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In view of the fact that Mr. Whittier's
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volumes the humble-minded poet lives to see
a monument to himself ære perennius, more
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Vanderbilt or Astor.
�Earth's rocky tablets bear forever
The dint of rain and small bird's track;
Who knows but that my idle verses
May leave some trace by Merrimac!"
Not by Merrimac alone, but by Potomac and
onward by distant Rio Grande, these verses
have left traces that can perish only with the
extinction of the race. Our poet's beautiful
humility would never allow him to apply to him-
self the proud words, yet it is true that these
poems, like Wordsworth's,�will coöperate with
the benign tendencies in human nature and
society, and will, in their degree, be efficacious
in making men wiser, better, and happier.�
These handsome volumes are uniform with
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tribute to Garrison, dated 1832, and fittingly
close with the simple elegy on the occasion of
Garrison's death in 1879. Thus this group of
poems, if read in connection with the explan-
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this edition, furnish to him who knows to read
between the lines the most eloquent history
of the long, dark struggle to which they relate.
�Mogg Megone," and other pieces which the
author would fain blot out, but which the stu-
dent and the critic will wish to see, are rel-
egated to an appendix in the fourth volume.
This volume also includes a table of first lines
of all the poems and an index to the poetic
works. To the prose works the fifth, sixth,
and seventh volumes are to be devoted. The
volumes before us contain admirable portraits
of the poet in successive decades of his career,
the first and most interesting portrait being
an etching by Schoff after a painting made in
the winter of 1836�37. The typography is
clear and elegant ; in fact, it is difficult to se
how the publishers' part of the work could hav
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been better done. They may indeed congrat accent of the singer to lapse into the drone of
ulate themselves upon having achieved it dur. the preacher; we have heard of his structural
ing the poet's lifetime, for they must feel as looseness-his frequent want of composition,
if they had tempted fate in delaying the pious We know, too, that his rhymes have all the
task so long. Among the felicities which harshness of Hosea Biglow's, without their
have crowned the last thirty years of the humor. Time will severely try his work and
poet's life, surely not the least is the circum- i will doubtless banish the larger part of it to
stance that his works fell into the liberal hands the limbo of the formless and the imperfect.
of the most enlightened publishers in the land, But there surely are in Whittier glimpses of
and that the pages of the �Atlantic Monthly� beauty against which Time's withering finger
have been open to him from the outset.
is impotent; there are tender, musical strains
It is somewbat difficult for a critic of the which must long haunt the memory of man.
generation that has grown to manhood since Readers of Matthew Arnold's � Essays in
the Civil War to write at once adequately and Criticism� will remember his exclamation
acceptably of the Quaker Tyrtæus. To a about certain ballad measures: �What a bless-
generation accustomed to the fine art of say- ing," he cries, to arrive at rhythms like these,
ing nothing with the utmost elaboration of � in which one's soul can take pleasure.� Such
metrical form, cordial praise of so simple a soul-satisfying rhythms are more abundant in
metrist may appear �bizarre;� while to those Whittier than in any other American poet,
for whom Whittier was an inspired prophet for he finds his freest and most perfect ex-
pointing to the pillar of fire through the long | pression in simple ballad movements from
night of agony and defeat, any words of one which he elicits effects of incomparable force,
who considers him simply as a literary artist or grace, or pathos. Of force,-
must seem poor and cold, if not exasperating.
�And now, whenever a wrong is done,
Something of an effort is needed in order to
realize that the soul-trumpeter of an era so Of grace, ---
�I know not where His islands lift
remote is still with us in the flesh. That a
Their fronded palms in air."
writer who first published verses in 1826,
| Of pathos,-
when Macaulay was just becoming known as
�I could not look on thce and live,
an Edinburgh Reviewer, should be writing
If thou wert by my side;�.
poems and editing his works thirty years after | or the lyric strain in �Snow-Bound� beginning,
the close of Macaulay's long literary life, is "And yet, dear heart! remembering thee,
not so extraordinary; happily such patriarchal
Am I not richer than of old ?"
tenure of office seems getting to be the rule in
These exquisite lyric movements may ex-
the case of eminent men of letters. The un
hibit no great variety, but we never tire of
realizable circumstance is that we still have them, for in each sad recurring cadence �one's
with us the heroic singer who braved death, soul can take pleasure.�
and worse than death, with Garrison and his
He can well afford to smile at hearing others
devoted handful, in days when the crack of
called �greatest,� of whom all men reverently
the slave-hunter's whip echoed throughout
whisper �best." Possibly this imposing col-
this �free� land of ours, and when the slave
lection of the poet's works may give occasion
cowered beneath that whip less abjectly than
to the critics for a revision of judgment. Be
the Northern doughface. The doughface and
that as it may, it is certain that the note of
his master comprised or controlled pretty
disparagement one often hears is based rather
much the whole white population; to them upon some detached bit of work wherein the
the press was venally, and the pulpit sancti-
vital flame burns low, than upon deliberate
moniously, servile. No dream is more wildly
survey of the author's whole poetic achieve-
improbable than the fact that thousands of
ment. Such a survey, disclosing as it does an
men are still living wbo passed the active por-
astonishing number of lyrical masterpieces of
tion of their lives in an era when it was not
clear and gracious utterance, is calculated to
safe to believe in freedom, save in a quite theo-
stagger the critic who has been wont to regard
retical way,-and this not in Armenia but in
Whittier as an occasional poet of semi-occa-
America. All that seems now as ancient as
sional inspiration. In the heat of conflict he
Salem witchcraft. All honor, then, to the hero felt so strongly that he paid little heed to
bard who did so much for our deliverance:
artistic expression,�which alone can give to
�A man not second among those who lived
the pamphlet, whether in prose or verse, life
To show us that the poet's lyre demands
beyond its immediate occasion. Doubtless
An arm of tougher sinew than the sword.�
most of the anti-slavery poems were conceived
Little that is new can be said about Whit- in the spirit of the following lines :-
tier as an artist. Critics have dwelt upon his
�Leave studied wit and guarded phrase
defects as persistently as if these defects were
For those who think but do not feel;
not all upon the surface. We have heard of
Where'er they fall, an answering blaze
his inveterate tendency to allow the sweet
Like flints which strike the fire from steel."
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Yet he must be insensible indeed who could (1857) to the present, has yielded a better
listen, even at this late day, to these lingering harvest than the radiant spring and parching
trumpet-echoes from far-off battle-fields, with summer of his life. In the year 1857 the
out something of the feeling with which Sidney stress of the anti-slavery conflict was past, so
listened to the ballad of Chevy Chase. But far as the education of public sentiment was
to measure their full value we ought to ask concerned, and the lyre was fast giving place
ourselves, If these wind-borne strains so stir to the sword. The founding in that year of
us now, how must they have thrilled men to the � Atlantic Monthly,� to which Mr. Whit-
whom they were a clarion summons to instant tier was one of the most welcome contributors,
battle? For if, in order to value aright the gave him a more select audience, exposed him
genius of the great dramatist, we are bound to to salutary criticism, imposed wholesome re-
consider how his piece looked and sounded straint, and gave him an incentive to higher
�when Burbage played,� is it not a little un- artistic endeavor. If before that date there
just to pass summary judgment upon these had been sporadic masterpieces,-notably
burning lyrics of life, without reference to the | �Questions of Life,� his most intellectual
hour and the need for which they were created ? poem, and the deservedly popular �Maud
Perhaps the most beautiful attribute of our Müller,��work of equal distinction thence-
beloved poet's character is shown in the mod- forward became incomparably more frequent.
est uncomplaining dignity with which he laid His (to my mind) most exquisite lyric, �A
his genius upon the altar of Freedom. Mr. Sea Dream,� was produced as late as 1874;
Lowell tells us that �poets are wont to whine in 1880 he could still sing his sweet song of
about the coldness of the world ; Whittier, St. Martin's Summer; in 1886 appeared his
certainly, had no reason to complain of its noble song entitled �Revelation ;" while even
coldness, for the intensity of the world's now, in his eighty-first year, �The Brown
batred of him was very hot. To Mr. Lowell | Dwarf of Rügen" proves that he can tell a
the world has been exceptionally kind, yet story as well as ever.
even in his work there is an unmistakable | Of�Snow-Bound,� � that matchless, inimit-
undertone which seems to hint that, had the able, victoriously original blending of real and
world only been a little different, the poet ideal,- what can be said, except that it is the
might have realized the
truest idyl of home and home-born joys and
�One thought, one grace, one wonder, at the least, memories penned in English speech during
Which into words no virtue can digest.�
the century that has elapsed since Goldsmith
Of this entirely subjective tone of regret there sang of sweet Auburn. That a poet whose
is no trace whatever in Whittier, although artless fluency in the expression of one fiery
few poets could have more excuse for indulg- conviction bad held the popular ear for a third
ing themselves in such a sentiment. Due of a century, should, at the age of sixty,
allowance being made for disparity of genius, achieve his greatest success in a quiet, com-
it may be doubted whether even Milton made pact genre-painting, seems at first explicable
a greater sacrifice than Whittier when he post- only upon some theory of immediate inspira-
poned his life-work in order to descend to the tion. The explanation seems to be that the
(noises and harsh disputes� of political author two poles upon which the life of this poet
ship. For it is a very remarkable fact that moves are home and conscience. It was con-
Whittier, like Milton, had the use but of his science that nerved this loving, compassionate,
left hand in his anti-slavery warfare, and that | peaceable man to hurl flaming javelins against
nearly all of his really artistic work was done the monster-evil of his time. On the other
long after the glow of youth bad cooled, and band, as home forms the subject of �Snow-
when the strength of manhood was abated. Bound,� so memory of home furnished the
The coincidences of dates are interesting : stimulus to its creation. Whittier's experi-
Milton and Whittier were born in almost the ence gave him complete knowledge of the
same year of their respective centuries, and New England home; and it was the some-
each published his greatest work in his sixti- what tardy inspiration to write himself out
eth year. Without pushing farther the com- | for once concerning the loved theme upon
parison with Milton, I cannot doubt that, if which he had so often preluded, that made
Whittier's best years had been devoted to the him the author of this masterpiece. Possess-
muse, his attainment of perfect utterance ing his subject perfectly, he could be concise;
would have been reached much earlier. It is, expressing the finest essence of his life, he
then, by no freak of nature that his artistic could be fresh and original, and could �lend
development was so retarded that his most to pots and pans, grace and glimmer of
excellent work was produced at a stage of romance.� �Snow-Bound" fairly entitles this
life when most great poets are content to en- | author of so many rude and jarring notes to a
joy their laurelled repose. Whittier's Indian- | place as a literary artist by the side of Gold-
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Gray. Inferior to Goldsmith in humor and to
Gray in classic conciseness, he .equals them
both in pathos, he equals them both in tender
grace, and he far surpasses them in depth of
feeling and spontaneity. I find in �Snow-
Bound� more marks of the abiding classic
than in any other American poem. It bears
the test of quotation; it bears the test of re-
peated perusal; it appeals alike to the simplest
and to the most fastidious.
Whittier's limitations are obvious. Though
he has made himself an accomplished man, he
has no scholarship save what is open to any
reader of English books, and little philosophy
save what is involved in sound ethics and deep
religious faith. Not to him as to Holmes was
it given to illuminate discourse with electric
discharges of epigram and satire; he cannot,
like Lowell, marry wisdom and wit; his fiery
eyes have not the insight of Carlyle's; he
does not remove the spirit to a new angle, or a
higher altitude, of vision, as do Emerson and
Matthew Arnold ; nor can he reveal us to
ourselves as can George Eliot. He himself
has said it, in words which attest the high
wisdom of self-knowledge :
�Nor mine the seer-like power to show
The secrets of the heart and mind;
To drop the plummet-line below
Our common world of joy and woe,
A more intense despair or brighter hope to find."
But one thing he can do with the best of
them, and for that one thing more than one of
them would willingly have given all his wit or
scholarship or philosophy. Whittier can sing ;
and in all his singing he knows the way to the
human heart. A natural melodist, he had no
instructor save Burns, and at his best he has
scarcely a superior.
What great poet has had a fate on the
whole so happy as Whittier's ? To be, if not
the acknowledged leader, at least the chief
inspirer of one of the most unselfish of historic
movements; to wed no bride but Freedom,
and to bend her mighty bow to such flame-
tipped shafts of song as other poets dedicate
to some half-ideal Laura or Beatrice ; to be
like his Master despised and rejected of men,
and in His spirit to rebuke the hypocrites and
Pharisees of his time; to find all men as stocks
and stones, and to realize the fable of Orpheus
by drawing them all after him through the
might of song; then, his Utopia no longer a
dream, to live many years of peaceful activity
and growth amid the benedictions of emanci-
pated millions ;- such has been the happy lot
of our heroic singer. As one thinks of him,
the old poet's tender words tremble upon the
lips,- words addressed to an abstract Pity
surely not more compassionate than this ven-
erable, kindly man,-
"Jumblest of heart, highest of reverence.�
MELVILLE B. ANDERSON.
RECENT BOOKS ON THE CIVIL WAR.*
It is a time-worn dictum that an epoch can-
not write its own history. It is said that the
contemporaneous writer is too near to his sub-
ject to get a true perspective�that preposses-
sions and prejudices enter in to warp his view
from the line of true history. True, the fact of
personal participation gives him that keen ap-
preciation never to be enjoyed again by the
men of a remoter generation; yet it is an
appreciation of but one phase of every phe-
nomenon, while the other side of every ques-
tion is liable to recede for him quite out of
sight. Has, then, the quarter of a century
which has elapsed since our Civil War removed
this disadvantage, and given men a more
catholic vision ? Has the time come either to
write, or to secure an appreciating public for,
a permanent history of our great strife? It
would hardly seem so. It is true that the im-
mediate participants are rapidly passing from
the gaze of men. The great generals are one
by one being marshalled to hallowed graves;
Jefferson Davis still lingers, an almost solitary
relic of a lost cause; the remnants of the rank
and file of both armies are fast becoming gray
and venerable; yet the Republican party still
conjures with a �Solid South," and the legis-
lature of the most redeemed of Southern
States still draws the color-line in its educa-
tional system. Is it the critical purpose of the
historian, advised to �nothing extenuate, nor
set down aught in malice," which has pro-
duced the recent outburst of war literature, or
is it rather a patriotic glow caught by remin-
iscence from the ardent fervor of younger
days, giving us a series of personal recollec-
tions of the time when one party in the nation
saved, and another nearly shipwrecked, the
Union?
We think the latter. The day seems hardly
yet, when, to the other necessary qualifications
for our final historian, the absence of the per-
sonal view based on feeling as much as on
judgment can also be added. Indeed, in the
writer of a satisfactory history of the greatest
* A SHORT HISTORY OF THE WAR OF SECESSION. 1861-
1865. By Rossiter Johnson. Boston: Ticknor & Co.
FOUR YEARS WITH THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC.
By Regis De Trobriand. Translated from the French, by
George K. Dauchy. Boston: Ticknor & Co.
MARCHING TO VICTORY. The Second Period of the War
of Rebellion, including the Year 1863. By Charles Carle.
ton Coflin, New York: Harper & Brothers.
MOSBY'S WAR REMINISCENCES AND STUART'S CAVALRY
CAMPAIGNS. By John S. Mosby, late Col. C. S. A. New
York: Dodd, Mead & Co.
PEN AND POWDER, By Franc B. Wilkie. Boston:
Ticknor & Co.
THE OTHER SIDE OF WAR. Letters from Headquarters
of the United States Sanitary Commission during the
Virginia Campaign of 1862. By Katharine Prescott Worm.
eley. Boston: Ticknor & ('o.
A BLOCKADED FAMILY. Life in Southern Alabama
during the Civil War, By Parthenia Antoinette Hague.
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.


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conflict that the world has witnessed, a com somewhat too narrow in its range of view,
bination of many gifts must be found. The too intense in its animus. Our war was unique
Count of Paris, with his recent fourth volume, in its military methods, owing to the immense
is compelled�to the deep regret of every lover areas, configuration and character of surface,
of truth-indefinitely to postpone the com direction of lines of travel. It was such
pletion of one of the best military histories features that located the strategic points�as
ever written. An American writer to-day at Island No. Ten, Vicksburg, Chattanooga,
could hardly attain to the impartial view of Manassas,--and laid out the campaigns. Our
this foreign on-looker; yet, while the occa. armies dug as well as fought their way to vic-
sional glances in this work at the political situ tory, and their phenomenal use of the spade
ation during the struggle show an apprecia- | was a feature too striking to be ignored.
tion of the best principles of American civic Even a short popular history should reveal to
life which wins praise for the discernment of us some of this why and how, and valuable
this representative of kings, we feel that the aid might have been derived from the Count
foreigner did wisely in restricting his field to of Paris's able chapter on �Rivers and Rail-
what he calls �essentially a military history.� ways," or from General Sherman's paper in
Will not the coming historian of our war, pos the February number of � The Century Mag-
sessed of the training which shall enable him azine,� on �The Grand Strategy of the War
to apprehend and criticise strategic and tacti of the Rebellion." Benjamin Lundy's �Genius
cal movements on so colossal a scale, be of Universal Emancipation� should not have
required to add to this equipment, not only been forgotten as the pioneer abolitionist
an insight into American institutions born newspaper in 1821. This book does not her-
with him as an inheritance and unpurchasable ald the day, which we believe must come,
even �at a great price," but also a scientific when the historian will know that in that ter-
sweep of vision and a philosophic canon of rible conflict many men on both sides fought
judgment which shall lift his standpoint out from conviction and for principles, and
of the smoke of partisan and personal conflict thought themselves patriots. There is an
into the calm light of political science ? Only almost vindictive dwelling upon the attitude
as he thus rises out of his own personal preju of the upper classes in England during the
dices will he be enabled to recognize those war, and an indiscriminate condemnation of
personal elements in the war period which, as them all. The author is too quick to supply
malign influences, were often too powerful for men with questionable motives, and appar-
the heroic Lincoln and the autocratic Stanton. ently fails to realize that it is easier to crit-
Among these he must emphasize that ignorant | icise a campaign or a policy than to shape and
public opinion which required bricks without conduct it. While that grand moral hero,
straw, and with its senseless �On to Rich- | Lincoln, is not directly disparaged, there is an
mond!� caused the sacrifice of able generals unsympathetic treatment of his actions which
to the demon of democracy; that meddling of would mislead one not fully aware of Mr.
Congressional committees, pretentious in pro Lincoln's grandeur of character. The tone
portion to incompetence in matters of war, throughout is not up to the level of the lofty
which repeated the follies of the Continental and noble words of the last three pages, from
Congress that thwarted the great Washington; which we gladly quote a few sentences.
finally, that political intriguing which kept
"It is poor business measuring the mouldered
�parlor generals� in large commands, and
ramparts and counting the silent guns, marking the
sacrificed thousands of lives and whole cam deserted battle-fields and decorating the grassy
paigns to their blundering. . Only then will he graves, unless we can learn from it all some nobler
recognize that patriotism was not synonymous lesson than to destroy. Men write of this as of
with any single party name, with any one in-
other wars, as if the only thing necessary to be im-
terpretation of abstract political law. It may
pressed upon the rising generation were the virtue
of physical courage and contempt of death. It
be that the work is too exacting a one for the
seems to me that is the last thing we need to teach.
limitations of a single mind, and that it will
. . . . There is not the slightest necessity for
be accomplished only when another Justin
lauding American bravery or impressing it upon
Winsor shall call to his aid the varied gifts of American youth. But there is the gravest necessity
many minds�if perchance even then he be for teaching them respect for law, and reverence
able, as more than editor, to blend and assimi-
for human life, and regard for the rights of their
late into an artistic whole.
fellow-men, and all that is significant in the history
Meanwhile, we do not ask the impossible in
of our country-lest their feet run to evil, and they
make haste to shed innocent blood. . . . . It
saying that Rossiter Johnson has not written
may be useful to learn from one war how to conduct
a thoroughly satisfactory history of the war. another; but it is infinitely better to learn how to
There is need for a convenient single-volume avert another. . . . No American citizen should
history of the period which in clear statement lightly repeat that the result is worth all it cost,
shall give a popular narrative of its principal unless he has considered how heavy was the cost,
events. But the work under consideration is 1 and is prepared to do his utmost toward perpetuat-


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ing the result. To strive to forget the great war, again the life of those famous regiments in a
for the sake of sentimental politics, is to cast away fainter adumbration in the pencillings of the
our dearest experience, and invite, in some troubled
old commander. Here is the material upon
future, the destruction we so hardly escaped in the
which the historian of the future must draw
past. There can be remembrance without animos-
ity, but there cannot be oblivion without peril."
as fully as upon official reports and congres-
sional records.
Mr. Charles Carleton Coffin now gives us,
Colonel John S. Mosby was one of the three
in a companion volume to his �Drum-beat of
great partisan leaders whom the Confeder-
a Nation," a narrative of what he considers
ate army produced, and probably the most
�the second period� of the war, including the
efficient. His book, as the title indicates, is
year 1863. He tells us, in his preface, that he
a series of mere sketches, not a continuous
writes in order �that the present and future
narrative. There is a dash about the telling
generations of the boys and girls may know that
of his stories akin to that with which he so
through such sacrifice and devotion the great
many times swooped upon the Federal troops,
principles upon which the Government of the
and we are frequently reminded of fiery
United States was established were preserved
�Rupert of the Rhine� and his cavalier troop-
to the world." He is already favorably known,
ers, as we read of deeds of daring and of
not only as a writer for young people, but as
hair-breadth escapes. It is interesting to learn
a chronicler of the war. A successful war-
that Mosby's terrible band had no other con-
correspondent during the struggle, he was
tinuity of life than his own command of it ;
near enough to the front to catch some of
that almost for each adventure he gathered to
that generous and impartial spirit which char-
him men new to his service and strangers to
acterizes men who have looked into the
bim � desperate fellows from all arms of the
muzzles of hostile guns. He writes with a
Confederate service, men ready for new
vigorous touch and with the animation of an |
fortunes and any risks. So slight was his
eye witness, telling the story in such a straight-
tenure upon them that he says he scarcely
forward narrative as will hold to the close the
dared order them do anything but fight, and
boy who once begins to read. We wonder
at times even the picket line was not set be-
who is responsible for the quality of some of
cause he could not impose this task upon
the many illustrations with which the book is
tired and ferocious brigands. His services,
furnished. Here and there are illustrations
nevertheless, were of value to the Confeder-
which are works of highest art both in con-
ates, the terror of his unexpected movements
ception and in execution�notably two full-
detaining on the watch for him many times
page artillery sketches from Gettysburg; but
his own number of Federal troops who should
many more are execrable, hardly equal to some
have been engaged in the regular work of the
of the cheap work of our daily papers. We
campaign. Now �cutting out� by night the
question the educational value of several
horses of a hostile force, now entering the
hanging scenes. These outrages were occa-
lines and capturing supplies and dispatches,
sional excesses, and not features of our un-
now wrecking railroad trains, now marching
happy strife.
with Jeb Stuart clear around McClellan's
General De Trobriand is a war critic whose
army, he was ever the ideal partisan, never
work has called forth high praise from impar-
where he was expected to be, always in the
tial judges. A soldier of France in his earlier
weak place of the defense. He forcibly calls
years, he had made his home in America
attention to the value of the first mentioned
when the Rebellion broke out. Four years of
ride of Stuart, as not merely a bravado or a
service in the Army of the Potomac, as colonel
raid, but as an important reconnoissance re-
and as brigade commander, first in the
vealing the condition of McClellan's army.
Fourth Corps, then in the Third, finally in
The �war-correspondent was created by
the famous Second under Hancock and Rey-
our great war. The Count of Paris, in a pas-
nolds,� gave an old soldier fine preparation
sage which approaches more nearly to elo-
for a soldier's history; and such this is.
quence than any other in his sober and technical
Although recently translated by one of De
treatise, tells under what difficulties and dis-
Trobriand's lieutenants, the work was written
couragements the leading newspapers were
in 1867. Consequently the smoke of battle
served by men who often showed all the hero-
still hangs about its pages; it is, as General
ism of the soldier without any of the reward
Sherman says of his own Memoirs, the narrative
of public recognition. Mr. Wilkie, as corre-
of a witness, not of a historian. We come to it
spondent of the New York �Times," chronicled
not for judgments but for facts. The style is
the movements of our Western armies, and
sparkling, epigrammatic, trenchant; it has
now in a light and racy narrative recovers some
that fine lucidity so characteristic of what is
of the impressions of twenty-five years ago.
French. We march and bivouac, we walk
He claims, rightly, that the correspondents in
the hospital ward and view the wounded under
| the Southwest had a 'still more difficult task
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owing to the greater spaces covered. He con- | own eyes in one week fifty men who must have
fines himself largely to the petty incidents of , died without it, and many more who probably
campaigning the humorous side of which he would have done so. I speak of lives saved only:
manages to see continually. The record is
the amount of suffering saved is incalculable."
mainly personal and at random. The news We see here the seamy side of war, but irra.
paper reporter is not commonly expected to diated by the beautiful light of woman's
have a large amount of modesty, but Mr. Wilc | heroism.
kie makes a comparison of his own exploits �A Blockaded Family� had its home near
with those of Archibald Forbes which is Iudic Eufala, in Southern Alabama, during the war.
rous when one recalls the differing circum Mrs. Hague writes a most entertaining book,
stances. It may be a joke, for Western joking both for its manner and its matter. We of
is frequently so esoteric that it might deceive the North knew little of the privations which
even the elect. There is an evident appreciation
taxed the industrial ingenuity of so many a
of his own good work as a war correspondent
family in the South for four weary years.
and a depreciation of certain others of the | Cut off from the outer world of manufactured
fraternity who to-day are prominent men, comforts until the spring of 1865, when the
which lacks the spirit of generous rivalry that first Federal soldier came, this Alabama com-
would have been the author's best commenda munity reproduced the patriarchal ages, and
tion.
perforce became economically independent.
One of God's best gifts to man was the Everything was made on the spot or replaced
Sanitary Commission, which �organized the by a clever substitute,� from salt and wheat,
benevolence� of the warm hearts at the rear. medicines and dyestuffs, dress goods and
The wise foresight of Dr. Bellows brought it sewing-thread, to hoop-skirts and hair-oil.
in line with the Medical Bureau under govern Raspberry-leaf tea took the place of � Bohea,�
mental control and authority, and the rare water-melon juice crystals that of sugar.
abilities of Mr. Olmsted made it a complete Tanned hog-skin replaced shoe leather, sweet-
working organization. Early in 1862 a �Hos potatoes furnished starch, the Spanish potato
pital Transport Service� was organized on the furnished putty. The many devices that all
York River, at the rear of McClellan's Penin were put to, kept the hands busy and the mind
sula Army, and did a noble work in the care occupied, and so saved many a heartache,
of the sick and wounded as they passed from doubtless. This is the most entertaining, be-
the front to more permanent hospitals further | cause the most novel, book we have yet seen
north. Miss Wormeley was a Florence Night as a result of the war. Such a shut-in and
ingale on several of the ship hospitals, making constricted life cannot be found again in civil-
many a maimed and tortured sufferer bless ized lands this side of the Middle Age. And
heaven for �the Sanitary,� by her gentle and get the writer says, �We were happy and
patient ministrations. The book before us contented, master and slave.� One who has
is simply a collection of the letters she wrote recollections of the life of a Southern com-
to home friends, published just as they were munity in Alabama in the �good old time
written,-full of a tender sympathy, a heroic before the war," and who was "to the manner
endurance for the sake of others, a quiet joy born,� has doubts as to this idyllic statement.
in the generous and Christ-like work. There Our author has the touch of a poet, and more
is a healthy tone about it all that adds admira than once she pictures that lustrous and fra-
tion to one's reverence for women of refine grant Southern night, the distance vocal with
ment and culture who could find their joy in the minor melody of the black, in language
such work because it seemed their duty. She of great beauty. To her there is a glory
writes:
thrown about it all, even with its leprous spot
�It is a piteous sight to see these men; no one of slavery, as she looks backward on a civiliza-
knows what war is until they see this black side of tion that can never return, because washed
it. We may all sentimentalize over its possibilities from the earth by the blood of a million
as we see the regiments go off, or when we hear of
valiant men. Let us, while we rejoice that it
a battle, but it is as far from the reality as to read
is gone forever, not forget that the homes of
of pain is far from feeling it. We who are here,
however, dare not let our minds, much less our im-
a people are its best of life, and feel the pathos
aginations, rest on suffering. . . . As for the
of the sacrifice of the homes of a generation
ladies among whom my luck has thrown me, they that another people might be free. For by
are just what they should be,-efficient, wise, active many another beside the author it may be
as cats, merry, light-hearted, thoroughbred, and said of the �corn songs� as they still rise in
without the fearful tone of self-devotion which sad
the twilight, �Even yet they call from out
experience makes one expect in benevolent women.
the misty shadows of the past a host of
. . . . We all know in our hearts that it is
thorough enjoyment to be here,it is life, in short;
memories, when they fall upon ears that
and we wouldn't be anywhere else for anything in
were wont to listen to their quaint refrain
the world. I hope people will continue to sustain in days gone by.�
the Sanitary Commission. I have seen with my
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A NORSE TRILOGY.*
Gille, who is seated on the throne of Norway,
to demand of him his royal heritage-half of
Mr. Payne is right when he declares, in the
the kingdom. Restrained by the representa-
preface to his translation of this truly great
tions of his mother and her advisers, and
work, that it is impossible to form any adequate
fearful of the misfortunes of civil strife, he
estimate of Björnson's genius without taking
renounces the scheme for a time, to seek
account of his verse as well as his prose, and
honor and glory among the crusaders. The
of his dramas no less than his idyllic tales.
Sixth scene discovers him about to plough
The latter have dealt largely with peasant
his way �through the foaming billows� on
life,-have introduced the Norwegian peasant
of to-day, the descendant of the Vikings, to
a mighty ship whose deck was �clean as a
maiden's honor who holds her lover to her
literature. The dramas may be divided into
faithful breast, and spurn's the tempters who
three classes, viz.: those based on the rich
would take his place."
hoard of the ancient sagas of the North; those
A storm drives him to the coast of Scotland,
based on modern history; and those whose
where he enters into the service of the Scottish
chief interest centres about the burning social
King David, and finally makes his way to
problems that occupy our own thinking world.
the Orkneys, where we find him, in �Sigurd's
The representatives of all three classes have
Second Flight,� entangled in the affairs of
had almost incalculable influence on the
Harald, the melancholy Jarl of Caithness (a
thought of the Scandinavian countries; they
character which, as Mr. Payne says, is cer-
reveal characters deeply rooted in the poet's
tainly conceived in the Shakespearian spirit
own soul. Especially in dramas of the first
and is irresistibly suggestive of Hamlet), who
class does the author give vent to his longing
has been debarred from his rights in the Ork-
to elevate his people and be understood by
neys by his ro-regent and half-brother Jarl
them in his efforts in their behalf. Yet, great
Paul. This Second Part depicts the hero's
as has been the sympathy aroused in our land
love for Audhild, the kinswoman of the Jarl,
for the patriotic poet, novelist,orator, reformer,
and contains some scenes of great power and
and powerful chieftain of Norway, the volume
beauty, uniting simplicity with intensity of
before us is the first of his dramas which has
passion. �Björnson has the power,� says Mr.
been presented in an English dress to an
Payne,� to condense so much of passion in a
American reading public.
single pregnant sentence, by means of a word
The scenes of á Sigurd Slembe � are laid
or single phrase so to illuminate as by a light-
in the first half of the twelfth century, and
ning flash some tragic situation, as to put the or-
the trilogy which may well be placed at the
dinary rhetorical effusion of feeling to shame.�
pinnacle of all Björnson's dramatic efforts
The characters of Audhild, with her exquisite
was written during the author's sojourn in
womanliness, of the melancholy Jarl, with the
Rome, in 1862. Sigurd, surnamed �Slembe�
sublime self-sacrifice of his tragic end, and of
(the bad, or worthless, on account of his law-
Frakark, who has been aptly called the Lady
less youth), is a hero who feels himself born
Macbeth of the play, are all strongly conceived
to rule, to be the benefactor of his people,-a
and executed with masterly touch.
man endowed by nature with grand and noble
Part III., �Sigurd's Return,� carries the
qualities, but who, goaded by a sense of injus-
reader again to the coast of Norway, and de-
tice at the wanton way in which his rights
picts the hero's struggles and failure to obtain
are withheld from him, feels compelled to
his rights and share the throne of his weak
tear down where he had meant to build up,
and degraded brother. It contains some of
and causes infinite harm, although he had de-
the most magnificent passages in the drama,-
sired to work good alone. Part I., �Sigurd's
especially in the soliloquies of Sigurd, after
First Flight,� shows him to us in the full
he had learned to speak the truth to himself.
arrogance of his youthful strength and impet-
He seems to appeal most thrillingly to the
uosity. He, the strongest in the land, is re-
reader's sympathy when, bowing his haughty
solved to command honor; he need uncover
spirit and looking clearly into the causes of
his head or step aside to none, but wberever
his overthrow, he says :
he goes there shall be peace, the wronged shall
"I stand upon my own grave, and hear the bells
be righted, the weak shall be avenged upon
ring. I tremble as the tower beneath its stroke;
the strong, and the laws shall have sway.
for where now are the aims that were mine? The
Learning from his mother the long-sought grave opens its mouth and makes reply. But life
secret of his birth, which proves him to be a lies behind me like a dried-up stream, and these
son of Magnus Barfod, he clearly perceives eighteen years are lost as in a desert. The sign,
his calling to be that of a king, and deter- the sign that was with me from my birth! In lofty
mines to go at once to his half-brother, Harald
flight I have followed it hither with all the strength
of my soul, and here I am struck by the arrow of
* SIGURD SLEMBE. A Dran, atic Trilogy. By Björn.
death; I fall, and behold the rocks beneath upon
stjerne Björnson. Translated from the Norwegian, by
which I shall be crushed. Have I, then, seen
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life stood yonder, where it was warm and fruitful, instead of talking, the public takes an interest
while I toiled up where it grew ever colder, and in what he has to offer them.
my ship is now clasped by the drifting icebergs; a
For twelve years the present writer has,
moment yet, and it must sink. Then let it sink,
and all will be over. But in thy arms, Allmerciful,
| like many another naturalist, watched with
I shall find peace."
interest the successive reappearances of Jor-
It was a hazardous task to attempt to re-
dan's Manual. It is cven longer than this
since the first embryo of the present sturdy
produce in another tougue the sonorous and
structure made its modest entry; but that was
majestic measures of Björnson's drama, and if
�such a little one� that we believe it �doesn't
the English translation shows any falling off
from the rhythmic beauty of the original, it
count� one among the five recognized editions,
which date respectively 1876, 1878, 1880, 1884,
may with justice be asked who there is that
could do better. Mr. Payne unquestionably
and 1888. Such steady and equable growth
of the work assures alike its merit and its suc-
deserves the thanks of English readers for
cess. We are satisfied that it has taken a per-
having brought this grandest of Björnson's
manent place in the educational literature of
dramas within their reach. It is published
uniform with the authorized version of Björn-
zoology in America, as the standard text-book
son's stories, and we should be glad to see it
of the vertebrates. We have others which go
more fully into some of the classes of animals,
speedily followed by English translations of
especially insects and birds; but not one which
others of his dramas.
undertakes to handle more than a single class.
AUBERTINE WOODWARD MOORE.
Moreover, we do not possess to-day-singular
as the statement may seem-a single �text-
book," or students' hand-book, of any one of
THE STUDY OF BACKBONED ANIMALS.*
the classes of vertebrates, excepting · birds.
Jordan's name is not less familiar to the The ichthyologists�among the first two or
ichthyologists of the world and to the natu three of whom Jordan casily rankshave
ralists of America, than it is to the readers of mostly locked themselves up in their closets,
The Dial. The latter have often enjoyed bis
| and described new species, genera, families, and
short miscellaneous writings, and the former orders of fishes, and woven new systems of
estcem his technical treatises as those of a | classification as mysterious and unprofitable to
master-workman in his chosen departments of the uninitiated as the speculations of an Orien-
scientific research. No man living at this day
tal occultist on the problem of the origination
can expect or profess to cover the whole ground
of evil; while the few who, like Professor
of zoology, and he is fortunate who stands Goode in his late magnificent work, bave
among the leaders of any one of the courses addressed the public, have done so from the
of modern biology, able to speak with au standpoint of the angler or the fish-culturist.
thority on one or a few related classes of
The result of the technical study of our fishes
animals. Perhaps more enviable still. and of late has therefore been the broad and deep
certainly more useful, are the few who, like taxonomic generalizations from morphological
Jordan, can turn their original technical stud considerations which the masterly essays of Pro-
ies into the current of public instruction. This fessor Gill represent; or the voluminous tech-
faculty of teaching is a rarer gift than even nical Synopsis of the Fishes of North America
the ability to conduct original research. Many by Jordan and Gilbert; neither of which are
men make many discoveries that might as well likely to stir the public mind very deeply. In
not have been made, for all the good they do herpetology�to include under this name both
any body, until some one comes along with the batrachians and reptiles proper--we have bad
nameless� genius of availability��so to speak absolutely nothing of an educational character
-at the touch of which dead facts awaken to for many years. Professor Cope, our recog-
the estate of live truths, and go their instruct-
nized master in this field, has had �other fish
ive way among the people. Our author com-
to fry,� and outside of what Jordan himself
bines in himself the qualifications of both
has given us in his Manual, we still turn, as
learner and teacher; and that which he has
laymen, to Baird and Girard of 1853, if not
found out for himself he is able to give out for still further back. Birds have had their text-
others. Such a man is always sure to be sur-
book for many years�though one of which
rounded in person with eager, enthusiastic, it is not for the present pen to say anything;
and ambitions pupils; and whenever he writes
| but it is a fact that the mammals of North
America have not, and never have had, a text-
* A MANUAL OF THE VERTEBRATE ANIMALS OF THE book of their own,�there has not appeared
and East of the Ozark Mountains, South of the Lauren
for half a century any systematic treatise on
lian Hills, North of the Southern Boundary of Virginia,
North American mammals which included the
and East of the Missouri River. Inclusive of Marine Spe. whole of the order.
cies. By David Starr Jordan, President of the University
of Indiana. Fifth Edition, entirely rewritten and much
In such case as this, there is not only room,
enlarged. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co.
| but a very welcome place, for Jordan's Man-
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ual, to which anyone may turn with the same convention, if only as a kindly concession to
ease and the same confidence with which the the weakness or error of the common mind.
students of botany turn to Gray's Manual. The intricacies of the zoological system too
The similarity, indeed, of Jordan's and of often remind one of the Dædalian labyrinth
Gray's popular works in their respective fields we used to hear about when we studied my-
is striking. They are designed for the same thology on the college benches; and in such a
ends, answer the same purposes, proceed upon maze, any friendly voice or hand is welcome.
similar methods and principles; moreover, they Our readers may like to know how many
cover practically the same geographical area. backboned animals there are in the area indi.
Such coincidence is striking; and if Jordan is cated on the title-page. Briefly then, Pro-
to suffer at all by the comparison, he can well fessor Jordan finds 1,145 species. These belong
afford to stand somewhat in the shadow of so to 607 genera�for so refined are our modern
very great a name as that of Asa Gray in bot groups called genera that in this case they do
any, especially as there is nowhere in the whole not quite average two species to one genus.
zodiac, or � way of the animals," an orb at all The genera belong to 203 families, or about
likely to eclipse him in bis own chosen path. an average of three genera to a family. These
Some might wonder why Professor Jordan families belong to fifty-four orders-nearly
does not still further extend his jurisdiction, four families to each order; and these orders
and give us the vertebrates of the whole of to seven classes of true vertebrates. The
the United States, if not of North America. creatures thus classified by the zoölogist in
But no one�not even the publishers�can be seven primary groups are popularly called
better aware than the author, what such ex �fishes," �reptiles," �birds," and "quadru-
tension of the radius from Chicago would im peds.� But here we have only four classes:
ply in the way of book-making. The Alaskan where are the other three? The answer to
or the Floridan student might like to find the | this question is itself a little lesson in zoölogy.
vertebrates of his country in � Jordan.� But For � quadrupeds," or mammals, and birds,
these are exceptional clients; each represents have each such distinctive characters that the
perhaps the hundredth one as against ninety. popular apprehension expressed in the words
nine others who find all they want within the � mammal� and �bird� corresponds exactly to
two covers of the Manual. Asa Gray was the zoological facts in the case; so that �mam-
wise when he mapped out his treatises. mals� are the technical class Mammalia, and
The successive editions of the Manual have �birds� are the equally technical class Aves.
been each one an improvement in detail upon But among the creatures popularly called rep-
its predecessor, though perhaps less obviously tiles�those creeping things which make some
or decidedly so than the present fifth one, which persons �creepy" to come close to�there are
has been wholly recast and printed from new two sets, one scaly and the other slippery.
plates. It has reached out on the land into A turtle or a snake or a lizard is scaly; a frog
Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, and Canada; and or a toad or a newt is slippery; and all sorts
into the sea from Nova Scotia to Cape Hat of differences in the interiorities of these
teras. Its author is never caught napping, or creatures correspond with the state of their
even nodding; he keeps steady step with the skins. So the naturalist regards these two sets
march of events which interest him, and gives as two �classes," as different from each other
us the latest approved views of classification as, for example, birds are different from mam-
and nomenclature. Thus, in all the classes of mals. He accordingly separates them into
vertebrates the sequence is reversed, beginning two classes, which he names Reptilia and Ba-
with the lowest and rising to the highest trachia. So with the rest of the vertebrates
forms, in accordance alike with the evolution which we popularly call �fishes." . Some of
ary processes of nature, and with one other them have no brains at all, no hearts to speak
great fact in zoölogy�the American Ornithol- of, and a mere apology for a backbone; these
ogists' Union's Committee on Classification form one class, Leptocardia. Others have no
and Nomenclature! The analytical �keys" | under jaw, no side fins, gristly bones, and very
to the families, genera, and species--invaluable queer gills; these are a class, Cyclostomi. But
to the lay student, and in fact scarcely less in all the rest of the � fishes� are fishes in zoölogi-
dispensable to the professional zoologist-bave cal fact as well as in popular name; and these
all been thoroughly overhauled, and for the are grouped together as the class Pisces, or
most part the natural instead of artificial �true" fishes, as distinguished from the mere
characters are introduced. This brings the | pretenders to the honors of fish-hood. Thus
student into direct contact with the basic prin we make out our seven classes or prime divis-
ciples of classification, instead of leading him, ions of the Vertebrata of which Professor
blindfolded though safely, to search for em Jordan's book treats.
pirical characters. We think, however, Pro. Now all classification or natural arrange-
fessor Jordan has done well in not discarding | ment of animals or plants, or anything, is but
entirely the �short cuts� and �earmarks� of the extension and amplification and applica-


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tion in detail of the perfectly simple principle in favor of the initial vowel of the stem of the
indicated in the foregoing paragraph. It is | Greek word for �ear,� the parotoids of batra-
the comparing of one thing with another, to | chians being those things which lie alongside
see how much or how little it differs, and thus their ears. Is it quite true, as Professor Jor-
to establish grades or degrees of affinity, upon dan says, that in the epilasmian group of phar-
which the whole fabric of the zoological sys yngognathous fishes the post-temporal is "sim-
tem rests. The principle is easy enough to ple�? We had supposed it to be bifurcate.
take in at a glance; the application of that Does the � anterior" part of the pectoral fin
principle is quite another matter, in which all of Cephalacanthidae correspond to the free
the learning and judgment, all the skill and rays of the same fin in Triglido? This would
tact, in fact the whole genius of the naturalist, seem to be an error which Gill had fully ex-
is taxed. And the draft upon him is never posed, showing that the free rays find their
greater than when he has to do this, not for homologue in the posterior part.
his peers, but for his pupils; to make his spec | But life is too short to protract such a par.
tacles fit their eyes. Just bere is where Pro agraph as the above. �De minimis non curat
fessor Jordan is strongest; he is able to turn lex.� We will close with a remonstrance and
his own strength into the vitality of a text a recommendation,
book. He takes his seven classes, tersely de Our remonstrance is against misspelling
scribed, and splits them up into the orders of names for no other reason than that someone
which they are severally composed. The or before us has misspelled them. Certainly Pro-
ders he analyzes into the families which make fessor Jordan greatly honors the Committee
them up, the families into the genera which on Nomenclature whom the present writer had
enter into their composition, and finally these the pleasure of appointing and presiding over,
into the species,�at each step of the process during their formulation of the canons of no-
giving analytical �keys,� or tabulated con menclature which he adopts without reserve.
trasts, alternatives or antitheses, of which few And certainly, in the opinion of many natu-
if any real students can be at a loss to grasp ralists, those canons are on the whole the best
the significance. Thus conducted at length that have ever been formulated, so that their
to some one of the 1,145 species, the student adoption by zoölogists at large would be a
has a few terse descriptive words to assure boon, so far as fixity of nomenclature is con-
him he has fetched up at the thing in the book cerned. But it would seem that grown per-
which answers to the specimen he has in hand; sons might be safely intrusted with the privi.
its geographical range is given; the Latin lege of spelling to the best and not to the worst
technical name is translated for him; and per of their ability. Agreed, for example, not to
haps a pointed remark or happy allusion tends exchange an established word Etheostoma for
to make him feel still more at home in the its non-existent correct form Heterostoma, or
matter. A dozen trials or so, with specimens Amphiuma for the proper form Amphipneuma.
representing the different orders of verte But shall we perpetuate the meaningless word
brates, will make the student quite familiar Athlennes because it happened to be first so
with the characters of the higher groups, misprinted for Ablennes ?
down to the families; and the rest is a mat Our recommendation is one which has doubt-
ter of a little care and patience in sorting out less already occurred to both author and pub-
the genera and fixing the right species.
lisher. It concerns illustrations; and we cer-
The experiences of all naturalists combined tainly hope that the sixth edition may be made
have thus far hit upon no better plan for teach still more useful as well as more attractive,
ing than Professor Jordan applies with success with a series of small clean-cut wood engrav.
in his modest little volume. The system is ings or process-plates illustrating the tech-
as near the �royal road� to learning as has nical points of generic diagnosis, and the more
ever been devised; and the fact that there is popular features of, say, one-third or one-half
and can be no royal road to the system itself of the species. Such little pictures, averaging
is not an objection that can be reasonably not over two inches square, would do wonders
urged. Persons who manage to get carried for nearly all students and lay readers. The
anywhere without any exertion of their own book, even with its latest increase in size, is
are the least likely to derive advantage from well within the compass of a small handy
the position in which they are placed.
octavo, and the proposed illustrations would
Probably the reviewer must find some fault scarcely affect its size to the eye or hand of
with the book, if only to save his own critical most of its users. It is true that a treatise
skin; though he may have a better motive already so admirable is sure of long life and a
than this, seeing that the Manual is sure of a healthful career, illustrated or not; but its
sixth edition in due course. The word �para embellishment in the manner proposed would
toid " is used by herpetologists, but this does be something else and something better than
not make it right. It should be parotoid; for painting the lily or gilding refined gold.
the Greek proclitic should waive its final letter
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FRANKLIN THE PEACEMAKER.* infinite deal of mischief, before a force can be
brought together to repel them?"
In their first volume Dr. Hale and his son
To this period also belong Franklin's ser-
traced the career of Franklin in France from
vices on the commission appointed by the
the time of his first visit to Paris in 1767 up
French government to examine mesmerism,
to the arrival of the news of the surrender of
the eighteenth century form of faith-cure;
Cornwallis at Yorktown. By the aid of new
and, as might have been expected with Frank-
material from the Stevens collection at Wash-
lin as the leading member of the commission,
ington, the authors showed us Franklin busy
Mesmer's professions were rejected.
in his work of making friends for America,
A chapter is devoted to that very interest-
negotiating alliances and soliciting loans,
ing subject, the relation of Franklin to the
worried with petty cares of routine work,
French Revolution. He was a friend of Mira-
pestered by the jealousy of Arthur Lee, and
beau, �the friend of man," and in a letter to
yet withal the calm philosopher and the idol
Price, in 1784, introduced the younger and
of French society. With the victory which
greater Mirabeau, �who has prepared for the
closed the war in America these business cares
press a small piece, vastly admired by the
pass away; and in the second period of his
best judges here, on the subject of hereditary
life in France we have Franklin the peace-
nobility, which he proposes to get printed in
maker. If his shrewd common sense and high
England.� Malesherbes, Dupont de Nemours,
character were useful in this first period, of
the Duke de La Rochefoucauld, Lafayette,
still more importance were they in the great
Rochambeau, Chastellux,- these are some of
task that fell to this later portion of his
the leaders of the earlier stages of the Revolu-
career.
tion with whom Franklin was intimate. The
We turn to this book with an interest
case with which the new American constitu.
already awakened by the authors' assurance,
tions (which Franklin had had translated and
in their first volume, that the unpublished
distributed) went into effect, helped to delude
portion of the Stevens collection is richest in
the reformers of France into the belief that
the period after 1780, and that they had access
feudalism in that country could be easily
to the archives of Bancroft and to the Adams
superseded by an order of things similar to
collection. Although the treaty negotiations
that in America. Franklin was misled by
occupy over one-half of the book, it is far
the same impression. The people with whom
more than a study of the peace. Franklin's
he chiefly came in contact were neither of
private life and general occupations are richly
the noblesse, nor of the masses, but of the
illustrated. There are chapters relating to
nouveaux riches. The authors say, �There is
the better times and the financial negotiations
not a single expression known to us in any of
following the cessation of hostilities. With
| Franklin's letters or papers up to the time
the closing of the preliminary peace we find
when he left France which shows that he ex-
Franklin returning, with the ardor of his
pected any considerable change in the govern-
former days, to the scientific studies which
ment of that country.�
always occupied so considerable a place in
It would be a pleasant task, were there
his affections. His correspondence with his
space to do so, to quote from Franklin's private
English friends, Dr. Price and Sir Joseph
correspondence, and especially from his grace-
Banks, disclose his keen interest in everything
ful notes to his friends of the gentler sex.
new in this field. The balloon had just been
The picture of the old man drawing his life to
invented, and all the chatterers of Paris were
a close in peaceful content, in spite of the
asking, �Of what use is the balloon ?� And
painful disease which afflicted him, is most
Franklin replies with his epigram, �Of what
use is the baby just born ?" Franklin himself
pleasant. He writes:
�I am here, among a people that love and respect
was inclined to predict an important career
me, a most amiable people to live with; and per-
for the infant. He said:
haps I may conclude to die among them, for my
"Convincing sovereigns of the folly of wars may friends in America are dying off one after another,
perhaps be one effect of it, since it will be impracti. and I have been abroad so long that I should now
cable for the most potent of them to guard his be almost a stranger in my own country.�
dominions. Five thousand balloons, capable of Nevertheless we remember that he did press
raising two men each, would not cost more than
his request for a release from his commission,
five ships of the line; and where is the prince who
and that he returned to America to round out
can afford so to cover his country with troops for
its defence, as that ten thousand men descending
his great life as a peacemaker in the stormy
from the clouds might not in many places do an
sessions of the Constitutional Convention.
But the main interest of this book lies in
*FRANKLIN IN FRANCE. From Original Documents, its character as a new investigation, from
most of which are now published for the first time. By
original documents, of the treaty negotiations
of 1782�33. Since the first volume appeared,
two studies of these negotiations have been
Edward E. Hale and Edward E. Hale, Jr. Part II. The
Treaty of Peace and Franklin's Life till his Return.
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published, which take decidedly opposite fisheries. Franklin, on the other hand, be-
grounds in respect to the relative merits of lieved that the objection of Vergennes to
the American negotiators, Jay and Franklin. these claims arose from his desire to make a
In volume seven of Winsor's �Narrative and speedy peace which our demands might pre-
Critical History of America,� Hon. John Jay vent, and he thought that Vergennes neither
expands an address delivered before the desired to delay the recognition of our inde-
New York Historical Society in 1883 into a pendence nor was plotting with England. On
complete study of the negotiations, wherein this point it is the opinion of the authors that
he presents the policy of Jay as the impor- | Vergennes was really in earnest in his desire
tant factor in bringing about a peace so favor for the independence of the United States,
able to America. On the other hand, Dr. | but they agree with Jay that the American
Wharton, in the appendix to his �Digest of demands were in several instances directly
International Law," credits Franklin with the contrary to French policy. Vergennes's whole
two treaties of 1778 and 1782�3, saying that European system was based on the Family
these treaties were negotiated by him, with Compact with Spain; and he would gladly
colleagues at his side who at least gave him have reimbursed the latter by dividing up the
no help, and urges that it must have required Western country bounded by the Alleghanies
on the part of the British minister great de and the Mississippi between Spain and Eng-
termination to perfect the peace, and great land France also desired a share in the
faith in Franklin's capacity to right matters fisheries, and would have excluded this coun-
at last to have enabled him to disregard the try. But it must be observed that Vergennes
particular action on the part of Jay to which openly caused these objections of France to
the latter's adherents attach especial credit. the American claims to be urged upon our
It is between such conflicting views that we representatives, although not the reasons for
turn to Dr. Hale for judgment.
the objections. Indeed, so completely did the
Looking back upon the years 1782�3, we French ambassador to America gain control
can now fully realize the magnitude of the over Congress, that the ultimatum which had
issues then at stake. When the guns of the been adopted in 1779, requiring the Mississippi
Revolution were silenced, the conflict was but boundary and the navigation of that river, in
transferred from the arena of arms at York addition to independence, had been reconsid-
town to the arena of diplomacy at Paris. ered in 1781, and independence had been left
The issue was no longer primarily independ as the sole ultimatum. It was by empha-
ence; it was rather the terms of this in- sizing Shelburne's determination to grant a
dependence. With what territorial extent liberal peace to America, that Bancroft made
should the new nation begin its career? Should his well-known attack upon the policy of Jay
it be a strip along the Atlantic, bounded by the and his defence of Franklin; and Dr. Hale
Alleghanies and the Ohio ? or should its west- and his son have had access to the material
ern limit be the Mississippi from West Florida upon which he based his view. If Shelburne
to the sources of that river, with the conti- was aware of Vergennes's hostility to our de-
nental aspirations strengthened by this stride mands, and was nevertheless willing to grant
across the mountains ? Might the nation not our independence and concede our boundaries
take Canada even, and thus from the outset and the fisheries, then the credit for the treaty
avoid all future boundary quarrels with Eng. | belongs to him and to the man who brought
land ? Besides these questions, there was the | him to this determination.
fishery question, upon the settlement of which | One fact in the authors' treatment of Shel-
depended a valuable industry of New England burne is not given its proper prominence;
as well as the possession of this nursery for and that is his sympathy with the enlightened
American seamen. The vital interest of these principles of Adam Smith. Oswald, the Brit-
questions to our own times needs no comment. ish negotiator, had been first introduced to
Four men are of primary interest in this Shelburne by Smith, and Franklin was an en-
negotiation; namely, Vergennes, the French | thusiastic admirer of this broad-minded econ-
Minister of Foreign Affairs; Shelburne, at omist. The cosmopolitan spirit of Adam
first Secretary for Home and the Colonies, and Smith was a factor in these negotiations. It
later Prime Minister of England; and Jay and | was to Franklin the philosopher that Shel-
Franklin. Spain was in alliance with France, burne sent Oswald to open negotiations, say-
but was not in alliance with or even friendly | ing that he would be glad to talk with him, as
to the United States. She therefore appears he had done years before, � upon the means
only indirectly in the American negotiations. of promoting the happiness of mankind.� As
It was the opinion of Jay that Vergennes was the authors point out, compensation by Amer-
plotting with England to delay the concessionica to the dispossessed loyalists was a matter
of our independence and to prevent the grant which Shelburne had especially at heart. He
ing of our wishes respecting the boundaries, would have used the boundaries and the fish-
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might have said, he defended the abandon boundaries and fisheries as an ultimatum, and
ment of the West before parliament, purely | giving to France the guidance of the American
on the ground that the fur trade was of com negotiation, are not referred to until the mat-
paratively small value !
ter is introduced indirectly in comments on
Franklin's part in the negotiations, before Vergennes's irritation over the commissioners'
the arrival of Jay and the illness which pre violation of these instructions. The index is
vented his active participation in the negoti- | a poor piece of work. Mistakes in the index
ations, is illustrated by considerable new to the first volume are repeated in that to the
material. One cannot fail to see the impor- second, which refers to both volumes. So im-
tance of his work in striking the key-note of portant a subject as Canada is not indexed in
the negotiations in the word �reconciliation." the second volume. But on the whole the
He so completely dominated the British com- | authors have followed out their plan with
missioner, Oswald, that the latter was ready admirable success, and have given us in an
to grant Canada as the price of this reconcil. entertaining form a new and valuable study
iation. The personal character of Franklin / of a remarkable man in a remarkable period.
was of no small importance in the negotiations.
FREDERICK J. TURNER.
It is probably from a desire to print only new
material that the authors fail to bring out this
fact in its full force. Shelburne's frequent
HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS.
expressions of �entire confidence in Dr. Frank-
lin's integrity and strict honor,� and in his
While turning over the tempting array of illus-
� comprehensive understanding and charac-
trated holiday works which are to be briefly noticed
in this review, we were attracted by the apposite
ter," as well as Oswald's statement that Shel-
title of a little volume, �The Book of Christmas,"
burne and the English ministers reckoned in
from the Messrs. Roberts Brothers of Boston. This
no small degree on the good sense of Franklin
work, descriptive of the time-honored customs,
to extricate their country from the terrible traditions, ceremonies, superstitions, etc., of the
position in which it was placed, show us the season, is written by Mr. �. K. Hervey, with the
bases on which the earlier negotiations pro laudable purpose of vindicating and preserving the
ceeded. In view of the material now accessi-
old Christmas spirit. The author - who is ably
ble, it is probably not too much to say that
seconded by the sprightly work of the artist, Mr.
R. Seymour - remarks in his introduction: "He
when Jay announced his definite refusal to
who assists in restoring observances which had a
treat except on terms of a previously recog.
direct tendency to propagate a feeling of brother-
nized independence, Shelburne had already de hood, and a spirit of benevolence, is a benefactor."
cided upon a liberal peace, and was sincere in And therein, we think,---apart from the religious
his determination to grant independence as the significance of the festival, -- lies the gist of the
terms of a treaty, the other terms of which
matter. John Stuart Mill, in his �Political
should not depend on this. If this view be
Economy," pictures a time when, owing to over-
population, the earth may be turned into one
correct, Franklin and Shelburne had substan-
vast instrument for the production of food and
tially settled the fundamental points in dis-
raiment; when the plough and the harrow shall
pute before Jay delayed matters by his refusal
ruthlessly erase from the face of nature every trace
to treat without prior recognition.
of beauty; when "every flowery waste shall be
In the definitive treaty, Franklin, with his ploughed up; every hedge-row or superfluous tree
characteristic breadth, attempted to provide rooted out; and scarcely a place left where a wild
for the abolition of privateering; and Hartley,
shrub or flower may grow without being eradicated
his friend in the English parliament, proposed
as a weed, in the name of improved agriculture."
In such a day of triumphant industrialism as that
to establish free trade. To this doctrine of
pictured by the economical Mr. Mill, we may be
Adam Smith, Shelburne was so complete a sure there could be no Christmas worthy of the
convert that he would have made it a univer name, and the spirit of �Scrooge� and �Marley"
sal policy. But the time was not ripe for would ride rampant over that of "Tiny Tim."
either of these suggestions, and they failed. I All of which, Heaven forbid !
To a student of Franklin's career this book The publishers of holiday books this year have
is indispensable. Since it is the plan of the
well sustained their reputation for taste and enter-
authors to supplement existing material, and
prise, and have produced a collection of works of
notable merit, especially in their art features. The
to reprint documents only when absolutely |
minor gift-books are unusually tasteful, and deserve
essential to the narrative, the work lacks the
more attention than can be given them in this re-
symmetry and completeness suited to general view. Some of these daintily-executed trifles are
readers. Even to others, the authors would quite as artistic in their way as their more preten-
have done a very acceptable service by indi-
tious neighbors, and represent months of pains-
cating the location of documents elsewhere
taking toil that should meet a generous reward at
printed, which are important to a full under-
the hands of those who appreciate things of beauty.
First on our list are Messrs. White & Allen, who
standing of the negotiations at the various
issue a large folio edition of Goethe's �Faust,"
stages of their progress. Oddly enough, the which is certainly a triumph of book-making. The
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a worthy medium for the presentation to the Eng- | able for softness of tone and pleasing atmospheric
lish-speaking world of Goethe's metrical master- effect; while the bits of distance, �touched in" so
piece. The chief feature of the volume is the exact delicately that they are felt rather than seen, are
reproduction, by the photo-aquarelle process, of the pleasingly rendered.
water-color designs of the artist, Mr. Frank M. A holiday book distinctly of the better class is
Gregory. Each of the ten full-page tinted plates provided by Messrs. Roberts Brothers in their beau-
is a fac-simile of its original, preserving intact the tifully illustrated edition of Dr. Hale's "The Man
artist's medium of expression, whether form or Without a Country"--perhaps the most noted short
color,-a decided gain over the usual reproduction story ever written by an American. It is twenty-
in black and white. Mr. Gregory has evidently five years since it first appeared, and its lessons of
regarded the poem as a poem-not as a thesaurus patriotism are needed not less by this generation
of mysteries to be unlocked by the rusty key of the than by the one that first welcomed it. If there
scholiast; hence his designs are clear and object are any young Americans who have never read it,
ive, and agreeably free from mysticism. To Eng they should promptly do so; and its old admirers
lish and American lovers of "Faust," the refine will find a new charm in re-reading it in connection
ment and delicacy of Mr. Gregory's ideals will pre with the sympathetic and expressive illustrations
sent a pleasing contrast to the grossness of those of which Mr. F. T. Merrill has provided for this edi-
the German artists. In the hands of Fr. Pecht, tion. The volume is as inexpensive as it is satis-
Franz Simm, and other recent illustrators of the factory in other respects.
poem, the characters are Teutonized beyond endur Messrs. Routledge & Sons issue, in two royal-
ance. Faust becomes a sort of reflective Gambri octavo volumes, the last of Victor Hugo's romauces,
nus; Wagner, a mere grotesque; while the ethereal "Ninety-Three.� The subject of this work afforded
Margaret figures as a strapping wench whose ap the leader of the French romanticists, with his en-
pearance is a sad reflection upon the taste of the | lightened sympathy with the struggle for social
learned Doctor. In addition to the colored plates, and political reform, and his knowledge of human
this volume contains eighteen large black-and conduct amid scenes of violence and passion, an
white sketches, in wash, reproduced by the Meis ample field for the display of his powers. The
senbach process. The publishers are to be con- | novel was first issued in 1874, and was published
gratulated upon this superb �Faust," and upon simultaneously in French, English, Russian, Italian,
their happy selection of the artist whose work so Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Hungarian, and other
greatly enhances its value.
languages,-Hugo deriving 80,000 francs from the
A stately edition (imperial 8vo) of the perennial translations alone. The work relates to the war in
�Memoirs of Count Grammont,� edited, with notes, La Vendée, introducing Robespierre, Danton, Marat,
by Sir Walter Scott, is issued by the J. B. Lippincott and other famous revolutionists, and possesses his-
Co. The volume serves as a vehicle for thirty torical as well as literary value. The forin of this
three etchings on India paper by L. Boisson, from notable edition is too familiar to need comment.
the original compositions of C. Delort. The designs �Ninety-Three " is rich in material for illustration.
of M. Delort are piquant and spirited, bringing The work of the artists, --Messrs. Hugo, Bayard,
vividly before the reader the mélange of courts and Brion, Vierge, and others,-is unusually good, and,
camps, pitched fields, and ball rooms, courtiers, considering the number of hands employed, strik-
gamesters, maids of honor and dishonor, which ingly uniform in tone and characterization. The
serves as material for the sprightly narrative of energy of Hugo's style is adequately reflected in the
Anthony Hamilton. The workmanship of the designs. The magnificent large-paper edition of
etcher, L. Boisson, is a good example of the deli Hugo's romances is now complete-comprising
cacy and finish of French art. Of the �Memoirs" �Les Misérables" (five volumes), � The Toilers of
it is unnecessary to speak. Written to relieve the the Sea" (two volumes), �Notre-Dame� (two vol-
ennui of a worn-out old roué, they have outrun the umes), �The Man Who Laughs,� sometimes called
intention of the author by serving a serious histori �By Order of the King" (two volumes), and
cal purpose. No book presents so vivid a picture Ninety-Three" (two volumes).
of a certain phase of seventeenth century life in Messrs. Little, Brown & Co. have now completed
England as this of Anthony Hamilton. Scorning their admirable "Library edition" of Hugo's ro-
even the scant fig-leaf of decency, the writer un mances, in twelve duodecimo volumes. The print,
flinchingly lays bare the life of the most immoral size, and make-up are unexceptionable. The text,
court in Europe. And yet we could ill spare the which is unabridged, is based on the well-known
�Memoirs of Count Grammont.�.
Wraxall translation, revised and extended. This
Two of S. E. Cassino's excellent art publications edition is embellished with twenty illustrations by
should prove acceptable to those seeking tasteful yet French artists, and is in every way to be commended.
inexpensive holiday gift-books. The first of these, en Crowell's popular edition of Hugo's romances,
titled �Coast Sketches," is a series of nine etchings begun last year by the publication of �Les Miséra-
of New England coast views, by Louis K. Harlow, bles" in five volumes, is this year continued by
unbound, and enclosed in a decorative tied cover. �Notre-Dame� in two volumes, �Ninety-Three's
Mr. Harlow has the gift of seizing upon the salient in two volumes, �Toilers of the Sea" in two
points of a landscape, and these little things are, volumes, �History of a Crime" in two volumes,
in their modest way, admirable. A bit of land and and �By Order of the King� in two volumes.
water called "Ashore� is a good piece of etching. This complete and very satisfactory edition of Hugo
The pine-clad point in the foreground, with its contains over 600 illustrations, and is issued in a
heavy shadings softened and enriched by a few in variety of bindings, from plain every-day cloth, to
cisive lines of dry-point; and the stranded schooner the sumptuous crushed morocco and levant of the
with its spider lines of rigging outlined against a holiday season.
luminous sky, are effective and full of picturesque ! Perhaps the crowning compliment of the many
fancy. The other series of etchings, �Thames lately paid to Victor Hugo by American publishers
Sketches,� similar in form to the above, are notice is the issue of two grand éditions de luxe of �Notre-


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Dame de Paris" - an edition in French, published Longfellow's " The Courtship of Miles Standish,"
by W. R. Jenkins of New York, and a new English as published in a handsome quarto by Houghton,
translation made by Mr. A. L. Alger, published by Mifflin & Co., is one of the best of the holiday pub-
Messrs. Estes & Lauriat. The editions are identi lications. The book is profusely illustrated, and
cal in form and in quality of printing, and have furnished with abundant notes elucidatory of the
the same illustrations. These number about 200, text, and relating to antiquities of Plymouth. The
and are made from original paintings by the cele six full-page photogravures, after designs by Mr.
brated artists, Rossi, Bieler, and de Myrbach, F. T, Merrill, are excellent. The pictures are a
fifteen of them being aquarelles, printed in colors study in themselves, and the favorite poem derives
especially for the work in Paris. Each of the edi- a new charm from their happy interpretations.
tions comprises two volumes, crown octavo, and is Keats's longer poems, sensuous, objective to a
limited to 500 copies.
degree, brimming with "things of beauty " that
In a pleasant paper entitled �A Gossip on a are expressed with a definiteness leaving no mist in
Novel of Dumas's," Robert Louis Stevenson says: the mind of the reader, afford a strikingly rich
� The books that we re-read the oftenest are not field for the labors of the artist. We enjoy the
always those that we admire the most; we choose illustrations of a favorite poem proportionally to
and we re-visit them for many and various reasons, the degree in which the artist's ideals coincide with
as we choose and re-visit human friends. One or our own. There are reasons why competent illus-
two of Scott's novels, Shakespeare, Molière, and trators of Keats should be unusually successful in
Montaigne, The Egoist, and the Vicomte de Brage pleasing the admirers of the poet. First, Keats's
lonne, form the inner circle of my intimates." art is eminently objective; second, no English poet,
Desiring to suitably admit American readers to the save one, quite equals him in felicity of expression.
confidences of Dumas's fascinating Vicomte, Messrs. The artist who, after illustrating the �Hyperion�
Little, Brown & Co. issue a notably convenient or � Lamia � of Keats, should betake himself (sup-
library edition of "The D'Artagnan Romances." posing him to be very injudicious) to Coleridge's
The set comprises �The Three Musketeers," in two "Sibylline Leaves," for instance, would lose friends
volumes (12mo); � Twenty Years After," in two rapidly. The reader will remember with pleasure
volumes; and the sequel, "The Vicomte de Brage the designs of Mr. Will. H. Low, in an expensive
lonne," in six volumes. This model library edition edition of �Lamia� issued by Lippincott in 1885.
will delight the fastidious book-buyer.
Encouraged by the success of that edition, the pub-
While Routledge's new illustrated volume of the lishers now offer it in cheaper form.
Eugene Sue series, �The Wandering Jew" (uni The same publishers issue Goldsmith's "The
form with the �Hugo"), is, like its compeers, an Traveller," with etchings by M. M. Taylor, as a
admirable specimen of typography, it shows a fall companion volume to "The Deserted Village" of
ing off in the matter of illustration. In comparison last year. The poem is fairly well suited for illus-
with the melodramatic vigor of M. Sue's kaleido tration. While the workmanship of the artist is
scopic tale, its terrific situations and extraordinary good, he cannot be said to have done justice to the
personages, the designs of the artist seem rather text. His designs are conventional, and would
tame. The wood-cuts are rough and out of keep bear transplanting. The final plate, for instance,
ing with the general make-up of the volume.
illustrative of the line �Forced from their homes,
Among that class of ornamental publications a melancholy train,� though a pretty picture, fails
which are to be strictly termed �holiday books," to convey the spirit of the quotation. * Plate three
a generous oblong quarto bearing the title of �Days is a good piece of etching, the clear and sharp
Serene" (Lee & Shepard) is perhaps entitled to the cutting of the foreground melting away easily and
palm for general excellence. There are twenty-six naturally into the light haze enveloping the distant
full-page illustrations from the hand of Margaret mountains.
MacDonald Pullman, which are marked by rare Goethe's "Hermann and Dorothea," uniform
grace and truthfulness. The lady, evidently, has with � The Legend and Poem of Faust� of last
gone to nature for her models,--her little out-of year, is another pleasing publication of the Lippin-
door bits, sometimes excellent in their way, sur cott Co. The etchings of the artist, Herman Faber,
passing in freshness and naturalness work of more show close and delicate work with the needle;
serious artistic pretension.
while the figures, especially in plates two and four,
A unique work entitled �Embroidery and Lace" are capital, and display unusually good draught-
comes from the Lippincott Co. The author, Ernest manship.
Lefebvre, is well versed in his subject, and thor "Sundry Rhymes from the Days of Our Grand-
oughly impressed with its importance. The volume mothers," collected and illustrated by George
furnishes à history of the manufacture of embroid- Wharton Edwards, with �Rhymes by the Taylor
ery and lace from remote antiquity to the present Family," is published by A. D. F. Randolph & Co.
day, and will be of interest to connoisseurs and Considering that this outwardly imposing book is
needlewomen. M. Lefebvre minutely describes the not intended for children, and that the efforts of an
more celebrated varieties of lace, and dilates upon entire family have been focussed upon its contents,
the merits of certain masterpieces with the enthu- we should have expected something better than this:
siasm of a Ruskin. Lace making, he avers, has
� All nature looks active, delightful and gay,
hitherto been liberally treated by historians of the
The creatures begin their employ;
ornamental arts; while embroidery, the older craft,
Ah, let me not be less industrious than they,
has been neglected. M. Lefebvre makes ample
An idle or indolent boy."
amends for the default of his predecessors. The Or this:
book contains a hundred and fifty-six wood-cuts of �There were two little girls neither bandsome nor plain,
noteworthy pieces of needlework, from Penelope's One's name was Eliza, the other was Jane-"
web downwards. It is a bright little volume, taste- | The illustrations fit the text. Physically, the vol-
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We do not know the author of the following stray The demands of the Christmas season undoubtedly
stanza, but it has a fine triumphant ring that speaks tax the ingenuity of our publishers to the utmost,
volumes for the spirit of Béranger's verse:
otherwise we should hardly find �The Bugle Song"
�Bury Béranger! Well for you
(Tennyson), �Song of the Spirit Over the Waters"
Could you bury the soul of Béranger too.
(Goethe), "A Canadian Boat Song" (Moore), �Song
Bury the body of Béranger!
of the Silent Land� (Longfellow), �Song of the
Bury the printer's boy, you may ;
Imprisoned Huntsman " (Scott), forming the con-
But the soul that wrought in that printer's boy
tents of one volume. Perhaps the fact that they
You can neither bury nor destroy."
are all songs constitutes a bond of union. �The
Mr. W. S. Walsh, editor of �Lippincott's Maga- | Bugle Song," although an exquisite lyric, is pure
zine,� has made a judicious selection (in approved sound, with just a suggestion of natural objects, and
English versions) from Béranger, which form the is ill suited for illustration. The faintest pretext for
contents of one of the Lippincott Co.'s elegant gift a drawing must be seized such a line, for instance,
books. The work is a tempting one, well gotten as �The splendor falls on castle walls.� But the
up, and furnished with steel plate engravings from quality of the line is not to be expressed by a sketch
the best French edition. Mr. Walsh includes the of a castle bathed in sunlight. One regrets that a
familiar versions of Thackeray and Maginn, and purely idyllic piece�say " The Gardener's Daugh-
has omitted all poems of objectionable character or ter," with its profusion of well-defined pictures
ephemeral interest.
that are readily transferable,-had not been selected.
" Sea Vistas in Many Climes " is a beautiful gift � The Bugle Song and Other Poems� (Estes &
book, issued by F. A. Stokes & Brother. A series Lauriat) is, however, a pretty book, and will be
of poems-selected, to meet the exigencies of illus pleasing to many.
tration, from a list of authors that includes Julia A pretty and characteristic souvenir for visitors
C. R. Dorr, Frances R. Havergal, Heine, and Words to California is offered in �Mission Sketches, ".
worth-forms the ostensible motif for eight tasteful published by Nims & Knight. The sketches, ten
water-color drawings by Harry Fenn and Susie in number, are made by Mrs. K. S. Torrey, and
Barstow Skelding. The text is handsomely printed represent views of the old Franciscan Mission at
on fine laid paper with generous margins. This Santa Barbara. The sketches are well executed,
volume is one of the most attractive of its class. and bound in an attractive case.
There is a fine historical and legendary flavor, A modest little book, �Warwick Brookes's Pen-
unusual in America, about the village of Old Con cil Sketches of Child Life" (Lothrop), will meet
cord. We may even regard it (the village, not the the approval of those who appreciate work of actual
flavor) as our Marathon-especially since it is not artistic excellence. The artist, who is little known
far remote from �the Modern Athens.� When in this country, is familiar to lovers of art in Eng-
Matthew Arnold calmly characterized America and land as a singularly successful delineator of child-
its belongings as �uninteresting," he might at least life. The sketches in the volume are done with
have excepted Concord. It would have been a del rare freedom and lightness of touch, and faithfully
icate concession to our patriotism. Concord, more reflect the innocence and grace of infancy. Mr.
over, was the home of Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau Brookes's lovable and artless little people are not to
-to say nothing of the Alcotts. A Concord lady, be confused with the quaint nondescript elves of
however, Margaret Sidney, has hoisted her colors the �Kate Greenaway" type.
in the shape of a patriotic little book, �Old Con �The Diverting History of John Gilpin" is issued
cord,� descriptive of her native place. The work by Routledge & Sons in a handsome oblong quarto,
seems final and exhaustive. Every nook and corner with illustrations, printed in tints, by H. Rosa.
of the town is ransacked for its proper legend, The artist (who, perhaps, was not �in merry pin "
which, when found, is graphically told. The text is when he made the drawings) misses the more
accompanied by a series of illustrations which answer delicate touches of Cowper's humor and his good-
their purpose and are fairly well done. (Lothrop.) natured satire upon the foibles of the class repre-
Of our American poets, no one seems to hold so sented by the bold linen-draper, and contents
warm a place in the popular heart as Longfellow. | himself with the more obvious fun of the poem.
His verse is of a kind to meet wide appreciation, and His work suggests Randolph Caldecott's, and suf-
people still remember the singularly winning per fers by contrast.
sonality of the poet. The Rev. Samuel Longfellow �Favorite Folk Ballads," a rather pleasing vol.
and others have provided matter for a little �Re ume issued by White & Allen, contains �The Old
membrance Book " (Lothrop) which will be of interest Folks at Home," "Annie Laurie,� �When the
to Mr. Longfellow's admirers. The text is bright Swallows Homeward Fly,� and �Kathleen Mavour-
ened by liberal illustrations. Unfortunately, the neen,� The illustrations are nicely done, except
portrait furnished is a poor one.
those of �Kathleen Mavourneen " which are stiff
�Mary the Mother" is a curious work, of some and marred by the presence of an objectionable
artistic merit. The compiler, Rose Porter, tells the minstrel who warbles his way through the series.
story of the Mother of Christ, as outlined in the Dinah M. Mulock's �A Christmas Carol,� illus.
Scriptures and in various medieval legends and trated by J. Pauline Sunter, is published by Lee &
poems. The legends are illustrated by reproduc- | Shepard. Mrs. Sunter's designs display good taste,
tions of paintings by the old masters. The plates and have an unmistakable Christmas flavor. Noth-
are fairly well executed and constitute the chief | ing of its class outranks this dainty production.
merit of the book. (Lothrop).
The same firm issue �A Friend Stands at the
Walter W. May's �Marine Painting " (Cassell) is Door," by the same author, uniform in style with
intended as a handbook for students of that branch the � Carol,� and also illustrated by Mrs. Sunter.
of art. The book contains sixteen colored plates, The text of both works is printed on heavy boards
each fronted by a short description giving rather which are neatly ribboned and boxed.
elementary hints as to treatment. The plates are The Century Co. has collected in a substantial
indifferently executed.
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Trail,� the series of spirited articles contributed by love-story, �Leaves from the Life of a Good-for-
Mr, Theodore Roosevelt to �The Century Magazine. Nothing," and it is published in handsome style by
The work, suitably illustrated by Frederic �eming the Lippincott Co. The illustrations, from designs
ton, is already, in its essentials, familiar to the by German artists, are effectively reproduced in
reader, and should prove a popular gift-book, photogravure, in various tints. The work is a
The words and music of the spirit-stirring war small quarto, whose beautiful print and exquisite
song �Marching Through Georgia" are issued in a illustrations are a delight to the eye.
tasteful volume, by Ticknor & Co. The book is �Modern Art and Artists" is a handsome quarto
prefixed by a good picture of the hero of that volume issued by Cassell & Co., giving a generous
famous expedition, and is liberally and appropri- | collection of illustrations chosen from past volumes
ately illustrated by Mr. Charles Copeland, whose of �The Magazine of Art.� The work is edited
work bears evidence of attention to detail. These by Wilfrid Meynell.
songs are historical, and should be preserved.
The twelve numbers of that excellent periodical,
Two of S. E. Cassino's gift-books deserve fuller "The Magazine of Art," for 1888, collected and
mention than can be given them here. The first is bound in the handsome covers which its publishers,
�My Garden," a poem illustrated by Lena J. Rin Cassell & Co., give them, form a very attractive and
gueberg and F. Schuyler Matthews, with drawings inexpensive holiday gift-book. The illustrations
of American wild flowers and sketches of bits of are profuse, and represent about every variety of
scenery. The second, �The Wings of the Morn graphic art. Many of them are reproductions of
ing�-one of the �Beacon Light� text-books-is meritorious works by leading French and English
the work of the Harlows. In the latter volume artists. The book forms a varied and attractive
each of the thirty-one texts has a full-page illustra picture gallery, and the well-written text serves as
tion lithographed in monotints. These two are an intelligent and agreeable guide.
notably good specimens of ornamental book-making. The current volume of the Century Magazine,"
Adah Isaacs Menken's erratic career-which was in its brilliant covering of brown and gold, prop-
not without a tinge of genuine pathos-lends an in erly takes its place in the category of holiday books.
terest to her verse which it would not otherwise A glance through this portly volume, numbering
possess. A handsome new edition of her �Infeli nearly 1,000 pages, enriched by the contributions
cia," with a sketch of the author by W. S. Walsh, l of our best magazine-writers and beautified by the
is issued by Lippincott. The poem is appropri work of our best wood-engravers, gives a new sense
ately illustrated by F. 0. C. Darley, F. S. Church, of the worth of this periodical.
and others.
Mr. Henry F-Randolph's �Fifty Years of English
"Life" is perhaps the cleanest and brightest of Song,' a collection which has already been noticed
our American humorous papers. Certainly it is the and commended in THE DIAL, is issued in a new and
oftenest quoted. Messrs. F. A. Stokes and Brother very elegant edition limited to 250 copies. Its
publish the fifth volume of their series, known as sumptuous paper and clear print will hardly fail to
** The Good Things of Life,� in a neat oblong quarto, be appreciated by those who love good books as well
which will probably meet with a readier sale than as good poetry. (A. D. F. Randolph & Co.)
many other works of more enduring quality.
Cassell & Co. issued a new and cheaper edition
Charlotte Elliott's hymn, �Just as I am, without of their well-known Doré series. The volumes are
one plea," is illustrated, with unusual taste, by Milton's " Paradise Lost," edited, with a Life of
half-tone engravings from the designs of W. St. Milton, by Robert Vaughn, D.D.; Dante's �In-
John Harper, and issued by the same publishers. ferno" (Cary's translation), with critical and explan-
Two dainty booklets, 6. Through Wood and Field atory notes, and a Life of Dante; �Purgatory and
with Tennyson," and �Under the Greenwood Tree Paradise� (Cary's translation), with notes; �The
with Shakespeare� (Dodd, Mead, & Co.), will re- | Bible Gallery," with memoir of Doré, and descrip-
pay examination. Their contents are made up of tive letter-press by Talbot W. Chambers, D.D.
extracts from Tennyson and Shakespeare, respect The volumes are, in respect of typography and illus-
ively, with appropriate sketches, in tints, by Mr. tration, astonishingly good, considering their very
Wedworth Wadsworth. The designs are pretty, moderate price.
and the neutral grays, blues, and browns effectively The calendars for 1889 display the usual variety
handled.
of ingenuity and skill in ornamentation. Hough-
�Pansies For Thoughts" (Lothrop) is a book of ton, Mifflin & Co. issue an "American Poets'
extracts from the writings of Mrs. G. R. Alden Calendar," containing portraits of Longfellow,
(�Pansy "), selected and arranged by Grace Liv Emerson, Whittier, Holmes, Lowell, and Hawthorne,
ingston. The respect with which Mrs. Alden is re with selections from their works.-Lee & Shepard
garded by the compiler is shown by the fact that issue a prettily decorated calendar, entitled �All
the �Pansies� are interspersed with Biblical texts. Round the Year,� prepared by J. Pauline Sunter,
While Mrs. Alden's writings are far from justifying whose charming designs and delicate coloring we
the rather gushing eulogies of the compiler of this have already commended.-F. A. Stokes & Brother
volume, they are full of sweetness and good sense, send the - Humphrey Calendar," containing fac-
and are of special value to young readers. �Pansies similes of tasteful water-color designs by Maud
For Thoughts� is prettily bound, and makes a suit-| Humphrey.-Routledge & Co. issue the usual �Kate
able gift-book.
Greenaway Calendar," and also the � Kirmess Alma-
"A Handbook For Pilgrims" (A. C. McClurg & pac," a very attractive novelty.- White & Allen
Co.) is a neat little volume made up of extracts, | send one of the best executed calendars of the year,
chiefly of a religious character. The compiler, called �The Life of Christ Calendar," with illus-
Mary B. Dimond, has exercised unusual discretion trations, printed in colors, in imitation of original
in making her selections,
paintings by G. W. Brenneman.-Nims & Knight
Mrs. A. L. Wister has translated from the Ger issue a Sunshine Calendar,� a � George Eliot Cal-
man of Joseph F. Van Eichendorff his charming / endar," and a - Schiller Calendar."


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cat, dreading lest his former cruelty to her shall
Those of us older readers who were brought up
make her refuse it. In this way the lesson of the
book is happily interwoven with its story, without
on the works of Mary Howitt, Miss Edgeworth,
being the least obtrusive. It is a real fairy story,
Mrs. Follen, Miss Martineau, and Jacob Abbot,
full of delicious bits of fun which remind us of
have a strong feeling that nothing which has since
"Alice in Wonderland;" but it teaches the young
appeared can surpass our old favorites. They were
the useful lesson that the way of the transgressor is
treasured, read over and over again, their maxims
hard, and that with true repentance and reforma-
and suggestions put into practice and made really
tion comes joy at the last. The illustrations scat-
a part of ourselves. The distractions of manifold
tered through the book are very pleasing and
magazines and floods of juvenile literature did not
artistic.
then exist; a few favorite books had the field to
Frances Hodgson Burnett has given us a very
themselves. And even in modern times it is only
charming but very improbable story in �Editha's
those books which the children read over again
Burglar� (Jordan, Marsh & Co). This little girl,
and again that are of any real good to them. A
Editha, is left much to herself, her mother being
child's book that is worth reading but once is
devoted to society and her father to business.
hardly worth reading at all. In spite of the large
Being a thoughtful child, much given to reading,
amount of trash which goes under the name of
she browses round in her father's library, among
children's literature, there is a steady increase of
the books and papers, learning often more than is
good books for the young, books which as well
good for her from them. She astonishes her papa
deserve immortality as our old favorites.
at the breakfast-table one morning with the ques-
The style of Oscar Wilde's stories of �The Happy
tion, �Papa, what do you think of burglars as a
Prince and Other Tales" (Roberts) is pleasing, re-
class?" After this follows the great experience of
minding one of the German fairy tale; and almost
the book-her interview with a real burglar, and
any child who enjoys Grimm and Hans Andersen will
the heroic sacrifice of all her treasures to save those
be pleased with this book. Each story bears a moral,
of her papa and mamma. Though this story is full
not stated, but interwoven in the thread of the
of interest in the telling, and rendered more so by
story. The happy Prince teaches the joy of doing
the pretty portrait of Elsie Leslie and her childlike
good to others. He is a leaden statue covered with
letter, it is a question whether it is well suited to
golden scales, set on a high pedestal from which he
children whose imagination is all too easily filled
sees the suffering in the city and strives to relieve
with spectres of the dark and of bed-time terrors.
it by giving away all his fine adornings. At length
Older persons see the improbability of the facts;
he stands blind and bare,-his sapphire eyes, the
but children drink it all in as truth, and live it over
golden scales of his armor, and the ruby from his for themselves as soon as mamma has taken away
sword, all gone. His friend, a litlle swallow, the
the light. Imaginary woes are often as distressing
bearer of his gifts to the poor, falls dead at his feet
as real ones; and though we cannot always save
as the winter cold comes on, and the leaden heart
children from such in life, we surely should do so
of the Happy Prince breaks. �Bring me the two
in our selection of fiction for their reading.
most precious things in the city, said God to one of
Mr. Howard Pyle, whose �Merry Adventures of
his angels; and the angel brought him the leaden
Robin Hood� was one of the most notable of last
heart and the dead bird.� Of the other stories in
season's juveniles, appears this year with a com-
the volume, � The Nightingale and the Rose� is
| panion book, "Otto of the Silver Hand," of which
the least pleasing, being too full of sentiment un-
he is the illustrator as well as author. It is hard to
suited to children. "The Selfish Giant," " The
say in which capacity he is the more successful.
Devoted Friend," and "The Remarkable Rocket"
The tale is one of Germany in the middle ages; and
are excellent. Though many children appreciate
robber barons, knights of chivalry, and other me-
books of this class, still the fullest appreciation of
diæval �toughs," are the heroes who figure in his
them comes from the elder ones who see what is
written and pictured pages. The book is extremely
implied rather than spoken. The illustrations, by
attractive, and has, besides, a distinct historical
Walter Crane and Jacomb Hood, are pleasing as orna-
value for the young. (Scribner's Sons.)
ments for the book, but will hardly add to a child's
Mr. Willis J. Abbot's series of popular and
appreciation of it.
romantic histories of the American navy, for young
A good fairy story is a very good thing, and
readers, has for its third number � The Blue-Jackets
Eleanor Putnam and Arlo Bates have given us one in
of '76" (Dodd, Mead & Co.). Besides an account
�Prince Vance, the Story of a Prince with a Court in
of the naval battles of the Revolution, those of the
his Box� (Roberts). This little prince, with a false
war with Tripoli are given in this volume. Mr.
feeling of the rights of royalty, refuses to learn his
Abbot seems to have inherited a family talent for
lessons,-even the boundaries of the kingdom he
writing entertaining books for boys. We are sorry
will inherit,--treats his tutor and everyone else
that we cannot commend the illustrations of the
about the court outrageously, till even the cats and
present volume,
dogs fear and detest him. His fairy godmother
"The Boyhood of Christ," by Lew Wallace, is a
reproves him, saying he will soon associate with �the
story which an imaginary Uncle Midas tells to a
blue wizard;" and she leaves him �till sorrow
shall make him wiser."
group of appreciative young listeners, and in which
The blue wizard helps
are interwoven descriptions of some of the most
him to play a practical joke on the whole court,
famous pictures representing scenes in Christ's
changing them to pigmies. In his wanderings to
early life. Reproductions of these pictures, and of
find the �Crushed Strawberry Wizard," who alone
original designs by E. A. Abbey and others, form
can restore them to their proper shape, he has tried
| the pictorial features of the volume. As specimens
on him all the tricks with which he has so often I of wood-engraving they are among the finest of the
tormented others, and comes back at last to the productions of the year. The book is a small
palace sufficiently humbled to seek help from the 1 quarto, published by Harper & Brothers.


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There is a certain class of books for the young ice of Northern Siberia, and supposed by the natives
which are made up solely of wild adventures by sea to be a dragon. The facts of natural history here
and land, hair-breadth escapes and bloody encoun embodied are well interwoven and interspersed
ters. To this class belongs Edward Willett's �The with entertaining stories of animals, and the whole
Search for the Star" (Crowell). Under its some is exceedingly well illustrated by many full-page
what misleading title, we have a tale of the woods pictures and numerous smaller cuts. The book is
of Maine, with many hunting adventures. There a fair sized quarto, good in type and paper.
are perilous encounters with wild beasts at every Jane Andrews's "The Stories Mother Nature told
turn. We were not aware that the forests of Maine her Children� (Lee & Shepard) is a collection from
still contained such a harvest of game. The title the volumes of " The Young Folks," that pioneer
of the book is founded on the object of the expedi in good literature for children. As this magazine
tion�the recovery of an heirloom, a star set in dia is now found only in scattered copies here and there,
monds that a French Canadian servant is supposed we are glad to see these stories preserved in a per-
to have stolen. Though this book contains nothing manent form. Many of the old readers of �The
which is positively harmful, such reading as we find Young Folks" will be glad to enjoy over again
in it rather tends to cultivate a taste for the sensa with the children of to-day �The Story of the
tional. The illustrations are on a par with the Amber Beads," as Mother Nature tells it, and �The
book.
Talk of the Trees in the Village Street.� �Sea
The plot of Mary Hartwell Catherwood's story, Life,� with its charming account of the journey of
� The Secret at Roseladies" (Lothrop), centres in the star-fish, will be well remembered by many
its two secrets: that of �Miss Sarah," who surrepti who associate it with a story by Colonel Higginson
tiously plays with dolls�a pastime that is thought called �Carrie's Shipwreck," which appeared in
beneath the age and dignity of her seventeen "The Young Folks,� and gives more fully the
years, and the boys' secret society of the " United human side of the same story. "What the Frost
Diggers." These last pledge themselves to open an Giants did to Nannie's Run" is a true story of
Indian mound, which their uncle has promised to Washington Territory. The �Sixty-two Little
protect from desecration� while grass grows and Tadpoles� will give many a child a suggestion for
waters run." The incidents of the story are far delightful experiments next spring. These stories,
from pleasing, and its tone far from improving. fourteen in all, are published in two forms � a
The characters have no life of their own, and no library edition on thick paper with tasteful binding,
consistency even in the life they have. For in- and an edition for supplementary reading in schools,
stance, the young lady who is childish enough to with a plainer binding and thinner paper. There
play with dolls afterward remarks to her com are pleasing little designs introducing each story
panion, �I used to inwardly rage over a blocky appropriately.
impassive older civilization, which loftily assumed The wild fancy of Jules Verne seems to have run
it knew all," etc. No one could like children that its usual riot in * The Adventures of a Chinaman"
talked in this way.
(Lee & Shepard), for the plot is as unusual and
In direct contrast with such reading as the above, absurd as fancy could make it. A Chinaman, Kin-
we turn to �The Household of Glen Holly" by Fo, heavily insures his life, and from that moment
Lucy C. Lillie (Harper). This is emphatically the is shadowed, in all his wanderings through mani-
story of a household, as the name implies; and a fold dangers, by the agents of the company, to
cheery, bright, wholesome one it is. There are no protect him from harm, and thus save the com-
startling incidents nor dramatic effects, but the pany's money. These dangers, created by his own
quiet influence of this household, with its happy unwise act, are ever around him, and his various
home-life, spreads over all the neighborhood. It is modes of escape from them are both ingenious and
this force which makes Gerald renounce the highest peculiar-especially when he takes to the water in
place in the school, with no ostentatious display or one of Captain Boynton's swimming suits. The
feeling of self-righteousness, but with a sincere dénouement' is both surprising and happy. The
desire for the welfare of the school. This spirit book abounds in lengthy description of Chinese
also enables Cecil, one of the daughters of the customs and scenery, and is on the whole very
house, to change the whole tone of a cripple's life entertaining
from morbid repining for the pleasures from which Many older readers will remember "The Last of
he is cut off by his feeble physique, into cheerful the Huggermuggers� and �Kobboltozo," by Chris-
acceptance of those pleasures still possible to him. topher P. Cranch, which first appeared about thirty
The accounts of the boys' school-life are manly and years ago. Lee & Shepard have now issued a new
wholesome, and the story of the girls' success in edition of these two books, in attractive form, and
establishing a home for the little children of work- apparently the original very entertaining illustra-
ing women is well told and suggestive. Some of tions. Those little people who have a love for the
the descriptions are a trifle wordy, but the whole marvellous will dwell long on the benign features
tone of the book is elevating. The wood-cuts are of the �Mer King,� enjoy the Huggermugger's
good illustrations of the text.
island, and revel in the caves of the gnomes. The
Among the attractive juveniles of the year we human view of the great Huggermugger whom the
would place �A Frozen Dragon," by Charles Fred Yankee is anxious to secure for Barnum is quite an
erick Holder, author of �Living Lights� and �The innovation on the orthodox idea of a giant, with his
Ivory King,� (Dodd, Mead & Co.) This book | fe-fi-fo-fum.
deals with the facts of natural history in the famil "Jack in the Bush," by Robert Grant (Jordan,
iar tone which brings them easily within the grasp Marsh & Co.), is a capital boys' book -- brisk, nat-
of children and interests while it instructs. There ural, and wholesome, with a spice of adventure,
are very few scientific names given, and these are Six boys from the United States, with their tutor,
always accompanied by the common ones. The Mr. Holt, and his friend the Colonel, go for a
Frozen Dragon is a rhinoceros, imbedded in the summer's outing to camp on the banks of a salmon


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river in that part of Canada near Gaspé Basin, just on � The Reformation and What Came of it" and
south of the mouth of the St. Lawrence. From "Thoughts about Every-day Life, or Ten Com-
their experiences here the boys learn to be more mandments for You and Me." The whole construc-
manly, patient, and helpful, and to have a juster tion of the book shows how thoroughly the writer
estimate of themselves and others. They hook understands the interests and mind of a child.
plenty of salmon, and capture some bear's cubs; | Here one would have to make no skips nor changes
they kill a full-grown bear, and save the life of a nor explanation in reading to children, the text be-
half-breed; they have a race with a forest fire, and ing altogether satisfactory in itself. The book has
run the Indian Falls.
quite a number of good illustrations, and a chart of
Young readers are scarcely less fond of books of the ages, which will make the sequence of events
travel than are older ones; and liberal provision is | much clearer. The type is remarkably clear, and
always made for this feature of juvenile literature. the general appearance of the book acceptable.
Col. Knox takes his �Boy Travellers" this year To the children who have a long acquaintance
through the islands of Australasia, and entertains with the �Carr Family," dating back to their first
and instructs them in his usual happy manner. introduction in �What Katy Did,� Susan Cool-
The book is fully illustrated, and is published by idge's new volume, � Clover," devoted to the for-
Harper & Brothers.--Mr. Hezekiah Butterworth, tunes of Clover Carr, will be most welcome. It has
another veteran explorer, pursues his �Zigzag". the same healthful and natural tone that distin-
way through "The Antipodes," and shows his guishes all this author's books. The journey to the
young readers the wonderful sights of Siam and Colorado Mountains for Phil's health, with Clover
the islands of the Indian Ocean. The popularity for nurse, is admirably described, with all the en-
of the �Zigzag" series may be inferred from the thusiasm and accuracy of detail of an eye-witness.
statement of its publishers (Estes & Lauriat) that a | There is a love-story interwoven in the book, not
quarter of a million copies have been sold. ---The one of silly sentimentality, but a happy, whole-
Three Vassar Girls� are still at large, and have some, genuine love, good for every day and all the
reached France, which is the subject of the latest year round. �Clover� is published by Roberts
volume of the series (Estes & Lauriat). The volume Brothers, with good print and paper, several illus-
is largely devoted to the story of the Siege of trations, and a generally pleasing appearance.
Paris.-Elizabeth W. Champney, the guiding spirit Among the various collections of stories of chiv-
of the � Vassar Girls," has not neglected her own alry, �King Arthur and his Knights of the Round
country, and has found time to write a story of Table," by Margaret Vere Farrington (Putnam), de-
�Great Grandmother's Girls in New Mexico� (Estes serves a prominent place. She has evidently studied
& Lauriat).�The �Knockabout Club "continues its the subject with great care, and knows how to
peregrinations �In the Antilles," and, having with place before the reader the lessons of loyalty, honor,
it a competent scribe in the person of Mr. F. A. and faithfulness, which the stories afford. It is
Ober, and also a special artist, is able to give a good true that mixed with these sentiments there is often
account of its doings and observations.-"Ned a false idea of morality, especially when dealing
Harwood's Visit to Jerusalem� is described by Mrs. with affairs of love; but these ideas, so entirely
Susan G. Knight, in a volume published by the alien to the thoughts of most children, pass lightly
Lothrop Company.
over them, leaving no taint. What a child sees in
Mrs. Sarah K. Bolton, in �Some Successful Wom stories like these is the martial pageant and the
en" (Lothrop), gives a direct and simple narrative deeds of fiery valor.
of eleven who have made a success of their chosen �Little Miss Weasy's Brother,� by Penn Shir-
career. These are the records of energy, skill and ley (Lee & Shepard), is a good story for young
hard work, united with special aptitude for a chosen children, bringing in the same characters as �Lit-
calling. We find here not only those women who tle Miss Weasy� of last year, and continuing the
have attained success for themselves, but those history of a very natural and wide-awake family of
whose names are a symbol of world-wide philan children. The doings and the various "scrapes"
thropy. One name- Margaret, of New Orleans, - of Kirke, the brother, form a prominent feature of
not so familiar to our Northern ears, yields a biog. the book, and are such as we may see any day in
raphy of great interest, showing what a plain work the school or home life of a well cared for and good
ing woman can do for humanity. A part of this intentioned little boy. There are several quite
biography is quoted from an article by George pleasing full-page illustrations.
Cable, who says: � What had she done, what was Margaret Vandergrift's simply told story of �Lit-
she doing, to make her so famous ? Nothing but tle Helpers � (Ticknor) portrays the ordinary ups
give, give, give, give, to the orphan boy and the and downs of a little boy's life, his various trials
orphan girl, Catholic, Protestant, Hebrew, any. and temptations, and the means by which he meets
thing. . . All alike shared her bounty. Her and conquers them. It is well told, without too
life motto was, �God has been so good to me, I must much moralizing, and the tone is healthy and strong.
be good to all.'� In many of these sketches there The book is a good size quarto, with excellent type
are fragments of autobiography which add greatly and paper and many pleasing wood-cuts.
to the interest, and as a whole the book well Another pleasing book by the same author is
deserves perusal. It is a pity that the wood-cut "The Dead Doll, and other Poems" (Ticknor), com-
portraits, with but few exceptions, are so exceed piled from her verses in �St. Nicholas," "Har-
ingly poor. We like to see the faces of those who per's Young People," � The Youth's Companion,"
interest us, but we should not wish to connect and �Wide-Awake.� It is a welcome addition to
these burlesques of faces with any real persons. poetical literature for children. Several of these
�Great Thoughts for Little Thinkers," by Lucia poems are already familiar beyond juvenile circles,
T. Ames (Putnam), is the history of religion, in its | especially �The Clown's Baby,� which has been
broadest sense, given from a liberal standpoint. It extensively copied. That and - The Dead Doll"
begins with the Creation, and ends with a chapter | and �The Sand-man" are some of the gems of the


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collection. The book is of the same size and quality are especially meritorious, and represent excellent
of paper and type as �Little Helpers," and is pro work on the part of artists and publishers. We
fusely illustrated with good wood-cuts.
have space only to name a few of those which will
A new edition of Ruskin's charming story of best repay inspection. From the Worthington
� The King of the Golden River" is issued by Lee Company we have: �Bonny Bairns," verses by
& Shepard. The book is too well known and appre-
ciated" to need comment. This edition, a small color by Ida Waugh.- From F. A. Stokes &
quarto, is of an acceptable size to handle, and is Brother: "Patchwork in Pictures and Print," the
made more pleasing by good paper and type. The pictures by F. Opper, and the print by Emma A.
illustrations are the usual ones by Richard Doyle. Opper.- From E. P. Dutton & Co.: �The Old
Kate Greenaway has tried her artistic hand upon Father Santa Claus Picture Book," by Lizzie and
Browning's �Pied Piper of Hamelin," and the re | Robert E. Mack ; �Familiar Selections from the
sult is one of the most attractive and meritorious Rhymes of Mother Goose," with new pictures by
juveniles of the year. Her water-color sketches Chester Loomis; �A Snow Baby," by G. Clifton
are printed in fac-simile, and give a charm to the Bingham.-From S. E. Cassino : "The Tin Army
quaint poem which it never knew before. (Rout of the Potomac, or, a Kindergarten of War," by
ledge.)
William Howe Downes, illustrated by J. F. Good-
Edward Lear's �Nonsense Books" are too well ridge.�From White & Allen: " P. T. Barnum's
known and universally liked to need commenda Museum and Menagerie," text and illustrations by
tion. This year there are two collections of his P. T. Barnum and Sarah J. Burke; �Smith and
mirth-compelling verses and sketches, --- � The Schmidt in Africa, or, Hottentot Blue-Book,�
Book of Nonsense,� published by F. Warne & text by E. Hugh Jones, illustrations by C. M.
Company, and �Lear's Nonsense Books," pub Seyppel.-From Longmans, Green & Co.: �The
lished by Roberts Brothers.
Besom Maker,� country folk-songs collected and
Harry M. Kieffer's �Recollections of a Drummer illustrated by Heywood Sumner. �From Frederick
Boy," published originally in �St. Nicholas," and Warne & Co.: �Over the Hills,� by E. L. Shute,
later in a volume which has been for some time out illustrations by Jessie Watkins; � Young America's
of print, is reissued in a revised and enlarged Nursery Rhymes," illustrated by Constance Hasle-
edition, by Ticknor & Company. It is a book that wood; �A Merry Round," rbymes by A. J. Daryl,
well deserves its popularity.
illustrated by Constance Haslewood; � The Baby's
White & Allen issue three additional stories by Journal," designed and compiled by S. Alice Bray.
that always popular writer for boys, Capt. Mayne Our space for this review is exhausted, but not
Reid: "No Quarter," "The Child Wife," and our books. We can do no more for the remainder
." The Free Lances." These volumes are all illus than simply to enumerate them; although there
trated, and are sold in a neat set.
are among them works fully deserving of extended
Mr. Elbridge S. Brooks, author of "The Story of notice. "The Birds' Christmas Carol,� by Kate
the American Indian" of last year, appears this Douglas Wiggin; illustrated; Houghton, Mifflin &
year with � The Story of the American Sailor� Co.� Biding His Time," by J. T. Trowbridge;
(Lothrop). The book includes both the navy and illustrated; Lee & Shepard.- Pen,� by the author
the merchant service, and extends from the canoe of �Laddie," etc.; Roberts Brothers. � �Stories of
voyageur to Farragut. Arctic exploration, whaling, Persons and Places in America,� by Helen Ainslie
smuggling, lake and river service, are all included Smith; illustrated; Routledge & Sons.-"A Start
in the story. The book is well illustrated, and is in Life," by J. T. Trowbridge; illustrated; Lee &
one of the best boys' books of the season.
Shepard.-" Alma, the Story of a Little Music Mis-
Of the bound volumes of Juvenile periodicals, tress; " White & Allen.� "Taken by the Enemy,"
the first on our list is �St. Nicholas" (Century Co.) a story of the Civil War, by Oliver Optic;
with its handsome covers of red, gold, and black, | illustrated; Lee & Shepard. - Daddy's Boy,"
worthy of the pictorial and literary treasures within. by L. T. Mead; illustrated; White & Allen-
The numbers of �Harper's Young People" for 1888 "Three Greek Children," by Rev. Alfred J.
appear fresher and more attractive than ever in Church, M.A.; illustrations after Flaxman and
their bright holiday dress of green.-"Wide Awake" the antique; Putnam's Sons.��My Uncle Flori-
(Lothrop) is distinguished by a new and rather pretty mond,� by Sidney Luska; illustrated; D. Lothrop
cover for its current volume, �Y.���Worthing Co.-"Brownies and Bogles,� by Louise Imogen
ton's Annual " has an illuminated cover, and is Guiney; illustrated; D. Lothrop Co.-� Bible Ani-
brightened by many colored plates.-"Chatterbox� mals and the Lessons Taught by Them,� by the late
for 1888-89 (Estes & Lauriat) is the authorized Rev. Richard Newton; illustrated; Robert Carter
reprint of the English work, with considerable origi & Brothers.-A new edition of �The American
nal copyrighted matter.� "Little Ones' Annual� Girl's Home Book," by Helen Campbell; illustrated;
has a good collection of stories and poems, and a G. P. Putnam's Sons. �"A Queer Little Princess,"
profusion of attractive illustrations. It is edited by Frances Eaton; illustrated; D. Lothrop Co. -
by Oliver Optic and published by Estes & Lauriat. "Fighting Phil,� a life of Gen. P. H. Sheridan, by
��The Pansy" and "Babyland,� both published Rev. P. C. Headley; new edition; illustrated; Lee
by Lothrop & Co., are presented in their usual holi & Shepard.� �The Swiss Family Robinson," a new
day covers.
translation by Mrs. H. B. Paull; sixteen colored
There is a category of juvenile literature, and plates, and other illustrations; F. Warne & Co.-
that a very important one, of which it is impossible "Ready, Aye Ready," by Agnes Giberne; Robert
to give any true idea by a mere description. These Carter & Brothers. � * Howling Wolf and His Trick
are the picture-books with illuminated covers, such | Pony," by Mrs. Lizzie W. Champney; illustrated;
as dazzle the eyes and gladden the hearts of the D. Lothrop Co.--"Romulus and Remus, a Dog
younger members of the household on Christmas Story," by Charles R. Talbot; illustrated; D. Lo-
morning. The productions of this class this year, throp Co.


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BOOKS OF THE MONTH.
[The following list includes all books received by THE DIAL
during the month of November, 1889.)
ILLUSTRATED GIFT BOOKS.
Goethe's Faust. From the German by John Inster,
LL.D. With an Introduction by Burdett Mason.
Full page Illustrations in color by Frank M. Gregory.
Folio, pp. 71. Extra, gilt top. White & Allen. $20.00.
The Wandering Jew. By Eugene Sue. New Mlustrated
Edition. 182 Illustrations from Designs by A. Ferdi.
nandus. 3 vols. Large 8vo. Uncut. Geo. Routledge
& Sons. $10.00.
Ninety-Three, By Victor Hugo. New Illustrated Edi.
tion. Illustrations from Designs by Victor Hugo,
Bayard, Brion, Vierge, and oiher French Artists.
2 vols. Large svo. Uncut. Geo. Routledge & Sons, $6.
The Man Who Laughs, By Victor Hugo. New Illus.
trated Edition. Illustrations from designs by D.
Vierge and G. Rochegrosse. 2 vols. Large 8vo. Un.
cut. Geo. Routledge & Sons. $6.00.
Days Serene. Illustrated from the Original Designs of
Margaret MacDonald Pullman. Oblong 4to. Extra,
gilt edges. Lee & Shepard. $5.co.
1 History of French Painting. From its Earliest to
its Latest Practice, including an account of the
French Academy of Painting, its Salons, Schools of
Instruction, and Regulations. By C. II. Stranaban.
Reproductions of 16 Paintings. 8vo, pp. 496. Extra
gilt top. Chas. Scribner's Sons. 85.00
Leaves from the Life of a Good-for-Nothing. Trans-
lated from the German of Joseph Freiherr von Eich.
endorff, by Mrs. A. L. Wister. Illustrations by Johann
and Kanoldt. Svo, pp. 115. Extra, gilt top. J.B. Lip-
pincott Co. $5.00.
An Autumn Pastoral. The Death of the Flowers. By
William Cullen Bryant. A Series of seventeen Pho.
togravure Illustrations, after Original Drawing by
C. E. Phillips. 4to, gilt edges. Nims & Knight. $5.00.
Beranger's Poems. In the Versions of the Best Trans.
lations. Selected by William S. Walsh. With Illus.
trations on Steel. 8vo, pp. 200. Extra, gilt top. J. B.
Lippincott Co. $4.00.
Lamia. By John Keats. With Illustrative Designs by
Will H. Low. 8vo, pp. 67. Extra, gilt top. J. B. Lip.
pincott Co. $5.00.
Sundry Rhymes from the Days of Our Grandmothers.
Collected and Illustrated by George Wharton Ed.
wards. Oblong 4to, pp. 109. A. D. F. Randolph & Co. $4.
Modern Art and Artists. Edited by Wilfrid Meynell.
Illustrated. 4to, pp. 232. Gilt edges. Cassell & Co. $6.
The Man Without a Country. By Edward E. Hale,
author of �In His Name," etc. Ilustrated. Large
8vo, pp. 106. Extra, gilt edges. Roberts Bros. $2.5').
Hermann and Dorothea. By Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe. Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring, C.B.
Etched Illustrations by Hermann Faber. Large 8vo,
pp. 60. Extra, gilt edges. J. B. Lippincott Co. $3.00.
Favorite Folk-Ballads. Illustrated by G. W. Brenne.
man, Joseph Lauben, and others. 4to, pp. 80. Extra,
gilt edges. White & Allen. $3.50.
The Magazine of Art. 1888. 4to, pp. 480. Gilt edges.
Cassell & Co. $5.00.
The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine. May,
1888, to October, 1888. Small 4to, pp. 960. Gilt top. The
Century Co, $4.00.
The Traveller. By Olive
tions by M. M. Taylor. Large 8vo, pp. 47. Extra, gilt
edges. J. B. Lippincott Co. $3.00.
The Boyhood of Christ. By Lew Wallace, author of
�Ben Hur," etc. Illustrated. Small 4to, pp. 101.
Leather, gilt edges. Harper & Bros. $3.50.
The Song of the Brook. By Alfred Tennyson. Illus.
trated by Wm. J. Mozart. 4to. Nims & Knight. $3.00.
Infelicia. By Adah Isaacs Menken. Illustrated. Squaro
12mo, pp. 126. Gilt top. J. B. Lippincott Co. $2.51).
The Lost Earl, with other Poemg and Tales in Verse.
By John Townsend Trowbridge. Illustrated, 8vo,
pp. 158. Gilt edges. D. Lothrop Co. 82.00.
The Bugle Song; and Other Poems. Illustrated. Square
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