VOL. X., No. 114.)
TERMS—$1.50 PER YEAR.
Robert Louis Stevenson's Latest Novel :
THE MASTER OF BALLANTRAE: A WINTER'S TALE.
By ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. With full-page Illustrations by WILLIAM HOLE. 12mo
cloth, $1.25 ; paper, without Illustrations, 50 cents.
Mr. Stevenson's new novel, which has appeared serially in Scribner's Magazine, is unlike any of
its predecessors from the same hand, and yet it bears from first to last the stamp of the author's vigorous
personality and unique individuality. In theme and in style it is a work of a wholly uncommon interest,
displaying an imagination and a strength of diction that are associated only with the masterpieces of fiction.
"It is the best story that Stevenson has ever written, and higher praise could hardly be given. It is a story that will
rank with the masterpieces of Sir Walter Scott."-- Detroit Free Press.
CYCLOPEDIA OF MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. SECOND VOLUME.
Edited by John DENISON CHAMPLIN, Jr. Critical editor, WILLIAM F. APTHORP. With over 1,000
illustrations, including 36 full-page etched portraits. Three vols., 4to, decorated parchment binding,
uniform with the Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings.” This edition limited to 500 numbered
sets for this country and 50 for Europe. Per volume, $25.00 net.
This work is comprehensive in scope, being biographical, bibliographical, and descriptive in character. The second
contains, besides scores of text portraits of musicians and fac-simile scores and autographs, full-page etched portraits of Gounod,
Handel, Haydn, Lasso, Liszt, Lulli, Mendelssohn, Meyerbeer, Mozart, Paine, Palestrina, and Purcell. Like the well-known
“Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings,” the first of the important works of reference having this plan and scope, the “Cyclo-
pedia of Music" derives special value from its simplicity for consultation-artists and their works being arranged in the same
alphabetical order--from the great value of its references to original works, and from the great amount of biographical and
other material included.
LESTER WALLACK'S
A COLLECTION OF
MEMORIES OF FIFTY YEARS. LETTERS OF DICKENS-1833-1870.
With an Introduction by LAURENCE HUTTON. With
16mo. $1.25.
numerous portraits, views, fac-simile reproduc This collection of letters of the immortal author of "Pick-
tions, etc. Popular edition. 12mo. $1.50.
wick" and "David Copperfield" is compiled from already
published materials, and is issued in a uniform style, both in
* A volume of reminiscences singularly rich in entertain binding and in press-work, with the popular edition of the
ment."'_Boston Advertiser.
* Collection of Letters of Thackeray." The two volumes
** The limited large paper edition of 500 copies of this | contain the brightest and most characteristic letters of the
book was entirely sold within ten days of the date of pub- two great novelists, and will make a popular gift set for the
lication.
holiday season.
New and cheaper edition of Ex-Minister Washburne's great work:
RECOLLECTIONS OF A MINISTER TO FRANCE.
By the Hon. E. B. WASHBURNE. Fully Illustrated. New and cheaper edition. Two vols. 8vo. $5.00
The new and cheaper edition of this famous work contains everything that was in the earlier edition, including the
sixteen full-page and numerous text illustrations.
"From first to last the book is one of intense interest." | “The most remarkable book of its kind ever published.”
-The Churchman.
-- The Independent.
*. A New Portrait of Constance Fenimore Woolson, with a charming personal sketch of the
author, appears in the October number of The Book BUYER. Also an engraved portrait and sketch of HENRIK IBSEN, the
famous Norwegian dramatist, who has been the literary sensation of the past London season ; together with forty pages of
literary articles-reviews. Beautifully illustrated. “The best literary guide published" says the New York Tribune. If
you will inclose 10 cents, a copy of the October number will be sent you.
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, 743-745 Broadway, New York.


118
[Oct.,
THE DIAL
HP As only a limited edition of " THE SALON” is being prepared, it is believed
that none but advance orders-received before the day of publication—can be filled.
IMPORTANT ART ANNOUNCEMENT.
GOUPIL'S PARIS SALON OF '89,
THE GREAT EXHIBITION YEAR.
some
The growing appreciation and culture of art in this country having resulted in a steadily
increased sale of the Magnificent Annual Volumes of - Salon " paintings introduced by Messrs.
Goupil & Co. of Paris for some years past, the publishers have been induced to issue this year
a special edition
WITH THE TEXT IN ENGLISH,
In order to remove the only obstacle to a more general circulation for what is conceded to be
THE FINEST ART ANNUAL OF THE AGE.
By a special arrangement with Messrs. Goupil & Co.'s successors, we have secured the
ENTIRE CONTROL OF THIS ENGLISH TEXT EDITION, as well as THE EXCLUSIVE SALE OF ALL
COPIES OF THE FRENCH TEXT EDITION COMING TO THIS COUNTRY.
The editions of the forthcoming Volume—which will contain one hundred PRIZE PAINT-
INGS from this the greatest exhibition ever known at the Paris Salon, reproduced in PHOTO-
GRAVURE from the originals by the unrivalled GOUPIL process—will be divided as follows:
WITH ENGLISH TEXT.
WITH FRENCH TEXT.
Vellum Edition, with Text and Engrav Vellum Edition, with Text and Engrav-
ings on Vellum paper, . . . $18.00 ings on Vellum paper, . . . $18.00
Holland Edition Limited. Text and Holland Edition Limited. Text and
Engravings on Holland paper, each copy
Engravings on Holland paper, each copy
numbered, . . . . . . 20.00! numbered, . . . . . . 20.00
Each copy-in either of the above editions—will be bound in a handsome red cloth cover,
with Palette design on side in gold and color.
It is expected that the work will be ready for delivery in October, and EARLY ORDERS
are respectfully solicited.
For sale by all booksellers, or sent postpaid, on receipt of price, by the publishers,
ESTES & LAURIAT, BOSTON, Mass.


1889.]
119
THE DIAL
FOR THE FALL AND CHRISTMAS SEASON OF 1889
LITTLE, BROWN, & COMPANY,
No. 254 Washington Street, Boston,
ISSUE THE FOLLOWING WORKS:
Florida Days.
| Walton and Cotton's Complete
By MARGARET DELAND, author of “ John Ward,
| author of “ John Ward, Angler.
Preacher," “ The Old Garden, and Other Verses,”
A new and beautifully printed edition of this classic
etc. With four colored plates, two etchings, six full-
pastoral. Exquisitely illustrated with seventy-four
page plates, and more than fifty charming illustra-
beautiful wood-engravings in the text, illustrations
tions in the text from sketches in St. Augustine and
of fish and of persons and places mentioned in the
other parts of Florida, made especially for the work
work, and seventeen plates. With an Introduction
by Louis K. HARLOW. 8vo, cloth, with a beauti-
written specially for this edition by James RUSSELL
fully decorated cover, $4.00 ; half crushed Levant
LOWELL. The work will be issued in the following
morocco, extra, gilt top, $7.00 ; tree calf, extra, gilt
styles : Five hundred numbered copies (for America
edges, $8.00 ; Levant morocco, extra, gilt edges, $10.
and England), with the plates on India paper ; two
vols.; crown 8vo, cloth, uncut, $10.00 net ; half Le-
Myths and Folk Lore of Ireland. vant morocco, extra, gilt top, $16.00 net. One hun-
dred and fifty numbered copies (for America and
By JEREMIAH Curtin. With a prettily etched fron England) with the plates on Japan paper ; two vols.;
tispiece. Crown 8vo. Cloth. $2.00.
medium 8vo, cloth, uncut, $15.00 net ; half Levant
morocco, extra, gilt top, $21.00 net.
New VOLUMES IN THE CHOICE LIBRARY EDITION OF
ALEXANDRE DUMAS.
Ten Thousand a Year.
The Valois Romances.
A new and choicely printed Library Edition of SAMUEL
I. MARGUERITE DE VALOIS. Two vols.
WARREN's famous English novel. With a portrait
II. LE DAME DE MONSOREAU. Two vols.
of the author, beautifully etched by F. T. STUART.
Three vols., 12mo. Cloth, extra, gilt top, $4.50 ;
III. THE FORTY-FIVE. Two vols.
half calf, extra, gilt top, or half morocco, extra, gilt
In all, six vols., 12mo. With six historical portraits, top, $9.00.
including Charles IX., Henry III., Henry of Na-
varre, Catherine de Medici, Marguerite de Valois,
and Duc de Guise. Cloth, extra, gilt top, $9.00;
half calf, extra, or half morocco, extra, gilt top, $18. der Louis XIII.
By ALFRED DE VIGNY. Translated by WILLIAM
The Count of Monte Christo.
HAZLITT. A most beautiful edition of Count Alfred
de Vigny's celebrated romance, “ Cinq-Mars.” Ex-
Four vols., 12mo. With eight photogravure plates, quisitely illustrated with thirteen full-page etchings
from original designs made expressly for this edition
and numerous smaller illustrations in the text. Two
by Edmund H. Garrett. Cloth, extra, gilt top, vols., 8vo. Cloth, extra, gilt top, $6.00 net; half
$6.00 ; half calf, extra, or half morocco, extra, gilt
calf, extra, gilt top, $10.00 net ; half Levant moroc-
top, $12.00.
co, extra, gilt top, $13.00 net.
UNIFORM WITH “THE VALois ROMANCES” AND
"MONTE CHRISTO":
The Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius.
The D'Artagnan Romances. A handsome Library Edition of " The Thoughts of the
By ALEXANDRE DUMAS.
Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus.” Translated,
with Memoir, etc., by GEORGE Long. 12mo. Cloth,
I. THE THREE MUSKETEERS. Two vols.
extra, gilt top, with engraved Roman coin on title,
II. TWENTY YEARS AFTER. Two vols.
$1.50 ; half calf, extra, gilt top, or half morocco,
III. THE VISCOUNT DE BRAGELONNE; OR, TEN
extra, gilt top, $3.25 ; tree calf, gilt edges, $5.50 ;
YEARS LATER. Two vols.
limp morocco, extra, gilt edges, in box, $5.50.
In all, ten vols., 12mo, cloth, extra, gilt top. With an
etched portrait of the author, and ten historical por The Swedish Revolution under
traits, including Louis XIII., Louis XIV., Richelieu,
Mazarin, Anne of Austria, Colbert, Fouquet, Madame
Gustavus Vasa.
de Montespan, Louise de la Vallière, and Henrietta | By Paul Barron Watson, author of “Marcus Au-
of England. $15.00. Half calf, extra, or half mo relius Antoninus," and member of American Histor-
rocco, extra, gilt top, $30.00.
ical Association. 8vo. Cloth, gilt top, $2.50.
Cinq-Mars; or, A Conspiracy un-


120
(Oct.,
THE DIAL
RECENT NEW BOOKS.
LOUISA M. ALCOTT: Her Life, Letters, and Journal.
Edited by Ednah D. CHENEY. With portraits and view of the Alcott Home in Concord. One volume.
16mo. Uniform with “ Little Women.” Price, $1.50.
Mrs. Cheney has allowed this popular author to tell the story of her early struggles, her successes and pros-
perity and life-work, in her own inimitable style, gracefully weaving the daily record of this sweet and useful
life into a volume which will be welcomed by all admirers and readers of her well-known books. Mrs. Cheney
was for years an intimate friend of Miss Alcott, and has compiled in this volume the only life of her authorized
by her family.
Cbata and Chinita.
NEW JUVENILES.
A Novel. By Mrs. LOUISE PALMER HEAVEN. Lulu's Library.
Uniform in style with “ Ramona.” One volume.
"One volume. | By LOUISA M. ALCOTT. Volume III. 16mo.
12mo. Cloth. Price, $1.50.
Cloth. Price, $1.00. Contains “ Recollections
An intensely interesting story, the scene of which is of My Childhood," written by Miss Alcott shortly
located in Mexico, by one who has lived in that strange before her death.
country, and who has written with great strength, in-
All the children will feel nearer to their favorite au-
dividuality, and fine local color.
thor on reading how she looked back at her own child
hood.
French and English.
Just Sixteen.
A Comparison. By Philip GILBERT HAMERTON,
A New Volume of Stories. By Susan Coolidge.
author of “ Etchers and Etching,” “ Thoughts
Square 16mo. Cloth. Uniform with “What Katy
About Art,” “ Human Intercourse," etc. 12mo.
Cloth. Price, $2.00.
Did,” “A Little Country Girl," etc. Price, $1.25.
A new collection of bright stories by an author al-
“ Mr. Hamerton's comparison of the two nations fol-
ways popular with the young folks. They will all
lows a very methodical order. He compares them,
want them, and will not be fully satisfied with “just
step by step, in reference to education, patriotism, pol sixteen," but will want more.
itics, religion, virtues, customs, and society. The chap-
ters on the virtues (which are philosophically classified
under the heads of truth, justice, purity, temperance, The Kingdom of Coins.
thrift, cleanliness, and courage), abound in suggestive
A Tale for Children of All Ages. By John BRAD-
observations.”—Academy.
LEY GILMAN. Illustrated by F. T. MERRILL.
Small 4to. Illuminated board covers. Price, 60c.
Jane Austen.
Every child should go with “ Tommy” on his trip
By Mrs. MALDEN. (Famous Women Series.)
through this strange land and see · Bad Penny," " Mr.
16mo. Cloth. Price, $1.00.
Midas,” “Crooked Sixpence,” and all the other inhab-
itants of that funny kingdom.
“Mrs. Charles Malden has written a pleasant little
book (all sensible books about Miss Austen are pleas-
Grandma's Rhymes and Chimes
ant, and can hardly help being so), and this book is
certainly not only sensible, but in parts acute.”—Spec FOR CHILDREN. A Selection of New Nursery
tator.
Poems by the most popular American authors.
An illustrated quarto volume, illuminated board
A Few More Verses.
covers. Price, $1.50. Cloth; gilt. Price, $2.
By Susan COOLIDGE. One volume. 16mo. Cloth. This collection of charming pictures and exquisite
Price. $1.00. An entirely new collection, and | Rhymes by popular writers like Clara Doty Bates,
companion to the first volume, “ Verses by S. C.,"
Marion Douglas, Emily Huntington Miller, George
of which the New Haven Palladium says:
Cooper, Lavinia S. Goodwin, and many others, selected
with great care and judgment, together with its pleas-
" Verses,' a modest name for a casket of gems, a ing cover designs, forms a unique book with which to
collection of rare and beautiful literary pearls." | gladden the heart of childhood.
SOLD BY ALL BOOKSELLERS. MAILED, POSTPAID, BY THE PUBLISHERS,
ON RECEIPT OF PRICE.
ROBERTS BROTHERS, BOSTON.


1889.]
121
THE DIAL
“ Rarely has an author sprung into so immediate a fame on two continents.”— Boston Home Journal.
A new volume by MAX O’RELL, author of
“ JONATHAN AND His CONTINENT.”
JACQUES BONHOMME,
JOHN BULL ON THE CONTINENT,
FROM MY LETTER BOX.
By MAX O’RELL
Author of " Jonathan and His Continent,” “ John Bull, Jr.,” etc., etc. 1 vol., 12mo, paper,
50 cents; extra cloth, 75 cents.
“ If anyone was absurd enough to feel aggrieved at Max O’Rell's amusement over us in Jonathan
and His Continent,' he may take his revenge in Jacques Bonhomme,' wherein the light-hearted Blouet
laughs at his compatriots as well.”—The Springfield Republican.
“We enjoy the book and for the most part pity the French.”—The Chicago Tribune.
“ The book is full of sprightly, keen observations. . . . There is not a dull line in it from first
to last, and its information is as genuine and accurate in the way of glimpses into the more intimate life
of the people as it is charming in its sparkle and glow of style.”—Boston Evening Traveller.
“He is a keen observer, and has a happy faculty of presenting the comical side of things, and that with
unvarying good humor, apparently indifferent whether the joke hits himself or others.”—Troy Budget.
“ It is a certainty that it must become a popular book with the readers of current literature.”—The
Danbury News.
“In it is pictured the French at school, at war, in leading strings, in love, at work, at play, and at
table, in trouble, in England, etc.”—The Boston Times.
“ Take it all in all, we think the most delightful book that Max O’Rell has written is his last, just
published, entitled • Jacques Bonhomme.'”—Boston Home Journal.
* Yours MERRILY,"
MARSHALL P. WILDER.
NEW EDITION (3414) Now READY, OF THE Most PopULAR
Book Of This YEAR:
JONATHAN AND HIS CONTINENT.
Rambles Through American Society. By MAX
O’Rell and JACK ALLyx. Paper, 50 cents;
cloth, gilt, etc., $1.50.
“A volume of sparkle and delight from title-page to
finish.”—Detroit Free Press.
“ There is not a dull page in it.”—New York World.
“One reads the book with a perpetual smile on one's
face.”_Chicago News.
“Will be read, talked of and enjoyed.” — Boston
Home Journal.
“ Undoubtedly the most interesting and sprightly
book of the season.”--Chicago Inter-Ocean.
“ Aims to amuse, and he hits the mark every time.”
-New York Journal of Commerce.
“ We Yankees have long prayed to see ourselves as
others see us, and we ought now to be satisfied.”_Bos-
ton Peacon.
SIXTH THOUSAND-NOW READY.
THE PEOPLE I'VE SMILED WITH.
Recollections of a Merry Little Life. By MAR-
SHALL P. WILDER, the American Humorist.
With two Portraits, extra cloth, gilt top, etc.,
$1.50.
“ The volume is brimming over with fun and inter-
est.”—Boston Herald.
« The happiest portions of the volume are the bits
of after-dinner speeches.”_New York Times.
“ The author touches upon a vast number of noted
men and women, and for each of them he has a kind
word to say."_New York World.
“A good book to take to the country or read in the
train." —New York Herald.
“A book of smiles.”—— Detroit Free Press.
COMPLETE CATALOGUE FREE TO ANY ADDRESS.
CASSELL & COMPANY, LIMITED, 104-106 Fourth Ave., New YORK.


122
[Oct.,
THE DIAL
D. APPLETON & CO.
HAVE JUST PUBLISHED:
European Schools;
OR, What I SAW IN THE SCHOOLS OF GERMANY, FRANCE,
AUSTRIA, AND SWITZERLAND. By L. R. KLEMM, Ph.D.,
Principal of the Technical School, Cincinnati, Ohio. Vol.
XII. of “The International Education Series,” edited by
WILLIAM T. HARRIS, LL.D. Fully Illustrated. 12mo,
cloth. Price, $2.00.
In this volume the author reports the results of a ten
months' journey among the schools of Europe. Lessons which
the author heard are sketched as faithfully as a quick pencil
could gather and the memory retain them. The author saw
the best that Europe could offer him, and in this volume he
has pictured the best results, described the most advanced
methods, and given a great number of valuable hints that will
be serviceable to all teachers who wish to advance the stand-
ard of their work.
The Structure and Distribution of Coral
Reels.
By CHARLES DARWIN. With Notes, and an Appendix giv-
ing a summary of the principal contributions to the history
of Coral Reefs since the year 1874, by Prof. T. G. BONNEY.
From the third English edition, just published. With
Charts and Illustrations. 12mo, cloth. Price, $2.00.
The publishers have taken the occasion of a new English
edition of this work to offer the first American edition, which
is issued under the sanction of Mr. Francis Darwin, and is
made specially valuable by the important additions by Prof.
Bonney.
Christianity and Agnosticism.
A CONTROVERSY. Consisting of Papers by HENRY WACE,
D.D., Prof. Thomas H. HUXLEY, THE BISHOP OF PETER-
BOROUGH, W. H. MALLOCK, and Mrs. HUMPHRY WARD.
12mo. Cloth, $1.00; paper cover, 50 cents.
The interest taken in the recent controversy between the
Rev. Dr. Henry Wace, Principal of King's College, London,
and Prof. Huxley, over the question of the true significance
of agnosticism, and incidentally of the limits of natural knowl-
edge, induced the publishers to bring the articles together in
a single volume. To these have been added W. H. Mallock's
article, "Cowardly Agnosticism,” and “The New Reforma-
tion,” by Mrs. Humphry Ward.
HARPERS' MAGAZINE-OCTOBER.
The Fair of Nijnii-Novgorod.
By THEODORE CHILD. Fourteen Illustrations by
T. DE THULSTRUP.
The Building of the Church of St.-Denis.
By Charles Eliot Norton. Illustrated.
With the Eyes Shut.
By EDWARD BELLAMY. A Sketch.
Recent Progress in Surgery.
By W. W. KEEN, M.D. A popular exposition of the aston-
ishing advance in this department of medicine.
A Corner of Scotland Worth Knowing.
By Prof. W. G. BLAKIE, M.D. Ten Illustrations by JosEl'H
PENNELL and W. SMALL.
"Butterneggs.
A Story of Heredity. By ANNIE TRUMBULL Slosson. Page
Illustration by A. B. Frost.
Hierapolis and its White Terrace.
By TRISTRAM Ellis. Illustrated.
A Little Journey in the World.
A Novel. By Charles Dudley WARNER. Part VII.
A Peculiar People.
By HOWARD PYLE. A sketch of the Dunkers, their customs
and their quaint town Ephrata. With Nine Illustrations
by the author.
Aunt Dorothy's Funeral.
A Story. By MARGARET J. PREston.
Forests of the California Coast Range.
By FRED. M. SOMERS. Profusely Illustrated.
Captain Brooke's Prejudice.
By Mrs. Lucy C. LILLIE. A Story. Two Illustrations.
Poems.
THE NOBLE PATRON. By Austin Dobson. Eight Su-
perb Illustrations by E. A. ABBEY, including Frontispiece.
HAIL, TWILIGHT. By WilLIAM WORDSWORTH. Ilus-
trated by ALFRED PARSONS.
DISCOVERY. By LUCY LARCOM.
ALL'S WELL AT THE EARTH. By HOWARD HALL.
An Accommodation.
Full-page Drawing by GEORGE DU MAURIER.
Editor's Easy Chair.
By GEORGE WILLIAM Curtis.
Editor's Study.
By WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS.
Monthly Record of Current Events.
Editor's Drawer.
Conducted by CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER.
Literary Notes.
By LAURENCE HUTTON.
HARPER'S PERIODICALS.
HARPER'S MAGAZINE. Per Year, Postage Free, $1.00
HARPER'S WEEKLY,
4.00
HARPER'S BAZAR,
4.00
HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE. "
2.00
Booksellers and Postmasters usually receive Subscriptions.
Subscriptions sent direct to the publishers showd be accompanied
by P. O. Money Order or Draft. When no time is specified,
Subscriptions will begin with the current number.
PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROS., New YORK.
Recollections of the Court of the Tuil-
eries.
By MADAME CARETTE, Lady-of-Honor to the Empress Eu-
génie. Translated from the French, by ELIZABETH Phipps
TRAIN. 12mo. Paper cover. 50 cents.
The inside view which these Recollections give of the Court
of Louis Napoleon is fresh and of great interest.
“We advise everyone who aulmires good work to buy and
read it.'-- London Morning Post.
A Hardy Norseman.
A Novel. By Edna Lyall, author of “Donovan,'' “ We
Two," etc. “Appleton's Town and Country Library.".
With Frontispiece and Portrait. 12mo. Paper. 50 cents.
“Edna Lyall stands apart from the crowd by reason of her
high tone of thought, her good taste, and the development of
character, to which, quite as much as to the incidents and
working-out of their plots, the attraction of her novels is
due." - London Spectator.
1, 3, AND 5 Bond STREET, NEW YORK.


1889.)
123
THE DIAL
DODD, MEAD & CO.'S NEW PUBLICATIONS.
The Diary of Philip Hone.
| Life of John Davis, the Navigator.
Edited by BAYARD TUCKERMAN. In 2 vols., large 8vo, $7.50. By CLEMENTS R. MARKHAM, C.B., F.R.S. 12mo, cloth, with
Philip Hone, a member of an old Knickerbocker family, Maps and Illustrations, $1.25. Being the initial volume in
was one of the few men of his time in America who had the the series of Great Explorers and Explorations. Other vol-
leisure to keep a diary and the varied experience to make umes will follow rapidly.
such a record valuable to posterity. He held the office of
Mayor of New York, and for many years was high in the Feet of Clay.
counsels of the Whig party, and was closely identified with
By AMELIA E. BARR. A story laid in the Isle of Man,
the leading interests of the city. His diary extends from 1828
to 1845. The political life of these years is commented upon
12mo, cloth, $1.25.
by one who was familiar with its inner workings. Daniel
In Bella Clucas Mrs. Barr has drawn one of those noble
Webster, Martin Van Buren, with a score of their prominent
women who have almost disappeared from the fiction of the
contemporaries, are familiarly described and conversations
day-a woman whose womanliness is not obscured by conven-
with them recorded. A graphic description is given of the
tion, and whose innate nobility of character is not buttressed
famous Tippecanoe election, in which Hone took an active
by social position and conventional standards. Bella Clucas
part on the side of Harrison.
stands alone is the native purity and dignity of her nature,
as genuine, as spirited, and as beautiful a figure as Mrs. Barr
But probably the portion of the diary which will be most
eagerly read is that relating to the social life of New York. has ever portrayed.
The Knickerbocker of to-day will learn what company was
present at his father's wedding, where his grandfather most
The Last of the Macalisters.
frequently dined, and what people thought about him. The
By AMELIA E. BARR. 12mo, cloth, $1.25.
student of the history of New York will find Hone's diary a
mine of information ; the gossips of to-day will pause to enjoy Between Two Loves.
the forgotten small-talk of their grandmothers.
By AMELIA E. BARR. 12mo, cloth, $1.25.
Letters of the Duke of Wellington to Miss J., New editions of all Mrs. Barr's other stories. 12mo, new
1834-1851.
plates and new bindings; each, $1.25.
12mo, boards, with label, uncut, $1.75.
Taken Alive, and Other Stories.
At the time Miss J.'s correspondence with the Duke of
By the late EDWARD P. Roe. '12mo, cloth, uniform with
Wellington opened she was a very beautiful woman about
Mr. Roe's other stories ; $1.50.
twenty years of age. A woman of deeply devotional nature,
she felt she had been especially called of God to do a great
This volume contains eight or ten stories, some of them of
work. Looking around her for an object, her attention was
very considerable length, which have appeared in various
drawn to the Duke of Wellington. The Duke was at this
periodicals or were found among Mr. Roe's papers at his
time (1834) a man sixty-five years old. He was in the prime
death. It completes the edition of his stories, making the
of strength and health. He had now been a widower for
eighteenth volume of the series.
three years.
Mr. Roe's two works on Gardening have also been issued
in a shape uniform with his novels.
Poems on Several Occasions.
By Austin DOBSON. 2 vols., 12mo, rich gold ornamentation
The Home Acre.
and gilt tops, or in plain boards, uncut, $1.00; half calf, 12mo, cloth, $1.50.
$5.00 ; half levant, $5.00; full calf or levant, $12.00.
Which aims to show what may be done with an acre of land
These volumes contain " Old World Idyls,” published in about the home, and contains chapters on such subjects as
America under the title “ Vignettes in Rhyme,” and “At the "Small Fruits," ** The Lawn," " Trees and Tree-Planting,”
Sign of the Lyre.” The edition has been especially prepared “Shrubs,” etc., etc.; and
by the author, and a goodly number of poems have been
added which appear now for the first time. It is the author's Success with Small Fruits.
edition, published by special arrangement with him.
12mo, cloth, $1.50.
Consuelo.
Thus bringing this most valuable treatise within the reach
of everyone.
By GEORGE SAND. Translated from the French by FRANK
H. POTTER. 4 vols., 12mo, cloth, full gilt, $6,00; Half calf, Battlefields of '61.
$12.00; half levant, $15.00. A small number of large-paper
copies at $13.50 per set.
A narrative of the military operations of the War for the Un-
A most beautiful edition of this classic.
ion from its outbreak to the end of the Peninsular Cam-
paign. By Willis J. ABBOT, author of "Blue Jackets of
161,“Blue Jackets of 1812,” “Blue Jackets of '76.' . 4to,
The Abbe Constantin.
with 28 full-page Illustrations by W. C. JACKSON. $3.00.
By Ludovic HALEVY. With Illustrations by MADELAINE
LEMAIRE. A reprint of this fascinating work, in which the What Might Have Been Expected.
illustrations have all been reproduced from the Edition de
Luxe published in Paris. A more beautiful and artistic
By FRANK R. STOCKTON. A book for young people. With
piece of work has never been put upon the market. Large 12mo,
Illustrations. 12mo, cloth, $1.50.
paper, $1.75; cloth, $2.50; silk, $1.00; half levant, $5.00.
The Golden Days of '49.
Life of General Lafayette.
By KIRK MONROE. A story of the opening of California and
With a Critical Estimate of his Character and Public Acts. the discovery of gold. With 10 double-page Illustrations
By BAYARD TUCKERMAN. 2 vols., 12mo, cloth, with sev by Jackson. Svo, cloth, $2.25.
eral Portraits, $3.00; 50 copies on large paper, $8.00 each.
** Grave, judicious, and trustworthy, Mr. Tuckerman's book ! Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians.
will take rank among biographies of the first class.” -- The By Sir J. GARDNER WILKINSON, D.C.L., F.R.S., F.R.G.S.,
Critic.
etc. A new edition, revised and corrected by SAMUEL
BIRCH, LL.D., D.C.L., Keeper of the Egyptian and Oriental
Elsie and the Raymonds.
Antiquities in the British Museum, President of the Society
By MARTHA FINLEY. A new volume in the ever-popular of Biblical Archæology, etc. With several hundred Illus-
Elsie Series. 12mo, cloth, uniform with the other stories, tions, many of them full-page plates in color. In 3 vols.,
$1.23. Sets of the Elsie Books, boxed, 15 vols., $18.75. Svo, cloth, $8.00.
DODD, MEAD & COMPANY, 753 & 755 BROADWAY, NEW YORK.


124
(Oct., 1889.
THE DIAL
=
=
AMERICAN RELIGIOUS LEADERS.
A series of Biographies of Men who have exerted great influence on the Religious Thought and Life of
America. This series is designed to serve the same purpose with regard to the religious history of America
which the series of American Statesmen serves with regard to its political history. It will include biographies of
eminent men who represent the theology and methods of the various religious denominations of America. The
first volume, now ready, is on
JONATHAN EDWARDS.
By Professor A. V. G. ALLEN, author of “ The Continuity of Christian Thought.” 16mo. Gilt top. $1.25.
Succeeding volumes will be devoted to Dr. Hodge, Dr. WAYLAND, Dr. MUHLENBERG, Archbishop HUGHES,
WILBUR FISK, THEODORE PARKER, and others.
These books are not intended merely as interesting biographies of these illustrious men, but to set forth clearly
and impartially the opinions they held and their reasons for holding them, and the relation of these opinions to
the religious life and thought of the nation.
Benjamin Franklin.
In the Series of American Statesmen. By John T.
• MORSE, Jr., author of the volumes on John Adams,
Thomas Jefferson, and John Quincy Adams, in this
series. 16mo. $1.25.
An admirable account of Franklin as a statesman,
and of his great and varied public services.
Riverside Aldine Series.
Three new volumes in this series of choice books of
American literature, brought out in specially tasteful
form and style.
WALDEN. By H. D. THOREAU. In two vols.
THE GRAY CHAMPION, AND OTHER STORIES.
By NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE.
Each volume 16mo. $1.00.
Two Coronets.
A Novel. By MARY AGNES TINCKER, author of “Sig-
nor Monaldini's Niece.” 12mo. $1.50.
A noteworthy story, with characters and scenes of
Italy and New England. The sharp contrasts of life,
character, and custom in the two countries form the
background of a story full of movement, social engi-
neering, and conspiracy, with quiet areas of genuine
New England family affection and content.
Thackeray's Works.
Illustrated Library Edition. In twenty-two volumes.
Vols. XV., XVI.- THE VIRGINIANS. Vols.
XVII., XVIII.- PHILIP, and CATHERINE.
Crown 8vo. $1.50 each.
The Introductions to the several volumes, the excel-
lent typography, paper, and binding, make this a very
acceptable edition of Thackeray's works.
ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH POPULAR BALLADS.
Edited by Prof. Francis J. Child, of Harvard University. An Edition de Luxe, strictly limited to 1,000 copies.
In eight parts, each part containing about 250 pages. Part VI. Imperial quarto. $5.00 net.
“ Prof. Child's books, exquisitely printed on fine paper, supply at once a joy to the bibliophile, and an opulent
treasure to the student of old customs and old songs. Mr. Child's learning, perseverance, sense, and good taste
are all beyond praise.”—London Saturday Review.
Six Portraits.
By Mrs. M. G. VAN RENSSELAER, author of “ Henry
Hobson Richardson and His Works.” 16mo. $1.25.
Papers of much biographic and art value on Luca
Della Robbia, Correggio, William Blake, Corot, George
Fuller, and Winslow Homer.
Literary Landmarks.
A Guide to Good Reading for Young People, and
Teacher's Assistant. By MARY E. Burt, Teacher
of Literature in the Cook County Normal School at
Englewood, Illinois. With Charts. 16mo. 75 cents.
Miss Burt's successful experience as a teacher of lit-
erature has enabled her to prepare a hand-book which
is not merely a guide to the best books for young peo-
ple, but an economical system of reading, good for all
ages.
Gudrun.
A Mediæval Epic, excellently translated from the Mid-
dle High German by Mary PICKERING Nichols.
Carefully printed, with decorations from German
books, mostly of the sixteenth century. With a col-
ored fac-simile of a page of the original MS. of
the Poem. 8vo, cloth or parchment-paper boards.
$2.50.
The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh,
AND OTHER Tales, including A Knight Errant of
the Foot-Hills, A Secret of Telegraph Hill, and Cap-
tain Jim's Friend. By BRET HARTE. 16mo. $1.25.
Character and Comment
Selected from the novels of W. D. HOWELLS. By MIN-
NIE MACOUN. 16mo. $1.00.
A tasteful little book of those noteworthy and deli-
cious sentences which abound in Mr. Howells's stories.
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO., BOSTON.


í OCT 7 18437
THE DIAL
-
-
Vol. X. OCTOBER, 1889. No. 114. been able, to deceive the arch-deceiver, and to
steal under the eyes of the arch-thief.
CONTESTS.
All this would be fatally convincing, if it
were Bourrienne who is on trial. But it is not
THE DREADFUL TRUTH ABOUT NAPOLEON.
Bourrienne, it is one greater than he ; greater,
Joseph kirkland ............ 125
perhaps, in single-eyed, selfish power, than any
SOME PHASES OF DARWINISM., S. H. Peabody 127
other character in history.
RECENT PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS. John Bascom 130
It is related that once, in Napoleon's hear-
A SPANISH COURT PAINTER AND HIS TIMES.
ing, a lady said that she would have liked
Octave Thanet . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Turenne better if he had not burned the
AMERICAN LOCAL CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY
Palatinate. “What of that,” replied Napo-
James (). Pierce ... ......... 135
leon, “ if it was necessary to the object he had
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS ......... 136
in view ?” That ancient Seignory, the very
Croll's Stellar Evolution and Its Relation to Geo-
jewel and garden of Europe, Turenne made
logical Time.- Hamerton's French and English.-
King Kalakaua's The Legends and Myths of Hawaii.
into a desert place; and its ruins stand to this
- Mrs. Malden's Life of Jane Austen.- Meriwether's day, more than 200 years later, a memento of
The Tramp at Home.— Biddle's Extracts from the his flaming sword. “ What of that?” There
Journal of Elizabeth Drinker.-Long's The Thoughts
is a world of significance in this question.
of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus.-- Convers's Marriage
and Divorce in the United States.-- Snyder's Geog-
Even Bonaparte's stupendous vigor would
raphy of Marriage.- Max O’Rell's Jacques Bon-
have availed little if it had not been for the
homme.- Dodge's Great Captains.
circumstances to which he was born. He fell
LITERARY NOTES AND NEWS ... 140
upon France as if one should alight from a
TOPICS IN OCTOBER PERIODICALS ..... 141
stray comet on a virgin world whereon the
BOOKS OF THE MONTH .....141
foot of man had never trodden ; where the
treasures of air and earth and ocean lay open
----------------====================
and unclaimed. All powers, clerical, seignoral,
THE DREADFUL TRUTH ABOUT
and royal, were dead and gone. Every old
NAPOLEON.*
debt was discharged by statutory repudiation.
Bourrienne's Napoleon is no “parlor biog Every landlord had died or disappeared, and
raphy.” It is either brutal truth or brutal
every tenant enjoyed soil and mansion free of
falsehood—I think it is the former. The rent-charge or control. The law, the church,
author's opponents, whose contradictions and and the throne were ousted, and the people left
criticisms are given with the text, in the form without court, king, or god.
of foot-notes, attack him furiously. Indeed, The ebullition that threw off the incubus
this is the only thing possible for a Napoleon was great—excessive proportionately with its
ist; for Bourrienne's position is the key of the weight; and the subsequent reaction and supine-
field, and unless it can be carried the battle of ness were proportionate to the excess. This,
Napoleonism is lost. Bourrienne cannot be too, in a strain of blood not Anglo-Saxon, but
turned and left in the rear, except at the Gallic, with a racial tendency to trust, to
sacrifice of the whole base of operations. The admire, to adore, and to be led. In America
attack on Bourrienne seems to me to kill him, the usurper would have been ridiculed, alive :
but to leave his position intact. His enemies and have died unwept, un honored, and unsung.
show him, with reasonable certainty, to have been What do we do with “ Napoleons” in war,
corrupt, grasping, deceitful, time-serving and politics, or finance? We sit down on them.
double-faced; false in all his later life to the The only terms on which we let genius thrive
great friend of his youth and patron of his are those of constant avoidance of a suspicion
early manhood. Able? Yes, he must have of conscious superiority. Never, in peace or
* MEMOIRS OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. By L. A. F. de
in war, has there been a time and place wherein
Bourrienne, his private secretary; with Anecdotes and Illus- / a man of all Napoleon's ability, or twice as
trative Extracts from all the most Authentic Sources. Edited much, could have said aloud, “I will take the
by R. W. Phipps, colonel, late Royal Artillery. New and
Revised Edition, with Numerous Illustrations. In four
reins and drive the chariot,” without being
volumes. New York: T. Y. Crowell & Co.
| laughed down. Any such childish trick as


126
[Oct.,
THE DIAL
time."
that of 18th Brumaire (1799), when Napoleon 1796–1813: sixteen years ; merely the space
struck his first blow at French liberty by for of time which has elapsed since the Hayes-
cibly dispersing the Council of the Five Hun- Tilden election : this is the interval wherein
dred, would be received by us with a laugh, so much took place; wherein one man caused
spreading from the council to the army, the a million other men to perish for his elevation ;
press, and the whole people.
and then-fell to where he started from.
But whether by luck or by management, or Napoleon was, like other men, a mixture of
both, Napoleon did great things in little time. good and evil; only, in his case the good was
In 1796 he drove the Austrians out of Italy, in words, the evil in actions.
and robbed her. In 1799 he was worsted in
WORDS.
ACTIONS.
Africa and returned to France, deserting his (1794) “ To declare a pa- (1799) He dispersed the
army, as he always did in disaster— Acre, triot suspected is to deprive Assembly by force of arms,
him of all that he most highly and (1806) usurped Imperial
Moscow, Leipsic, Waterloo. He was a com values - confidence and es- | power.
mander who pushed every advance, and led
teem. . .. . Since the (1806) He had the King's
commencement of the revolu- nephew, the Duc d'Enghien,
every retreat. Once in Paris (communication tion have I not always been seized on neutral territory,
with Egypt being cut off), he lied his failure
attached to its principles ? hurried to Paris, and there
. . . . Restore to me the tried, shot, and buried in a
into a success, on the strength of which he esteem of the patriots.” grave which had been dug
(1796) “I should like the before the "trial” began.
destroyed the Directorate and made himself
era of representative govern- (1799) He besieged Acre,
Consul. In 1800 he killed the liberty of the ment to be dated from my spent sixty days and 3,000
lives in fruitless assaults, re-
press. By Desaix's battle of Marengo, and (1806) “I am not strong | tired utterly beaten ; reached
Moreau's battle of Hohenlinden, he defeated
enough to protect the wretches Cairo with a remnant of his
who voted for the death of force, more dead than alive.
Austria ; and he promptly again despoiled Louis XVI., from the con- He fell violently in love
Italy. In 1804 he made himself Emperor
tempt and indignation of the with Madame Fourés, estab-
public."
lished her in a house in Cairo,
and established an Imperial Nobility. In 1805 (1799) “I have razed the and “through a feeling of
palace of the Djezzar and the delicacy" sent her husband
he had himself crowned king of Italy. He
ramparts of Acre. Not one home to France on a ship
defeated the Austrians and Russians at Ulm
stone remains upon another. which was captured by the
All the inhabitants have left English, who, "being in-
and Austerlitz, and dictated peace at Vienna. the city by sea." This bul- formed of the cause of
In 1806 he made his brother Louis king of
letin he dictated to Bour- his mission, were malicious
rienne, who blushed, and enough to send him back to
Holland. He attempted to establish the hesitated to write the lies. His Egypt, instead of keeping him
66 Continental System ”—an imaginary block-
master said : “My dear fel- a prisoner.” “Bonaparte
low, you are a simpleton; you wished to have a child by
ade of all English ports, by which any nation do not understand this busi- Madame Fourés, but this
wish was not gratified."
trading with England became an enemy of
(1794) To Josephine : “I (1810). He divorced Joseph-
France. He defeated the Prussians and Rus shall ever remain your fond ine for no cause except child-
lover. Death alone can break lessness.
sians at Auerstadt and Jena, and took Berlin. the union which sympathy, (1813) The accumulations
Eylau was a drawn battle, but Friedland was
love, and friendship have of the Emperor's "privy
formed."
purse" amounted to 350,000,-
a victory, followed by the treaty of Tilsit in (Always) “No man shall 000 francs; and in his will,
1807, and the establishment of his brother
steal." When Emperor, he made at St. Helena, he pre-
one day entered his cabinet, tended to dispose of 260,000,-
Jerome as king of Westphalia, his brother full of joy at having caught a , 000 francs ; doubtless the
man who had robbed the frugal savings of his thirteen
Joseph as king of Spain, and his brother-in-law
army of Italy. “Thank God, years of productive industry
Murat as king of Naples and Sicily, in 1808.
I have found him, and I shall -just twenty million francs a
make him a severe example.”' | year.
It was in 1807 that he began to demand con-
tributions of troops from conquered countries, So utterly, monstrously, abnormally repul-
to supply the place of Frenchmen killed in sive is Napoleon's general character, that it is
conquering them. In 1808 Austria again a relief to find in him some “ redeeming vices."
declared war; and in 1809, by the help of He had at least one illegitimate child (by
Bavarian troops, he gained the battle of Wag Countess Walewski), and wished for others.
ram, and once more seized Vienna. He (See the Madame Fourés episode ; ante.) As
annexed the Papal States to France. Wagram to the petition of Madame Récamier in behalf
was the last of his overwhelming victories. He of her father, Bourrienne says : “ I have not
had taught his old enemies how to fight, and forgotten on what conditions the re-establish-
he was meeting a new one ; for Wellingtonment would have been granted. . . . He,
defeated Soult in Spain. This was the year of on his side, claimed a very different sentiment
Napoleon's divorce and re-marriage; the year from gratitude.”
of his culmination. 1812 saw the invasion of Bonaparte liked, too, to be ostentatiously
Russia, and 1813 the allied occupation of Paris merciful and benevolent; and anyone who
and Napoleon's exile to Elba.
managed to fall on his knees (more often her
ness."


1889.]
127
THE DIAL
knees) in public, before the great man, was Even then, when in 1813 the butcher was
very likely to be raised up by him, dissolved forced to abdicate his stolen throne, the first
in tears of gratitude. He liked vain extrava inimical cry he heard in Paris was: “ No more
gant display, and spent unheard-of sums of the conscription!” There rises to the memory a
public funds to support it. He knew that French picture full of touching pathos. It
literature, science and art shed glory upon him, simply represents an aged man yoked with a
and he encouraged them in consequence; iden cow to a plough, which a woman is guiding in
tifying his name with great public works. In the furrow; and it is entitled “ Les jours de
short, he achieved grand feats of abstracting la Conscription.” What idiocy, in a people
money from unknown persons and giving it which had broken its shackles, to hold out its
away in the sight of all the world. By an ex- wrists again for the gyves ! But this is no
treme of condescension—who can witness it justification to him who replaced them.
without a sympathetic smile ?—he even com- After the abdication, Bourrienne was made,
posed and recounted a poor and commonplace by Louis XVIII., Director-General of the
romance of guilty love, sacrilege, despair, and Post-office; and among his first duties was the
death! (“Guilio " ; 2 Bourrienne, 375–391.) distribution of letters which had been inter-
On the other hand, he indulged in undignified | cepted by the Imperial police—a mass whereon
outbursts of temper ; but to one who expressed the postage alone amounted to 300,000 francs.
surprise at his apparent want of self-control he | Post and press had been throttled alike.
said, coolly : “ Oh, don't be alarmed ; my anger | One curious fact in connection with Bona-
never rises above here”—placing his hand at parte's abdication is this : Among all the dis-
his chin, to indicate that there was method in cussions preceding it as to who should rule
his madness. Most human of his weaknesses, France Napoleon, his son under a regency,
he suffered fearfully under the abuse and Bernadotte, the Bourbons, or what not—there
ridicule of the London press. To control this, is not a suggestion made that the usurper
he would gladly have fought Pitt, or fawned should surrender the sceptre to the people from
upon him. The tyranny of a dictator cannot whom he had wrested it.
live in face of an unbridled press—it is the He who loves war should read of Napoleon
one good point in each of these oppressions, to learn how to wage war; and he who hates
that it makes the other impossible.
it, to find new reasons for his hatred. The
Bonapartists insist, as he did, that he hated worshipper of power may read to admire ; the
war, and only fought to defend France from lever of liberty, to note some of the dangers
aggression. To agree with this view, one that threaten her. Besides all these, the mere
must attribute to him wonderfully bad luck. student of biography will find in Bourrienne a
It passes belief that France needed defence at typical story-teller, fairly rivalling Boswell in
Arcola and Lodi and Marengo in Italy, at his naire personalisms and gossippy small-talk,
Jaffa and Acre in Egypt, at Austerlitz and exercised on a theme of absorbing interest.
Hohenlinden in Austria, at Jena and Eylau
JOSEPH KIRKLAND.
and Friedland in Prussia, and at Borodino and
Moscow away off in Russia ; not to speak of
hundreds of forgotten fields in Spain, Portugal,
SOME PIIASES OF DARWINISM.*
Belgium, and in all the countries of Europe.
Now, as Bourrienne says : “ Peace is always Mr. Wallace has long been known as an
dear to a people.” So! To whom, then, is earnest advocate of those theories of modern
war dear? To the ruler who alone can gain science concerning the origin and development
by war, and who therefore tries by all devilish of the varied forms of living things, vegetable
arts to lead his people into a double error: and animal, which found in Charles Darwin
first, that when war comes it is not his fault; | their most famous exponent. The theories of
second, that the gain and glory is theirs rather evolution had long before been propounded.
than his. This was the business of Napoleon's It remained for Darwin to show ways in which
life, and he did it to perfection. The survivors the slow processes of change, in the progress
of carnage shouted and threw up their scha- of heredity from generation to generation,
koes, unmindful of the silence and quietude of could operate, while following lines that occa-
the mangled dead.
Thanks to Tolstoï and Verestschagin, the
# DARWINISM. An Exposition of the Theory of Natural
Selection, with some of its Applications. By Alfred Russell
days of this humbug seem to be numbered. | Wallace, LL.D., F.R.S. New York: Macmillan & Co.


128
(Oct.,
THE DIAL
sionally bifurcated and continually diverged to Copernican theory of the motions of the
produce the infinite varieties of living things heavenly bodies at the time of its promulga-
found together upon the earth. Darwin's tion.” If Professor Huxley says this, and
work was that of a large-minded architect, means “ exactly ” what he says, then this se-
whose fertile invention devised some grand cure foundation is no foundation at all ; for
edifice, symmetrical in outline, multitudinous the Copernican theory of the motions of the
in detail, harmonious in purpose and in adapta heavenly bodies had no demonstration until in
tion thereto. Mr. Wallace is the thrifty con after days Kepler and Newton showed the
servator, who goes about with loads of fresh reasons for those motions and their uniformity.
material to repair breaches, strengthen weak The case of the series from Eohippus to horse
places, complete and embellish unfinished is one in which it is evident that evolution may
apartments, and maintain the whole in a fresh, have occurred. We may go farther, and
cheerful, and attractive condition, ready for agree that there is strong probability that it
visitors. His book is pleasant reading for one did occur. But strong probability is not
who has a lively and abiding interest in demonstration, at least in any other depart-
Nature's processes and vagaries. In it is col- | ment of exact science. It is one of the notable
lected a multitude of observations, classified as things in this work, as it is in others of its
to the phases of the general subject which they class, that the statements and explanations
illuminate. They who have already accepted constantly culminate in the word “may.” The
the leading principles of the Darwinian scheme | evidence that a certain thing may happen must
of world-building and world-peopling will find be very strongly buttressed before it crystal-
abundant food for enjoyment and for the re lizes into the certainty that it did occur.
freshing of their faith.
There is a large gap, often an impassable gulf,
Without saying how many more might be between the assertion “this may be " and the
found and considered, there are three respects conclusion “therefore it is." Yet this transfer
in which all works of this class are singularly is so often made in discussions of this subject,
alike, if not as singularly open to criticism. so subtly, so naively—as if logic never dreamed
The first is the method of selection, whether of anything more drastic—as to make the
"natural" or other, by which facts are second of the three singular things referred to.
gathered and grouped. The maker of a The theory of Copernicus was in his day
mosaic gathers bits of stone from all quarries, only a case of may: it might be true. Later,
of all hues and grades of brilliancy. One by Kepler gave it enduring life by demonstrating
one he selects and assembles these separated for it the condition of must : it must be true;
fragments, until the outcome is an artistic de- it cannot be otherwise. This is the condition
sign, which, as such, is faultlessly beautiful | demanded of the physical science of to-day.
and admirable. But when it is finished, is it This is the form of answer given by Newton,
not evident that the chef-d'ouvre is not the La Place, Faraday, Bunsen, Kirchhoff, Pas-
reproduction of nature, but a purely artistic teur—the astronomers, chemists, spectroscop-
creation, the fruit of a vigorous and active ists, and bacteriologists, whose methods and
imagination? The student who is searching whose logic are worthy the name of demon-
for “ Facts for Darwin ” often appears to be stration.
most interested in selecting those which will fit A criterion of the truth of a physical law
kindly into the mosaic ; while he unconsciously | is the uniformity of its operation. The law
neglects, or more positively rejects, other and of gravitation, as formulated by Newton, acts
possibly more abundant items for which the always, everywhere, and without variation.
mosaic appears to have no place.
But even if we admit, in the case of the
For example, we find Mr. Wallace repeating Eohippus-horse, that here was evolution, the
the account of the very remarkable series that theory of evolution is not proved until it is
has come down to us through successive geolo shown that this is a complete example of all
gic epochs, beginning with the Eohippus, and animal progression. Of course this does not
continuing through oro-, meso-, mio-, proto-, mean that all animals would be evolved after
and plio-hippus, until it ends in the modern | the same exact fashion ; for example, that
hippus,equus, or horse. Professor Huxley is | each one which had a surplus of hoofs, like the
quoted as saying that this case - is demonstra Eohippus, should lose them from time to time,
tive evidence of evolution ; the doctrine resting so that whereas it once may have had four
upon exactly as secure a foundation as did the hoofs on each foot, it has kicked them off suc-


1889.]
129
THE DIAL
cessively in the back stables of creation until vival, the fact that it resembles Archippus has
now only one hoof per foot remains. But we been a protection to it, growing through the
may expect, we have a right to demand, that ages more protective according as the resem-
such general demonstrations of progression blance has become more complete. It is pre-
shall be shown, not as the possible explanation sumed that Archippus has some quality which
of a single series of facts, but as the absolute | gives it protection against its enemies : per-
and incontrovertible reason for the existence of haps it may be nauseous to the taste, so that
those facts, and shall lead us directly back to birds will not eat it. It is presumed that
the fundamental law of all scientific truth, that Misippus, by wearing the livery of Archip-
like causes do produce like effects.
pus, has cheated the birds, and has therefore
The attempt is made to realize this require escaped alive oftener than it otherwise would
ment by presenting the laws of selection- have done, and that thus the species has been
natural, sexual, etc. Mr. Wallace in terms better perpetuated. But Ursula is still alive
recognizes the weakness of the attempt to es- and plentiful. Is she also masquerading in
tablish a tenable theory upon experiments with borrowed livery? and if so, of whom did she
animals and plants under domestication, and borrow? It is not so easy to see whom Ursula
he has sought a better foundation in the varia | has mimicked. If mimicry has saved Misippus,
tions of organisms under natural conditions. the sister must also have practiced the same
But the difficulty seems to remain. Given all deception, or by this time she should have
the time that is demanded for the slow and perished from off the face of the earth, unless,
complex changes said to occur—practically perchance, she was herself nauseous to the
infinite, -it seems hardly possible that the | taste. It must have taken a long time to have
changes should not have been completed, and produced gradually so great a difference as
that while the fittest have survived, the less exists in the garb of these sister species.
fit, the unfit, should have perished. If it be It is evidently absurd to suppose that the
said that this is precisely what did happen in butterfly or its ancestors had any intelligent
the Eohippus-horse series, why has it not hap- purpose of imitation. It could not have
pened with all the rest? Some one may ask a changed its own coloring if it had so desired.
definition of the word “ fitness.” It may not | It cannot be supposed to know that it will
be easy to give a definition, farther than to say have offspring, nor how they will be dressed,
that the fittest is best adapted to the most nor how their garments will endanger them,
vigorous life or to the greatest immunity from | nor how to avert the danger by an imitation
danger.
of something else. If the imitation came not
Among the forms of improved fitness, pro- by forethought, it must have come under the
ducing greater immunity from danger, and action of some law; or without law—as we
therefore prolonging life, at least of the species, say, by accident. If it came by law, why was
is that often referred to as mimicry. This use not the law operative upon all the creatures of
of the word seems peculiarly inappropriate. that kind ? Why were not both changed, or
Mimickry is not simply imitation. It is imi why has not one perished ? When the explana-
tation with an intention or design on the part tion is examined in detail, it is vastly more
of the mimic. Let us see how the mimic or marvellous than the fact which it seeks to ex-
the imitator becomes the fittest to survive. As plain. And still the question lingers, whether
writers on these subjects, our author included, Misippus is any better fitted to survive than is
constantly select their examples to suit their Ursula.
purposes, we may be permitted the same privi. As with fitness, so with utility. A single
lege. Two species of butterfly, of the same example will illustrate the amusing straits to
genus, inhabit the middle parts of the United which one is put who attempts to explain the
States. The general hue of one is yellow utilities of such items as peculiarities of color,
brown, and it is called Misippus ; the other is according to our human ideas of utility. The
bluish-black, and it is called Ursula. To the | example is the ordinary field rabbit, sometimes
casual observer, man or bird, Misippus very called cotton-tail. The general garb of the
much resembles another rather larger insect, rabbit is such as to make it almost invisible
called Archippus. An inattentive observer when it is quietly seated on its form, but when
would readily confuse the two. Now it is as- it is disturbed and runs away its white up-
serted that Misippus has mimicked Archippus ; turned tail makes it absurdly conspicuous.
that is, under the operation of the law of sur. | Mr. Wallace suggests that the white tail serves


1.30
[Oct.,
TIE DIAL
as a danger signal when the rabbit is alarmel, or application of it, both he and we can well
so that the younger and feebler, following the afford to wait on larger revelation. We do
white pennon of their leader, may the more not in the least share the author's aversion to
readily escape to a haven of safety. How the supernatural. We feel that he judges both
melancholy the fate of rats and mice, and such it and orthodox faith, contrary to the usual
small deer as have developed no snowy ban- tenor of his thought, in too conventional a way,
ners for their rear-guard!
as they have offered themselves, or now offer
The sober gravity with which these things themselves, in the world's history. Bring to
are put makes them the more notable. We them the same expansion of thought, the same
wonder if in time the naturalists will not smile correction of criticism, which our author ap-
at each other when they meet, as did the augurs plies to the unfolding of moral truth, and they
in ancient Rome.
seem to us to be the very depth and inspiration
SELIM II. PEABODY. of the moral life. If - ethics is the response
which man and man make to the higher order
-- -- ------ --
of things "; if " aspiration, reverence, awe,
RECENT PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS* all those sentiments so often contrasted with
morality, are but uncompleted morality; and
" Ethical Religion 15 hardly a coherent when the moral act is done, ecstasy is its sign,
treatise, and yet it is not made up of merely !
- ecstasy, which is the grace heaven sets upon
detached discussions. The several parts are the moment in which the soul weds itself
united in theme, but treat various phases of
| to perfect good," then ethics implies a pure
it in separate ways. The temper of the book
i moral atmosphere, which pervades, as a Divine
is admirable. It is very refreshing to read a
Presence, the entire universe, and is in each
work that is animated by a deep, delicate, and
man an interior spiritual power, supernatural
discriminating moral sense, whether we agree
in the truest meaning of the word. Mr. Sal-
or not with all its conclusions. There is much
ter will have the good fortune, which so often
inatter that is well put, and will be heartily
falls to higher truth, of teaching more than he
endorsed by the appreciative reader. The
himself knows; because the sequences of truth
commanding and fundamental character of the
are only partially traced by him. The themes
moral nature, the order and light and joy it
of the book are of the most comprehensive
brings to the world, cannot be too often de-
character, and their treatment is suggestive
clared by those who have a fresh and divine
and stimulating. They are, the nature of the
vision of them. One feels that the substance
moral element, its absolute authority, the social
of the truth is with the author, and that while
construction which springs out of it, its rela-
we may stanchly demur at some implication
tions to the ethics of Jesus, the successes and
* Ethical RELIGION. By William Mackintire Salter. Bos-
the failures hitherto in working out this su-
ton : Roberts Brothers.
preme life, and the conditions of progress.
FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEMS. By Dr. Paul Carus. Chicago : Those who can read the book in the spirit in
The Open Court Publishing Co.
which it was written — and most of all the
A CRITIQUE OF KANT. By Kuno Fischer, Professor of
Philosophy in the University of Heidelberg. Translated from
“ devout,” if they can for the moment forget
the German by W. S. Hough. London: Swan Sonnenschein, the way in which it turns its back on rev-
Lowry & Co.
elation — will find much in it wholesome,
KANT'S CRITICAL PHILOSOPHY FOR ENGLISH READERS.
By John P. Mahaffy, D.D., and John H. Bernard, B.D.,
breezy, and upward lying in the path of the
of 'Trinity College, Dublin. New York: Macmillan & Co.
spirit.
KANT'S CRITICAL PHILOSOPHY. Vol. II.,—The Prolegome Dr. Carus shares in a good degree the can-
na. Translated, with Notes and Appendices, by John P.
dor of Mr. Salter. We cannot, however, think
Mahally, D.D., and John H. Bernard, B.D. New York :
Macmillan & Co.
him equally sucessful in his more recondite
The Light of EGYPT; or, The Science of the Soul and and difficult task, a solution of “ Fundamental
the Stars. Chicago : Religio-Philosophical Publishing House. Problems” in philosophy. “ The Method of
CHRISTIAN THEISM. By D. B. Purinton, LL.D. New
Philosophy as a Systematic Arrangement of
York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.
NATURAL RELIGION. By Max Müller. New York :
Knowledge ” ought to give clearly the funda-
Longmans, Green & Co.
mental clues of thought. The style of the work
PSYCHOLOGY APPLIED TO THE SOLUTION OF OCCULT Psy is lucid, taken sentence by sentence, but we
CHO PHENOMENA. By C. G. Raue, M.D. Philadelphia :
are not led on as swiftly nor as vigorously by
THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY, May, 1889.
it as we should be to a few primary truths ;
Baltimore: N. Murray.
| nor is the handling of them, when we seem to
Porter & Coates.


1889.]
131
THE DIAL
--
-
have reached them, such as to diffuse light | philosophical grip, and is engaged in a task too
freely over the whole field. One sees, in glanc large for it.
ing over the table of contents, the greatest The next work in our list, “ A Critique of
variety of the most abstruse and difficult topics Kant," offers a marked contrast in this respect.
arranged in no formal nor inherent order, and It is close, incisive, and rapid in its movement.
that, too, in a book of only 253 pages. Any If single sentences are obscure, the light about
discussion of them must necessarily be of the them is sufficient to carry us on our way with-
most hasty character and readily lapse into a out them. It is an excellent example of a sat-
series of assertions that carry no new disclosures isfactory handling of a difficult subject in a
to minds doubtful of the results. This criti brief space. It was called forth as a part of
cism we can only illustrate in a most insuffi- a larger work, “ History of Modern Philoso-
cient way. The doctrine of monism plays a phy.” It aims to give, and does give, a concise
somewhat important part in the work, yet the survey of the philosophy of Kant. It thus be-
author seems to confuse it with unity — a comes an essential factor in the history of recent
thing quite distinct. Monism should mean one German philosophy. Its distinctive feature is
form of being, as opposed to two or more forms that it embraces all the philosophy of Kant,
of being. The unity of monism is ultimate accepts it in both extremes, and draws atten-
identity,- oneness, not the coalescence of ad tion to the steps by which Kant passed — as
verse things in one constructive relation. Uni Prof. Fischer thinks, with fair consistency-
ty is utterly distinct from oneness. It involves from his earlier to his later opinions.
rather the presence of diverse elements, and The work of Mahaffy and Bernard is con-
the extent of this diversity serves to enforce the fined to the “ Kritik of the Pure Reason,"
unity, provided all are thoroughly compacted and aims at a full presentation of Kant, fol-
in one system — one comprehensive relation. lowing closely in his own steps. In this pur-
The fundamental distinction, both in the for pose the authors fully succeed. The work
mal elements and in their laws, between phy- puts the thought of Kant in a readily acces-
sical being and intellectual being, is fatal to sible form. Prof. Mahaffy entertains a pro-
monism, but is no infringement of unity pro found admiration for Kant, and gives his
vided that the two concur in one universe, and philosophy, as he apprehends it, the strong-
that by means of, and because of, their dif est and most defensible expression. No work
ferences. Real monism has no way out of in modern philosophy has been more pro-
itself. Diversity is lost, and so is unity. All ductive than the “ Kritik of the Pure Rea-
is swallowed up in a one which we know not son.” To understand it rightly is to hold the
how to convert into two, four, a thousand. How clue of the larger share of later discussions.
the author sustains this monism, as regards Many divergent paths run back to this work,
causal and free action, is sufficiently indicated and the disposition, now so strong, to return to
in the single sentence: “ The whole value of Kant, shows both how pregnant its pages are,
any moral deed rests on the fact that the man and to how many wayward impulses they have
could not, under the conditions, act otherwise given rise. The most diverse roads intersect
than thus ; that it was an act of free will, and, in Kant; irreconcilable assertions, as many
at the same time, of inevitable necessity." think, are found in his own philosophy. All
The entire discussion between dualism and mon schools, therefore, turn to Kant for encourage-
ism is wrapped up and put out of sight in the ment. To be able to measure his thought and
ambiguity of the words, could not. If the judge his method, is to be furnished with a fair
* could not " is identical in physical and spirit outfit of knowledge and discipline in the pur-
ual thought, and so the law of the two is the suit of philosophy.
same, we reach monism ; if it is not, we are “ Prolegomena” is the second volume in
turned back again on the inherent diversity of “ Kant's Critical Philosophy,” presented by
matter and mind. On this central difficulty Mahaffy and Bernard. The Prolegomena is
the author lets in little or no light. When he closely associated with the “Kritik of the Pure
says that effect is a new arrangement, a new Reason.” It followed it in composition, and
form produced through some alteration of cir was incorporated with it by Kant in his second
cumstances, that cause is a motion,— he is edition of the “ Kritik.” Its purpose is to give
simply, by a loose figurative use of language, the essential conditions which determine the
grouping facts together whose inner nature we possibility of a true metaphysic. The aim of
have not been able to uncover. The work lacks the translators, in this as in the previous vol-


132
(Oct.,
THE DIAL
ume, is to present in an intelligible form the perspicuous and concise statement, in their
doctrines of Kant, following the original as more defensible and modern form, of theistic
closely as this purpose will admit.
beliefs. It is remarkable for its well-arranged
I wish well to the Religio-Philosophical and well-balanced contents. Its parts com-
Publishing House of Chicago. If I supposed plete and support each other admirably. It is
that any especial weight attached to my opin of more interest as a fresh presentation of the
ions, even when delivered through the pages entire argument, than as an extended or pene-
of THE DIAL, I might feel bound to repress trating discussion of its difficult points. This
what little I have to say on “ The Light of | arises from the purpose of the author, and
Egypt," — a work which this company has from the fact that the volume is the fruit of
just issued in a substantial and imposing form. instruction. It aims at a “ clear and simple”
“ The Light of Egypt ” and my mental vision expression of the entire subject, and is success-
are incompatible. It may be the fault of my ful in its purpose.
vision ; it may be the fault of “ The Light of The works of Max Müller are of unusual
Egypt." The book seems to me to be the interest, especially those which bear on re-
wearisome product of moon-smitten metaphys- | ligious faith. He explores, with a free, candid,
ics--a fleecy cloud floating no whither, the and reverent temper, a very difficult and a
thinnest film of verbal speculation. I have very obscure field—the historic growth of re-
not read the tenth part of it, and shall not ligious belief. While he professes to put him-
unless I have a revelation in regard to it. As self in the attitude of the positivist, his
insight comes with study, and I am demanding doctrines actually involve the central truths of
insight before study, I have evidently fallen the intuitionalist. We can give no force to
into a dead-lock in reference to the work. I the assertion that we perceive the infinite,
belong neither " To the Budding Spirituality otherwise than as perception is made to hold
of the Occident "nor to “ The Rising Genius those deeper implications which give light to
of the Western Race,” to whom alone the all knowledge. The more carefully and em-
book is inscribed. It may not be perfectly pirically we can trace the growth of knowledge
fair for a correct knowledge of the book, nor the better, provided always that we do not in
for the digestion of the reader, to give the the process obscure or destroy its own nature.
summation of the whole in one of the later The material of the volume before us was
capitalized sentences ; but it is the most I can given as a course of lectures in the University
do for him. “Each planetary chain consists of Glasgow on the Gifford foundation. It is
of seven active orbs and three latents. When full and popular in style, as the works of Max
one becomes latent another becomes active. Müller usually are. The earlier lectures are
Remember this occult fact. They correspond devoted to a definition of religion. At the
to the ten sephiroth of the Kabbalah." This conclusion of the seventh lecture he reaches
work is addressed to the initiated and not this result:
to the profane mind. It is possible that the « Religion consists in the perception of the infinite
first class may think the whole heavens filled under such manifestations as are able to influence
and glorified with its yellow mist, and so the moral character of man."
fate may drive them on to a faithful perusal. The remaining lectures are occupied with the
If - The Light of Egypt" and the light of " method of treatment of Natural Religion,
Chicago are to come into conflict, I shall- and the materials available for its study."
what shall I say?- bet on the everyday blaze | The subject is discussed on the historic and
of Chicago. The work shows plainly that the comparative side. It is the growth of religious
human mind retains its mysticism in all ages. beliefs, as indicated by language, myth, custom
The East and the West, the early and the late, and law, and sacred books, that is brought be-
theosophy and science, are put under contribu- fore us. “My principal object," says the
tion to furnish out a work which has about as author, “ has always been to discover an his-
much to do with our common sense life as has, torical evolution or a continuous growth in
the meteor which may fall at the feet of a far- religion as well as in language." There is
mer to do with agriculture. I confess myself | hardly another direction in religious research
the boor who looks at the thing curiously and so interesting and so important as this. It is
ignorantly, wondering from what region of a matter of congratulation to find one who has
chaos it has fallen.
sufficient knowledge and a fitting temper to
Christian Theism," by Dr. Purinton, is a pursue it. The earnest student in this depart-


1889.]
133
THE DIAL
ment, however many exceptions he may take only refreshment possible after reading the
to the conclusions reached, will certainly wish erratic philosophy of others is to read one's
to know exactly what these conclusions are and own philosophy.
their precise grounds.
The May number of the second volume of the
“ Psychology Applied to the Solution of “ American Journal of Psychology” contains
Occult Psychic Phenomena” is a full, labori. four articles, all of them pertaining to patho-
ous, and, in a qualified sense, an able work. logical and physiological topics associated with
The first 370 pages are occupied in present psychology. These are supported by full and
ing a psychology based upon that of Beneke. extended notices of current literature on kin-
Then follow 160 pages devoted to the expla- dred subjects. This journal, under the edit-
nations, on the principles thus presented, of orship of President G. Stanley Hall, is now
occult mental phenomena: mind-reading, mes transferred from the Johns Hopkins Univer-
merism, animal magnetism, tellurism, hypnot sity to Clark University. The title of the
ism, telepathy, apparitions, on and on through periodical seems to us a misnomer. The in-
all the phases of the uncanny world of spiritual vestigations it offers are thorough, and the
facts that have broken away from familiar law. facts covered by them have their own interest,
The psychology is in some things an advance, but they are only remotely facts of psychology.
and in some a retreat, on that phase of mate Physiological psychology has arisen in reaction
rialism which makes mind a function of the against the spiritual and speculative character
nervous system. It is an advance, in that the of philosophy, and indicates a determination
author recognizes in what he terms primitive to have, if possible, some sensuous facts at the
forces, forces active in sensation, quasi-spirit basis of its inquiries. However great may be its
ual terms out of which his mental science is gains,—and we have no disposition to dispar-
constructed. The action of external stimuli age them,—they can never cover the original
on these powers of sensitive receptivity, and topic, psychology. They can only lie suggest-
the permanent and complex effects induced in ively on the very margin of the subject; rela-
them by the play upon them of physical ob tions involved with those of mind, but not of
jects, become the occasion of all mental pro them. The effort to fill out this word, psy-
cesses. This development is traced under phy chology, with these quasi-physical dependen-
sical imagery consistently through the whole cies of mental action, seems to us much like
range of intellectual activity, with as much re that by which a few vanishing facts have been
semblance to the mind itself in its superior | dropped within the rim of that great word,
action as an impalpable shadow bears to the faith, and made to stand for religion. There
object which casts it. Yet, this tenuous, un is hardly enough substance in these minor con-
certain coherence of one result with another is, ceptions of science to define and hold the posi-
to the author, equivalent to demonstration. tion, even, of the major truths of spiritual rev-
Psychology, as a natural science, is less satisfac- elation.
John Bascom.
tory than physiological psychology, in that the
primitive forces, on which all depends, are not
verifiable first terms, like the nervous system. A SPANISH COURT PAINTER AND HIS
Nothing is more dismal and unfruitful than
TIMES.*
a philosophy patiently wrought out, but from
“ Nay, so far as it is a question of reproduc-
whose premises one wholly dissents. The im-
ing men as they are, with the utmost vividness
pression is unspeakably discouraging and wea-
of conception, with the greatest truth to form
risome. The effect on one's feeling is not
and color, with the rarest mastery of an abso-
unlike that which attends on the discussion of
lutely free and broad treatment, I do not
an abstruse point in a large assembly. Very
hesitate to pronounce him the greatest painter
few understand the subject. Those who ex-
that ever lived." This is Waagen's judgment
pound it are so misapprehended as to add to
on Velasquez. In the main, with a few reser-
the confusion. A second and a third speaker
vations, it would appear to be the conviction
follow, to show wherein a previous speaker was
of the great Spaniard's latest biographer and
wrong, when neither the error of the first nor
critic, Professor Carl Justi. In his sumptuous
the correction of subsequent ones is of the
least moment. Bright minds are intensely * DIEGO VELASQUEZ AND His TIMES. By Carl Justi, Pro-
|fessor at the University of Bonn. Translated by Professor
bored, dull minds utterly confounded, while a
| A. H. Keane, B.A., F.R.G.S. With Illustrations. Phila-
few average men make a little progress. The | delphia : J. B. Lippincott Company.
pression is the effect on one the discussion of
lute


134
(Oct.,
THE DIAL
volume, just republished in this country by the better accomplished that the painter's pri-
Lippincott, we have not only the court painter, vate life was so serene.
Velasquez, but the man, Diego de Silva, the Before Velasquez went to Madrid, he had
Spanish hidalgo ; and not only the man, but painted only a few pictures, of which Justi
the motley concourse which moved through elaborately criticises “ The Water Carrier"
those days of Spanish decadence. We see the and « The Old Woman with the Omelet.” In
half oriental Spanish architecture; we look this year was begun that marvellous procession
out on the glowing Spanish landscapes; we of portraits—the unsmiling king in his black
move through the stilling atmosphere of the silk court suit or his shining and useless
impoverished court, with its intrigues, and armor ; the little prince caracolling on his
heart-burnings, and chronic financial ignomin clumsy charger, diffusing his charm of inno-
ies. Professor Justi has not spared a touch. cence and childish gaiety over those weary
By consequence he gives us a Velasquez as real days of national disaster ; the queens of Philip,
as one of his own robust figures.
and his beautiful little daughter; princes and
Diego Rodriquez de Silva Velasquez was nobles from abroad ; great ladies, soldiers, car-
born in Seville, in 1599. Although his par dinals ; Olivarez's sinister lineaments, Spino-
ents belonged to the inferior order of nobility, la's noble and humane figure—the court, in
they made no objection to Diego's becoming a fine, in all its recesses, back to the deformed
painter. His first master was the erratic and merry men who made sport for it, and the
brilliant Herrera, “but this rough and vehe smooth ecclesiastics who ruled it.
ment spirit soon scared the finely-tempered Twice only did this scene change—during
Diego, who was now entrusted to Pacheco.”
Velasquez's journeys to Italy. The consequent
Justi, while seeing Pacheco's limitations, gives influence of Titian, and more especially of Tin-
him more credit as a teacher than do most toretto, appears in all his later work. In it
biographers of Velasquez.
are to be found the Venetians, “ balanced con-
“ He was certainly a petty dealer in archæological trasts of figures bending forward and averted,
wares, but otherwise a large-minded person. . . . with inclined foreshortened faces." Among
Here [with Pacheco] Diego had the advantage of a
the pictures which Velasquez brought back
severe training, like the artists of the cinquecento."
with him from Italy were “ Joseph's Coat"
Pacheco insisted on careful and accurate
and “ The Forge of Vulcan.” Both reveal
draughtmanship. He maintained that “ Draw-
his new features of execution.
ing is the life and soul of painting ; drawing,
"His deep sharply-contrasted shadows have vanished;
especially outline, is the hardest ; nay, the art
. . . . the group of figures [in • The Forge of
has, strictly speaking, no other difficulty." Vulcan '] stands out with startling clearness from the
And he calls these painters who neglect draw light gray walls, and is distributed in the perspective
ing, mere daubers and blotchers (empastadores depth. For this the artist has resource to several
y manchantes). He would have the painter
sources of light. The direct and chief light. . . .
falls from the front towards the left, presumably
* aim at perfection in all details.” He placed
through an open door. The wide window on the oppo-
“ the relief” at the head of important matters site side gives a light from the north, as apparently
in coloring. These principles, more distinct, | indicated by the deep blue which has almost assumed
it may be admitted, in his writings than in his
the darkness of night. Lastly, we have Apollo's nim-
bus, the most luminous part in the whole scene being
paintings, had a practical application by
the god's uplifted arm... In the case of Vul-
Velasquez, “who here conformed not to the
can, the chiaroscuro is subdued to allow the piercing
works but to the precepts of his teacher.” eyes, flashing with anger, to penetrate through the
In 1623 Velasquez went to Madrid, where | gloom. Thus each figure has its special note in light
he became the court painter. From that time
and shade."
until his death, with only the two intervals of But in this work, as in the Bacchus of his
his journeys to Italy, his life was spent at the earlier years, “ he took the myth at its word.”
court. He was not only admired but loved by The Vulcan is as Spanish, as prosaic, as the
his royal master, and Olivarez always treated Bacchus. One is tempted even to join in
him with especial consideration. He died at Stirling Maxwell's sneer at Velasquez as a
the age of sixty-one, and, it appears, was “commonplace youngster” who poses as the
mourned by the whole court. The king him sun god.
self wrote: “I am overcome.” It is a life The same bold realism follows Velasquez's
strangely void of striking passages ; but it was religious art. His Madonnas are peasants ;
a life of incessant and faithful work, possibly | even Justi cannot read any religious ecstacy


1889.]
135
THE DIAL
index.
into their trivial and stolid countenances. The which his translator allows him) is rich and
Madonna of the Epiphany might be seen 6 of vivid, but occasionally lacking in grace. There
a morning in the vegetable market of some is, however, every now and then a charming
little provincial town.” She is a handsome turn of the phrase as well as a happy flash
woman enough, but “ of contracted intellect,” of insight. What, for example, could be neater
nor “ has her glance any trace of a mother's than this?
joy”; while the Holy Child is “ quite an “ The medium through which he viewed Nature
ordinary child,” and St. Joseph 66 presents the absorbed—to use a physical illustration-less color ele-
hard, forbidding profile of a peasant.” In
ments than that of other artists...If he infuses
less into his subjects, he certainly extracts more from
- The Shepherds” and “ The Coronation,"
them.”
the types are nobler, but they cannot compare The book is luxuriously illustrated with
with Murillo's rapt faces, or even with the
wood cuts by Brendamour, based on Laurent's
soft-eyed Madonnas of Roelas. But in the
and Braun's photographs, supplemented by
“ Christ at the Pillar," and in his single
etchings, old copper plates, and lithographic
6. Crucifixion,” Velasquez has deviated from
copies. There is also an etching by Froberg
his own methods. These are both works of
after Velasquez's own portrait of himself.
high imagination, and none of Justi's criticisms
The printing, paper, and other mechanical
is more interesting than what he has to say
adjuncts, are worthy of the letter-press. A
about these two remarkable works. Velasquez,
final feature of the volume is an admirable
who was really a devout man, in his “ Cruci.
fixion ” has shown his reverence by the sim-
OCTAVE THANET.
plicity and reserve of his treatment. There is
no landscape behind the cross, which starts out
AMERICAN LOCAL CONSTITUTIONAL HIIS-
of its black background, yet with no harsh or
TORY.*
abrupt effect. Nor is there any attack on the
The work of American historiographers in
physical sympathies, by the representation of a
the field of institutional investigation has
spent agony, of “ strain and wrench of limbs,”
far less by the expression of the shadowed
ceased to be tentative. It has long been bear-
face.
ing fruit in essays and monographs which have
proved valuable contributions to the study of
“ Whence, then, the deep impression produced on so
many observers? This impression is said to be caused
our national history. A more elaborate addi-
by a single trait—the only touch by which the severe
tion to our libraries is Professor Howard's re-
symmetry of the composition is broken. The only cent Introduction to our Local Constitutional
dark part is the face, which, in the sudden relaxation History. The first volume, now before us,
of death, has sunk on the breast ; but here the artist
illustrates at length the development of the
was not satisfied with shade alone. When the head
sank, the long brown locks on the right side were
Township, Hundred, and Shire, in America.
thrown forward, and, falling over the brow, half-way
Each of these several forms of local govern-
down the breast, covered as with a veil the eye and ment is first traced briefly, from its origin to
right side of the face. The effect of this half veil-
its introduction into and appropriation by the
ing, although rather unconsciously felt than under-
stood, is irresistible. This is the one weird trait which
Anglo-Saxon civilization. The position, office,
has fallen, as by accident, from the artist's brush, con-
and operation of each, in the several American
jured up from the unknown, the unconscious dimness colonies, are then explained, with illustrations
of his creative fancy. There is the same imaginative of the local development and growth of the
touch in the other picture, in the thread of light from
principle. The Hundred, practically effete
the worshipping child's heart to the Savior's ear. What
he sees he is incapable of understanding, still less can he
at the time of the colonization, obtained but a
express his feelings in words ; but the heart speaks.” slight foothold, appearing only in Maine, Vir-
Justi's work has a value independent of its
ginia, and Delaware ; and, curiously enough,
it still survives in the last-named State. The
criticism ; it reproduces the Spain of Velas-
Township, and the Shire or modern County,
quez's time, with a Teutonic accuracy and
having longest retained conformity to the
lavishness of detail. It is as interesting to the
original type, and proved their utility, enlist
student of history as to the student of art.
the principal attention of Professor Howard
One trait of the Spanish character, which is
and his readers. These institutions are not
commonly overlooked, yet which no reader of
- Don Quixote" can slight_namely, its hu * AN INTRODUCTION TO THE LOCAL CONSTITUTIONAL His-
TORY OF THE UNITED STATES. By George E. Howard.
mor-Professor Justi insists upon strenuously
Volume I., Development of the Township, Hundred, and
and with logic. His style (I mean the style | Shire. Baltimore: John Hopkins University.


136
(Oct.,
THE DIAL
only traced through the colonial organizations Gallery should be appropriated for ye men to sit in
into the thirteen States which succeeded them, and it passed in ye Negative.”
but their rise and establishment in the West Professor Howard's treatise is enriched with
and Southwest are elaborately illustrated. It copious citations from other works of specialists
is remarkable to what extent uniformity has in his department of research, including mono-
been approached in the present organization of graphs and magazine articles. These authori-
our States into counties, townships, and muni ties he has also gathered together in an appen-
cipalities, in view of the varied and often an dix, in which the list of writers consulted
tagonistic forms of charter, proprietary and occupies twenty-three printed pages; a rare
constitutional government, and the differing industry in citation, which will be applauded
conditions of frontier life, political tendencies, by all later students in this field.
and industrial systems through which this de-
velopment has proceeded. As was suggested
JAMES 0. PIERCE.
in a former number of THE DIAL (Vol. IV.,
- - -
p. 309), “ Considering the variety of bases for
these colonial settlements, it is surprising that
BRIEFS ON NEW Books.
the modern forms of our institutions show so An important addition to existing theories of
much approach to uniformity.”
physical astronomy is made by James Croll, LL.D.,
The important part played by the Northern F.R.S., in his work on “Stellar Evolution” (Ap-
township in educating the colonists into the
pleton). These former theories, differing as they
knowledge and the practice of constitutional
do in many points, have yet had one point of com-
government, and the equally valuable offices of
mon agreement in their recognition of gravitation
as the source of the prodigious amount of energy
the forms of county government prevailing in
possessed by our sun and solar system. Mr. Croll
the Middle and Southern colonies, receive due
claims that this cause is insufficient to account for
attention in this work. Extracts are given the various phenomena of our universe,—that inas-
from the colonial town records, which will much as the amount of energy, in the form of heat,
attract attention and repay careful reading. | available from gravitation, is something that can be
The town ordinance of Dorchester, Massachu determined with accuracy, and that this amount is
setts, for the government of the public school,
shown to be far short of what the admitted facts of
adopted in 1645, is a code of full and detailed
geology, biology, and other sciences, prove to have
regulations. Among the duties of the school-
been actually radiated into space during geological
time,-therefore gravitation cannot account for the
master, it was prescribed :
energy originally possessed by our system. Mr.
" That from the begining of the first moneth untill
Croll accepts, with his brother scientists, the Neb-
the end of the 7th, he shall evy day begin to teach
ular hypothesis, and admits that the condition of
at seaven of the clock in the morning and dismisse
his schollers at fyve in the afternoon; and for the other
a sun or a planet immediately prior to its evolu-
fyve moneths, that is from the beginning of the 8th
tion was that of matter in an extremely attenu-
moneth until the end of the 12th moneth he shall evy
ated or dissociated state. But he insists that it
day beginn at 8 of the clock in the morning, and end at describes a process by beginning in the middle of
4 in the afternoone. Evy day in the yeere, the usual that process. It begins with the assumption of a
time of dismissing at noone shalbe at 11 and to beginn mass in the act of condensing under the influence
again at one; except that every second day in the of gravity. It offers no explanation of the origin of
weeke he shall call his schollers togeither between 12 the mass, or of how it came to be in this attenuated
and one of the clock, to examin them what they have
state, or in what condition it existed before the
learned on the Saboath day p'ceding."
materials began to draw together. It is this de-
Among the other requirements is one for both ficiency in the Nebular theory that Mr. Croll pro-
morning and evening prayer in the school; | poses to supply. For this purpose he propounds
and especial authority is conferred for the nec his Impact theory, according to which the original
essary use of “the Rodd of Correction " as
condition of the universe was that of huge solid
“ an ordinance of God," with provisions for
masses moving through space; and, so far as either
philosophy or science can demonstrate to the con-
complaints in cases of its abuse. The ex-
| trary, this may have been its condition through all
tent of detail in petty matters which often
eternity. This is far from being an unwarrantable
characterized the legislation of the New Eng-
assumption, since we know from observation that
land town-meeting is illustrated by this ex-
such stellar masses do now exist, some of them
tract from the Worcester Town Records of probably larger than our sun, and moving through
1773 :
space with enormous velocities in all directions; and
“On ve eleventh article ye Question was put whether those which escape observation may be as numerous
ye Town would give order that any part of ye Womens l as those that are visible. According to the ordinary


1889.]
137
THE DIAL
laws of chance, collision must sometimes take place, that seems to me really desirable is simply mutual
and with such collisions would be the absolute com consideration. That is possible, that is attainable ;
mencement of Evolution, the beginning of the process in the higher minds of both countries (with a few
of the development of the universe. As results of exceptions) it exists already. If it existed generally
such collisions at such velocities, both bodies would in the people it would be enough to prevent blood-
be shattered in pieces; there would be broken frag .shed.” This eminently moderate and sensible ob-
ments rebounding against one another and flying servation is typical of Mr. Hamerton's entire volume.
off in all directions; while their dispersion would The characteristics of that volume are a very great
be increased still further by the enormous amount candor in the comparison, point by point, of French
of incandescent gas almost instantaneously gener traits with English, an extensive variety of illustra-
ated by the heat of the collision. Knocking against tive matter, and a careful topical subdivision of the
each other in their progress outward from the cen general subject. Acute observations may be met
tre of dispersion, these fragments would at the same with upon almost every page. For example: “ The
time become gradually converted into the gaseous tender feeling of patriotism, as distinguished from
state, and would gradually come to occupy a space the proud, is more general in France than in Eng-
as large as that embraced in our solar system. In land.” There is a volume of truth in this state-
the course of time the whole would assume the gas- | ment. Again, the question of comparative morality
eous condition, and we should then have a perfect has rarely found a better summing-up than in the
nebula, intensely hot, but not very luminous. As following remark: “ The English (except their
its temperature diminished, the nebulous mass would men of the world) still retain in a great degree the
begin to condense, and ultimately, according to the healthy state of moral feeling which is capable of
well-known Nebular hypothesis, pass through all being really shocked and horror-stricken by turpi-
the different phases of rings, planets, and satellites, tude and vice ; the French lose this freshness of
into our solar system as it now exists; the like pro feeling very early in life, and look upon turpitude
cess being repeated in like solar systems. The and vice very much as an Englishman of the world
weighty array of facts and figures brought by Mr. looks upon them, as a part the nature of things too
Croll in support of the Impact theory, the explana familiar to excite surprise.” What is said of the
tion it offers of many problems unsolvable by any modern spirit of the Church is also highly instruc-
theory of gravitation, the countenance furnished it tive: “In France the Church has become so ac-
by recent important spectroscopic revelations in re comodating that it is not now any harder to be a
spect to the constitution of nebulæ, the reconciliation Catholic than a fashionable Anglican. The Church
that it effects of the differences heretofore dividing requires hardly anything that can be unpleasant to
the physicist from the geologist and the biologist in the upper classes (the fasts are only a variety of
respect to the age of the sun's heat, and especially good eating), and conformity now consists in lit-
the light it throws on evolution as a process having tle else than attendance at a weekly mass.” Mr.
an absolute beginning in time,—all these afford | Hamerton's book is at every point suggestive and
such a body of presumption in its favor that, interesting, and the cultivated reader is sure both
although offered simply as “ a theory in its hypo to enjoy it and to learn from its pages.
thetical state,” one feels that only a scientist learned
and skilful as Mr. Croll himself could undertake to
TRAVELLERS' tales and newspaper reports have
answer the question, “ Why not ?”
not prepared us to expect much of good from his
Hawaiian Majesty Kalakaua. But whatever his
Max O’Rell, in one of his books, refers to Mr. failings as a man or a sovereign, he has certainly
Hamerton as the only foreigner who has written done a good service to his country as author of
intelligently of the conditions of French life. “ The Legends and Myths of Hawaii ” (C. L. Web-
While not disposed to grant Mr. Hamerton the ex ster & Co.). The strange people whose traditions
clusive occupancy of a position which he shares as settlers of the Hawaiian group of islands reach
with several others — Mr. Brownell, for instance, back to the fifth century of our era, who for many
and Mr. Frederick Marshall —— we may safely ad centuries exchanged no word or product with the
mit that no foreigner has written of the French rest of mankind, who had lost all knowledge of the
with more sympathetic insight than Mr. Hamerton, great world outside save the little retained by the
or from a wider experience. The new volume en dreamiest of legends, and whose very existence was
titled - French and English ” (Roberts), made up unknown to civilization until the closing years of
in part of the “ Atlantic Monthly " papers and in the last century, have at last found their prose
part of fresh matter, deserves the most careful con- | Homer. That he should be one of their own royal
sideration, and is calculated to promote international family while yet the race retains some semblance of
good feeling to a considerable degree. National authority in the fair land of its fathers, and before
friendship the writer does not expect to promote. it has finally succumbed to the greeds and vices of
He says: “ There will never be any firm friendship civilization on the way it is so surely and rapidly
between England and France, and a momentary going, is most fitting. Nor are these tales unworthy
attachment would only cause me anxiety on account to stand by the tales and folk-lore of any other
of the inevitable reaction. All I hope for and all nation ; indeed, it is a constant surprise and pleas-


138
[Oct.
THE DIAL
ure to find so many of the familiar myths in slightly had it given more glimpses of English society, as
different dress, and to realize, in his Majesty's Miss Austen studied it in the neighborhood of
words, that “human nature has been substantially Chawton, with its village club, of wiich Mr.
the same in all ages, differing only in the ardor of Knightly and Mr. Weston were members, its card
its passions and appetites, as affected by the zone of parties and early suppers, the delight of a genera-
its habitat and its peculiar physical surroundings.” tion which has passed away, and, as a type, has
Hawaii's Helen is named Hina, and its Paris Kau disappeared as completely as the stage-coach with
peepee, but in general outlines the Greek and Poly which it was contemporary. We should have wel-
nesian legends are similar; its chiefs and priests comed, also, more extracts from Miss Austen's own
claim kinship with the gods, and step by step trace letters, abounding as they do in the same humor and
back their lineage to a sinning pair whose re- gently-smiting satire that charm us in the novels.
entrance to the joys of Paradise was prevented by
the large white bird of Kana ; its songs perpetuate
In “ The Tramp at Home” (Harper), Mr. Lee
an age of chivalry somewhat more barbarous per-
Meriwether presents the picturesque features of
haps, but scarcely less affluent in deeds of enter a trip whose statistical features were prepared for
prise and valor, than that which characterized the the Bureau of Labor statistics at Washington. As
contemporaneous races of the continental world: A special agent of this Bureau to investigate the con-
valuable introduction, by Hon. R. M. Daggett, pre-
dition of working men and working women in the
cedes the compilation, and gives an account of the
United States, his travels began in New York and
physical characteristics, the historic outlines, the Brooklyn, extended through New England, the
ancient government, arts, habits and customs of the Southern States, the Northwestern territories, Cali-
country, together with a brief consideration of the fornia, and finally included, for the sake of closer
Hawaii of to-day, and a prophecy of the rapidly | acquaintance with sailors, a trip to the Sandwich
approaching time when the footprints of these once
Islands. Merely as a book of travels, the work is
healthy and happy children of nature “ will grow
thoroughly delightful; but this is the least of its
more and more dim along the sands of their reef merits. Anyone interested in the Labor question-
sheltered shore, and fainter and fainter will come and who, at this day, is not ?--will find here also
their simple songs from the shadows of the palms,
a body of accurate information from personal
until finally their voices will be heard no more for knowledge, not readily accessible elsewhere; while
ever.”
the social reformer, whether or not he agree with
Mr. Meriwether, will find his suggestions highly
A HOPEFUL literary sign of the times is the grow-
thought-provoking. Being of a generalizing turn
ing popularity of the novels of Jane Austen. As
of mind, Mr. Meriwether's conclusions from his
regards the public at large, her audience has been,
wide collections of facts are apt to be instructive,
until lately, a small one; but, though few, it has
are very frequently amusing, and are never dull.
been notably “ fit,” and has included such names as
For example, after careful investigation in many
Sir Walter Scott—who ranked her work far above
lands he has discovered that “ Whatever woman's
his own,-Lord Macaulay — who had planned to
sphere should be, it actually is about the same as
edit her works, though he did not live to do so,and
man’s, and that is in the very front rank of the
such fastidious critics as Southey, Coleridge, Lord
hard battle of life”; he recognizes, and rightly,
Landsdowne, Lord Holland, and Sydney Smith.
that the word “servant," and the badge of inferior-
But the slow recognition accorded by her contemp-
ity attaching to it, are at the root of our present
oraries has been amply atoned by modern enthusi-
troubles with domestic service ; and he regards the
asm ; and in consequence there follows a wish to
tramp and the billionaire as the most hateful ob-
know something of the life and the habits of the au-
jects in modern life. The remedies he proposes
thor of "Emma” and “Pride and Prejudice.” The
for these ugly excrescences--about which there will
volume on Jane Austen by Mrs. Charles Malden,
doubtless be some differences of opinion—are, first,
in the “ Famous Women” series (Roberts), meets the abolition of protective tariffs, whereby people
this desire to a certain extent by presenting some
are now attracted to manufacturing rather than
new facts and dates of interest, besides a consider-
to farming, thus overcrowding the cities and lower-
able amount of critical matter. As a whole, how-
ing wages by excessive competition ; and second, a
ever, there is a lack of that warmth and color nec-
graduated land-tax, which shall prevent the artifi-
essary to a truly satisfactory picture. A biographer cial scarcity of land by restricting the possibilities
who describes her subject, on the second page, as
of each man's ownership.
one who carried out the saying, D'abord je suis
femme, puis je suis artiste, would have done well | We can conceive of but two possible conditions
to remember it in developing the succeeding pages. that should ever justify the publication of a private
The explanation that an uneventful life furnished | journal. One is, some intrinsic value of thought
“ little material for the biographer,” is inadequate, and literary workmanship, such, for instance, as
for it was the same life from which Miss Austen | exists in the case of Amiel ; the other, some value
drew her own inspiration, as far as she drew any as a reflection of the men and manners of a time.
from outward sources. The book would be better | such as we find in Pepys and Evelyn. Neither of


1889.]
139
THE DIAL
these reasons exists in the case of the “ Extracts divorce. In no other sphere has the carrying out
from the Journal of Elizabeth Drinker ” (Lippin of States' Rights had so baneful an effect as in this
cott). We are led to expect some virtue of the one of the marital relation, affecting as it does the
latter sort on noting the dates, extending from 1759 purity and integrity of the home. The unprejudiced
to 1809, and learning from the preface that the reader of Dr. Convers’s book will be pretty sure to
writer lived in Philadelphia during the whole of agree with him that the only remedy for the tre-
this interesting period of our history. But when mendous evils that exist is to be found in a national
we have explored a mass of tiresome and unprofit | law of marriage. This conclusion is not seriously
able entry, purely personal in character, and of affected by Mr. Snyder's presentation of the legal
a personality so transient in kind that we should perplexities of wedlock in the United States. He
hardly expect it to have interested even the writer does not convince us, when he maintains that a
after the lapse of a few months, it is only to find national law would produce more evils than those
that the parts relating to public affairs are scarcely it aimed to remove; nor can we stop short, as he
more than such mere mention as we could get from does, with the demand for a constitutional amend-
any dictionary of dates, and are very nearly barren ment that should limit the power of the States in
of the picturesqueness which might make a journal legislation. The amendment is good enough as far
of that time so welcome to modern readers. It is as it would go, for the sake of strict constructionists ;
a pity that Mr. Biddle yielded to the judgment but we believe there is sufficient power in the Con-
“ reliable " though he considered it-of those who stitution as it is to-day, not only for restrictive but
advised this publication in extenso of his great for positive legislation. Both books are interesting
grandmother's journal. As a family heirloom, it contributions to the discussion of a problem which
must of course have a priceless value to her descend Nationalists and Particularists would solve differ-
ants ; but the passages of general interest are too ently.
few and far between to warrant 411 pages of print,
| From Max O’Rell comes another volume, with
even though the type and paper and binding be as the title 66 Jacques Bonhomme" (Cassell), similar
pleasing as in the present instance.
in nature to its predecessors, “ Jonathan and His
THE “ Thoughts ” of Marcus Aurelius (in Long's
Continent” and “John Bull and His Island."
unaffected translation) cannot find too many edi-
This time it is his own countrymen that are under
inspection. As we might expect, the sketch is done
tions, or be taken into too close a companionship by
con amore; and whether he describes the French at
serious minds. The edition before us (Little,
school, at work, at play, at table, at war, in society,
Brown & Co.) is plain but elegant, and inexpensive
in love or in trouble, we are always shown these
enough to come within the reach of the humblest
versatile people at their best. He is at pains, also,
book-buyer. This is one of the books which it can-
to do away with such popular notions of a deroga-
not be imagined the world will ever let die. Gen-
tory kind as that the French are not home-lovers,
eration after generation has learned from its pages
are narrow in mind, are reprobates at heart, and
a higher morality than is bound up with the creeds,
a nobler rule of life than any which promises for
the like, and insists that they are the happiest and
most home-loving people on earth, and that the
right-doing other rewards than those which spring
reason outsiders are so misled as to French morals
from the consciousness of the sincere thought faced
is that the French take no trouble to show their
and the just act done. The Roman emperor who
said, and showed by his own example, that “even
best side to foreigners, and make no effort to hide
their defects. In addition to this sketch in nine
in a palace life may be led well,” achieved a greater
chapters, the book includes the shorter sketches --
conquest than any mere victory over Marcomanni
“ A Frenchman yet not a Frenchman," “ John
or Quadi by Danube stream ; he subdued the soul
Bull on the Continent," “ From my Letter-box,”—-
in its own citadel, and his example has shown
| all, it is needless to say, entertaining as resources
countless others the way to repeat that highest of
for an idle hour. -
achievements. Many other philosophies have been
tried and found wanting in the hour of need, but COLONEL T. A. DODGE's volume entitled “Great
this philosophy is always at our beck; the philo Captains ” (Ticknor) contains six lectures delivered
sophy of calm acceptance of the order of nature, by him before the Lowell Institute, on the cam-
and of resolution to act out, with strenuous en paigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Cæsar, Gustavus
deavor, our appointed part.
Adolphus, Frederick, and Napoleon, and their in-
fluence on the art of war. The severest thing that
Two books on kindred themes, but varying could be said of the book is that it is too soldierly for
widely in standpoints and conclusions, are the Rev. | the civilian and too superficial for the soldier. Yet
Dr. Convers’s " Marriage and Divorce in the United for the great and growing class of persons who love
States” (Lippincott), and W. L. Snyder's “Geog- | to have general knowledge boiled down and clarified
raphy of Marriage” (Putnam). The object of the for their use, this bright résumé, this panorama of
former is to set forth the very unsatisfactory and the most typical feats of arms in all history, will be
heterogeneous nature of our manifold state regula- an acceptable work. Colonel Dodge recounts in a
tions of the important subjects of marriage and pleasant vein the very hazy and uncertain tales of


140
[Oct.,
THE DIAL
the older heroes; and, with more exactness, some of Railway,” a collection of the valuable papers on rail-
the better known doings of modern leaders. He way management, etc., lately printed in Scribner's Mag-
attributes all victories substantially to the genius of
azine, with an introduction by Hon. T. M. Cooley; the
the chief victor ; disregarding the more accepted
second volume of the “Cyclopædia of Music and Mu-
sicians," to be completed in three volumes; “ Among
modern belief so well urged by Tolstoï (“ War and
Cannibals," a volume of travels by Carl Lumholtz,
Peace”), that the successful captain has little to do
translated from the Norwegian by Prof. R. B. Ander-
with the battle after it is once joined. It is then
son; “ Aspects of the Earth,” by Prof. N. S. Shaler;
chiefly the most steadfast self-devotion of soul pitted “ The First Administration of Thomas Jefferson," in
against soul, and body against body, that decides the
two volumes, by Henry Adams; a new book by Donald
outcome. All men are not willing to die; and those G. Mitchell, “ English Lands, Letters, and Kings”; a
who are least willing run away at last from those volume of short stories by George W. Cable, entitled
who are most willing. So on the whole it is an
“Strange True Stories of Louisiana ”; “ The Poetry of
ethnic question ; and, other things being equal, when
Tennyson,” by Dr. Henry Van Dyke; “ The Master of
Southerners meet Northerners the latter outstay the
Ballantrae," by R. L. Stevenson; Lester Wallack's
Reminiscences; a Collection of Letters of Dickens,
former.
1833-1870; “Whither; a Theological Question," by
Dr. C. A. Briggs; “ Foreign Missions,” by Dr. A. C.
LITERARY NOTES AND NEWS.
Thompson; “Literature and Poetry,” by Dr. Philip
Schaff; “ Personally Conducted," by Frank R. Stock-
A NEW poem by Lord Tennyson is announced for ton; and “Children's Stories in English Literature," by
publication in October.
Henrietta C. Wright.
KRISTOFER Janson, the novelist, has undertaken a
The little poem widely printed and read under the
Norwegian translation of “Jesus Brought Back,” by the title « Jenny Kissed Me,” supposed to have been written
Rev. J. H. Crooker, which was published last Autumn by Leigh Hunt, has been a good deal discussed of late
by A. C. McClurg & Co. The book is also to be trans-
-not for the intrinsic value of the verses, but for a cer-
lated into Russian.
tain side-light they were believed to throw upon the life
A BOOK likely to be of very uncommon literary inter-
and character of Carlyle. For, say the expounders of
est is “Dante Gabriel Rossetti as Designer and Writer,"
this literary enigma, “ Jenny” was no less a person
by his brother W. M. Rossetti, which Cassell & Co. will
than Jane Welch Carlyle ; and the reason she kissed
issue shortly. The work is to a considerable extent bio-
him when they met was that he (Hunt) brought her the
graphical, and will contain a portrait of the poet at the
ingratiating news that her husband had been awarded
age of thirty-five.
a pension of three hundred pounds a year by the British
Government. “His friends can remember yet," says
F. WARNE & Co. will shortly issue a large-paper
Mr. Moncure D. Conway, “the happy scene when Leigh
edition of “William Hazlitt, Essayist and Critic,” ed-
Hunt came with the happy news, for telling which Mrs.
ited, with memoir, by Alexander Ireland. It will con-
Carlyle kissed him. To this kiss, so characteristic of
tain an engraving of Winterslows Hutt, a favorite resort
one of the noblest of women, we are indebted for one
of Hazlitt. This edition is limited to 200 copies, 125
of Leigh Hunt's charming improvisations.” It was easy,
of which are allotted to the United States.
of course, to accept the pretty poem, and the pretty
Among the many useful handbooks for the special
story of the kiss; but the story of the pension was not
student must be classed Mr. Haferkorn's Handy Lists
so easy, in the face of Carlyle's strongly-avowed notions
of Technical Literature.” Part I., recently published, of literary independence, and it has been stoutly denied
contains finding-lists of books on the useful arts in gen by Mr. Froude, who states that “at no time of his life,
eral, products and processes used in manufacture, tech even when he was in extreme poverty, would Carlyle
nology, and trades. Part II., in preparation, will cover have accepted any pension.” Mr. Froude adds that he
military and naval science, navigation, ship-building, “ never heard that Mrs. Carlyle had kissed Leigh Hunt,"
rowing, sailing, etc. The work is issued by the National and thinks it “exceedingly unlikely that she ever did."
Publishing House, Milwaukee.
Mr. Froude's position is now supported by evidence from
Joseph KIRKLAND, author of “ Zury” and “ The an unexpected quarter. In an old London magazine
McVeys,” lately completed a third novel, in his opinion called « The Monthly Chronicle," a bound volume of
his best one. That this favorable opinion is not unwar which is before us, we find (November, 1838) a short
ranted, is shown in a very substantial manner by the discussion of the rondeau — a form of verse then but
award to him of a $1600 cash prize, by the Detroit little known in English; and the author confesses him-
“ Free Press," being the first of three prizes offered by self “ tempted to publish a rondeau of his own, which
that journal for the best original stories from authors was written on a real occasion.” The rondean given is as
throughout the world. The second prize, 9900, was follows:
awarded to Mrs. R. B. Peattie, also of Chicago ; and
“Nelly kiss'd me when we met,
the third, $500, to Mr. Elbridge S. Brooks, of Boston.
Jumping from the chair she sat in ;
Major Kirkland's story is entitled “The Captain of
Time, you thief! who love to get
Company K.” It will be published during the winter
Sweets into your list, put that in.
Say I'm jaundic’d, say I'm sad,
as a serial in the “ Free Press," and afterwards in book
Say that health and wealth have miss'd me,
form.
Say I'm growing old, but add
CHARLES SCRIBNER's Sons' announcements of books
Nelly kiss d me.”
for Fall publication, which reached us too late to be These lines seem to establish the authenticity of the
given in the very full list in our last number, include | kiss clearly enough as far as Nelly is concerned, but
the following: Paul du Chaillu’s « The Viking Age,” | give little support to the Jane Welch and the Carlyle
in two volunes, profusely illustrated; “ The American and the pension part of the story.


1889.]
141
THE DIAL
-
-
-
TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS.
October, 1889.
Ancient Egyptian Education. Popular Science.
Anthropology at Washington. J. H. Gore. Popular Science.
Butterflies of the Eastern United States. Atlantic.
California Coast Range Forests. Harper.
Cameroons, Life at the. Robt. Müller. Popular Science.
Celleni, Benvenuto. E. J. Lowell. Scribner.
Chemist as a Constructor. W. Bernhardt. Popular Science.
Church of St.-Denis. C. E. Norton. Harper.
City Church, The Modern. C. A. Dickinson. Andover.
Columbus' Discovery of America. Mag. Am. History.
Constitutional History, Local. J. 0. Pierce. Dial.
Darwinism, Some Phases of. S. H. Peabody. Dial.
Democracy. Washington Gladden. Andover.
Digestion. Wesley Mills Popular Science.
Doctrinal Test and Church Membership. Andover.
Dunkers, The, Howard Pyle. Harper.
Electricity in War. Hughes and Millis. Scribner.
Errors, Some General. S. Exner. Popular Science.
Evolution as Taught in a Theological Seminary. Pop. Science.
Family Names, Industrial. D. R. McAnally. Pop. Science.
Ferns. T.J. Evans. Popular Science.
Fork, The. J. von Folke. Popular Science.
Georgia, the only Free Colony. H. A. Scomp. Mag. Am. His.
Georgia's Rulers, 1732-1889. C. C. Jones. Mag. Am. Hist.
Government and its Creditors, The. H. L. Nelson. Atlantic.
Hierapolis. Tristram Ellis. Harper.
Iceland, Summer in. C. S. Smith. Scribner.
Iliad, Closing Scenes of. W. C. Lawton. Atlantic.
Ladies and Learning. L. D. Morgan. Atlantic.
Life, Prolongation of. Robson Roose. Popular Science.
Linnæus, Carolus. Popular Science.
London Strike, The. Andover.
Masai-Land. Jos. Thomson. Scribner.
Magazine Editors' Trials. J. H. Brown. Lippincott.
Milwaukee, Romantic Beginnings of. Mag. Am. History.
Monmouth and Newport Campaigns. John Fiske. Atlantic.
Motion, Pleasure of. M. P. Souriaou. Popular Science.
Motley's Correspondence. S. B. Wister. Lippincott.
Napoleon, Dreadful Truth About. Joseph Kirkland. Dial.
New York's Financial Condition in 1832. Mag. Am. History.
Niagara, A Trip to in 1833. Mag. Am. History.
Nijnii Novgorod, Fair of. Theo. Child. Harper.
Pensions for all. M. M. Trumbull. Popular Science.
Philosophical Works, Recent. John Bascom. Dial.
Phrenology, Old and New. M. A. Starr. Popular Science.
Prismatics. Sophia Kirk. Atlantic.
Pulpit, Friction in the. Agnes Repplier. Atlantic.
Roads, Common. N. S. Shaler. Scribner.
Sheridan's First Fight. Andover.
Spenser's Faerie Queene. H. S. Pancoast. Andover.
Surgery, Recent Progress in. W. W. Keen. Harper.
Sweden, Bronze Age in. W. H. Larrabee. Popular Science.
Terry, Judge, Life and Character of. Overland.
Velazquez, Diego. Octave Thanet. Dial.
War Reminiscences of a Non-combatant. Atlantic.
Woolsey, Theodore Dwight. J. H. Thayer. Atlantic.
Mémoires du Duc de Saint-Simon. Edited and Annotated
by A. N. Van Daell. 16mo, pp. 236. Ginn & Co. 75 cts.
Artists' Wives. By Alphonse Daudet. Translated by
Laura Ensor. Illustrated. 12mo, pp. 224. Paper.
Geo. Routledge & Sons. $1.50.
French and English: A Comparison. By Philip Gilbert
Hamerton, author of “ The Intellectual Life.'' 12mo,
pp. 480. Roberts Bros. $2.00.
A Century of American Literature. Benjamin Franklin
to James Russell Lowell. Chosen and Arranged by
Huntington Smith. 12mo, pp, 390. T. Y. Crowell &
Co. $1.75.
HISTORY-BIOGRAPHY.
The Swedish Revolution under Gustavus Vasa. By
Paul Barron Watson, author of “Marcus Aurelius An-
toninus." Svo, pp. 301. Gilt top. Little, Brown &
Co. $2.50.
A History of France. By Victor Duruy. Abridged and
Translated from the Seventeenth French Edition by Mrs.
M. Carey. With Introductory Notice and a Continuation
to the year 1889, by J. Franklin Jameson, Ph.D. 12mo,
pp. 706. T. Y. Crowell & Co. $2.00.
A General History for Colleges and High Schools. By
· P. V. N. Myers, A.M., author of “ Ancient History."
Illustrated. 12mo, pp. 759. Ginn & Co. $1.65.
The Hansa Towns. By Helen Zimmern, author of “A
Life of Lessing." Illustrated. 12mo, pp. 388. “Story
of the Nations." G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1.50.
A History of the Kansas Crusade : Its Friends and Its
Foes. By Eli Thayer. Introduction by Rev. Edward
Everett Hale, D. D. 12mo, pp. 294. Harper & Bros.
$1.50.
Recollections of Mississippi and Mississippians. By
Reuben Davis. With Portrait. 8vo, pp. 446. Gilt top.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $3.00.
Benjamin Franklin. By John T. Morse, Jr., author of
* Life of John Adams." 12mo, pp. 428. Gilt top.
“ American Statesmen.” Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $1.23.
Jonathan Edwards. By Alexander V. G. Allen, D.D.
12mo, pp. 401. Gilt top. “ American Religious Leaders."
$1.25.
Six Portraits: Della Robbia, Correggio, Blake, Corot,
George Fuller, Winslow Homer. By Mrs. Schuyler van
Rensselaer. 16mo, pp. 277. Gilt top. Houghton, Mifflin
& Co. $1.25.
Jane Austen. By Mrs. Charles Malden. 16mo, pp. 224.
“Famous Women." Roberts. $1.00.
Extracts from the Journal of Elizabeth Drinker, from
1759 to 1807, A.D. Edited by Henry E. Biddle. Svo,
pp. 423. Gilt top. J. B. Lippincott Co. $2.00.
POETRY-MUSIC.
Gudrun: A Mediæval Epic. Translated from the Middle
High German by Mary Pickering Nichols. Large Svo,
pp. 363. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., $2.50.
Selections from Wordsworth. With Notes by A. J.
George, M. A., editor of Wordsworth's “Prelude."
12mo, pp. 134. D. C. Heath & Co. $1.35.
Franklin Square Song Collection, No. 6: 220 Favorite
Songs and Hymns for Schools and Homes. Selected by
J. P. McCaskey. Large 8vo, pp. 184. Paper. Harper
& Bros. 50 cents.
FICTION.
The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh, and Other Tales. By
Bret Harte. 16mo, pp. 239. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $1.25.
“Such is Life." By May Kendall. 12mo, pp. 283. Long-
mans, Green & Co. $1.25.
Two Coronets. By Mary Agnes Tincker, author of 'Signor
Monaldini's Niece." 12mo, pp. 523. Houghton, Mifflin
& Co. $1.50.
Ten Thousand a Year. By Samuel Warren, F.R.S. In 3
vols. With Etched Portrait. 12mo. Gilt top. Little,
Brown & Co. $1.50.
Children of Gibeon. By Walter Besant, author of “All
Sorts and Conditions of Men." 12mo, pp. 147. Harper
& Bros. $1.25.
War and Peace. By Count Lyof N. Tolstoï. From the
Russian by Nathan Haskell Dole. Authorized Transia-
BOOKS OF THE MONTH.
(The following list includes all books received by THE DIAL
during the month of September, 1889.)
LITERARY MISCELLANY.
Essays by the Late Mark Pattison, sometime Rector of
Lincoln College. Collected and arranged by Henry
Nettleship, M.A., Corpus Professor of Latin in the Uni-
versity of Oxford. In 2 vols. Large 8vo. Uncut. Mac-
millan & Co. $6.00.
The Writings of George Washington. Collected and
Edited by Worthington Chauncey Ford. In 14 vols.
Vol. III., 1775-1770. Royal 8vo, pp. 509. Half-leather.
Gilt top. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $5.00.
William Hazlitt, Fssayist and Critic. Selections from
His Writings. With a Memoir, Biographical and Critical,
by Alexander Ireland, author of " Memoir and Recollec-
tions of Ralph Waldo Emerson.” With a Portrait.
12mo, pp. 510. Gilt top. F. Ware & Co. $1.50.
The Thoughts of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius An-
tion. 2 vols. 12mo. T. Y. Crowell & Co. $3.00.
Chata and Chinita. By Louise Palmer Heaven. 16mo,
pp. 175. Roberts Bros. $1.50.
Gold That Did Not Glitter. By Virginius Dabney, author
of “Don Miff." 12mo, pp. 251. J. B. Lippincott
Co. $1.00.
toninus. Translated by George Long. 12mo, pp. 296.
Gilt top. Little, Brown & Co. $1.50.


142
[Oct.,
THE DIAL
Lora: The Major's Daughter. By W. Heimburg. Trans Les Trois Mousquetaires. By, Alexandre Dumas. cartea
lated by Mrs. J. W. Davis. Illustrated. 12mo, pp. 325. and Annotated for use in Colleges and Schools, by F. C.
Paper.' Worthington Co. 75 cents.
Sumichrast, Ass't Prof. of French in Harvard University.
Mistress Beatrice Cope; or, Passages in the Life of a 12mo, pp. 289. Ginn & Co. 80 cents.
Jacobite's Daughter. By M. E. le Clerc. 16mo, pp. 335. Elementary Practical Physics: A Guide for the Physical
Paper. Appleton's " Town and Country Library." 30c. Laboratory. By H. N. Chute, M.S. Illustrated. 12mo.
Giraldi; or, The Curse of Love. By Ross George Dering. pp. 387. D. C. Heath & Co. $1.25.
16mo, pp. 302. Paper. Appleton's " Town and Country Wentworth's Primary Arithmetic, By G. A. Wentworth,
Library." 50 cents.
A.M., and E. M. Reed. Illustrated. 16mo, pp. 220,
The Morgesons. By Elizabeth Stoddard, author of “ Two Boards, Ginn & Co. 35 cents.
Men." 12mo, pp. 270. Paper. Cassell's “Sunshine
REFERENCE.
Series." 50 cents.
Margaret Maliphant. By Mrs. Comyns Carr, author of The Publishers' Trade List Annual, 1889. The Latest
"Paul Crew's Story." 8vo, pp. 357. Paper. Harper's Catalogues of American Book Publishers. Large Svo,
“Franklin Square Library.” 15 cents.
pp. 3030. Office of the " Publishers' Weekly."
The Country. A Story of Social Life. 8vo, pp. 246. Paper.
Harper's “Franklin Square Library." 45 cents.
FOLK-LORE-TRAVEL.
Ogeechee Cross-Firings. By R. M. Johnston, author of Korean Tales: Being a Collection of Stories Translated from
" Mr. Absalom Billingslea." Illustrated. Svo, pp. 149.
the Korean Folk Lore, together with Introductory Chap-
Paper. Harper's “ Franklin Square Library.” 35 cts. ters Descriptive of Korea. By H. N. Allen, M.D. 12mo,
Lady Car: The Sequel of a Life. By Mrs. Oliphant, author pp. 193. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1.25.
of " Chronicles of Carlingford." Svo, pp. 207. Paper,
Travel, Adventure, and Sport, from Blackwood, No.
Harper's “ Franklin Square Library.” 30 cents.
III. 18mo, pp. 208. Paper. White & Allen. 40 cents.
A Nameles3 Wrestler. By Josephine W. Bates, author of
“ A Blind Lead.” 12mo, pp. 215. Paper. Lippincott's
HOLIDAY BOOKS-CALENDARS.
“ American Novels." 50 cents.
Gondola and Palace. Fac-similes of Colored Photographs
Julian Karslake's Secret. By Mrs. John Hodder Needell. of the Doge's Palace. The Bridge of Sighs, The Arsenal,
16mo, pp. 331. Paper. Lippincott's “ Select Novels." and the Piazza and Campanile. Accompanied by selec-
2.5 cents.
tions from the Text by Charles Yriarte." Ito. Illumin-
A Happy Find. Translated from the French of Madame ated Cover. In Box.' F. A. Stokes & Bro. $2.00.
Gagnebin by Miss E. V. Lee. 16mo, pp. 256. Paper. The Star-Spangled Banner. With the Music. Illustrated
T. Y. Crowell & Co. 50 cents.
in Color and Monotint. Sq. 8vo. Illuminated Cover.
Crime and Punishment. A Russian Realistic Novel. By In Box. F. A. Stokes & Bro..
Feódor M. Dostoyevsky. 16mo, pp. 456. Paper. T. Y. America: “My Country 'Tis of Thee." By Samuel F.
Crowell & Co. 50 cents.
Smith. With the Music. Illustrated in Color and Mono-
His Private Character. By Albert Ross, author of “Thou tint. Sq. 8vo. Iluminated Cover. In Box. F. A.
Shalt Not.” 16mo, pp. 336. Paper. G. W. Dillingham. Stokes & Bro. $1.30.
50 cents.
The Landscape Calendar. 12 Plates in Color. Sq. 8vo.
An Eerie He and She. By Alan Dale, author of " A Mar Tied. In Box. F. A. Stokes & Bro. $1.30.
riage Below Zero." iomo, pp. 366. Paper. G. W. The Calendar of the Nations. 12 Fac-similes of Water-
Dillingham. 30 cents.
color Designs by Maud Humphrey. 8vo. Tied. In Box.
The Sale of Mrs. Adral. By F. H. Costellow. 16mo, pp. F. A. Stokes & Bro. $1.50.
283. Paper. G. W. Dillingham. 50 cents.
The Calendar of the Seasons. 12 Fac-similes of Water-
Le Bleuet. An Alsatian Romance. By Gustave Haller. color Designs by Maud Humphrey. Svo. Tied. In
With an Introduction by George Sand, translated into Box. F. A. Stokes & Bro, 50 cents.
English. 12mo, pp. 169. Paper. Brentano's. 25 cts. The Sunter Calendar of the Months. 12 Fac-similes of
Her Only Brother. By W. Heimburg. Translated from Water-color Sketches by Mrs. J. Pauline Sunter. Tied.
the German by Jean W. Wylie. 10mo, pp. 406. Paper.
In Box. F. A. Stokes & Bro. 50 cents.
T. Y. Crowell & Co. 50 cents.
JUVENILE.
Tales From Blackwood, No. III. 18mo, pp. 198. Paper,
White & Allen. 10 cents.
Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys: A Mid-
summer Ramble in the Dolomites. By Amelia B. Ed-
POLITICAL AND SOCIAL- ECONOMICS.
wards, author of " A Thousand Miles up the Nile." Second
The Federal Government of Svitzerland: An Essay on
Edition. Illustrated. Large 8vo, pp. 389. Geo. Rout-
the Constitution. By Bernard Moses, Ph. D., Prof. of
ledge & Sons. $2.50.
History, University of California. 12mo, pp. 256. Pacific
Earthquakes. Translated from the French of Arnold
Press Pub'g Co.
Boscowitz by C. B. Pitman. Illustrated. 8vo, pp. 395.
Monopolies and the People. By Charles Whiting Baker,
Geo. Routledge & Sons. $1.70.
C.E. 12mo, pp. 263. Putnam's Questions of the Day."
A Short History of the French Revolution, for Young
$1.23.
People. Pictures of the Reign of Terror. By Lydia
Institutes of Economics. A Succinct Text-Book of Politi Hoyt Farmer, author of “Life of LaFavette." Illus-
cal Economy for U'se in Colleges and High Schools. By trated. 12mo, pp. 605. T. Y. Crowell & Co. $1.50.
Elisha Benjamin Andrews, D.D., LL.D. 12mo, pp. 227. | A First Book in American History. With Special Refer-
Silver, Burdett & Co. $1.30,
ence to the Lives and Deeds of Great Americans. By
Edward Eggleston. Illustrated. Sq. 12mo, pp. 203.
PSYCHOLOGY-PILYSIOLOGY-HYGIENE.
D. Appleton & Co. 75 cents.
Handbook of Psychology: Senses and Intellect. By | Lives of the Presidents: Hayes, Garfield, and Arthur. By
James Mark Baldwin, Ph. D. Large 8vo, pp. 343. Un-
William (), Stoddard, author of “George Washington."
cut. Henry Holt & Co. $1.80.
Illustrated. 12mo, pp. 72. F. A. Stokes & Bro. $1.25.
Man and His Maladies: or, The Way to Health. A Popn Famous Men of Science. By Sarah K. Bolton, author of
lar Handbook of Physiology and Domestic Medicine in “Poor Boys Who Became Famous." Illustrated.
Accord with the Advance in Medical Science. By A. E. 12mo, pp. 126. T. Y. Crowell & Co. $1.50.
Bridger, B.A., M.D., author of "The Demon of Dys Jed: A Boy's Adventures in the Army of '01-'65. A Story
pepsia." 12mo, pp. 393. Harper & Bros. $2.00.
of Battle and Prison, of Peril and Escape. By Warren
Every Man His Own Doctor: A Family Medical Adviser, Lee Goss, author of " A Soldier's Story of His Captivity
By J. Hamilton Ayers, A.M., M.D. New Edition. Re at Andersonville.” Illustrated. 12mo, pp. 101. T. I.
vised and Enlarged. Illustrated. 12mo, pp. 398. Paper.
Crowell & Co. $1.30,
G. W. Dillingham. 25 cents.
Captain. By Madame P. de Nanteuil. Translated by Laura
School Hygiene; or, The Laws of Health in Relation to Ensor. Illustrated by Myrbach. Svo, pp. 386. Geo.
School Life. By Arthur Newsholme M.D. 16mo, pp.
Routledge & Sons. 92.00,
143. D. C. Heath & Co. 50 cents.
Rolf and His Friends. By JAK, author of “Birchwood."
Illustrated. 12mo, pp. 308. T. Y. Crowell & Co. $1.25.
EDUCATIONAL.
The Princess Liliwinkins, and Other Stories. By Henrietta
Literary Landmarks. A Guide to Good Reading for Christian Wright, author of "Children's Stories in
Young People, and Teachers' Assistant. By Mary E. American History." Illustrated. 12mo, pp. 220. Har-
Burt. 16mo, pp. 152. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 75 cts. I per & Bros. $1.25.


1889.]
143
THE DIAL
-
-
-
- -
-
-
-
Captain Polly. By Sophie Swett. Illustrated. Sq.18mo, | 32 Great Jones Street, New York. 140 Strand, London.
pp. 306. Harper & Bros. $1.00.
Maggie Bradford's Club. The First of a Series of Sequels
SOME OF
to - The Bessie Books." Illustrated. 16mo, pp. 250.
F. A. Stokes & Bro. $1.00.
WHITE & ALLEN'S NEW PUBLICATIONS
Babes of the Nations. New Illustrations in Color and
Monotint by Maud Humphrey, illustrator of “ Babes of
The Arabian Nights Entertainments.
the Year.” Large 8vo. Iluminated Boards. F. A.
Stokes & Bro. $1.50.
The “* ALDINE" Edition. From the Text of Dr. JONATHAN
One, Two, Three, Four. New Illustrations in Color and
Scott, LL.D. With 100 full-page Photogravure Illustra-
Monotint by Maud Humphrey, illustrator of “ Babes of
tions by STANLEY L. Wood. Leather bindings by Riviere
the Year.'' New Verses by Helen Gray Cone. Large of London.
8vo. Illuminated Boards. °F. A. Stokes & Bro. $1.00. Being the first and most approved translation of the stories
ever made directly from the Arabic into English, and contain-
MISCELLANEOUS,
ing a number of minor tales not generally reprinted. Printed
at the Chiswick Press -- where all the volumes of the old
Our Cats and All About Them: Their Varieties, Habits,
"Aldine' editions were printed- on specially prepared paper,
and Management. By Harrison Weir, F.R.H.S. Illus-
and illustrated with 100 spirited full-page designs, executed
trated by the author. 12mo, pp. 248. Houghton, Mifflin
& Co. 82.00.
by Stanley L. Wood, reproduced in tinted photogravure by
the Albert Photogravure Company in Munich.
Jacques Bonhomme. John Bull on the Continent. By
Large-paper edition ; limited to 50 copies, signed and num-
Max O’Rell, author of "Jonathan and His Continent.'
bered, and printed on Van Gelder paper; crown 8vo, extra
16mo, pp. 168. Paper. Cassell & Co. 50 cents.
wide marg ring, 4 vols; the set, bound in half paper, totally
Christian Theism: Its Claims and Sanctions. By D. B.
uncut, $20.10. Half polished levant morocco, extra, gilt tops
Purinton, LL.D. Svo, pp. 303. Gilt top. G. P. Put (only 10 copies), $10.00. The same ; small-paper edition (only
nam's Sons. $1.75.
300 copies); small 8vo, 4 vols, cloth, gilt tops, $10.00. Half
Backgammon and Draughts. Comprising G. F. Pardon's polished levant morocco, extra, gilt tops (only 50 sets), $20.00.
Complete Work, and Many Valuable Parts of Andrew
*** This, the ** Aldine'' edition of The Arabian Nights En.
Anderson's "Checkers." Illustrated. 18mo, pp. 126.
tertainments, forms the first four volumes of a proposed se-
Boards. F. A. Stokes & Bro. 30 cents.
ries of reprints of the standard works of fiction which have
Salad and Sauces. By Thomas J. Murrey, author of
appeared in the English language. It is the publishers' inten-
** Fifty Soups."' 18mo, pp. 297. Boards. F. A. Stokes | tion to publish the series in an artistic way, well and PRO-
& Bro. 75 cents.
FUSELY illustrating a text typographically as perfect as possi-
The New Litany. Sq. 16mo, pp. 86. Paper. G. W. ble. The text in all cases will be chosen from careful and
Dillingham. 25 cents.
approved editions, and the series generally is intended for
1000 Legal Don'ts; or, A Lawyer's Occupation Gone. those who appreciate well printed and illustrated books, or
By Ingersoll Lockwood, author of " Washington." Sq.
in need of a handy and handsome edition of these
18mo, pp. 143. Paper. G. W. Dillingham, 25 cents." works to place upon their book-shelves.
(Any book in this list will be mailed to any address, post-paid,
ATTRACTIVE SETS OF BOOKS,
on receipt of price by Messrs. A. C. McCluRG & Co., Chicago.]
SUITABLE FOR ALL OCCASIONS.
-= = - = ----
Leather Bindings by Riviere of London.
EDUCATIONAL.
CLASSIC TALES; Serious and Lively. Edited by LEIGH
Hunt. Companion series to the two popular sets entitled
"Humorous Tit-Bits" and "Weird Tit-Bits.'
OXFORD COLLEGE FOR YOUNG LADIES
| CLASSIC TALES FROM VOLTAIRE. 18mo, 1 vol.
CLASSIC TALES FROM HAWKESWORTH. 18mo, 1 vol.
OXFORD, Ohio.
CLASSIC TALES FROM MARMONTEL. 18mo, 1 vol.
Famous Classical and Finishing School; 22 teachers, 180 CLASSIC TALES FROM JOHNSON. 18mo, 1 vol.
students. The Alma Mater of Mrs. President Harrison. Con CLASSIC TALES FROM GOLDSMITH. 18mo, 1 vol.
servatory of Music and Art. European vacation parties.
The five volumes, bound in quarter cloth, brocaded paper
Rev. FAYE WALKER, President. sides, boxed, 92.30. Same, bound by Riviere of London, in
half polished morocco, extra, gilt tops, boxed, $7.30. Same,
YOUNG LADIES' SEMINARY.
in full crushed Alsatian levant morocco, full gilt edges, round
corners, in leather case, $10.00.
FREEHOLD, N. J.
Near New York, Philadelphia and the Coast. Prepares for
The Eighth Edition of
College, or graduates from Advanced Course. Forty-sixth Humorous Tit-Bits from Various Sources.
year opened September 18, 1889.
Miss EUNICE D. SEWALL, President.
Tir-Bits of AMERICAN HUMOR. 18mo, 1 vol.
TIT-BITS OF ENGLISH HUMOR. 18mo, 1 vol.
TIT-Bits OF SCOTTISH HUMOR. 18mo, 1 vol.
SEVEN GABLES.
Tit-Bits of Irish HUMOR. 18mo, 1 vol.
BRIDGETON, N. J.
The four volumes bound in quarter maroon cloth, brocaded
Mrs. Westcott's Boarding School for Young Ladies. In
paper sides, boxed, $2,00. Same, in half polished morocco,
South Jersey. Prepares for any college. Climate mild and
extra, gilt tops, boxed, $6.00. Same, in full crushed Alsatian
dry. Gymnasium. Illustrated circular.
levant morocco, gilt edges, round corners, in leather case, $8.
THE SEVENTH EDITION OF
CHICAGO CONSERVATORY.
Weird Tit-Bits from Various Sources.
AUDITORIUM BUILDING, CHICAGO, ILL.
(Wabash Avenue entrance to the elevators.)
Weird Tit-Bits (American), 18mo, 1 vol.
Music, Dramatic Art, Delsarte, Elocution, Oratory, Lan-
WEIRD TIT-Bits (English). 18mo, 1 vol.
guages, etc. Private lessons in all branches are given through
WEIRD TIT-Bits (Scottish). 1*mo, 1 vol.
WEIRD TIT-Bits (Irish), 18mo, 1 vol.
the summer. Regular Fall term opens September 16.
SAMUEL KAYZER, Director.
I WEIRD TIT-BITS (German), 1smo, 1 vol.
The five volumes, bound in quarter maroon cloth, brocaded
paper sides, $2.50. Same, in half polished morocco, extra,
THE HARVARD SCHOOL.
gilt tops, boxed, $7.50. Same, in full Alsatian levant moroc-
2101 INDIANA AVE., Chicago, Ill. co, extra, gilt edges, round corners, in leather case, $10.00.
For Boys. Will re-open Wednesday, September 18. Pri *** The above books for sale by all booksellers, or mailed, post-
mary and higher department. Preparation for College, the , paid, on receipt of price, by the publishers. Send for Catalogue.
Scientific School, and Business. For information apply to
JOHN J. SCHOBINGER or John C. GRANT, Principals.
WHITE & ALLEN, Publishers and Importers.


144
(Oct.,
THE DIAL
-
-
--
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS,
27 & 29 WEST 23D St., New YORK.
“HAMMOND”
TYPE WRITER.
PRICE
THE SECOND EDITION NOW READY.
INCLUDING A TABLE
OR EXTRA TYPE WHEEL,
$
LONDON AWARD.-" The best Type
Writer for office work where speed is required.”
Has invariably taken highest award when put in
competition. Never been beaten. Its capacity
for speed beyond that of any other Type Writer,
and at its highest speed the work is as perfect as
at its lowest ; in this respect unapproachable by
any other machine. Increased manifolding capac-
ity, noise reduced to a minimum, and a pleasant
clastic touch which does not weary the operator.
Send for descriptive pamphlet and specimen of
writing to
THE HAMMOND TYPEWRITER CO.,
206 La Salle Street, Chicago, ILL.
THE WINNING OF THE WEST
By THEODORE ROOSEVELT, author of “ The
Naval War of 1812,” “ Hunting Trips of a
Ranchman,” etc. Two vols., large 8vo, with
maps. $5.00. (Second edition.)
“ It treats of a subject that has never yet been
dealt with in a thorough-going fashion, or with a
full appreciation of its high importance.”—Phila-
delphia Press.
“ Written in a free and flowing style, always
graceful but never turgid, that makes the narrative
delightful reading from the first page to the end."
-Chicago Times.
“ Has the advantage of much hitherto unused
material, and has made painstaking and evidently
successful efforts to render his history accurate as
well as enjoyable.”—Congregationalist.
• For the first time the whole field has been cov-
ered in one work by an accomplished and thor-
oughly equipped writer, whose book will rank
among American historical writings of the first or-
der.” — The Critic, New York.
TO AUTHORS.-The New York BUREAU OF REVISION
gives critical opinions on manuscripts of all kinds, edits
them for publication, and offers them to publishers. George
William Curtis says in Harper's Magazine : “Reading manu-
scripts with a view to publication is done, as it should be,
professionally, by the Easy Chair's friend and fellow-laborer
in letters, Dr. Titus Munson Coan." Send stamp to Dr.
COAn for prospectus at 20 West 14th St., New York City.
Full List of Publications for the Autumn Sea-
son sent on application.
EVERY SHEET]
Royal Irish Linen
ATERMARKED
WRITING PAPERS.
VEARS AGO Writing Paper of ordinary quality was considered good enough generally for
1 polite and select business correspondence in America. MARCUS WARD & Co. succeeded
in producing a paper made from the finest material, and placed it before the intelligent Ameri-
can public. From that time “ Royal Irish Linen” writing paper became synonymous with all
that is considered elegant in correspondence. It grew rapidly in favor, and to-day is deservedly
the best-known paper in America's highest circles. At all World's Exhibitions it has been
awarded the highest honors, and all the appliances of new machinery and improved methods of
manufacture are brought into requisition to maintain the highest standard of excellence. It is
needless to say that owing to its great success, numerous cheap imitations have been placed on
the market by unscrupulous makers and dealers, and the prices asked for the cheap stuff is
quite as high as should be asked for the genuine “ Royal Irish Linen.” To avoid all mistakes
the name in full is watermarked in each sheet, as may be seen by holding the paper against the
light. In any case where the paper is not kept by stationers, samples and prices will be mailed
on application to MARCUS WARD & CO. (Limited). 734 Broadway, New YORK.


1889.]
145
THE DIAL
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS, PUBLISHERS,
27 & 29 West 2 3d St., New York.
THE STORY OF THE NATIONS. A series! KNICKERBOCKER NUGGETS. A Selection
of graphic Historical Narratives, presenting the stories of of some of the World's Classics, uniquely and tastefully
the principal nations of the ancient and modern world. printed by the Knickerbocker Press, and offered as speci-
Eighteen volumes ready. Large 12mo, with Maps and mens as well of artistic typography as of the best literature.
many Illustrations. Each, $1.50.
(For titles of the twenty previous issues in this series, see
separate circular.)
XXIII— The Story of Mexico. By Susan HALE.
12mo, fully Illustrated.
Tales by Heinrich Zschökke. Translated from the
XXIV – The Story of Phænicia. By Prof. GEO. ,
German by PARKE GODWIN and Wm. B. PRENTICE. $1.00.
RAWLINSON. 12mo, fully Illustrated.
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. Ed-
XXV— The Story of the Hansa Towns. By HELEN
ited, with Notes, by John BIGELOW.
ZIMMERN.
The 'Boyhood and Youth of Goethe. Comprising
(Full descriptive list of the series sent on application.)
the first thirteen books of his Autobiography (Truth and
GREAT CITIES OF THE REPUBLIC :
Poetry from my own Life). Two vols.
11/— The Story of Boston. By ARTHUR GILMAN,
American War Ballads. Comprising the note-
author of the Story of Rome," "Story of the Saracens,"
worthy Ballad Poetry produced during the Revolution, the
War of 1812-14, the Mexican War, and the Civil War. The
etc. Octavo, cloth, with Illustrations and Maps. $1.75.
latter division includes the Iproductions of poets on both
11- The Story of Washington. By Chas. BURR sides of Mason and Dixon's line. Very fully Illustrated.
Todd, author of "The Story of the City of New York”
and “Life and Letters of Joel Barlow.' Octavo, cloth,
The Constitutional History of the United States
with many Illustrations and Maps. $1.75.
as seen in the Development of American Law.
“I think you have succeeded in making the most instruct Comprising a Course of Lectures delivered before the Polit-
ive and entertaining book on the capital that I have seen." - ical Science Association of the University of Michigan, with
Senator 0. H. Platt.
an Introduction by Prof. HENRY WADE ROGERS, Dean of
"Is admirably written, and the history interspersed with the Law School of the University of Michigan. Octavo,
historical incidents that make every page interesting.”-Chi-
cloth extra. $2.50.
cago Inter-Ocean.
1-THE FEDERAL JUDICIARY: Its PLACE IN THE AMERI-
CAN CONSTITUTIONAL SYSTEM ; by Thomas M. Cooley,
The Story of the City of New York. By the
LL.D. II — CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE
author of " The Life and Letters of Joel Barlow."' Cloth, UNITED STATES AS INFLUENCED BY CHIEF-JUSTICE MAR-
Illustrated. $1.75.
SHALL; by Henry Hitchcock, LL.D. III — CONSTITU-
TIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE UNITED STATES AS IN-
WORKS ON PRONUNCIATION. By W. H. FLUENCED BY CHIEF-JUSTICE TANEY; by George W.
P. PHYFE.
Biddle, LL.D. IV-CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN
THE UNITED STATES As INFLUENCED BY THE DECISIONS
III—Seven Thousand Words often Mispronounced
OF THE SUPREME COURT SINCE 1865; by Charles A. Kent,
A complete Handbook of Difficulties in English Pronuncia A.M. V—THE STATE JUDICIARY: Its PLACE IN THE
tion. Including an unusually large number of proper names AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL SYSTEM; by Daniel H. Cham-
and words and phrases from foreign languages. Second berlain, LL.D.
edition. 16mo, cloth. $1.25.
“I have proved the great value and convenience of your lit-
Principles of Procedure in Deliberative Bodies.
tle manual, Seven Thousand Words Often Mispronounced,'' By GEORGE GLOVER CROCKER, President Massachusetts
which will be found for its purpose a work of reference as use Senate in 1883. 16mo, cloth extra. 75 cents.
ful as it is unique. As it becomes known it will be universally
“I have read Mr. Crocker's manual with great satisfaction.
welcomed and approved."--George William Curtis.
The treatment of the subject is scientific, and at the same
II --The School Pronouncer. Based on Webster's
time eminently practical, so that the book is adapted to the
use of those experienced in parliamentary proceedings, as well
Unabridged Dictionary. Second edition. 16mo, cloth, $1.23.
as of beginners. The success which has attended this effort
* A scholarly and scientific presentation of a most difficult i to present parliamentary procedure as a consistent system
subject."— Prof. T. W. Hunt, College of New Jersey.
founded on reason cannot fail to render less difficult the task
* It is the most complete, easily understood, most thor-
of the learner. The manual, moreover, has the merit of clear
oughly usable of the books that have yet appeared."'-- New
and concise statement.”-John D. Long, ex-Gov. of Mass.
England Journal of Education.
"A concise and systematic statement of the principles of
procedure applicable to deliberative bodies. ... Parlia-
How Should I Pronounce? OR, THE PRINCI-
mentary law is made clear and practical. ... It is a book
PLES OF THE ART OF CORRECT PRONUNCIATION. Third of valuable information." - New York School Journal.
edition. 16mo, cloth. $1.25.
** I appreciate its value, and indorse your work as a most
Great Words from Great Americans. Compris-
serviceable aid to all who wish to speak our language cor ing the Declaration of Independence; the Constitution of
rectly."'-- Eduin Booth.
the United States, with Notes; Washington's Circular-Let-
TO THE LIONS. A Story of the Persecution of Thirteen States; Washington's First and Second Inaugural
the Christians under the Early Roman Empire. By Prof. Addresses and his Farewell Address; and Lincoln's First
ALFRED CHURCH, author of " The Count of the Saxon
and Second Inaugural Addresses, and his Gettysburg Ad-
Shore," "Three Greek Children," etc. 12mo, Illustrated.
dress. With
With an Index to the Constitution, and an Appendix.
Uniform with * Three Greek Children.” $1.25.
With Portraits of Washington and Lincoln. 75 cents.
“No one will find Mr. Church's " To the Lions” at all of
“A condensed compendium of much valuable historical
the nature of an antiquarian treatise, or will lay it down with- į and political knowledge." Buffalo (N.Y.) Express.
out reading it eagerly to the end. The characters are all well "A book that should be in every house in the land, and
and vigorously outlined.??- London Spectator.
| read by every person."'-Rochester (N. Y.) llerald.
LISTS OF PUBLICATIONS FOR THE FALL SEASON SENT ON APPLICATION.


146
(Oct.,
THE DIAL
LADIES' STATIONERY.
FALL BOOKS.
A few years ago, our fashionable peo- FORDS, HOWARD & HULBERT.
ple would use no Stationery but Imported
30 LAFAYETTE PLACE, NEW YORK.
goods. The American styles and makes AN APPEAL TO PHARAOH: A Radical So-
lution of the Negro Problem. 16mo, cloth, $1.00.
did not come up to what they required. A thoughtful, cogent, very startling discussion of the future
of the African race in America, in lucid and powerful style.
Messrs. Z. & W.M. CRANE set to work
UNTO THE UTTERMOST. By JAMES M.
to prove that as good or better goods could CAMPBELL. 16mo, vellum cloth, $1.25.
be made in this country as abroad. How the di
A fresh, strong contribution to the religious discussions of
wel tbey have succeeded is shown by the THE INSPIRATION OF THE SCRIPTURES.
Plymouth League Lectures, delivered in Plymouth
fact that foreign goods are 110w scarcely
Church, Brooklyn, by Rossiter W. RAYMOND, Ph.D.
quoted in the market, while CRANE'S | (November).
goods are staple stock with every dealer of SIGNS OF PROMISE. Sermons preached in
Plymouth Pulpit, 1877-1889. By LYMAN ABBOTT,
any pretensions. This firm bas done
D.D. 12mo, English cloth, gilt top, $1.50.
much during the past two or three years
The first two years' work of Henry Ward Beecher's suc-
cessor, who has re-inspired the energies of that great church,
is full of interest, and this volume has been received with a
to produce a taste for dead-finish Papers, wide
wide welcome.
and to-day their brands of 'Grecian A11 THE GOSPEL COMMENTARY. By J. R.
tique,' “Parchment Vellum,' 'Old-style,'
GILMORE and LYMAN ABBOTT, D.D. 480 pages.
Cloth, red edges, $1.50.
and ‘Distaff,' are as popular as their í The Four Gospels interwoven into a chronological narra-
tive. Notes, original and selected, from 300 authors. Full
est Satin Finish' goods. The name for indexes. The only Annotated Condensed Gospels published.
New Revised Edition,
each of their brands is copyrighted; and
LIVING QUESTIONS: Studies in Nature and
their Envelopes, which match each style Grace. By WARREN HATHAWAY. 12mo, $1.25.
and size of Paper, are bigh-cut pattern,
"Vigorous and suggestive.”--Congregationalist.
so that the gum cannot come in contact
TENANTS OF AN OLD FARM. A Story of
Insect Life. By Dr. HENRY C. McCook, Vice-Pres.
with a letter enclosed, during sealing. Phil. Acad. Nat. Science ; with Introduction by Sir
John LUBBOCK, M.P., F.R.S. Profusely Illustrated.
A full line of these Standard Goods is kept New Popular Edition. 12mo, $1.50.
constantly in stock by A. C. McClurg & Co., TOURGEE'S NOVELS. New Uniform Edition,
Wabash Ave. and Madison St., Chicago.
Illustrated. “Hot Plowshares,” “ A Royal Gentle-
man,” “ Figs and Thistles," “A Fool's Errand,"
“ Bricks without Straw," $1.50 each. “ John Eax "
(including “Mamelon” and “ Zouri's Christmas "),
“ Black Ice,” $1.25 each. 7 volumes, per set, $10.
AND MAIL BOX.
BEECHER'S PATRIOTIC ADDRESSES (1850-
An ingenious device for holding envelopes,
1885). New Edition. Uniform with his “Ser-
mons," « Evolution and Religion,” etc. Garnet cloth.
and preserving them from being soiled and Portraits. $2.00.
wasted. It will hold 500 envelopes, and feed
BULLET AND SHELL: WAR, AS THE SOL-
down to the last one. The envelopes are as DIER SAW IT. By Maj. GEO. S. WILLIAMS. Il-
accessible as if they were in an open case. A lustrated by Edwin FORBES. New Pop. Edition. $2.
“The little of fiction it contains is a good setting for the
mail box is attached to the outside. It is made
| stern realities of the great war. It is calculated to interest
of heavy material, Japanned, and can be either
young people, and it is good reading for them.”- William T.
Adams (Oliver Optic).
hung up or placed on a flat desk.
" Its pictures of scenes, both comic and tragic, give a truer
and better idea of army life, in camp, campaign. battle, and
hospital, than any book I have ever examined, while the etch-
Letter size, $1.25; Official size, $1.50. ings of the renowned Forbes are true to life. In this volume
war is described as it really is."'--Gen. W. H. Gibson, of Ohio.
Highly commended, also, by Grant, Sherman, and many
A.C. MCCLURG & COMPANY, CHICAGO other noted soldiers.
Sole Manufacturers.
**. SEND FOR OUR CATALOGUE.
RAMSER’ENVELOPE HOLDER


1889.]
147
THE DIAL
--
=
---
-
------
-
--
----
NOW READY.
AUTUMN, 1889.
“JACKDAW OF RHEIMS.”
Wedding Invitations.
THE FIRST EDITION OF 50,000 COPIES
Reception Cards.
OF THE
At-Home Cards.
STYLES in stationery of this kind vary
but little from season to season, the ele-
gance of appearance depending entirely
BY
on the excellence of execution and the
THOMAS INGOLDSBY, Esq.,
quality of the materials used. Effect
considered, our prices are the lowest.
With entirely new Illustrations, as piquant as the Poem | Menus.
itself. 48 pp., limp, gilt edged.
Dinner Cards.
PRICE, 75 CENTS.
Luncheon Cards.
The stationery of this kind that we pro-
duce always bears distinctive marks of
originality. For the Autumn, 1889, we
are prepared to furnish very handsome
London, Paris, AND New York.
novelties in favors of rich and artistic
effects.
A. C.
Wabash Avenue
To be had, on receipt of the price, of A. C. MCCLURG
and
McClurg & Co., Chicago.
& Co.
Madison St., CHICAGO.
RAPHAEL TUCK AND SONS,
EAGLE PENCILS.
ALL STYLES. ALL GRADES.
EAGLE No. 2 1-2 GOLD PENCILS.
ROUND AND HEXAGON. PATENTED.
The Best Pencil for Free-Hand Drawing,
School, Mercantile, and General Uses.
INSURE IN
THE TRAVELERS
OF HARTFORD, CONN.
Principal Accident Company of America. Largest
in the World.
HAS PAID ITS POLICY-HOLDERS OVER
$16,500,000.00.
Our FINE ARTS.
The MOST PERFECT Pencil made. Graded
6B to 6H, 15 degrees; for Artists, Engineers,
and Draughtsmen.
COLORED CRAYONS.
Over Fifty Colors. Preferable to Water
Colors in many ways.
ITS ACCIDENT POLICIES
Indemnify the Business or Professional Man or Farmer for his
Profits, the Wage-Worker for his Wages, lost from Accidental
Injury, and guarantee Principal Sum in case of death. No
Extra Charge for European Travel and Residence.
Full PRINCIPAL SUM paid for loss of Hands, Feet, Hand
and Foot, or Sight, by Accident. ONE-THIRD same for loss of
single Hand or Foot.
RATES As Low AS WILL PERMANENTLY SECURE FULL
PAYMENT of Policies. Only $5.00 a year to Professional or
Business Men for each $1,000 with $5.00 Weekly Indemnity.
This Company issues also the best LIFE AND ENDOWMENT
Policies in the market. INDEFEASIBLE, NON-FORFEITABLE,
WORLD-WIDE.
FULL PAYMENT IS SECURED BY
$10,992,000 Assets, $2,248,000 Surplus
Not left to the chances of an Empty Treasury
and Assessments on the Survivors.
AGENCIES AT ALL IMPORTANT POINTS
IN THE U. S. AND CANADA.
,
J. G. BATTERSON, RODNEY DENNIS, J. E. MORRIS,
President.
Secretary. Asst. Sec'y.
THE
Stop-Gauge Automatic Pencil.
An entirely new article. The ne plus ultra
pius ar
of all Pencils.


148
[Oct., 1889.
THE DIAL
WEBSTER'S UNABRIDGED DICTIONARY
The Best Investment for the Family, the School, the Professional or Private Library.
The latest edition has 3,000 more Words in its Vocabulary than are found in any other American Dictionary,
and nearly three times the number of Engravings. In quantity of matter, it is believed to be the Largest Volume
published, being sufficient to make seventy-five 12mo volumes, that usually sell for $1.25 each.
Besides many other valuable features, this work comprises
A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE,
With 118,000 Words and 3,000 Engravings;
A DICTIONARY OF BIOGRAPHY,
Giving facts about nearly 10,000 Noted Persons ;
A DICTIONARY OF GEOGRAPHI',
Locating and briefly describing 25,000 Places ;
A DICTIONARY OF FICTION,
Found only in Webster's Unabridged-
The “ New England Journal of Education” says :
ALL IN ONE BOOK.
“ Probably no other single volume before the English-speaking public embodies so much information on the
subjects treated, and is so valuable for frequent consultation.”
Webster is Standard Authority in the Government Printing Office, and with the United States Supreme Court.
It is recommended by State Superintendents of Schools of Thirty-eight States, and by leading College Presidents
of the United States and Canada. All the Leading Series of School Books published in this country are based
upon Webster, the acknowledged Standard of the English Language.
PUBLISHED BY G. & C. MERRIAM & CO., SPRINGFIELD, MASS.
FOR SALE BY ALL BOOKSELLERS.
JOSEPH GILLOTT'S BOORUM & PEASE,
MANUFACTURERS OF
STEEL PENS.
The STANDARD Blank Books.
(For the Trade Only).
GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 1878. 25 SHEETS (100 pp.) TO THE QUIRE.
His Celebrated Numbers
Everything from the smallest Pass-book to the largest
Ledger, suitable to all purposes_Commercial, Educa-
303-404-170—604-332 tional, and Household uses.
For Sale by all Booksellers and Stationers.
and his other styles, may be had of all dealers throughout
the world.
FACTORY, BROOKLYN.
Offices and Salesrooms, 30 and 32 Reade Street,
JOSEPH GILLOTT & Sons, . . NEW YORK.
NEW YORK CITY.
Trade Mark.] NONPAREIL (Registered. ESTERBROOK'S
OUR FINEST
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS. STEEL PENS.
In genuine Seal, Russia, Turkey Morocco,
LEADING STYLES.
and Plush, Quarto, Royal Quarto,
FINE Point, ... Nos. 333 444 232
Oblong, and Longfellow sizes,
BUSINESS, . . . . Nos. 048 14 130
Bear the above Trade Mark, and are for sale
BROAD Point,. . . Nos. 161 239
by all the Leading Booksellers and
284
Stationers.
FOR SALE BY ALL STATIONERS.
KOCH, SONS & CO.,
The Esterbrook Steel Pen Co.,
541 AND 543 PEARL ST., ..New York. | Works : Camden, N.J.] 26 John ST., New YORK.
THE DIAL PRESS, (HICAGO.


Nov 1859
NOV ")
9 18099 THE DIAL
A Monthly Journal of Current Literature
PUBLISHED BY
A, C. MCCLURG & CO.
MB CHICAGO, NOVEMBER, 1889.
(VOL. X., No. 115.]
TERMS-$1.50 PER YEAR.
ALPHONSE DAUDET.
ARTISTS' WIVES. By ALPHONSE DAUDET. Translated by LAURA ENsoR. With illustra-
tions by Rossi, Bieler, and others. 12mo, paper, $1.50; half leather, $2.25.
"Here is a little work which I beg you to read. It is written-I would have you note-by a married man, much in love
with his wife, very happy in his home, an observer who, spending his life among artists, amused himself by sketching one or
two such households as I spoke of just now. From the first to the last line of this book all is true.”—From the Prologue.
JACK. By ALPHONSE DAUDET. Translated by LAURA ENSOR. With illustrations by Myrbach.
12mo, paper, $1.50 ; half leather, $2.25.
Uniform in style with the “Tartarin” books and other writings of Dandet, but containing nearly double the number of
pages of any of the other volumes.
PRECEDING ISSUES IN THIS UNIFORM EDITION OF DAUDETS WRITINGS:
RECOLLECTIONS OF A MAN OF LETTERS. Translated by Laura Ensor.
With 89 illustrations from designs by Bieler, Montégut, Myrbach, and Rossi.
“Nothing is touched that is not set before the apprehension of the reader with the delicacy, sureness, and precision of the
consummate literary artist, and yet everything flows with the easy grace of spontaneity that is never at fault.”—Chicago Times.
THIRTY YEARS OF PARIS AND OF MY LITERARY LIFE. Translated
by LAURA ENsoR. With 120 illustrations from designs by Bieler, Montégut, Myrbach, Picard, Rossi.
“Lovers of Daudet will own with particular readiness the charm of this delightfully egoistic, confidential, and entertaining
volume, and those who may make their first acquaintance with the great French novelist through the medium of this group of
dashing reminiscent essays will do so under most agreeable conditions.”—Brooklyn Times.
TARTARIN OF TARASCON: Traveller, “Turk,” and Lion-Hunter. With
115 illustrations from designs by Montégut, Myrbach, Picard, and Rossi.
“The humors of this countryman of Daudet and of Gambetta are simply delicious, and they are in this new shape fitly
illustrated by scores of delicate little pictures. .... These pictures possess that lightness, elegance, and grace which
belong to French art, and are not attained by English or American illustrations; and they are perfectly printed on the finest
of paper."-Springfield Republican.
TARTARIN ON THE ALPS. With 150 illustrations from designs by Rossi, Aranda,
Myrbach, Monténard, and de Beaumont.
"The illustrations are full of delicate characterization, of sharp satire, of artistic grace and skill. The page is narrow
and admirably broken up by a great variety of small cuts, and the typography leaves nothing to be desired. It is a long time
since so complete and fascinating a work has come from the press.” - The Book Buyer, New York.
LA BELLE NIVERNAISE, The Story of an Old Boat and Her Crew, And Other
Stories. With 185 illustrations from designs by Montégut.
" Daudet's sweet and brilliant short story, 'La Belle Nivernaise,' a lovely bit of real life in the author's most delicate
vein-worthy the most refined and the most imaginative of living French masters of fiction."--Sat. Evening Gazette, Boston.
SAPPHO: A Picture of Parisian Manners. With 70 illustrations from designs by Rossi,
Myrbach, and other French artists.
“We have no hesitation in pronouncing it Daudet's greatest work in fiction, and perhaps the particular letter-patent
which places him above even the choicest rank and file of brilliant French authors in the galaxy of geniuses.”—Independent.
Each 12mo. PRICE: PAPER, $1.50 ; HALF LEATHER, $2.25.
ALSO, UNIFORM WITH THE ABOVE:
AFLOAT (Sur l' Eau). By GUY DE MAUPASSANT. Translated by LAURA ENsoR. With 59
illustrations from designs by Riou. 12mo, paper, $1.50; half leather, $2.25.
"Guy de Maupassant in Afloat' is as perfect a poet as his uncle, Gautier, and yet he 'floats' on a musical sea of prose
wherein every wavelet is a verse, a rhythm, a poem, a figure. ... Seldom have we read a more beautiful translation
more beautifully illustrated (by Riou), or more daintily manufactured ; a trinity of perfections rare indeed in this day of hur-
ried bookmaking." - The Critic.
*** For sale by all booksellers, or sent, postpaid, on receipt of the advertised price, by the pubiishers,
GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS, 9 LAFAYETTE PLACE, New York.


150
[Nov.,
THE DIAL
LEE & SHEPARD'S NEW BOOKS.
Irene E. Jerome's New Volume : IN A FAIR COUNTRY
With 55 full-page original illustrations, engraved on wood, and printed under the direction of GEORGE T. ANDREW.
With nearly 100 pages of text, by THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON. Elegantly bound in gold cloth, full
gilt, gilt edges, $6.00; Turkey morocco, $15.00; tree calf, $15.00; English seal style, $10.00.
A PERFECT UNION OF ART AND LITERATURE.
Over the clear-cut thoughts of a modern master of classic essay, one of the foremost of American artists draws the magic
pencil which has achieved so many triumphs, and, in verdure clad," starts into life the rural beauties of "April Days," " My
Outdoor Studies,” “Water Lilies," " The Life of Birds," "The Procession of the Flowers,'' and “Snow." The fifty-five
illustrations which ornament this volume are not surpassed even by the former triumphs of “One Year's Sketch Book,"
“Nature's Hallelujah," "A Bunch of Violets,” and “The Message of the Bluebird "- household treasures throughout the
land. Whether floating in her boat on Concord River, with its wealth of floral adornments, its scenic surprises in the wind-
ings of its stream in and about places made famous by Thoreau a
rson
of “ beauti-
ful Camden," down by the sea, where the grandeur of mountain views possesses charms to wake enthusiasm, she has exhib-
ited the same fidelity to nature in her beautiful pictures, the same exquisite taste in the selection of her subjects, which have
characterized her previous achievements. Without the illustrations the essays would be admirable; without the essays the
illustrations would be charming ; but the union of pen and pencil has produced a book in every way superb.
NEW EDITIONS OF THE JEROME ART BOOKS.
omid
purring
Days Serene.
| The Wooing of Grandmotber Grey.
Original illustrations of verses from the poets, by Mar- | A Poem by KATE Tannatt WOODS. Illustrations by
GARET MacDONALD PULLMAN. Engraved on wood | popular artists. Engraved and printed under the
by GEORGE T. ANDREW, and printed under his di direction of Mr. ANDREW. Oblong quarto. Forty
rection. Royal oblong quarto. Emblematic cover illustrations. Cloth, $2.00.
designs in colors. Twenty-six full-page original illus By the genial glow of the blazing logs in the open fire-
trations. Full gilt. Size, 10 1-2 x 14 1-2. Cloth, place, with the kettle swinging and singing on the ancient
$5.00; Turkey morocco, $12.50; tree calf, $12.50;
crane, the "eight-day” ticking in the corner, and the cat
the hearth. "Grandmother" tells, in the dialect
English seal style, $9.00.
of those days, the story. Author and artist have succeeded
in producing a tender picture of old New England life and
NOVELTIES IN COLOR, WITH EXQUISITE DESIGNS. character.
The 'Boudoir Calendar for 1890.
The Julia Ward Howe Birthday Book.
HURRAH FOR THE NEW YEAR! Printed in delicate
Edited by LAURA E. RICHARDS. In rich and attract-
tints on ivory cardboard, with ribbon bows and silver ive bindings. Cloth; illustrated; $1.00.
chain and rings. Neatly boxed. Price, 75 cents.
Little Baron Trump,
ONE MERRIE CHRISTMAS TIME. Printed in delicate
colors on heavy ivory board, with rings and ribbons
AND HIS WONDERFUL DOG BULGER.
and chain, with gilt edges. In box. Price, 75 cents.
By INGERSOLL LOCKWOOD. Illustrated by GEO. WHAR-
The charming souvenir, A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO You !
TON EDWARDS. Quarto, cloth, emblematic dies; $2.
“It rivals in its descriptions of marvels the story of “Sin-
Printed in delicate colors on heavy ivory board, with bad the Sailor," and in grotesqueness the quaintest of Ger
rings, ribbons, and chain; gilt edges. In neat boxes. man fairy tales."-- Boston Watchman.
Price, 75 cents.
OLIVER OPTIC'S NEW BOOK :
The Green Mountain 'Boys' Library.
Within the Enemy's Lines.
By Judge D. P. THOMPSON. Four volumes, boxed.
Being the second story of « The Blue and the Gray”
Per volume, sold separately, $1.00.
series, uniform with “ Taken by the Enemy,” by the
same author. Cloth, illustrated; $1.50.
THE GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS.
The “champion story-teller" for young people has, in this
MAY MARTIN, AND OTHER TALES OF THE GREEN MOUN series, selected a topic of interest which gives splendid oppor-
tunities for thrilling scenes and attractive narrative, without
THE RANGERS; OR, THE TORY'S DAUGHTER.
going outside the domain of historical accuracy. There are
LOCKE AMSDEN; OR, THE SCHOOLMASTER.
both entertainment and instruction in these books.
These popular and romantic historical tales are among the NEW BOOK BY AMANDA M. DOUGLAS:
best in our literature, and have become household classics.
The Heroes of the Crusades.
ANOTHER “WEEZY" BOOK :
With 50 full-page illustrations from Gustave Doré. A
Little Miss Weezy's Sistei.
strikingly vivid presentation of the glorious deeds of
By Penn SHIRLEY. Uniform with « Little Miss | chivalry. Cloth, emblematic designs; $1.50.
Weezy,” « Little Miss Weezy's Brother.” Illus Also, a New Novel by AMANDA M. DOUGLAS, making the
trated; 3 volumes in box; 75 cents each.
nineteenth volume of the uniform edition of her works :
Those little ones who have read of Weezy's droll sayings
Osborne of Arrochar.
and doings in the previous volumes will be charmed to know
of the coming of this volume.
| 12mo, cloth; $1.50 per vol. To be published this fall.
Our New Illustrated Catalogue will be sent free on application.
TAINS.
LEE & SHEPARD, Publishers, 10 Milk Street, Boston.


1889.]
151
THE DIAL
A Necessary Reference Work for Every Library.
CHAMBERS'S ENCYCLOPÆDIA.
. Vols. I., II., III., IV. Ready.
ENTIRELY New EDITION. REVISED AND REWRITTEN. Acknowledged to be one of the very best of
the world's standard Encyclopædias, suited to the wants of the great mass of readers. Edited and
published under the auspices of W. and R. Chambers, Edinburgh, and J. B. Lippincott Company,
Philadelphia. To be completed in ten volumes—issued at intervals. Price per volume : Cloth, $3.00;
Sheep, $4.00; Half Morocco, $4.50.
“ Indispensable in almost any library, while its won- ' «The work is in every way indispensable to the
derful cheapness is a large point in its favor." —Boston library, the office, and the home. There can be no
Congregationalist.
doubt that it is by all means the best one that has ever
“ Broad in scope, accurate in detail, and moderate in been published.”_Boston Traveller.
price, Chambers's has long held a place in the front
rank."--New York Book Buyer.
“ Altogether, it is an accurate, concise, low-priced
« In print and form, as well as in matter, the new compendium of universal knowledge ; it is a rich treas-
Chambers's is admirable. It will be hard to beat it are for any household or public library.”— Maine
for American use.”_Rochester Advertiser.
Argus.
SPECIMEN PAGES WILL BE MAILED ON APPLICATION.
HALF HOUR SERIES.
Selected and arranged by CHARLES Morris. Uniform in size, style, and binding.
Half HOURS WITH THE BEST HUMOROUS AUTHORS.
JUST ISSUED.
Embracing some of the choicest writings of the best American, English, and Foreign humorists. Four
volumes. Crown 8vo. Cloth, gilt top, $6.00; Half Morocco, $10.00; Three-quarters Calf, $13.00.
HALF HOURS WITH THE BEST HALF HOURS WITH THE BEST
AMERICAN AUTHORS.
FOREIGN AUTHORS.
Complete in 4 crown 8vo volumes. Cloth, $6.00; Nine volumes. Crown 8vo. Cloth, gilt top,$6.00 ;
Half Morocco, $10.00; Three-quarters Calf, | Half Morocco, $10.00; Three-quarters Calf,
$13.00.
$13.00.
HALF HOURS WITH AMERICAN HISTORY.
Two volumes. Crown 8vo. Cloth, $3.00; Half Morocco, $5.00 ; Three-quarters Calf, $6.50.
“ This collection is in truth an extremely interesting
one, and the books of the time offer no better method
for a ready acquaintance with the choice and master-
spirits of literature.”—New York Times.
“Gems have been gathered from every department
of literature, and have been edited with a taste and
refinement fitting their own high character.”_ The
Chautauquan.
*** For sale by all booksellers, or will be sent by the publishers, free of expense, on receipt of the price.
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY,
715 & 717 Market Street, Philadelphia.


152
[Nov.,
THE DIAL
----
--------
---
---
--
-
-
-=-
=
T. Y. CROWELL AND COMPANY'S
NEW BOOKS AND RECENT PUBLICATIONS.
ar
Ta
A CENTURY O AMERICAN LITERATURE. CONVENIENT HOUSES, and How to Built
Benjamin Franklin to James Russell Lowell. Selec- ! Them. By Louis H. Gibson, Architect. Com-
tions from 100 authors. (Chronologically arranged,
prising a large variety of plans, photographic designs,
with dates of births and deaths, index, and table of and artistic interiors and exteriors of Ideal Homes,
contents.) Chosen and arranged by HUNTINGTON varying in cost from $1,000 to $10,000. Cloth, $2.50.
SMITH. 12mo, 400 pp.; cloth, $1.75; half calf, $3.50.
Mr. Gibson is a practical architect, who believes that, over
This comprehensive book has been prepared with special and above the beauty and symmetry of exterior conditions,
reference to use in the class-room. As a reader it is unique. the interior arrangement of houses, and especially housekeep-
The selections are unhacki
ken from American au-
le conveniences, should command attention. His manual,
thors, and arranged chronologically, they illustrate in a most !
admirably illustrated and a model of clearness, is quite unique
attractive manner the development of American literature in its plan. He forms a sort of partnership between architect
during the first century of its existence.
and housewife. Having come to a complete understanding
of what is wanted in kitchen and cellar, parlor, dining-room,
A HISTORY OF FRANCE. By VICTOR DU and chamber, he makes what he calls a journey through the
RUY, Member of the French Academy. Abridged
house. Then he offers fifty convenient plans, and finally, in
a number of interesting chapters, shows what practical house-
and translated from the seventeenth French edition,
building is, and how best to start and pay for a house. The
by Mrs. S. CAREY; with an introductory notice, and work is admirably printed and handsomely illustrated.
a continuation to the year 1889, by J. FRANKLIN
METZEROTT, SHOEMAKER. A Novel. 12mo.
JAMESON, Ph.D., Professor of History in Brown,
$1.50.
University. With twelve maps. 12mo, 700 pp.;
It is not often that a novel of such depth, power, original-
cloth, $2.00; half calf, $4.00.
ity, genius, as " METZEROTT, SHOEMAKER" is given to the
This famous work is now made accessible to the American world. It is a story of Christian Socialism, a vivid picture of
public by an abridged translation. It presents in one compact life among men and women who labor, suffer, and think. It
volume a readable account of the events of French history
presents an ideal which is no fancy sketch, but realizable,
with all the author's luminous generalizations and a sufficient actual, inspiring. “METZEROTT, SHOEMAKER" promises to
abundance of details.
be the novel of the year.
WAR AND PEACE. By COUNT LYOF N. MEMOIRS OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.
TOLSTOI. Authorized translation from the Russian, By LOUIS ANTOINE FAUVELET DE BOURRIENNE, his
by NATHAN HASKELL DOLE. 2 vols., 12mo, cloth, private secretary. Edited by Col. R. W. Phipps.
$3.00; 4 vols., 12mo, gilt top, paper labels, $5.00.
Latest American Edition, with 34 full-page portraits
As Count Tolstoï's other masterpiece, “Anna Karenina," and other illustrations, and a complete index, found
is unique in social philosophical fiction, so “War and Peace"
only in this edition. Four vols., 12mo. Cloth, plain,
stands by itself in historical fiction. It is a panorama
passing before the eyes, brings up vivid scenes from public $5.00; cloth, gilt top, S6.00; half calf, $10.00; half
and private life in Russia at the beginning of this century. levant morocco, $15.00.
Emperors and peasants, princes and soldiers, battle-fields and
The perennial interest in Napoleon the Great has entirely
ball-rooms, battues and debauches, tender home scenes and
justified the publication of this excellent edition of Bour-
deadly duels, fill the vast painting. And while the attention
rienne's memoirs. No one can pretend to an intelligent
is compelled by these unprecedented pictures, a triple love estimate of the man without becoming acquainted with him
story is gradually unfolded, and the whole is dominated by
through the medium of his favorite secretary. The occasional
Count Tolstoï's wonderful elaboration of his theory of fatal misinterpretation of his motives or unjust criticisms upon his
ism in history. This is the first complete translation into acts are rectified by his English editor, who has added much
English from the original Russian, and contains many inter valuable material. The edition is beautifully printed and at-
esting details never before published.
tractively bound, and the price brings it within the reach of all.
FAMOUS MEN OF SCIENCE. By SARAH K. ROLF AND HIS FRIENDS. By J AK, author of
Bolton, author of « Poor Boys Who Became Fam-
“Birchwood,” “Fitch Club,” etc. Illus., 12mo, $1.27.
ous,” etc. With portraits of Galileo, Newton, Cu The accomplished and warm-hearted woman who writes
vier, Audubon, Humboldt, Agassiz, Buckland, and under the cabalistic letters J AK has a good lesson to teach
others. 12mo. $1.50.
in her latest volume. It is this : that a healthy boy needs
Mrs. Bolton's simple, unaffected style, and her skill in
sympathy and encouragement as well as good, firm discipline,
illustrating the salient traits of character of those of whom
and that ability to learn is not found alone under a white skin.
she writes, make her volumes always interesting, stimulating,
JED. A Boy's Adventures in the Army of '61-'65.
and attractive to the young. This new volume from her pen
falls no whit behind the others of the same series, either in
By WARREN LEE Goss, author of "A Soldier's Story
subject matter or in style.
of Life in Andersonville Prison," " Recollections of
A SHORT HISTORY OF THE FRENCH
a Private," in Century Magazine. Fully illustrated.
12mo. $1.50.
REVOLUTION. Pictures of the Reign of Ter- |
This book is aptly characterized as "A Story of Battle and
ror. By LYDIA HOYT FARMER, author of “ Boys' | Prison, of Peril and Escape." Mr. Goss took an active part
Book of Famous Rulers,” etc. Fully illustrated. in the great War of the Rebellion. He participated in the
12mo. $1.50.
fierce battles which he so graphically describes, and he is one
Mrs. Farmer has discovered a sympathetic subject in the
of the few survivors of those terrible prisons, the account of
I which surpasses fiction. "Jed” is one of the freshest, health-
History of the French Revolution, and has proceeded on a
| iest books for boys that have been brought out in America.
somewhat new and original plan. She has selected from
many distinguished and eloquent narratives of the Reign of
RED CARL. From the German of J. J. MESS-
Terror, passages which give the most vivid pictures of those
wonderful events, and woven them into a continuous story.. MER. 12mo. $1.25.
with great skill and ability. Her own florid, impassioned, Pictures in exquisite style the eventful lives of a colony of
and graphic style gives the book a character of its own, and German emigrants, and the effects of labor movements upon
assures it immediate popularity.
I earnest men and women.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
--
-
-
-- -
-


1889.]
153
THE DIAL
T. Y. CROWELL & CO.'S NEW BOOKS AND RECENT PUBLICATIONS–CONTINUED.
SOCIAL ASPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY. By | IMPRESSIONS OF RUSSIA. By GEORG BRAN-
Prof. RICHARD T. ELY, Ph.D., author of “ Labor DES, author of “ Eminent Authors of the Nineteenth
Movement in America,” - Taxation in American Century.” Translated from the Danish by S. C.
Cities,” « Social Problems,” etc. 12mno. 90 cents. Eastman. 12mo, cloth. $1.25.
Prof. Ely, in the series of essays composing this volume, Russia has never had a shrewder observer in her borders
contrasts the Christianity of the churches with the Christian- | than Dr. Brandes of Copenhagen (or Kjobenhavn, as they
eful and far from pessimistic, į persist in spelling it in Denmark). He was not many months
he fearlessly arraigns the indifference and sluggishness of there, but his little book is the outcome of many miles of
many Christians; he exposes some of the shams and masks of travel, many hours of conversation with her distinguished
religion, and he shows what a virile, genuine Christianity, men, and of much power of concentration. It is a revelation.
founded on the rock of the Gospel, could do for the laboring
masses, for humanity. It is a stimulating, thought-awaken-
A HAPPY FIND. By Mme. GAGNEBIN. Trans-
ing book, which ought to be read and taken to heart by every lated from the French by Miss E. V. LEE. 12 mo,
church-member, of every creed, throughout the land.
cloth, $1.25; paper covers, 50 cents.
WALKS ABROAD of Two Young Naturalists.
This book is a happy example of what French fiction can
do when it turns its attention to simple, unambitious plots,
From the French of Charles Beaugrand, by DAVID
and has a lofty, spiritual aim. It is full of exquisite pictures
SHARP, M.B., F.L.S., F.Z.S., President of Entomo of character and nature, and its natural pathos is tempered
icgical Society, London. Fully illustrated. 8vo. $2. with a delicate sense of humor.
The expression in the title “ Walks Abroad” may be taken
TALKS ABOUT A FINE ART. Booklet, sou-
in two significations, since the walks are done in France. The
story is simple and wholesome, and used mainly to convey
venir style. 30 cents.
the information and instruction which are the chief objects of
THE CHILDREN'S WING.
the book ; but they are conveyed with true French humor
By ELIZABETH
and delicacy, and it is therefore thoroughly readable, espe GLOVER. Booklet, souvenir style. 30 cents.
cially in Prof. Sharp's admirable translation. It ought to be The piquant little dressmaker who is the central character
on every boy's bookshelf.
in these two booklets is an original character in fiction; and
VICTOR HUGO'S NOVELS. Library Edition.
her quaint, wise sayings appeal irresistibly to the heart and
reason. Every parent in this land should read, learn, and in-
Over 600 full-page illustrations. Calendered paper. wardly digest the lessons so charmingly offered.
8 vols., 12mo, cloth, gilt top (sold only in sets). $15.
A DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS.
In this edition fifteen volumes of Victor Hugo's master-
pieces are condensed into eight, with a corresponding conden-
By Anna L. WARD. Crown 8vo. Cloth, bevelled
satio
on of price. The printing is just as good, the illustrations boards, $2.00; half calf, $4.00.
are the same and as numerous as in the more expensive edi This is a companion volume to Miss Ward's “ Dictionary
tion; the binding is neat and attractive ; the paper is a little of Quotations from the Poets.” It is arranged on the same
lighter. This edition will satisfy those who desire a niedium-
general principle, and contains upwards of six thousand short
priced set of Hugo's work for holiday gifts or library use. and pithy apothegms, placed under the head of general sub-
AD LUCEM. Arranged by Mary Lloyd. Se-
jects in alphabetical order. A complete index makes the vol-
ume still more convenient for handy reference, and a mass of
lections of Poetry and Prose for suffering ones.
biographical material adds to its value.
Parti-colored cloth, gilt top, 18mo, $1.00; seal
CAMBRIDGE BOOK OF POETRY AND
leather, flexible, $1.75.
A delicate and unobtrusive sympathy governed the com-
SONG. Selected from English and American
piler of the exquisite selections in this dainty little volume.
authors. Collected and edited by CHARLOTTE F.
They truly point towards the light.
Bates, of Cambridge, compiler of « The Longfellow
CECIL'S KNIGHT. By E. B. Hollis. 12mo, $1.25
Birthday Book," “ Seven Voices of Sympathy," etc.
Shows the benificent influence upon a lad's life of the com-
New and revised edition, with 40 fac-simile poems in
panionship and friendship of an unselfish Christian young autograph, and 32 full-page illustrations, from orig-
woman.
inal designs. Over 900 pp., royal 8vo. Gilt edges,
HER MAJESTY'S TOWER. By W. HEPWORTH $5.00; full levant, gilt, $10.00; tree calf, gilt, $10.
Dixon. A History of the Tower of London. From No care or expense has been spared in perfecting this opu-
the Seventh London Edition. Complete in one vol-
lent anthology, which easily takes the lead of all similar col-
lections of poetry. The fac-simile poems and autographs form
ume. 12mo, with 47 illustrations, $2; half calf, $4.
a most interesting and valuable feature. As a gift-book it is
How much of English history centers about the massive unexcelled.
pile of the Tower of London! Mr. Dixon is a sympathetic
narrator, and has found a marvellous mass of fascinating ma-
PAYING THE PENALTY, and Other Stories.
terial. This new edition, in one volume, of his standa
By Charles Gibbon, GEORGE MANVILLE FENN,
will meet with a warm welcome among many readers.
CLIVE PHILLIPS-WOLLEY, HELEN SHIPTON, KATH-
SCOTCH CAPS. By J A K, author of “ Birch ARINE S. MAQUOID. 12mo; cloth, $1.00 ; paper
wood,” “Fitch Club," etc. Illustrated. 12mo. $1.25. covers, 50 cents.
A clever, bright story of school life.
THREE TIMES TRIED, and Other Stories. By
POLISHED STONES AND SHARPENED B. L. FARJEON, GRANT ALLEN, J. MACLAREN COB-
ARROWS. By C. W. BIBB. A manual for BAN, Mrs. J. H. RIDDELL, Austin PEMBER, GEORGE
Christian Workers. Being a collection of four or five MANVILLE FENN. 12mo; cloth, $1.00; paper covers,
hundred Scripture texts, giving under each one or
50 cents.
more apposite and appropriate anecdotes, enforcing Two volumes of short stories by leading English novelists.
the moral truth conveyed in each heading. Cloth,
The sensational element is so restrained within artistic limits,
and the general effect of each story is so wholesome, that,
12mo. $1.25.
under the auspices of the Society for the Promotion of Chris-
An invaluable repository of illustration and anecdote for tian Knowledge, which first published them seriatum, they
preachers and Sunday-school teachers, and for use at home. | attained an aggregate sale of almost a million and a half copies.
T. Y. CROWELL & CO., 13 Astor PLACE, NEW YORK.


152
[Nov.,
THE DIAL
-
-----
--
-
--
--
-
-
--
-
---
T. Y. CROWELL AND COMPANY'S
NEW BOOKS AND RECENT PUBLICATIONS.
A CENTURY 01 AMERICAN LITERATURE. 1 CONVENIENT HOUSES, and How to Bulilit
Benjamin Franklin to James Russell Lowell. Selec- ! Them. By Louis H. Gibson, Architect. Com-
tions from 100 authors. (Chronologically arranged, prising a large variety of plans, photographic designs,
with dates of births and deaths, index, and table of and artistic interiors and exteriors of Ideal Homes,
contents.) Chosen and arranged by HUNTINGTON
varying in cost from $1,000 to $10,000. Cloth, $2.50.
SMITH. 12mo, 400 pp.; cloth, $1.75; half calf, $3.50. Mr. Gibson is a practical architect, who believes that, over
This comprehensive book has been prepared with special and above the beauty and symmetry of exterior conditions,
reference to use in the class-room. As a reader it is unique. the interior arrangement of houses, and especially housekeep-
The selections are unhackneyed. Taken from American au-
ing conveniences, should command attention. His manual,
thors, and arranged chronologically, they illustrate in a most admirably illustrated and a model of clearness, is quite unique
attractive manner the development of American literature in its plan. He forms a sort of partnership between architect
during the first century of its existence.
and housewife. Having come to a complete understanding
of what is wanted in kitchen and cellar, parlor, dining-room,
A HISTORY OF FRANCE. BY VICTOR DU-! and chamber, he makes what he calls a journey through the
RUY, Member of the French Academy. Abridged
ime Ahurid mod house.
house
Then he offers fifty convenient plans, and finally, in
a number of interesting chapters, shows what practical house-
and translated from the seventeenth French edition, building is, and how best to start and pay for a house. The
by Mrs. S. CAREY; with an introductory notice, and work is admirably printed and handsomely illustrated.
a continuation to the year 1889, by J. FRANKLIN
METZEROTT, SHOEMAKER. A Novel. 12mo.
JAMESON, Ph.D., Professor of History in Brown
$1.50.
University. With twelve maps. 12mo, 700 pp.;
It is not often that a novel of such depth, power, original-
cloth, $2.00; half calf, $4.00.
ity, genius, as -- METZEROTT, SHOEMAKER" is given to the
This famous work is now made accessible to the American world. It is a story of Christian Socialism, a vivid picture of
public by an abridged translation. It presents in one compact life among men and women who labor, suffer, and think. It
volume a readable account of the events of French history presents an ideal which is no fancy sketch, but realizable,
with all the author's luminous generalizations and a sufficient actual, inspiring. “METZEROTT, SHOEMAKER" promises to
abundance of details.
be the novel of the year.
WAR AND PEACE. By Count LYOF N. | MEMOIRS OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.
Tolstor. Authorized translation from the Russian,
By Louis ANTOINE FAUVELET DE BOURRIENNE, his
by NATHAN HASKELL DOLE. 2 vols., 12mo, cloth, I private secretary. Edited by Col. R. W. Phipps.
$3.00; 4 vols., 12mo, gilt top, paper labels, $5.00. Latest American Edition, with 34 full-page portraits
As Count Tolstoï's other masterpiece, “ Anna Karenina,” and other illustrations, and a complete index, found
is unique in social philosophical fiction, so “War and Peace"
stands by itself in historical fiction. It is a panorama which,
only in this edition. Four vols., 12mo. Cloth, plain,
passing before the eyes, brings up vivid scenes from public
$5.00; cloth, gilt top, $6.00; half calf, $10.00; half
and private life in Russia at the beginning of this century. levant morocco, $15.00.
Emperors and peasants, princes and soldiers, battle-fields and The perennial interest in Napoleon the Great has entirely
ball-rooms, battues and debauches, tender home scenes and
justified the publication of this excellent edition of Bour-
deadly duels, fill the vast painting. And while the attention
rienne's memoirs. No one can pretend to an intelligent
is compelled by these unprecedented pictures, a triple love-
estimate of the man without becoming acquainted with him
story is gradually unfolded, and the whole is dominated by
through the medium of his favorite secretary. The occasional
Count Tolstoï's wonderful elaboration of his theory of fatal-
misinterpretation of his motives or unjust criticismus upon his
ism in history. This is the first complete translation into
acts are rectified by his English editor, who has added much
English from the original Russian, and contains many inter i valuable material. The edition is beautifully printed and at-
esting details never before published.
tractively bound, and the price brings it within the reach of all.
FAMOUS MEN OF SCIENCE. By Sarau K. ROLF AND HIS FRIENDS. By J AK, author of
Bolton, author of “ Poor Boys Who Became Fam-
“Birchwood," "Fitch Club," etc. Illus., 12mo, $1.27.
ous," etc. With portraits of Galileo, Newton, Cu The accomplished and warm-hearted woman who writes
vier, Audubon, Humboldt, Agassiz, Buckland, and under the cabalistic letters J A K has a good lesson to teach
others. 12mo. $1.50.
in her latest volume. It is this : that a healthy boy needs
sympathy and encouragement as well as good, firm discipline,
Mrs. Bolton's simple, unaffected style, and her skill in
and that ability to learn is not found alone under a white skin.
illustrating the salient traits of character of those of whom
she writes, make her volumes always interesting, stimulating,
JED. A Boy's Adventures in the Army of '01-'65.
and attractive to the young. This new volume from her pen
falls no whit behind the others of the same series, either in
By WARREN LEE Goss, author of "A Soldier's Story
subject matter or in style.
of Life in Andersonville Prison," " Recollections of
A SHORT HISTORY OF THE FRENCH
a Private," in Century Magazine. Fully illustrated.
REVOLUTION. Pictures of the Reign of Ter-
12mo. $1.50.
ror. By LYDIA HOYT FARMER, author of “ Boys' | Prison, of Peril and Escape." Mr. Goss took an active part
This book is aptly characterized as “A Story of Battle and
Book of Famous Rulers,” etc. Fully illustrated. in the great War of the Rebellion. He participated in the
12mo. $1.50.
fierce battles which he so graphically describes, and he is one
Mrs. Farmer has discovered a sympathetic subject in the
of the few survivors of those terrible prisons, the account of
which surpasses fiction. "Jed” is one of the freshest, health-
History of the French Revolution, and has proceeded on a
iest books for boys that have been brought out in America.
somewhat new and original plan. She has selected from
many distinguished and eloquent narratives of the Reign of
"RED CARL. From the German of J. J. MESS-
Terror, passages which give the most vivid pictures of those
wonderful events, and woven them into a continuous story, i. MER. 2mo. $1.25.
with great skill and ability. Her own florid, impassioned, Pictures in exquisite style the eventful lives of a colony of
and graphic style gives the book a character of its own, and German emigrants, and the effects of labor movements upon
assures it immediate popularity.
| earnest men and women.


1889.)
153
THE DIAL
T. Y. CROWELL & CO.'S NEW BOOKS AND RECENT PUBLICATIONS—CONTINUED.
SOCIAL ASPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY. By | IMPRESSIONS OF RUSSIA. By GEORG BRAN-
Prof. RICHARD T. ELY, Ph.D., author of “ Labor DES, author of " Eminent Authors of the Nineteenth
Movement in America," “ Taxation in American Century.” Translated from the Danish by S. C.
Cities," “ Social Problems,” etc. 12ino. 90 cents. EASTMAN. 12mo, cloth. $1.25.
Prof. Ely, in the series of essays composing this volume, Russia has never had a shrewder observer in her borders
contrasts the Christianity of the churches with the Christian than Dr. Brandes of Copenhagen (or Kjobenhavn, as they
ity of Christ. While he is hopeful and far from pessimistic, persist in spelling it in Denmark). He was not many months
he fearlessly arraigns the indifference and sluggishness of there, but his little book is the outcome of many miles of
many Christians; he exposes some of the shams and masks of travel, many hours of conversation with her distinguished
religion, and he shows what a virile, genuine Christianity, men, and of much power of concentration. It is a revelation,
founded on the rock of the Gospel, could do for the laboring
masses, for humanity. It is a stimulating, thought-awaken-
A HAPPY FIND. By Mme. GAGNEBIN. Trans-
ing book, which ought to be read and taken to heart by every lated from the French by Miss E. V. LEE. 12mo,
church-menaber, of every creed, throughout the land.
cloth, $1.25; paper covers, 50 cents.
WALKS ABROAD of Two Young Naturalists.
This book is a happy example of what French fiction can
do when it turns its attention to simple, unambitious plots,
Froin the French of Charles Beaugrand, by DAVID
and has a lofty, spiritual aim. It is full of exquisite pictures
SHARP, M.B., F.L.S., F.Z.S., President of Entomo of character and nature, and its natural pathos is tempered
Icgical Society, London. Fully illustrated. 8vo. S2. with a delicate sense of humor.
The expression in the title “ Walks Abroad” may be taken
TALKS ABOUT A FINE ART. Booklet, sou-
in two significations, since the walks are done in France. The
story is simple and wholesome, and used mainly to convey
venir style. 30 cents.
the information and instruction which are the chief objects of
the book ; but they are conveyed with true French humor
THE CHILDREN'S WING. By ELIZABETH
and delicacy, and it is therefore thoroughly readable, espe GLOVER. Booklet, souvenir style. 30 cents.
cially in Prof. Sharp's admirable translation. It ought to be The piquant little dressmaker who is the central character
on every boy's bookshelf.
in these two booklets is an original character in fiction ; and
VICTOR HUGO’S NOVELS. Library Edition.
her quaint, wise sayings appeal irresistibly to the heart and
reason. Every parent in this land should read, learn, and in-
Over 600 full-page illustrations. Calendered paper.
wardly digest the lessons so charmingly offered.
8 vols., 12mo, cloth, gilt top (sold only in sets). $15.
A DICTIONARY OF PROSE QUOTATIONS.
In this edition fifteen volumes of Victor Hugo's master-
pieces are condensed into eight, with a corresponding conden-
By Anna L. WARD. Crown 8vo. Cloth, bevelled
sation of price. The printing is just as good, the illustrations boards, $2.00; half calf, $4.00.
are the same and as numerous as in the more expensive edi This is a companion volume to Miss Ward's “ Dictionary
tion: the binding is neat and attractive: the paper is a little
of Quotations from the Poets." It is arranged on the same
lighter. This edition will satisfy those who desire a medium-
general principle, and contains upwards of six thousand short
priced set of Hugo's work for holiday gifts or library use. and pithy apothegms, placed under the head of general sub-
AD LUCEM. Arranged by Mary Lloyd. Se-
jects in alphabetical order. A complete index makes the vol-
ume still more convenient for handy reference, and a mass of
lections of Poetry and Prose for suffering ones.
biographical material adds to its value.
Parti-colored cloth, gilt top, 18mo, $1.00; seal
CAMBRIDGE BOOK OF POETRY AND
leather, flexible, $1.75.
A delicate and unobtrusive sympathy governed the com-
SONG. Selected from English and American
piler of the exquisite selections in this dainty little volume. authors. Collected and edited by CHARLOTTE F.
They truly point towards the light.
Bates, of Cambridge, compiler of “ The Longfellow
CECIL'S KNIGHT. By E. B. Hollis. 12mo, $1.25 Birthday Book," “ Seven Voices of Sympathy," etc.
Shows the benificent influence upon a lad's life of the com New and revised edition, with 40 fac-simile poems in
panionship and friendship of an unselfish Christian young autograph, and 32 full-page illustrations, from orig-
woman.
inal designs. Over 900 pp., royal 8vo. Gilt edges,
HER MAJESTY'S TOWER. By W. HEPWORTH S5.00; full levant, gilt, $10.00; tree calf, gilt, $10.
Dixon. A History of the Tower of London. From No care or expense has been spared in perfecting this opu-
the Seventh London Edition. Complete in one vol-
lent anthology, which easily takes the lead of all similar col-
lections of poetry. The fac-simile poems and autographs form
ume. 12mo, with 47 illustrations, $2; half calf, $4.
a most interesting and valuable feature. As a gift-book it is
How much of English history centers about the massive
unexcelled.
pile of the Tower of London! Mr. Dixon is a sympathetic
narrator, and has found a marvellous mass of fascinating ma-
PAYING THE PENALTY, and Other Stories.
terial. This new edition, in one volume, of his standard work By CHARLES GIBBON, GEORGE MANVILLE FENN,
will meet with a warm welcome among many readers.
CLIVE PHILLIPS-WOLLEY, HELEN SHIPTON, KATH-
SCOTCH CAPS. By J A K, author of “ Birch ARINE S. MAQUOID. 12mo; cloth, $1.00 ; paper
wood,” “Fitch Club,” etc. Illustrated. 12mo. $1.25. covers, 50 cents.
A clever, bright story of school life.
THREE TIMES TRIED, and Other Stories. By
POLISHED STONES AND SHARPENED B. L. FARJEON, Grant ALLEN, J. MACLAREN COB-
ARROWS. By C. W. BIBB. A manual for BAN, Mrs. J. H. RIDDELL, AUSTIN PEMBER, GEORGE
Christian Workers. Being a collection of four or five
MANVILLE FENN. 12mo; cloth, $1.00; paper covers,
hundred Scripture texts, giving under each one or
50 cents.
more apposite and appropriate anecdotes, enforcing Two volumes of short stories by leading English novelists.
The sensational element is so restrained within artistic limits,
the moral truth conveyed in each heading Cloth,
and the general effect of each story is so wholesome, that,
12mo. $1.25.
under the auspices of the Society for the Promotion of Chris-
An invaluable repository of illustration and anecdote for tian Knowledge, which first published them seriatum, they
preachers and Sunday-school teachers, and for use at home. | attained an aggregate sale of almost a million and a half copies.
T. Y. CROWELL & CO., 13 Astor Place, New York.


154
[Nov.,
THE DIAL
-=
=
=
=
ESTES & LAURIAT’S AUTUMN ANNOUNCEMENTS
-
OF-
ELEGANT BOOKS.
FAMOUS ETCHERS.
A Collection of Twenty Etchings by noted European and American etchers, among whom are OTTO
BACHER, UNGER, MORAN, GAUGENGIGL, GARRETT. Folio 12 x 17 inches. Unique binding of leather
and vellum cloth. Edition strictly limited to 280 numbered copies. 250 copies, proofs on Holland
paper. $15.00.
RECENT ENGLISH ART.
A set of Sixteen beautiful Photo-Etchings from the best paintings of modern English painters, such as
Sir FR. LEIGHTON, LESLIE, ALMA TADEMA, and others, with descriptive text by WALTER ROWLANDS.
One vol., folio (12 x 17), cloth. $7.50.
NOTRE DAME DE PARIS.
By VICTOR Hugo. With superb illustrations by the celebrated French artists, Rossi, BIELER, and DE
MYRBACH. No other popular edition of this great historical romance compares with this. The draw-
ings were reproduced in Paris by Guillaume et Cie., at a cost of over three thousand dollars. One
vol., 8vo. $3.00.
SALON CELEBRITIES.
Ten beautiful Photogravures executed by Goupil et Cie. from favorite pictures by noted artists, exhibited
at the Salon in Paris. With descriptive text. One vol., large quarto, cloth, bevelled and full gilt.
$3.75.
ENDYMION.
By John Keats. Illustrated by W. St. John HARPER. THE GIFT-BOOK OF THE YEAR. This beau-
tiful poem is now presented in the superb setting it deserves, being illustrated by numerous photogra-
vures from original drawings, made especially for this art edition by W. ST. JOHN HARPER, and
printed in delicate tints in connection with the text. It has an appropriate cover, in novel style,
and altogether is the most artistic triumph in bookmaking ever achieved. One vol., royal quarto,
cloth. $15.00.
LALLA ROOKH.-The Vellum Edition.
By THOMAS MOORE. This charming oriental poem is now produced in a style worthy of itself. It is
illustrated with about 140 photo-etchings made from designs of the best artists in America, together
with several from European and Persian artists. The illustrations are printed in a variety of colors,
on vellum paper, and the text of the poem is set in with the illustrations in artistic style. This is.
without doubt, the most sumptuous and elaborate art book ever published in America. One vol.,
quarto, bound in parchment paper, and in vellum cloth folio, with stamped ribbons, $15.00. One
vol., quarto, full American seal gilt. $17.50.
FAIRY LILIAN.
By ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, together with twelve of his most popular short poems, illustrated under
the supervision of GEORGE T. ANDREW, by the most distinguished artists of the day. The volume
is a triumph of the printer's art, showing on each page a delicate border, in tint, surrounding the text
or illustration printed in black. The cover is elaborately gilt after a design by W. L. TAYLOR. One
vol., quarto, cloth, full gilt. $6.00.
ESTES & LAURIAT, BOSTON, MASS.


1889.]
· 155
THE DIAL
- -=--
=
-
--
-- --
----
--
-
E. P. DUTTON AND COMPANY'S
MONOTINT BOOKS AND BOOKLETS.
Cut-out or Shaped Booklets are a leading and novel feature in our line this year.
A CHRISTMAS STAR. (Star-shaped). 8 pages, color | HOMEWARD BOUND. (Shape of sail.) 16 pages, color
and monotint. 10 cents.
and monotint. 35 cents.
OUR FAITH. (Cross-shaped.) 8 pages, color and mono- | HARBOR LIGHTS. (Sea views.) Quarto, 12 pages, mon-
tint. 10 cents.
otint and pen and ink, 35 cents.
HEART AND HOPE. (Heart-shaped.) 8 pages, color CORALS. (Sea views, shells, and coral.) Oblong, 12 pages,
and monotint. 10 cents.
6 color and 6 monotint. 35 cents.
THE MASTER'S SERIES. 4 vols., small 4to, 16 pages THE POET'S GREETING SERIES. 4 vols, 4to, 20
(7 color and 9 pen and ink), each 15 cents.
pages, color, monotint, and type. Each, 50 cents.
His Will.
His WORD,
THE POET's GREETING. BELLS A-CHIME.
His Way.
His LOVE.
A STRING OF PEARLS. EVERGREEN.
L'IOLET LEAVES. (Shaped.) 8 pages, color and mono- | UPWARD. A companion for a month, containing 32 pages
tint. 15 cents.
of Scripture texts and hymns, and original illustrations in
ROBIN REDBREAST. (Shaped robin.) 10 pages, mon-
color and monotint. By FRED HINES. Small Ato, varnished
otint and type. 25 cents.
board covers. 50 cents.
KITTY. (Shaped kitten.) 10 pages, monotint and type.
ONWARD. A text book for every day in the month, with
20 cents.
verses. 4to, 32 pages. 50 cents.
WIT AND WISDOM. (Shaped owl.) 10 pages, mono-
FEATHERED FAVORITES. Birds, with drawings after
tint and type. 25 cents.
Giacomelli. Quarto, 16 pages, color and monotint. 50 cts.
BRIGHT WINGS. (Shaped butterfly.) 12 pages, color SEA PEARLS. Shape of an oyster.) Sea pictures in color
and monotint. 25 cents.
and monotint, put up in neat box. 50 cents.
JINGLES. (Shaped tambourine.) 8 pages, color, mono THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD. Color and Monotint
tint, and pen and ink. 25 cents.
drawings from originals by FRED HINES. With Scripture
PANSY PICTURES. (Shaped pansy.) 12 pages, mono-
texts and verses. Quarto, 16 pages, and original covers.
75 cents.
tint, pen and ink, and type. 25 cents.
THE LOG BOOK. (Rigging of a ship). 16 pages, color
THE HEAL'ENLY W’AY. A daily companion, contain-
ing Scripture texts and Hymns for a month. Drawings in
and monotint. 25 cents.
color and monotint by FRED HINES. Quarto, 16 pages.
SOUVENIR SERIES. 4 vols, 4to, 12 pages, color and 75 cents.
monotint. Each, 25 cents.
LOVE DIVINE. Daily texts and Hymns for a month.
KIND REMEMBRANCES. FRIENDLY GREETINGS.
With 32 pages of color and monotint illustrations by FRED
SWEET MEMORIES.
LOVING Wishes.
HINES. Large 4to, varnished board cover. $1.00.
HOLLY BOUGHS. (Oblong.) 12 pages, all color. 25 cts.
THE FIRST CHRISTMAS. “ The Infant Jesus," by
OWLD FRIENDS. (A group of owls.) Oblong, 8 pages, F. W. FABER. With original illustrations in monotint by
color and monotint. 25 cents.
WALTER PAGET. Large 4to, 16 pages. $1.00.
THE LEAF SERIES. Three booklets. (In shape of WE ARE SEVEN. By William WORDSWORTH. With
leaf.) 12 pages, 6 color and 6 monotint. Each 35 cents. original illustrations in monotint by MARY L. Gow. Quarto,
Ivy LEAF. VINE LEAF. LEAVES AND Blossoms. I 20 pages. $1.00.
E. P. DUTTON & CO.'S COLOR BOOKS FOR CHILDREN
Have for some years been the finest in the market, and this year we anticipate an even more general success for
our new series, which is sufficiently diversified to suit the most varied tastes.
ROUND THE HEARTH. By HARRIET M. | FUNNY FRIENDS. Humorous stories and
BENNETT, author of "When All Is Young," " All Round verses of animals, with original illustrations in color by G. H.
the Clock," etc. Containing 52 pages of color and monotint. THOMPSON. fto, boards, 28 pages. 75 cents.
Large 4to, boards, $2.00.
HOBBY HORSE. (Companion volume to “ Snow
THE JUVENILE GEM SERIES. 6 vols., ! Baby.”) Small 4to, 18 pages, color and monotint. 50 cents.
in ornamental box. Small 4to, each containing 12 pages.
CHILDHOOD VALLEY. With 40 pages of
Varnished board covers, per volume, 25 cents; per set,
6 vols., $1,50.
original illustrations in color and monotint. By John LAW-
PETS AND PLAYMATES. ROCK-A-BYE.
SON, artist of " There Was Once.” Large Ato, boards, $1.50.
A GREAT PET.
Snow-FLAKES.
I'LL TELL YOU A STORY. By LIZZIE MACK.
ROBBY ROBBIN.
WEE Pussies.
Large 4to, 32 pages of color and monotint. Board covers, $1.
CATHEDRALS of ENGLAND and WAŁES | LITTLE MAIDS. A portfolio of seven colored
AND THEIR STORY. 16 full-page colored plates and designs or studies of various nationalities. By Mrs. F.
64 monotints. Large 4to, cloth, in box. $25,00.
BRUNDAGE, whose previous work has been greatly admired.
GRANDMA’S MEMORIES. By MARY D.
The printing is exquisite and must be seen to be appreciated.
The portfolio (an imitation of polished wood and tied with
BRINE, author of “Grandma's Attie Treasures." A
heavy ribbon) is itself also a work of art. Portfolio 12x14 1-2
pathetic story in verse. Illustrated by WALTER PAGET, inches, in box, $3.00.
with full-page drawings and dainty vignettes in monotint.
* The contents are seven little maids in fac-simile of water-
Ato, 56 pages, cloth gilt, $2.00; Japanese calf, $2.50.
color sketches, which we can conscientiously commend as
ALL THINGS BRIGHT AND BEAUTI-
copies for pupils as well as for a Christmas or New Year's
present. * * * All are treated largely with broad washes
FUL. Large 4to, cloth. $6.00.
and firm outlines. To copy them carefully may serve to give
THROUGH THE YEAR. Poems appropriate a beginner in water-colors a good start in the right direction.”
to the Four Seasons, profusely illustrated in monotint..
- The Art Amateur.
Quarto, cloth, gilt extra, $2.50; quarto, floral, Japanese *** All the above books are for sale at the bookstores, or sent
calf, limp, $3.50.
| by mail, postpaid, on receipt of the prices.
E. P. DUTTON & CO., PUBLISHERS, 31 WEST 230 STREET, NEW YORK. .


156
[Nov.,
THE DIAL
CASSELL & CO.'S NEW PUBLICATIONS.
NEW ZEALAND AFTER FIFTY YEARS.
By EDWARD WAKEFIELD. With numerous illustrations. One vol., 8vo, cloth, $2.00.
Mr. Wakefield has the faculty of being exhaustive and accurate without being tedious; partly from the habit
of studying every subject thoroughly, and partly from the good fortune of possessing a clear, direct, and graphic
style. He has the advantage, too, in describing strange lands, of being an excellent naturalist.
style. He has the advant
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI AS DESIGNER AND WRITER.
Notes by WILLIAM MICHAEL ROSSETTI, including a prose paraphrase of “ The House of Life." $2.50.
The present is the only volume that William M. Rossetti has issued regarding his famous brother. In this
volume the author has not attempted to write a biographical or critical account of Dante Rossetti, shrinking mod-
estly from a task which he would be sure to perform well. " Mine is a book of memoranda and of details," he
says; but it is more than that, for the thread upon which these memoranda are strung is of spun gold, which lends
a brilliancy to what might be, but is far from being, dull reading.
MEDICAL BOOK OF LIFE ASSURANCE.
For the use of Medical and other officers of Campanies.
By James E. POLLOCK, M.D., F.R.C.P., and JAMES
CHISHOLM. Price, $3.00.
SUBJECTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE.
By the Right Hon. Sir Lyox PLAYFAIR, K.C.B., M.P.,
LL.D., Ph.D., F.R.S. 1 vol., 12mo, extra cloth, $3.
JACQUES BONHOMME.
John BULL ON THE CONTINENT. FROM MY LETTER
Box. By Max O’RELL. 12mo, extra cloth, 75
cents; paper, 20 cents.
SERJEANT VON; or, A Long Chase.
From the diary of Inspector BYRNES. Cloth, 75 cents;
paper, 50 cents.
THE MORGESONS.
By ELIZABETH STODDARD. Cloth, 75 cents; paper,
50 cents.
AN HONEST HYPOCRITE.
By Edward Staats DE GROTE Tompkins. Cloth,
75 cents; paper, 50 cents.
THE LOST INCA.
By the “ INCA—PANCHO–Ozollo.” Cloth, 75 cents;
paper, 50 cents.
THE SONG OF THE BROOK.
By ALFRED Tennyson. After illustrations by WED-
WORTH WADSWORTH, beautifully reproduced in mon-
otones in the highest style of the lithographic art.
New and elegant binding, $2.50.
THE RIVERS OF GREAT BRITAIN : Rivers
of the East Coast.
Descriptive, historical, pictorial. With numerous highly
finished engravings. Royal 4to, 384 pages, cloth, gilt,
etc. Price, $15.00.
LONDON, Ancient and Modern.
From the Sanitary and Medical point of view. By G.
V. Poore, M.D., F.R.C.P. Illustrated. Price, $2.
THE GARDEN OF ARMIDA.
By ANNE SHELDON COOMBS, author of “ As Common
Mortals,” etc. One vol., 12mo, cloth, 75 cents;
paper, 50 cents.
WHITE MARIE.
A Story of Georgian Plantation Life. By Will N.
HARBEN. Cloth, 75 cents; paper, 50 cents.
MOTHER GOOSE.
Set to Music. New edition. The handsomest juvenile
of the year. Elegantly done in lithographic colors.
Music by EFFIE I. LANE. Illustrations by J. LOUIS
WEBB. New and unique binding. Price, $2.50.
THE PEOPLE PVE SMILED WITH.
Recollections of a Merry Little Life. By MARSHALL P. WILDER, the American Humorist. With two
portraits, extra cloth, gilt top, etc., $1.50.
“ The volume is brimming over with fun and interest.”—Boston Herald.
“ The happiest portions of the volume are the bits of after-dinner speeches.”—New York Times.
“ The author touches upon a vast number of noted men and women, and for each of them he has a kind word
to say.”—New York World.
“ A good book to take to the country or read in the train.”—New York Herald.
“ A book of smiles.”— Detroit Free Press.
COMPLETE CATALOGUE FREE TO ANY ADDRESS.
CASSELL & COMPANY, LIMITED, 104-106 Fourth Ave., New York.


1889.)
157
THE DIAL
THE LATEST BOOKS PUBLISHED THE CENTURY COMPANY,
No. 33 East SEVENTEENTH STREET, NEW YORK.
DADDY JAKE the Runaway, and Short Stories | TWO RUNAWAYS, and Other Stories. By
Told After Dark. By "UNCLE REMUS," JOEL CHANDLER ! HARRY S. EDWARDS. Illus. by KEMBLE. Cloth, $1.50.
HARRIS. Illustrated by KEMBLE. Square boards, $1.50. The stories of one of the most popular of our magazine
A new book of Uncle Remus” stories. “Daddy Jake,
writers are here for the first time brought together in perma-
the Runaway,” which forms the basis of the collection, was
nent form. Besides the one which gives the title to the col-
originally published as a three-part serial in St. Nicholas mag-
lection, the volume includes “Sister Todhunter's Heart,"
azine. The Boston Journal calls it " a delicious bit of negro
“Elder Brown's 'Backslide," "Minc'--A Plot," "Tom's
Strategy," " De Valley an' De Shadder," and others not less
character study.” Some of the stories are here printed for
the first time, while others were originally published in the
widely known. The volume is attractively bound, and con-
Atlanta Constitution and other newspapers. The orders from
tains a number of full-page illustrations.
the trade indicate that this will be one of the most popular WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON. THE STORY
children's books of the season.
OF His LIFE, TOLD BY His CHILDREN. Vols. III. and
IV. Cloth, gilt top, $3.00 each.
THE ROMANCE OF DOLLARD. By MARY
The publishers take pleasure in announcing the completion
HARTWELL CATHERWOOD. Illustrated. Cloth, $1.25. of this elaborate and important work, of which the first two
A novel of Canadian life. The exploit which forms the
volumes were issued in 1885. It is the history of the Anti-
slavery movement in America, told in the most interesting
basis of the story is said by Francis Parkman, the historian
(in a preface which he has written for the book), to be one
way. The London Daily Neus considers it “among the most
of the most notable feats of arms in American annals."
important, if not itself the most important, biography ever
Richly illustrated by HENRY SANDHAM.
issued in America." The last two volumes are published in
the same attractive manner as to illustrations, presswork,
"The most remarkable American story of the year.”— etc., which characterized the first. In handsome cloth bind-
Journal of Commerce, N. Y.
ing, gilt top, uncut, $3.00 a volume; the set, $12.00.
RECENT ISSUES OF THE CENTURY COMPANY.
THE HUNDREDTH MAN. A Novel. By FRANK R. | SPORT WITH GUN AND ROD. Trade edition. Cloth
STOCKTON. 430 pp., cloth, $1.50.
bound, $1.00.
THE CASTING AWAY OF MRS. LECKS AND MRS. PARISH PROBLEMS. Edited by Rev. WASHINGTON
ALESHINE. By FRANK R. STOCKTON. Cloth, 75 cents; GLADDEN. Cloth, $2.00.
paper, 50 cents.
GETTYSBURG MADE PLAIN. By Gen. ABNER Dou-
THE DUSANTES. By FRANK R. STOCKTON. A sequel BLEDAY. With maps. Paper, 25 cents.
to the last-named. Cloth, 75 cents; paper, 50 cents.
THE GRAYSONS. A Novel of Illinois life. By EDWARD
BOOKS FOR YOUNG FOLKS.
EGGLESTON. Illustrated. Cloth, $1.50.
THE BOUND VOLUMES OF ST. NICHOLAS
RANCH LIFE AND THE HUNTING TRAIL. By
MAGAZINE. In two parts. Price, $1.00.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Illustrated by REMINGTON.
Quarto, richly bound (in box), $5.00.
ST. NICHOLAS SONGS. 200 pages, 112 songs, 145 illus-
POEMS BY R. W. GILDER. In three books, complete.
trations; page size of sheet music. Cloth, $2.00.
Cloth, $2.50; paper, $1.20.
THE BOYS' BOOK OF SPORTS. Edited by MAURICE
POEMS BY IRWIN RUSSELL. With an Introduction
THOMPSON. Richly illustrated. Price, $2.00.
by JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS. Cloth, $1.00.
THE BROWNIES; THEIR BOOK. By PALMER Cox.
THE PHARAOHS OF THE BONDAGE AND THE
Price, $1.50.
EXODUS. By Rev. C.S. Robinson, D.D. Cloth, $1.00; BABY WORLD. Edited by MARY MAPES DODGE. Cloth,
paper, 50 cents.
$1.25 ; boards, $1.00.
EDUCATIONAL.
OXFORD COLLEGE FOR YOUNG LADIES
OXFORD, Ohio.
Famous Classical and Finishing School; 22 teachers, 180
students. The Alma Mater of Mrs. President Harrison. Con-
servatory of Music and Art. European vacation parties.
Rev. FAYE WALKER, President,
CHICAGO CONSERVATORY.
AUDITORIUM BUILDING, Chicago, ILL.
(Wabash Avenue entrance to the elevators.)
Music, Dramatic Art, Delsarte, Elocution, Oratory, Lan-
guages, etc. Private lessons in all branches are given through
the summer. Regular FALL term opens September 16.
SAMUEL KAYZER, Director.
YOUNG LADIES' SEMINARY.
FREEHOLD, N. J.
Near New York, Philadelphia and the Coast. Prepares for
College, or graduates from Advanced Course. Forty-sixth
year opened September 18, 1889.
Miss EUNICE D. SEWALL, President.
THE HARVARD SCHOOL.
2101 INDLANA AVE., Chicago, ILL.
For Boys. Will re-open Wednesday, September 18. Pri-
mary and higher department. Preparation for College, the
Scientific School, and Business. For information apply to
JOHN J. SCHOBINGER or John C. GRANT, Principals.
SEVEN GABLES.
BRIDGETON, N. J.
Mrs. Westcott's Boarding School for Young Ladies. In
South Jersey. Prepares for any college. Climate mild and
dry. Gymnasium. Illustrated circular.
TO AUTHORS.-The New York BUREAU OF REVISION
gives critical opinions on manuscripts of all kinds, edits
them for publication, and offers them to publishers. George
William Curtis says in Harper's Magazine: “Reading manu-
scripts with a view to publication is done, as it should be,
professionally, by the Easy Chair's friend and fellow-laborer
in letters, Dr. Titus Munson Coan.”' Send stamp to Dr.
Coan for prospectus at 20 West 14th St., New York City.


158
[Nov.,
THE DIAL
MACMILLAN & CO.'S NEW BOOKS.
Two Fine Art Books Suitable for Presents.
MR. JOSEPH PENNELL'S NEW BOOK :
PEN DRAWING AND PEN DRAUGHTSMEN.
THEIR WORK AND THEIR METHODS. A Study of the Art To-day, with Technical Remarks. By JOSEPH
PENNELL. With photogravures and other illustrations. 4to. (Immediately.)
The work of the following artists, besides others, being dealt with : Fortuny, Vierge, Favretto, Raffaelli, Montalti,
Fabres, Galice, Fau, Rico, Tito, Dietz, Luders, Detaille. Lemaire, Dantan, Jeanniot, Leloir, Lalanne, Lalauze, Frederick
Sandys, Ford Madox Brown, E. J. Poynter, Sir Frederick Leighton, William Small, W. L. Wyllie, T. Blake Wirgman, Fred-
erick Walker, George du Maurier, Charles Keene, Linley Sambourne, Harry Furniss, George Reid, Walter Crane, Randolph
Caldecott, Maurice Griffenhagen, Hugh Thomson, Herbert Railton, Alfred Parsons, Edwin A. Abbey, Howard Pyle, Arthur
B. Frost, Harry Fenn, Kenyon Cox, Wyatt Eaton, etc., etc.
A CENTURY OF ARTISTS,
A Memorial of the Loan Collection and Sculpture at the Glasgow International Exhibition, 1888. With Histor-
ical and Biographical Notices of the Artists. By WillIAM ERNEST HENLEY. Foolscap folio, price,
$16.00. Large paper copies (of which only a few copies have been printed), price, $35.00. (Ready.)
This work is illustrated by nine full-page plates and ninety-four illustrations, very many of them in color, from drawings
specially made for this volume. The etchings, after pictures by Bosboom, Corot, Israels, Sir Daniel Maenee, Jacobus Maris,
Sir Joshua Reynolds, Rousseau, and Sir David Wilkie, are by Mr. William Hole, R.S.A., Mr. William Strang, Mr. F. Huth,
and Mr. A. W. Henley.
ROYAL EDINBURGH: HER SAINTS, KINGS, AND SCHOLARS.
By Mrs. OLIPHANT, author of " Makers of Florence," “ Makers of Venice,” etc. With illustrations by GEORGE
Reid, R.S.A. 12mo. (Shortly.)
A NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF "THE HEIR
THE NEW LIBRARY WORDSWORTH.
OF REDCLYFFE."
THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM
A REPUTED CHANGELING; or, Three
WORDSWORTH. Chronologically arranged,
Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago. By CHAR with the author's various readings, and many new MSS.
LOTTE M. YONGE, author of "The Heir of Redclyffe," hitherto unpublished. Edited by WILLIAM KNIGHT, LL.D.,
etc., etc. 12mo, $1.00.
Professor of Moral Philosophy, St. Andrews. Illustrated
with Etchings from Original Drawings. Eight vols., 8vo.
THE TREASURY OF SACRED SONG. Se $25.00
lected from the English Lyrical Poetry of Four Centuries,
Also, UNIFORM WITH THE ABOVE:
with Notes, explanatory and biographical, by FRANCIS T. THE LIFE OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.
PALGRAVE, Professor of Poetry in the University of Oxford.
By William KNIGHT, LL.D., with which is incorporated
16mo. Oxford Clarendon Press. $1.50.
the solitary canto of the projected “Recluse," the fragments
*** Five hundred copies have been printed on large paper
of Michael," the poem on Nat Well (originally designed
(485 for sale), of which 100 have been purchased by Macmillan
as a portion of the “Recluse") "Alfonden and Grasmere,"
& Co. for the American market.
" Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth,” “Records of Tours,
Letters,'' etc. Ilustrated with an etched portrait from the
BISHOP LIGHTFOOT ON SUPERNATURAL
picture by Haydon. Three vols., Svo, $10.00.
RELIGION.
ESSAYS on the work entitled SUPERNATU-
ENGLISH MEN OF ACTION-NEW VOLUME.
RAL RELIGION. By J. B. LIGHTFOOT, D.D., STRAFFORD. By H. D. TRAILL. 12mo, limp,
D.C.L., LL.D., Bishop of Durham. 8vo, $2.50.
60 cents; cloth, edges uncut, 75 cents.
Recently Issued in the same Series:
A CHEAP EDITION OF CHARLES KINGSLEY'S
NOVELS.
GENERAL GORDON. By Col. Sir William BUTLER.
HENRY THE FIFTH. By the Rev. A. J. CHURCH.
WESTW ARD HO! By CHARLES KINGSLEY.
LIVINGSTONE. By Mr. Thomas HUGHES.
8vo, paper. Beautifully printed by R. & R. Clark. 23 cts.
LORD LAWRENCE. By Sir RICHARD TEMPLE.
TEMPLE LIBRARY-NEW VOLUMES.
WELLINGTON. By Mr. GEORGE HOOPER.
SELECT ESSAYS OF DR. JOHNSON. Ed-
DAMPIER. By W. CLARK RUSSELL.
ited by GEORGE BIRKBECK Hill, V.C.L. With six etch-
MONK. By Mr. JULIAN CORBETT.
ings by HERBERT RAILTON. Two vols., 16mo, $.3.75 ; or,
STOTT LIBRARY-NEW VOLUME.
on large paper, two vols., post 8vo, $7.00.
“Every person must sooner or later possess a copy of John DE QUINCEY. A Selection of His Best Works•
son's Essays, and it would be difficult to find them in a more
Edited by W. H. BENNETT. Two vols., 32mo, $1.50.
attractive form than in the Temple Library' edition."'-Lon-
don Athenæum.
Vol. 1. CONFESSIONS OF an English OPIUM EATER, ETC.
Vol. 2. ON MURDER CONSIDERED AS ONE OF THE FINE
CHAUCER'S CANTERBURY TALES. Anno ARTS, ETC.
tated and accented, with illustrations of English life in "A selection from the best works of De Quincey. The size.
Chaucer's time. By John SAUNDERS. New and revised edi- the exemplary binding, the clear typography of these little
tion. With illustrations from the Ellesmere MS, 12mo, $1.60. | books, make them almost ideal pocket companions."'- Nation,
MACMILLAN & CO., 112 FOURTH AVE., NEW YORK


1889.]
159
THE DIAL
Paul B. Du Chaillu's Great Work - Now Ready.
THE VIKING AGE.
The Early History, Manners and Customs of the Ancestor of the English-speaking Nations. Illustrated
from the Antiquities discovered in Mounds, Cairns, and Bogs, as well as from the Ancient Sagas and
Eddas. By PAUL B. Du CHAILLU. With 1,400 illustrations. Two vols., 8vo. $7.50.
Mr. Du Chaillu's great popular work is the product of many years of incessant labor in the collection and
arrangement of facts which throw a flood of light upon the character of the progenitors of the English-speaking
race. Recent researches have made it clear that those Northmen who, at the decadence of the Roman Empire,
overran and settled in Britain and the northern coast of Germany and France, were not barbarians, as has long
been erroneously supposed, but a most highly civilized and accomplished people. Vast quantities of objects,
including arms and armor, gold and silver ornaments of the most skilful workmanship and refined beauty; wood-
carving, filigree work, agricultural and domestic implements, magnificent carriages, etc., have been unearthed.
But besides these material testimonies to the greatness of these Northmen, we have the literary and historic rec-
ords of the Sagas and Eddas, and by testing the evidence of one with the other we can obtain a wonderfully vivid
idea of the manners, customs, laws, traditions, and domestic life of a bygone age.
W. W. ASTOR'S NEW NOVEL:
PERSONALLY CONDUCTED.
SFORZA: A STORY OF MILAN.
BY FRANK R, STOCKTON.
With 46 illustrations by JOSEPH PENNELL, ALFRED
By WILLIAM WALDORF Astor. 12mo. $1.50.
Parsons, and others. Square 8vo. $2.00.
As in his successful work, "Valentino," Mr. Astor chooses A fascinating volume of travel by the famous story-teller,
historical and romantic Italy for the scene of his novel. It is the chapters being a series of pleasant informal talks with
a tale of one of the most famous families of medieval Italy,
an imaginary party of young people to whom the author is
showing the curious and interesting sights of the Old World
and gives the author the richest possible material for a dra-
--a fancy that Mr. Stockton works out with his customary
matic plot, several well-drawn and sharply accented charac-
ingenuity and cleverness. The illustrations give the book a
ters, and a succession of brilliantly worded pen-pictures of the high artistic quality, and make it a volume admirably suited
times he portrays.
| for a holiday gift.
THE AMERICAN RAILWAY.
Its Construction, Development, Management, and Appliances. By Thomas CURTIS CLARKE, JOHN BOGART,
M. N. FORNEY, E. P. ALEXANDER, H. G. PROUT, HORACE PORTER, THEODORE VOORHEES, BENJAMIN
NORTON, ARTHUR T. HADLEY, Thomas L. James, Charles Francis Adams, and B. B. ADAMS, Jr. With
more than 200 illustrations. With an Introduction by Judge THOMAS M. COOLEY, Chairman of the Inter-
State Commerce Commission. Large 8vo. $6.00 net.
This volume contains the only complete popular account of the construction, development, management, and appliances of
American Railways ever published. Leading authorities, both as theorists and practical railway men, are the writers of the
series, each man having been selected for his unusual eminence in the department he was asked to describe. Every phase of
the life of railway men, from the president to firemen and track-walkers, is treated and illustrated in a complete and interest-
ing manner; and the chapters are so arranged as to give the most logical idea of the railway world extant. A complete and
thorough index makes the volume of unusual worth and convenience as a reference-book. It contains more than 225 illustra-
tions of original subjects.
LESTER WALLACK’S
A COLLECTION OF
MEMORIES OF FIFTY YEARS.
With an Introduction by LAURENCE Hutton. With
16mo. $1.25.
numerous portraits, views, fac-simile reproductions, This collection of letters of the immortal author of “Pick-
etc. Popular Edition. 12mo. $1.50.
wick" and “ David Copperfield” is compiled from already
published materials, and is issued in a uniform style, both in
"A volume of reminiscences singularly rich in entertain-
binding and in press-work, with the popular edition of the
ment."- Boston Advertiser.
“ Collection of Letters of Thackeray." The two volumes
** The limited large-paper edition of 500 copies of this contain the brightest and most characteristic letters of the
book was entirely sold within ten days of the date of publi two great novelists, and will make a popular gift set for the
cation.
| holiday season.
LETTERS OF DICKENS-1833-1870.
A New Portrait of Constance Fenimore Woolson,
With a charming personal sketch of the author, appears in the October number of The Book BUYER. Also, an
engraved portrait and sketch of HENRIK IBSEN, the famous Norwegian dramatist, who has been the literary sen-
sation of the past London season ; together with sketch and portrait of BLANCHE Willis HOWARD, and forty
pages of literary articles, reviews, etc. Beautifully illustrated. “ The best literary guide published," says the New
York Tribune. If you will inclose ten cents, a copy of the October number will be sent you.
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, 743-745 BROADWAY, New York.


160
[Nov., 1889.
THE DIAL
- - --
THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE.
By OlivER WENDELL HOLMES. An entirely New Edition, from new plates, with engraved title-pages from
designs by Mrs. HENRY WHITMAN. Two vols., 16mo, carefully printed and tastefully bound, gilt top, $2.50.
A limited number of copies have been reserved from the first edition, and will be issued in cloth, paper label,
uncut edges, at $3.00.
This edition of Dr. Holmes's most famous book has been prepared with the utmost care to meet the demand
for so delightful a work in an attractive style, suited to its classic merits.
MEMOIRS OF A MILLIONAIRE.
THE NEW ELDORADO.
A Novel. By Lucia TRUE AMES. $1.25.
| A Summer Journey to Alaska. By Maturiy M.
Miss Ames's novel will in some respects appeal to the BALLOU. Crown 8vo, $1.50.
same persons who have been deeply impressed by “look-
ing Backward.” It emphasizes the responsibilities of
A fresh book on a fresh subject by an accomplished
large wealth, and indicates how it may be most wisely
traveller. Those who have read “ Due West,” “ Due
used; yet is none the less a very readable story, abound- South,” “ Due North,” and “Under the Southern Cross,"
ing in noble suggestions and presenting beautiful ideals. I will heartily welcome Mr. Ballou's new book.
THE STRUGGLE FOR IMMORTALITY.
Essays by ELIZABETH STUART PHELPs, author of “ The Gates Ajar," etc. One vol., 16mo, $1.25.
Contents: What is a Fact ? Is God Good ? What Does Revelation Reveal ? The Struggle for Immortality;
The Christianity of Christ; Psychical Opportunity; The Psychical Wave.
A book of remarkable interest on some of the greatest and most inspiring subjects that can engage the
human mind.
A RAMBLER'S LEASE.
By BRADFORD TORREY, author of “ Birds in the Bush."
16mo, $1.25.
CONTENTS: My Real Estate; A Woodland Intimate;
An Old Road; Confessions of a Birds’Nest Hunter; A
Green Mountain Cornfield; Behind the Eye; A Novem-
ber Chronicle; New England Winter; A Mountain-Side
Ramble; A Pitch-Pine Meditation; Esoteric Peripatet-
icism; Butterfly Psychology; Bashful Drummers.
THE CHURCH IN MODERN SOCIETY.
By Rev. Julius H. WARD. 16mo, $1.00.
In this book Mr. Ward, who has given much study
to religious and social questions, shows the part which
the Christian Church has had in the development of the
institutions of society, the position it now occupies, and
the work that lies before it, if it is to control the social
factors of modern life.
ORIGIN AND GROWTH OF THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION.
An Historical Treatise, in which is drawn out, by the Light of the most recent Researches, the Gradual Devel-
opment of the English Constitutional System, and the Growth out of that System of the Federal Republic
of the United States. By lIannis TAYLOR. One vol., 8vo, $4.50.
DEARLY BOUGHT. NO GENTLEMEN.
A SANE LUNATIC.
A New Edition of Three Novels, by CLARA LOUISE
BURNHAM, author of “ Young Maids and Old” and
6 Next Door.” Each, 16mo, $1.25.
THE LAST ASSEMBLY BALL; and, THE
FATE OF A VOICE.
Two excellent stories by MARY HALLOCK FOOTE, au-
thor of « The Led Horse Claim," ~ John Bodewin's
Testimony," etc. 16mo, $1.25.
THE RECONSTRUCTION OF EUROPE.
A Sketch of the Diplomatic and Military History of Continental Europe from the Rise to the Fall of the Second
French Empire. By HAROLD MURDOCK. With an Introduction by John FISKE, and several Maps. Crown
8vo, $2.00.
*** For sale by all booksellers, or sent, post paid, on receipt of the price, by the pubiishers,
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY, BOSTON.


NOV 9181,4
THE DIAL
Vol. X. NOVEMBER, 1889. No. 115. he was a great letter-writer, and he had friends
worth writing to. Men like James Spedding,
Thackeray, Alfred and Frederick Tennyson,
CONTENTS.
were his friends from youth to old age; there
THE TRANSLATOR OF OMAR KHAYYAM. Mel-
were others somewhat less eminent, but scarcely
ville B. Anderson . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
any undistinguished. Yet he courted celebri-
THE ANTI-SLAVERY CRUSADE IN KANSAS. ties as little as he courted celebrity ; the men
H. W. Thurston .. ...... .... 164 I have mentioned were still young and obscure
AN AMERICAN RELIGIOUS LEADER. C. A. L. when he first knew them, and after they be-
Richards ............... 166 came famous they remained his friends in spite
THE SWEDISH REVOLUTION. ....... 167 of his frank and trenchant criticism, or—what
RECENT BOOKS ON THE STUDY OF ENGLISH is a still harder test of friendship of his in-
LITERATURE. Oliver Farrar Emerson . . . 168 difference to their works. With Carlyle and
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS .......... 171
Mrs. Kemble he became somewhat intimate
Ireland's William Hazlitt, Essayist and Critic.-Mrs.
later on; and his acquaintance with Mr.
Cheney's Life of Louisa May Alcott. – Daudet's
Lowell and Professor Norton was confined to
Artists' Wives.- Miss Zimmern's Hansa Towns.-
the last ten years of his life. His affection for
Philipson's The Jew in English Fiction.- Parker's all these great people was as simple as his
Familiar Talks on Astronomy.- Lodge's Life of affection for many less famous people, — as
George Washington.- Morse's Life of Franklin. simple as that for the good captain of his lug-
Mitchell's English Lands, Letters, and Kings. -
ger, of whom he said, sincerely enough: “ This
Cocker's The Government of the United States.--
is altogether the Greatest Man I have known.”
Dunlop's Life of Grattan.
The way in which all these men received his
TOPICS IN NOVEMBER PERIODICALS ::.. 174 honest criticism is extremely creditable to them
BOOKS OF THE MONTH .......... 174
and to human nature. He made no secret of
his preference of the novels of Scott, and even
= = = --
of some by Trollope and Wilkie Collins, to
THE TRANSLATOR OF OMAR KHAYYAM.* |
those of Thackeray; yet the friendship re-
Edward FitzGerald's character, as revealed mained unbroken and tender to the end. He
in his letters, turns out to be as charming as liked nothing that “ Alfred ” wrote after the
his unique translations. He was evidently the volume of 1842, not even “ that accursed
simplest, sincerest, most genuine of men. His Princess," not even “ In Memoriam,” which
seclusiveness was almost as extreme as that of “ has that air of being evolved by a Poetical
Thoreau ; but it would be very unjust to him Machine of the highest order.” Spedding
to compare him to that enthusiast, for no man seems to have been the friend to whom he was
of the world could be freer from all that is first and last most tenderly attached ; he cer-
strained and eccentric. He honestly enjoyed tainly admired Spedding above all others—the
simplicity in manners, in art, in literature, in captain of the lugger perhaps excepted, yet
character, in daily life; and he accordingly he deprecated Spedding's life-long devotion to
laid out his life upon as simple a plan as is Bacon, and ridiculed the laborious attempt “ to
compatible with membership in a highly artifi wash that Blackamoor white.” Under cover of
cial society. He had no affectation of getting his own modesty and unassumingness, he ad-
back to a state of hairy quadrumanous naked ministers to Carlyle the very criticism that
ness; he simply established himself in a little worthy most needed. Later on, when the in-
cottage with an old woman to “ do ” for him ; timacy had strengthened, one finds him saying
surrounded himself with the books and pictures to Carlyle : “ You don't care what one thinks
and flowers that he loved ; saw gladly the few of your books : you know I love so many : I
friends who took the trouble to visit him, — don't care so much for Frederick so far as he's
and so lived his lonely, meditative life. Luckily gone : I suppose you don't neither.” This is
most wholesome by the side of Emerson's
* LETTERS AND LITERARY REMAINS OF EDWARD Fitz
GERALD. Edited by William Aldis Wright. In Three Vol-
panegyrics—surely somewhat forced — in his
umes. New York: Macmillan & Co.
letters to Carlyle. · After the death of his old


162
THE DIAL
[Nov.,
- = - = =- =
friend Bernard Barton, the Quaker poet, it mark or anecdote, one must take counsel of
naturally fell to FitzGerald to edit a book of one's bump of locality and search through a
selections from Barton's letters and poems, and volume of five hundred pages. A certain num-
to contribute “ a little dapper Memoir." Of ber of repetitions of this experience makes even
this book he says to Frederick Tennyson : a tolerant reader wish, in his haste, that Mr.
“ Some of B. B.'s letters are pleasant, I think, Browning's unpoetical scurrillity had been ad-
and when you come to England I will give you dressed to the living editor rather than to the
this little book of incredibly small value.” innocent dead. But Mr. Wright has been
After all this, and much more of the same sort, sufficiently punished, one would think, by the
it is amusing to an American to hear him say knowledge that his unpardonable negligence is
to Mr. Lowell, apropos of the “ Moosehead alone to blame for bringing this barbarous ven-
Journal”: “ I did not like the style of it at all; geance upon one who shrank from every form
all • too clever by half.' Do you not say so your- of publicity as other men shrink from death or
self, after Cervantes, Scott, Montaigne, etc.?” from obscurity.
Not that there was anything of the caviller | FitzGerald lived long enough to read, just
or the grumbier about FitzGerald ; on the con- | before his death, the Carlyle-Emerson Corres-
trary, he was the most amiable of men. His pondence, as edited by his American friend,
literary favorites are as various as his lit- Professor Norton. How appropriate and how
erary friends, but his hearty admirations are easy it would have been for FitzGerald to in-
tempered by just those reserves which made trust his literary remains to his friend at the
his praise of value to the judicious. Indeed American Cambridge! But “ this ultra-modest
he had, beyond most men of his time, the tem- man,” as Carlyle termed him, scarcely thought
per of the true literary critic. Had he chosen that even his translations would be published
to publish book-reviews he would have been a after his death : and he would probably have
model to the reviewers of an era of puffery, for been terrified at the bare idea of the publica-
his faculty of self-detachment, of separating tion of his correspondence. If he be at this
the man from his works, was remarkable. moment cognizant of the poor scenes now en-
Perhaps his solitary life made him the better acting in a world which he left without regret,
able to retain his natural independence of judg one may fancy him more wounded by the in-
ment. Taking a fresh survey of whatever is discretion of his friends than by the insult of
brought under his eye, he is singularly free Mr. Browning.
from prepossession and from cant, whether of Readers of “ The Rubaiyát of Omar Khay-
party, of school, or of fashion.
yám” will be glad to tun from these stric-
In the midst of the consideration of these tures to a brief consideration of his other less
entertaining letters and beautiful translations, known but equally masterly translations. Let
it is a great pity to have to find fault. But us begin with a specimen from his free render-
the want of a topical index to the letters is ing of Calderon's masterpiece, which FitzGer-
something that a reviewer has no right to pass ald entitles, “Such Stuff as Dreams are Made
over in silence,-even if it did not waste his of,” uji. 1:
time and patience, both scanty. I know of no " The sailor dreamed of tossing on the flood :
similar publication that contains a greater
The soldier of his laurels grown in blood :
number of apt and suggestive remarks upon
The lover of the beauty that he knew
Must yet dissolve to dusty residue :
the books and authors of the Victorian era.
The merchant and the miser of his bags
Many of these scattered obiter dicta, the fruit Of finger'd gold ; the beggar of his rags :
And all this stage of earth on which we seem
of ripe meditation, are much more enlightening,
Such busy actors, and the parts we play'd,
because more centrally true, than some lengthy
Substantial as the shadow of a shade,
professional critiques on the same subjects. In-
And Dreaming but a dream within a dream!”
deed, it often happens that this solitary reader Compare with this Dr. Trench's more literal
condenses into a few lines a judgment which rendering of the corresponding passage at the
has cost him more hours of study and reflection end of Act i. of - Life's a Dream”:
than many a Quarterly Review article costs its
"And the rich man dreams no less
author. There are in these letters numberless
Mid his wealth which brings more cares ;
And the poor man dreams he bears
remarks which, considering their source, no
All his want and wretchedness :
critic can henceforth afford to overlook. But
Dreams, whom anxious thoughts oppress,
Dreams, who for high place contends,
if one desires (as what reader does not ?) to
Dreams, who injures and offends ;
look up the exact form of any particular re.


1889.7
163
TIE DIAL
What is life? a frenzy mere ;
I had once lent the Persian, and to old Donne when he
What is life? e'en that we deem ;
was down here the other Day, to whom I was showing
A conceit, a shadow all,
a Passage in another Book which brought my old
And the greatest good is small :
Omar up."
Nothing is, but all doth seem -
Dreams within dreams, still we dream!”
As far back as May, 1857, we find him con-
The stars indicate the omission of seven lines fiding to Professor Cowell his plan of translat-
which do not affect this comparison, as they
ing Eschylus :
are not rendered by FitzGerald. Readers who "I think I want to turn his Trilogy into what shall
prefer patient mediocrity punctually sweating
be readable English verse; a thing I have always
thought of, but was frightened at the Chorus. So I am
after its author, like Sancho after the Don,
now; I can't think them so fine as people talk of: they
will be for the version of Dr. Trench. On the
are terribly maimed; and all such Lyrics require a
other hand, those who prize poetry above ru better Poet than I am to set forth in English. But the
bies, and who are uncritical enough to be satis better Poets won't do it; and I cannot find one readable
fied with a translation which merely gives an
translation. I shall (if I make one) make a very free
one; not for Scholars, but for those who are ignorant
impression of the power and beauty of the
of Greek, and who (so far as I have seen) have never
original, will doubtless find their account in been induced to learn it by any Translations yet made
FitzGerald's “ free-and-easy” rendering, — as of these Plays. I think I shall become a bore, of the
he himself styles it in his humbly apologetic
Bowring order, by all this Translation; but it amuses
me without any labor, and I really think I have the
letter to Archbishop Trench. Distrustful as
faculty of making some things readable which others
he always was of his own powers, he seems to
have hitherto left unreadable. But don't be alarmed
have set but a slight estimate upon the value with the anticipation of another sudden volume of
of any of his translations ; and the satirical Translations; for I only sketch out the matter, then put
lines prefixed to “ Such Stuff as Dreams are
it away; and coming on it one day with fresh eyes, trim
it up with some natural impulse that I think gives a
Made of” are hardly an exaggeration of his
natural air to all.”
habitual tone when mentioning these things,
even to his most intimate friends :
Ile never fully carried out this plan, but
“For Calderon's drama sufficient would seem
some ten years later he completed and printed
The title he chose for it-- Life is a Dream';
-privately, as usual-his now famous render-
Two words of the motto now filch'd are enough
ing of the “ Agamemnon.” This was intended
For the impudent mixture they label-Such stuff!'".
chiefly for the benefit of Mrs. Kemble and one
It is sadly amusing to know that a man capa-
or two other friends who knew no Greek.
ble of “such stuff" should have gone through
| Mrs. Kemble made this, and the versions of
life thinking small-beer of himself in compari Calderon's two great dramas, known in Amer-
son with the mob of relatively commonplace
ica ; and in 1875 a request on the part of Pro-
people. He has misgivings about letting Dr. fessor C. E. Norton for a copy of the “ Aga-
Trench see his best versions of Calderon, and memnon ” led to the pleasant and somewhat
he is afraid to send to Milnes his privately and
extended correspondence between FitzGerald
furtively printed quatrains from Omar. He
and Messrs. Lowell and Norton. This corres-
writes to Professor Thompson in 1862:
pondence had one result for which we have
“Now, I really feel ashamed when you ask about my reason to feel thankful : the completion of the
Persian Translations, though they are all very well:
versions from Sophocles entitled by FitzGerald
only very little affairs. I really have not the face to
send to Milnes direct; but I send you four Copies
“ The Downfall and Death of King (Edipus."
which I have found in a Drawer here, to do as you will He was continually belittling these masterly
with. This will save Milues, or anyone else, the bore translations, and reminding all who referred to
of writing to me to acknowledge it."
them that they were by no means intended for
Readers of the quatrains from Omar who scholars. The “ Agamemnon” he calls “ the
have not yet seen the letters, will perhaps most impudent of all ”; he will not send a copy
thank me for quoting FitzGerald's own “ Story to Carlyle, even when requested ; he will not
of Rubáiyát.”
send a copy to Mrs. Thompson because she is
“I had translated them partly for Cowell: young the wife of a Grecian ; and he writes as fol-
Parker asked me some years ago for something for lows to Professor Wright concerning his small
Fraser, and I gave him the less wicked of these to use
Escapades in print":
if he chose. He kept them for two years without using:
and as I saw he didn't want them I printed some copies
“But I am always a little ashamed of having made
with Quaritch; and, keeping some for myself, gave him
my leisure and idleness the means of putting myself
the rest. Cowell, to whom I sent a Copy, was naturally forward in print, when really so many much better peo-
alarmed at it; he being a very religious Man: nor have | ple keep silent, having other work to do. This is, I
I given any other Copy but to George Borrow, to whom I know, my sincere feeling on the subject."


164
[Nov.,
THE DIAL
--
--
FitzGerald is an example of those who, caccio, what Coleridge did for Schiller. The
“ measuring themselves by themselves, are not quatrains from Omar seem to be little less
wise ”; but his unwisdom was not precisely original with FitzGerald than is the Elegy
of the kind which the apostle glanced at. His with Gray, and perhaps the one poem will live
life was so solitary, and his associates, when he as eternally as the other. If this be true, or
went among men, were chiefly men of such even half true, then “ dear old Fitz," with his
transcendent powers, that he never fairly meas “ innocent far niente life,” concerning which
ured himself with the mob of reviewers and he was apt to be so remorseful, has after all
able editors and literary men at large, among left his countrymen a legacy which they will
whom there is such prodigious “knocking prize when the Swinburnes and Morrises and
about of brains.” He felt himself hopelessly Mrs. Brownings shall be remembered, if at all,
inferior to the Tennysons, and apparently also like Waller and Marvell and Donne, by a few
to Carlyle, Spedding, and Thackeray ; in point tuneful lines in old anthologies. Better were
of scholarship, to which he made not the slight- it for the fame of some such poets, would they
est pretension, he felt himself but a child by ! but devote themselves, as FitzGerald did, to
the side of his friend Thompson, Professor of rescuing, for the benefit of English readers,
Greek at Cambridge, and of his friend Cowell, the great masterpieces of other literatures from
the Orientalist. These, with the painter Lau the clutches of dismal pedants, whose versions
rence, his neighbor the Quaker poet Barton, keep the word of promise to the letter and
and his neighbor Parson Crabbe (son of the break it to the spirit. FitzGerald will have
poet), are the men with whom his life was the reward he neither sought nor expected.
most closely linked. Comparing himself with He is one of that company, described by
some of the first men of his time, whether for Chaucer, who besought Lady Fame to hide
scholarship or for genius, the modest recluse their good works, which they had done for con-
reckoned himself a mere Will Wimble, because templation's sake and for the love of God.
he fancied that he fell somewhat short of the But the capricious divinity ordered her Eolian
high standards his friends set for him. Judg trumpeter, instead, to take his golden clarion
ing from the pure wine of poetry which, in the and ring out their names so loud and clear
capacity of a translator, he has added to our " That through the worldë went the sound,
literature, and from the sanity, the sense of
Also keenly and eke so soft, -
But attë last it was on loft.”
style, the vigor of intellect, and the large im-
aginative grasp of his thought everywhere ap-
MELVILLE B. ANDERSON.
parent in his versions, one may fairly doubt
whether his self-supposed inferiority to the
Tennysons and Carlyle and Thackeray was not
TIIE ANTI-SLAVERY CRUSADE IN KANSAS.*
a matter of ambition rather than of native ca “Come on, then, gentlemen of the Slave
pacity. At all events, the translator who, by States; since there is no escaping your chal-
the fine originality and daring creativeness of lenge, I accept it in behalf of freedom. We
his renderings of such various poets, has fairly will engage in competition for the virgin soil
earned a right to the title of prince of transla- of Kansas ; and God give the victory to the side
tors since old Chapman, may safely be said to that is stronger in numbers, as it is in right.”
have deserved better of his language and of Thus rang out the voice of the Hon. William
future memory than any secondary poet of his H. Seward, during the last days of the Senate
time. It is only when we consider that really debate on the Kansas-Nebraska bill, May 25,
great translators are even rarer than poets who 1854. On May 30, President Pierce signed
can pass awhile for great, that we are capable the bill, and Kansas was thought by a majority
of doing justice to the modest genius of him of the people of the North to be foredoomed
who made great Sophocles, mighty Eschylus, to slavery. The South was exultant, the North
sad Omar, and impassioned Calderon, clasp depressed and filled with gloom. It was indeed
hands across the centuries and speak with liv- reasonable to suppose that Missouri alone, lv-
ing force in English words. He has made ing, with her hundred thousand slaves, worth
these masters speak upon his page, perhaps $35,000,000, directly between Kansas and the
not just as they would have spoken had they East, could pour such a stream of pro-slavery
been Englishmen, but with a music and a power
scarcely inferior to their own.
* A HISTORY OF THE KANSAS CRUSADE: Its Friends and
He has done Its Foes. By Eli Thayer. Introduction by Rev. Edward
for them, in short, what Chaucer did for Boc- | Everett Hale, D.D. New York: Harper & Brothers.


1889.]
165
THE DIAL
men into the territory that the friends of free companies. The books of the Massachusetts
dom would be unable to send champions enough company show the names of about three thous-
even to dilute the current. But dark as the and persons, in all, for the three years it was in
future looked, Senator Seward's words, if not operation. It is true that this is a small part of
directly inspired by a movement then on foot, the total number of emigrants who went to
were being proved, even as he spoke, grandly Kansas before 1861, in which year the terri-
true. “ The Kansas Crusade ” had already tory became a free State. But, as is said by
been preached, and men were already prepar Professor Spring in his history of Kansas,
ing to march to the rescue of the “ Holy Land “ The work of the Boston organization cannot
of Freedom.”
be adequately exhibited by arithmetical com-
The idea of an organized immigration of free putations. A vital, capital part of it lay in
men into slave territory was not a new one; spheres where mathematics are ineffectual-
but the credit of putting the idea into suc lay in its alighting upon a feasible method,
cessful practice belongs largely to the Hon. Eli which was copied far and wide.” This method
Thayer, of Worcester, Massachusetts. Dur was, in its essence, organized emigration of free
ing the evening of March 11, 1854, nearly two men in such numbers that they at once founded
months before the final passage of the Kansas free towns, strong enough not only to protect
Nebraska bill, Mr. Thayer spoke in Worcester themselves against slavery, but strong enough
as follows:
also to become centres of anti-slavery move-
“It is time now to think of what is to be done in the ments in the territory.
event of the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska bill. Now
Of the actual struggle between slavery and
is the time to organize an opposition that will utterly
freedom in Kansas, Mr. Thayer says almost
defeat the schemes of selfish men who misrepresent
the nation at Washington. Let every effort be made,
nothing in his “ History of the Kansas Cru-
and every appliance be brought to bear, to fill up that sade.” But of the organization, plans, and
vast and fertile territory with free men—with men who successful working of the New England Emi-
hate slavery, and who will drive the hideous thing from
grant Aid Company, he gives a brief, strong,
the broad and beautiful plains where they go to raise
their free homes. I, for one, am willing to be taxed
comprehensive account, well supported by quo- .
one-fourth of my time, or of my earnings, until this be
tations from the words of his friends and his
done_until a barrier of free hearts and strong hands enemies. We are told that the organization
shall be built around the land our fathers consecrated was made so complete that a solicitor of funds
to freedom, to be her heritage forever.”
was at work in every school district in some of
In immediate fulfilment of his pledge, Mr. the States, and all money raised in this way
Thayer drew up a charter for a company to be and in other ways was forwarded to needy set-
called the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Com tlers in Kansas by a national Kansas committee
pany (afterwards changed to the New England whose headquarters were in Chicago.
Emigrant Aid Company), and secured its pass That Mr. Thayer and his Emigrant Aid
age by the Massachusetts legislature, although Company did much to keep Kansas free, there
"Not one member, either of the Senate or can be no doubt ; and that the defeat of the
House, had any faith in the measure.” Early slave power in Kansas hastened the national
in May a company was formed under this char | death-struggle between slavery and freedom, is
ter; and on the 17th of July the first colony, no less certain. But Mr. Thayer's assumption,
of twenty-nine men, set out to make for them- implied often, if not actually stated, that with-
selves free homes in Kansas. The news of out this company Kansas would not have be-
their coming went before them, and the sound come free, and that without a free Kansas
of ringing cheers greeted them and followed there would not yet be a free country, one may
them all along their way. Other companies well hesitate to accept. The contest was not
soon followed. Mr. Thayer travelled over a duel, to be arranged for and decided by a
sixty thousand miles and made hundreds of single shot at a certain moment, but an all-
speeches to explain “ The Plan of Freedom," | embracing war, slowly gathering, but inevit-
as Horace Greeley called it; and soon the en able and prolonged ; and hence it was not
thusiasm of the North became so great, and dependent, ultimately, upon the actions of any
emigrant aid societies sprang up in such num company of men chartered by a State legisla-
bers, that before the close of 1854, of the eight ture.
thousand people then in Kansas, more than Nor is the bitter spirit shown by the author
one-half are thought to have gone there directly in his treatment of “the Abolitionists” to be
or indirectly through the influence of these commended. A man who believes that “ The
o


166
THE DIAL
[Nov.,
== = = =
great Kansas struggle was the pivot on which the men of to-day. Humor and clearness can
this nation turned to a nobler development and do much. If they could do everything, apart
to a higher and happier condition of all its from theological training and profound relig-
people"; a man who believes, in regard to the ious sympathy, Professor Allen's volume might
agencies that brought about this state of free- be needless. As it is, Dr. Holmes will be read-
dom, that “ Whatever ephemeral endorsement iest to recognize that he but heralded the com-
any false claims might be able to secure, the ing of the man more thoroughly equipped for
careful study of future historians would be the work of giving the churches a well-balanced
certain to expose, while it would establish, vin and just study of the great divine and meta-
dicate, and fortify the truth”; a man who physician of New England.
truly believes all this in regard to a movement Born in 1703, the only son in a minister's
in which he has been the leader, can afford to family of eleven children, an affectionate, sen-
be more generous with his enemies. As a sitive, docile, and precocious boy, Jonathan
whole, however, Mr. Thayer's book is a valu Edwards entered Yale at thirteen, and bore
able contribution, at first hand, to the litera off the highest college honors four years later.
ture of the Civil War.
Locke's great work fell in his way in his fresh-
H. W. THURSTON. man year, and he projected a treatise on the
Mind, and gathered notes for it, at an age
when modern boys are absorbed in hop-scotch
AN AMERICAN RELIGIOUS LEADER.*
and leap-frog. Some of his earlier papers re-
No recent work has been more full of fresh main. A cultivated physician in Ohio, a few
interest, more suggestive in its sayings and its years since, demonstrated from indisputable
silences, than Professor A. V. G. Allen's Boh-| premises through irrefragable processes, that
len Lectures on the Continuity of Christian the interstellar ether of the physicist is God.
Thought. Its writer was plainly a man at The young Edwards went one step farther.
home with the Greek and Latin Fathers, and “ I had as good speak plain. I have already
with the last speculations of modern thinkers. said as much as that Space is God.” He lived
He knew Origen and Aquinas, Luther and to insist that Will is God; and came to think
Pascal, the Cambridge Platonists, the German in the last years of his life that Love is God,
Rationalists, and the Oxford Tractarians. His for which, indeed, he had some Scriptural sanc-
scholarship was not of the Dryasdust pattern. tion. The other two statements were evolved
It could be accurate to the letter without ceas from his own consciousness exclusively.
ing to be alive to the spirit of the Christian While still a youth, Edwards turned his
Ages. It could burrow in the dust without back upon metaphysics and gave his whole soul
losing sight of open air and sunshine. It could to theology. Plato, Spinoza, Locke, yielded
bring its truth up from the traditional well, place to Augustine, Anselm, Calvin. They
and clothe it in simple, manly form, where a withdrew into the shadow, content with exert-
German professor would have plunged it the i ing their unseen influence, until the necessities
deeper in abstractions and confusions.
of theological controversy brought them again
We were ready, therefore, to welcome Pro to the front. Edwards's spiritual life for a
fessor Allen's volume upon Jonathan Edwards season absorbed all his powers. With religion
as a leader in Religious Thought. There is the very breath of his childhood, he grew into
no greater name among American divines than consciousness of his high estate as a son of
that of Jonathan Edwards. Yet his fame is God, until he resolved to act as if striving with
mainly traditional. To most of us to-day he all his might to be the one person of his time
is an unknown quantity. His ideas, if we are
who should be wholly Christlike. It was a
New Englanders, are in our very bones ; but great purpose, and had its abundant reward.
his personality is vague and filmy. He stands He entered upon his ministry, in Northampton,
for an extinct phase of Christianity,—is rather Mass., in February, 1727 ; married a devout
a fearsome myth than our flesh-and-blood fel and lovely girl who was his invaluable wife,
low. A few years ago, Dr. Holmes, in a bril touching with sunshine all his shadows; re-
liant article, undertook to revive the mighty mained at Northampton until his dismissal
thinker, and give him some solid footing among
from his charge in 1750 ; removed the next
year to Stockbridge ; was called to the presi-
* JONATHAN EDWARDS. By Alexander V. G. Allen, D.D.
deney of Princeton College in 1757, and died
(**American Religious Leaders "). Boston: Houghton, Mifflin
& Co.
of inoculation for small-pox the year following:


1889.]
167 .
THE DIAL
His works are numerous sermons, a narrative of the ill-judged union of Kalmar, the Swedes
of surprising conversions in his ministry, and had suffered from the hand of oppression and
other tractates on the Great Awakening, his the sting of self-contempt. From 1483, the
famous treatise on the Freedom of the Will, date of the “Union,” to 1520—the year in
and minor treatises on Virtue, The End of the which Gustavus Vasa, having made his escape
Creation, Original Sin, Divine Grace, and the by way of Lübeck from a Danish prison, landed
Doctrine of the Trinity.
on the shore of his native country, — that
The life of an intense controversialist by a Swedish land had continued in a state of con-
quiet critic and student of history, of a Congre stant and alarming anarchy.
gational Calvinist by a Maurician churchman, The people, to whom the original laws of
is a curious experiment. Its success has fully Sweden had guaranteed liberty and local self-
justified it. Prof. Allen unravels the strands of government, and the election by the provincial
controversial webs, reveals gaps in logical struc assemblies of their king, had fallen from the
tures, discloses imperfections and inconsisten condition of freemen or free tenants to a status
cies of thought, and at the same time preserves approaching serfdom. The magnates had en-
his reverence for the mighty logician, his under riched themselves, the cabinet had usurped the
standing of the subtle divine, his alert interest power of prince and people, and the church,
in the terrible preacher, his delight in and sym pursuing a policy even more selfish than it had
pathy with the Christlike man. We see the displayed in Germany, had risen to the posi-
saint perplexed in the trammels of an awful tion of a haughty, rich, and arrogant hierarchy,
theory. We see his approximations to Augus | diverting into its coffers the revenues of the
tine and Athanasius, to Anselm and Hugo de kingdom, and dictating through its Archbishop
St. Victor, to Plato and the Platonic Fathers, to people and to regent alike.
to Pascal and the author of the “ Imitation," By the terms of the union, Sweden had been
to Hume, Berkeley, Hobbes, Collins, and John promised a distinctively Swedish government,
Stuart Mill, to Schleiermacher, and to Emer- no foreigners were to hold her fiefs, and the
son. We perceive his greatness while we dis monarch of the united kingdom was to reside
cern his defects. We pay him tribute, while a year alternately in each. But these conditions
we shudder at his teaching. We recognize were not fulfilled ; the hand of Denmark lay
the charm of his spirit, though we are horror heavily upon Sweden ; Danes were introduced
stricken at the God he depicts and the human into the castles and were enfeoffed of great
nature which he postulates. The volume is of estates; they became members of the cabinet,
permanent value and absorbing interest. It and, in collusion with recreant Swedish mag-
is provided with a bibliography and an index, nates, developed a Danish policy. More than
which add much to its usefulness. It ushers all this, the church, with its powerful influence,
in the series of “ American Religious Lead favored the Danish cause.
ers ” with a sound, sober, thoughtful, and win Never was an unfortunate country more un-
ning presentation of the first and mightiest of fortunate than this, when, in the year 1520,
them all.
King Christian II. massacred in cold blood
C. A. L. RICHARDS.
seventy of the patriotic nobles of Sweden in
their capital city of Stockholm. A thrill of
THE SWEDISH REVOLUTION.*
horror pervaded Europe; but the king joyously
sailed away to his realm of Denmark, exulting
Not often does the historic drama display a in his treachery, and congratulating himself
stage whereon a single actor dominates the that he had crushed forever the spirit of the
scene so supremely as did Gustavus Vasa Swedes.
through the swift-moving acts of the Swedish But he was profoundly mistaken ; the story
Revolution. All the passion, all the energy, of the “ Bath of Blood” was told from one
all the enthusiasm which swept Sweden from end of the land to the other; the people were
her humble satellite-like dependence upon Den roused at last to a sense of their degradation ;
mark into the greater orbit of European life and Gustavus, with burning words and filial
and national independence, centred in this one tears—for his own father had perished in the
towering and indomitable man. From the time massacre-centred in himself the hopes and
the aspirations of his countrymen. It was the
* THE SWEDISH REVOLUTION UNDER GUSTAVUS Vasa.
By Paul Barron Watson, author of "Marcus Aurelius An-
peasants to whom he appealed in the name of
toninus." Boston: Little, Brown, & Co.
liberty, and it was to the peasants that Sweden


168
(Nov.,
THE DIAL
owed her emancipation. The magnates and scholars, and a valuable body of critical and
the church rendered little aid, and displayed explanatory material is gradually accumulating.
either an active hostility or a silent indiffer The Wordsworth literature has grown wonder-
ence. Here, as in the days of Cæsar, the dis- | fully in the last quarter century. Less than
content of the people found its exponent and fifteen years ago appeared Grosart's “ Prose
its leader in the person of a great noble. Works of Wordsworth ” ; this has been fol-
The introduction of the Reformation, and lowed, in the present decade, by Knight's
the consequent disestablishment, or, perhaps splendid edition of the Poems, by the books
more pertinently, the disendowment of the old of Principal Shairp dealing so largely and
church, accompanied and accelerated the Revo so sympathetically with Wordsworth, by the
lution ; and the Diet held at Vesteras in 1527, “ Studies” of our own Professor Hudson, the
when the clerical party was finally shattered Shakespearean, besides several excellent vol-
and free liberty of worship given, was a fitting umes of selections and many critical essays.
prelude to the coronation of Gustavus, which Only last year appeared the edition of Pro-
followed in the next year. With this consum fessor Morley, with the poems arranged in
mation to the glorious efforts of Gustavus, chronological order; and this year brings out
closes the period of “ The Swedish Revolu- the “Life” by the scholarly Wordsworthian,
tion," whose story is told with great distinct- Dr. Knight. All this seems to indicate that
ness by Mr. Paul Barron Watson in his book the words of Matthew Arnold in the prefatory
so entitled. The volume is of great intrinsic essay to his “ Selections,"_" I cannot think,
value, for the author has been most conscien then, that Wordsworth has, up to this time, at
tious in his researches, and is of especial inter- all obtained his deserts,'' —have become un-
est from the fact that the history of the Revolu- true in the decade since they were written.
tion has never before been written in English. When Mr. George's edition of - Words-
We indulge the hope that Mr. Watson will con- worth's Prelude” was published, the preface
tinue his studies of the reign of Gustavus, and announced that it would be followed by other
treat with like admirable lucidity the more of Wordsworth's poems.” This promise has
peaceful years of his sovereignty.
been fulfilled by the preparation of the volume
before us, containing selections from the shorter
poems, with notes of an historical and inter-
RECENT BOOKS ON THE STUDY OF ENGLISH pretative nature. It may be questioned whether
LITERATURE.*
the chronological order is the best, since the
One of the signs of the times, that all
development of an author's genius cannot be
students of English will hail with delight, is
fully shown by any book of selections, however
the increasing interest in the great as well as
| arranged, and this order does not so easily
the lesser poets of our literature. One after
| lend itself to ready reference. Even in this
another they are receiving the attention of
volume the sonnets are placed by themselves,
indicating the desirability of some other than
* SELECTIONS FROM WORDSWORTH. With Notes. By A. chronological arrangement with a particular
J. George, M.A. Boston: D. C. Heath & Co.
class of poems. It is well known that Words-
SELECT POEMS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. Edited, with
Notes, by William J. Rolfe, Litt.D. New York: Harper &
worth's own classification is faulty in the ex-
Brothers.
treme ; but such a one as that of Matthew
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF SHAKESPEARE. By
| Arnold has many advantages. One feels like
Hiram Corson, LL.D. Boston: D. C. Heath & Co.
criticizing, also, the inaptness of much of the
SIR THOMAS WYATT AND His Poems. By Wm. Edward
Simonds, Ph.D. (Strassburg). Boston: D. C. Heath & Co. Introduction. The opportunity to say some
A GUIDE TO THE STUDY OF NINETEENTH CENTURY good things on the study of the poet most im-
AUTHORS. By Louise Manning Hodgkins. Boston: D. C.
portant in this century, without making com-
Heath & Co.
LITERARY LANDMARKS; A Guide to Good Reading for
parisons with poets still living, seems partially
Young People. By Mary E. Burt. Boston: Houghton, wasted in an essay, half lecture and half pre-
Miffin & Co.
face, much of which might be prefixed to any
A CENTURY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE. By Huntington
Smith. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.
of a dozen volumes. As to the selections them-
OUTLINES FOR STUDY CLASSES. The English Drama.
selves, they are carefully chosen, and the num-
English Literature of the Elizabethan Age, and of the Seven ber is sufficient to give an adequate idea of
teenth and Eighteenth Centuries. By Anna B. McMahan.
the poet's power. We miss the - Fragment
Quincy, Illinois : Printed by the Author.
SYLLABUS. English Literature and History. By A. J.
from the Recluse" usually given, and so ad-
George, M.A. Boston : D. C. Heath & Co.
mirably expressing the poet's high purpose in


1889.]
THE DIAL
169
----- --------- ---
all his poems; but the size of the volume may of youthful rashness. In “Much Ado About
have been one reason for not including this, Nothing," only the Benedict-Beatrice episode
or any selections from “ The Excursion.” Mr. is taken ; in “ Macbeth,” the witch agency ; in
George's best work has been placed upon the “ Antony and Cleopatra,” the moral propor-
notes ; and for these, as for those in his pre tion; and so through the six plays. The last
vious volume, he deserves great credit. He part of the book is given up to notes, critical
has brought together valuable material from and interpretative, many of which, before pub-
many quarters, and has given enough, without lished, have been generally accepted by Shake-
adding unnecessary details. His own acquaint speareans. Space permits only a hint of the
ance with the Lake district has enabled him | valuable material the book contains, but no one
to verify localities and make occasional cor- who begins it will be inclined to leave a single
rections ; while his appreciative study of the | chapter unread.
poems themselves has enabled him to give, in In - Sir Thomas Wyatt and his Poems"
a way helpful to students, many a sympathetic we have a thesis presented at the University
commentary. We welcome this latest book of Strassburg for the degree of Ph.D. The
on Wordsworth, therefore, as one of especial chair in English at Strassburg is occupied by
value to students, to whom, as to the general Ten Brink, who, preëminently among German
reader, the illustrations and interpretations of professors, combines literary appreciation with
Mr. George will give material aid.
philological acumen. The book before us
Another volume of selections from Words shows, in these respects, the training of the
worth comes in the same form as the Rolfe master; it displays careful research, judicious
Shakespeare, and under the editorship we have weighing of evidence, and fine literary taste.
come to know so well. It is always a wonder Every part of the work bears evidence of
that a Rolfe edition can include so much in so | painstaking care, though this has not been
little space. As a handy edition for schools, allowed to detract from the clear and graceful
this may easily rival any other, because of its presentation of facts and conclusions. Part
excellent notes, its selected introduction, and First consists of a biography of the poet, with
its charming illustrations from the Lake region. many new facts from British state papers re-
A smaller number of selections is given than | cently published. These show that Wyatt en-
in most volumes, but these are the favorites of tered public life very early, and that he was
Wordsworth readers, and always representa-frequently entrusted with affairs of great mo-
tive.
ment by Henry VIII., while one or two cases
Anyone acquainted with Professor Corson's in which Wyatt and his father have been mis-
“ Introduction to Browning ” will have high taken have been cleared up by references found.
expectations for his book on Shakespeare. It | The point of greatest interest in the life is the
may be divided into three almost equal parts ; attempt to prove that Wyatt's imprisonment
the first dealing with the authorship, language, in 1536 was due to connection with the party
and verse of the poet, the second with the in- of the unfortunate Anne Boleyn. The evidence
terpretation of six of the plays, the last made leaves little doubt that, in the minds of some
up of notes, textual and critical. Of the intro of his fellows at least, Wyatt was imprisoned
ductory chapters, the more striking are those on the Queen's account. This theory accounts
on verse and diction. Professor Corson makes well for a change in Wyatt's life, known to
of prosody a new subject, by treating it wholly have taken place, and evidenced by his poems;
in its relations to the thought, pointing out though absolute proof is impossible, owing per-
also for the first time the reason for the mix haps to mutilated or unpublished manuscripts.
ture of prose and verse in the plays. Shakes Part Second includes a comparison of texts
peare's diction is also studied, in its Latin, its and a statement of the principle of interpreta-
Anglo-Saxon, and its monosyllabic character. tion. The poems are then grouped into the
No word better characterizes Professor Cor- earliest (written before 1522), the love poems
son's interpretations than suggestire. There (1522–36), occasional pieces (1536-39), and
is no attempt to develop fully a train of thought the late poems to 1542. On the supposition
which the student can carry out for himself. that the love poems were addressed to some
A single episode is carefully treated, without person, and express Wyatt's own sentiments,
attempting to elucidate every point in the they are grouped under the periods of entreaty,
drama. “Romeo and Juliet” is shown to be attainment, disappointment, and recovery. The
the triumph of love, rather than the ill effect I writer gives some interpretation of each poem,


170
THE DIAL
[Nov.,
- -
pointing out further evidence of his theory that chapters on various kinds of literature and
Anne Boleyn was the person addressed in them. their adaptation to educational ends. It is
The book is completed with tables of the poems throughout a plea for good reading; and by this
chronologically and systematically arranged, an is meant, the author rightly insists, not books
alphabetical list, and an index. That the love written exclusively for young people, but those
poems were intended for Henry's queen, gives of standard and lasting value. How this may
new romance to the writings of the father of be done is shown by one whose experience has
the English sonnet; and whether or not the been considerable, and deservedly successful.
theory be accepted, the thesis will be regarded Courses of reading for pupils of various stages
as belonging to the best fruits of American of advancement are given, with the design in
scholarship, strengthened and trained by Ger all of so linking the writers of various ages,
man methods and culture.
that not only a proper knowledge of the best
Miss Hodgkins's - Guide to the Study of books will be gained, but also a proper per-
Nineteenth Century Authors” has the merit spective in literature. One thought of Miss
of having been tested by experience; the book Burt cannot be emphasized too much : readers
being made up of leaflets prepared to accom young and old should have something more
pany lectures delivered at Wellesley College, than the scrappy portions set apart for daily
where the author is professor of English litera use ; to grasp the unity and completeness in
ture. The leaflets, which may be used separ- plan of poet or prose writer is of fundamental
ately and returned again to the cover, contain importance, in obtaining the burden of his
references to biographies of each author, a list thought and the power of his conception. The
of selections from his works, and a short list book contains, in addition, diagrams for use in
of critical books and magazine articles. Blank schools, and a full list, with publishers and
pages are added for notes. The aim is to sup prices, of books to which reference is made.
plement the lecture system by giving such ref It is full of suggestions from which both par-
erences to the author's works and to contem ents and teachers may obtain most important
porary criticism as will aid the pupil in reading hints.
and judging for himself. The list of selections “ A Century of American Literature” is a
is good, and the book will commend itself to collection of poetry and prose, from one hun-
every teacher. One wonders that the list of dred writers of the hundred years since our
English author's does not include William constitutional life began. Its completeness is
Morris ; and the omission of any reference to shown by the fact that it begins with Franklin
Motley and Bancroft among American writers and ends with Stoddard, and that its size
is noticeable. A reference to the biographies | allows an average of four pages to each author.
of Coleridge shows that the life by Gillman is This gives ten pages each to Emerson, Haw-
included, and that of Brandl omitted, though thorne, Longfellow, Lowell, and a single con-
it is the most careful and authentic of all. An tribution of one or two pages to many. If se-
admirer of Shelley might rightly insist that the lections from all American authors are desir-
expression, “ vagrant life in the British Isles able, perhaps this book is as nearly perfect as
and continent," is unnecessarily severe; and a single volume can be ; but many will still
the term “ tragic death” applied to Keats believe that it is better to have much of the
must refer to the supposition, now little be best, then fragments from any number. The
lieved, that he died of the “ Quarterly Review," compiler himself appreciates this, and calls his
and not of consumption. But notwithstanding book a “ bird's-eye view”—which may account
slight peculiarities of expression, the book con for the seeming obscuration of the greater
tains a large amount of valuable reference ma names ; also admitting "that the great major-
terial, and will be an important aid in the ity of the writers we have thus far produced,
study of the literature produced during this | when tested by the world's standard of excel-
century.
lence, fall somewhat below the level of immor-
Miss Burt's little book, “ Literary Land tal renown.” But even fragments of good
marks," is also the work of a teacher, thoroughly things are pleasant, and it must be said that
interested in the problem presented by the the selections are well made, many of them are
reading of young people. It contains essays fresh, and all representative.
on theories of Children's Reading and Read The two pamphlets containing outlines for
ing which does not deal with Totals, a criticism the study of English literature, by Anna B.
on books of meager selections, followed by McMahan, aim at the direct study of master-


1889.]
171
THE DIAL
pieces by giving under each subject references perfumes "; how he launched into his subject, “ like
and suggestions for a high order of practical an eagle dallying with the wind ”; and how himself
work. The plan is excellent, and well carried
seemed to be listening to the music of the spheres,
out in details. The pamphlets present another
and to see the union of poetry and philosophy, to see
truth and genius embracing under the eye of religion.
evidence that literature is to be taught in sim-
Likewise his descriptions of Godwin, Cobbett, and
pler but more reasonable and efficient ways
Mrs. Siddons, are masterpieces in their way; and
than the old-time didactic treatises.
we are glad to meet again these old favorites in the
The Syllabus prepared by Mr. George is, in
new volume. To read Hazlitt through would be
the main, lists of names in parallel columnstiresome, doubtless; but to dip into him at intervals,
indicating the connection of English litera as this volume enables us to do, is a great delight,
ture and history. To this is added a list of | and persuades us that Lamb, Jeffrey, De Quincey,
American writers under divisious relating to and the rest, were right in ranking him among the
the character of their writings, and separated | foremost and most original of critics.
into two periods, the Colonial and the Consti-
Seldon indeed is it that the life-story of a man
tutional. The list of English writers is also
or woman of letters adds to the glory of the name,
divided into periods, the names of which, how- instead of detracting from it. Such is the case, how-
ever, are not always definite. The Syllabus is ever, with Mrs. Cheney's “ Life of Louisa May Al-
intended for schools, and will be found useful cott” (Roberts), for we close the book feeling that
when properly supplemented by the work of greater than anything Miss Alcott ever said or wrote
the teacher.
was Miss Alcott herself. Here we see one who,
OLIVER FARRAR EMERSON. from out of the most adverse circumstances, wrested
---
a three-fold success—material accumulation, fame,
- -
- -
personal character. Denial, difficulty, and defeat,
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS.
were the portion of her early years, as aspiration
and fulfilment were of her later ones; and this
IN Ireland's “ William Hazlitt ” (F. Warne &
story the editor has widely arranged that Miss Al-
Co.), the selections from Hazlitt's own writings
cott shall tell for herself, through letters, sketches,
number 510 pages, the introductory memoir of bio-
and copious extracts from the journal which her
graphical and critical matter occupying but 65 pages. | father caused her to begin when a very small child
This is as it should be: the incidents of Hazlitt's
and in which she continued to record her experiences
life are neither numerous nor inspiring, but Hazlitt's in later life. When the transcendental wild oats"
writing is not known as it deserves to be known by yielded too little harvest for the practical support of
readers of to-day. Partly because of the hostility
the family, the bravery with which the young girl
which he aroused during his lifetime by his strenu- took upon herself these burdens amounted to hero-
ous opposition to governmental measures at home ism, and the high “ call” to serve others was one
and abroad, and which has not yet ceased to act which always found in her a quick response. She
unfavorably upon his reputation, and partly be once remarked that it had seemed to be her des-
cause of the very voluminousness of his production tiny to fill the gaps in life; that she had been a wife
thirty-five volumes of very unequal value,-modern to her father, a husband to her widowed sister, a
readers are not in general greatly attracted to one mother to the orphaned daughter of her sister May,
who was nevertheless a genuine master, both as to while still daughter and sister and friend as well.
thought and expression. Mr. Ireland has wisely
And withal there seems never to have been in her
drawn but slightly from the pages that reveal the heart any sense of martyrdom to duty, but always
somewhat sour politician, and shows us Hazlitt in
a nature large enough to meet every fresh demand
his worthier aspects,—as sympathetic critic of our upon it with the same sympathy and sunny courage.
greatest poets, dramatists, novelists, and essayists, Thus it is that, whatever the fastidious literary critic
and as an observer of men, society, and books,
may have to say concerning Miss Alcott as artist,
together with some passages which reveal the in-
whatever flaws he may find in the most popular
dividual experiences, hopes, aspirations, and disap children's stories of this generation, he would be
pointments, that made up his very peculiar charac-
captious indeed who should fail to see how much of
ter. Lamb said of Hazlitt that he tried old authors
inspiration and stimulus to high and beautiful living
* on his palate as epicures taste olives ''; but, to our there is in this record of her nobly-spent fifty years.
mind at least, he seems even happier in dealing
with his own contemporaries. What, for example, Only a man whose own domestic happiness was
could be more charming than the picture of the beyond question could venture to put forth such a
youthful Coleridge in - My First Acquaintance with book as Alphonse Daudet's latest—“Artists' Wives”
Poets”? After rising before daylight and walking (Routledge). It is a collection of twelve stories,
ten miles in the mud to hear Coleridge preach, he all with the same moral : that artists of whatever
describes how the voice of the preacher, in giving kind-painters, poets, sculptors, musicians—all are,
out the text, “ rose like a stream of rich distilled | in Mother Carlyle's phrase, - gey ill to live with."


172
[Nov.,
THE DIAL
-
-
-
-
The perfect sympathy and stimulating companion brief list. Miss Zimmern is not at home upon the
ship of Daudet's own married life probably makes sea, or she would not write of “the bold mariners
him only the more sensitive to the ill-assorted unions who ventured forth in ships of small size, devoid of
which are, alas! so much more common than his compass, load-line, chart, and chronometer.” We
own happier experiences. Doubtless it is his own do not, therefore, find in her pages any information
feeling speaking through the mouth of the painter on the growth of methods and means of navigation,
in the prologue: “Marriage for me has been a har to which the League must have contributed largely.
bor of calm and safe waters, not one in which you The causes of the decline and fall of the League,
make fast to a ring on the shore, at the risk of rust- | as the changing conditions of life made its longer
ing there forever, but one of those blue creeks existence impossible, are well stated in the closing
where sails and mast are repaired for fresh excur chapters; and an admirable summing up of its whole
sions into unknown countries"; and also his own value to the age in which it existed, and to the civil-
feeling when he adds that he looks upon his own ization that followed, fitly closes the book.
happiness as a kind of miracle, something abnormal
and exceptional, because “ to that nervous, exacting,
To ask, as Rabbi David Philipson does in his
impressionable being, that child-man that we call an
“ Jew in English Fiction” (R. Clarke & Co.), that
artist, a special type of woman, almost impossible literary artists should only represent “ the teachings
to find, is needful, and the safest thing to do is not
of the Jewish religion as interpreted by its best and
to look for her.” The stories have the dainty and most competent minds," is to demand something
delicate touch without which Daudet would not be more than justice. It is not, and should not be,
Daudet, and the illustrations of Bieler and Myrbach the object of every artist to give us an exposition
and Rossi lend additional piquancy and variety to of a religious system. Some of them wish to por-
this really beautiful volume. As for the theme tray for us the characters of imperfect men and
we confess to a lurking suspicion that the situation
women, such as we meet with in our every-day life.
is not always so pathetic as it seems, and that the
Others, like Kit Marlowe, merely introduce Jews
apparent incompatibilities of an artist's household as picturesque figures for the stage, and represent
are often not so incompatible as the outsider judges. them according to the popular conception, just as
On the whole, Hawthorne's explanation is probably they would represent Irishmen or Dutchmen. In-
nearer the truth : “ Why are poets so apt to choose
stead of complaining of ill-treatment at the hands
their mates, not for any similarity of poetic endow-
of English literary artists, the Jews should be grate-
ment, but for qualities which might make the hap-
ful that they have had so many illustrious defenders.
piness of the rudest handicraftsman as well as that
The villainous Jews portrayed by Marlowe and
of the ideal craftsman of the spirit? Because, prob others are more than offset by the ideal characters
ably, at his highest elevation the poet needs no hu-
portrayed by Scott, Cumberland, Disraeli, George
man intercourse; but he finds it dreary to descend
Eliot. It may be true, as Rabbi Philipson contends,
and be a stranger.”
that there are no Jewish national traits; but it
seems to admit of no dispute that the Jews have
Miss HELEN ZIMMERN'S “Hansa Towns,” in
preserved with wonderful tenacity the purity of
“ The Story of the Nations” series (Putnam), takes their blood and the distinctive peculiarities of their
a place beside Captain Burrows's “ Cinque Ports."
race. Even if we consider them as merely a dis-
One of the most remarkable growths of the Middle
tinct religious denomination, the Jews can claim no
Ages was this association, first of merchants and
special exemption. All sects are liable to have
then of cities, which wielded a power that defied their worst as well as their best representatives de-
kings and yet was content to be from first to last a scribed. It would have been fully as justifiable for
trading organization. Holding for a long period George Eliot to represent a wicked Jew as it was to
the empire of the northern seas, these burghers represent a wicked Methodist. Dickens was fully
might well have added to it the empire of the north as justifiable in portraying Fagin as he was in por-
ern lands. But history has again and again shown
traying Stiggins or Chadband. Rabbi Philipson's
how little ambitious of political power are the vota work does not show that he is himself the most
ries of trade, and the career of “ John Company" favorable exponent of Judaism. Many of his ex-
curiously illustrates their reluctance to assume such
pressions are colloquial, vulgar, or ungram latical.
power even when thrust upon them. Miss Zimmern Some of his sentences would disfigure a scholboy's
has traced for us the growth of the Hansa League,
essay. Yet the book shows wide reading, and much
has introduced us to the town life of one of its in-
vigor and activity of mind.
corporate members, has carried us along the routes
of its commerce, has made us familiar with the PARKER'S “ Familiar Talks About Astronoi y ”
workings of its common Diet, and through it all (A. C. McClurg & Co.) is a very successful attenpt
weaves a thread of pleasing incident. We wish to popularize a difficult and little understood bra ich
there were more of geographical detail: more atten of science. Astronomy being, from its nature, he
tion given to the individual cities. We gather from most abstract of the sciences, the attempt to trat
the work that the League was very extensive; we its themes in a familiar and conversational st le
do not learn there what its cities were, even in a l would seem to be a task of such difficulty as toe


1889.]
THE DIAL
173
-- == ====
almost, if not quite, impossible. That Professor steps forth and the thing is done for a finality. It
Parker has succeeded is probably owing to the fact would be idle to say that no more biographies of
that he wrote from memory, out of a full mind, on Washington will be written, but it is safe to say that
a theme which had furnished the material for many this most admirable book, while not entirely free
years of class-room lectures. Thus it happens that from error in a few minor details, will be the biog-
he speaks of such vast and bewildering themes as raphy of the future for no brief period, because it
the forms, dimensions, distances, motions, etc., of is not only the first adequate life of the subject, but
the earth, sun, moon, planets, and stars, and of the it is an exhaustive and critical one.
methods by which their orbits and size are calcu-
lated, all in language so clear and simple that they
The task of Mr. John T. Morse in writing a life
present few difficulties even to that very superticial of Franklin for the “ American Statesmen ” series
person known as the “ general reader.” He does (Houghton) was none of the easiest. “No poor
not aim to present a complete treatise on astronomy.
genie of oriental magic was ever squeezed into
Therefore, all questions that, for the present at more disproportionately narrow quarters than is
least, are merely speculative—as, for example, how Franklin in these four hundred pages," laments the
the stars and planets were first formed, the physical author; and we cannot help sympathizing with his
constitution of these bodies, the source of the sun's opinion. He is disposed to think also, with Mr.
heat, etc.—are left for the debates of the great as John Bigelow, that Mr. Parton's biography has left
tronomers of the world, while this little book aims small place for any other life of Franklin. With
to deal only with matters susceptible of observation
this unfortunate frame of mind, Mr. Morse has
and calculation. The concluding chapter is devoted nevertheless presented the important facts of Frank-
to the subject of navigation and the theory by which lin's political life in a concise and readable form.
is determined a ship's position at sea. This theory, It can hardly be called an entirely independent
although within the comprehension of every school- study of the subject, nevertheless; and it is disap-
boy, is strangely omitted from every college curricu- pointing to find that the author follows Mr. John
lum, so that, for the officer of a merchant vessel, or Jay in his estimate of Franklin's services in the
one unconnected with the naval service, there is no peace negotiations of 1782-83, whereby Jay's part
place of training where he can learn both the theory in that diplomatic contest is unduly emphasized.
and the practice of navigation, on which depends That Franklin was in error as to Vergennes' atti-
his own livelihood and the lives of those thousands tude, is true ; but that Jay's discovery