ll of interest for this reason as well as interest-
must give the author credit for earnestness and a ing in itself. Hence the latest addition to the ex-
militant spirit, although they look with forbearing cellent“Cambridge Historical Series” (Macmillan)
pity on his rather unequal combat with the armor commands attention for its theme, “ Canada, 1760-
clad knights of long-existing conclusions. The 1900,” as well as for its excellence. The author
search for novel ideas in history need go no further is Sir John G. Bourinot, a scholar and writer of
than this recent production of Mr. Brown. reputation, and probably the highest authority on
Canadian history. He first gives a sketch of the
The love-letters of eminent people French Régime, then takes up the settlement of the
of Victor Hugo.
are just now to the fore with the
several parts of the country, then the development
publishers, and the way in which
of representative institutions. This last forms a
these tender missives are being exploited as an asset most interesting story, complicated as it was with
by their thrifty custodians should be a caution to the race jealousies of French and English, religious
celebrities now living. The latter, it seems, if they differences, provincial rivalries, and the ideas and
dread this form of post-mortem publicity, will do prejudices inherited on the one side from fugitive
well either to follow the example of Mr. Barkis Loyalists from the Thirteen Colonies, and on the
when they go a-wooing, or else to see to it person- other from the French absolutism of the Old Régime.
ally that their epistolary billings and cooings are The author gives another side of the history of the
consigned to the flames before their heirs and the
American Revolution and of the War of 1812 from
public get a chance at them. We have now before
that presented by our own writers. He gives the
us a very pretty volume of nearly three hundred
Canadian view of Samuel Adams as agitator and
pages containing “ The Love Letters of Victor conspirator, and of the insufficiency and pettiness
Hugo" (Harper), to Mlle. Adèle Foucher, many or
of the causes alleged for our separation from En-
all of which have already been published in the gland; of the puerility of our management of the
magazines, where they naturally and deservedly War of 1812 ; and, in the last chapter, of Canada's
attracted much attention, both on account of the relations with the United States, in orderly survey
great name of their author, and of their singular from 1783 to 1900, boundaries, fisheries, trade, in-
charm and interest as characteristic compositions of cluding the questions now in dispute between the
their kind. In his Introduction to the volume, the countries. We give our hearty commendation of
helpful, if somewhat rapturous, editor, M. Paul the book as an interesting story of political develop-
Meurice, assures us, by way of whetting our appe ment, as casting side-lights on our own history, and
tite for the banquet to follow, that, “They evidently as a valuable reference book.
were not written to be seen by other eyes than those
of the girl he loved; he constantly entreats her to
The collecting of book-plates (qua
burn them; they are all the more valuable on that the book-plate.
book-plates) is said to have begun in
account."
The above view will hardly commend
1820 with a Miss Jenkins of Bath,
itself to a delicate sense of propriety, and seems
England. Her collection, seventeen years later,
rather at odds with a well-known convention long furnished the nucleus of what has since become
prevalent among gentlemen. But there is no doubt one of the largest in England. The literature of
that the unrestrictedly frank and self-revealing the subject began in France in 1874, and in En-
character of the letters, and their consequent value gland six years later ; and has been increased sinee
as records of the inner life of the writer, are in a then in England, France, Germany, and America,
way guaranteed by the fact that he wanted them by numerous volumes and a flood of periodical con-
kept secret; and this is perhaps what M. Meurice tributions. At the present time, the interest taken
means to imply. The letters cover a period of two in these sometimes artistic bits of paper is undoubt.
years, from 1820 to 1822. They are love-letters edly widespread and steadily increasing. To the
pure and simple, the rapturous outpourings of a periodical literature of the subject, Mr. W. G.
youth of genius who has nothing to conceal from Bowdoin has been a frequent, persistent, and pro-
his mistress, and whose pen paints with delicate
lific contributor. He is therefore well qualified to
fidelity the fluctuating emotions of the lover's heart. inform the public about book-plates, but his “ Rise
The volume is a tasteful one outwardly, and con-
of the Book-Plate” (Wessels) does not give us as
tains some interesting portraits.
much historical knowledge of the subject as we
might be led to expect, though it is precisely the
So far as our observation goes, the kind of book the collector of ex libris will find in.
A scholarly
history of Canada. average well-read citizen of the
dispensable. It contains an Introduction and a
United States the word American paper on "The Study and Arrangement of Book-
will not serve in this case - knows less of the his Plates” by Mr. Henry Blackwell, a veteran collec-
tory of our political neighbor on the North since
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Another book
collecting and in “exemplification of the art"; a triots in the northern colonies where chroniclers
page of names of American book-plate designers ; and newspapers more abounded. The author makes
a bibliography and lists of contributors to American no attempt to shield or explain away the early un-
and English book-plate literature ; and a list of popularity of the patriot cause, and the frequent
book-plate inscriptions not nearly as full as it dissensions of its constituents. As the later years
might be made without risk of becoming tiresome. of the war proper approach, and the tide of battle
The remaining pages are devoted to fac-similes of turns toward South Carolina, the author finds him-
more than two hundred German, Austrian, Belgian, self encumbered with a mass of tactical detail and
Italian, Arabic, Welsh, French, English, Canadian, campaign minutiæ which makes three-fourths of his
and American book-plates, showing the extent of book a military history. At last, after almost nine
Mr. Bowdoin's collection and the immense diversity hundred pages, he stops abruptly at the close of the
of styles employed in the production of a book- year 1780 with the statement that another volume
plate. Unfortunately, a great number of Mr. Bow. will be necessary to complete the subject. This
doin's examples suffer by being reproduced in might better have been stated clearly upon the title
miniature.
page. There is no attempt to laud unduly the
If the annual output of works on achievements of South Carolina, or detract from
“etiquette were any criterion, the those of the other States. The facts are presented
of " manners."
American carries the national quality with the directness of the lawyer. The references
of common sense into his personal behavior to a are not voluminous but are well chosen. The sub-
very slight extent. In another aspert, such a work ject matter is illustrated by a number of plans of
as Miss Emily Holt's - Encyclopædia of Etiquette" battles.
(McClure, Phillips & Co.) is an indication of the
If the Rev. John M. Bacon had
Pleasures
national longing for the best, and its sub-titles,
of ballooning.
written his book “ By Land and
“ What to Write, What to Wear, What to Do,
Sky” (Lippincott) with a view to
What to Say,” and “ A Book of Manners for Every converting his fellow-men to ballooning, he could
day Use,” are only expressions of that democracy not have manifested more enthusiasm, nor set forth
which believes itself to be as good as anybody or the joys he has experienced high above the earth
anything, and needs nothing more than the telling more eloquently. It is a book which can be read
to put it into demonstration. Yet it is manifest for pure pleasure, uncontaminated by any selfish
that any person certain of his breeding can not and few mundane considerations. It contains many
possibly require such a volume; and no less certain accounts of the fearless author's voyages in the
that a person without breeding cannot be given it clouds, in times of sun and moon, of calm and
by a library full of similar works. It must, there storm, and all of them made thrilling by the cer-
fore, be intended for that large class, like Mahomet's tainty that coming to earth is a vastly more com-
coffin in respect of heaven and earth, which is plicated and exciting business than sailing away
neither in nor out of good society — or at least is from it. There are four excellent pictures, and a
not in bad society. Every social plane has its own general avoidance of technicalities and statistics
conventions, and these are the birthright of all such as might weary the general reader. At the
born within its domain. What Miss Holt has same time there is an abundance of well-distributed
undertaken to do is to show what those people in information and pertinent observation. If any one
Europe who believe themselves to be better than is hesitating between staying on the ground or as-
the common herd do when they have money enough, cending to the skies, Mr. Bacon's book can be relied
and, by a parity of reasoning, what Americans upon to decide him in favor of ascent.
should do when they come into a fortune sufficient
If interest in an author and the
to warrant their breaking into a class of equal The latest study
wealth previously acquired. If they trust to her of Stevenson.
probable permanence of that interest
book they will not go very far wrong, and if they
may in a measure be understood
from the number of books written about him, we
do not none will discover it unless they happen to
read the same book.
may safely conclude that Robert Louis Stevenson
is fairly secure in the present and prospective re-
The reputation already established gard of the lovers of books. Within less than a
by Mr. Edward McCrady, a member twelve-month two volumes dealing with his life and
of the Charleston, South Carolina, work have come to our table, besides another some-
bar, in his two volumes on the early history of his what ambitious volume giving considerable space
State, is not likely to be diminished in his new to the discussion of his art. The latest study of
“ History of South Carolina in the Revolution” Stevenson, by Mr. H. Bellyse Baildon, is the
(Macmillan). The first part of the book is an ex work of an old schoolmate of Stevenson's, and
cellent description of the rise and growth of the therefore displays a delightfully intimate acquaint-
civil revolution in the Palmetto State. It does ance with the man in his relation to the product
justice to Drayton, Gadsden, Laurens, the Rut-
The book does not make pretense
ledges, and many others, whose work in the good to the dignity of a well-rounded biography, but
cause has long been overshadowed by that of pa it traces the development of the delicate sensitive
South Carolina
in the Revolution.
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boy into the artist with the closeness of insight
NOTES.
of a man who knew and loved his dead friend
well, and who knows and loves books. And the Mr. Frederic Harrison's Harvard address on “The
fact that they were “chums” together in an Edin. Writings of King Alfred” is now published in pamphlet
burgh school has not lessened Mr. Baildon's critical form by the Macmillan Co.
acumen and made him a blind hero-worshipper. Mr. David McKay has just published a new edition,
As severe upon Stevenson's faults as the case war prepared by the Rev. J. Loughran Scott, of Bulfinch's
rants, he does not stop with the criticism of them, ever-popular “ Age of Chivalry."
but goes on to a discussion of them as a part of the “ Edward Carpenter, Poet and Prophet,” is the title
strangely rich and complex personality of the au-
of a pamphlet by Mr. Ernest Crosby, just published at
the office of the Philadelphia “ Conservator."
thor. The especial merit of the book, aside from
the engaging ease of the style, is perhaps the care-
“ A Reading Book in Irish History,” by Dr. P. W.
Joyce, is a publication of Messrs. Longmans, Green, &
ful and penetrating sureness of this analysis. All
Co. It is written for children in and out of school.
in all, the volume is illuminating and helpful, and
Don Antonio Gil y Zárate's play of “Guzmán el
certainly it is enjoyable. The bibliography at the
Bueno," edited by Dr. Sylvester Primer, is a modern
end contains a long list of books and articles about
language text just published by Messrs. Ginn & Co.
Stevenson, but there should be place for this one A revised and enlarged edition for 1901 of “Lee's
also. (Wessels.)
Automobile Annual,” the standard reference work on
the subject, has just been issued by Messrs. Laird & Lee.
« Stevensoniana” still come from time to time to our
BRIEFER MENTION.
desk. The latest volume, of varied contents, both textual
and pictorial, is published by Mr. M. F. Mansfield at
A delightful little book in a number of ways is the the Bankside Press.
recent reprint of James Puckle’s “The Club; or, a Grey
Miss Lucy Maynard Salmon's "Domestic Service"
Cap for a Green Head,” issued in this country by has gone into a second edition, to which bas been added
Messrs. Truslove, Hanson & Comba. To the book
a chapter on domestic service in Europe. The Mac-
itself, an eighteenth-century collection of "moral max-
millan Co. are the publishers.
ims,” little more than an antiquarian interest attaches.
The chief concern of the book-lover of to-day with
An intimate study of the life and writings of Ralph
Puckle's “Club” lies in the series of designs made for
Waldo Emerson, by Mr. John Albee, will be published
the edition of 1817 by James Thurston, and cut on
at once by Robert G. Cooke of New York, under the
title “ Remembrances of Emerson."
wood by some of the foremost engravers of the time.
An Introduction to the Industrial and Social His-
These beautiful examples of an art now almost extinct
are carefully reproduced in the present reprint, and
tory of England,” by Professor Edward P. Cheyney, is
together with Mr. Austin Dobson's sparklir.g introduc-
published by the Macmillan Co. It is intended for use
tion' and the handsome typography of the Chiswick
text-book in secondary schools and colleges.
Press make it a volume to be coveted.
The Princeton Press send us an edition of “The
The great literary activity of the Rev. Sabine Baring-
Elegies of Maximianus," prepared by Mr. Richard
Gould is bound to show itself in carelessness of style
Webster, and containing, besides a newly-collated text,
and negligence in presenting facts. His “Virgin Saints
an introduction and an elaborate critical commentary.
and Martyrs" (Crowell) shows these unpleasant quali-
“ The Christian in Hungarian Romance," being a
ties, quite as much as the wide and curious erudition
study of Dr. Maurus Jokai's novel “ There is a God;
which is the author's. The main part of the book is
or, The People Who Love but Once," by Mr. John
drawn from the sixteen-volume “Lives of the Saints"
Fretwell, is announced for immediate publication by
which was completed in 1898, with the later
the James H. West Co. of Boston.
de-
pages
voted to that self-sacrificing English woman, Dorothy
“ Beowulf” and “The Fight at Finnsburg,” trans-
Wyndlow Pattison, to whom Mr. Baring-Gould accords lated into English by Dr. John R. Clark Hall, and
the honors of beatification or sanctification on his own provided with much critical and explanatory apparatus
initiative, under the name of Sister Dora. Many illus (pictures included), is a recent English publication
trations embellish the present book, most of them ex supplied in this country by the Macmillan Co.
cellent wood-cuts after famous paintings.
“Selections from the Poetry of Alexander Pope,”
The following German and French text-books are
edited by Dr. Edward Bliss Reed, and Burke's “Speech
the latest to appear upon our table: Freytag's “Soll on Conciliation with America,” edited by Mr. Daniel V.
und Haben" (Heath), greatly condensed, and edited Thompson, are the latest additions to the series of
by Dr. George T. Files; Herr von Wildenbruch's “English Readings" published by Messrs. Henry Holt
“ Harold” (Heath), edited by Dr. Charles A. Eggert;
& Co.
Storm's “Immensee" (Ann Arbor: Geo. Wahr), edited An important collection of English books and pictures
by Messrs. Hildner and Diekhoff; Schiller's “Wallen will be sold at auction by Williams, Barker & Severn
stein” (Macmillan), edited by Dr. Max Winkler; Co., Chicago, on the 20th and 21st of this month. The
“Constructive Process for Learning German” (Jenk-
sale includes a number of rare first editions of Dickens,
ins), by Dr. Adolphe Dreyspring; “Ceur de Noël” Thackeray, Scott, Tennyson, Carlyle, and other English
(San Francisco: Robertson), by Sig. L. D. Ventura; authors.
« Le Tour de la France par Deux Enfants" (Heath), In view of the approaching Alfred the Great millen-
by M. G. Bruno, edited by Dr. C. Fontaine; and “The nial celebration, the two latest additions to the Old
French Subjunctive Mood” (Heath), by Mr. Charles C. South Leaflets are particularly timely and interesting,
Clarke, Jr.
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the first chapter in King Alfred's translation of Orosius,
and the account of Augustine in England taken from
Alfred's version of the Venerable Bede's Ecclesiastical
History of the English Nation.
Messrs. Cassell & Co. publish an “Encyclopedia of
the Game of Whist,” by Sir William Cusack-Smith.
It is a booklet of vest pocket size, and the topics are
arranged alphabetically. Its doctrine is modern and
commendable, save for the author's unaccountable preju-
dice against the “call for trumps" and the “echo."
The Cambridge University Press has just published,
and sent to us through the Messrs. Macmillan, two
small books, one of which contains Professor R. C.
Jebb's brilliant Cambridge lecture of last summer on
Macaulay, and the other of which contains “Two
Lectures Introductory to the Study of Poetry,” by the
Rev. H. C. Beeching.
“ The Romance Cycle of Charlemagne and His
Peers," by Miss Jessie L. Weston, is No. 10 in Mr.
David Nutt's pamphlet series of “ Popular Studies in
Mythology, Romance, and Folklore." Another series,
just started by Mr. Nutt, is entitled “The Ancient
East," and has for its first issue “ The Realms of the
Egyptian Dead,” by Dr. K. A. Wiedemann.
An important arrangement has just been completed
whereby George M. Hill Company of Chicago become
for a term of years the sole publishers of Webster's
“Unabridged Dictionary,” the copyright of which is
owned by G. & C. Merriam Company, the original pub-
lishers. A heavy reduction in the price of the work is
one of the innovations contemplated.
The series of “Masters in Art," published by the
Bates & Guild Co. of Boston, represents an excellent
idea intelligently carried out. Each of the monthly
issues is devoted to one of the world's great painters or
sculptors. The contents comprise ten reproductions in
half-tone of the artist's most representative productions,
an accurate short account of his life, opinions on his
work selected from the world's best critics, and a bib-
liography and list of paintings. The illustrations are
wonderfully good examples of the half-tone process,
and the entire make-up of the little magazine is artistic
and attractive.
Mr. Francis P. Harper sends us “The Literary Year-
book and Bookman's Directory for 1901,” edited by
Mr. Herbert Morrah. This is an English work, and,
as such, does not appeal directly to the interests of
American readers. It contains, bowever, much matter
of general interest, and will not be found without its
use for reference in this country. A portrait of the
late Bishop of London is given for a frontispiece, and
the text includes a directory of authors, another of
publishers, still another of booksellers, and much mis-
cellaneous matter upon such subjects as copyright,
periodicals, the drama, and literary societies.
A “ History of the Christian Religion to the Year
Two Hundred,” by Judge Charles B. Waite of Chicago,
is a work first published about twenty years ago.
It
has gone through several editions, and the one now be-
fore us (the fifth) has had the benefit of a complete
revision, owing to the fact that the original plates were
destroyed, which made it possible to rewrite the work
much more thoroughly than would otherwise bave been
the case.
The work has had a considerable popular
vogue, but the author's critical equipment does not
seem to be altogether adequate to his task. Messrs.
C. V. Waite & Co., Chicago, are the publishers.
TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS.
May, 1901.
Aguinaldo's Capture. Marrion Wilcox, Forum.
Alexander the Great, A Recovered City of. Century.
Antoine and the Théâtre Libre. A. F. Herold. International.
Arcady, Overheard in. Charles C. Abbott. Lippincott.
Art as Handmaid of Literature. W. H. Hobbs. Forum.
Art, Japanese, History of. John La Farge. International.
Art, Roman, Native Vigor of. F. M. Day. International.
Asia, Russia's Conquest of. J. K. Mumford. World's Work.
Athletics, Modern, Negative side of. Arlo Bates. Forum.
Austria-Hungary, Political Status of. S. Brooks. W. Work.
Author and Publisher. Mary B. Mullet. World's Work.
Author as Printer Sees him. J. H. McFarland. W. Work.
Bonds, Foreign, as Am. Investments. T. S. Woolsey. Forum.
Borneo, Wild Mountain Tribes of. H. M. Hiller. Harper.
Bryanism and Jeffersonian Democracy. A. Watkins. Forum.
China, A Missionary Journey in. Fanny Hays. Century.
Chinese Traits, Some. Charles Denby. Forum.
Colonies, Lesson in Government of. R. T. Hill. Century.
Consolidations, Industrial and Railroad. North American.
Consuls, Our, and Our Trade. F. Emory. World's Work.
Creighton, Mandell. Edmund Gosse. Atlantic.
Criticism, German, Richard M. Meyer. International.
Cuban Problem, Solution of the. 0. H. Platt. World's Work.
Davis, Cushman K. S. H. Church. Century.
Deer, The. W. D. Hulbert. McClure.
De Wet, General Christian. Thom F. Millard. Scribner.
Diaz and his Successor. J. D. Whelpley. World's Work.
Dietetics, Modern, Principles of. C. von Noorden. Internat'l.
Dinners in Bohemia and Elsewhere. J. P. Bocock. No. Amer.
Dragon's Grip, In the. Frederick Poole. Lippincott.
Dramatic Season, Events of. Gustav Kobbé. Forum.
Dreyfus, Captain, Leaves from Autobiography of. McClure.
English, Teaching of. Albert S. Cook. Atlantic.
English, Teaching of. Minna C. Clark. Educational Review.
Funston, General. James H. Canfield. Review of Reviews.
Geography, Organization of. R. N. Dodge. Educ'l Review.
Hale, Edward Everett. George P. Morris. Rev. of Reviews.
Hallucinations. Andrew Wilson. Harper.
Hamlet, An Old Hampshire. Anna L. Merritt. Century.
Harrison, Frederic, in America. Review of Reviews.
Hawaii. John La Farge. Scribner.
Hill, James J. Mary C. Blossom. World's Work.
India and the Colonies. Alleyne Ireland. No. American.
Iowa Farmers, With. W. A. Wyckoff. Scribner.
Iron and Steel Industry. H. F. J. Porter. International.
Japan, Navy of. S. E. Moffett. Review of Reviews.
Jews and Judaism in 19th Century. M. Gasler. No. Amer.
Kean, Mr. and Mrs. Charles. Clara Morris. McClure.
Ku Klux Movement, The. W. G. Brown. Atlantic.
Labor in South, New Class of. Leonora Ellis. Forum.
Library Development, Latest Stage of. E. I. Antrim. Forum.
London, How It Was Saved. John Martin. Forum.
Loubet, Emile. Pierre de Coubertin. Century.
Manchuria, Russians in. Prince Kropotkin. Forum.
Missionaries and their Critics. Judson Smith. No, American.
Moosilauke. Bradford Torrey. Atlantic.
Municipal Government in U.S. John Ford. No. American.
Naples, Breakfast in. Mary Uda-Scott. Century.
Negro and our New Possessions. W. S. Scarborough. Forum.
Niagara, The New. Rollin L. Hartt. McClure.
Orient, Out-of-the-Way Places in the. Century.
Parent, The Spoiled. Wilbur Larremore. Forum.
Paris Quais, Along the. Stoddard Dewey. Century.
Poetic Drama, The New. W. D..Howells. No. American.
Poetry, American, Distinction of. Josephine Daskam. Atlan.
Portraits, My. J. J. Benjamin-Constant. Harper.
Prose Style, American. J. D. Logan. Atlantic.
Prosperity Sharing. R. E. Phillips. World's Work.
Public Library and Public School. Geo. Iles. World's Work.
Railway Car Lighting. G. D. Shepardson. Forum.
Religion, Science of. F. B. Jevons. International.
Renaissance, Women of the. B. W. Wells. International.
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Russia, Present Crisis in. Prince Kropotkin, No. American.
Rural Independence, Actual. W. E. Andrews. World's Wk.
Russia's Readiness for War. Chas. Johnston. Rev. of Rev.
Saloons. Robert A. Stevenson. Scribner.
Scholarship, American, Challenge to. Marrion Wilcox. Harp.
Scholarship, Productive, in America. Hugo Münsterberg. Atl.
Schools, Secondary, Inspection of. M. E. Sadler. Educ'l Rev.
Schools, The People and the. Educational Review.
Science and the People. E. Renan. North American.
Sheep and the Forests. Earley V. Wilcox. Forum.
Southern Mountaineer, The. John Fox, Jr. Scribner.
St. Pierre-Miquelon. James C. Hyde. Scribner.
Steel Trust on Great Lakes. W. F. McClure. Rev. of Rev.
Superstitions, Every-Day. Charles M. Skinner. Lippincott.
Waterfalls and their Uses. Theodore Waters. World's Wk.
Wheats, Breeding New. W. D. Harfoot. World's Work.
LIST OF NEW BOOKS.
[The following list, containing 138 titles, includes books
received by THE DIAL since its last issue.]
BIOGRAPHY AND REMINISCENCES.
Five Years of My Life, 1894–1899. By Alfred Dreyfus.
Illus., 12mo, uncut, pp. 310. McClure, Phillips & Co.
$1.50.
A Sailor's Log: Recollections of Forty Years of Naval Life.
By Robley D. Evans, Rear-Admiral, U.S.N. Illus., 8vo,
uncut, pp. 467. D. Appleton & Co. $2.
Shakespeare's Family: Being a Record of the Ancestors
and Descendants of William Shakespeare, with some Ac-
count of the Ardens. By Mrs. C. C. Stopes. Illus, in
photogravure, etc., large 8vo, uncut, pp. 257. James Pott
& Co. $3.25 net.
A Book of Remembrance. By Mrs. E. D. Gillespie. Illus.,
8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 393. J. B. Lippincott Co. $2.50 net.
Empresses of France. By H. A. Guerber. Illus., 8vo,
gilt top, pp. 416 Dodd, Mead & Co. $2.50.
Riverside Biographical Series. New volumes : Ulysses
S. Grant, by Walter Allen; John Marshall, by James B.
Thayer; Lewis and Clark, by William R. Lighton. Each
with photogravure portrait, 18mo, gilt top. Houghton,
Mifflin & Co. Per vol., 75 cts.
HISTORY.
The Spanish People: Their Origin, Growth, and Influence.
By Martin A. S. Hume. 12mo, pp. 535. “The Great
Peoples.” D. Appleton & Co. $1.50.
GENERAL LITERATURE.
The Love Letters of Bismarck: Being Letters to his
Fiancée and Wife, 1846–1889. Authorized by Prince Her-
bert von Bismarck, and trans. from the German under
the supervision of Charlton T. Lewis. With portraits,
8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 428. Harper & Brothers. $3.
War's Brighter Side: The Story of “The Friend” Newg-
paper, Edited by the Correspondents with Lord Roberts's
Forces, March-April, 1900. By Julian Ralph and others.
Illus., 12mo, pp. 471. D. Appleton & Co. $1.50.
The Study of Poetry: Two Lectures. By Rev. H. C.
Beeching, M.A. 12mo, uncut, pp. 57. Macmillan Co.
60 cts. net.
Macaulay: A Lecture. By Sir Richard C. Jebb, M. P.
12mo, uncut, pp. 59. Macmillan Co. 60 cts. net.
Beowulf and The Fight at Finnsburg: A Translation into
Modern English Prose. By John R. Clark Hall, M.A.
Illus., 12mo, pp. 203. Macmillan Co. $1.50 net.
The World's Work: A History of Our Time. Vol. I.,
November, 1900 — April, 1901. Illus., 4to, pp. 676. Double-
day, Page & Co. $2.10.
Stevensoniana: A Reprint of Various Literary and Pictor-
ial Miscellany Associated with Robert Louis Stevenson,
the Man and his Work. Illus., 12mo, gilt top, uncut,
pp. 94. M. F. Mansfield & Co. $1.50.
American Orators and Oratory: Lectures Delivered at
Western Reserve University. By Thomas Wentworth
Higginson. With portrait, 12mo, uncut, pp. 91. Cleve-
land: The Imperial Press. $1.50.
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root of the evil sought to be combated. The
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PRESCIENT PHILANTHROPY.
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Judson
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NOTES
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applied, deserves generous responsive recog the growing generation. The gifts of such men
nition. But the clear-sighted lover of his as Mr. Carnegie, Mr. Rockefeller, and Mr.
fellows will, on the whole, welcome a new Pearsons are wisely conditioned upon the rais-
educational foundation, or any other new en. ing of large additional sums from other sources.
dowment that tends to minister to the spiritual Dollar for dollar is the rule with these men,
rather than the physical needs of men, with a or, as in the case of Mr. Carnegie's library
gratitude more unreserved than that with which benefactions, public provision of ten per cent
he can welcome the more common manifesta- annually upon the original gift. This is an
tions of the philanthropic spirit. The one is admirable plan, for it doubles, or more than
sure to remain a blessing for all time to come ; doubles, the power of the giver for good, while
the other may quite possibly, and in the long it also attaches to the acceptance of an endow-
run, accentuate the very sort of distress which ment a certain measure of responsibility which
it seeks to relieve. However admirable may cannot fail to bring forth fruit in careful ad-
be the philanthropy that vents itself upon ministration and widespread interest in the
hunger, and nakedness, and disease, it is a still institutions concerned. This responsibility
more admirable philanthropy that concerns sometimes assumes such proportions — as in
itself with the future of the race, and that has the case of Mr. Carnegie's munificent endow-
for its aim the intellectual and ethical advance ment of the Scotch universities — that the gift
ment of the coming generations.
is viewed askance, and accepted with a grudg-
This prescient form of philanthropy is com ing sort of gratitude. It is very amusing to
ing to be far more characteristic of large givers read some of the English and Scotch comment
than it has been in the past, and the fact is a upon this superb benefaction. We are told
cause for congratulation. It seems as though
It seems as though that university tuition without the means of
wealthy men were just beginning to realize the subsistence is a mockery, and the influx of
possibilities for good in the endowment of edu- large numbers of students will compel the
cation and scientific research, of literature and Scotch universities to enlarge their teaching
art. In the field of education alone, the op- facilities at the public charge. It does not
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are practically unlimited. The resources of the gift is to stimulate private endeavor in
public taxation can never be really adequate sending young men to the universities, and
for the work of public education. Speaking public endeavor in enlarging the universities
in Chicago a year or two ago, President Eliot in accordance with the highest conception of
referred to the public schools of the city, with national duty. To carp at such a gift on the
their two hundred and fifty thousand pupils, ground of the responsibilities which it entails
and said that they should have a teacher for is an act unworthy of a high-spirited people.
every ten children, or fifty thousand teachers Such protestants should remain silent for very
in place of the five thousand that they actually shame, and seek rather, by every means in their
do have. The suggestion was a startling one, power, to encourage the nation to rise to the
yet not unreasonable. Obviously, this amount height of this great occasion.
of teaching can never be provided by the tax-
payers, and thus there is almost unlimited scope
for private philanthropic activity in connection The Historical Manuscript Commission, appointed a
with the public schools alone. The endowment few years since by the American Historical Association,
has called fresh attention to its labors of love in its
of technical and university education has been
fourth report, being a collection of some five hundred
unprecedently generous during the past score letters written by John C. Calhoun, and over two hun-
of years, yet all that has been done in this dred letters written to him. These letters were col-
direction should be considered but an earnest lected by the Commission from all parts of the Union,
of what and must be done in the future.
the search occupying several years. They embrace
may
both public and private correspondence, showing the
There is no other form of investment that pays
great Carolinian both as a statesman and as a family
such dividends as an educational institution or
The volume, issued by the Smithsonian Institu-
system - social dividends of intelligence and tion as a government publication, at last makes Calhoun
civic usefulness and heightened public morality.
as well known as Franklin, Washington, John Adams,
and John Quincy Adams, and others have been known
A form of educational philanthropy that is
by their collected correspondence. No attempt has been
coming more and more into vogue of late is
made to conceal anything, or to emendate or edit, and
that which stimulates reluctant givers to co very wisely, the editor has refrained from comments.
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accomplishment, or apply to him the language
The New Books.
that must properly be reserved for poets whose
work has stood the test of time and remained
uncorroded by it. But we are going to say-
THE POETRY OF MR. MOODY.*
and by our exhibits seek to prove — that no
Every two or three years, from some quarter other new poet of the past score of years, either
of the critical horizon, there issue trumpetings in America or in England, has displayed a
of praise which herald the advent of a new
finer promise upon the occasion of his first
singer of songs. A bright star bas swum into
appearance, or has been deserving of more
the ken of some watcher upon the battlements, respectful consideration. There is no reason,
and the discovery is proclaimed to the world
for example, why his work should attract less
with much pomp of rhetorical eulogy. The
attention than has been given of late to the
number of new poets who have thus been dis-
work of Mr. Stephen Phillips, and we make
covered during the past quarter-century is
not the slightest doubt that, had his work been
considerable, but most of them have shared
the product of an Englishman, its author would
the fate of the novæ known to astronomers, and have been accorded the resounding praise that
their magnitude has rapidly become dimmed.
has been accorded to the author of “ Marpessa
We have often envied the enthusiasm that
and “ Paolo and Francesca.” We wish to say,
could find so much to praise in these new inter furthermore, that we have not for many years
preters of nature and human life, but have felt
been so strongly tempted to cast aside critical
ourselves sorrowfully compelled to stand out-
restraints and indulge in “the noble pleasure
side the chorus, and to mar its harmonies by of praising,” after the fashion, let us say, of
the injection of certain discordant notes of
the late Mr. Hutton when dealing with the
caution and temperate restraint. A book of poetry of Mr. William Watson. Nor do we
poetry must exhibit very great qualities indeed hesitate to add that, with the possible exception
to constitute an event in literature, or to set of what has been done by Professor Wood-
its writer among the enduring poets of bis age. berry, no such note of high and serious song
In the memory of men now in their middle or
has been sounded in our recent American
advancing years there have been only two such
poetry as is now sounded in “The Masque of
events in English poetry — the appearance of Judgment ” and the “ Poems” of Mr. Moody.
Mr. Swinburne's “ Poems and Ballads” in
“ The Masque of Judgment" is a work that
1866 and of the “ Poems ” of Rossetti in 1870.
labors under extraordinary difficulties. The
Tested by these touchstones, “The Love Son-
form itself is one that a writer must be greatly
nets of Proteus” and “ The City of Dreadful daring to attempt, and the substance is of a
Night,” the books of Mr. Watson and Mr.
sort that heightens the difficulties of the form.
Kipling and Mr. Phillips, have been phenom-
Like the epics of Dante and Milton, it is con-
ena of only secondary significance. Yet the cerned with no less a theme than the cosmog-
writers of all these books, and other writers as
ony; like “Faust,” it sets speech upon the
well, have been hailed as new luminaries of lips of archangels ; like the “ Prometheus Un-
the first rank, have been praised in terms that
bound," it personifies the creations of mythol-
one would hesitate to apply to Arnold or Ten-
ogy. It might more fittingly be styled a
nyson, and have been made, as far as indis- Mystery than a Masque, but it cannot take an
criminate eulogy could make them, the literary
easy refuge in the naivetés of mediævalism,
fashion of their respective hours. Praiseworthy for it is no imitative exercise in archaism, but
they doubtless are, but not worthy of the sort
a poem conceived in the spirit of modern
of praise that has been injudiciously bestowed philosophy. So true is this that we are im-
upon them to the confusion of all absolute | pelled to provide it with texts from the writings
values.
of the philosophers. Professor Royce says:
In making the following somewhat extended “It is the fate of life to be restless, capricious,
comment upon the poetical work of Mr.
and therefore tragic. Happiness comes, in-
William Vaughn Moody, we are not going to deed, but by all sorts of accidents; and it flies
say that he is a poet of the highest kind of
as it comes. One thing only that is greater
* THE MASQUE OF JUDGMENT. A Masque-Drama in Five
than this fate endures in us if we are wise of
Acts and a Prelude. By William Vaughn Moody. Boston: heart; and this one thing endures forever in
Small, Maynard & Co.
Poems. By William Vaughn Moody. Boston: Houghton,
the heart of the great World-Spirit of whose
Mifflin & Co.
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This one thing, as I hold, is the eternal resolu "A whisper grows, various from tongue to tongue,
tion that if the world will be tragic, it shall
That so He will attempt. Those who consent
To render up their clamorous wills to Him,
still, in Satan's despite, be spiritual. And this To merge their fretful being in His peace
resolution is, I think, the very essence of the He will accept: the rest He will destroy."
Spirit's own eternal joy." And Professor
And Professor In the fulness of time, the Day of Judgment
James, writing in much the same spirit, says: dawns, and “God's vengeance is full wrought”
“God himself, in short, may draw vital strength upon the wicked. The following wonderful
and increase of very being from our fidelity. lyric is sung by the redeemed spirits on their
For my own part, I do not know what the upward flight:
sweat and blood and tragedy of this life mean,
“In the wilds of life astray,
if they mean anything short of this.” On the
Held far from our delight,
lips of Mr. Moody's Raphael, the archangelic
Following the cloud by day
And the fire by night,
lover of mankind, this philosophy is given
Came we a desert way.
melodious utterance.
O Lord, with apples feed us,
With flagons stay!
“Darkly, but oh, for good, for good,
By Thy still waters lead us !
The spirit ipfinite
Was throned upon the perishable blood;
“As bird torn from the breast
To moan and to be abject at the neap,
Of mother-cherishings,
To ride portentous on the shrieking scud
Far from the swaying nest
Of the aroused flood,
Dies for the mother wings,
And halcyon hours to preen and prate in the boon
So did the birth-hour wrest
Tropical afternoon.
From Thy sweet will and word
Our souls distressed.
"Not in vain, not in vain,
Open Thy breast, thou 'Bird !"
The spirit hath its sanguine stain,
And from its senges five doth peer
Yet Raphael, who alone of the celestial hosts
As a fawn from the green windows of a wood;
Slave of the panic woodland fear,
has understood the heart of man, and whose
Boon-fellow in the game of blood and lust
imagination has foreshadowed the consequences
That fills with tragic mirth the woodland year; of his destruction, remains disconsolate.
Searched with starry agonies
Through the breast and through the reins,
“Never again I never again for me!
Maddened and led by lone moon-wandering cries.
Never again the lily souls that live
Dust unto dust complains,
Along the margin of the streams, shall grow
Dust laugheth out to dust,
More candid at my coming. Never more
Sod unto sod moves fellowship,
God's birds above the bearers of the Ark
And the soul utters, as she must,
Shall make a wood of implicated wings,
Her meanings with a loose and carnal lip;
Swept by the wind of slow ecstatic song.
But deep in her ambiguous eyes
Thy youths shall hold their summer cenacles ;
Forevor shine and slip
I am not of their fellowship, it seems.
Quenchless expectancies,
God's ancient peace shall feed them, as it feeds
And in a far-off day she seems to put her trust."
These yet uplifted hills. I would I knew
Where bubbled that insistent spring. To drink
Again, and in still clearer language, the arch Deep, and forget what I have seen to-day."
angel declares the glory of man's passionate
self-contradictions:
But the destruction of mankind is only the
“I have walked
beginning of the Tragedy. When that awful
The rings of planets where strange-colored moons fiat went forth, God likewise accomplished His
Hung thick as dew, in ocean orchards feared
own doom. To be dethroned and destroyed by
The glaucous tremble of the living boughs
Whose fruit hath life and purpose ; but nowhere
the forces of His own creation is the fate that
Found any law but this: Passion is power,
awaits Him, as it awaited the God of Scandi-
And, kindly tempered, saves. All things declare
navian myth in the day of Ragnarök, as it
Struggle hath deeper peace than sleep can bring :
The restlessness that put creation forth
awaited the God of Greek myth in Shelley's
Impure and violent, held holier calm
treatment of the tale of Prometheus. The
Than that Nirvana whence it wakened Him."
instrument of His undoing is the Worm that
Thus the way is prepared for the Divine Dieth not, His own monstrous miscreation,
Tragedy. God, having created the race of who, having swept mankind from the face of
men, and having sought to save man from him earth at the behest of his Creator, mounts up-
self by the mystery of the Incarnation, deter ward to commit violent assault upon the hosts
mines at last to destroy the impious brood. of Heaven.
“What if they rendered up their wills to His ?
“He mounts!
Hushed and subdued their personality ?
He lays his length upward the visioned hills,
Became as members of the living tree?"
The inviolable fundaments of Heaven!
There where he climbs the kindled slopes grow pale,
To Raphael, thus musing, the Angel of the
Ashen the amethystine dells, and dim
Pale Horse makes reply:
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The closing scene between the Spirits of the We have endeavored to give, in the preced-
Lamps about the Throne, who have fled in ing analysis, some idea of the fashion in which
terror from the terrific struggle, and the Arch Mr. Moody has dealt with his grandiose con-
angels Raphael and Uriel, rises to a height of ception of the Creation, the Christian Mystery,
imaginative sublimity that leaves us fairly and the Judgment. He has shown it possible
stricken with awe.
to make in our own day a very noble poem, as
“URIEL (approaching).
Milton did, out of the Biblical Mythology, and
The dream is done! Petal by petal falls
as Shelley did, out of the most subtle spiritual
The coronal of creatured bloom God wove
symbolism. The poem is not without minor
To deck His brows at dawn.
faults, and criticism of the microscopic sort
RAPHAEL.
No hope remains ?
might easily detect flaws here and there, words
inaccurately used or inadequate as vehicles of
URIEL,
To save Him from Himself not cherubim
their intention, forced imagery and moments
Nor seraphim avail. Who loves not life
of flagging imagination. We are content to
Receiveth not life's gifts at any hand.
leave to others this thankless task, feeling that
the superb merits of the work make its occas-
RAPHAEL.
ional crudities quite insignificant. We have
Would He had dared
To nerve each member of His mighty frame -
quoted many of its finest passages, but have
Man, beast, and tree, and all the shapes of will reserved for the last the finest of them all
That dream their darling ends in clod and star
To everlasting conflict, wringing peace
this glorious apostrophe to mankind :
From struggle, and from struggle peace again,
“O Dreamer! O Desirer! Goer down
Higher and sweeter and more passionate
Unto untravelled seas in untried ships !
With every danger passed! Would He had spared
O crusher of the unimagined grape
That dark Antagonist whose enmity
On unconceived lips !
Gave Him rejoicing sinews, for of Him
O player upon a lordly instrument
His foe was flesh of flesh and bone of bone,
No man or god hath had in mind to invent;
With suicidal hand He smote him down,
O cunning how to shape
And now indeed His lethal pangs begin.
Effulgent Heaven and scoop out bitter Hell
From the little shine and saltness of a tear;
FIRST LAMP (to Uriel).
Sieger and harrier,
Brother, what lies beyond this trouble ? Death?
Beyond the moon, of thine own builded town,
URIEL
Each morning won, each eve impregnable,
All live in Him, with Him shall all things die.
Each noon evanished sheer!”
SECOND LAMP.
We should not know where in recent poetry to
And the snake reign, coiled on the holy hill ?
look for the match to this melodious and sym-
URIEL,
pathetic portrayal of “life's wild and various
Sorrow dies with the heart it feeds upon.
bloom” of passion and aspiration, of alter-
RAPHAEL.
nating defeat and victory, of the commingling
Look, where the red volcano of the fight
Hath burst, and down the violated hills
of sense and spirit that makes of our existence
Pours ruin and repulse, a thousand streams
80 confused a web of self-contradictions, yet
Choked with the pomp and furniture of Heaven. somehow suggests a harmony of design that
In vain the Lion ramps against the tide,
In vain from slope to slope the giant Wraths
must be apparent to the transcendental vision.
Rally but to be broken, Dwindling dim
It is clear that the poet of “ The Masque of
Across the blackened pampas of the wind
Judgment” is no partisan of the ascetic ideal.
The routed Horses flee with hoof and wing,
Till their trine light is one, and now is quenched. 3
His plea is for the richness of life, for the
URIEL.
legitimate claims of sense no less than of
The spirits fugitive from Heaven's brink
spirit, for the working out of one's salvation
Put off their substance of ethereal fire
by means that leave no human instinct athirst.
And mourn phantasmal on the phantom Alps.
Nor is his ideal one for the few favored by
FOURTH LAMP.
nature or circumstance; it is rather the all-
Mourn, sisters! For our light is fading too.
Thou of the topaz heart, thou of the jade,
embracing expression of a fine trust in the
And thou sweet trembling opal — ye are grown
whole of human nature. This democratic out-
Grey things, and aged as God's sorrowing eyes. look, which is somewhat obscured by the sym-
FIRST LAMP.
bolism demanded for the dramatic work we
My wick burns blue and dim.
have just had under discussion, is given a more
SECOND LAMP.
definite expression in the volume of the
My oil is spent.
“ Poems,” to which we now turn. We find it
RAPHAEL.
The moon smoulders; and naked from their seats
in “Gloucester Moors," with which the book
The stars arise with lifted hands, and wait."
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to a ship bound with its freight of souls for desertion of the principles upon which our
some unknown port.
greatness as a people has hitherto been based,
“But thou, vast outbound ship of souls,
these are things that have made the last two
What harbor town for thee?
years a period of inexpressible sadness to
What shapes, when thy arriving tolls,
Shall crowd the banks to see ?
Americans who have been taught to cherish
Shall all the happy shipmates then
the teachings of Washington and Jefferson, of
Stand singing brotherly ?
Sumner and Lincoln. How we have longed
Or shall a haggard ruthless few
Warp her over and bring her to,
for the indignant words of protest that our
While the many broken souls of men
Whittier or our Emerson or our Lowell would
Fester down in the slaver's pen,
have voiced had their lives reached down to
And nothing to say or do?”
this unhappy time! But in reading Mr.
It takes a robust optimism to bear up under
the spectacle afforded by the darker aspects of Moody's “ Ode in Time of Hesitation” and
his lines « On a Soldier Fallen in the Philip-
human life, its physical failings and its spiritual pines " we are almost consoled for the silence
agonies, and the mood of “A Grey Day”
holds the poet under its obsession more than
of the prophet-voices that appealed so power-
fully to the moral consciousness of the gene-
once.
“I wonder how that merchant's crew
ration before our own. We seem to catch the
Have ever found the will !
very accent of Lowell's patriotic fervor in these
I wonder what the fishers do
To keep them toiling still!
lines suggested by the Shaw Memorial :
I wonder how the heart of man
“Crouched in the sea-fog on the moaning sand
Has patience to live out its span,
All night he lay, speaking some simple word
Or wait until its dreams come true."
From hour to hour to the slow minds that heard,
Holding each poor life gently in his hand
But this mood is not lasting, nor does it in-
And breathing on the base rejected clay
sistently prevail in the writer's consciousness.
Till each dark face shone mystical and grand
Whatever the defeats life may bring, the strong
Against the breaking day;
And lo, the shard the potter cast away
spirit will not be cowed, nor will it seek a
Was grown a fiery chalice crystal-fine
refuge in quietism. Some stanzas written “ At Fulfilled of the divine
Assisi” give us a clear statement of the poet's
Great wine of battle wrath by God's ring-finger stirred.
Then upward, where the shadowy bastion loomed
philosophy.
Huge on the mountain in the wet sea light,
"I turn away from the gray church pile;
Whence now,
and now, infernal flowerage bloomed,
I dare not enter, thus undone :
Bloomed, burst, and scattered down its deadly seed, -
Here in the roadside grass awhile
They swept, and died like freemen on the height,
I will lie and watch for the sun.
Like freemen, and like men of noble breed."
Too purged of earth's good glee and strife,
Too drained of the honied lusts of life,
Contrast this bright picture of heroic devotion
Was the peace these old saints won !
to a great cause with the dark picture presented
by the successors of these men now engaged in
“St. Francis sleeps upon his hill,
And a poppy flower laughs down his creed ; the bloody subjugation of an alien people who
Triumphant light her petals spill,
have done naught to offend us, and whose crime
His shrines are dim indeed.
is that they love their country well enough to
Men build and build, but the soul of man,
Coming with haughty eyes to scan,
die by thousands for its sake.
Feels richer, wilder need.
“I will not and I dare not yet believe!
“How long, old builder Time, wilt bide
Though furtively the sunlight seems to grieve,
Till at thy thrilling word
And the spring-laden breeze
Life's crimson pride shall have to bride
Out of the gladdening west is sinister
The spirit's white accord,
With sounds of nameless battle over seas;
Within that gate of good estate
Though when we turn and question in suspense
Which thou must build us soon or late,
If these things be indeed after these ways,
Hoar workman of the Lord ?"
And what things are to follow after these,
Our fluent men of place and consequence
There is not a poem among the score or Fumble and fill their mouths with hollow phrase,
more contained in Mr. Moody's volume that Or for the end-all of deep arguments
is commonplace or devoid of some arresting
Intone their dull commercial liturgies —
I dare not yet believe! My ears are shut !
quality of imagery or emotion. Regretfully I will not hear the thin satiric praise
passing by the greater number of them we And muffled laughter of our enemies,
Bidding us never sheathe our valiant sword
reserve our remaining space for the two pieces
Till we have changed our birthright for a gourd
inspired by the dark page of recent American Of wild pulse stolen from a barbarian's hut
history. Our broken national faith, our lust Showing how wise it is to cast away
The symbols of our spiritual sway,
of dominion, the subordination of morality to
That so our hands with better ease
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# The two handsome volumes of “ Military
By the memory
of the fine altruistic impulse
GENERAL Cox's WAR REMINISCENCES.*
that stirred our national heart when the suf-
fering Cubans besought us for aid, let it not
be said of us that a mean motive underlay that
Reminiscences ” of the late Major-General
frank outburst of active sympathy, that our
Jacob Dolson Cox form a very valuable con-
protestations of unselfishness were the merest
tribution to the literature of the Civil War.
hypocrisy, and that our soldiers have given up
The author was a scholar to begin with, and
their lives that their country might be dis-
was always a student. During many years
honored.
preceding his death he had wide experience as
“We charge you, ye who lead us,
a critic, often reviewing books on the Civil
Breathe on their chivalry no hint of stain !
War period, noting what was omitted by
Turn not their new-world victories to gain !
others, what was said in extravagant statement,
One least leaf plucked for chaffer from the bays
Of their dear praise,
what took the form of positive misconception
One jot of their pure conquest put to hire,
of facts. Uniting in himself the education
The implacable republic will require.
requisite to just judgment, the experience of a
general in actual campaign work, and the
For save we let the island men go free,
Those baffled and dislaurelled ghosts
special training afforded by his later life, he
Will curse us from the lamentable coasts
was fitted as few could be to produce, a gen-
Where walk the frustrate dead.
eration after the war, a story regarding it of
The cup of trembling shall be drainèd quite,
Eaten the sour bread of astonishment,
the greatest interest and importance.
With ashes of the hearth shall be made white
The worth of his production is enhanced
Our hair, and wailing shall be in the tent."
because, as General Cox was not one of the
This impressive adjuration is supplemented by greatest officers developed by the war, atten-
the lines suggested by the death of General tion to the personality of the man does not
Lawton.
obscure the details of his story, and conse-
A flag for the soldier's bier
quently the two volumes are a very valuable
Who dies that his land may live;
O, banners, banners here,
source of information on questions relating to
That we doubt not nor misgive!
that trying time, and not alone a showing of
That he heed not from the tomb
the achievements of a single individual, as,
The evil days draw near
When the nation, robed in gloom,
unfortunately, has been the case with many
With its faithless past shall strive.
volumes of memoirs published during the last
Let him never dream that his bullet's scream went wide of
decade.
its island mark,
Home to the heart of his darling land where she stumbled The military career of General Cox was
and signed in the dark."
largely devoted to the campaigns in West Vir-
When our nation shall have won back its ginia, in East Tennessee, and with Sherman on
sanity, and once more learned to heed — al.
his famous “ March to the Sea.”
though at what cost we tremble to think - indeed, a digression for awhile to Antietam,
the lessons of righteousness taught us by the
with a resulting account of the battle there
Fathers of the Republic, these poems will seem
which might possibly lead to criticism, but the
as stars seen through the angry cloud-rifts of early return to West Virginia from the army
a tempestuous night, bearing shining witness
in the East would seem to make this rather an
to the fact that in our hour of darkness there episode in the man's military life than an
were some souls that held the faith undaunted organic part of it.
by all the powers of evil leagued against them. Without noting particularly the details which
We are somehow reminded of an eloquent simi-
are presented in connection with the occupa-
litude employed by the late Frederic Myers. tion of East Tennessee and the march through
Speaking of the judgment of the men to come
Georgia, the campaign in West Virginia may
upon still another poet who, like Mr. Moody,
be taken to furnish abundant material for an
would not despair of a seemingly hopeless appreciation of the General's conception of
cause, he said: “They will look back on him
They will look back on him warfare. Nowhere else is there such a clear
as Romans looked back on that unshaken account of the operations in the new mountain
Roman who purchased at its full price the State, which, turning to freedom, broke away
field of Cannæ, on which at that hour victorious from the Old Dominion and entered the Union
Hannibal lay encamped with his Carthaginian *MILITARY REMINISCENCES OF THE CIyil WAR. By
host."
Jacob Dolson Cox, In two volumes. New York: Charles
WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE.
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as a separate commonwealth. Occupying a who came from every walk in life because of
place on the border line between the tide-water devotion to the cause of the Union, and fought
regions south of the Potomac and the great for flag and country from sentiment rather
Central West, the possession of West Virginia than from the necessity of military discipline.
had a two-fold importance. As a political As Mr. Cox puts it, “ A bold heart and a cool
measure it was essential that there should be head and practical common-sense were of much
an early massing of the army of the Union to more importance than anything taught at
sustain the people in their determination to school," and these cbaracteristics were often
stand by the country as against the champions displayed in most striking manner by the vol.
of slavery, and when so many Americans were unteers right at the start, a brief experience in
turning away from their allegiance, justice re warfare making them notably prominent.
quired that if support were needed it should In discussions such as these, the volumes are
be given heartily to the friends of freedom. strong, General Cox's special training and his
# From a military standpoint the State was student instincts lending much weight to his
even more important. It was the gateway carefully worded opinions. There is a vein of
from Ohio to Virginia, and therefore absolutely quiet humor throughout, many of the anec-
essential to the successful operations of the dotes and incidents of army life being related
Union forces. Because of the rough and rugged in a very interesting way. Even the apparently
nature of the soil there were only a few routes trivial
may
be of value, if correctly interpreted,
by which an army could march across the as,
for
example, the shrill
cry “Glory to God"
State. These routes might easily have been from a woman spectator of the scenes in the
defended with comparatively small expense, Ohio Senate when it was announced that Fort
but as a matter of fact much outlay was re Sumter was being attacked. “It was the voice
quired to secure them.
of a radical friend of the slave, who after a
The early movements in West Virginia had lifetime of public agitation believed that only
a great deal to do with shaping the general through blood could freedom be won.” The
conduct of the war, because it was owing to the last few chapters are given up to the move-
brilliancy of achievements there that General ments against Johnston by Sherman's army,
McClellan was called to be head of the armies. and the history of the end of the war in the
Those chapters which discuss McClellan have Carolinas and Georgia is presented in detail
much interest, and the estimate made by Mr. and in so satisfactory a way that these pages
Rhodes and Mr. Schouler in their histories of will be often consulted for this particular part
the period are fully sustained by the statements of the story of the Civil War.
from General Cox.
FRANCIS W. SHEPARDSON.
But, after all, the lessons learned from a
study of the campaign in West Virginia involv-
ing a great many problems of warfare, — such
as, for example, the handling of raw recruits, HAZLITT'S VENETIAN REPUBLIC. *
the dealing with newspaper men, some of them
Throughout a long lifetime, Mr. W. Carew
not particularly scrupulous in their methods or Hazlitt has been a devoted lover of Venice and
careful of the interests of their country, the
things Venetian. At the
At the age of twenty-three
peculiar conditions of life due to the isolation
he formed the idea of writing a history of the
of the people, the irregular guerilla fighting on island state, and his first sketch appeared in
both sides, do not impress one as so import 1858. This was revised and expanded two
ant as the general information in the volumes
years later into a
“ History of the Venetian
on topics such as the “ Vallandigham Case,” Republic" in four volumes, which, their author
“Morgan's Raid,
,” « The Knights of the Golden now tells us, “ undoubtedly left their precursors
Circle,” the plot to liberate prisoners at John far behind in merit and completeness, but were
son's Island, etc.
still excessively far, looking at them to-day,
A striking feature of General Cox's Memoirs
from realizing what such a work ought to have
is the comparison in quality of the volunteers
been." In the forty years that have since
and the regulars, or of the volunteer officers
elapsed, the author's writings have dealt with
and those who had the benefit of West Point
other themes, but he has still read and accumu.
training. One gets a pretty definite notion
* THE VENETIAN REPUBLIC: its Rise, its Growth, and its
that the members of the regular army rather
Fall, 421-1797. By W. Carew Hazlitt. In two volumes.
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lated notes on Venice; and “the fruit of a regards either his information or his methods.
rather slow and tedious process of concentrat There is the same easy and haphazard use of
ing on this particular object an endless amount chroniclers, the same lack of critical discern-
of reading and thought is manifest in the work ment. We find the same shadowy account of
now submitted with diffident satisfaction to the the beginnings of Venice, the same vagueness
English-speaking public, which may here meet as to its relations to the Eastern and Western
with the means of instituting many comparisons Empires, the same absence of that sound
between our own modern practices and opinions knowledge of the general history of Italy and
and those previously entertained and carried Europe which is essential for a satisfactory
out at Venice, and may more thoroughly realize treatment of so many-sided a theme. It is
to what an extent the Republic was our pilot true that Charlemagne is no longer called “the
and our instructor.”
French emperor," but it is a doubtful improve-
In its final form, the history fills two band ment to make the Venetians the descendants
somely printed volumes of eight hundred pages of “the warlike Northmen ” (p. 27). The con-
each, and constitutes the most ambitious at. quests of the Lombards are still said to have
tempt yet made to present the history of Venice been divided according to the prevailing sys-
to English readers. The narrative, which in tem of feuds” (p. 14). Michaud and Sismondi
the edition of 1860 stopped with the death of are still the chief authorities for the Crusades,
the Doge Foscari in 1457, is now brought and Lebeau still does duty for the Byzantine
down to the extinction of the republic in 1797, empire, which is described in the cheap and
while the account of political and social life easy fashion so common before its history began
which then occupied but two chapters now fills to be seriously studied. We read (p. 54) of
twenty-five.
“the sterile annals of the reign of the Doge
Substantially half of the present work is Tradenigo,” although it is now known that it
new, and has profited by the new material con was his policy which freed Venice from Byzan-
tained in the - Calendar of Venetian State tine control. Again and again, in Volume I.,
Papers," the later volumes of Romanin's “Storia one finds the survival of outgrown views and
Documentata,” and various recent publications the reliance upon antiquated authorities.
on Venetian antiquities. In the first volume, In the second volume the quality of the
however, the indebtedness to recent investi narrative improves. It is plain that the author
gations is very slight. This portion of the is no longer struggling under the weight of an
work has been to a considerable extent re old book; he has reached a fresh field, and
written, and the form of expression has been writes with greater ease and freedom. His
considerably improved ; but if the style is that investigations are not thorough or exhaustive,
of maturer years, the scholarship is still in all but he gives a truer impression of modern
essential respects that of 1860, and by no means Venice, and there is greater unity in style and
the best of its day. The author seems to ap treatment. Undoubtedly the most interesting
preciate the importance of new information on chapters are the last, where, having conducted
the later period of Venetian history, for he the republic through its declining days to its
speaks of the “Calendar of State Papers suppression by Napoleon, the author enters
reducing “ to waste-paper the entire corpus of upon an extended account of Venetian life.
old-fashioned literature, produced from time Everything is here — canals and squares,
to time in Italy itself and elsewhere, on the churches and palaces, the constitution and the
history and constitution of the Republic"; but laws, industry and commerce, art and letters,
he seems to be ignorant that the same kind of food and drink and amusements, all that the
work has been going on, though less obtrusively, traveller may wish to know of the life of the
in the mediæval field. If the amount of really Venice of an older day is set forth in this
new material on the earlier period is less abun gossippy compendium of Venetian lore. Very
dant, it is at least considerable ; and the interesting it all is, but loose and ill-arranged
active investigations of the last forty years, and undigested. These chapters evidently
especially in Germany, have thrown new light represent the result of years of note-taking,
on almost every phase of the history of me but the mark of the scrapbook is still fresh
diæval Italy and its relations with the other upon them. After all, they are not history,
peoples of its time. Upon Mr. Hazlitt this since the sources from which the infor-
steady accumulation of special studies and mation is derived are usually left unnoted —
monographs seems to have had no effect, as are they materials for history.
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This defect, in greater or less degree, per England in America holding services in a little
vades the whole work. Put together at different chapel near the Battery which had been pre-
times out of all sorts of materials, it lacks unity viously occupied by the Hollanders. The year
and flow. The style is labored and heavy, with after the charter, the first church was opened
a tendency to inflated assertion, as when we for services upon a parcel of land obtained by
are told that, “ There is no other spot on the royal grant “ in or near to a street without the
earth where, within a radius of a hundred North gate of the city, commonly called Broad-
miles, or, if we limit the calculation to the way," a site since occupied by two other struc-
metropolis itself, an infinitely smaller compass, tures, one built in 1788, and the other begun
so large a share of the world's business has in 1839, — the present “Old Trinity,” as it is
been directly or indirectly transacted.” The affectionately called by New Yorkers, and one
fact is that Mr. Hazlitt is neither a trained of the finest specimens of Gothic architecture
historian nor an attractive writer, and in mat in this country.
ter and manner his history falls below the In 1705 the Church became the possessor in
standard of what one has a right to expect of fee simple of sixty-two acres of land on Man-
so pretentious a publication. It contains a hattan Island, extending along the Hudson
large amount of interesting material, but it River from Vesey Street to Christopher Street.
lacks the literary qualities which might make It had formerly been the property of Aneke
it popular, while it does not show the extensive Jans Bogardus, was sold after her death to
research, the familiarity with recent investiga Governor Lovelace, and, as his property, had
tions, and the critical judgment, which are been confiscated by the crown in 1674, hence
essential to a scholarly work of reference. it was sometimes called “Queen Anne's Farm."
CHARLES H. HASKINS. Since the Revolutionary War, as the city has
grown and values have increased therein, this
property has been the source of wealth to
Trinity Church. It has been the occasion of
PARISH HISTORY EXTRAORDINARY.*
great responsibility as well, and it is the public-
More than two years ago, when the first vol. spirited manner, in the broadest use of the
ume of the History of Trinity Church, New term, in which this great responsibility has
York, made its appearance and was briefly been administered, that justifies in part the
noticed in the columns of THE DIAL, its value publication of this parish history upon its pres-
as a contribution to more than mere local, ent gigantic scale. The benefactions of Trinity
parochial, or denominational history was recog Church have been lavishly distributed for the
nized, and a fuller notice was reserved until establishment of churches, and for the succor
the work was farther advanced. The second of those already established in parts of the city
volume is now before us, and a third is in where they were most needed.
course of preparation which is to bring the Naturally the possession of so much valuable
work down to the year 1862, the beginning of property has caused Trinity parish to be re-
the rectorate of the editor of the volumes. garded as Naboth of old was in the possession
The history of an American parish which of his vineyard. No one having a drop of
can be made to extend to three octavo volumes Aneke Jans's blood in his veins but felt that
averaging more than four hundred pages each, there was a possibility of establishing some
without resorting to all sorts of “padding,” is sort of a claim to a participation in the income
altogether unique. But Trinity Church is of the property that once was hers. Not a
altogether unique among American parishes. small portion of the volumes before us is de-
It is one of the oldest corporations in the coun voted to a refutation of the popular delusion”
try, existing under a charter dated May 6, that Trinity Church is unlawfully possessed of
1697. Its history proper goes back to 1674, and unjustly retains property belonging to
when the Province of New Amsterdam was someone else.
But ever since 1705, Trinity
ceded to the British, for there were at that Church has been administering her estates to
time a number of members of the Church of the greater benefit of the community than the
* A HISTORY OF THE PARISH OF TRINITY CHURCH, in the
same estates would have yielded in the hands
City of New York. Compiled by order of the Corporation, of private individuals. All of her revenue-
and Edited by Morgan Dix, S.T.D., D.C.L., Ninth Rector.
producing property pays taxes (to the amount
Part I., To the Close of the Rectorship of Dr. Inglis, A.D.
1783; Part II., To the Close of the Rectorship of Dr. Moore,
of $63,000 in 1885), and her property rev-
A.D. 1816. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.
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half a million) are expended for the religious, Duane, Harrison, Howard, Lispenard, Lodge,
charitable, and educational advantage of the Ludlow, Morris, Reade, Varick, White, and
commonwealth, by maintaining the Christian Willett Streets were named after men and
religion, furnishing the means of a good edu- families who were prominent in the history of
cation, comforting and succoring the sick, the parish.
relieving the needy, cultivating the taste of the The first volume does more than draw upon
people by the refining influences of music, the commonly accepted authorities for a setting
architecture, and beautiful worship, and thus and background for the ecclesiastical narrative.
promoting the best interests of society and The editor exhibits his independent character
contributing toward the security and perma as a historian, and is able, in more than one
nence of our common civilization. The main. instance, to correct errors which have been
tenance of “Old Trinity” and her seven chapels made and perpetuated in the history of the
with a communicant list of about seven thou- city and province. The second volume contains
sand and a staff of clergy numbering twenty more that is of the nature of parochial annals
five; the maintenance of a system of parish than the first, and bears a closer relation to
schools, industrial schools, choir schools, and the history of the Church which was at that
Sunday schools ; aid regularly given to eccle time in process of organization in America.
siastical and educational institutions outside of But like the first, it presents many excerpts
the city ; the support of hospitals and infirm from records and from local newspapers which
aries, — all these indicate the uses which Trin. give us an occasional insight into the customs
ity Church makes of her income, and faintly and manners of the people in the American
implies the potency of the Parish as a factor metropolis as it grew into importance in the
in the civic life of New York.
early years of the nineteenth century.
Trinity has been the mother of churches in It remains to be said that the books are
New York City and elsewhere. Until recently, published in a style to delight the eye of the
although without the name or the honor, she bibliophile and are illustrated with photogra-
has stood in the position, done the work, and vure portraits, fac-similes of important docu-
furnished the example, of the Cathedral of the ments, and views of the buildings which
Diocese of New York. After the close of the constitute Trinity Parish.
Revolutionary War and the organization of the
ARTHUR HOWARD NOLL.
Protestant Episcopal Church in this country,
Bishops Provoost, Moore, and Hobart were
Rectors of Trinity Church while serving in
succession as Bishops of New York. Bishops
COLONIZATION IN ALL AGES.*
Onderdonk and Wainwright were assistant
Mr. Henry C. Morris's “ History of Coloni-
ministers of Trinity when elected to the Epis-zation” is in two volumes. Part I., in five
copate of the same diocese. The Church has chapters, deals with ancient Colonies. Part
furnished from her staff of clergy bishops for 11., in four chapters, is devoted to the middle
other dioceses. The Rector of Trinity during ages. Part III., in twenty-eight chapters, re-
the Revolutionary War was subsequently made lates to modern times. Six chapters are given
Bishop of Nova Scotia.
to Portuguese and Spanish Colonies, three to
Nor are these all the reasons Trinity has to Dutch, six to French, eleven (including nearly
offer for setting forth her history on such a all of the second volume) to English, with a
gigantic scale. In the pre-Revolutionary and chapter on minor colonization, and one in con-
Revolutionary periods, covered in the first vol. clusion.
ume, her history is the history of New York,
The plan, it will be seen, is an extensive
both the city and the province, so that it is
one, covering the whole world and all recorded
impossible to tell the one without also telling time. This is a large undertaking, and implies
the other. How closely interwoven is Trinity for its adequate execution many years' famil.
Parish with the early history of New York iarity with the subject and a vast amount of
City may be seen by observing the street
research. It relates to one of the most mo-
nomenclature of the lower part of the city. mentous world-movements with which history
There are Church Street and a Chapel Street; deals - a movement just now in the full tide
a Vesey and a Barclay Street, named after
* THE HISTORY OF COLONIZATION, from the Earliest Time
Rectors of Trinity; while Bayard, Chambers,
to the Present Day. By Henry C. Morris. In two volumes.
Charlton, Clarkson, Delancey, Desbrosses, New York: The Macmillan Co.


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of completion. To draw together the innumer sions, some the hasty and superficial work of
able scattered threads so as to weave a whole newspaper correspondents, some the serious
out of what may appear utterly isolated and productions of competent scholars. There are
confused; to realize clearly that Da Gama and the discussions of many special subjects, geo-
Columbus and Frobisher and Raleigh and Clive graphical, ethnological, economic.
An enum-
and Livingstone and Stanley are, after all, eration of some of these, such as is found in
workers at the same gigantic task; to show in Mr. Morris's book or in the “ Statesman's Year
luminous outline how that task has been Book,” for example, is somewhat convenient.
wrought by many hands and in many climes A critical compilation of all of them would be
until amid tumult and travail we may now see
of incalculable value.
it approaching full realization, — this is a task
HARRY PRATT JUDSON.
for one of the greatest historians of all the ages.
Perhaps no one will be able to perform it until
the twentieth century too is gone, and the
whole can be understood in the light of the MISS TARBELL'S NAPOLEON.*
conclusion.
Several years ago, when the tide of interest
Mr. Morris has gathered much valuable
in Napoleon was running at 'full flood, Miss
material relating to modern colonies and their Ida M. Tarbell contributed a serial Life of
political and economic conditions. To be sure,
Napoleon to the third and fourth volumes of
these conditions are undergoing continual
“McClure's Magazine.” In 1895, on its com-
change, and facts and figures need incessant pletion as a serial, it was published in book
revision in order not to be misleading at any
form, profusely illustrated by a series of por-
given time. Still, it is very convenient to find traits from the collection of Mr. Gardner G.
in one place such matter as may be found in Hubbard ; and the handsome volume before
these two volumes. Perhaps in so small com us is the second edition of this book, “ with
pass it would be difficult to avoid treating illustrations selected from those in the first."
some things in very general terms, as, for in-
These pictures, now as then, constitute a series
stance, in dealing with British West Africa
of " personal documents” which surpass in
(II. 239, ff). One could perhaps wish that
interest the fluent and entertaining narrative
the narrative depended less on cyclopædias (as of familiar things in which they are set. Every
evidenced inter alia by citations in footnotes,
stage of that eventful career, from Brienne to
e.g., pp. 245-54), and more on documents at
St. Helena, is suggested by these likenesses of
first hand. The scholar of history, too, will the best-known figure in modern history.
As to the text, it may be said that Miss
factory. The author is evidently more at home Tarbell has an alert eye for the picturesque,
in dealing with descriptive analysis than in and a trained instinct for selecting and group-
treating history.
ing impressive scenes ; and these gifts had
The bibliography is extensive, but of com fuil course in the pages of a popular magazine
paratively little value because uncritical. A
at the time of flood referred to. Now that it
critical bibliography would in itself be an ex is really more than a century since Napoleon
cellent contribution to scholarship on this most made his appearance as the man of action in
important subject. Such an undertaking would Paris streets, and we are no longer suffused
require a vast amount of labor and very deli with the centennial enthusiasm, these
cate discrimination. But if it could be treated
“Res gestæ regumque ducumque et tristia bella"
with the patient research and scholarly acumen will be as they have been before — estimated
which mark such a monumental work as Gross's
more coolly. Miss Tarbell is a bit of a hero-
“ Bibliography of Mediæval Municipalities,” | worshipper, and takes a steadily favorable view
for instance, we should in time have at hand
of all of her hero's acts and most of his motives,
an indispensable guide for all students. The Her account of the punishment” of the Duc
mass of literature dealing with colonial subjects
d'Enghien and the “ acquisition ” of the art
is enormous. Official reports, correspondence,
treasures of Italy, together with her omission
and acts of legislation, are of vast bulk. There
of such tragedies as the shooting of the two
are innumerable books of travel, of very differ-
thousand prisoners at Jaffa, suggest an attitude
ent purposes and value — many of them sadly
*THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. With a Sketch
padded. There are biographies and histories
of Josephine, Empress of the French. By Ida M. Tarbell,
of all sorts, some mere ephemeral partisan effu Illustrated. New York: McClure, Phillips & Co.
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For many
of mind toward Napoleon hardly assumed by ments with the old, old bait of self-depreciation.
any American writer since Mr.J.S.C. Abbott. He tells his story as he remembers it, and if it is
In her summary, indeed, she admits his limi on the whole creditable to himself, well and good.
tations and contradictions (p. 294): "He was
The book is cast in autobiographical form, and it
the greatest genius of his time, perhaps of all begins at the beginning, namely, with the writer's
childhood in Virginia, where at six he was, as he
time; yet he lacked the crown of greatness
pleasurably remembers, the proud owner of “a gun,
that high wisdom born of reflection and intro-
a pony, and a negro boy” – locally indispensable
spection which knows its own powers and limi- chattels, all three. In the opening chapters, life in
tations, and never abuses them; that fine sense old Virginia and an early trip to the West are
of proportion which holds the rights of others pleasantly sketched, followed by an account of the
in the same solemn reverence it demands for author's cadetship at Annapolis. The main narra-
its own.” This is true ; but it is not shown tive begins with the account of the author's services
by the story of his life as Miss Tarbell tells it. in the Civil War, and then follows the diversified
A much more impartial estimate is the very
story of cruises to the Orient, to Africa, to South
interesting sketch of the Empress Josephine, An interesting episode tells of the Kiel celebration,
America, to Behring Sea, to the Baltic, and so on.
added as new material to the present edition.
which the author attended as commander of the
Miss Tarbell sums up, fairly and kindly, the cruiser “ New York.” The volume closes with a
defects and amiable qualities of the Creole lively résumé of the naval operations of the Spanish-
girl who became for a while the virtual Empress American war. There are fourteen illustrations.
of Europe, when she says (p. 452), “ A candid
It is seldom that we find a more
survey of her life destroys the heroine, but it Mrs. Gilbert's
leaves a woman who through a stormy life
reminiscences of interesting and concise autobiograph-
stage-life.
ical sketch than “The Stage Remi-
kept a kindly heart toward friend and enemy
niscences of Mrs. Gilbert" (Scribner). The book
and who at last attained rectitude of conduct.
traces the life of a woman who has held a highly
The book is made useful as well as entertain honored place in American theatrical history for
ing by a table of the Bonaparte family, a over half a century; the theatre-going public needs
chronological table, and a good index. no introduction to that sterling actress and estimable
Josiah RENICK SMITH. woman, Mrs. Anne Hartley Gilbert.
years her friends have enjoyed listening to her de-
lightful flow of reminiscence and anecdote ; it has
been a real sorrow to many of them that so much
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS.
of interest should live only in their memories, and
they have often urged the writing of such a book
The "Sailor's
Rear-Admiral Evans, popularly as the one under consideration. “ But why?" she
Log" of known as “ Fighting Bob,” certainly would invariably answer. “I've been so long be-
Admiral Evans.
has a story to tell, and he tells it in fore the public that everybody knows all about me.
a plain, sailorlike way, in the neatly.made volume Besides, I am not at all interesting, just by myself.
entitled “A Sailor's Log” (Appleton). The title I have always said that actresses and actors, who
of the book fairly indicates its quality both of style are good for anything, give the very best of them.
and matter. There is no attempt at fine writing, selves to their audiences when on the stage. The
everything being set down substantially as it hap- private life doesn't count.” But her friends' ad.
pened, with business-like brevity, as if the narrator vice prevailed, and the book has been given us.
were drawing up an account of himself and his From it we learn that Mrs. Gilbert was born in
professional services for the information of his offi-| England
England - in Rochdale, Lancashire, not far from
cial superiors. There is plenty of life and color, Manchester. She came to America in 1849, and
however, and a good deal of rough humor seasoned always called herself a “forty-niner.” In 1869
occasionally with expressions of the forcible sort she joined the theatrical forces of Augustin Daly,
that at one time brought down upon “ Fighting with whom she was associated until his death in
Bob " the publicly expressed disapproval of a sec 1899. The account of her first days in this country,
tion of the clergy. Certain critics of the present which were spent in the West, then crude and wild,
volume have been carping at the author for blowing are sad and even pathetic. Her first stopping-
his own trumpet therein somewhat loudly, and it place was Milwaukee, after a visit to a settlement
must be owned he shows no disposition to deliber on the edge of the wilderness, in which Mr. Gilbert
ately make light of his adventures. And why should had invested and lost all their little fortune. They
A parade of modesty is almost as bad as were glad to accept positions in a local theatre at
braggadocio, and Rear-Admiral Evans, a frank an extremely low salary. In 1851 they went to
man if ever there was one, steers his own normal Chicago, travelling in winter by open wagon, and
course midway between these offensive extremes. obliged to bind themselves in blankets to keep from
He does not boast, nor does he angle for compli. | freezing. The hardships and the forgotten dramas


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of those pioneer days are a strong contrast to the conceptions of the Universe, of matter, of energy,
later period of her life when the most palatial hotels and of life, are depicted by the author with rare
were none too sumptuous. In these fascinating skill. A human interest is attached to the story
pages, Mrs. Gilbert has given us peeps behind the by the effective introduction of glimpses of the per-
scenes and glimpses into the personality of many sonalities of the great leaders in the century's
famous persons in the annals of the American stage. progress, and by the inclusion of more than four
The volume, edited by Miss Charlotte M. Martin, score portraits of scientific worthies. The earlier
is written with a straightforwardness, a propriety, part of the story receives a symmetrical treatment,
good sense, grace and force of diction, which cause with just appreciation of men and their contribu-
one to lay it aside with feelings of deep regret that tions to knowledge; but the closing years of the
it is not more lengthy. Many rare photographs, in century, with their crowding discoveries, are passed
the possession of the author and of Mr. Evert Jan over in silence or receive but passing notice. The
sen Wendell, have been appropriately utilized in historical perspective is perhaps insufficient to jus-
the illustration.
tify any review 80 recent a period. Still, it seems
Two books resulting from the war
too bad to drop biology with Darwin, and to make
Lighter phases
between Great Britain and her colo but incidental reference to the Röntgen rays. No
of recent warfare.
nies and the two little Republics of achievements of recent years have been more
South Africa have been published, dealing with striking than those in the science of bacteriology;
incidental rather than historical aspects of the but its results are here discussed only in their re-
struggle. The first of these, “ Blue Shirt and lation to scientific medicine, for our author is a
Khaki” (Silver, Burdett & Co.), is from the hand disciple of the art of healing. This may also ex-
of Mr. James F. J. Archibald, an American war plain the inclusion of the story of the rise of nen-
correspondent who saw both the Cuban and South rology, in the chapter on experimental psychology.
African campaigns. His recital makes a powerful But all this is only to quarrel with our author's
appeal to our national vanity, chiefly by suppressing categories. The first chapter, on science at the
the disagreeable side of the Cuban campaign and
beginning of the century, and the closing one on
the amazing imbecilities shown there, while bring- unsolved problems, bring home to the reader the
ing into strong relief the other amazing imbecilities wonderful progress which has been made, and also
manifested in South Africa. There is undoubted the infinity of the regions as yet unexplored. The
justice in the strictures passed on the British whole
range of the sciences is included in the plan
army, the methods of which were far less suited to of the work, and the author has been very success-
the campaign it had in hand than those of the ful in freeing his subjects from technicalities for
Indian-fighting Americans ; but it is regrettable the general reader, and very felicitous in clothing
that so able a writer as Mr. Archibald should fall the changing theme with an unfailing charm.
into the ranks of those who conceive American
greatness to be helped by the suppression of Ameri-
For many years Mr. Alfred Russel
Essays of a
Wallace has been a frequent con-
can faults. — The other book, “War's Brighter
Side” (Appleton), is edited by Mr. Julian Ralph,
tributor to periodical literature on
themes scientific and otherwise. These scattered
and consists chiefly of extracts from “ The Friend,"
a field newspaper published in Bloemfontein after
writings have been collected in two volumes of
the British occupancy, under the patronage of Gen-
“Studies Scientific and Social” (Macmillan). The
eral Lord Roberts.
essays have been revised, and in some cases greatly
Messrs. Rudyard Kipling, expanded by the introduction of copious illustrations,
Percival Landon, H. A. Gwynne, and Lord Stanley, Many of them deal with the modern theory of
the press censor, were most concerned with the
publication, assisted by Dr. Conan Doyle and Mr.
Evolution and with the exposition and defence of
Ralph, and contributions from all of these appear
one of its principal factors, Natural Selection, whose
The
in the book. It seems to have been considered as
discovery the author shares with Darwin.
problems of the distribution of plants, animals, and
very good fooling, of the British sort, likely to ex-
the races of mankind, of utility, of inheritance, of
asperate the enemy and dull the sensibilities of all
to the realities of the work in hand. In a literary
instinct, and of race progress, are discussed broadly
and with the freedom from technical details de
sense it is puerile. Mr. Kipling's contributions,
sired by the general reader. The second volume
particularly, seem to fall below his standard.
is concerned with educational, political, social,
The record of
An epitome of the achievements of and ethical topics, and includes several essays
not
a Century the century just past, in the various before published, among which is a pointed reply
of Science.
fields of pure science, is the aim of to the article in which Mr. Bradley Martin, Jr.,
Dr. Henry Smith Williams in his “ Story of Nine seeks to justify lavish expenditure by men of wealth.
teenth Century Science” (Harper). A field so Several essays on the nationalization of land are
vast and a subject so intricate might well demand added, as are also the two closing chapters which,
an encyclopædia for adequate treatment. The under the captions of “True Individuality” and
great battles of theory and experiment in which “ Justice not Charity," set forth our author's well-
the errors of the past have given way to current known panaceas for social wrongs. The writings
Naturalist.


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here collected throw many interesting side-lights make it a book good for the hands of students
not only upon the progress of the natural sciences approaching the theory of knowledge, which is in.
in the last half century, but especially upon the deed the substantial problem of the work. The
career of one of the notable coterie of men whom author runs rather far afield in the pursuit of his
the controversy over Darwinism brought into promi- | problem, and the conclusions are really not revolu-
nence — naturalist, explorer, evolutionist, social tionary nor breath-depriving. They are familiar in
reformer, and spiritualist. Many of the essays were structure, and present no long-lost missing link of
originally published in American reviews, and some the evolution of knowledge. None the less they
of them treat of distinctively American topics, are suggestive, have a sufficiently original manner
though whatever Mr. Wallace might write is of of approach, and are of interest to other thinkers.
interest in all lands.
The work is on the whole a commendable one,
though somewhat weak in its historical perspective,
Mock heroics and travesties on clas-
Modern foolery
and rendered weaker by the author's unfortunate
with classic forms.
sical subjects have dropped so far
preface.
from literary view in these days that
Dr. James A. Hensball's “Ye Gods and Little
A recent addition to the series of
A sympathetic
Fishes, a Travesty on the Argonautic Expedition
“Beacon Biographies" (Small, May-
sketch of Agassiz.
in Quest of the Golden Fleece" (Robert Clarke Co.)
nard & Co.) is the life of Louis
may be welcomed as affording considerable fun of
Agassiz by Alice Bache Gould. The little volume
a novel sort. The original itinerary of the Argo-
is full not only of the facts of the great scientist's
nauts is followed with scrupulous care, but, as the
life, but also of the great and lovable spirit of the
" Argument” reads, the whole voyage is “illumined man. Something of the noble optimism and the
by the search-light of the nineteenth century,” of
high enthusiasm that was so great a part of his
which the following lines may be taken as an
power as a teacher finds a place in the pages and
example:
gives them vitality. The author writes with evident
“Now Zetes, with some rods of brass, and reeds, delight on the many-sided nature of her subject,
And chariot wheels, made two velocipedes,
and this pleasure finds expression in a wealth of
With pedals on the front wheel, handle bar,
stories that bring the great investigator's simple
And saddles made of shields; they were by far
and sweet devotion to the aims of his life very near
The most astounding chariots ever seen —
Bicycles we would call them now, I ween.
to us. While the volume lays stress more particu-
Thus, Zetes was the father of the bike;
larly upon the personal side of the life, it makes as
His progeny to-day are not much like
full a showing of the scientific ideals that controlled
Their rude progenitors; but as to speed -
Agassiz, and of the things that he accomplished, as
Well, that's another story, as you 'll read.”
The book is dedicated to another celebrity, who
the ordinary reader will care for. Further, the
author has written with such sparkling clearness,
seems ancient even now, Admiral George Dewey,
with whom the author spent some pleasant days on
and with such entertaining charm of style, that the
book might well be pleasant reading for anyone.
Grecian shores long ago. It is elaborately designed
and executed, with numerous embellishments.
Captain Dreyfus's book entitled
Captain Dreyfus'
Mr. Frederick Storrs Turner pre-
“ Five Years of My Life” (McClure,
Essays on
own story.
the theory of sents a volume to the philosophical
Phillips & Co.) is a little belated
knowledge.
public, with the title “ Knowledge, perhaps, and will scarcely win the attention it
would have attracted had it followed closer on the
Belief, and Certitude” and the sub-title “ An In-
heels of the Rennes trial. The famous “ Affaire
quiry, with Conclusions” (Macmillan). The con-
clusions, we are told, will not surprise the reader
is now matter of history, and the public mind is
more than they have surprised the writer. We also
fully made up on its merits. It is well, however,
read : “For the discovery of the conclusions reached
to hear the victim's last word in the matter, and
by this inquiry, I am abundantly glad and thankful.
what he has to say is of considerable interest. The
So far as they are true — and I have no doubt that pith of the book lies in the author's diary of his
they are true in the main — they come from the
Devil's Island experiences, and the tale he tells is
only Source of all truth ; I am but the instrument assuredly a harrowing one. Other chapters sketch
through which they have been revealed.” Such
the author's life, and recount the various stages of
prefatorial remarks are unfair to critic and reader.
the “ Affaire,” from the arrest of Dreyfus to the
They suggest a naïveté of philosophic experience by declaring that he proposes to go on striving for
close of the Rennes court martial. The author ends
which much of the further treatment bears out.
And yet the candid critic, before he has turned the
a full reparation of the “judicial error" of which
he is the victim.
last leaf, is glad to record that he has found many
worthy things cleverly said within its covers.
German life
Mr. Wm. Harbutt Dawson's “Ger-
However obvious the weaknesses of the work, its
man Life in Town and Country”
readability, freshness, earnestness, freedom from
and country. forms the second number in the
impedimenta, and general level of controversy, are series of little volumes collectively entitled “Oar
much to be commended. Many of these qualities | European Neighbors” (Patnam), which had so
in town


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auspicious an opening with Miss Lynch's sprightly Corpus Juris, and early Christian poetry and art, are
book on France. Mr. Dawson's sketch lacks some among the subjects treated. The style of the essay is
thing of the vivacity of its predecessor, but its tone admirable, and scholars will be thankful for the appen.
is more impersonal and its general conclusions seem
dix of bibliographical notes.
more carefully weighed. It opens with a thought-
“ The World's Work” is so young a magazine that
a bound volume comes to our table as a sort of surprise,
ful survey of German imperial questions and con-
ditions, and thence passes to the consideration of
for we had hardly realized that six numbers were
already in existence. It makes a valuable record of
specific topics — Social Divisions, the “ Arbeiter,”
contemporary industrial and political activity, and the
Rural Life, Military Service, Pastimes, The Ber- illustrations, as its monthly readers know, are of excep-
liner, the Press, etc. The treatment is at once tional beauty and interest. The work of the world
descriptive and critical, and the author is evidently is taken in a rather narrow sense by the editor of
well informed. The illustrations are pleasing and this magazine, and we could wish that its materialism
well chosen.
were more nearly counterbalanced by its idealism.
(Doubleday.)
Mr. Barry Pain's “ Another English “ A Treasury of Irish Poetry in the English Tongue,”
More English
love-letters.
woman's Love Letters" (Putnam) is edited by Messrs. Stopford A. Brooke and T. W. Rol-
a rather clever parody on the popu-
leston, is a publication of the Macmillan Co. The
lar book which its title clearly points to, and the
method of the work is that of Mr. Ward's “ English
question as to the genuineness of which Mr. Pain Poets," comprising a general editorial introduction, and
answers decidedly in the negative in his preface. signed critical notices of each of the poets included.
He adds: “It is difficult to imagine that anybody
Of these there are over one hundred, ranging from
would have the treacherous impudicity to publish of “The Nation," down to such very modern writers
Sheridan, Moore, and Father Prout, through the poets
the love-letters of a woman recently dead, without as “ A. E.," Mr. W. B. Yeats, Mr. Lionel Johnson,
even a plea of historical interest.” We don't know Mrs. Shorter, and Mrs. Tynan-Hinkson. The work is
about that. Another outcome of the love-letter an extremely well-edited and exhaustive anthology, and
craze (now, we trust, on the wane) is the dainty, no one can examine it, even casually, without feeling a
vellum-bound, ribbon-tied booklet containing “An deepened respect for the Irish contribution to the wealth
Englishman's Love-Letters ” (Mansfield). This
of English poetry.
author also is “in merry pin," and makes an honest
Dr. Albrecht Wirth is the author of an important
effort to be amusing.
study in political science entitled “Volkstum und
Weltmacht in der Geschichte” (Munich: Bruckmann).
It is a work of the most vital interest for our age of
race-conflicts and rivalries for the attainment of world-
power.
The author is well fitted, both by study and
BRIEFER MENTION.
travel, to discuss these great problems in the philosoph-
ical spirit, and his synthetic grasp of his subject is re-
We now have three or four excellent school histories
markable. The style of the work is clear and forcible
of the United States, prepared for the use of the upper to a degree uncommon among German scholars, and
classes of secondary schools. Among them there is none
the mechanical features of the book are attractive and
better than the work of the late Alexander Johnston, dignified.
which has long been held in high esteem. In its present We bave received Volumes XIII. and XIV. of the
form, the earlier revision by Mr. W. M. Daniels has
“Cornell Studies in Classical Philology.” The first of
been supplemented by a still later revision at the hands
these monographs is a study of “The Subjunctive Sub-
of Dr. William MacDonald, and the result is a work
stantive Clauses in Plautus not Including Indirect
that may be confidently commended as one of the best
Questions,” by Mr. Charles L. Durham. The second
of its class. It seems to be supplied with every sort of
title requires a long preliminary breath to be taken.
helpful adjunct that the teacher could wish. Messrs.
It reads: “ A Study in Case Rivalry, being an Investi-
Henry Holt & Co. are the publishers.
gation Regarding the use of the Genetive and the Ac-
The attractively made volume entitled “Faneuil
cusative in Latin with Verbs of Remembering and
Hall and Faneuil-Hall Market,” by Mr. Abram English Forgetting.” The work bears the name of Mr. Clinton
Brown, tells the story of those two famous Boston edi L. Babcock as its author.
fices and their founders, and goes in some detail into Publication 45 of the Field Columbian Museum is
the bistorical events, local and general, with which “ A Synopsis of the Mammals of North America and
their names are interwoven. The book is soberly writ-
the Adjacent States,” prepared by Mr. Daniel Giraud
ten and informing, and is the fruit of painstaking re Elliot. It is a work of 471 pages, handsomely printed
search. It is appropriately illustrated. (Lee & Shepard.) and abundantly illustrated. Its tendency is to be
We have come to expect work of a very scholarly catholic in the recognition of species, but the writer
type from the Columbia series of “Studies in Litera sounds a note of warning on the subject of their multi-
ture” (Macmillan), and the latest addition to this series plication, and is strongly convinced that a more critical
maintains the standard set by its predecessors. It is a examination will greatly reduce the number in the near
study, by Mr. Henry Osborn Taylor, of “The Classical future. The half-tone plates, mostly of crania, illus-
Heritage of the Middle Ages,” and bridges over the trate almost every genus and subgenus now recognized
transition period between the Classical and Mediaeval among our North American Mammalia. The work is
epochs in a philosophical manner. The centuries from of the highest scientific value, and does great credit to
the fourth to the seventh take up the greater part of the Foundation which has made possible the series of
the discussion. Boethius, the Fathers, Monasticism, the publications to which it belongs.


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NOTES.
TOPICS IN LEADING PERIODICALS.
June, 1901.
“ First Studies of Plant Life,” by Professor George F.
Atkinson, is a nature-book for children, published by American, An Earlier. W. D. Howells. No. American.
Messrs. Ginn & Co.
Andorra, Hidden Republic of. Lucia Purdy. Harper.
Tennyson's “Idylls of the King," edited by Dr. Art, Tolstoi's Moral Theory of. J. A. Macy. Century.
William T. Vlymen, is the latest addition to the
British Industrial Situation, The. J. P. Young. Forum.
« Pocket Classics” of the Macmillan Co.
Chinese Poetry. W. A. P. Martin. North American.
Mr. John Lane's “ Flowers of Parnassus " series of
Christianity, Outlook for. W. Gladden. North American.
College, Small, Opportanity of. H. W. Horwill. Atlantic.
booklets now includes an Omar, in Fitz Gerald's para College Students, Alleged Luxury among. Century.
phrase, with illustrations by Mr. Herbert Cole.
College Training Tables. Walter Camp. Century.
Mr. R. H. Russell publishes a selection of the “ Rac College, Working One's Way through. Alice K. Fallows. Cen.
ing Rhymes and Other Verses" of Adam Lindsay Gor-
Consumption, Winning War against. S. Baxter. Rev. of Rev.
don, selected and arranged by Mr. T. O. Guen.
Cookery Books, My. Elizabeth R. Pennell. Atlantic.
Course of Study Situation, The. John Dewey. Educ'l Rev.
Berkeley's “ Principles of Human Knowledge” is
Criticism and Æsthetics. Ethel D. Puffer. Atlantic.
added by the Open Court Publishing Co. to their “ Re-
Criticism, German. R. M. Meyer. International.
ligion of Science Library," which now appears in an Cuban Convention, Work of the. A. G. Robinson. Forum.
attractive new cover.
Declaration of Rights of 1789. André Lebon. International.
Messrs. A. J. Holman & Co., Philadelphia, send us
Dietetics, Modern, Principles of. C. von Noorden. Intern'l.
a “Self-Pronouncing Bible Dictionary” for the vest-
Electrical Invention, Latest Triumphs of. Rev. of Reviews.
pocket. It is indexed, printed on thin
English Language, The. Brander Matthews. Harper.
paper,
and
pro-
Expansion, Literature of. C. A. Conant. International.
vided with covers of flexible leather.
Fair, A Great Midsummer. F. J. Ziegler. Lippincott.
“ A Text-Book of Psychology for Secondary Schools," Farmers, Cornell School for. J. Craig. World's Work.
by Dr. Daniel Putnam, and “How to Teach Reading Finland. Henry Norman. Scribner.
and Composition,” by Dr. J. J. Burns, are the latest Geology and the Deluge. F. G. Wright. McClure.
educational publications of the American Book Co. Housekeeper's Stone, The. A. W. Quinby. Forum.
“Qualitative Chemical Analysis, Organic and Inor-
Hypnotism, Reciprocal Influence of. J.D. Quackenbos. Har.
Irish Question, The Goldwin Smith. North American.
ganic,” by Dr. F. Mollwo Perkin, is published by Messrs.
Isthmian Canal and Population. L. M. Haupt. Lippincott.
Longmans, Green, & Co. The same publishers also
Japanese Shores, Wrecked on. Poultney Bigelow. Harper.
send us a book of “ Exercises in Natural Philosophy," Kaiser's Speeches and German History. Karl Blind. Forum.
by Professor Magnus Maclean.
Kebeth the Aleut. F. A. Vanderlip and H. Bolce. McClure.
The latest addition to the “ Temple Classics " series
Manila Censorship, The. Harold Martin. Forum.
(Macmillan) is a reprint of White's “Selborne,” sup-
Negro at Home. W. E. B. Du Bois. World's Work.
Niagara, "Harnessing" of. W. C. Andrews. Rev. of Rev.
plied with notes, marginalia, index, etc., by Mr. Charles
Nihilism, Russian, of To-day. Abraham Cahan. Forum.
Weekes. A dainty photogravure frontispiece and a
Oil-Fields, The New. David T. Day. Review of Reviews.
number of Bewick's wood-cuts illustrate the volume.
Oratory. George F. Hoar. Scribner.
“ The Earliest Lives of Dante," being translations Orient, Government of. P.S. Reinsch. Forum.
from Boccaccio and Arctino, made by Mr. James Rob Owens, J. E., Recollections of. Clara Morris. McClure.
inson Smith, is one of the “Yale Studies in English, Pan-American Exposition, Artistic Effects of. Rev. of Revs.
and is published by Messrs. Henry Holt & Co. Wbile
Ph.D., Examination for Degree of. W.F. Magie. Educ'l Rev.
not exactly a study in English literature, the publication
Poe Fifty Years after. E. W. Bowen. Forum.
is a desirable one, and we are not disposed to quarrel
Pope and the Temporal Power. R. de Cesare. No. American.
Printing of Spoken Words. Frederic Irland. Rev. of Revs.
over its proper designation.
Prophecy, An Experiment in. H. G. Wells. No. American.
Mr. Maurice Hewlett's “ Earthwork out of Tuscany' Puget Sound Country, The. H. A. Stanley. World's Work.
now appears in a revised edition (the third) as a vol Railway Alliance and Trade Districts. International.
ume of the familiar “Eversley" series, issued by the
Religion of a College Student. F. G. Peabody. Forum.
Macmillan Co. The book is altogether worthy of in-
Rowland, Professor Henry A. Review of Reviews.
clusion in the ranks of “that good company which
Schoolhouse, The Ideal. W. H. Burnham, World's Work.
Schools, Foreign, Notes on. W. S. Jackman. Educat'l Rev.
wears the crimson of Eversley,” and we are glad to
School Tests, Suggestions for. C. E. Seashore. Educatl Rev.
have at last an American edition in such fitting form.
Senate Document, Revelations of a. S. Webster. No. Amer.
The Third Book of the series of geographies prepared Senate's Place in Our Government. H. L. West. Forum.
for the Macmillan Co. by Messrs. Ralph S. Tarr and Steel World, Center of the. Waldon Fawcett. Century.
Frank M. McMurry, has for its special title, “ Europe Sunspots and Rainfall. Sir N. Lockyer. North American.
and Other Continents, with Review of North America."
Tammany's Success, Secrets of. Gustavus Myers. Forum.
Like its predecessors, this volume is richly and attrac-
Thoreau, A Hermit's Notes on. P. E. More. Atlantic.
Trusts and Public Policy. C. J. Bullock. Atlantic.
tively illustrated. With such books as these available
Trusts, Effect of, on Prices. J. W. Jenk8. No. American.
for teachers, the cumbersome old-time geography ought University of California, New Buildings of. World's Work.
soon to become a memory of the educational past. University, The Scottish. J. G. Hibben. Scribner.
First published in 1896 as a volume of the “Ex Venezuelan Boundary Controversy. Grover Cleveland. Cent.
Libris Series,” Mr. Walter Crane's work on “ The Dec Washington during Reconstruction. S. W. McCall. Atlantic.
orative Illustration of Books" has come to occupy a
Wealth, Statistics of. C. A. Conant. World's Work.
place of authority in its own field; the wealth of illus-
Webster, Daniel. John Bach McMaster. Century.
trative examples, no less than the historical and critical
Wellington. Goldwin Smith, Atlantic.
Woman, The American. Hugo Münsterberg. International.
value of the text, making it an indispensable handbook Women. E. S. Martin. McClure.
for the student or book-lover. A new and cheaper Yale Curriculum, The. J. C. Schwab. Educational Review.
edition of the work, with some slight revisions in the Y. M. C. A. in Europe. W. S. Harwood. Century.
text, is issued in attractive form by the Macmillan Co. Y. M. C. A. Jubilee, The. L. L, Doggett. North American


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The Early Age of Greece. By William Ridgeway, M.A.
In 2 volumes; Vol. I., large 8vo, uncut, pp. 684. Macmil-
lan Co. $5, net.
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Thorpe. 8vo, pp. 627. A. C. McClurg & Co. $1.50 net.
The Diplomatic History of the Southern Confederacy.
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Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press. $1.50.
The Relations of Geography and History. By Rev. H. B.
George, M.A. 12mo, uncut, pp. 296. Oxford University
Press. $1.10 net.
A Short History of the Greeks, from the Earliest Times to
B. C. 146. By Evelyn S. Shuckburgh, M.A. Illus.,
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BIOGRAPHY.
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PAGE
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
389
.
TRIUMPH OF THE " LITERARY PLAY." Mar-
garet F. Sullivan .
· 391
PENNYPACKER'S LIFE OF GENERAL MEADE.
Charles Leonard Moore .
394
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.
AN HISTORIAN OF IDEAS. Paul Shorey
396
.
.
THE OLD NEW YORK FRONTIER. Henry C.
Matthews
398
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO.
It seems only yesterday that we were ex-
tending the right hand of fellowship to the
University of Chicago, and congratulating our
city upon so notable an acquisition to the agen-
cies that stand for its higher life. But it seems
that ten full years have rolled by, after all, for
the University is now engaged in the celebra-
tion of its first decennial. As university cele
brations go, a ten-year period does not count
for much. We think of such European fes-
tivities as have been witnessed of recent years
in Heidelberg and Bologna, of such American
anniversaries as the quarter-millennial of Har.
vard, the sesquincentennial of Princeton, and
the approaching bicentennial of Yale. Chicago
will doubtless have affairs like these in due
time, but none of us will live to participate in
them, and we can hardly be expected to forego
the modest opportunities that lie within our
reach. This is a community of large under-
takings and rapid developments, and who that
has breathed its ozonized air will be daring
enough to suggest that a decade of Chicago is
not the equivalent of one or more cycles of
Cathay? Besides, our University has acquired
a certain degree of antiquity by the simple
process of taking up the abandoned dignities
and responsibilities of the old Chicago Uni.
versity. In adopting as its own all of the
earlier institution that there was left to adopt,
it has come into possession of a fine collection
of gray-bearded alumni, and of a respectable
historical tradition which reaches back to the
period of the Civil War.
Those who remember the defunct institution
thus restored to a ghostly sort of life will be
impressed by the contrast between the con-
ditions of the sixties and the conditions of the
nineties. The beggar's wallet has been replaced
by the purse of Fortunatus, and results are
now achieved with little seeming effort that
were beyond the wildest dreaming of a gene-
ration ago. Contrast, for example, with the
magnificent and rapidly-multiplying group of
buildings which are the present visible sign of
the University of Chicago, the single building
of the sixties, waiting long years in vain for
.
.
ATTEMPTS AT SOCIAL ETHICS. Charles R.
Henderson
400
Willoughby's Social Justice. — Hobson's The Social
Problem. – Rountree and Sherwell's The Temper-
ance Problem. - Flynt's Notes of an Itinerant Police-
man. - Flynt and Walton's The Powers that Prey.
- Russell and Lewis's The Jew in London. – Tol-
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Christianity.-Connell's Our Nation's Need.- Har-
per's Restraint of Trade. Strong's Religious
Movement for Social Betterment,
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402
The reformer of German Switzerland. - An import-
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law. –The diplomacy of the Southern Confederacy.
-Stories of the army and navy.- A picture of
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and interpreted.
BRIEFER MENTION.
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NOTES
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the means to build the modest wing that was spirit of its teaching been free from any sec-
needed to round out the symmetry of the orig tarian taint, but it has also been free from
inal plan. Contrast, again, with the long every other form of social or caste restraint
faculty-roll of to-day the small band of scholars upon the exercise of unhampered investigation.
who gave life to the institution of yesterday; The newspaper agitation of a few years ago,
with to-day's great museums and libraries, accusing the University authorities of interfer-
yesterday's unpretentious cabinets and book ing with the freedom of teaching, was so easily
shelves ; contrast even with the imposing as shown to have been prompted by either malice
tronomical establishment of the present the or ignorance that no person capable of intelli-
famous old observatory which was the chief gent judgment is likely again to support such
material boast and pride of the past. Contrast, a charge. The University has from the begin-
also, with the figure of the prosperous President ning encouraged original research, and the
of the new University of Chicago, whose chief contributions of its faculty to the advancement
care is merely to make the best use of the
the of science have been considerable in many de-
stream of wealth that pours into his lap, whose partments, such, for example, as those of
chief occupation is to devise new plans that physics, physiology, economics, sociology, an-
shall outrun the resources so generously pro- thropology, and classical philology. The pub-
vided, contrast with this figure that of the lications of members of the faculty during the
devoted head of the old Chicago University, ten years make an imposing showing, and we
who for years carried on a hopeless struggle may mention the fact that they include, in
to keep the institution alive, who heroically addition to work of a strictly scholarly type, a
fought the monster of debt and bore
up
under considerable amount of work in imaginative
the discouragement of public apathy, who gave literature. In the ranks of this faculty there
to the school the whole of his energy and the have already been developed one of the most
whole of his private means, and who for his remarkable of our younger novelists and one of
reward was compelled to see the mortgages the most inspired of our younger poets.
foreclosed, the personal property put up for If asked for a statement of the leading idea
sale in ignominious ways, and the building for which this University has stood, the answer
itself razed to the ground. In our rejoicing would have to be that it has represented the
at the success of the new institution, it is well idea of educational experimentation more dis-
that we give a thought to the old one, if only tinctly than any other institution. Now experi-
for the chastening influence of a view of the mentation means innovation, for one thing, and
contrasting conditions.
an expenditure of tentative effort, for another.
During the ten years of its existence, the Conservative minds view these things with
University of Chicago has gained an assured suspicion, and they no doubt have to pay a
place among the foremost institutions for higher certain penalty. Innovations are not always
education in this country. To accomplish such wise, and tentative effort is, in its very nature,
a result both money and intelligent direction something not quite sure of its aim. But the
were needed, and in neither has the University openness of outlook to which these things lead
been lacking. In the matter of its endowment is so desirable a thing to gain that a certain
and property holdings, it stands among the amount of misapplied energy, and even of direct
half-dozen wealthiest institutions of learning in waste, is not too heavy a price to pay for it.
the United States. Its faculty, while notice On the whole, we should say that the experi-
ably uneven with respect to the several depart mental policy of this University has been jus-
ments, probably numbers altogether as large a tified by the results. A good many interesting
proportion of highly-distinguished scholars as ideas, both in administration and in education
is to be found in any university on this side of proper, have been developed, and enough of
the Atlantic. It has outlived the probationary them have proved worth developing to com-
period, and stands to-day as a recognized influ pensate for the uncertainties and the failures
ence for the promotion of the highest ideals of that are the inevitable occasional concomitants
scholarship. The fears which its well-wishers of such a policy.
entertained at the start lest it should develope To the community in which it is placed, the
into a sectarian institution have been dissipated, University of Chicago has proved itself a bene-
and the gibes of earlier years at “the Baptist ficent influence. If it has not leavened the
school on the Midway ” have ceased to have whole lump, it has at least done something to
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and materialism toward the side of reason and London home by sketching for the illustrated
idealism. All of our good social and intellec journals. The family had removed from Dublin, –
tual causes find in it a helpful ally, and it is like many Celts who had preceded them, - for
a growing influence with every added
the opportunity denied them in their native land.
Mr. William Butler Yeats had known from child.
year of its existence. As it continues to broaden
hood the Gaelic 'lore whose scope and depth have
and deepen in its own work, we may safely be-
been at last apprehended throughout scholardom,
lieve that the community of which it is a part
and whose resources many are now diffusing. *
will feel at least the indirect effects of its
At Hildesheim, Germany, one sees a clambering
development, and will share in the uplifting rose-tree on a lofty cathedral wall. The record is
influence of its manifold activities. We are unquestioned and unbroken showing that its roots
thankful for its help during the decade now are deep in the ground for a thousand years. Its
ended; we shall expect it to do even more for roses are of every summer, white and sweet.
Its
us during the decade now beginning.
tendrils twine about column and cornice, and its
petals fall upon medieval graves in the churchyard.
Thus the roots of this long obscured Gaelic litera-
ture send their sap up to the heights of the present
day, and the roses are now for witness of mankind
TRIUMPH OF THE “LITERARY PLAY."
to its beauty and purity. In the oldest songs and
At the Grand Opera House, Chicago, a recent inci stories there is often, as in the Greek, the Latin,
dent delightful in itself and significant in dramatic and the Norse, something offensive to taste; there
annals drew the largest audiences of the season, are occasionally theories, suggestions, implications
although the rates were raised for the time. Three repugnant to the highest ideals. In old Gaelic the
presentations were given of Browning's “In a roses have thorns, as roses must; but, so far as
Balcony,” preceded by Mr. Yeats's “ The Land of disclosure goes, they lack worms as roses should.
Heart's Desire."
Mr. Yeats's play has for its predominant per-
The project originated with Mrs. Sarah Cowell sonage a type of the imaginary creation between
Le Moyne, who played the “Queen" in the Brown the human and the spiritual — the fairy. The
ing piece for which she wisely chose Mr. Otis human heroine is a bride, discontented because her
Skinner as “ Norbert” and Miss Eleanor Robson husband is off all day in the fields and she is nagged
28 “ Constance." The cast in the companion piece by his mother's tongue. The bridegroom's father
was also arranged by Mrs. Le Moyne, who devised balances with amiability his wife's sourness. The
the staging of both productions in all details, in- village priest figures symbolically in the play, strain-
cluding costumes, properties, and histrionic chia- ing probability, for belief in the fairy can scarcely
roscuro, which is as indispensable to a play as to a survive seminary dialectic. The poet's purpose re-
picture, an efficient fusion of energy, inertia, and quires that the Christian minister shall remove the
color, mental and physical. The light and shade crucifix from the wall to soothe the elfin temper it dis-
of a drama demands obedience to the canons of tracts ; thus teaching that even to gentle sympathies
sculpture, painting, and poetry, as well as to those ethical truth should not be sacrificed. The fairy
of acting, and is psychologic as well as mechanical. insidiously absorbs the soul of the bride, symbolically
For the latter division of the composition, electri- warning humanity against succumbing to unhappi-
cians, carpenters, and confederates accompanied the ness instead of seeking to overcome its causes and to
players over a route which extended from the At ennoble those who may contribute to it. The inci-
lantic to the head of the lakes and through the
dental music, by Julian Edwards, was racy of the soil.
middle West, everywhere received by large and All the story was compacted into a single scene. Its
cordial audiences, who set approval on an under. interest was breathless, its execution exquisite.
taking springing from a woman's devotion to liter “ The Land of Heart's Desire” is written in un.
ature and belief in the stage and in her country, an jingled verse, filling forty pages, small octavo.
undertaking requiring a manager with faith in Prior to its publication, Mr. Yeats had been known
literature upon the stage and in the talents of all chiefly, but not exclusively, by lyrics. It is difficult
engaged for its living interpretation.
* Irish Gaelic, Scotch Gaelic, which is also known as
To Mrs. Katherine Tynan Hinkson I am in Gaelic in the stricter sense, and Manx (spoken in the Isle of
debted for the personal acquaintance of Mr. William Man), form the Gaelic division. All three of these are still
Butler Yeats. Pale, slender, just entering then on
living. The first two languages seem hardly to have differed
manhood, he seemed, in his lustrous dark eyes,
from each other in the ninth century. The oldest monuments
are the old Gaelic inscriptions (Ogham is the native name for
modest demeanor, sincerity, earnestness, and uncon-
the Gaelic runes), which possibly date as far back as about
scious air of abstraction, what a man must be who 500 A. D. The literary record of Irish begins in the eighth
wrought in journalism for bread of the body, and century, at first with glosses, and then from the year 1100
for necessity of his soul wrote poetry as a luxury.
onward we have many extensive manuscripts which contain
Sagas. -- Elements of the Comparative Grammar of the Indo-
His father painted portraits for luxury, and sup Germanic Languages, by Karl Brugmann, Professor of Com-
ported his family in a cozy and hospitable suburban parative Philology in the University of Leipsig. Vol. I., p. 9.


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up
to be a Dubliner and not dramatic. The Dublin twenty-eight pages of long speeches — and nothing
stage has a fame unbounded by its insular frontier. else. As every inch of a scene must be almost math-
Great actors have been known to prefer an audience ematically defined to its specific end, and as there
of Dublin gamins to aristocracy and the blood is nothing defined in the poem but three fugitive
royal. There Sarah Ward studied wbile her parents sketches with no “ acting version,” the stage man-
pursued the craft she bequeathed to her illustrious agement had to assume the substance of casuistry.
daughter, Sarah Siddons. There were seen probably Long speeches are the terror alike of players
the greatest trio ever together on any stage — a and observers. But not a line was cut, except one
Garrick, a Barry, and a Sheridan in a single cast. to reconcile the embodiment of the queen with a
Thither, balked on the continent, baffiled in London, personality too young to make for the age attrib-
Handel went, seeking not in vain an opportunity to uted in the text. There were several departures,
produce for the first time the greatest of oratorios, however, from the text as originally printed, alter-
the « Messiah."
ations made by Robert Browning after Mrs. Le
Notwithstanding the vigor of Mr. Yeats's first Moyne had read the poem to him. From the pene-
play, it required a sagacity born of both intuition trative shading of her tones his ear detected dis-
and experience to stage it. However fascinating to sonances which had escaped his eye.
the imagination, to visualize a production of which
Neither play would make a "bill ” alone. It is
the intangible is an indispensable living element fundamental in art that association shall be by con-
might well make a manager pause. Wholly free trast or by harmony, thus verifying the truth that
from meretriciousness, the illusion was complete. art is unity in variety. In the combination made
The mystic power which answered on the “good by Mrs. Le Moyne, both principles are exemplified.
people's” night the illicit prayer of the discontented Contrast is potent between the splendor of an antique
bride was deliciously suggested in the green coat Italian palace and the squalor of a peasant cottage;
and red cap, the curling locks, the limpid voice, the
between the grandiose in architecture and embel-
sprite-like dance, the uncanny laughter, the weird lishment, the magnificent in costumes (magnificent
song, and the witching eyes of a girl of fourteen, they were), and tropical gardens, on the one hand,
who played with volatility and rare insight. * and the barrenness of a rustic kitchen on the other.
There was an absence of seeming incongruity be- Harmony was eloquent in the identity of the motive
tween the ethereal and the human participants in of the two plays:
the tragedy. The lines which room may not be
“That every inordinate cup is unbless'd.”
taken to quote open up wide vista in many direc-
The
tions. The bride said to the priest :
queen yearned unlawfully for the love of “Nor-
bert.” The bride wished for an unwarranted release.
“Father, I am right weary of four tongues :
Contrast appears again in the method of conse-
A tongue that is too crafty and too wise,
A tongue that is too godly and too grave,
quences. Force ends the lives, presumably, of the
A tongue that is more bitter than the tide,
conspirators who, to compass their mutual object,
And a kind tongue too full of drowsy love,
had shamed and tricked their benefactress. An
Of drowsy love and my captivity."
unearthly spell consumes the life of the bride, dis-
The fairy replied:
loyal to her troth in a wish for its annulment.
“But I can lead you, newly married bride,
The culminating episode in which “Constance"
Where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue,
and “Norbert” are discovered by the queen in
And where kind tongues bring no captivity,
For we are only true to the far lights, -
their true relationship proved a marvellous exhibi-
We follow singing, over valley and hill."
tion of inarticulate acting by Mrs. Le Moyne, acting
It was the “far lights” that allured the typical which cannot properly be called pantomime, although
woman of the play.
inarticulate. It was necessary to accept for the
It was not strange that Mrs. Le Moyne, who re queen, whom, in a naturally regal bearing, Mrs.
ceived from Robert Browning himself, after repeated Le Moyne admirably represented the question of
hearings, an authoritative commission to interpret age aside), monarchic humiliation, and, still more
his works as a reader, should have conceived the abasingly, affront' to womanly delicacy. There are
plan of putting one of the poems on the boards. great actresses who, to simulate frenzy, have been
To the ordinary vision, “In a Balcony ” would seen to pluck the hair from the head of a sofa ; to
appear unavailable because the entire theatrical escape tearing a passion to tatters, to tear a hand-
vehicle would have to be invented. There are kerchief. To indicate
rage
without words, gyratory
gesture has served, with a wild physiognomy. Per-
* The cast of “The Land of Heart's Desire" may be
plexity or indifference has shrugged shoulders ;
noted :
cunning has lifted eyebrows, and languor or confu-
Father Hart, the Priest of Kilmacowen
sion dropped them. Defiance has been known to
..
Oscar Eagle.
Bridget Bruin, Maurteen Bruin's wife
Ada Dwyer.
dislocate garments or the ringlets of a wig. Mrs.
Maire Bruin, Shawn Bruin's wife
Nora O'Brien. Le Moyne wore her own brown hair, and, with
A Faery Child
ideal queenly composure, disturbed neither that nor
The SCENE is laid in the Barony of Kilmacowen in the County of
Sligo, Ireland, and the time is the end of the eighteenth century.
any other material thing on the stage. Not only silent
The CHARACTERS are supposed to speak in Gaelic.
but almost motionless throughout the long final collo-
Harold Russell.
Frank Connor..
Shawn Bruin
Maurteen Bruin
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career.
quy, such is her artistic vitality that, resting against est of its speech. It was a singular illustration of
the balustrade for seemingly needed physical sup- subjective as distinguished from the simultaneous
port for the distraught "Queen," the acting of the and excellent objective acting of Mr. Skinner and
mind, graphic through the lines of her tormentors, Miss Robson. It rounded a symmetrical imperso-
permeated the atmosphere. The audience saw, or nation of one of Browning's most impracticable
heard, a despair, a fury, a supreme agony and sov characters.
ereign determination transmitted from the brain to That Browning is a familiar poet in American
the face by that indefinable power which only a few homes can no longer be doubted; for only that
of the greatest players have been able to employ familiarity can explain, in part at least, the quality
inarticulately and convincingly. The effect was of the audiences assembled all over the country to
due in a measure to Mrs. Le Moyne's noble render- enjoy this programme of which the junior author
ing of the queen's previous long speeches : for true is necessarily in only the beginning of an assured
“ reading" is utterance of another's words as if
Mr. Yeats has published several other
the thought were conceived at that moment in the volumes, prose and verse, and the play “Countess
mind of the speaker and spoken for the first time. Kathleen."
So complete was Mrs. Le Moyne's antecedent
“Strictly speaking," writes Mr. A. W. Ward
identification of herself with the queen, by voice, (“ English Dramatic Literature,” Vol. I., p. viii.),
deportment, and action, that the confessions and is dramatic literature is that form of literary compo-
betrayal in the lines of the lovers were apparently sition which accommodates itself to the demands of
anticipated in the eyes, the face, and the subtle
an art whose method is imitation in the way of
flexibility of the queen’s figure, which never lost
action.” That the action may be more of the mind
grace and scarcely seemed to lose fixedness. We
and less of the body, yet the imitation be vital, was
have been assured that
established in the production of these two poems.
“There's no art
The victory of mind over matter in the first was
To find the mind's construction in the face."
the artistic incorporation of the incorporeal. That
Shakespeare had not seen a face of such mobility
was due in equal measures to the poet, the stage
as Mrs. Le Moyne's. Half the house would prob- direction, and the performers. An adroit mutation
ably have affirmed during that scene that the queen of relative values in the Browning poem transferred
was speaking.
the sympathy of the audience from the hapless young
It has been mechanically demonstrated by Rous lovers to the discredited queen, a mutation wrought
selot that sounds may be produced and the normal by Mrs. Le Moyne's adroit recall of the character
ear fail in the closest proximity to catch them. The
from an old to a seemingly only middle-aged woman,
ear of the spirit is daintier. It hears sounds shaped with an exaltation, a pathos, and a power which
only on the lips of the spirit.
were irresistible.
There are three kinds of speech accent. Linguis A financial result commensurate with the æsthetic
tics note two, namely, accent of stress and accent charm of an undertaking now an achievement dem-
of pitch. There is a third, the accent of silence. onstrates that the American stage is ripe for the
In highly phonetized languages — for example, the literary play adequately presented.
Sanskrit - suspension of voice is an essential of
MARGARET F. SULLIVAN.
expression. It corresponds in vocal rhythm to the
” in music, which was “invented to give a
necessary relief to the voice and a sweetness to the
melody." Modern science corroborates Aristotle,
It is impossible, upon this occasion, to do more than
chronicle the death of Sir Walter Besant, which took
that articulate speech differentiates the human race
from other species.
place at Hampstead, on the ninth of June, after an ill-
Treatises have been written to
ness of several weeks' duration. He was in his sixty-
show that certain muscles are given to man solely fifth year, and, to judge from his recent work, in the
that he may reveal his feelings to others.* With full tide of his literary activities. Those activities are
out vocalization, without bringing to the sense of not to be properly measured by thinking of him in his
the audience evidence of muscular effort, Mrs. Le character as a popular novelist. His fiction, although
Moyne in that episode accomplished more exhaust the work by which he was most widely known, is the
ively than by words the poet's purpose, when, with
work that will be soonest forgotten. But the world
faltering, almost falling step, she at last passed in
will not quickly forget him in his character as the
silence between the lovers, off the stage, leaving in
champion of the rights of authorship, as the philanthro-
her wake a terrible expectancy of swift vengeance.
pist of the People's Palace, as the historian of London,
as the student of early French literature, as the worker
“ When the vocal chords come together in rhyth for the Palestine Exploration Fund, and as the bio-
mical vibration," writes Brugmann, “a musical clang grapher of Edward Palmer. In a word, his achieve-
arises which is called voice. All sounds which are ments outside the domain of fiction were so varied and
spoken with voice are called voiced, and those without so important that the novels might be left out of the
voice, voiceless." The portion of “In a Balcony” reckoning without serious loss to his reputation among
which was on this occasion voiceless was the clear-
the well-informed. A friend of all good causes, and an ar-
dent worker in their behalf, his death leaves the world
* Darwin : Life and Letters.
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commanders, and then to describe the actual
Tbe New Books.
manoeuvres and collisions as they occurred.
The main difference between the North and
PENNYPACKER'S LIFE OF GENERAL
the South in the conduct of the war was in the
MEADE.*
concentration of authority. Lee was in com.
It is hardly too much to say that Mr. Isaac
mand on his side. He could appoint bis corps
R. Pennypacker's Life of General George G.
commanders and plan and fight his campaigns
Meade is the most important single study bear-
without much interference. Jefferson Davis
ing on the Civil War. The book covers the cen-
was often at the front, but he did not carry a
tral operations of that war, describes its climax metaphorical guillotine with him. On the other
in the culminating battle, and details the long-
side there was war by committee: the Presi-
drawn-out but inevitable final scenes.
More dent, the Cabinet, Senators, Representatives,
than this, it presents a new view of the chief
and newspaper editors, were all strategists,
figures of that struggle, and draws from the and between them they hanged the successive
background, where contemporary intrigues and
Generals of the Army of the Potomac,“ in
General
injustice had thrust him, the finest spirit and order to encourage the others.”
ablest soldier of the war. If there is a deity Meade learned the art of war under such cir-
who presides over contemporary fame, he must
cumstances, and had experience of all the be-
be thoroughly used by this time to posterity's wildering changes.
rude reversals of his general verdicts. He puffs Meade, by a personal exploration at night,
As a brigadier at Charles City Cross Roads,
his cheeks, he clamors, he hustles, he howls on
his hired claque, he confuses the judgments of
saved a large part of McClellan's
army,
which
men by their passions, he distributes his crowns
had taken the wrong road, from marching
and laurels." And then, suddenly, his day is straight into the jaws of the enemy. Stiil
done, “the tumult and the shouting die," his
under McClellan, he was the chief factor at
wreaths are discovered to be mainly of the
South Mountain, and his capture of that strong-
deciduous kind, and the true heroes, or their
hold by assault compelled Lee's abandonment
ghosts, step out to receive their delayed reward.
of his plan of campaign and the concentration
The vast mass of our war literature is, in
behind Antietam Creek. At Fredericksburg,
the main, the work of interested actors in the
under Burnside, by one of the most brilliant
struggle. It is valuable material for a writer charges of the war, he cut Lee's line, and if
who can make allowance for the fact that every supported would have won a victory. This
man carries the centre of the visible borizon in charge, in daring and measure of success, com-
his own head. But the publication of the Offi-
pares most favorably with that of Pickett's at
cial War Records has at last given to historians Gettysburg,
Gettysburg, — for it was over longer and more
the uncolored facts of the campaigns. Mr.
difficult ground, it penetrated farther into the
Pennypacker has based his study on these rec enemy's position, it captured a number of flags
ords. He has collated them with patient mi-
and prisoners, and had a greater percentage of
nuteness ; he has left no point uninvestigated;
killed and wounded. At Chancellorsville the
he has even taken horse and ridden over the peremptory orders of Hooker held Meade in
whole region of the operations he has described. comparative inactivity. Had he been permitted
The result is a combination of truth of detail to use his corps as he desired, the fate of the
and grasp of ensemble and directness of plain battle would probably have been different. As
speech which is real history. He has brought it was, the other officers, realizing Hooker's
clearness out of a weltering confusion - and
and incapacity, looked to Meade to lead them.
his deductions can only be traversed by some-
Reynolds sent a message — “Tell General
one who will take similar pains and find equal Meade that someone should be waked up to
facts to back him. The scheme of Mr. Penny command this army.” The Government seems
packer's book seems to be, in brief, to show
to have reached the same conclusion; for on
the movements of the whole army and Meade's
the morning of June 28, 1863, Meade was
relations to them; to focus all the evidence
aroused from sleep by the arrival of peremp-
available, official and personal, in the narra-
tory orders for him to take command of the
tive; to give the plans and purposes of the Army of the Potomac.
The battle of Gettysburg is the central jewel
* LIFE OF GENERAL GEORGE G. MEADE. By Isaac R.
Pennypacker. (Great Commanders series.) With illustra-
in America's war crown. It was nobly fought
tions and maps. New York; D. Appleton & Co.
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matched in tactics. In the first place, his line the Battle of the Wilderness; it was Meade's
was twice the length of Meade's, yet so well Sixth Corps, not Sheridan's cavalry, which cut
were the latter's forces disposed that Lee bad the Confederate lines at Petersburg ; and at
no advantage of overlapping. In the second the very end of all, it rested upon Meade's
place, the sending of Longstreet, on the third decision to capture Lee and the remnant of his
day, against what was practically Meade's troops rather than let them surrender to Grant.
whole army in position, was a grievous error. Probably it is by his facts and opinions in
Lee's successes on the first and second day, in this part of his book that Mr. Pennypacker
fact, really solidified the Union lines. Mr. will arouse the most controversy. He deals
Pennypacker clears up a mass of controversy with Grant in a generous spirit, but hardly
regarding this battle. Credits have been conceals his opinion that Meade would have
claimed for Hancock and Warren and Sickles finished the work better alone. His most
to such an extent as to almost leave Meade startling statements are in regard to Sheridan.
barren laurels ; but Mr. Pennypacker cites Again and again, by the records, the latter is
record upon record and witness after witness proved to have been insubordinate, careless,
to show that Meade was the directing and in even incompetent. He seems to have always
spiring mind throughout. In a few days he wanted the centre of the stage with the lime-
had gathered together his widely - scattered light turned upon him. He seems to have con-
corps ; he directed the march and concentra. ceived of war as a grand, gigantic spree, in
tion ; by his personal efforts on the second day which he need have no concern for others.
he saved the Union left, imperilled by Sickles's Grant's infatuation with him gave him all the
error; and be provided for and anticipated opportunity he wanted. He was allowed to
the attack on the centre on the third day. Mr. form the cavalry of the army into a separate
Pennypacker also disposes, finally it is hoped, command, and wander off into space seeking
of the clamor against Meade for not crushing fights which were interesting in themselves but
Lee after the defeat. The North underesti. of no great value to the main objects of the
mated the power of the South before the war, campaign. He left Meade's flanks undefended,
at every crisis during the war, and yet after failed to collect information, and generally
One would think the terrible effec- neglected the duties usually assigned to a cav.
tiveness of the Southern troops in defense came alry commander. Grant's support of him was
out clearly enough the next year. Outnum of course indorsed by public opinion, for the
bered twice or thrice, Lee yet baffled and public has little knowledge of the grave mat-
checked the Union commanders, and was only ters of strategy, tactics, and supply, and has a
overwhelmed at last by sheer weight of men. genuine appreciation for a commanding officer
Meade had no superiority of numbers after who rises up in his stirrups and waves his
Gettysburg to make an end of Lee in his almost sword above his head. Mr. Charles A. Dana,
impregnable position. As soon as possible he it may be noted, appears in Mr. Pennypacker's
did move, and by skilful manœuvres drove Lee book in the somewhat unenviable light of
across the Rapidan and gave his government Informer-in-Chief.
time to summon up its forces and resources for What was Meade's reward ? England made
the final struggle.
Marlborough a duke, and gave him the im-
If the combatants had only known it, the perial domain and palace of Blenheim, for less
war was ended at Gettysburg. The rest was
but the dragging of Hector's corpse around the dukedom for his work in the Peninsular War,
walls of Troy. The South had no longer a and his whole monetary reward was about four
chance to win. Yet the most deadly struggle millions of dollars. After Gettysburg, Meade,
of the war ensued. Those final tragic scenes who was a Major in the Engineer Corps, was
remind one of the gloomy ending of the Nieb raised to the rank of Brigadier General in the
elungenlied, where in the Hall of Etzel the Regular Army — the same reward conferred
Huns and the Burgundians fall together until upon
Funston for the trapping of Aguinaldo.
all are gone. Splendid valor was displayed Meade was passed over for Grant, passed over
on either side, yet in a military point of view for Sherman, passed over for Sheridan. That
the fighting was certainly bad. Of what there he felt his wrongs deeply, there can be no
was creditable, a great deal was due to Meade, doubt; but he did not sulk in his tent and he
though superseded in command by Grant. It did not go about complaining. After the war
was Meade, not Grant, who ordered and opened l he gave his native city the benefit of his taste
the war.
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erences.
and skill in the laying out of its beautiful park. Evolutionary ethics. And nobody seems to
Brasidas, the Spartan General, is the central have noticed that in his crushing reply to
figure of the history of the Peloponnesian War. Huxley's Romanes lecture he fairly unseated
He goes up and down Greece, fighting battles, in the open lists that redoubtable champion of
quelling revolts, redressing grievances. Where controversy, the overthrower of dukes, bishops,
ever anything is wrong, he is sure to turn up. and prime ministers.
Meanwhile nobody pays much attention to In response to a reviewer who had sharply
Brasidas, and Thucydides does not waste a taken him to task for his estimate of Buckle,
word of his golden style in describing his per Mr. Stephen modestly says that he himself
sonality. Finally, Brasidas dies, and his hig could no more have written Buckle's book than
torian permits himself a single sentence he could have encountered him at chess. It
“Brasidas lived and died in the practice of every may be so. But Buckle's book, for all his
virtue.” Meade somehow recalls the modest, brilliance and masterly marshalling of facts,
unostentatious Greek hero. He too was always is full of things that are not so — crotchets,
on hand at every crisis, to do the right thing fantastic hypotheses unverified and unverifiable,
and retrieve the errors of others. And if his hasty generalizations and pseudo-scientific laws;
present biographer does not quite equal Thu-while, humanly speaking, it will not be easy
cydides in his triumph of taciturnity, he at to find anything affirmed in the volumes of
least does not indulge in any blare of trumpets Mr. Stephen that is not substantially as he
over his hero. He is brief in his personal ref. declares it to be. And this preëminent sanity
He gives us a glimpse of Meade is, after all, as rare a quality in literature as
awakened at night to take command of the brilliancy, if not as genius. We shall quite as
Army of the Potomac at its most critical hour; soon find another Buckle, another Macaulay,
another of his riding into the gap between or even another Carlyle, as a literary man who,
Sickles and the main line at Gettysburg, ready writing voluminously on a wide range of con-
to charge at the head of a few officers and troverted ethical, critical, and philosophical
orderlies to stay the oncoming rush of the questions, never permits himself an ignoratio
Confederate troops ; and in his final paragraph elenchi, a flight of irrelevant rhetoric, an unfair
he thus sums up, as a logical deduction from use of ambiguous terms, or a misrepresentation
his whole story, the services of Meade: “In of his opponent's thought, but always endeavors
the history of the wars of the United States, to bring out the aspect of truth aimed at by
it does not appear that the nation ever profited the doctrine or formula which he is controvert-
by the services of any other army commander ing, and who invariably qualifies the positive-
who combined thorough training with personal ness of his assertions in exact proportion to
energy and skill on the battlefield as did Gen the available evidence.
eral Meade." That is a great verdict, and These qualities revealed in Mr. Stephen's
unless the whole structure of Mr. Pennypacker's “English Thought in the Eighteenth Century,”
book can be overthrown, it is a true one. published in 1876, are now more maturely dis-
CHARLES LEONARD MOORE. played in a sequel to that work, just published,
entitled “ The English Utilitarians.” The
title does not quite do justice to the contents.
“ The English Utilitarians” suggests mainly,
AN HISTORIAN OF IDEAS. *
if vot exclusively, the utilitarian theory of
Mr. Leslie Stephen is an incomparable his ethics and legislation. But in addition to this,
torian of ideas. His superb rationality and Mr. Stephen has given us a history and criti-
fair-mindedness give to his work in this kind cism of the classical political economy, a close
a quality of finality and convincingness unat- study of the associationist psychology in its
tainable by more showy but less judicial writers. relation to the Scottish philosophy of Reid,
His services to English literature are generally Stuart, and Hamilton, and a brief but extremely
acknowledged. But there is little recognition, instructive sketch of the religious thought of
on the part of professional students of philoso- the first half of the century.
phy, of the fact that his “Science of Ethics" The work is not only broader, but more in-
is not only the best but the only logically cohe- teresting, than the promise of its title. “Utili-
rent presentation of the so-called Spencerian or tarianism," exclaims Matthew Arnold, “ surely
*THE ENGLISH UTILITARIANS. By Leslie Stephen. In
a pedant invented the word ; and oh, what
three volumes. New York: G. P. Putnam's Song.
pedants have been at work employing it.” But
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Mr. Stephen, though he aims at the enlighten- problems of philosophy in the England of fifty
ment rather than the mere entertainment of years ago. They require many qualifications
his readers, possesses himself a sense of humor, to-day, a surprising number of which, however,
and is keenly alive to the lack of it in his were parenthetically anticipated, though not
heroes. “ Austin,” he quietly observes, in ex. emphasized, by Mill himself. We are suffi-
planation of the failure of the Lectures on ciently aware of their limitations, and there is
Jurisprudence, “ thought it a duty to be as dry nothing to be learned from vague a priori de-
as Bentham, and discharged the duty scrupu- preciation of them
preciation of them — from repeating that Mal-
lously.” Mr. Stephen cannot accomplish the thus has been refuted by the McCormick
impossible. He cannot enliven Bentham, of reaper, that the wage-fund is an illusion and
whom Hazlitt said, “He writes a language of the economic man is a fiction, -or from point-
his own that darkens knowledge.” He cannot ing out again that Mill was imperfectly ac-
make Malthus and Ricardo and Mill on Ham- quainted with Kant, that he failed to anticipate
ilton amusing to frivolous readers. But the evolution, and that he “opened a trap-door
present work has this advantage over its pre under the Utilitarian ethics" by admitting
decessor : that the leading ideas of which it qualitative differences in pleasures. Those
treats still possess more than a merely historical who fancy that they have outgrown Mill should
interest. There is no such hopelessly arid and re-read the essay on Bentham, that on Cole-
barren tract to be traversed as the exhaustive ridge, that on the Conflict in America, and ask
survey of the futile Deist controversy in the themselves where they can find to-day such
earlier work. Mr. Stephen has himself been wide and completely assimilated knowledge
a disciple of the doctrine which be interprets. combined with such lucidity and precision of
He has lived through and assimilated the modi statement, so well defined and systematically
fications which evolution, the new psychology, applied a philosophy united with such sympa-
and the new erudition have necessitated in our thetic insight into the views of an opponent,
apprehension of it. And his judicial and lucid such keen political sagacity accompanied by so
exposition of all this enlists the thoughtful strong an enthusiasm for humanity. The time
reader's attention and holds it to the end. for destructive criticism of Mill is past. The
These considerations enter especially into helpful thing would be, assuming the essential
the review and estimate of the life-work of rationality of his point of view, to show just
John Stuart Mill, which occupies the larger what modifications he himself would probably
part of the third volume, and which no other have made in his doctrines and formulas if he
living writer, with the possible exception of could have lived to share the wider outlook of
Mr. Morley, was so well qualified to execute. our generation. It is precisely this that Mr.
“What was there to find so mysteriously sig. Stephen does, and does the more admirably
nificant in Goethe, or in John Mill so full of because, as he repeatedly observes, he is not a
weight?” cries Professor James, lamenting specialist, is not greatly erudite in any of
the lost illusions of his youth. So it ever is. Mill's chief fields of thought unless it be in the
The new psychology and the new rhetoric can theory of ethics. A professional economist
make nothing of the facts and the logic of yes would have taken us beyond our depth into the
terday in their old-fashioned psychological bog of the wage-fund and Malthusian contro-
garb. But however it may be in physics, in versies. Mr. Stephen clearly presents the real
the mental and moral sciences there are a great points at issue, and is careful not to carry the
many facts and relations which persist sub- analysis beyond the point at which logomachy
stantially unaltered by new fashions in psychol- begins. Few specialists in logic or psychology
ogy. And there are a great many distinctions, would have possessed the self-restraint required
classifications, and groupings, which conform to present, disengaged from all technical detail,
to the experience and apprehensions of normal the true significance of Mill's four methods
humanity, and so retain their validity, even and his doctrine of natural kinds; and a "Kant
after evolution has taught us the vanity of philologist " would have fairly wallowed in the
“natural kinds,” and the new sociology has slough of misconceptions offered by the Mill-
made us shy of dogmatizing about so complex Hamilton controversy : whereas Mr. Stephen
a growth as the actual social structure. The is content to mark the obvious limits of Mill's
logic, the political economy, and the review of and Hamilton's knowledge of Kant, and to set
Hamilton represent the highest development of forth lucidly the parts of Kant's doctrine that
rational thought about human conduct and the are relevant to the discussion. Hamilton him.


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self is treated with greater severity and with less
THE OLD NEW YORK FRONTIER. *
historical objectivity, perhaps, than any other
writer discussed in these volumes. But the bub-
From a time immemorial before the coming
ble of Hamilton's reputation still needed prick.
of the white man, Central New York was in
ing, and the work is here done neatly and finally. possession of the Iroquois, a confederation of
The book, however, is by no means wholly five Indian nations, to which was joined, in the
devoted to these austere themes. The first year 1715, a Southern tribe, the Tuscaroras,
half of Volume I. is occupied by a masterly English settlers. Thus was constituted what
who were driven from South Carolina by the
introductory survey, social, political, economic,
was afterward known as the famous Six Na-
and literary, of English society at the close of
the eighteenth century. The biographical
tions. They numbered about 12,000, and long
sketches are executed with a skill that shows
before any contact with the whites had taken
the practised hand of the editor of the Dic place they were in a semi-civilized condition,
and became the most powerful of the Indian
tionary of National Biography. And though
Mr. Stephen aims at lucidity and precision of
races on the continent, their sway extending
style rather than picturesqueness, he not in-
west as far as the Mississippi and south to the
frequently carries precision and lucidity to the
confines of Mexico. They had a representative
point where they have the effect of epigram.
form of government, a national council, and,
* Truisms,” he tells us, “ are required so long hold meetings and were often consulted in
strange to say, their women were permitted to
as self-contradictory propositions are accepted.
" The doctrine of Sir William Hamilton has
matters of importance. One of the names of
been so often lucidly expounded that it is hard People. They lived in cabins built of wood,
the Six Nations meant in English the United
to say what it means."
“ Wbat Kant precisely and cultivated large fields of tobacco, corn, and
meant, or whether he had not various and in-
consistent meanings, is happily a question kinds of handiwork, and built forts palisaded
other vegetables ; they were skilful in various
beyond my purpose.” Sociologists and psychol. with logs, which were proof against the white
ogists may meditate upon the following: “It
man's fire-arms.
is common enough to attempt to create a science
The leadership of the Six Nations was,
by inventing technical terminology.” To meta-
physicians we may commend the definition that shortly after the outbreak of our Revolutionary
War, assigned by common consent and acclaim
“a philosophy is a poetry stated in terms of
logic.” Some theologians may be interested
to Joseph Brant, known as the Great Captain,
in the allusion to those who infer that“ opinions
a distinction to which his birth as an Indian
are confirmed because a non-natural interpre-
sachem, his military genius, and his command-
tation can be forced upon them.” The social ing and masterful personality fully entitled
him. Then but little over thirty years of age,
settlement young woman will have many
searchings of heart when she reads that it
Brant, fitly characterized as "the most remark-
able Indian known to history," was prepared
might almost seem that he (Bentham) rather
valued the benevolent end because it gave em-
to enter upon that career which has written
his name indelibly upon many a blood-stained
ployment to his faculties, than valued the em-
page in the annals of New York State. Waver-
ployment because it led to the end.” All
system-mongers should incorporate the following for a time as to which side he should take
in the conflict between the mother-country and
ing in their system of logic: “If a system will
work, the minutest details can be exhibited.
the colonies, his sense of loyalty to the King
Therefore, it is inferred, an exhibition of mi-
finally prevailed, a result to which a visit made
nute detail
just then to England, his cordial reception
that it will work.” Lastly,
proves
we would inscribe in letters of gold in the there, and his presentation at Court, no doubt
faculty-room of every educational body that
largely contributed. The traits native to his
race had in Brant been tempered by the mild-
legislates for the ingenious youth of America
these words of wisdom : « He seems to fall into
ness of his disposition and his Christian nur-
in one of the missionary schools; and the
the error, too common among legislative theo-
rists, of assuming that an institution will be charges made against him during his lifetime,
worked for the ends of the contriver, instead
and repeated carelessly by writers since his
of asking to what ends it may be distorted by * THE OLD NEW YORK FRONTIER: Its Wars with Indians
the ingenuity of all who can turn it to account
and Tories, its Missionary Schools, Pioneers, and Land
Titles, 1614-1800. By Francis Whiting Halsey. With Maps
for their own purposes.” PAUL SHOREY. and Illustrations. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.


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day, of needless brutality and ferocity in the the Susquehanna. From this stock came some
Indian and Tory raids upon the defenceless of the most distinguished of the Revolutionary
border settlements, have been found on inves Generals, - Henry Knox, John Stark, An-
tigation to be for the most part without foun. thony Wayne, and the Clintons. " It was the
dation.
men in these frontier communities, Palatine,
By reason of its central position among the Scotch-Irish, and Dutch,” says Mr. Halsey,
American colonies, the people of New York that " bore the shock of war when the conflict
took a conspicuous part in the long and bloody with England began. It was they who became
strife maintained with such stubborn resistance patriots to a man; it was the houses and crops
and unflinching valor, within and upon its of these which were burned; it was they who
borders, in the French and Indian Wars and were murdered or made prisoners.” Of these
during the Revolution. The Old Frontier of men, the Scotch-Irish were perhaps the greatest
New York was that established by the treaty sufferers. Living as they were at the outpost
of Fort Stanwix, made by Sir William Johnson of civilization, in towns sparsely settled and
with the Iroquois in 1768. It conveyed to the remote from other settlements, and with little
English not only large parts of New York, but hope of relief from any of Washington's forces,
parts also of Kentucky, West Virginia, and dependent entirely upon their own untrained
Pennsylvania. The amount paid in money for militia, “it was upon them that the Indians
this imperial domain was something over and their Tory allies in the Border Wars were
$50,000. That section of this historic line the first to fall, and it was their lands alone
lying within New York State extended from that became entirely depopulated.” When
Fort Stanwix, near Oneida Lake, in a nearly peace was established, in 1783, many of those
straight course and a southerly direction to the who had survived the massacres of Cobleskill,
head-waters of the Delaware.
Springfield, German Flatts, and Cherry Valley,
The beautiful region known as the Susque- returned to their old homes in the Mohawk
hanna Valley was visited by a few adventurous and Schoharie Valleys; while emigrants from
Dutchmen from Albany in the prosecution of New England came in numbers to the lands
their business as fur-traders, as early as 1614, about the upper Susquehanna, from which the
several years before the arrival of the Pilgrims Scotch-Irish, Palatine, and other pioneers had
at Plymouth. These were followed not long been driven, virtually dominating from that
after by a number of Jesuit priests, who had time Central and Western New York.
penetrated the wilderness, coming from New This border warfare has invested that entire
France, with the view of converting the savages. region with as much romance and legend and
Early in the eighteenth century there was a
a tradition as ever existed on the Scottish border,
large influx of Palatines from Germany on and forming quite as good material for song
their way to Pennsylvania, many of them, how and story. The wonder is that so little use of
ever, stopping in the Valley and becoming this material has been made ; for, save for some
permanent residents there. At about the same county histories, some historical monographs,
time there arrived a company of Church of like W. L. Stone's admirable Life of Joseph
England men, sent out to propagate the Gospel Brant, for example, and a number of unim.
in the New World, and some Non-conformist portant works of fiction, only gleanings from
ministers from New England, who built chapels this rich field have as yet been made. One
and established schools, in one of which Joseph reason for this is that many of the chronicles
Brant was educated. This missionary feature of that period, published early in this past cen.
of our colonization is one to which hitherto tury, have long been out of print, and that a
little importance has been attached by histo store of precious papers, letters, diaries, etc.,
rians.; indeed, very little has been known of it. has been lying in State archives, and in libra-
Mr. Halsey has, in the present work, given to ries, public and private, much of it until re-
it much deserved prominence.
cently inaccessible, or reposing undisturbed
The Palatines settled upon lands in the Mo- owing to the
owing to the languid interest felt in its subject-
hawk and Schoharie Valleys, where they con matter.
stituted the bulk of the white population; The story of the tragedies enacted in the
while the Scotch-Irish, coming over in great Susquehanna and Mohawk Valleys during the
numbers from about 1720 (some 30,000, it is Revolution and of the frightful sufferings and
stated, crossing the Atlantic within two years), privations of the people, almost unexampled in
planted themselves along the upper waters of the annals of Indian warfare, has now for the


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first time been consecutively told. Born and make their appeal to the universal reason which is
reared in the region which he describes, the operative in each man, and which carries with it
author of this work has had good opportunities principles of right and justice. It is inevitable that
for becoming familiar with its localities and they should seek to apply these transcendental prin-
traditions, as well as for gaining access to
ciples to social institutions.
Thus, the starting-point of Mr. Willoughby's
documentary material, and he has availed him.
treatise on “ Social Justice” is in the initial sen-
self of these opportunities with rare judgment
tence: “Ideals of right constitute the essentially
and discretion, and in the true historic spirit.
active principles in our social and political life.”
His difficulty seems to bave been that of selec But abstract ideas cannot be applied directly to an
tion ; and the one regret awaiting the reader unknown situation. - What is right or wrong for
of these fascinating pages is that the writer us as members of a society can be determined only
felt compelled to compress into one volume after we have ascertained all the circumstances
what might have been readily and justifiably which have led to a given state of affairs, as well
expanded into two or more. Of such signifi-
as the conditions by which a given line of conduct
is to be influenced in the future. This will mean
cance were the events transpiring in that for.
that at least a certain amount of study of actual
mative period in our Empire State, and so
social conditions is imperative upon everyone, and
many were the personages of more or less dis- especially upon those who would seek to teach or
tinction who took part in them, that the space guide others. The study of the social sciences will
to which Mr. Halsey has modestly confined thus be shown to be, as it were, a propedeutic to
himself is scarcely adequate for their effective the science of right living.” There is a much easier
setting forth. He is entitled to great praise and more direct path to subjective certainty, the
for the completion of this illuminating record, way of deduction from one's own preferences, class
on such broad and comprehensive lines and in prejudices, inherited beliefs and instincts, or popular
such vivid colors, of those
ideas. But subjective certainty, while very enjoy.
“Old, forgotten, far-off things
able, is not communicable and transferable, and
And battles long ago,'
cannot be made the basis of scientific investigation
the issues of which, in the successive stages of
or of associated action in a self-governing commu-
its civilization, have been so momentous to the pity. A multitude of vociferating orators, all shout-
ing their subjective certainties at once in full cry,
people of New York, but the memory of which
simply drown each other's sentences. Reason is
had well-nigh perished from the minds of this
social, and it renders its verdicts only to those who
generation. The text of the work is enriched patiently consider all factors. It is in this spirit
by portraits of Joseph Brant and of Sir William we are asked to consider justice, equality, property,
Johnson, maps of the Old Frontier and of the distributive justice, the right of coercion, the ethics
early patents, and a complete bibliography. of competition and punishment. “All we can say
HENRY C. MATTHEWS.
all that any ethical teacher can say — is that, in
each instance where an act is required, one must
examine it as to all its possible results, proximate
and ultimate, objective and subjective, and then ask
himself whether the given line of conduct is more
ATTEMPTS AT SOCIAL ETHICS.*
calculated than any other possible line of conduct
Most men are not aware of the reasons of their to advance the world toward the realization of the
conduct, because they have not formed the habit of highest ethical perfection.” If this programme is
critical reflection. Instincts, traditions, unconscious carried out we shall find that the pseudo-science
imitation of our neighbors, take care of action, im called “Social Ethics” will become a practical
pel to unthinking deeds, and form standards of social sociology based on induction, and no longer a series
judgment. But when the custom is challenged or of vague deductions from assumed premises. For
the institution is assailed by discontented persons, emphasizing this conclusion, the author of “Social
a community must either suppress criticism or rea Justice" deserves praise.
son with the rebels. The disciples of T. H. Green Mr. J. A. Hobson, in his discussion of the “So-
* SOCIAL JUSTICE. By W. W. Willoughby. New York: THE JEW IN LONDON. By C. Russell and H. S. Lewis.
The Macmillan Co.
New York: T. Y, Crowell Co.
THE SOCIAL PROBLEM. By J. A. Hobson. New York: THE SLAVERY OF OUR TIMES. By Leo Tolstoy. New
James Pott & Co.
York: Dodd, Mead & Co.
THE TEMPERANCE PROBLEM AND SOCIAL REFORM. By COMMERCE AND CHRISTIANITY. By the author of “Life
Joseph Rountree and Arthur Sherwell, Seventh edition. New in Our Villages," etc. New York: The Macmillan Co.
York: Truslove, Hanson & Comba.
OUR NATION'S NEED. By J. S. Connell. New York: J. S.
NOTES OF AN ITINERANT POLICEMAN. By Josiah Flynt Ogilvie Publishing Co.
(pseudonym). Boston: L. C. Page & Co.
RESTRAINT OF TRADE. By W. H. Harper, Chicago.
THE POWERS THAT PREY. By Josiah Flynt and Francis RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS FOR SOCIAL BETTERMENT. By
Walton. New York : McClure, Phillips & Co.
Josiah Strong. New York : The Baker & Taylor Co.


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able power.
cial Problem,” brings into the camp of the socio- carefully and fully presented, — prohibitory legisla-
logists his criticism against economics, - or, rather, tion, local option, high license, government spirit
against the claim of political economy to furnish monopoly, the dispensary system, the Gothenburg
society with principles for guidance in conduct. method, and finally an estimate of the relative
He writes with a serious purpose and with remark. place and value of all these methods. While some
At times he seems to be carrying us
sources of information in relation to this country
bodily over to Socialism, for he regards it as nec seem to have been overlooked, the work will be
essary to social progress that all monopolistic en found a convenient manual, sane, conservative, and
terprises be taken over by city, commonwealth, or persuasive.
nation. But he stops short of Marxism, and proves “Josiah Flynt” has succeeded in making urban
that there will still remain large room for private police authorities very angry with him, and his
capital and individual enterprise in the occupations descriptions of the alliance of the Upper and Under
which have an artistic element and cannot be served Worlds, as given in his “Notes of an Itinerant
by machinery on a large scale. With increasing Policeman ” and “The Powers that Prey,” are not
taste and wealth there will be an enlarged demand pleasant reading to those who value serenity of
for articles made to order, and on these monopoly mind above public security and purity. While there
cannot lay its hands. The abuses of parasitic is a tendency to strong and vivid statement, the
wealth are described in terms which remind us of stories of this expert tramp are too minute and
Veblen's “Theory of the Leisure Classes,” while circumstantial to ignore. Occasional revelations of
the misery of penury is painted in vivid contrast investigating committees, reporters, and grand
with luxury paid for from unearned income. The juries tend to confirm the impression that there is
paradox of the “glut” is traced to this cause. very much truth in the charge that many of those
Millions are ready to work and buy at the moment who are paid by a heavily-taxed society to protect
when the captains of industry” confess their in it are in the habit of adding to their income by
ability to keep factories open on account of “over levying assessments on criminals. Those citizens
production.” The purchasing power is in the bands who indulge the fancy that all goes well without
of those who already have excessive wealth, and zealous and vigilant effort may be startled from
the others cannot furnish custom for the merchants. their moral somnolence by these vigorous and pic-
The remedy proposed by Mr. Hobson is to turn the turesque sketches.
unearned income into the public treasury by social Two local studies of the Jewish population of
izing monopolistic industries. When wealth is London, by Mr. C. Russell and Mr. H. S. Lewis,
diffused there will be no lack of purchasers and are of interest in several American cities, because
consumers. Yet there is real danger of over the immigration of Jews from Russia has aggravated
population. Mr. Hobson admits the current teaching, our municipal difficulties, at least temporarily, to a
and faces the consequences as Plato did. He frankly very serious degree. It is not easy for people of
says that if people are paid “according to their different race and religious education to cooperate
needs " they may multiply more rapidly than their economically and politically until the process of
wants can be met. Legal restrictions on marriage spiritual assimilation has made considerable ad-
will become necessary. Our school teachers will
Mr. Russell does not agree with Mr. Lewis
find a theme for a quarrel in the author's reaction in all his conclusions, and it must for some time
ary statement that government schools cannot lead remain an open question whether the Jewish popu-
in the most inventive and original methods. Free lation can ever learn to draw near to the religious
schools can render a good service by giving the life of other peoples. But it seems to be
that
elements of instruction in a mechanical way, but in a tolerant community they can thrive without
cannot equal private schools in trying useful experi- disturbing the economic progress of the earlier oc-
ments in method. It is useless to attempt in brief cupants of the territory, since the Jews are eager
space a criticism of this thought-provoking and to rise in pecuniary power and social consideration,
stimulating book. It will arouse opposition, but it and they will not passively accept a low standard
will give the most hostile readers food for reflection. of life if by any means they can improve their lot.
If people were as quickly moved by reason as by Count Tolstoy pours out a wide if somewhat thin
immediate interests, or even if the business world stream of pathetic description and emotional appeal
read books at all, this volume would win a place in on behalf of some vague scheme of reversion to
the libraries of men of affairs.
agricultural life, in his book entitled “ The Slavery
Passing to the thick volume on Temperance Re of Our Times." A student of social reform cannot
form, by Mr. Rountree and Mr. Sherwell, we dis-help sympathizing with the Russian's moral earnest-
cover the influence of the idea that a rational rule
ness and boundless pity for those who suffer. But
of conduct can be discovered only by an induction the gross misrepresentation of classic economics,
of all the factors which bear on the subject, causa the reactionary ideals, the utterly visionary pro-
tive and regulative. We confront the appalling gramme, become very wearisome after one has read
results of the use of intoxicants upon health, eco several volumes of these harangues. If the public
nomic well-being, education, and political integrity. could only take the good Count as an artist, and
Then the various methods of reducing the evils are ignore him as an economist, he might do good ;
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Switzerland.
but his fascination as a story-teller confuses the
BRIEFS ON NEW BOOKS.
intellect and puts the critical faculty off its guard.
The only antidote for illogical and untrue repre The Reformer
In the “ Heroes of the Reformation"
sentations by economists is a careful study of their of German series (Putnam) we now have a new
strongest works. But it is a good deal easier to
life, by Dr. Samuel M. Jackson, of
read tirades and gloomy word-pictures than to fol Huldreich Zwingli, the Reformer of German Switz-
low scientific processes, and so we must expect to
erland. If the author had tried to be impartial"
learn that “The Slavery of Our Times” will be with somewhat legs zeal, it might have been better
placed on the shelf with Adam Smith and Francis for his work. We may fairly question whether one
Walker in many libraries, and be read while the who writes the biography of a “Hero of the Refor.
masters of the science are honored by title. But mation ” should pride bimself on having “avoided
facts and science will, after all, have their way, and eulogy.” It is a book of so much information and
fiction will take its proper place as a stimulant. such rich pictorial equipment that one regrets the
Meantime, the plea for universal peace deserves a pervading consciousness that care was being taken
hearing on its own account, and no hater of hateful by Professor Jackson not to forget that Zwingli
war can wish Count Tolstoy to be silent on that must be kept in a rank below Luther. And this
subject, even if his artistic temperament prevents care is the less warranted in view of the admission
him from being exact on any subject.
in the Preface: “If the four great continental re-
The author of “Commerce and Christianity” formers - Luther, Melanchthon, Zwingli, and Cal.
assumes that Socialism has made out its case : that vin — should appear to-day, the one among them
the sole business of the Church is to provide a pulpit who would have to do least to adapt himself to our
for its doctrines and a ritual for its praise : and modern ways of thought, and the man who would
that the future existence of all ecclesiastical organi soonest gather an enthusiastic following, would be
zations depends on their becoming teachers of eco Huldreich Zwingli.” Which seems very like an
nomics of this particular type. What would remain admission that Zwingli was the most liberal and
for religious institutions to do if Socialism were progressive of the four, as he probably was. He
adopted this year, the author seems not to have had faults enough.
But is it sufficient reason for
considered.
denying him an equality with Luther, that “in his
A very attractive and appetizing programme is treatment of the Baptists he was prejudiced and
suggested by the title “Our Nation's Need; or, cruel, his literary work is marred by haste, his
Let us all Divide Up and Start Even." Those who jealousy of Luther was a mark of weakness, and in
desire to read what a very amiable person has to the latter part of his life he was more of a politician
say on Communism may thank us for calling at than he should have been”? Could not similar
tention by this brief note to the little volume. and more severe things be said of Luther and Cal.
In “Restraint of Trade” Mr. Harper has col vin? It has happened that Luther and Calvin
lected and arranged in convenient form a great became the founders of greater organizations, and
many opinions on the subject of trusts. Critical are better known to the world than Zwingli. But
treatment is not to be expected in a compilation, circumstances, notably political and linguistic con-
and there is here no attempt at an organic connec ditions, did much for the success of Luther's mission.
tion of the material ; yet in spite of this fact the After reading the excellent résumé of Zwingli's
book will be found for some purposes quite conven theology in Professor Foster's supplementary chap-
ient for reference.
ter, the reader is inclined to regret that Zwingli's
The modern tendency to make the church as views were not the ones to make the deepest im-
useful as possible in ministering to human needs is pression on Europe. Zwingli was, all in all, a more
illustrated by the brief monograph prepared for the admirable person, a man more after our modern
Department of Social Economy at the Paris Expo-hearts, than Luther. But the straining out of the
sition of 1890. While it is by no means exhaustive historical background in a preliminary chapter, and
in its treatment of " Religious Movements for Social of Zwingli's theology in a supplementary chapter,
Betterment," the illustrations selected are taken together with the anxious abstinence from eulogy,
from some of the most important efforts of the have made the account cold and unsympathetic,
kind, and their significance in the history of Chris- though withal valuable. Professor Vincent's survey
tian civilization is intelligently interpreted.
of the condition of Switzerland at the beginning of
CHARLES R. HENDERSON.
the sixteenth century is of itself excellent, and the
fine press-work and the thirty-three half-tone illus-
trations add greatly to the pleasure of the reader.
The fourth International Publishers' Congress has
Professor Titchener, the well-known
been in session at Leipsic during the past week. The
An important aid
to the teaching
only American representative in attendance was Mr.
psychologist of Cornell University,
of Psychology
George Haven Putnam. Among the English delegates
has completed the first portions of
were Mr. John Murray, Frederick Macmillan, Fisher his laboratory manual on “Experimental Psychol-
Unwin, and William Heinemann. A number of im ogy" (Macmillan), and is to be congratulated upon
portant papers were read and discussed.
the successful issue of a laborious and none too


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exhilarating task. The volumes furnish an addi- fusion her army and navy had been urged to victory
tional evidence of the serious purpose and scientific after victory in three continents and on every ocean.
depth of the experimental methods as applied to The sub-title “Growth and Division of the British
the problems of psychology, and no less of the close Empire” suggests that later period in Chatham's
relations between the pursuit of the fundamental career when he tried in vain to shape the Govern-
mental problems by other and more historic meth. ment's policy toward its revolting colonies into
ods. The method is here wisely subordinated to the something like justice and conciliation. No true
end, without sacrificing precision, and yet without American can read without emotion, or can ever
distorting the essential nature of the subject forget, the burning, passionate words with which he
material. To the small literature of distinctly pleaded for fairness toward the kin beyond sea.
pedagogical aids to laboratory psychology, this “Chatham's insight into the American character
manual comes as a very weighty contribution and was the outcome of deep affection and sympathy;
one destined to influence in no slight measure the to him they were not •our subjects,' but Englishmen
progress of the teaching of psychology in the uni. who still loved the tones of that deep chord which
versities of the country. Like all such volumes, Hampden smote, they were cives Romani, men of
what is offered will be more available to one instruc the true race, of like faith and passions with him-
tor than to another; and each must choose and self. There,' he wrote of America, there where
adapt and cat his garment' according to his cloth. I had garnered up my heart.” Mr. Green's clear
Yet the advantage of a trustworthy and expert and sympathetic narrative admirably supplements
guide in an intricate and somewhat unexplored the previous Chatham literature which consisted
country is unmistakable, -- though the ultimate mainly of Francis Thackeray's “ History of William
success of the expedition will depend upon the tact Pitt" (1827), Macaulay's famous essay, and the
and insight and ingenuity of the user of the guide.four volumes of Correspondence issued by the ex-
Professor Titchener offers a guide both for the ecutors of the younger Pitt.
teacher and the taught. The two volumes are in
reality independent works, and the ground covered For students
Lovers of Shakespeare's dramatic
by the instructor's manual is more extensive and
of Shakespeare writings, and those who delight to
and of law.
more thoroughly explored than the general outline
trace the history of the struggle over
for the students. The former makes possible the
the jurisdiction of equity between the courts of
training of advanced students in an apprenticeship
chancery and those of the common law, will read
to their specialty. Together, the present volumes
with more than usual interest the Hon. Charles E.
contain the qualitative parts of the work, and will
Phelps's “ Falstaff and Equity, an Interpretation
be followed in good season by a complementary
(Houghton). Taking as his text the words used
portion treating of the quantitative methods and
by Falstaff in the second scene of the second act of
the problems to which they are applicable. There
I. Henry IV., “ An the Prince and Poins be not
is much originality in the plan and in the mode of
two arrant cowards, there's no equity stirring,”
its execution; yet the test of time and experience Judge Phelps undertakes to explain a joke in a
will be necessary to prove the applicability of these
manner which gives it new point and added signifi-
volumes to actual needs. Their scholarship, origi-
In doing this, he is induced to investigate
nality, and grasp of the problems treated is sufficient
the records at Stratford-on-Avon, and particularly
to bespeak for them a favorable reception among
the court records in which the Shakespeares —
the group of special teachers of psychology for
father, mother, and son William — figure promi-
whom they are primarily intended.
nently; and from them he is able to show, in a
convincing manner, some of the crudities of judicial
The Life of William Pitt, Lord procedure in Shakespeare's time, and out of the
New Life of
Chatham, by Mr. Walford Davis experiences of this litigation to account for the re-
Lord Chatham.
Green, appears in the “ Heroes of mark, " There's no equity stirring,” which is put
the Nations " series (Putnam). None of the biog into Falstaff's mouth at an opportune moment,
raphies thus far issued in this series (except natur designed doubtless as a “gag,” but involving also
ally those of Lincoln, Grant, Lee, and Columbus) a nice criticism on the English courts in the admin-
should command a keener interest among American istration of justice. The discussion by Judge Phelps
readers than this story of the Great Commoner, is clear and masterful. His argument is original,
whose career was so closely connected with the and shows painstaking investigation and careful
colonial expansion of Great Britain, and “whose research. His contentions are copiously fortified
name was as beloved in America as it was feared with footnote references which, to students of
in Europe.” Mr. Green's narrative is of course Shakespeare and of the law, give to the volume be-
rapid and condensed; but he allows himself con fore us additional value. An appendix gives the
siderable detail in recounting the events of the four record evidence of the Shakespeare litigation re-
memorable years from 1757 to 1761, when Pitt's ferred to in the text; and reference is also made,
war ministry“ raised Great Britain from despond. chronologically, to the war between the courts. The
ency to the position of first nation in the world,” book is a valuable contribution to the subjects to
and when “from a condition of lethargy and con which it relates.
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St. Helena.
The Diplomacy
The “ Pickett Papers," made famous Essentially the book is a reflection of the author's
of the Southern in 1872 by their purchase from the experiences as a naval cadet at Annapolis and on
Confederacy.
Confederate general of that name the school-ships, and as a chaplain in camp and at
for the “Rebel Archives ” of the United States, the front during the war with Spain. Mr. Brady
have found a use in addition to their regular service turns the kaleidoscope of memory with pleasing
of saving the government money in settling war and often dramatic effect, and his stories are sweet-
claims. Dr. James Martin Callahan has made them ened by the suggestion of the humane and cheery
a basis for a “Diplomatic History of the Southern personality behind them.
Confederacy” (The Johns Hopkins Press). Being
prepared primarily as a course of university lec A picture of
Lord Rosebery's “Napoleon, the
tures, the matter is tersely written, closely based Napoleon at Last Phase” (Harper) is a brilliant
on original material, and replete with references.
presentation of the great prisoner
The sad chronicle of the high hopes with which
in exile. The author spares no pains to get at the
the Confederacy entered upon its task of securing facts of those strange years. He takes up the
the aid of England and France, and the delay and Napoleonic literature which grew out of those last
disappointment which it finally met with, is made days, and subjects it to the sharpest criticism. The
out in a kindly spirit from the documents and let-
chronicles of Las Cases, O'Meara, Antommarchi,
ters. One follows the alternating despair and hope Gourgand, Lady Malcolm, and all the rest of them,
of its representatives abroad, and sees each feeling are critically examined. In fact, this is one of the
reflected in the officials at home. « The bane and great points of the book. After the sources have
curse of carrying out anything in this country,"
been thus carefully weighed and the chaff blown
writes Thompson of “Northern city-burning' fame,
out of them, Lord Rosebery gives us a very dis-
from Canada, “is the surveillance under which we criminating estimate of Napoleon in his strange
act. Detectives stand at every corner.” The author,
environment on that lone isle. He presents a study
in the few places in which he allows himself to in of the gradual pining away of the high mental and
trude personal opinion into the mass of evidence, physical strength of Napoleon, and leaves the facts
thinks that the common people in England could
in such form that every reader can paint his own
not be won to support the Confederacy, notwith picture, not only of the external conditions at
standing the cotton famine, because they were
Longwood, but of what was passing in the mind of
irrevocably opposed to slavery; that Davis and the the dethroned exile. Lord Rosebery does not spare
other leaders would have been willing to sacrifice the petty English governor of the island, nor does
slavery at last to gain England, but it was too late ; he seem to show favoritism toward anything but
that Napoleon used duplicity toward the Confede-
the truth. In the final summing up of Napoleon
racy's representatives ; and that the second election and Democracy (p. 237), the author says: “Au-
of Lincoln blasted whatever hopes of foreign aid thoritative democracy, or, in other words, demo
the cause might have previously entertained. In cratic dictatorship, the idea which produced the
addition to its occupying a new field, this history is
Second Empire in France, which is still alive there,
a scholarly and trustworthy production.
and which, in various forms, has found favor else
where, is the political legacy, perhaps the final
Another book by Mr. Cyrus Town-
Stories of the
message, of Napoleon."
Army and Navy.
send Brady gives us a sheaf of the
author's personal experiences by
Few books seem destined to greater
land and sea, grouped under the title of “Under pictured and usefulness than those composing the
Tops’ls and Tents” (Scribner). From the Auto-
interpreted. “Riverside Art Series" (Houghton),
biographical Note prefixed to tbe volume it
appears
and Miss Estelle M. Hurll's “Greek Sculpture, a
that Mr. Brady has been what may fairly be termed Collection of Sixteen Pictures of Greek Marbles,
an “ all-round man.” He has been in the Navy with Introduction and Interpretation ” has just the
and in the Army; he has been in the “railroad felicity of treatment, between erudition and popu-
business and in the Church; he is now “in litera- | larity, which has made the other volumes of the
ture," and there is no telling where he will turn up series so generally valuable. The statues selected
next. Mr. Brady's pen has been very busy for the for discussion stand for definite periods in Greek
past twelvemonth, but there is no sign as yet of art and its later Roman adaptations, and are illus-
flagging forces or a depleted literary exchequer. A trated by photographs from sources of undoubted
fine flow of spirits and a manifest relish of his own authenticity. Each is interpreted historically, and,
good stories is as apparent in his latest book as in so far as possible, by extracts from classical litera-
his first. Of course we do not mean to say that ture Homer most of all. The interpretations
Mr. Brady is a mere jester, for there is pathos as are unforced, reasonable, and convincing, being
well as mirth in the best of his stories a reflection kept well within the knowledge of the unlearned,
of life's April weather. The contents of the present and simple enough for children quite unskilled in
volume are divided under such headings as " Where
myth and fable. All the more familiar examples
Admirals Are Made," “Out With the United States of Greek art are included, with the exception of the
Volunteers," and "Stories of Army and Navy Life." Diana of the Louvre, and several not so generally
Greek marbles
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known. The reasons given for inclusion or exclu-
sion will be found satisfactory in every instance.
The little volume concludes with a pronouncing
vocabulary, presenting a whole worked out with
scholarly thoroughness when the needs of the ordi-
nary reader are taken into proper account.
BRIEFER MENTION.
Numbers 15 to 25, inclusive, of the “Home and
School Classics" published by the Messrs. Heath have
recently come to hand. They include the regular fort-
nightly issues to the end of last December, and the first
number of the new monthly series begun in March of
the present year. Among the titles are the “Comedy
of Errors" and the “ Winter's Tale,” edited by Mrs.
Sarah Willard Hiestand, Miss Mulock’s “ The Lame
Little Prince,” Miss Martineau's “ The Crofton Boys,"
“ The Siege of Leyden,” from Motley's “ Dutch Repub-
lic,” and “Tales from Munchausen,” edited by the Rev.
Edward Everett Hale. This is good literature for
children, and is reproduced in so inexpensive a form
that it may be readily used in schools.
“The Working Principles of Rhetoric,” by Professor
John F. Genung, has been published by Messrs. Ginn
& Co. It is described as "a restudied and repropor-
tioned treatise” based upon the author's earlier « Prac-
tical Elements of Rhetoric.” Teachers of the subject
who like a book so large that their students can delve
into it, rather than attempt to work through it system-
atically, will be delighted with this book of nearly seven
hundred pages, which contains everything that could
reasonably be asked for in such a treatise, and which
comes with the authority of so veteran a teacher and
maker of text-books.
voted to American oratory, and contain examples from
the work of twenty-seven eminent speakers. A general
index to the work is included in the tenth volume.
“Elementary Questions in Electricity and Magnet-
ism,” by Messrs. Magnus Maclean and E. W. Marchant,
is a useful manual for teachers just published by Messrs.
Longmans, Green, & Co.
“ A Text-Book of Astronomy,” by Professor George
C. Comstock, is an addition to the “Twentieth Century”
series of Messrs. D. Appleton & Co. The illustrations
provided for this work are exceptionally attractive.
Three books of “Chatty Readings in Elementary
Science,” for very young readers, are published by
Messrs. Longmans, Green, & Co. The illustrations are
many, and include several full-page plates done in colors.
« The Bench and Bar as Makers of the American
Republic ” is an address made last Forefathers' Day in
New York by Judge W. W. Goodrich. It is now pub-
lished as a small book by Messrs. E. B. Treat & Co.
There are four portraits.
Charles Kingsley's “Perseus” makes a charming
gift book for a child in the form just given it by Mr.
Ř. H. Russell. A delicate frontispiece drawing, large
type, and neat gray board covers are the distinguishing
features of this issue of the familiar juvenile classic.
Mr. R. H. Russell publishes a new edition of Mr.
William Young's “Wishmakers' Town,” which first
appeared in 1885.
A letter written many years ago to
the author by Mr. R. H. Davis, and a special preface
by Mr. T. B. Aldrich are the notable features of this
new edition.
Messrs. W. H. Lowdermilk & Co., Washington, pub-
lish “The Songs of Alcæus” in an edition prepared by
Mr. James S. Easby-Smith. The arrangement is that
of Wharton's “Sappho," with text and translation on
opposite pages. The work has notes and a rather elab-
orate introduction.
The Grafton Press is the style of a recently incor-
porated New York publishing firm formed by a consoli-
dation of the separate businesses of Mr. Robert G.
Cooke and Mr. Frederick H. Hitchcock, both of whom
have had a long and intimate acquaintance with the
details of book production.
A new romance by Mrs. Elia W. Peattie, entitled
“The Beleagured Forest,” will be issued this month by
Messrs. D. Appleton & Co. The work has been de-
scribed as a consistent study of a woman's inconsistency,
sketched against the background of the great pine
forests of northern Michigan.
“Logic; or, the Analytic of Explicit Reasoning," by
Mr. George H. Smith, is a recent publication of Messrs.
G. P. Putnam's Sons. The special plea of the author
is that logic should deal with the matter of thought no
less than with the form, and that, thus considered, it is
the
very
foundation of rational education.
« Victoria, Maid-Matron-Monarch,” by“ Grapho
(J. A. Adams), is a readable sketch, full of anecdote
and personal chat, of the late Queen of England. The
author's style, if rather slipshod, is lively and graphic,
and he has a good notion of the sort of mental pabulum
the general reader likes. (Advance Publishing Co.,
Chicago.)
A complete library edition of the works of William
Hazlitt, in twelve volumes, is announced for Fall pub-
lication by Messrs. J. M. Dent & Co. of London. The
edition will be edited by Mr. Arnold Glover and Mr.
92
NOTES.
“ The Cathedral Church of St. David's,” by Mr.
Philip A. Robson, is published by the Messrs. Macmillan
in « Bell's Cathedral Series."
“ Reading : A Manual for Teachers," by Miss Mary
E. Laing, is published by Messrs. D. Č. Heath & Co.
in their “ Pedagogical Library."
“ Love Poems of Tennyson " is the latest addition to
Mr. John Lane's “ Lover's Library” of pretty booklets
with lilac borders and pale green print.
Irving's “Sketch Book,” edited for schools by Miss
Mary E. Litchfield, is a publication of Messrs. Ginn
& Co., in their series of “Standard English Classics.”
Dr. Samuel Garner's “Spanish Grammar," which
includes also exercises, selected readings, and a vocabu-
lary, is a recent publication of the American Book Co.
The “ Abraham Lincoln” of Mr. Noah Brooks is
published in a new edition, as a number of the “ Knick-
erbocker Literature Series,” by Messrs. Putnam's Sons.
A new edition of Allen and Greenough's “Sallust's
Catiline,” revised by Messrs. J. B. Greenough and
M. G. Daniell, has just been published by Messrs. Ginn.
That important work, “ The World's Orators,” edited
by Dr. Guy Carleton Lee, and published by the Messrs.
Putnam, is now completed with the issue of Volumes
IX. and X. These volumes are two of the three de-
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A. R. Waller, while Mr. W. E. Henley will contribute
a lengthy critical introduction to the first volume. The
American publisher of this important undertaking has
not yet been named.
“Specimens of the Short Story" is a new volume in
the “ English Readings" of Messrs. Henry Holt & Co.
It is edited by Dr. George Henry Nettleton. Eight
examples are given, from English and American writers
- Lamb, Thackeray, Dickens, and Stevenson, for the
one group, Irving, Hawthorne, Poe, and Mr. Bret
Harte, for the other.
An edition of the Spanish translation of Le Sage's
“ Historia de Gil Blas de Santillana," edited and greatly
abbreviated by Messrs. J. Geddes and F. M. Josselyn,
Jr., is published by Messrs. D. C. Heath & Co. The
Spanish text is that of Father Isla, and is supplemented
by the requisite notes and vocabulary, as well as by a
map of the hero's wanderings.
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gilt tops, uncut. E. P. Dutton & Co. $10.
Sir Walter Scott. By William Henry Hudson. 12mo,
uncut, pp. 304. A. Wessels Co. $2.
HISTORY.
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Last Years of Queen Elizabeth. By Martin A. S. Hume.
Large 8vo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 519. D. Appleton & Co.
$4.50 net.
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Fable and Song in Italy. By E. M. Clerke. 12mo, uncut,
pp. 260. M. F. Mansfield & Co. $2. net.
Frames of Mind. By A. B. Walkley. 16mo, pp. 286.
M. F. Mansfield & Co. $1.25.
Home Thoughts. By c. 12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 311.
A. S. Barnes & Co. $1.50.
Of Friendship: An Essay from “A Week on the Concord
and Merrimack Rivers." By Henry David Thoreau.
Limited edition ; 16mo, uncut, pp. 88. Houghton, Mffin
& Co. $2, net.
The Plea of Pan. By Henry W. Nevinson. 12mo, gilt top,
pp. 190. E. P. Dutton & Co. $1.25 net.
The Symphony of Life: A Series of Constructive Sketches
and Interpretations. By Henry Wood. 12mo, gilt top,
uncut, pp. 302. Lee & Shepard. $1.25.
The Bilioustine. By Bert Leston Taylor. 16mo, uncut,
pp. 24. Evanston, Ill.: William S. Lord. Paper, 25c.
NEW EDITIONS OF STANDARD LITERATURE.
The Works of George Berkeley, D.D., formerly Bishop
of Cloyne, including his Posthumous Works. With Pref.
aces, Annotations, Appendices, and an Account of his
Life, by Alexander Campbell Fraser, Hon. D.C.L. In 4
vols., with portrait, 12mo, uncut. Oxford University Press,
$6. net.
The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, and Other
Essays. By Thomas de Quincey. Large 8vo, uncut,
pp. 460. “Library of English Classics." Macmillan Co.
$1.50.
Love Poems of Tennyson. 32mo, gilt edges, pp. 106.
"The Lover's Library." John Lane. 50 cts. net.
The Republic of Plato. Translated by Alexander Kerr.
Book I., 12mo, pp. 60. Chicago: C. H. Kerr & Co. Paper.
POETRY AND VERSE.
Poems of the Unknown Way. By Sidney Royse Lysaght.
12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 171. Macmillan Co. $1.75.
Weeds by the Wall: Verses. By Madison Cawein. 12mo,
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The Luck of the Vails. By E. F. Benson. 12mo, pp. 446.
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A Pair of Patient Lovers. By W. D. Howells. With por
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Brothers. $1.15 net.
The Wilderness Road: A Romance of St. Clair's Defeat
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The House of de Mailly: A Romance. By Margaret Hor-
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The Curious Courtship of Kate Poins: A Romance of
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Antonia. By Jessie Van Zile Belden. Illus., 12mo, gilt top,
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Doom Castle: A Romance. By Neil Munro. 12mo,
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The Autocrats. By Charles K. Lush. 12mo, pp. 344.
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Days Like These. By Edward W. Townsend. 12mo, pp. 444.
Harper & Brothers. $1.50.
His Letters. By Julien Gordon. New edition ; 12mo,
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A Soldier of the King. By Dora M. Jones. 12mo, uncut,
pp. 284. Cassell & Co., Ltd. $1.25.
Ezra Caine. By Joseph Sharts. 12mo, gilt top, uncut,
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Lichtenstein: A Romance after the German of Wilhelm
Hauff. Adapted for English readers by L. L. Weedon.
Illus., 12mo, gilt top, uncut, pp. 304. E. P. Dutton & Co.
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Euphrosyne, and her “Golden Book." By Elsworth Law-
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A Book of Bryn Mawr Stories. Edited by Margaretta
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His Great Self. By Marion Harland. 12mo, pp. 355.
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A Flower of the Tropics, and Other Stories of Mexico and
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portrait, 12mo, pp. 289. Abbey Press. $1.
The Council of Three. By Charles A. Seltzer. With
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The Bolivian Andes: A Record of Climbing and Explora-
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By Sir Martin Conway. Illus., large 8vo, pp. 403. Harper
& Brothers. $3. net.
The Cities of Northern Italy. By George C. Williamson,
Litt. D. 18mo, pp. 273. "Grant Allen's Historical
Guides,” A. Wessels Co. $1.25 net.
THEOLOGY AND RELIGION.
Commentary on the Old Testament. Vol. III., Ezekiel
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pp. 415. Eaton & Mains. $2.
The Birds of the Bible. By Rev. Madison C. Peters, D.D.
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Why I Became a Baptist. By Rev. Madison C. Peters,
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Baptism: A Discussion of the Words “ Buried with Christ
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SOCIOLOGY.
Social Control: A Survey of the Foundations of Order. By
Edward Alsworth Ross, Ph.D. 12mo, pp. 463. Citizen's
Library.' Macmillan Co. $1.25 net.
Substitutes for the Saloon. By Raymond Calkins. 12mo,
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NATURE STUDIES.
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