitors: A Story of Friendship for the Filipinos.
By Raymond L. Bridgman. 12mo, pp. 310. Boston:
James H. West Co. $i, net.
The Vale of Cedars, and Other Tales. By Grace Aguilar;
with Introduction by Walter Jerrold ; illus. in color, etc.,
by T. H. Robinson. 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 428. Phila-
delphia : Jewish Publication Society of America.
The Life Within. 12mo, uncut, pp. 385. Lothrop. Pub-
lishing Co.
Much Married Saints and Some Sinners : Sketches
from Life among Mormons and Gentiles in Utah. By
Grace Talbot. 12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 130. New York:
Grafton Press. $1.25.
Terra Cotta : A Study of Life in the Clay. By Alice
McAlilly. 12mo, pp. 281. Jennings & Pye. $1.
Solitaire: A Romance of the Willey Slide and the White
Mountains. By George Franklin Willey. Illus., 12mo,
gilt top, uncut, pp. 143. Manchester: New Hampshire
Publishing Corporation. $1.50.
A Singular Metamorphosis. By May Evelyn Skiles.
16mo, pp. 85. Abbey Press. 50 cts.
THEOLOGY AND RELIGION.
Agnosticism. By Robert Flint, D.D. 8vo, pp. 664. Charles
Scribner's Sons. $2. net.
The Religion of Plutarch: A Pagan Creed of Apostolio
Times. By John Oakesmith, D.Litt. 12mo, pp. 229.
Longmans, Green, & Co. $1.75 net.
Christ the Apocalypse. By Rev. James Cooke Seymour,
12mo, gilt top, pp. 350. Jennings & Pye. $1.
The Things that Abide. By Orrin Leslie Elliott. 12mo,
pp. 193. San Francisco: The Murdock Press.
Our Lord and Master. By Rev.Jesse Bowman Young, D.D.
24mo, pp. 99. Jennings & Pye. 25 cts. net.
EDUCATION.-BOOKS FOR SCHOOL AND
COLLEGE.
The Making of our Middle Schools: An Account of
the Development of Secondary Education in the United
States. By Elmer Ellsworth Brown, Ph.D. 8vo, pp. 547.
Longmans, Green, & Co.
The Elements of General Method, based on the Princi-
ples of Herbart. By Charles A. McMurry, Ph.D. New
edition, revised and enlarged; 12mo, pp. 331. Macmillan
Co. 90 cts net.
Recent European History, 1789-1900. By George Emory
Fellows, Ph.D. Illus., 12mo, pp. 459. Benj. H. Sanborn
& Co. $1.25.
The Theory and Practice of the English Government.
By Thomas Francis Moran, Ph.D. 12mo, pp. 379. Long-
mans, Green, & Co. $1.20 net.
The English Language: An Introduction to the Principles
which Govern its Right Use. By Frederick Manley
and W. N. Hailmann. 12mo, pp. 447. C. C. Birchard &
Co. 75 cts.
Marianela. Por B. Pérez Galdós; edited by Louis A.
Loiseaux, B.S. 12mo, pp. 283. New York: Wm. R.
Jenkins. Paper, 75 cts.


128
(Feb. 16,
THE DIAL
OLD AND
RARE BOOKS
Essentials in Ancient History, from the Earliest Records
Dealers in Rare An-
cient and Modern
consultation with Albert Bushpell Hart, LL.D. Illus.,
8vo, pp. 528. “ Essentials in History Series." American
English literature
Book Co. $1.50.
History, Poetry,
Studies in Zoology: An Introduction to the Study of Ani-
Drama, and Fiction.
mals, for Secondary Schools and Academies. By James A.
Merrill, S.B. 12mo, pp. 232. American Book Co. 75 cts. Pickering & Cbatto,
Fine Old English and
Scott's The Lady of the Lake. Edited by George Rice
Foreign bookbindings.
Carpenter. 12mo, pp. 191. Longmans, Groen, & Co.
66, Haymarket,
Illuminated MSS.
Stories of Humble Friends. By Katharine Pyle. Illas., LONDON, ENGLAND. :'Catalogues issued.
Price 12 Cents.
12mo, pp. 197. American Book Co. 50 cts.
Liliencron's Anno 1870. Selected and edited by Dr. Wil-
helm Bernhardt. With portrait, 18mo, pp. 138. D. C.
BOOKS. ALL OUT-OF-PRINT BOOKS SUPPLIED.
no matter on what subject. Write us. We can get
Heath & Co.
you any book ever published. Please state wants. When in England call.
The Laurel Primer. By W. N. Hailman. Illus. in colors, BAKER'S GREAT BOOK-SHOP, 14-16 Bright Street, BIRITTOHAN.
etc., oblong 8vo, pp. 112. Boston: C. C. Birchard & Co.
John Woolman's Journal. To which are added his Last
"SHERLOCK HOLMES.” French, for home study, mailed at 250.
Epistle and Other Writings. 24mo, pp. 181. Macmillan
E. ROTH, 1135 Pine Street, PHILADELPHIA.
Co. 25 ots. net.
A Selection from Mrs. Browning's Pooms. Edited by
OLD BOOKS AND MAGAZINES. Send for Cata-
logue. Address
Heloise E. Hersey. With portrait, 24mo, pp. 191. A. J. CRAWFORD, Tenth and Pine Streets, St. Louis, Missouri.
Macmillan Co. 25 cts. net.
MISCELLANEOUS.
AUTOGRAPH
OF FAMOUS PERSONS
Bought and Sold
Academic Honors in Princeton University, 1748-1902. LETTERS WALTER R. BENJAMIN, 1125 Broadway,
Compiled and edited by John Rogers Williams. Large
New York. Send for Price Lists.
8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 254. Princeton University: Of-
fice of the Secretary.
Was Shakespeare a Roman Catholic?
Greek and Roman Stoicism and Some of its Disciples. By James Appleton Morgan, President N. Y. Shakespeare Society.
By Chas. H. Stanley Davis, M.D. 12mo, gilt top, uncut, STAMMERING, Townsend Southwick, in December “Action and
pp. 269. Boston : Herbert B. Turner & Co. $1.40 net. Utterance,"
," 10 cents. From your newsdealer or N. Y. School of
Report of the Librarian of Congress for the Fiscal Year Expression, 318 West 57th St., New York.
Ending June 30, 1902. Illus., large 8vo, uncut, pp. 228.
Government Printing Office.
CHARLES H. ROBERTS,
The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry.
By M. M. Pattison Muir, M.A. Illus., 24mo, pp. 185. "Li-
Attorney at Law.
Law and Patents.
brary of Useful Stories." D. Appleton & Co. 35 cts. net. 614 Roanoke Building, 145 LaSalle Street, CHICAGO.
The Room with the Little Door. By Roland Burnham
Patents, Trade-Marks, Copyright; and Claims in Chicago
Molineux. 12mo, pp. 263. G. W. Dillingham Co. $1.25.
and Washington.
The American Invaders: Their Plans, Tactics, and Prog-
ress. By Fred A. McKenzie. 12mo, pp. 135. London:
RARE ROYCROFT BOOKS
Howard Wilford Bell.
How to Gesture. By Edward Amherst Ott. Revised and
Song of Songs
$25.00
illustrated edition ; 12mo, pp. 126. New York: Hinds &
Ruskin & Turner
$20.00
Noble. $1.
One copy of cach.
KENNETH B. ELLIMAN, 419 West 118th St., New York
BOOKS WHEN CALLING, PLEASB ASK FOR
AT
MR. ORANT.
WHENEVER YOU NERD A BOOK,
LIBERAL
Address MR. GRANT.
WILL BE PROMPTLY READ WITH A DISCOUNTS Before buying Books, write for quotations. An
assortment of catalogues, and special slips of
VIEW TO PUBLISHING ON A ROY-
books at reduced prices, will be sent for a ten-cent stamp.
ALTY BASIS BY THE NEW PUBLISH-
F. E. GRANT, Books, 23 West 120 Street,
New York
ING HOUSE OF :: ::: :: ::
Mention this advertisement and receive a discount.
HERBERT B. TURNER & Co., STUDY AND PRACTICE OF FRENCH in 4 Parts
170 SUMMER STREET, BOSTON
L. C. BONAME, Author and Pub., 1930 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
Well-graded series for Preparatory Schools and Colleges. No time
wasted in superficial or mechanical work. French Tezi: Numerous
STORY-WRITERS, Biographers, Historians, Poets - Do
exercises in conversation, translation, composition. Part I. (60 cts.):
you desire the honest criticism of your
Primary grade; thorough drill in Pronunciation. Part II. (90 cts.):
Intermediate grade; Essentials of Grammar; 4th edition, revised, with
book, or its skilled revision and correction, or advice as to publication !
Vocabulary: most carefully graded. Part III. ($1.00): Composition,
Buch work, said George William Curtis, is “done as it should be by The Idioms, Syntax; meets requirements for admission to college.
Easy Chair's friend and fellow laborer in letters, Dr. Titus M. Coan." Part IV. (35 cts.): Handbook of Pronunciation for advanced grade;
Terms by agreement. Send for circular D, or forward your book or M8. concise and comprehensive. Sent to teachers for examination, with a
to the New York Bureau of Revision, 70 Fifth Ave., New York.
view to introduction.
MANUSCRIPTS
Going Abroad
Do You .
Write ?
Instruction by mail in literary composition.
Courses suited to all needs.
Revision, criticism, and sale of MSS.
Send for circular,
EDITORIAL BUREAU
26 W.33d St. (opp. Waldorf-Astoria), N. Y.
?
If so, take a copy of
THE COMPLETE POCKET GUIDE TO EUROPE
Edited by E. C. and T. L. STEDMAN.
Concise, handy, clear and legible maps, and altogether
the best of the kind.
Full flexible leather, postpaid, $1.25.
WILLIAM R. JENKINS
851 and 853 Sixth Avenue NEW YORK CITY
AUTHORS Manuscripts suitable for issuing in volume
SEE