. There are sixty-three
eral level of Our Neighbors.'
full-page illustrations excellently printed in color, In an entertaining prefatory note to his new
embodying impressions of characteristic street book called “The Mysterious Stranger, and Other


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Cartoons' (McClure, Phillips & Co.), Mr. John T. elaborate, highly-finished drawing that was so
McCutcheon expresses the hope that the volume characteristic of one side of Rossetti's genius.
may have a permanent interest because of the un With the help of the suggestive introduction, any
usual rapidity with which history has been mak reader, however ignorant he may be of the aims
ing in the last two or three years — the period and methods of the Pre-Raphaelite painters, may
covered by the cartoons. As Mr. McCutcheon puts learn to understand and in some measure to ap-
it: 'There has been a war that was a war. There preciate Rossetti's art.
have been disasters almost without parallel; and The experiences of Noah and his ark have
we have weathered as pleasant a presidential cam long been a favorite theme with humorists; but
paign as the oldest inhabitant can remember. Mr. they have never been more perfectly set forth
Roosevelt . and his activities in peace and than in "The Story of Noah's Ark' (Hough-
in war and in sports have been a source of un ton), as told and pictured by Mr. E. Boyd
ending inspiration to the cartoonist. In addition, Smith. The pictures are the feature of the
the nation has achieved merited glory because of book, but they would not be half so amusing
the great exposition held in St. Louis, and last, without the sly and subtle humor of the brief
but not least, Missouri has taken it into her head descriptions which accompany them. The build-
to go Republican.' It is Mr. McCutcheon's fa ing of the ark, the assembling of the animals,
mous cartoon on this last subject that gives a
and the adventures of the voyage
are all
name to the collection, which includes over one made to yield their full measure of entertain-
hundred and fifty drawings. Besides those hav-
ment. The dinosaurs that had to be left be-
ing to do with political subjects, there is the hind because they were too big for the door,
amusing series devoted to President Roosevelt's the 'host of other strange beasts with long
vacation experiences, several groups of new 'Boy
Latin names' that refused to go in and were
in Summer' and 'Bird Centre cartoons, and that
therefore doomed to be lost and become fos-
keen and delightful satire on sectional peculiari-
sils,' the other host that went in and, being
ties and prejudices, pictured in the cartoons rep-
tossed by the waves, regretted it, until the
resenting delegations from the various states of storm passed and they took a keen interest in
the Union visiting the St. Louis Fair. Mr. Mc-
the passenger list, to find their own names, as
Cutcheon's work is unique in its understanding passengers always do,' while poor Mrs. Noah
of our national life, and in the combined keen-
lamented, saying 'the domestic arrangements
ness and kindliness of its humor. The cartoons
are impossible,' – all these episodes are pictured
are well worth embodying in a form less tran-
with remarkable expressiveness and a clever
sient than the pages of a daily newspaper.
but never too extravagant caricature. The
plates are artistically reproduced in color, and
*Drawings of Rossetti’ is this year's addition
the cover is as amusing as the rest of the
to the ‘Modern Master Draughtsmen'series, the
book.
volumes of which are published in this country
A unique contribution to Omar literature, and
by Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons. This series,
one which will delight the hearts of all true
with the similar one called 'Drawings of the Omarites, is the 'Life of Omar al-Khayyami'
Great Masters,' now comprises nearly a dozen written from the Persian point of view by
titles, each an ideal study, both in text and illus-
Mr. J. K. M. Shirazi, and imported by Messrs.
tration, of one distinctive phase of a great artist's
A. C. McClurg & Co. The volume is bound
work. The introductory comment upon Rossetti
in paper boards daintily decorated in colors
is written by Mr. T. Martin Wood, and is a dis-
with a Persian floral pattern, and has illumi-
criminating and illuminating piece of criticism.
nated headings, initials, and tail-pieces in a
It calls attention to the intensely subjective and
similar style. In a brief preface the author
poetic nature of Rossetti's art, a characteristic
modestly explains that he does not enter the
which makes it at once unsatisfactory and very lists against European and American scholar-
instructive to consider his work purely in its ex-
ship, but that he has endeavored to tell the
ternal aspect. The drawings alone, so Mr. Wood life of Omar from the Persian standpoint, and
thinks, are proof that it was in Rossetti's power to give an account of the tent-maker's philos-
to be the greatest imaginative illustrator of his
ophy as it is understood by his many Persian
century. "That he was not so, seems to prove admirers. In addition to the usual sources of
that in this way, as in some others, he failed to information, he has had access to rare and in-
attain to much that at first had seemed included teresting manuscripts of unquestionable au-
in his destiny.' There is an interesting discus thenticity, which belong to the Royal House
sion of the proper critical attitude from which to of Persia and to Persian nobles and heads of
approach Rossetti's work, and the fifty drawings religious houses. Many of these are regarded
reproduced in the present volume are treated as as objects of veneration, which it would be
illustrative material for various theses, thus re sacrilegious to submit to the view of an in-
ceiving considerable detailed attention. The re fidel. Naturally the conclusions drawn from
productions are as distinguished among illustra these Persian sources differ a good deal from
tions as is the preface among critical essays.. those generally accepted by Western students.
Many are printed in tint and mounted upon rough Mr. Shirazi's English style is clear and sim-
paper of a harmonizing shade. They represent ple, and his presentation of his points exceed-
all stages of work, from the rough sketch to the ingly interesting. His monograph, in its


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are
а
dainty setting, will make a singularly appro lets for which these San Francisco publishers are
priate remembrance for the Omarites on one's noted. This year's output surpasses previous
Christmas list.
ones both in quality and quantity. It contains
Mrs. Fanny Y. Cory, whose delightful pic- | almost a dozen titles. "The Blue Monday Book,'
tures of children_are pleasantly and widely compiled and arranged by Jennie Day Haines, is
known, and Mr. Burges Johnson, whose 'lit-
appropriately bound in blue, with a touch of gold
tle boy' verses reviewed elsewhere in this issue
to symbolize the cheering character of its con-
have interested the readers of the various
tents. There is a page of quotations for each
Harper periodicals, have collaborated in the
blue Monday in the year, and a blue Monday
production of one of the most charming of must be very deeply dyed to withstand the cheer-
the humorous holiday publications. The
ful t.ne of these carefully chosen extracts from
Pleasant Tragedies of Childhood' (Harper)
a varied assortment of authors, from Dr. John-
are pictorially represented in over fifty full-
son and George Herbert to President Roosevelt
page illustrations, each of which is
and “Mrs. Wiggs.'- 'The Matrimonial Primer'
panied by an explanatory stanza in Mr. John-
by Mr. V. B. Ames, with colored pictures and
son's characteristically humorous style. From
decorations by Mr. Gordon Ross, is a little man-
the First Baby's first nocturnal fit of scream-
ual designed primarily for the instruction of the
ing, which its fond but inexperienced mamma
newly wed, but capable of furnishing a good deal
fails to attribute to that simplest of causes
of amusement to the world at large. It contains
a pin that pricks, to the three-year-old's
some clever satire, a good deal of wholesome hu-
Christmas tragedy, which consists in seeing his
mor, and plenty of sound common-sense. The
cousin get the rocking-horse that Santa Claus
wit sometimes falls to commonplaceness but never
had faithfully promised him,- every picture
to anything more objectionable. The primer is
and every verse is delightful. The small boy
appropriately bound in gingham with a poster
gets most attention, but little girls are not
label. - 'An Alphabet of History' is a diverting
neglected. The First Baby's patronizing
patience with its inexperienced young parents,
collection of verses by Mr. W. D. Nesbit, with
accompanying illustrations by Mr. Ellsworth
as expressed in the verses, makes a delicious
Young. Twenty-six historical personages, ranging
contrast with the helpless, round-eyed, and
generally tearful infant of the pictures. Later
from Methuselah to William Kidd and from Xan-
on the tragedies brought about by brotherly tippe to Omar and Samuel Pepys, are portrayed
and sisterly affection
delineated in
with accuracy, completeness, and much clever-
knowing fashion that will appeal to any per-
ness. The • Alphabet' is printed on manila paper
son who did not have the misfortune to be
and bound in boards with a picture of Father
an only child.
Time on the cover.-The familiar and ever-wel-
He who finds in his Christmas stocking a
come 'Cynic's Calendar' by Ethel Watts Mum-
copy of Sterne's 'Sentimental Journey' in the
ford, Oliver Herford, and Addison Mizner re-
new Riverside Press edition may well feel appears once more in its gingham binding. This
something more than gratitude. He may justly
1906 edition is better as a whole than any of its
consider that a rare compliment has been paid | predecessors. The cream of the old 'twisted'
him as a discriminating bibliophile; for it is proverbs has been retained, and the new ones
not everyone, not even every book-lover, that
are equal to the best of the old. In general form
will be able to appreciate the real excellence and style of decoration the new calendar is simi-
of this reprint. Here are none of those showy
lar to editions of past years. — “The Joke Book
surface features upon which most 'privately-
Note Book,' designed by Ethel Watts Mum-
printed' volumes depend to win favor,– no ford, is intended as a pocket companion to take
Morris' type, no garish decorations, no colored
the place of that easily mislaid scrap of paper
illustrations, no elaborate cover. But those who on which the man desirous of shining at his
can justly estimate the beauty of graceful and friends' dinner-table is wont to jot down the
legible type correctly set, of luminous and even point of some elusive good story. In order that
presswork, of fine handmade paper, of fitting any particular story may be forthcoming at the
and durable binding,- for such there is in every right moment, a method of classification is sup-
detail of this book a satisfying charm and dis plied by a few succinct and comprehensive head-
tinction. The volume is an octavo, similar in ings, such as 'Irish,' 'Ladies,' 'Sports,'«Jingles,'
nearly all details to the edition of Fielding's etc. Under each heading is printed one good joke
"Voyage to Lisbon' brought out by the River- by way of a beginning.
by way of a beginning. The headings and mar-
side Press three years ago. An appropriate lit gins are decorated, and the binding is attractive,
tle wood-cut vignette on the title-page is the so that the 'Joke Book Note Book' is ornamental
only note of decoration in the book. Mr. Yorick's as well as useful.— 'Sovereign Woman versus
narrative has been given many and various set Mere Man’ is an attractive medley of quotations
tings in its time, but never a worthier than this. comparing or contrasting the sexes. They are
Three hundred copies only are offered for sale brought together and arranged under appropriate
by the publishers, Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin headings by Jennie Day Haines. Mr. Gordon Ross
& Co.
furnishes a very attractive frontispiece, and there
This year, as heretofore, there comes from the are symbolic sketches in black and white on the
press of Messrs. Paul Elder & Co. an amusing col-margins and in gold on the paper cover. The
lection of those humorous and whimsical book- | quotations, which are of very miscellaneous au-


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thorship, possess more than a superficial aptness, old favorites have been literally, as the title-
and there is a refreshing absence of that attempt page has it, “pictured' by Mr. Arthur I. Kel-
at epigrammatic smartness which spoils most ler. There are specially designed end-papers,
books of this type.—Good Things and Graces' is a decorated title-page in color, and head-pieces
a collection of thirty decidedly original recipes and tail-pieces in every available space. In
by Miss Isabel Goodhue. One of the three short, every opportunity for decoration has been
recipes for 'Greens' will serve to suggest Miss made the most of, and each smallest design is
Goodhue's idea of a delectable menu. 'Budding
Budding charming and entirely appropriate. The illus-
hopes; shoots of new ideas; sprigs of self-confi trations, a few more in number than the stan-
dence; tendrils of sentiment; flowers of poetry. zas, are in color or in tint, some from wash-
This makes an excellent combination, and is an drawings and others from pen-and-ink sketches.
especially good diet for all persons over forty-five They catch both the humor and the sentiment
years of age. If you do not find the necessary of the verses, and the artist has not forgotten
ingredients in your own garden, cultivate them.
that the life of Poverty Flat is now a full gen-
You will never regret it.' Brown Betty, Poor eration behind us. Her Letter' is certainly
Man's Pudding, Mayonnaise for Blue Monday one of the artistic triumphs of the season's out-
Salad, and Elixir of Youth are some of the other
put.
dainties which Miss Goodhue teaches her readers Two very beautiful holiday editions with Mr.
to prepare.
'Good Things. and Graces' is abso Howard Pyle's illustrations as the principal
lutely unique. and in both form and spirit it is decorative feature have been issued by Messrs.
a thorough-going holiday booklet.- A Child's Harper and Brothers. The more attractive of
Book of Abridged Wisdom,' written by 'Childe
the two, if there is a choice, as well as the
Harold' and 'affectionately dedicated to the
more fully illustrated, is 'The Line of Love,'
senior,' is a series of irresistibly comic verses
a series of seven stories of mediæval romance
containing good advice for the young. Here is
by Mr. James Branch Cabell. The tales have
one quatrain:
been culled from old French romans and dull
"When near a row of corn, my dears,
English chronicles, and the mediæval atmos-
Take care what subjects you pursue.
phere has been preserved by the quaintly,
However harmless it appears,
though never obscurely, archaic style of narra-
Remember that the corn has ears
tion. Ten pictures and a cover vignette by Mr.
And may be listening to you.'
Pyle, richly colored and conceived in a vividly
The absurdity of the verses is enhanced by the
imaginative style perfectly in keeping with the
illustrations in outline, which are quite as hu-
literary atmosphere, together with conventional
floral borders in color, make a singularly at-
as the text. Childe Harold's wisdom
is of a decidedly precocious order; his touch is so
tractive gift-book.-A dainty violet cover, rather
light and his puns so good — or so bad — that his
too ornate, suggestive page decorations, and
elders will appreciate him better than his con-
four full-page illustrations in color, similar in
style to those in the other volume, ornament
temporaries.- The Menehunes' by Emily Foster
The Island of Enchantment,' Mr. Justus Miles
Day, with illustrations by Mr. Spencer Wright, is
Forman's charming story of mediæval Venice.
a booklet of rather different type from the fore-
Mr. Forman knows how to mingle love, war,
going. The Menehunes are the 'little people of
the Hawaiian forests, and this is the story of their
and intrigue in a way to compel his reader's
interest, and he has never succeeded better
adventure with a fisherman whom they fought
than in this novelette, which is good enough
for the rule of the woods. Illustrations and bor-
fully to justify the pains that have been taken
der designs are in keeping with the tropical at-
by the publishers for its embellishment.
mosphere and mythical character of the tale, and
A novelty in garden-books seems almost im-
a unique binding of native cloth stamped with a
possible, but it has been provided by Blanche
barbaric pattern completes the quaint and original
Elizabeth Wade, whose Garden in Pink' is
effect.- Ñeither whimsical nor humorous, but in-
among the holiday publications of Messrs. A.
tended like the rest of the Elder books to cater to
C. McClurg & Co. Twelve little photographs,
the wishes of the holiday shopper in search of lit-
daintily printed on thin paper and mounted
tle books, is a dainty volume of lyrics by Mr.
on separate pages, show some of the beauties
Charles G. Blanden, entitled 'A Chorus of Leaves.'
of the garden, while headings and occasional
Nature and love are the themes of Mr. Blanden's
borders in color designed by Lucy Fitch Per-
verse. It strikes no lofty note, but it is singularly kins ornament the pages. The 'Pink Garden:
graceful in rhythm and dainty in conceit, and
was made over from an Italian garden, whose
makes no pretension to be more. The parchment clipped yews made a quaint background for
binding, a frontispiece from a landscape by Mr. the novel color scheme. It was all pink even
William Keith, and generous margins give the to the gardener, whose name was changed from
little book a holiday air.
plain John Brown to Giovanni Pincolini to
Quite the prettiest among the less expensive match his new surroundings. And as the flow-
holiday publications is the volume, published by ers that were unfortunate enough not to be
Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., containing pink must have attention, the rest of the gar-
Bret Harte's poem' Her Letter,' with its two den space was named “Vibgyor'— that is, the
companion pieces, "His Answer' and 'Her violet - indigo - blue-green-yellow-orange-and-red-
Last Letter. For the present reprint, these garden,- and there was also the small ‘Find-
morous
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must go
Out' garden, where things which might pos researches in the fascinating field of French le-
sibly come up pink could be tried. All these gend. The French chateaux, feudal, renaissance,
gardens have their place in the story, as has and Bourbon, have been made to yield up their
the 'Garden Room for rainy days. The essen treasures of association; and now the French
tial human interest is furnished by the gar- abbeys prove to be equally abounding in tales
dener, his wife, the two owners of the garden, of chivalrous gallantry and religious or patriotic
and a
summer guest known as 'the Prevari fervor. Fifteen legends, sacred and secular,
cator' because she wrote stories, and belong related in easy, narrative style, make up the
ing in the 'Pink Garden' book because she is new volume, which is bound uniformly with
given to seeing gardens and other matters in the others and liberally illustrated, in photo-
a rose-colored light. "The Garden in Pink' will gravure and half-tone, with pictures of the
fill all its readers with a desire for a pink abbeys and their art-treasures. Some of the
garden,--and next best to having one is to itineraries that Mrs. Champney found partic-
read about this one.
ularly pleasant, among the abbeys of Provence,
A book that will be particularly welcome to Burgundy, Isle de France, and Normandy, are
those who are contemplating a visit to Lon outlined in the last chapter; but Mrs. Champ-
don's art treasures, but one that has also ney warns her readers that they
plenty to offer the general reader, is 'The quickly, for even the ruins of the abbeys are
Art of the National Gallery,' a critical study fast vanishing
of the paintings included in that great collec We have come to expect an annual holiday vol-
tion, by Miss Julia de Wolf Addison, author ume of Mr. Paul Laurence Dunbar's negro melo-
of several works of similar scope. A plan of dies, and this year is no exception to the rule.
the gallery, showing the location of the dif The title-verse of the new collection is ‘Howdy,
ferent schools, follows the index. The pic- Honey, Howdy.' The illustrations are from pho-
tures are discussed in the text as they are tographs by Leigh Richmond Miner, and the mar-
hung, - that is, according to schools in their ginal and cover decorations are by Mr. Will Jen-
historic order; but of course the limitation kins, who makes a pretty setting, but a rather
in space and particularly in number of illus soberer one than those that Miss Margaret Arm-
trations precludes this manual's being a com strong has provided for several years past. The
plete history of any school. It is rather a illustrations, on the other hand, are less glaringly
guide to the treasures of the gallery, almost realistic than usual, and the negro portraits and
every picture being at least briefly mentioned.
groups are pleasantly varied by a number of
Miss Addison spent her early life in Eng charming southern landscapes. Mr. Dunbar's
land, and is thoroughly familiar with her
part in the volume needs no description, save to
ground. Her method is descriptive rather
say that it is in his characteristic vein and well
than technically critical,- which is decidedly
up to his usual standard in quality. (Dodd, Mead
the popular method. Nearly fifty illustrations & Co.)
in duo-gravure elucidate Miss Addison's points,
Another delightful collection of negro verse is
and together with a very handsome cover help 'Banjo Talks' (Bobbs-Merrill Co.), by Mrs. Anne
to make an exceedingly attractive book. It is
Virginia Culbertson. These lyrics, many of which
published in Messrs. L. C. Page & Co.'s series
have previously appeared in the magazines, are a
of guides to The Art Galleries of Europe.'
real addition to our stock of negro melodies.
"Two in Italy' is the name which Maud
Showing very little of the philosophical temper
Howe (Mrs. John Elliott) gives to her new that makes Mr. Dunbar's work unique, and being
volume of Italian sketches. The other one of
considerably less perfect in dialect, they have to
the two' is of course Mr. Elliott, whose draw-
their credit a decided imaginative quality, much
ings furnish material for half a dozen apposite picturesqueness of diction, and a charming spon-
illustrations. Mrs. Elliott's Italian reminiscences
taneity of conception and treatment. A stanza
are the fruit of an intimate acquaintance with from De Wood-Hants' will serve as illustration:
the country and its people an acquaintance
"W'en de moon scrouch down behime de hill
rendered profitable by a keen and humorous
An' de dark fol' roun' you clost an' still,
appreciation of any situation, however
Keep outer de wood,
monplace it may appear on its surface. The
Ef you know w'at's good,
chapters of her new book stand on that de Fer dey's things in dar dat nuver show
lightful middle ground between the short story 'Twel de dark come on an' de daylight go,
and the expository sketch. They are not ham-
An' dey races an' runs, an' dey flars an' flants,
An' de name
pered by plot, but the human interest — which
er dem creeturs is hants, chile,
hants!'
is essentially the story interest -'is predom-
inant, and the form is loosely narrative.
The illustrations are from photographs, which
Readers of 'Roma Beata' will enjoy this sec-
show considerable artistic skill in their avoidance
ond volume, which, though of slightly different oi stilted posing and in the blurred softness which
type, is equally permeated by Mrs. Elliott's tu nes down the crudity that seems to be almost
individual and entertaining point of view. inseparable from negro portraiture. The cover
(Little, Brown, & Co.)
is simple and of good design.
‘Romance of the French Abbeys' (Putnam) Almost ten years ago and long before the ad-
is the fourth volume that Mrs. Elizabeth W. vent of Pastor Wagner's 'Simple Life,' President
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an in
are
accom-
called "The Happy Life,' a plea for much the
same sort of plain living and high thinking. This
is now re-issued in a holiday edition (Crowell),
daintily bound in green and gold, printed with
rubricated initials and headings, and having as
frontispiece a photogravure portrait of the au-
thor. "The Happy Life' is intended to show
young people in particular how to make the most
of the blessings that are within the reach of all,
- friends, books, the outdoor world, the power to
think wisely and to serve one's fellows. The
points are concrete and practical, and the style
is very simple, with a ring of nobility and sin-
cerity about it that is worth more than many
epigrams.- From the same publishers and very
similar in spirit is the ‘Emerson Calendar' com-
piled by Mr. Huntington Smith. Print and paper
are attractive, and a fine portrait of the Concord
sage serves as frontispiece. The preface claims
for Emerson the honor of having been the orig-
inator, as well as the most inspired exponent, of
the much discussed 'Simple Life'; and the quota-
tions, one for each day in the year, are chosen to
exemplify Emerson's wide philosophy of life and
the wisdom and poise with which he viewed its
joys and obligations. This ‘Emerson Calendar'
ought to give a happy holiday and a happy year
to its recipient.
An interesting and comprehensive, though
distinctly popular, study of Biblical art has
been made by Miss Estelle M. Hurll in her
volume called The Bible Beautiful,' published
in a fully illustrated edition by Messrs. L. C.
Page & Co. The book aims to trace the de-
velopment of Bible illustration from the crude
pictures of the catacombs to the splendid art
of the medieval mosaics, cathedral
cathedral façades,
stained glass windows, and mural frescoes, and
finally to the modern work, mostly English,
of the last two centuries. Three special in-
dices are provided: one of Artists, for the art
student; one of Places, for the tourist; and
one of Bible Subjects, for Bible students. The
general explanation afforded by the text is sup-
plemented by three appendices which contain
selections from mediæval literature dealing with
art origins. About fifty half-tones of various
types of sacred art ornament and elucidate the
text.
The late Mr. Paul Leicester Ford was partic-
ularly apt at writing that type of short story
which any young man, in search of a Christmas
gift for the lady of his choice, instantly seizes
upon as appropriate. This year the young gen-
tleman will find his problem solved by a holi-
day edition of ' His Version of It,' that pretty
romance of by-gone days which old Reveille, the
veteran of the stable, relates to his equine
companions. Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co. publish
the book, with colored page borders, cleverly
composed of romantic emblems, and half a
dozen colored illustrations by Mr. Henry Hutt.
The publishers of the Thumb Nail Series'
(Century Co.) display really remarkable
facility in choosing for reprint works that are
suitable to the bibelot form and that will fit
the varied tastes and needs of the Christmas
shopper. Three new volumes for the current
year are Mrs. Browning's 'Sonnets from the
Portuguese,' with a few miscellaneous poems
by both Mr. and Mrs. Browning, and con-
taining as an introduction the interesting essay
by Mr. Richard Watson Gilder recently pub-
lished in the 'Century Magazine'; "The
Chimes,' Charles Dickens's delightful gobliu
story for the New Year; and a volume con-
taining five of Washington's_greatest
ad-
dresses and letters, with W. E. H. Lecky's
sketch of Washington's character as
troduction. Mrs. Blanche McManus Mansfield's
cover designs, executed in embossed leather,
as original and suitable as the 'Thumb
Nail' covers always are. The Browning and
Washington volumes have portrait frontispièces,
and The Chimes' an illustrative one.
A popular illustrated reprint of 'Ramona,'
with the pictures and decorative headings by
Mr. Henry Sandham that appeared in the
two-volume edition of several years ago, has
been issued by Messrs. Little, Brown, & Co.,
under the name of the 'Pasadena' edition. It
will be recalled that Mr. Sandham
panied Mrs. Jackson on her trip among the
California Missions in search of material for
“Ramona,' and that it was her plan to have
him illustrate the book, which she always re-
ferred to as 'ours.' His part, however, was
not completed until seventeen years after the
publication of the story. The 'Pasadena' edi-
tion is well printed and handsomely bound,
being a popular but not in any sense a cheap
edition.
'Her Memory Book,' designed by Miss Helen
Hayes and published by Messrs. Harper & Broth-
ers, is intended for a Christmas offering upon the
shrine of the popular debutante. Daintily bound
in violet and gold, decorated with lover's knots,
cupids, and roses, its blank pages await the rec-
ords of my lady's social triumphs from her début
to its natural sequel, her wedding. There is a
page for her portrait, and others for samples of
her favorite dresses and for newspaper clippings
about her. There is space for entries about the
sports she enjoys in each season, about her trav-
els, and her particularly exciting shopping tours.
Here she can preserve lists of the affairs given
in her honor and of all the dozen varieties of di-
version with which she fills her days and nights.
The page headings and borders are so pretty and
so clever that even a debutante without a taste
for collecting memorabilia-if such an one can be
found—will like to own and fill out this memory
book.
Eighteen years have elapsed since the publica-
tion of Mrs. Sarah K. Bolton's 'Famous Ameri-
can Authors,' and now the Messrs. Crowell offer
the essays anew in a handsomely bound volume
with two dozen illustrations portraying in fine
half-tone reproductions the persons and the homes
of six representatives of the old New England
school. A great deal has been written about the
lives of Emerson, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Whit-
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tier, Lowell, and Holmes, but Mrs. Bolton's nar five pictures for each story, and while they can-
rative has nevertheless a decidedly attractive not of course compare in strength and originality
ring. She manages to tell the familiar facts in a with Leech's work, we think that readers who are
genial, lively way, interlarding them with anec not wedded to the old tradition will like them
dotes or personal impressions, and making her very much, particularly younger readers, who are
main theme in every case the essential quality of always repelled by the frank ugliness of the early
the author discussed. This reprint seems timely illustrations. The volume is of quarto size, well
in the midst of the flood of writing that threatens made and printed. The cover has a quaint, old-
to engulf our small output of really good litera time look that is very attractive.
ture, and particularly in view of a recent tend-
"Caroline of Courtlandt Street' (Harper) is a
ency to underrate the New England school at
slight but spirited novelette by Mr. Weymer Jay
least as vigorously as its contemporaries over-
Mills. Its plot is laid in the year 1824, when
rated it.
Courtlandt street was a synonym for aristocratic
Fourteen years ago Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin exclusiveness in New York, and when the Park
& Co. issued an illustrated edition of three of Theatre was still in its prime. 'Lady Caroline'
Oliver Wendell Holmes's humorous poems: "The belongs to Courtlandt Street through her father's
Deacon's Masterpiece,' 'How the Old Horse Won family, but because her mother was 'the darling
the Bet,' and 'The Broomstick Train,' with illus of the old Park,' Courtlandt Street disowns her.
trations in black-and-white by Mr. Howard Pyle. Being an ambitious as well as a charming young
These publishers now offer a new edition of the person, she resolves to conquer both of her heredi-
book,- which is entitled “The One-Hoss Shay,'. tary domains; and the novel tells how she did it
with the original illustrations re-drawn in color and why she stopped. Half a dozen very dainty
by the artist. Mr. Pyle's humorous vein, which colored pictures by Miss Anna Whelan Betts, a
most of his admirers consider undoubtedly his series of over-elaborate page borders by Mr. W.
most characteristic and delightful vein, could E. Mears, and an ornate cover make a distinc-
nowhere find better material for interpretation tively holiday setting for this pretty story.
than that which Dr. Holmes's genial wit fur-
Another attractive holiday novelette is Mr.
nishes. The choice between black-and-white and Ralph Henry Barbour's 'An Orchard Princess'
color is largely a personal one; it is enough to (Lippincott). This is a story of today, the ac-
say that the new edition is delightful. Dr.
tion taking place in 'Maple Green,' an artists'
Holmes's preface for the 1891 edition has been
colony somewhere near New York. The wooing
retained, and a note by the publishers speaks of
of the orchard princess is exceedingly entertain-
the hearty approval he gave to Mr. Pyle's orig-
ing, for the princess has a mind of her own and
inal drawings.
the hero shows much ingenuity in making it up
The volume entitled 'Saddle and Song' is, as according to his wishes. The artist colony life
its name suggests, a compilation of verse about furnishes a good background, and Bistre, the
horses. It is published by the Lippincott Co., the hero's bull-dog, is an interesting factor of the
editor's name being withheld. Every type of situation. The decorative setting is charming.
horse,- the Arab steed, the equine hero of myth Mr. James Montgomery Flagg has made four
and romance, the clean-limbed racer, the Aus colored plates, and his chapter-headings and
tralian drover's pony, the steeple-chase favorite, marginal drawings are artistic and perfectly in
the horse ridden for idle pleasure, and the horse keeping with the story. A vignette of the prin-
ridden to a glorious death,- all find their pane cess, with a spray of apple-blossoms below it, set
gyrists within these covers, so that every reader in a plain green background is the dainty and
should be able to find a horse or a rider to his appropriate cover design.
liking. There is one respect in which the collec-
Readers of 'Scribner's Magazine' for the cur-
tion is incomplete, but the editor forestalls criti-
rent year have been enjoying Mr. F. Hopkinson
cism by expressing his regret that he could find no
Smith's chapters about the painter MacWhirter
satisfactory tribute to the western cow-pony's and his circle of friends. Every month or so they
prowess, except a few copyrighted pieces. Some
have gathered around The Wood Fire in No. 3,'
old favorites are missing, doubtless for the same - 'No. 3' being MacWhirter's attic studio,– to
reason; but within its limits the collection is
exchange greetings and stories of the mysterious
good one. There are a number of illustrations
or humorous or romantic adventures that they
from paintings and photographs, and the general have encountered in various odd corners of
make-up of the book is attractive.
the earth. These stories are now gathered into
Mr. George Alfred Williams, illustrator of the a volume, taking its title from the fire that in-
Baker and Taylor Company's holiday edition of spired them, and illustrated in colors by Mr.
Dickens's Christmas Carol' and 'The Cricket on Alonzo Kimball. MacWhirter and his friends
the Hearth,' has had the temerity to depart from are thoroughly individual, but all alike endowed
the traditional method of picturing Dickens's with the kindly Bohemian spirit of good-comrade-
characters. As he explains in a prefatory note, ship that is supposed to be characteristic of the
he has tried to bring out the more human elements artist profession. They all know stories well
of the characterizations, instead of the grotesque worth the telling, and they tell them extremely
and exaggerated comedy that appealed to Leech well. While not of a distinctively Christmas
and other contemporary illustrators. There are flavor, the ‘Wood Fire' stories are full of a holi-


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day spirit of good fellowship and good cheer, and lection. Mr. Johnson's little boy' rhymes are
The Wood Fire in No. 3' (Scribner) will make already well known to magazine readers. This
an excellent Christmas gift.
volume is sure to win for its author a wider
The Poet, Miss Kate, and I' is one of those appreciation of his really unique work.
little idyls of Arcadian life in country solitudes "A Corner in Women and Other Follies'
that are just now enjoying a large measure of (Moffat, Yard & Co.) is the title of an amus-
popular favor. It is written, like many of its | ing collection of Mr. Tom Masson's stories,
predecessors, in diary form, the hero and hero- epigrams,
epigrams, anecdotes, and skits. All
the
ine taking turns in confiding their respective 'follies' are clever, and there is plenty of
emotions and points of view to the reader. Miss variety in both subject and manner of treat-
Kate is a horse, the fast friend and constant ment. One of Mr. Gibson's drawings makes
companion of the heroine, and just as impor a most effective cover design, and another
tant in the story as is the confidante in eight serves as frontispiece. The rest of the illus-
eenth century comedy. The plot is slight, but trations and decorations are by Gilbert, Kem-
the nature sketches, the character study, and a ble, Raymond Crosby, and half a dozen more
very piquant way of putting things, give the of 'Life's' favorite illustrators.
book a decided charm. This type of story lends Motor fiends and motor haters can forget
itself well to a decorative edition, and the their quarrels and join in a hearty laugh over
Baker & Taylor Co. issue this example in pretty •Auto Fun’ (Crowell), a collection of skits and
holiday dress with green page borders, colored
drawings from the witty pages of 'Life.' Being
frontispiece, and an unusually artistic cover.
the cream of 'Life's' opinions upon the subject,
So small as to be valuable chiefly as a curi-
they are all clever and to the point. Here every
osity is Messrs. T. Y. Crowell & Co.'s 'Minia-
scorcher will find his mishaps turned to jest, and
ture Edition' of Washington Irving's selected
his adventures and aspirations pictured in a fash-
works. The five tiny bibelots, in size 21/2 by
ion that he cannot resent and that will none the
112 inches, are bound in limp ooze leather,
less rejoice the hearts of his enemies and victims.
clearly printed on gilt-edged India paper, and
Auto Fun,' with its novel cover design and
slipped into a leather case that matches the
abundance of real humor on a vital issue of the
covers. We have had pocket volumes before,
year, is sure to be a favorite with holiday buyers,
but this is literally a pocket edition. The
who will like to take a subtle revenge upon their
volumes contain four stories from The Sketch
Book,' seven of the Christmas Sketches,'
auto-owning friends by presenting them with this
token of appreciation.
four legends from The Alhambra,' and ten
selections from 'Bracebridge Hall.' They can
'Songs о' Cheer' is the title of a new col-
lection of Mr. James Whitcomb Riley's verse,
be read comfortably, though one's fingers tend
to become all thumbs in handling anything
published by the. Bobbs-Merrill Company in
quite so tiny.
a volume copiously illustrated by Mr. Will
Vawter.
‘Womanhood in Art' (Paul Elder & Co.) is the
The verses include some copyrighted
rather unpropitious and very indeterminate title
as early as 1883, and others published as late
of a thin quarto volume by Mrs. Phebe Estelle
as 1905.
There is a good deal of common-
place work in the book, but there are also
Spalding. It consists, in fact, of reproductions
bits here and there of Mr. Riley at his best.
and brief interpretations of six great artistic con-
The cheerful tone of the volume and its dec-
ceptions of ideal womanhood: the Venus de Milo,
orative features will appeal to holiday shoppers.
Dagonet’s Eve, Mona Lisa, Beatrice Cenci, the
Madonna of the Chair, and the Sistine Madonna.
'The Days and Hours of Raphael' (Grafton
The reproductions, which are in tint, are excel-
Press), by Mrs. Rachel A. La Fontaine, is a little
manual of art study, substantially bound, copi-
lent, and print, paper, and grey board covers are
attractive. The text is intended neither for artists
ously illustrated, and intended for the tyro in
nor students of painting, but for the ordinary ob-
matters æsthetic. The full-page plates in half-
server who is interested merely in the moral sig-
tone, including, besides the seven Days' and the
nificance of the picture, caring nothing for its
twelve 'Hours,' two portraits of Raphael, are of
history or technique. Such criticism leans inevi-
excellent quality. The accompanying notes of
tably towards the fanciful and the sentimental,
explanation are very elementary, presupposing
but it doubtless appeals to a certain class of read-
little knowledge of art or mythology on the part
of the reader. It is a pity, considering her effort
ers.
‘Rhymes of Little Boys' (Crowell) is the at-
for simplicity, that the author does not couch her
tractive title of a small volume of verse by Mr.
ideas in less obscure and tortuously constructed
Burges Johnson. The ‘Rhymes' are bound
sentences.
in plaid gingham, with decorated end-papers Mary Allette Ayer, who last year
and title page. 'Goin' Barefoot,' 'Bein' Sick,' piled a 'Daily Cheer Year Book,' this season
• Gettin' Well,' 'Buildin' Fires, • Cookin' edits 'The Joys of Friendship' (Lothrop, Lee
Things,' 'Ketchin' Rides,' Pirates' Cave,' & Shepard Co.), a similar collection of quoted
"Nurses,' and numerous other matters of vital passages. The extracts are arranged under six
interest to all small boys and their friends are sub-headings, treating as many different phases
treated with an understanding touch and much of the subject. A forget-me-not heart on
real humor. A few verses written from the white ground makes a dainty and suitable
grown-up point of view are included in the col cover for this pretty gilt-book.
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ume.
some fifty of Ruskin's letters hitherto unpublished.
NOTES.
Many of the accompanying illustrations by Kate
Young Germany,' the sixth and concluding vol-
Greenaway have also been reproduced for the first
time.
ume of George Brandes' important work on Main
Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature,' will
Mr. Charles Dexter Allen's authoritative work or
be published at once by the Macmillan Co. 'American Book-Plates' is published by the Mac-
Dr. A. J. George has edited for Messrs. Little,
millan Co. in a handsome new edition. The text
Brown, & Co. a volume of 'Select Poems of Robert
seems to be unchanged. Numerous reproductions of
Browning,' accompanied by a considerable body of
rare and interesting book-plates illustrate the vol-
notes, an introductory essay, and portraits.
Mrs. Paget
Messrs. Luzac & Co., London, send us a pamphlet
Toynbee's definitive edition of
on 'China's Intercourse with Korea from the XVth
Horace Walpole's Letters will be completed this
autumn. The last volume - the sixteenth - is
Century to 1895,' by Mr. William Woodville Rock-
almost filled by indexes to persons, places, and
hill. There are two plates by way of illustration.
subjects, which will be invaluable as a key to the
‘Editorial Wild Oats,' by Mark Twain, is a vol.
treasure-house.
ume of early journalistic experiences, real or
imagined, selected from the earlier writings of our
Four new volumes of the 'Caxton' series are im-
national humorist, and published by the Messrs.
ported by the Messrs. Scribner. They are as fol-
lows:
Harper.
'Songs and Lyrics from the Dramatists, 1533-
1777', 'The Poems of Thomas Gray and William
Mr. E. V. Lucas has compiled a companion vol-
Collins', 'The Novels of Laurence Sterne', and 'The
ume to his successful little anthology, 'The Open
Imitation of Christ' in John Payne's translation.
Road.' The new book is called 'The Friendly
Town,' and deals with the pleasures of indoor and
“The Industrial History of the United States,
city life.
for High Schools and College,' by Miss Kathariné
Coman, is published by the Macmillan Co. It
'Carnations, Picotees, and the Wild and Garden
Pinks,' is a work written by several hands, and
supplements in a highly interesting way the or-
dinary narrative text-book, and will prove a val-
edited by Mr. E. T. Cook, now published in the
uable adjunct in the teaching of the subject.
Country Life Library,' imported by the Messrs.
Scribner.
It is announced that beginning with the new
year the two periodicals, 'Country Life in America'
The Chicago Library Club publishes a little
and “The Country Calendar,' will be consolidated,
handbook of Libraries of the City of Chicago,' ac-
appearing with the imprint of Doubleday, Page &
companied by an interesting historical sketch of
Co. This same firm is soon to issue the first num-
the organization and work of the Club. The book
ber of an illustrated monthly periodical devoted to
is illustrated.
farming
Mr. T. Fisher Unwin, London, publishes a book
Dr. Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer has undertaken to
by Mr. A. Harold Unwin, entitled “Future Forest
prepare for Messrs. George W. Jacobs & Co. an
Trees,' being a discussion of the importance of the
exhaustive ‘Literary History of Philadelphia and
German experiments in the introduction of North
its Neighborhood,' in which the prominent literary
American trees.'
figures and landmarks of Philadelphia and the ad-
Mr. Theodore Watts Dunton's new novel 'Car joining counties will be thoroughly described and
niola' will be published during the winter in Eng. discussed.
land and America by Messrs. Harpers. The story A volume containing the Child's Garden' and
is laid partly in England, partly in Venice, and
Underwoods' has been added by Messrs. Herbert
partly in Hungary.
B. Turner & Co. to their pretty edition of Steven-
The volume of 'Lectures on Shakespeare' by
A photogravure reproduction of Saint-Gau-
Dr. Stopford Brooke, to be published in this coun dens's medallion is included as frontispiece, and a
try by Messrs. Henry Holt & Co., will deal with small vignette of "The Manse' appears on the
ten of the principal dramas in a spirit of apprecia- | title-page.
tion rather than analysis.
A volume of essays by Sir Lewis Morris will be
"The Latin Poets' is a new anthology edited by published shortly by Messrs. Longmans, Green, &
Mr. Nathan Haskell Dole, and published by the Co., under the collective title of The New Ramb-
Messrs. Crowell. Seventeen poets are represented, ler.' This same firm has in preparation a
from Plautus to Lucan, and a great variety of volume by the anonymous author of 'A Life of
translators are drawn upon for the matter selected. Sir Kenelm Digby,' to be entitled 'Pryings among
A new volume soon to appear in the Temple
Private Papers.'
Classics' series will consist of a selection and trans-
A handsome moderate-priced reprint of William
lation from Indian Poetry made by Mr. Romesh Morris's "The Earthly Paradise' is sent us by
Chundra Dutt, who rendered the Mahabharata' Messrs. Longmans, Green, & Co. There are four
and “Ramayana' into English verse for the same volumes in the set, the first containing a fine photo-
series.
gravure portrait of Morris and a brief preface by
"The Elements of Business Law,' with illustrative Mr. J. W. Mackail. It is a distinct boon to have
examples and problems, is a text-book by Mr. Ernest Morris's great poem in so beautiful and convenient
W. Huffcot, published by Messrs. Ginn & Co. in an edition.
response to the demand created by the introduction
Messrs. McClure, Phillips & Co. publish a small
of commercial courses into our secondary school volume of 'Bible History' by Pastor Xavier Koenig,
curricula.
which presents some of the results of modern his-
In The Life of Kate Greenaway,' by Messrs. M. torical criticism of the Old Testament. M. Koenig
H. Spielmann and G. S. Layard, which will at once is associated with M. Charles Wagner in the
be published by the Messrs. Putnam, the history Protestant religious movement which is now being
of Kate Greenaway's long friendship with Ruskin carried on in France. The translation of this book
is told and their correspondence printed, including is by Miss Mary Louise Hendee.
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"The Melody of God's Love,' which is a volume
of sermonizing on the twenty-third psalm by Mr.
Oliver Huckel, is published as a pretty little book
by the Messrs. Crowell. From the same author and
publisher comes 'Lohengrin,' which is a versifica.
tion of the story of Wagner's music-drama.
Volume III. of Dr. George M. Gould's 'Bio-
graphic Clinics,' published by Messrs. P. Blakis-
ton's Son & Co., continues the author's discussion
of 'the influence of visual function, pathologic and
physiologic, upon the health of patients.' Symonds
and Taine supply the present volume with its illus-
trations of Dr. Gould's thesis.
"The Complete Poetical Works of Lord Byron'
form a new volume of the Cambridge' edition of
poets, published by Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin &
Co. Byron in a single volume, with modern edit-
ing, has long been a desideratum, and the need is
now happily supplied. There are a full thousand
pages of poems, besides the biographical sketch and
the notes. The volume is edited by Mr. Paul
Elmer More.
'Sea Shore Life,' by Dr. Alfred Goldsborough
Mayer, an illustrated popular description of the
invertebrates of the New York and adjacent coast,
will be published at once by Messrs. A. S. Barnes
& Co. This is the first volume of the New York
Aquarium Nature Series, prepared under the aus-
pices of the New York Zoological Society, with an
introductory note by Charles H. Townsend, Director
of the New York Aquarium.
"The Broadbent Treasuries,' a series of tiny
anthologies that has met with much success in
England, are now offered to American readers by
the Broadbent Press of Philadelphia. There are
four volumes in the set, -'A Treasury of Love,'
‘A Russell Lowell Treasury,' 'An Emerson Treas-
ury,' and 'A Treasury of Love.' The editing seems
to have been done with taste, the form is neat and
attractive, and the volumes are issued at a remark-
ably low price.
This being the centennial year of the birth of
William Lloyd Garrison, we commend the timeliness
of a little book of brief selections from his writ-
ings, now published by Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin
& Co. "The Words of Garrison' is the title, and
the book is dedicated to all who hate cruelty,
oppression, and war, and believe in the equal rights
and perfectibility of mankind.' Besides the selected
passages, the volume contains a biography of Gar-
rison, and a bibliography.
The Oliver Ditson Co. have just added to their
'Musician's Library' a volume of Seventy Scot-
tish Songs,' edited by Miss Helen Hopekirk. This
is a very interesting and valuable work, made so by
the wide range of the selections, the careful trans-
lations of the Gaelic text, and the artistic accom-
paniments prepared by the editor. An essay on
*Scotch Folk Songs' serves as introduction, and
the frontispiece portrait is of the editor.
A useful guide and handbook to the Italian and
Spanish paintings in the Louvre, by Dr. Arthur
Mahler, is published by Messrs. Doubleday, Page
& Co. Since this gallery contains representations
from nearly every painter of these two schools, the
book may serve also as a biographical dictionary
of artists. The criticism is of the old school,
Vasari's pleasing tales being repeated with an ap-
parent obliviousness of the incredulity into which
they have fallen through the researches of such
moderns as Berenson, Fry, and others.
The American Book Co. publishes 'Essentials in
English History,' by Mr. Albert Perry Walker, and
'Essentials in American History,' by Professor
Albert Bushnell Hart. These text-books belong in
the series of four volumes needed to cover the
secondary-school course in history as generally
adopted in the better schools of the country. The
volume on ancient history in this series was pub-
Jished two or three years ago, and the volume on
mediæval and modern history will soon appear.
The publication of eight new volumes in the
' Biographical' edition of Robert Louis Stevenson
brings to a conclusion a set of books that all lovers
of this much-loved writer will wish to have on their
shelves. The text is of course complete and authori-
tative, and the general form of the volumes makes
them much more convenient for actual reading pur-
poses than either of the two expensive subscription
editions. The prefaces contributed by Mrs. Steven.
son to several of the volumes are always interesting,
and often throw a new ray of light on 'R. L. S.'
and his work. Messrs. Scribners are the publishers.
The volume by Miss G. E. Mitton on 'Jane
Austen and her Times,' to be published shortly by
the Messrs. Putnam, will endeavor to depict the
writer among the scenes wherein she moved, to
sketch the men and women to whom she was accus-
tomed, the habits and manners of her class, and
the England with which she was familiar. Some
interesting reproductions from contemporary en-
gravings and paintings will illustrate the book. In
connection with Miss Mitton's work may be men-
tioned the forthcoming account of 'Jane Austen's
Sailor Brothers' by Mr. J. H. Hubback, and the
new and cheaper edition of Miss Constance Hill's
Jane Austen, her Homes and her Friends,' both of
which will be published soon by the John Lane Co.
'Facts and Fancies for the Curious from the
Harvest-Fields of Literature,' compiled by Dr.
Charles C. Bombaugh, is a recent publication of the
J. B. Lippincott Co. It is a substitute for a similar
work made by the same compiler about thirty years
ago, the plates of which were destroyed in the
Lippincott fire of 1899. It is impossible to describe
such a work as this except in some such terms as
the editor's 'a melange of excerpta.' It contains
a great deal of curious information, which would
also be useful if one only knew where to find it.
But the total amount of curious information is so
vastly greater than the amount compressible within
a single volume that a book of this type is more
useful for random reading than for reference pur-
poses.
The wonderful possibilities of the Oxford India
paper are given new illustration in two books re-
cently published by Mr. Henry Frowde for the
Clarendon Press. The first of these is a single-
volume reprint of the 'Oxford' edition of Boswell's
Johnson, originally issued a year ago in two vol.
The text is based on Malone's edition of
1799, and there is no new editorial matter. We
are so accustomed to Boswell in three or four stout
volumes that it is difficult to reconcile him with
this single trim little duodecimo. Even more red
markable is the new 'Oxford' edition of Shakes-
peare, in which the complete works are presented
in a clearly-printed volume no larger than an ordi-
nary novel.
A preface, index to characters, and
glossary are contributed by Mr. W. J. Craig. All
the details of printing and binding are in perfect
taste, and the edition seems to us the ideal single-
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THE SEASON'S BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG.
The following is a list of all new children's books pub-
lished during the present season and received at the office of
THE DIAL up to the time of going to press. The titles are
classified in a general way, and brief descriptions of the
character and contents of the books are given. It is hoped
that this list may commend itself to Holiday book purchas-
ers as a convenient and trustworthy guide to the juvenile
books of 1905.
Pp. 366.
pp. 133.
Stories for Boys Especially.
Pinkey Perkins: Just a Boy. By Captain Harold Hammond,
U. S. A. Illus., 12mo, pp. 327. Century Co. $1.50.
Pinkey Perkins is a genuine American boy, full of fun
and mischief, but thoroughly honest and manly. He
manages to get lots of excitement in the little village
where he lives.
Ben Pepper. By Margaret Sidney. Illus., 12mo, pp. 474.
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. $1.50.
Perhaps no other series of children's stories has had the
same popularity as the famous “Pepper Books," of which
this is the tenth volume. Ben will be remembered as the
“quiet, steady as a rock" member of the Pepper family.
Lonely O'Malley. By Arthur Stringer. Illus., 12mo, pp. 383.
Houghton, Mimin & Co. $1.50.
The exploits of a small boy, the darling of his mother
and the terror of the town, are here related. It is a
book of much the same general character as Mark Twain's
"Tom Sawyer" and Aldrich's "Story of a Bad Boy."
Shipwrecked in Greenland. By Arthur R. Thompson. Illus.,
12mo, pp. 310. Little, Brown & Co. $1.50.
A party of boys, with a sea captain and an older young
man, find a drifting steamer not far from St. John, and
set out to rescue the stranded passengers and crew.
Their adventures on the Greenland and Labrador Coast
are portrayed.
Four in Camp. By Ralph Henry Barbour. Illus, in color,
8vo, pp. 249. D. Appleton & Co. $1.50,
An account of the summer adventures of four boys on a
camping party in the New Hampshire woods. A half-
dozen illustrations are supplied by c. M. Relyea.
Tales of the Fish Patrol. By Jack London. Illus., 12mo, gilt
top, pp. 243. Macmillan Co. $1.50.
Seven stories of exciting adventure, depicting the expe-
riences of the men who enforce the fish laws in San Fran-
cisco Bay. An Illustration to each story is supplied by
George Varian.
The Outcast Warrior: A Tale of the Red Frontier. By Kirk
Munroe. Illus., 8vo, pp. 279. D. Appleton & Co. $1.50 net.
The story of a New England physician who leaves his
home for the western wilderness, casts in his fortunes
with a tribe of Indians, and finally becomes their chief.
In Search of the Castaways. By Jules Verne. New edition;
illus., 8vo, pp. 620. J. B. Lippincott Co. $1.50.
A new edition of one of the best of Jules Verne's en-
grossing stories for boys, first published in this country in
1873. The old wood-cut illustrations of the original edi-
tion are here reproduced.
Fifty-two Stories for Boys. Edited by Alfred H. Miles.
Illus., 8vo, pp. 460. D. Appleton & Co. $1.50.
Short stories on all sorts of subjects, written by G. A.
Henty, G. Manville Fenn, and other English authors.
In the Line By A. T. Dudley. Illus., 12mo, pp. 300. Loth-
rop, Lee & Shepard Co. $1.25.
A story of school life and athletics, telling how a young
student won his position at guard on the football team.
This forms the third volume in Mr. Dudley's popular
"Phillips Exeter Series."
The Winning Run; or, The Baseball Boys of Lakeport. By
Captain Ralph Bonehill. Illus., 12mo, pp. 315. A. s.
Barnes & Co. $1.25.
The sport and rivalry of American boys and the thrilling
excitement of the national game are the special features
of this excellent story of out-door life and healthy sport.
The Gregory Guards. By Emma Lee Benedict. Illus., 12mo,
pp. 302.
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. $1.25.
The "Gregory guards" are six boys invited by a rich
young man to spend the summer at his home on an Island
near New York. These boys, representing all sorts and
conditions, help to develop one another in an unconscious
but no less effective way.
Plucky Jo. By Edward S. Ellis. Illus., 12mo, pp. 329. Dana
Estes & Co. $1.25.
Jo Hepburn is a manly, natural, athletic young fellow
who makes his own way through college. He wins the
baseball championship for his college, fights a plucky battle
with
two burglars, and has numerous other interesting
experiences.
Fishing across the Continent. By W. N. Hull, A. M. Illus.
in color, etc., 12mo, pp. 245. A. Flanagan Co. $1.
True stories of the fishing experiences in many waters
of a veteran angler.
The Boy Captive in Canada. By Mary P. Wells Smith. Illus.,
12mo, pp. 352. Little, Brown & Co. $1.25.
A narrative of the adventures and experiences of little
Stephen William during his wanderings as a captive with
the Indians in northern Vermont, and during a Canadian
winter spent with his captors.
Dave Porter at Oak Hall; or, The Schooldays of an American
Boy. By Edward Stratemeyer. Illus., 12mo, pp. 312.
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. $1.25.
How, as a green country boy, Dave Porter went to
Oak Hall, how he was hazed, and how he had to fight
his way through until he was voted a jolly good fellow,
and was given a place on the school baseball team and
helped to win a great game, is here described.
Tommy Joyce and Tommy Joy. By Harriet A. Cheever. Illus.,
12mo, pp. 309. Dana Estes & Co. $1.25.
Tommy Joyce is a spolled child of wealthy parents, who
runs away from home. He makes the acquaintance of
Tommy Joy, a plucky little orphan, and the two become
firm friends. They make a trip to sea, and have other
adventures.
Duck Lake. By E. Ryerson Young, Jr. Illus., 12mo, pp. 191.
Eaton & Mains. $1.
A story of life in the open air and among wild animals.
.Deerfoot in the Forest. By Edward S. Ellis. Illus. In
color, etc., 12mo, pp. 366. John C. Winston Co. $1.
The first volume, in the “New Deerfoot Series," de-
scribing the adventures of two boys and a wonderful In-
dian scout and hunter.
Deerfoot on the Prairies. By Edward S. Ellis. Illus., 12mo,
John C. Winston Co. $1,
A continuation of the “New Deerfoot Series," detalling
the further adventures of that remarkable Indian and his
boy companions.
Deerfoot in the Mountains. By Edward S. Ellis. Illus. in
color, etc., 12mo, pp. 363. John C. Winston Co. $1.
This last volume of the “New Deerfoot Series" follows
the adventures of the Indian guide and his boy friends
from the Pacific to their home in Ohio.
Beaufort Chums. By Edwin L. Sabin. Illus., 12mo, pp. 281.
T. Y. Crowell & Co. 75 cts.
Life in a small town on the Mississippi River is here
described. The four boy heroes hunt, fish, camp, swim,
skate, and get mixed up in some harmless scrapes.
The old Monday Farm. By Louisa R. Baker. Illus., 12mo,
Dana Estes & Co. 50 cts.
The fun and good times, as well as the troubles and
perplexities, experienced by a boy in running a farm of
210 acres, are here described.
Stories for Girls Especially.
A Little Princess: Being the Whole Story of Sara Crewe,
Now Told for the First Time. By Frances Hodgson Bur.
nett; illus. in color by Ethel Franklin Betts. Large 8vo,
gilt top, pp. 266. Charles Scribner's Sons. $2.
The success of Mrs. Burnett's play, "A Little Princess,"
has encouraged the author to retell the story of little
Sara Crewe, using much new material. The 12 pictures
in color are a beautiful feature.
Sidney: Her Summer on the St. Lawrence. By Anna Chapin
Ray. Illus., 12mo, pp. 332. Little, Brown & Co. $1.50.
Sidney Stayres, her cousins, and their friends, not only
have a delightful summer on the romantic St. Lawrence
river, but manage to do some good in a quiet way, also.
Amy in Acadia. By Helen Leah Read. Illus., 12mo, pp. 344.
Little, Brown & Co. $1.50.
Amy and her friends have many interesting experiences
in the romantic region of Canada known as Acadia, a
country of beautiful scenery and famous historical associa-
tions.
A Daughter of the Rich and Her Friends the Blossoms of
Mount Hunger. By M. E. Waller. New edition; fllus.,
12mo, pp. 349. Little, Brown & Co. $1.50.
Stories for girls of backwoods New England life, by the
author of "The Wood-Carver of 'Lympus."
Wilful Cousin Kate. By L. T. Meade. Illus., 12mo, pp. 392.
J. B. Lippincott Co. $1.50.
"Wilful Cousin Kate" is an English girl who idolizes
her mother, but to all others is unloving, quick-ten pered,
and uncontrollable. The account of her chastening and
regeneration makes up the story.
Fifty-two Stories for Girls. Edited by Alfred H. Miles.
Illus., 8vo, pp. 458. D. Appleton & Co. $1.50.
A collection of short stories, one for each week in the
year, by various English writers for the young.
Little Miss Cricket. By Gabrielle E. Jackson. Illus. in color,
etc., 12mo. pp. 249. D. Appleton & Co. $1.25.
The heroine is a little girl who, becoming separated
from her mother in a storm at sea, is adopted by a hard-
hearted maiden aunt. How she made the most of a diff-
cult situation, until her final happiness, is described.
The Brass-Bound Box. By Evelyn Raymond. Illus., 12mo,
Dana Estes & Co. $1.25.
The efforts of a boy and girl to unravel the mystery of
a secret chamber in the old country house in which they .
live form the basis of this story.
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pp. 283.
Little Miss Sunshine. By Gabrielle E. Jackson. New edition;
Illus. in color, 12mo, pp. 418. D. Appleton & Co. $1.50.
The story of a little girl, by a popular and prolific
writer of books for the young.
Kristy's Surprise Party. By Olive Thorne Miller. Illus, in
color, 12mo, pp. 251. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $1.25.
Sixteen stories of child life, by a well-known writer.
There are four charming full-page pictures in color by
Ethel N. Farnsworth, decorative end-leaves, and a pretty
cover design.
Patty in the City. By Carolyn Wells. Illus., 12mo, pp. 274.
Dodd, Mead & Co. $1.25.
The friends of "Patty at Home" will enjoy meeting
her again in her city home. The influence of her cheerful
spirit extends among her school friends and brings about
many happy times.
Helen Grant at Aldred House. By Amanda M. Douglas. Illus.,
12mo, pp. 339. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. $1.25.
The popular heroine of the “Helen Grant Series,' of
which this is the third volume, here returns to her much-
loved school at Aldred House, and completes her prepara.
tion for college. The Illustrations are by Amy Brooks.
Josie Bean: Flat Street. By Harriet A. Cheever. Illus., 12mo,
pp. 238.
Dana Estes & Co. $1.25.
The story of a brave young girl who rose, by her own
exertions, from poverty and obscure surroundings, to suc-
cessful work as an artist, and to opportunities for travel
and friendships.
When Grandma Was Fourteen. By Marlon Harland. Illus.,
12mo, pp. 399. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. $1.25.
The story of a little Virginia maid in the days before
the . Civil War. Through the eyes of fourteen-year-old
Molly Burwell the reader sees much that is quaint, amusing
and pathetic in Richmond as it was before the war.
Mary 'n' Mary. By Edith Francis Foster. Illus., 12mo, pp.
209. Dana Estes & Co. $1.25.
The two Marys in the story-one born of rich parents,
and the other of poor—are both healthy, natural, fun-loving
little girls who meet with the usual number of mishaps
and adventures, and are safely delivered out of them all.
My Little Lady-in-Waiting. By Louise E. Catlin. Illus., 12mo,
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. $1.25.
The account of how a wait of the New York tenement
district rose to become a "little lady-in-waiting" to a
noble German lady.
Lady Dear: The Little Mistress of a Castle in Spain. By
Millicent E. Mann. Illus., 8vo, pp. 222. A. C. McClurg
& Co. $1. net.
"Lady Dear" is the pet name of a little Spanish maid
called Juanita, who lived in the days of Queen Isabella,
and whose father follows Columbus to America.
Cordelia's Pathway Out. By Edna F. Foster. Illus., 12mo,
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. $1.
Cordella is a shy little country-bred child, who early
in the story leaves her home village for the larger field
and advantages of the city. Hortense, the heroine of a
previous story by Miss Foster, reappears in this.
Dolly's Double: The Story of Dolly and Isabella. By Ethel
Wood. Illus., 8vo, pp. 207. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
Co. $1.
Dolly and her friend Isabella bear such striking re-
semblance to one another that they can hardly be told
a part. They live together, and later, by the clearing up
of a mystery, it appears that they are really sisters.
Dorothy Dainty at the shore. By Amy Brooks. Illus., 12mo,
pp. 217. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. $1.
This fourth volume of the “Dorothy Dainty Serles" tells
of the experiences of Dorothy and Nancy and their friends
at a summer house near the sea. The illustrations are
by the author.
An Only Child. By Eliza Orne White. Illus., 12mo, pp. 167.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $1.
An appealing story of the joys and sorrows of a little
girl and her kitten, and of the provincial life in a country
town, There are four full-page Illustrations by Katherine
Pyle.
How Barbara Kept Her Promise. By Nina Rhoades. Illus.,
12mo, pp. 245. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. $1.
Though Barbara is only twelve years old, she fulfills the
promise to her father that she would take care of her
younger sister, both children being orphans. Some of the
characters in Miss Rhoades's previous books reappear here.
Randy's Luck. By Amy Brooks. Illus., 12mo, pp. 258. Loth-
rop. Lee & Shepard Co. $1.
Randy and her friends are well known through the five
previous "Randy Books." Their experiences in the little
country village where they live are continued here. The
Illustrations are by the author.
The Colburn Prize. By Gabrielle E. Jackson. New edition;
illus. in color, 12mo, pp. 120. D. Appleton & Co. $1.
This little story of schoolgirl life, and the competition
· for a coveted school prize, was first published five years
ago.
Mr. Penwiper's Fairy Godmother. By Amy Woods. Illus.,
12mo, pp. 98. Dana Estes & Co. 50 cts.
The little heroine is an impetuous, mischievous, but very
lovable little girl, who through her great love brings about
some interesting events.
Stories for Boys and Girls Both.
Jack and Jill: A Village Story. By Louisa M. Alcott. New
edition; Illus., 8vo, gilt top, pp. 334. Little, Brown &
Co. $2.
A handsome new edition of a famous story by a famous
writer, with eight full-page pictures by Harriet Roosevelt
Richards, a cousin of the President. The quiet life of a
family in a New England village is the theme of the story.
Under the Lilacs By Louisa M. Alcott. New edition; illus.,
8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 302. Little, Brown & Co. $2.
The special feature of this new edition of one of Miss
Alcott's best stories is the series of eight full-page plates
from drawings by Alice Barber Stephens. The story is
that of a boy and his trained poodle.
The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys. By Gulielma Zollinger. New
edition, from new plates; Illus. in color by Florence
Scovill Shinn. Svo, uncut, pp. 317. A. C. McClurg & Co.
$1.50.
This entertaining story of a wholesome Irish family
has proved so widely popular that it has now been given
this handsome holiday form. The eleven pictures in
color are by the artist who illustrated “Mrs. Wiggs of
the Cabbage Patch."
An Island in the Air: A Story of Singular Adventures in the
Mesa Country. By Ernest Ingersoll, Illus. in color, etc.,
12mo, gilt top, pp. 303. Macmillan Co. $1.50.
An account of the adventures of a party of youngsters
(both boys and girls) in the Navajo country of the far
West fifty years ago,—the time of Indians, soldiers, eml.
grant trains, and wild animals of all sorts.
Some Adventures of Jack and Jill. By Barbara Yechton.
Illus., 12mo, pp. 316. Dodd, Mead & Co. $1.50.
Jack and Jill are two little English children who live on
an island with the other members of their family. They
form a club and have lots of good times.
Frances and the Irrepressibles at Buena Vista Farm. By
Frances Trego Montgomery. Illus., large 8vo, pp. 257.
Saalfield Publishing Co. $1.50.
An account of the experiences of a party of boys and
girls during a summer vacation on an ideal Wisconsin
farm. The numerous illustrations are from photographs.
The Queen's Page. By Cornelia Baker. Illus., 12mo, pp. 319.
Bobbs-Merrill Co. $1.25.
A tale of happy children in the long ago. It concerns
the twin descendants of a noble family of Navarre, and
tells of their coming to the court of Francis I, and of all
the famous folk they saw there, and all the fine things
they did.
The Family on Wheels. Adapted from the French by J.
MacDonald Oxley. Illus., 12mo, pp. 219. T. Y. Crowell
& Co. 75 cts.
The scene is laid in France. The family of children
have been left orphans they earn their living in a
unique way-by continuing the mountebank business of
their father.
The Children of Bedford Court. By Grace Le Baron. Illus.,
16mo, pp. 144. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. 75 cts.
This third volume of the "Janet Series" has for its hero
a boy whose ambition, finally realized, is to become a
soldier. The illustrations are by Amy Brooks.
The Story of the Big Front Door. By Mary F. Leonard.
Illus., 12mo, pp. 258. T. Y. Crowell & Co. 75 cts.
The book takes its title from the entrance to an old-
fashioned house wbere live a wide-awake family of boys
and girls with their sunt.
Stories of History and Biography.
Heroes of Iceland: Adapted from Dasent's Translation of
"The Story of Burnt Njal," the Great Icelandic Saga.
Edited by Allen French. Illus., 12mo, pp. 297. Little,
Brown & Co. $1.50.
Iceland in the tenth century is the scene of this story.
The old heathen life, the coming of Christianity, the
mighty struggles of the heroes,--all this is vividly pic-
tured.
The Red Chief: A Story of the Massacre of Cherry Valley.
By Everett T. Tomlinson. Illus., 12mo, pp. 381. Hough-
ton, Mifflin & Co. $1.50.
In this story the author has endeavored to relate some
of the experiences of the people that dwelt upon the fron-
tier in the trying times of the American Revolution.
Every incident made use of in the story has a true basis.
With Spurs of Gold: Heroes of Chivalry and Their Deeds. By
Frances Nimmo Greene and Dolly Williams Kirk. Illus.,
12mo, pp. 291. Little, Brown & Co. $1.50.
A book of stories of famous knights, including the tales
of Roland and Oliver, the Cid, Godfrey de Bouillon, Rich-
ard Coeur de Lion, the Chevalier Bayard, and Sir Philip
Sidney.
The Adventures of Harry Rochester: A Tale of the Days of
Marlborough and Eugene. By Herbert Strang. Illus., 8vo,
pp. 418. G. P, Putnam's Sons. $1.50.
An account of one of the most brilliant victories ever
gained by British arms, and an entertaining picture of life
and manners two hundred years ago. There are eight
spirited drawings by William Rainey, R. I.
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Men of Old Greece. By Jennie Hall. Illus., 12mo, pp. 263.
Little, Brown & Co. $1.50.
Four important and interesting chapters in the history
and biography of old Greece are here retold for young
readers.
The Crown of Pine. By Rev. A. J. Church. Illus. in color,
12mo, pp. 309. Charles Scribner's Sons. $1.50.
The great Greek festivals form the background of this
historical tale, by a writer who has made a special study
of the field and period dealt with.
French Pathfinders in North America. By William Henry John-
son. Illus., 8vo, pp. 347. Little, Brown & Co. $1.50.
A graphic account of the adventures and discoveries of
Cartier, Champlain, Marquette, La Salle, and other great
French explorers. Seven reproductions of old portraits and
prints illustrate the volume.
The Boy Pathfinder: A Story of the Oregon Trail. By William
C. Sprague. Illus., 8vo, pp. 316. Lothrop, Lee & Shep-
ard Co. $1.50.
A romantic story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition to
the Pacific Coast one hundred years ago. The hero is an
actual character, George Shannon, who was the only mem-
ber of the famous expedition not of mature age.
The Young McKinley; or, School-days in Ohio: A Tale of oid
Times on the Western Reserve. By Hezekiah Butter-
worth. Illus., 8vo, pp. 307. D. Appleton & Co. $1.50.
Around the story of William McKinley's boyhood, the
author has woven an account of the struggles of the early
settlers in the great Western Reserve of Ohio.
The Boy Lincoln. By W. 0. Stoddard. Illus., 8vo, pp. 248.
D. Appleton & Co. $1.50.
This account of Lincoln's boyhood is written by one who
was a personal friend of the great President. Though the
book is written in story form, no imaginary characters or
occurrences are introduced.
Milton Blairles and the Green Mountain Boys: A Story of the
New Hampshire Grants. By Willard Goss Davenport.
Jllus. 12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 304. Grafton Press. $1.50.
The hero is a lad who, in searching for his parents from
whom he had become separated in a fight with Indians, be-
comes acquainted with Ethan Allen and joins his famous
patriot band.
For the Mikado; or, A Japanese Middy in Action. By Kirk
Munroe. Ilus., 12mo, pp. 270. Harper & Brothers. $1.25.
The hero is a Japanese graduate of Annapolis. At the
outbreak of the Russo-Japanese war he enters the navy of
his own country, and with his American chum sees much
exciting service.
The Fort in the Wilderness; or, The Soldier Boys of the In-
dian Trails. By Edward Stratemeyer. Illus., 12mo, pp.
306. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. $1.25.
This fifth volume of the "Colonial Serles" introduces
the same characters that appeared in the earlier books.
The time is that of Pontiac's conspiracy, and the action
takes place mainly at Detroit and around the Great Lakes.
American Heroes and Heroines. By Pauline Carrington Bouve.
Illus., 12mo, pp. 299. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. $1.25.
Some twenty interesting sketches of famous men and
women in American history, among them Father Mar-
quette, Anne Hutchinson, Israel Putnam, Molly Pitcher,
Paul Jones, Dolly Madison, Daniel Boone, etc., and of a
number of others well worthy of note, though not so well
known.
Famous Battles of the Nineteenth century. Described by fa-
mous writers; edited by Charles Welsh. Vol. IV., 1875-
1900. Illus., 12mo, pp. 414. A. Wessels Co. $1.25.
Sixteen great battles are described in this book, among
them being Rorke's Drift, Khartoum, Manila, and Magers-
fontein. The writers include Archibald Forbes, Major
Arthur Griffis, Max Pemberton, and others.
Dan Monroe: A Story of Bunker Hill, By W. 0. Stoddard.
Illus., 12mo, pp. 329. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. $1.25.
Mr. Stoddard found in trustworthy records that the
drummer-boy of the Lexington Militia was named Dan
Monroe, while his companion, the fifer, also his closest
friend, was named Nat Harrington. With these genuine
bistorical characters as herces, the author has constructed
an excellent story.
The Scarlet Patch: The Story of a Patriot Boy in the Mohawk
Valley, By Mary E. Q. Brush. Illus., 12mo, pp. 306.
Lothrop. Lee & Shepard Co. $1.25.
The “Scarlet Patch" was the badge of a Tory organiza-
tion, and a loyal patriot boy, Donald Bastien, is dismayed
at learning that his uncle, with whom he is a "bound
boy,” is secretly connected with this treacherous band.
Boys Who Became Famous Men. By Harriet Pearl Skinner.
Illus., 12mno, pp. 221. Little, Brown & Co. $1.25.
These stories of incidents in the childhood of eight
famous poets, artists, and musicians, are told in the
form of fiction, though based on actual fact.
The Minute Boys of the Mohawk Valley. By James Otis.
Illus., 12mo, pp. 365. Dana Estes & Co. $1.25.
An historical story. founded closely on fact. The scene
is laid in the Mohawk Valley in 1877, when Joseph Brant,
chief of the Mohawk tribe, entered New York from Can-
ada with a large force of Indians. The principal char-
acters are two sturdy boys.
Books about Nature and Out-Door Lite.
Natural History for Young Peoplo. By Rev. Theodore Wood,
F. E. S. Illus, in colors, etc., 8vo, gilt edges, pp. 483. E. P.
Dutton & Co. $2.50.
A readable and interesting account, by an authoritative
writer, of the various members of the animal kingdom. Il-
lustrated with 12 colored plates and over 300 black-and-
white pictures.
Forest-Land. By Robert W. Chambers; illus. in color by
Emily Benson Knipe. Large 8vo, pp. 118. D. Appleton &
Co. $1.50 net.
In the form of fiction the author imparts a great deal of
useful information about the wild life of the woods. The
full-page pictures in color are a charming feature.
The Romance of Insect Life. By Edmund Selous. Illus., 12mo,
pp. 352.
J. B. Lippincott Co. $1.50 net.
Two dozen chapters descriptive of the strange and
curious in the Insect world, by a prominent English nat-
uralist. The illustrations are the work of Lancelot Speed
and Carton Moore Park.
The Schoolhouse in the Woods. By A. G. Plympton. Illus.,
12mo, p. 272. Little, Brown & Co. $1.50.
In the guise of a story, the author inculcates in her
young readers a love for animals, birds, and other wood-
land life.
Wilderness Babies. By Julia Augusta Schwartz. Illus., 12mo,
pp. 234. Little, Brown & Co. $1.50.
Starting with the time when the earth was new, the au-
thor tells how the living things came, and then gives sto-
ries of the babyhood of sixteen familiar mammals.
Jim Crow Tales. By Burton Stoner. Illus., large 8vo, pp-
149. Saalfield Publishing Co. $1.50.
Fifteen imaginary stories of the doings of the forest
animals, supposed to be told by a pet crow to its master.
Adventures in Pondland. By Frank Stevens. Illus., 12mo, pp.
244. A. C. McClurg & Co. $1.25.
A bright and readable description of the insect, animal,
and other life of ponds and pools.
The Adventures of Tommy Postofice. By Gabrielle E. Jack-
son. Illus., 12mo, pp. 137. A. C. McClurg & Co. $1. net.
The true story of a cat, told by a well-known writer
of children's books.
The Reform of Shaun. By Allen French. Illus., 12mo, pp. 158.
Little, Brown & Co. $1.
Two sympathetic dog stories, “The Reform of Shaun"
and "Mystic and his Master.' In the second story the
dog Shaun is a minor character and the human interest
is greater.
Big Jack, and Other True Stories of Horses. By Gabrielle E.
Jackson. With frontispiece, 12mo, pp. 181. D. Appleton
& Co. $1.
Seven stories, each with a horse as its hero, originally
published in "St. Nicholas" and other periodicals.
Little Comrade: The Story of a Cat, and Other Animal
Stories. By Gabrielle E. Jackson. New edition; with
frontispiece, 12mo, pp. 192. D. Appleton & Co. $1.
Four stories of cats and dogs, originally published in
various American perlodicals.
Fairy Tales and Legends.
In Fairyland: Tales Told Again. By Louey Chisholm; pictures
in color by Katharine Cameron. Large 8vo, gilt edges, pp.
211. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $3. net.
Twenty-five of the fairy tales best known to all children
are here re-told in a way that gives them new interest.
The outward form of the book is unusually handsome;
there are thirty full-page pictures in color by Katharine
Cameron, colored end-leaves, and a cover design In gilt and
colors.
The Oak Tree Fairy Book. Edited by Clifton Johnson. Illus.,
8vo, gilt top, pp. 365. Little, Brown & Co. $1.75.
The old favorites in the way of fairy stories are here
retold with the omission of some things in the originals
that children are better off without. There are 11 full-
page pictures and 75 smaller Illustrations.
The Red Romance Book. Edited by Andrew Lang; illus. in
color, etc., by H. J. Ford, 12mo, gilt edges, pp. 366.
Longmans, Green & Co. $1.60 net.
This, Mr. Lang's nineteenth annual holiday volume, is
made up of some 30 famous legendary tales of all coun-
tries, retold in simple language. Mr. H. J. Ford's numer-
ous pictures, including 8 in color, are as usual of striking
artistic quality.
Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. Newly trang. by Mrs.
Edgar Lucas; illus. in color, etc., by Arthur Rackham.
12mo, pp. 464. J. B. Lippincott Co. $1.50.
A most attractive setting of an old favorite is here
offered. Mr. Rackham's colored frontispiece and numerous
pen-end-ink drawings are both artistic and in thorough
keeping with the stories.
The True Story of Humpty Dumpty. By Anna Alice Chapin;
illus. in color by Ethel Franklin Betts. 4to, pp. 206.
Dodd, Mead & Co. $1.40 net.
An account of the experiences of three little children in
Make-Believe Land. The outward form of the book, with
its colored cover, end leaves, and beautiful Illustrations, is
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The Foo in the Pool: A Faerle Tale. Pictures and text by
J. Allen St. John. 4to, pp. 156. A. C. McClurg & Co.
$1.50 net.
An old-fashioned fairy story, with a princess, a knight,
a wicked fairy, and other familiar figures. The Illus-
trations in color are excellent.
The Wizards of Ryetown. By A. Constance Smedley and L.
A. Talbot. Illus., 12mo, pp. 273. Henry Holt & Co. $1.50.
A fairy tale whose plot is a clever variation of the
good old story with its little girl in fairyland, its witch,
its handsome prince, and its happy ending. A few good
nonsense verses appear in the book.
Doubledarling and the Dream Spinner. By Candace Wheeler.
Illus., 12mo, pp. 167. Fox, Duffield & Co. $1.50.
Ten stories about a little girl named Doubledarling and
the things she dreams of while asleep. The pictures in
color by Dora Wheeler Keith are charmingly done.
Quoen Zixi of Ix; or, The Story of the Magic Cloak.
By L.
Frank Baum. Illus. in color, etc., large 8vo, pp. 303.
Century Co. $1.50.
An old-fashioned fairy story, by the author of "The Wiz-
ard of Oz." There are 16 full-page pictures in color, and
75 other illustrations.
Fifty and One Tales of Modern Fairyland. By F. Strange
Kolle, M. D. Illus., 12mo, pp. 270. Grafton Press. $1.50.
A bundle of entirely new fairy tales, with some of the
objectionable elements of the old stories left out. A hall-
dozen illustrations are contributed by Flora Sheffield.
The Moon Princess: A Fairy Tale. By Edith Ogden Harri-
son; illus. in color, etc., by Lucy Fitch Perkins.
pp. 162.
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he Peter Newell Mother Goose, Edited by Carolyn Sherwin
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The Romance of Modern Mechanism. By Archibald Williams.
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An account, in non-technical language, of wonderful
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The Romance of Mining. By Archibald Williams. Illus.,
12mo, pp. 402. J. B. Lippincott Co. $1.50 net.
A description, in simple language, of the methods and
machinery used in mining for minerals in all parts of the
world. There are 24 illustrations from photographs.
The Pied Piper of Hamelin. By Robert Browning; illus. in
color by Van Dyck. Large 4to. A. Wessels Co. $1.25.
Browning's famous poem is here presented in a hand-
some volume, with one or more clever drawings in color
on every page. There is a colored cover, and end-leaves
appropriately decorated with a design of rats.
The Children's Life of Abraham Lincoln. By M. Louise Put.
nam. New edition thoroughly revised. Illus., 12mo, pp.
291. A. C. McClurg & Co. $1.25.
This biography, in simple language, of our martyr Pres-
ident has met with much success.
The Child's Rainy Day Book. By Mary White. Illus., 12mo,
Doubleday, Page & Co. $1. net.
Practical directions for basket-weaving, bead-stringing,
clay-moulding, and other interesting home occupations for
children.
Tales from Shakespeare. By Charles and Mary Lamb. Illus.,
12mo, pp. 374. Oxford University Press, 75 cts.
A well-printed edition of this perennial classic, sub-
stantially bound, and illustrated with 16 reproductions
from pictures by famous Shakespeare illustrators.
Life Stories for Young People. Trans. from the German by
George P. Upton. New vols: Johann Sebastian Bach, by
Ludwig Ziemssen; The Little Dauphin, by Franz Hoffman;
Frederick the Great and the Seven Years' War, by Ferdi.
nand Schrader; Maria Theresa, by W. D. Von Horn. Each
illus., 16mo. A. C. McClurg & Co. Per vol., 60 cts. net.
Short biographies, newly translated from the German,
and illustrated with reproductions of the original German
drawings.
Stories from Wagner. By J. Walker McSpadden. Ilus., 16mo,
pp. 329. T. Y. Crowell & Co. 60 cts.
The author takes the legends and dramas which form
the basis of Wagner's famous operas and wea ves each into
a fascinating story, told in simple language.
Stories from Plutarch. By F. Jameson Rowbotham. Illus.,
16mo, pp. 346. T. Y. Crowell & Co. 60 cts.
A selection of four stories from the great Roman biogra.
pher, bere retold in simple and direct language. Romulus,
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TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS.
December, 1905.
America and Germany : Academic Interchange. Rev. of Revs.
American Character, Integrity of. G. Cleveland. Harper.
Asia, The Powers in. Gen. von Alten. No. Amer.
Church Buildings, Our. Charles De Kay. Rev. of Revs.
Epigrams, Seventeenth-Century. Edmund Gosse. Harper.
Foreign Trade, America in. W. L. Marvin. Rev. of Revs.
Eve's Diary. Mark Twain. Harper.
German Ideals of Today. Kuno Francke. Atlantic.
Holbein. Kenyon Cox. Scribner.
Hotel de Crillon, Paris. Camille Gronkowski, Century.
Houses, old. Evelyn S. Schaeffer. Atlantic.
Immortality. Maurice Maeterlinck. Harper.
Imperialism, Old, A French Critic of. Atlantic,
Indian Tour of the Prince of Wales. No. Amer.
Insurance for Workingmen. F. A. Vanderlip. No. Amer.
Irving, Sir Henry. Talcott Williams. Atlantic.
Jews, Condition of the. Isidore Singer. No. Amer.
Johnson, Andrew, and ‘My Policy.' W. G. Brown. Atlantic,
Legislation, Sane, Way to Get. J. R. Commons. Rev. of Revs.
Lincoln, the Lawyer. Frederick T. Hill. Century.
Linguistic Authority. T. R. Lounsbury. Harper.
Macdonald, George. W. Garrett Hodder. Rev. of Revs.
Mexico, Americanization of. E. M. Conley. Rev. of Revs.
New York and the Hudson. Henry James. No. Amer.
Norway, New King of. Hrolf Wisby. Rev. of Revs.
oid Friends with New Faces. Brander Matthews. Scribner.
Pelican, The. Frank M. Chapman. Century.
Philippines, A Democrat in the. F. G. Newlands. No. Am.
Philippines, Free Trade with. A. W. Dunn. Rev. of Revs.
Rate-Making, Governmental. A. S. Bolles. No. Amer.
Riches, a Christmas Essay. E. S. Martin. Atlantic.
Rural Free Delivery. Rush C. Hawkins. No. Amer.
Russian Players in New York. Florence Brooks. Century.
Russian Situation. W. T. Stead. Rev. of Revs.
Suez Canal, The. Elizabeth W. Wright. Scribner.
Texas, University of, and its New President. Rev. of Revs.
Theatre-Is it Worth While? J. S. Metcalfe. Atlantic.
Trails, Language of the. E. H. Baynes. Harper.
Treasure Town, Fate of a. Howard Pyle. Harper.
Woman Suffrage in the Tenements. Atlantic
Women-Humorists, English. Alice Meynell. NO. Amer.
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a Semi-Monthly Journal of Literary Criticism, Discussion, and Information.
ENTERED AT THE CHICAGO POITOTTICE AL SECOND-CLASI MATTER
BY THL DIAL COMPANY, PUBLISHERS.
No. 468.
DECEMBER 16, 1905.
Vol. XXXIX.
CONTENTS.
PAOB
SEERS, MAKERS, BARDS. Charles Leonard Moore 427
429
THE IBSEN LETTERS. William Morton Payne
AMIDST ANTARCTIC ICE. Charles Atwood Kofoid 432
ENGLAND'S LATER YEARS. E. D. Adams
435
KATE GREENAWAY AND HER FRIENDS.
Edith Kellogg Dunton .
437
.
THE RESCUE OF RELIGION. T. D. A. Cockerell 440
HENRY JAMES: AN APPRECIATION.
Russell Marble
Annie
441
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HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS - II.
442
Geffroy's The National Gallery. - Whiting's The
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James's In and Out of the Old Missions.—Miltoun's
Rambles in Brittany - Gibson's Among French
Inns.—Harris's Told by Uncle Remus.—Herford's
The Fairy Godmother-in-Law. - Denby's China
and her People. — Home's Normandy in Colour.-
Kobbe's Famous Actors and Actresses and their
Homes, “Holiday Art” edition. — Kobbo's The
Loves of Great Composers. -- MacGrath's Hearts
and Masks. - Graham's More Misrepresentative
Men.- Archbald and Jones's The Fusser's Book.
Le Gallienne's Romances of Old France.-Harvey's
In Bohemia. — Taylor and Gibson's The Log of
the Water Wagon. - Lowell's The Art Lover's
Treasury. — Patten's The Music Lover's Treasury.
- The Fables of Æsop, illus. by J. M. Condé.
Russia, in Winston's “Photogravure Series."
Sterling's Shakespeare's Sweetheart. - Singleton's
Great Portraits. — Long's Seffy. - Brady's My
Lady's Slipper. Cox's Old Masters and New,
illustrated edition. — Lamb's Tales from Shakes-
peare, illus. by Norman M. Price.-Eve's Daughters.
- Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses, illus. by
Jessie Willcox Smith.-Allen's Back to Arcady.-
Cowan's The Spalding Year Book. — Hubbard's
Catch Words of Cheer, second series. — Maeter
linck's Old-Fashioned Flowers.-Castle's The Heart
of Lady Anne. Parker's Seats of the Mighty,
holiday edition.-Kipling's The Seven Seas, holiday
edition. — Dickens's Christmas Books, illus. by
C. E. Brock.—Tennyson's Maud, illus. by Helen and
Margaret Armstrong.-Long's Miss Cherry Blossom
of Tokio, holiday edition. - Van Dyke's Fisher-
man's Luck, illus. by F. Walter Taylor.-Bell's The
Beatitudes Calendar. — Van Dyke's The Spirit of
Christmas. — Watson's A Chronicle of Christmas.
SEERS, MAKERS, BARDS.
It would save much confusion in criticism
if it could be recognized and remembered that
there are three great orders of poetic minds.
These answer well enough to the old titles for
the poet — Seer, Maker, Bard.
The Seer is the man of vision, the prophet,
the recipient of inspiration from above. In
primitive times he is the founder of religions;
in later days he is the expounder of philoso-
phies. He is the dreamer of things past and
to come.
Oracles are on his lips. With a
change of sex, he is the Pythoness or the Sybil.
He comes now in glorious guise; he comes
again in questionable shape. He is Zoroaster,
Buddha, Christ, Mahomet. He is Voltaire,
Rousseau, Byron. He is the stormy petrel who
precedes every change in the moral or intel-
lectual weather of the world. He leads cru-
sades of righteousness; he draws men into
pleasant pastures; he warns them from abysses
of wickedness. And when one good custom
has corrupted a world he is just as apt as not
to bring in evil, like an invading Paynim host,
to rouse mankind from its complacent sloth.
Many readers of Georg Brandes’s ‘Main
Currents in Nineteenth-Century Literature'
must have wondered at the importance the
author attaches to writers like Chateaubriand,
George Sand, and Madame Krüdener,-- an im-
portance altogether out of relation to the value
their writings have now. But they bore the
message their age needed. It was Apollo and
the Pythonesses come to answer the questions
of a restless, craving world. And Byron! His
personality and work were the evangel his day
desired. His voice shook Europe because it
uttered oracles that came home to the hearts
of a revolutionary race.
That is the pity of prophecy. When it is
done, it is dead. When it is fulfilled nothing
can make it thrill again. Except when based
on profound metaphysical or religious thought.
the Seer's work is apt to be temporary and
transient. It guides the day, but the next day
needs a new direction. On the side of truth it
is almost sure to be partial and incomplete;
on the side of art it usually has the qualities
of improvisation. But when it is founded on
eternal things, when it is accompanied by
creative and literary power, it is the most per-
manent, the most serious, the most elevating
influence that enters into our lives. It is the
lightning that sweeps through our atmosphere
and burns up the noxious vapors and refreshes
the world.
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The Maker is a person of another queer sort. spectators as to a character or an event. But
He is not interested in the changes of opinion. the reports vary, conflict, contradict each other.
He cares nothing for proselytizing or reforming It is impossible to get a true conspectus. The
mankind. He is absorbed in his work as a hen literary creation rises before us in plain air,
is in hatching out its eggs.
And the eggs he it turns round and round before us. All its
broods upon are a new nature, a new life. No actions are şvisible, all its speech audible. And
mere understudy of nature is he. He is more than that, it is as though made of glass
spark of the original creative mind. He pierces or woven air,- all its inmost thoughts and
to the true ideas of which the visible world is feelings are revealed.
a copy, and out of them he moulds his types The main business of the Bard is with the
and forms. Not for him to choose between form of his art with cadence, metre, phrase.
good and evil; not for him to guide and direct Of course he must have something to reveal
his fellows. Enough if he presents to them or tell, but how he speaks is of more import
similars more vivid and vital than themselves. to him than what. In the modern point of
Think for a moment! On one side is the view he is specifically the poet. The Seer may
real earth, crystal built, clothed with leafage, utter his message in any form of language.
overhung with clouds and stars, tramped over If his vision is true his speech will be pic-
by the interminable procession of mankind. turesque; if his emotions are deep it will pul-
On the other side is a dream world, built out sate musically. The Maker may use verse or
of frail sounds and signs. Which is the more prose indifferently. The superior concentra-
real? Anyone who has felt the power of liter tion of verse may be an advantage to him; but
ature at all may hesitate to answer.
Do we
too much effort after beauty of phrase and
know our nearest friends, do we know ourselves perfection of cadence may spoil his broad ef-
as we know the great figures of literature? Do fects. It may give the impression of niggling,
we see any scenes in nature as we see those of littleness. Stevenson, with all his style,
described and interpreted by the master poets? is far inferior in general results to Scott or
Are the heroes of history as true to us as the Dumas. The two great romance writers were
men and women of the drama, epic, and novel ? intent on telling their story, projecting their
Is Alexander a match for Achilles, or Philip characters; and they let their style take care of
the Silent as tremendous a presence as Hamlet? itself. Stevenson's first concern was to dress
It seems to me that there is only one answer to every idea as it arose in the most becoming
these questions.
words. But the pure Bardic poet has a right to
Besides, there is only one world of actuality. dwell on words. With them he can work won-
Though it change with the change of day and ders. He can almost dispense with meaning
night, with the alternation of cloud and sun or story. It is hard to attach much meaning
shine, it is a tolerably constant spectacle. And to Coleridge's Kubla Khan' or to Poe's 'Ula-
human nature is tolerably constant, too. But lume, yet these pieces are among the poetic
there are a thousand worlds in literature. The triumphs of our literature. Their miracles of
world of Shakespeare differs more from the cadence, their gleam and glow of words, hint
world of Homer than the actual English life unfathomable, undefinable things. They some-
differed from the Greek. The people of Jane how touch chords in our nature which vibrate
Austen are more distinct from the people of with ecstacy. Words, in fact, in metrical form
Shakespeare than were the real English men share with music the power to stir the senses
and women of the two periods. The dream and the emotions.
projections of literature are therefore the actual Music in words appeals directly to the senses,
world, plus the personality of the creating form and color appeal only indirectly through
artist, plus his particular gift of piercing to the mind. Music is therefore a more primitive
the abstract and typical ideas of humanity and quality in poetry than picture. Yet the gift
nature. In other words, the figures of life are to make language concrete,- to visualize, to
always individuals; the figures of literature flash the image on the brain, is probably the
are individuals made typical and colored by highest quality of expression. Arnold objected
the preferences and prejudices of the writer. to Shelley that while he had the talent to con-
In actual life. we only see silhouettes of our trol sound, he· lacked the intellectual power to
fellow human beings; in literature we get the command words. It is true. Compared to
round. People revolve about each other, much poets like Collins or Keats or Tennyson, he is
as the moon revolves about the earth, always thin and aerial – haunting enough, bút, not
keeping one side on view. Other eyes may see rich and real.
other sides, but that does not help any one of Of course the division of the poetic hierarchy
us to a true image. This is the reason of the into three families is a mere analysis of possi-
inferiority of history to literature. In history bilities. Concrete poets refuse to fall abso;
we may have the report of a hundred different lutely into any one of the divisions.
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THE IBSEN LETTERS.*
flawless, pellucid mirror to reflect his world.
Spenser thought to be a Seer, but his dim The letters of Henrik Ibsen, covering a
allegories have little power or potency in them. period of a full half-century, have at last been
He is the creator of a rich, many-colored cloud made accessible to the English-reading public,
land. His verse, picturesque and harmonious and the volume which contains them is a work
as it is, has little of the true Bardic fire and of enduring value. Written with no thought
splendor. The three strains or strands of power of publication, these letters have the stamp of
are more evenly woven into the texture of absolute sincerity, and reveal one of the most
Shakespeare's mind than of any other writer impressive personalities of our time. How
whatever. Yet at different periods of his life interesting they will seem to the public in
one or the other started into prominence. He general we do not venture to say. To the pres-
began by playing with words until he attained ent writer, who found his way to Dr. Ibsen's
the most cunning mastery of all their secrets most significant work thirty years ago, and who
of sound and glow. In the end his interest has ever since found in that work an unfailing
in mere language weakened, or else he tried to source of spiritual refreshment, a moral tonic
wrench it to purposes beyond its power.
for the mood of despondency, and a trumpet-
Towards the middle of his career he was the call to renewed endeavor in the hour of dis.
consummate Maker. He hurled forth his great heartenment, these letters have so deep an
creations with the unmoved indifference of interest that no other personal revelation of
nature itself. Good or bad, beautiful or hid recent years may be brought into comparison
eous, it was all one to him as long as the figures with them.
were vivid, vital, energetic. It was not until The extent to which others will share our
his crowning period that absolute Seership fell feeling for this book will depend almost wholly
upon him — grief, anger, indignation wrought upon the extent of their acquaintance with the
him into hatred for the actual world — into work of its author. The name of Ibsen is a
sympathy with the ideal one. In his mightiest resounding one in the intellectual concerns of
productions he resembles the Angel with the the present age, but it is safe to say that nine-
flaming sword, set at the gates of Paradise, tenths of those who use it - whether invoking
with humanity flying in the distance. Milton's it as a watchword or setting it up for a target -
creative force exhausted itself in the production have only a fragmentary knowledge of the series
of one figure - Lucifer. His prophetic gift of books that began with Catilina' and ended
kept him at the level of the Protestant theo with When We Dead Awake.'. More partic-
gony - not perhaps a very high level. But ularly it must be said that nine out of ten,
his Bardic gift was supreme. He wrought and probably ninety-nine out of a hundred, of
harmonies which mean more than language those who know ‘A Doll Home,' or 'Ghosts,
can utter, and pictures which outdo the colors or 'Hedda Gabler,' must needs confess that
of the world. Wordsworth and Shelley were they have never read 'Brand' and 'Peer Gynt.'
the latter day prophets, Coleridge and Keats Now as we have often said before, these are
the Bards. The making impulse was weak in the two works that outweigh all the others,
all of these, as it has been in most modern and to claim an acquaintance with their author
poets.
without having read them is like claiming to
We must turn to prose for our modern
know Dante without The Divine Comedy,
Makers. All over the world for the last hun- Shakespeare without ‘Hamlet,' and Goethe
dred years or more the most powerful creative without 'Faust.'.
minds have done their spiriting in prose. It We imagine, then, that the newly-published
is unnecessary to call the roll of their names. letters will not reveal the full secret of their
The mere idea of the novelists calls up a vision interest to any large number of English read-
of row after row, shelf after shelf, bookcase ers, since familiarity with the works that con-
after bookcase of volumes in even sets. The tain the very core of Dr. Ibsen's thought is
only query is as to the permanence of this the necessary prerequisite of such a revelation.
prodigious output. Lacking as it does the con A fashion in recent criticism has 19 much
centration, the haunting cadences, the per vague discussion of the relati
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power.'
refreshing to turn from this random philos about things that before had passed me lightly by.
ophizing to the concrete case of a man whose
It is a dramatic poem, modern in subject, serious in
tone, five acts in rhymed verse.
I work
ever-absorbing passion has been the realization
both in the morning and the afternoon, a thing 1
of this ideal, in the double sense of making have never been able to do before. It is delight-
literature an agency for the enrichment of his fully peaceful here; we have no acquaintances; I
own life, and for the ennoblement of the lives read nothing but the Bible—it has vigour and
of others. To this effect he spoke, in 1880, as
follows:
In a letter of the following year, he says:
‘Everything that I have written has the closest 'I kept struggling with my poem for a whole
possible connection with what I have lived through,
year before it took shape clearly; but once I had
even if it has not been my own personal experience;
hold of it, I wrote from morning to night, and fin-
in every new poem or play I have aimed at my own
ished it in less than three months.'
spiritual emancipation and purification—for a man And again, when the reaction from this mood
shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society
to which he belongs. Hence I once wrote the fol-
of exaltation has come, he writes :
lowing dedicatory lines in a copy of one of my
'Dear Björnson, it seems to me as if I were sep-
books:
arated from both God and men by a great, an in-
"At leve er krig med trolde
finite void. Last summer when I was writing my
i hjertets og hjernens hvælv;
drama, I was, in spite of all that harassed and per-
at digte- det er at holde
plexed me, indescribably happy. I felt the exalta-
dommedag over sig selv."
tion of a Crusader, and I don't know anything I
Life is indeed a conflict with the wild passions should have lacked courage to face; but there is
that would work their goblin will upon heart nothing so enervating and exhausting as this hope-
and brain, and the true poet must ever sit in
less waiting. I dare say this is only a transition
period. I will and shall have a victory some day.
judgment upon himself no less than upon the
If the powers that be have shown me so little
world. The words above quoted express the favour as to place me in this world and make me
one aspect of an author's responsibility; the what I am, the result must be accordingly. But
other was realized and accepted by the writer
enough of this.'
in 1865, when his brain was teeming with In this connection, we are given the letter from
Brand,' and he wrote this confession to his which Dr. Brandes quoted long ago, asserting
closest friend :
that Brand might as well have been a sculptor
'If I were asked to tell at this moment what or a politician as a priest. We also read:
has been the chief result of my stay abroad, I You surely will not blame me because the book
should say that it consisted in my having driven may have given pietism something to lean on. You
out of myself the æstheticism which had a great
might just as well reproach Luther with having in-
power over me-an isolated æstheticism with a
troduced philistinism into the world; it was cer-
claim to independent existence. Æstheticism of
tainly not his intention to do so, and he must there-
this kind seems to me now as great a curse to poetry fore be held blameless.'
as theology is to religion.
Is it not an in-
expressibly great gift of fortune to be able to
He also takes occasion to defend the quan-
write! But it brings with it great responsibility; tum satis and the deus caritatis of the mac-
and I am now sufficiently serious to realize this and
aronic ending of 'Brand,' and to say that he
to be very severe with myself. An æsthete in Co-
penhagen once said to me: “Christ is really the
did not have Kierkegaard particularly in his
most interesting phenomenon in the world's his mind when he wrote the poem. But he adds :
The æsthete enjoyed him as the glutton The presentment of a life which has as its
does the sight of an oyster. I have always been aim the realization of ideals will always possess
too strong to become a creature of that type; but
what the intellectual asses might have made of
certain points of resemblance to the story of
me if they had had me all to themselves, I know
Kierkegaard's
not; it was you, dear Björnson, who prevented Concerning 'Peer Gynt,' the companion-
them doing as they would with me.'
masterpiece of his great creative period, the
While we
are on the subject of 'Brand,'
author writes to his publisher and lifelong
which is Dr. Ibsen's deepest work, and the most friend, Councillor Hegel:
tremendous embodiment of his poetical energy, And now I must tell you that my new work is
some peculiarly interesting quotations from his well under way, and will, if nothing untoward hap-
correspondence may be given. He thus writes pens, be finished early in the summer. It is to be
to Björnstjerne Björnson of the inception of
a long dramatic poem, having as its chief figure one
of those half-mythical, fanciful characters existing
the work in 1865:
in the annals of the Norwegian peasantry of
'I threw to the winds all that I had been una modern times. It will have no resemblance to
vailingly torturing myself with for a whole year, Brand, will contain no direct polemic, etc.'
and in the middle of July began something new,
which progressed as nothing has ever progressed
A little later, we have these words:
with me before. The work is new, in the sense that
'I am curious to hear how you like the poem. I
I only began to write it then, but the subject and am very hopeful myself. It may interest you to
the mood have been weighing on me like a night know that Peer Gynt is a real person, who lived in
mare ever since the many lamentable political oc Gudbrandsdal, probably at the end of last, or the
currences at home first made me examine myself beginning of this, century. His name is still well-
and the condition of our national life, and think known among the peasants there; but of his ex-
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ploits not much more is known than is to be found is the author such an outsider, so entirely absent,
in Asbjörnsen's Norwegian Fairy-Tale Book, in the as in this last one.
section, “Pictures from the Mountains." Thus I Then they say that the book preaches nihilism.
have not had very much to build upon, but so much It does not. It preaches nothing at all. It merely
the more liberty has been left me.
points out that there is a ferment of nihilism under
the surface, at home as elsewhere. And this is in-
And again, the next year:
evitable. A Pastor Manders will always rouse some
'I learn that the book created much excitement
Mrs. Alving to revolt. And just because she is a
in Norway. This does not trouble me in the least; woman, she will, once she has begun, go to great
but both there and in Denmark they have discov extremes.'
ered much more satire in it than was intended by 'It may well be that the play is in several re-
me. Why can they not read the book as a poem ? spects rather daring. But it seemed to me that the
For as such I wrote it. The satirical passages are time had come when some boundary-posts required
tolerably isolated. But if the Norwegians of the to be moved. And this was an undertaking for
present time recognize themselves, as it would ap which an older writer like myself was more fitted
pear they do, in the character of Peer Gynt, that than the many younger authors who might desire to
is the good people's own affair.'
do something of the kind.'
And with sublime self-confidence, he thus Readers of Dr. Ibsen's works know how
replies to the charge that ‘Peer Gynt' is lack- strongly he emphasizes the idea of a man's
ing in the poetical character:
mission or calling (kald). In 'The Pretend-
. My book is poetry; and if it is not, then it will ers,' in 'Brand, in Peer Gynt,' and in
be. The conception of poetry in our country, in Emperor and Galilean, this conception
Norway, shall be made to conform to the book.
There is no stability in the world of ideas. The
appears in varying shapes, and in each case it
Scandinavians of this century are not Greeks.'
is the very foundation of the psychological
structure. The author's conception of his own
The excited controversy aroused by Ghosts'
has several echoes in the correspondence of calling appears in many passages of his letters,
in the following, perbaps, (1879) as distinctly
1882:
as anywhere:
“These last weeks have brought me a wealth of
As long as a people considers it more important
experiences, lessons, and discoveries. I was quite
to build meeting-houses than theatres, as long as
prepared for my new play eliciting a howl from the
it is readier to support the Zulu Mission than the
camp of the stagnationists; and I care no more for
Art Museum, art cannot really thrive, cannot even
this than for the barking of a pack of chained dogs.
be considered as of immediate necessity. I do not
But the alarm which I have observed among the
think it is of much use to plead the cause of art
so-called Liberals has given me cause for reflection.
with arguments derived from its own nature, which
The very day after my play was published, the
with us is still so little understood, or rather so
Dagblad rushed a hurriedly written article into
thoroughly misunderstood. What is needed first of
print, with the evident purpose of at once render-
all with us is to fall upon and eradicate all that
ing any suspicion that it approved of my play im-
gloomy medieval monasticism which narrows the
possible. This was entirely unnecessary.
view and stupefies the mind. My opinion is that
self am responsible .or what I write, I and no one
at the present time it is of no use to wield one's
else. I cannot possibly bring trouble on any party;
weapons for art; one must simply turn them
for I do not belong to any. I stand like a solitary
against what is hostile to art. First clear this
franctireur at the outposts and act on my own re-
away, and then we can build.'
sponsibility.
The only man in Norway who has stood up To act as the physician of the age, to point out
frankly, boldly, and courageously for me is Björn the festering sores in the social and political
It is just like him; he has, in truth, a great,
organism, and to sear them with irons heated
a kingly soul; and I shall never forget what he
has done just now.
to whiteness in the furnace of the poet's indig-
‘But how about all these champions of liberty | nation,
nation, - this was his mission, and for its sake
who have been frightened out of their wits? Is it he scorned delights and lived laborious days,
only in the domain of politics that the work of
exiling himself from home and country, preach-
emancipation is to be permitted to go on with us?
Must not men's minds be emancipated first of all:
ing austere and uncomfortable doctrine to
Men with such slave-souls as ours cannot even make unwilling ears, and alienating his friends
use of the liberties they already possess. Norway even the one friend for whom his heart most
is a free country, peopled by unfree men and
yearned - by his uncompromising rectitude of
women.'
• There is not in the whole book a single opinion,
soul. ‘Friends are an expensive luxury,' he
a single utterance, which can be laid to the ac once wrote to Georg Brandes,
count of the author. I took good care to avoid And when a man's whole capital is invested in
this. The method, the technique of the construc a calling and a mission in life, he cannot afford to
tion in itself entirely precludes the author's appear. keep them. The costliness keeping friends does
ing in the speeches. My intention was to produce not lie in what one does for them, but in what one,
the impression in the mind of the reader that he out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
was witnessing something real. Now, nothing would This means the crushing of many an intellectual
more effectually prevent such an impression than germ. I have had personal experience of it; and
the insertion of the author's private opinions in there are, consequently, many years behind me dur-
the dialogue. Do they imagine at home that I have ing which it was not possible for me to be myself.'
not enough of the dramatic instinct to be aware of
this? Of course I am aware of it, and act accord Who, knowing the history of the man's life,
ingly. And in no other play which I have written and its significance for contemporary humanity,
I my
son.
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could read the foregoing words unmoved, or each of my books, there now stands a tolerably
the following words of appeal to the King for
compact crowd; but I myself am no longer there;
I am elsewhere; farther ahead, I hope.'
support:
'It is not for a care-free existence I am fighting,
The solitude to which all great souls are con-
but for the possibility of devoting myself to the
demned by the very fact of their greatness,
task which I believe and know has been laid upon the yearning for a companionship that they
me by God — the work which seems to me more
never find, finds poignant expression in one of
important and needful in Norway than any other,
the latest letters of all, a letter written in
that of arousing the nation and leading it to think
great thoughts. It remains with your Majesty to
1897, after the writer's return to Norway.
decide whether or not I shall have to keep silence, "Can you guess what I am dreaming about, and
and suffer the bitterest disappointment which can planning, and picturing to myself as something de-
befall a human soul — the disappointment of hay lightful? The making a home for myself near the
ing to give up my life-work, of having to surren Sound between Copenhagen and Elsinore, on some
der when I know myself to be in possession of ex free, open spot, whence I can see all the sea-going
actly the intellectual weapons required.'
ships starting and returning from their long voy-
The dignity of this appeal vies with its pathos,
ages. That I cannot do here. Here all the sounds
are closed, in every acceptation of the word — and
and both are equally impressive.
all the channels of intelligence are blocked.
Oh,
Dr. Ibsen went into voluntary exile, as is well dear Brandes, it is not without its consequences
known, because he found the intellectual and that a man lives for twenty-seven years in the
moral atmosphere of his native land too stifling ditions of the great world. Up here, by the fjords,
wider, emancipated and emancipating spiritual con-
to breathe, and because freedom, both of
is my native land. But — but — but! Where am I
thought and of its related action, was indis to find my home-land?'
pensable to his spiritual development. He
The limitations of space forbid our continu-
writes to Fru Thoresen :
ation of these extracts, although we should
'I had to get away from the beastliness up there like to include a series of passages to illustrate
before I could begin to be purified. I could never
the author's political creed, another series con-
lead a consistent spiritual life there; I was one man
in my work and another outside of it - and for that cerning his relations with Björnstjerne Björn-
very reason my work failed in consistency too. I son, another from the correspondence with his
am aware that my present standpoint is in all prob; helpful and devoted
helpful and devoted publisher and friend
ability only a transitory one, but I do feel solid
(Councillor Hegel of the great house of Gyld-
ground under my feet.'
endal), and still another to comprise the occa-
Here is a fine outburst of indignation and defi-
sional glimpses which we get of his feelings
ance, occasioned by the rough treatment
toward father, mother, and sister in his native
accorded to 'Peer Gynt' by some of its critics :
town of Skien. But for these, and other
'However, I am glad of the injustice that has
weighty matters, we must refer to the book
been done me. There has been something of the
God-send, of the providential dispensation in it; for
itself, from which we make one further draft
I feel that this anger is invigorating all my pow. in closing
If it is to be war, then let it be war! If I "So to conduct one's life as to realize one's self
am no poet, then I have nothing to lose. I shall try
– this seems to me the highest attainment possible
my luck as a photographer. My contemporaries in to a human being. It is the task of one and all of
the North I shall take in hand, one after the other, us, but most of us bungle it.'
as I have already taken the nationalist language
reformers. I will not spare the child in the mother's
This is the sum and substance of the author's
womb, nor the thought or feeling that lies under teaching, the burden of his message to an age
the word of any living soul that deserves the made flabby by compromise, and impoverished
honour of my notice.'
in the very springs of its vitality by the weak-
Some fifteen years later, the letters to Dr. ening of the individual will.
Brandes yield the following revealing passages :
WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE.
'I have not the gifts that go to make a satis-
factory citizen, nor yet the gift of orthodoxy; and
what I possess no gift for, I keep out of. Liberty
is the first and highest condition for me. At home
they do not trouble much about liberty, but only
AMIDST ANTARCTIC ICE.*
about liberties - a few more or a few less, accord-
ing to the standpoint of their party.'
The spirit of exploration is wrought deep
"You are, of course, right when you say that we into the constitution of the Anglo-Saxon race.
must all work for the spread of our opinions. But The commercialism of our times has not wholly
I maintain that a fighter in the intellectual van-
guard can never collect a majority round him. In
obscured it, neither has the oft charged de-
ten years the majority will, possibly, occupy the generacy resulting from urban life wholly ex-
standpoint which Dr. Stockmann held at the public terminated the race of adventurous spirits who
meeting. But during these ten years the Doctor delight in tracing the untracked wastes of
will not have been standing still; he will still be
at least ten years ahead of the majority. He can
distant and inhospitable lands. With the ex-
never have the majority with him. As regards
*THE VOYAGE OF THE 'DISCOVERY.' By Captain Rob-
myself, at least, I am conscious of incessant pro ert F. Scott, C. V. O., R. N.
Illus-
gression. At the point where I stood when I wrote trated. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
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pansion of civilization the terrae incognitae protection of feet in the frozen fur boots, a
have become more remote and increasingly dif balloon, great stores of explosives for blasting
ficult of access, but the zest for exploration the ice pack, food for three years, tents, boats,
and love of adventure is not thereby daunted. lumber for huts, scientific instruments and
Neither have books of travel and exploration paraphernalia galore. No wonder that every
abated their interest nor lost their constituency. available inch was stowed full, and that the
To an English — and let us hope equally to an decks were piled high with freight!
American — reading public a book of polar Though the vessel and her equipment re-
exploration needs no introduction to its old flected to a high degree the experiences of the
yet ever new charm, and calls for no apology past in polar exploration, the personnel of the
or labored discourse on the value of its scien expedition contained but little seasoned timber,
tific results. Captain Scott's account of The - indeed but two of the officers (the navigator
Voyage of the Discovery' strikes a responsive and one of the surgeons) had had any previous
chord in every lover of adventure, in every experience in the arduous and particular labors
admirer of heroic effort.
of travel amidst polar snow and ice. Captain
In the annals of English explorations the Scott relates with refreshing frankness the
name 'Discovery' has had an honorable and blunders and mistakes into which his inexpe-
glorious history. No less than six ships of rienced party fell, difficulties with dogs and
famous exploring expeditions have added to sledges, the damage and the almost total loss
its lustre. The first, in 1602 to 1616, made six of the boats, the failures of their dogs, and not
voyages into the Arctic regions, under the com the least a serious outbreak of scurvy.
The
mand, for a time at least, of the famous navi-
age of the members would have met with Dr.
gator William Baffin. The names of Captain Osler's approval. Only one had attained the
Cook, of Vancouver, and of Stevenson are as dead line of forty, and the average age of the
sociated with its later successors. The latest ward room mess was little over twenty-four
to be christened with the historic name was the years! Captain Scott himself is enthusiastic
ship specially constructed for exploration in in his approval of the youth of his companions,
high latitudes which carried the recent English 'concerning the advantages of which I could
National Antarctic Expedition safely through write many pages.'
two winters in the ice of the South Polar Sea.
The discipline aboard ship was excellent, and
Captain Scott's Discovery' was not built
the success of the expedition was not marred
on the lines of Professor Nansen's ' Fram, to by bickerings and strife as it has been in the
slip easily above the surface of the crowding case of some polar parties.
ice when caught in the terrific pressure of the
'It must be understood that the “Discovery'not
pack, but rather on those which gave her being in Government employment, had no
greater seaworthiness and much greater powers stringent regulations to enforce discipline than
as an ice-breaker,— both prime desiderata for
those which are contained in the Merchant Ship-
a vessel which must withstand the extreme and
ping Act, and however adequate these may be for
commercial purposes, they fail to provide that
fitful weather of high southern latitudes and
guarantee for strict obedience and good behaviour
must also push its way through the vast fring-
which I believe to be a necessity for such excep-
ing ice pack to the open sea beyond, on both the
tional conditions as exist in Polar service. Through-
out our three-years' voyage in the “Discovery"
outgoing and the return trips. Accordingly,
the routine of work, the relations between officers
massive walls of oak, greenheart, and mahog and men, and the general ordering of matters were,
any, two feet in thickness, supported by hugh as far as circumstances would permit, precisely such
timbers, formed the bow of the vessel, while
as are customary in His Majesty's ships. We lived
her sides and stern were well protected to
exactly as though the ship and all on board had
been under the Naval Discipline Act; and as every-
stand immense lateral pressure.
Her lines one must have been aware that this pleasing state
were those of the ‘ Discovery of the Arctic of affairs was a fiction, the men deserve as much
expedition of 1875, a type evolved in the Green-
credit as the officers, if not more, for the fact that
it continued to be observed.'
land whaling industry, with overhanging stem
especially serviceable in ramming and breaking The region chosen by the scientific commit-
the pack ice.
tee in charge of the expedition as the field for
The equipment of the expedition was the the work of the ‘Discovery' was the Ross
best that could be devised in the light of the quadrant to the south of New Zealand, the best
experience of former explorers. It comprised known of the Antarctic regions. It was here
Nansen sledges and cookers for long sledge that land masses and mountains were known
journeys, Norwegian skis, pemmican from to exist, that highest latitudes could be reached;
Copenhagen, dogs from the Samoyedes, rein- and, moreover, it was nearest to the magnetic
deer sleeping bags, felt boots from Russia, pole. In addition to the magnetic, meteoro-
reindeer fur boots or finneskoes from Norway, Togical, geological, oceanographic, and biolog-
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If you
into these latitudes, Captain Scott had the fol the western boundary of the Barrier and the
lowing geographical problems to solve:
eastern mountains of Victoria Land to lati-
"To explore the ice-barrier of Sir James Ross to tude of 83° S., nearly 5° beyond all previ-
its eastern extremity; to discover the land which ous records. Photographs, panoramas, and
was believed by Ross to flank the barrier to the
sketches, as well as multitudinous observations,
eastward, or to ascertain that it does not exist, and
generally to endeavor to solve the very important
make the record of this journey exceptionally
physical and geographical questions connected with complete.
this remarkable ice-formation.
The unique story of this long but successful
should decide to winter in the ice your efforts as re-
gards geographical exploration should be directed
struggle with nature in her wildest moods,
to three objects, namely—an advance into the west against appalling odds, forms one of the most
ern mountains, an advance to the south, and an ex thrilling chapters in the history of polar ex-
ploration of the volcanic region.'
plorations. The battle with repeated blizzards,
This is an ambitious programme. How ad and the fearful cold, the toilsome march with
mirably it was carried out can best be judged the heavily laden sledges through the yielding
by a careful perusal of Captain Scott's modest snow or over the rough sastrugi, the oft-recur-
story of his efforts and an inspection of the ring frost bites, the blinding glare of the snow,
results of other Antarctic expeditions.
the scant food supply, the horrible nights in
The Discovery, expedition left England frozen or chill and damp sleeping bags, re-
August 5, 1901, and returned three years later, lieved only by oft-repeated but never realized
having spent two winters within the Antarctic dreams of an ample meal, and worst of all the
circle fast in the ice in McMurdo Sound not slow but certain inroads of scurvy,- all these
far from the famous volcanoes Mts. Erebus and combine to heighten the heroism of Captain
Terror. Before entering winter quarters the Scott and his two companions.
'Discovery' was able to explore the whole face One of the greatest discomforts in sledging
of the Great Ice Barrier which extends over arises from the difficulty of resting in the fur
34° of longitude eastward of South Victoria sleeping bags, which gather the snow and
Land. Its eastern limits were established by moisture and soon double their weight with
the discovery in longitude 150° W., of King the accumulating ice, which cannot be removed
Edward VII. Land. Its present face has re even in the heat of the so-called summer of
ceded from twenty to thirty miles since it was the Antarctic.
surveyed by Sir James Ross sixty years ago. A night in such a sleeping-bag as we are pictur-
This fact agrees with the evidences of glacial ing, with the temperature below 40°, cannot be
recession in the land ice. Captain Scott argues
said to be less than horribly uncomfortable.
Ordinarily, we sleep in the titful, broken, comfort-
that this great ice sheet, hundred of miles in
less fashion of which the mere recollection is
extent, is afloat, basing his conclusions upon nightmare, and even this poor apology for slum-
soundings along its face, upon temperatures
ber does not come until we have lain broad awake
taken in crevasses, its rise and fall with the
and shivering for an hour or two.
With the temperature at --48° we can make a
tide, and the regularity of the tremendous
shrewd guess as to the sort of night that is before
radial crevasses twenty to thirty miles in The first half-hour is spent in constant shift-
length which form in its margin where great ing and turning, as each inmate of the bag tries
to make the best of his hard mattress or to draw
glaciers from the inland ice cap of Victoria
Land join it. A displacement of 608 yards in
the equally hard covering closer about him. There
is a desultory muffled conversation broken by the
thirteen months of one of the depots established chattering of teeth. Suddenly the bag begins to
near its margin indicates considerable move vibrate, and we know that someone has got the
ment in this huge field of ice. The height
shivers. It is very contagious, this shivering, and
paroxysm after paroxysm passes through the whole
above sea level of its free sea-worn face reaches
party.
Presentiy we hear our neighbour
a maximum of 280 feet, and its mean thickness marking time, and we rather unnecessarily ask him
is estimated to approximate 900 feet. Exami if his feet are cold; he explains their exact state
nation from the balloon, and the various sledge
in the most forcible language at his command.'
journeys from winter quarters, indicate that In the following winter Captain Scott made
the Great Ice Barrier is a monotonous level a sledge journey on to the ice cap which covers
field of ice, devoid of life or of relief of any the great plateau of Victoria Land, the most
sort save that which the fierce and fitful winds desolate region of the world. There is none
that sweep with terrific violence over its surfac other that is at once so barren, so deserted, so
give to the sastrugi or snow waves on its sur piercingly cold, so wind swept, so fearsomely
face. It was along the western margin of this monotonous.' The elevation of this great snow
Great Barrier that Captain Scott made a plain is about 9,000 feet, and above it tower
memorable sledging journey to the southward naked and barren peaks or nunataks to eleva-
in the summer of 1902. The results of this jour tions of over 15,000 feet. Captain Scott spent
ney, lasting ninety-three days and covering 960 eighty-one days in a toilsome journey up the
statute miles, afford a very complete survey
of
glacier to this plateau and over its undulating
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But my
surface, a distance of 1,098 miles, and climbed ful mock suns seen on the Great Barrier, and
total heights of 19,800 feet. He closes his rec of the aurora australis are unique; while his
ord with a 'devout hope that wherever my studies of the great Emperor penguins con-
future wanderings may trend, they will never stitute a most interesting bit of natural his-
again lead me to the summit of Victoria Land.' tory. The two volumes are very fully illus-
One of the dangers incident to travel on the trated by most excellent reproductions of
ice is that from crevasses hidden by the snow. well selected photographs, which in themselves
Into one of these fathomless blue depths Cap constitute a record of the expedition of a most
tain Scott and one of his two companions were interesting nature. In this particular these
suddenly precipitated.
volumes of polar travel easily surpass all
'Personally I remember absolutely nothing until previously-published accounts of exploration at
I found myself dangling at the end of my trace
either pole.
with blue walls on either side and a very horrid-
looking gulf below; large ice-crystals dislodged by
Captain Scott's narrative is very full of de-
our movements continued to be showered down on
tail, — confessedly so, for the sake of utility
our heads. As a first step I took off my goggles; to others who would attempt a similar enter-
I then discovered that Evans was hanging just prise. But it never becomes tedious thereby,
above me. I asked him if he was all right, and re-
indeed one's interest is rather increased by
ceived a reassuring reply in his usual calm matter-
of-fact tones. Meanwhile I groped about on every
the fulness and care with which the story is
side with my cramponed feet, only to find every-
told. The freshness and novelty of the sub-
where the same slippery smooth wall.
ject matter command an immediate hearing,
struggles had set me swinging and at one end of a and the charm of the narrative, the well bal-
swing my leg suddenly struck a projection.
I found myself standing on a thin shaft of ice
anced perspective, and above all the manly
which was wedged between the walls of the chasm record of heroic endeavor here revealed bid
-how it came there I cannot imagine, but its po fair to make Captain Scott's modest account
sition was wholly providential; to the right or left, one of the classics of polar, exploration.
above or below, there was not the vestige of another
such support-nothing, in fact, but the smooth walls
Doubtless there were many favoring circum-
of ice.
With two of us on top and one be-
stances which enabled the expedition to make
low, things had assumed a very different aspect, and this phenomenal record, - a lucky choice for
I was able to unhitch my own harness and lower it
winter quarters in close proximity to a feasi-
once more for Evans; then with our united efforts
he also was landed on the surface, where he ar-
ble southern route, and favorable movements
rived in the same frost-bitten condition as I had. of the ice-pack which gave it the chance to
For a minute or two we could only look at one an reach high latitudes and to escape again with
other, then Evans said, “Well, I'm blowed''; it
the ship. But after all is said, a large modicum
was the first sign of astonishment he had shown.'
of praise is due to this intrepid explorer and
Not the least interesting part of Captain his plucky company for the untiring zeal which
Scott's narrative are his references to the ani-
they exhibited in pushing forward the confines
mal life of the Antarctic.
of knowledge in the Antarctic by almost super-
“There are no land mammals, properly so called, human efforts, in physical discomfort and
within the Antarctic Circle. There are no South
Polar bears; there are no Antarctic foxes; there
amidst dangers that would have appalled most
are no large mammals of any sort or kind save
men even of Anglo-Saxon blood. To the list
whales, which live entirely in the water, and seals,
of British names illustrious in the annals of
which spend more than half their time there. exploration, to those of Drake, Cook, Baffin,
'Geology has not disclosed to us any lost Antarc-
tic mammalian fauna, although it has suggested to
Franklin, Ross, and Nares, should be added
us the possibility that at one time there was a cli-
that of Scott.
CHARLES ATWood KOFOID.
mate, and perhaps a vegetation, that might have
suited it.
Separated now by some hun-
dreds of miles of very stormy ocean from the near-
est habitable lands, with currents of wind and
ENGLAND'S LATER YEARS.*
water all setting in precisely the wrong direction,
it maintains an almost perfect barrenness.
Mr. Justin McCarthy has employed the years
“The Antarctic continent now boasts of a vegeta of his ill health and enforced withdrawal from
tion which includes a few low forms of moss and
lichen, and a terrestrial fauna which consists of, torical character dealing primarily with the
political life in preparing various works of his-
one minute and primitive form of wingless insect.
Of the whales and seals and birds, the last-named reign of Queen Victoria. He now presents the
alone have any pretension at all to a terrestrial fourth and fifth volumes of his History of Our
habit of life, in that they use the moraines and
rocky cliffs of the continental shores, aaş nesting appeared many years ago, followed much later
Own Times,' the first two volumes of which
sites. But they are all pelagic sea-birds.'
The expedition was particularly fortunate by a third volume. In the words of the preface,
in having the services of several excellent
these two concluding volumes
photographers and of the surgeon-artist Dr.
*A HISTORY OF OUR OWN TIMES. By Justin Mc-
Carthy. Volumes IV. and V. Illustrated. New York:
Wilson. The latter's sketches of the wonder-
Harper & Brothers.


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'have for their object in the first instance to give purity. But when Mr. Morley has found it
a clear and comprehensive account of all the
events of public importance occurring in or to the
necessary to devote much space in his Life of
British Empire during the years between Queen
Gladstone to a defense of Gladstone's seemingly
Victoria's Diamond Jubilee and the accession of sudden conversion to a Home Rule policy, it
King Edward the Seventh. But, besides this ob-
vious object, the volumes include a retrospect of
would certainly appear that he at least believed
the important changes which the reign of Queen
in the sincerity of the criticisms made. For Mr.
Victoria saw in the public life, the literature, art,
Morley's defense is a defense of the motives, not
and science - more especially the applied science of the act itself.
of that period, the changes which have come about
If, then, these additional volumes of the
in the habits and manners of the time; and also
the leading characteristics of the men and women
‘History of Our Own Times' contain no new
who have grown into celebrity during these later
material and are not critical, in what way are
years."
they of any historical importance? In none
This quotation sufficiently indicates the pur save in the impression received, even though not
pose of the author and the scope of his work. As distinctly stated, of the author's own personal
in the previous volumes, Mr. McCarthy's method attitude toward men and events. For Mr. Mc-
is that of the high class journalist rather than Carthy is himself a man of historical importance
that of the historian; and in this is to be found whose opinions it would be well worth while to
the chief charm of his work, for the reader ob know, even if only with the purpose of estimat-
tains the acute impressions of a contemporan- ing his attitude, and the attitude of the party,
eous observer of events, presented in a pleasing to which he belonged, toward leading personages
and clear style. Some of the principal condi- and conditions in recent English history. As
tions thus described are, in Volume IV., the already indicated, it is wholly impossible to
development of the policy of colonial federation, know how the author really estimates the men of
with resulting difficulties in South Africa, the this period. And even with regard to events
European aspect of the Greek Turkish war, the and conditions, the same non-critical character-
reconquest of Egypt, the 'Boxer' troubles in istics render any understanding of the author's
China, the American intervention in Cuba, and, personal convictions difficult. Yet he certainly
in home politics, industrial questions, church has them, and occasionally they peep out from
rituals, woman's suffrage, and the ordinary par the carefully worded résumé he offers. Taking
liamentary happenings not treated under other for granted his belief in the justice and wisdom
headings. In Volume V. the only topic of of Home Rule for Ireland, to the attainment of
extra-English interest treated at length is the which Mr. McCarthy has devoted his political
war in South Africa, the greater portion of the life, his most marked revelations of self are
volume being given to purely insular politics, centered about four topics. He is distinctly not
and to characterizations and retrospect of men attracted by the modern cry of ‘Imperialism,'
and conditions of the entire Victorian era. From caustically remarking that this more eupheumis-
none of these chapters does the reader obtain tic term has come to be applied in late years to
any new information of historical importance, what was once spoken of in contempt, or at least
for Mr. McCarthy has simply thrown into at in derogation, as ‘Jingoism.' Again, while he
tractive form the current newspaper knowledge is eminently just in detailing the proof offered
of the events themselves. Nor is any real criti before the Parliamentary committee that in-
cism offered, for the author is so consistently vestigated the extent of the participation of
generous in his attitude toward the leading men Rhodes and of Chamberlain in the famous
of England that he sees only, or at least states Jameson Raid,' he unquestionably sympathises
only, their good qualities. It is certainly not with that minority which believed the committee
historically true, for example, that Gladstone's unwilling to probe the matter to the bottom. In
motives were never attacked by his political the third place, in a chapter entitled 'Here's a
opponents; and yet Mr. McCarthy in a chapter Woman Would Speak' he notes the steady devel-
wholly laudatory in its character, on 'The Death opment of the woman's suffrage principle in
of Gladstone,' asserts that ‘Even his [Glad municipal and county organizations, and by his
stone's] most unyielding political opponents friendly discussion of the greater issues of na-
never believed him guilty of adopting any “tional voting and representation shows at least
course for the sake of mere party interests or an open mind and a sympathetic attitude toward
of taking up any cause for the reason that it the general movement, though he does not
was popular, and that its advocacy might prophesy and does not distinctly state his own
strengthen the Administration of which he was principles. And finally and chiefly, he is think-
the leader.' Possibly Mr. McCarthy would make ing and writing of a world that has passed, of
a distinction between an attack by political men that have played their part and have dis-
opponents upon the motives of Gladstone, and appeared from the scene of action, of events that
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intimately related with the world of to-day. It But Mr. McCarthy is always readable, and the
may seem impossible thatone writing of so recent entertaining quality of his work will undoubt-
a period should acquire so remote a point of edly be of value in bringing to the negligent
view, yet the impression is there and is perhaps reader some familiarity, at least, with the main
intentionally conveyed. For Mr. McCarthy cer features of later English politics. The work is
tainly feels and makes his readers feel that the illustrated with sixteen portraits, and the last
Victorian era is closed, and that the men who volume contains a good index. E. D. ADA MS.
took important parts in those years can not, and
bave not, been replaced in the present English
political world. His two volumes are divided
into twenty-four chapters, of which four specifi KATE GREENAWAY AND HER FRIENDS.*
cally deal with the death lists of separate years,
It is not often that biographers so discrimin-
while two others are devoted to summaries of
the careers of Gladstone and of Queen Victoria
ating, painstaking, and appreciative as Messrs.
M. H. Spielmann and G. S. Layard are per-
respectively, so that one-sixth of the contents
of his work is concerned with what may be called delightfully adapted to their purposes as that
mitted to exercise their gifts upon material so
obituary reminiscences. In addition to all this,
which clusters about the name of Kate Green-
one of the two concluding chapters of Retro-
spect consists of personal impressions of parlia-
away. Their joint biography, drawing its lit-
erary interest from many and unique sources,
mentary leaders who died at a time earlier than
and illustrated by numberless artistic repro-
the period of which these later volumes treat.
ductions of drawings either unpublished hith-
This striking characteristic of Mr. McCarthy's erto or wholly inaccessible to the general
work is surely illuminative of his own temper public, is one of the few real treasures of the
of mind; and while it may be regarded as a
autumn publishing season. Those who have
flaw in his method of treatment, it nevertheless long loved Kate Greenaway and her quaint
adds much to our understanding of the author. conceptions of childhood will take pleasure in
The first two volumes of this history, written
so distinguished a study of her life and work,
at a time when the author was closely con-
and will find much interesting new material
nected with the men he described, and the events
to add to their own memories. And on the
he narrated, glowed with the vigor of enthusias-
other hand, that much larger circle who regard
tic participation, and conveyed something of the
Miss Greenaway vaguely as a bygone illustrator
glamour of autobiographical statement. In these
of children's books which set a passing fashion
later volumes he is the intelligent observer, but
for big hats, mitts, muffs, and short-waisted,
lacking in the inspiration that comes with in- long-skirted dresses, and who know nothing
timate knowledge. Yet the most persistent feel definite about her private life, - this great
ing with the reader will be one of regret that majority will be pleasantly surprised at the
the author should realize so profoundly and un revelations of the new biography. Even now,
necessarily the close of his own distinguished as the writers admit, Miss Greenaway's stand-
political career,—a regret the more keen when
ing as an artist is disputed. As Mr. Lionel
it is remembered that he still holds a unique Robinson asked at the time [of her death] -
position as the clearest and most entertaining did she found a school or did she only start a
narrator of modern political events.
fashion? Was hers but a passing ad captan-
For while in honest criticism it must be
dum popularity or does her art contain the
frankly stated that this ‘History' is no history true elements of immortality?' However time
at all in the proper use of the term, it is never may answer these questions, it is certain that an
theless true that Mr. McCarthy has succeeded in
art and a personality which could interest
conveying in better form than has previously Ruskin and draw from him unstinted praise
been done a mass of logical selected information and many a vigorous scolding (more good-
about the last years of Victoria's reign. His vol- tempered than Ruskin's scoldings were at all
umes may be considered as the highest form of given to being and could win for themselves
such productions as the ' Annual Register,' sys besides a host of friends like the Locker-Lamp-
tematized and made consecutive. To this he sons, the du Mauriers, Mr. Austin Dobson, the
has added personal characterizations, which, Tennysons, and the Arthur Severns,— that an
while invariably too generous, yet leave a clear art and a personality so environed will be capa-
impression of the person described. His last ble of interesting biographical treatment.
chapter of ‘Retrospect’ is not so valuable, for it The peculiar competence of the present
is merely a summary of physical and scientific writers lies in their eager seizure upon all pos-
changes that have taken place during the cen sible points of interest, and their strong sense
tury, and contains no real analysis of the effects
* KATE GREENAWAY. By M. H. Spielmann and G. S.
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a
of proportion, which assigns to each item its exquisite examples of the best results to be
proper space in a volume that has not a dull obtained by the modern three-color process,
page
bit of superfluous 'padding.' reproduce water-color drawings in the posses-
Apart from her work, they justly consider the sion of friends such as Mr. Stuart M. Samuel,
great feature of Kate Greenaway's life to have whose treasures include a dainty procession
been her friendship with Ruskin. They have of girls bearing flowers, originally sent to
been very fortunate in securing from Ruskin's Ruskin upon his birthday, and less elaborate
literary executors generous permission to make but often beautifully finished drawings which
copious extracts from Ruskin's side of the cor Kate Greenaway was wont to inclose in letters
respondence that went on vigorously between to Mrs. Arthur Severn, and to present to other
him and ‘K. G. for many years, until owing friends as the best thanks within her power
to Ruskin's failing health it finally ended for kindnesses rendered her. Particularly
as a wonderfully sustained and spirited mono interesting are facsimiles of two pages from a
logue by ‘K. G.' alone. These letters, hitherto tiny MS. bibelot entitled “Babies and Blos-
unpublished, constitute the unique feature of soms, drawn by Kate Greenaway and written
the text, though it must not be rashly assumed by Frederick Locker-Lampson as a surprise for
that the narrative or the rest of Miss Green his wife, and an original four-page story writ-
away's correspondence are lacking in vivacity ten and illustrated by Miss Greenaway for Mrs.
or in the atmosphere that enables the reader to Severn's daughter Violet.
realize the delightful personality behind the Ruskin and Kate Greenaway did not meet
commonplace and unobtrusive exterior that its until 1882, but his first letter to her, composed
owner sometimes bemoaned. Much of the in a delightfully fantastic vein, was written in
material in the chapters entitled 'Early Years' December of 1879, probably at the suggestion
was obtained from the rough draught of an of her good friend and sincere though kindly
unfinished autobiography of Miss Greenaway's critic, Mr. H. Stacy Marks. At that time Miss
childhood. Owing to their discursiveness and Greenaway was already famous.
Her Christ-
lack of literary form, these reminiscences have mas cards and her illustrations ranked with
been generally reproduced in the third person. or above Walter Crane's and Caldecott's; she
To them is due in large measure the vivacity had been admired, imitated, caricatured in
of this portion of the narrative. An interesting ‘Punch,' and pirated in Germany and Belgium.
side-issue is the careful account of the part 'The Birthday Book' had been issued and had
nership between Miss Greenaway and Mr. prompted Stevenson to try his hand at verses
Edmund Evans, to whose expert color-printing for children; and French and English critics
by means of wood blocks was due a measure of had vied with one another in admiration for
her wonderful success. The revolution she the unaffected beauty, delicate humor, and
achieved in one form of book-illustration exquisite technique of the drawings in 'Under
would have been impossible without Mr. Evans's the Window.' Ruskin had had much to say
help. Nor are Miss Greenaway's verses neg of her feeling for children, and had hesitated
lected. These are often referred to incidentally, for some time, wishing to write to her but
and a final chapter sums up the matter much fearing to write harmfully, before he finally
after the judgment of Mr. Austin Dobson, who ventured to address her. The punctuation in
declared, 'She was very deficient in technique, these quotations, as in all the letters, follows
but she had the root of the matter in her.' Ruskin's curious custom of substituting dashes
As for the illustrations, they are all unique. of various lengths for commas, semicolons,
Nothing is reproduced from Kate Greenaway's and colons. He writes:
regularly published books, and it seems as if 'My dear Miss Greenaway - I lay awake half (no
no pains had been spared to collect all the per a quarter) of last night thinking of the hundred
sonal and elusive drawings, whether mere things I want to say to you — and never shall get
sketches or elaborate oil portraits, which are
said! - and I'm giddy and weary - and now can't
even say half or a quarter of one out of the hun-
treasured by her brother, and her friends and
dred. They're about you — and your gifts — and
patrons, and by their generosity here first your graces -- and your fancies - and your -yes
reproduced. The end-papers are facsimiles in - perhaps one or two little tiny faults.
miniature from the nursery wall paper printed Well, of the thousand things - it was nearer a thou-
this is anyhow the first:
with Kate Greenaway's special permission by Will you please tell me whether you can only draw
the owner of the original drawing. Pen and these things out of your head or could if you
pencil sketches that appeared on letters to
chose, draw them with the necessary modifications
from nature For instance -'
Ruskin or Miss Dickinson form chapter head-
ings or black-and-white inserts. Sometimes And he goes on to explain that he has seen
a whole letter, with its drawing, is reproduced many farm-houses down in Kent and twenty
in facsimile, and several of Ruskin's letters are children in his parish school that are lovelier
shown in the same form. The color-prints,
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are not like blue china — they are not like He is forever complaining of the children's
mushrooms — they are like — very ill-dressed feet. 'I wish some of the children had bare
angels. Could you draw groups of these as feet and that the shoes of the others weren't
they are?' He goes on to enumerate fourteen quite so like mussel-shells,' he writes once.
other items:
Butter boots' is another of his apt compari-
No. 4 of the thousand: Do you ever see the sons. Soon after he complains that the feet
blue sky and when you do, do you like it? are getting too small,' adding, ‘I want you to
No. 5. Is a witch's ride on a broomstick the
only chivalry you think it desirable to remind the
go to Boulogne and take a course of fish-wives
glorious Nineteenth Century of?
and wading children.'
'No. 6. Do you believe in Fairies?
Another bête noir of Ruskin's is the big
‘No. 7. In ghosts?
Greenaway hats. He insists that they are
"No. 8. In Principalities and Powers?
No. 9. In Heaven?
merely easy substitutes for the back-grounds
No. 10. In — Anywhere else
that she cannot draw. He growls about her
'No. 11. Did you ever see Chartres Cathedral conventionalized landscapes, declares that he
And so on to No. 15: 'Will you please forgive
is ashamed of her “ Language of Flowers,' and
and tell me
me
some of those things I've
then, relenting a little, packs off some 'sods'
asked ?'
for her to paint, 'not to tease you — but they'll
Miss Greenaway responded promptly to this
go on growing and being pleasant companions.'
comprehensive catechism, and Ruskin wrote
She promptly paints one, and he sends off an
again, urging her to study nature. A year
ecstatic telegram: "The sod is quite lovely,
later he goes into raptures over the first orig-
the best bit of groundwork I ever got done, so
inal drawing of hers that he has seen.
many thanks, but don't tire yourself so again.'
Unfortunately Ruskin seldom preserved let-
‘The drawing is so boundlessly more beautiful
than the wood-cut.
These books are lovely
ters, and none of Miss Greenaway's to him are
things but, as far as I can guess, from looking at extant until the years came when he ceased to
this drawing, your proper work would be in glass keep up his side of the correspondence. But
painting - where your own touch, your own color, it is clear that she must have displayed a good
would be safe for ever,— seen, in sacred places, by
multitudes — copied by others, for story books
deal of tact in managing her bearish critic.
but your whole strength put in pure first perfect He never got really angry, never lost his inter-
ness on the enduring material. Have you ever est in her work, which he often refers to in
thought of this?'
such terms as lovely, beyond all thanks or
There is something almost grotesque in the believeableness or conceiveableness.' And Kate,
idea of Ruskin, painstaking student of nature for her part, went her own way, profiting by
in her every least manifestation, exercising his excellent advice and very grateful for his
his critical faculty in perfect seriousness upon interest, but quite unhampered by his 'tyran-
‘K. G.'s' fairy-like conceptions. It suggests
nies,' as he himself once at least called them,
inevitably a picture of an elephant trying and taking pains never to let him see a book
vainly to comprehend and to correct the until it was safely printed.
careless flittings of a gay butterfly. The fact It was not that he did not admire the virtues
that neither Ruskin nor Miss Greenaway seemed of her work, but he wanted it to have all the
to be conscious of any such incongruity shows virtues. In one of his last letters to her, writ-
more clearly perhaps than any other one thing
ten from Sandgate, he shows how he values her
how seriously Kate Greenaway was accepted peculiar gift of imagination.
and how highly valued by those who best under-
'You cannot conceive how in my present state
stood her ideals and methods.
I envy – that is to say — only in the strongest way,
Some of Ruskin's detailed criticism is very
- the least vestige of imagination, such
as yours.
picturesque and amusing. In June, 1883, he
When nothing shows itself to me — all
day long — but the dull room or the wild sea and
writes:
I think what it must be to you to have far sight
'Now be a good girl and draw some flowers that into dreamlands of truth - and to be able to see
won't look as if their leaves had been in curlpapers such scenes of the most exquisite grace and life
all night - and some more chairs than one chair and quaint vivacity — whether you draw them or
with the shade all right and the legs all square not, what a blessing to have them there — at your
and then I'll tell you what you must do next.' call. And then I stopped and have been lying back
Again on the 15th, from Oxford :
in my chair the last quarter of an hour,— thinking
- If I could only let you feel for only a quarter
'I do want some children as they are,— and that of an hour what it is to have no imagination
you should be able to draw a pretty one without power of calling up lovely things no guidance of
mittens, and that you should be more interested in pencil point along the visionary line. Oh, how
phases of character. I want your exquisite feelings thankful you would be to find your mind again.
given to teach — not merely to amuse.
I'm "And what lovely work you have spent — where
going to do a bit of “Kate' glass directly, for no one will ever see it but poor me - on the lightest
some English hall in fairyland. [He had already of your messages. • Well, I had joy out of
had at least one such window made.] You'll soon them - such as you meant -- and more than ever I
have proof of the lecture on you!'
could tell you.'
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It is a pity that space is lacking to quote for breath. It is a book to be read at a single
from the occasional letters in which Ruskin sitting, like a good novel. To say that it is
speaks more fully of himself - of his battles interesting, well written, and appropriate to
at Oxford with atheistic scientists and careless the times, is to offer it the merest justice; but
students, of his greater battle with himself and to describe it as a complete success is perhaps
the gathering shadows, of the flowers he loves going too far. Perhaps it would be more suc-
best and the novels he detests most, of his cessful if it were less complete.
autobiography that is going to be so dull' and Belief, it is observed, is necessary to our con-
so meek,' of the reasons why clouds float, of tinued existence. Daily and hourly — from
the weather, without and within.
minute to minute we act in accordance with
Kate's letters to him, in spite of the difficulty our beliefs. These beliefs are founded, we com-
under which she wrote, without the inspiration monly say, on experience; but when we attempt
of answers, are charming - always sympa their logical analysis we sooner or later find
thetic, always cheerful, 'newsy,' and character ourselves confronted by absurd contradictions.
istic. Writing from London to the recluse at 'If the conception of freedom eludes and baffles
Brantwood she naturally speaks often of the the intellect, so in their last analysis do our con-
art exhibits she attends. Her favorite adjec- ceptions of everything. As Spencer has shown, we
tive for the very modern painters is 'funny,'
cannot, without self-contradiction, conceive space,
or matter, or motion, or causation, or our own con-
and generally she writes it all in capitals. It scious existence. Our consciousness is always a con-
is this quality of artless frankness in her letters, sciousness of the present moment; but the present
their ingenuous merriment, their abandoned moment is an ever disappearing point, which has
joy in the beauty of the earth, rather than
gone before we can name it - which holds all, and
yet is nothing.
Matter has three dimen-
their literary finish, that gives them charm. sions, yet resolves itself into points with none.
As the years go on there are hints of depres-
Nothing can be thought of as not having a cause;
sion, of a feeling that she is being superseded yet all causes end at last in an Absolute which can
and 'forgotten' in spite of all her efforts. But
cause nothing; and if we look on this Absolute as
an absolute yet personal God, God, as Dean Mansel
this is not dwelt upon. The impression left shows us, is all the unthinkables in one' (p. 272).
by the biography is of a personality at once
gay and serious; of a life spent in hard endeavor
Hence the religious difficulty is, at heart, the
towards high ends, and reaping great reward
same as the scientific difficulty, and all we can
in achievement, in friendship, and in the pop-
say about it is, that it appears to be insoluble
by the human intellect.
ular favor which measures achievement; of a
career rounded and closed before it has grown
Are we, then to hold ourselves lost? By no
burdensome.
means; for just as in the ordinary affairs of
EDITH KELLOGG DUNTON.
life we depend upon the practical beliefs we
have reached, so in higher matters must we
rest upon the verities of religion, for the sake
of our own sanity and the progress of civiliza-
THE RESCUE OF RELIGION.*
tion. What are these higher matters, and what
A few years ago, Mr. W. H. Mallock gave are the verities of religion ? Logic does not
us Religion as a Credible Doctrine.' This tell us; science, as a logical system, knows no
work, notwithstanding the title, was mainly higher or lower, better or worse. Yet, as we
devoted to the pulverization of the religious live, we may not, cannot, abandon our system
apologists; but nevertheless, it presented at the of values, or admit that good and bad, higher
end cogent reasons for still maintaining the and lower, beauty and ugliness, are one and the
general religious position. The same author's same thing. If the cosmos has no soul, if we
new book now before us is, as it were, a new ourselves are but bubbles formed in an instant
edition of the old, with the proportions altered. and bursting in the next, if all we do, think,
It would not be truly Mallockian if it did not or say was predetermined in infinity, the very
hold up for exhibition the weaknesses of pre- meaning of the higher life is lost. Man has
vious writers, and indeed it does this through- tediously climbed the ladder of evolution, until
out; but it does much more, it seeks to present at length he seems to see over the housetops
the fundamental axioms of religion in such a the distant hills; and is he now to be told that
way that they can be accepted, - not in spite they are a figment of his imagination ? He will
of, but rather because of, modern scientific not be so stultified, logic or no logic.
knowledge. Passing over the introduction, Granting so much, do we therefore grant
which contains some curiously poor verses, we anything and everything? The sublime noto-
find a closely-reasoned argument continued riously borders on the ridiculous, and when
from the first page to the last, with little pause
the other day I heard an orthodox clergyman
gravely maintain that God had a throne set
*THE RECONSTRUCTION OF RELIGIOUS BELIEF. By W. H.
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of as
Our very
only suppose him to be wanting in a sense of we might be able to spell out a part of them; and
humor. The truth of the matter is, that it will
here we have our answer. The Rosetta Stone of
not do to confuse the ultimate illogicality of
the universe for ourselves is the human brain, in
which matter and conscious mind are immediately
things, as they necessarily appear to our minds, presented to us as identical, and we are able to
with a system of thought which for everyday watch reality at work under its two aspects'
practical purposes will not work. We believe (p. 179).
in the freedom of the will, within limitations, This attractive idea is developed at consid-
as a practical necessity; but to hold at the same erable length, with the result of apparently
time some of the traditions of theology and the justifying, or at least rendering more or less
theories of science, or even the opinions result- probable, the existence of a cosmic God. The
ing from common experience, is like caging objection which may at once be raised to it is
together two furious beasts, which can by no this: that the human mind cannot be thought
means endure one another. As 0. W. Holmes
said, the scandalous thing is not that such thought
thought - the emergence of cerebration into
combinations make people insane, but that
the field of consciousness
- depends
upon
the
people profess to hold by them and retain their existence of active conflict, and upon the reac-
sanity.
tions between personality and non-personality.
But the religious apologist will say, that is
If the absence of free-will is unthinkable, so
true; but turn out the scientific beast, not the equally is unrestrained free-will: it is like the
religious one! Why cannot we do that? Ulti-conception of pushing with nothing to push.
mately for the practical reason that the scien-
The human mind or personality, magnified
tific animal will and does serve us in a thousand into a cosmic God, would be exactly the blank
ways, and is always ready to come at our call;
slab which Haeckel and Spencer are said to
while the other is shy and cantankerous, to
have depicted, and while the conception might
say the least.
If we were monomaniacs, it have value in philosophic discussions, it could
might be different.
have nothing whatever to do with religion.
Here is the whole point of Mr. Mallock's Monotheism carried to its logical extreme is
contention. The religious beast has got to go; Pantheism, and possesses no reality which the
there is no reasonable doubt about that; but
human intellect can grasp. The really religious
must religion go with it? If it must, the end man cries 'My God,' and while he may postu-
of human progress, as we understand it, has late an omnipotent and cosmic deity, in reality
come; but it must not, and moreover, cannot,
he addresses himself to his spiritual father or
in the nature of things. The clergy are too
friend, who is thought of as one like himself
wedded to old traditions, and too ignorant of only immensely superior. Philosophically, it
science, to afford much help; the scientific are is perfectly reasonable to hold that each man's
for the most part too narrow; and hence the
individual God is a phase or aspect of spiritual
inevitable new birth is not an easy one, and totality, just as each man's garden is a phase
the transition period is one in which men seem or aspect of material totality; but for the pur-
cast adrift. The very psychological conditions poses of living religion, each must have his
which made the coming of Christ so opportune own special deity, who ministers in special ways
1900 years ago, have arisen again.
to his needs. Thus some of the creeds of
I have not attempted to reconstruct Mr. | paganism are seen to be more genuinely alive
Mallock's argument in this short review, but and purposeful than we have been wont to
merely to describe his general purpose. Neither assume, and polytheism is no longer a word of
has it seemed worth while to offer detailed reproach, but a reasonable projection of the
criticism, though 'science,' as understood by diverse aspirations of mankind.
many, is likely to repudiate such things as the
T. D. A. COCKERELL.
inheritance of sense-impressions described on
p. 37. There remains, however, a more funda-
mental objection. Mr. Mallock says:
HENRY JAMES: AN APPRECIATION.*
"We must, then, recognize anthropomorphism, un-
derstood with certain limitations, as providing us All of Miss Cary's work in biography and
with what is not only not an illegitimate, but the
criticism is marked by the distinct note of
sole scientific means, of approaching the problem of
the ultimate character of the universe. Just now
appreciation. In such a spirit she has studied
we compared the Unknowable First Cause, as Rossetti and William Morris, Tennyson, Brown-
Haeckel, Spencer, and their whole school representing, and Emerson. She brings her reader into
it, to a seemingly blank slak which when cleaned
close touch with the mental and spiritual traits
by a further application of the methods of these
thinkers themselves, is seen to be covered with in-
of each author, and leaves him with a deeper
numerable cryptic inscriptions; and asked
HENRY JAMES. By Elisabeth
whether it were possible to discover any Rosetta Luther Cary.
a Bibliography by Frederick A.
Stone any bilingual tablet — by means of which
we
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impression of the general influences of the sub of the novelist's characters. Recognizing that
ject chosen for study. In her latest volume, a the conscious appreciation of such women as
critical_interpretation of the novels of Mr. Maisie, Nanda, Maggie, and Maria Gostrey must
Henry James, she has found a theme well suited come slowly, Miss Cary justly lays stress upon
to her powers of insight and illumination. the staying quality of their images when once
In an introductory chapter various questions they are impressed. With discrimination she
are raised regarding the influence of Mr. James points out that Mr. James does not dissect his
upon his readers, such as whether or not their characters, but rather he builds them up syn-
minds are enriched by his fiction, and whether thetically and slowly, to gain large effects. Of
his work tends to quicken the vision and grasp her author's symbolism and swift psychological
of beauty in art, in character, and in the external images she says, with personal zest: 'From the
world. From the first we are assured that to point of view of one who likes it, such an exer-
Miss Cary, as to all admiring readers of Mr. cise of the imagination brings back the delicious
James, the answers to such queries must be early sense of living in a fairy-tale, but without
strongly affirmative. Tracing his early work, the sacrifice of our later sense of reality. We
with its promise of triumph over the common- gain from it both the show of things and their
place,' following his years of ripening amid Eng- significance, both the fable and the moral, both
fish and Continental influences, emphasizing his the text and the picture.'
French mode of style with its 'rich density of If there is weakness anywhere in this interest-
detail,' Miss Cary reaches her first general asser ing and luminous study it is in the chapter on
tion of Mr. James's highest ideal as critic and Philosophy.' One wishes that more expansion
novelist alike, — to combine 'what a critic of of Mr. James's moral and psychologic messages
painting would call tactile values with the had been included. With happy metaphor the
greatest amount of spiritual truth.'
author speaks of the difficulties in the way of
In the second chapter, on ‘American Char- such study— It is easy, no doubt, in a wood so
acter,' one finds an excellent review of Mr. closely set with handsome growth, to see only
James's attitude towards the salient and inci the trees.' Questioning if Mr. James has fol-
dental qualities of Americans, from his first lowed his own ideals as set forth in 'The Art
studies in Watch and Ward' and 'Roderick of Fiction,' Miss Cary finds in him a judicial
Hudson' to “The Ambassadors.' Miss Cary, mind and a constant presentation of some moral
like her subject, is constantly striking matches or intellectual problem, frequently a problem of
for our enlightenment on her theme, while, choice. An exhaustive bibliography by Mr.
with keen phrase, she says that Mr. James has Frederick Allen King, arranged logically as well
written, not a Comédie Humaine but, in large as chronologically, is a valuable adjunct to th:
measure, a Comédie Social, dealing with the chapters by Miss Cary.
, mental and social contacts of Americans and
ANNIE RUSSELL MARBLE.
Europeans. With amusement, that is also echo,
we read in the same chapter this sentence, bear-
ing directly upon
*Roderick Hudson' but ap-
HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS.
plicable to much of the author's character-delin-
eation: 'All through the book people explain
themselves to each other and explain each other
One of the most elaborate, as well as one of
to themselves. “The Genius of Places,' that
the most authoritative, art books of the season
intense feeling which Mr. James shows for
is Mr. Gustave Geffroy's account of 'The Na-
tional Gallery of London, published by Messrs.
certain houses and surroundings, gives theme Frederick Warne & Co. in a volume copiously
to another chapter, with special illustrations illustrated with over fifty full-page photogra-
from The Portrait of a Lady.' A consideration vures and nearly three times as many pictures
of 'The Question of Wealth,' interpreted from in the text. An introduction by Sir Walter Arm-
their attitude toward wealth of Mr. James's strong, director of the Irish National Gallery
characters, from Isabel Archer and Adam and an illuminating critic, traces briefly but com-
Verver to the stupid and gross spenders in prehensively the history of the English National
"The Spoils of Poynton,' leads on to the con-
Gallery from its foundation in 1824 to the pres-
clusion that 'appreciation of the two kinds and
ent time. The terse but scholarly method of the
introduction is followed in the rest of the book.
uses of wealth, the material and the immaterial,
Mr. Geffroy writes in succession of each of the
-this, perhaps, is the marked characteristic of
his representation of society in which the “pic- Gallery, treating in separate articles certain
seven great schools of painting represented in the
'ture and the idea” are present in such even eminent groups of painters or, in a few cases,
proportion. Under the elastic title of 'Imag an individual artist. A special point is made of
ination' are introduced anew queries regarding the origins of each school and of its development
the universal truth and the real expressiveness from one phase to another, so that each division
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were
of the book is unified through much detail. Mr. churches where the conversational interludes of
Geffroy's criticism is descriptive and æsthetic, sympathetic companionship
resumed.'
as well as historical, and occasionally biographi There are so many good things in Miss Whit-
cal, when biographical data are essential to the ing's book, that the pity is all the greater that
interpretation and understanding of any paint the writer has never acquired the literary virtues
ing. His style is often brilliant, and always of restraint and selection; although in this vol-
clear and definite. The book is not primarily a ume she offends less than usual, her pen too
history of isolated schools; it is an account and often runs away into merely ‘fine' writing, upon
a comparative estimate of those schools as they topics quite out of place. Then, too, before the
are represented in the English Gallery, and book goes into another edition, the publishers
there is constant reference to the influence of should have the proofs read by some one familiar
all the groups upon the English painters. To with Italian proper names. A number of excel-
the native school in its various characteristic lent half-tone reproductions, mainly from photo-
manifestations one-third of the space available graphs of Florentine buildings and scenery,
in the volume is allotted. In these days of illustrate the volume.
splendid illustrating almost nothing is any longer "With Shelley in Italy,' by Mrs. Anna Benneson
astonishing, but it may safely be said that even McMahan, is an illuminating commentary upon
today a more luxuriously and satisfactorily the Italian influences that made Shelley, one
illustrated book would be hard to find. The bound to be a great poet in any environment, the
more notable pictures, and those containing particular kind of great poet that he is.' The
masses of detail, are reproduced in full-page book takes the form of an anthology of extracts
size, and the smaller half-tones are very effect from the poems, letters, and note-books written
ive for portraits and for some types of landscape. between 1818 and the poet's death, with brief
The volume, which is of quarto size, would make introductory comments by the editor upon the
an excellent guide-book for visitors to the Gal circumstances under which Shelley lived and
lery, but it seems to be planned more particu-
worked in each of the five short years that were
larly for the leisurely study that comes before left to him. The book is published by Messrs.
or between pilgrimages to London, and its scope
A. C. McClurg & Co. in a sumptuous large-paper
and ample illustration, together with the great
edition limited to two hundred and fifty copies.
variety of types represented between its covers, The binding is of grey boards, with gold decora-
make it an excellent volume with which to start
tions and vellum back. Nearly seventy-five pho-
one's artistic training.
tographs, including some taken expressly for this
book, are reproduced in tint, by way of recalling
If it be possible to say of a city, as it was said
pictorially Shelley's Italian environment. Mrs.
once of a woman, 'to have loved her is a liberal
McMahan has made no addition to our already
education,' that city is Florence. A certain ex-
abundant supply of 'chatter about Harriet'; her
travagance of language that would be out of
place in writing of other cities is quite pardon. In her general introduction she recalls Dr. Richard
interest in Shelley lies on quite another plane.
able when Florence is the theme. 'Flower of
Garnett's statement that the great obstacles to
all Cities and Cities of all Flowers' is the char-
a general comprehension of the poet were ‘his
acterization of Miss Lilian Whiting in her latest
erudition and the Italian atmosphere which envel-
book, "The Florence of Landor' (Little, Brown,
ops much of his poetry.' In the twenty-five years
& Co.); and whoever in the early Spring has
since this comment was uttered, the erudition has
climbed up the green slopes of Fiesole, or the
been pretty thoroughly annotated, but Mrs.
opposite height of San Miniato, and looked down
McMahan's is the first attempt to set the poems
upon the marble town with its cupolas and roofs
in their original environment, by illustration, and
buried in a sea of blossoms, will appreciate the
by grouping them with apposite passages from
appellation. Though literary Florence is less
the letters and note-books, 'so that the poems may
well-known than artistic Florence, it is no less
be seen in the making, so to speak.' This is the
fascinating of the Anglo-Florentines who compiler's object, and she accomplishes it in a
formed there such a brilliant literary group dur-
way that leaves no need for further justification.
ing the middle years of the nineteenth century, Shelley's note to his 'Ode to the West Wind'
one of the earliest to come and longest to remain
gains new significance when it is printed below a
was Walter Savage Landor. For this reason, photograph of the wood that skirts the Arno'
and not because Landor was in any sense a per to which it refers, and the Italian spirit of even
sonal centre (his personal affiliations were too so universal a bit of literature as the 'Ode' comes
limited for that), Miss Whiting uses “The Flor suddenly to the fore in the reader's enjoyment.
ence of Landor' as a title to cover the more
Descriptive passages in other poems and the
distinctively literary life of the city from 1821,
extracts from the dramas gain greatly in interest
when Landor came to Florence, to 1864, when when read in connection with Shelley's almost
he died there. Certainly those were great days, impassioned account of the experiences that
and Miss Whiting's book contains many happy brought them into being. Mrs. McMahan's own
pictures of the social life of this inner circle of writing fills less than a score of her pages,-a
choice spirits,-'moonlight gatherings on the ter fact testifying to her marked ability to speak
race of some old palazzo, where Italian politics briefly and to the point.
and poetry were discussed over tea and straw Mr. H. Noel Williams, who has written popular
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new
Madame Pompadour, and other French wits, claims no particular originality. The origin and
beauties, and 'queens of the left hand,'. has development of the Missions, the noble deeds they
published a volume along somewhat the enshrined, the good they did and tried to do for
same lines, entitled 'Queens of the French Stage' the Indian, have been already treated by experts,
(imported by Scribner). In this new work he from whose works Mr. James has supplemented
discusses in turn Madame Molière; Marie de the impressions gained by personal pilgrimages
Champmeslé, Racine's interpreter and mistress; stretching over a period of twenty-five years.
Adrienne Lecouvreur, whose romantic history But certain points have never been presented, or
and tragic death lend themselves easily to exploi- presented so fully, before: for example, the origin
tation; and several others of the artistic fore and the detailed style of Mission architecture,
bears of Mesdames Bernhardt and Rejane. Mr. and its influence upon modern architecture in the
Williams gives both the 'backstairs' and the United States; the mural decorations, the wood-
theatrical biography of his subjects. Having ap-
carving, the silver and brass ware, and the figures
parently delved deeply into contemporary rec of saints, in the Missions; and some others. A
ords, he speaks with authority, citing sources in cursory survey of the book, which extends to
foot-notes, and sometimes assembling a rather nearly four hundred pages, finds it an interesting
tiresome array of proofs. Written in clear, vig and adequate treatment of a fascinating theme.
orous style, the book makes interesting, if not Similar in general style of make-up and also
very stimulating reading. Its greatest value lies in intention that of pleasing the 'arm-chair'
in the glimpses which it affords of late seven traveller, without disregarding the needs of his
teenth and early eighteenth century French soci fellow who journeys by road and rail -are two
ety, and of the attitude of that society toward books published by Messrs. L. C. Page & Co.,
the actor. The picture is not a pleasant one, for entitled respectively 'Rambles in Brittany' and
the book resolves itself into the story of liaisons, ‘Among French Inns.' The former is the fifth
jealousies, infidelities, intrigues, and scandals in volume of French sketches which Mr. Francis
high life and low. The history of triumphs and Miltoun has written. It is the informal record of
failures on the stage is subordinated to the more many journeys and rambles, rather off the beaten
significant history of romances in the wings and track of tourist travel. Maps, plans, diagrams,
the green-room; and we are given unprofitable and an index to places will be useful to all classes
side-lights on those who deserve remembrance of readers. There are general chapters on the
simply as artistic or historic personages. For history, topography, and customs of the province,
those who played so brilliantly before the foot and detailed accounts of certain regions. A
lights often played at the game of life very
delightful feature of the volume is Mrs. Blanche
badly, if one judges them by twentieth century
McManus's picturesque drawings of the country,
and Anglo-Saxon standards. The book, a sub the architectural monuments, and the people.
stantial volume of some three hundred and fifty These, reproduced in tint, with an ornamental
quarto pages, is pleasantly illustrated with eight cover of heavy buckram, give the book an attrac-
or ten full-page half-tone reproductions after
tive holiday air.- Mr. Charles Gibson, author of
contemporary drawings or paintings. A photo-Among French Inns,' has a very unfortunate
gravure from a famous portrait of Adrienne Le-
literary style. He defaces almost every page of
couvreur serves as frontispiece.
his book by bis badly chosen vocabulary or his
Mr. George Wharton James is an indefatigable disregard for the rules of English syntax. To
exploiter of the romance of the great West,-not
quote only one sentence from a page which fur-
the West of the gold rush, the gallant cow-boy, or
nishes several examples, equally forcible, Mr.
the picturesquely adventurous prospector, but the
Gibson says in describing the market-place at
West of the Indian, whether he be the present-day
Caudebec: 'Here we hear the cackle of the hen,
basket-maker, living peacefully on his reserva-
and observe the young calf elongate his soft, pink
tion, or the savage convert of the Spanish padres,
tongue in gentle endearment.' And so, though
whose crusade to Alta California began at about
Mr. Gibson tells us a great many interesting
the time of our revolution and came to an end
things about Normandy, we cannot feel that his
a dozen years before the territory's annexation.
text is worthy of the elaborate embellishment
It is this particular phase of his subject that
which is given it by over thirty tinted reproduc-
engages Mr. James's attention in his latest book,
tions of photographs, prettily designed end-pa-
'In and Out of the Old Missions' (Little, Brown,
pers, and an alluring cover.
& Co.). Finding this theme still too broad to be In response to an urgent demand for more
handled in one volume without undue condensa Uncle Remus stories, Mr. Joel Chandler Harris
tion, Mr. James further limits it in his preface to
has written "Told by Uncle Remus' (McClure,
California missions, promising a companion vol Phillips & Co.), a collection of new stories of
ume upon those of New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, negro folklore, which are permeated by the same
and Lower California. Full and beautiful illus sly humor that has given Uncle Remus his unique
tration is always a feature of Mr. James's books. position among lovers of good stories. Brer
This new one contains over sixty pages which Rabbit, Brer Fox, Brer Wolf, and all the rest
reproduce one hundred and forty-two photographs of the gay brotherhood reappear in the new
of Mission art and architecture, and of street book, and Messrs. Frost, Condé, and Verbeck
scenes and Indian types to be found in Mission have contributed pictures, in full-page size and
villages. For the bulk of his work Mr. James also in little vignettes that are quite as charac-


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teristic. “The Reason Why' is the name of the and therefore has a right to his theories about
introductory story, which tells how Uncle them. In general, the topics dealt with in both
Remus, after years of silence, happened to begin volumes are of the sort that would naturally
story-telling again. The reason is as ingenious interest a man of affairs, and Colonel Denby's
and convincing as if an excuse for such a pro method of treating them will appeal particularly
ceeding was really needed. The stories explain to masculine readers. In accordance with the
such interesting matters as 'Why Mr. Cricket plan of the series, the volumes are profusely
Has Elbows on His Legs,' 'How Wiley Wolf illustrated with reproductions of photographs
Rode in the Bag,' 'When Brother Rabbit Was collected by the author.
King, 'Why Mr. Dog is Lame,' and many others. Normandy in Colour' (Dent-Dutton), by Mr.
Uncle Remus has presumably aged somewhat Gordon Home, is chiefly of interest for its beau-
since his first appearance, but his story-telling tiful colored plates, which give clearer impressions
faculty is unimpaired by time and disuse. of Normany's varied and wonderful scenery, her
Between the diverting humor of Mr. Oliver splendid churches and chateaux, her quaint and
Herford's verses and the same humor in its pic narrow streets, and her poplar-shaded country
torial manifestations, it is hard to choose, partic- roads, than any words, however perfectly chosen,
ularly since the two together make such a could hope to do. But Mr. Home is sufficiently
delightful harmony. In his new book, 'The Fairy an artist to write, as well as paint, like one. He
Godmother-in-Law' (Scribner), Mr. Herford has wins the reader's approbation by his first sen-
made the illustrative features rather less promi tence. Very large ants, magpies in every meadow,
nent than usual. The little pen-and-ink drawings and coffee cups without handles, but of great
are characteristically clever and original, but the girth,' are the objects he seizes upon as par-
verses are the pièce de résistance. The first story, ticularly indicative of the differences between
which gives the book its title, is an engaging Normandy and Devonshire. The same feeling for
sequel to Cinderella. As Mr. Herford puts the effective detail permeates all Mr. Home's pen
matter in the preface:
pictures of Normandy. His method of treatment
'It is not always well to place
is purely impressionistic. He tells the reader
Unbounded Faith in Fairy Lore,
what pleasures await him in Normandy, leaving
Believing that in every case
to Baedeker the purveying of those hard facts
They all lived Happy ever more. about historical association and other like mat-
ters which, however profitable to the traveller,
'Stranger than Fiction though we deem
The Truth, it does not follow, too,
are devoid of literary or artistic value.
That Fairy Tales, because they seem
Mr. Gustav Kobbé's 'Famous Actors and Act-
Still stranger, must be still more true. resses and their Homes,' first issued two years
ago, re-appears in two handy-sized volumes,
Far be it from me to assail
bound in red cloth and neatly boxed, as one of
The Truthfulness of Fairy Writ,
But let us take a Well-known Tale,
Messrs. Little, Brown, & Co.'s 'Holiday Art Sets.'
And see what really came of it.'
These sketches are deservedly popular, for they
combine dignity with interest, in a field where
Some of the other verses embody Mr. Herford's such a combination is rarely achieved. The thirty
corrections of myths and fairy tales; and others, full-page plates and forty illustrations in the
like The Bachelor Girl' and 'A Modern Dia text, which belonged to the original edition, have
logue,' have no such basis. But all exhibit their
been retained in the reprint. Devotees of the
author's genius at manipulating rhyme, meter,
modern stage will be glad to have their Christ-
and sense so as to carry, out his humorous pur mases remembered with a gift of these tasteful
poses.
volumes.
"The Travel Lover's Library' of Messrs. L. C. Mr. Kobbé is at his best in writing of his
Page & Co. is augmented by a study of China contemporaries, whom he lets us know with an
and her People' edited from the work of the late intimacy that never degenerates into vulgar gos-
Col. Charles Denby, who was for the thirteen siping. But his new volume, 'The Loves of
years following 1885 United States Minister at Great Composers' (Crowell), may also be com-
Pekin. Like the other numbers in the Travel mended among works of its class. It details the
Lover's Library,' this new work is in two handy- |· romantic attachments of Mozart, Beethoven,
sized volumes. The first volume is filled with Mendelssohn, Chopin, the Schumanns, Liszt, and
reminiscences of the author's stay in China and Wagner, giving some new facts and correcting
his personal impressions of the land and the some familiar errors. The accounts are enter-
people, and with accounts of court life at Pekin taining, and the reader is grateful for their com-
and social life and customs elsewhere in the king-plete avoidance of sentimental rhapsodizing. The
dom. The second volume is concerned with book is printed with rubricated headings and
Chinese politics and industrial and commercial initials, and contains twenty-four full-page illus-
problems and conditions. The lucid statements trations in tint, reproducing portraits of the
of the causes of the Russo-Japanese war and of composers and the women they loved.
the arguments for the 'Open Door’ policy, the Mr. Harold MacGrath knows how to write
chapters on the Boxer rebellion, the foreign stories whose plots, though they seem fantastic
missionaries, and the immigration question, are enough in the light of a subsequent cool consider-
all of interest and some value, as coming from a ation, are constructed with an art that holds the
man who was in a position to know the facts reader's interest from the first page to the last,-


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and makes him wish there was more to follow. 'In Bohemia' is the title of a uniquely bound
Such a story was 'The Man on the Box' and such and prettily decorated booklet containing a med-
another is 'Hearts and Masks' (Bobbs-Merrill ley of verse and prose sketches by Mr. James
Co.). The new book is published with photogra Clarence Harvey. The author tells the unin-
vure illustrations by Mr. Harrison Fisher and a itiated how to go to Bohemia and what they may
dainty cover that give it the air of a holiday reasonably expect to find there, making a special
novelette; but it is besides that a thoroughly good point of the distinction between the false and
story. The hero and heroine are both of the the true Bohemianism, whether it is found in
adventurous, Bohemian type, who make excite New York or Damascus. Some of the verse in
ment when it does not come ready-made. How dialect is very clever.- Similar in general make-
they went to a masked ball, at which New York's up, but more original in content, is “The Log of
prize detective and New York's mysterious gentles the Water Wagon; or, The Cruise of the Good
man burglar also happened to be present, and to Ship “Lithia.';;
Messrs. Bert Leston Taylor
what purpose they passed their evening, should
and W. C. Gibson are responsible for the text,
be left entirely to Mr. MacGrath's effective and Mr. L. M. Glackens for the pictures and
telling. Holiday gift-hunters who want a book
decorations. The dedication is ‘To all surviving
that is at once pretty and entertaining need not
passengers of the good ship “Lithia," ' and the
go further than 'Hearts and Masks.'
editor's note explains how the log was compiled
Admirers of Mr. Harry Graham’s ‘Misrepre from memoranda ‘found in a floating milk-bottle
sentative Men’ will be glad to hear that More with a patent stopper, flung overboard just before
Misrepresentative Men' is now ready for their the good ship 'Lithia' foundered in a fearful
perusal. The patriotism of William Waldorf simoon. The notes, penciled in a trembling
Astor, Henry the Eighth's passion for domestic hand, on the backs of blank temperance pledges,
life,' Sherlock Holmes's “placid, penetrating I OU's, and wine lists, were barely legible.' The
eyes,' and other themes as pertinent are treated itinerary of the ship, its rules and regulations,
and
ion. Mr. Malcolm Strauss contributes carica and the pursuit of happiness are added to the
tures of the various ‘misrepresentative men.' log, which makes very amusing reading. Both
Another cleverly humorous booklet published by of these booklets are published in attractive
the same house (Fox, Duffield & Co.) is “The form by the H. M. Caldwell Co.
Fusser's Book,' which is issued in a new and Messrs. Dana Estes & Co. publish, in uniform
larger edition this year. 'Fussers' of both style and binding, two volumes of compilations
sexes will find the rules of the game as laid down entitled respectively, 'The Art Lovers' Treasury'
by the Misses Anna Archbald and Georgina and 'The Music Lovers' Treasury.' The former,
Jones extremely useful and adapted to all pos which is edited by Carrie Thompson Lowell, is
sible and impossible cases; and they are characterized on the title-page as 'famous pictures
cleverly stated that they can more easily be re described in poems.' Forty-eight pictures are
membered than forgotten. Appropriate pic-reproduced in half-tone, and the editor writes a
tures and cover design by Miss Florence Wyman running comment, treating a group of paintings
add the finishing touch to a book that will amuse and sculpture under some general heading, such
both 'fussers' and those who would like to as 'Mythology in Poetry and Sculpture,' 'Legends
have the word 'fusser' defined.
of the Saints,' or 'Pictures translated into Verse.'
In his new book called 'Romances of Old References to the pictures in poetry, and apposite
France' (Baker & Taylor Co.) Mr. Richard Le quotations which have suggested themselves to
Gallienne re-tells half a dozen more tales of the author in connection with some painting, are
mediæval devotion, very similar in spirit to those reproduced as occasion occurs. Pictures and
that made up his previous volume of 'Old Love poetry are thoroughly representative, and the
Stories Retold.' Amis and Amile' and 'Aucas arrangement, though necessarily loose, holds the
sin and Nicolete' will be familiar to most read reader's interest.- The Music Lovers' Treasury,'
ers, at least in outline; but they are charming edited by Helen Philbrook Patten, is an antholo-
enough to stand repetition. 'The Tale of King gy of poetry, ancient and modern, referring to
Coustans the Emperor' and 'King Florus and musical themes. There is plenty of variety, both
the Fair Jehane' have already been re-discovered in authorship, subject, and literary merit, the
and modernized by William Morris, from whose aim being apparently to appeal to music lovers
versions Mr. Le Gallienne quotes at length. The rather than to over-critical literary connoisseurs.
other two stories he seems to have brought Half-tones of some twenty-five pictures having
straight from the original text. Mr. Le Gal musical subjects furnish illustrations for a vol-
lienne's style is graceful, piquant, and spirited ume that certainly merits its title.
without being archaic; and he tells as much of A delightful illustrated edition of 'The Fables
the stories as most readers will care to hear. of Aesop' is published by Messrs. Moffat, Yard
The volume is daintily bound in gray boards, & Co. The 'Fables' are adapted from the Rev.
with the picture of a knight just leaving his George F. Townsend's translation of the Greek.
castle vignetted into the front cover. A frontis An introduction is furnished by Elisabeth
piece and occasional border vignettes placed in Luther Cary, who writes charmingly of the ap-
the generous margins comprise the other decora peal of the fable to the thoughtful and the
tive features.
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group, the variant classical forms and the and described by great writers' (Dodd, Mead &
French adaptations, and of the illustrations Co.). The term 'great writers' is elastically in-
which have been made for the work in various terpreted to mean competent art critics. Tbe
generations. The present edition is illustrated portraits are chosen with reference to their fame
by Mr. J. M. Condé, whose pictures in color and and merit, and also with a view to illustrating
line certainly catch something of the spirit of as many different ideals of portraiture and kinds
the text, if they also miss something more. At of technique as possible. Each picture is shown
least they are pictorially attractive and interest in an excellent half-tone, which is followed by
ing, and will take their place with other intelli one or two descriptive and critical articles. Por-
gent essays at picturing the lurking, whimsical traits treated in Miss Singleton's 'Great Pictures'
humor of the Greek fabulist.
or 'Famous Paintings' are omitted here.
To the long list of their finely illustrated Mr. John Luther Long has turned from the
‘Photogravure Series' of books of travel, the flowery land of Madame Butterfly' and 'Miss
John C. Winston Co. have added a timely work Cherry Blossom of Tokio' to write 'a little com-
upon Russia.
The text is not new, being a re-
edy of country manners' in German-Pennsylvania.
production, in translation, of Théophile Gautier's It is named after its hero 'Seffy,' which is short
graceful interpretation of his Russian journey for Sephenijah Baumgartner. When the story
ings, first published in 1866. The translation by opens Seffy is, as his name suggests, rather a
Miss Florence McIntyre Tyson, prepared espe spiritless hero. In love as in other matters he is
cially for this edition, is mechanical, but on the
fastnachick, which is Pennsylvania Dutch
whole fairly satisfactory. Miss Tyson also con-
for 'chust about a quarter of an inch too late
tributes a final chapter entitled 'Russian Policy
for the prize.' But Seffy learns wisdom-and
in the East,' which brings the volume up to
speed - before the end of the story. Old Baum-
date in the only respect upon which Russia's gartner, the father, is a delightful country-store
policy has changed materially between 1866 and
philosopher, and it is about him rather than Seffy
the signing of the peace protocol, a few months
that the interest centres. The novelette is orna-
ago. Gautier's narrative needs no comment; it mentally bound, and supplied with marginal
touches authoritatively upon Russia's history
borders and colored illustrations attractive enough
and government, her art, her politics, her army
to catch the eye of holiday shoppers. (Bobbs-
and navy, her homes, her public buildings, and
Merrill Co.)
her amusements. The present work is published
My Lady's Slipper' is the title of a pretty
in two volumes, handsomely bound in red and holiday novelette, printed with tinted illustra-
gold, provided with cloth cover slips and boxed. tions and unique border designs. Messrs. Dodd,
Fifty fine photogravures, from photographs of
Mead & Co. are the publishers, and Mr. Cyrus
public buildings, streets, monuments, and quaint
Townsend Brady the author. The latter assures
peasant customs, illustrate the volumes.
us that though Doctor Franklin and Commodore
Paul Jones, not to mention the King and Queen
In 'Shakespeare's Sweetheart,' Miss Sara
of France, are among its characters, nevertheless
Hawks Sterling has made an interesting essay the book is not an historical novel. There is no
at a romantic interpretation of Shakespeare's history in it unless it be another version of a
courtship of Anne Hathaway. The traditional
thing that has happened since the beginning of
account of the matter is relegated to the back time and which is therefore a part of all history,
ground of the story, and Anne is made the poet's
the love story.' Master Francis Burnham is the
real sweetheart and true love, only temporarily American hero of this dainty Parisian romance,
supplanted by the fascinating wiles of the Dark
and the heroine is a French countess. The story
Lady. The story is told by Anne Hathaway her of their love affairs is a pretty trifle, well adapted
self, who consents, at the solicitation of Ben Jon to its ornate setting.
son, to set down for posterity an account of her
A new edition of Mr. Kenyon Cox's collected
husband's private life. The narrative has a de-
essays in art criticism, entitled 'Old Masters
cided dramatic quality, though from the very and New,' is published in a handsome volume,
magnitude of the undertaking there are inevi-
with one illustration of the work of each painter
table crudities and faults in both style and atmos-
or school discussed, by Messrs. Fox, Duffield &
phere. But on the whole the situation is han-
Co. Mr. Cox's essays well deserve any added
dled skilfully, and the story is a charming bit of
advantage that pictures can give them. In these
imaginative writing. The book is published by
days of machine-made criticism his work appeals
Messrs. George W. Jacobs & Co., in an orna-
strongly to discriminating readers who can ap-
mental buckram binding, with colored chapter preciate the combined authority and charm with
and running heads and five striking illustrations
which he is qualified to speak, and the masterly
by Miss Clara Elsene Peck.
fashion in which, sweeping aside unessential
Miss Esther Singleton's series of compilations matters, he pierces straight to the core of his
on artistic and historical themes are justly pop subject, somewhat after the manner of Walter
ular, for they give the reader who seeks infor Pater. The painters of whom he writes are all
mation clear and definite statements enunciated peculiarly suited to his somewhat esoteric meth-
by unquestioned authorities. The latest volume od. In its new dress, therefore, and with its
which Miss Singleton has edited and, in part score of excellent half-tones, the book should find
translated is entitled 'Great Portraits, as seen a wider public than ever.


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a
In spite of the very obvious purpose of in alternate pages give the volume a pleasing holiday
troducing dramatic masterpieces to young read appearance.
ers with which Charles and Mary Lamb wrote “The Spalding Year Book,' compiled by Miss
the “Tales from Shakespeare,' some of us still Minnie R. Cowan, is a selection, from the writ-
cherish our thumbed copies, refusing to yield up ings of Bishop Spalding, of brief quotations for
all rights in them to the younger generation. every day in the year. The volume is pub-
Such persons will appreciate the new edition lished in Messrs. A. C. McClurg & Co.'s 'Helpful
lately imported by Messrs. Charles Scribner's Thoughts Series.'
Thoughts Series. It is tastefully bound in red
Sons,-a beautifully bound and printed quarto cloth, with a portrait frontispiece, and makes a
with colored illustrations by Mr. Norman M. pretty and an inspiring gift-book. - Another very
Price. Portraits of Charles and Mary Lamb, re attractive year-book from the same publishers is
drawn in sepia from the originals in the National a new series of 'Catch Words of Cheer,' compiled
Gallery, stand side by side as the frontispiece. by Mrs. Sara A. Hubbard. A quotation attrib-
Each tale is provided with one'illustration, some uted to Stevenson, ‘Man does not live by bread
times rather too highly colored, but always alone, but also by catch words,' is set on the
imaginative and truly interpretative after title-page, and aptly typifies the character of
fashion that ought to please readers of all ages. the book, which is an excellent combination of
‘Eve's Daughters,' compiled by ‘A Mere Man' high seriousness and enlivening humor. There
and portrayed by Mr. A. G. Learned, is a very are border decorations for every page, and the
miscellaneous collection of epigrams about binding is unique and pretty.
women, published by Messrs. Dana Estes & Co. Old Fashioned Flowers' is the title essay in
in a volume daintily bound in gold and white and a delightful little volume of nature sketches by
lavishly decorated in a humorous style matching Maurice Maeterlinck. Half a dozen studies of
the gently satiric tone of the text. The quota flowers in colors by Mr. Charles B. Falls, and
tions are not grouped in any logical way, and attractive type, paper, and binding lend to the
the volume belongs to the large class of pretty small volume an air of distinction which matches
and amusing gift-books which are intended not the unusual quality of M. Maeterlinck's style.
for systematic reading, but for pleasant com Flowers, like animals, have distinct personalities
panionship in an idle hour. The decorations for M. Maeterlinck, but his frequent personifica-
are of indifferent quality, but the epigrams are tions are æsthetically justified by the real feeling
all clever, and the ‘Mere Man' has shown a good that they express.
The essays have already
deal of ingenuity in culling from serious philos- appeared in various magazines, but discriminating
ophers and bantering humorists alike something lovers of flowers will like to have them brought
that suits his purpose.
The numerous quota together in this pretty booklet. (Dodd, Mead
tions from French authors give the tone to the
& Co.)
collection.
'The Heart of Lady Anne' is the title of a
The new
Scribner edition of Stevenson's new novel by Agnes and Egerton Castle, which
Child's Garden of Verses' with illustrations by the Frederick A. Stokes Co. publish in a prettily
Miss Jessie Willcox Smith, is meant, no doubt, illustrated edition. The incomparable Kitty of
for the children, but it is so pretty that older "The Bath Comedy' figures again in this story
readers will be inclined to dispute their exclusive of married love, whose hero and heroine are a
right to it. The book is of quarto size, with a chivalrous but iron-willed English squire and his
glimpse of a garden on the cover, and a design girl-wife, half French in blood and all French
made up from garden scenes on the end-papers. by training Miss Ethel Franklin Betts has
The colored title page is particularly dainty, with painted the lovers, catching the spirit both of the
its stalks of tall yellow hollyhocks. Each verse has times and of the story in her pictures; and Mr.
an illustrative heading or tail-piece, conceived in Frederick G. Hall has provided' decorations in
the quaint spirit of the text. Besides these black color which lend an air of festivity to this dainty
and-white drawings, there are a dozen full-page
bit of eighteenth century romancing.
plates in colors, picturing with much charm and Two holiday issues from the Messrs. Appleton
suggestiveness certain favorite bits of Steven show excellent mechanical features and may be
son's verse.
read with pleasure, - though they fall short of
A pretty idyl entitled 'Back to Arcady' (Tur the ideal illustrated edition, chiefly because of the
ner) comes from the pen of Mr. Frank Waller inherent difficulty presented by their material.
Allen, It is a tender, graceful little love-story, Sir Gilbert Parker's 'Seats of the Mighty' is too
quaintly told by a third person-a charming old large and dramatic a panorama to be susceptible
He mingles memories of his own long of the ordinary sort of illustration. The eight
buried romance, garden thoughts, and out-door tinted pictures, which, with decorated end-papers
fancies, with his account of the new romance
and ornate binding, make up the holiday features
that is growing up between his beautiful young of the present edition, represent as many dra-
ward and his talented young protégé. The course matic moments in the story. But the artist's con-
of true love does not run quite smoothly for a ception of the situation is ineffective compared
time, but in the end it comes out as is to be with the author's, and his figures are very wooden,
expected of love in Arcady. The illustrations are so that the pictures add little, if anything, to the
sepia reproductions of dainty pen-and-ink draw reader's pleasure. A similar criticism must be
ings. Figured end-papers and border designs on passed upon the illustrations for Mr. Kipling's
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а
or
The Seven Seas.' Mr. Kipling's verse at its best are wont to be. Five sheets, printed in black
is so graphic that a fairly good illustration seems and white, each contain a pictorial treatment of
by comparison unbearably commonplace. The one of the beatitudes, with border designs for
present drawings, while varying greatly in merit, picture and calendar. The effect suggests the old
never reach anywhere near to the imaginative, wood-cuts, in its boldness and simplicity of
mystical depths of the verse.
The colored page-
design; and it is doubtful if anything more
borders, however, furnish suggestive and suitable artistic may be found among the season's calen-
frames for the text, and the cover design is good. dars.
No stories are more appropriate or more popular
A very appropriate Christmas remembrance
for holiday reprints than Dickens's Christmas
for a friend is the little booklet by Dr.
Books,' as a countless variety of editions attests.
Henry van Dyke, entitled 'The Spirit of
Christmas' (Scribner). It is daintily bound
But more than passing interest attaches to the
new Dent-Dutton edition of three of the stories,
and well printed, with a photogravure frontis-
piece by way of ornament. It contains
published with illustrations in black-and-white
and in color by Mr. C. E. Brock. This artist
Dream Story,' a Christmas essay, a Christmas
touches nothing that he does not adorn,-chiefly,
sermon (very short), and two beautiful Christ-
no doubt, because he knows his sphere so well.
mas prayers, one for the home and one for
Dickens's work comes well within it, and Mr.
lonely folk.'
Brock's pictorial interpretations of 'The Chimes,'
"A Chronicle of Christmas' is the title of a
A Christmas Carol,' and 'The Cricket on the
bookful of Christmas miscellany, written
Hearth' are thoroughly delightful. There are
selected by Miss Jeannette Grace Watson. There
seven colored plates and a few more small pen-
are Christmas hymns and poems, Christmas
and-ink drawings in each of the three volumes.
stories, and brief accounts of Christmas customs
in many lands. There is even a recipe for the
One of the most artistic of the season's less
Christmas plum pudding. Floral borders and a
pretentious holiday publications is Messrs. Dodd, holly-wreathed cover make appropriate decora-
Mead & Co.'s edition of Tennyson's 'Maud,'
tions. (Saalfield Publishing Co.)
with illustrations by Miss Helen Maitland Arm-
strong and conventional floral page-borders, a
series of very original and suggestive symbolic
headings for the twenty-eight parts of the poem,
NOTES.
and a beautiful cover design by Miss Margaret Miss Ellen Glasgow's new novel, 'The Wheel
Armstrong. The page illustrations, which are of Life,' will be published early in January by
printed in soft colors on tinted paper, catch the Messrs. Doubleday, Page & Co.
over-refined, mystical note of the text perfectly,
A revised edition of Professor Charles F. Rich-
and the book as a whole is a harmonious and
ardson's pleasant papers
"The Choice of
Messrs.
Books' is published by the
Putnam.
beautiful production.
There is a lengthy appendix of 'Suggestions for
The charming 'Miss Cherry Blossom of Tokio' Household Libraries.'
appears in a gay new dress this year, to tempt 'Salvo Venetia, Mr. F. Marion Crawford's
holiday buyers afresh with her delicious 'pigin' long-promised book on Venice, will appear at once,
English, her light-hearted mirth, and her touch with the Macmillan imprint, in two volumes, illus-
ing devotion. The cover of the new edition is
trated with thirty photogravures and two hun-
The
of cream buckram, prettily ornamented.
dred pictures in the text from drawings by Mr.
Joseph Pennell.
border designs are Japanese in effect, and are
A second and revised edition of The Oyster,'
printed in half a dozen different color-combina by Professor William K. Brooks, is published at
tions, so that there is plenty of variety. Most the Johns Hopkins Press. The only notable addi-
of the illustrations are from photographs, but a tion is that of a section upon the peculiar fitness
few are reproductions of Japanese work. Mr.
of the oyster to become an agent in the propa-
John Luther Long contributes a new preface, in
gation of germ diseases.
which he and the great god Asamra talk enter-
An admirable addition to the admirable series
tainingly about the trials, responsibilities, and
of 'English Readings' published by Messrs. Henry
little vanities of authors. (Lippincott.)
Holt & Co. gives us the text of three of The
Lincoln and Douglas Debates,' and Lincoln's
A new edition of Dr. Henry van Dyke's Cooper Institute address, edited by Professor
'Fisherman's Luck,' made from new plates and
Archibald Lewis Bouton.
illustrated by Mr. F. Walter Taylor, has been
A beautifully-printed edition of Dr. Richard
It
issued by Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons.
Holbrook's translation of "The Farce of Master
Pierre Patelin,' illustrated by facsimiles of the
is quite unnecessary to dilate upon the charm
fifteenth-century wood cuts, and furnished with
of these delightful essays, which have already
introduction and notes, comes to us from the press
been reprinted a dozen times. In general form of Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
the new edition follows the standard editions of 'Beethoven' and 'Mozart' are two small vol-
Dr. van Dyke's other books. The pictures, if umes published by Mr. B. W. Huebsch. Each is
not particularly interpretative, are at least good a selection of brief extracts from the writings of
enough to be unobjectionable.
the composer to which it is devoted. The utter-
The Beatitudes Calendar,' designed by Mr.
ances are classified, and their compilation, by Herr
Friedrich Kerst, has been a labor of both schol-
R. Anning Bell, is larger and more elaborately arship and love. They are translated and intro-
ornamented than Mr. Alfred Bartlett's calendars duced by Mr. H. E. Krehbiel.
on
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are
are
new
Three important books to be issued immediately
by Messrs. Henry Holt & Co. * American
Trades Unionism,' a volume of papers by post-
graduate students of Johns Hopkins University,
edited by Professors Hollander and Barnett;
"The Negro and the Nation,' by Mr. George S.
Merriam, originally published in the Springfield
* Republican'; and Nature and Health, a book
of popular hygiene by Dr. Edward Curtis of New
York.
‘A Satire Anthology' (Scribner) is the contri-
bution made this year by Miss Carolyn Wells to
holiday literature. Beginning with the ancients
(Aristophanes, Horace, and Juvenal), who
represented for the purpose of completing the record,
the selections work down to such very modern
exemplars of the species as Mr. Owen Seaman
and Mr. Gelett Burgess. Sprinkled through the
list of authors we note such out-of-the-way names
as those of Rutebæuf, Abraham à Sancta Clara,
Villon, and Béranger. The collection is, however,
mainly one of English verse, from the Elizabethans
on, and may safely be depended upon to provide
both amusement and instruction.
A few sets of the publications of the Biblio-
graphical Society of Chicago, which terminated its
existence upon the organization of a national so-
ciety in 1904, may now be ordered from the Sec-
retary of the Chicago Chapter of the Society.
These publications, valuable in themselves, are
indispensable to a complete history of the Biblio-
graphical Society of America, since the former
Chicago society was the direct predecessor of the
national organization. The set includes the three
annual Yearbooks, containing the proceedings and
papers of the society for 1900-3; a reprint of Au-
gustus De Morgan's 'On the Difficulty of Correct
Description of Books'; and Mr. A. G. S. Joseph-
son's list of Bibliographies of Bibliographies,'
chronologically arranged, with occasional notes
and an index.
A 'Manuscript Edition of the complete writ-
ings of Henry David Thoreau, handsomely illus-
trated with one hundred photogravures from na-
ture, is announced by Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin
& Co. The edition will consist of twenty vol-
umes, limited to 600 signed and numbered sets,
each containing a page of original manuscript.
The last fourteen volumes will contain Thoreau's
Journal, edited by Mr. Bradford Torrey, the lar-
ger proportion of which is material that has never
before been published. The illustrations are from
photographs by Mr. Herbert W. Gleason, who has
made a careful study of Thoreau's writings and
has explored with equal thoroughness the woods
and fields about Thoreau's home. The edition is
printed in the best style of the Riverside Press,
and a few sets will be bound in handsome leather
with water color frontispieces.
Mr. Alleyne Ireland's important and exhaustive
“Report on Colonial Administration in the Far
East' is announced to begin publication shortly,
with the imprint of Messrs. Small, Maynard &
Co. The entire report will extend to ten
twelve volumes, the first of which is about to
appear. Mr. Ireland's study of comparative col-
onization has extended over a period of fifteen
years, during which time he has visited not only
the countries included in his forthcoming report,
but South America, Australia, the West Indies,
and others as welí. His report will treat of
every form of dependent government now in force
in any part of the tropical world. It will deal
not only at length with such questions as Colonial
Civil Service, Taxation, the Administration of
Justice, Public Works, Irrigation, Municipal Gov-
ernment, Labor Supply, Chinese Immigration, Po-
lice and Prisons, and General Colonial Legisla-
tion, but will present a detailed account of the
commerce, trade, shipping, natural resources, and
climate of each dependency. Statistical and bibli-
ographical data, as well as the laws now in force
in regard to contract labor, municipal govern.
ment, and civil service for each dependency, will
be given.
"The Atlantic Monthly' offers a varied and
interesting programme for the coming year.
Among the more important features may be noted
a series of critical essays on the work of prom-
inent living writers, among others Henrik Ibsen,
Edith Wharton, and Anatole France; a series of
articles dealing with the learned professions, writ-
ten by prominent members of those professions,
and including a discussion of The Ideal Physi.
cian' by Dr. William Osler, and of · The Ideal Min-
ister by Dr. Charles Cuthbert Hall; several au-
thoritative papers on the theatre by such writers
as James I. Metcalfe, Richard Mansfield, and
John Corbin; articles on important financial and
social subjects, by prominent writers in those
fields; some letters of Charles Lamb, re-
cently discovered by Mr. W. C. Hazlitt; and the
usual variety of brilliant literary essays, short
stories, and poems, for which "The Atlantic' is
unsurpassed among current periodicals.
A few children's books received too late to
be included in the list of juvenalia printed in
THE DIAL's issue of December 1, nevertheless de-
serve some sort of mention. "Tales from Dickens',
issued by Bobbs-Merrill Co. is a volume of brief
relations of episodes in fifteen of Dickens 's novels,
told by Haliie Erminie Rives in a style that
children can understand and enjoy. Mr. Reginald
Birch furnishes some illustrations that appreciably
soften the conventional caricature of the old-
time Dickens illustrators. Two beautiful impor-
tations of Messrs. E. P. Dutton & Co. are 'Una
and the Red Cross Knight and Other Tales from
Spenser's Faery Queene, retold in modern prose
by Mr. N. G. Royde-Smith and beautifully illus-
trated by Mr. T. N. Robinson, and an illustrated
'Robinson Crusoe' with pictures in line and color
by Mr. J. Ayton Symington. While the books
are similar in general style of make-up, they
differ greatly in artistic merit. The former is
well written, and illustrated in an imaginative
style that will interest old and young readers
equally. The latter, while its illustrations are
very perfunctory, is an attractive reprint in other
respects, and boys will enjoy re-reading their old
favorite in its new dress.— 'The Story of the
Three Dolls' (Bobbs-Merrill Co.) is written by Jose-
phine Scribner Gates for the little readers who have
liked her other doll stories. Unusually spirited
illustrations, showing the dolls and the children
who played with them, have been drawn for the
book by Miss Virginia Keep.- A book of modern
fairy tales written by Miss Irene Maunder and
called "The Plain Princess, and Other Stories,'
comes from the press of Messrs. Longmans, Green,
& Co. In a preface which he contributes to the
volume, Mr. Andrew Lang assures timid children
that there is nothing frightful in this book, and
he advises little boys who don't care for any
fairy tales to paint the pictures. It is to be
hoped that only little boys who can paint ex-
tremely well will follow this advice, for the pic-
tures, by M. W. Taylor and M. D. Baxter, are
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LIST OF NEW BOOKS.
[The following list, containing 103 titles, includes books
received by THE DIAL since its last issue.]
THE FARCE OF MASTER PIERRE PATELIN. Composed by an
unknown author about 1469 A. D.; Englished by
Richard Holbrook. Illus., 8vo, uncut, pp. 116.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $2. net.
SWINBURNE. By George Edward Woodberry.
With por-
trait, 16mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 117. “Contemporary
Men of Letters." McClure, Phillips & Co. 75 cts. net.
THE NOVELS OF HENRY JAMES : A Study. By Elisabeth
Luther Cary; with bibliography by Frederick A.
King. With photogravure portrait, 12mo, gilt top,
uncut, pp. 215. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1.25.
THE PIPE OF DESIRE, and Other Plays. By George Ed-
ward Barton. 12mo, uncut, pp. 81. Boston: old
Corner Book Store.
THE CHOICE OF BOOKS. By Charles F. Richardson. Au-
thorized edition, revised ; 12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp.
375.
G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1.20 net.
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY GERMANIC STUDIES. New volumes :
Laurence Sterne in Germany, by Harvey Waterman
Thayer; Types of Weltschmerz in German Poetry, by
Wilhelm Alfred Braun, Ph.D. Each large 8vo. Mac-
millan Co. Paper.
SIMPLES FROM SIR THOMAS BROWNE'S GARDEN. Gathered
by Harry Christopher Minchin. With portrait, 16mo,
gilt top, uncut, pp. 160. Oxford: B. H. Blackwell.
THE BIVOUAC OF THE DEAD and its Author. By George
W. Ranck. Illus., 16mo, gilt top, pp. 73. Grafton
Press. $1.
BIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIRS.
MY LIFE: A Record of Events and Opinions. By Alfred
Russel Wallace, In 2 vols., illus. in photogravure,
etc., large 8vo, gilt tops, uncut. Dodd, Mead & Co.
$6. net.
THE LIFE OF CHARLES LAMB. By E. V. Lucas. In 2
vols., illus. in photogravure, etc., large 8vo, gilt
tops, uncut. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $6. net.
MRS. FITZHERBERT AND GEORGE IV. By W. H. Wilkins,
M.A. Illus. in photogravure, etc., large 8vo, pp.
476. Longmans, Green & Co. $5. net.
THE WIVES OF HENRY THE EIGHTH, and the Parts They
Played in History. By Martin Hume. With photo-
gravure portraits, large 8vo, uncut, pp. 467. Mc-
Clure, Phillips & Co. $3.50 net.
THE LIFE OF MOLIERE. By Henry M. Trollope. With
portraits, large 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 578. E. P.
Dutton & Co. $3.50 net.
JANE AUSTEN AND HER TIMES, By G. E. Mitton. Illus.,
large 8vo, gilt top, pp. 334. G. P. Putnam's Sons.
$2.75 net.
MADAME GEOFFRIN: Her Salon and her Times, 1750-
1777. By Janet Aldis. Illus., large 8vo, gilt top,
uncut, pp. 372. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $2.75 net.
MEMOIR OF COLONEL HENRY LEE. With selections from
his writings and speeches. Prepared by John T.
Morse, Jr. Illus. in photogravure, 8vo, gilt top, un-
cut, pp. 441. Little, Brown & Co. $3. net.
A MEMOIR OF DR. JAMES JACKSON. With sketches of his
father and brothers, and some account of their an-
cestry. By James Jackson Putnam, M.D. Illus. in
photogravure, etc., 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 456.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $2.50 net.
A QUEEN OF NAPOLEON'S COURT : The Life-Story of
Désirée Bernadotte. By Catherine Bearne. Illus.,
8vo, gilt top, pp. 498. E. P. Dutton & Co. $2.50 net.
BALTHASAR HUBMAIER : The Leader of the Anabaptists.
By Henry C. Vedder. Illus., 12mo, pp. 333. "He-
roes of the Reformation." G. P. Putnam's Sons.
$1.35 net.
BRAHMS. By J. Lawrence Erb. Illus. in photogravure,
etc., 12mo, gilt_top, uncut, pp. 179. "Master Musi-
cians."
E. P. Dutton & Co. $1.25.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER: A Sketch of his Life and an Ap-
preciation of his Poetry. By Paul
Carus. Illus.,
large 8vo, pp. 102. Open Court Publishing Co.
THE SKIPPER PARSON on the Bays and Barrens of New-
foundland. By James Lumsden. Illus., 12mo, pp.
212. Eaton & Mains. $1.25.
NEW EDITIONS OF STANDARD LITERATURE.
DISCOURSES Delivered to the Students of the Royal Acad-
emy. By Sir Joshua Reynolds; edited by Roger Fry.
Illus. in photogravure, etc., 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp.
445. E. P. Dutton & Co. $2.50 net.
STANDARD OXFORD EDITIONS. New volumes : Complete
Poetical Works of William Cowper, edited by H. S.
Milford, M.A.; Poems of Robert Browning, 1833-1863.
Each with portrait, 12mo. Henry Frowde.
SHAKESPEARE'S KING LEAR, "First Folio" edition. Edited
by Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke. With pho-
togravure portrait, 18mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 292.
T. Y. Crowell & Co. 75 cts.
HISTORY.
THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION IN ALABAMA. By
Walter L. Fleming, Ph.D. Large 8vo, gilt top, uncut,
PP. 815.
Macmillan Co. $5. net.
THE WAR IN THE FAR EAST, 1904-5. By the Military
Correspondent of the London "Times.” Illus. in photo-
gravure, etc., large Svo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 656. E.
P. Dutton & Co. $5. net.
HISTORIC ILLINOIS : The Romance of the Earlier Days.
By Randall Parrish. Illus., large 8vo, gilt top, un-
cut, pp. 479. A. C. McClurg & Co. $2.50 net.
ENGLAND UNDER THE
TUDORS. By Arthur D. Innes.
Large 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 481. G. P. Putnam's
Sons. $3. net.
THE SECOND FRENCH EMPIRE : Memoirs of Dr. Thomas
W. Evans. Edited by Edward A. Crane, M.D. Illus.,
8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 527. D. Appleton & Co. $3.
net.
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND, from the Accession of Henry
III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377). By
T. F. Tout, M.A. Large 8vo, pp. 496. Longmans,
Green & Co. $2.60 net.
THE CAPTIVITY OF CHARLES JOHNSTON. Edited by Ed-
win Erle Sparks. 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 156.
“Narratives of Indian Captivities." Burrows Brothers
Co. $2.50 net.
POETRY
LAST POEMS OF RICHARD WATSON DIXON, D.D. Selected
and edited by Robert Bridges; preface by M. E. Cole-
ridge. With photogravure portrait, 12mo, pp. 38.
Henry Frowde. $1.40 net.
THE MOODS OF LIFE: Poems of Varied Feeling. By
William Francis Barnard. 8vo, uncut, pp. 164. Chi-
cago: The Rooks Press. $1.
A BIT BOOKIE OF VERSE in the English and Scots Tongues.
By Daniel McIntyre Henderson. 12mo, pp.
131.
Baltimore : University Book Store. $1. net
CHRISTUS VICTOR : A Student's Reverie. By Henry Ne-
hemiah Dodge. Fifth edition, revised_and enlarged.
16mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 206. G. P. Putnam's Sons.
$1.25.
THE FOUR WINDS OF EIRINN. By Ethna Carbery (Anna
Macmanus); edited by Seumas Macmanus.
With por-
trait, 16mo, gilt top, pp. 152. Funk & Wagnalls Co.
75 cts. net.
FICTION
THE HOUSE OF A THOUSAND CANDLES. By Meredith Nich-
olson. Illus., 12mo, pp. 382. Bobbs-Merrill Co. $1.50.
THE FORD. By Arthur E. J. Legge. 12mo, pp. 338.
John Lane Co. $1.50.
THE GARDEN GOD: A Tale of Two Boys. By Forrest
Reid. 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 103. London: David
Nutt.
THE PURPLE LAND. By W. H. Hudson. 12mo, pp. 355.
E. P. Dutton & Co. $1.50 net.
THE PERFUME OF EROS : A Fifth Avenue Incident. By
Edgar Salčus. 12mo, pp. 223. A. Wessels Co. $1.25.
CHARLOTTE TEMPLE: A Tale of Truth. By Susanna
Haswell Rowson. New edition ; edited by Francis W.
Halsey. Illus., 12mo, pp. 150. Funk & Wagnalls Co.
$1.25.
CONTRITE HEARTS. By Herman Bernstein. 12mo, pp. 217.
A. Wessels Co. $1.25.
HERBERT BROWN. By O. B. Whitaker. 12mo, pp. 314.
M. A. Donohue & Co. Paper, 50 cts.
GENERAL LITERATURE.
THE NEW RAMBLER : From Desk to Platform.
By Sir
Lewis Morris, M.A. 12mo, pp.
327. Longmans,
Green & Co. $2.
IN THE NAME OF THE BODLEIAN, and Other Essays. By
Augustine Birrell. 16mo, gilt top, pp. 312. Charles
Scribner's Sons. $1. net.
TRAVEL AND DESCRIPTION.
IN FURTHER ARDENNE: A Study of the Grand Duchy of
Luxembourg. By Rev. T. H. Passmore, M.A. Illus.,
large 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 316. E. P. Dutton &
Co. $2.50 net.
IN THE COUNTRY OF JESUS. Trans. from the Italian of
Matilde Serao by Richard Davey. Illus., 8vo, uncut,
E. P. Dutton & Co. $2. net.
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FLORENTINE PALACES and their Stories. By Janet Ross.
Illus., 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 410. E. P. Dutton &
Co. $2. net.
AUSTRALIAN LIF IN TOWN AND COUNTRY. By E. C.
Buley. Illus., 16mo, uncut, pp. 288. "Our Asiatic
Neighbors.” G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1.20 net.
RELIGION.
THE SCIENTIFIC TEMPER IN RELIGION, and Other Ad-
dresses, By Rev. P. N. Waggett, M.A. 12mo, PP.
286. Longmans, Green & Co. $1.50.
FREEDOM OF FAITH SERIES. Comprising : Common-
Sense Christianity, by C. Silvester Horne; A Reason-
able View of Life, by J. N. Blake, M.A.; The Econom-
ics of Jesus, by E. Griffith-Jones, B.A.; Inspiration
in Common Life, by W. L. Watkinson; Prayer, by
William Watson, M.A. Each 24mo. Jennings & Gra-
hain. Per vol., 35 cts. net.
CARISTIANITY AND PATRIOTISM, and Other Essays. By
Count Leo Tolstoi, With portrait, 12mo, pp. 98. Open
Court Publishing Co. Paper.
THE EARNEST EXPECTATION. By Isaac Crook, D.D. With
portrait, 12mo, pp. 116. Jennings & Graham. 50 cts.
TALES FROM DICKENS. By Hallie Erminie Rives; illus.
by Reginald B. Birch. 8vo, pp. 473. Bobbs-Merrill
Co. $1.50.
THE PLAIN PRINCESS, and Other Stories. By I. Maunder:
preface by Andrew Lang; illus. by M. W. Taylor and
M. D. Baxter. 4to, pp. 95. Longmans, Green & Co.
$1.50.
THE STORY OF THE THREE DOLLS. By Josephine Scrib-
er Gates. Illus., 4to, pp. 148. Bobbs-Merrill Co.
$1.25.
EDUCATION.
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY : A Manual of Laboratory
Practice. By Edward Bradford Titchener. Vol. II.,
8vo, pp. 453. Macmillan Co. $2.50.
A HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL AND MODERN EUROPE. By
Henry E. Bourne. Illus., 12mo, pp. 502. Longmans,
Green & Co. $1.59.
SPECIMENS OF DISCOURSE. Selected and edited by Arthur
Lynn Andrews, Ph.D. 16mo, pp. 289. Henry Holt &
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