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The long line of investigators from Niebuhr to Mommsen constitutes one of the greatest glories of German scholarship, and the last of the line, who died on the first day of the pres- ent month, was the greatest scholar of them . all. Theodor Mommsen, preëminent among the “grand old men " left to the twentieth century as a legacy from the nineteenth, was born in Schleswig on the last day of November, 1817, and had nearly completed his eighty-sixth year at the time of his death. His life was one of uninterrupted labor in his chosen field, and his prodigious achievement has set a mark wbich will not easily be approached by any scholar of the coming time. Mommsen's preliminary studies, in philol- ogy, jurisprudence, and arcbæology, were made at the University of Kiel, and during a tour of three years in France and Italy, spent in col- lecting Roman inscriptions. In 1848, he be- gan his professional career, occupying chairs in Leipzig, Zürich, and Breslau, before settling down, ten years later, in the city which was to become the capital of the German Empire, and which thus became his home for the forty-five years remaining to him. Here he entered upon the great work of his life, the publication of the “Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum," of which the first part appeared in 1863, and which fills many volumes, collecting and preserving all extant Latin inscriptions down to the time of Cæsar. Other works of great importance are his band book of Roman antiquities, his editions of the Digest and the Corpus Juris Civilis, and his “Römische Forschungen," to say nothing of his countless papers on coins, dialects, epi- graphy, and jurisprudence. Overshadowing all these productions in the estimation of the general public, the five vol- umes of his Roman history, with the two sup- plementary volumes on the provinces of the Empire, constitute his chief claim to the re- gard of cultivated readers who are not special- ists. It is by this work alone that he is widely RELIGIOUS AND CIVIL LIBERTY IN AMERICA James Oscar Pierce . 345 Cobb's The Rise of Religious Liberty in America. - Richman's Rhode Island, its Making and its Mean- ing. - Mathews's Ohio and her Western Reserve. WILLIAM WETMORE STORY AND HIS FRIENDS Annie Russell Marble 348 THE MORAL LAW IN THE WORLD OF SHAKE- SPEARE. Edward E. Hale, Jr. 351 A HISTORY OF PREHISTORIC TIMES. Laurence M. Larson 353 RECENT POETRY. William Morton Payne . 355 Kipling's The Five Nations.-Cochrane's Collected Verses. Taylor's The Overture. — Crownin- shield's Tales in Metre. — Fisher's Songs by the Wayside. - Barnard's The Conceits of a General Lover. -- Miss Kummer's Semanoud. – Miss Dal- liba's Fate and I. -- Miss Louthan's Thoughts Adrift. -- Miss Fiske's A Field of Folk. – Mrs. Jackson's Summer Songs in Idlenesse.--Miss Weth- erald's Tangled in Stars. BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS 359 A booklet of engaging trifles. -- Artists and artist days in Barbizon. - Love-letters of Margaret Ful- ler. - Hidden springs of history. - Chapters of wit and wisdom. A handbook for the rug collector. --Babel and Bible. — A library of noble authors.- Nonmedicinal therapeutic procedures. — The latest Egyptian history. - A diary of Eastern travel. BRIEFER MENTION 362 . . NOTES 363 . LIST OF NEW BOOKS 364 340 [Nov. 16, THE DIAL His en- read throughout the world, and through its of temporary aberrations, the defenders of lib- agency that his name has been a household erty, and the trustees of the hope of democracy. word during the last half-century wherever And almost the last of his published words, books are read. It is a work of strong preju- written for the pages of an English review, dices, no doubt, and its deification of mere expressed his confidence in the race which he strength, as typified by Julius Cæsar, some- had so recently criticised in such caustic terms. what discredits it with those who lay stress “I know," he said, upon moral distinctions. It is also open to “That I speak not only for myself, but for the best, the criticism of the late C. K. Adams, who and, at the same time, for the great majority of the pointed out that neither philology nor the German people, when I say that, though we have no doubt disapproved, and shall continue to disapprove, a study of inscriptions may be regarded as a single act of the English nation, we yet feel ourselves perfectly secure foundation for history. But more nearly akin, and in every respect more intimately whatever its defects from an ideal standpoint, allied, to them than to any other nation. The English there is no denying its brilliancy of style, its language is, after all, in its main elements Saxon; and incisiveness of characterization, and the im- Shakespeare has been for Germany as well as for En- gland a spiritual deliverer, and the father of our poetry. petuous energy with which it rushes onward. . . I look back over a long life: of what I hoped for Its theories stand by no means unopposed, but my own nation and for the world at large, only a small it is the work of a great advocate, and the first part has been fulfilled. But the holy alliance of the impression it produces is simply overwhelming. of my old age." nations was the aim of my youth, and is still the star A man who has served learning as well as ” Mommsen has might well be forgiven had he With these noble words still echoing in our done nothing more than this. But the ideal of consciousness, we now take leave of the man cloistered scholarship did not satisfy his own who uttered them, and know full well that the sense of obligation to his fellows, and for many world is indescribably the poorer for his death. years he has been conspicuous among the scholars who are also men of affairs. trance into public life in the strict sense was SCIENCE IN THE ENCYCLOPÆDIAS. made late in his career, but from the early sev- enties down to the time of his death he was “Accuracy is very properly regarded as the most essential force to be reckoned with in practical politics. of all the attributes of (an Encyclopædia]." - Editorial in the New International Encyclopædia, 1902. He was always the outspoken champion of “Let the owner of a book find within its covers erroneous, liberalism, and he even locked horns with Bis- misleading, or even prejudiced or partisan statements, and he distrusts it ever afterward.”. Editorial in the Encyclo- marck in one memorable instance, being prog- pedia Americana. ecuted for his alleged libellous utterances, and The older editions of “Chambers's Encyclopædia" triumphantly acquitted in both the ensuing contain an article on Slugs which is not altogether trials. Unlike most German liberalists, he did accurate. In the one before me that of 1876– not ally himself with the Socialist movement, I find these words: but opposed it with all his might as a menace “ The RED S. (Agrion agrestis) is also very plentiful.” to individualism, which he believed to be a Now the red slug is not Agrion agrestis, but is necessary condition of progress. He was the rion ater var. rufus, sometimes called Arion champion of the Jew when attacked by the empiricorum. Agrion is the name of a genus of anti-Semitic fury, and of academic freedom dragon-flies, while agrestis is the specific name of when threatened by administrative intolerance. the field slug (Agriolimax agrestis). If the doc- ) trine of the survival of the fittest is worth anything During very recent years his voice was raised in sharp condemnation of the American folly animal, a mixture of two sorts of slugs and a dragon- in literature, it would seem that this curious hybrid , which led to our needless war with Spain and fly, should have quickly become extinct. But not so. our wanton piracy in the Philippine Islands. Innocent of all sense of the ridiculous, the creature He was also outspoken in his censure of the flaunts itself through the years, and meets us at English policy which resulted in the South African war. “The RED S. (Agrion agrestis) is also very plentiful." - Yet in spite of this censure, to which con- Library of Universal Knowledge, 1880. "The RED SLUG (agrion agrestis) is also very plentiful." science constrained him, of the recent acts of - Library of Universal Knowledge, new edition, 1882. England and America in the international “ A. agrestis, the Red Slug.” — Encyclopædic Dictionary, arena, he was at heart the friend of the “The RED SLUG (agrion agrestis) is also very plentiful." English-speaking peoples, because he knew International Cyclopædia, 1900. that they had been historically, and in spite | The lack of a larger series of encyclopædias and kin- a every turn. - 1896. 1903.] 341 THE DIAL 9) ") 66 ARTICLE а dred works prevents me from following its slimy Under “Ant Lion” was a figure of a quite different trail any farther, but it is only fair to mention that insect, the lace-wing fly or Chrysopa. Under " An- . “Chambers ” has long ago disavowed the animal. thocyan" the facts about the well-known chemical “ Johnson's Universal Cyclopædia," 1897, figures reaction were exactly reversed. These and a few the red slug, but wisely refrains from offering a other errors were pointed out to the publishers (who scientific name. The figure represents the genuine had very likely heard of them from other quarters!), beast (Arion) and the only criticism one can offer is and in the more recently printed copies they have that it is not found in America. The “ American been corrected. Thus, I find that while the copy at Cyclopædia,” 1881, gives a figure of a slug, labeled Colorado College contains them, that at the Colorado Limax (i. e. Agriolimax) agrestis; but unfortu- Springs public library is correct. It must have been . nately the picture is that of a totally different Eu- very troublesome to make the changes after the ropean species, Amalia sowerbii. In the text are printing was far advanced, and the fact that they , some remarks on “the common slug of New En- were made illustrates the genuineness of the editors' gland, L. tunicata, Gould,” the writer being evi- desire for accuracy. dently unaware that this name is a synonym of However, there are other things in later volumes. Agriolimax agrestis. Even the “Century Diction- One or two may be cited: ary,” usually a model of accuracy, cannot with im- ARTICLE “LAC." LAC-INSECT." punity handle the dangerous subject of Slugs. It “The general name under “ Any one of the several tells us about the Teneriffe Slug, “which shines at which the various products of scale-insects of the coccid the lac-insect (Coccus lacca) night like the glow-worm,” an apparently fabulous genus Carteria, which se- are known. The insects live cretes lac (q. v.) Carteria creature unknown to modern naturalists; and Alaska upon the twigs of certain lacca, of Asia, secretes the is given — surely in error as a locality for Ario- trees, and soon entomb them- gum lac or stick lac of com- limax Columbianus. The “New International” selves in a mass of matter, merce.” [Only three species which oozes from small of lac-insects are indicated as and the “Encyclopædia Americana” have not yet punctures made in the twigs known; the known species reached the letter S, so we cannot tell what sur- of the tree, and which thus actually number 24.] prises they may have in store for us. furnishes them with both The above criticism is a little technical, no doubt; food and shelter.” but it is written for the average reader. One of the In one of these articles we are told that the insect first signs of prosperity in an American household secretes the lac, in the other that it oozes from the is the purchase of an encyclopædia. The owner tree. The lac is actually secreted by the insect. feels that he has acquired a new brain, at a very The names given for the lac insect are different in moderate cost, considering its utility. It would be the two articles; one of them was current a hundred hard to overestimate the educational value of a good years ago, the other twenty-five years ago and later, encyclopædia well used. The writer of these lines while modern entomologists call the creature Tach- was brought up on “ Chambers,” and to-day he can- ardia lacca. not look upon the familiar volumes without a feeling In the article “Coccidæ" we read: "For the akin to reverence. It is with the strongest possible latest systematic account of the family by Cockerell sense of the importance of encyclopædias, and of the consult · Four New Diaspine Coccidæ,' besides other good work they have done and are doing, that these articles in the Canadian Entomologist." The article remarks are offered. Because of this feeling, and cited is one of the least important of those by the because of the trust that is everywhere placed in writer mentioned, and nothing whatever is said about these works, it becomes necessary to insist that they the beautiful and indispensable works of Signoret, should be in all respects worthy of their mission. Green, and Newstead. Their editors would be the last to deny this, but In the article “Mantis" the figure is labelled where the spirit has been willing, the flesh has been Mantis carolina, while the text has Stagamomantis all too weak. [misprint for Stagmomantis) carolina, the latter Some time ago, in the town of Las Vegas, New being correct except for the misprint. The Euro- Mexico, I was visited by a lady and gentleman who pean mantis is called Mantio [misprint for Mantis) were acting as travelling agents for the New Inter- religiosa. national Encyclopædia. I expressed surprise that The "Encyclopedia Americana," also in course these well-educated and competent people could of publication, suffers from the same general malady. make any sort of a living out of the sales of a single There are good signed articles by Packard, Coville, encyclopædia in a comparatively thinly peopled etc., but they cover only part of the scientific field. region. They assured me, however, that the work A rather hasty examination reveals a few things paid. Although I was not a purchaser, they kindly like these: loaned me the first volume (the only one then out), Butterflies. ---- The second plate has most of the and I examined it with very great interest. The ful- names misplaced. ness of detail, the number of subjects treated, and Cabbage insects. The harlequin cabbage-bug is the excellence of many of the illustrations, were called a beetle, and Plusia brassicae is apparently indeed remarkable. But alas! here and there were intended by the name Noctua brassicæ. the queerest things. In an article on “The Arctic California.— The California mountain sheep is Region" a figure of an arctic plant was upside down. wrongly called Ovis ammon. > 66 342 [Nov. 16, THE DIAL error. Arizona. -We are told that “Arizona is a tropic Would it not be possible for American scholars country modified by its elevation in the north; to follow somewhat the plan of the great Oxford there are no true summer and winter, but a short Dictionary, and cooperate toward the production of rainy season in midsummer and a dry one the rest a really national encyclopædia, which should reflect of the year.” the very best knowledge and scholarship in the What is the remedy for this unfortunate condi- land? Probably one of the existing works could tion of affairs? It cannot be denied that the editors be taken as the foundation. I do not suggest an of the encyclopædias are good men, and that the pub- international encyclopædia, because I believe we lishers have done bravely. Moreover, the writings require one which meets our special conditions and , of the most competent living authorities, on their needs, and at any rate that is a sufficient under- own chosen subjects, are by no means free from taking for the present. T. D. A. COCKERELL. Nevertheless, there are ample opportunities for improvement. Those who have done any writing for encyclopædias know how trifling is the pay of- fered, and how the work is farmed out to almost COMMUNICATION anyone who is reasonably competent. Compare this with the enormous sums expended in putting the MATTHEW ARNOLD'S JUDGMENT OF EMERSON. books upon the market, in agents and advertise- (To the Editor of The DIAL.) ments, -and it seems sufficiently evident that things In a notice of Sir M. E. G. Duff's new book, “Out are not properly balanced. The of the Past,” printed on page 314 of your issue of involved expenses in publication are necessarily high, but at present November 1, I find an incidental reference to Matthew Arnold's “rating Emerson's Essays as the most impor- they must be out of all proportion to the cost of get- tant prose work done in English in this century." ting the material. I do not mean by this that the The words quoted make one rub his eyes. Recalling writing and editing may not cost more than the how Arnold was berated in this country for his supposed advertising, - whether they do or not I have no disparagement of Emerson, and recalling also that the knowledge, - but I do mean that the time and ex- century in which Emerson's prose work is thus made pense given to the preparation of the text is usually of paramount importance includes such writers as quite inadequate. Considering the great importance Carlyle, Ruskin, Spencer, Tyndall, Huxley, Newman, of the encyclopædias to the people of this country, and other great names which will readily occur, the it would seem as if they could not be too carefully judgment of Arnold as cited by you certainly seems G. F. N. amazing, if not incredible. prepared, and that the very best authorities should Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 5, 1903. in every case be consulted. Those who, having knowledge of special matters, refuse to place it at [The citation is nevertheless correct. Arnold's the service of the encyclopædias are surely blame- exact words are: “As Wordsworth's poetry is, in worthy, always assuming that they are not required my judgment, the most important work done in to work for an unreasonably small wage. One dif- verse, in our language, during the present century, ficulty, no doubt, arises from the number of parallel 80 Emerson's Essays are, I think, the most impor- publications, resulting in competition, which does not tant work done in prose.” The words may be found seem to encourage anything but activity in adver- in Arnold's “ Discourses in America,” at page 196 tising. It might be supposed that the competing of the English edition.—EDR.] works would be stirred up to excel in all good qual- ities; but I believe that the contrary effect is pro- The Arthur H. Clark Company, Cleveland, announce duced, because of the necessity for economy and the an important modification in the scope and contents of attempts to catch the public eye by other than schol- the extensive work on the Philippine Islands now being arly means. To illustrate my meaning, I will ask issued by them. As originally planned and hitherto the explanation of several of the full-page portraits announced, the series was intended to furnish the ori. in the “Encyclopedia Americana.” They are cer- ginal sources, printed and documentary, for the history tainly not there because the fitness of things de- of the Philippine Islands only to the beginning of the mands it. Another source of trouble arises I think nineteenth century. The reasons for this seemed ob- vious and sufficient. But so many and urgent requests from the anonymity of the articles. The editors of have come from subscribers and reviewers for such ex- the “New International ” set forth a plea for an- tension of the series as shall cover the entire period of onymity; but the fact remains that signed articles Spanish domination, that it has been decided to modify are at least on the average more carefully prepared, the former plan in the manner here briefly indicated. and as for the revision spoken of as necessary, the It is proposed not to exceed the number of volumes authors themselves should revise as frequently as already announced, - fifty-five. This can be done be- occasion demands. To an intelligent reader, also, cause, in the original plan, to avoid a subsequent in- the knowledge of the author's name is of material crease in the number of volumes, a certain amount of space was purposely left for possible future changes as assistance in estimating the character and value of a result of later investigations to be made in foreign what is read. It has been well said that no litera- archives, or on account of the necessary excision of ture can be quite perfectly understood without a extraneous or irrelevant matter from the printed works certain knowledge of the personal equation of the to be presented in this series. The new title will be writer. “ The Philippine Islands: 1493–1898." 1903.] 343 THE DIAL Lane, also, the Latin grammarian and author The New Books. of the song, “ The Lone Fish Ball,” he singles out for claims to immortality; and so of Child SENATOR HOAR'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY.* and Short and Fitzedward Hall, and others. In commending to the reader Senator Hoar's Let us settle the question which has thus baffled Autobiography of Seventy Years," no words his generous indiscrimination, and find, without of personal ealogy are called for from this pen. going beyond the title-page of his book, the name that will survive those of all his classmates. The man is known by his works, of which this book is a worthy record. Indeed, so packed is Speaking of his instructors, Mr. Hoar refuses a , it with memorable things that the reviewer, se- to Professor Channing, that teacher of great lecting here and there a chapter or a passage writers, the praise we have learned to expect for special notice, feels like one gathering peb- from his pupils. But he acknowledges that he bles on the seashore. The author appears to may be wrong, and adds a generous word of have bad somewhat the same feeling in writing; eulogy for the professor's textbook on rhetoric for he says, “I have no doubt that after these and oratory. In this connection it is worth volumes are published, there will come up in while adding that Mr. Hoar, searching English my mind matter enough to make a dozen bet- literature for a vigorous and manly style, the ter ones.” Having rarely kept a diary, he here fit vehicle for conveying weighty thoughts to ' writes, or rather dictates, from the abundant courts or juries or popular assemblies, advises stores of a well-furnished memory. the law student to give his days and nights to To the advantages of good birth and breeding South's sermons. was added the best education obtainable for a Hastening on to more important matters, we Massachusetts boy of his time. But even of read of the young lawyer's entry into public life. this best he has a poor opinion. “ There was,' “But I happened one night in the autumn of 1850 to be at a great mass meeting in the City Hall, at he writes, describing Harvard College, " as it Worcester, which Charles Allen was expected to ad- seems to me in looking back, little instruction dress. . . . Judge Allen, as he was somewhat apt to do, of much value. The good scholars and the bad came in late. A vast audience had gathered and were went to the recitation together. The good ones waiting. Nobody seemed ready to speak. Somebody started the cry, Hoar! Hoar!' My father and brother lost the hour, and the poor scholars got the were known as leaders in the Free Soil Party, and that benefit of hearing the good ones recite.” Yet I suppose made somebody call on me. I got up in my he adds later, “ There was something in the col. place in the middle of the hall is great confusion. There lege training of that day, imperfect as were its were shouts of platform,' platform.' I made my way instruments, and slender as were its resources, to the platform, hoping only to make my excuses and get off without being detected. But the people were from which more intellectual strength in the disposed to be good-natured, and liked what I said. pupil was begotten than there is in the college It was printed in the Free Soil papers, and from training of the present generation.” To the that time I was in considerable demand as a public personality of the instructors he ascribes the speaker. The next year Worcester failed to elect difference. Among the best fitting schools of her representatives to the Legislature, which were voted for all on one ticket and required a majority, and there his day he names Mrs. Sarah Ripley's at Wal- was to be a se nd election on the fourth Monday of tham, and gives in full Emerson's excellent November. There was a delegate convention to pomi- obituary notice of that wonderful woman, of nate representatives, of which I was a member. When whom Edward Everett used to say that she the vote was announced, to my surprise and consterna- tion, I was one of the persons nominated." could fill any of the professorships at Harvard. Emerson's tribute, not being included in his Mr. Hoar was then but twenty-five years old, collected works, adds value to Mr. Hoar's vol- and felt that he could not accept the nomination umes. The two members of the author's class without his father's approval, which however (1846) whom he thinks the most entitled to he obtained and was elected, but refused a re- fame are Dr. Calvin Ellis and Judge Nathan election. Webb, both now deceased. Again, however, The young politician's modest ambition had he declares that the one member whose fame been to build up a sufficient practice in Wor- will last to remote posterity is Walter Mitchell; cester to bring him in twelve or fifteen hundred and this fame he bases on a single poem of dollars a year. He expected to remain unmar- Mitchell's, “Tacking the Ship off Fire Island.” ried, to hire a comfortable room where he could live in contentment with his books, and so to *AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SEVENTY YEARS. By George Frisbie Hoar, In two volumes. With portrait. New York: Charles end his days. But in this instance the thatched Soribner's Sons. cottage had to give place to the castle in Spain. 6 6 344 [Nov. 16, THE DIAL а . H Want of space forbids an enumeration of Mr. to disclose his iniquities with a fulness that Hoar's varied activities and unsought honors. shows how deeply seated, and indeed how jus- Let it be borne in mind as not least to his credit, tified, is his dislike of the man and his unscru- that he has now stood at his post in Washing. pulous methods. Nearly all that can be placed ton for thirty-five years, enduring a life dis- to Butler's credit is of a negative character: he tasteful to him, at the urgent bidding of his contributed to certain victories in the war by constituents, and receiving a salary barely suf being absent when the battles were fought, and ficient for his needs, when with far less labor he he perhaps prevented Grant's renomination for might have been earning fifty thousand dollars a third term by the discreditable Massachu- a year in law practice, and enjoying at the same setts appointments he urged upon the Presi- time a mode of life much more congenial to his dent, thus disgusting his State and causing her tastes. How truly he has obeyed his conscience to throw all her influence against Grant in the in this devotion to the public service, his own nominating convention. words will show. An epigrammatic presentation of the differ- “I have often been charged with a blind and zealous ence in manner between Blaine and Harrison attachment to party. The charge is sometimes made is worth quoting. “Blaine,” says Mr. Hoar, · by persons who consider that I desire to do right, but “would refuse a request in a way that would think that my understanding and intellectual faculties are guided and blinded by that emotion. Others are seem like doing a favor. Harrison would grant not so charitable. ... But I will say two things : a request in a way which seemed as if he were 1. I have never in my life cast a vote or done an act denying it.” Of General Grant the author has in legislation that I did not at the time believe to be many interesting reminiscences. He greatly right, and that I am not now willing to avow and to admired the man and is generous in dealing defend and debate with any champion, of sufficient im. portance, who desires to attack it at any time and in with his faults. Speaking of Grant's reputed any presence. 2. Whether I am right or wrong in my intemperance in early and middle life, Mr. opinion as to the duty of acting with and adherence to Hoar regards his later correct deportment as party, it is the result not of emotion or attachment or more to his credit than if he had never yielded excitement, but of as cool, calculating, sober, and de- liberate reflection as I am able to give to any question to temptation, - a curious reminder of the old of conduct or duty." sophistry that we must first sin in order to ac- Then follows an able defence of his course in quire virtue. One might perhaps better say that Grant deserved more praise for his self- sticking to party and refusing to join the Anti- restraint that if he had never been susceptible Imperialists. He believes the country is to be saved by the Republican party, not by the de- to temptation. serters from its ranks or by the party opposed tional conventions— at all of which the writer Excellent accounts of four Republican na- to it. Not every reader will be convinced, but the thorough honesty and the exalted motives was present, and over one of which he presided of the writer are evident. On the burning - are among the notably instructive and read- question of how to deal with inferior races, he able chapters of this work. Some matters hith- erto imperfectly understood are made plain says: “ We should have had little difficulty in dealing with by Mr. Hoar's narrative. His presiding over the Negro or the Indian, or the Oriental, if the Amer- the convention of 1880, and his friendship for ican people had applied to them, as the Golden Rule Garfield, appear to have contributed in no small requires, the principles they expect to apply and to measure to the latter's nomination. have applied to themselves. We have never under- critical moment it was only the chairman's stood that in some essential matters human nature is the same in men of all colors and races. Our Fathers prompt and decisive ruling on a point of order of the time of the Revolution understood this matter that saved Garfield from generously throwing better than we do. . . The problem of to-day is not away his chance of victory. But this must be how to convert the heathen from heathenism, it is how read to be understood. Passing to other mat- to convert the Christian from heathenism; not to teach the physician to heal the patient, but to heal himself.” ters, we read with peculiar pleasure this tribute to his old friend, the late Senator Dawes : Memories of great men, most of them no “I should like to put on record one instance of the longer living, crowd Mr. Hoar's pages. Elo- generosity and affection of Mr. Dawes. He had not quent tributes are paid to those he admires, voted [on the River and Harbor Bill of 1882] when and his enemies are treated with courtesy and his name was called, expecting to vote against the pas- fairness. Of Benjamin F. Butler, however, he sage of the bill over the veto. But when he heard my vote for it, he saw that I was bringing down on my has little to say that is good. That little he does head a storm of popular indignation, and made up his say most conscientiously, and then he proceeds | mind that he would not throw the weight of his ex- > At one 1903 ] 345 THE DIAL . At any ample on the side against me. So, contrary to his of equal importance and value, was in part the opinion of the merits of the bill, he came to my side aim of Mr. Adams in that thesis ; and it is a and voted with me. ... I would not probably put what thought which well deserves the more extended I am about to say in an address to a Sunday-school, or into a sermon to the inmates of a jail or house of cor- development which it has since received. The rection. I cannot, perhaps, defend it by reason. But second motto above named might, with better somehow or other, I am strongly tempted to say there grace and more truth, have ascribed the ful- are occasions in life where the meanest thing a man can do is to do perfectly right. But I do not say it. ness of its praise to the principle of Religious It would be better to say that there are occasions when Liberty. Toleration does not rise to the height the instinct is a better guide than the reason. of the American standard in religious affairs. rate, I do not believe the recording angel made any Mr. Adams proceeded to discourse conserva- trouble for Mr. Dawes for that vote." tively of Toleration in Religion, and thus fol- Limitations of space bring this inadequate lowed in words his chosen motto; but his ; review to an abrupt close. The book shows thought seems to have risen higher than his here and there signs of haste in its dictation or words, and to have reached the height of char- proof-reading, or both. But these are trifles. ity which American political practice bas de Nor is unfailing accuracy of statement to be veloped, for his illustrations showed the people expected in so extended an effort of the mem- in possession of full Religious Liberty. ory; but so far as a rapid reading can deter- The attitude of America toward the subject mine, the book seems remarkably free from of freedom in religious affairs was, when first errors of this kind. In paying tribute to his assumed, unique ; nor does it appear otherwise ancestors and kinsfolk, Mr. Hoar speaks of even now, for our pattern has not been copied Jeremiah Evarts as “ the founder and Secre- by other peoples. The conception of a com- tary of the American Board of Commissioners plete separation of church from state, present- for Foreign Missions." The Haystack at Will- ing the church as an institution standing by iams College tells a different story, as to the itself, entirely independent of the state and of origin of this association. Samuel J. Mills other institutions, and the state as an institu- and his student comrades, and the Andover tion indifferent to the church in all its aspects professors who later met these young men in save its independence, was a startling pro- Professor Stuart's parlor, would all seem to position originally. It is such now to many have claims prior to those of Jeremiah Evarts. conservative thinkers of the old world. Yet But perhaps we are here merely disputing about this has ever been a feature of American con- words, without first determining what is meant stitutional government. The principle was by “founder." PERCY F. BICKNELL. introduced into the policies of the world con- temporaneously with our Declaration of Inde- pendence. The political liberty announced by that instrument embraced as one of its factors RELIGIOUS AND CIVIL LIBERTY IN an absolute freedom in entertaining and ex- AMERICA.* Mr. Charles Francis Adams opened his thesis pressing religious opinions, and in the practice of religious worship; and this freedom was to on “Massachusetts, Its Historians and Its Hig- be achieved and preserved by the perpetual tory," with a picture of the two inscriptions on divorcement of church from state. the front of the water-gate at the World's Fair The freedom thus secured and protected is at Chicago; the one on the left hand bearing purely personal ; it pertains to the individual. the words, “ Civil Liberty the Means of Build. The principle upon which we have separated ing up Personal and National Character," and church from state operates, in our political that on the right hand reading “Toleration in system, not negatively but positively. The Religion the Best Fruit of the last Four Cen- turies.” people's government does not rest with leaving To develop the thought of these two the individual alone as to his religious convic- political principles, operating conjointly, and tions ; it guarantees that he shall be continu- * THE RISE OF RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IN AMERICA. A ously let alone. It denudes itself of office, History. By Sanford H. Cobb. New York: The Mac- mission, and duty, as to all religious questions. millan Co. RHODE ISLAND. Its Making and Its Meaning. By Irving It disclaims the right to interfere with the Berdine Richman. In two volumes. New York: G. P. individual conscience, and it proclaims that Putnam'. Sons. no such interference shall be allowed. Thus OHIO AND HER WESTERN RESERVE. With a Story of Three States. By Alfred Mathews. New York: D. Apple- the right of private opinion and the right of ton & Co. free worship become constitutional rights, to in . 346 [Nov. 16, THE DIAL > our > protect which the government is affirmatively the Church and the State, “80 intimate that pledged. whatever became of interest to one was matter The American doctrine has been by no one for action by the other.” Various phases of more clearly stated than by Dr. Philip Schaff, this union have been in vogue, in all of which in his thesis on “Church and State in the the central thought was that the rights, priv- United States," as providing for “A free ileges, and interests of the Church required Church in a free State," or, in other words, support by and protection from the State. Not “A self-supporting and self-governing Chris- all the agitation of the Protestant Reformation tianity, in independent but friendly relation to sufficed to shake the dominance of this ancient the Civil Government.” Dr. Schaff did not, assumption. As Mr. Cobb succinctly states: however, attempt to treat the subject elabo- “In the immediate reformation era there was in all rately; be contented himself with a monograph the Protestant churches a practical unanimity of opinion, opening up a discussion upon this interesting tion, in some, intimately related to the very life of the that to the civil magistrate belonged a religious func- topic, inviting and urging later writers to church, in others, restricted to the suppression of heresy. develop the theme in historical form. This . . . Bossuet was substantially correct in saying that work has now been ably performed by Mr. on one point all Christians had long been unanimous, Sanford H. Cobb, in his recent history of the ribe des that coven hereties were orthodox on this right of civil magistrate to propagate “ The Rise of Religious Liberty in America,” point." the first named in the group of books which The attainment by America of her present has prompted this article. elevated type of religious liberty was no boli- Mr. Cobb has a clear idea of the distinctive day episode. There was a gradual advance, characteristics of the American doctrine, as traceable through a succession of struggles. well as of the peculiar features of the Old- The notable features of the present system are World theory, and he has illustrated with that it is distinctively American, and that its perspicuity the differences between the two development has been accomplished on systems. His opening chapter on “ The Amer soil, its origin being found in the colonial be- ican Principle sets forth categorically the ginnings of our republican institutions. It is elements of the occidental system, as it appears this accomplishment which Mr. Cobb outlines operative and dominant to-day, after a cen- as “The Rise of Religious Liberty in America.” tury's successful experience. He contrasts The European theory was brought over to our with this “ The Old World Idea," of which shores by the settlers of several of the colonies, he presents a historical sketch, tracing its de- here to be shocked by sharp conflict with the velopment out of the conflicting theories of freedom of conscience or "soul-liberty” cham- the early years of the Christian era. The pioned by Roger Williams. These “Colonial American conception of religious liberty is not Beginnings” are set forth in a brief chapter to be identified with or mistaken for Tolera- by Mr. Cobb, who then, after dividing the colo- tion. It is neither a modification nor an ex- nies into four classes, proceeds to illustrate tension of Toleration, but rather its complete each class historically. Three colonies intro- . and irreconcilable antithesis ; for Toleration duced the Church of England establishment, is a concession or a gift, tendered with the three others the Puritan form of church govern- . implication of a right to withhold, while Re- ment, while in four others there were various ligious Liberty is an inherent and inalienable and changing forms of church establishment right. Nor, on the other hand, is it to be in succession. No character of union between confounded with Freedom of Conscience; for church and state was admitted into the remain. to assert that the conscience is free is to state ing three colonies, which Mr. Cobb classifies as merely a psychological truism, while the polit “The Free Colonies.” These three are the col. ical conception includes the element of freedom onies which have, in the main, set the example of worship. This conception must be observed of religious liberty for all the states. The all- in its distinctive individuality in order that important but simple record of these colonies the American doctrine be understood. Over is presented in thirty-two pages. To portray against it, Mr. Cobb sets the Old-World con- the varying steps and the diverse and often ception of a system which, at numerous points, agitating experiences through which the other brings the political relations of the citizen into ten states have progressed to their present po- interference with his religious views and prac- sition, requires 347 pages, or nearly two-thirds tices. The prevailing thought in Europe has of Mr. Cobb's book; an illustration of the been that there was a necessary union between | fidelity of detail with which he has outlined > 1903] 347 THE DIAL the struggle for religious freedom. Now, all in the other volumes of our group, and his these thirteen original states, as well as all broad and generalizing deductions are well sup- their younger sisters, occupy a practically com- plemented by more minute statements of the mon ground; and the national policy is vir- experiences of the two commonwealths which tually a re-affirmation and a guaranty of the became the examplars of their sister states. policy of the states. The larger part of the It was in the small state of Rhode Island that work of assimilating the states to a common religious liberty came to its earliest and fullest model was done during the revolutionary pe- fruition ; and this was also the organized com- riod, to which the author devotes a separate munity which became the most distinctive rep- chapter; and in a concluding chapter, he out- resentative of individual freedom in govern- lines the post-revolutionary steps which have ment. This colony and its sister Connecticut finally brought the state versions of religious each grew from a revolt against the rigidity of freedom into substantial accord. the Massachusetts Theocracy. The reaction The historical method is the one best adapt- in Rhode Island was along the line of freedom ed to the elucidation of this subject, and Mr. of conscience. Starting with the advocacy of Cobb exhibits the true historical spirit in bis Soul-Liberty, the Rhode Island pioneers were manner of treating it. The religious liberty from it led into, and came to adopt, the com- which is the heritage of the American people plementary theory of Individualism as the of this century presents a phase of their coun- basis of healthy political action. Connecticut try's history which both warrants and demands revolted from the theocracy on its political the mode of treatment here employed; so that side. Very near to irony was the movement the volume before us may well assume the sub by which two of the leaders in the banishment title of “ A History.” of Roger Williams from Massachusetts soon Among the aspects of the religious liberty after led an exodus to the wilds of Connecti- of America which are unique, should be noted cut. It was a desire for greater liberty for its intimate relation to our familiar type of the individual in governmental affairs which civil liberty. These two types of personal prompted their migration, and from this desire freedom are sisters; they have the same par- the emigrants advanced logically to broader entage, and they grew together. In turn each freedom in matters of religion. Though start- has stimulated, encouraged, and helped to nur- ing thus by different routes, these colonies ture the other. Mr. Cobb's pages illustrate gradually grew into a similarity of views on this fact clearly. The experiences of both Con- the two subjects of Civil and Religious Liberty, necticut and Rhode Island exemplify it, though and into leaders in the championship of these not in the same way. A notable example is views. presented by our author, which appeared in The early experiences of Rhode Island in Maryland. The first assembly held in that this progress are graphically summarized in the colony was composed wholly of Roman Catho- two volumes entitled “Rhode Island, Its Mak- lics; and Lord Baltimore, the proprietary, was ing and Its Meaning,” by Irving B. Richman. known to be aiming to secure for his colony His work is essentially a biography of Roger freedom of conscience. He sent over a pre- Williams, in that it begins and ends with the pared “ Body of Laws,” proposing that it be life of this pioneer of religious liberty. But enacted. The assembly promptly rejected the Carlyle has said that “the history of a nation is document, and appointed a committee to pre- the biography of its great men "; and the history pare a code. In a few days, the committee of Rhode Island and the biography of Roger reported the same code lately rejected, and the Williams are practically convertible terms dur. assembly without delay adopted the report and ing the period indicated. It was Williams who enacted the “Body of Laws.” “Thus early took the lead in advocating and teaching liberty did the American settlers learn to stickle for of conscience, and it was through his influence a point. They had no objection to the code that his fellow-refugees advanced from Tolera- itself, but to Baltimore's initiative. They would tion, through Freedom of Religious Belief, to not formally ratify his will. What laws they the fulness of Religious Liberty, as the car- passed must be their own, and transmitted to dinal principle of their government. But Will- governor and proprietary for approval.” And iams was never a great governor or statesman ; thus early did religious freedom begin to stiffen and his Rhode Island associates preceded him the backbone of constitutional civil liberty. in reaching the conclusion that Soul-Liberty Mr. Cobb’s bistory finds timely companions necessarily implied Political Liberty, and in a 348 [Nov. 16, THE DIAL adopting this principle as the corollary of the element of the spirit of that state ; 80 that the other. Western Reserve was practically a new Con. Mr. Richman's account of the development necticut in the west, and Ohio, though a thor- of these mighty principles by the simple democoughly cosmopolitan people, owes to Connecticut racy which settled Rhode Island is a keen more than to any other of the original thirteen investigation into primitive government, and States. furnishes the best exposition extant of the Mr. Mathews develops his thesis along two Rhode Island experiment. He makes a detailed leading lines. One traces the devotion to indi- a study of the political and constitutional begin. vidual liberty, which always distinguished Con- nings of the colony, recounts the boundary and secticut, and which there moulded Theocracy other civil difficulties encountered, elucidates into the friendly relation now established be- the details of wbat Fiske called “the turbulence tween state and church, through the Ordinance of dissent” which raged during the life of of 1787, which dedicated a great empire to Williams ; and through the whole story, traces Freedom and gave Ohio a place as a bul- the threads of Religious Liberty and Individ- wark against human slavery, into the final ualism in government which finally interlaced anti-slavery movement of which Giddings and in the web of the state's institutions. To Wade were such efficient factors. The other develop this as the “Meaning of Rhode Island” line follows the individuality of the leading is maintained as the dominant purpose of the Connecticut pioneers through their children to author. A brief explanatory note by the emi- their descendants, and calls a long roll of nent Mr. James Bryce emphasizes and pays statesmen and public officials, commencing due tribute to this praiseworthy purpose. with Wilmot and Grow of Pennsylvania, and The achievements of Connecticut within her closing with an almost innumerable list of own limited boundaries have been notable; but prominent men of Ohio, who were of New they are far surpassed by the achievements of England descent, and who have been at the her people away from home. The migratory head of state and national affairs, active in spirit that led to the first settlement of the doing the work of finally ridding the country Connecticut colony has descended to her chil. of the incubus of slavery, and giving a national dren as an inheritance; and “ how it has pushed scope to the principles of the Great Ordinance. them over her borders, and made them state- It is the newer states, developed out of ter- builders,” and animated other localities, parts of ritory consecrated to Freedom, in which the other states, with the same purposeful energy American types of religious and civil liberty that has been the honor of the parent state, is have now become so readily domesticated as the theme of Mr. Alfred Mathews, one of those to prove themselves part of the birth-right of descendants, in the volume entitled “Ohio and the American citizen. The volumes in this her Western Reserve: With a Story of Three group are persuasive to convince the reader States.” This small book is packed full of of a fact which many political economists of interesting statistical information. Connecti- Connecti- recent years are urging upon public attention, cut's charter claims reached westward over the namely, that the residents within the United northern limits of the present states of Penn States are growing into a thoroughly homo- sylvania and Ohio; and the well-known story geneous people. JAMES OSCAR PIERCE. of the attempts of Connecticut to make her western claims actual possessions by organized settlements, is here retold by Mr. Mathews WILLIAM WETMORE STORY AND HIS with all its inherent glamour of romance. The FRIENDS.* experiences of the Connecticut men at Cushu- There are several reasons why the two vol. tunk and Wyoming are set forth in order to umes containing the biography and letters of show and accentuate their relation to the later William Wetmore Story merit and should gain episode of the Western Reserve, and to exhibit unusual attention among the many noteworthy a steady stream of virile enterprise, flowing publications of the current season. In the first from the fountain of Connecticut manhood, place, they afford the first adequate informa- through northern Pennsylvania into northern tion regarding the life and work of one of the Ohio. It is Mr. Mathews's thesis that the spirit which settled the Western Reserve, and which * WILLIAM WETMORE STORY AND HIS FRIENDS. From Letters, Diaries, and Recollections. By Henry James. In built it up into an important part of a new two volumes. With portraits. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin western state, has become the distinguishing & Co, 1903.) 349 THE DIAL - as a most gifted of our representative Americans. The allurement of art came to him early in life, Few lives have been so significant in aspira- even in college days; but its dominance as a tion and accomplishment; few have been so factor must date from that commission, given unappreciated. Again, this life was passed him after his father's death, to model a com- a amid circumstances of unequaled inspiration memorative statue, - a testimony that his ear- and fellowship with some of the greatest minds lier dabbling had revealed promise. That he of the last century. The background of the might accomplish a work worthy of his father's life-history is vital with new and rare glimpses memory and his own art, he travelled and stud- of the men and women whose names are synony- ied in Italy in 1847, and, on returning to Amer- mous with the best literature and art of the ica, found that his “heart had gone over from Victorian period. A third cause for congratu- the Law to Art.” lation in this work is found in its editing. This transference of life interest from Amer. Mr. James's discrimination and taste in the ica and an inherited profession to Italy and a use of his over-abundant material have been slow though progressive recognition in the world unerring. Whatever may be the individual of art, was really the crucial event in Story's opinion regarding his rhetorical manners, his life. Coming in early manhood, it left him writing bears a literary stamp of positive and long years for gradual unfolding of gifts, for permanent influence. His first sentence is happy, varied companionship with poets and almost daunting, with that peculiar haziness artists. His tardy recognition, especially in which must be accepted — and deplored America, his later honors as the sculptor of the fixed quality of Mr. James's style. Libyan Sibyl, Sappho, and Cleopatra, receive “It may appear a new application of the truth that due attention in chronological order; but after honour, where honour, as to any frank advance, attaches, the earlier pages, the chief charm of the volume is especially due to the light skirmishers, the éclaireurs, is derived from the vivid portrayals of the who have gone before ; yet there are occasions on which it comes home to us that, so far as we are contentedly friends of that long Roman residence, the elu- cosmopolite to-day and move about in a world that has sive "ghosts" and strong personalities that flit been made for us both larger and more amusing, we across the pages and are summoned into our owe much of our extension and diversion to those com- presence by the biographer's magic. paratively few who, amid difficulties and dangers, set the The one companion who made possible this example and made out the road." life of aspiration and realization was the wife The thoughts of Mr. James are well worth a of bis youth, the adored friend of all his friends, second or third reading to gain full compre- a woman of rare grace and endowment. To her hension of them; and as he continues, in his “ admirable efficacity” Mr. James bears ample opening chapter, his pseudo-philosophic memo- testimony. Fully rounded, even to the golden ries of these éclaireurs, — these precursors in these precursors in wedding, was this happy married life. When, art and letters, to whom we owe an unacknowl. in 1894, Mrs. Story died, her husband received edged debt of gratitude,- he permits the reader his “death-blow"; for him the few remaining to share his attitude of mind, as, in reverence months seemed only “ a blank of silence." and joy, he unfolds the contents of his " boxful Among the earliest acquaintances in Italy of old papers.” with whom the Storys cemented a friendship With careful insistence Mr. James has of the past was Margaret Fuller Ossoli. With emphasized the noble inberitance of William frank acknowledgment of her haunting power, Story, his legacy of culture and conscience, his Mr. James encounters this " Margaret-ghost “ - early opportunities and successess at the law, and finds her “evocation” (to use his favorite his published reports that required several edi- term) both puzzling and dramatic. From tions to meet the demand of his own time, and, these pages we glean little that is new regarding in varied republications, have stable value. her life at this time, for the memories of these Such were tentative episodes of his manhood; friends have already been incorporated in other his true life began when, past thirty years of volumes pertaining to her character ; but one age, he made his first long visit to Italy, and, notes again, with strong emphasis, the deep after anxious hours of conflict between expe- interest, even affection, which Margaret Fuller diency and aspiration, renounced the former for won from the little circle of English and Ameri- lifelong devotion to art and the life of the spirit. can associates during these days of her nobler This decision met with the parental frankness, womanhood. “Well, William, I've known in my life many a There are paragraphs of special value, as fool, but I've never known so great a one. information, about once popular, now forgotten, - 350 [Nov. 16, THE DIAL - artists and authors, whose lives became inter- “The Pied Piper,' which led to the formation linked with that of Story, — Page and Craw- of a grand march through the spacious Bar- ford, Cranch and Boott. To the most intimate barini apartment, with Story doing his best on friends in America, Lowell and Charles Sum- a flute in default of bagpipes.” ner, were written delightful letters during the Interwoven with the companionship of the first years in Rome, - letters of permanent letters of permanent Brownings during the months in Florence and value both as chronicles of literary friendship Rome are sundry references to a common in- and also as revelations of the tense Italian con- terest in the irascible but ill-treated Landor. flict and siege of Rome, 1848-1849. “Salad • All students of Browning's life are familiar and conversation” became their only resources, with his sagacity and unswerving kindness while their hearts were anguished at the reports in managing the affairs of this erratic but and evidences of suffering all around them. In inspiring countryman. inspiring countryman. His efforts were sup- lighter vein are descriptions of excursions into plemented by those of the Storys. One of the the fields with their glories, evenings of pleasure most interesting of the letters is written by listening to Ristori and Modena, sojourns in Browning to Mrs. Story from Florence in 1859. Germany and impressions of the great leaders “ You need not be told how entirely we owe to you in thought and letters,— Humboldt and Nean- the delightful summer we have spent at Siena. Its one der, Ranke and Bettina von Arnim. fault was its briefness. Ba is hardly so well as when In England the Storys always found conge- she was let thrive in peace and quiet in that dear old villa and the pleasant country it hardly shut out. She nial and appreciative friends, and the letters is forced to see more people and talk oftener than suits contain delightful hints of happy hours with her. I am very anxious to get away, and see no ob- Dickens, Leigh Hunt, and others of their time. ucle to our doing so by the end of the first week in These minor glimpses of literary charm, how- November, when Mr. Landor will be finally established in his winter quarters. We are papering and carpen- ever, must be abbreviated in attention to the tering and doing things superiorly. He is quite well; major friendship of the Storys and the Brown- as gentle and affectionate as ever; and I shall regret ings, of which these volumes furnish a true bis loss more than there is any use in dwelling upon, memorial. Here are side-lights upon the charac- now that it must be. Ba enters the room at this mo- ment, saying, • I wish we were in Romel' Tell us, for ters of the poets that have never been fully we count on your goodness, the day you expect to be revealed before. The letters and journals tell there, and when you get there, any news about houses, the story of the gradual acquaintance, ripening sunny ones, and prices of the same: in short, as usual, into life-long affection, between these two fami- trouble yourselves infinitely for the sake of us poor lies of kindred race and tastes. We first hear do-nothings-in-return." of the intimacy in a letter to Lowell, - “My Only three years of happy devotion remained dear Jim," from Rome, in March, 1849, for Browning before the death of his wife sev- when Story records their common pleasure as ered his strongest heart-chords. The Storys he read “ The Biglow Papers ” to “convulsed hastened from Rome to Florence at news of audiences at our weekly at home' on Sunday Mrs. Browning's death, and here, standing in evenings, giving them as well as I could the the consecrated rooms of Casa Guidi, the poet- true Yankee note, and one evening I interpreted husband uttered words of matchless tenderness in the same tones one of them to the Brownings, and beauty, which have been retained in Mr. who were quite as much amused and delighted Story's journal. In summary of the years of productive life at this chosen home, Browning The letters of Mrs. Browning to Mrs. Jame- said: son, written four years later, have already given “The cycle is complete; here we came fifteen years testimony to the assiduous devotion of herself ago; here Pen was born; here Ba wrote her poems for and husband to their American friends during Italy. . ;. Looking back at these past years I see that we have been all the time walking over a torrent on a that fearful month of illness and death in the straw. Life must be begun anew — all the old cast off Story household. The loss of the first-born son and the new one put on. I shall go away, break up was followed by days of intense anxiety for his everything, go to England and live and work and sister, and during her convalescence she was write." the recipient of unsurpassed honors. To her, Browning never lost his affection for the Thackeray read the unpublished version of Storys, as occasional later letters testify. He “The Rose and the Ring, ' _“ between daylight advised the sculptor about his contracts and and dusk, as the great author sat on the edge his books, wrote him fully regarding English of her bed.” Later, Browning entertained the sentiment during the Trent affair, and reiter- young friends of the Story home by reading | ated his personal cordiality; but his departure 6 > as I.” : 1903.] 351 THE DIAL he says, O from Italy left a void of great depth in Story's Scott, Dante, Shakespeare. Suppose,' life. “ I had asked you to seek for Shake- In later life, when honors had been won, speare's opinion. . . . Shakespeare knew men Story and his wife paid two or three brief better than most of us, I presume.” Shake- visits to America ; but the records of them speare in his plays had a chance to put together are seldom satisfactory. Their critical facul- the world as he saw it; and because he did ties were sharpened toward American defects, know men better than most of us, as well as for with that jealous patriotism which must ever other reasons, his presentation has always been characterize one who has lived long abroad of immense interest. But I do not recall that yet is at heart a loyal American. Moreover, his view of the world has ever before been sy8- Story always realized that, despite commis- tematically considered from the standpoint of sions for statues, he never gained the sympathy two books lately published. of his countrymen in his aspirations. After Mr. Moulton in his presentation of " The “Roba di Roma” had been rejected by Amer. Moral System of Shakespeare," and Mr. Sharp ican publishers, but accepted in England, he in “Shakespeare's Portrayal of the Moral Life, wrote to Professor Norton : have not precisely the same idea, but nearly “ It is in America no use for me to hope for anything. enough to bring their books into natural com. I do not expect to find a public there until I have ob- parison. “The contents of these thirty-six tained it elsewhere. They will resist to the last con- sidering me as anything but a poetaster, dilettante, and plays make a world of their own,” says the amateur." former. “ It is surely possible to survey this In a large measure this statement was true; | imaginary world from the same standpoint from his American contemporaries, with the excep- which the moralist surveys the world of reality." tion of a few friends, did not appreciate his Mr. Sharp also speaks of the world " Shake- facility or ideals. Mr. James has confessed speare “has created ”; his object is to give "an the inadequacy of some of Story's work in art account of the moral life as it is represented ” and letters ; yet one must not forget, amid the upon Shakespeare's stage.' diffuseness of “A Poet's Portfolio ” and other So far, there cannot be much disagreement volumes, such worthy lyrics as “Io Victis" with our authors. We are accustomed enough and “The Sad Country." Considered in the to think of the world of any great writer of fic- large, his life and work were significant in in- tion, - Dickens's world, we say, or Thack- fluence and are destined to have honor in the eray's; and wherever there is any such large history of American culture. presentation of human life (except, according to Charles Lamb, in the Restoration Drama) ANNIE RUSSELL MARBLE. there will be moral facts and phenomena, moral life or moral system. The last word offers a possible difficulty. THE MORAL LAW IN THE WORLD OF We may speak of Shakespeare's portrayal of SHAKESPEARE.* the moral life, because Shakespeare portrayed “ It is a commonplace of the schools,” so I live men and women, and therefore must have read that it stands in the writings of Pico della made some portrayal of the moral life, Mirandula, “ that man is a lesser world.” The through the nature of the circumstances, than old fancy of the microcosm was certainly, and he could of the physical or intellectual life. But is in many ways, but a fancy; in some ways, can we speak of the moral system of Shake- however, true, and in none more than when we speare without assuming that Shakespeare had think of a great artist. For a good many years a moral system, and that he made some sort of now, critics have pursued the thought, although such an assumption in his first words. His effort to present it? Mr. Moulton disclaims I do not recall the idea in Aristotle or Samuel Johnson. Ruskin, with his obsession that all title “ is not intended to suggest that the man art was directly didactic, yet really understood Shakespeare had formed in his mind a certain that a man's work had didactic value chiefly in system of morals, which he proceeded to put into his plays." giving his particular idea of the world. That was what he looked for in the authors he read most, Neither of these books, then, has directly anything to do with Shakespeare as a drama- * THE MORAL SYSTEM OF SHAKESPEARE. By Richard tist, poet, artist. Here is the work of " G. Moulton. New York: The Macmillan Co. SHAKESPEARE'S PORTRAYAL OF THE MORAL LIFE. By who was one of the most gifted students of Frank Chapman Sharp. Now York: Charles Scribner's Song. human nature the world has ever seen,” to use more a a a man 352 [Nov. 16, THE DIAL > Mr. Sharp's words. “The record that he left unconsidered, is it not probable that there will no worker in the humanities can afford to creep in elements that will vitiate our conclu- neglect.” We need not raise the question how sions? Or, to be specific, let us take “ Ham- far the artist will play the moralist. The let.” Mr. Moulton notes in the main plot a artist will present us men and women as he six-fold system of graded wrong, with appro- may choose, and for what causes he may see priate nemesis and pathos, and regards the play , fit. In the presentation there must be a moral as an illustration of “the association of acci. element (or they will be singular men and dent and overruling providence” which he women), and that element we may study. finds definitely alluded to in the last speech As to the precise value of such study, these of Horatio. That there are six wrong-doers books have different ideas. Mr. Sharp says omitting Hamlet and counting Rosencrantz he will not, on the whole, consider “ how far and Guildenstein as one), is clear; also, that these offspring of a poet's imagination re- they are all come up with ; and, further, that semble the men and women with whom scien- in each case accident plays a part. But sup- tific ethics attempts to deal.” We may settle pose the real reasons for this fact to have been that matter for ourselves. If we think, with ethically trivial. Suppose Shakespeare made Ruskin, that “ by Shakespeare humanity was Polonius die because he wished Laertes to have unsealed to us,” that “Shakespeare never be- a father to revenge as well as Hamlet; made trays his reader's moral judgment,” that “all Ophelia die because it was the only end for her Shakespeare knows is, – that is the way God God madness, and gave him an opportunity in her and nature manage it," we shall consider such funeral; made the Queen die because it would a study an extremely valuable thing, even if have been inconvenient to have had her about we do not go to the length of Mr. Moulton's at the end of the play; made Rosencrantz and Zolaesque conception that the work of the poet Guildenstein die, and, indeed, any or all of the offers us, as in a scientific experiment, possi- rest, because they did in Belleforest, - and bilities of life which one may wait long before these may well enough have been Shake- meeting in actuality. speare's actual reasons, if we admit that he did So much will give a general conception of not hold in mind the elements of analysis ;- two very interesting books. Both are to be suppose that much of the nemesis comes from read by the Shakespearean student with profit. non-ethical causes, and much of the accident In regard, however, to the net value of from stage convenience, and what sort of place Mr. Moulton's studies, I must confess myself does it all hold in a moral system? skeptical in spite of his ingenuity and his know- Possibly it will be thought that Shakespeare ledge of the plays. The chief standpoint is that (never betraying, etc., as above) would not of the analyist of plot. Now, whether through allow such things to remain in a play, unless personal failing, or from unfortunate educa- they actually presented his view of the moral tion, or from black prejudice, or for some other cosmos. This opinion appears to me entirely reason, I cannot bear Mr. Moulton's analyses to beg the question, and I incline to think, “ If of Shakespeare's plays, and never have been so, the less Shakespeare he," and even to add, able to from the moment I read his earlier and the more someone else. work on the subject. Mr. Moulton does some- This objection, such as it is, does not lie thing to relieve me here : he says definitely with Mr. Sharp, who merely assumes on the that he has no idea of suggesting that Shake part of Shakespeare a normal desire to be life- speare really intended all these effects of de- like in his characters, and an extraordinary sign which are so wonderfully pointed out. ability to be so. It must be admitted that he That is something : once grant that Shake- does not concern himself with Shakespeare's speare did not dream of there being a clash of own opinion. - Which if any of these different primary and secondary plots through subaction views represents the dramatist's own position,” in one play, a link action properly complicated he remarks," it is unnecessary to ask even were and resolved in another, three phases of com- it possible to answer. What, then, is the im- plicating intrigue with triple irony in a third, portant thing? Undoubtedly this: that, taken and the air seems a bit clearer. by and large, Shakespeare's world represents Still, I cannot help asking myself, if we ad-fairly the world he knew. With all the confu- mit that Shakespeare made these complications, sion and often chaos of dramatic presentation, not out of the particular materials to which Mr. the Shakespearean microcosm will practically Moulton reduces them, but in other ways here represent the Elizbethan macrocosm, and there- 66 1903.) 353 THE DIAL 6 fore bas the same interest for the student. We I should prefer to learn from him by a num. have in a small compass what were the ideas ber of examples the way in which men come and motives of that world; we can resolve their to do great wrong, let us say, than to infer problems, or note ethical theories that have from some of his plots that there is an over- been propounded by later scholars, or determine ruling Providence that works by what seems principles that will be seen to obtain in the accident. world of to-day. “If Shakespeare portrays Whichever be better, I note with interest human life arigbt,” says Mr. Sharp, we are the abandonment by both writers, save in mo- assured of such and such a principle. ments perhaps of forgetfulness, of the view Such an object is rather different from Mr. that Shakespeare's moral ideas have any espe- Moulton's, and it is pursued by different means. cial value as his. We are far removed from Mr. Moulton, as has been said, presents a sys- Ruskin's “ There are certain men who know tem based chiefly upon analysis of plot; indeed, the truths necessary to human life; they do he analyzes the plot of every play. Mr. Sharp, Mr. Sharp, not opine' them; and nobody's opinions on on the other hand, rarely deals with any play as any subject are of any consequence as opposed such. He is chiefly concerned with the char- to theirs." Shakespeare is no moral oracle acters as people, their motives, their desires, imparting sound principles in æsthetic forms. their judgments. To turn to “Hamlet” again, Our authors regard him as presenting life Mr. Moulton points out that the constant ne- truly, and find it convenient to study life in mesis for wrong by means of accident gives a his plays just as a scientist may prefer to study sense of a just Providence; that in the person Nature in a museum or a laboratory rather of the hero we see the man of the inner life than out of doors, because he finds there the suddenly turned into the life without; that in particular things he wishes to study, selected the underplot of relief we get a more definite from the exuberance of the universe and put conception of the overthrown moral equilibrium in such order that it is convenient to consider of tragedy; that various elements in the play them. EDWARD E. HALE, JR. indicate the sway of circumstance; that the Ghost gives an idea of the true nature of what appears as supernatural. Mr. Sharp is inter- ested chiefly in Hamlet himself, in his concep- A HISTORY OF PREHISTORIC TIMES.* tion of reason, in his concern for his reputation after death, in his statement of a theory of The earliest scene of authentic history is the values, in his skepticism or faith, his ideal of Valley of the Nile. When the curtain rises, character embodied in Horatio, his view of the forty or fifty centuries before our era, it reveals freedom of the will. It would not be quite in that region a civilization that must have correct to say that Mr. Sharp concerns himself been the product of a long period of develop- with individuals, and Mr. Moulton with the ment. But the story of its growth is a sealed more general aspects of life offered by the com- book. Recent discoveries have, indeed, thrown binations of the dramatist ; but such is the gen considerable light on these early ages ; still, it eral tendency. can hardly be said that our knowledge has It is probably unnecessary to express any penetrated very much further back into time. opinion as to the comparative excellence of But of all questions, those of origins are these two presentations. One is the work of perhaps the most fascinating. It is not strange, a student of literature, the other of a student then, that these border-lands have attracted of philosophy. It is natural enough, perhaps, many earnest students. Among the more re- that the philosopher should have a more tech- cent workers in this field is Mr. J. F. Hewitt, nical and more available view of what is to be formerly commissioner at Chutia Nagpur, In. included in the term " moral” than the man dia. Mr. Hewitt's interest in ethnological of letters. : For myself, I read with more in- questions was first roused in 1863, when he terest about motives, right and wrong, con- began his official life in Southern India among science, than about moral balance, retribution, a people whose social organization is of the life in equilibrium, the momentum of character. most primitive order. In 1894 he began to These latter conceptions are moral ideas, but publish his investigations in the form of a se- they do not seem to get down to the real phe- ries of essays entitled “The Ruling Races of nomena and principles of morality. Let us * HISTORY AND CHRONOLOGY OF THE MYTH-MAKING suppose we are taking Shakespeare as a guide: AGE. By J. F. Hewitt. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. 354 [Nov. 16, THE DIAL Prehistoric Times." These were followed, in In Mesopotamia these Indian workers of the 1901, by a large volume of some six hundred soil came into contact with the Accadian Finns, pages, in which his earlier theories are re- a pastoral race from the far north. These two stated in a somewhat modified form, and worked races were soon joined by a third : the men into a chronological system which is at least with the bow. These were a tall people, with interesting. fine regular features and wavy hair. The au- Mr. Hewitt's present book, “ A History of thor traces them back to the Cro-Magnon races Prehistoric Times,” will not seem unreasonably of the early Paläolithic age, the cave-dwellers large when we consider the fact that it pre- of the Garonne region. The date of their tends to trace the path of civilization through migration is placed at 17,000 B.C. From the a period of nearly twenty thousand years. The union of these races, so utterly unlike in ap- author limits his discussion to the subject of pearance, in social institutions, and in mode of how the primitive man reckoned years and life, sprang the Iberian Basques, the people seasons ; but incidentally many other matters who settled Europe in the Neolithic age. To . are brought in. It cannot be said that the his- the arts of the Dravido-Finns the northwestern tory of the year is the most valuable contribu- people added pottery and brick-making. From tion that could be made to historic science; but Armenia this new race spread eastward and if Mr. Hewitt's conclusions were trustworthy westward ; a few thousand years later they his work would add greatly to our knowledge were in Greece and Italy. They were the of the earlier ages, and would push the bounda- builders of the oldest remains at Tiryns and ries of history far back into prehistoric fields. Mycenæ. Later they appeared in Spain and The author takes us back nearly twenty-five Brittany. thousand years into Central India. He finds About 8000 B. C. another great change there the earliest form of social life, the village- came over the world. The old social organi. community of the Dravidian Malays. These zation based on federated village communities people, nomadic at first, soon learned to culti- began to be somewhat modified by the intro- vate rice, and with agriculture came a settled duction of a commercial element. Indian life. Trees were cleared away and rude shel- traders passed up into the Mediterranean re- ters built. In the centre of the clearing, a gion, everywhere finding the villages that the grove was left under the shade of which the Basques had built in the later Stone Age. festivals of the race were celebrated in dance. These villages now grew into large cities, such These villages were grouped into provinces, as the Athenian Acropolis and the Italian and these again sometimes into confederacies. Caere. The traders brought with them the use Family kinship was unknown; village was of bronze (the Bronze Age had begun in married to village, and descent was traced India about 15,000 B. C.). The migratory through the mother. As the villagers were farm- movements continued. Tribe after tribe came ers, it was necessary for them to know the se- up from the Indus and passed on to the Pillars quence of the seasons; this led them to study of Hercules. Tribe after tribe left the shades the stars. The god of this early age was the of the Ardennes region and travelled the long pole-star, then in the constellation Cepheus. way to the Himalayan slopes. Amalgamation . This gives the historian his initial date: the continued and new types were constantly form- village community must have existed in India ing. On the whole the age was a peaceful one. before 21,000 B. C. But soon came a conquering race from the Not long after this began a period of mi. North and disturbed the peaceful dances under grations. The Dravidians moved northward the village-tree. These conquerors were the and westward, up the Indus and along the “ Northwestern Goths, the race of cattle shores of the Persian Gulf, till they finally herdsmen who based their national organiza- reached the Euphratean delta. Here on the tion on family property and divided their lands plains of Shumir the Indian star-worshippers, .. into tracts owned by the families united later called Chaldæans, at last settled. From to form tribal territories as the village com- this region two routes of further migration are munities formed provinces. They were the traceable; the one running through Southern Teutonic Frisians, and Saxons,” and left their Arabia to Abyssinia and thence down the Nile homes about 10,000 B. C. Arriving in India, to Egypt, the other and earlier leading toward they reorganized that country, and an era of the headwaters of the Tigris and the Euphrates great commercial prosperity set in, continuing and thence on into Asia Minor. from 7000 B. C. to about 4000 B. C. The 1903.] 355 THE DIAL latter date marks the coming of the Aryans, and space in the use of his “evidence," but “a Gotho-Celtic people” who overcame the forced interpretations frequently appear. We commercial princes, and with whose invasion are told, for instance, that when Taeitus speaks began a new era the Iron Age. of the Germans as a people who did not live in A brief review such as the one just given cities, he meant the Saxons and Frisians only. can, of course, do but scant justice to a system , Perhaps the most interesting part of Mr. like Mr. Hewitt's. But when a writer proceeds Hewitt’s work is the chronology. He believes to construct and reconstruct history by methods that certain myths and Vedic poems record radically different from those in general use, an the position of the pole-star at various periods, effort ghould be made to state at least a few of as well as the constellations in which the sun his leading conclusions. was found at the equinoxes. Astronomy is then Mr. Hewitt assumes that primitive peoples made use of to determine the years or periods are conservative almost to the point of absolute of years. It cannot be said, however, that the . inertia; he therefore believes that a great deal author's use of the sidereal science to determine of the world's early civilization has come down chronology convinces the reader as to its gen- to us in some form or other. These survivals These survivals eral utility. he finds in myths, in rituals, in the classic It should be added that the author seems to festivals, in existing customs, in words, and have mastered the whole field of myth and le- particularly in the Sanskrit writings. That a gend. The book contains a vast amount of continued search for the fossilized forms of material, much of it perfectly incomprebensible earlier civilizations is a laudable effort, will be to the general reader. But all is skilfully used admitted by all; the difficulty comes when we and carefully systematized. Not so much care are called on to determine what is and what is has been bestowed on the literary part of the not a survival. But such problems evidently work. LAURENCE M. LARSON. do not interest Mr. Hewitt. His materials do not appear to have been sifted; he brings to- gether everything that can in any way be RECENT POETRY. twisted into the appearance of a survival. And if an institution cannot be shown to go back The book of the year" in English poetry is “ more than ten thousand years, the inferential undoubtedly provided by the new volume of Mr. We mean by this that no other method easily carries the author's conclusions Kipling's poems. book of poetry produced of late has attracted any- back another ten thousand. thing like the same amount of attention, or been He also assumes that all myths have some treated with so much consideration by the organs significance, usually historic; if they do not, of criticism. That this is proper, considering the why were they invented ? Still, every stu- author's world-wide fame, we make no pretence of dent of history knows that myths have often doubting; yet we are by no means sure that some been invented for no good reason whatever. modest and unberalded product of the same season But supposing the author's contention to be a *THE FIVE NATIONS. By Rudyard Kipling. New York: good one, how are we to know whether the Doubleday, Page & Co. myth is properly interpreted ? Significant or COLLECTED VERSES. By Alfred Cochrane. New York: Longmans, Green, & Co. not, the legend will never yield great results THE OVERTURE. By Joseph Russell Taylor. Boston: in historical study. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Bad as the author's choice of materials un- TALES IN METRE, and Other Poems. By Frederic Crown- inshield. New York: Robert Grier Cooke. doubtedly is, the manner in which he uses SONGS BY THE WAYSIDE. By William J. Fischer. them is far worse. His method is the compar. Boston: Richard G. Badger. ative method gone mad. Irisb tales are used TAE CONCEITS OF A GENERAL LOVER. By Edward in elucidating institutions that developed in W. Barnard. Boston: Richard G. Badger. SEMANOUD. By H. Talbot Kummer. Boston: Richard Mesopotamia twenty thousand years ago. We G. Badger. are told that the Jews blew rams' horns at the FATE AND I, and Other Poems. By Gerda Dalliba. New opening of their year, because it originated York: The Grafton Press. THOUGHTS ADRIFT. By Hattie Horner Louthan, Boston : with the sun.god who was born when the sun Richard G. Badger. was in the sign Aries, about 15,000 B. C. A Field OF FOLK. By Isabella Howe Fiske. Boston: Tacitus's description of the Germans is used to Richard G. Badger. illustrate conditions on the shores of the North SUMMER SONGS IN IDLENESSE. By Katherine H. Mc- Donald Jackson. Boston : Richard G. Badger. Sea ten thousand years before that writer was TANGLED IN STARS. By Ethelwyn Wetherald. Boston: born. Not only does the author ignore time Richard G. Badger. 356 [Nov. 16, THE DIAL that go may not, in the ultimate reckoning, turn out to Mr. Alfred Cochrane is a poet of light and grace- occupy a larger place in the world's regard. Even ful quality whose work commends itself to a refined the great reputation of Mr. Kipling has shown signs taste, and who may be read with much quiet satis- of being overworked during the past few years, and faction. His “Collected Verses," now published, ” we cannot say that the contents of the new volume comprise the contents of two earlier volumes, with are of a nature to stem the current of reaction from the addition of a considerable quantity of matter the excessive praise of which he was the subject not that has not hitherto appeared in book form. Sing- so long ago. Turning over the pages of “The Five ing, as these verses do, no “ epic hymns of Life and Nations," we renew acquaintance with the noble Time," they are as far removed as possible from “Recessional,” with the striking “Kitchener's Mr. Kipling's turgid measures, but they have a School," and with that canting apology for im- charm of their own. Most of them are indeed perialism, “The White Man's Barden.” Other placked leviore plectro, and their themes are such familiar pieces “ The Truce of the Bear” and as the cricket field, the golf links, and the ball- “Our Lady of the Snows," we also find. Among room; they are, in brief, vers de société of typical the new pieces we discover a group of fine poems sort. In his more serious mood, Mr. Cochrane having the sea for their inspiration, a group of writes such lines as “ Integer Vitæ,” which we re- which the finest is called “ White Horses," and produce. opens with this spirited and imaginative stanza: “A man with sympathies that moved “ Where run your colts at pasture ? To human interests, human needs; Where hide your mares to breed ? And with unwearied kindness proved 'Mid bergs about the Ice-cap By courteous words and friendly doods. Or wove Sargasso weed : “One, upon whom his neighbors thrust By chartless roof and channel, The burden of their constant cares, Or crafty coastwise bars, A counsellor to love and trust, But most the ocean-meadows He mixed in other men's affairs. All purple to the stars!” “Yet with the soul serene, for which But strong as this poem is, and as are the sea. The restless thinker vainly looks, poems with it, we are reminded by the very That made him in contentment rich theme of them that England still possesses a poet Among his birds and flowers and books. of the seas who is a poet indeed, that Mr. Swinburne “For in his faith abiding strong, has so far surpassed the best of these verses that a Nor by regret nor doubt dismayed, comparison with the younger singer would be an act He stnod asunder from the throng, of wanton cruelty. Turning the leaves still further, And spake with Conscience unafraid. we come to “ The Feet of the Young Men," a swing- * No fierce ambition for the strife, ing piece the most characteristic Kipling manner. No master wit to scheme and plan, But through a sane well-ordered life Then there are some dignified memorial stanzas ded- The wisdom of the upright man." icated to Cecil Rhodes, and some even more impres- sive stanzas dedicated to General Joubert. Passing Nature and love are the themes of Mr. Joseph over many other things well worthy of mention and Russell Taylor in “ The Overture.” The author's of praise (although always qualified), we come at manner is characterized by spontaneity, careless- last to what the author calls “ Service Songs,” which ness of the poetical conventions, and an audacious occupy the closing third of the volume. These, at realism that sometimes takes the breath away. We least, bear no conceivable relation to poetry as that quote “ The Bachelor in the Wood,” which is so term has hitherto been understood. They are good a poem that it deserves a less prosaic title. extraordinary compositions, no doubt, full of vigor- “ Beauty I trod, who footed in the wood ous life and acute observation of humankind as A midnight galaxy of violets, represented by the soldier, but their slanginess and A milky way of flushed spring-beauties, starred With pleiads of all-golden adder-tongue, the general brutality of their diction puts them out- How could that blossomed fire be else than this, side the pale of literature, if literature and beauty The height of a woman's ankle in the wood ? are still to be considered as being concerned with “Passion I breathed, who found all air a harp one another. These strictures must be held to To the mad brown-thrushes quivering and quick, apply in considerable measure to the contents of The spaces in that daring minstrelsy the earlier pages as well, although before we reach Thronged with enkindling echoes, sparrow and wren, — How could that warbled fire be else than this, the “Service Songs,” we do not come upon such The height of a woman's lips within the wood ? unrelieved tracts of uncouth vulgarity. If only we might have Mr. Kipling's gold without its beavy "I trod the stars, I breathed the flame; but love, O April, can I find it here alone ? admixture of dros8! A generation hence, when he Those send the bees to find their sister-flowers, shall be read only in the anthologies, he will prob- These sing unto their mates; but love, my love ? ably seem a more important figure in our literature Is it where the hawk hangs on the morning cloud, than he can now seem to readers of the discrimi- The height of a woman's heart above the wood ?” nating class, who find it impossible to blink the dis- Here is something very like the lyric cry," and “ • tressing and unlovely aspects of his work, to say we find it again and again in Mr. Taylor's fresh nothing of its pernicious ethical tendencies. imaginative utterance. His sonnets, also, have 1903.) 357 THE DIAL one 66 marked beauty, although more restrained. This “here we find no lines reminding us of Poe, Long- one is called “Veteres Ineunt Proscania” fellow, or Lanier." We certainly do not. But of a series of Latin titles happier than those of the among the things that we do find, and that obtrude author's English choosing. upon our attention, are a great number of unneces- “Ah once again upon the rock to lie sary and irritating elisions, and a quite unaccount Under the water-maple, half awake, able sprinkling of commas in the wrong places. Shut in from wind and sun, mountain and lake, Save for a space of dimpling under-sky, A volume of verse-triflings by Mr. Edward W. With you beside me in a boat hard by, Barnard has for its title “ The Conceits of a General You with your book of verse beneath the bough, Lover.” At least, this is the legend of the title- Up whose green curtains, and across your brow, Ripples of water-fire forever die ; page, although the word “Conceits” appears as And ever while the squirrel, hidden above, “ Conceit" on the back and covers of the volume. From leafage burdened yet with yesterday We quote “Urbs in Rure - A Moving Tale": Shakes down light rains on us, reading to me, " In vain the May wind wanders on To hear your voice seem pear and far away, And softly whispers me, Reading of her who to the sacred grove When sultry summer days are done, Led the blind wanderer, Antigone." Of nights in Arcady. Mr. Rassell's volume will well repay the atten. But what great miracle shall my tion, although its approach, through a queer com- Arcadia restore ? The place that know Calphurnia position called “Penelope in Love,” is set with Will know her nevermore. thorns. “For months a Damoclean sword Mr. Frederic Crowninshield has many excellent Hung trembling o'er us all: opinions upon politics, education, yellow journalism, We shut our eyes, and laughed and sung, the temperance problem, and other serious themes But knew that it would fall. -- and he expresses them in lines that measure up 'Twas on the year's unhappy scroll Immutably decreed, as verse, and have the correct number of accents, That she must go - - Calphurnia ! but somehow he fails to produce the effect of poetry. And now she's gone, indeed. A sonnet on "Utopia" may be given as an example. "She lives ? Ah! Yes she lives, but where ? “It seems scarce credible to us to-day Not where our hearts are still ; That thon, good More, shouldst in thy time create But in pa's new 'colonial' When Violence was Right- & perfect state, At East Westmoreland ville. Wherein a man might work his chosen way, A suburb - near, and yet so far! - And yet unto the Weal his best convey ! Whence O the cruel fate- And thou didst hold that if we could abate For him that's faring cityward Our fatuous lust for gold, all fraud, all hate The last train leaves at 8!" From very inanition would decay. This bit of verse has some slight point to it, but the Alack, to those who have not read thy book, Its title meaneth but a madman's dream, case is an exception. Most of the pieces are flat and And thy fair commonwealth a wild conceit! unprofitable, besides showing an almost incredible Oh, madmen they who will not squarely look defect of ear. How some of the stanzas could have At life with thy sane eyes. For well I deem been thought to be written in metre passes compre- Thine is no dream, but a great truth concrete." hension. We are in hearty agreement with these sentiments, “ Semanoud is a narrative poem, in stanzas, but why should they masquerade in verse ? Mr. Crowninshield's volume is called “Tales in Metre, spurned his mission, and sent him to labor in the of a slave who loved a princess. The princess and Other Poems,” and we may admit the metre as unimpeachable. But we should not call any of quarries. By-and-by, he saves her life at the cost his pieces poems, although they have touches of of his own, and she is sorry that she had spurned him. “ A Dream " is one of the lesser pieces in poetic fancy here and there, especially when they this collection. reflect the impressions made by art and travel upon “I dreamed, my love, that you and I had died the cultivated mind of their author. And passed away to some fair southern clime, Dr. William J. Fischer is a young Canadian who Where roses bloomed beside a sapphire sea, has put forth a thin volume entitled “Songs by the Where all the radiant world was Love, and Time Was but Eternity. Wayside." We quote two stanzas from "A Song of the Sea.” “I waked, my love, but knew that you and I Only in dreams can meet forevermore. “O bounding seal thy fond music is ringing, The pine and palm were not more far apart, Thy voices vibrate in their wave-symphony, Yet, 'cross the sea from that wide distant shore And bring to my heart such a wealth of sweet singing, You speak unto my heart." That fills me with joy and a feeling of glee. The author of these poems is Miss H. Talbot “And fain would I be a glad child of the ocean, And feel, on my lips, the cool breath of thy waves, Kummer, a talented young woman of Baltimore, That stir in their hissing and frenzied, wild motion who has spent much time abroad. The fishes at play, in their deep marine caves." “ Fate and I, and Other Poems" is the work of A friend of the writer, who contributes a Miss Gerda Dalliba. The poems are outpourings word," informs us that the voice of Dr. Fischer of the sentimental sort usually written by young “is a young, glad voice.” He also tells us that women, “A Mood” being a fair example. a 888, « fore- 358 [Nov. 16, THE DIAL DIAL "Calm the morning falls from Heaven, Dim and over-spread with clouds, And the mountain-tops are driven Back into their mists of shrouds. "And sweet rest is on the valleys, Weary of their swaying grass ; For the sun far eastward tarries, And the winds no longer pass “To and fro - but all are sleeping Quiet in the soft gray sky; And the peaceful Heavens are weeping — It would save my heart, could I!” Miss Hattie Horner Louthan's “Thoughts Adrift” are little poems of nature and the human heart. There is nothing very distinctive about them, al- though now and then a pretty conceit is voiced, as in the case of the lines called “Inconstancy.” "The Night unto the New Moon clung - O Moon, so sweet, so fair, so young! And o'er his face her hair was flung, A veil of misty light. He said: 'O Moon, why haste away? 'Tis dark, so dark, without thy ray: I love thee as can not the Day,' So sang the fickle Night. "The Moon upon Night's breast lay cold – O Moon so pale, so sad, so old ! He said: “Why tarry, Moon? Behold How many hours thou'st stayed ! These arms another soon shall fold - The Sun, all youth and warmth and gold.' 1 We close this review with examples of the work of two Canadian women, one a new-comer, the other a writer of past achievement. The new-comer is Mrs. Katherine H. McDonald Jackson, and her volume has “Summer Songs in Idlenesse" for a title. The following lyric of the reflective type is called “Life”: "Light ships afloat on a misty Sea With pain in store. Anchored by Love from Eternity To Time's bleak shore. The ropes that moor them to Happiness Are cobwebs frail : Ill can they bear the strain and stress Of Sorrow pale. "The cable of Hope from the anchor slips All worn by tears. And out to sea drift the frail white ships Mid doubts and fears. “But as Death's cold tide in the cruel night Bears them away, Who knows where they go as they pass from sight Into Distance grey ?" There are three long poems in Mrs. Jackson's vol- ume, one an idyl of love in June, one a legend from the Isles of Shoals, and one a blank-verse setting of the story of Penthesilea. The closing lines of this latter poem may be reproduced. Thus Achilles felt A woe that would for aye his soul impress, While keeping vigil there beside the dead. Till o'er his anguish kindly, gentle Night Drew the soft mantle of her shadowed veil And Sleep possessed him. Sleep the highest gift Of all the Gods to Mortals when in pain Of mind or body. Sleep that gives to man A foretaste of the Everlasting Rest." This has just the right touch of simple dignity, a touch not unsuggestive of the older “Hellenics” of Landor. The city worker who has been off on his vacation, according to Miss Wetherald, returns to his desk - "Tangled in stars and spirit-steeped in dew." He is made the subject of a sonnet, and the phrase Tangled in Stars” serves as a pretty title for both the sonnet and the volume which it introduces. 66 . “Then swift came Day, the conquerer bold. So died the Night, betrayed.” "A Field of Folk” is the titular poem in a vol- ume by Miss Isabella Howe Fiske. The suggestion is from Piers Plowman, and this is the poem itself: “Piers Plowman, hermit-robed, one May of yore, Stood on the hills, his soul at gaze to see Round Holy Church, fair Malvern's priory, Outlying counties spread, his eyes before. And when the vision passed, his waking spoke Of a fair woman and a field of folk. “My hermit heart wins Malvern's hills to-day And, looking far afield on human life, Sees the same toil, still the same timeless strife. And a fair woman stands midmost the way.- Who has so climbed can scarce look out in vain A summer season on the busy plain.” The verse of Miss Fiske has a noticeable element of originality, which may be illustrated by “An Apostle of the Oak.”' “I believe in the mighty oak Conceived by God, Born of the virgin sod, Suffered the woodman's stroke, Whose leaves were crucified By the frost's sting, And rose again in spring Toward Easter heavens wide, At the right hand of Nature spread It heals the sick, Restores the quick, And broods above the dead. And in thy spirit mine believes, In temples of the catholic wood, Communion of the good, Made audient in the leaves. Then since new life thou hast in ken And pardon for who need, I face the east, repeat the creed, And standing cry: Amen." An " 66 exquisite of Miss Wetherald's songs. “When I shall go to sleep and wake again At dawning in another world than this, What will atone to me for all I miss ? The light melodious footsteps of the rain, The press of leaves against my window pane, The sunset wistfulness and morning bliss, The moon's enchantment and the twilight kiss Of winds that wander with me through the lane. “Will not my soul remember evermore The earthly winter's hunger for the spring, The wet sweet cheek of April, and the rush Of roses through the summer's open door; The feelings that the scented woodlands bring At evening with the singing of the thrash ?” Nearly all of these poems are nature lyrics, and many of them share the delicate beauty of the son- net just reproduced. WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE. 1903.) 359 THE DIAL byt a railroad thar passes Rousseau'r and Baryo's a harsh to the taste of his generation. He might BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS. have drawn, from shallower soil, that which pleased. So rarely now does Mr. Thomas Bai- But his simple peasant nature, close in its qualities A booklet of engaging trifles. ley Aldrich publish anything that his to the homely, industrious, fruit-bearing eartb, akin “ Ponkapog Papers (Houghton) in its tenacity of purpose to the firm-rooted oaks will be sure of a welcome. The queer name, which of his beloved forest, refused and refused again, may well have puzzled many a reader of “From and turned back to work and suffer." The author Ponkapog to Pestb," designates an actual town, aims obviously at the fluent, desultory, imaginative formerly an Indian reservation, a few miles south style of Vernon Lee; yet in his apparent emulation of Boston, and is to be found in the gazetteer. of this author's highly brilliant essays his metaphors In this quiet retreat the author has put together ring true, for he has absorbed the atmosphere of sundry entertaining odds and ends, which “no the locality under discussion. Whether describing more dream of inviting comparison between them- Rousseau's personal struggle with nature, or the poet- selves and important pieces of literature" than ical legends and summer idyls of Corot, or the aca- Ponkapog dreams of mistaking itself for a metro- demic sculpture of Barye, suggestive of the gorges politan centre. The sketch of Robert Herrick, of Apremont and Franchard, the author speaks with which concludes the volume, is the only piece of an air of authority. It is true that a more critical any length, and is an excellent appreciation of the mind would cope with the facts more suggestively, poet. The rest of the book is devoted to “ Leaves deducing from them new aspects, new interrela- from a Note Book” and “ Asides," whose charm tions, new philosophical truths; but to the average lies in their daintiness of execution. But this very art-lover Mr. Smith's interpretations will broaden exquisiteness of polish makes even the slightest flaw and deepen the simple power of appreciation and conspicuous. As an instance of the poet Tbom- enjoyment. To-day, the good “vie de Boheme" son's notorious laziness, the author represents him has vanished from Barbizon; the forest of Fon- as standing “in his garden of an afternoon, with tainebleau has been transformed, its solitudes have both hands in his waistcoat pockets, eating peaches been made accessible, and thus, to the artist, pro- , from a pendent bough," -- a difficult feat, one would , faned, — for the hamlet has been bound to the think, even for a man of the most active habits. great world, not merely by broad carriage roads However, lazy folks always take the most pains. displacing a footpath across the forest, but even There is a subtle psychological truth in the remark of our Ponkapogian philosopher that “extraordi- cottages and Millet's atelier. The many half-tone nary names never seem extraordinary to the per- illustrations enhance the charm of Mr. Smith's text. song bearing them"; and he favors us with some Before she found happiness in the names almost too good to be true. He quotes with Love-letters of love of the Marquis Ossoli, rumor approval, one regrets to note, Buckle’s assertion that Margaret Fuller. “after the love of knowledge, there is no passion has it that Margaret Fuller's heart which has done so much good to mankind as the was twice deeply wounded by men unworthy of the love of money." But there is consolation in the confidence she so generously placed in them. The thought that Buckle is now an exploded authority: | in the “Love- Letters of Margaret Fuller” (Apple- second of these tender episodes is now made public These are trifles, to be sure; but of such, and of many much better ones, the book is composed. The ton). The dainty little volume is not for profane little poem on Japan, which sings its way through eyes. In one of the later letters, Margaret herself ten neatly-turned quatrains, is perhaps the gem of wrote, “I want the mysterious tie that binds us to remain unprofaned forever"; and the sympathetic the volume. reader must feel, with all his enjoyment of the book, Artists and It is a peculiar spot to look for great a sort of guilty regret at having suffered himself to artist days achievements, -- a tiny hamlet of a become, in a way, an accessory after the fact (of in Barbizon. single street, bounded on the one publication). James Nathan, a German Jew, a side by the forest of Fontainebleau and on the other commission merchant, a man of no education com- by a broad plain. And yet, as we are again in- pared with Margaret's, captivated her fancy, and formed, there gathered about an inn table in this for the better part of two years she luxuriated and bamlet the largest group of men of creative power agonized in the raptures and spasms of what seemed with the brush that have ever assembled anywhere to her an elective affinity. But the Jew went abroad, since the Renaissance. In “ Barbizon Days” a few months before she herself sailed for Europe, (A. Wessels Co.), Mr. Charles Sprague Smith has and there he seems to have married. At any rate, pictured again the lives of Millet, Corot, Rousseau, bis innamorata learned his unworthiness, and with and Barye, and the glad and sane “ vie de Boheme wonderful fortitude calmly turned over that leaf in these men led in those early days — when each new- her troubled life, and pasted it down. Only a woman comer had to smoke Diaz's pipe, and when if the of like ardor and tenderness, and with experience of color of the smoke were iridescent he was declared a like disillusionment, can read Margaret Fuller's a colorist, if gray a classicist. Here Millet found heart-utterances with full sympathy and apprecia- the work given him to do. “Its fruits were rugged, I tion. Painfully introspective and overloaded with , 360 [Nov. 16, THE DIAL - psychological analysis these outpouringe certainly then as the spirit which to-day fills Porto Rico with are; but the final impression is of a beautiful and schools and churches. Dr. Clark does not close confiding nature that has suffered cruelly. The without paying tribute to the part women have frontispiece portrait, highly idealized and bearing taken in this work, or without vindicating New En- no physical resemblance to its subject, well matches gland from the charge of “decadence.” He admits the ethereal beauty of these letters addressed to a the danger from the foreign population in New En- lover who, as conceived by his correspondent, had gland, and the lessened number of the old Puritan no earthly existence. The fact that, after her death, stock in the hill churches, but contends that the he offered her letters for sale to a publisher, may remedy is at hand and is effective in the application serve as an index to his real character. The letters of Home Missions to the very region where they were at that time — or so the story goes - restored originated. This remedy he thinks also effective intact to the Fuller family by the publisher, greatly for the problem of the congested foreign popula- to his honor. The cream of the volume, to many tions in our large cities. This, however, is the field readers, will be Mrs. Howe's introduction and the of the prophet rather than of the historian. reprinted reminiscences of Emerson, Greeley, and Charles T. Congdon. That humor is impossible to the man Chapters of 80 economical of his mental processes It is a difficult thing to write of spir- wit and wisdom. Hidden springs that he “runs only one train of itual forces in the making of history thought a day," will be readily admitted. The Rev. of history. This task, the Rev. Joseph B. Clark, Dr. Samuel McChord Crothers, as he stands at once Secretary of the Congregational Home Missionary disguised and revealed in “The Gentle Reader ” Society, has attempted in his volume entitled (Houghton), is evidently not such a man. Whether, “ Leavening the Nation” (The Baker & Taylor with a New England regard for the Sabbath pro- Co.), in which he gives an account of the spread prieties, his intellectual time-table schedules but one of churches throughout the United States. This train for Sunday, is a query that may arise; but church growth originated in the efforts of separate those who have heard him in the pulpit will hardly Home Missonary Societies in the East, which united believe his mental railway less travelled on the first in national organizations early in the nineteenth cen. day of the week than on the following six. Readers tury. The first chapter of the book indicates the of the “ Atlantic” do not need to have their atten- early habits of thinking and living that led to the tion called to the Gentle Reader's bright, humorous, first society in 1798. The larger part of the vol. thoughtful, and thought-provoking reflections on ume is taken up with the story of the growth of sundry themes, chiefly literary. They will, however, churches accompanying the great pioneer move- ments that have attended the settling of the country be glad to possess, in book form, these delightfully readable essays, and will judge them not unworthy in the Northwest Territory, the Louisiana Purchase, of a place beside the genial disquisitions of the Oregon, the Mexican Cession, the Southern belt, Autocrat. In lightness of touch, playfulness of and the present-day invasions of Alaska, Cuba, and fancy, and a certain pleasing addiction to the para- Porto Rico. The implication of the title, as well as doxical, the two authors are not onlike. A knack the purpose of the author, is to give due credit to of happy characterization is conspicuous in Dr. the missions of the leading religious denominations; Crothers. Alluding to the fondness of the quasi- but except for the interesting summaries of present logical mind for arguing in a circle, he aptly styles religious conditions in each State, the story is prac- this diversion "an intellectual merry-go-round.” Cer- tically untold except for the Congregational denom- tain other minds, not of the first order, are spoken ination to which Dr. Clark belongs. Even for one of as prone to indulge in an equally exhilarating denomination, the history can only be given in out- career through space, -"the toboggan slide of line in such a volume; but even in its abbreviated alliteration." The painfully accurate historian's form, one is surprised at the record of heroic cour- obtrusive footnotes are conceived of as running age and endurance, the marshalling of honored along at the bottom of the page " like little angry names, and the close relation of these self-sacrificing dogs barking at the text." It is such sprightly missionaries and their work to the development of touches as these that tickle the reader's fancy and the country. One feels that here, even with the diffi. keep him ever alert and expectant. culty of estimating the true value of such efforts, a glimpse is had of the deepest motives, and of the Mr. W.D. Ellwanger's book on "The A handbook for underlying facts that explain our measure of civili- Oriental Rug” (Dodd, Mead & Co.) the rug collector. zation. The Home Missionary effort in the North- traverses somewhat the same field as west and in the Louisiana Purchase is not given with Mr. Mumford's monumental work, but is much the spirit which marks the account of missionary pro- slighter, and is written more from the point of view gress in Oregon, California, and Oklahoma. This of the connoisseur and collector. The author's ap- seems due to the fact that the author did not delve preciation of the intrinsic beauty and artistic value into the records of the earlier years, 80 abundantly of fine rugs and carpets is keen and intelligent. It at his hand, sufficiently to reproduce the spirit of may, however, be doubted whether he has altogether those days of giving and doing, surely as stirring | succeeded in imparting that point of view to the 1903.] 361 THE DIAL OD. over Noble Authors. general reader. The task, indeed, is an impossible year and a half has not disturbed the equilibrium one. For those whose eyes are trained to see, there of American and English scholars. It is a Ger- is in Mr. Ellwanger's volume much useful informa- man quarrel over things not new, nor things said tion about the qualities and characteristics of the for the first time. Imperial countenance gave im- different weaves. There is also some practical petus and provoked challenges, and the fight was advice to the collector, both as to the choosing and Mr. Johns has given us a good translation, so the care of his treasures. The chief difficulty in that American and English readers, who care to utilizing such counsel, aside from the inherent one know why German scholars have been wrangling of inability to supply the fineness of perception that “ Babel and Bible” and how Professor makes all qualities good and bad almost instantly Delitzsch handles them, now have the opportunity visible, is that the really fine specimens of the to read up the case. oriental rug weavers' art are distinctly individual. Their value as works of art (which they indubitably The inexpensive pocket editions of A Library of are) depends not upon the weave, that is to say, standard authors, so predominant upon the locality whence they come, but upon such now in the booksellers' windows, qualities as coloring, texture, fineness, condition, and have their own especial virtues and advantages beauty of design. Books, therefore, can serve only which no one may gainsay. But the idea is some- in a very limited and imperfect way as guides. The what overdone, and we are glad to note the appear- one way in which they can be of real help is through ance of at least one new series that will make its their illustrations. Those which embellish the vol-appeal to those whose delight it is, in Hazlitt's ume under consideration leave nothing to be asked phrase, to “browse on folios.” From all such book- for except that there should be more of them. With lovers of an older fashion, the “Chiswick Library one exception, they reproduce rare specimens from of Noble Authors," undertaken by the Scott-Thaw the collections of the author and of Mr. George H. Co., deserves cordial greeting. To present a few Ellwanger. So beautiful are they, that the lover noble books in noble form, embodying the very of such things, especially if he happens to be a poor highest ideals in modern bookmaking, is the object man, cannot escape a pang of regret that the pref. of the series. Appropriate commencement is made erence of the mass of mankind for what is crude, with Landor's “Pericles and Aspasia,” reprinted garish, and vulgar, alone prevents works of equal without new editorial matter from the text of 1876, merit from being generally produced to-day instead and issued in an edition limited to two hundred of the inferior wares with which the bazaars are filled. copies. The volume is of folio size, imposing in appearance, yet light and easily handled. The text The Old Testament ranks of Ger- is printed on Arnold handmade paper, from a per- many have been mysteriously stirred fectly simple but distinctive cut of old style pica up by a lecture delivered in Berlin type, with marginal running-heads and chapter- in January, 1902. Professor Friedrich Delitzsch, titles in red. Beyond a frontispiece portrait of the well-known Assyriologist, was the author of the Landor, a designed title-page, and floriated chapter- lecture. Its suddenly acquired popularity was due initials, there is nothing of decoration in the volume. not so much to its contents as to the fact that it was Its marked distinction of appearance rests upon a delivered in the presence of his Majesty, the Kaiser. basis of irreproachable typography and presswork. The lecture dealt with the Bible and its new light In these details the Chiswick Press, around which from the mounds of Babylonia. Professor Delitzsch centre the highest traditions of more than a cen- presented the matter in a dramatic manner, and, as tury of English printing, has fairly surpassed its was to be expected, magnified very greatly the sub- own best efforts, — which is saying a great deal. stantial gains made through the marvellous revela- The little company of book-lovers into whose hands tions of excavators in the Orient and decipherers this limited edition may come should count it at home. Such stupendous statements were chal- among their choicest treasures. lenged within a year by a score of brochures written by university professors and scholarly pastors in The series of five volumes entitled Germany. In January of the present year the same . therapeutic “A System of Physiologic Thera- scholar delivered a second lecture in the presence peutics," edited by Dr. S. S. Cohen of the Kaiser and the German Oriental Society. and published by Messrs. Blakiston, is in effect an These two lectures, abundantly illustrated, have exposition of the current views of medical men on been translated by Mr. C. H. W. Johns of Cam- various non-medicinal therapeutic procedures. It bridge, and published as Volume I. of the Crow includes a wide range of subjects of interest to the Theological Library” with the title “ Babel and ordinary reader, and is a proper and valuable con- Bible" (Putnam). Of the 255 pages, 93 are tribution to general education. It is a series which “ Notes," controversial, literary, and archeological. is adapted to the public library and to the libraries They reveal some of the unpleasantnesses which of colleges and high schools, and contains informa- exist between rival schools and scholars in Ger- tion which might be called for in almost any library. many. The immense mass of literature on this Like all composite series, different chapters are of theme that has appeared in Germany within one different scientific and literary value, but nearly all procedures. Babel and Bible. & - Non-medicinal 362 [Nov. 16, THE DIAL The latest - of them can be read with advantage by the average seum; the Ægina marbles were unfortunately lost reader. It is a series devoid of repulsive illustra- to England, being purchased by Crown Prince Louis tions, and it is filled with maps, diagrams, and of Bavaria. Beside Greece, Cockerell travelled in pictures, illustrative of the very extensive subjects Crete, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Italy, exploring ruins covered. One can hardly consult a work of this and sketching them, and also noting peculiarities of kind without finding defects and deficiencies, and the places and people visited. An attractive ex- we would only call attention to the extensive treat- terior, a high spirit, a dauntless courage, and ap- ment of the life-history of some of the more re- parently an ample supply of ready money, did him cently discovered parasites, and the very brief way good service wherever he went; and he had need in which some of the more common and better enough of boldness and energy in exploring Greece known are passed over. For example, no mention in those days of Turkish misrule and violence. It is made of the number of eggs which the female is these occasional incidents of peril and of daring bedbug deposits in her lifetime, or the period of adventure that make some pages of the book very ncubation required for each egg; nor is re men- readable; but its literary charm is slight, and its tion of the time required for an adult and fertile archæological information has been largely super- bedbug to be developed from the egg. Little is seded by works of later origin. The editor admits said in regard to the methods of destroying this that the young traveller disliked and had no talent pest, and such directions as are given are inefficient for writing. The products of his pencil excelled and inexact. In only a few households does the those of his pen; but of the former we have no life-history of the malarial germ or the tsetse fly specimen. become a matter of vital importance; but the sta- bility and permanency of many a family hangs upon the successful understanding of the life and BRIEFER MENTION. death of the bedbug. A subscription edition of “The Novels and Stories of Ivan Turgenieff," newly translated from the Russian Dr. E. A. W. Budge, author of the by Miss Isabel F. Hapgood, is one of the most impor- Egyptian latest “History of Egypt” (Henry tant among the enterprises of the Messrs. Scribner for History. Frowde), has certain admirable qual- the present season. The volumes are to be fifteen in ifications for his task, — some familiarity with number, each with a photogravure frontispiece and a Egyptian texts, an immense mass of material at his special introduction by the translator, while no less a disposal in the British Museum, a painstaking dili- critic than Mr. Henry James has contributed a general gence in the collection of authorities, and in general introduction to the edition. Of the four volumes al- a clear way of putting things in English speech. ready issued two contain the “ Memoirs of a Sports- man,” the third gives us “Rudin” and “A King Lear But he lacks some indispensable requirements for of the Steppes," and the fourth “ A Nobleman's Nest.” success, — such as accurate knowledge of the Egyp- Four more volumes will suffice for the novels proper, tian language, critical ability, and a sense for his- leaving no less than seven for the short stories and torical development. The result is that in these sketches. A complete translation of these minor mas- eight volumes the student has an unequalled survey terpieces has long been desired, and we are happy to of the latest results of excavation, good and useful note that it is at last forthcoming. pictures, some valuable discussions of minor points, “Webster's Collegiate Dictionary,” published by the but no ordered presentation of events or critical G. & C. Merriam Co., is an abridgment of the “Inter- estimate of the sources of knowledge, and so erratic national,” but an abridgment that contains enough matter to be really worth while. Condensation has a handling of Egyptian texts as to make the use of been practised at every possible point, and the use of his results by a layman quite unsafe. Of course it thin paper still further reduces the dimensions of the follows that the work is very far from being the volume, which contains over eleven hundred pages, ideal history of Egypt, although it is an agreeable although it is of only moderate thickness. The work and interesting account of things Egyptian, and is indexed, and includes the most important of the gotten up in admirable style by the Oxford Univer- supplementary collections of words and phrases. The sity Press. copy on our desk is bound in limp seal, and is altogether both attractive in appearance and a marvel of judicious To architects and students of archi- editing. A diary of tecture the name of C. R. Cockerell Messrs. T. Y. Crowell & Co. publish an edition, in a is probably somewhat familiar, single volume, of “ The Complete Works of Edmund though thirty years have passed since his death. Spenser," with an introduction by Professor Trent, and His son, Mr. Samuel Pepys Cockerell, now edits a life of the poet by Mr. J. W. McSpadden. The word his journal of “ Travels in Southern Europe and “complete" is to be taken literally, for the volume includes “ A View of the Present State of Ireland” as the Levant, 1810-1817” (Longmans). The re- well as all the poems. Although there are over nine mains of the temple of Jupiter Panhellenius in hundred pages, the print is perforce inconveniently Ægina were discovered by him and his party, and small, and anything but tempting to the reader. But also the bas-reliefs forming the frieze of the temple the whole of Spenser in a single volume is worth having, of Apollo Epicurius near the ancient Phigaleia in for reasons of space-economy, if for no others. An Arcadia. The reliefs are now in the British Mu- etched portrait serves as a frontispiece. a Eastern travel, 1903.) 363 THE DIAL " 9 66 “ Representative Men” and “ English Traits " bave NOTES. been added by Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. to their The “Contributions to Punch" and other miscel- “ Centenary” edition of Emerson. The notes to both lanies form a new volume in the pretty Dent edition of volumes are extensive, and place this edition in a class Thackeray. by itself. Professor Friedrich Kauffmann's litttle book on First Lessons in Zoology,” by Professor Vernon L. Kellogg, is a recent school publication of Messrs. “ Deutsche Mythologie,” translated as “ Northern My- Henry Holt & Co. thology" by Miss M. Steele Smith, forms a new volume “Inductive Lessons in Biology,” by Miss Lewanna of the “ Temple Primers ” published by the Mac- millan Co. Wilkins, is an elementary manual published by Messrs. B. H. Sanborn & Co. 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These are subject. a reprint of the opening pages containing five articles) 9) 364 [Nov. 16, THE DIAL 3 " > > of the first number of “ The Dial”; Alexander Ire- printed on separate sheets in the form of a wall calen- land's Recollections of Emerson; the first pamphlet dar. The other is Miss Hazel Martyn's “ A Portfolio concerning the American Lyceum, 1829; and Chan- of Sketches,” which includes a striking series of ten ning's famous essay on National Literature. facsimile reproductions in red and black of heads of Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons publish a series of women. “Little French Masterpieces,” edited by Mr. Alexander The Messrs. Appleton are the publishers of an Jessup, and translated by Mr. George Burnham Ives. " author's edition," limited to one thousand sets, of Four volumes are at band, illustrating Mérimée, Flau- the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. « The White bert, Daudet, and Gautier. 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All communications should be addressed to THE DIAL, Fine Arts Building, Chicago. - No. 419. DECEMBER 1, 1903. Vol. XXXV. ford's The Romance of Old New England Churches. Mrs. Dodd's In the Palaces of the Sultan. - Harland's The Cardinal's Snuff-Box, illus. by G.C. Wilmshurst. — Miss Mumford's The Limerick Up to Date Book. - Fiske's Dutch and Quaker Col- onies in America, holiday edition. Stevenson's Essays and Travels, Turner edition. — Smith's Barbizon Days, “ Fontainebleau " edition. --- Ford's A Checked Love Affair. — Miss Laughlin's Miladi. - Rowlands's Among the Great Masters of the Drama. — Hay's Castilian Days, illus. by Pennell. - Mabie's In Arcady. -- Miss Watanna's The Heart of Hyacinth. – Davis's The Bar Sinister, holi- day edition. --- Crissey's The Country Boy. - Mrs. Patten's The Year's Festivals. — Cervantes' Don Quixote, Crowell's handy-volume edition. 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The best letters, the letters that speak to the heart and soul, have been written by those whose loneliness left them no other adequate means of self-expression, and who, writing to their friends with no thought of pro- ducing literature, have put into what they wrote 80 much of their inmost and truest selves that their letters could not fail to live and breathe, whether or not they enjoyed the distinction, not always an enviable one, of being published to the world to whom they were not addressed. Thousands of the best letters must have escaped this fate, their very excellence as personal mes. sages putting their publication out of the ques- - 408 [Dec. 1, THE DIAL & tion. But of those that have been offered to the have “an even flow of unlaboured diction, and general reader, the most eloquent and touching an artless arrangement of obvious sentiments." are from the pens of writers solitary in their One may query, parenthetically, whether such nature and habits. Eugénie de Guérin, in the a thing as unlabored diction is possible to the country, poured out her soul to her beloved writer of pure Johnsonese. Channing wrote to Maurice in Paris ; and after his death she still one of his numerous correspondents, in apology wrote to him in her journal, “to Maurice in for supposed defects in his letters : heaven.” This intimate communion was a “ I cannot start a subject without clinging to it, and necessity of her being and of her situation, and I am very apt to run it down. The excellence of letter- it was only natural that the brother's death writing, as of conversation, is thought to consist in a should be followed before very many years by transitions and graceful allusions, in fitting from sub- free and rather desultory movement of mind, in easy her own. Cowper, another solitary, wrote ject to subject, and in sportively connecting remote letters that will live as long as John Gilpin topics by means of light and delicate resemblances." remains a familiar figure. That most delight. He regrets his lack of the “ lighter graces,” and ful recluse, Edward FitzGerald, put the best regards the ability to make oneself agreeable of himself into his letters. Although Charles as not the least effectual means of being useful. Lamb was a convivial soul, may it not have This self-estimate is, of course, to be taken with been the essential loneliness of his unmarried modifications. life, as well as the pathos of his relation to his The letter-writing mood comes not every day; afflicted sister, that gave his letters their inim. in fact, for long seasons, the heavenly fire may itable quality ? No man can spend himself in refuse to descend, and without inspiration a an unlimited variety of ways; but self-utterance letter is as dead as the implements with which of some sort he must and will find, or die. Thus, it is written. Sterne felt this when, excusing when a rich and generous nature is denied the his tardiness in answering a correspondent, he bestowal of its treasures in other directions, its said : letters are sure to have warmth and life. “ It is not every hour, or day, or week of a man's life That this is not a letter writing age may be that is a fit season for the duties of Friendship. Senti- true. But readable letters are still written, ment is not always at hand; pride and folly, and what and occasionally get into print. A little volume is called business, often-times keep it at a distance; and without sentiment what is Friendship? -& name! a of excellent ones has recently appeared, in a shadow!" privately.issued edition. They are by Edward Chipman Guild. The name will indicate the Just here is suggested another characteristic writer's good New England ancestry. With of good letter-writing. Although Cowper calls the blood of the Guilds there mingled in his friendly correspondence“ talking upon paper, veins that of the Quincys, the Flynts, the Eliots, it has, with all its points of inferiority, some and the Dudleys, all of whom took root in our points of superiority to conversation. It admits of a fulness and warmth of personal expression, soil within twenty years of the Mayflower's arrival. letter is the true one. It is a “ miniature work frightened away by the sound of the voice. The of art.” sentiment regarded by Sterne as so essential to “ It bas its just and due proportions, like a poem, a friendship gains a more deliberate utterance. picture or a statue; it has its beginning, middle and It is true, sentiment may degenerate into sen- end, like a little drama, and it must not be patched and timentality, as came very near being the case seamed, it must not be spun out; when the natural and in an amusing letter written to his wife by a fitting end has come, the vale 'must be spoken and the certain Lord Ogilvie, a Scotchman, about the sheet folded and the envelope closed; if there is more to be said it must be put into another letter, tho' it be middle of the eighteenth century. “I aske par- written the same day." don," he begins, Most letters, as Mr. Guild admits with regret, “ for troubleing you when I have nothing to say that's are mere sketches or memoranda, and convey worth your while heareing from the Port of Cambray, where I could not get into last night. I have no other no impression of warm, spontaneous outburst design by sending you this Billet but to make me think and overflow of the writer's personality. Our and dream over your Charms, with which I am Ass correspondents are too often circumspect and enough to be intoxicate, and for to pray you to write , self-conscious; they do not write as they talk; me every day, and to appoint when I shall come back.” they no sooner put pen to paper than unreality This excellent man was probably better with stamps itself every word they utter. Doctor his tongue than with his pen. Not less strong Johnson long ago declared that letters should than the impulse to write when the mood is on His conception of the well-written a certain depth of sincerity, that would be а on 1903.) 409 THE DIAL is the impatience to have the letter off one's loses sight of that medium and seems to stand hands as soon as written. Something like the face to face with the writer. Without con- thwarted feeling of the stammerer takes hold scious effort the fine qualities of a perfect style of us at finding in our pocket the letter we escape notice, which is occupied with the thing had intended to mail yesterday. We began to told, and not with the manner of its telling. speak, but could not get the words fairly out. A word now in defense of the good old Every good letter-writer has a lively interest fashion of making a graceful exit at the end in what he writes, and he imagines his corre- of one's letter. The letter that comes to so spondènt's interest will abate with his own if sudden a stop as to hurl the reader forward onto the letter is withheld. So he hastens to de his nose leaves a less happy final impression spatch it, exclaiming with St. Paul, “ See how than the one that ends less abruptly. To be large a letter I have written with mine own at once suave and sincere in one's parting com. hand!” pliments is the thing to aim at. aim at. Suavity un- Another advantage of the written over the doubtedly predominated in the courtly endings spoken communication is that we are less often of eighteenth-century letters. But honesty and troubled with vain regrets at lost opportunities elegance were sometimes combined. It is a to say a bright thing, or with self-reproach for never failing delight to read that famous let- having said a stupid one. Dall wits, and nim- ter, proud at once and reproachful, from Dr. ble wits too, keep pace more easily with the pen Johnson to Lord Chesterfield. Boswell praised than with the tongue. The writer has time to it as a literary masterpiece. Its conclusion is put his thought into the best possible form, 80 happily worded as to excuse its reproduction and to embroider it with all the suggestions here, familiar though it must be to most readers. of a playful fancy. “Trifles” — to quote Dr. " “ Having carried on my work thus far with so little Johnson once more - "always require exuber- obligation to any favorer of learning, I shall not be dis- ance of ornament; the building which has no appointed though I shall conclude it, if less be possible, with less; for I have been long wakened from that strength can be valued only for the grace of its dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so decorations. The pebble must be polished with much exultation. care, which hopes to be valued as a diamond.' “My Lord, your lordship's most humble, Our friend Guild would beartily subscribe to “ Most obedient servant, this. He says: “ Sam. Johnson." Another neatly-turned ending is found in that “I like to use a great many words and to say a great deal more than is necessary to convey my meaning. I pithy and pungent communication from Frank- do not say anything which I do not really mean. But lin to his old friend Straban in London, on the I like to put my meaning in a vivid and striking way, - outbreak of our Revolution, to expatiate upon my feelings; it may not be the best “ You have begun to burn our towns, and murder way, but it happens to be my way, and it is not a bad our people. Look upon your hands! They are stained way; only what I say is not to be read with a micro- with the blood of your relations! You and I were long scope." friends; you are now my enemy, and I am The essential thing, then, is that the letter- « Yours, writer should take a lively interest in his own “ B. Franklin." life, however uneventful, and impart this in. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu took commend- terest to his reader. Little things are usually able pains not to conclude her letters so ab- more significant than big. The best letter. ruptly as to jar her correspondents. Note in writers have led lives devoid, outwardly, of the following how cleverly she at once excuses stirring incidents. It is the inner life that and avoids precipitation. At the end of a letter signifies. Eugénie de Guérin had nothing but dealing largely with the Babel of tongues heard the unfolding of her soul to chronicle for her by her in Constantinople, she writes : brother's reading; but that was enough. Can “ As I prefer English to all the rest, I am extremely anything exceed in interest the pulsing thought I'll assure you (with grief of heart) it is reduced to mortified at the daily decay of it in my head, where of a human brain, the throbbing emotions of a such a small number of words I can not recollect any human heart? In letters we seem to get nearer tolerable pbrase to conclude my letter with, and am to the writer's intimate self than in any other forced to tell your ladyship, very bluntly, that I am, form of literature, unless it be now and then in lyric poetry. The good letter excels both in The artificiality here is too manifest and inten- the skill with which its writer handles his me- tional and innocent to give offense. Not all dium of expression and in the self-revelation of us know so well bow and when to lift pen which so arrests the reader's attention that he PERCY F. BICKNELL. a > a yours, etc.” from paper. 410 [Dec. 1, THE DIAL 9 66 twenty-three, unexpected opportunity brought The New Books. him a seat in parliament, and of his own in- tense interest in the campaign preceding the election, he tells himself. MORLEY'S LIFE OF GLADSTONE.* “I wish that I could hope my frame of mind had In commenting on the difficulties of his task been in any degree removed from earth and brought in writing a life of Gladstone, Mr. Morley nearer to heaven, that the habit of my mind had been acknowledges that he has found it wholly im- imbued with something of that spirit which is not of this world." possible to treat in detail more than the polit- ical aspect of the career of one who was for At first, indeed, politics seemed to him to be over a half a century an important, and often endangering his spiritual life, for after a brief a central figure, in wider English life. For experience of parliament he notes: Gladstone was a theologian and churchman as Twenty-four years have I lived. ... Where is the continuous work which ought to fill up the life of a Chris- well as a statesman. tian without intermission ? ... I have been growing, “ He cared as much for the churcb as he cared for that is certain; in good or evil ? Much fluctuation; the state; he thought of the church as the soul of the after a supposed progress, terminating in finding myself state; he believed the attainment by the magistrate of at, or short of, the point which I deemed I had left the ends of government to depend upon religion; and behind me. Business and political excitement a tre- he was sure that the strength of a state corresponds to mendous trial, not so much alleviating as forcibly drag- the religious strength and soundness of the community ging down the soul from that temper which is fit to of which the state is a civil organ." inhale the air of heaven." This duality of interests (though Gladstone Intensity of religious feeling, then, was a vital would not have recognized it as such) consti- necessity to Gladstone, both in his early career tutes the main problem of presentation which and always. He looked for direct divine aid Mr. Morley has striven to meet the problem and inspiration in every act of his political life. of analyzing the political principles and actions “Spoke 30 to 35 minutes on University bill, with of Gladstone, without permitting the essential more ease than I had hoped, having been more mindful, spirituality of the man to be lost sight of in the or less unmindful of Divine aid.” (July 11, 1834.) “Spoke on the Irish church under forty minutes. I maze of party struggles. His method of meet- cannot help here recording that this matter of speaking ing it constitutes the distinctive feature of his is really my strongest religious exercise. On all occa- work, and at the same time serves to make his sions, and to-day especially, was forced upon me the three large volumes a genuine biographical humiliating sense of my inability to exercise my reason characterization rather than a mere history of in the face of the H. of C., and of the necessity of my utterly failing, unless God gave me the strength and contemporary politics. For to-day men are language. It was after all a poor performance, but interested most in what Gladstone was, not in would have been poorer had He never been in my what he did, and in the present work the inter- thoughts as a present and powerful aid” (May 30, 1835). est is in Mr. Morley's estimate of the man, This confidence in divine aid naturally rested on rather than in his résumé of the man's activities. the conviction that in each case the cause to be Having excluded from his labor more than plead was in itself just and righteous, and in- . a superficial notice in passing, of Gladstone's tensity of tensity of religious conviction, whatever else religious and doctrinal writings, Mr. Morley's may be said of it, was an unquestionable source method of still impressing upon his reader of strength in the energy with which he sought this side of his hero's character, is to show to give life to his political ideals. Well has by quotation from Gladstone's diary or let- Mr. Morley said of him: ters, and by frequent repetitions of statement, “ All his activities were in his own mind one. This, the constant presence of religious sentiment we can hardly repeat too often, is the fundamental fact and conviction in all political acts. Thus while of Mr. Gladstone's history. Political life was only part yet a student at Oxford, Gladstone writes of bis religious life. It was religion that prompted bis literary life. It was religious motive that, through a in his diary (December 29, 1831), “May God thousand avenues and channels, stirred him and guided use me as a vessel for his own purposes, of him in his whole conception of active social duty." whatever character and results in relation to And this was as true of his later as of his myself," and was in truth very nearly convinced earlier years, for in 1868, on his birthday, the , that his own best future lay in service as a min. ister of the church. A year later, when but balance of his activities and progress, he notes: day on which each year he seems to strike a * THE LIFE OR WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE. By John “ This birthday opens my sixtieth year. I descend Morley. In three volumos. With portraits. Now York: the hill of life. It would be a truer figure to say I The Macmillan Co. ascend a steepening path with a burden of ever gath- 1903.] 411 THE DIAL ering weight. The Almighty seems to sustain and spare conditional clauses, which frequently permitted me for some purpose of His own, deeply unworthy as I him to escape from the consequences of his know myself to be. Glory be to His name.” own logic, and which, unnoticed by parliament Postulating, then, this one great central char- tary opponents in the heat of debate, often acteristic, Mr. Morley further furnishes a de- tripped up those opponents who sought to pin tailed analysis of various elements constituting Gladstone down to an admission of inconsis- Gladstone's personality. Briefly stated, these tency. These very conditional clauses, how were : bodily strength, permitting the full play ever, Mr. Morley considers as evidence, not of of a magnificent intellect; strength of will and a fear of exact statement, but of a certain slow- definiteness of purpose; political courage, not ness of grasp, combined with a desire to be merely to stand by his political opinions under fair, which he represents as characteristic of censure, but to venture on new and untried Gladstone's political evolution. For Mr. Mor- ground in the full confidence that his ideas ley does not deny that Gladstone changed would soon meet acceptance even if at first in materially in political sentiment from time to volving political disaster ; a real human inter- time, terming him a “wonderful pilgrim” on est in his fellow men (a quality which Mr. a “shining progress,” and Gladstone himself Morley asserts, though acknowledging that he in an autobiographical fragment, never printed, is expressing a disputed opinion); impetuosity, but here frequently quoted by the author, seems controlled by a sense of his own shortcomings to look with something like wonder on his ear- and by prayer; genuine oratory, both natural liest political conceptions. and studied, and for the first thirty years of Any estimate of the character of Gladstone his career customarily exercised in parliament, as shown in his political acts, inevitably in. where mere words without logic and conviction volves at least an indirect comparison with could not have prevailed ; hatred of injustice, those leaders of opposing parties, who were tempered in action by the knowledge that evil contemporaneous. There were many such, but conditions must wait their remedy until the in public opinion no one occupied the position time is ripe; too great a readiness to believe in of an essential rival, in the same way as did the sincerity of others; steady attraction to Disraeli. Both made their first impression the practical and feasible, rather than the ideal, upon parliament as members of the Tory party, in legislation; unchangeable mental attitude though very early owning allegiance to oppo toward religious dogma; lack of comprehen. site wings of that party after the split which sion in things metaphysical and abstract; per- followed the repeal of the corn laws. For sonal good manners and courtesy; and, finally, fully ten years after this event Gladstone felt a deep religious feeling of responsibility for himself a Tory, and it is evident from Mr. his talents, without any trace of purely per- Morley's résumé that he long considered the sonal ambition. The qualities thus grouped by possibility of a reunion of the party under Mr. Morley are in the main those which, at Derby. One great obstacle was Disraeli, various times and by different writers, have whose leadership in the Commons would have been separately ascribed to Gladstone, saving been personally distasteful to Gladstone, and only that of the dominating religious element, whose integi whose integrity Gladstone could never bring which Mr. Morley is the first to prove con- himself to believe in. Added to natural po- clusively. But there remains the question of litical opposition, there was evidently in each consistency, which Gladstone's opponents have a total inability to appreciate the other's ideals always denied to him, drawing a line between and character. A real though veiled personal sincerity and consistency. These argue that dislike accentuated the issues between them, while perfectly sincere in each crisis of his and it is interesting, if not wholly instructive, career, and in each political act, Gladstone was to note the few instances in which Gladstone is frequently wholly inconsistent, and moreover here permitted to state his impressions of his that he always refused to recognize his own great rival. Writing to his wife in 1850 of a face-about on vital questions. In other words, debate in the Commons he says: that while he was sincere in believing himself « Disraeli showed the marvellous talent that he has consistent, this was a distinct failing in his char- for summing up with brilliancy, buoyancy, and com- acter, though a real strength in political life. prehensiveness, at the close of a debate." You have Of this Mr. Morley has little to say, and by wholly against him; but never, last night or any other heard me speak of that talent before when I have been his silence gives some ground for the accusa- time, would I go to him for conviction, but for the de- tion itself. Gladstone's speeches abounded in light of the ear and the fancy." " 412 [Dec. 1, THE DIAL a measure. In 1852, in a letter to Lord Aberdeen refer- analysis, though it may be noted, in passing, ring to the acts of the Tory party under that Gladstone is energetically defended against Derby, on the questions of protection and re- the charge of a sudden face-about and surren- ligious liberty, Gladstone is more direct in der to Parnell in 1886. But there is one inci. accusation. dent that will be of great interest to students - The shifting and shuffling that I complain of have of American history. Gladstone, as is well been due partly to a miserably false position and the known, was a sympathizer, though in no sense giddy prominence of inferior men; partly to the (surely not unexpected) unscrupulousness and second motives a partisan, of the South in the Civil War. In this connection Mr. Morley says: of Mr. Disraeli, at once the necessity of Lord Derby and the curse.' “Of this immense conflict Mr. Gladstone, like most Mr. Morley is himself too much of the Glad- of the leading statesmen of the time, and like the stonian type to be able to appreciate to the majority of his countrymen, failed to take the true full the real constructive genius of Disraeli , glish misconception of the American struggle is now The error that lay at the root of our En- fantastic in form and expression though it clear. We applied ordinary political maxims to what frequently was. To Mr. Morley, as to Glad- was not merely a political contest, but a social revolu- stone, the trifling of Disraeli on serious topics tion. Without scrutiny of the cardinal realities be- appears an unforgiveable sin, and he asserts neath, we discussed it like some superficial conflict in our old world about boundaries, successions, territorial that such trifling “though it may divert a partitions, dynastic preponderance." later generation to whose legislative bills it can do no harm, helps to explain the deep dis- Viewing the struggle in this light, and much , more interested at the moment in Italian than in favor with which Disraeli was regarded by his American affairs, Gladstone failed to see any severe and strenuous opponent.” That Dis- . moral issue at stake. Many Englishmen had raeli bad political genius of a high order, no interest in the American conflict save as it Mr. Morley freely admits, as when Disraeli appreciated, earlier than any other man, the affected commercial and industrial conditions development of a great national interest in at home, and it was in this way that the con- British empire and in social questions. flict appealed to Gladstone. Mr. Morley shows “This coming mood the Tory leader, with his rare us, it is true, that Gladstone argued in Cabinet faculty of wide and sweeping forecast, confidently di- against the first sharp note drawn up by Pal- . vided, and be found for it the oracle of a party cry in merston in regard to the Trent affair, and that phrases about Empire and Social Reform. When power presumably he also urged his objections to the fell into his hands he made no single move of solid Queen and to the Prince Consort. The infer- effect for either social reform or imperial unity. When Mr. Gladstone committed himself to a policy, he brought ence is that these objections were of influence in bills to carry it out. Forecast without bills is in- in producing those suggestions from the Queen teresting, but not to be trusted.” which modified Palmerston's note, but the basis This is the customary judgment of English of Gladstone's objections was not in any sym- liberals in comparing the two men. Gladstone pathy with this country; it was that “I could is lauded for his actual and practical legisla- not feel sure that we were at the bottom of the tion, and Disraeli belittled for his lack of it. law of the case, or could judge here and now But, in fact, sufficient time has not yet passed what form it would assume. ” Gladstone was to permit any sure judgment. Immediate pos- in fact anxious to have his government inter- terity may regard exact and constructive acts fere in some way and put an end to the conflict, of legislation as the basis of a statesman's claim while the only feasible end, in his mind, was to fame, but if the reputation of men famous the separation of North and South. In 1862 at a more remote period of history is any cri- Palmerston wrote to him that a movement was a terion, it is rather upon a genius and ability on foot by which England, France, and Russia for constructive principles, not specific acts, were to offer mediation to the contending par- that a true claim to fame rests. ties, and that if both North and South accepted In a career so full of incident as that of this, an armistice would follow and negotia- Gladstone's, it is wholly impossible to select tions on the basis of separation; while if both any two or three events of superior importance, declined, the mediating powers would acknowl- and it is not intended therefore to specify here edge the independence of the South. Glad. any such for particular notice. Home rule stone was heartily in favor of this plan, but naturally occupies a large part of Mr. Morley's curiously enough was himself largely respon- . attention in his third volume, but the discussion sible for thwarting it. He was at Newcastle at given to it is far too intricate to permit brief the time, and in a speech evidently premature 1903.) 413 THE DIAL . . and unconsidered, he practically disclosed what treatment, and historical insight, - with the he believed to be the determination of the Cabi- present work, seems weak and insufficient, net. Mr. Morley has put his best into this Life of "We know quite well that the people of the Northern Gladstone. His fitness for the task was pre- States have not yet drunk of the cup — they are still eminent, both from an evident sympathy with trying to hold it far from their lips - which all the rest of the world see they nevertheless must drink of. and belief in Gladstone himself, and from an We may have our own opinions about slavery; we may intimate personal acquaintance in Gladstone's be for or against the South; but there is no doubt that later life — an acquaintance which has per- Jefferson Davis and other leaders of the South have mitted the inclusion in the work of many re- made an army; they are making, it appears, a navy; and they have made what is more than either, they ports of delightful conversations on literary and have made a nation.” other non-political topics. It is true that too Gladstone quickly found himself in difficul. great sympathy is in danger of becoming ex- ties both with the public and with his fellow- treme bias, and so may render a biographer ministers. Russell wrote to him : unfit rather than fit for his work. Mr. Mor- “... You must allow me to say that I think you went ley's own explanation on this point best repre- beyond the latitude which all speakers must be allowed, sents his conception of his duty. when you said that Jeff. Davis had made a nation. “That my book should be a biography without a trace Recognition would seem to follow, and for that step I of bias, no reader will expect. There is at least no think the cabinet is not prepared. However, we shall bias against the truth; but indifferent neutrality in a soon meet to discuss this very topic." work produced, as this is, in the spirit of loyal and Very naturally Gladstone was now urged both affectionate remembrance, would be distasteful, discord- by conviction and by pride to press for an ant, and impossible. I should be heartily sorry if there were no signs of partiality and no evidence of prepos- offer of mediation, and became most energetic session. On the other band there is, I trust, no importu- in this object. The question came to an issue nate advocacy or tedious assentation." in the Cabinet in November of 1862, when the For the reasons here indicated it is perfectly English government was forced to answer a possible that some of Mr. Morley's historical suggestion from France that a joint offer of interpretations, particularly in the later period, mediation be made. Russia had already de- may be attacked on grounds of accuracy. But clined. Gladstone writes home at this time: considering the political and social relations of “Nov. 11. We have had our cabinet today and meet the two men, it is difficult to see how the biog- again tomorrow. I am afraid that we shall do little or nothing in the business of America. But I will send rapher's task could have been approached, or you definite intelligence. Both Lords Palmerston and concluded, in a fairer spirit. E. D. ADAMS. Russell are right. - Nov. 12. The United States affair bas ended and not well. Lord Russell rather turned tail. He gave way without resolutely fighting out his battle. However, though we decline for the moment, A BOOK-LOVER'S SMALL-TALK.* the answer is put upon grounds and in terms which leave the matter very open for the future.” Some two years ago Mr. Adrian H. Joline Of the various causes which brought about this entertained us with “ The Meditations of an change in Cabinet opinion, the tempest aroused | Autograph Collector," and the reception ac- by Gladstone's Newcastle speech was by far the corded that volume has occasioned the writing greatest. In his later career Gladstone often of another in a similar vein. In “ The Diver- freely confessed his great error of judgment in sions of a Book-Lover anyone of a bookish regard to the then existing political situation nature will find small-talk to suit his idiosyn- in America, and professed also an error of crasy. And when a “deep and winsome ” man " sympathy in the struggle itself. invites you to his fireside of an evening, there These comments on some few characteristics to listen to a conversation that is at once collo- of Mr. Morley's work do not adequately repre- quial and confessional, character is apt to be sent either the magnitude of the work itself shown in and through the lines spoken. or the ability of the author. It is certainly not The title of Mr. Joline's new book appears over-praise to say that no other such thorough, at first misleading, because it leads us to expect scholarly, and interesting biography has ap- therein the ravings of a bibliomaniac, or the peared in recent years. Mr. Morley is without adventures of a book-collector in unearthing question gifted in biographical writing, as his historic treasures. But the present author life of Cobden, issued in 1881, abundantly does not confine himself to the “ royal family proved; but even this earlier notable work, *THE DIVERSIONS or A BOOK-LOVER. By Adrian H. when compared in point of style, method of Joline. Illustrated. Now York: Harper & Brothers, 414 [Dec. 1, THE DIAL may add > 6 > of books," nor to that field so long occupied by when he would have us accept as truth the the pedantic Thomas Frognall Dibdin - long assertion that, as a nation, we are dangerously — rest his tedious chronicles ! — of Roxburghe near to being decadent in humor; though we, Club fame. likewise, question the dubious fun of our pro- “ I address myself to people with a fairly good educa- fessional comic papers and the jocosity of tion, conscious of an affection for books, who have a American dailies. secret, bashful fondness, often afraid to confess it, for the fruitless, nugatory and unprofitable; who like to “There are sundry illusions, cherished for generations, browse aimlessly in libraries without the presence of a regarding certain nations and races. The roast beef of censor; who love a book merely because it is a book, old England may long ago have been worthy of glori- the octavo or duodecimo expression of somebody's ideas, fication in song and story, but in modern times it is no matter how trifling or bow feebly unimportant those usually transported from Chicago across the ocean, and The ideas may be.” it is by no means as good as English mutton. politeness of the Frenchman is a delusive shadow of a He aims to attract by felicitous selection, not vanished past, as one who has been rudely thrust into by elaborate exhaustiveness ; but we may a Parisian gutter by a swaggering officer in soiled uni- that his “ Diversions" are not characterized form is ready to attest. The Swedes seem to have by what Mr. Richard Burton terms “stylistic taken to themselves the famous French cou