itney by Mr. Edwin T. Brewster.
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of Verlaine by M. E. Lepelletier, may be given
as a continental makeweight to these English
and American examples.
Among works of history, the following seem
to us particularly alluring: "The Birth of
Modern Italy," a volume of papers by the late
Jessie White Mario; "Garibaldi and the
Thousand," by Mr. George M. Trevelyan;
"Men and Manners of Old Florence," by Dr.
Guido Biagi; "The Great French Revolution,"
by Prince Peter Kropotkin; "Society and
Politics in Ancient Home," by Professor Frank
F. Abbott; and "The Foundations of the
Nineteenth Century " (which will probably turn
out to be political and social philosophy rather
than history), by Mr. Houston Stewart Cham-
berlain, that distinguished English scholar who
writes his books in German, to be afterwards
translated into his own tongue.
In the field of literature, the publication of
Emerson's Journals seems to be the most im-
portant single announcement. They are to be
edited by Messrs. Edward W. Emerson and
Waldo Emerson Forbes, and will be precious
documents indeed. Volumes of essays that will
find eager readers are "The American of the
Future," by Professor Brander Matthews;
"American Prose Masters," by Mr. William
C. Brownell; "The Mystery of Education, and
Other Academic Performances," by Professor
Barrett Wendell; "The Spirit of America,"
by Mr. Henry van Dyke; "Essays on Modern
Novelists," by Professor William L. Phelps;
"Masters of the English Novel," by Professor
Richard Burton; and collections of papers by
Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson and
Richard Watson Gilder. Two important works
of cognate interest are Professor Gildersleeve's
"Hellas and Hesperia," being lectures on the
vitality of Greek studies in America, and Pro-
fessor Mahaffy's " What Have the Greeks Done
for Civilization'!" being a Lowell lecture course
of last winter.
The poet usually avoids the puff preliminary,
and it is our experience every year that the
most vital poetry comes almost unheralded.
The announcements at hand, however, include
volumes by Mr. Percy Mackaye, Dr. Henry
van Dyke, Mr. Charles E. Russell, Mr. Richard
Le Gallienne, Professor Richard Burton, Mr.
Madison Cawein, Miss Louise Imogen Guiney,
Miss Josephine Preston Peabody, and Mrs.
Florence Earle Coates. We are glad to note
that "Dido, Queen of Carthage," by Mr.
Stephen Phillips, is promised for early publi-
cation, and that the poems of Mr. William
Winter are to be brought into a newly col-
lected edition.
In the wilderness of promised fiction there is
one cheerful resting-place provided by Mr. De
Morgan's new story, characteristically entitled
"It Never Can Happen Again." We are not
likely to have another novel " equally as good,"
although we make the suggestion with a certain
hesitation, being fresh from the late summer
surprise of "The Old Wives' Tale," and re-
calling two or three other recent delightful
examples of the unexpected. We may also
entertain "great expectations" of such books
as "Ann Veronica," by Mr. H. G. Wells;
"Open Country," by Mr. Maurice Hewlett:
"A Life for a Life," by Mr. Robert Herrick;
"John Marvel, Assistant," by Mr. Thomas
Nelson Page; and "Bella Donna," by Mr.
Robert Hichens. If we may not expect greatly,
we at least know about what we shall get in
such stories as "The Silver Horde," by Mr.
Rex Beach; "The Leopard and the Lady,"
by Miss Marjorie Bowen; "The Danger Mark,"
by Mr. Robert W. Chambers; "The Florentine
Frame," by Miss Elizabeth Robins; and " The
Red Saint," by Mr. Warwick Deeping. We
are also to have " Stradella," a second posthu-
mous book by Marion Crawford; and also " On
the Lightship,"a posthumous collection of stories
by Herman Knickerbocker Viele. There are
others, to the number of several hundreds; and
we shall see what we shall see.
Perhaps, after all, books of travel will occupy
the foremost place in the public eye. What
volumes may be brought forth by Messrs. Cook
and Peary and their zealous partisans we may
hardly conjecture ; but of books actually in sight
we note Mr. Sven Hedin's "Trans-Himalaya,"
and "An Antarctic Voyage" by Lieutenant
Shackleton, both of which will be contributions
to knowledge if not to entertainment. And the
reader for pleasure combined with instruction
will be likely to find his account in such books
as that on Portugal by Mr. Ernest Oldmeadow,
"Seven English Cities " by Mr. W. D. Howells,
"Unknown Tuscany " by Mr. Edward Hutton,
"The Land of the Lion*" by Mr. W. S. Rains-
ford, and Mr. Albert Sonnichsen's " Confessions
of a Macedonian Bandit." The travels of John
Davis in the United States a hundred years ago
are to be reprinted, offering a contrast to books
of modern journeyings. And if there is any-
thing in an author's name to attract attention
to a book, readers should be found for a work on
"The Servian People " by Prince Lazarovich-
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THE BOOKS FROM QUEER STREET.
• ■ There is an indefinable something about the books
from Queer Street that always betrays them. Just
as the mentally unbalanced reveal their unsteadiness
of equilibrium by their gait, their gestures, a turn
of the head, a glance of the eye, so the writings of
the eccentric, the obsessed, the more or less insane,
have a tone or a style or an atmosphere that unfail-
ingly distinguishes them from the books from Ortho-
dox Avenue.
The favorite topics of our eccentric authors, our
writers born with a screw loose somewhere in the
brain's mechanism, are the famous insoluble prob-
lems of all ages, such as the squaring of the circle,
the doubling of the cube, the trisecting of an angle,
the invention of perpetual motion, the finding of the
philosopher's stone, and so on; while also the upset-
ting of accepted theories, like the law of gravitation
or the sphericity of the globe, is undertaken again
and again with a zeal truly religious. A first cousin
to the passion for humbling Newton to the dust is
the frantic eagerness to strip Shakespeare of his
honors. In recent years still another class of peculiar
books has made its appearance — the products, or
by-products, of the "new psychology," the works of
writers indulging in somewhat too beatific visions of
the unlimited powers and possibilities of the human
mind.
To touch briefly on the last class first, its authors
affect a vagueness of expression, a floridity of style,
and a free use of neologisms, that rarely fail to
impress and overawe the reader of unscholarly habit
and inexact thinking. In a recent work that pro-
fesses to be "a relation of the observations and
experiences of a philosopher and poet in the spirit
world," communicated by thought-vibrations to an
earthly scribe, there is much said about harmonial
relations with the infinite, spiritual radiations, aural
surroundings, incarnate and excarnate souls, vice-
gerents of the Great Oversold, and other like sub-
limities. Amid much that is excellent and suggestive
in its way, a few characteristic sentences, a little
baffling to the plain reader, may be quoted as rhetor-
ical examples. "The polarization of all spiritual
aspirations in consciousness precedes illumination
and the unfolding of the theocracy." "Why should
I not sit at the feet of wisdom, and learn from the
vice-gerents of the Great Oversold, whose radiations
permeate every part of an infinite universe, in whose
effluences these, my desired teachers, had become
partakers of that whereof I had not attained?" The
writer more than once struggles unsuccessfully with
the difficulties of " attain " and " obtain," and what
preposition, if any, to use with each; he attains of
and obtains to, which is sad to the grammarian. He
also splits his infinitives with a ruthlessness that
would sorely disturb the serenity of a purist, and
ordinary words are shouldered out of the way to give
place to terms not yet vulgarized by any maker of
dictionaries. Somewhat as the ancient Greeks dis-
guised the terrors of the furies and the horrors of the
night under propitiatory euphemisms, this writer
elaborates a graceful periphrasis when referring to
death. A friend of his, instead of dying as men
have commonly been in the habit of doing, "passed
out from his always rather delicate frame, and, after
a short time in a semi-conscious condition, awoke
to the reality of being.''
A distinguishing mark of the class of literature
to which the above-cited work belongs is its dogmatic
tone, its " cocksureness," its sublime disregard of all
opposing evidence or proof. "To doubt would be
disloyalty, to falter would be sin," is the writer's
motto. From an article on " True Occultism," pub-
lished in a reputable monthly that has an honored
place in "Poole's Index," we take a passage that
fairly stuns one with stiffly dogmatic affirmations.
"Occult philosophy teaches, first of all, that man
must be. The doing is of secondary import. Only
as he is, can he rightly do. The hidden wisdom of
the Sphinx and Isis is the same. Isis (Isisi, Be-Be,
'I am that I am,' sums up the secret of all life; and
when one knows this law, the powers long hidden in
his being will arise and crown him king." Note the
splendid audacity with which the writer cuts the
etymological knot of the real meaning and derivation
of the Egyptian goddess's name! The famous deriva-
tion of "King Jeremiah " from " pickled cucumber"
is not more admirable.
A little dip into a well-known book by a well-
known apostle of new or newest thought brings up
the following: "Just behind the seen and material
human organism there is a sensuous mind, the most
outward and fleshly of the immaterial part, which
pertains especially to the body and acts directly upon
it. Next within is the intellectual zone, and still
deeper, in the innermost, is the spiritual ego, the
divine image." This recalls Swedenborg's confident
assertion that" The human mind is distinguished into
three regions: the highest, which is also the inmost,
is called celestial, the middle spiritual, and the
lowest natural" and makes us wish that we too
were privileged to know and to declare, without need
of evidence or argument, some of these sublime
and awful truths.
A favorite illusion of the producers of eccentric
literature is that all the colleges and universities and
learned bodies the world over are the victims, the
voluntary victims, of error, and are banded together
to suppress the truth and to crush all who would be
its proclaimers. A writer in the magazine already
cited, moved to utterance by a sense of the wrongs
of the laboring classes, and a conviction that he has
discovered the remedy, thus expresses the matter:
"Those who have consumed their days in prayer-
ful learning, whose nightly tapers have waxed dim
in the examination of the subtlest problems and the
broadest measurements of human society, should
they forsooth not be wiser than the unread weak-
lings of their generation? . . . Verily, verily. And
yet the mob is right, and the scholars are the sci-
olists." The Rev. Edward Dingle, in concluding his
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the Square of the Circle, and the Earth's True Solar
and Lunar Distances," which appeared in London
nearly twenty-five years ago, devoutly exclaims:
"To the Lord he all thanksgiving, who has kept my
intellect and the directing of its thoughts sound,
while seeking to deliver his word from the exulting
shouts of his enemies and the seducers of mankind!"
Immensely flattering to one's self-love is it to
imagine oneself the chosen depositary of secrets,
whether mathematical or physical or celestial, un-
revealed to the rest of mankind; and if one is only
sufficiently determined and sufficiently deaf to
reason, there is no reason why there should ever be
any rude awakening. But faith will falter at times,
and then there comes a shrill note of anger, or a
blustering attempt to mask one's fear that, after all,
the other side may be in the right These depart-
ures from the placidly self-confident tone are quite
natural and excusable when the circle-squarer or the
flat-earth champion has spent life and substance in
unavailing efforts to convert the rest of the world.
A bulky volume (whose name and authorship refuse
to come forth from the mists of the past) essaying
to prove the absurdity and even iniquity of the
wave theory of sound, and vehemently denouncing
Tyndall, Helmholtz, and other teachers of the hated
doctrine, had some vogue in rural communities, and
especially among the back-woods ministry, about
thirty years ago. Again and again were Messrs.
Tyndall, Helmholtz & Co. driven into a corner, put
into a hole, held up to scathing ridicule, and shown
to be the veriest bunglers and blunderers in science.
Forgetting one's lessons in elementary accoustics,
and accepting the author's premises and sharing his
animus, one could not but find the book delightful
reading; so gratifying is it to be right, in a minority
of two, while all the rest of the world is wallowing
in a bog of hopeless error and wilful delusion. Next
to being the author of a prodigiously successful and
world-famous book, what could be more glorious
than to be the author of a book that is right where
all other books have been wrong, and whose sales
are suppressed by the united exertions of the con-
federated enemies of truth?
One of John Fiske's last and best contributions
to magazine literature was an article on "Some
Cranks and their Crotchets," in which he pointed out
some of the stigmata or witch-marks of crankery as
they are found in books. His experience as assist-
ant librarian in the Harvard library had made him
acquainted with many works that well illustrate the
wide difference between the delicious drollery of the
wise man and the earnest nonsense of the fool. We
laugh with the one writer and at the other. In
nothing does the crank more quickly and surely
betray his obliquity of vision, when he rushes into
print, than in his utter failure to see the humorous
aspect of things. His is the terrible seriousness of
the little child that cannot smile when it is in earnest.
If one wishes to make sure that one's books shall
never be classified by the library cataloguer with
"insane literature " — or, as Fiske considerately
decided to style it out of regard for the feelings of
those abnormal authors who are still with us and are
in the habit of consulting library catalogues, "eccen-
tric literature " — it would seem to be only necessary
never to be so tremendously in earnest as to lose the
power of laughing at oneself.
CASUAL COMMENT.
Present-day tendencies to mysticism are
discernible in many quarters. The recent Congress
of Psychology at Geneva has been considering the
psychology of religion and theology, and Professor
Harold Hoeffding of Copenhagen declared that the
things most important for us to know are unknow-
able, essentially mysterious, and that the search for
ultimate reality leads inevitably to mysticism. One
of the most talked-of and most original of modern
thinkers, the French philosopher Bergson, shows de-
cided mystical leanings. The mysterious and the
wonder-compelling are leading motives in the current
drama, as may be seen in recent plays by Messrs.
Barrie, Hauptmann, and Maeterlinck — in "Peter
Pan," "The Sunken Bell," and "The Blue Bird."
All sorts of more or less fantastic and mystical cults
are in vogue, though to name them might be thought
invidious. This is called a scientific and practical
and calmly critical age; but the more strenuous the
efforts of the scientist to lay bare naked reality, to
demonstrate exactly what the ultimate particle of
matter really is, the more is he baffled and per-
plexed and forced to take refuge in the non-material
realm. To learn that the atom is, after all, probably
nothing but a system of pulsations, or a mode of
motion, or a centre of mysterious forces, is about as
definite as the old answer to the question, What is
matter? — never mind; or, What is mind ? — no
matter.
The degradation of words, the gradual descent
in the scale of dignity and respectability of certain
adjectives and nouns and verbs and adverbs, with
the constant necessity of finding or coining other
terms to fill the vacancies, is a subject of more
than philological interest. Is it because familiarity
breeds contempt, that words are so continually losing
caste? or is the unceasing change to which every
living language is subject simply one illustration of
the Heraclitean doctrine that all things are in a state
of flux? The latest section of the Oxford English
Dictionary, containing words beginning with S as far
as Sauce, embraces an unexpected number of these
discredited or shabby-genteel terms; and, what is
worthy of note, these terms are more than likely to
denote moral qualities. "Saintly" and "sancti-
monious" are now, in common speech, of uncompli-
mentary significance. By their side are to be placed
a long array of adjectives, once denoting none but
laudable attributes, but now much the worse for wear.
Who would like to be known as the "worthy" Mr.
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Tom Miller, or as "clever" Bob Burly? Even
adjectives indicative of intellectual preeminence
easily assume undesirable implications. "Sapient"
and in a lesser degree "sagacious" readily lend
themselves to the uses of satire. After all, our
language is much like the Chinese: tone of voice or
accent has to show in what one of various possible
senses our words are used.
An entirely new edition of the Encyclo-
pedia Britannica is announced for next year.
This eminently national work, as solid and substan-
tial and authoritative as the Bank of England or the
London " Times," is now almost a century and a half
old, and its latest reissue took place twenty or more
years ago, so that very naturally it fails to meet the
demand for up-to-date information on such subjects
as wireless telegraphy, radioactivity, aeronautics,
pragmatism, psychotherapy, and various others.
An encyclopaedia, like a library catalogue, is no
sooner issued than it is out of date, its disease of
senectitude becoming more and more acute with each
passing year; but though librarians have in a measure
mastered the difficulty of the catalogue by adopting
the ever-expansible card system, no publisher has
yet undertaken to supply the world with encyclo-
paedic learning in card-catalogue form, nor is it a
form likely to commend itself to the public. Must,
then, the next-to-the-last edition always be thrown
away as so much useless lumber? A report, almost
too good to be true, is circulating that in this
instance the Britannica's publishers will take back
the ninth edition in considerable part-payment for
the tenth — though one might suggest that it would
be better to accept the purchaser's affidavit of pro-
prietorship in the earlier edition and save the freight
thereon, which might go toward diminishing still
further the reduced rate at which the new work is
offered to owners of the old.
THE TRAVEL-TALE AS A FAVORITE FORM OF LIT-
ERARY hoax furnishes food for reflection. Just
at present, when the civilized world is absorbed in
details of the exploration of the Northern Pole, the
historic instances are being recalled of published
travels and discoveries and explorations that enter-
tained and perhaps instructed the world, but lacked
the essential if prosaic element of truth. The
benevolent Father Hennepin's voyage down the
Mississippi to its very mouth, as recorded in the
later and more elaborate edition of his Journal, was
largely a stay-at-home journey. Louis de Rouge-
mont's marvellous experience as chief of a cannibal
tribe in the wilds of interior Australia was received
with raptures of astonishment — until an unpoetic
wife of the romancer rudely upset the airy fabric
of her husband's fertile fancy. Like those foolish
fishes that will even gulp down an unbaited hook,
the dear public has delighted to be humbugged by
the most barefaced of frauds. A Boston newspaper
once printed, in jocose mood, a detailed description
of a vessel of the Swiss navy that was announced
to have arrived at that port; and the article was
copied by other journals in good faith and solemnly
read by hundreds as a genuine news item. The love
of fairy tales does not die out with the shedding of
the milk-teeth.
The advantages of a layman's point of view,
in literature, in art, and even in matters more
severely technical and special, is often unquestion-
able. Detachment and impartiality are not easily
maintained by those in the thick of the fight. Mr.
Bernhard Berenson, the well-known art critic, on
reading a letter by an American painter harshly
criticising Titian and Tintoretto and the Venetian
school in general, is reported to have expressed an
emphatic opinion on the impossibility of being at the
same time a great artist and a competent critic of
art. The painter, said he, "gets so thoroughly in
the habit of his own manner and form, his own way
of seeing things, that when he looks at the work of
other men all he notices is that they don't paint as
he does. He is more narrow-minded in his criticism
even than a layman who knows nothing about the
subject." In the field of letters, Robert Buchanan's
famous assault on Rossetti (" The Fleshly School of
Poetry ") is an instance of narrow and unjust criti-
cism of one writer's work by another. And there
are many others. No man who is himself in the
arena, helping to stir up the dust, can command a
clear view of his competitors.
• • «
Lord Bacon as a writer of verse ought as-
suredly to have had no great difficulty in keeping
his own identity from getting mixed up with that
of a certain author of sundry plays and sonnets that
have since acquired fame. In "The Nineteenth
Century" for August Sir Edward Sullivan has a
well-considered and reasonably convincing article
on "Francis Bacon as a Poet," with illustrative if
not highly exhilarating extracts from the erudite
nobleman's "Translations of Certain Psalms into
English Verse" and ^Apothegms New and Old."
On the whole, few readers of unbiased minds will
find any difficulty in subscribing, with the author of
the article, to Spedding's opinion that there are
probably " not five consecutive lines in either Bacon
or Shakespeare that could possibly be interchanged,
and not recognized at once by any person familiar
with their styles." This, from the man whose life-
work was the editing and the "whitewashing" of
Bacon, should carry weight.
• • •
"Fletcherism" applied to reading might
work wonders in curing intellectual dyspepsia, build-
ing up the mental tissues, promoting the health and
vigor of the brain, and increasing the patient's intel-
lectual weight. When one contemplates the square
yards of daily paper, especially of Sunday paper,
that the eye and the mind travel over every morning,
indiscriminately gobbling an article or a paragraph
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rudis indigestaque moles, to let it gallop through the
alimentary canal of the intellect without being one-
thousandth part assimilated, one marvels that soft-
ening of the brain is not a hundred times more
prevalent than it actually is, and one feels almost
inclined to organize a boycott against all publishers
(of whom newspaper publishers are the chief offend-
ers) whose output is more remarkable for quantity
than quality. For nineteen cents a day, declares
one enthusiastic Fletcherite, a judicious person can
buy food which, if eaten with deliberation, will
more richly nourish the system than a many-course
Delmoniconian bill of fare costing several dollars.
A small fraction of the world's present expenditure
on ephemeral reading matter — ephemeral literally
and in its Greek sense — would purchase enough
good, mind-nourishing, heart-sustaining literature to
give every reader at least a modicum of true culture.
m m m
A FEROCIOUS VOCABULARY OF PEACEFUL SPORTS
has been gradually developed by those enthusiastic
attendants at baseball games whose vivid emotions
at sight of a three-base hit or a neat double-play or
a left-handed catch of a red-hot liner find all ordinary
idioms too tame for tolerance. No wonder the foreign
reader of our newspapers thinks us a most blood-
thirsty people in our way of playing the great Amer-
ican game, when he finds that a baseball nine is
calmly referred to as having devoured its opponents;
a base-runner dies at second, or expires on third;
another is nailed at the plate, or is thrown out in
trying to steal second; and a pitcher may receive
so terrible a lacing that one marvels how he can
ever muster courage to play again. In a compara-
tively sober and sedate journal of recent date, we
find the baseball section headed thus: "More Meat
for Tigers—Find Yankees Toothsome Morsels for
Sunday Feast." The extensive and varied termin-
ology of the game is enough to puzzle and daunt the
uninitiated, leading him to expect something far
more elaborately barbarous than a Spanish bull-fight,
and perhaps as terrifying as an old-fashioned execu-
tion with preliminary torture and final dismember-
ment. But we are now at the tail-end of the season,
and the press will soon cease, for a while, from
frightening the innocent with violent metaphor and
sanguinary phrase in its baseball columns.
m m m
An American scholar's study of Sterne (we
refer to Professor Wilbur L. Cross's "Life and
Times" of that author) is meeting with gratifying
success in the country of Sterne's birth. Some time
ago the supply of the book furnished by the Mac-
millans for English consumption was reported all
sold out, which in the sluggish summer season is
convincing proof of the book's worth as an interest-
awakener. Being the first important work on its
subject since Mr. Percy Fitzgerald's two-volume
biography of Sterne, published in 1864, and being
moreover from the pen of an American, it was oidy
natural that the book should excite curiosity; and
it is pleasant to learn that its purchasers do not
appear to complain that they have failed to receive
their money's worth. In this connection, and as an
additional evidence that Americans look upon the
great English writers and their literary productions
not by any means as alien to themselves, we are
glad to receive word that the custodian of the ceme-
tery where Sterne was buried affirms that most of
the visitors to his grave are from the United States.
• • •
A NEW DEFINITION OF CULTURE, to be added to
the dozen or more that almost everybody can recall
or invent, comes from President Hadley. His defi-
nition, or rather his latest definition, makes culture
"the opposite of absorption in the obvious," the low-
est plane of the obvious being reached in pleasures
arising from the gratification of the animal nature.
"The obvious," he explains, " is that which gets in
our way — the thing we cannot help seeing in its
full size. The cultivated man or woman is the one
who in the various fields of life . . . values in proper
proportion the things which are unseen, or at best
very imperfectly seen, by the less trained vision."
These words of wisdom are timely and reassuring.
Business is looking up, prosperity is reviving, the
autumn will see "bumper " crops of various cereals,
and without this reminder from President Hadley
we might for a moment have forgotten the tempo-
rality of the seen and the eternity of the unseen.
■ • •
The life of library books may seem short to
one observing how quickly they become shabby, how
soon they have to be rebound, and how inevitably the
most popular among them require replacing at brief
intervals. But it must be remembered to what wear
and tear a reading community subjects its library
books. The latest report of the Galesburg (111.)
Public Library states the size of its collection as
36,930 volumes, and its circulation as 152,277 for
the year, besides a reference-room record of 43,127
books consulted. These bare statistics are rich in
significance to one familiar with library business.
Nevertheless, pressure should be brought to bear on
publishers and printers and book-binders to give more
attention to the physical durability of their product.
• • •
The two-mill tax for public libraries is
not exactly a princely allowance for that highly
important branch of our educational system. In
the current report of the Nebraska Public Library
Commission, President Haller, of the Omaha Public
Library, pleads for a higher maximum levy, espe-
cially for small towns. Three years ago, as he
points out, Iowa passed a law permitting cities and
towns with a population of six thousand or less to
levy a tax of three mills on the dollar for public
library support. Kansas also has taken a similar
step. It is encouraging to note the interest of
Nebraska's foreign population in public libraries.
The Bohemians have clubbed together and bought
seven hundred volumes in their language, and have
presented the collection to the State, to be used in
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Hobhouse, Friend of Byron.*
In 1865 Lord Broughton, then nearly eighty
years old, caused to be printed for private cir-
culation his "Recollections of a Long Life " in
five volumes; and on his death, four years later,
he left in the custody of the British Museum a
mass of papers, including a diary, his correspon-
dence, and further memoirs, all to remain under
his seal until the end of the century. Now at
length, nine years after the seal of secrecy has
been removed, his only surviving child (his
second daughter, Charlotte, Lady Dorchester)
publishes a two-volume compilation from the
"Recollections," pieced out with extracts from
the diary and other papers, giving the work the
same title as that chosen by her father for his
privately-printed reminiscences.
The present work is confined wholly to the
earlier period of Lord Broughton's life — the
period of his intimate friendship with Byron,
the records of which furnish the most import-
ant portions of the material. As John Cam
Hobhouse (the name by which he was called
until his father's death in 1831), he is well
known to all who are familiar with Byron liter-
ature, especially from his profuse annotations
of " Childe Harold." He was Byron's fellow-
collegian and fellow-traveller, the confidant of
the poet in his unhappy matrimonial venture,
and executor of his last will and testament.
His acquaintance was, in fact, extensive among
all the celebrities of his time — literary, social,
political, diplomatic, military. A single para-
graph in his diary, describing a ball at the
English Embassy in Paris, contains the follow-
ing names: Lord Wellington, Marshal Bliicher,
the Czar of Russia, Prince Metternich, Platow,
Schwarzenberg, Barclay de Tolly, Prince
Stadion, the Prussian royal family (except the
King), the Bavarian royal princes, De Wrede,
Lord Castlereagh, Marshal Ney, and others of
less note. The great Napoleon was at least
once closely viewed by him, the occasion being
a military review, shortly before the battle of
Waterloo. Napoleon is thus portrayed by his
young English admirer:
"I had for some time a most complete opportunity
of contemplating this extraordinary being. His face is
the very counterpart of Sir James Crauf urd the runa-
* Recollections of a Lono Lite. By Lord Broughton
(John Cam Hobhonse). With additional extracts from his
private diaries. Edited by his daughter, Lady Dorchester.
In two volumes. Vol. I.,1786-1816. Vol.11., 1816-1822. With
portraits. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
way, and when he speaks he has the same retraction of
his lips as that worthy baronet. His face is of a deadly
pale, his jaws overhanging, but not so much as I had
heard. His hair is short, of a dark, dusky brown. The
lady in the Tuileries told me the soldiers called him
notre petit tondu. He generally stood with his hands knit
behind him or folded before him. Three or four times he
took snuff out of a plain brown box; once looked at his
watch, which, by the way, had a gold face, and, I think,
a brown hair chain, like an English one. His teeth
seemed regular, but not clean. He very seldom spoke,
but when he did, smiled in some sort agreeably. He
looked about him, not knitting but joining his eyebrows.
He caught my eye, and soon withdrew his gaze, natur-
ally enough the first, I having only him to look at, he
having some thirty thousand. As the front of each
regiment passed he put up the first finger of his left
hand quickly to his hat to salute, but did not move his
head or hat. He had an air of sedate impatience. . . .
I did not see Napoleon equally well at all times, but
stood, during the whole review, close to him, gazing at
him through hats and a musket or two on tip-toe. I
positively found my eyes moistened at the sight of the
world's wonder — the same admiration of great actions
which has often made me cry at a trait of Greek or
Roman virtue caused this weakness."
He continues to describe the "gratification and
melancholy delight" with which he viewed " the
man who has played the most extraordinary,
gigantic part of any human being in ancient
and modern times."
Among the many interesting characters that
figure in these pages are Lord and Lady Mel-
bourne, the parents of Queen Victoria's minister,
with their vivacious and refractory daughter-in-
law, Lady Caroline Lamb, the alleged original
of five heroines of fiction before Mrs. Humphry
Ward revived her fame in the character of Lady
Kitty Ashe. The tender relations supposed to
have existed at one time between Lady Caroline
and Byron are of course known to all the world,
but the poet's friend appears not to make this
delicate affair a subject for comment in his diary
and reminiscences, so far as they are now pub-
lished. One brief entry, however, records that
"Lady Caroline Lamb is come to town and is
in mischievous activity," and another page has
the characteristic utterance from that lively lady
that truth is " what one thinks at the moment."
From a passage dated March 21, 1814, it ap-
pears that Hobhouse was in some way partly
responsible for the vexations and sorrows that
Lady Caroline Lamb brought upon her husband.
"This evening I went to a very small early party
at Lady Lansdowne's, where there were not above 150
people present. I saw and spoke to a good many people
I knew, but felt miserable, in spite of what used to re-
vive me — kind words from Adair, etc. Lord Byron,
whom I love more and more every day, not so much
from his fame as his fondness — I think not equivocal,
for me — introduced me, at her desire, to Lady Mel-
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she trembled when she spoke to me. She certainly, as
she says of me, does owe me an ill turn for preventing
her son from losing a bad wife. I told her a fib to please
her about her son being popular in Vienna. Byron took
me home in his carriage, and I sat with him an hour."
A contemporaneous judgment of Byron's
poetry, together with a glimpse of the poet's
own opinion of his work, is afforded in this
passage:
"The great success of ' Childe Harold' is due chiefly
to Byron's having dared to give utterance to certain
feelings which every one must have encouraged in the
melancholy and therefore morbid hours of his existence,
and also by the intimate knowledge which he has shown
of the turns taken by the passions of women. He says
himself that his poems are of that sort, which will, like
everything of the kind in these days, pass away, and
give place to the ancient reading, but that he esteems
himself fortunate in getting all that can now be got by
such a passing reputation, for which there are so many
competitors."
There is an unmistakably human quality in a
passing reference to the Edinburgh Review's
praise of Byron as a first poet of the day.
"Rogers called and said to him,' How will Scott
like this? and how will Campbell like this?' —
all the time thinking of himself. Campbell and
Scott mutually hate and abuse each other."
Mr. Hobhouse was, it seems, an eye-witness of
Byron's famous exploit of swimming the Helles-
pont, of which the poet says in " Don Juan":
"As once (a feat on which ourselves we prided)
Leander, Mr. Ekenhead, and I did."
Here is Mr. Hobhouse's account of the incident:
"We left [Smyrna] in the Solsette frigate, Captain
Bathurst, and went by Mitylene [tic] to the Dardanelles.
Byron and Mr. Ekenhead swam across the Hellespont
to-day. Ekenhead performed this feat in an hour and
five minutes, and Byron in an hour and ten minutes.
They set off two miles above Europe Castle, and came
out at least a miU below the Dardanelles."
The chief interest of course attaches to the
personal reminiscences of Byron, which are so
plentiful in these volumes. The accounts of
Byron's marriage and subsequent matrimonial
difficulties will be turned to by many readers.
Hobhouse was present at the marriage cere-
mony, of which he gives many piquant details.
When he wished the bride many years of hap-
piness, she replied, "If I am not happy it will
be my own fault." Hobhouse, himself still a
bachelor, felt as if he had "buried a friend."
In the closing chapter — a long one — he gives
an extended account of "The Byron Separation."
Into the details of this much-discussed affair
we cannot enter. To those who care for the
kind of matter furnished in abundance by this
authoritative and doubtless important chapter,
it will prove most interesting, as will also the
appended letters having chiefly to do with Lord
Byron's affairs.
Of somewhat lesser interest are the introduc-
tory notes furnished by the English publisher
(Mr. John Murray, whose ancestor, of the same
name and calling, is said to have made a living,
and something more, out of Byron's works) and
Lord Rosebery. These prefaces are short, it is
true, and tell us little of importance; but they
gracefully prepare the way for the leading char-
acters of the book. The portraits, though few,
are a welcome addition to the text; and the
printing and general style of the volumes are
all that the most exacting could desire. Unavoid-
ably, there are here, as in all published diaries
and reminiscences and letters, many paragraphs
and even pages that record matters of small
importance; but they are doubtless more neces-
sary for the total correct impression than the
reader at first realizes. However, if Lady
Dorchester should feel encouraged to continue
her editorial task and make public further
records of her father's long life, the events of his
later years might, one would judge, be advan- ,
tageously compressed into far less bulk than
they occupy in the writer's chronicle. Consid-
erable omissions, it is evident, have been made
in compiling these first two volumes. A sequel
of some sort, long or short, is what they now
seem to demand. Percy F. Bicknell.
A Naturalist in Southern Mexico.*
Travel books about Mexico are almost too
numerous. The man who makes a three weeks'
trip into the country on a Pullman car often
feels impelled to write a book. He knew noth-
ing of Mexico when he started, nothing when he
returned; but somehow or other his impres-
sions and criticisms and advice get into print.
Of such books there are more than plenty. But
now and then it happens that a traveller really
visits some little-known region of Mexico, for
some specific and interesting purpose ; and from
him a book is welcome. Hans Gadow's "Through
Southern Mexico" is such a book. He has
travelled widely through the less-known parts
of our neighboring republic, and has conducted
investigations of so serious and interesting a
character that his narrative abounds in new and
curious matter.
Few fields are more interesting to the natur-
•Thbouoh Southibn Mexico. Being an Account of
the Travels of a Naturalist. By Hans Gadow. Illustrated.
New York: Charles Soribner's Sons.


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alist. The keen investigator is sure to discover
valuable unknown material. A single American
collector, Pringle, has made known a fourth of
the recognized flora of Mexico; Nelson has per-
haps doubled the list of known mammals ; out
of two hundred and twenty-seven species de-
scribed in Meek's "Fresh-water Fishes of
Mexico," more than fifty were discovered or
named by the author; Wheeler and Tower find
the entomological field almost untouched. No
wonder that students are turning to Mexico,
and that such interesting narratives are appear-
ing as Baker's "Naturalist in Mexico" and
Beebe's " Two Bird Lovers in Mexico." But
neither Baker nor Beebe went far off of beaten
tracks ; Gadow did. His specialty was reptiles
and batrachians; his greatest interest was in the
species distribution of animals and plants with
reference to their environmental conditions; his
field was the tropical forest and mountain coun-
try of the States of Vera Cruz, Oaxaca, and
Guerrero. His neighbors, when he was at work,
were such Indian tribes as the Mixtecs and
Zapotecs, and the much less known Mazatecs
and Juaves. He camped for days on the great
mountain Citlaltepetl (Orizaba), the highest in
Mexico, whose towering snow-cap, popularly
known as " El Pico," is the finest landmark in
the Republic, and his observations there on alti-
tudinal distribution are exceptional in interest
and value. While the work is a narrative of
personal travel and experience, the author dis-
cusses many curious topics, such as the features
of the tropical forest, coral snakes and warning
colors, rattlesnakes and the evolution of the
rattle, four-eyed fish, etc.
The author gives a necessary caution in bis
preface. "Care has been taken to mention the
various creatures at the time and place that we
observed them. The country swarms with life,
and yet days may pass without a glimpse of any-
thing worth relating, and the best finds are made
unexpectedly." A striking illustration of this
fact is given. The author had stopped at Pre-
sidio station, in the State of Vera Cruz, and was
out searching.
"Whilst rambling along the edge of the forest we
became conscious of a noise, at first resembling the mut-
ter of a distant sawmill; but on our reaching the other
side of a cluster of trees, this sound grew into a roar, like
that of steam escaping from many engines, mingled with
the sharp and piercing scream of saws. It came from
a meadow containing a shallow pool of rainwater. In
the wet grass, on its stalks, and on the ground, hopped
about hundreds of large green tree-frogs; nearer the
pond they were to be seen in thousands, and in the water
itself were tens of thousands. . . . The din was so great
that it was with difficulty that we caught the remarks
that we shouted, although we were standing only a few
feet apart. . . . Now the grassy pool, where the frogs
were closest, was about thirty yards square (900 square
yards) . . . and each square yard held from fifty to
one hundred frogs — many square yards certainly held
several hundred each. At the lowest computation this
gives 45,000 frogs; . . . supposing there were only
20,000 females, each spawning . . . only 5000 eggs . . .
the total would amount to one hundred million eggs.
The spawn literally covered the ground and water
thickly. But the greatest surprise awaited us on the
following morning, when we went to photograph the
scene. There was not a single frog left; the water had
all evaporated, and the whole place was glazed over
with dried-np spawn."
Though this was one of the commonest of the
tropical Mexican frogs, Gadow saw in all the
rest of his month's field-work only eight or" ten
specimens!
While his original observations are of the
highest interest, and an actual contribution to
knowledge, Dr. Gadow makes rather frequent
slips in Spanish, and in statements of common-
place things and conditions. Thus, he uses
the word plantanos for platanos, which is the
general name for bananas and plantains; he
repeatedly uses the word bejugo (a vine or liana)
for bejuco; and he gives chicla for chicle. He
should surely not mention a "cathedral" at
Orizaba. And he falls into an ordinary tourists'
blunder in speaking of "pigskin" bottles for
pulque. These are relatively small matters.
Dr. Gadow's book is a valuable contribution
to Mexicana, because he went where few have
gone, and did what none have done.
Frederick Starr.
The Study of Modern English.*
Unlike a large majority of recent books on
the English language, the work on Modern
English by Dr. Krapp of Columbia can abund-
antly justify its existence. It has a point to
make worth making, and it makes it well.
While the very reverse of provincial, it is a
book that could hardly have been written any-
where but in America, its note throughout being
frankly and refreshingly democratic. Its con-
clusions, therefore, are not likely to find full
favor with the creators of artificial "authority,"
or with academic conservatives in general. But
to all who believe in the sometimes forgotten
thesis that language is made for man, and espe-
cially to teachers of English whose tendency to
grow dogmatic is increased unconsciously by the
• Modern English. Its Growth and Present Use. By
George Philip Krapp, Ph.D. New York: Charles Scribner's
Sons.


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dogmatism of their text-books, the saneness and
calm cogency of such a chapter as that on
'"English Sounds " should be both helpful and
welcome. The book is attractively printed, and,
for a first edition, is commendably free from
textual errors; "ealde " for ealdan (p. 95,1.2)
and "starbord" for starboard (p. 190, 1. 2)
are rare instances.
Coming to statements of fact, one is inclined
at times to question, at others to take' positive
issue. It is true (p. 147) that "too" is the
stressed form of which " to is the frequently un-
stressed; but why say that" of " is the unstressed
form of which " off" is the stressed? The facts
of stress are of course as stated, but why couple
in this fashion words that phonetically have not
an element in common? Again (p. 199), in the
illustrations of verbs usually intransitive be-
coming transitive, "to walk a horse" is well
chosen. In "to walk the streets," " to jump a
fence," however, "the streets " and "a fence"
seem essentially (logically, as Doctor Krapp
would put it) to be adverbs; nor in "I walk
the deck my Captain lies" is there anything
of a transitive nature in the verbs. Finally
(p. 254), "habit" (meaning dress) is listed
among the French words brought into contem-
porary English. What about " Costly thy habit
as thy purse can buy"?
A more serious indictment must be brought
against the style of the book. There is no
reason why scientific prose should fail in
euphony or be wasteful of a reader's powers,
and such faults are especially to be condemned
when language is the theme; let us give to our
German philologists a monopoly of the lumber-
ing and the harsh. Speaking generally, our
author is sounder in his grammatical principles
than in his rhetorical practice; we doubt, though,
whether he would give deliberate approval to
these sad examples of the cacophonous: (p. 171)
"The contemporary imperfectly educated per-
son"; (p. 220) " two historically clearly distin-
guishable strands"; (p. 293) "are generally
unmistakably determined"; (p. 123) "only
approximately correcily." Again, to use a
technical terminology, the style is faulty in its
collocation of correlatives: (p. 32) "Since
instruction in English was no longer given in
the schools, but only in French"; (p.'35)
"In Chaucer we have one who was not only a
consummate artist in the use of language, but
one also who . . . could sound . . ." Should
it be argued that these faults are venial, if indeed
they are faults at all, and that the English-
speaking public grows less and less insistent on
the niceties of arrangement and of sound, it may
be answered that some of the rules of rhetoric
(all the valid ones, says Spencer) are grounded
in the conserving of energy, and that the prin-
ciples of such conservation do not derive their
authority from the judgment of majorities.
Some of those principles, let us make bold to
say, strike their roots deep down into ethics.
Even if the faults thus far referred to are
rhetorical peccadilloes, the following sentence
(p. 138) is nothing short of a rhetorical crime:
"The pronunciation, however, still persists as a
survival in the speech of old-fashioned people,
and, since they are always slower in arriving at
imitative innovations than the educated, it per-
sists also in the speech of the ' ignorant' and
'uneducated.'" One reaches the end of the
sentence before discovering fully that his inevi-
table reference of "they" to "old-fashioned
people " has thrown him from the track of the
thought. It is neither good sense nor good
morals for an author thus needlessly to exhaust
his reader's time and patience.
But these are surface failings. The book
itself is an exceptionally good one, and will
doubtless be read widely and with profit.
C. B. Wright.
Memoirs of a Royalist Exile.*
Memoirs are oftenest read because of the
importance of the role played by their writer,
and occasionally for the evidence they furnish
toward the settlement of some interesting his-
torical question. Neither of these uses render
noteworthy the "Recollections of the Baron de
Fre"nilly." He was not a distinguished man,
although he attained a certain prominence
during the Restoration among those who were
"more royalist than the king." He wrote his
memoirs so late in life, and when separated so
completely from the means of verifying what
recurred to his mind, that his testimony cannot
be accepted upon any matter requiring exact-
ness of statement. And yet these "Recollec-
tions," once begun, will probably be read to
the last page, and if read will not soon be
forgotten nor regarded as without historical
interest. The reason is that Fre'nilly had an
artist's sense for the value of every stroke in
the portraits that fill his pages; his memory
notes with the vividness of a fresh impression
the characteristics of the changing phases of
• Recollections op the Baron de FmEnilly. Edited
by Arthur Chuquet. Translated by Frederick Lees. Illus-
trated. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.


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society from the Old Regime to the Restoration;
and his wit is quick and keen, and as free from
artificiality as a bubbling spring. His peculiar
quality is a frankness, full of surprises, astound-
ing in its comprehensiveness, only to be ex-
plained if we believe him when he says, "My
story is a secret, a disclosure made only to
myself," written to divert weary hours of a
long exile from France after the overthrow of
Charles X.
Frenilly was not of the old nobility, but
belonged to one of the families of the haute
Jinance. His uncle, of whom he was heir, was
administrator-general of the royal domain, and
his father had been receiver-general of the appan-
ages of the Count of Artois in Poitou and Angou-
mois. These financial families had an identity of
interest with the nobility, and no noble detested
the Revolution more heartily than did the young
Frenilly. But he was unwilling to emigrate.
He looked back upon the emigration as "a
painful sacrifice followed by a loyal dupery,"
and declared that "it alone, and not decrees,
destroyed the nobility." During the Terror he
lived on one of his Touraine estates, although
occasionally he came to Paris. He was on the
Hue St. Honore" when the cart passed which bore
Danton to the scaffold. In that cart was also
Hdrault de Sechelles, ex-member of the Com-
mittee of Public Safety, who, when an officer of
the old Parlement of Paris, had received Frenilly
as an advocate, and whom his mother had once
regarded as a desirable husband for his sister.
Although at one time during the Directory he
•was on the point of entering the service of the
government, he took no part in politics until
the Restoration, when he became a pamphleteer
for the Ultras. Toward the close of Villele's
administration, realizing that in current estima-
tion a " peerage was equivalent to a dowry of a
million, and my son would soon be twenty-four
years of age," he asked that his name be included
in the rumored creation, but was chagrined to
find there were so many on the list. With a
few exceptions they were " the flower of France.
. . . But this did not excuse them from the
crime of being seventy-six."
Frenilly had a sense of humor as well as a
keen wit. A play of his was accepted at the
Vaudeville, but " before half the first scene had
been played I said to myself,' Oh! but this is
execrable I' The public was of the same opinion,
and, whilst my friends kept applauding, hissed
with all its strength. I ended hj heartily hiss-
ing myself; for the further the play progressed
the more convinced I was that the people were
right." Afterwards he weut to a dinner where
wreaths of triumph were awaiting him, and told
his adventure with such relish that everybody
joined him in the laughter.
His description of the beginning of the over-
tures which led to his marriage is an example
of his manner of telling his story. His notary
said to him in 1800: "' Sir, you must think of
marrying. I have a match to propose to you —
a widow.' I made a grimace. 'Young,' he
added. I smiled. 'And who possesses a very
fine estate near Paris.' I listened." The
"Recollections" are also full of amusing anec-
dotes. One relates that an officer after a battle
was supervising the burial of the dead, and
thinking he saw some of the bodies move, in-
formed the grave-diggers. "Let them be, sir,"
replied one of the men; "if we listened to them,
not one of them would be dead."
Fre'nilly's portraits are entirely without
malice, although this would be a poor solace to
some of the passing subjects of his pencil — for
example, to that farmer-general, M. Delahante,
who was "at bottom an excellent person,"
although he was " a tall, bony, square-shouldered
man, with a dry, hard, vulgar face, and who
smelt of money a mile off." He speaks of the
Academician Bailly with appreciative' warmth,
adding, however, these sentences, a propos of
his election as mayor of Paris:
"His modesty capitulated, he thought himself a great
man, and be became ridiculous. Heaven had granted
him a wife who was exactly proportioned to his entre-
sol in the Louvre: a good housekeeper and nurse who
adored him, a talkative, common, ignorant, stupid
woman. . . . Behold her through a stroke of the wand,
seated in an immense gilded salon thronged with citizens
and courtiers, and you may imagine what a powerful
auxiliary she was to the sarcasms which were already
showering upon her poor husband."
His contempt for Talleyrand breaks out in the
description of the festival of the Federation,
July 14, 1790, when "this little bishop, a dis-
solute and lame atheist and gambler, was the
only person that could be found to say that
famous high mass in the open air, and which
the heavens seemed to take pleasure in drown-
ing every five minutes by torrents of rain."
Family's mother thought Lafayette a hero,
but he called him a Gilles Cesar, in which, by
the way, he agreed with Talleyrand's estimate.
The chief historical interest of the memoirs
belongs to the descriptions of social life before
the Revolution, the coming of which Frenilly
thought was foreshadowed by an abandonment
of the good old customs. His account of the
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clear, and includes an amusing interview with
Voltaire. The reorganization of society during
the Directory is also illustrated with curious
details. It should be remarked that the trans-
lator has been able to an unusual degree to pre-
serve the liveliness of the original. M. Chuquet
has added valuable biographical notes upon the
many personages mentioned by Frenilly.
Henkt E. Bourne.
Recent Fiction.*
A boy of New England extraction, whose father
was one of the army of settlers who journeyed to
Kansas that its soil might be dedicated to freedom,
comes to our acquaintance in the opening pages
of "A Certain Rich Man," by Mr. William Allen
White, and remains the central figure of a narrative
that covers more than half a century of his career.
The father did not get beyond the Mississippi, for
his life was the price of an abolitionist sermon he
preached one day, but the mother and the child
found their way, first to Lawrence, then to Sycamore
Ridge. The boy grows up in the midst of the
struggle for the salvation of the territory, and is
eleven years old at the outbreak of the war. When
the first volunteers march away from Sycamore
Ridge, he contrives to go with them as a stowaway,
and is not discovered and sent back until he has
become mixed up in a skirmish, and received a
•A Certain Rich Maw. By William Allen White.
New York: The Macmillan Co.
The Woman in Question. By John Reed Scott. Phila-
delphia: The J. B. Lippinoott Co.
In the Wake of the Green Banneb. By Eugene
Paul Metour. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
The Plotting of Fbanoes Wake. By James Locke.
New York: Moffat, Yard <fc Co.
The White Sister. By F. Marion Crawford. New
York: The Macmillan Co.
Antonio. By Ernest Oldmeadow. New York: The
Century Co.
Mad Barbara. By Warwick Deeping. New York:
Harper & Brothers.
The Compact. The Story of an Unrecorded Conspiracy
in South Africa. By Ridgwell Cnllum. New York: George
H. Doran Co.
But Still a Man. By Margaret L. Knapp. Boston:
Little, Brown & Co.
The Bridge Builders. By Anna Chapin Ray. Boston:
Little, Brown & Co.
The Glory of the Conquered. The Story of a Great
Lore. By Susan Glaspell. New York: The Frederick A.
Stokes Co.
Poppe a of the Post-office. By Mabel Osgood Wright.
New York: The Macmillan Co.
Homespun. A Story of Some New England Folk. By
Lottie Blair Parker. New York: Henry Holt & Co.
The Whips of Time. By Arabella Kenealy. Boston:
Little, Brown & Co.
Lovk's Privilege. By Stella M. During. Philadelphia:
The J. B. Lippinoott Co.
The Infamous John Friend. By Mrs. R. S. Garnett.
New York: Henry Holt & Co.
wound in the heel that makes him limp for the rest
of his life. The story up to this point is very
engaging, and the boy's character as well; for
Mr. White understands boy psychology, and John
Barclay is an authentic example of his kind. He
holds our sympathies while he struggles for an edu-
cation,' and while his first heart flutterings seem to
promise a sentimental development of the plot. But
the author is not for sentiment, except as an acces-
sory, and we gradually become aware that John's
chief aim in life is to be money-getting. As a boy,
he makes us uncomfortable by his sharp practice,
and the older he grows the more the soul shrivels up
within him. The bulk of Mr. White's novel is de-
voted to describing the process by which John Barclay
becomes one of the wealthiest men in America. His
success is brought about by shrewd farsightedness,
absolute unscrupulousness, and the wholesale corrup-
tion of courts and legislatures. He is, in short, the
typical bogey-man of the muck-raking magazine.
This part of the story is so overloaded with detail
as to be unsufferably tedious. Fortunately, the book
also makes us acquainted with many other people,
more humanly interesting; for it offers an epitome
of the life of Sycamore Ridge, as the town grows
from its very beginnings into a sizable city. The
many characters are thrown together in the novel
much as they are thrown together in life, and there
is little evidence of artistic plan or grouping. The
writer's knowledge, powers of observation, and
pointed style impart a considerable degree of interest
to his story, despite its amorphous structure. He
affects, with imperfect success, the confidential
manner of Thackeray, and indulges in homily or
reminiscence as his vagrant fancy bids. The proper
moral of such a story is that the millionaire hero
should find his wealth dust and ashes, and this moral
Mr. White properly points. But he makes rather
a mess of the rich man's change of heart; there is
much pathos and little verisimiltude in the account
of his regeneration.
Mr. John Reed Scott, forsaking the imaginary
kingdoms and fair princesses with which his inven-
tion has hitherto entertained us, now gives us a story
of our own time and country, entitled " The Woman
in Question." The woman is a beautiful creature
who lives a secluded life in rural Virginia, where
she is discovered by the hero when he deserts city
for country in order to take possession of the ances-
tral estate which he has recently inherited. She is
a woman with a past (which provides the element
of mystery), and her past confronts her when the
hero brings a house party to bis new home, for one
of his guests turns out to be the man whom the
heroine had married when a mere girl, and from
whom she had afterwards fled in disgust. She pre-
tends, when she meets him, that he is a total stranger
to her; and her self-possession is such that he is puz-
zled, for it is ten years since they parted, and both
nature and art have changed her appearance. By
means of a stratagem, however, he makes sure of
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villain of melodrama, he seeks to use his knowledge
for purposes of blackmail. Already an embezzler,
his plight is desperate, and the only way out of it is
for him to get killed, which he does to the satisfac-
tion of all concerned. Thereupon the hero claims
possession, and his plea does not go unheeded. It
makes an ingenious and interesting narrative, light-
hearted (except for the underlying tragedy), and
gracefully related.
A new writer and almost a new subject claim
our attention in Mr. Eugene Paul Metour's tale of
romantic adventure in North Africa, entitled "In
the Wake of the Green Banner." It is a story of
our own days, of the French occupation of Morocco,
and of factional Moorish strife. Vivid in coloring
and brilliant in description, it is the work of a writer
who has first-hand knowledge of his subject—knows
it, in fact, almost too well for the reader's comfort,
who would like to have the political situation more
fully explained, and who is in danger of much be-
wilderment at the strange local vocabulary. The
opening chapters, describing Marakesh and its
capture by a fanatical Moslem horde, with the con-
sequent massacre or expulsion of the French, are
much the best of the book; if their promise were
fulfilled in those that follow, the story would be a
strong one indeed. But from the time when the
little band of persons in whom we are interested
make their escape from the city, and enter upon
their toilsome journey through the desert, the story
has little plan or coherence. From that point on, it
is a chain of loosely-linked episodes, leading to noth-
ing in particular but a good deal of fighting and the
final escape of the leading characters. It is weak
also in its delineation of these characters. Neither
the Corsican hero, the French-American heroine, nor
her American artist-cousin is distintly realized from
within; in this respect, the author has been more
successful with some of his native types.
• "The Plotting of Frances Ware," by Mr. James
Locke, has for its hero a Polish patriot who works
against the Russian government, and meets the
usual fate of such conspirators. We first meet him
on a Siberian convict-train, from which he makes a
daring escape. Many months later, he turns up in
Turkestan, a wild-eyed refugee, and there wins sym-
pathy and protection from an American archasologist
engaged in scientific exploration. Professor Ware's
companion in this expedition is his sister, Frances
Ware, who is so fascinated by the refugee that she
gives him her heart. Presently he negotiates suc-
cessfully the dangers of the Russian frontier, reaches
safety in Paris, and there, after Frances has also
returned, persuades her into a marriage. The scene
then shifts to Warsaw, whither the couple go in dis-
guise, ostensibly to regain possession of certain
property, but really (although the fact is concealed
from the wife) to take part in a new and desperate
conspiracy. The plot fails, the hero becoming the
victim of treachery, and the heroine being saved
through the efforts of the British consul. It makes
a straightforward and highly interesting story, swift
and logical in movement, and not too harrowing to
our feelings, for the hero's weakness and deceitful-
ness are apparent enough to us (although the hero-
ine sees only the lovable aspect of his character),
and we feel sure that he will be succeeded after
a proper interval by the above-mentioned British
consul.
Mr. Crawford's posthumous story, "The White
Sister," belongs to the Roman group of his novels,
and a Saracinesca is among the lesser figures. It is
the story of a young woman, reared in the most
conservative and clerical circles, and supposed to be
the daughter of Prince Chiaromonte. The sudden
death of the latter reveals the fact that Angela is
without legal rights, and that, instead of inheriting
title and fortune, she is a nameless pauper. She is
affianced to an officer who is too much a gentleman
to be influenced by this revelation, save to the dis-
play of greater tenderness and determination to
make her his bride. But his departure upon a mil-
itary expedition to Africa is soon followed by the
report of his death in a skirmish, and there is noth-
ing left for Angela but to take the veil. She has
been for some time a nun when it transpires that her
lover was not slain, but has been held in captivity
for several years. When he makes his escape and
returns, a difficult situation is created; for Angela
cannot forget her love, yet is irrevocably vowed to
the religious life. But it seems that there is a way
out of even so desperate a difficulty as this, and a
way that approves itself to so good a Catholic as
Mr. Crawford. There seems to us a touch of casu-
istry in the reasoning, but the author speaks by the
card, and it is certainly a relief to our feelings to learn
that the highest ecclesiastical authority is willing to
intervene for the purpose of bringing the lovers
together.
Mr. Ernest Oldmeadow's "Antonio" presents a
similar case of conflict between religious obligation
and earthly love, but with a different issue, and with
a degree of psychological power far beyond anything
that was ever in Mr. Crawford's reach. This is a
story of Portugal, dated from 1835 onward. It is
the time of the suppression of the monasteries by a
corrupt and unscrupulous government, and the in-
terest centres around a Benedictine abbey overlook-
ing the Atlantic. Antonio has just been made a
priest when the news of the spoliation is received,
and a band of soldiers comes to the abbey gates to
enforce the decree of dispossession. Sadly and sol-
emnly the abbey folk file forth into a world suddenly
grown hostile, and seek new retreats in distant lands,
Antonio alone remaining in the neighborhood. He
has taken a great resolve; he has determined to
devote his life to reclaiming the abbey for the ser-
vice of God and to restoring its ancient glories. The
remainder of the book tells how this purpose is ful-
filled after many years of toil and trial. Beginning
in the humblest way, and keeping his secret close,
he gradually acquires land and becomes a vine-
grower. Slowly but steadily his enterprise prospers,
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disappointments, he sees the goal a little nearer with
every year. The great trial of his constancy conies
when the abbey is bought by an Englishman who
brings his household to live there for a time. The
new owner has a daughter, and Antonio engages in
a desperate spiritual conflict to prevent his love for
her from breaking down his resolution. In the
event soul triumphs over sense, the work of redemp-
tion goes on, the abbey is reclaimed for its sacred
purpose, and the woman, chastened by years of grief
and renunciation, becomes a Sister of the Visitation.
It all stands in striking contrast to Mr. Crawford's
story, which is seen to be the veriest brummagem
when brought into comparison with the pure gold of
this study of the spiritual life. The above is but a
brief and barren outline of one of the most masterly
and moving books of fiction that are often to be met
with. It is a book of the deepest human interest,
glowing in color and rich in emotion. Its scene,
moreover, lies so far from the beaten track that a
distinct element of novelty is thereby added to its
other and nobler qualities.
A variant upon the case of Hamlet is offered by
Mr. Warwick Deeping's "Mad Barbara." This is
a novel of the later years of the Restoration, when
Popish plots haunted the minds of Englishmen, and
the fussy Mr. Samuel Pepys kept the diary which
has been the delight of all succeeding generations.
We mention both these subjects because both are
woven into the fabric of Mr. Deeping's narrative;
the worthy Mr. Pepys figures in several scenes, and
the undoing of the villain results from his implica-
tion in a Catholic conspiracy. Aside from these
historical trappings, the story is simply good melo-
drama. Barbara's father is slain mysteriously, and
the daughter vows vengeance upon his murderer.
Her only clew is a fragment of gold and pearl orna-
ment which she finds on the spot where the body of
her father is discovered. This she treasures, and
bides her time. But when she thinks she has found
the man from whose garment the ornament had been
torn, he is no other than the returned soldier of for-
tune to whom she has already given her heart in
secret. Nevertheless, she would have taken his life
had she not learned just in time that the garment
belonged to his father, whose guilty liaison with her
mother had made him the murderer. After an un-
successful attempt upon the life of the real offender,
she is confined, on the pretext of madness, in a lonely
castle, whence she is rescued by her lover under
circumstances of great peril. This is evidently the
material for an exciting tale, and the author has used
it to excellent effect.
A melodramatic tale of conspiracy and freeboot-
ing, of plot and counterplot in South Africa, is given
us in Mr. Ridgwell Cullum's "The Compact." The
Bcene is Bechuanaland, and the time is set in the
years following the British concession at Majuba.
The fate of the country hangs in the balance, for the
British government has not formally claimed it, and
is supine in the protection of its settlers, while
German influences are secretly at work to gain con-
trol. This is the historical setting of a drama which
has three leading characters: Elwood, the strong
silent man who thwarts the conspirators, Chalmer,
their agent and ally, and the woman whom both men
had loved in England. She had been pledged to
Chalmer, who had gone to Africa, and sent no word
thereafter. Believing him dead, she had married
Elwood without loving him, and come to live with
him in Bechuanaland. She is startled when Chalmer
appears upon the scene, and renews his suit, but she
has come to love her husband at last, and has only
scorn for the man who had once had a claim upon
her. If Elwood could have known this, there would
have been no story to write, still less a compact to
give it a title. For this compact, forced upon
Chalmer by Elwood, is, in brief, that in a year's
time the one of them whom the woman does not love
shall put himself out of the way. As the time of
fulfilment draws near, the situation grows tense with
excitement, and the discovery of their reciprocal
love, made by husband and wife at the last moment,
is delayed until we stand upon the very brink of a
tragedy. Then, by an ingenious device, Chalmer
meets his deserved fate without entailing a moral
responsibility upon either husband or wife.
The preacher of high ideals, caring little for the
dogmatism of the Christian church but filled to over-
flowing with its spirit, set down in the midst of a
sodden community (preferably rural), and slowly
leavening the lump of its corruption by his clear-
eyed activity,—this is a theme that has engaged the
attention of many novelists (mostly women), and
often lends itself to effective dramatic treatment.
The preacher is usually a young man, and his strug-
gle against the spiritual sluggishness, if not the
actual immorality, of the town in which he is settled
proves despairingly difficult The details of his life
are criticised by scandal-mongers; he goes in for
social betterment, and is told that he had better
preach "the simple gospel"; he exposes the fester of
hypocrisy, and becomes the victim of abuse and ma-
licious intrigue; he runs afoul of the local magnate
and braves his wrath, but finds his position endan-
gered; in the end he conquers all the forces of
sullen opposition, and reaps the fruit of his weary
labors in the secure affection of a quickened and
regenerated community. We have followed this
programme through the pages of many novels, and
we follow it once more in "But Still a Man," for
which Miss Margaret L. Knapp is responsible. The
story is unfolded with quiet impressiveness, never
resorting to sensational trickery, and having few
moments of dramatic tension. But it gains a strong
hold upon us by its naturalness, its earnestness, its
variety of character and incident, its gleams of
poetry and humor, and its clear, unaffected style.
The development of the minister's own character is
not the least admirable feature of the novel, and his
love affairs (when we have once got our bearings)
add noticeably to the interest which we take in hi*
activities. The scene is not too definitely fixed: it
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The collapse of the great bridge at Quebec pro-
vides a striking climax for Miss Anna Chapin Ray's
story of " The Bridge Builders." This tragedy of
engineering is not used as a mere picturesque adjunct
to the story, but is brought into vital relation with
the characters concerned, and described with a
wealth of technical detail that is rather surprising
when we consider the sex of the author. The social
setting is in part provided by the tourist hotels of
the ancient city, and in part by the inner circle of
the aristocratic life of Quebec. The heroine is a
refreshing apparition from Arizona, and there are
two heroes — one, a young man of letters from the
States, the other an older man who is the scion of
one of the most distinguished families of the city.
Both men are of such fine types that our satisfaction
in the success of the one is considerably embittered
by our share in the other's disappointment. The
characterization of these three persons, and of at
least half a dozen lesser figures, is distinctly success-
ful, and the simple plot of the narrative is kept well
in hand and firmly guided to its logical outcome.
The style is admirable, the product of good taste and
a cultivated mind, and the book is written from
intimate knowledge of the scenes and social condi-
tions which it portrays. It is the sort of book that
may be read with much quiet satisfaction.
Miss Susan Glaspell is a new writer, and one from
whom much may be expected, if it is legitimate to
base such a judgment upon a first book. The belief
that love sanctifies suffering, and may make the
blackest of tragedies seem bearable, finds poignant
expression in "The Glory of the Conquered." The
man is a biologist of world-wide fame, whose re-
searches are directed toward the discovery of an
effective treatment for cancer. The woman is an
artist with whom promise is well on the way to fulfil-
ment. Both are intense natures, and when they love
it is with all the intensity that has hitherto been dis-
played in their devotion to science and art A short
term of unreasonably happy wedded life is vouch-
safed them, and then the tragic fates take a hand.
In the course of a laboratory experiment, the man's
eyes become infected, and his sight is destroyed.
After the first shock of the castrophe has been out-
lived, the woman forms a great resolve. She will
abandon art, and devote herself to science, not to
become herself an investigator, but merely to acquire
the technical knowledge and expertness that shall
enable her to provide the eyes for her husband's
interrupted work and make it possible for him to go
on with it. All this she plans and performs in secret,
and is just ready to announce her preparedness to
take up his work, when he dies from an attack of
appendicitis. It will be seen that nothing is spared
our feelings in this narrative, and nothing but the
richness and tenderness of the author's sympathies
makes it tolerable. Even in the outcome, the shat-
tered life of the woman is somehow pieced together,
and a hopeful chord is sounded at the close. A sort
of moral victory is wrought out of what seems to be
utter defeat, and the lesson of the soul's invincibility
is triumphantly enforced. The scene of this moving
story is set in and about the University of Chicago,
but nothing is attempted of the nature of personal
portraiture.
A sweet and wholesome tale of life in New
England in the years of the Civil War and after is
given us in "Poppea of the Post Office," by Mrs.
Mabel Osgood Wright. The heroine is a foundling
child, left at the door of the village postmaster one
stormy night. Widowed some ten years earlier, and
bereft of his own child, he welcomes the stranger
infant as a gift of providence, and makes her legally
his own. It is a fortunate act, for she grows up into
a winsome girl, and becomes the joy of his life. The
mystery of her parentage is not disclosed until near
the end of the book, when it transpires that she is
the legitimate daughter of the local magnate, born
after his wife, outraged by his conduct toward her,
has left him and gone abroad to die. It is a simple
story, and one that has frequently been told, but this
present version need not suffer in the comparison
with others, for it is appealing in sentiment and
unfailing in charm. Nor is it without the diversifi-
cations of humor, of a vivid portrayal of provincial
customs and modes of speech, and of relationship to
the larger life of the nation in the period dominated
by impressions and memories of the great struggle
for the preservation of the Union. Its love story is
no less charming than all the rest, and is exquisitely
fitted into the general complication. Mrs. Wright
is to be heartily congratulated upon her excursion
into the paths of story-telling.
Miss Lottie Blair Parker's " Homespun " is one of
those rambling stories that are much more concerned
with racy characterization than with the development
of a coherent plot. It gives us an intimate picture
of the life of a New England town — Columbia
Corners—with its individualized types, its gossip and
scandal-mongering, its petty local issues, and its
quaint vernacular. There is a great deal of homely
human nature in the book, and an unfailing fund of
humor. The plot, as far as there is one, centres
about a protracted lawsuit between two brothers con-
cerning the partition of the farm left them by their
father. The younger generation is chiefly repre-
sented by two lads, a petted "model " youth who is
in reality a thoroughgoing hypocrite and rascal, and
a youth of a very different sort who is thrown upon
his own resources and "makes good " both with the
world and with the young woman who stands by him
in spite of all evil report. The story is pleasantly
sentimental and entertaining throughout.
Is character determined by heredity or by environ-
ment? This is the problem set in "The Whips of
Time," by Miss Arabella Kenealy, and illustrated by
an ingeniously contrived and striking instance. An
unscrupulous physician exchanges the infant children
of two of his patients in a London hospital. One of
them is the child of a notorious criminal; the other
belongs to a highly respectable family. In perform-
ing this shocking experiment, the physician is actu-
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criminal antecedents will develope in accordance with
its inherited predispositions. He confides his secret
to a fellow-physician, who is duly horrified, but keeps
silent about it because the wrong has been irremedi-
ably done. This is the prologue of a story which
really begins more than twenty years later. The
confidant, now retired from practice, takes up his
residence in the country, and finds himself in the
very place where the criminal's child who has been
foisted upon an unsuspecting family should now be
living. He determines to identify the child and learn
how the experiment has turned out. For a long time
his suspicions are fixed upon the wrong person, and
he does not discover his mistake until after a long
and complicated development of the plot. When the
mystery is cleared up, both of the exchanged chil-
dren are found living in the neighborhood, and the
controlling influence of heredity is demonstrated
beyond any question. The story is not a pleasant
one, but its mechanism is skilfully put together, and
it is made the vehicle of a strong human interest
When a novel is heralded as the "prize mystery
story" of a newspaper competition, we do not expect
much from it beyond artificiality and excitement.
"Love's Privilege," by Miss Stella M. During, is
such a tale and has the qualities demanded by the
conditions of such a competition. It has also an
unexpected element of literary excellence, showing
that style and mystery are not altogether incompat-
ible in such a production. The scene of the story is
an English country estate; its substance is a murder
which proves properly baffling until some three hun-
dred pages have been devoted to its complications,
when it all becomes absurdly simple. On the whole,
the book provides entertainment of a slightly higher
quality than the motive for its writing would lead
us to anticipate.
Napoleon's attempted invasion of England has
always been a tempting theme for the romantic
novelist, and Mrs. R. S. Garnett's "The Infamous
John Friend" is at least the third book to deal with
it during the past year. It is also one of the best
of the many treatments that have been given to the
subject, exhibiting a close acquaintance with the
social and political conditions of the period, and
developing a fairly original plot in a thoroughly
interesting manner. It offers us the novelty of a
hero who is utterly unscrupulous, a spy and a traitor,
plotting to deliver his country to the enemy, yet is
a devoted husband, a sympathetic figure in many
other relations as well, and in some respects a high-
minded gentleman. When he receives his deserts
in the end our emotion gets the better of our logic,
and we cannot become quite reconciled to the igno-
minious execution of a man of such heroic quality
and personal charm. The question may be raised
as to the right of a novelist thus to set sentiment at
odds with the requirements of justice, but that does
not save our feelings from being harrowed in this
particular instance. Several historical figures —
Napoleon, Pitt, Fox, and Mrs. Fitzherbert — appear
in the course of the narrative; and there is much
vivid description of society in London and Brighton,
of smugglers' haunts on the coast of Kent, and of
the doings of French spies. There is also a charm-
ing and spirited heroine, worshipped with all proper
humility, and eventually won, by a not very
factory hero. William Morton Patxk.
Briefs on New Books.
From the author of "The Romance
L°Z:ZT£°i S^l" and "The Romance of the
Reaper" there now comes another
book of the same industrial-romantic character,
entitled "Cyrus Hall McCormick: His Life and
Work" (McClurg). Mr. Herbert N. Casson has
here not only expanded the McCormick chapter of
his earlier work on the Reaper, but he has also dili-
gently collected and very attractively presented
much historical and statistical matter concerning the
development of agricultural implements and the
recent rapid increase in the world's wheat production,
an increase made possible largely by McCormick's
inventive genius helped on by his imitators and
competitors. So important, indeed, is wheat made
to appear in the world's history that one is almost
persuaded that a nation's consumption of white
bread is an accurate gauge of its civilization. The
life and personality of the great inventor are ade-
quately set forth, with many interesting details of
his services to his chosen city, Chicago, and his
benefactions to religious and other enterprises, of
which the founding and upbuilding of McCormick
Theological Seminary and of "The Interior " news-
paper are well-known examples. The author makes
an occasional error of fact — as when, in his excel-
lent survey of early nineteenth-century industrial
and mechanical achievements, he speaks of Fulton
as having " died at forty, plagued and plundered by
imitators," whereas the inventor of the steamboat
lived to the age of fifty and was commercially not
unsuccessful in his main undertakings. Appropriate
illustrations are provided for the book, depicting the
great inventor, scenes in his life, the Reaper in suc-
cessive stages of development, and views of harvest-
ing, primitive and scientific, in various parts of the
world. The word Reaper always begins with a
capital in Mr. Casson's chapters, as it does in this
notice; and the reader must admit that the machine
itself is an invention of capital importance, and its
story one of unusual interest.
t> t , r. >. The lives of the world's greatest men
Robert Fulton , , . .
and Mi Hudton are commonly enveloped in a mist of
river iteamboat. faye an<i iegend. Robert Fulton's
achievements have come down to us with a rich
accompaniment of hearsay tradition which make?
him an extremely interesting character, but a some-
what apocryphal one. It has been left to his great-
granddaughter. Miss Alice Crary Sutcliffe, to write
the first full and authentic account of this variously
gifted man, with the aid of letters and other unpub-


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lished material now first collected and scrutinized
for biographical purposes. "Robert Fulton and the
'Clermont'" is the book's title (Century Co.), and
the story is adequately told in some three hundred
small pages of large print, with many illustrations
of novel interest and considerable appended matter.
While chief prominence is given to Fulton's Hudson
River achievements, many less-known particulars of
his life and work are detailed; for example, his
early steamboat essay on the Seine several years
before the Hudson River demonstration, and his
numerous other inventions besides the steamboat —
a marble-cutting machine, a flax-spinning machine,
a double inclined plane for canal use, a contrivance
for twisting rope, an earth-scoop, a cable-cutter, the
panorama, the submarine torpedo boat, and a number
of other less important devices. In reading the
earlier portions of this interesting work, one is not
surprised to find that Fulton was a high-spirited and
forever restless boy, with more of vital energy and
uncontrollable impulse than could well find vent
This fine "souvenir of the Hudson-Fulton celebra-
tion," as the publishers call it, is timely, and fills a
gap in American biography. A part of the material
of Miss Sutcliffe's volume has appeared in "The
Century Magazine," but it is well worth its produc-
tion in this expanded and more permanent form.
in.idtview.of The resignation of Marshal Mac-
Prench politic. Mahon as President of the Republic
in the Republic. of France, on January 30, 1879,
closed the series of victories of the French repub-
licans over their monarchist adversaries — Legiti-
mist, Orleanist, and Napoleonic. This incident falls
about halfway in the period covered by the fourth
and final volume of M. Hanotaux's " Contemporary
France" ( Putnam). The dominant impression left
by the narrative comes from the striking contrast
between the aims of the political struggle that pre-
ceded this event and the character of the movement
that followed. The first concerned the very struc-
ture of the central government; the second was es-
sentially an effort to formulate and carry into effect
a programme of genuine republican reorganization.
The questions and the leaders of the first phase
now seem to belong to a purely historical past; while
those of the second phase seem, and in some cases
are, the questions and leaders of to-day, or at least
of yesterday. We read of speeches by Brisson, by
Freycinet, Ribot, Mdline, and Clemencean; while
Broglie, Simon, and Laboulaye are heard rarely or
have disappeared from the stage. The Ferry laws
brought up the same problem of liberty of instruc-
tion which the legislation of 1901 raised again. In
explaining the arguments urged during the contro-
versy, M. Hanotaux condemns Simon's appeal to the
analogy of the liberty of the press as simple sophistry,
because "for the spoken doctrine in class instruction
refutation and even discussion is impossible." And
he adds that this question of liberty of instruction
must be settled on the broader considerations of
"prudence, tolerance, and humanity." It is apparent
that ho regards Gambetta's phrase, "clericalism is
the- enemy," as containing more truth than the
ordinary electioneering cry. He seems to counte-
nance the idea that if the elections of 1877 had
favored the "conspirators" of the 16th of May, the
clerical element would have dragged France into a
war for the reSstablishment of the temporal power
of the papacy. As an ex-minister of foreign affairs,
the author's treatment of all matters connected with
diplomacy necessarily has unusual weight. Not only
does this apply to the study of the clerical question,
but to the chapters on the Russo-Turkish War and
the Congress of Berlin. In preparing these the
author has made large use of unpublished autobio-
graphies, particularly the memoirs of Count Schou-
waloff and the "Sovenirs" of Caratheodory Pacha.
All the way through, the point of view is influenced
by the recent dinouement of the Balkan affair, the
success of Austria backed by Germany in the defin-
itive annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. This
is the reason why he believes that England in 1878,
while supposedly opposing the Russian advance on
Constantinople, was actually "pulling the chestnuts
out of the fire " for the Germans. Bismarck looked
on complacently while Salisbury and Beaconsfield
did the hard work. The volume closes with the
downfall of Gambetta's ministry and his death.
Gambetta is evidently its hero; but M. Hanotaux
feels his greatness more than he makes the reader
feel it. This volume, like its predecessors, shows
qualities of style which remind the reader that the
author is a member of the Academy, but occasionally
the habit of epigrammatic expression merges in a
fondness for obscure Delphic utterances.
The principle. \% wa8 hardly supposed, a generation
o/mJd«^<C< a8°>that psychology and advertising
advertising. had very much in common; but now
it is asserted by expert advertisers that much of their
success is due to their knowledge of psychologic laws.
This, we take it, is another way of stating that they
must understand human nature and study the work-
ings of the average human mind; and in that sense
it is quite true. This is preeminently the adver-
tising age; and books on the subject are rapidly
accumulating. In "The Art and Science of Adver-
tising," by Mr. George French, bearing the imprint
of French, Sherman & Co. of Boston, those interested
will find an expert treatment of the subject from
the pen of one practically familiar with the printing
and advertising arts. That Mr. French by no means
underrates the importance of his subject is evident
from the outset. "We know," he affirms, "that it
[i.e. advertising] offers the most exalted opportunity,
the widest and most fertile field for human endeavor.
We know that the advertiser is one of the greatest
of popular educators, and one of the chief promoters
of human happiness, as well as the greatest of busi-
ness builders." Later he says: "It is easier to write
an article for the Century Magazine than it is to
write a fifty-word advertisement as it should be
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enthusiasm, that it is easier to he a great poet than a
successful advertisement-writer; that Lawson is
greater than Longfellow. . The book's many re-
productions of meritorious advertising designs are
attractive and striking, but the author's repeated
assertions of the vital elements in good advertising
become somewhat wearisome. His style, like an
effective advertisement, should be concise—although
there are advertisers who rely on everlasting repeti-
tion to sell their goods. The book represents much
practical experience as well as study of its subject,
and contains many helpful hints and suggestions for
workers in this busy field of modern commercial life.
A pay pageant Biography, like history, may be writ-
of English scenes ten anew for each succeeding age
and character!. an(j ga;n a fre8nnegs reality and
meaning not to be found in the earlier records. This
is well illustrated by Mr. Frank Frankfort Moore's
volume of biographical studies entitled "A Georgian
Pageant" (Dutton), and dealing with certain nota-
bilities of the reign of George the Third. No less
an authority than the late Professor J. Churton
Collins stands sponsor to the book; or, more exactly,
its chapters are the outgrowth of certain conversa-
tions with and encouraging words from that eminent
scholar. It seems to have been largely to rectify
sundry Boswellian perversions of truth that the
writing of the book was undertaken. Especially
zealous is the author in defending his illustrious
fellow-countryman, Oliver Goldsmith, against Bos-
well's charges of absurd vanity and petty jealousy
and general inferiority. One is glad to believe with
Mr. Moore that Goldsmith's humor was beyond the
range of Boswell's comprehension, and that thus it
was the Scotchman and not the Irishman who played
the fool. Bui when we are further asked to believe
that the so-called bull, a familiar Hibernicism, is in
reality wit disguised as stupidity for the mystification
of the slow-witted, we become incredulous. The
incidents related in these agreeable chapters are set
forth with the alluring art of which Mr. Moore, as
a novelist, is so accomplished a master. Even where
he is not convincing he is suggestive and original.
The book is excellent reading and well illustrated.
Recollection, of Almost a quarter of a century ago
sixty yean of the two volumes of pleasing and success-
Enaiuhetaoe. recollections, theatrical and mis-
cellaneous, entitled "On and Off the Stage," came
from the pens of Mr. and Mrs. Squire Bancroft (now
Sir Squire and Lady Bancroft). Although the work
ran through seven editions, it has been allowed to
go out of print. Therefore a re-telling of their story,
with additions to bring the whole up to date, is wel-
come. "The Bancrofts: Recollections of Sixty
Tears " (Dutton) comprises in one substantial octavo
volume the cream of the older work, and about the
same quantity of equally rich skimming from the
years since its publication. As managers of the old
Prince of Wales's Theatre in London, and afterward
of the Haymarket, as stanch supporters of the
standard English drama, and as the first to dispense
with the not too reputable "pit" and to devote the
entire programme to a single play, these gifted and
enterprising actor-managers, now resting on their
laurels, have deserved well of the theatre-going
public. Among other memorable matters, the book
describes the turbulent dissatisfaction of the ground-
lings when they found, on the opening of the re-
modelled Haymarket, that their peculiar domain
had been appropriated to the uses of a higher class
of patrons. Of famous contemporary actors and
actresses, and other persons of note, the writers have
many an agreeable or amusing story to tell. For
liveliness and variety, the book is one of the best of
its kind. It is fully illustrated and indexed, and is
well printed.
Way of life in Francis Grierson, perhaps better
the middle Wett known in the world of music than in
fifty year, ago. tne worid 0f letters, has written out
some of his boyhood memories of prairie life in
Illinois, of his first sight of the Mississippi at Alton,
and of his later and longer sojourn in St. Louis —
all in the eventful years from 1858 to 1863. '"The
Valley of Shadows" (Houghton) is the rather puz-
zling title of the book, which is happily less gloomy
and forbidding in its varied contents than in its
name. Some of its quaint characters—as the silent
Kezia Jordan, the rustic philosopher "Socrates,"
and Elihu Gest the " load-bearer"—are" well drawn
and move across the scene with a very human gait
Others are less substantially real, and the veil of
imagination and weird romance thrown over them
is never lifted. Despite the frequent conversations
reported in detail, and other minute particulars, the
reader is seldom gripped by a sense of startling
reality, but sees all things through the subduing
medium of a softly-tinted haze. That is the writer's
art, however, and not to be quarrelled with. A
chapter on Abraham Lincoln gives merely an ac-
count, and not an unmistakably first-hand account
of the closing bout in the great Lincoln-Douglas
debate of 1858, when the writer was but ten years
old and probably not awake to the significance of
the occasion. The book is attractively printed, and
its short chapters have an inviting appearance. The
fact of Mr. Grierson's foreign birth and rather cos-
mopolitan course of life gives to these impressions
of his a certain peculiar value and interest
An aid to the Both the college student of political
understanding of science and the general reader who
our government, desires to understand the actual work-
ings of our government will find much that is useful
in Professor Paul S. Reinsh's " Readings on Amer-
ican Federal Government" (Ginn & Co.). It is a
large volume of 850 pages, with a brief index and
an analytical table of contents. In sixteen chapters
about 125 selections are given on such subjects as
the Executive, the Treaty-Making Power, the Senate,
Conference Committees, the Organization and Roles
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lation, the Departments, Legislative and Adminis-
trative Problems, the Army and Navy, the Foreign
Service, the Civil Service, the Courts, and Central-
ization and Changes in the Constitution. As the
editor says, "the materials contained in this book
are selected almost without exception from the
spoken or written work of men actually engaged in
the business of government — presidents, legislators,
administrative officials and judges." The collection
is confined to very recent material, little of it dating
further back than 1895. This method of selection
makes the book more valuable as a help to the under-
standing of actual governmental conditions of to-day.
Professor Reinsh's volume contains much useful
information that can be found in no formal descrip-
tion of the American government, and will prove
most useful as an aid to an understanding of its
rather complex operations.
The world"i Fortress, palace, and prison, the
moit/amout Tower of London has gathered about
fortra: itself more memories, darkly tragic
and tragically romantic, than any structure reared
by the hand of man. In a lavishly illustrated vol-
ume entitled "The Tower of London" (Jacobs),
Mr. Charles 6. Harper, who already has to his
credit more than a score of books of historic and
antiquarian interest, tells the story of this monument
of kingly power and magnificence and cruelty and
weakness. An introduction, giving a brief history
of the building as a whole, is followed by chapters
that present in detail a full account and description
of its several parts, with abundant reference to noted
prisoners once lodged within its walls, and to the
famous crimes and conspiracies and rebellions that
furnished occupants for its cells and dungeons.
Some of the horrors of old-time torture and execu-
tion are also revealed, while two chapters reproduce
many elaborate stone-carvings to show how the
weary captives sometimes beguiled the long hours
by perpetuating their tragic memory or the memory
of those dear to them. Recent removal of certain
restrictions has opened the Tower more extensively
and freely to visitors than ever before, and this latest
guide-book to its many points of historic interest is
timely and valuable. The evident care and study
that have gone to its making place it on a high level
among books of its class.
Notes.
Three new volumes in " Harper's Library of Living
Thought" are the following: "Christianity and Islam,"
by Dr. C. H. Becker; "The Origin of the New Testa-
ment," by Dr. William Wrede; and "Jesus or Paul?"
by Dr. Arnold Meyer.
The following new volumes are added to "Crowell's
Modern Language Series ": "Dornrbschen," a playlet
by Miss Emma Fisher; "One Thousand Common French
Words," selected by Mr. R. de Blanchaud; and "Exer-
cises in French Conversation and Composition," by Mr.
Gustav Hein.
A descriptive account, copiously illustrated, of the
"Wild Flowers and Trees of Colorado," by Professor
Francis Ramaley, is published at Boulder, Colorado, by
Mr. A. A. Greenman.
Messrs. P. Blak is ton's Son & Co. have published a
second revised edition of "A Text-Book of Physics,"
edited by Mr. A. Wilmer Duff. Each of the seven sec-
tions of this thoroughly modern treatise is the work of
separate specialists, the editor's contribution being the
section upon mechanics and the properties of matter.
The splendid work in the investigation of tropical
diseases that has been carried on for several years in the
Wellcome Research Laboratories, as a part of the work
of the Gordon Memorial College at Khartoum, is
freshly called to our notice by the third Report of that
institution, now at hand. This handsome quarto of
nearly five hundred pages, with hundreds of illustra-
tions, many of them colored plates, is a monument to
an enterprise of the highest import to human welfare,
of interest not only to physicians, but to biologists, folk-
lorists, and anthropologists as well. The Togo Publish-
ing Co., New York, are the American agents for this
and the preceding reports.
The death of a biographer of English royalty comes
to our notice in the recent decease of Sir Theodore
Martin, who was born in Edinburgh ninety-three years
ago. A lawyer by profession, but in his later life more
occupied with literature, he produced an elaborate "Life
of the Prince Consort" that won him a knighthood and
also the warm regard of his Queen, whom he made
the subject of a reminiscent volume entitled "Queen
Victoria as I Knew Her," issued only last year. His
essays in poetry and poetical translation, in literary
criticism, and in other departments of letters, as well
as his various activities of a different sort, have made
him long a familiar figure in London life.
Several new text-books of literature are ready for
the school year now opening. "A Primer of American
Literature (Heath), by Miss Abby Willis Howas, is a
simple affair, a companion to the author's similar manual
of English literature. A much more elaborate work, and
one especially notable for the variety and interest of its
illustrations, is the " English Literature " (Ginn) of Dr.
William J. Long. Dr. Long's definition of a text-book
is good: "A storehouse, in which one finds what he
wants, and some good things beside." There is an
unexpected freshness in his treatment, and his book is
effectively planned. Bibliographical notes are appended
to the several chapters, and provide many helpful hints.
The appearance in England of a new and definitive
edition of the works of Henry Seton Merriman will
draw renewed attention to the writings of the brilliant
author whose shrouded personality still remains un-
veiled. The preface to the first volume, just issued
by Messrs. Smith, Elder & Co., respects faithfully the
deceased novelist's wish to speak to the public only in
his books and under his pen-name. Not even the dates
of birth and death are given, although it is now no
secret that he was born about 1860, and was therefore
in his early forties when he died in 1903. His real
name too, Hugh Stowell Scott, is known to many.
The first four of his published novels, and also the
later, "Dross," are not to be included in this edition,
being regarded by their author as of inferior quality;
but these are obtainable, or accessible, in America.
"The Slave of the Lamp" opens the series as repub-
lished, and will be followed by a dozen (a baker's
dozen, it appears) of the subsequent stories.


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Announcement Ijist of Fall, Books.
The classified list given below as the prospective
output for the coming Fall and Winter season con-
tains about 1400 titles, representing over forty lead-
ing American publishing houses. These announce-
ment lists, carefully prepared from the earliest and
most authentic sources especially for our pages, have
for many years been a special feature of The Dial;
and their usefulness and interest, to both the book
trade and the book public, have long been recognized.
They not only show at a glance what books are com-
ing out in any department of literature, but form a
complete summary of the principal publishing activ-
ities of the year. All the books entered are new
books — new editions not being included unless hav-
ing new form or matter. Some of the more inter-
esting features among these announcements are
commented upon in the leading editorial in this
number of The Dial. Considerations of space
make it necessary to carry over to our next issue
the categories of "Education" and "Books for the
Young."
BIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIBS.
The Autobiography of Henry M. Stanley, edited by
Lady Stanley, illus., $6. net.—The Life of Richard
Brinsley Sheridan, by Walter Sichel, 2 vols., illus.,
$7.50 net.—Diplomatic Memoirs, by John W. Fos-
ter, 2 vols., illus., $6. net.—Recollections of Wash-
ington Gladden, $2. net.—Life, Letters, and Jour-
nals of George Ticknor, new illustrated edition,
with introduction by Ferris Greenslet, 2 vols., $5.—
The Life of Alice Freeman Palmer, by George H.
Palmer, new illustrated edition, $1.50 net.—The
Girlhood of Queen Elizabeth, told in contemporary
letters, edited by Frank A. Muinby, illus., $3
net.—Fifty Years in Constantinople, and Recollec-
tions of Robert College, by George Washburn, illus.,
$2.50 net.—Oliver Wendell Holmes, the Autocrat
and his fellow boarders, by Samuel M. Crothers, 75
cts.—The Life of James Dwight Whitney, by Ed-
win T. Brewster, illus. (Houghton Mifflin Co.)
The Diary of James K. Polk, reprint of the original
MS., 3 vols., with frontispieces, $15. net.—Some-
thing of Men I Have Known, by Adlai E. Steven-
son, illus., $2.75 net.—Stephen A. Douglas, an his-
torical study of his life, public services, patriotism,
and speeches, by Clark E. Carr, illus., $1.75 net.—
Cyrus Hall McCormick, his life and work, by Her-
bert N. C.isson, illus. in photogravure, etc., $1.50
net.—The Lincoln Centenary, illus., $1.75 net.—The
Story of Ihlihc Brock, by Walter R. Nursey, illus.
in color, etc., $1.50 net. (A. C. MeClurg & Co.)
Life and Art of Richard Mansfield, by William Win-
ter, illus., $5. net.—The Life of Mirabeau, by S. G.
Tallentyre, illus. in photogravure, etc., $3. net
(Moffat, Yard & Co.)
The Life of Joan of Arc, by Anatole France, trans,
by Winifred Stephens, 2 vols., illus., $8. net.—
George Bernard Shaw, a biography, by Gilbert Ches-
terton, illus., $1.50 net.—Giovanni Boccaccio, his
life, his love, his work, by Edward Hutton, illus.,
$5. net.—The Last Journals of Horace Walpole,
edited by A. Francis Stewart, 2 vols., with por-
traits and engravings, $7.50 net.—Dr. Johnson and
Mrs. Thrale, by A. M. Broadley, illus. in color,
photogravure, etc., $4. net.—Wit, Beaux and Beau-
ties of the Georgian Era, by John Fyrie, illus., $4.
net.—The Life of Franeoise d'Aubigne, Madame de
Maintenon, 1635-1719, by C. C. Dyson, illus.—Life
of W. J. Fox, Public Teacher and Social Reformer,
1786-1864, by Richard Edward Garnett.—New Li-
brary of Music, first vols.: Hugo Wolf, by Ernest
Newman; Handel, by R. A. Streatfeild; each illus.,
$2.50 net. (John Lane Co.)
Mr. Pope, a chronicle of his life and work, by George
Paston, 2 vols., illus. in photogravure, etc.—Life of
John Sebastian Bach, by Sir Hubert Parry, with
portrait, $3. net.—Dean Swift, the 18th century Don
Quixote, by Sophie Shilleto Smith, illus.—Louis Na-
poleon and the Napoleonic Legend, by F. A. Simp-
son, illus.—Sir Philip Sidney, by Percy Addlesbaw,
illus.—The Last King of Poland, and his contempo-
raries, by R. Nisbet Bain, illus., $3. net.—-Heroes of
the Nations, new vol.: Fernando Cortes, and his
conquest of Mexico, 1485-1547, by Francis Augustas
MacNutt, illus., $1.35 net.—Nine Days Queen, the
story of Lady Jane Grey, by Richard Davey, illus.—
Life and Letters of Susan Warner, edited by Anna
B. Warner, illus.—Fifty Years in Camp and Field,
diary of Ethan Allen Hitchcock, edited by W. A
Croffut, with introduction by William T. Harris.—
Madame, Mother of the Regent, by Arvede Barine,
illus., $3 net.—Life of Thomas Paine, by Moncure
Daniel Conway, new and cheaper edition, 2 vols,
in one, with portraits. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.)
Intimate Recollections of Joseph Jefferson, by Eu
genie Paul Jefferson, illus. from photographs,
$3.50 net.—The Empress Josephine, by Philip W.
Sergeant, 2 vols., illus., $6.50 net.—The Life of an
Empress, Eugenie de Montijo, by Frederic Loliee,
illus., $4. net.—The Romance of a Friar and a Nun,
the romance of Fra Filippo Lippi, by A. J. Ander-
son, illus. from paintings by Fra Lippo Lippi, $2.50
net.—Memoirs of an American Lady, by Mrs. Anne
Grant, new and cheaper edition, $2.50 net.—Thack-
eray in the United States, by James Grant Wilson,
new and cheaper edition, illus., $3.50 net. (Dodd,
Mead & Co.)
i. Rose of Savoy, Marie Adelaide of Savoy, Duchesse
de Bourgoyne, Mother of Louis XV., by H. Noel
Williams, illus. in photogravure, etc., $3.50 net.—
Recollections of a Long Life, by Lord Broughton,
John Cam Hobhouse, edited by Lady Dorchester, 2
vols., illus., $6. net.—The First George in Hanover
and England, by Lewis Melville, 2 vols., illus. in
photogravure, etc., $6. net.—Chateaubriand and his
Court of Women, by Francis Gribble, illus., $3.75
net.—Famous Women of Florence, by Edgcumbe
Staley, illus., $3.50 net.—Pepys, by Percy Lubbock,
edited by W. Robertson Nicoll, illus. in photo-
gravure, etc., $1. net.—Memoirs of the Duchess of
Dino, edited by Princess Radziwill, 2 vols., $2.50
net. (Charles Scribner's Sons.)
Retrospections of an Active Life, by Hon. John Bige-
low, 3 vols., illus., per set, $12. net.—The Lady
Nurse of Ward E., by Mrs. Charles H. Stearns,
illus., $1.20 net. (Baker & Taylor Co.)
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pole Lecky, by his wife, with portraits.—Ten Great
and Good Men, lectures by Henry Montagu Butler,
$2.—The Life and Times of Bishop Challoner,
1691-1781, by Edwin H. Burton, 2 vols. (Long-
mans, Green, & Co.)
The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy, and the history
of Christian Science, by Georgine Milmine, $2. net.
—Melba, by Agnes C. Murphy, illus., $2.75 net.—
Marie Antoinette, by Hilai're Belloc, $2.75 net.—
Wendell Phillips, by Lorenzo Sears, with frontis-
piece, $1.50 net.—Upbuilders, by J. Lincoln Stef-
fens, $1.20 net. (Doubleday, Page & Co.)
Eichard Jefferies, his life and work, by Edward
Thomas, illus. in photogravure, etc., $3. net.—Na-
poleon's Marshals, by R. P. Dunn-Pattison, illus.,
$3. net. (Little, Brown, & Co.)
A Lady of the Old Regime, by Ernest F. Henderson,
illus., $2.50 net.—My Day, reminiscences of a long
life, by Mrs. Roger A. Pryor, $2. net.—The Life of
Lord Kelvin, by Silvanus P. Thompson, 2 vols., illus.
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Recollections of Grover Cleveland, by George F. Par-
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An Admiral's Log, by Rear-Admiral Robley D. Evans,
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Edmond de Goncourt, trans, by Ernest Dawson,
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King's Favorite, the love story of Robert Carr and
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Life of the Honorable Mrs. Norton, by Jane Grey
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Virginia's Attitude toward Slavery and Secession
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Documentary History of American Industrial Society,
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$50 net. (Arthur H. Clark Co.)
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THE THEATRICAL OUTLOOK 219
ON TEACHING LITERATURE. Charles Leonard
Moore 221
CASUAL COMMENT 223
The tribute to the memory of Dr. Johnson. —
Caustic criticism of the English censor of plays.—
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In Commendation of a Recent Novel. William
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ON THE SPIRALITY OF THE COSMOS. Eay-
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THE DOMESTIC LIFE OF RICHARD WAGNER.
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FROM ARCTIC SEA TO IRISH SUMMER. H. E.
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BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS ......... 238
"A Bishop in the Rough." — Chumming with
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TOPICS EN OCTOBER PERIODICALS .... 247
i-IST OF NEW BOOKS 248
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cause needs only to go on for a few years more
at the present rate, and there will be enough
serious theatres in actual operation to provide
the skeptical with a convincing object-lesson.
We have no idea that the theatre of commerce,
devoted to the frivolities and vulgarities that
best pay their exploiters, will be put out of
business by the new development, for, as Goethe
says, " Es muss doch solche Kauze geben," but
we do foresee the time when in our larger cities
it shall be possible to find some playhouse to go
to for genuine spiritual refreshment.
Looking first at the transatlantic aspect of
the situation, we note that the war on the censor-
ship goes merrily on, and that the doom or the
radical transformation is in sight of a system
that proscribes such dramatic masterpieces as
"The Cenci" and "Monna Vanna," while tol-
erating every form of debasing and brutalizing
stage entertainment. Then there are the two
new repertory theatres that are actually about
to open their doors in London, one of them under
the management of Mr. Herbert Trench, the
other under the joint direction of Mr. Charles
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ville Barker, J. M.Barrie, and John Galsworthy.
These two enterprises show that "the public
within the public," to use Mr. Archer's phrase,
has at last found practical recognition, and that
the serious play-writer may be encouraged to
engage in dramatic composition without keeping
one eye squinted toward the box-office. There
seems to be no reason to doubt the good faith of
the men in charge of these new undertakings.
Their official pronouncements may be illustrated
by a few quotations. Mr. Frohman says:
"A repertory theatre should be the first home of the
young dramatist. I beg of him to be done with the the-
atrical, and write only of a life that he really k nows. . . .
I want to interest the good play-goer, not once or twice
a year, in what is being done at my theatres, but once
or twice a mouth In my opinion there are now in this
country a number of people sufficiently large to be called
the public, who wish to delight in the drama as an art."
These sayings have the right ring, and so have
such utterances as these from Mr. Trench:
"It is hoped that the new management will be able to
give the most generous opportunities to young English
dramatists. . . . Under our new system it will be possi-
ble to produce masterpieces by dramatists of the first
rank which would never see the light in a long run. The
play of ideas will be varied also by selections from the
best revived modern plays, and by classical plays."
We are indebted for these "kernel" quota-
tions to an article by Mr. Edward Garnett,
whose own opinion is thus voiced: "The old
view that the theatre is merely a place of amuse-
ment is giving way, slowly, but none the less
giving way, to the idea that the theatre is one of
the most potent instruments we possess for the
aesthetic, mental, and moral instruction of the
citizen." This is a truism to anyone even super-
ficially acquainted with the history of culture,
but our English theatre has sunk to so low an
estate during the last half-century that the state-
ment will come to many with the force of a
refreshing novelty. The vicious influences of
the star system, the long run, the syndicated
control, and the supine catering to low forms of
taste, have so operated to bring the theatre into
contempt that its repute will not easily be
restored, even with the best of will and the most
ample resources. But a fair beginning has been
made, and our confidence now has something to
which it may cling.
Coincidently with these foreign undertak-
ings, the New Theatre of New York is about to
open its doors. Of the two factors necessary to
the success of such a venture, money and intelli-
gent direction, the former, at least, is not lacking,
for the building and grounds are said to repre-
sent an initial expenditure of three million
dollars. As for the other factor, the names of
those directly in charge, as well as the names of
those who are supporting the enterprise, are of
a nature to claim respect. Whether the danger
that comes from a multitude of counsellors will
be avoided remains to be seen. There is a cer-
tain element of danger also in a too lavish
material equipment, and it is possible that the
financial path has been made too smooth. The
directors disclaim any leanings toward precios-
ity, and do not intend to frighten the public
away by a too austere idealism. They do not
aim to produce plays "too bright and good for
human nature's daily food." The New Theatre
is not, they say, "to be made a school for the
select few, wherein a dull or tedious play of
merit will be kept upon the stage for the pur-
pose of instructing its patrons, but a playhouse
for the public at large." They further say that
they hope to make the institution " as distinctly
democratic and civic as is the Come'die Fran-
caise." This is all very sensible, and the early
announcements indicate that various tastes are
to be consulted. The first five plays to be
given are "Antony and Cleopatra," "The
School for Scandal," Mr. John Galsworthy's
"Strife," and new works by two young Harvard
graduates, Mr. Edward Knoblauch, who wrote
"The Shulamite," and Mr. Edward Sheldon,
who wrote " Salvation Nell." One evening a
week is to be given to the performance of
standard operas of the lighter sort. An import-
ant point is that the company, which includes
many actors of assured reputation, will visit
other large cities for short engagements after
the twenty-four weeks' season in New York is
at an end. This gives the enterprise a truly
national significance.
Finally, a word should be said about the pro-
gramme of Mr. Donald Robertson and his
Chicago company of players. This modest organ-
ization, inspired by a director whose aims are the
highest and whose devotion to his art is abso-
lutely pure and disinterested, has already done
two years of successful missionary work, and now
enters upon a third with high hopes and fair
promise. The Chicago season will consist of
thirty Saturday night performances, beginning
early this month. They will be given upon the
stage of Fullerton Hall at the Art Institute,
with better facilities than were available there
last year. The other days of the week will be
spent in outside engagements, and the object-
lesson will be repeated in many distant commu-
nities. Mr. Robertson has projected, as before,
a cosmopolitan programme of singular interest.
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Critic," Browning's "The Return of the Druses,"
Shelley's "The Cenci," and Shakespeare's
"Timon of Athens." The two latter plays are
practically unknown to the modern stage, and
Shelley's great tragedy, forbidden in the poet's
native country by the censor, has had only the
single (private) performance given it by the
Shelley Society about fifteen years ago. The
first American performance will be distinctly an
event. Ten continental dramas, new and old,
are included in this fascinating programme. The
classics are Calderon's " Mayor of Zalamaya,"
Moliere's "Tartufe," Marivaux's "Le Jeu de
FAmour et du Hasard," and Alfieri's "Saul."
The modern examples are Echegaray's "The
Stigma," Sudermann's "Gliick im Winkel,"
Heijerman's " Links," van Eeden's " Ysbrand,"
Ibsen'8 "H sermsendene paa Helgeland," and
Bjbrnson's "De Nygifte," the earliest of his
social studies. This extraordinary list of mas-
terpieces will afford a hitherto unexampled
opportunity for acquaintance with the best in
dramatic literature; that all these works are
presently to be seen in actual stage performance
in the English language is a fact that seems too
good to be true.
ON TEACHING LITERATURE.
All sciences and special branches of knowledge
can be taught, because they are limited in their
nature and have definite rules and methods; but to
teach literature is a good deal like trying to teach
life itself. One can only know life by instinct and
experience. A class in literature must be a good
deal like an aviary in which someone is endeavoring
to introduce order and discipline. The birds' minds
are so various, the air-paths and the perches are so
numerous and alluring, that the drill-master can
hardly help having a hard time. The converse of
the rule about toadstools and mushrooms is true of
students: if books bore or poison you, you are not
a reader; if you can digest them, you are. The born
reader, even with the slightest learning, has an
almost infallible instinct. He or she will never make
the mistake of Charles Lamb's Stamp Collector, who
asked him if he did not think Milton was a great
poet. He or she will never exasperate you by sug-
gesting that the last novelist has put the world's
literature into eclipse.
But the born diviners are few, and the majority
of students need guidance and are willing to accept
it. If it ever fell to my lot to conduct a class in
literature, I think I should begin by placing in every
pupil's hands a copy of Leigh Hunt's little compila-
tion, "Imagination and Fancy." The Introduction
to this work is of no great value, — or, at least, the
ideas in it can be better gathered from their originals
in Coleridge. But the selections form a small body
of the most intensely poetical pieces and passages in
the language. And Hunt, by his system of italiciz-
ing the most perfect phrases and expressions, by
his notes of ungrudging admiration, is continually
at the student's elbow, to explain, illumine, make
vivid, the wonders of the text. It would be a poor
pupil who, from the study of such a work, would
not come to realize that literature is a fine art —
that its medium is words, and that these words are
capable of melodies, harmonies, tints, colors, tone,
and sculptural outline in infinite and almost ineffa-
ble combination. The power of rendering by lan-
guage the exact qualities of things, of giving in
essential extract the forms and hues of life and
nature, and of hinting at the interrelation and spir-
itual significance of these matters, is the primary
concern of literature. With some poets and prose
writers, expression is all in all; and with many
readers it is so fascinating that they care for noth-
ing else.
From these studies in the near and the minute, I
should jump my students at once to the considera-
tion of the large and the remote. I should place
before them, using English translations or recensions,
the great early epics of earth's different races — the
Icelandic sagas, the Niebelungenlied, the Celtio
legends, and the great Hindoo epics. These works
differ greatly in their qualities of expression, in their
verbal felicity. The Niebelungenlied, perhaps the
largest canvas of human action ever painted, is done
in a rambling, garrulous style, in a jog-trot metre.
The Icelandic sagas are terse and vivid, but they are
travellers' tales, having little ordered art, and being
the germs of poems rather than full poetic works.
The Irish and Welsh legends have had an immense
amount of art spent upon them in their varied recen-
sions, and they are often splendidly beautiful in
detail; but in them the genius of the race has
seemed to lack balance and measure. The same
thing may be said of the Hindoo epics. But all of
these works have in common greatness of design and
creative fire; and it is as necessary that the student
of literature should get it into his head that these
qualities are admirable as that he should learn to
appreciate perfect form. They one and all shadow
forth a world that is based indeed on our world, but
rises above this like a mirage. They project figures
that bear the semblance of humanity, but are larger,
more tremendous, more significant than merely
human characters. They involve the cosmogonies—
the hopes and fears, the thoughts and intuitions,
of mankind in its freshest stage of imagination. It
is certainly a great gain to any student's vivacity
and richness of mind when he can be interested in
the Hindoo Lucifer, Ravana, who stood for ten thou-
sand years on his head (he had three of them, so he
may have varied the exercise), and thereby acquired
so much merit that the gods could not prevail against
him; or when he can understand and take seriously
the story of Thor nearly emptying the ocean by three
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Cuchulain's single-handed fight against an immense
army. Such creations, while they are projections
of single characters, have the concentrated signifi-
cance of types. They compare with the figures in
modern novels, which are also pictures of humanity,
as gold coins compare with bank notes. These may
have the same face value, but the notes soon become
dirty and torn, and are discarded; whereas the coins
keep their lustre and edge and intrinsic value for
centuries.
After the lessons of form and the lessons of design
had sunk into my pupils' minds, then, and not until
then, I should put before them accepted master-
pieces of literature in which creation and execution
go hand in hand. It is unnecessary to enumerate
them — and, indeed, for school purposes a small
selection from any one of the three supreme poets,
Homer, Dante, or Shakespeare—would be sufficient
to indicate what literature can do at its best. In
any one of Shakespeare's most perfect plays, for
instance, what faculties, what qualities, what mira-
cles of vision and execution, combine to produce the
total effect! No single gift is there, but a complex
of powers which it would be a fascinating though
perhaps not very useful study to unravel and separate.
Absolute realization, transcendent power, — these
are the main goals of literature. Speech, in its
commonest use, is an ever-recurring miracle; but as
used by the great masters to rival the concrete, to
realize the abstract, to fix fleeting nature and life, it
is the wonder of wonders. And the creative power
of design, which on the basis of nature and life builds
the empires of the imagination, is even more god-
like.
Something analogous to this division of literature
exists in painting. From the first, artists seem to
have been separated into two opposed camps: those
who could realize, render, paint; and those who
could draw, design, tell stories. The one body was
mainly concerned with the rendering of planes,
modified of course by tint and color; the other was
chiefly interested in expressing ideas by means of
lines. The Greek paintings that have come down
to us in vase decorations are of the latter class; they
have purity of line and tint, but they do not seek
to reproduce nature, and they do illustrate legends
and express ideas. The great Greek painters, how-
ever, Zeuxis and Apelles, were, if we may trust the
legends about them, Tenderers. They sought to
imitate nature; they painted what they saw. In
more recent times, Angelo, Raphael, Tintoretto,
Poussin, Reynolds, David, and a great part of the
English school, were designers, illustrators. And
on the other side, Titian, Rembrandt, Velasquez,
nearly the whole Dutch school, and Gainsborough,
were painters, reproducers of nature. Both kinds
of art are legitimate, — they are equally important,
but it is curious that those who can paint despise
design, while those who can design rarely render
with the felicity and perfection of the others. It is
the difference between the sensuous and intellectual
faculties of man.
There is no such decisive separation of these
faculties, no such war of armed camps, in literature
as in painting. It is difficult to use words at all
without conveying ideas or telling a story — without
exhibiting some quality of design. Here and there
a poet or a prose-writer has succeeded in striking out
impressions of nature, or rapturous musical tones, to
which it is difficult to attach a coherent meaning.
Perhaps Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" and Poet
"Ulalume" are the supreme examples, in our liter-
ature at least, of such scenic or atmospheric rendi-
tions. They may signify anything or nothing. On
the other hand, writers who have anything at all to
say have usually been able to say it in more or less
felicitous words. But the distinction remains between
the two orders of minds; it is symbolized in the two
opposed pairs, Goethe and Schiller, Keats and
Shelley. Some writers pass through all the phases
of the two gifts. Shakespeare began life intoxicated
by words and images. He yielded himself up as a
pure medium for life to express itself — as a mirror
to reflect all the hues and objects about him. Grad-
ually the intellectual predominated, and at the top
of his career he seems almost to have disdained the
vehicle of language, and, like Velasquez at the last,
"painted with the will alone." The same progres-
sion is observable in Milton, from the sensuousnees
of his earlier poems to the severe outlines of the
"Samson."
But to return to my class of students whom I left
hanging in the air. There are two more matters I
should like to impress upon them: first, the import-
ance of the individual, the personal, in writers or
creative artists; and, second, the universality or con-
stant recurrence of the master-moods of mankind
which seek expression in literature. The writer's
personality constitutes his originality. It is what
he adds to the common stock. It is what differen-
tiates him from others. No two artists can have
the same view of human life or nature; no two are
started with exactly the same impetus, or meet with
the same resistance. As a result, their work, down
to the very motion of their prose or verse, is different.
Hereby it comes that we would recognize a scene of
Shakespeare's or a passage of Milton's if we met
them in the middle of the desert of Sahara. All
art worth the name has this quality of uniqueness,
of singularity.
But on the other hand, as the main experiences of
mankind are, after all, limited in number, are com-
mon to all, it comes about that literature must repeat,
reiterate, recast, the same matter. The joys, hopes,
sorrows, fears, aspirations and despairs of men most
reappear in new guise in every age's art. Hence the
parallels, similarities, revivals and imitations in liter-
ature. The same general conditions compel the same
kind of work. The Athenian drama, rising out of
the heroic period of the Greek race, based upon
religion, patriotism, art-zeal, finds itself echoed in
the great English and Spanish theatres. The courtly
verse of the Augustan age is parallelled by that of
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moods and manners and fashions of men change
indeed, but they change in circles, and they are
always finding themselves back in the same spot
When I had got my class in literature thus far,
I should dismiss it, sure that the twist or bent of
each member would carry him too far in some direc-
tion, and that catholicity of judgment would be left
only for those who did not need any instruction at all.
Charles Leonard Moore.
CASUAL COMMENT.
The tribute to the memory op Dr. Johnson
on the recent bicentennial of his birthday (Septem-
ber 18), was no noisy demonstration, but an appro-
priate recognition of his still-living influence in our
life and thought. He is now very little read, it is
true; but he has left a few phrases and maxims that
promise to abide. "To point a moral or adorn a
tale" falls glibly from the tongue of thousands who
have never heard of "The Vanity of Human
Wishes," and many an untoward happening is
spoken of as eclipsing the gayety of nations, with no
suspicion on the speaker's part that he is quoting
Johnson's allusion to the death of Gariick. Of
course it is his life and personality, as transmitted
to posterity by the faithfulest of biographers, that
we cherish; and the influence of his character will
long outlast his writings. The bicentennial cere-
monies began at Litchfield, September 15, with the
formal opening, by Lord Rosebery, of a Johnson
memorial exhibition, followed on the next day by a
lecture from Mr. Sidney Lee, and in due course by
the Johnson anniversary supper and a special ser-
vice in the cathedral. A more elaborate commemo-
rative dinner in London is planned for October,
when Mr. Thomas Seccombe, Prior of the Johnson
Club, will act as toastmaster. An exhibition of
Johnsoniana at the British Museum is also among
the possibilities. In the publishing world, a bicen-
tenary edition of Johnson's poems, with an intro-
duction by Mr. William Watson, is promised by
Mr. John Lane, who also brings out a tempting
volume entitled "Dr. Johnson and Mrs. Thrale,"
by Mr. A. M. Broadley, with hitherto unpublished
letters from Goldsmith, Boswell. Dr. Burney and
Fanny Burney, Mrs. Siddons, and others, and also
Mr*. Thrale s journal (now first published) of her
Welsh tour with Johnson in 1774.
• • ■
Caustic criticism of the English censor of
plays has of late enjoyed free vent in connection
with the sittings of the Parliamentary Commission
appointed to consider the functions of that worthy
guardian of stage morality. Mr. Bernard Shaw,
leading the attack, pelts the unhappy Mr. Redford
with characteristic epigrams. The censor seems to
the author of " Man and Superman" to be a sort of
anarchist: law is what one expects to get from a
magistrate, but from the censor of plays one gets
only the chaos of that official's mind. "The more
the censorship is improved," is Mr. Shaw's lament,
"the more it will stop the immoral play, which from
my point of view is the only play worth writing. . . .
I am a conscientiously immoral writer" — from
which assertion it was later developed that by "im-
moral " was meant nothing worse than "uncustom-
ary." Mr. William Archer, another outspoken critic
of the censorship, is reported as affirming that " the
censor keeps serious drama down to the level of
his own intelligence, and does not even pretend to
keep the lighter drama up to the level of his own
morality." Mr. Henry James assails the censor in
a terrific example of his well-known involved syntax,
and then calms down sufficiently to add, in plain
language: "We rub our eyes, we writers, accustomed
to freedom in all other walks, to think that the cause
has still to be argued in England." Ought we to
rejoice or to mourn that we have in America no offi-
cial censor over whom to make merry and to wax
epigrammatically sarcastic?
• • •
The vogue of the old-fashioned novel shows
signs of revival. After an over-abundance of quick-
lunch fiction, and the mental dyspepsia such hastily-
gobbled fare is apt to produce, the leisurely many-
course dinner — the orderly romance divided and
subdivided into parts and books and chapters, and
proceeding from proem to climax and from climax
to conclusion with something of the unhasting slow-
ness of life itself — is a welcome relief and a restful
change. Not yet have we in this country or England
reverted to the novel issued in monthly or quarterly
parts, after the manner of Dickens's and Thackeray's
longer stories; but in France one of the literary
successes of the past few years has been M. Romain
Rolland's "Jean Christophe," now in its seventh
volume and in the third year of its instalment pub-
lication, with no sign of satiety on its readers' part
Long novels are not lacking in current English
and American fiction, such as Mr. De Morgan's
deliberately-moving tales and some of Mrs. Humphry
Ward's and Mr. Churchill's books; but our publishers
are wary about issuing them in any but the single-
volume form. The prevalent English views and ten-
dencies in this matter are discussed very pertinently
elsewhere in this issue by our London correspondent,
Mr. Clement K. Shorter, whose letters are hereafter
to form a regular feature of The Dial.
Choosing books for a public library is
pleasant work for the choosers, but their wisdom is
sure to be sharply challenged if the library con-
cerned is situated in any wide-awake and independent
community. More difficult still is it to select books,
not for any particular public library, but for the
average or the typical or the ideal public library.
The annual '* Best Books of the Year " issued by the
New York State Library — the exact title of the
current number is "A Selection from the Best Books
of 1908" — illustrates the impossibility of suiting
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A list of 250 of last year's books, marked in such
wise as to indicate their several degrees of import-
ance for the large, the medium, and the small public
library, has been drawn up by the book board of the
New York State Library. In any such list it is easy
enough to point out noteworthy omissions and com-
missions, so to speak. Messrs. Chesterton and Shaw
are both coldly excluded. Mr. Frederic Harrison's
"Realities and Ideals" receives no mention. Dr.
W. Robertson Nicoll's "Ian Maclaren" fails to
appear. Even Captain Amundsen's "Northwest
Passage" is not deemed of sufficient importance to
have a place in the list. Christina Rossetti's "Letters"
and Dr. Schouler's "Idea's of the Republic" are
also among the slighted. On the other hand, we have
"The Cat and the Canary " and "Anne of Green
Gables " — and so we will not yet despair of the
republic. ...
The usefulness of the newspaper reading-
room in libraries is seriously questioned. Such
a room is more than likely to be pretty well filled
at all hours of the day and evening, especially the
latter; but what class of readers are found there,
and what lasting or even momentary good are they
deriving from their attendance? A little mental
and emotional titillation, perhaps, from the perusal
of the reported crimes and casualties of the last
twenty-four hours ; a little rest, in many cases, from
the rigors of less comfortable loafing elsewhere; a
little slumber, it may be, as the head bows in ap-
parent study over the capacious sheet; and now and
then a chance to chat surreptitiously, and to the
greater or less annoyance of near neighbors, with
an old crony. To better uses than these, no doubt,
a few serious readers do put the room and its read-
ing matter; but hear for a moment what lias been
the Brooklyn Public Library's experience after
withdrawing or curtailing these newspaper privi-
leges. "On account of the large increase in attend-
ance in the Periodical and Newspaper Reading
Room the Chief Librarian recommended to the
Trustees that the daily papers be no longer placed
on open file. This was carried into effect, and, to
the surprise of many, there has been practically no
complaint on the part of the public, but instead an
expression of satisfaction at the change. There has
been a noticeable increase in women readers." As
a means of raising the standard of reading, and
also of readers, this simple and economic move
has its commendable aspect.
The Globe Playhouse of Shakespeare's
London has long been a thing of history and tradi-
tion only, and its site is now occupied by a brewery.
On the 8th of this month a memorial tablet, to mark
as nearly as possible the site of the old theatre, said
to be the first built in London, will be unveiled by
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree. The Shakespeare
Reading Society, of which the eminent actor is
president, took the initiative in this matter eighteen
months ago. Dr. William Martin, F.S.A., has
designed the tablet, which shows in relief Bankside
in Shakespeare's time, the Globe Playhouse occupy-
ing a central position, with the Thames and London
Bridge in the background, and a medallion bust of
Shakespeare in one corner of the tablet. The inscrip-
tion reads: "Here stood the Globe Playhouse of
Shakespeare, 1598-1613. Commemorated by the
Shakespeare Reading Society of London and by
subscribers in the United Kingdom and India."
Destroyed by fire in 1613, the theatre was rebuilt in
1614, and it is this second structure that is com-
monly associated with Shakespeare's name although
he had nothing to do with it. The mural tablet will
be affixed to the wall facing Park Street.
The librarian's complex duties are far re-
moved, in their range and variety and increasing
difficulty, from the old-time conception of them as
consisting merely in the careful custody of a collec-
tion of books, the occasional loan of a desired volume,
and the checking of the record when it is returned.
A single paragraph from the latest Brooklyn Public
Library Report will convey a hint of what modern
librarianship means. Of the branch libraries we
read: "The area which each branch library is sup-
posed to serve is being studied from a sociological
point of view; statistics of population, nationality,
religion, wealth, congestion of population, public
schools, labor unions, fraternal organizations, etc.,
are being compiled. Note is being made of classes
of the community which the library does not reach;
of classes of literature in which the branch appears
to be weak, or overstocked ; of means that have been
found efficacious in extending the influence of the
library, and of plans that have not met with success."
The Brooklyn Public Library, one of the largest and
most active in the country, has now twenty-five
branches, including the five new Carnegie buildings
added last year, four stations, and one library for
the blind, and four hundred and sixty-five travelling
libraries. . , .
A prodigiously prolific story-writer for
boys and, between whiles, for adults has laid down
his busy pen forever. George Manville Fenn, who
died recently in his seventy-ninth year, was a veri-
table prodigy for fertility of imagination and literary
productiveness. His'stories for boys and novels for
older readers numbered well over a hundred; prob-
ably he himself could not have told how many he
had written. He also contributed more than a
thousand short tales and sketches to the magazines.
With George A. Henty, the boys' historical novelist,
he shared the favor of the book-reading youngsters
of his own countiy, and to a large extent of oars
also. They had the confidence of parents as safe
guides for their boys through the enchanted land of
heroic adventure. And now that the two Georges are
gone, who can fill their places with their sorrowing
readers? No one, of course; but other favorites will
arise for other generations, and the store of innocent
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will suffer no diminution. Mr. Fenn's literary
activity nearly up to the time of his death, and his
fondness for travel, for gardening, and for natural
science, show him to have successfully resisted the
benumbing tendencies of old age.
A poet's romance that is just now attracting the
attention of those who are fond of happily-ending
love-stories comes to our notice from across the
Atlantic. Mr. William Watson, at the sufficiently
mature age of fifty-one, has wedded Miss Adeline
Maureen Pring, of Howth, County Dublin, praised
for her beauty, and, let us hope, in all other respects
the fit wife for a poet. Thus has the author of
"The Year of Shame" given additional expression
to his interest in and sympathy for Ireland —
"... the lovely and the lonely Bride
Whom we have wedded bnt have never won."
It will be not unnatural to ask oneself whether the
lines "To a Lady " — an Irish lady she manifestly
is — that introduce the above-named volume of
poems, published thirteen years ago, were not ad-
dressed to her who has now become the poet's wife.
A new sheaf of verse is said to have been delivered
to his publisher by the happy bridegroom, as he
hastened from London to join the wedding party.
Early publication of the epithalamic volume is
announced.
FROM LITERARY LONDON.
(Special Correspondence of The Dial.)
The whole book-trade of England has been very
considerably agitated during the past three months
by the question of the six-shilling novel and its
future. It has long been insisted that for this
country the sum of six shillings was too much to
pay for a work of fiction that might be read in a few
hours. It is true, of course, that not many years
ago new novels were published here at five times
the price, — that is to say, in three volumes for
thirty-one shillings sixpence. That system of three
volumes had much to be said for it: the full story
of the rise and growth of the three-volume novel has
never been told.*
"Waverley," for example, the first great popular
novel of the last century, was only in two volumes.
Some of Sir Walter Scott's romances appeared
in three volumes, and others in four volumes.
Thackeray's "Vanity Fair," after it had been
issued in parts, came out in one volume, although
"Esmond " appeared in two. Dickens's novels, as
we know, usually appeared in monthly parts. It
was nearer our own day that the three-volume novel
became an institution, and all book-collectors con-
sider themselves happy if they possess certain of
the novels of George Eliot, the Brontes, George
•The story of its rise and growth, and of its fall, was told
very entertainingly by Sir Walter Besant in The Dial for
October 1, 1894, nnder the caption "The Rise and the Fall
of the 'Three-Decker.'" — Edh. Thb Dial.
Meredith, and, more recently, of Mr. Thomas
Hardy and Mr. Henry James, in the three-volume
form of their first editions. But before its final ex-
tinction, the three-volume novel, although it was
delightful for reviewers on account of its large type,
had become an encumbrance to the booksellers and
a burden to the libraries. It survived, apparently,
because the late Mr. Charles Edward Mudie, wbo
ran the greatest circulating library in London, had
entered into a compact with three publishers of many
novels in their day,—Tinsley, Bentley, and Hurst
& Blackett,—by which he undertook to subscribe
for a certain number of the novels issued by these
firms. This arrangement considerably handicapped
many of the younger publishing houses; and it
was Mr. Heinemann who gave a death-blow to the
system, by the publication of a novel of Mr. Hall
Caine's in the six-shilling form.
Mr. Heinemann has been destined, in this present
year, to lead yet another movement in the direction
of change, with what final result it is not possible at
present to speak with any certainty. A few months
ago Mr. Heinemann, in a speech addressed to book-
sellers, declared that it was obviously unfair that a
novel of forty thousand words should be sold at
the same price as a novel of one hundred thousand
words. Therein he gave a hint of a scheme that he
was about to put into practice. There is no doubt
that the custom of producing novels of few words
for the same price as long novels was having a
demoralizing effect on the book-trade. The worst
examples that I can recall are a story by Miss Olive
Schreiner, and another by Mr. Maurice Hewlett.
This last, I may add, was issued as a six-shilling
book in spite of a protest from the author.
Mr. Heinemann, then, has launched his new
scheme; and again Mr. Hall Caine is the hero. His
latest novel, "The White Prophet," which consists
of one hundred thousand words, has been issued in
two volumes for four shillings. Mr. Heinemann
has followed this by two short novels, in single vol-
umes, at two shillings each. In a few weeks we are
to have, in the same series, Mr. William De Morgan's
"It Never Can Happen Again," in two volumes, for
six shillings net, — this being a story of two hun-
dred thousand words or more.
As our booksellers are to get six shillings net for
Mr. De Morgan's book, instead of the four shillings
sixpence for which they usually sell a six-shilling
novel, Mr. Heinemann will do very well if he sells as
many copies as under the old system. So far, this
second attempt at a revolution has not succeeded with
the purchasers of fiction. Mr. Hall Caine's novel,
"The White Prophet," is " hanging fire." As far as
I can gather, thirty thousand copies were sold to the
English market, and ten thousand to the colonies;
but inquiries among booksellers make it clear to me
that the public have not shown their usual alacrity
in purchasing Mr. Hall Caine's book. This has been
attributed in some quarters to a dislike of the two-
volume form ; in others, to the many severe reviews
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disposed to attribute it to the fact that the novel has
appeared serially in the "Strand Magazine," and
that Mr. Caine's readers are, in the main, readers of
that excellent publication. However, Mr. Caine has
congratulated himself on the fact that, after all,
despite the critics — whom he calls "dead-heads"
and " hangers-on " — he has sold more copies of his
novel in the book-shops during this season than any
other author. That does not seem a very remark-
able fact, for no other author of any importance has
published a novel in August or September.
Mr. Caine's reference to "dead-heads " is doubt-
less connected with the "review copy." Every
London publisher has to give away at least a hun-
dred copies of each of his novels, if he wants them
to be widely reviewed. With other books he can
keep the number down to sixty or eighty, and in
some cases to forty; but no publisher would dream
of sending out less than a hundred copies of a novel
to the multitudinous newspapers of London and the
Provinces.
Mr. Caine has always demanded from his pub-
lisher a much more extended generosity than this.
With one of his earlier books, he sent nine copies to
a single newspaper. Every member of that journal
received a present of one. Doubtless he intends to
alter this in the future, and I should not be at all
surprised if he takes the course that has long been
adopted by Miss Marie Corelli, and refuses with his
next novel to send any copies to the newspapers for
review. Miss Corelli, however, always took care
that one or two good reviews of her books should
appear. I particularly recall that Lord Burnham
received a copy, with a request for a notice in the
"Daily Telegraph," and that the notice was forth-
coming. At the present time, when Miss Corelli
publishes a new novel several of the newspapers buy
copies in order to furnish their readers with reviews.
It may be admitted that Mr. Hall Caine is one of
the ioitunate writers who can do precisely what is
done by Miss Corelli. Both novelists appeal to a
huge non-literary class, and are not under the same
conditions that guide the great majority of our
authors struggling to obtain a public. Were pub-
lishers to refuse to send books for review as a general
practice, the authors — and particularly the male
authors — would become frantically hysterical.
I have referred to Mr. William De Morgan's
new novel, "It Never Can Happen Again." Mr.
De Morgan is a wonderful man, a little bit like the
late Mr. George Meredith in appearance, with a
kindly face and keen piercing eyes. He is a de-
lightful talker, and enjoys the success which has
come to him so late in life, — for he was sixty-seven
years of age when his first novel, "Joseph Vance,"
appeared. He had b>>en an artist in a particular kind
of tile during the intervening years, and had led a
life of much happiness, although, perhaps, not of
too much prosperity, alternating between a studio
in The Vale, Chelsea, oppofite the home which Mr.
Whistler once occupied, and Florence, where he
wintered for his health year by year, until the day
Mr. Heinemann published "Joseph Vance." The
book had only been submitted to one previous pub-
lisher; so even here he was fortunate. Each of his
three novels, so far, have been great successes, in
spite of their extraordinary length. Will the fourth
novel be as successful in two volumes as the three
others have been in one? is the question. I hope so,
on many grounds; for I think Mr. Heinemann's
two-volume form is very charming.
Meanwhile it is worthy of notice that there are
more six-shilling novels coming oat this season than
ever before. The Macraillans, the Methuens, all
our leading publishers of fiction, are sending them
out in large quantities. A number of new pub-
lishers have come upon the scene, and these also are
running the six-shilling novel. One firm, named
Mills & Boon, has sent me a great many lately;
while another publisher. Mr. Andrew Melrose, has
delighted me with one particular story, " The Wood-
Carver of 'Lympus," by Mary E. Waller.
Mr. J. M. Barrie and Mr. A. E. W. Mason have
been spending some time together among the Swiss
mountains at Zermatt. Whether or not this means
collaboration in a new play, I cannot say. So far,
Mr. Mason has not had any of Mr. Barrie's won-
derful success as a playwright, although his novels
have grown in popularity with the years.
Three of our most popular novelists have just
finished new stories. Mr. and Mrs. Kgerton Castle
are calling their next novel '* The Panther's Cub,"
while Mr. Anthony Hope entitles his "The Second
String." Mr. Anthony Hope has not, I think, been
doing as good work lately as in the days when he
published that fine romance " Rupert of H«*ntzau,"
and that powerful piece of analysis, "Quisante."
Let us hope that "The Second String" will be of
the old quality. Clement K. Shobtkr.
London, September 20, 1909.
COMMUNICA TIONS.
m COMMENDATION OF A RECENT NOVEL.
(To the Editor of The Dial.)
As far as I have been able to find opportunity to
compare my own judgments of current literary produc-
tions with those of The Dial, I have usually felt much
comforted by a general correspondence. When I have
had any disagreement, it has been that The Dial is
inclined to generosity in its judgments. This, however,
is not only agreeable to readers but safe for the critic,
since it is far better that a contemporary Bhould think
too well of companions than that posterity should con-
clude that one thought too ill of them.
But in the last issue of The Dial I find an opinion
of a recent novel that seems to me uot only incorrect
in the measure assigned according to scale but also
unfair in the scale employed. To this novel, "A Cer-
tain Rich Man," is accorded the first mention in a series
of reviews. I read that novel carefully more than a
month ago, and I have been reflecting upou it ever since.
Your reviewer has seemed unable to get out of his
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author. He insists upon remembering that William
Allen White has written boys' stories, and therefore
credits him with much success in treating the early life
of the hero; and he insists upon remembering that Mr.
White is also a publicist, deeply concerned with the
modern trend in political and economic matters, and
somewhat pessimistic in his utterances. In consequence,
the reviewer seems to suggest that the novelist is juve-
nile and even naive, sensational and even denunciatory,
in his representation of the grown man.
Let me confess that upon opening the novel I expected
to find it as the reviewer says it is. I intended to read
it in an evening. But I did not find it superficial or
sensational, juvenile or narrow. I spent a week reading
and re-reading it, and still think the time well employed.
The great novelist sits like a justice in court, atten-
tive, silent, in white ermine; and he means to see things
as they are. When, in his final deliverance, the novelist
makes the reader feel that he would be glad to have
such an eye see what is good in himself and such a
voice tell it, but sorry to have him note and report
what is evil, the novelist has succeeded, for he has con-
vinced his reader. Such is the impression made upon
myself by the author in this instance. No mere maga-
zinist can do this, though the power to do it should not
be a disqualification for magazine-writing!
Probably if John Barclay is a caricature the novel
will ultimately fail. In a general way, it reminds one
of « Vanity Fair" and of " The Rise of Silas Lapham."
It spreads a broad canvas and paints many figures upon
that canvas; professional critics may say that it paints
too many. But at the same time it does attempt to tell
every phase of the process by which John Barclay,
thinking that he rose, actually fell.
It may be that many intimate relations with persons
of great wealth — by blood and circumstance — have
caused qualities in themselves and events in their affairs
to seem natural to me that seem unnatural to persons
who have not had this fate. Yet it is just at this point
that I most heartily approve of the portraiture of the
"certain rich man." The novelist does not fall into
the demagoguery of asserting or even suggesting that
John Barclay is the typical rich man. I can put my
finger now upon men whose characters and careers have
been notably li e his. I have seen souls shrivel as his
shrivelled. I have seen fortunes made in the same
tricky, absurd, painful and yet proud way; and 1 have
seen rich men with hobbies like John's organ-playing,
and in their senescence converted as he was. And yet
I concede that if in a year or two public opinion in
respect to this novel calls John improbable, then the
novel may prove, like so many others, apparently ephe-
meral. If so, it will be for two reasons: that the
American reading public does not know some of its rich
men, and fails to see how much larger is the novel than
a simple life-story of one man.
Even so, I believe that " A Certain Rich Man " will
soon or late come to permanence for a great quality
inadequately emphasized by your reviewer. There is
a sweet purity in its women and in some of its men that
is true to human nature at its best, the kind of human
nature that of right belongs in novels. Whether we
live in such fashion ourselves or not, we admire and love
most of the lesser folks in this history. The Culpep-
pers are not new, but they are charming. The mother
of John Barclay has a Greek quality of aloofness and
of supremacy. Unfortunately, few modern novelists
care to present these beautiful and gracious characters.
The reviewer suggests that there are some dull pages
in this book. So they may be discovered in Hawthorne
and in Shakespeare. There are traces of artificiality
at times, but that is a fault to be shared with Thackeray
and Dickens. One does sometimes hear a sound as of
"pumping," and it is disagreeable. But George Eliot
worked hard for some effects in ways that are still
audible. "There is none perfect" is as true to-day as
it was yesterday. Homer himself nods.
It seems to me that the American reading public will
take this book seriously and declare it one of the
greatest novels of our soil. I hope so, for I believe
that it will do good as a work of art, not merely as a
disguised polemic.
This is only one man's opinion, but I hold it strongly
enough to write it out, and if need be to defend it.
William Ebtabrook Chancellor.
Nonoalk, Conn , Sept. 25, 1909.
EPISTOLARY PLAGIARISM.
(To the Editor of The Dial.)
M. Alphonse Lefebvre, in his volume "La Celebre
Inconnue de Prosper Merimee" (Paris, 1909), finds in
the correspondence of the Inconnue, Mile. Jenny Dacquin,
some interesting evidences that the lady considered
MerimeVs letters her own property to an extent that
allowed her, as M. Faguet phrases it, to issue "quelques
petites secondes editions." Thus, in a letter dated
Jan. 22d, 1860,Menniee informs Mile. Dacquin:
"On m'a prfSM le pamphlet de men confrere Villemain,
qui m'a paru d'une platitude extraordinaire. Quand on a
essaye de faire un livre contre les Jesuites, quand on s'est
vante de defendre la liberty de conscience contre l'omnipo-
tence de l'Eglise, il est drfile de venir chanter la palinodie et
d'employer de si pauvres arguments. Je Groin que tout le
monde est devenu fou, excepts l'empereur, qui reasemble aux
bergers du moyen age qui font danser les loups avec une flute
magique."
And on the 26th of January of the same year, Mile.
Dacquin writes to her nephew:
"Je suis indignee contre M. Villemain. Quand on a essay*
de faire un livre contre les Jesuites et qu'on s'est vante de
defendr* la liberty de conscience, il est drole de chanter la
palinodie at d'employer de si pauvres arguments. II n'y a
que l'empereur qui soit logique. II ressemble aux bergers
du moyen age qui font danser les loups avec une flute
magique."
Faguet and Lefebvre assure us that such transplanta-
tions are numerous in the Dacquin correspondence, and
that there are still other passages which, in view of the
fact that all of Me'rimee's letters to the now well-known
"Unknown " have not been published, are suspicious in
that they (to quote Faguet again) "ressemblent a du
Merimee."
I have just come upon a reference to similar freedom
of appropriation under strikingly similar circumstances.
Wilhelm von Humboldt maintained for two years a
Platonic correspondence with Charlotte Diede. Letters
of Madame Diede to relatives and friends have been
preserved, and these letters, if we are to believe Albert
Leitzmann, whose article, " Die Freundin Wilhelm von
Humboldt's," appears in "Die Deutsche Rundschau"
(Berlin) for August, contain clauses, sentences, and
entire discussions, carried over bodily from Humboldt's
letters to her.
The temptation under such circumstances is naturally
great, and similar instances are probably numerous.
R. T. House.
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A IiATTEK-DAY EXGLISII NATURALIST.*
For combined intensity and purity of pas-
sion, Richard Jefferies has been compared with
Shelley; for originality in observation and
expression, and for a certain wayward inde-
pendence united with an unmistakably English
quality of sentiment and opinion, he has been
likened to George Borrow. But these compari-
sons are of little help; like all men of genius,
Jefferies is unique, and to be understood he
must be studied in his own books and in his
recorded habits and pursuits.
Such a study of him, more elaborate and
sympathetic than has before been undertaken,
has now been made by Mr. Edward Thomas in
his " Richard Jefferies: His Life and Work,"
a substantial octavo, well illustrated, and pro-
vided with a bibliography, a map, and an
index. As a biography, and also a critical
study, the book has merits which neither Sir
Walter Besant's "Eulogy" nor Mr. Salt's
excellent study of the naturalist possesses. In
short, this new life of Jefferies is not super-
fluous.
There was oddity if not genius on both sides
of the Jefferies family: the father is called "a
funny-tempered man, full of unexpected likes
and dislikes," and the mother is described as
"generous, but irritable and queer." The elder
Jefferies was fond of horticulture and floricul-
ture, and was an adept in judging timber,
whether felled or standing; while his wife was
noted for her excellent butter and cheese. It was
on the small farm managed by this able couple,
at Coate, parish of Chisledon, in Wiltshire,
that John Richard Jefferies (who in manhood
called himself simply Richard Jefferies) was
born on the sixth of November, 1848. His
schooling, at Swindon and elsewhere near home,
was cut rather short by the necessity or the
advisability of his earning his own living. At
seventeen we find him doing hack-work for the
"North Wilts Herald," — " reporting, correct-
ing manuscript and proofs, with a spice of
reviewing and an unlimited amount of conden-
sation." Thus he described his journalistic
duties in a letter to an aunt. He wrote verses,
too, with some music in them, and love stories
distinguished, as the biographer says, for " much
facility and exuberance of trashiness." Larger
* Richard Jefferies: His Like and Work. By
Kdward Thomas. With Illustrations and a Map. Boston:
Little, Brown & Co.
literary undertakings, historical and antiquarian
essays and novels, followed in a few years ; and
then came those rural sketches, contributed to
various London periodicals, which were after-
ward collected into volumes and now constitute
the work for which chiefly he is known and
admired. At about the age of twenty-seven he
began to find himself, and the would-be novelist
became gradually transformed into the student
and interpreter of nature.
Before he became absorbed in the book of
nature, young Richard Jefferies was a great
reader of printed books. Percy's " Reliques of
Ancient Poetry " was a favorite of his when he
was fifteen, and there were at Coate Farm many
other old books accessible to him, and many
more at his grandfather's house in Swindon.
The " Odyssey " was much read by him in trans-
lation; also "Don Quixote," Shakespeare's
poems, and Filmore's " Faust." An old Ency-
clopaedia was a mine of wealth, and it often lay
open before him, especially at the article on
Magic. Strangely enough, White's " Selborne"
remained unknown to him until near the end of
his life.
Here let us introduce the biographer's picture
of young Jefferies in his fretful days of ferment
and vague desire.
"But however bitter the days of poverty, loneliness,
misunderstanding, and constraint, the time when he was
sixteen and seventeen had probably as great sweetness
as bitterness, since the two go together in their extremes
at least as much at that as at any other age. They say
that, though he often carried his gun, he was less and
less fond of shooting after he was fifteen or so. Yet he
would still bring home a snipe on a frosty day, or a jay's
wing in the spring from Burderop. He hung about on
stiles by Maxell and Great Maxell fields, on the footpath
to Badbury Lane, or by the brooks, or on the Reservoir,
or on the Downs, and dreamed and thought. With his
finger on the trigger, he 'hesitated, dropped the barrel,
and watched the beautiful bird,' and 'that watching
so often stayed the shot that at last it grew to be a
habit.'"
The sensuousness of his ardent nature was free
from grossness. An early passage in the biog-
raphy calls attention to his delicacy of taste and
sensibility.
"' The Story of My Heart,' «The Dewy Morn," and
all his later books, are full of proofs of his exquisite
physical sensitiveness; but the physical was always akin
to the spiritual as the flower to the perfume. His tastes
were delicate. He smoked little; and he was a small
drinker, taking not even a glass of porter for his dinner
unless his reporting had been heavy. His sense of touch
seems to have a soul of its own. To touch the lichened
bark of a tree was to repeat his prayer for deeper soul-
life. . . . The spirit exalted this sensuousness; the
senses preserved the sweetness of the spirit. In another
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perfect love, might have wrought their own destruction.
But in Jefferies the senses perform always and only the
functions of the soul, and the purity of his passion equals
its fearlessness in whatever swoons and energies time
may bring."
The meaning of the last clause is a little obscure;
and the biographer still remains tantalizingly
vague when he goes on to illustrate the courage
and spirit that went with this exquisite delicacy,
by telling of a long fight the young man had
with a soldier, in which " he held his own; but
as they were shaking hands at the end, his
enemy struck a treacherous blow that sent him
home with a broken nose." However, there are
other and better evidences in his life-story that
Richard Jefferies was no molly-coddle, and our
liking for his books and himself need be dimin-
ished by no want of respect for his sturdiness
of character.
In 1874 Jefferies was married to Miss Jessie
Baden, of Day House Farm, and the two lived for
a short time at the Coate homestead, then for two
years at Swindon, and after that on the outskirts
of London, where the open fields and the green
woods were not too far away, and the publishers,
the bookshops, and the libraries were sufficiently
near. Here may be given a part of our natu-
ralist's doctrine* of right living, as put into the
mouth of his " Gamekeeper at Home."
'"It's indoors, sir, as kills half the people; being
indoors three parts of the day, and next to that taking
too much drink and vittals. Eating's as bad as drinking;
and there ain't nothing like fresh air and the smell of
the woods. You should come out here in the spring,
when the oak timber is thro wed (because, you see, the
sap be rising, and the bark strips then), and just sit
down on a stick fresh peeled — I means a trunk, you
know — and sniff up the scent of that there oak bark.
It goes right down your throat, and preserves your lungs
as the tan do leather. And I've heard say as folk who
work in the tan yards never have no illness. There's
always a smell from the trees, dead or living. I could
tell what wood a log was in the dark by my nose; and
the air is batter where the woods be. The ladies up in
the great house sometimes goes out into the fir planta-
tions—the turpentine scents strong, you see—and they
say it's good for the chest; but, bless you, you must
live in it. People go abroad, I'm told, to live in the
pine forests to cure 'em: I say these here oaks have
got every bit as much good in that way.'"
Besides the book just quoted from, mention
must be made of those other " country books"
that constitute Jefferies s best claim to remem-
brance, — " Wild Life in a Southern County,"
"The Amateur Poacher," "Round About a
Great Estate,' '■ Nature Near London," "The
Life of the Fields," "The Open Air," and the
posthumous " Field and Hedgerow." In auto-
biographic value "The Story of My Heart"
comes first, while "The Dewy Morn" and
"Bevis: the Story of a Boy " afford insight into
the writer's mind and heart.
The struggle with incurable disease during
the last six years of Richard Jefferies's life, and
his early death in 1887, make a sad story. Why
this man of the open air and the fresh fields, of
high thought and noble purpose, should have
fallen a victim to the foul malignancy of an
abdominal abscess, is one of the baffling mys-
teries. The persistency with which he held him-
self to his work, dictating to his wife when he
could no longer hold a pen, is touching to read
about, and was wholly worthy of him. But the
regret grows that he could not have been spared
to the present time — he would be only sixty-
one if he were alive now — when he might well
be doing his best work and writing from a wealth
of experience and observation that would make
even the best of his now extant productions seem
of inferior quality. Faults of irrelevancy and
carelessness and repetition might have been cor-
rected, occasional dulness avoided, and a more
unflagging human interest imparted to his page.
From Mr. Thomas's closing chapter, containing
a recapitulation of the life and work of Jefferies,
we select a final quotation.
"He enjoyed, simply and passionately, his own life
and the life of others, and in his books that enjoyment
survives, and their sincerity and variety keep, and will
keep, them alive; for akin to, and part of, his gift of
love was his power of using words. Nothing is more
mysterious than this power, along with the kindred
powers of artist and musician. It is the supreme proof,
above beauty, physical strength, intelligence, that a man
or woman lives. . . . Jefferies' words, it has been well
said, are like a glassy covering of the things described.
But they are often more than that: the things are for-
gotten, and it is an aspect of them, a recreation of them,
a finer development of them, which endures in the
written words."
This, and more like it, is a bit fantastical and
forced, and it illustrates Mr. Thomas's chief
fault as exhibited in his book: he is not seldom
vague and fanciful and obscure, and one doubts
whether he always clearly knows what he is try-
ing to say. But much could easily be pardoned
in so good a biography as he has given us. In
the appended Bibliography, space might well
have been spared for last year's English and
American republication (with colored plates) of
"The Open Air " and " The Life of the Fields,"
especially as some other reprints are noted.
Among the portraits in Mr. Thomas's book are
three of Richard Jefferies, two of his father, two
of his mother, and one of his paternal grand-
mother — all full of character.
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On the Spibality of the Cosmos.*
The ponderous work on " Design in Nature,"
by Dr. J. Bell Pettigrew, is probably the most
extensive and serious single contribution to
humorous literature which has appeared in
recent years. It stands unique at this day and
age. To find its peers, in respect of both
matter and manner, one must go back to the
period when the " Bridgewater Treatises " flour-
ished. For the task which the author sets him-
self is no less than "to trace design, order,
and purpose in the inorganic and organic king-
doms, especially the latter." In order to do this
he gathers together in the space of some 1400
well-printed quarto pages, elaborately illus-
trated with about 2000 pictures, a most extra-
ordinary collection of miscellaneous intellectual
junk. One passes with absolutely no logical con-
necting links from the morphology of protozoa
to a discussion of methods of artificially produc-
ing electricity; from the distribution of seeds to
the movements of the stomach; from water-
spouts to Kant's Kritik and Greek archaeology;
and so on indefinitely. As an example of the
possibilities in the way of the inclusion in one
book of a great range of absolutely unrelated
topics, it leaves Disraeli's " Curiosities of Liter-
ature " far behind, and presses close on the dic-
tionary and the encyclopaedia.
In his reasoning the author is naive to a de-
gree. He confuses absolutely definiteness of
structure with "design." To him anything
which has a definite structure is by virtue of
that fact proof of "design" in the theological
sense of the word. Since most things in the
universe do have a definite form and structure,
the wonder really is not that our author devoted
three quarto volumes to illustrations in support
of his thesis, but rather that he did not find it
necessary to use thrice thirty-three. In partic-
ular, Dr. Pettigrew was impressed by the uni-
versality of spirals in the cosmos. You have
them (to take some of the illustrations given) in
waterspouts and whales, goats and gizzards,
moths and men, and in a vast variety of other
things inorganic and organic. Whence we are
to conclude that spirality is a divine inspiration,
and that we have here a proof of design.
•DmoM in Nature. Illustrated by Spiral and other
Arrangements in the Inorganic and Organic Kingdoms as
exemplified in Matter, Force, Life, Growth, Rhythms, etc.,
especially in Crystals, Plants, and Animals. With Examples
selected from the Reproductive, Alimentary, Respiratory,
Circulatory, Nervous, Muscular, Osseous, Loconiotory, and
other Systems of Animals. By J. Bell Pettigrew, M.D.,
etc. Illustrated by nearly 2000 figures. In three volumes.
New York: Longmans, Green & Co.
The utter absurdity of this spiral philosophy
is evident if the author's general method of
reasoning is stripped of all unnecessary verbiage
and set forth in a series of simple propositions
in the directly personal style cultivated through-
out the book. Thus we have:
1. In the inorganic world many things have
a spiral form or structure (proved by pages of
text and illustrations).
2. Many plants and animals show a spiral
form or structure in some of their parts or organs
(likewise proved by copious illustration in text
and figures).
3. When you think about this apparent
coincidence it seems very remarkable, — now
doesn t it, really?
4. The longer I (the author) think about it,
the more remarkable it seems, and the less a
coincidence. In fact, I feel it to be a very deep
and precious thought, quite beyond the ability
of my mind to fathom.
5. Therefore — laus Deo! — it is not a
coincidence, but a direct proof that Evolution is
a snare and a delusion, and that nothing in the
universe can "be explained as apart from pre-
arrangement, design and a Designer."
Such a method of argumentation takes one
back to the good old days when a similar kind
of reasoning was able to " prove " that the sun
moved in an earth-centred orbit. It is as
mediaeval as any cathedral.
Seriously, it is a matter for sincere thankful-
ness that the time is forever past when such a
book as this can exert any significant influence
on the thought or action of men. Mankind is
perhaps more truly and deeply religious to-day
than ever before. But men are educated, too.
It is not demanded any more that to consort
with Religion one must forswear Reason. One
can only have respect for the enormous amount
of labor that must have gone into the prepara-
tion of these volumes; they represent nearly a
life-time's work. Yet at the same time one can-
not but feel it a pity that this labor should
have been so largely wasted, because of an entire
misconception on the author's part of what has
been the effect on human thought, and on the
outlook of men on life, of the tremendous advance
of science during the last fifty years. The day
has passed when anyone can persuade men to a
belief in a Higher Power by arguing that the
Creator shows His infinite wisdom by fashioning
men and corkscrews on the same plan.
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The Domestic IjIfe of Richard
Wagner.*
Mr. Houston Stewart Chamberlain, in his
remarkable book on the Life and Works of
Wagner, divides that life into two equal parts.
Wagner was born in 1818, during the agitations
accompanying the close of Napoleon's stormy
career; when that sun set, a new one arose in
a more extended and beneficent sphere. He
died in 1883, having attained his three-score
and ten in the full vigor of his powers. Men
are now generally agreed that" Parsifal " shows
no decline of creative energy or artistic skill.
Mr. Chamberlain considers his first thirty-five
years as his Lehrjahre; his Meisterschqft fills
the remainder of his allotted span; his Wander
period is an irregular and interrupted time,
which terminates with the definite settlement
at Bayreuth.
Wagner himself is authority for the state-
ment that a man of exceptional abilities should
not marry young; and Shakespeare is seem-
ingly of the opinion that" a young man married
is a young man marred." Wagner was united
in wedlock to Christine Wilhelmina Planer, an
actress, in 1836, when he was twenty-three years
old; she was probably a few years his senior.
She seems to have been an admirable woman
enough, and while she had various stage engage-
ments she never reached any real distinction
in her art. Her early opportunities for educa-
tion were limited, and her intellectual develop-
ment quickly reached the line beyond which
she refused to go. She was not of a sympa-
thetic disposition, and she had nothing of the
diplomacy which is capable of transforming a
difficult situation into a triumph of her own
cause.
The case is a sufficiently clear one. Wagner,
the exceptional man of his place and period, has
an exceptional law and method of intellectual
development. The wife, with the best of inten-
tions, is unable to keep the pace; she at length
falls hopelessly behind, and her pain and dis-
appointment fail of the alleviation which they
demand. His letters to her show the husband
in an habitual mood of amiably meeting various
complaints, pacifying evident distress, attempt-
ing to come to terms wherever possible. The
trouble was not one that could permanently be
allayed; on the contrary, the passage of the years
could only augment it. Wilhelmina belonged to
those who found the New Opera beyond their
* Richard to Minna Wagnbr. Letters to his First
Wife. Translated, prefaced, etc., by William Ashton Ellis.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sous.
comprehension, and she allowed her appreciation
of her husband's life-work to wane; he makes
heroic attempts to bring her peace, but the gulf
between them only widens.
With conditions such as these, the inevitable
of course enters on the scene. The controversy
that raged about the composer brought him
partisans whose loyalty intensified with the prog-
ress of the contest. Wagner himself had no
doubts about his position and purposes; the
bitter utterances found in his letters are thus to
be explained. In comparison with the extra-
ordinary idea of the opera which dominated
Wagner, the work of his contemporaries
appeared to him in many ways a degradation
of the art. His innovations penetrated into all
the departments of music. He was also the first
great man to prove himself great in both music
and drama. His plays, as such, are distinct
additions to stage literature of the first rank.
During his years of struggle and misunderstand-
ing, he needed friends and helpers; he found
them, and he grappled them to himself with
hooks of steel.
The influence that now makes itself vital in
the composer's experience differs toto coelo from
that of " Minna" Wagner, the wife; more and
more, as the letters show, the serious intentions
of Wagner are omitted from his communications
with her. The indications of decreasing sym-
pathy are plain. With Mathilde Wesondonck,
however, the exact reverse is the fact. During
his life at Zurich, Wagner had met the Weson-
doncks, and a close intimacy ensued; Mathilde
Wesondonck, a writer of plays and poems,
enjoying the wealth and distinction which her
husband had given her, became the friend of the
great musician, and entered deeply into his labors
and intentions. The contrast between the letters
written to the two women is very great. Living
habitually on the same plain with the composer,
associating intimately with him in his artistic
and intellectual pursuits, Frau Wesondonck
understood his genius and foresaw his ultimate
triumph. Mr. Ashton Ellis, the translator of
the newly-published letters of Wagner to his
wife Minna, has strong words to say on the
dignity and purity of this friendship. Into
Wagner's enlarging theory of his work, into
his many and vigorous defences of his innova-
tions, into his readings in philosophy, his ab-
sorption in the views of Schopenhauer, where
his wife wholly lost sight of him, Mathilde
Wesondonck entered as a guide and mentor,
and, with a woman's swift intuition, was often
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The situation was no doubt critical, and Minna
Wagner had but little capability for dealing
with it.
The wife died in 1866 ; but before that time
the rupture with her husband was complete.
Meanwhile, Wagner had passed into a period of
spiritual revolt. The pessimism of Schopenhauer,
the study of Oriental Mysticism with its denial
of the reality of the world, the profound (at
first) appreciation of Wagner by Nietsche, led to
the consequences which were naturally to be
expected. The Superman lives in a realm that
is beyond morals; the conventions and scruples
that limit other men are not for him. Wagner
had his reasons for placing himself with the
Zoroasters and Napoleons of the world. The
relation with Cosima Wagner, however, did not
begin until after the death of Minna; and it
terminated institutionally, which was in conso-
nance with the life at Bayreuth, and the serene
close of a checkered career.
The letters of Richard Wagner constitute a
history of his intellectual life astonishing and
unique. No one has more freely expressed him-
self in this form. The letters to Minna show
him in the intimate relations of the family;
the letters to Mathilde Wesondonck display his
hopes, his aspirations, the highest flights.of
his intelligence; the letters to Liszt his artistic
strivings and theories; those to Uhligand Fischer
and Heine, his vicissitudes and conflicts and
triumphs as a musician. The exceptional man,
the genius ahead of his time, the builder of the
next advance, can here be studied in his own
words and at close range. Here are human
documents of inestimable value. The letters
often exhibit Wagner in moods of gayety, and
they are full of expressions of affection. This
is from Dresden:
"That's just the waj! I have been obliged to sus-
pend writing a whole day; but you know it of old. . . .
Lindenau called again, and the Rottorf, who greatly
dislikes my being disturbed when at work, mistook the
Premier Minister for a vagabond, and denied me to
him; the poor man had to depart, leaving behind him
a couple of lines, in which he begged me to call on him
as soon as possible. The Rottorf was frightened out of
her wits when she learnt that it had been the Minister;
whilst I had to dress and make off to him myself. He
had shown my composition to the King, and the latter
had sat down to the piano at once, played it straight
through, and expressed his great delight with it. . . .
"If you could only see me in my lovely summer cos-
tume! It's a perfect joy; only I made a bad choice
with the violet gloves, for when I pulled them off for
the first time, and was pointing with my finger on the
bill of fare, the waiter bounded back iu horror for my
whole hand looked just like a gigantic violet, the gloves
had shed their dye so."
Here is a skit written on his birthday:
"T wag in the lovely month of May,
That Richard Wagner burst his shell;
Therein had he prolonged his stay
His best friends think it were as well."
The nature of the difficulty between the hus-
band and wife is indicated by the following:
"When I came home profoundly vexed and agitated
by some new annoyance, a fresh mortification, another
failure, what did my wife bestow on me in lieu of com-
fort and uplifting sympathy? Reproaches, fresh re-
proaches, nothing save reproaches! Homekeeping by
nature, I remained in the house for it all; but at last, no
no longer to express myself, convey my thoughts, and
receive invigoration, but to hold my tongue, let my
trouble eat into my soul, and be — alone! This eternal
restraint under which I had lived so long already, and
which never allowed me to let myself quite go, on one
side, without occasioning the fiercest scenes, weighed me
down and wore away my health. What is the bodily
tending you by all means lavished on me against the
mental needed for a man of my inner excitableness?
Does my wife remember, perhaps, how coldly she once
prevailed upon herself to nurse me on a bed of sickness
a whole week without affection, because she could not
forgive me a hasty expression before my illness?"
A series of concerts which he conducted in
London gave him little satisfaction. About this
he writes as follows, in his bitterness against
conditions in the world of music there:
"The concert itself put me out to the last degree. I
can't go into everything that annoyed me at it; enough
to say, the one thing lacking is that I should have to
conduct ' Martha' again; such a programme came very
near it. While conducting an aria from the ' Huguenots'
and a miserable overture by Onslow—an Englishman—
I was seized by suoh disgust and remorse, that it got
the better of me, and I made up my mind to demand
my definite discharge next day."
His friends dissuaded him, over a supper, from
this step. He tells his wife this, and continues:
"So be easy about me; I shan't have so severe an
attack of the dumps again, I hope. But it was the most
idiotic concert of them all; a mawkish symphony by one
of the directors; then a fearfully tedious nonett by
Spohr; a completely insignificant overture by Weber,
which — to make things worse — had to be gi ve da capo,
as I had conducted it too finely; to conclude, the trashy
overture by Onslow. Neither did the symphony in A
go so well as at Zurich by a long way; such an English
orchestra simply is not to be worked into an ecstasy!"
Wagner, in a Preface to a publication of his
plays — the Flying Dutchman, Tannhaeuser,
Lohengrin, — had made some frank statements
in regard to his early marriage, to which Minna
Wagner, perhaps naturally, objected. He thus
defends himself:
"Now see, dear child, when I wished to give people
a notion of the genesis of my works, and consequently
of my psychological development, I could not pass over
such a momentous crisis in my life as that which attaches
to our union, without remaining unintelligible. It
would have been foolish and entirely opposed to my real
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length; all I required was just a few brief strokes to
indicate an episode of some importance, which, for that
matter, occurs in the life of many, nay, of most men,
and need be only briefly touched because one presup-
poses that everyone knows well enough what here is
meant; to wit, the necessary consequences of a youthful
marriage contracted at the behest of passion, without
calm consideratiou of outer circumstances, against all
obstacles and objections raised by that practical common-
sense which foresees trouble."
Of the translation of these letters, made by
Mr. Ellis, nothing but good can be said; it is
of course what we have a right to expect from
so practised a hand. Occasionally the translator
attempts the exact reproduction of a German
idiom in his English, with the result of leaving
the reader who is unacquainted with the foreign
tongue in doubt as to what is meant. In his
own notes and prefaces he seems to attach the
blame — if this is at all to be suggested — to
the wife in greater degree than to the husband;
but here every reader must come to his own
conclusions. Mr. Ellis has done heroic work in
presenting Wagner to the English-speaking
public; he has made a rendering of Wagner's
elaborate writings in prose, he has reproduced
the voluminous and accepted Life by Glasenapp,
he has translated the various volumes of letters
already published, and he promises a volume of
the familiar letters to Wagner's blood relatives.
His prefaces and notes are illuminating read-
ing; his discipleship is tempered by a sense of
historical proportion, and with varied sympathy
for the many conflicting interests involved. The
students of Wagner must count him among the
chief of those who, like Glasenapp, Muncker,
Wolzogen, Tappert, Chamberlain, have done
their best to report the Master aright to posterity.
The publishers have made two fine volumes,
with interesting portraits. The books contain
what is needed to make their reading easy and
profitable to the scholar.
Louis James Block.
Mrs. Humphry Ward has just forwarded to Messrs.
Houghton Mifflin Co., for use in their forthcoming complete
subscription edition of her works, an interesting introduction
to "The History of David Grieve." The scenes of Mrs.
Ward's novels are almost all taken from actual places which
the author has known and loved. Thus, a visit to a farm
on the Kinderscout furnished the material for the opening
chapter of "David Grieve," a season spent at Hampden
House in Buckinghamshire gave the original of Mellor Park
in "Marcella," and a village near Crewe gave the scenes of
"Sir George Tressady." "Helbeck of Banisdale " was the
result of a summer spent in the delightful home of Captain
Bagot of Levens Hill near Kendal, and summers in Italy
and Switzerland gave the scenery for " Lady Rose's Daugh-
ter," "Eleanor," and, to a less degree, "The Marriage of
William Ashe." Mrs. Ward will write an explanatory intro-
duction for each volume of the new edition, besides carefully
revising her work.
From Arctic Ice to Irish Summer.*
Although the recent achievements claimed by
Cook and Peary have thrown the exploits of other
Arctic explorers into temporary eclipse, there is
room for such a book as "Conquering the Arctic
Ice," by Mr. Ejnar Mikkelsen, one of the most
recent of Arctic voyagers, whose story now appears
for the first time in print. He and Ernest de Koven
Leffenwell were on the first Baldwin-Ziegler expedi-
tion in 1901, and at that time resolved to organize
an expediton of their own. Various difficulties, how-
ever, prevented their carrying out their plans until
1905. In that year these young men, assisted finan-
cially by many friends — notably the Duchess of
Bedford, the father of Mr. Leffenwell, the Royal
Geographical Society, and the American Geograph-
ical Society — fitted out a small ship, and in 1906
started northward to prove or disprove the theory
that land existed north of Alaska, and to explore
Beaufort Sea. In the spring of 1907, after the
wrecking of their ship the "Duchess of Bedford"
during the previous hard winter, they organized an
extended ice-trip which partly attained the object of
their search. Having ascertained that the deep water
close to the Alaskan coast precluded any land to
the northward, at least not within such a distance
of the coast as could be reached witli dogs and sledges
over the pack-ice, the author, hard driven by many
accidents, returned to civilization by way of Alaska,
fairly satisfied with the results of his strenuous efforts.
His companion remained in the North to pursue
further scientific studies. Mr. Mikkelsen's sledge
journey of three thousand miles is said to be the
longest ever made by an explorer. His story is
simply and modestly told, and will be read with
interest especially for its account of the natives whose
characters and customs he had abundant opportun-
ities to study. Those who are in the habit of
regarding these natives as a low type of savages will
do well to turn to Mr. Mikkelsen for enlightment.
A large number of illustrations, many of them made
from photographs taken by members of this party,
add to the interest and verity of the work.
Major-General Greely has rightly and modestly
•Conquering the Abctic Ice. By Ejnar Mikkelsen.
Illustrated. Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Co.
Handbook of Alaska. Its Resources, Products, and
Attractions. By Major-General A. W. Greely, U. 8. A.
Illustrated. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
Seekers in Sicily. By Elizabeth Bisland and Anne
Hoyt. Illustrated. New York: John Lane Co.
Days in Hkllas. Rambles through Present-day Greece.
By Mabel Moore. Illustrated. Philadelphia: George W.
Jacobs & Co.
In Unknown Tuscany. By Edward Hutton; with
notes by William Heywood. Illustrated in col. r, etc. New
York: E. P. Dutton & Co.
ASummerinTouraine. By Frederic Lees. Illustrated
in color, etc. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co.
A Holiday in Connemara. By Stephen Gwynn, M.P.
Hlnstrated. New York: The Macmillan Co.
One Irish Summer. By William Eleroy Curtis. Illus-
trated. New York: DufBeld & Co.


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entitled his book on Alaska a " Handbook." It is
a handbook in so far as it gives in a condensed way
the widely scattered and reliable data concerning
our far northwestern possessions; but it is more than
a compilation, for it has the enlivening and absorbing
interest that comes from a first-hand observation of
the land described. General Greely is peculiarly
fitted to write just such a book. His extensive
experience and travel in Alaska make him almost
our sole authority on the diverse conditions existing
there. He has made six visits to Alaska, has twice
traversed the great Yukon Valley, visiting Fairbanks
and Prince William Sound twice, and Nome thrice.
Moreover, as the highest military commander on two
occasions, and as the supervisor of the Alaskan
Military Telegraph System of 4500 miles of land
lines, with submarine cables and wireless stations,
he has had unusual opportunities to gather data of
his own, and to weigh the information gathered by
other scientists and tourists. Hence there is an
accuracy in his details about the resources, products,
and attractions of Alaska, and an illuminating touch
in his descriptions of the aspects of social, industrial,
educational, commercial, political, and agricultural
life there. Twenty-seven chapters of text, eight
maps showing Alaska in relief, with views of the
timber lands, the mining districts, and the ranges of
the larger Alaskan animals, and twenty-four full-
page illustrations from unusually good photographs,
present Alaska in all its varied aspects. There is
hardly a page that will not enlighten the reader, and
there are few that will not surprise him with some
novel information. How many persons know, for
instance, that Alaska is not arctic in its climate?
The extremes of latitude and longitude in Alaska
find their parallel in Europe between Norway and
Sicily and from western France to central Russia.
It is interesting to note, too, that the coldest month
of the year at Sitka (31.4 degrees) closely corre-
ponds with the coldest month of St. Louis (31.6
degrees). But it has not always been so. "The
rigors of the past climate are strikingly illustrated
by the great depths to which the ground is frozen.
In the Nome region a shaft has been sunk 120 feet
without reaching ground free from frost, and near
Dawson the earth was found frozen to a depth of
200 feet." General Greely has performed a task,
in writing this handbook, that will be of great ser-
vice to tourists and prospectors, and will do much to
remove our general ignorance about Alaska.
Miss Elizabeth Bisland and Miss Anne Hoyt,
masquerading as "Jane " and " Peripatetica," went
to Sicily as seekers for the dead body of a great
civilization, using their Theocritus oftener than their
Baedeker, and waiting in the cold springtime for the
coming of Persephone ''laden with leaves and flowers
and the waving corn." Every step they took stirred
up wraiths of myths and history, and reminded them
of Proteus rising from the sea, and of old Triton
blowing his wreathed horn. The theatrical scenery
of Taormina, the bones and stones of Syracuse, the
temples of ancient Girgenti, "the nicest place" in
Sicily, and the land of Goethe's "das Land, wo die
Citronen bltth'n," Palermo, were visited in turn,—
not in the Cook-dug channel manner, but in the
leisurely fashion that befits the well-read and curi-
ously inclined traveller. In many places in their
charming book, "Seekers in Sicily," the authors
strike the true Pagan note, though they are not
always inclined to believe all they see and hear.
The ear of Dionysius, for instance, is tested for them
by their guide in large and vibrant tones; but when
they try the "whispering ear" in flat American
tones, the echo fails. When they have proved the
power of the wonderful ear by using a staccato voice,
Peripatetica reflects, after the manner of Words-
worth, "that one has to address life like that if
one is to get a clear reply—to address it crisply,
definitely, with quick inflections. Level, flat indefin-
iteness will awake no echoes." Thus seriousness and
playfulness go together in this happy visit to the fields
of old renown, and provide a very readable book of
travel. A unique feature of the book is the designs
upon the cover and at the heads of chapters. Each
design is some tribal totem of the original inhabitants
of Sicily, which are still considered tokens of good
luck.
To readers who are inclined to associate books on
Greece with ruins, excavations, inscriptions, and
monuments, Miss Mabel Moore's volume entitled
"Days in Hellas" will be a pleasing surprise.
Miss Moore finds Greece a lively place in the midst
of ancient glory. With a kindly feeling toward
modern Greece, and a reverential respect for the
past, the author views that land with a curious com-
mingling of the ancient and the present times.
Mount Pentelcos, for instance, is seen with its
"twice-scarred brow," the one scar caused by the
emissaries of Pericles, the makers of the Parthenon,
and the other scar made by "Marmor Limited,"
a modern company engaged in supplying the world
with Pentelic marble. The delineation of Greek
character leaves little to be wished for, in spite of
the modest statement in the author's preface that
"the present volume is not offered in any sense as
a study of Greek life or Greek character." Miss
Moore has satisfied us that the lay reader who enjoys
a medley of Greek life, with its gods and heroes
mixed with its modern aspects, more than he does
a treatise on archaeology, will find pleasure in this
charming book.
Mr. Edward Hutton, the author of " In Unknown
Tuscany," and his friend Mr. William Heywood
who annotated the book, are, accordingto Mr. Hutton,
very different in temperament and had very different
intentions in visiting Mont 'Aminta in Central Italy.
For Mr. Heywood, "the fact was everything; for
me it was little compared with the right expression
of what I myself felt and saw." Hence Mr. Hutton
dreams his dreams and sees his visions of the extra-
ordinary beauty of the land, while Mr. Heywood,
out of his abundant knowledge of Sienese history,
gives a base and a substance to the book by way of
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lore, villa life, feudalistic tales and fanatical fictions,
all of which abound in Tuscany — a land which few
know well and none can comprehend — appeal to
the author, who recounts his story in a style more
graceful and easeful than is usually found in books
of travel. Tuscany is a desolate land, says the
author, but it "possesses a marvellous and virile
beauty beyond almost any other part of Italy. How
well we have loved and understood the almost femi-
nine loveliness of Uinbria, for instance, or the
laughing country about Florence, the lines of the
hills there as expressive as in a picture by Sandro
Botticelli. . . . Here alone we may find, if we will,
something of the profound and passionate beauty of
Castile, the virility of the desert, the mystery and
tyranny of the sun." Of the ways of the people of
the mountains, Mr. Hutton writes in a manner that
makes the reader for the time a traveller in unknown
realms; and when the book closes with the life-
history of David Lazzaretti, the new Messiah, the
reader is prone to believe in all that has been
written of the martyr of Mont 'Aminta and to dis-
regard all the cold facts recorded by historians and
note-makers. Eight color and twenty-four monotone
illustrations afford a sympathetic undertone for the
book.
Notwithstanding Henri Beyle's statement that
•'la belle Touraine n'existe pas" that Touraine
is a mere figment of the brain (a disparagement
which can only be matched by a similar paradoxical
assertion about Yarrow by Wordsworth), Mr. Frederic
Lees and a companion found a tangible though evan-
escent Touraine that furnished an enjoyable summer
for them, and provided Mr. Lees with sufficient ma-
terial, historical, legendary, picturesque, and archi-
tectural, for his very charming book entitled "A
Summer in Touraine." Few travel books afford
more pleasant entertainment than this delightful
sketch of sojourns among the castles and chateaux of
Central France. Blood-stained Blois, royal Am boise,
treasonable Loches, Chinon, Luynes, Tours, and
stainless Chenonceaux, with its tales of Diana of
Poitiers, Mary Stuart, Gabrielle and Francoise de
Mercosur, of youth and love and poetry, are among
the many places visited and described. Even the
old story of the treasure of Montre'sor is retold in a
fascinating way. Though the author in his preface
says that the initial purpose of his book is to pro-
vide "intellectual baggage" for those who purpose
to travel in the Indre-et-Loire and the adjoining
departments of France, we cannot permit him to
classify Iiis book as a mere guide-book. Yet anyone
who wishes to read up on the splendid old buildings
of the Touraine district, and wishes to know how to
make the trip by motor-car or otherwise, will find
the volume of unusual interest and value. The fire-
side traveller too will find that Mr. Lees's account is
so accurate and vivid, and his style so pleasing, that
he can travel con amove with the author. Twelve
illustrations in color, over fourscore other illustra-
tions, and an excellent map, enhance the beauty and
usefulness of the volume.
Mr. Stephen Gwynn is well known for his several
worthy literary activities and for his keen interest
in all that pertains to Ireland. Of his own native
Donegal he has written charmingly, almost poeti-
cally; and hence one reads the title of his latest
book, "A Holiday in Connemara" with pleasurable
anticipations. As a member of the Royal Com-
mission, Mr. Gwynn went to Iar Connacht to gather
facts for a detailed statistical account of the eco-
nomic and social conditions of the most congested
part of Ireland; but he spent many hours following
the streams for fish and the byways for ancient lore.
Hence his book gives us a medley of land-lore, folk-
lore, and fishing-lore, with a dash here and there of
economic wisdom. It is not unlikely that the author
considered it unwise to write too fully of the actual
conditions of the country, as information on that
subject will be presented to Parliament in a more
prosaic form. Two salient points are made by Mr.
Gwynn, however, regarding the conditions in this
lamentably poverty-stricken district. First, remit-
tances from America chiefly suffice to keep the
inhabitants above ground ; and secondly, a sweeping
redistribution of the population must be made before
Ireland will thrive. Had Mr. Gwynn written more
chapters like those on " Killary and Loug na Fooey,"
"Sunset on Killary," "On the Shores of Lough
Mask," and '• Iorras Mor," he would have enter-
tained the reader with his truer talent — the power
of vivid description. For in this picturesque though
melancholy country the people are more picturesque
than in most parts of Ireland. The illustrations in
the book are well chosen, and typical of the land
and the people.
Another book on Ireland, dealing with the eco-
nomic rather than the picturesque features of the
country, is given us by Mr. William Eleroy Curtis,
the well-known traveller and correspondent. In the
summer of 1908 Mr. Curtis visited Ireland at the
instance of a syndicate of American newspapers to
investigate the economic evolution going on in that
land of poverty and happiness, and now publishes
the results of his observations in his book entitled
"One Irish Summer." Uidike many writers who
are called upon to deal with the dry facts of the
"dismal science" of economics, Mr. Curtis has the
faculty of making statistics and formal information
assume a not unpleasing aspect Moreover, he is so
well-informed on his subject from an historical point
of view, and has so thoroughly assimilated his
knowledge, that he is by no means dependent on
dry facts and figures to give light and warmth to
his discussions. Though the study of the redemp-
tion of the people from poverty is Mr. Curtis's pri-
mary theme, he is not amiss in studying Ireland as
a land of story and humor, of beauty and pleasure,
and of native traits and customs. His three months
in the country appear to have furnished him abund-
ant opportunity for going every where and writing
about everything likely to interest the student of
Irish affairs, or the casual trifier who lands at
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Dublin, Belfast, the Giants' Causeway, and thence
to Scotland or England. No one who has ever vis-
ited the Green Isle will be disappointed in reading
this book, and no one who contemplates a visit there
can find a better introduction to it.
H. E. Coblentz.
Recent Fiction.*
Unhappily named and ungainly in appearance,
filling nearly six hundred pages of close typography,
opening in a way that promises to tax the reader's
endurance, and concerned from beginning to end
with mean or commonplace characters, not one of
whom is tricked out with the attributes that are com-
monly thought necessary to arouse sympathy and
retain interest, "The Old Wives' Tale," by Mr.
Arnold Bennett, is nevertheless a remarkable work
of fiction, a book of such sincerity, truthfulness, and
insight as to make the ordinary novel seem hope-
lessly shallow and artificial by comparison. Coming
to us unheralded in the slack season, it proves to be
the most significant novel of the summer, and prob-
ably of a much longer period. The Staffordshire
town of Bursley, typical of the provincial life of
mid-England, is the place, and the time is the stretch
of years from the middle to the end of the nineteenth
century. The stage-setting puts before our eyes a
draper's shop in the central square of the town, and
here our attention remains fixed, save for the single
shifting of the scenery which gives us Paris for a
contrast. The proprietor of the shop is a bed-ridden
paralytic; his wife is a masterful person who directs
the business with the help of Mr. Povey, the shop-
assistant, and a dependency of ansemic virgins.
There are two daughters in the household, children
when the story opens, old women toward the close,
and it is with the history of their lives that the book
has to do. Constance, the elder, marries Mr. Povey,
and in due course, the parents having died, takes
over the management of the business, is widowed in
middle life, and left with an idolized son who is
nowise persuaded to follow in the footsteps of his
ancestors, but developes strange modern tastes and
propensities. Sophia, the younger daughter, has a
more checkered career. Unlike her meek and self-
effacing sister, she has a passionate nature that
impels her to a disastrous adventure. The cheap
charms of a commercial traveller engage her girlish
fancy; she carries on a clandestine correspondence
with him, and finally elopes. He has recently come
into a modest inheritance which seems to be bound-
•The Old Wives' Talk. By Arnold Bennett. New
York: Hodder & !S tough ton.
Open Country. A Comedy with a Sting. By Maurice
Hewlett. New York: Charles Scribner's Song.
True Tilda. By A. T. Quiller-Conch. New York:
Charles Scribner's Sons.
The End of the Road. By Stanley Portal Hyatt. New
York: D. Appleton & Co.
The White Prophet. By Hall Caine. New York:
l>. Appleton & Co.
less wealth, and the eloping couple go to London,
with Paris as their final objective. Marriage is no
part of his plan, but he is forced into it by Sophia's
obstinate refusal to go any farther than London ex-
cept with a legally constituted husband. Several
years of pleasure-seeking follow; then, on the eve
of the Franco-Prussian war, he is at the end of his
resources, and deserts his wife, who has long since
lost all her illusions. She has a long and serious
illness, through which she is nursed by a kind-hearted
creature—a woman of the half-world—whose charge
she has accidentally become. After her recovery
she undertakes the management of a pension, and
maintains it successfully during the months of the
siege and the commune. Frugality and practical
good sense — the inheritance of her stock—serve
her in this crisis; her affairs prosper, she enlarges her
operations, and when her health gives way in middle
age, she sells her hostelry to a syndicate, and finds
herself a woman of leisure with a comfortable for-
tune. All this time she has been dead to Bursley
and her family, but one day the relationship is acci-
dentally reestablished, and she goes to England to
visit her sister, also comfortably retired from busi-
ness. The visit grows into a stay, and for some
ten years the two old women share their old home.
Then Sophia learns that her husband is not dead,
but is just at the point of ending a wretched and
poverty-stricken life; she hastens to his last refuge,
and finds only his dead body. She has thought of
him only with disgust for many years, but this
shock nevertheless proves fatal. Constance, now left
alone, does not long survive, and the family is ex-
tinct, save for her son, whom the world has not taken
at his mother's appraisal, and whose colorless exist-
ence makes no appeal to our curiosity.
Such is the outline of a book which the author
describes as "a novel of life." This it is in a very
exact and human sense. Just life, real and un-
adorned, a futile affair for all concerned, is what is
portrayed in its pages. It is life viewed with micro-
scopic vision, described with absolute fidelity, dis-
torted by no trace of caricature, and commented upon,
as we pass from phase to phase, with grave, sardonic,
sometimes almost savage, irony. There is not a char-
acter in the book that is ennobled or glorified by the
devices dear to the romantic novelist; there is no
alluring heroine and no conquering hero, there is no
indulgence in empty rhetoric, and there is no appar-
ent effort to heighten either motive or situation. Yet
with all this restraint, or perhaps just because of it,
the final impression is deep and the resultant force
overwhelming. As the figures pass before our eyes,
and their lives one by one gutter out, we are made
to know them better than we know most of the human
beings of our actual acquaintance. This is true not
only of the half dozen chiefly concerned, but also of
the minor figures in almost equal degree. If we
were transported by some magic carpet to mid-
Victorian Bursley, we should have the advantage
over their neighbors in our intimate acquaintance
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stand Balzac's men and women, and the great French
novelist never shaped more authentic creations. The
coloring of this novel is by no means as drab as this
or any outline would seem to indicate. It is ani-
mated and even vivacious, for the most part cheerful
in tone and shot through with gleams of humor. Its
texture is so finely wrought that it is not to be read
by leaps and bounds without serious loss. It extends
to nearly a quarter of a million words, and few of
them are superfluous. If it be censured for defect
of ideality, it must be praised all the more for shrewd-
ness, for accuracy of observation, and for the deep
note of human sympathy which only the most care-
less of readers could miss. Moreover, although in
its essence it is impressive of the futility of the average
life, we gather this message only in our reflective
moments of semi-detachment; we do not brood over
it, any more than do the characters themselves. To
them, life is an affair of ups and downs, no doubt,
but it is also too closely packed with immediate inter-
ests to permit of their viewing it in broad perspective.
The author will probably be charged with pessimism,
but one has only to contrast his method with that of
a genuine pessimist like Mr. Thomas Hardy to realize
that the term is hardly elastic enough to cover both
cases.
The readers of Mr. Maurice Hewlett's "Halfway
House," who made theacquaintance of John Senhouse
in that charming book, will be glad to have further
intercourse with him in the pages of " Open Country."
The new book is not, however, a sequel, since its
action is placed several years earlier, and it is a little
disconcerting, with fresh memories of the romance
previously unfolded, to realize that he had previously
been entangled in the sentimental complications now
revealed. He is the same strenuous individualist and
apostle of the simple life that we learned to know
before, and he flouts conventions with the same reck-
less unconcern. The young woman in the present
case is named Sanchia, and she proves plastic stuff
for his moulding. He becomes her accepted guide,
philosopher, and friend, and she turns to him in all
her perplexities. But when he would play the lover
also, he discovers that she has put his teachings to
such practical purpose that she throws herself into
the arms of a very different sort of man, incidentally
possessed of an inconvenient wife. This does not
seem to matter seriously to the emancipated Sanchia,
and she does not even require him to save appear-
ances by obtaining the divorce that might be his for
the asking. Upon learning what the outcome of his
philosophy, thus applied, has been, Senhouse once
more devotes himself to his self-appointed task of
adorning the waste places of England with exotic
blooms. The author styles this extravagant inven-
tion "a comedy with a sting," but having consider-
ately told us, in the earlier novel of a later day, how
Senhouse found consolation, the "sting" does not
do a lasting hurt to our feelings any more than to
those of its victim. The philosophy of our individ-
ualist hero is set forth in his talks with Sanchia, and
more formally in his letters to her. It is always a
plausible philosophy, and in many respects a sound
one.. "He could pare off detail and accident so
nearly that the straight bold outline of conduct lay
plain to be seen, stretching far and ahead of her
like parallel lines of railway over swamps. To talk
with him was to be taken on to a windy height and
shown the world of men mapped out below you,
accidentals blurred away, only the salient things
sharply denned." There is more than a bitter kernel
of truth in his indictment of our boasted modern
civilization.
"If we act individually like maniacs, as I've been telling
yon we do, we act in the masses like the hosts of Midian.
Until war — to name bnt one pnblio vice — is spoken of in
the terms we now nse to reprobate drunkenness, or glnttony,
or the drug-habit, I decline to recognise that we are civilized
at all. But, so far from that, we devastate the heathen; we
exhaust ourselves in armaments; we cause the flower of our
yonth to perish for all-red maps; we still teach diplomats
to lie and politicians to cadge for votes like the street-boys
for coppers; we thieve at large, brag the great year through,
bluster, howl at other people playing games for us; lift pious
hands (to a heaven we don't believe in) at our rival's enor-
mities; we cant and vapour — out upon ns! and what for?
For two things only, Sanchia, for two things which are fatal
to real civilization—that money may be easy and that labour
may be saved."
This is the substance of Senhouse's social philosophy
—an obviously Ruskinian gospel—and his religious
notions are akin to those of Faust, piercing to the
very emotional root of the whole matter.
"Herr Doctor wurden da katechisirt,"
for Sanchia shares Margaret's curiosity upon the sub-
ject, and her questions evoke from him the lengthiest
and soberest of his epistolary confessions.
"True Tilda," by Mr. Quiller-Couch, is the story
of a girl of ten or thereabouts, a child acrobat in a
travelling show, and a boy of about the same age,
whom she rescues from an orphanage where he is
cruelly treated, and carries off with her in a search
for his lost father. The clues are of the slenderest,
and instinct rather than reason keeps them in sight,
but they lead to the right spot, which is an island in
the Bristol channel. The wanderings of the two
children constitute a veritable Odyssey, leading from
London to the western sea by canal boats, travelling
caravans, and river barges. There is a pursuer —
the Reverend Glasson of the orphanage — but he is
outwitted and outdistanced, and Tilda has the satis-
faction of uniting her protiffi with the parent who
had not known of his existence. There the story
ends, with a hint that something interesting will
happen when the children grow up. Although a
book about children, it is distinctly designed for their
elders to read, and is one of the happiest of the
author's whimsical inventions. Tilda is a constant
joy and refreshment, and her adventures make us
acquainted with a great variety of eccentric and
amusing people, figured for us as from Dickens's
own world. So much humor, entertaining adventure,
and unconventional life is Hot often packed within
a single pair of covers.
Mr. Stanley Portal Hyatt gave us last year "The
Little Brown Brother," a vigorous story of the
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with native life and character, bat unfortunately
committed to the " white man's burden " theory. In
"The End of the Road" he deals with the "big
black brothers " of South Africa, not without sym-
pathy, but from the viewpoint of one who takes it
for granted that all means are justifiable which have
for their end the replacement of an inferior by a
superior civilization. Still, the native question is not
uppermost in this new novel, for the chief struggle
is between two types of white civilization — the old
agricultural type, whether Boer or English, and the
new mining and industrial type. More briefly stated,
it is the struggle between the road and the railroad.
The hero is a transport rider, one of the pioneers
who pushed the road northward toward the Zambesi,
a man who has lived upon the road most of his life,
and who views with distrust the growth of the rail-
road and the development of the mining compound.
He is an Englishman of gentle origin, and meets his
fate when a young Englishwoman, an archaeologist's
daughter, comes across his path. He follows her
to her English home, makes her his wife, and tries
to settle down in an English country town. But the
plan does not make for happiness; the old Wander-
lust seizes upon him, and the story ends, as it began,
in South Africa, whither the wife has consented to
return. The story is well worth reading; its simple
plot is effective, and its figures and scenes have
reality.
Modern Egypt, with its complicated politics and
its cosmopolitan society, offers a tempting theme to
the novelist It was exploited a year or so ago by
Sir Gilbert Parker in "The Weavers," which make
much of its melodramatic possibilities. But for
genuine melodrama, which finds no coloring too
violent and no situation too absurd, we must award
the palm to Mr. Hall Caine, whose "White Prophet"
distances all possible competitors. This compound
of preposterous politics and sickly sentiment deals
with the career of a religious fanatic, who becomes
the leader of the forces of Egyptian nationalism,
preaches to the astonished ears of Islam a gospel of
universal brotherhood (including the fellowship of
Christians), and is defeated by treachery when just
about to realize his dream of Egypt for the Egyptians.
This fantastic narrative may be imagined as of the
past or the future, as the reader pleases. Despite
his denials, Mr. Caine has given us figures that must
be identified in part with historical characters. His
consul-general is Lord Cromer with a difference, his
"white prophet" is a new Mahdi with something of
the old in his make-up, and his other puppets fre-
quently recall men who have been connected with the
English occupation. But both characters and hap-
penings, although separately identifiable, are jumbled
in a composite grouping which is the author's own.
The probabilities are not for this sensation-monger.
His heroine is made to seek out the prophet, whom
she believes to have slain her father, and actually to
marry him that she may learn his secrets and betray
him to the government. She is to know the slayer
by a missing finger, but does not discover that the
prophet's fingers are all on his hands until after she
has been his wife for some weeks. Nor does he all
this time suspect her of being an Englishwoman!
Really, there are some limits to the credulity of the
most guileless of revellers in romantic fiction. When
the prophet's plans come to naught, and he discovers
his wife's treachery, he not only forgives her, but
divorces her in the summary Mohammedan fashion,
in order that she may rejoin her English lover. This
lover, who is the son of the consul-general, and an
army officer of high rank, has so sympathized with
the prophet as to disobey orders, assault his superior,
and flee from Cairo to escape punishment. Dis-
guised as a Bedouin sheikh, he becomes the prophet's
confidant and special emissary, and upon returning
to Cairo is taken for the prophet himself, and is
nearly executed by the order of his own father. His
identity discovered, he is courtrmartialed and sen-
tenced to death for insubordination; an appeal is
then made to the clemency of the king, who not only
pardons him, but raises him to the chief command
of the army in Egypt. At this juncture, Mr. Caine
considerately calls a halt upon his invention, and we
dose the book with a gasp.
William Morton Payne.
Briefs on New Books.
Readers of Mr. Brady's "A Mission-
"intneBoZn:' "7 in the Far West" and Bishop
Talbot's "My People of the Plains"
will enjoy reading the somewhat similar work entitled
"A Bishop in the Rough" (Dutton). John Sheep-
shanks, now the Right Reverend, the Lord Bishop
of Norwich, spent his 'prentice years in laudable
missionary work in the great Northwest of Canada,
visited the land of Brigham Young, labored in the
Sandwich Islands, in China, and elsewhere in Asia,
and kept, during the years from 1859 to 1867, a
journal, which is now edited for publication by the
Reverend D. Wallace Duthie. Both the journalist
and the editor have done